It was far from beautiful flowing football at Inverness yesterday but the players raised the tempo sufficiently to get the result. Leigh Griffiths scored a classic poacher’s goal. He missed plenty against Kilmarnock and Ajax but that’s part of the territory of being a striker.
I was delighted to see Carlton Cole make his first appearance for the club, and for anyone since last season. His first touch could have resulted in a goal but his sheer body mass caused sufficient panic in the Inverness defence that a goal resulted soon enough. There’s a lot of work ahead as Carlton looks to get match fit but he’s exactly the kind of foil we’ve missed this season.
For all the Zonal Marking Detesters……… We’re now man-to-man and we’re still conceding headers in front of goal. The problem was not resolved with the switch to man-to-man. Defending corner kicks requires a physicality and alertness which we’ve missed all season. The sooner we fix this and get back to zonal the better.
On the subject of physicality, Dedryck, this is your hand. A brick wall should have been thrown up in front of Miles Storey at the Inverness goal. I accept we have unresolved issues at set-pieces and that we’ll lose goals as a consequence. Goals conceded on Thursday – a deflection-come-ricochet, and a breakaway, had little to do with the defence, but yesterday’s Inverness goal was just rank bad defending.
At Carfin on Friday I told Phil MacGiollaBhain that there was no way Dave King could weasel out of paying Mike Ashley his £5m, having said he would do so. Phil referred me to the “glib and shameless liar” part of King’s past and not to be so naive. He could have a point.
Ashley holds the aces here. Any attempt to ‘play’ him will fail.
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Then I get s notice from Cqn I’ve double posted
Well if i didn’t get candy crush then re directed to sky bet I wouldn’t need to double flippin click
Oh dear, I’v upset Don Pepe and a few others, Don Pepe doesent like the handle Storm Troopers, REALY? Well I’m not exactly doing cartwheels at the ones I get from your crew either, so like me your going to have to live with it I suppose?
My opinion on the CT is my opinion, same as you have your opinions, and meetings to discuss these opinions, and your Storm Troopers come on here to purvey them, and this is the bit I don’t get, the rest of us are supposed to sit back and say ” awe well the CT said this and the CT said that” naaaaaaa, doesent work that way Don Pepe, you are not the voice of the fans, far from it, and neither am I, I speak for me, Tony Donnelly.
Personally I find you post toeing the CT party line, pompous and arrogant, you honestly think you can stop me from thinking and having an opinion?
I support Celtic, I bleed Celtic, have done since my first game in 1955, I don’t give a monkeys about the wage structure , I leave that to the board to sort out that’s what boards do, and in my opinion they’r doing a good job, you the CT have other ideas on that, fine by me, fill your boots, but don’t think that your going to come in here running the club/board down and not expect some backlash, if you do your in Lala land.
Your post made out that it was a one way street and only I do the wrong, no one else, just me, me alone Tony Donnelly? And that you lurk here, well just reading my posts only would give you that assumption, in the true CT way, in my opinion that is, which was allowed on here the last time I looked.
Tony Donnelly
Son of Tim Donnelly.
Ibrox Shambles Will Have Far Reaching Consequences…
Anyone who thinks Dave King & Co will all of a sudden start playing by the rules, well quite frankly need their head examined.
King, just the latest chancer to hold position of Chairman at Ibrox has no more fondness of the new club than he did of the old club. He is no more a RRM than those before him, Murray, Whyte or Green. His only love is money.
And his love of money will not only see him get ripped a new arse by Mike Ashley who has infinitely more, much more than King could ever wish for. But at a price for all of Scottish Football.
The long time cozy relationship of the SFA and ANY incumbent at Ibrox was always secure as long as…
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And as long as outside influences didn’t become involved.
Unfortunately, the game has changed. The posts have been moved.
The shit is about to hit the fan as they say, and there will be a lot more casualties than just Dave King.
Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster have been instrumental in making sure the rules were changed to cater for a club, any club, to play out of the stadium that John Brown played for, prevailed.
Clandestine meetings were set up to push through rules that were made up as they went along.
‘Fit and Proper’ status was rubber stamped for a convicted criminal
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All for one club and all to the detriment of the other 41, and the Scottish game in general.
In the next few months, it will all come out into the public domain. A court of law where ALL the evidence is heard is a very different place to an Enquiry where only the submitted evidence was presented, and much more was withheld.
The consequences of the many court cases that Dave King, Rangers, Sevco, the SFA and Mike Ashley are involved in will shape our game for evermore.
And it won’t be pretty…
Celtic News
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HAVE YOUR SAY
FORMER Celtic skipper Tom Boyd believes it will take Rangers years before they are in a position to challenge for the Premiership title even if they manage to win promotion this season.
Boyd, who captained Celtic to their last domestic treble in 2001, claims that Celtic have too much financial muscle for the Championship leaders, arguing that it would take a massive investment of new cash to make Mark Warburton’s men genuine contenders.
Ibrox chairman Dave King has said he expects Rangers to have a chance of pipping their Old Firm rivals for a shot at Champions League qualification in 2017 but Boyd claims that is overly optimistic.
While bemoaning the lack of competition for Ronny Deila’s side, currently seven points and 22 goals ahead of second-placed Aberdeen and odds-on to win their fifth consecutive title, Boyd insists that Rangers are in no position to provide it.
Even if they beat Hibernian to automatic promotion, the former Scotland defender insists that Celtic will not be tested by them in 2016/17.
“For me, that’s a hypothetical,” he said. “I can’t see that happening with the players they have.
“They have five loan players just now so they’ll need to change them for next season. So it’ll take two or three years for them to get up and running to compete at the same level Celtic are at this moment.
“Yes, Rangers are a better team than they were last season. Look where Hearts are – eight points behind and Celtic are still a better team than them.
“I think that Rangers will still come up but they’ve got a challenge from Hibs so we’ll see how that develops.”
Asked when he believed Rangers might be in a position to break Celtic’s hegemony, Boyd replied: “It all depends on the circumstances and whether they can get their house in order financially, which is not there right now going by the last accounts, when they posted a loss of £7.5million.
“I know that might change if they do come up because they can then charge more for season tickets and you can add the extra money that comes with being in the top division but they’ll also have to pay more – you don’t know.
“Only time will tell. The lack of a challenge is a problem because we do need and want to get a competition going. Celtic are far too strong for the league.
“I don’t think they will be able to compete. It might happen if they [Rangers] find some decent players and I know Mark Waburton has made a start with the scouting side.
“That was certainly needed in this day and age. A process has begun but I think it will take a couple of years at least for Rangers to put in a serious challenge.”
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TonyD
I’m busy at work so I’ll need to be brief.
Can you point out to me when a Trust member insulted you on here please? I’ll grant you that I did in the past but that was before I was a member.
Additionally, Joe wasn’t saying that you’re not allowed an opinion, of course you are, as is everyone who makes the decision to post on here. However, it was the vitriol that you display when you post about the Trust along with the highly loaded vocabulary (storm troopers, groomers) that was being highlighted.
Finally, the Trust have never and will never claim to speak for anyone other than our membership.
Disagreement is fine, it’s healthy. Offensive abuse of fellow Celtic supporters is not.
Hail Hail
RONNY Deila has no problems maintaining discipline at Celtic – despite Anthony Stokes becoming the latest Parkhead player to publicly clash with him in a high-profile incident at the weekend.
Stokes incurred the wrath of his manager after Tweeting his displeasure at being left out of the match day squad before kick-off in the Premiership match against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Sunday.
The online outburst from the striker came just a month after a bust-up involving Kris Commons during a Europa League match against Molde over in Norway.
Commons voiced his unhappiness at being substituted by Deila in the second half of the 3-1 defeat, angrily and in full view of the BT Sport television cameras, to his assistant John Collins in the dugout.
In addition, Charlie Mulgrew walked off the pitch towards the end of the Group A match against Ajax at Celtic Park last Thursday night shortly after coming onto the field as a substitute.
Deila explained afterwards that the Scotland internationalist had suffered an injury – and the player later verified this with a post on social networking site Instagram.
Still, the peculiar episode with Mulgrew and the flashpoints involving Commons and Stokes – three senior members of his squad – have led to increased speculation about the authority the manager exerts among the Celtic support.
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However, Alex Smith, the chairman of the League Managers Association, last night insisted the 40-year-old is a strong personality who maintains order at the Scottish champions well.
“Deila’s discipline is very good,” said Smith. “I think he is quite a dominant character. Yes, there have been three separate situations recently. But incidents like the one with Commons happens regularly in football; a player is disappointed at being taken off in a game
“In the heat of the battle, in the spur of the moment, he mouths off. To be honest, a manager likes to see that passion. It shows he cares about being a part of the team.
“You can’t accuse Charlie Mulgrew of a bad attitude. He is an experienced professional who got an injury. For me, he has no case to answer.
“Anthony Stokes has proved himself to be a very good goalscorer and a very good player. He must be frustrated to be fit and training and not playing.
“But he has to redouble his efforts to feature. The manager must retain the right to select the team that he wants without interference and he does that.”
Meanwhile, Deila has been urged to keep faith with the youngsters who have impressed greatly in the games against Ajax and Inverness Caledonian Thistle for the remainder of the 2015/16 season.
The Celtic manager was unstinting in his praise of Scott Allan, Callum McGregor and Kieran Tierney following the 3-1 victory up in the Highlands on Sunday.
Smith, the former Aberdeen manager who is currently the technical director at Falkirk, believes Deila can enjoy great success in the future, both domestically and in Europe, if he persists with that trio and their contemporaries.
“Everybody was very downbeat and downhearted after the defeat to Ajax last week,” he said. “But, for me, there was a bigger picture. Scott Allan, Stuart Armstrong, Leigh Griffiths, Callum McGregor, Kieran Tierney, good young Scottish players, were all involved. That is the glimmer of hope for Celtic.
“In the 1950s, Celtic embarked upon probably the most successful youth policy in the history of football. Billy McNeill, John Clark, John Divers, Stevie Chalmers, Mick Jackson, Bobby Lennox and others broke through.
“They struggled at first against the great Rangers team of the early 1960s. But they gained first team experience and when Jock Stein took over they enjoyed extraordinary success. After that, the Quality Street Gang came through.
“Danny McGrain, Jim Brogan, Vic Davidson, Paul Wilson, George Connolly, Kenny Dalglish, Davie Hay all came in and out and eventually became established. It would be great for Scottish football if they could do it with young boys again.
“Celtic scour the world in the hope of signing players they can sell on for big money. They have been very successful doing it. But, for me, that doesn’t sit with the heritage of the club. Celtic have always produced their own players.
“If young boys with ability like Allan, McGregor and Tierney get the chance to play in the first team and show they can cope they become different people. They developed an air of confidence, a togetherness, an ambition and a hunger and also have an awareness of the history of their club.
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“The other night there were glimpses of that. Celtic have an opportunity to do that now with these boys and others. They should grab it. I think their supporters would be happy for them to go that way.
“They had great success in the past doing that. I appreciate times are different now and they try to target players who can compete in Europe. But they have a very good youth policy and academy. They have to have the courage to play these boys in the first team.”
HAMILTONTIM on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:01 AM
TonyD
I’m busy at work so I’ll need to be brief.
Can you point out to me when a Trust member insulted you on here please? I’ll grant you that I did in the past but that was before I was a member.
Additionally, Joe wasn’t saying that you’re not allowed an opinion, of course you are, as is everyone who makes the decision to post on here. However, it was the vitriol that you display when you post about the Trust along with the highly loaded vocabulary (storm troopers, groomers) that was being highlighted.
Finally, the Trust have never and will never claim to speak for anyone other than our membership.
Disagreement is fine, it’s healthy. Offensive abuse of fellow Celtic supporters is not.
Hail Hail
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Now naming names and making accusations is not my style, that’s only going to pick at the scab Don Pepe wants to heal, so I think you’d be better putting this to bed as that seems to be what Don Pepe wanted no?
But on the other hand if you continue? Fine.
But if others continue with it excluding yourself, then it’s open season again, and it won’t be me who starts it, that I CAN guarantee you, so in short, NO I’m not going down the naming names road, it’s pointless.
C’Mon the trolls!!!
C’Mon the Celtic Trust!!!
C’Mon the Green Brigade!!!
Sack The Kowtowing-Hun-Loving-Board!!!
Give the keys of the club to Jeanette Findlay!!!
The Green Brigade and, The Celtic Trust can commission the new club – mission statement – the narrative will be the biblical Celtic Catechism inclusive of all Celtic fans / supporters / shareholders / rebels / malcontents / sooky-erses / happy clappers / eejits / sleekits / dementors….etc.
No more gravy-train for Peter Lawwell, John Park and any of their middle-men who seem to have this amazing quality of signing pishy EPL players and, paying them a whack out of the managers budget (looks good on the ole recruitment section of the CV Pete, eh)and, stepping back to let someone else hoover up the mess.
No more confidentiality clauses to prevent anybody from telling the fans about the ‘racket’ which amounts to pissing the fans money up against a wall….shocking mis-management that is condoned without challenge coz, the gluttons are easily distracted by copious amounts of jelly & ice cream.
A culture change is required within the support.
Snobbery to be replaced by, on the ball rebellion.
Celtic FC were born from rebellion / oppression and, a failed attempt at genocide by brittania’s cruel devils who set the template for the Nazi’s in later years….imho.
Shrewd cookies to be deployed at all levels of the club.
To quote John Lennon – “You may say I’m a dreamer….but I’m not the only one.”
God Bless All Celtic Supporters
…..laters……
Does Alex Smith talk for all managers in the leagues
If not why have his rants on here
8-)
Due to crippling debt the bailiffs have their foot in the door of sevcos advent calendar. ;-)
Each to there own, but I thought Alex Smith was talking up our manager, a rare thing seen in here, I applaud him :)
If Ronny insists on playing the 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 formation, it is possible that with one or two changes to the team it could well work.
First of all ditch Boyata, switch Mikel Lustig to centre half alongside Simu. Janko to right back, Tierney left.
Johansen right midfield, Biton centre of the midfield, bring in wee Emilio to play on the left of the midfield.
JF and Scott Allan in front of the three midfielders.
LG the lone striker.
Simple as that.
HH.
TonyD
Fair enough. I’m only trying to point out the abuse you’ve received hasn’t come from me and it hasn’t come from anyone on the EC of the Trust.
I’ll continue to post on issues related to Celtic, and that includes the Trust, because in my opinion it’s important.
Hail Hail
TD
Trying to chill the blog mate
So, the ipox loaf is worried about English clubs stealing his valuable players ….. Whit ur they like …. Blatant invitation to ‘come and get them’ spin ….won’t work, though ….they’re shoite ….. :)
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:41 AM
TD
Trying to chill the blog mate
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I know BT that’s why I put the :) after my post touché
Aye. But what’s the name of the elephant
HAMILTONTIM on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:38 AM
TonyD
Fair enough. I’m only trying to point out the abuse you’ve received hasn’t come from me and it hasn’t come from anyone on the EC of the Trust.
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As I said let’s leave it, there’s no need for you to point out anything, you just can’t help yourself can you, ffs, let it goooooo
Pregnant dog becomes trapped in a sink-hole – how did she get out?
I’d be interested to find out the answer to that question, but there’s no way am I clicking on that one.
Slan.
KTF.
Sssshhhhh don’t feed the troll
SAINT STIVS on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:50 AM
Aye. But what’s the name of the elephant
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As I said it won’t be me who starts it, but seen as you asked, the elephant was the CT.
CANAMALAR on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:55 AM
Sssshhhhh don’t feed the troll
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How’s the res. 12 going nut sack?
Ffs – must be the start of the festive season with peace breaking out on cqn – let’s hope it lasts
St Stivs
Thanks for taking me down memory lane with Hearts v Celtic. Remember being outside when the game kicked off, so with the usual push towards the turnstiles one of the big sliding doors collapsed and we were in. Though the erse fell oot the carrier bag we managed to recover the cargo and enjoyed a great game. HH
KevJ
Loved the rant.
HH
If there was road diversions around ibrox…
Would bfdj look at it as new signing ..?
Sssshhhhh,
Don’t feed the troll
Ibrox defaults to boric on my kindle…
Superb…
Tony
No I won’t leave it. Like you I’m entitled to an opinion so if I see you suggest the abuse has come from the EC of the Trust then I’ll feel free to point it out.
Anyways have a good day everyone.
Hail Hail
Ct is a rubbish name for an elephant.
Not very circusy at all.
How does it manage the stairs in your close to get in the room.
CANAMALAR on 1ST DECEMBER 2015 8:59 AM
Sssshhhhh,
Don’t feed the troll
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Awe well, was only asking as YOU told me YOU where the go to guy on res. 12, you know you still being involved an all that (scary thought) maybe your just full of s….
Ssssshhhhhh don’t feed the troll
Hamiltontim
It’s just in the CT DNA to, pick,pick,pick, it’s as I’v always said attention seekers, you just can’t let it go, in true Storm Trooper style, knew it wouldent last, but I tried.
Sssshhhhh don’t feed the troll, ignore it
The most significant part of the RTC blog for me was that the SFA and media are trying to recreate the very conditions that brought about RFC’S demise along with the ongoing negative impact on our game since 1999.
The role of the smsm in perpetuating the illusion grows greater with every day, especially when the have the evidence on what was kept from LNS and it’s impact and stay silent whilst keeping the myth going.
Corrupt to the core.
Whilst an appeal buys the football authorities some time in the form of an excuse not to set LNS aside yet, there cannot be any informed person left who does not believe the LNS Commission to be a sham and it should be set aside and a new investigation mounted taking all the points covered by RTC into account once the appeal reaches its end whatever that might be.
Then there is Res12. The SFA, unless something has arrived in the last 2 days, continue to refuse to answer questions put to them by Celtic shareholders.
The refusal in itself is mis governance and a wee reassessment of tactics might be necessary to finally force the issue but the SFA must be brought to account and cleared out before next season or the game ‘s a bogey. (Bogus in every sense of the word)
I noted from a couple of quotes by de Boer that by using EBT’s Rangers were able to offer the same wages as Man Utd. Not better, just the same. Straight from the horses mouth confirmation that they were needed in order to afford players of that quality.
Canalamar
What troll?
I see no troll. :) :) :)
Gooooood morning CQN
Only 24 days until Christmas, has peace broken out for advent ( and I know it started 2 Sunday’s ago) :-)))
Auldheid
There was a list earlier this month on people prepared to support funding a judicial review
May be worth gathering this in, and potential costs for such
With costs then attributed the FtSfA when they lose
Count me in
Hail Hail
Auldheid
If you look at this from the SFA position then they will be feeling uncomfortable but still confident in their ability to see this through with their brass neck approach.
Look at the facts:
You guys have been working away at this for several years and as I type this
a) The SFA continue to refuse to answer questions from Celtic shareholders
b) The SMSM have all received full details, which you handed to them on a plate, and they are all united in their silence. Indeed that clown from Clyde1 actually had a go at you on Twitter saying he wouldn’t even look at it and telling you to get a life!
c) Celtic, from the SFA’s view remember, have said NOTHING publicly on this.
So the cat is very much still in the bag. Until that changes the SFA are going to blank you and say nothing safe in the knowledge that you have failed to get the media interested and have been unable to get Celtic to go public.
Mike Ashley showed the way over the last few weeks by seeking judicial reviews on various matters. He is a Rangers (2012) shareholder.
You need to hit the SFA when they are at their most vulnerable. A queue of Judicial Reviews to defend would have them in a panic.
Of course Ashely can afford it but it could be time to consider raising funds to pursue this. I know that there are plenty of interest in crowd funding on here and on other forums like SFM etc. Celtic should also be asked the direct question – will they contribute.
Notwithstanding the above, I am 100% behind you and appreciate all you have done so far.
Online discussions are never enough. Take them to court.