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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NegAnon, The tickets that are floating around have already been paid for. By taking one and going to match you are not giving any money to the Board but you are giving the team a lift.
Delaying renewal of season books until we see what the Board does re appointing a new Manager is a totally legitimate strategy. I think the Board have got it wrong over last couple of years. I think the Board are attempting to run Celtic properly and have been trying to ensure on field success whilst maintaining financial prudence. Your contention that the Board hates the fans does not even merit a reply. The problem is not that the Board won’t spend a penny, we have bought numerous players but by and large they have been duds.
They also took a huge gamble in bringing in Ronny and it blew up in their face. All the players we sold wanted to go, if you are running a Club and a player wants to go you have little option but to sell for as much as you can get, and that is what Celtic have done.
There are legitimate grievances on various political issues like calling out SFA or Res 12 but Boards everywhere will always be ultra cautious in these areas whilst rank & file supporters will be gung ho.
There will always be ongoing tensions between any Board & Supporters on these issues.
Support the team and by all means lobby for fans to delay renewal but first & foremost support the team.
LUCKY CODY on 22ND APRIL 2016 7:35 PM
Maybe you do not tolerate failure by ” your guys, especially for such a small fry business.
But Paul 67 is the host on here and manners maketh the man.
Anyway come on St Johnstone.
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/143225877006/skjerp-deg-toffelhelt-deila-puts-his-slippers
On Deila going and all that surrounds it
Lucky Cody
I defer to your better knowledge about Lawell.
Was as said to Mike in Toronto repeating what i read on here of his prowess in business.
Hopefully he will go amongst other structural changes for new season.
Coach is only part of that.
Board need to take a wider approach this time.
We need someone to be director of football to run all operations.
A collective approach to football matters at all levels
We can’t compete in present football landscape that tv has created in transfer market.
Someone who can work with coach on better path for our much touted youth.
I hope the board will make a football decision this time rather than a cheap short term political option.
Evening folks,
Mike in Toronto, always enjoy your level headed well thought out posts. Agree with you regarding the squad. I think we have the nucleus of a decent squad. Sad to see the Ronny experiment did not work. Loved his ideas when he first came to the club, but taking an idea from a blackboard and bringing them to fruition on a football park has been the undoing of many before him. I wish Ronny well for the future, as he is a decent fellow.
If we get things right for next season, the right manager, restructure the recruitment module and the board reaches out to the fans re putting on record to acknowledge the cheating from across the city, then things could turn around very, very quickly.
Unfortunately lots of things have to go right for that to happen.
HH Dan
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier on 22nd April 2016 7:11 pm
A Scoundrel? A Scoundrel sir? I that what you calle me? A Scoundrel?
Well …….. Not in the history of a thousand hail mary’s have I been called a scoundrel.
Choose your seconders and your wepon of choice! I will have honour sir — honour I tell you!
As for Roberto Di Matteo I have no solic knowledge and was merely asking a question.
A fair and honest question.
To be castigated as a scoundrel —- I have never been so insulted since the time I was asked if I was Tom Jones’ love child!
Mind you she was a nice woman with a warm heart and admittedly bad eyesight from a small village miles from anywhere and she rarely got out and had never seen a telly!
Celebrity heroes…………………..Usual fitba suspects
http://www.channel4.com/news/tax-avoidance-george-michael-melua-arctic-monkeys-liberty
Greenpinata,
Paul67 can speak for himself.
Why is he afraid to call out Lawwell for damaging Celtic ?
Is he a fan of Celtic or Lawwells puppet.
He has my email address and he can contact me.
Lawwell has failed spectacularly and must be sacked. Paul67 is afraid to make this statement in case Peter is upset.
Business never personal is the lesson.
1-0 St Johnstone.
St Johnstone 1 up.
1-0 St Johnstone
1-0 Saints
Bah bah sheep weep
Oh dear the keeper
And I’m watching NCIS ☘☘;-(
Interesting JJ, hope JPT follows the up and gets a few accounts to interact here and on other Blogs.
Did I hear a bottle crash? Again!
Lucky Cody, In the first instance perhaps Paul 67 does not share your view, In the second instance perhaps he feels he is under no obligation to e-mail you about anything. Paul has all our e-mail addresses, he has never e-mailed me either nor would I ever expect him to. I don’t see myself or my views as that important To Paul.
Corkie
You making it over for sheep game in May?
BRTH, do you have a new phone or something?
Your spelling really has gone to Hell in a hand cart!
:-)
St Johnstone go close again.
Saints had a decent chance for a second there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077jp13
Episode 1
The Anglo-Irish CenturyEpisode 1 of 4
Listen in pop-out player
In this, the first of four programmes looking back at a century of Anglo-Irish relations, Diarmaid Ferriter begins with the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1921. The names on the treaty document, and indeed the names missing from it, tell a story in themselves. Ireland’s Michael Collins signed fearing it was a suicidal gesture, accepting, as it did the New Free States allegiance to the Crown. Churchill felt it was one of his first great political successes, bringing an end to a damaging war. The Irish leader De Valera had operated at arms length from the Irish negotiating team and his opposition to the resulting treaty resulted in the violent turmoil that followed.
But the years leading up to the treaty were themselves some of the most bloody in Irish history. Diarmaid turns back to the failed Easter Rising and the brutal suppression of it, the growing tensions and the electoral disaster of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1918 elections. Thereafter there was a slide towards a war of independence that saw brutality on both sides. It reached a grim climax with the events of Bloody Sunday on 21st November 1920 which prompted a parliamentary debate in which the former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith attacked both sides from the back benches.
Diarmaid also explains the importance of the unlikely partnerships forged during the subsequent treaty negotiations, partnerships of mutual understanding if not friendship, between the likes of Michael Collins and Winston Churchill. That they were able to reach a compromise accepted by the majority of the new Irish parliament and the country is significant. But as this first programme in the series underlines, the new Free State had been born out of an armed struggle and the arms were not yet to be turned into ploughshares.
Producer: Tom Alban.
8 points ahead with 5 games to go and some people shiteting themselves. Unreal.
You bhoys leave BRHT alone
It’s not higher English class on CQN ffs
Not sure yet BT. I’ve got a couple of issues going on at the moment that could keep me grounded.
where do aberdeen go after this year? – must be seen as a success but at the same time the season had a reliance on one or two key players – will they aim to win , aim to beat the new team or aim to keep the squad together ?
interesting times – I hope they’re stronger next year !!!
BT, I always thought every day was an education on here:-)
Corkie
We are having a wee bevy on Saturday night
Acgr and Oldtim booked into Hotel
I’m sure someone could get you a brief no problem
BRTH……in the circle’s I mix a scoundrel is classed
as a term of endearment,I need tae bugger off or
they’ll be nothing left of me for you give a sound
thrashing tae……..ya kinda built ma hopes up wae
yer RDM tease.
Thanks BT. I’ll keep it in mind but as I said earlier I have got a couple of on going issues that are tying me down.
Big Cup Winners
A couple of my children fancy going on Sunday for the first time this year. I would be grateful for use of your spare ticket, if still available. Cheers
Corkcelt,
At some point Paul67 needs to show people he is not Lawwells puppet.
99% of Celtic fans know Lawwell has run Celtic into the ground while the is still taking the CL gold package out of the club.
Paul67 coined the GOD phrase when RFC existed. They died and we couldn’t overcome Ross County,ICT, Kilmarknock and Sevco. GOD without the Ibrox club should have been shootie in…..unless you had the SSM running his own agenda with projects littered across the club and every decent player sold.
The deference to Lawwell without questioning is what I expect from the tax cheats. Not one single word calling out Lawwell for the damage to Celtic.
Grow a set and earn some respect.
Dan.
Cheers, mate!
And before any of you cheeky beggars jump in … no, I didn’t pay him to say that! :)
Sheep down! Woo hoo!
And since Roy isn’t in yet… can I get us started… recently heard the nicest voice/song I have heard in a few years …. a young american doing bluegrass tinged country stuff … caleb caudle …I hope whoever listens to this enjoys it as much as I do!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4euZFPI7Bf0
Take care Corkcelt.
Cheat again thompson
St Johnstone goal chopped off for foul on Keeper, there wasn’t one.
Saints have second goal ruled out for foul on keeper. I think goal should have stood
Shocking decision by Thomson, how does he miss that says Sutton, well because he wants to…….
Awful decision by ref to knock of St Johnstone goal bloody shocking
No commas csc