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  1. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    P67’s blog today…

     

     

    New dawn… Celtic supporters through thick and thin… well run club… build a statue to Peter (including halo)… rename Celtic Way Lawwell Way… rename main stand the Lawwell Stand… blah, blah.

     

     

    Desmond and Lawwell long ago decided a strong ‘Rangers’ was good for business at any price. Apologists like JHB on here parroting that rationale last night.

     

     

    Hit them where it hurts. Don’t renew. Don’t reward them for rehabilitating the toxic, cheating hun. Make it bad for business.

  2. Well,my Crystal Ball before the game was bang on.

     

    “If Edouarde is woken up from his slumbers.If Kenny can start passing the ball forward.If Christie can find new boots.If our big players turn up”.Which they did not.

     

    Much has been said about the reasons we have been dire this season,Lenny,tactics,PL,DD,in fact everything,and everyone has been blamed and to a big extent yes they were a factor,but the real culprits were staring us right in the face yesterday.A squad of players who no longer care about the team they play for,and who have not for some time.A disgrace to the jerseys.I would not let many of them sully that jersey again.

     

    Some fans too easily fooled.Elyanoussi turns up,every now and then,scores a couple of goals,and they are pleading for him to be given a contract,A talented waster.Mc Gregor,Christie,shadows of the players they were.

     

    I read this morning,a lot of fans furious at the money for KT and Frimpong not been spent.Thank God,Laxalt and Kenny at around 10 million each,are whats on offer.A pair of duds.Dont get me started on Edouarde.Has been in a Coma all season.Not one should play again.If we had not been so quick to loan players out,we could have seen ,Connel,O’Connor,Hjelde,and a few others playing out the season.Just what has Soro done wrong,that non triers get selected before him.Thank God they are probably going .Another dunderhead,Bain.Kent hits a 20 yard shot ,straight at him,and he somehow,manages to parry it out to the only other Hun player in the box,Morelos,who should have buried it.WTF is he thinking.

     

    I give up.

  3. GLENDALYSTONSILS

     

     

    I agree mate.to everybody apart from ourselves, the Celtic fans, we are a package.you cant have one without the other.

     

    DD thought the package might open the door to the TV millions and some new fans.

  4. peterlatchfordsbelly

     

     

    i get you and many thousands will feel similar . the worry being ,

     

    that if many thousands vote with their feet ( which i expect to happen)

     

    keeping kennedy in place wouldn’t surprise me either.

     

    what a mess.

  5. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    The complacent hubris throughout our club this season has been thrown into sharp relief watching Kennedy’s interviews. P67’s famed cognitive dissonance on full display. Rabbits in the headlights as the full horror of their failures become impossible to ignore. Never to be forgotten through the annals of Celtic history. Well deserved.

     

     

    Turkeybhoy

     

     

    The players’ attitude has been a scandal. But they’re rotten. Look at the recruitment, who drove it and why they did it in that way. Quality of player has collapsed since Rodgers first season, with 3-4 loannees regulars. Utter shambles, utter incompetence, utter failure.

  6. Many of our Ex-Men – BBJ, Provan and Commons etc – exhorting us to splash the cash, as if that’ll buy success. Wish these experts would spare us the benefit of their executive expertise, which only foments discontent for their judas-like remuneration. As if we need any more speculative pain from wur ain kind, at this new nadir!!

     

     

    We still have many good players and I actually don’t think we played poorly yesterday – but we sure lacked belief, conviction and fighting spirit. Too many have their heids, heart and feet already half-ways out the door.

     

     

    The one and only signing we need to get 100% right is the coaching dept – one that unites the fractures in the squad – this will determine how the half-decent assets we already have are best deployed and managed:

     

    Barkas, Bain, Jullien, Hendry, Hjelde

     

    Connell, Soro, Turnbull, Robertson, McInroy, Dembele, Ntcham

     

    Forrest, Ajeti, Mikey J…

     

    And a transfer kitty of 40+Mill after Ajer, CalMac, Eddy, Ryan all move on to ‘greener’ pastures.

     

     

    Know what? I’d suggest we buy Duffy and Laxalt right now as there are two good pros right there who walked into the wrong movie at the wrong time; and under a great coach, both will come back great again.

     

     

    Feel this our rock bottom, and the only way is UP! HH

  7. Paul The Spark on

    Quadrophenian

     

    We could go up but we could just scrape along the bottom for a while.

     

    Hail Hail

  8. Good morning CQN

     

     

    CQN article recently ref name on managers door irrelevant

     

     

    3 players Edouard, McGregor, and Rogic just 2 seasons ago under Rodgers magnificent matchwinners, at EPL prices easily 50-60 million and most EPL teams would have had their squads enhanced by all 3

     

     

    Yesterday Rogic never made the starting 11, Edouard and, Mcgregor unrecognisable

     

     

    The name on the managers’ door is everything with a club that gives its all to support him

     

     

    The camera turning the lens onto that group of fun-loving criminals enjoying matchday hospitality at the game the group of fat cats which is the Celtic PLC board, this summer our board requires a complete overhaul, they have had the fun-loving long enough, time is up on their criminal negligence

  9. PAULTHESPARK – feel that drag is what’s been happening since Cluj.

     

    New CEO, new coach…we can’t help but bounce!! hh

  10. Give Mourinho the £36 million we got for our two full backs. No, not to spend, to come!! por cierto

  11. loinsroar

     

     

    totally agree , considering the magnitude of the clear out required , very few will be left standing .

     

    All the the way from Lawwell down to our 3 dodgy goalkeepers .

  12. I think the shock of BR leaving hit the players very hard. Like it or not, he is a top class manager. Poor Lenny was in a no win situation in some respects.

  13. PETER,

     

    I did say many reasons but I forgot about the recruitment side.Shocking.I will say this though,looking at the two full backs,Elyanoussi thats 30 million there alone,that could have been down the cludgie.We have to start finding new markets.We won’t pick up anything in the markets we are in now.

     

    I am optimistic though,the broom really has swept the place clean,just the players now.We have a core,and a new manager,CEO,DOF,and scouting dept,should improve us no end.The money will be there.

  14. I see Ivan Toney was actually up at Celtic Park,eager to sign,and eventually took the hint that they did not fancy him.I told everyone at the time,he waited 6 weeks on us,then gave up.

     

    Absolutely shocking piece of business,compounded by then buying Ajeti.

  15. Ajeti, is surely one of the worst purchases ever. How on earth did West Ham manage to get£5 mill from us. There must be, I sincerely hope, add ons to that sum, that will never be fulfilled, let alone paid, God forbid we have to shell out the whole 5, por cierto.

  16. I wonder what odds big pete would have got on a sevco league and cup double at start of the season.

  17. Don’t want to comment on the depressing game yesterday & situation we find ourselves unbelievably in but with the announcement of a European Super League, proof positive were not clubs but companies! Most of us knew that.

     

     

    Take note other mob. For a reminder: (0+1) < 55.

  18. Interesting FOIRSTONECOPPI, wonder if League Associations & UEFA will have balls to punish via expulsion from Domestic Leagues / Champions League ? Europa ?

  19. The suitcase Celts.

     

     

    Diego Laxalt and JohnJo Kenny have a lot more in common than both playing badly in a crucial cup tie for Celtic. Summer and winter deadline days saw them sit suitcase packed, waiting to see where their next loan would take them. Unfortunately it was to the wrong club in Glasgow, even soft loan FC don’t do loanees anymore.

     

     

    Cataclysmic ‘reinvestment’ of supporters and Arsenal money, sees players of this ilk roll up at Kerrydale Street too frequently lately. This pair, come from a long line of f…… /full backs who’ve had more loan spells than the credit union.

     

     

    To me to you to me to you, can only really be done well by yon two comedian brothers. John Kennedy must have tossed a coin before the match and called heads for Laxalt with Tails coming on, ‘to stiffen us up’ at half time.

     

     

    Not sure if Scott Brown has packed a bag yet, but seriously shows the state we’re in when a signed Aberdeen player is still leading the team out having made his bed and had the balls to blame Celtic for his decision? Shane Duffy was such a bad idea he doesn’t get near the squad, and quite frankly if Mohammed El Younoussi was anyways clinical he wouldn’t be out on loan with the Chuckle gang.

     

     

    Tony Ralston CSC

  20. POR CIERTO on 19TH APRIL 2021 10:53 AM

     

    Ajeti, is surely one of the worst purchases ever. How on earth did West Ham manage to get£5 mill from us. There must be, I sincerely hope, add ons to that sum, that will never be fulfilled, let alone paid, God forbid we have to shell out the whole 5, por cierto.

     

     

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    ‘Monies back’ rather than ‘add ons’ would be more appropriate!

     

     

    HH jg

  21. If Dave King had been in charge of us this season, he’d have struggled to better our current predicament, such is the complete incompetence of PL and the Board.

     

     

    Even if you thought PL did a good job these last years (which I certainly don’t), the state he is leaving us in now is beyond belief. He inherited a club that had just enjoyed a run to Seville; he leaves a mess of epic proportions, with the coffers almost dry.

     

     

    What a charlatan.

  22. If every member of the first team squad was permanent and contracted, i would still expect any new manager worth his salt to effect a clear out on thescale that will happen anyway due to circumstances.

  23. THE EXILED TIM on 18TH APRIL 2021 10:28 PM

     

    Oh for a scottish pundit like this.

     

    https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/12279745/neville-disgusted-by-big-six-greed

     

     

    full 9 mins from good Celt exiled tim of post below 👇

     

     

     

    FOURSTONECOPPI on 19TH APRIL 2021 11:00 AM

     

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1383833537095245825

     

     

     

    HH to Gary Neville let football be based on merit.

     

    we in Scotland had fixed football under the knighted cheat.

     

    no rules to break and none were broken – cheats

     

     

    hh

  24. Re Quad…

     

    Barkas, Bain, Jullien, Hendry, Hjelde

     

     

     

     

    Connell, Soro, Turnbull, Robertson, McInroy, Dembele, Ntcham

     

     

     

     

    Forrest, Ajeti, Mikey J…

     

     

    are these assets? or drain on wages

     

    Barkas – lucky to get £1m for him utterly dreadful.

     

    Bain… a back up keeper at best. A freee transfer out.

     

    Julien,, would have been off if he didn’t injure himself. may not come back fit before his contract runs out. Value? £0 to 5M depending when he plays gain

     

    Hendry.. £1.5 already agreed with hi s club

     

     

    Hjelde – a yopuing boy who has palyed 10 games for Ross County. value 0 at moment

     

     

    Connel Robertson McInroy.. players who have not been able to get a chance none excactly young

     

     

    Dembele – already left in his head at start of season. gone for development fee.

     

     

    Turnbull and Soro our only glimmer of hope.. pity they preferred Brown to play out meaningless league games.

     

     

    Ntcham – lucky to get £1-2M for him. never tried a leg for 50% of games

     

     

    Forest – hopefully gets fit but getting to age when every injury is a serious one.

     

     

    Ajeti.. who knows..has never bothered to get himself fit… though why should he to sit on bench and watch Eddy get a game and not try

     

     

    Mikey J..unfortunatel;y looks like his career is over.. thanks to NL letting him go back on pitch with bad knee injury then blame the player!”

     

     

    basicall we have Taylor Welsh mcGregor Turnbull and Soro. A five-a-side team..

  25. To think that I Hunnified for hinting at present shambles last May.

     

    Has anyone seen concrete evidence that PL is leaving Celtic?

  26. It appears that we’re writing off next season already such has been our tardiness to get our restructure under way.

     

     

    If we’ve agreed a deal verbally with Howe then it’s about to go up in smoke after the EPL musical chairs sorts itself out after Jose Mourinho’s sacking this morning.

     

     

    We’re in extremely poor shape and we’ve got the great desmondo in charge, the man that left Lennon in charge to show fans who was the boss.

     

     

    God help us all.

  27. An Dun

     

     

    Very good point on the implications of the Mourinho sacking.

     

    If we have a single candidate for manger, we also have a single point of failure.

     

    Poor planning if so.

  28. ROLLING_STONE on 19TH APRIL 2021 11:19 AM

     

    If Dave King had been in charge of us this season, he’d have struggled to better our current predicament, such is the complete incompetence of PL and the Board

     

     

     

     

    Respectfully disagree.

     

    King’s played blinder. He and his muckers played by the rules as they (don’t) apply to sevco; spent a medium amount of monies they don’t have and prodded to Celtic edifice that turned out to be merengue rather than fortress.

     

     

    HH jg