O’Neill stability contrasts with Aberdeen flux

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If you are my generation, you will still wince at the prospect of a visit to Pittodrie.  Despite a calamitous 2025, Aberdeen managed to beat Celtic in May’s Scottish Cup Final, so even younger fans are entitled to be cautious ahead of tonight.

That sentiment will not be understood by Aberdeen fans.  After a resounding 6-2 win over Livingston 10 days ago, they crashed to earth at Rugby Park on Saturday, losing 3-0 to Kilmarnock, with club captain Graeme Shinnie shown a red card.  By any measure, they are a team in crisis.

Like Martin O’Neill, their boss Peter Leven has the role on an interim basis, his third such stint.  Unlike O’Neill, Leven does not expect to remain in charge until the end of the season.  His colourful director of football, Lutz Pfannenstiel, hopes to make a permanent appointment soon.  That state of flux contrasts with the stability Martin offers Celtic.

Last night’s win for St Mirren was welcome – to a point.  The result can only be enjoyed if Celtic take all three points tonight.  Martin O’Neill has set Celtic on an exceptional run of form, but no team in this league race can be confident of winning any game.

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  1. The Celtic app looks a good informative club vehicle.

     

     

    However like any social media outlet: the power is in the users paw.

     

    If you think it’s a propaganda tool and you are not happy, then : Swith off or deinstall

     

     

    Simples.

  2. CHAIRBHOY on 4TH FEBRUARY 2026 11:07 PM

     

    The Battered Bunnet @ 1:41 pm, EKBhoy @ 1:55 pm,

     

    ……

     

     

    Nobody is arguing Brendan is not a good manager ( there is an argument that his style of play is now being overtaken ) , however undeniably he has an ego and crashes and burns in year 3 , he’s done it everywhere he’s been. (Jose Murinho syndrome).

     

     

    Regarding his fraudulent behaviour, yes they are rumours but in this case a really good one , which to be honest I hope weren’t true.

     

     

    Spare me the lecture , we’ll just have to disagreeably disagree.

     

    As Jack Nicholson once said….

     

     

    Youcanthandlethetruthcfc

  3. On the Tav incident, a few comments below the clip stating (by Sevcovians) that, in their view, the Killie player was offside.

     

     

    Fair enough.

     

     

    But, go to VAR to check.

     

     

    With Dickinson (and several others) that’s never going to happen.

     

     

    Cheats cheat!

  4. This boor has rode you before lols.

     

    You the original galloway gobbleteer?

     

    Or wee Dundalk bloo shirt

     

    GerryFerns fearon.

     

     

    Hiders hide stay anonymous

     

     

    Am typing to a racist

     

    What intellect is needed.none

     

     

    Putup- yup did for a time,would do it again,experienced dunno if its the thick end of the racism you emit first hand, you typing columns are easy.still part of a network and awaiting grants to tutor sharia law just to piss off you fleg sooookeratti

     

    Have you got an invaders out placard?

     

     

    A Lovely slicing,many will applaud,

     

    It dont change or alter anyhin

     

    You are a racist scumbag.they are not

     

    you and your national party are its scum front,

     

    The party of immigrant haters

     

    And being a dumbfuck thinks it controls any narrative on a Celtic blog haha gtf nice inglish tho

     

    No need to refocus yir a racist skank,youv read many pamflets i will give you that,building up the ideology to feed your own insecurity

     

     

    The’I dont have and its the immigrants fault’

     

    ‘Invaders oot’ party.

     

    Yup, it was your box I ticked,scored and marked as a towdry racist,layered in ignorance.

     

     

    Your like have been been dealt with in Glasgow since the days ‘stanes wir thrown at the boats o faces coming up the clyde..

     

    Your well outed racist skank.

  5. So the largest shareholder and NED of the Celtic board is mentioned in the Epstein files, and the Chairman is a New Labour confederate of Peter Mandelson

     

     

    What would Walfrid think?

     

     

     

     

     

    Happy St Flabbergastia Day.

     

     

    Depr- AVE Depr- AVE!

  6. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    Dickinson is a hun. He’s compromised and his decisions serially bear that out.

     

     

    Boycotts now whilst there’s everything still to play for are both self-defeating and an insult to Martin, Shaun and Foz. Crazy to risk helping the rotten hun team at this juncture. Brainless.

     

     

    Boycotts should be reserved for when all is lost and there’s no downside risk. Wise up lads. Play it smart. This is a gift to a horrible Board – and much worse – the dreaded hun.

  7. Dexter P. Bampot on

    I like many others have been frustrated by the transfer window and general shambles of mismanagement at our club.

     

     

    However, I am determined (for at least 24 hours) to be positive for the following reasons;

     

     

    1. We have new bodies in the door, especially at the business end of the park- Cvancara has scored already and almost all of the loans have options to buy so the ghuys have something to prove

     

    2. The Dons postponement gets us extra time on the training pitch with a possibility of the team getting into a groove for the run in

     

    3. The bhoycott of the Dundee game will hopefully be a roaring success with the board realising that the game is up- they must be scared of SBs not being renewed

     

    4. If we have to move players on in the summer, some big money will come in- see Engels

     

    5. Stuttgart are beatable

     

    6. Huns and Diets are also beatable.

     

    7. St Martin

     

     

    and, most importantly-

     

     

    8. These are all first world issues. As the murder and terror continues in Palestine and Ukraine, as Trump and his hired thugs terrorise the vulnerable, our Celtic can offer us respite, camaraderie and hope in just a little aspect of life.

     

     

    HH!!!

  8. It these Celtic Supporters who gave up there HTS that are asking fans to boycott this weekend game against Dundee,between them and the Celtic Collective can jump in the river,We are in a title race which is far more importmant.

  9. The quickest way the Collective can see the back of Michael Nicholson is to return to taps and stop the intimidation routine. Whilst they’re gobbing off , the Board will stand firm.

     

     

    There is no way that Michael can survive the Wilfried appointment and word on the posh streets is that he offered his resignation.

     

     

    However , the Board will know that for the Collective that is just the start.

     

     

    HH

  10. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    Congratulations.

     

     

    You have just performed a perfect, unwitting self-portrait.

     

     

    Every slur, every misspelled fantasy, every bizarre historical allusion is not an argument. It is a symptom. You have produced a 200-word screed that refutes nothing, defends nothing, and addresses nothing of the original charge. Instead, you have offered a museum exhibit of your own pathology.

     

     

    Let us catalogue what you have just confirmed for the entire blog.

     

     

    You Have No Argument. When asked to defend your hypocritical stance, you produced not a principle, but a word-salad of insults (“racist skank,” “Galloway gobbleteer,” “dumbfuck”). This is the lexicon of a mind with an empty vault.

     

     

    You Live in a Fantasy. Your reply is a pastiche of other people’s lives, other people’s battles (“stones at the boats”), and grandiose delusions (“awaiting grants to tutor sharia law”). You are not a participant in reality; you are a curator of borrowed grievances. A businessman? You are a bankrupt playwright, scripting a role for yourself in histories that aren’t yours.

     

     

    You Are Desperately Performing. This entire rant is a performance of toughness for an audience you imagine is watching. The “lovely slicing” you applaud is your own. You are literally giving yourself a standing ovation in an empty theatre. It is the most poignant form of loneliness.

     

     

    You Have Confirmed the Core Diagnosis. Your hysterical, scattergun effort to label me is a classic act of projection. You shout “racist,” “invaders out,” “national party” because you have nothing else. It is your one worn-out tool, and you are using it to build a straw man because you are terrified of the man in the mirror.

     

     

    So let us refocus one last time, with crystalline clarity:.

     

     

    The original point stands untouched, because you are intellectually and morally incapable of touching it. You call people racist while advocating policies that prejudice the native population. That is your hypocrisy. Your only reply has been to have a public tantrum and call me names.

     

     

    You have not “put up.” You have broken down.

     

     

    This is no longer a debate. It is a public demonstration. You have shown everyone what you are, a man whose moral authority extends only to the length of his own insults, whose entire identitty is a performance so fragile it shatters at the touch of a single, coherent thought.

     

     

    The floor was yours. You did not speak. You merely wept onto the keyboard.

     

     

    The performance is over.

     

     

     

     

     

    The audience has seen enough.

     

     

     

    I’ll pray for you.. . . .

  11. Just wish all the in fighting and personal abuse to others on the site would stop.

     

    As some wag recently said , opinions are like arseholes we all have them.

     

    I understand this is a free country, free speech and all that.

     

     

    Lovely message here.

     

     

    I have no desire to fit in

     

     

    No plans to walk with the crowd

     

     

    I have my own mind, heart and soul

     

     

    I an me

     

     

    and it has taken me years to realise how important that is.

     

     

    KINGLUBO

  12. Touty o Racist

     

     

    It’s your hidden self portrait that is outed here.

     

    You are a wee Irish pishtriot..

     

    A scumbag racist who blames immigrants.

     

    You have no intellectual cover.

     

    Funny you mispell identity.you scrambling for one pishtriot!

     

    Tis funny a racist scumbag like you even breathing greviance,your whole political stance is based on what you perceive others have that you dont

     

    You are called a racist,dress,tart your tawdry racism up, invaders out,and other empty mantras.

     

     

    Aw diddums the wee racist skank is upset.

     

    It imagines it’s vermin racism is untouched.

     

    That is the point ‘invader’ guy you think your being prejudiced against,nearly a victim of zionist like proportions.little untouchable

     

    We see thro you

     

     

    Thanks for the prayers Touty

     

    Feel dirty acceptin them but I am humble

     

    My usual contact with your ilk usually consists of my heel,your skull and a kerb.

     

     

    You get called a racist as you advocate the policies of racist national party in ireland.

     

    Traitor you are

     

     

    No scatter gun needed.no floor needed

     

    You are a racist scumbag.

     

    Wee native Touty is been prejudiced against,its got a greviance its manufactured to do with skin pigment,yells at folk invaders out,soooks flegs,immigrant have what i dont ….some force of brain ….maybe your not lols,maybe

     

    Just a stinted racist with a greviance who feels secure floating with fellow racist grifters online

  13. Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on

    Liam Scales is on a reported £7k a week. Ross Doohan, the third-choice keeper who’s not even on the bench most weeks, is on £7.5k.

     

     

    Nice work if you can get it.

  14. RAY WINSTONE’S BIG DISEMBODIED HEID

     

     

    How about mentioning the context.

     

     

    DD is dealing with guy A who then involves Epstein.

     

     

    No direct link or evidence DD was even aware of reference to Epstein.

     

     

    This is an example of a false narrative being launched and for what purpose?

     

     

    Sinister behaviour.

  15. Wee Chris Union Jack having his bestest ever fantasy in this morning’s Herald:

     

     

    “A trip to Motherwell awaits (Rangers) next midweek before Hearts visit Ibrox. Two wins there would lay down a marker. Another two at Livingston and in the Old Firm would put Rangers in a position of real strength in the Premiership. If the points are to be earned the performances must improve.”

     

     

    Talk about getting ahead of yourself. Wee Union is winning games four at a time. What chance do Celtic and Hearts have against such consistency and dominance. He’ll have the Teddy Bears invading Poland if his fantasy comes true.

     

     

    I’m glad Martin believes in taking one game at a time.

  16. SPIKEYSAULDMAN on 5TH FEBRUARY 2026 10:55 AM

     

    ekbhoy

     

     

     

    are you a referee ? :)

     

     

    …….

     

     

    Thankfully not

  17. Sinister? I beg to differ. Context is subjective, facts are not.

     

     

    The statements I made were factual, and whatever way you cut it, the optics are poor.

     

     

    How DD operates is sinister in my opinion, and Wilson is a career politician who voted for the Iraq war.

     

     

    So please spare me your sanctimonious judgement.

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