I don’t know is that was the worst home performance I’ve seen, but it was up there. We look like a broken team. Dundee were comfortable throughout, limited Celtic to one genuine chance in the game (in the 76th minute), and caused havoc during their regular attacks on Craig Gordon’s goals. Their best chance came from a corner kick (what else), which was sent over by a player who stopped to head the ball from 5 yards.
Charlie Mulgrew is not the most gifted player, he’s not a central midfielder and he’s not game-fit yet, but despite putting in an indifferent shift last night, he never hid. The juxtaposition between him and others was stark. We need players with attitude – the captain back on form, Kris Commons fully fit and starting, and others taking their lead.
Confidence is on the floor. Mistakes, backwards passing and long balls forward were all subject to derision, but I think last night was the first time I’ve heard a Celtic substitute being booed onto the field. All because he doesn’t want to renew a contract for his position as occasionally-used squad player. The seriousness of the situation is clearly lost on those who want to boo a player taking the field instead of encouraging the guy to help us win a game. The whole experience got me thinking, how many of us actually want to win this league?
You better believe they want to win it at Pittodrie. They have focus, form, packed stands and patience. They also enjoy the ‘Leicester City effect’ – everyone not competing directly with them wants them to win. The rest of Scottish football is desperate for us to tear ourselves apart right now. We need to circle the wagons, live up to the reputation we like to think we have, and play our role in delivering this title.
You want 10-in-a-row? Bring me your complaints in May, but for now get your shoulder to the wheel. This is not our first performance crisis and it won’t be our last, as a collective, we need to be smart in dealing with these situations.
Everyone at Celtic Park (and beyond) knows this is not good enough, and there’s going to need to be big changes in the summer, but we need to get our act together and put the inquest on hold until the end of the season.
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MACJAY
I know it is,bud. But IMO the tories are going to fragment if there’s an Out vote.
Good.
I’ll risk it.
As for the other bit,I agree. You’re right to point out that SFTB’s “synopsis” was not an accurate reflection of your words. I also agree,btw,that most immigrants from war-torn areas are young males.
Maybe the rest died on the arduous journey,who knows?
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH MARCH 2016 9:37 AM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 4TH MARCH 2016 9:23 AM
You don’t actually have an actual source as such, do you?
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Your gotcha moment,Ernie ?
Please yourself, pal.
However.
I don`t talk to anti-semites.
:-)
OK, so should the next Celtic manager be
a) a Muslim
b) a Jew
c) a Christian
d) none of the above
e) all of the above (including option d)?
ERNIE
F) Cheap as chips and pliable
HH
JOEFILIPPISHAIRCUT
The way that Ronny has been treated doesn’t do our cause any favours either,mate.
I said at the time that the way the huns and the media treated PLG screwed their chances of getting a decent coach in from abroad. We’ve just had our PLG moment. In more ways than one,I reckon…
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 4TH MARCH 2016 9:42 AM
Now that is a FACT.
BMCUW
I was totally against Roy Keane. Now with a stabilising influence beside him.
Maybe.
KC and CM better take Kung Fu, judo and boxing lessons pronto, if they plan a repeat of their antics with the Cork Crackpot in town. :-)
HH.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 4th March 2016 9:40 am
I have really serious concerns about these matters.
So much so that I really don`t care about domestic political preferences.
Tories fragment ? I wouldn`t care.
Then,of course , there`s the Trump ( ALARM ) factor.
Underlines the mindset of the U.S. populace.
Fitba`s on , mate.
Catch you later.
ERNIE LYNCH. Fella we should see how Ronny fairs until the end of the season we have to be careful as the huns will take every chance they get to destablise us. We can still win the double and if we do that for me in Celtic terms that would be a successful season. H.H.
GREENPINATA
Roy gives us the added advantage of a footballing man-whatever anyone’s opinion of him,he is that!-in charge of football operations.
That’s a result from the start,IMO.
Anyway,offski. Nearly 10am and not a pint sunk yet. Criminal dereliction of duty,that…
MACJAY
Enjoy yer weekend,mate. Say hi to SYD and his pal,MICHAEL COLLINS.
Macjay, correct.
Thanks to middle class lefties, high on ‘compassion’, we will see a growth in the loony left and right across Europe.
Trying to integrate people from backward cultures into liberal anything goes cultures can only go wrong.
For me Roy Keane has an unstable personality and has not succeeded at management with any of his previous clubs and I would steer well clear of him if I had ant say at Celtic.Another thing I could not see him and big Peter hitting it off for very long it would be a train wreck waiting to happen. H.H.
I’m a curious bugger, curious in the nosey sense, and probably a little peculiar too, granted.
Following figures from the UNHCR, on the demographic profile of Syrian refugees:
Total number of Registered Syrian Refugees: 4,815,360 displaced in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt.
That’s more than the population of Ireland by the way.
Of which:
Male: 49.3%, of which more than half are aged 17 or younger, and less than half aged 18 to 59.
Female: 50.7% of which more than half are aged 17 or younger, and less than half aged 18-59
More here for those interested: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php
In sum, more than half of those 4.8M people fleeing conflict in Syria and registered by the UNHCR as refugees are female, and more than half are children.
Clearly, given that less than one quarter of them are Male aged 18-59, the majority are not single young men.
Alterntively, one might elect to ignore the UN’s Refugee Agency, and instead rely upon FACTS from anonymous but apparently respected European politicians.
Morning Celts
JFH
PL would run a mile if he saw RK growl at him.
Cant see Roy anywhere near.
Too much of a challenge for PL.
It would take RK two minutes to put PL in his place
Thats why it wont happen.
HH
BMCUW @9.40.
Official Sicilian figures for 2015 were 34 % female . Current figure for 2016 is 42%.. Babies , toddlers , children , teenagers , young women , middle aged women and elderly women.
John-O-Neil R.I.P
There is an ever increasing number of deranged slabbering right wing imbeciles that follow Celtic. CQN is now the place to go for them. Naturally I blame our board. Their idols
HH
My friends in Celtic
I believed that the Ronny Delia approach to football was correct for our time. I still do.
His verbal philosophy is exactly what’s required. Unfortunately, execution of said philosophy is lacking.
But spare a though to a man who must be under extreme pressure, in a foreign country without the backing of his family.
I may be wrong, however i believe RD to be a man of integrity. Through mutual agreement he will know when it is time to depart.
HH.
Not many managers would, or could afford to do a WGS and walk away from Middlesbrough with only the clothes he stood in. Not quite a big issue seller, but hey ho.
Judge every body by the content of their character
nothing else
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-migrants-at-the-channel-tunnel-built-by-irish-migrants-1.2324628#.Vdrod7P36_w.twitter
Wednesday 4th
Fr Murphy was in tonight. I have not felt too bad today, although I notice the energy beginning to drain. But it is quite early yet. I got showered today and had my hair cut, which made me feel quite good. Ten years younger, the boys joke, but I feel twenty years older, the inevitable consequence of eight years of torture and imprisonment.
I am abreast with the news and view with utter disgust and anger the Reagan/Thatcher plot. It seems quite clear that they intend to counteract Russian expansionism with imperialist expansionism, to protect their vital interests they say.
What they mean is they covet other nations’ resources. They want to steal what they haven’t got and to do so (as the future may unfortunately prove) they will murder oppressed people and deny them their sovereignty as nations. No doubt Mr Haughey will toe the line in Ireland when Thatcher so demands.
Noticed a rarity today: jam with the tea, and by the way the Screws are glaring at the food. They seem more in need of it than my good self.
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 4TH MARCH 2016 9:59 AM
A few points.
I wouldn`t trust the U.N. and I certainly don`t trust their figures.
The alcoholic running the pub…Vested interest.
SYRIAN refugees.
What percentage of the “refugees “are Syrian?
Libyan?
Iraqi?
Somali?
Eritrean ?
Tunisian?
Moroccan?
Course , they don`t count.
Safe,I feel, to assume that those responsible for the multiple sexual assaults on young women in multiple European cities were young men
Or would you like to consult th U.N. statistics on that one also.
Awe naw,
Verbal abuse isn’t half as bad as the flying chicken advert on CQN.
Greenpinata
New club, same scum supporters.
You trust whoever you like Macjay. It’s a free world, and belief is a protected characteristic in this part of it.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:17 AM
So have you managed to find a source for your ‘fact’ yet?
Lest we should forget.
“Wheresoever knives and razors are used, wheresoever sneak thefts and petty pilfering are easy and safe, wheresoever dirty acts of sexual baseness are committed, there you will find the Irishman in Scotland with all but a monopoly.”
Macjay
Would you accept the figures of any agency involved in refugees crisis work?
Or do you prefer what appear your own blinkered prejudices?
The best I hope for is that Lawwell has learned he is no football manager. So he should avoid any puppet appointment next time round upon whom he can foist his projects for profit onto.
Ronny is taking the flak – sure he’s out of his depth but he has had player after player dumped on him. Cole? CKR? Cifcti? These are never RD players.
I’m lambasted for highlighting the role of PL but it is as clear as day that he is the problem
THE BATTERED BUNNET @ 9.59.
Indeed . Watch the scenes from places like the Greek / Macedonian border .. Lots and lots of females . Saw a spokeswoman for a Sicilian charity on tele last week — making the point that women were under represented in the official statistics —- for 2 reasons ———- it doesn’t suit the prevailing narrative / many women avoid reception centres etc in fear of exploitation ( real and imagined )
ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:23 AM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:17 AM
So have you managed to find a source for your ‘fact’ yet?
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Told you.
I don`t talk to anti-semites.
Cultsbhoy
I value your input on here, but do you still think that Alan Stubbs is for us. If he is another crossed of the list at this time, then who would you advocate? ( assuming PL will still be there )
Hail, Hail to you.
Greenpinata on 4th March 2016 10:15 am
So what you’re saying is that Ronny talks a good game?
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:20 AM
You trust whoever you like Macjay. It’s a free world, and belief is a protected characteristic in this part of it.
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I know precisely who to trust.
And it`s not the U.N.
The Bosnian Muslims trusted the Dutch U.N. peace keepers. The last thing they did.
Awe_Naw
Right wing CQNers? What is your definition of a ‘right-winger’?
Big Peat of Islay,
Yes I suppose that is unfortunately correct.
HH.
BIG PEAT
Someone who can beat a man, get to the by-line, and send in a beautiful cross:)
HH
SQUIRE DANAHER on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:27 AM
Macjay
Would you accept the figures of any agency involved in refugees crisis work?
Or do you prefer what appear your own blinkered prejudices?
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Probably not.
They have a vested interest in keeping their jobs and use statistics accordingly.
“blinkered prejudices” …A bit rude . No ?
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 4TH MARCH 2016 10:29 AM
So what you claimed to be a fact now appears to be no more than your own ignorant prejudice.
Fair enough.
I’m glad we’ve managed to clear that up.