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  1. Greenpinata on

    Anyone who has read MON’s book would know that it is very, very very highly unlikely he would return to the Glasgow fishbowl, for family reasons.

     

     

    It is just not going to happen. Move on.

     

     

    We have a manager to find and a team to rebuild.

     

     

    HH.

  3. Celtic Mac on

    Watching the highlights on Sportscene last night reinforced what I had seen earlier in the day. A game we could have and should have won. Eddie and Elly had a positive impact and despite some of the criticism the former got on here he got himself in good positions to score in both halfs only for his team mates failure to find him. That said our opponents took seven points of nine off us this season so far and had that been reversed we’d still be in a title race. All in all though we find ourselves at level far below that of O’Neill, Strachan and Rodgers of only three years ago.

     

    Oh and another thing, in a post match interview, Stephen Welsh referred to our in situ manager as “Kendo”, acceptable maybe if your last name is Nagasaki, but a sign perhaps that John Kennedy has not been seen as a serious professional, even by our younger players.

  4. onenightinlisbon on

    PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 21ST MARCH 2021 11:42 PM

     

     

    Totally on the money.

     

     

    Still folk on here supporting Lennon/Lawwell……

  5. geebee1978 on

    BANKIEBHOY1 on 21ST MARCH 2021 10:01 PM

     

     

    That’s my point. MON hasn’t brought in a good player or “steadied a ship” for over twenty years. The fact he was talking Roy Keane up as a manager shows how out of touch he is.

     

     

    O’Neill brought in top players but if there was one slight criticism at the time, it was that his scouting rarely ventured off these islands. He spent big and brought in top players from the EPL. That option no longer exists and we work in a very different environment to when he was managing. He can no longer go to Chelsea, Leicester, West Ham and sign their first-team players. He knew this when he left.

     

     

    Modern-day Chris Sutton – probably someone like Havertz, misfiring at Chelsea. For Neil Lennon, maybe someone like Harvey Barnes. We need someone with a finger on the pulse that can tap into Eastern European and Scandinavian markets.

     

     

    We’ve seen that if results are bad, nobody is bigger than the club and the fans will turn on a legend. Let’s leave MON’s legacy intact – not with banners and protests asking him to quit as the club lingers behind Sevco.

     

     

    Look forward, not backward.

  7. geebee1978 on

    GREENPINATA on 22ND MARCH 2021 5:12 AM

     

     

    True. He said as much on Sky yesterday. He doesn’t need it at this stage of his life and is already a legend. Why spoil it?

  9. Weebobbycollins on

    Goodness me…just log on and he’s here still going on about Lennon. Have you finished your fireworks?

  10. lionroars67 on

    Good morning CQN

     

     

    The result yesterday did not reflect the superiority of the performance, our last two games under JK Celtic have been the dominant side, in both games stats show a total of 40 shots, 20 on target, and 19 corners all this bounty of opportunity reaped a meager harvest of 1 goal

     

     

    Was this predictable from the start of season 20/21? Well we now know for sure although it was blatantly obvious at the time that Eddy was a want away, dreaming of the EPL riches and glamour no doubt, I believe a good honest heart to heart by an experienced coach would have detected in the eyes a player whose heart and desire to play for Celtic was gone, he should have been sold, but I wanna be Edouard they sang in the North curve, our talisman ! he wasted 3 excellent opportunities yesterday, I enjoyed the cocky arrogant swagger we seen sadly it has been gone this season, replaced by hesitancy, a lack of confidence, and conviction, I hope he has learned an important lesson never think your gifts are there to be switched on and off like a switch, French Eddys disinterested poor attitude went on for far too long this season, it has cost us and it will also have taken his price down, his cost £9 mill plus PSG get a percentage, I don’t think this transfer will be the big money-spinner we all hoped for.

     

     

    Lee Griffiths a natural instinctive finisher, great touch, intelligent reader of the game with a lethal left foot, the 40 goal a season fit motivated Lee is first name on the team sheet, start of our historic bid for 10IAR season Lee had regularly failed to start both under Rodgers and Lennon, Lennon called him out on his attitude and condition pre season, what was the benefit of retaining Griffiths for 10IAR? His off field problems were well known to the club, our two best strikers having huge question marks over them before a ball is kicked in earnest, we are in trouble

     

     

    Patrick Klimala was a development signing a player who had previously cost 450 grand was purchased for £3.5mill, can’t fault this lad for effort and attitude sadly for him both few opportunities given and even when he was selected signs of a goal scoring predator to be developed were missing, should have been loaned out start of season to see if there was potential there and if there was by regular playing that potential would be developed

     

     

    Given all of the above it was clear our striking options for a huge season ahead for the club were ropey to say the least, what to do ? Well IMO we needed some radical bold changes in our attacking personnel, selling Edouard and re investing that money with some of the 40 mill in the bank purchasing in at least 2 fit genuine goal scoring talent arriving with hunger to be a success at joining a proven trophy winning club was certainly a gamble more than worth taking, what did we do ? Well we bought Albian Ajeti, a £4.5 Mill gamble, who was not fit, overweight and had no pre season training added to these problems Albian had little playing time for his last club the season before, maybe he was committed and eager to join Celtic ? well he had to be convinced dragging his heels to sign for Celtic, Albian was clearly hoping a better option was available, in the time it has taken to get this player fit and available 10IAR disappeared from view, we certainly never seen Albian this season

     

     

    It was all too predictable, and its groundhog Day for our attacking options over this summer, I personally wouldn’t keep any of the 4 mentioned above at the club, now who will give us the bold radical changes we needed last summer

  13. Hot Smoked on

    “Celtic don’t get the credit sometimes for what they do tactically.”

     

     

    Huh ! What gives Gordon Strachan the right to say that?

     

    Golf calls.

     

    Cheerio for now.

  14. Hot Smoked on

    “ONENIGHTINLISBON on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:30 AM

     

    Freedom of speech is a great thing.”

     

     

    So racism, for example, is OK?

  15. onenightinlisbon on

    HOT SMOKED on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:33 AM

     

     

    Eh no….

     

     

    Just meant on here.

     

     

    Seems some people won’t allow you to criticise without calling you a Hun.

  16. geebee1978 on

    LIONROARS67 on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:25 AM

     

     

    Some good points and while I’m aware that players seem better in their absence and I’m aware he might not be Celtic class, is Bayo any worse than what we have? I’d rather have given him game time than bring in either Klimala or Ajeti who look no better to me,

  18. Hrvatski Jim on

    LIONSROAR67

     

     

    Great to see you back on CQN – I hope that all is well with you.

     

     

    Re Eddie – the club clearly did not want to lose a key player at the start of the 10-in-a-row campaign, even though he was at his peak value with 2 years to go on a contract.

     

     

    Neil said early in the season that several players did want to be at Celtic Park so I think that the position was identified early but the position of the board to hold him to his contract has backfired spectacularly. It now appears naive to expect a player to honour a contract but non-performing employees expect the employer to honour their contracts of course.

     

     

    Such is the way of modern football but it breeds cynicism amongst the fans.

  19. David66 on

    Good morning all from a quite chilly but dry Garngad

     

    We need a new manager in with fresh ideas and a touch of class ASAP.

     

     

    D :)

  21. geebee1978 on

    HRVATSKI JIM on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:44 AM

     

     

    I think it was a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation with some of our players.

     

     

    Imagine the outrage if any or all of Eddie, Ajer, Ntcham etc were sold before the 10IAR season. At the time, it looked like a shrewd move to keep them on for one more season.

     

     

    However, Slippy (who is still learning on the job) adopted an attitude of “we only want players who want to be here”, even if it meant freezing out their biggest asset and there’s no denying they are a squad more in unison than ours.

     

     

    Lennon’s comments after Ferencvaros were revealing and it was that point where something should’ve given – shift the wantaways or replace the coach. We did neither and we sleepwalked to a season from hell.

  22. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    When you come across a newco/hun in work or even across the garden fence…..ask him….a quadruple treb or a first ever title win?…ah!but! but! ah

     

    thingymy ! kris Void said it was our 55nd (sic)

     

    STILL CELTIC

  23. lionroars67 on

    GEEBEE1978 on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:39 AM

     

     

    I never considered Bayo as an option due to (A) He was loaned out (B) Bayo clearly wasn’t in NL plans

     

     

    New management for 21/22 may see it differently

     

     

    HRVATSKI JIM on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:44 AM

     

     

    Thank you Jim I am ok I hope all is well with you

     

     

    Yes I am an old cynic, I’m wasted with the loyalty from true to the club past Celtic legends, now I can’t stand modern badge kissers looking to fill up their lucrative Instagram accounts

     

     

    Alex Ferguson is the template for squad management even for golden ball stars, sell when it’s time the club is always bigger.

     

     

    aff oot now

  24. bankiebhoy1 on

    Fireworks?

     

     

    Aye………..

     

     

    defo one…….

     

    or two bangers!………..*cough*

  25. Go tell the Spartim on

    Eddi and Griff aren’t responsible for tactics or how we defend set pieces, considering how ‘poor’ he’s been he’s scored quite a few, would we be even second if it weren’t for him.

     

     

    I just don’t get the motivation for pillaring OE, there was a survey done on commentators choice of language, bias, on players, it seems athletic strong and lazy are common phrases used to describe ethnic minorities and is certainly repeated on here, where as ‘white’ players tend to be intelligent, crafty etc

     

     

    Interesting reading

  26. Weebobbycollins on

    Go Tell…interesting. Where did you see this survey? Was it Scottish or English commentators?

  27. bankiebhoy1 on

    i know nowt about fitba’ – tons on This Dear Green Place obviously know player and managerial candidates better than I – an easy task.

     

     

    Given the Champions League monies on offer next term….

     

     

    Tactics wise, in my opinion the Club might consider someone like MoN to be on-hand as a guide or counsellor for the new management team. Strategically the longer term involves much more dynamic change within the football dept but some old blood might help steady the nerves….( mine anyway!) until the new regime has its feet comgfortably under the luxurious tables at Lennoxtown…

     

     

    We are awash with real money ( amounts that should make the sleekit huns here boak) that will need to be spent well.

     

     

    HH

  29. bournesouprecipe on

    Empty husk FC

     

     

    Albian Ajeti a £5M striker in full training failed to make the squad, a £5M goalkeeper warms the bench week in week out, lob in four loan players and you’re half a team down before you start. Karamoko Dembele can’t make the squad either, but is good enough to refuse to go out on loan along with Ryan Mullen and Luca Connell.

     

     

    We’ve now played nearly an entire season without wingers on either flank, and the ‘wing backs’ have merely underlined the fact that we don’t have a fit winger at the club, with Mikey Johnston injured again. James Forrest a tad overweight, MacGregor can’t buy a rest and Kris Ajer firefighting.

     

     

    Stephen Welsh plays the role of the token Tim well and was one of few successes for Kennedy who overall missed another chance to stamp some kind of membership at Celtic. John Kennedy has yet to make a tactical substitution this season, instead its the usual suspects, even the timing is the familiar, for the usual suspects.

     

     

    Sad thing was that Rainjurz were there for the taking, with what’s left of a Celtic team along with Hampden officialdom it just wasn’t possible.

     

     

    M.O.M Stephen Welsh.

  30. bankiebhoy1 on

    The brass-necked guff so eagerly lapped up by the Laptop Loyal is nauseating……….

     

     

    Next time we’re subjected to their hateful repertoire, we should call a halt to the game, walk off and tell the assembled microphones exactly why we are disgustted with hundom and their horrible double standards……….

     

     

    :0

     

     

    HHH.

  33. !!Bada Bing!! on

    What time is Wee Nicola going to say ‘ completely unacceptable ‘? Don’t want to miss it.

  34. Timbhoy2 on

    The Whole Celtic Board and a few on the coaching and scouting staff let all off the Celtic Supporters down,and yes when it comes to renewing our season tickets it should be pointed out to the Ticket Office that if there are no big changes happening then it pains me to say this that thousands of us supporters are not renewing,action speaks louder than words.

  36. Por Cierto on

    HRVATSKI JIM on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:44 AM

     

    “but the position of the board to hold him (Edouard) to his contract has backfired spectacularly”

     

     

    No, that was Neil Lennon’s decision, he was warned that he had 4 unsettled players, Edouard, Christie, Ajer & Ntcham, Celtic had bids totalling £50mil. for these players and wanted to sell. NL made the decision to hang onto them for the 10, he was warned that he would have to manage them, he clearly didn’t. Which makes the statement after the Ferencvaros game even more bizarre, por cierto

  37. geebee1978 on

    Football’s all about opinions and my personal opinion is that any manager who needs tactical advice from O’Neill in 2021 might not be the sort of manager that should be managing Celtic.

     

     

    Others may disagree, however, the whole debate is moot anyway.

     

     

    “…my time here is gone…” – he made it quite clear on Sky yesterday that he wouldn’t be coming back. Towards the end of his time, he knew that the days of buying decent first-team players from EPL clubs would soon become a thing of the past and make a tough job far tougher….

     

     

    https://celtic.vitalfootball.co.uk/my-time-here-is-gone-celtic-legend-gives-shock-backing-to-managerial-candidate-and-rules-himself-out/

  38. An Tearmann on

    PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 21ST MARCH 2021 11:42 PM

     

     

    20 pts behind a revived hun in the 10 season. Looked the other way on EBTs, LNS and 5WA and whatever financial doping has occurred these past 8 years. Allegedly failed to disclose the truth to shareholders. All because the plc deemed the blue pound worth it.

     

     

    Worth their rampant supremacism. Fireworks all over the city, mass gatherings (again), banners all down the M8, the Pope’s Wall painted red, white and blue.

     

     

    They’re back in the ascendancy because guys like Desmond that don’t have to live with the consequences deemed it worth it in the name of ‘the business’. And his willing henchman in Lawwell and Lennon were only too willing to oblige.

     

     

    It didn’t have to be like this. We had a once in a lifetime chance to put them away, but we brought them back. Because the bigot £ was deemed worth it.

     

     

    Then you have to read plonkers living 200 miles away telling you you’re entitled blah, blah. A fat cat no doubt.

     

     

    Let them eat cake, right Chuck?

     

     

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    You make a lot of valid points and mantras that will no doubt be repeated for years.whether you have cake while typing them is another thing.maybe a pie :-)

     

     

    When did this bigot/blue £ come into being?

     

    188- what?

     

     

    rampamt supremacism was liquidated,by their own self harming hand in 2012.

     

    that is a historical fact imo.anythin else is in yir head.

     

     

    fireworks- did we let aff any when going for our 2nd 9iar?

     

     

     

    “It didn’t have to be like this. We had a once in a lifetime chance to put them away, but we brought them back. Because the bigot £ was deemed worth it.”

     

     

    👆 The huns would love us to comment it would allow the glorious self harming to be down to us and not their own,and it is theirs its wholly owned by them. huns cheat.they can not run a club without someone dipping.

     

    its their way.

     

     

    it appears by not commenting we lose

     

    we do comment we lose too.

     

     

    i live 7 miles from CP and have enjoyed a 20 year period my older kin dreamt of.they never followed a board they followed Celtic.The 10 is gone we go onwards to next season.its a sore one but like every year since 1888 we dust down and go again.

     

     

    hh

  40. An Tearmann on

    ONENIGHTINLISBON on 22ND MARCH 2021 8:04 AM

     

     

    PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 21ST MARCH 2021 11:42 PM

     

     

    Totally on the money.

     

     

    Still folk on here supporting Lennon/Lawwell……

     

     

    you must be skint then

     

     

    i would take Neil Lennons word and that of Peter Lawell before anythin typed by your good self ONIL on Celtic..

     

     

    no one is closing your posts down.Neil Lennon and Peter Lawell will be getting written bout Celtic terms long after you and i are gone.wonder why ?

     

     

    hh

  42. Weebobbycollins on

    When we win back our title next season it will be so much sweeter…putting them back in their cage will be brilliantly funny…

     

    I’ve already started saving up for the fireworks 💥💥💥

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