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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I can see the old
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
getting remixed soon.
Snake pliskken @ 09:36
Me being a man who is in the city centre of Glagow for the majority of his 12 hour working day I feel I am qualified to comment on who from our club has the monopoly on socialising about town and it is not the players
This may stick in your throat but cast your mind back to last year whena member of the coaching staff was apprehended on his way to training while still under the influence of alcohol
Now I know he does not need his licence to carry out his coaching duties but is this really a standard of behaviour we expect from a high profile member of the club who has years of professional experience
The Spirit of Arthur Lee says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:11
Painful memories.
Árd Macha
The Spirit of Arthur Lee – Maybe Westlife could cover it, with rousing key changes and matching white shirts and standing on mountains and everything.
It would be EPIC. (thumbsup)
celtic *o* lennon says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:06
The formation debate is an interesting one.
Managers in the SPL know how to play against our 4-4-2 now. They seem to play a sort of diamond formation. Kilmarnock did it a few weeks ago and Hibs at the weekend.
This seems to completely throw our midfield for some reason.
Having Wanyama sat behind our midfield would combat this imo.
4-5-1 is the way forward. Stokes up top on his own.
VINNIBHOY 0956
Collum is like a rabbit caught in the headlights when he’s reffing the huns,scared to do anything-even the right thing-that might be criticised by the hun hordes.
Can you imagine the advice he would give to one of his young charges when asked for help on how to deal with bullies?
“Just do what they want,then a wee bit more. Even if it ruins your life and your reputation,you can’t look in the mirror,and you cry yourself to sleep at night ”
I wouldn’t be Willie Collum for all the tea in China,and certainly not for £40,000 p.a.
mickbhoy1888 – This may stick in your throat but cast your mind back to last year whena member of the coaching staff was apprehended on his way to training while still under the influence of alcohol
Who? When? (thumbsup)
philvisreturns says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:12
The Spirit of Arthur Lee – Maybe Westlife could cover it, with rousing key changes and matching white shirts and standing on mountains and everything.
It would be EPIC. (thumbsup)
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Eh ?
mickbhoy1888
Are you referring to Alan Thompson? In my opinion he should have shown the door after his drink-driving escapade. The fact that he wasn’t tells me how far standards have fallen at our club.
Kevin wants the return of the ‘Jungle’ ASAP! says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:10
Someone with experience and someone to give the ego’s in the dressing room a swift kick. I can’t believe world wide there isn’t a decent manager who would want to take on the job. As to actual names I will leave that to the guy who gets paid a fortune to get this right our CEO. Neil has had his chance and its not working out, same mistakes being made over and over again.
Do you think he can turn it around? If you do why?
Celtic legends and Goldstar10,
This is about opinions and this Celtic team have been rank rotten this season with a management team unable to instil fight in the team or motivate. My memories of the Brady/macari era are not great but I think those teams had a bit more “fight” in them.
But that is all irrelevant . We need to get this club up challenging Rangers again. We have the resources but not the ambition.
Balance sheet , corporate mentality.
Our manager must look at himself and his coaches . In my opinion Neil has been guilty of cronyism , that old Irish trait. He employed his mates . Did nt Dalglish do the same with Barnes and McDermott ??
Jungle Jim,
I was at the game. Ki never broke sweat the whole game. He jogged around but never into a position where he could offer an out to our defence. That is primarily why they had no option but the big punt up the park. He made one very good pass all afternoon (to Joe Ledley). A disgrace for someone of his skill. As Terry O’Neill said last night, our players have lost confidence and are now playing cowardly, hiding throughout the game. Ki should be controlling games because he has the ability but he isn’t. Maybe the SPL is the root cause but we need to find out why and quickly.
Regarding bad teams, I watched the hoops regulary from 1979 till I
Left in 2002, only one striker in those bad times would not got ahead of our present useless foursome and that is Wayne biggens
I would take any other of our regular strikers in front of this useless mob
Eg Tommy coyne was streets ahead as he scored goals
There lies our problem in last 4 year
No goalscorers
Until this problem sorted out , we wil not move forward
That I am afraid costs money and It won’t happen as long as DD and PL are at Celtic park
Get used to it as paul67 said
BMCUWP -when I got into work today our local pharmacist [and former grade 1 linesman] got tore into Mr W.Collum and his handling of the game.
“They came at us, in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way”
Colin Calderwood
Hibs played well. At one stage I actually counted the number of purple shirts because it seemed they had about 13 men on the field.
I’m not sure what the answer would have been or will be the next time we face men possessed, but that’s why I have my job and other people run football clubs.
celtic *o* lennon says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:16
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With the greatest respect….
Getting another manager in would be akin to, putting a sticking-plaster on someone who requires open-heart surgery! IMO!
60k empty seats is the ‘ONLY’ language this present bunch of charlatans will understand! IMO!
Cliftoncelt says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:17
There might have been fight in the team but the players were absolutely shocking. Wayne Biggins, Cascarino, Muggleton for example. I know we are terrible at the moment but our players last year proved they can play.
I agree that we have major problems at the moment but to say it was the worst team in 40 years is just crazy.
Vinibhoy – Named Neil Lennon on his birth certificate says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:13
Indeed they do, and the 4-2-4 is even worse. I would be more radical and go with the 4-2-3-1 that we seemed to play against rennes with below personal if they are fit:
Forster
Mathews Rogne Mulgrew Izzy
Kayal Wanyama
Ki Forrest/Commons Ledley
Stokes/Hooper
Pick a formation and stick with it. If someone is injured dont move someone out of position to accomodate this bring someone in (even if its youth player) to fill the position that is available. That is the worst thing we do in my opinion at the moment.
Philvisreturns @ 10:14
I have attached the following link for your perusal
http://m.stv.tv/news/scotland/west-central/229068-celtic-coach-alan-thompson-admits-drink-driving/
Parkheadcumsalford @ 10.17
Perhaps Ki’s performance had something to do with a midfielder having to play 3 games in 7 days. I know we have a lot of injuries but Neil should have rested some players. I would rather have lost the League Cup game than drop points in the league, but everyone was over the moon when we won convincingly at Easter Road.
79caps
I wasn’t
Kevin wants the return of the ‘Jungle’ ASAP! says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:09
We wont win our next two games if Joe Ledley continues to be a ghost in midfield! IMO!
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Is that because he hasn’t been played in Centre Midfield pehaps? He’s been LB & LM not CM recently. Drop Kayal & Ki, play Ledley and Wanyama in CM.
Good morning folks.
Day off today. Going to pick up my lotto winnings.
May come up for Rennes match. Are there tickets available?
Hi,
This is remarkable…. an astonishing number of people on here still believe the manager will come good. Are they watching the same team as me?
The defence does not have a clue (don’t tell me it will be better when Kelvin Wilson is back – clearly most are forgetting his inability to win a header or the Rangers game when he passed to the opposition in his own box)… They don’t have any pace but that doesn’t stop them camping on the halfway line.
The midfield is overrun. Ki is a coward and yet we expect him to hold up the opposing attacks. We have mistaken possession as being a success when it’s effective possession which is important – a pass (not a long punt) forward which succeeds 1 time in 2 is better than a pass backward that succeeds 19 times in 20.
The forwards are disinterested, in particular Hooper who should frankly be ashamed of his lack of contribution but seems to blame all around him.
Most of these… motivation, organisation has to be blamed on the manager and yet I still see people here saying ‘He’ll come good’. I desparately wanted him to come good… I hoped that he could take us forward from the Hibs 4-1 match. You know what though… he won’t.
We need a change and we need experience… and Celtic should write down for all future CEOs and Board members in big BOLD writing.
CELTIC is too BIG a CLUB to APPOINT INEXPERIENCED MANAGERS!!!!
B
googybhoy- you might even get a game ;/)
Kevin wants the return of the ‘Jungle’ ASAP! says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:21
Keep playing the way we are and about 40,000 will be missing come january!
mickbhoy1888 – You said he was on his way to work? (thumbsup)
Kitalba,
I take it that means you don’t value the League Cup as a competition. In that case I agree. As long as Celtic are playing in Europe we should be playing our youngsters in the League Cup. Kelvin Wilson was injured playing against Ross County.
googybhoy
Bring yer boots
Cultsbhoy re digital piano, email Paul67 and ask him, I think he mmay be able to help
Martin42
DBBIA ——-
I listened to that 50s special. All very nice , all very safe —— and all very Bob like.
Highlight was hearing ——–There Stands The Glass [ despite the associated memories of Andy Kershaw and Ted ‘ Awkins——————]
He surprised me by playing Goldie Hill
Best wishes —— warm and wet -way down south
Wayne Biggins always tried very hard for us, and was a good pro off the park.
He suffers from playing in the worst team in 5 or 6 generations and having a stupid name.
I think he started a handful of times for us, and was never good enough, but he tried and didn’t let himself or anyone else down.
I always feel a wee bit sorry for him that his name is used as a shortcut to illustrate the lowest point in our clubs 100 odd year history!
The good part about Biggins signing wAs we got shot of Andy Payton. There was a charlatan!
celtic *o* lennon says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:22
Vinibhoy – Named Neil Lennon on his birth certificate says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:13
Indeed they do, and the 4-2-4 is even worse. I would be more radical and go with the 4-2-3-1 that we seemed to play against rennes with below personal if they are fit:
Forster*
Mathews Rogne Mulgrew Izzy
Kayal* Wanyama
Ki Forrest/Commons* Ledley
Stokes/Hooper*
Pick a formation and stick with it. If someone is injured dont move someone out of position to accomodate this bring someone in (even if its youth player) to fill the position that is available. That is the worst thing we do in my opinion at the moment.
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The ones with the * indicates that they are either pish or canny be arsed!
googybhoy says:
31 October, 2011 at 10:26
I would imagine their will be plenty tickets to choose from :-)
I see CQN is again over run with the anti Celtic rumour merchants and posters that have never posted a positive comment about anything to do with Celtic.
Paul67, I think you need to do something about repeat offenders who continue to post lies on this site.
79 caps @ 10:15
I totally agree with your post however some will interpret it as having an anti Celtic agenda
There are enough small clues out there which some may find unpalatable that lead you to why we are in the state we are in
Fernando the commando
Paul Gasgoigne
Two Andy Gorams
Super Ally McCoist
And others.
Drink Drivers