I don’t know about you but practically every football thought I have at the moment is connected to where we go next. The small matter of winning the league title has slipped into ‘foregone conclusion’ territory, which is always dangerous.
The players will be no different from the rest of us, but they will have more on their minds. A change of manager is likely to mean a new system, and new squad requirements. They need to focus on making the best of the next five games. One thing that has been reassuring this week is Ronny Deila’s comments. His professional pride is clear; he’ll apply himself fully to the task in hand until the end of the season.
Eyes on the task of winning the league, as soon as possible.
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ACGR
I thought it was only me,seems you have the same problem.
Yer pals call ye Mick,yer nearest and dearest call you Michael.
If it’s any help,my first name in Kilwinning is “none of the above”
I’m known as Fenian Mick!
Well done on giving it plenty,my man!!!!!!
ruggyman
“Forrest. Ronny done well by James. Physically and injury wise, Ronny made sure James was fit to play. Far more than Neil Lennon and his staff did. Yet, how did James repay Ronny. The evidence is clear. Hee-haw ”
Not strictly true.
Ronny tossed James on as a sub in the Legia game knowing he was not ready and set his recovery back by over a month. It was after that he started talking about knowing what James needed but, like all managers before him, he called on James when he needed him, whether James was ready or not.
Still hate to see James go but, once he goes, he is an ex-Celt and of little interest to me.
G’night CQN
PEYEC
I remember a song from mibbe thirty years ago,dream,baby,dream. I’ll try and find it.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 24TH APRIL 2016 1:19 AM
RUGGYMAN
I said after the Legia game that those players better start playing for and not against their manager.
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Won`t come as much of a shock to hear that I disagree and feel that the performance of individual players and of the team will dramatically improve on his departure. Maybe even before.
Players played out of preferred positions.
Players being asked to do what they were incapable of doing ( One of big Jock`s mantras ………..never ask a player to do something of which he is incapable.)
Bizarre team selections.
No settled team formations.
Bizarre substitutions………….Rogic on with 10 mins to go. Zviachenko left on the bench……….Both scorers.
The substitution of Kris just after he had laid on a goal in Malmo (?) and the understandable display of anger which followed.
Fails to recognise the ability of Leigh for god knows how long.
The continued retention of Johanssen when he was patently off form.
The failure to introduce mature players to the team whom he had signed……Allan and Christie .
Carlton Cole.HE signed.Not the perrennial C.Q.N. scapegoat with whom he says he had an excellent relationship
Given a lifeline after the Legia humiliation and still contrives to lose us 12 million quid.
But wait . There`s more. Much much more.
Tactics against Rangers.
Dear god. One up front.
The huns should have been slaughtered.
Ronny. Superb in theory .Shitty in practice.
Now ,what does that remind you of ?
Oh and Bankiebhoy1 – Don’t you Ever insinuate I’m a hun, ever again.
Cowardly patter.
Just Stop being so Judgemental and casting aspersions all over this Site you profess to be Dear and Green.
I know that £Billions are spent on disinformation, dude, seriously I know, and I’ve known a lot longer than you, I’d hazard a guess.
Just stop yer crap.
I cannae be doing with your pish to be BRUTALLY honest.
God Bless the BankieBhoy1
BobM, funny thing is my pal I was out with, apart from my pal being a polis, and one who doesn’t care for football, his daughter is the assistant physio with Kilmarnock (a wee cutie btw).
She’s been turned by Kilmarnock into a very anti Celtic young lady by elbows and “the greatest striker ever to grace the premier league”.
They never flinched when I said their girl was working for cheap huns without a train fare.
I told them I hope killie get relegated.
I’m sure we’ll be able to salvage some kind of friendship but I’m not that bothered either way.
Mrs acgr, was quite upset.. She’ll get over it.
“Bizarre substitutions………….Rogic on with 10 mins to go. Zviachenko left on the bench……….Both scorers.”
Macjay,
If you want a negative you’ll find it.
Must be the first time in all my years I’ve heard goal scoring subs being described as bizarre.
If another manager done the same they’d be called inspired substitutions.
Big Erik was struggling with injury beforehand and rogic simply cannot play 90 mins.
There’s usually a simple answer to bizarre situations if one is willing to think.
HH
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
I’m really disappointed that Ronny is Leaving.
For Celtic to get frisky at the CL levels we Must be….. och disnae matter. You know what I’m saying.
Ronny Knows the Support believe in him noo he is leaving, it will not be good when it is Sympathetic applause.
I care not a thing.
Double Ronny D’s salary and make sure he is @ Celtic.
Triple it if need be.
Ghetto Superstar
MACJAY
You can blame Ronny as much as you like. I lay the blame very much elsewhere.
Lawwell is the culprit here. The five minute micro-manager.
Just A Litlke more Love, Just a Littke More Peace,All It Takes To Live The Dream,Walk Hand in Hand, Understand, That One Day Soon Be Champions of Our Land….Almost 5 Con sec Titles…. The 90’s we Would Have Died For These Times”……COYBIG
PETEC
Dream…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRTCqgAkfg
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 24TH APRIL 2016 2:20 AM
MACJAY
You can blame Ronny as much as you like. I lay the blame very much elsewhere.
Lawwell is the culprit here. The five minute micro-manager.
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Deila disagrees.
He knows where the buck stops.
Very complimentary to the Board and about his working relationship with P.L.
He should know.
Bitches On Here Bitchin About winning 5 titles Consec…The Rebels Have becone the Entitled Establishment…….Me i treat it Lije My FIrst….I Fkin Love it…
GEORDIE MUNRO on 24TH APRIL 2016 2:04 AM
“Bizarre substitutions………….Rogic on with 10 mins to go. Zviachenko left on the bench……….Both scorers.”
Macjay,
If you want a negative you’ll find it.
Must be the first time in all my years I’ve heard goal scoring subs being described as bizarre.
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He was forced into the subs.
Zvia by injury.
Rogic by desperation.
Negative? Two years of stultifying negativity from Ronny.
Horribly expemnsive experiment.
You think he should stay , I take it.
Wow.
MACJAY
Denial is not just part of the problem,it is the problem.
Mmmmm……………
Bitches quoth he.
Macjay, I had a shite earlier, wanna ghess what what colour it was?
Fancy a three year debate about shades of brown…………………..:_)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 24TH APRIL 2016 2:34 AM
MACJAY
Denial is not just part of the problem,it is the problem.
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Two years denial on the part of Deila and from his employers.
We`ll see, pal.
I`ll bet we see a liberated team after his departure. Maybe even today.
And a sense of relief from the cognoscenti (sic ) in our support. :-)
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 24TH APRIL 2016 2:39 AM
That would depend on the condition of your alimentary tract.
Melaena eg. would not be good.
I`m sure you`re making a point there.
Somewhere.
You stick to your whickies.
That`ll keep you reglar.
Macjay,
Nope. I think he should go. As in his words, he’s became the focus.
I’m adopting the ‘told you so’ approach for the next manager.
Whoever it is will leave after not fulfilling every fans wishes. I’m saying now he’ll be a dud cos I’s knows best ;)
HH
GEORDIE MUNRO on 24TH APRIL 2016 2:57 AM
Same boat,mate.
I want Champions league money and the status it brings , because that is the only way we can attract players to join our club .
I really was ( not quite ) distraught at the departure of Virgil . But there was no incentive for an ambitious young man to stay.
Who could blame him?
C.L. the only criterion we should be aspiring to.
We`re entitled to expect that.
Demand ?
MacJay,
PL re- joined Celtic as CEO in 2003, Sept.
That year we played in Seville.
Have a look at what PL was doing before that,
2005, MoN, leaves.
WGS 2005-2009, steps down.
Mowbray, 2009-2010, dismissed. WBA were apparently paid £2m in comp.
NL, 2010-2014, starts as a rookie, after mess with Mowbray. Leaves, ‘parts company?’
RD, 2014-2016, Announces he’s leaving after losing to Sevco.
From Seville to where we are at now. If you can’t see any culpability in PL, in anything well I’d of loved you as a boss. Off to my bed long day.
As an aside, can you remember if NL and his staff got a severance deal on leaving? I think I remember Paul67 writing about that. I think a couple of years ago in the Annual or Interim accounts?
Finally, I saw there that Moyes is 3/1 Fav for Everton if Martinez goes.
playfootballnotMoneyballCSC
CLOGHER CELT on 24TH APRIL 2016 3:13 AM
From Seville to where we are at now. If you can’t see any culpability in PL, in anything well I’d of loved you as a boss. Off to my bed long day.
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Not the case at all .
When I know who is responsible for this 2 year debacle, I`ll be calling for a head / heads.
P.L. does what the Board tells him to do. That`s his role.
Do you seriously imagine that he dictates to the Board ?
To D.D. ?
Clogher
As an aside, can you remember if NL and his staff got a severance deal on leaving? I think I remember Paul67 writing about that. I think a couple of years ago in the Annual or Interim accounts?
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Can`t help with that , mate.
Except that C.Q.N. worthies insisted that he left because of lack of funds to purchase players.
Not what Lenny has since said . But what would he know ?
Quite a parallel with the departure of Ronny.
Urban myths abounding.
The club is finished if Lawwell is allowed to appoint another manager.
If, Desmond disny get rid of Lawwell then, the fans should get rid of them both!
How do they do that ?
Keep yer money in yer pocket and don’t renew yer season book money.
Thing is, if Celtic supporters stand strong, the PLC-era is over.
All we’ve heard since the PLC’s inception is…
“We canny live with the EPL TV-Money etc…blah, blah!”
“The absence of R*ngers is costing us £10 million a year!”
But, ye know what…it’s not about the amount of money that is spent on the team,
it’s about ‘how’ that outlaw is managed, do we get bang for buck ?
Naaaaaaah,…..imho.
Too many players signed, suits somebody.
Who is that somebody ?
Any financial shark can see that the continual pursuit of a recruitment path that has far more wastage than, pebbles on the beach is, economical madness….surely.
Maybe it’s, convenient madness ?
A madness that can easily be passed off as – the football managers incompetence – once he’s signed his confidentiality-clause-agreement.
Also, the financial sharks wouldn’t be pursuing this recruitment path if it didn’t suit them.
So, why does it suit them ?
I’ll be huckled to the nearest court to explain my reasons that I think they pursue this, recruitment path if I put them on here.
So, let’s leave it by saying…..
Celtic PLC is not run by Snowmen.
They should and, have to be emptied or, Lawwell’s driving of Celtic toward’s a slow car-crash will continue unabated.
Keep yer money in yer pockets and, get rid of them.
This is yer last chance to save Celtic FC from the clutches of the anti-Celtic-Establishment….while Lawwell & co, look the other way.
You gotta ask yer self a question – “Do you love Celtic ?”
Or, are you more interested in your own little – Celtic’s Greatest Fan Badge ? Hmmmmmm.
If, you love Celtic and, don’t want a club, run by folk who look the other way from cheating and, reign-in managers who stand up to the cheating then, be prepared to make a heroic decision to, deny the kowtowers your money to furnish they’re expensive, heated-drive-way lifestyles based on they’re plastic governance of a fools paradise.
Celtic are run by a Hierarchy of, Corporate Mo Johnston’s.
I canny shake this horrible feeling that, the findings of Res : 12 will reveal that, Celtic PLC were ‘more’ than, instrumental in all of the industrial cheating of, innocent, well meaning Celtic supporters who’s only crime was they’re love of, what was a once great club – Celtic FC.
Sit on yer season book money until the Res : 12 findings are revealed.
Know when to hold them – Know when to fold them – CSC
You’ll Never Walk Alone….in the Jungle.
…….zzzzzzzzz………
KEVJUNGLE on 24TH APRIL 2016 3:57 AM
The club is finished if Lawwell is allowed to appoint another manager.
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With that sentence , you are stating categorically that P.L. alone was responsible for the appointment of Ronny Deila.
Interesting.
Any info . to back up ?
Or another unvalidated assumption ?
My old man
Says be a Caley fan
I says eff off you you bs year a c
Who put the ball in Caley’s net?
Ross Countyeee.
Good morning.
No slur on anyone with a speech impediment….
Intended.
Just checked in after a 16hr day followed by a wee malt relaxer to remind you bhoys of the real world.
You’re top of the league – gonna win it bar alien intervention…..an still loadsa winging going on.
Who the f dya think you are?
Okay, the famous Glasgow Celtic.
Is that no enough?
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 24TH APRIL 2016 4:30 AM
You’re top of the league – gonna win it bar alien intervention…..an still loadsa winging going on.
Who the f dya think you are?
Okay, the famous Glasgow Celtic.
Is that no enough?
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Nope.
:-)
Our place is in Europe.
The Divine Right of Tims.
MacJay,
And look where that got us! Poor Prince Charlie…I did like him in history.
With regard to your nearly ex Norwegian manager…
I posted on here at the time , or not long after, my thoughts on his appointment….and it was along this train of thought.
I’ve worked in Norway and with Norwegians a lot in my own line.
Generalising, they are good people, with a confidence in themselves…which is not justified in the real world.
For instance: a crane accident; “The certification for the crane was not in order…and that was in Norway.”
As if the least likely place for that to be so.
My thoughts, which I kept to myself, were that this was exactly what I would expect, given what I’d seen over the previous year’s work.
Transferring the same experience to football – we, as a people and a country underestimate our own abilities.
Nice guy though.
It has been a hard week.
For our management team and the fans.
The doubts about their future have been cleared.
At least they leave with the certainty of 2 league titles in a row on their CVs.
That alone should ensure that after a short hiatus they are employable.
What about the players though?
They are in contract and will continue to collect their generous compensation.
Many of the skelf collectors will move on to other clubs for over inflated signing on fees.
I suspect the training and dietary regime irked many of the older squad members.
How do they feel about the loss last Sunday?
Were they ashamed? They should be.
Gutless. Nowhere did I see a sense of pride in the hoops.
Where was the inspiration from our captain?
He who failed miserably in the basic skill of hitting a dead ball from 12 yards.
Where was the desire to win from the MIA GMS?
Our over hyped and overpaid squad were intimidated by a bunch of journeymen signed or loaned from the depths of the lower divisions in England.
Those who were so self indulgent they thought all they needed to do was to turn up.
The back passers. Buck passers who are scared to take on the responsibility of taking on a man or making a forward pass.
Those who are happy that a teenager is the only one to show pride in their profession and pride for the jersey they wore.
I suspect many of those who let us down last week are the ones who have not accepted the fitness requirements of being a professional athlete in the modern game.
It’s time they all modeled themselves on the training regimes of professional tennis players.
I give you Andy Murray, Federer, Djokovick as examples.
I only blame the manager for having the naivety to believe our mollycoddled players are truly motivated to lay it all out for the fans and club.
Let’s raise the league flag and order a railway coach to transport the deadwood, the self obsessed and the non triers down south or abroad wherever the can con a fresh club and set of fans.
Aye that was purgative.
Now to bed and wake up tomorrow looking forward to the last 5 games.
Come on now – in all honesty – does anyone not believe that at least a few of the current Scottish Premier managers could take that crop of players on Celtic’s book do a better job than Ronnie?
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 24TH APRIL 2016 4:45 AM
MacJay,
And look where that got us! Poor Prince Charlie…I did like him in history.
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Wisnae bad for an Italian Frenchman
Just jesting. :-)
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Come on now – in all honesty – does anyone not believe that at least a few of the current Scottish Premier managers could take that crop of players on Celtic’s book do a better job than Ronnie?
Exactly what I think.
We should find out soon enough.
Fresh start.
Can`t wait , ma heilan` laddie.
MacJay,
Turning night into day here…my daughter and friend catching a train to Edinburgh in an hour and a half….
I had volunteered to be the driver…but after a few drams decided I’d be better staying up to be the alarm clock….and phone a taxi to be the driver!
Nice to be chatting with my ain folks while being the coordinator.
Tidying the kitchen while I’m at it.
That’s the excuse for being the alky on my only day off this week…
” When I woke up Sunday mornin’ with nowhere to lay my head,,,,” will be around midday I reckon.