Send out your B Team for an away game after losing at home and you should not be disappointed in the outcome. The first half was as unstructured a performance as we have seen since the summer. The pitch, which was terrible, can only take so much responsibility.
Stephen Welsh had a nervous return to the side, one of several poor passes fell short of Nir Bitton and led to the opening goal. The second was perhaps the poorest of the many Celtic lost across both legs. Bodo/Glimt didn’t so much break as saunter forward. Anthony Ralston watched the ball, not the player peeling off behind him. Nir Bitton was skin-tight to Vetlesen, but also watched the ball, and allowed his man time to cushion a shot into the net. It was all too easy for Bodo.
Ange, you made your call, we all know this was one you deprioritised, we will all forgive you if the masterplan comes together. Rather this than sorry tales come May.
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On to Easter Road on Sunday. Its a good chance to bounce back. 3 points is a must. A return to form by our players would be welcome/ The Treble is still their to be won
JIMDOM on 25TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:23 PM
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53,000 non ticket renewals will get rid of the PLC because if Celtic supporters withhold their ticket monies from the PLC for six weeks ‘after’ renewal date has passed then PLC needs to make a decision.
None of this will happen of course as we’re still mired in the dim Tim era.
If fans grew a pair and made PLC make a decision….
1. Does PLC invest its own money to replace missing season ticket monies??
2. Does PLC realise its now over as the fans have grown a pair of balls and will either be cordially handed the Celtic keys without a single dime changing hands because after the six week stand off the share value is now worth zero so no one is due to be paid anything and PLC will do the honourable thing, and by this time the fans have warned the PLC, its our club, your period in office ends in a cordial fashion, or the supporters will view the PLC as now occupying the club, and at this point, 60,000 Celtic supporters will now be left with no choice, but to forcibly remove the PLC from the supporters, Celtic football club, and put the keys of Celtic fc into the honourable trusty hands of Auldheid and his ilk, and let them recruit as they see fit, with their, shrewd, canny, integrity driven, methodologies?? 👍
P.S. I think Ange is a stubborn one trick pony who would only get a gig at a Celtic fc that’s been in elongated decline, since Martin O’Neill departed.
I don’t attend AGMs but I’d be interested to hear if the issue of European football after Christmas is ever brought up?
Or is it only things like the balance sheet and being second in the SPL, knocked out of the SC first round etc?
and on and on and on and blah blah blah and on and on.
GLENDALYSTONSILS @1:40
I’m not sure how the mindset of the players will be affected by what is after all , a failure.
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I fully understand the point you are making – as they say “success breeds success”. However I am not so worried.
There was a marked second-half improvement when some changes were made at half-time, and with CCV, Jura & Jota coming back in, we may even get a positive ‘bounce’ on Sunday. I certainly would not have risked injury to those three by selecting them from the start, or, pushing them on at half-time. The tie was lost at Celtic Park, not by just the score, but in the comprehensive manner in which it was achieved – in my opinion there was no way back, and that’s how it was. A full-strength starting eleven might have stemmed the humiliation of a wretched first forty-five, when we could have shipped five, but I don’t think for one minute it would have rescued the tie…..obviously neither did Ange.
It is said that you learn more from defeat than victory – let’s hope so, and what we learn propels us to a win on Sunday and ultimately the title.
Park The Posts……
It is natural having watched last nights game to have a sense of foreboding that the Ange Factor will all end in tears,
I’ve just done a check back & unless I screwed up somewhere, I make it that we have gone 26 Domestic games unbeaten since we lost to Livi on the 19th September last, that is 23 wins & 3 draws in 26 Domestic Games.
There is a huge week coming up, away to Hibs & the Livi Plastic Pitch & at home to 10 men behind the ball St. Mirren,
Personally I believe the team will respond & we will win all 3, one way or the other we will all be a lot wiser in 10 days time.
One bright spot from last night — JMcC looks in a bit better shape.
Big fail not to give him more game time — he at least looked like he was up for it.
Would have taken some off the pressure away from NB who looked lost.
Couple of occasions the red mist seemed to be descending.
But he kept it together and didn’t get sent off.
Bookies must have made a few bob.
Also any thoughts of CMcG at LB.
It would keep him in the team and were are desperate.
Also do we need two outright wingers — what about TR or MO’R.
We would still have their talent and vision plus a bit more energy in the MF.
RH needs two high energy players beside him to shine.
If you were being brave you could play him with JMcC and either YI or IS.
IS’s lack of progress is worrying — looked good in a bad team and now he looks lost.
I fear that the lack of coaching talent we have is affecting players development.
Tough gig on Sunday — if we stumble then things could get messy.
if you learn more from failure than success the guy that is in politics for forty years must now have a genius level brain.
There was a guy at the beginning of the season who thought James McCarthy would get more game time than Scott Brown would, hows that working out ?
Finally — the GGa stuff being spouted is beyond parody.
The guy is cash hoover who will turn any trick to keep him in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.
Gift of the gab and pretty intelligent / good at finding angles but a total fraud.
He survives because he has a brass neck you could mine and so many of his opponents are even bigger frauds than he is — he picks his victims well.
Poor man’s FB — not as funny / not as barbed / not as insightful.
Started badly — the “loans” from the Our Wullie social club were brazen.
Then the “charity” work / the oil dealing / the TV nonsense.
All about the cash economy for our wee rebel.
Start fights and run away.
Work with anyone — moral compass lost years ago.
Consequently file under complete f*nn*.
And include anyone who bigs him up in that description.
Stygian Tory (@StygianTory) Tweeted:
The UK is considering banning RT (Russia Today) for pro-Russian propaganda, yet here is RT broadcasting pro-Ukraine demonstrations in London, Berlin, Kiev and elsewhere without any editorial spin.
The BBC would never broadcast protests against their interests without comment. https://t.co/qGvKLuhdp2 https://twitter.com/StygianTory/status/1496862179227836426?s=20&t=R7LFlM68ugrNThQTV3NOEQ
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No wonder the woke illiberals want to ban RT. lol
Yeti @ ad nauseum
My memory is that I said JMc would be a bigger influence on the SPL this season.
So far it hasn’t worked out that way and I for one am disappointed in that.
Hoping JMcC gets more game time going forward.
We missed him last night — he might be physically shot but he still has an appetite for the fight.
Too many might have better hamstrings but they don’t have his attitude.
Cheery for now.
!!BADA BING!! on 25TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:03 PM
Park The Posts……
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and that means what Bada??
just go away and read your posts??
What??
https://readceltic.com/2022/02/25/opinion-chris-sutton-gets-it-right-as-he-calls-for-celtic-perspective/
https://celtsarehere.com/international-boss-reveals-recent-celtic-meetings/
serious question to the broader blog populations, does anyone ever click on anything that that fella posts links to ?
I’ve just sent all of MadMitch’s posts to Bletchley Park for decoding.
Turns out he’s a spy. 😎
T.O. *
* The Onlooker
Acres and acres of mad Mitchie and Kev “bing bang” J.
Better things to do with my time today.
Saint Stivs on 25th February 2022 2:33 pm
Don’t be daft you’d probably end up at porn sites or conspiracy sites about stolen elections.
Then KevJ would bombard you to join his “gang”. Dangerous place the dark web.
While there are some worrying signs of inflexibility and stubbornness, I’m prepared to give Ange a bit of a pass this season. Midtjylland was always a tough ask given we had line ups which included Barkas, Bain, Ralston (pre-rehabilitation), Welsh, Murray, Soro, Montgomery, Ajeti and an Eduoard who couldn’t care less. The group stage was ok – we beat Ferencvaros twice to finish third. Betis win was a bonus. Betis first leg was an early worry – took an early lead and squandered it. Bodo was thoroughly disappointing.
Still, for a manager rebuilding a squad and in his first European campaign, it was ok although fizzled out in a disappointing manner. The size of the rebuild means I’ll give him a pass, in the hope that he learns valuable lessons. I think he’s hampered in some part by the intensity of fixtures and lack of a support team – he’s doing all the coaching, so it’s immediate start to get ready for the next match, with limited time to reflect on things. He also doesn’t have his own support team to do that for him. Let’s hope he has some time between now and next season to review, reflect, learn and adapt. If he doesn’t then I fear the players might lose faith in the process and he’ll go the way of Ronnie D.
People talk about how Bodo have had 5 years to get to the stage they are at and we shouldn’t be surprised that they were better than us. Well that’s true in part, but reflects badly on us as a club. In those 5 years, Bodo have developed from a second tier club to one which has won back to back titles. Last season they went out of the Euro qualifiers, losing 3-2 to AC Milan (having beaten two Lithuanian teams in earlier rounds) and have done much better this year – unbeaten in group stage having won all home games and drawing all away games, before beating us home and away. In the same 5 year period, the Rangers have gone from getting turfed out in the qualifiers to Progres, to qualifying for the last 16 Europa League rounds 3 seasons in a row now.
In the same time, we’ve gone backward – from back to back CL qualification to being at the start of a complete rebuild. While others were growing, we didn’t build on what we had, or even follow any sort of strategic approach to what we want the football club to be. Two clubs who between them have been in respective top-flights for less than a decade are now more credible and respected sides in the European arena than we are – that’s embarrassing and on the Board.
Bodo Glimp v AZ Alkmaar
thems v red star belgrade.
VALE BHOY on 25TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:53 PM
I don’t attend AGMs but I’d be interested to hear if the issue of European football after Christmas is ever brought up?
Bankier told us that we cannot expect to compete with Europe’s elite…..what about Cluj, Ferencvaros, Bodo Glimt etc etc….
Second goal..
How CalMac is prime suspect is just bizarre
At least 3 , possibly 4 failures before you look at Jamsie or Calmac. Bitton is wandering about as if he is blindfolded
https://twitter.com/Paulkay56136308/status/1496963538631667712
Paul 67,
We failed to take the opportunity. We suffered a dreadful defeat to virtual unknowns whose season has not even started.
The vast majority of us are onboard with Ange’s journey, but the Celtic reputation should never be deprioritised.
HH.
this is a good long read, if you have the stomach for it.
https://theathletic.com/3139350/2022/02/24/why-do-celtic-still-underperform-in-europe/
Madmitch @ 12:30pm
I actually don’t know what you are saying.
Help me out here, will you.
PTB442 @ 1:11pm (re Solbakken)
Good journalism? Hardly
Selective reporting meets Monday morning quarterbacking meets opportunism.
What the agent really meant
“My client was offered to the WORLD …
… A world which includes Celtic”
The biggest downer for me is the continual erosion of our name and reputation in Europe. Its ok saying we’re now a pot 4 team at best, and how we’re stuck in a backwater league etc, but to be outclassed over two legs by a club averaging gates of 3500 in a stadium like Alloa? I’m finding this harder and harder to deal with, it goes on and on…Molde, Midtjyland, Cluj, Prague, Ferencvaros, Malmo, all with a fraction of our budget.
Last week, only Barcelona – Napoli had a higher Europa attendance than Celtic. Something doesn’t add up. I’m thinking that comparable clubs from the smaller leagues, eg Benfica, PSV, Kiev or Basle (or even the Hun) have not went through such a bad run.
I’m right behind the manager but I hope he learns from this latest error of judgment.
MADMITCH ON
25TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:17 PM
You posted 12 paragraphs yet because of your laziness in typing initials rather than names, I and several others haven’t a clue who or what you are talking about.
What is the point?
test
Funny thing is I would be more than surprised if Bodo, could have or would have achieved nine points in our Europa League group. That said they are a fit well organised side who all know their positions. At 2-1 at Parkhead later in the game I thought for a moment that we would go on and get something out of the game. For a moment. Their immediate reply to make it 3-1 did them credit and showed for me the weakness in CalMac as a team Captain, tidy player though he may be. That they go through to play AZ, a team we actually knocked out back in August, shows once again that what goes around comes around. Still for those of that ilk, and with a bit of luck we won’t play another game in Europe until September. And hopefully a few more Saturday afternoon games.
Scottish Cup QF
Dundee United v Celtic
Monday 14th March
Is lack of money the problem?
Was listening to ACSOM this morning and Money was a big topic of discussion. Having better players makes you a better team no doubt. But Bodo don’t have much money and they fielded journeyman players mostly from around the Scandinavian leagues. None of those players cost as much as David Turnbull. And yet how well they played!
My opinion; its the coach and his system. And we are well on our way to mastering Ange’s system. But that takes time.
I’m gutted we’re out of Europe. Again.
But I’m full of hope for the the coming weeks and months.
T
Walk right in
Sit right down
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I’m putting all the emojis upfront in case the hard of thinking believe I am talking in my own voice here. Anyway, here goes:-
“Last night’s defeat proves what I have always said about Celtic, whatever that was.
All previous victories also prove that what I was saying was right.
The guys who were disinterested(sic)/overweight/had poor body language in our defeats were very suddenly transformed into home grown Celtic-committed rebels, had shed 2 stone on a crash diet that somehow strengthened them, and went to deportment classes to learn to throw theur shoulders back and walk/strut like Billy McNeill on a catwalk responding to “Here comes the Hotstepper”
And if you don’t believe me it’s either because you went to St. Aloysious, have a job I disapprove of, paid £49 for a ticket to ride, or think George Galloway is drinking milk that’s past its sell by date. FACT”
No reason not to play our SC game on Saturday lunchtime
https://twitter.com/ScotlandSky/status/1497227053602643968?s=20&t=E6yJIS62FIH20m_HgVZ7vw
AP earlier
Interim Superbru update
This should be updated fully when the postponed Dundee v St. Mirren tie from Wednesday night gets played but, since a new round starts tomorrow at 3pm, I will give the results as they stand.
Best performers this week (so far) are Gutenberg and Cosy Corner Bhoy with 12.5 with Knoxy in 3rd on 11. There’s whole host on 1 point (pending the Dundee tie) including arc, fess 19, Mick The Tim, Raplochbus, Craig76, Por Cierto and Bada Bing.
In the overall lead, Call me Gerry is almost 10 points clear of Hopeful Hoops with MagnificentSeven in 3rd place. At the bottom, excluding those dropped out, Chalmersbhoy has moved off the bottom to be replaced by Scaniel with BGFC in 3rd bottom place.
Get predictions in again by 3pm tomorrow and, if enough of us predict a good Easter Road result on Sunday and an upset at Ibrox- just maybe- we might be less despondent than we are at present.
Thanks again for your support.