Neil Lennon seemed hurt by the performance yesterday. “Some of [the players]look like their minds are elsewhere at other clubs.
“I don’t know if they have been tapped up, I don’t know where they are mentally, but you can tell by their body language they are not with us at the minute and I’ll have to sort that out.”
“I have pulled them out of places that no-one had heard of and put them in the shop window.
“And I want payback now. That is simply not good enough.”
Those of you of a certain age might have thought that sounded a bit like:
“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new.”
Of course, that girl from the Human League retorted:
“I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true. But even then I knew I’d find a much better place, either with or without you.”
As Human League declared in verse, talent will find its level, but only if it performs. It doesn’t matter where they came from, players who cannot excel in the SPL will drift into relative obscurity on leaving Celtic. There has been no exception to this rule.
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honest words from lennie
Finally getting time to watch my recording of yesterday’s game. Here we go….
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Good evening CHAMPIONS
I fully expect to be introducing myself this way for the next 10 seasons, with or without Hooper or Wanyama. See if I’m wrong?
Weefra HH
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Hail Hail!
There was a lot of bottle throwing back then. Unfortunately the receivers. Were not the intended. I would still be pro terracing. Having to sit down freezing for2hours sucks. JUNGLE always.
Old me.
tractorbhoy
My first away game (apart from Hampden) was through at Easter Rd too. I can remember going on the Dal (riada) pub bus and gorging on a mince pie supper after the game.
Think it was a draw that day. What I can recall clearly is the cry of HIBEES ! HIBEES ! HIBEES ! and a really loud accompanying thunderclap after each time “HIBEES” was bellowed out from the main stand. I realised sometime after that the thunderclap was feet on the stand’s wooden floor.
Easter Rd was a real dump back then. Anyone else, remember that ragged terracing where the new stand is sited ?
I can still taste that pie-supper, with the exotic east’s salt n’ sauce taste.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
19:15 on
10 March, 2013
Old Easter Rd I recall being at the back of the Celtic end (one behind the goal) and seeing Vic Davidson making his comeback for the hoops, shed loads of tears that day……..in dispair……….
weefrathetim.
Hoping Celtic will be free of the cabal before then…if not 10 in a row here we go.hh
darwinsbeautifulidea
Your post @ 18.39 suggests that the beautiful idea has bypassed you.
JJ
Paul67 et al
The corollary is also true, though not so easy to say. If you progress as a player in Scotland, there are some rich pickens to be had, south of the border. Stephen Fletcher and Graham Dorrens two good examples, while Maloney and Ki have done quite well this season. Even so, if a player finds it difficult to find consistency playing in the SPL this season, how would he have coped in the ten seasons that preceded this one? After the Aberdeen game there is another International break, after which there is silver to be won. What set apart the Lisbon Lions was not only their ability, but their ability to get to the final of just about every domestic trophy while also competing most years in Europe to 1974. Martin O’Neill’s team, unbeaten in seventy seven SPL matches at home, set the bar high as did Neil Lennon’s twenty plus wins in a row last season. It is not just about winning the league and hopefully the cup, it is how we win them, with a bit of style. We can do it, just can’t do it every week.
sipsini
Yes indeed, I only hope I’m still alive to see it. Haha. Well I am 67 this year. :)))
Weefra HH
Ooft
Podium on page 2.
Paul67
Does that count. Ha.
Weefra HH
BCW
Always remember a Hibs v Celtic game in 1973.
Attendance was just over 48,000.
Place was heavin’.
Fantastic atmosphere – but a right dump.
Great game as well – we won 4-2. They had a really good team then – they finished 2nd that season when we achieved 9 iar.
HH!!
Paul67
Was never that much of a fan of the Human League, I preferred the ole Carousel Showband.
Weefra HH
ole Carousel Showband.???????????? WHO?
Neil – straight bat responses even when its tough.
He’s a star performer – even when those in his charge are not.
Respect.
Whit wis Fergies complaint today?
The Carousel Showband played top of the bill at the Hoops 20th Anniversary do in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew, and played Archbishop Winnings Charity do, every year in a hotel, I cannot for the life of me remember, it was on the Clydeside. We also played many Celtic Supporters Clubs throughout Scotland including Maryhill.
Weefra HH
voguepunter
19:35 on
10 March, 2013
Whit wis Fergies complaint today?
No help from the ref, no sendings off, penalties or any other unfair advantage given to them. Sounds familiar??
weefrathetim
The McGee brothers ?
Meant to say, the 20th Anniversary of us winning the big cup.
Weefra HH
WeefratheTim
the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew,????Where???? :O)
CK
Who?
Weefra HH
VP
Wind up taken :)))
Weefra HH
prestonpans bhoys
Round up the usual suspects.hh
Haven’t seen all the results, but the last 16 teams don’t seem to have done too well this weekend…….
Easter rd.back in the day wasn’t a bad place to go.
Easter rd, the terracing across from the main stand was the biggest i’d seen 1st time i visited. Seem to go on for miles. Not a pleasant place to watch the fitba mind, full of golf umbrellas on a wet day
greenyin
dixiedeans
19:42 on
10 March, 2013
Easter rd.back in the day wasn’t a bad place to go.
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Apart from the bridge to the buses,it was like Thermopylae…yes I did google spelling.
First game at Easter Road, on the big sloped terracing, 8 years old. Joe Craig scored the winner to win the league.1977.
Remember driving home and flying the scarf out the window of dads motor.
Beautiful!
Burghbhoy
19:46 on
10 March, 2013
That was the day a bhoy fell off the bridge, the bridge voguepunter was talking about above your comment. No idea how the bhoy faired but it is a big drop!
Burghbhoy
19:46 on
10 March, 2013
Your Da had a motor? Tory bass……..unless it was the works van,Hail hail comrade.
prestonpans bhoys-Was at Easter Road too,when the tannoy man said at 10 to 3 Vic Davidson was playing. When Joe Craig scored there to win the league,cue celebrations,an empty cider flagon hurled from the back of the terracing smashed on the concrete barrier about 3 feet from me.
!!Bada Bing!!
Aye …a jist missed ye.
Burghbhoy
The bbc outside broadcast was on strike that day. Now if it was oldco going for the title…………
Greenyin
weefrathetim
I maybe getting my wires crossed – there was a showband doing the rounds back then that was made up mainly of brothers with the name of McGee
If Neil Lennon made those remarks about his players,he needs a slap across the back of the heid.
Even if he thought that, he should have kept his mouth shut.
I for one don’t need to know the ins and outs of, what should be dressing room talk.
Disappointed.