It was never going to be Brazil 1970 but Celtic’s 2-0 win over Auchinleck Talbot fell considerably short of even low expectations. Johnny Kenny scored his first goal in over two months, as the confidence-sapping weeks took their toll on the player. He is a better finisher than the past 10 weeks have demonstrated. Hopefully he can start to recover.
All credit from the game goes to Auchinleck Talbot’s players, who threw themselves in front of everything Celtic could muster. Their performance reminded me of the 1-1 draw Arbroath took from Celtic Park in the Scottish Cup in 2012. The Angus side performed equally well in the reply, but went down 0-1. Nothing we watched in that tie could indicate how well 2012 would end for Celtic.
Delighted with the home tie in the next round and although Dundee have already beaten Celtic this season, they are ninth in the Premiership and should be a welcome visitor to Celtic Park.
Hearts’ home loss to Falkirk on penalties adds an interesting dynamic to our visit to Tynecastle next week. Regarding Hearts, we have been hearing ‘momentum is all’. That being the case, Sunday will be interesting.
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Mary L Trump@MaryLTrump
When I saw this letter, I literally thought, “This is too stupid even for him.” I should have known better.
https://x.com/MaryLTrump/status/2013308061146906840?s=20
A world war to erupt because of a peace prize, this isn’t from a dystopian novel
Good morning CQN
Another fine day to be a Celt
Summit (geddit?) up with Engels?
Time will tell.
Let today’s (non) fun begin.
Have a good day all.
Anthony Joseph said yesterday afternoon that we weren’t close to signing anyone.
A shit show of epic proportions. MoN will understand on Sunday how BR felt going into that Kairat tie.
MON is playing the role of dottering old person, hope that behind the scenes he is hammering home the need for good players. Otherwise this transfer summit was another smokescreen, our wage bill is bloated by transfer failures from a useless recruitment department. That will not help either
And a joke of an academy producing nothing but remains unchanged with mccart still head of it
Some cracking points, Chairbhoy. Maybe today we’ll see an article about the appointment of unqualified family members to positions of authority and how that has led us to a squad in its current state. Maybe an article about how selling top performers (whether on the slide or not) and not replacing them means you end up behind Hearts. Or how about one about the spoofer plucked from the dole and given the power to sign players the manager didn’t want?
DESSYBHOY:
Beg to differ re your comments about the Academy.
The academy has produced players, but, unfortunately we can’t hold onto lots of them once they reach professional contract stage:
Rocco Vata (Winger): Left for Watford in 2024 after turning down a new contract.
Karamoko Dembélé (Forward): Joined Brest (France) on a free transfer in 2022, later moving to QPR.
Ben Doak (Winger): Moved to Liverpool in 2022.
Josh Adam (Midfielder): Joined Manchester City in 2020.
Leo Hjelde (Defender): Moved to Leeds United.
Liam Morrison (Defender): Signed for FC Bayern Munich in 2019.
Kieran Tierney (Left-Back): Moved to Arsenal in 2019.
Barry Hepburn (Winger): Joined FC Bayern Munich.
Daniel Kelly (Midfielder): Moved to Millwall in 2024.
Francis Turley (Midfielder): Joined Chelsea.
Conall Glancy (Winger): Joined Spurs U18.
Lenny Agbaire (Defender): Moved to an English club in 2025.
Magnus MacKenzie (Midfielder): Joined Queen’s Park.
Joshua Bradley-Hurst (Goalkeeper): Joined Birmingham City.
Ryan Mullen (Goalkeeper): Moved to Cove Rangers.
Forrest, Tierney, McGregor, Donovan, Murray all playing for Celtic.
por cierto
How did the summit go?
JokeFC.
From all that we have 3 players playing for Celtic that are good enough , most moved away for money or no chance of making it
An Tearmann on 20th January 2026 1:15 am
Nonsense?? Moi, the very thought.
Its Chris Torey Run together reads Christ Rey “Christ the King” Aresounding cry from the Cristeros in Mexico in 1926. Mexican Catholics who fought the Masons in Power.
Of course you Left wing pr**** would know nothing about that.
Nonsense comes from Marx, Lenin and all their acoytes to the present day.
Nonsense something that’s imbued in you.
Signings ? When I was a wee boy I went to Parkheed frae Govan to see Celtic I did not know who the Directors were nor did I care? Just assumed the would build a team to warm my Celtic heart.
Nonsense? It flows out of your pores .
DESSYBHOY:
“From all that we have 3 players playing for Celtic that are good enough , most moved away for money or no chance of making it”
We produced them from the Academy, other teams signed them!!!! por cierto
An Dún on 20th January 2026 7:29 am
There are no excuses for losing to them.
None.
Look at their teams have they stepped up improved to say yes could’ve played for Celtic, maybe Doak the academy is useless for providing players for Celtic the last Centre Forward was who? Cummins and he bolted to west ham
Check where the bayern Munich signings are now
Good news from the transfer summit..
They have organised a committee to discuss the pros and cons of entering the transfer market…it’s due to meet up in February
DESSYBHOY:
That’s not what I was answering though. Your initial comment re the academy was:
And a joke of an academy producing nothing
Clearly not the case, but, then probably most academies around the World have only a handfull of players who make the grade. The exception being Man City who tend to have a few coming through and also sell those that don’t come through for £millions!
I get it that Celtic aren’t great at the moment and folk want to include as many negatives as they can to back that up, and bhoy there are plenty if your purpose is only that, por cierto
It’s another part of the club that appears to have avoided scrutiny or made necessary changes , plenty ex motherwell guys in there though.
Questions about viability of the Academy are not new.
HH.
Timmy7 @ 7:57 am,
Cheers – and you are spot on, lots of poor decision making and obvious errors, we’ll not get the reasons why because we aren’t even asking the question.
Hail Hail
Chris Storey
Yeh total nonsense
You have no idea of religion when you posted your zealotry previously,and you have not improved.right wing/left wing you simple zealots are always trying to pull a faith towards your own political stance.right or left you are handless.You have form.
jeez louise
https://x.com/OffTheUside/status/2013352234176663633
Not yet 9am – a tough read already
Can someone pass the dutchie?
…. Far and wide.
Have we signed a striker, worthy of the name, yet?
Answers on a postage stamp
B2B…I swear to god…it’s enuff to drive me back to my dealer 😂
From jobo
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2025-26*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #36 AUCHINLECK TALBOT 0 CELTIC 2 (KENNY, TOUNEKTI)*
Good evening, friends.
Through to the next round was always the most important thing. But we really are struggling in the entertainment stakes these days.
Celtic have now played 36 games, and have won 19, drawn 6 and lost 10. We have scored 60 goals and conceded 37.
As for the voting numbers, my thanks this week to the 81 who emailed their opinions. Brilliant in any other season but not quite enough this year to trigger any further charity donation, unfortunately.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Sinisalo: 1
Ralston: 4
Murray: 1
Welsh*: 21
Donovan*: 14
McGregor: 23
Bernardo: 5
McCowan: 26
Forrest*: 59
Kenny: 39
Balikwisha: 0
Tounekti: 52
Scales: 1
Nygren: 0
Yamada: 0
Hatate: 0
Unused substitutes: Hayney, Maeda, Schmeichel, Yang
And so, the POINTS earned by each player for the game against Auchinleck are as follows –
25 points: Forrest
22 points: Tounekti
19 points: Kenny
16 points: McCowan
14 points: McGregor
12 points: Welsh
11 points: Donovan
10 points: Bernardo
9 points: Ralston
7 points each: Murray, Scales and Sinisalo
4 points each: Balikwisha, Hatate, Nygren and Yamada
1 point each: Hayney, Maeda, Schmeichel, Yang
The cumulative points achieved after 36 games played are now –
491: McGregor
483: Scales
421: Tierney
376: Engels
336: Hatate
330: Maeda
326: Trusty
321: Nygren
299: Yang
297: Tounekti
275: Schmeichel
267: McCowan
266: Forrest
236: Donovan
188: Iheanacho
186: Ralston
185: Kenny
158: Carter-Vickers and Saracchi
136: Bernardo
96: Murray
78: Yamada
74: Balikwisha
62: Sinisalo
60: Johnston
42: Araujo
40: Osmand
23: Inamura
19: Idah
14: Simpson-Pusey
6: Doohan
1: Hale, Hayney and Isiguso
0: All the other players who’ve not yet made a matchday squad!
Celtic’s next game sees us travel to Italy in the Europa League. Our game against Bologna is on Thursday with a 5.45pm kick off.
Hail Hail!
Chairbhoy @ early morning
Aye CQN, The Celtic View – the last bastion of truth and morality as long as you back the board, it’s like a bedraggled last defence, of a retreating defeated army, on here we’re into single figures now, after the WN mistake.
Meanwhile in the real world a further fractured support, of leave earlies, stay always, banned, marginalised and a huge silent but baffled majority. An amphitheater with no atmosphere, a vacuum, that’s the talk of the steamie how did that all happen, and when does BW unite the place?
Glendalys point is valid having cleaned out two managers and a HFO and the removal of all the toxicity ( no laughing at the back ) what happens next in a club that apparently can’t compete in Europe, and has no intention or ambition? We’ve to pretend WN didn’t happen, it must have been a dream sequence, no apology, no contrition maybe that comes later? when MON has salvaged more points – in a ridiculous but necessary second caretaking spell, in the same season
Things can change quickly loan signings only please, there’s a problem in handing out five year Celtic contracts and it needs solving in summer. MON on the phone to agents and quick change trackie routine, deserves a miraculous medal if he can turn the ship.
They love a good manager at Celtic but not half as much as they love, not spending supporters money.
Baffled CSC
HH
The Yorkshire journalist that wrote of our Piroe enquiry being laughed at by Leeds presumably is making it up because he hates us.
Just like the Dutch Director who laughed at us, he hated us too…
It’s certainly not because our Board is a clown show…
“…a further fractured support, of leave earlies, stay always, banned, marginalised and a huge silent but baffled majority.”
Nicely done.
An Tearmann on 20th January 2026 8:38 am
Form?
Its Chris Torey yes Christo Rey Christ the King.
You lefties dont believe in Kings, as you are all equal.
Wake up.
https://www.67hailhail.com/transfers/anthony-josephs-celtic-january-transfer-update-makes-dermot-desmonds-attack-on-brendan-rodgers-look-ridiculous/
Meanwhile in the Big Dudder House Michael quietly attends to kettle duties whilst Chris ponders whether he can squeeze two or three mugs of tea from a single bag…
Chris Storey
Couldn’t give a toss what you call yourself.
You have form here previously.
And you irrational zealots personify how a simple beauty in religious faith is destroyed by man.
The saviour is not good enough for you, so he has to be right wing or left wing.gtf with yer crap.
Fully awake and cognisant of most things affecting the faith.not your skewered view of it with your left/right drivel.
Good morning from a glorious,blue sky Turkey.Unlike Lennox town,where the storm clouds are still hanging,and the sky 50 shades of Grey 😇,
darker than the Boards suits.But hey ho,we have probably come up with some more euphemisms for being shit in the Market.”Plotting,kept informed,monitoring,sizing up,”just won’t cut it anymore in this Tech savvy age.In fact,the new Chairman,,was last night told to stop sending Telegraph messages to breathlessly waiting hacks at the Record.
Meanwhile ,as soon as MON finishes trying to plumb hot water into the Stands,we are assured his duties will sharply turn,once again to the job at hand.Finding a striker,on loan,or free,on minimum wage,and under 40.
They are out there Martin.
All transfers are on hold until Friday as Martin is off to Italy on a jolly.
Greenpinata on 20th January 2026 8:32 am
Questions about viability of the Academy are not new.
HH.
True Gp but imo a club the size and stature of Celtic should always have a youth system.
In saying that what part does the academy play,
Is there an audit path that those in the academy seek and need to come right thro.
There appears to be to big a gap between “b” teams and 1st teams.we need to organise the league structure better imo
HH
Hypothetically…..
If I had a really top level manager that I knew was angling to leave for another job?
I might make it public that I wanted him to extend his contract (£)
I might even be VERY annoyed that he didn’t sign said extension and broadcast it …..
Hypothetically :)
Daddy Desmond obviously in the huff an the rough ride his wee boy got at the AGM from all those green brigade plants in the audience has decided to punish the supporters for their misbehaviour. We really should know better than to dare ask for the best for our club.
The decline is on the way, see how the oligarch likes playing second fiddle to the 49ers for the foreseeable future.
Celtic Board instigating the top secret” Baldric Cunning Plan”.Wait 20 days into the Window,let every other team know you are desperate,keep a tight grip on your cash,then STRIKE,when they least expect it.
ONIL,
” Playing second Fiddle”Would struggle to get a ticket for the concert.