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ACGR – Sorry pal didny read that far back.
Gordon Watson RIP.
Thought & Prayers to all who are close.
Very sad.
……off-oot……
Iniq A bit harsh on Simunovic, considering he wasn`t playing tonight.
kinda what KevJ said..
We are the only so called seeded team to lose tonight. Keep going like this and we will be the “Imps” of future rounds, with no coefficient whatsoever.
If the Lincoln Imps score at Celtic Park, we need three. Anyone confident we can score three? If we do, will the Board act before the next CL transfer deadline to strengthen the team, to avoid a gubbing by Legia, Bate, Dynamo Zagreb or Ludogerets? I don’t think they will – they are absolute cheapskates, willing to gamble we will reach the group stage with what we have, just like last year, and the year before. So what do we have to look forward to? Another season of absolute drudgery, watching a useless bunch of chancers with no skill, no pace, and no savvy.
Watching Sissoko in the Euro Nations final brought home to me what a paucity of talent we have in midfield. No creativity, heart, penetration, skill, goal scoring threat or excitement.
My Celtic Supporters Club is losing members, hand over fist. No wonder. Our team is absolutely crap.
ABURNTOUTCASE @ 2:26
Some Croat friends of mine cautioned against buying Simunovic – they said he was always injured. Obviously, no one at Celtic Park checked, or, if they did, ignored it.
I watched him carefully last season against St. Johnstone. He was repeatedly skinned for pace by O’Halloran, now of Sevco. If he can be beaten for pace by a journeyman, what use will he be in Europe? Dump him now.
It’s a repeated failure to bring in players ahead of European qualifiers to fill know problem positions in the team. Make do and mend that comes unstuck against modest opposition.
2010 – having sold boruc we go with Zaluska in goals for the qualifiers when the guy had played about 6 games in the previous 2 years. Only once we are papped out of 2 European competitions at the qualifying stage do we deign to sign a keeper – Fraser Forster on loan from Newcastle.
2011 – with Fraser forster’s loan ended, we again prepare for European qualifiers without a reliable keeper. Pletikosa is used in the prep friendlies as a trialist. Finally the day before we play Sion, we sign Fraser Forster on loan again. We lose 3-1 to Sion, failing in qualifiers for the 4th consecutive time.
2013 – no striker replacement signed for gary hooper until after the qualifiers. We scrape through by a bawhair against Karagandy and then on deadline day pukki arrives ostensibly as hooper’s replacement.
2014 – the summer of the loan brigade. Ronny doesn’t spend a penny on a player until the qualifiers are done and the CL is gone when scepovic arrives again on deadline day. Another year of 2 failed attempts at qualification thanks to the Legia issue.
2015 – failed again at qualifiers.
The record since 2009 is
Played 9 deciding CL/el qualifying ties
Won 2 (Helsingborg and Karagandy)
Lost 7 (arsenal, Braga, Utrecht, Sion, Legia, Maribor, Malmo)
How many of those 7 sides we lost to enjoyed any great wealth or squad depth advantage over Celtic? Only arsenal I’d say.
It’s a deplorable record that straddles numerous managers. I think it’s indicative of poor planning and shutting the stable door on deadline day every year once the horse called CL qualification has bolted.
The buck stops with Peter Lawwell for this serial failure.
Res 12…..astonishing ghuys….hat doffed….;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
TGBS,
In bits
MB’s
;-)-
Why is it Ambrose fault? Celtic had over 70% possession and failed to really create many chances! its early, the pitch was an utter disgrace and i’d go as far as saying it was unplayable – it was a leveler. Good luck to the wee team and their moment – we will smash them at parkhea.
The good news! Lawell now under tremendous pressure to bring in quality.
I thought BR should have come down hard on the team – standards unacceptable for this jersey, etc.. by not doing this suggests he has faith in them – that worries me!
And if big Efe hadn’t mistimed the ball we would have been happy to escape with a 0-0 draw?
I was never on the RD bandwagon and called it as I saw it. I intend to do the same with BR and his team too.
Celtic have an opportunity to qualify every season that most clubs in Europe would die for.
Failure to qualify for CL group stage is exactly that. Failure.
No messing. No excuses. No hiding. No window dressing. No papering
BR is well paid for a reason.
I dont anticipate that the players who failed under RD will be much better under BR.
Failure to strengthen the side in time for CL will hinder qualification chances
Failure to qualify then hinders the chances to strengthen the side
which then …….
Even my dogs are laughing at me this morning -))
Did that really happen ?
INIQUITOUSIV@2:09
Tell me what could another CEO deliver, if you sack Peter Lawwell.
We CANNOT afford top players.
All of the EPL and half the Championship can easily outbid us on transfer fees and wages – it means that in the UK alone, we are at best THIRTY-FIRST in the financial queue, when it comes to signing ANYONE.
The pool of players available to us is shrinking every year, and even those who are available are going up in price.
We pay somewhere between £30/£40 million per year on wages – where would another CEO get anymore to spend?
UNLESS…you think we should go into REAL debt.
To get three/four top players we would have to pay EPL transfer fees and EPL wages – so lets say £30million for four players and £12 million per season on wages for them – that’s £66 million over three years – that’s money we don’t have and cannot generate. One player on £60k/week would use up all the prize/TV money that is available to us in Scotland every season, that’s not counting the other three and the transfer fees.
So if we plunge into £60/£70 million of debt – the only way we have a chance of repaying it is to qualify for the CL groups, every year for three years. We then sell the three/four players before their contracts run out…and we start again with another load of debt, but this time it will be £70/£80 million, as wages and transfer fees keep rising.
One or two misses in qualifying for the CL would see us deep in debt – and whose to say we will win the league every season? Playing in Europe can take its toll and we may lose the title more than once.
We have to be realistic – we are NOT a CL club anymore – we just do not have the finances to compete – we may ‘sneak in’ the odd year – but you can’t run a club on a wing and a prayer.
The latest debacle in Gibraltar and previous failures against Maribor and Malmo, are failures ON the park by the players and management – in the latter two we threw away the ties from winning positions against inferior teams – THAT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE CEO OR THE BOARD.
God, what a balls up.
I wanted most of that lot hunted after Molde. Tumbleweeds.
Then I wanted the same ones hunted then after the hun debacle. Tumbleweeds.
Now I want them hunted now- quick. Tumbleweeds???
Getting beat is one thing, our pampered millionaires getting beat by a bunch of part timers who’s body language simultaneously seems to say “up yours supporters” is an entirely different matter.
I see the brains trust is up early pontificating his champagne cerebral contributions.
Or one of them is more accurately.
new article posted.
Maybe there wouldn’t be so many heartless millionaires in the team if, there weren’t so many
heartless-sleekit-billionaire-tories running what was once, the club of the poor, starving, underdogs who’s only token of happiness was to, just catch a glimpse of a fitba team playing in green & white hoops. Never mind winning anything, just seeing those colors on the pitch was grand enough.
Michael Kelly was an eejit.
But, even he had a couple of grains of truth in his locker.
When McCann took the keys of the club and, locked all the Celtic supporters who’d queued all night to buy shares to build the stadium, out of they’re club – MK said – “Celtic FC has just lost it’s soul.”
Aye, MK was one of the basturts who was gonna take the club down a division so that he could keep control of the club.
But, for Celtic FC to be controlled by tories, was the end of the underdog club.
Brief flirtations with Celticness when, Wim, MO’N and Neil were managers seemed to disguise the dis-connect because, 3 managers had to behave like mavericks to get the job done, against the grain of the kowtowing-establishment-tories who ran the club with, the fans aspirations as the last item on the radar.
A rudderless ship at Celtic Park has ensured that, the huns were never gonna be allowed to ‘really’ die, no not when, Celtic-PLC-Hierarchy would look the other way as the huns were allowed in the back door to tool-up.
Now the died(LOL)huns are back with a team full of hatchet men who’ll be allowed to kick BR’s team off the pitch with the backing of mibbery.
BR isny tough enough to deal with what will be coming his way.
He aint as tough as NFL, that’s probably one of the reasons that DD was swayed.
Cellic will get through this game with the Imps but, Cellic don’t exist anymore.
That last line there is what the tory-PLC-Hierarchy at Celtic Park have done.
Sad thing is,…..there will be more pain before a lot of innocent, well meaning folk…..get it.
…..oot…..
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 13TH JULY 2016 3:02 AM
It’s a repeated failure to bring in players ahead of European qualifiers to fill know problem positions in the team. Make do and mend that comes unstuck against modest opposition.
2010 – having sold boruc we go with Zaluska in goals for the qualifiers when the guy had played about 6 games in the previous 2 years. Only once we are papped out of 2 European competitions at the qualifying stage do we deign to sign a keeper – Fraser Forster on loan from Newcastle.
2011 – with Fraser forster’s loan ended, we again prepare for European qualifiers without a reliable keeper. Pletikosa is used in the prep friendlies as a trialist. Finally the day before we play Sion, we sign Fraser Forster on loan again. We lose 3-1 to Sion, failing in qualifiers for the 4th consecutive time.
2013 – no striker replacement signed for gary hooper until after the qualifiers. We scrape through by a bawhair against Karagandy and then on deadline day pukki arrives ostensibly as hooper’s replacement.
2014 – the summer of the loan brigade. Ronny doesn’t spend a penny on a player until the qualifiers are done and the CL is gone when scepovic arrives again on deadline day. Another year of 2 failed attempts at qualification thanks to the Legia issue.
2015 – failed again at qualifiers.
The record since 2009 is
Played 9 deciding CL/el qualifying ties
Won 2 (Helsingborg and Karagandy)
Lost 7 (arsenal, Braga, Utrecht, Sion, Legia, Maribor, Malmo)
How many of those 7 sides we lost to enjoyed any great wealth or squad depth advantage over Celtic? Only arsenal I’d
It’s a deplorable record that straddles numerous managers. I think it’s indicative of poor planning and shutting the stable door on deadline day every year once the horse called CL qualification has bolted.
The buck stops with Peter Lawwell for this serial failure.
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A superb post. You have a wonderful ability to ignore the emotional froth and get straight to the juice! I’m going to bookmark for future reference.
Here’s a bit of froth… Just because!
During the game I was shocked at the amount of passes from our players that were lifted off the deck. Causing need to control pass at knee and thigh height. As bad as the surface was, the ball was capable of rolling at a decent pace without bouncing. Our players couldn’t do that and their players could. At pace!
The calls for the variation of a long ball game to catch them out has some merit but only as a variation tactic. Their goal came from that route and a lot of poor judgement by our last man!!!
However, from what I saw they were not playing a long-ball game every time they had possession. They were also playing through us on the deck with triangles and diagonal passing that our guys could not cope with.
If reports are accurate, some of their guys completed a full shift of daytime work as tradesmen in the heat of the Med. Summer, then ran out in the same heat and played 90 minutes against a professional outfit. At times it was impossible to work out what team had been lazing around in luxurious preparation with massages and wee naps and who were fixing Mrs Sanchez’s blocked drain!
This squad of players is a disgrace to the jersey. It needs ripped up and started again. There is a malaise in the squad and a culture of entitlement and wtf if we don’t try a leg or get pamped out by lower league teams!
The hierarchy that have sat back and allowed that to happen need hunted too.
The Brendan revolution has seen only one player signed and he had little or no service, but we saw enough of what he might be capable of if he had team-mates around him who could deliver a decent pass. The one decent shot he did make from the edge of the box arrived to him at knee height, a pass that travelled a maximum of 10 yards!
As someone pointed out earlier, if these guys from Gibralter manage to score at any time next Wednesday, we will need to score three times, and maybe four, to ensure there isn’t collective heart-failure in the stands at Paradise. Right now I cannot see that Celtic team from last night scoring 3 or more against the Red Imps.
The list of 7 teams from TGBS’s post above, reveals in the baldest terms, the absolute shite standard or level we have become in European football. It is systemic failure and t’s not the fault of any one manager, although they do get it right in the neck eventually.
No, it’s not the managers or even the hapless players, who roll in or roll out at their leisure, with bank balances bloated with the hard-earned money earned by the honest sweat & toil of Celtic fans.
The whole situation is a joke.
The ongoing cheating of the old and new huns, sfa, uefa aided and abetted by our own feckless board and their well- heeled lackies. We cannot do much about the other organsisations but we need to send a message to the current group of custodians that enough is enough!
This blog was littered with gloating huns last night and no doubt today will see another batch on for more of the same. Eventually they will get it out their system and await the next debacle. Meanwhile we are left to ponder our next debacle!
I have never been more glad that I no longer have to go into an office, or join a call with those buggers. God love those of you who do!
What we watched last night was awful. The sad news is there is much more to come before it gets better! If we thought getting humiliated by sevco or the Red Imps was bad. Watch this space!
The entire set up is rotten to the core! I agree that Lawwell is a villain in this piece, but what about the board that employ him. What about the fans who stand back and allow the board to employ him when the evidence that they are wrecking the club is staring us in the face?
I have been as guilty as any!
Mats – we don’t need to plunge £60ion in debt to beat Maribor, Legia Warsaw and little imps !
Failure to root out the continual bottler in this squad and replace them with relative quality will cost us again in terms of the CL.
Why not buy a CB, any CB rather than play Efe in CL qualifiers ?!
Who does this apply to…..black holes…..infinite density…..;-))
FTSFA
H H
Scrolled back through some of last night’s posts. To put things in perspective was the very good news that Dena brought us about her daughter’s health. Onwards and upwards young lady.
Condolences to ACGR on the sad loss of his friend.
Regarding the game?
Mama Mia!
Had to agree with many comments regarding the individual performances of some of our players and some of Brendan’s strange team selection decisions (Roberts omission, Leigh’s position, Efe inclusion).
Was this the worst result in our history? Don’t be daft. If it had been a one off game, then yes, maybe but it wasn’t. It was the first half of a double header. I firmly believe that we will beat them comfortably next week and I hope we bury them with an avalanche of goals.
What was the worst result in our history? That one’s easy for me. Artmedia Bratislava 5-0 Celtic. It left us with virtually no chance of going through although we performed gallantly in the second leg, winning 5-0 and hitting woodwork twice.
hope we bury them with an avalanche of goals.
SecondidCSC
H H
One of the ironies of last night that was lost on many of us was that Lincoln Red Imps are so called because their owner/previous owner was a Lincoln City fan. One of Celtic’s biggest critics last night was Chris Sutton who of course had his one and only venture into management as manager of Lincoln City (at least I think it was). It’s a pity that the guy wasn’t interviewed and asked how he rated Chris as a manager.
Having said all that, I agreed with just about everything Chris Sutton had to say. So I don’t know what my post is exactly meant to say and on top of that I’m not feeling well at all today and think I might go and have a lie down.
Lincoln Red Imps 1 – 0 Celtic…..a still feel sick…..
FTSFA
H H
Auldheid.
I never saw any of the pre-season games and accept your comments about Roberts.
However, even a poor Roberts would offer more than Forrest and we definitely needed someone to break down their defence. Our only chances came when we got to the byline.