You can train to be a football player for years, hone your skills and work on your fitness, but there are situations you can never prepare for until you are in the spotlight. Yesterday Mark Wilson had to field questions about his team-mates’ performance and his manager’s position, after another abject performance which drew criticisms from Neil Lennon towards the players.
Mark gave a textbook response to the BBC, “I don’t like slagging my team-mates off but we have to do better.
“Football is a result-driven game but we don’t want that [Neil Lennon sacked]. We are firmly behind the manager and we love working with him and the coaching staff.”
We should be in no doubt that harsh words are being spoken in the dressing room and team spirit must be awful, but the outside world need to see stoic unity.
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Yep – Commons is a strange one this season. We all expected him to kick on and score 20 plus goals. Might just have made a difference over the past few weeks. He certainly makes things happens and offers a goal threat. Well last season’s Commons did.
SydneyTim says: @ 06:57
Indeed our buys are not the premium brands but, again I go back to question why these same ‘cheap buys’ that gained 92 points last season are failing to perform as a team this season.
Missing Izzy, Brown, Commons, Ledley been shifted here there and everywhere….
Big part of the 92 points last year…..
Not too mention Paddy who was our best player last Dec/Jan and has hardly ot a look in this time
Murdochbhoy. Yes indeed the team, especially the midfield performed well, but needed an injection of a little( not much) extra quality eg a striker or centerhalf
What we got was an insult to our intelligence
In 3 months that window was open we signed only one 1st 11 player( k.Wilson who is a proved poor center half but cheap)
A total joke
We are missing influential players and their absence has had an impact but you’d have hoped for a reaction from the others that would have prompted them to fight a bit more.
Overseasbhoy
Our best player last december January and for a couple of months thereafter was Beram Kayal
Bring back Petrov in January.
Make McGeady an offer he can’t refuse.
Tom mcglaughlin @ 07:22
Bring back Petrov January ??
Do you think he could fill a player manager role ??
SydneyTim says @ 07:19
I to would love Celtic to have a team that was competitive not just in the SPL but in Europe.
I to would love to see the board raise their expectations and spend, however, by my own calculations we’d need £50m to create my dream and I can’t see that happening.
Tom. As long as DD controls the finances, both those players are way out our salary and transfer fee range
Morning all – dreich and gloomy in G71. The weather is garbage too…
HH
Giggs
Anyone ventured out in guise and bought the Daily ranker yet,
to read the story about the medals???????
Or is it a wind up???
HH
Murdochbhoy. Yes you are correct , however if we had invested small amounts every year, we would have recouped approx another 30m
It was present board that made that mistake , and we are suffering because of their mistakes
Either find the funds to make up your mistakes
Tom McLaughlin says:
31 October, 2011 at 07:25
I think it is safe to say, even if Celtic could afford the fee, Aiden would not come back to Celtic whilst Peter Lawwell is there. Aiden will move to either the EPL or La Liga this Summer IMO.
I hope he goes to La Liga as I think he will be more suited to that league.
Vmhan who Supports Neil Lennon says:
31 October, 2011 at 06:45
Enjoy your day off, lucky sod…just about to start my shift.
Incidentally and not directed at you Vhman. Reports last night that HMRC will be offered £10 million; this may be the case but they will not accept, they cannot. They will look for what they are owed.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Davis added: “We have a real determination not to concede goals and if you don’t concede you always have a chance to win, as we always create one or two chances.”
simples. mindset. dont believe your own hype. egos on the loose. drop the pretenders. keep it in the club. dont feed the media pirahanas.
lawwell-do something useful. bring in a mentor and ban lenny from commenting to those who want his head on a plate. mono-syllabic responses only.
neil, you have until may. dont let us and, more importantly, yourself down!
keep the faith!
@grahamspiers: if only Craig Whyte had heard of Cash for Gold!!!
Aiden McGeady will not come back to Scotland and will not move from Spartak unless he gets offer from better club and liga. This is not going to happen in December or in June. I also imagine the price that Spartak could accept is no less than 15 million euro.
I don’t see any problem in giving Samaras (or Brown, or Kayal) an new contract. If they are on a contract. If they are on a contract we can sell them if things don’t work out, like we did with Stan Petrov. We should get upwards of a million and a half or so for Giorgios, (according to the BBC, that’s what Darryl Murphy cost us, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/8826815.stm ).
The other thing to remember is that we have to replace any player we allow to leave. If we don’t get a transfer fee that’s more difficult (it’s also difficult even if we do get a transfer fee – what market would we shop in to replace Samaras?).
Morning all from another drab and wintry North Ayrshire. Shall we be getting the snow that has hit New York already? Given our year so far, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised.
Good Morning CQN
Bright but drizzly in the South of the City.
A big week ahead for all Celtic fans, two must win games especially against the Mothers of well.
Reasons to be cheerful despite all the clocks going back, for all those hours.
We’re still Celtic Supporters.
p.s. and oh yes Victor Wanyama will play.
I find it hilarious that people are calling for the likes of Stan and Aiden be brought back in January (I find the suggestion crackers that Aiden won’t come back because of our CEO). Both players, whom many on here were glad to see the back of when they left, are playing in far better leagues than the SPL. I’m sure they are on far better money too.
We have good young players here. We need a wise old head to get the best out of them.
BBC weather forecast: rain, rain and more rain for the West of Scotland. Hunbelievable. Unfortunately, it is only too likely given what has gone on this year. Climate change is in full flow here.
Morning bhoys,
Dont know if anyone has put this up but decent deal.
http://by148w.bay148.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=407359434!fid=1&fav=1&n=1107628739&mid=554940a8-0394-11e1-b256-00237de4a7e6&fv=1
Hail Hail
Those crazy Arabs, they’ve just gone and built a skyscraper – the Burj Khalifa – that is 282 feet short of Munro status. They must be totally bummed out that it won’t be included in the list.
Could a mod delete my link at 8.32, wrong link, here it is-
https://www.itison.com/system/web_fallback/deal_roundup/2011-10-30/roundup_inline/3abfe20d-a8ef-4157-ab69-a889d408426c.html
Cheers
DR story
MEDALS won by Rangers stars for winning the league have been seized under a court order.
The badges, worth almost £20,000, were grabbed by agents acting for the club’s former finance director Donald McIntyre. He recently won a legal bid to freeze £300,000 of the Gers’ assets as part of a breach of contract case.
Agents for McIntyre had targeted possible revenue from the Scottish Premier League owed to the club for television rights.
No TV funds are due at present but they uncovered the title medals in a box at the SPL’s offices.
McIntyre was unaware of the move.
He is understood to have been horrified players were being denied their gongs for their third Premier League title in a row.
He has since ordered his team to “unfreeze” the medals.
A source said: “This court case has nothing to do with the players. It is down to a dispute with the owners.”
McIntyre won his case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh this month when Lord Hodge ruled in his favour.
He resigned as a director after treating his contract as having been repudiated.
The same judge ordered the ring-fencing of £480,000 over a similar case brought by Rangers’ former chief executive Martin Bain.
The court actions come after the club’s ownership was taken over from Sir David Murray by businessman Craig Whyte.
Lord Hodge ruled in the arrestment proceedings brought by Mr Bain that there was “a real and substantial risk” of insolvency at Rangers following the major tax case the club faces.
Bain has raised a £1.3million claim for damages against Rangers over his contract.
Hm Revenue and Customs have had around £2.3million frozen in a tax dispute and the club also faces a disputed tax bill for up to £49million, which is under appeal.
BSR
You’re up early for a semi retired gentleman.
I hope Mrs BSR is resting her stookied leg.
A wee mug of tea and square slice for you both.
Halloween morning and the Horror show continues!
I hope the players are being well instructed this week.
We kept a clean sheet at the weekend by the way.
Every cloud and all that…………………………………………
By the way I think we should go and find Didier Agathe and find out what he’s up to. Him and Aiden McGeady in the same team would be lethal!
Ole reasons to be cheerful-
the hot buttered rowie is the greatest way to start the workin’ day. It may even be superior to the ole e-Lite
the ole postie has just brought’ Dream Attic’ by the Celtic minded Richard Thompson.
Anyways, welcome to 7Bth bairn, sorry we’ve made such a mess of the small blue planet.
May you still see tigers in the wild, eat freshly fried battered haddock, see the Celts lift the big Cup.
ffs…..I want to scream.
Now Jow Ledley telling the papers and Twitter that we need to win every league fame….yes…I would say that at the start of the season, not only when we are 12 points behind.
Will someone at Celtic PLEASE, PLEASE tell the players and management to stop talking such gash…..sick of it.
Do the work on the pitch and blank the media!
Morning CQNers.
I see that Andrew Considine(Aberdeen) has said that he thinks we’ll come back and win the league!
I believe AC just as long as, we sign AC in january and, pair him with Thomas Rogne and, get rid of all the free-transfer/bosman CH’s like, big Dan, Mulgrew and KW who is always going to be injured! IMO!
Too many free-transfer/bosman/cheepo types in the team but, i wouldn’t blame NL for that!
I would blame PL and his side-kick, John(Arthur Daley) Park for, foisting all of these waifs & strays on to NL!
That DR story makes no sense to me. McIntyre’s agents were searching boxes in the SPL offices?
Eurochamps67
Nearly stayed up all night twas like Christmas Eve.
Don’t be too harsh with the kids, cos your team is rotten.
DBBIA
Shame about ole Nancy Doo-Lally – sheesh what a weekend.
‘Fans who saw their side’s dismal 0-0 draw with Hibs yesterday were given a lift when actress Scarlett Johansson filmed scenes of her new movie outside the stadium.
But Scarlett, 26. appeared to be trying to go unnoticed as she drove around the east end in a battered old white van. Crawling along among gridlocked cars around the stadium, she filmed a scene in which her predatory alien character seeks football fans to feast on.’
-crikey! I hope no predatory aliens, no matter how gorgeous, spoiled the mood in the ole Gazebo.
jimmci says:
31 October, 2011 at 09:00
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I’m afraid we’re a rudderless ship M8!
Captain Jack(Lawwell) is steering us to oblivion! IMO!