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Have visions of Strachan stepping out of his shower at home this morning and Lawell standing there with a towel in his hand.
“Get your whiteboard Gordon. You’re hired.”
HH
Jobo:
“Then for next Sunday –
Barkas
Elhamed, Jullien, Ajer, Laxalt
Frimpong, Turnbull, McGregor, Christie
Griffiths, Edouard”
I would go with:
Barkas;
Elhamed,Bitton, Jullien,Ajer ,Laxalt;
Turnbull,McGregor,Christie
Edouard;Griffiths.
I saw a comment somewhere else suggesting bringing in Gordon Strachan to assist Neil Lennon. Maybe not the worst suggestion I’ve seen. Probably not the best either 😂
I know who i don’t want, but i have no idea who I do want.
There simply isn’t a credible candidate , so a short term appointment is inevitable I fear.
just shows you how far we have sunk in player quality , Elhamed is slower than Lustig when his legs had gone.
Ernie and Big Wavy (both above) have at least given me a genuine, if slightly guilty, laugh this morning.
Thanks guys!
We approached 2 English based managers after the Sparta home game and both declined.
Poisoned chalice
PAUL THE SPARK
Is that with the press conferences 🤣
Jobo 10.58am
What if your Thursday team pump Milan 3-0
Do they still get benched next Sunday :-)
Cheers for the football topic
Uncle Jimmy
It’s frankly all I have left to get me through this sorry mess….
HH
4-3-3
Barkas;
Elhamed, Jullien, Ajer Taylor
Turnbull,McGregor,Laxalt
Frimpong Edouard Griffiths.
and the back 4 just because we don’t have any option
Gerry:
`What if your Thursday team pump Milan 3-0`
I don`t think we need worry about that :-)
RC
I had forgotten about Taylor.
I would go with him instead of Laxalt in my selection. I think Diego is a bit overrated.
Hot Smoked 11.22am
You never know :-)
Hope springs eternal and all that
Bring back big Fraser .. we win our two games in hand and only 5pts behind Stevies Galaticos…. who by all accounts are having an amazing season … maybe things aren’t as bad as we think
By the way … am trying to convince maself not anybody else :-)
I don’t agree on the ‘whataboutery’ going around in response to last nights club statement.
Re: the neds, by all means protest in a socially distanced way, but no need for the abuse and aggression towards Celtic staff and players and indeed the bobbies.
Sadly, there is a % of society that will react like this, regardless which club they support. Some of that % within our support came out last night and disgraced themselves.
ST TAMS – As I recall, Phil Mac was the source of the story re Celtic speaking to two English managers. He gets very little right these days, be it from CP or from Sevco. His source at ibrox left the building years ago. So he just repeats the same financial crisis stories hoping that one day he’ll be able to say “I told you so”.
Jim White had said PL was golfing in Scotland with Howe, because someone had told him.
Wonder if the golf club was shut just for them? Or are mobile phones not allowed on the golf course 😂 seriously, no one around to take a photo?
Whatever our board do, it isn’t leaked to Phil.
67ECW @ 10.50
PL is a second rate property bean counter who would be totally out of his depth in a paddling pool.
He has made mistake after mistake over the past 14 years where he has been allowed to make decisions.
Starting with the TG window.
We started looking at three players — average age 23 and got none of them.
Brought in 3 players average age 28 and 3/4’s who cost a lot but had no future.
PL big issue is that he has some good ideas but doesn’t follow through.
Then once he has found something that works or seems to woirk — once — there is no moving him even when it is all falling down around him.
To much ego and not enough analysis.
He does what DD want’s without thinking — so he is OK there then.
It is when he has to work / think on several fronts that things fall apart.
He wastes money.
He loses us money.
He has not delivered on revenue.
He has not delivered on player acquisition.
Pennywise pound foolish at best.
Too agent friendly — to the detriment of the club — at worst.
2016 to 2018 should have set the club up for “life”.
His willie waving competition with BR in the summer of 2018 has destroyed that future.
He — and DD — should have been able top see through the BR act but they couldn’t.
BR act — new teeth / new burd / new horizons — and worked him for what he was good at.
DD couldn’t see past the 2002 debacle with MON and allowed PL to start s*it stirring with BR when BR started to pontificate about new challenges.
The way to sort it out was to fish for a new manager who was more complete than the BR with CL L plates that they had in front of them.
Some paper talk about various “German boy band personalities” and CL results / the next stage for the club would have kept BR on a short leash.
However they are not that subtle and PL is only big on one thing — his ego.
We have been a slow motion train wreck for 30 months.
This shambles is a shock but it is not a surprise.
From Sentinel Celts
fan-a-tic
Spare a thought for Peter Lawwell who was up all night thrashing the keyboards to publish on his blog.
His usual playbook in full view.
Below are the titles of 4 articles on his blog.
1-Unacceptable :Celtic statement. – Lash out at fans.
2-Christie ordered to leave Parkhead. -Players afraid of fans.
3-Disgrace:Sutton brands angry mob. – Disgraceful fans.
4-The day Lenny threatened to quit as Celtic boss. – Careful what you wish for.
Like Neil he has been consistent with his tactics which are long past their sell by date.
Deflection and blame never introspective or positive going forward.
The very same fans who have gone above and beyond this season by fully subscribing to expensive season tickets to watch their team on tv and pay additional fees for the privilege.
Is it any wonder we are in such a mess with the arrogant leadership we have?
still can’t fathom out why we always under pressure form a single striker when we have 3 so called centre back playing also are we the only team in the league who never have an advantage when we get a corner or have a free kick in the opposition half but we are always under pressure when we are defending against the same
Celtic having forever been treated as second class in Scotland compared with Rangers and Sevco is almost bound to have created a feeling of inferiority in our supporters. Winning the Ten would go/have gone a long way in removing that insecurity so became massively important to most of our support. I feel that weight on our collective shoulders is proving too much to cope with hence the angst/anger at the moment.
I do not think we will win the Ten but it really would be so,so good if we did.
The above is my main point but in saying it, I thought, ` If we were to win the Ten from the low we are in at the moment, the response would be such that Celtic Park would (Covid permitting) still be sold out next season if the capacity was 80,000. Would The Board really want to jeopardise that?`
THE ONLOOKER
I stand corrected . I’m quite aware there are some nutters among our support.
If you’re on fairhill bhoy – thanks for putting me right last night – I’m still trying to process yesterday’s second half. Anybody could see we needed a tiny bit of width – anything, running to the corner, hit and hope anything rather than RC trying to beat 11 men or slip a wonderball to OE using quantum tunnelling.
I have depression myself so I can’t tell you how much I admire lennie; an inspiration.
It’s clear now that he can’t vary the game enough given
the team unlearning the BR years
broonie’s a year older
covid absences
bedding in many new players all of a sudden
covid absences
injuries to front foot players- his chosen motivation
disspointment at the new players
the fuggin ten
the hun have learned how to play us
the hun have a settled first 11 – I couldn’t even name our first 5 let alone 11
ridiculous hun machine penalties
I hope Neil is sacked today. Alongside Kennedy and Strachan.
If we sack Neil but keep the management team otherwise in place then we’re in trouble. The season will be finished.
We’ve flaws not being addressed on the training pitch so make wholesale changes now.
Lawwell has known today was coming for weeks, I hope he’s used the time productively to identify a top coach…
Any top coach will now want loads of extras to take over, in writing, and a get out of jail free card as well, por cierto.
No evidence of missile throwing but certainly a rather ugly sistuation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwCTpYCpos&ab_channel=SleepWell
Cheerio for now.
“Some of the club’s pet hacks are “speculating” this morning that the scenes outside might have only hardened positions inside Celtic Park, and given the board even more determination to stand by their man; I would hate to think our club was being run on such a moronic basis that those inside it would leave a failing employee in his post to spite the customers.
No reputable CEO would do a thing like that, surely?
But then, no reputable CEO would collect CV’s for a major managerial role in a company and then boast, after making a third-rate appointment, about how he never bothered to read a single one of them.”
https://thecelticblog.com/2020/11/blogs/the-celtic-board-finally-broke-its-silence-last-night-just-long-enough-to-slam-our-own-fans/
GEEBEE1978 on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:41 AM
MORAVCIK on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:34 AM
Agreed. Rodgers’ comments on the Shved signing made it clear that no half-decent manager worth his salt could work happily under this structure.
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What I don’t get in all of these signings by the de facto Director of Football (Lawwell) what possible reason would there be for doing them?
1. Player A costs X amount plus signing on fee, agent costs, salary etc.
2. Manager doesn’t want/has no knowledge of Player A and either never plays him or plays him for 10-15 minutes very occasionally.
3. Player A gets sent out on loan and then after a while if successful he signs on full time for the other club for at best break even or at worst for a loss
4. What does Celtic and/or Lawwell business get out of these?
I’m genuinely mystified as there are lots of these types of signings, all clubs do it in case they mine a diamond but if it is true (there’s a least some truth in the rumours) Celtic don’t seem to do very well out of them which in turn burns through a lot of cash for very little or nothing in return but a mightily p*&%+= off manager(s). For a club who have been accused from time immemorial of being penny pinching why spend so much on some many projects? I just don’t get it.
SUTTON1888 on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:01 AM
Paul Larkin.
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Sutton1888 – Great post, great read from Paul Larkin its straight to the point
D :)
Oh and Free the Jimmy 1
D :)
James,
Even the dogs in the street can spot how the board have jumped on a bandwagon from last night to change and control the narrative. They will allow it to dominate and many (including many on here keen to deflect) will happily go along with it and give it ongoing oxygen.
Whilst unpleasant at close quarters (and that’s what social media does), half expecting this morning to wake up with a stadium burnt to the ground and half the squad to be buried under car park rubble.
Squirrels csc
Re: yesterdays game.
The 3 centre backs protected by Brown yesterday was so unnecessary, particularly against County’s 1 forward in Stewart. Hoping to keep a clean sheet to build on I would imagine.
And why did NL complain so much about Christie playing 3 times for Scotland couple weeks ago, only to then play a 35 year old Scott Brown 3 times in 8 days?
All irrelevant now as those games have gone. However the collateral damage to our EL/LC campaign and ultimately NL’s position has been done. Yes there are problems off the pitch. Celtic have been poorly managed off the field this past decade at CEO & board level by a select few who have profited handsomely in maintaining control while strangling club potential. Most immediately however, the tactical ineptness on the field this season has been shocking.
Ultimately, this all leads to PL/DD. Celtic will never truly fulfil their potential with these 2 running things. The treble/treble does not equate to full potential. Sadly I & many others have been short-sighted this past decade. Crisis also brings reflection and our club is nowhere near the sporting heights it should be.
MADMITCH @ 11:34 AM,
While I accept in the PL and BR battle none were saints and none were without blame and none came out of it looking very good.
The fact is the majority of any “blame” must sit with PL for multiple reasons that we have done to death.
Yet due to the PLC’s PR spin and the dark arts – BR got a personality assissination and most of the blame.
Now, BR did leave mid-season and he apologised for that – ever seen a PL mea culpa?
Yet one thing seems set in stone from that era, that for me is just not right. It’s that from the summer of 2018 BR was “working his ticket”.
Yet consider this – BR never denied he had been offered other jobs while he was at Celtic, the opposite in fact.
DD is on record as saying it was BR that told him he’d had an “very lucrative” approach from China.
That BR had got a new contract from Celtic, which made him the highest earning Celtic employee ever.
Ok so far?
Now consider this, in that contract BR signed up to an eye watering release clause, if any Club wanted to prise BR and his team from Celtic they would have to pay a King’s ransome.
If you were working your ticket why would you sign up to such a clause? You wouldn’t would you?
Also, when BR left, Celtic said nothing of the compensation, in fact they said nothing until a couple of weeks later when they announced it to the stock exchange… naughty, naughty, very naughty.
Now it was The Telegraph in England that exposed the compensation deal, BR & Co no doubt on a NDA.
So then why would BR sign up to such a high compensation deal if he’s working his ticket and why did Celtic PLC want to keep the deal quiet?
Hail Hail
HOT SMOKED on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 11:46 AM
No evidence of missile throwing but certainly a rather ugly sistuation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwCTpYCpos&ab_channel=SleepWell
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That imagery sums up all that’s wrong at Celtic.
Plebs behind a fence, a police cordon, and a cavalcade of millionaires driving off into the night in their plush luxury cars.
Wonder what that statue would say if it could talk.
DENIABHOY
I was told this from someone who has a very close contact on the board
The problem with getting a temporary manager in is that the players who are staying on next season know that they will have a fresh pair of eyes judging them so don’t really need to buck up their ideas.
Did some of the hun players not say when Smith announced he was leaving at the end of the season some of their minds lost focus on the prize?
The problem with players who aren’t going to be here next season is obviously an issue for the same reason, but hopefully the new manager will be able to encourage them to improve to get the move they want.
new article posted.
Jimtim,
I agree with some of your player transfers,but not all.Wee Greg Taylor.Remind me,how tall is Andy Robertson.Replaced Dembele with a dud.Do you mean Edouard’s.MecGinn,was never coming.About time this sunk in.We replaced Lustig with Elhamed.Lenny’s choice to play Jeremy.We replaced Jozo with Jullien.We replaced Armstrong with Ntcham.Others on about Forster.He did not want to stay,again,about time this sunk in.We replaced him with a 30 odd cap,top rated Greek keeper,who’s only crime so far is he is playing with a shambles in front of him,and he is not Forster.
A lot of talk about needing a goalkeeper, maybe, but I reckon if we played two keepers behind that defence we’d still be humped, not all the keepers fault for sure.
TOO MANY SECRETS
There are too many untold truths/secrets in our fantastic club. The main one I saw was when Lenny lost it after the game of shame. Why was he never allowed to tell us, the supporters, what McCoist said to him that so upset him???? Yet history will show Lenny losing it and how he was the bad guy.
Sorry, this stinks big time to me.
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