Hindsight and all that, but looking back, Celtic’s form slipped in mid-April this year. We were imperious until that point, but even wins, like the Scottish Cup semi-final win over Newco, were not as impressive than the League Cup Final win over the same opponents a few weeks earlier.
The season petered out amid home draws against Motherwell and St Mirren and heavy defeats at Ibrox and Easter Road. The Scottish Cup Final win over Inverness was laboured compared to the League Cup Final performance.
Potency was lost when Aaron Mooy was injured in the second week of March. He returned for the odd cameo – one start and three substitute appearances, but the sharpness was gone. Adding to the issue, Cameron Carter-Vickers dropped out of the team after the Scottish Cup semi-final win in April. Aaron is now gone and it has been Cameron’s turn to put in cameo appearances this season.
Watching our midfield this season, it should be clear to all that the other big absence from the side is Reo Hatate. Callum McGregor has been partnered with two from Matt O’Riley, David Turnbull and Odin Holm. Stacks of potential there but we are missing the laser-like craft of Reo, nor have we replaced the strength of Aaron. Until this is addressed, nothing will change.
This is your timely reminder that Carter-Vickers and Jota didn’t join Celtic until deadline day two years ago. Without that day’s business, Tottenham fans would not be able to pronounce the name Postecoglou right now. We are not witnessing a managerial issue, just the normal process of rebuilding a team, while targeting valued players in demand with others fill their trollies with frees and journeymen.
Our own Mouldy67 has suffered injury in recent years, which stopped him participating in the recent Road to Seville cycle event from Celtic Park to the city we descended upon 20 years ago. I spoke to him last week for the video below and asked about his extraordinary work on behalf of the Celtic FC Foundation and the enormous challenge he is about undertake.
He will complete a virtual cycle of over 1,000 miles, including gradients, to raise money for our Foundation. For a man carrying an injury, it is a magnificent commitment, one that is an example to a few in the modern game. It was a moving insight into where we have been as a community in recent years, and Mouldy67’s take on being a Celtic supporter. I recommend it to you.
You can read more about his story, support his cycling and the work of the Foundation by donating here. Thank you.
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SFTB
I will leave your post to our new moderator
Thank you for popping his cherry xx
Remember its shoite!!!
No chance of good guy, good guy, wink buttons?
Chewing the fat csc
Wink obviously a deliberate typo to avoid a language violation.
GGH
Thats a challenge, but funny
Been asking Paul67 to look into making this more like a social media thing
Where it’s much more interactive
Posting comments is good
But I think we can do so much better for our posters?
Would also like to get a charity involved each quarter
An organisation that fits the clubs ethos we can do something for
Raffles for signed tops and stuff
Sure we can do something??
Defo do meetups similar to the golf ones (but with less logistics – ie the pub lol)
Maybe try and get some ex celts or such to come along
We can do more with our community
I want to do more!
CELTIC40ME on 28TH AUGUST 2023 6:41 PM
So we agree XG dropped.
Soft tissue injury rise (hammys) is a symptom of going to the well too often. We carried CCV too far.
The team comments was to indicate how the way we played overcompensated individul difficiencies. Maeda & GT being 2 prime examples. Now an issue as the system changes.
HH
Welcome Moderator67.
Stay that one moniker.
Are you a hun?
Good luck.
Moderator1888.
Likes Dislikes vs use the thumb to scroll.
You could always test it out on adverts.:-))
HH
modertator1888
Not sure your idea of a like/dislike button is a good one….
Though it would give me the opportunity to give your music choices the thumbs down
tobefaircsc
AT
I don’t see the adverts………….
But agree lol
CELTIC MAC
Are you the phil collins ghuy?? (who ripped into me for posting it)
𝙇𝙪𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙖 – 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙
https://twitter.com/aboutceltic/status/1696194680256389334?t=ww98R-15wwwnktoAVojOBA&s=07&fbclid=IwAR0HpkvmPNnDN8Uq93ZMXwSFZxrRriMbRJ_mOKI0dsO5FzwL9C3NwPQg_m8
mod1888
No, I’m not the Phil Collins guy….
You are
The Exiled Tim @ 6.35
Yes, but there’ll be no Mike & Bernie Winters double act.
Snorbitz CSC
BIG WAVY on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:01 PM
XG is immaterial in this case. Our results from the league cup final to winning the league at Hearts were treble winning stats in any season
When we’re winning trebles every season it’s easy to forget that 10 victories and a draw, including a league and cup defeat of the Huns is exceptional.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight…….
Postecoglou was in the Spurs process since April and was fixed firmly on leaving us, if he could.
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Well, this would certainly seem to back that up.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/23749489.maddison-reveals-postecoglou-transfer-talks-started-spurs/
MOD67
I hope to eff yous will be better than they two FFS >:)
Fourstonecoppi
(3) Celtic FC do not ‘buy’ or ‘sign’ players they ‘finally complete’ deals.’ The hugely dull nature of this event should be emphasised at all times by using at least one of the following terms – ‘protracted’ ‘long-running’ ‘drawn out affair’ .
I thought Iwata had a bit of presence about him,and could give Callum a rest
AN DÚN on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:19 PM
“Well, this would certainly seem to back that up.”
It wouldn’t. Maddison signed for Spurs before Ange was in the door. AP didn’t start there until 1 July
Celtoc40me
For me Muscat was the solution. I was amazed it didn’t happen. ESP with Mark Lawwell’s connection.
!!BADA BING!! on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:27 PM · EDIT
I thought Iwata had a bit of presence about him,and could give Callum a rest
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Me too but in a 4-2-3-1
And give one of the wingers a rest???
!!BADA BING!! on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:27 PM
I thought Iwata had a bit of presence about him,and could give Callum a rest
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Iwata has been very tidy when played last season in the holding role , I suspect that the chopping and changing at centre half means that Brendan doesn’t want wholesale changes in that area of the pitch at the moment, so Calum is getting the nod for now.
Calum does need pushed up the pitch and a holder behind him
BURNLEY78 on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:31 PM
I would have been happy with Muscat but I can understand the board seeing Brendan as a lower risk. There would be a lot of noise around him that would make his job more difficult. And he’s a relatively new manager for such a huge high profile job.
Ange and Brendan have made their mistakes, New guys like him still have a lot of learning to do
It does remind me of who we have in charge now. 800 games, he’s faced many more difficult challenges than the one he faces now. He’s not come through all of them but if he hadn’t he’ll have learned
so while working at celtic, he was tapping up players for another club he had not joined yet, surely all of that is illegal within the rules of the associations.
Spurs midfielder James Maddison has revealed he talked to Ange Postecoglou about a move to North London before the Aussie was finalised as manager of the Premier League club.
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England midfielder Maddison arrived from relegated Leicester City in a £40million transfer and Postecotlou was a key factor in ensuring he signed on the dotted line.
But the midfielder claimed the 57-year-old, who left Celtic after winning a treble in the summer, wasn’t the finalised manager of the club at the time.
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Speaking on TNT Sports with hosts Joe Cole and Jules Breach, Maddison was asked if his new boss’ style of play was a major factor in persuading him to move clubs.
He said: “Yeah and that factored into my decision-making over the summer and I said that when I spoke to him.
“When Ange Postecoglou talks you believe what he’s saying.”
“It’s non negotiable. You have to play his football.”
James Maddison catches up with @julesbreach and Joe Cole pre-match 💬
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if only i had a edit button, ffs.
Celtic4me
Apart from his career following a similar career path as Ange’s (only up to a point), I’ve no idea why anyone would consider that Kevin Muscat was a potential Celtic manager, or even a candidate.
There was an obvious obstacle given his playing career and past allegiances, but his Rainjurz EBT was surely a fall at the first fence?
LOL
I can well understand many supporters frustrations re transfers, we have spent a fair few bob, nigh on what, £18 Mill or so, for Scottish standards that is massive, and not a single guaranteed starter among them, that mi amigos and amigas is bad management, now it may well turn out to be that the projects make the club a few bob, but on the other hand they may not, over the years we have wasted serious millions trying to find the rough diamond, esp when we are in the position to take a calculated gamble, I would call it a dereliction of duty, but given the PLC take precedence…..
FC NOT PLC CSC
SAINT STIVS on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:45 PM
so while working at celtic, he was tapping up players for another club he had not joined yet, surely all of that is illegal within the rules of the associations.
He was tapping up players for a club who subsequently offered the job to someone else before appointing him.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:51 PM · EDIT
Celtic4me
Apart from his career following a similar career path as Ange’s (only up to a point), I’ve no idea why anyone would consider that Kevin Muscat was a potential Celtic manager, or even a candidate.
There was an obvious obstacle given his playing career and past allegiances, but his Rainjurz EBT was surely a fall at the first fence?
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He would be an angry ronny deila
Dont think he has the necessary experience for the job
Plus as someone pointed out at the weekend
“come back Agent Muscat, your job is done”
Is just too easy…..
Ange was interviewed pre match on saturday,
with joe cole and crouchy
he got right on my nerves with his EXACT SAME PATTER as he had for us.
No doubt he will succeed some, it is in his physche.
but i cant get passed people in positions of authority lying to the camera.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH AUGUST 2023 7:51 PM
Whether it’s right or not I don’t think a connection with them or an EBT means he’d be excluded from the list :). We’ve just witnessed a huge swallowing of principles so nothing would surprise me.
I didn’t know about the EBT, it probably makes it a no from me.
Bronx visit. After laying flowers on John and Margaret’s grave we went to Arthur Avenue, little Italy for lunch. Then a visit to their old house on Monticello Avenue. The Bronx is even more run down now than my first time there nearly 50 years ago. Mrs BRRB was really uncomfortable. Probably the poorest and most neglected of the 5 Boroughs. Easy being a tourist, isn’t it?
No Muscat for me. Hot heed. Aussie Roy Keane.
Iwatta has had a raw deal because he was used as a defender, he would be in the middle with Cal and Matty for me on Sunday. Brings balance, teeth and experience.
KLV
Abada to Sporting Lisbon
D -)
St Stivs. I wish him all the best but the more things I watch the more it looks like a pitch and we were all had. Shame, seemed a good genuine guy.
KLV
I’ll drive Abada there. No confidence he will ever improve, he is far far too hit and miss even for a young player.
KLV
Back in Manhattan and the comfort zone. John Lydon 1977 ” A cheap holiday in somebody’s misery”