Football’s better without manipulation

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I’ve no fondness for Stuart McColl but I’m disappointed the wheels have fallen off Motherwell’s bogey this season.  Delivering two consecutive second place finishes in a league populated with mostly better finances teams was exceptional.  Over the last three years they have lost players instead of paying money they couldn’t afford, otherwise they would almost certainly be challenging at the top of the table.

I like Gordon Strachan.  One of the things I like about him is he is almost impossible to get on-message.  Talk about manipulating football in order to get the ‘right’ teams in the top division is ludicrous, Gordon knows this, or he wouldn’t have used a word like “manipulate”.  On a substantive note, I think he’s wrong on this point.

The game changed when Rangers were liquidated, and it changed again when Hearts and Hibs were relegated.  Fewer people buy tickets as there is not genuine competition for the league title, but some things we can do without.

Scottish football survived without the ticket money these clubs brought them, and the country’s streets, pubs and A&E departments have benefited from not having to cope with the sheer hassle we used to put up with.

I’ve enjoyed our four lower tier-only games this season, they were atmospheric and entertaining.  If this was our future, I’d bite your hand off for it before I’d want to go back to the old ways.

Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen and the rest are defined on their own merits, and many of us are enjoying our football.

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  1. with the arrival of Diarra , does this mean SB will be moved wide right ,

     

     

    or who do you guys think will be dropped to make way for Diarra ??

  2. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Hun skelper

     

     

    Great fun for the CEO of CFC to prove himself complicit in the Hun lie …brilliant …NOT

  3. ….pfayr supports weeoscar

     

     

    19:46 on 3 November, 2014

     

     

    I couldn’t care less what the Huns want to claim or call themselves, it dosent concern me and it dosent concern Celtic

  4. Do you honestly think it would be a “lol” moment if PL said no and refused to explain his reasons for doing so :(((((

  5. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    Hunskelper

     

     

    What a lot of Celtic supporters are looking for is affirmation and leadership.

     

     

    Guys like Lawwell are paid to look after the business, their re-emergence provides opportunity to turn a coin.

     

     

    Sadly many of our support have ceased to turn-up over the last 3 years. Consequently I can understand why the business wants them back.

     

     

    It still sticks in my craw.

  6. TET,

     

     

    Saying kids, they’re seventeen and eighteen now, my daughter would kill me if she knew, whit they don’t know won’t hurt them.

     

     

    How’s your new wee dug settling?

     

     

    I’m getting Caesars cat food from aldi now, saves me a fortune and he turns his nose up at whiskas sachets now.

  7. ….pfayr supports weeoscar

     

     

    19:49 on 3 November, 2014

     

     

    Calm done mate, the question if asked would never be answered by anybody at the club

  8. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Hun skelper

     

     

    An integral aspect of Scottish football and it doesn’t concern CFC

     

     

    You’re either being obtuse or stupid

  9. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    TET,

     

     

    Totally agree. The ship has sailed.

     

     

    The Cup Final and any SFA game was when/ where to make our protest.

     

     

    Celtic40me,

     

     

    Thank you.

  10. ….pfayr supports weeoscar

     

     

    19:54 on 3 November, 2014

     

     

    Explain what difference it makes to us if the Huns want to claim there the same club ?

  11. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Hun skelper

     

     

    The carefully constructed Hun lie has gone unchallenged……CFC are in a unique position to challenge this lie ….thus far they have failed to do so

     

     

    I’m not comfortable with Hun lies ….if you are it’s up to you

  12. The question of old Huns or new Huns is doing what it was set up to do – uniting the Huns in denial and setting us against each other in asking everyone and their granny to denounce them as two different clubs. I have moved on – I wanted the SFA, Pistol Pete and others to tell the world the truth but my opinion changed at the weekend when Donald Findlay told them. For me that was my road to Damascus moment…..if I get a ticket for the game I will go and will Celtic to thump them, just as I do in every match, no matter the opposition.

  13. ….pfayr supports weeoscar

     

     

    19:58 on 3 November, 2014

     

     

    Ok we’ll leave it at that, I know there a different club I don’t need the security of Celtic to say it. HH

  14. Winning Captains ………

     

     

    Magnificent post, very well put together and 100% factually correct.

     

     

    How in God’s name can any Celtic supporter disagree with what you have written ?

     

     

    This message needs to be delivered to our board ASAP, their silence has not just been deafening, but also embarrassing all through this Rangers / EBT / Cheating / SFA / Corruption / Sevco / Euro Licence / etc.

     

     

    Enough is enough and the time has come for Peter Lawell to confirm what we all know.

     

     

    Rangers died

     

    They did not exit administration

     

    Rangers were not relegated

     

    Rangers were never punished

     

    Sevco is a new club

  15. sipsini

     

     

    I have always believed that a girl of 18 is about 4-5 years old, and a boy of 18 is about 1-2 years old, so IMO, they are kids >}

     

     

    Just the age that the hoards are hell bent on venting their hate on.

     

     

    She is great, not a bother, and the money is better in your pocket than down Caesars gub.

     

     

    HH

  16. Pfayr good shout .

     

    A 3-5-2 would allow us to play …..

     

     

    Gordon

     

     

    CM VVD JD

     

    EI SJ LD SB M L

     

    SS JG

     

    and we have a strong bench too !!

     

     

    imo ;))

  17. foghorn leghorn on

    Winning Captains,

     

     

    a fine post

     

     

    though to be honest i didnt read it because it was too long and i have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to reading

     

     

    but as i was scrolling down i could feel the presence and aura of a post high in well-writteness delivered by a poster of much esteem :-)

     

     

    BackToRachelAllenCSC

  18. Lennons passion with respect he was treated like shit up here attacked on at least 7 occasions that we know about villiefied at every occasion by msm yet goes on a show that is anti celtic read phils latest today yet goes on praises the board the media and fat boy . this is same guy who says he no longer watches celtic. his choice but why not just decline the offer get on with your new life no lets praise ally who got the ob act indroduced now total anti celtic act says ally will strengthen before the cup tie ffs like neil met him personally stated after Newcastle stich up hated media he should have declined this gig it was so pro Scotland is so nice now . but hey ho that mob can do what they want neil should know more than most hh

  19. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    bournesouprecipe

     

    20:07 on

     

    3 November, 2014

     

    The Bhoys in a Bubble.

     

     

     

    Michael Bub(b)le

  20. bournesouprecipe on

    thomthethim

     

     

    Buble they have taken you away. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( or at least they should )

     

     

    p.s. nice returning post – you are missed

  21. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon ....The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    moravcik

     

     

    20:03 on 3 November, 2014

     

    Winning Captains ………

     

     

    Magnificent post, very well put together and 100% factually correct.

     

     

    200% correct……!!!!!!!!

  22. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon ....The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    hun skelper

     

     

    20:01 on 3 November, 2014

     

    ….pfayr supports weeoscar

     

     

    19:58 on 3 November, 2014

     

     

    So you’re quite happy with Celtic ‘living the lie’ also ….!!!!

  23. Marspapa

     

     

    Celtic have denied any deal with Diarra, in the link Lennybhoy posted

     

     

    I put up last night, I was given a rumour that VVD to Man Utd with Darren Fletcher to Celtic as part of Deal in January, no idea to truth, but Bhoy who told me, said he had spoken to some of Fletchers family in Ireland ?

     

    So are Celtic looking for a holding midfielder ?

     

    Will Charlie drop back to Centre Half, or Efe into CH if VVD goes ?

     

     

    More important to me than any game in 3 months, against some team who not exist AGAIN by that time :-)

     

     

    Hail Hail the Celts are here

  24. Have refrained from posting this but hey, anyway, i have no need for anyone past or present from our club to make anykind of statement regarding them…but it would be nice…just once, just one time , somebody, ex player or ex manager to come out and say what a large part of the support think…but i wont hold my breath…..just like we had explayers coming out supporting bitter together..but not one coming out in support of YES.

     

    .makes me wonder……

  25. Marrakesh Express on

    Hunskelper

     

     

    The hun cheated my club out of trophies and millions of pounds in the process. I attended games for a decade in a competition that was ultimately rigged. Ogilvie knew the huge risk his old club was taking.

     

    For the Celtic board to say ‘no’ they are not a new club (which they wont anyway) would mean they are complicit in the biggest lie ever which stemmed from the biggest British football crime ever.

     

    I would not go back if it was a ‘no’.

     

    Thats how much it means to me, and from what I read on here, many others.

  26. If the (s)truth is going to hit home for the knuckle – draggers,

     

    the huns need to be called out by the SFA and the media.

     

     

    I don’t expect anyone in the media to run with Victorian Dads sensible assessment.

     

    The media in scoddland is their first and last line of defence.

     

     

    Millionaire footballers and former managers don’t live in our world.

     

     

    I want the club to tell the truth and not support the lie.

     

    I think they’ll come good.

  27. prestonpans bhoys on

    Interesting comments on deid club tonight. Must confess I would be surprised if the our club came out and declared them as a new club. Did notice that no reference was made to the OF tag on our web site though.

  28. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Fletcher scores for Sunderland

     

    as half time whistle goes in Dingwall, hopeless, not one decent attempt on goal..

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