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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I fear that putting the inquest on hold allows the chances at our club breathing space they don’t deserve. This lot could lose the league.
Topkat
You acknowledge non-triers.
Should we clap like seals for non- triers? A non trier is a fraud. He insults the Celtic support and the people who pay his over inflated wages.
How should we should treat them ?
HH.
Timalloy, thank you for your post, can you please give me some hope, what have you seen in the past months and weeks that would make you believe this manager (and his team) have what is takes to win this league?
Tamrabam…..”no doubt the idiots who bought into the whole ronny vision rubbish”
Classy stuff.
I’m sure the copy and paste merchants for FF are having a field day.
Anyway, I bought into the vision – thought we needed a modern European approach in the face of a declining market and hoped with Ronny we’d taken a step in that direction. Knew nothing about him but knew nothing about Wim or Neil Lennon as manager. Worried that the reactionaries will take us back to a limited british manager with all the old fashioned baggage that comes with it.
Hope we keep with the vision.
This pathetic season is a consequence of putting personal profit before the team.
And it seems that everybody and anybody is to blame…but not PL and the board.
This is how out of touch some of the dinosaurs are….its ridiculous.
They are running Celtic like fecking idiots.
I cannot believe some are still defending that tragedy last night….fecking wake up.
If i was PL or RD….id have done the decent thing….long ago.
The worship of the bonus culture has to stop.
HH
Greenpinata
The hardcore………….they’re usually the moaniest gits :-) Remember Mowbray’s final days and Lenny’s early matches ? Greetin faced gits to a man.
Shows how much it means though !
Easy enough to enjoy a free curry/meal then castigating the supporters for airing their displeasure.
Green pinta
You are correct that the fans from last night were the diehards, the hardcore. Not the so called glory hunters. If they have a problem they are damn well entitled to have an opinion.
They didn’t bring Ronny, they didn’t sign cole and and all the other uselsss strikers
They didn’t decided to play one up front
And I tell you another thing, since we have a budget is as much as all our current competitors combined, its not unreasonable to think we should be winning comfortably.
Don’t know what the rest of you think, but whose idea was it to put wee Patrick Roberts out for today’s press conf?
They’ve sent a kid out one who joined the group only 4 weeks ago, and who made his first start last night in a match in which the older players didn’t turn up, and they’ve sent out the wee guy in front of a press pack who need no invitation to tear strips off Celtic?
Where’s the leadership?
Big wavy
no apologies whatsoever
this charade has gone on long enough
TIMALOY29 on 3RD MARCH 2016 1:27 PM
BOB O’ BALDY on 3RD MARCH 2016 1:20 PM
Kazim Richards has spent the majority of his career playing out wide
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/derision-hiding-wanting-to-win-the-league/comment-page-2/#comments
.Surprising that when you actually see the man, he’s hardly built for a wide position.
Time for change
Many thanks
HH
The lack of camaraderie on the bench is very notable and it has always been so. Since Ronnies arrival.
Ronny hanging his players out to dry has happened to many times to this well below average Celtic squad.
Peter lying to their mates and colleagues and hanging them out to dry has happened too many times for this well below average Celtic squad for them to give a tuppeny suck.
The continual undermining of the players work domestically by the mibs has happened too many times for this well below average squad to give a tuppeny suck.
Cleary for the PLC it is all about the money so why shouldn´t the players think that way ?
HH
TIMALOY29 @ 1:24
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Take your point – yes loss of form is forgivable – loss of desire is not.
There was no desire last night, we barely ‘went through the motions’
There was a Celtic supporter on CQN yesterday who had travelled to watch his first match from Chicago.
Think about that.
Awe_Naw
In fairness, some of his players have hung him out to dry.
We will lose to Morton and be 3rd in league if Ronny stays
The Green Man
What have you got against dinosaurs?
For last nights performance only the highly paid players and managerial team were to blame.
Even the Theosarus’s ( the most intelligent of Dinosaurs ) could see that.
Hail, Hail.
Tamrabam
Didn’t ask for one.
Your fellow fans aren’t idiots.
We needed change post Neil and I hope we are confident in the direction we should continue to take in surviving being an ever-decreasing fish…
PL has got to go.. I voted for this at AGm . along with 2 others I think
This CFC team are timid , gutless and soft
if we win the league it will be in spite of the management team not because of them
change is required now
He’s a dead parrot, and I’ve been saying it since he blew the Maribor CL qualification with the dumbest half-time substitution ever seen in europe – going 4-2-4 in a game we didn’t even have to win.
The mask slipped right then, he managed to fix it up for a month last year to give Inter a game but around that? Stumbling to victories, competent at best, shambolic mostly, no focus or purpose about a squad drained of belief, players unsure why they’re dropped/picked/praised/criticised.
There’s been a LOT of theory, of which NONE has manifested on the park.
Idiots like me end up frowning at the formation, hesitant and a little apprehensive of pointing out what may be the bloody obvious, wondering if there’s sometihng I’m not seeing- if the tactical genius at the helm has a trick up his sleeve – but alas, no – even an idiot fan like me actually sees the glaring tactical errors which are allowing lesser teams to comfortably counter anything we throw at them.
Which is usually just the one consistent ineffective tactical set-up, hoping the opposition has an off night.
Tony Gale – cockerny wank – covering Man U-Arsenal for SSN on Sunday said of Arsenal’s tactics (paraphrased) – ‘they know Man U are going to sit deep and defend from their own box, so why just play a little guy up front (Walcott) on his own against four defenders, it’s too easy for Man U. Everyone knows you need to play a big guy up there too – give the team someone to play off and give the defence something to deal with. It’s simple stuff, eveyone knows that…’
He shook his head, incredulous. Even tony Gale , cockerny wank, decent former player, sees the bloody obvious.
We do it every week, ‘cos Barca do it, don’t they?’
Aaaaye…
Henrik Larsson. In now. Bums on seats. Hope in our hearts. No hiding place for imposters under the King of Kings.
we sjpould only buy players who go straight into the team.. not has beens overweight useless CFs that don’t fit style.. 3 signed this season.. and let Stokes go who can score in SPL and Scepovic who looked as if he at least could run!
ALLYHUNTERSGLOVES on 3RD MARCH 2016 1:30 PM
Reasons for optimism? Reasons to believe Ronny can do it?
1. He’s already won the double last season. We won the title with 92 points compared to Aberdeens 75
2. After the same amount of games last season we had 66 points. This season we have 63. Aberdeen had 59 points this time last season and this time they have 61.
3. We won the league by 17 points last season. We have a much better goal difference. Which means there will need to be an 18 point swing between us and the sheep. Do you honestly see that happening?
4. Ronny played Rogic, Mulgrew and Brown when they were all struggling to find fitness. It was a mistake but at least they will be better prepared for the weekend.
5. We have a bigger squad with more options. We only have 1 player we can’t afford to lose and that’s Griffiths. Aberdeen have 4 or 5.
Has there been much improvement this season? Nothing I can point to no.
Is Ronny the man to take us to the next level? Maybe. It’s a hard sell right now but wait til May.
Is this season remarkably different to last year? No. We have similar inconsistencies but we’re still good enough to do the double.
“Football is nothing without fans.”
Jock Stein
Never truer or more important than it is for this current team.
Green man
Yet again I feel the need to call you out.
I have not read a single comment on here blaming any fans for the teams obvious shortfalls,
I was there last night and it was cringeworthy booing a Celtic player onto the park and cheering a Dundee player coming on, and to tell Any Celtic manager to gtf is the pits, to a man they should be ashamed
I had to leave 2 minutes early before someone got the tin pale, namely me, Tonyd can verify that, felt ashamed that I nearly came to blows with a fellow Tim, so called Tim
TBB
that’s outrageous
We will lose to Morton and be 3rd in league if Ronny stays – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/derision-hiding-wanting-to-win-the-league/comment-page-3/#comment-2787910
Yer baws
Sandman
Enjoyed your post.
Wee question about Henrik. Does he have the personality ? I always felt he was so focussed he seemed almost an introvert.
Sorry state we are in and reminds me of so many other scenarios prior to a managerial change.
If people want to boo a player on many thousands of pounds per week because he isn’t committed so be it. It’s juvenile and speaks about them but they pay their season books and are entitled to let one of the egos know their opinion.
Many people take the blog leaders to be a propaganda machine for Peter lawwell. Not without evidence I have to say as one particular blog had P67 pressing the book on money ball into The hands of the operational leader.
There are other blogs revealing the nature of our transfer policy, blogs on the managerial position around Deilas appointment also key.
If you can stretch your imagination that this blog is an organ for Celtic to tell their truth then it follows that this article reveals the current thinking.
Moreover, we were asked to wait till the end of he transfer window in January. We waited.
Now we must wait until the Summer? We wait and the managerial merry go round of hapless japes will start all over again with Dermot pursuing anyone willing to meet him on a golf course with a connection to Ireland, meanwhile Lawwell goes off on a fantasy with punts he favours. Who knows what major shareholder sponsors Lawwell with this but it’s not Dermot Desmond.
It has already been decreed that Ronny will go in he summer. We will pay up the ray of his contract in due course and appoint another.
My guess is we haven’t appointed anyone yet and are reluctant to let Ronny go to damage limit the response from the media on what they would spin as panic. Ronny is a nice guy so he gets to serve his gardening leave while still popping into the house now and then to show some interest.
This is a calamity again. We MIGHT get lucky as with Gordon Strachan but we could end up with Lawwell backed kamikaze management.
We will win the league as Celtic but it will be a boring whimpering limp over the line played out as a public spectacle in front of enthralled onlookers. Do we want to win the league? Proposterous to answer that question.
It must hurt the board that the support aren’t as daft as they think they are. Years of calamity dressed up as nouvea innovative thinking resulting in Celtic limping over the finish line in front of a workman Aberdeen side.
Just treat the club like a football club instead of a kids chemistry set and we should be ok and we can draw a line under this pish.
It took Ronny 5 years to win the Norwegian league. That is FAR too poor a record to be considered as a Celtic manager and I said so at the time. The level of improvement was a squirrels baw hair most years and WAS not year upon year improvement. It is a PLC vanity project. Maximise revenue while equalizing the Old Firm. None of you were prepared to listen.
AYE READY to rumble
HH
Timaloy29
How many times does it need to be said?
That did bring a chuckle.
If you wish to make excuses for Colin Kazim Richards, fine, but…
Lionel Messi
Gareth Bale
Cristiano Ronaldo
Have spent all of their career, out wide.
The difference between them and CKR, and, because it is prescient, the Celtic team last night, are prepared to get off their arses and take responsibility rather than pass the buck.
When those lads see the play develop, they don’t say, oh I’m a wide guy, they say, there’s a goal there for me or a team mate.
That’s no what I see when I see CKR and many others in this team.
masty on 3rd March 2016 1:45 pm
There was nothing wrong with cheering Harkins on. It was light-hearted based on his Sevco comments. A bit of fun. Some entertainment, which was sorely lacking elsewhere.
I can’t think of anyone who could do a better job and who would be prepared to take it.
Which suggests that the problem may lie somewhere higher up the food chain.
Maradominic on 3rd March 2016 1:42 pm PL has got to go..
“I voted for this at AGm . along with 2 others I think ”
I posted on the last thread that I believe PL has already decided to go in the summer.
I think , from his “big changes in the summer” reference that Paul believes that too.
Here’s another thing to think about
If the sheep won their last 10 games, they would finish with 89 points. That’s STILL less than Celtic’s total of 92 last season.
That’s the task they are facing.
The Battered Bunnet on 3rd March 2016 1:33 pm –
I agree. Terrible decision.
Will Peter Lawwell spend 3m on securing (HIS) next managerial candidate ?
HH
The Battered Bunnet on 3rd March 2016 1:33 pm
Don’t know what the rest of you think, but whose idea was it to put wee Patrick Roberts out for today’s press conf?
They’ve sent a kid out one who joined the group only 4 weeks ago, and who made his first start last night in a match in which the older players didn’t turn up, and they’ve sent out the wee guy in front of a press pack who need no invitation to tear strips off Celtic?
Where’s the leadership?
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KevJ wisnae wrang. John Reid was up for it.
It is never about the here and now.
I know nothing, and I really know that.
The Queen said to the Butler.
We wrestle not against flesh and Blood.