The point was made to me by one Celtic fan before kick-off, “We are like a group of accused arriving at court with a suitcase packed. Every one of us expecting to go down.” Again, Celtic dominated the opening half against a poor looking Scottish Premiership side, again, the opposition manager spotted the fix at halftime and went home with the points. Individual errors at throw-ins did cost the goals, but there’s a reason we were susceptible when individual errors happened – this is the most fragile Celtic I have seen in a long time watching my team. The system is not sufficiently robust to cope when errors are made. The system is at fault.
Confidence is king. When the equalising goal went in, you could see Celtic shoulders shrink. Inspiring confidence and resilience in your players is part of the job, it cannot be left unattended. We have no confidence or resilience. Evidence of faith in their leader, is not visible from the players.
Changing a game when things are going wrong is also part of the job. We repeatedly meet opposition managers able to do this. We change things, but the last time Celtic made a change which positively impacted the outcome was the League Cup semifinal. Substitutions yesterday and on Tuesday are unfathomable. Did the midfield simply slide one along? Was Ralston playing as a conventional central defender? Who knows, certainly not the players, by the look of it.
As I predicted a week ago, Celtic’s then status as Premiership favourites would quickly vanish. Hearts are now top tip at the bookies. Celtic are second favourites; keep an eye on that lofty position.
We are two points ahead of Motherwell with a game in hand, that’s less of a gap than has opened up between us and Hearts this week. Motherwell have the momentum on Celtic, a top three finish is in no way certain.
Comparisons have been made with Ange Postecoglou, who lost his first three away games before new recruits arrived and changed history. Ange inherited a losing team and was unfortunate to leave Tynecastle and Ibrox empty handed. Eight games ago, Celtic were far from the finished article, but they were a winning side, able to get results over the line.
We will talk about the self-owning pre-match presser tomorrow.
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HarryM on 4th January 2026 5:08 pm
Yes , an insult not only to those other applicants , but an insult to the intelligence of the support .
I think we’re giving them more credit than they deserve we are rudderless. They are all waiting on Desmond who hires people after a short blether at a wedding.
I hope I’m wrong but I think he’s here until we are out of contention arithmeticallly
MAOLMUIRE O MUIRGHEASA at 2.43 …you absolutely nailed it sir ….the fix is in …a total re run of Covid season
Jimmy Thelin sacked
As you say ..,pay attention
There is a simple way to stop Motherwell being 3rd, poach Askou from them.
He is a young. successful, tactically astute, articulate and charismatic coach and has transformed Motherwell. Put Maloney beside him and watch our season get back on track.
Maybe Aberdeen will go for the Motherwell boos, think the CEO of Aberdeen is Burrows who used to be at Motherwell.
boss
I argued quite a lot on here that we would win after we got beat at Ibrox in Anges first Derby. I said every week after it we’d win the league.
Ange had the sort of personality that was needed at that point, the confidence and purpose to plot a straight line to turning things round, years of experience of facing adversity to draw on. His success wasnt an accident, his appointment not lucky, we knew about him as a person.
You’ve got to suspect that whoever appointed Wilf didnt and didnt draw on the experience we gained from getting ourselves out of the last hole we found ourselves in.
We’d had a long time to see where the club was heading under Brendan, and the state it would be in when he bailed, it had happened before.
Take our medicine, get some sanity back and get some serious people to do serious work
So why do we have to wait until now to do serious work? Fuckin joke.
I think part of the problem is that we demand football people at the club to be making these sort of decisions but I don’t see anyone in football who inspires confidence that theyre particularly capable of it.
The character of our next manager is absolutely key, but that means we need execs calable of seeing that, but also spotting what’s needed in potential candidates
It’s a pretty straightforward corporate problem, but football struggles with it
Just in time for a double header v Huns
Amateur hour at the extremely well paid corner shop.
Let’s put the fire out after the roof had collapsed.
TIMMY7_NOTED on 4TH JANUARY 2026 5:47 PM
So why do we have to wait until now to do serious work? Fuckin joke.
Thats pretty obvious isnt it? Because we’ve made mistakes and have had people calling the shots who aren’t good at it. Brendan’s little empire, whoever decided on Wilf.
Or maybe more of the same is the answer. It’ll give you plenty to get angry about but it won’t help Celtic
We don’t have anyone to do serious work and Desmond won’t replace those who can’t , with people who can .
Not only that but Desmond himself is not serious about the football side of this minor arm of his business empire .
We can’t recruit the players to build a serious team , we are not serious about improving or updating the stadium or surrounds and we’re not serious abouthiring the best management team we can .
Looks like we’re kind of stuck .
HARRYM on 4TH JANUARY 2026 5:08 PM
Thanks Tictasric for posting that reminder of P67s dismissal of the prospect of Rodgers return.
This bit of rewriting history caught my eye:
I know that in 2019 we didn’t as much appoint Neil Lennon as end up with him after an unfruitful search.
An unfruitful search? But I thought there was a drawer full of CVs in Peter Lawell’s desk that he didn’t bother to read because Neil was the only candidate considered? That’s what Lawell said.
It’s always BS from these people.
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Yes the unfruitful search caught my eye also. It’s animal farm levels of gaslighting on here.
Paul’s mourning of the days of ‘Celtic fans’ taking executive positions in the aftermath of Lawwell’s exit was also jaw dropping.
We need them out and professional execs appointed on the basis of experience and talent.
“…Animal Farm levels of gaslighting on here.”
Chapeau, that’s excellent.
celtic40me, not down to our board room being full of wasters for the last ten years? It’s just a new problem from around dec 25? Get back under the duvet you’re embarrassing.
Sean Maloney set to be announced as the next interim manager according to the black hackney driver.
2 million of your money maybe heading for a zionist business for yet another winger who is currently injured and is already on loan at one mid-table israeli league team from another mid-table israeli league team
“If a million people told me to do something and I was the one and I didn’t feel that something was right, then I would take my own counsel.”
Dermot Desmond
Narcissist
Good news keeps on coming………. Tounekti back as Tunisia exit AFCON
Oh dear
You mean the same Sean Maloney that everyone…..yes everyone …said the board would bring in as a cheap next alternative to BR …..
Dearie me !!!
btw, in any system, first half or second half, luke mccowan, recently, has been absolutely pish …
he is continually unable to do the very basics
was like a wee boy playing against men yesterday…
He is indeed, never been impressed with any performance in his time and very slow. However he doesn’t pick himself and he is subject to the organisational and coaching skills of Nancy, that’s what he was talking about.
some moon rise over clydebank tonight.
its a sign i tell yease
dessybhoy – agreed and i think and hope he could do a job as decent squad player – just get the basics right – he is capable of that
I don’t see any confirmation of Thelin being sacked.
Its a Wolf Moon – or will it now forever be known as a Wilf Moon :(
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13434041/aberdeen-sack-manager-jimmy-thelin-after-falkirk-defeat-leaves-dons-languishing-in-scottish-premiership
I didnt look there, thanks, I looked on local media and nothing was on the Scottish news.
My Gran went missing from Parkhead on Saturday – here she is – please help if you can
Thanks
bsr
hahahaha
The prime cause of the degeneration and fall of empires is Parasitism.
Parasitism Defined:
Economic: A non-productive elite consuming a disproportionate share of resources.
Institutional: Rent-seeking, corruption, and bureaucratic inefficiency draining public wealth.
Military: Overextension and reliance on plunder or unsustainable tribute.
Social: Factional interests paralyzing decision-making for the common good.
Ruling groups eventually become more interested in privilege than in governance, leading to decay.
Sound familiar?
Bourne she’ll probably be at the Govan reform party new Year party with oor Dermot.
There seems to be a if we’d only took our chances everything in the garden would be rosy …utter utter bsht…..we managed one wonder goal yesterday….Butland had a couple of decent stops ….none as good as KS stop from Gassama
Thelin sacked because he was the only manager not to beat WN ….but he says neither did the livi boss …..Aberdeen not having it …they got extremely lucky with a pen or he would have fkd them as well !!!!!