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  1. Nicholson stated: “His style of football is the style of football that we want to see at Celtic. It’s aggressive, it’s attacking and we’re looking forward to seeing how that translates onto the pitch”.

     

    Nicholson expressed the belief that Nancy was the “perfect fit” for the club’s vision, which aims to develop players and succeed with a specific performance style. Nancy, who received the MLS Coach of the Year award, also confirmed that the style of play was a primary reason for his recruitment, describing it as “proactive” and aiming to “attack the ball as soon as possible”.

     

     

    5 goals conceded in two games, that’s the first issue the leader and his staff have to address, without a strong defensive platform to build on your philosophy for attacking football is going to fail

     

     

    Roma in game management mode 2nd half, its a long season

     

     

    Celtic park a spectator morgue in 2nd half

     

     

    Dermot Desmond, Michael Nicholson and Peter Lawwell made the decision

  2. Bernardo and Iheanacho both had good cameos.

     

     

     

    The bonus of so many leaving early is that the boos didn’t seem that loud !

     

     

     

    KTF.

  3. The Board went out and hired a manager mid season who is wedded to a specific system of play, for which we’ve no players.

     

     

    Genius.

  4. If you introduce a new system you call in other teams for friendlies and practise .Every day this week and next and the week after.

  5. admit it he has to go , absolutely nothing to think we will get any improvement from this formation or quality , embarrassed that we are walking round the pitch clapping the security staff , unbelievable , get rid.

  6. I’m ok now – Ineacho has to start now – he has better all round footballing ability AND he showed plenty of dig and heart. I liked some of Celtics one touch football but it’s clear (regardless of systems and mangers) that we need better quality. doh!

     

     

    good heart from the team – first half was down to worn personnel but the manager is learning. WHY DID HE PICK THE SAME TEAM TONIGHT?? Easy, to see if they responded to a few more training session . They didn’t.

     

     

    Will be more interesting to see who starts on Sunday

  7. St Mirren pushed MoN”s team to the limit. They have a real physical presence and will really fancy taking on this team.

  8. Thought the changes made at half time made a difference, we were better and more direct. Roma 3 up took the foot of the gas, who knows?

     

    Just got a text from one of the Donegal bhoys, who all stayed to the final whistle, ‘ faithful through and through my arse’. People pay money for their ticket and can leave whenever they want to but giving Hun Rory a second half to purr at the empty stadium isn’t a good.

     

    Our bhoys will be home anytime between 4 and 4.30, they are faithful through and through.

     

    Rant over!

  9. Dreadful

     

    Many of us have been calling this out since prev transfer windows

     

    Sadly, the usual suspects replied with the cheap panty wetter jibes

     

    This was all too predictable

     

    We have regressed massivey. There can be no doubt now

  10. glendalystonsils on

    Another big question for me is ….. does Nancy have the leadership qualities and personal connection with the players that the best Celtic managers have had . He seems a low key character compared to the likes of Stein , Lenny , Ange Brendan . Martin got the players rallied , despite having been out of the management game for years and he did it by his experience , personality and presence .

  11. We’ll win almost every domestic trophy playing this system under Nancy, in swashbuckling style to, I may add.

     

    Ave Ave

  12. Europe is beyond us,other teams have spent tens of millions to land the champions league and failed.I expect the spending in January to be minimal,with the board hoping that injured players make a return and go on to lift the title.(My prediction as well) Roll on Sunday….League cup victory.

  13. The board took the goals out the team, the atmosphere out the crowd and put a fish out of water in charge of the team.

     

     

    3 left footers at the back and Tounekti stays stays on. Engels? I think we’ve all given up on him. Schmeichel FFS!

     

     

    Well done, MN, PL & Dd.

     

     

    And how many of that team would you keep?