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  1. David66 on

    Its actually laughable that we finished that game with no centre forward.

     

     

    That is criminal.

     

     

    D :)

  2. the_huddle on

    dessybhoy on 2nd May 2021 7:14 pm

     

     

    Listening to Neville Caragher Souness on the failed Super league plan , I wonder if they are so merit orientated that they call out the Champions League which is won often by non champions, surely that offends them, never heard any of them say a word against that cartel.

     

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    The Milan supporters released a good statement re the Super League.

     

    https://www.football-italia.net/169459/milan-ultras-claim-super-league-criticism-hypocritical

  5. prestonpans bhoys on

    Said to my brother we are back to 1994, not a penny more. He said that’s how you lost out in the Larsson years. I said that action created the Larsson years or the same board would have been in place.

  7. squire danaher on

    PHILBHOY on 2ND MAY 2021 6:07 PM

     

    SQUIRE DANAHER

     

     

    KPI’s this season.

     

     

    Has he achieved any?

     

     

    You tell me.

     

     

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    I’m not privy to his exact KPIs.

     

     

    From what I recall – and I stand to be corrected here – he is due a £2m bonus payable 31/12 every year if the balance sheet on 30/6 shows a profit.

     

     

    If he has held the job for 17 years it’s likely his master has been happy with his work.

     

     

    I doubt Mr Lawwell’s KPIs include customer satisfaction or are dependent on the success of the football department.

  8. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    David -7.09 – yes, Kennedy has been really disappointing.

     

     

    When the final nail went in the coffin early January i said he should be given a chance to burnish his CV with a Scottish Cup run and salvaging some pride in the remaining league games.

     

     

    Alas, the board prevaricated further and he was handed a dead carcass. Nevertheless he has not taken his chance. He had absolutely nothing to lose at kick-off and even less by half-time. Yet he waits until his 10 man team is 2 down before doing anything.

     

     

    Perhaps he was being conservative to avoid a pumping, but in the end he got a pumping whilst being conservative. That’s not the hallmark of a great manager, but I’m sure he’ll get fixed up somewhere.

  9. squire danaher on

    So the sale of Frimpong and Elhamed for a reported combined £13m with them being replaced by an Everton loanee will at the very least help offset any COVID expense.

     

     

    While you would think that footballing success may increase player values for transfers, that doesn’t necessarily equate to football department related KPIs.

  10. shaunamura on

    Hopefully rock bottom was achieved today and the process of clawing ourselves back begins

     

    The apportioning of blame would be too long and quite honestly pointless apart from the mentioning of supporters like myself who if being honest knew the tell tale signs of trouble lay ahead

     

    the horrendous results in Europe the narrowing of the gap with Sevco the unaccountable recruitment plan but chose the we are winning any way ideology to adopt

     

    I know this is not the ideal financial moment but i’m afraid Desmondo will have to dig deep to recruit the right personnel to try and rectify the wrongs and if not what’s the point of his stewardship

     

    If the above is not addressed a long period of dismay awaits

     

    PS I don’t think this is one persons fault but a collective

     

    HH

  11. jamesgang on

    I’m reminded of Paul’s comments in a leader about Christmas that things would get a good deal worse this season.

     

     

    Did they? It did we actually play lit the entire season with a remarkable level of consistency? (Consistently sh1te)

     

     

    But, more importantly, why was the situation allowed to go on for so long untouched by CEO/Board intervention?

     

     

    This season has been akin to the Titanic at the dodgems.

     

     

    HH jg

  12. geebee1978 on

    Today was bad enough….let’s not start with the “Roy Keane” for Celtic tripe again, please. Haven’t we suffered enough?

  13. notthebus on

    I’ve came off seasons where we finished 4th and a distant 3rd with no hope we would even finish a strong second. There is no comparison,to where we are now

     

     

    Mistakes have been made, no doubt, huge mistakes , but the football gods have been against us from the get go. The Huns got the scores on the doors and got the momentum. We never once were in a challenging postion. We never once put them under pressure.

  14. geebee1978 on

    JAMESGANG on 2ND MAY 2021 7:49 PM

     

     

    I wondered how it could get worse and as the weeks ticked by, everything I dreaded became reality…

     

     

    Sevco stopping the 10IAR, trophyless season, Morelos breaking his duck, the thumping we feared all season….just waiting for Sevco to finish the league season unbeaten and this really will be the season from hell – just as Chelsea win the CL to make it that bit worse.

  18. jamesgang on

    Geebee

     

     

    With John Terry going all Full Kit ‘Winker’ and going up to accept the trophy!

     

     

    🙈🤷🏼‍♂️😉 HH jg

  19. Rolling_Stone on

    “@NOTTHEBUS on 2ND MAY 2021 7:54 PM

     

    I’ve came off seasons where we finished 4th and a distant 3rd with no hope we would even finish a strong second. There is no comparison,to where we are now

     

     

    Mistakes have been made, no doubt, huge mistakes , but the football gods have been against us from the get go. The Huns got the scores on the doors and got the momentum. We never once were in a challenging postion. We never once put them under pressure.”

     

     

     

    Sevco were knocked out by the 4th best team in Luxembourg in 17/18. We posted a record profit of £100m+. We’ve blown TIAR and thrown away any advantage we had against a club that has only been in the top division 5 years.

     

     

    We have witnessed calamitous mismanagement of our club. It has been present for years, but luckily for those running the club, we only had to beat Aberdeen or Motherwell for quite a few years, teams with 1/5 or less of our turnover, with an even greater discrepancy in wage bills.

     

     

    We’ve witnessed calamitous European performances on multiple occasions over the last decade. Posters on here and our host have parroted the line that this is our lot and we can’t compete against the mighty Malmo, Maribor, Braga and the rest. Sevco have gone further in Europe in the last two season than we have for nearly 15 years. The Celtic board have done a great PR job in convincing fans that we shouldn’t expect to compete in the CL when we’ve had a free run at the CL, with the CL qualifying route and the highest turnover of those qualifying nearly every season.

  20. angelgabriel on

    Burnley 78 .

     

     

    It’s interesting that you’re distributing some criticism tonight.

     

    A welcome change.

     

    What’s more interesting is, on how you apportion the criticism and to whom .

     

     

    Our CEO answers to the board and major shareholder , but to moi , he’s been richly remunerated while overseeing a sharp decline in standards, off and on the park.

     

     

    If there’s a balance to be had in serving the PLC while improving Celtic FC , in every way possible, he’s certainly failed in the latter.

     

    Spectacularly.

     

     

    We should never measure our ‘success ‘ against a club that denied liquidation or others in Scotland that have a fraction of our budget.

     

     

    European football should always be the barometer. To succeed in Europe, you need a team that’s fit and well coached. We’ve had neither since Brendan Rodgers left the building.HH

  22. Celtic Mac on

    Would somebody please tell me it was Bobby Ewing who came out of the shower…..

     

    And not Neil Lennon…

     

     

    itwasallabaddreamcsc

  23. squire danaher on

    ST TAMS on 2ND MAY 2021 8:28 PM

     

    If Mikey Johnston is the answer god help us.

     

     

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    Midget Gems R Us

  24. Go tell the Spartim on

    Let’s hope there’s someone at Celtic park that sees the mistakes and rectifies them, PL or the board won’t take any of the flak, no point blaming now let’s just get it fixed

  25. An Dún on

    Best case situation is Howe is announced. A decent coach and will no doubt have us resembling a professional team in a matter of weeks.

     

     

    It’s our recruitment that has me worried. It’s been poor for years now and if Howe is coming in and working off existing transfer targets then God help us. If he’s coming in and working off his own transfer targets then he’s got a busy few weeks ahead of him.

     

     

    Goalkeeper, Right Back, Left Back, Centre Back, Central midfielder, Right and left midfield alongside two new strikers.

     

     

    It’s time for Desmond to front load his investment.

  26. lets all do the huddle on

    brilliant hat trick from Gareth Bale

     

     

    Maybe we could ask Spurs for a swap for Bale with Forrest and Mikey?

  27. fairhill bhoy on

    If Paul knew it was going to get worse.Why wasn’t anything done to avert it.

     

    If Paul knew 🤷🏽‍♂️

  29. NorrieM on

    Angel Gabriel @ 8.12

     

    Just to follow up on your point on our major shareholder

     

    He is our biggest shareholder with 34.7% of the shareholding

     

    With Lindsell Train @ 18.6%, so collectively they hold over 50%

     

    Why do we allow Dermot to determine and dictate the direction of our club ?

     

     

    24% new of our shareholders (around 26000 small shareholders as In fans) are not using their shares / votes

     

    This allows Dermot to appear to hold the major shareholding, and control the direction of the club

     

    He doesn’t and shouldn’t be

  30. TinyTim on

    If Howe is announced as our manager on Tuesday .

     

    I will come back on and apologise .

     

     

    But I don’t think he will be .

     

     

    Those posting that they have been told “ by a good source “ are mugs for believing such utter pish .

     

     

    TT

     

     

    TT

  31. JHB on

    Crazy, or, self-serving position?

     

     

    The snooker final being played indoors with a Crucible capacity of c1000 – all sitting ‘cheek by jowl’…and yet we can’t have one supporter in top Scottish outdoor grounds with capacities of between six & sixty thousand.

  32. Timbhoy2 on

    Mikey Johnson is the new whipping Bhoy,first it was Christie,and you wonder why some of them want to leave in the summer,The reason we have been so bad this season is the appointment of Lennon,Kennedy and Strachan,pumped out of the Champions League and the Europa League and some results in our own league,and a manager saving his own skin by throwing some players under the bus ,and you wonder how we have been rotten this season,so if we are gong to be critical of some players look no further than the Coaches and Lawell and others on the Board at Celtic.

  33. Go tell the Spartim on

    Mikey Johnson has all the skill in the world but, to date, he’s not anywhere near ready for the first team, he’s not strong enough and is not a team player, it may come but it’s a long way off, in my opinion

  34. lets all do the huddle on

    mikey isnt the new whipping boy

     

     

    the fact is that he isnt good enough

     

     

    it really is as simple as that

  35. An Tearmann on

    Norriem

     

    re.lindsell train

     

    interesting thing there is how they acquired? ie who sold them it?

     

    it wasnt the wee guy.

     

     

    hh

  37. TinyTim on

    Mikey Johnstone like too many of our players ,is not strong enough to make at the top level.

     

    He’s not a whipping bhoy,he’s just not good enough.

     

     

    TT

  38. Tontine Tim on

    PAUL THE SPARK on 2ND MAY 2021 1:54 PM

     

    QF

     

     

    As someone mentioned earlier we had a lot of good players already in the team, Henrik, Lubo, Lambert, Mjallby, McNamara, Petrov. Struggling to scrape 3 players from current squad

     

     

    *that was me, Henrik didnae play that day as he was out with injury.

     

     

    I was hame on an emergency trip, 2 year before on a similar journey we had stopped the lying, cheatin, thievin TIAR; we also had won the LC the week before so I really fancied us. That was when after the game bader announced his 1000 year reich, didnae happen though and we made the necessary changes.

     

     

    I can understand the venom on her as this is when anger replaces disappointment, although scheitd like JK should be fired the morra is just that, anyone with half a brain will know the markets are shut for the annual May Day observance.

     

     

    Although after black Sunday I was that infuriated that I wanted the whole team plus backroom staff punted. The SC win 6 days later was muted for me, even though it meant MON had left the building.

     

     

    So where do we go from here, well amidst all the calls for a complete firing of the playing staff we should like MON not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

     

     

    As far as today’s game went 2 of the goalscorers should not have been on the field due tae being out and out thugs and the 3rd was chased out of Toronto after only a year, playing only 19 games ,due tae spending more time in the sick bay than on the field, a complete charlatan. Eddie Howe also hunted him from the Cherries.

  40. Uncle Jimmy on

    Surely to God we’ve bottomed out and can start the climb.

     

     

    Honest assessment needed from all directors, players, management, fans, bloggers – the entire Celtic family.

     

     

    First step would be admitting the scale of the task facing us. No more chat of bad luck, covid or similar

  41. JHB on

    If Neil Lennon had be sacked, say in January, there would have been an almighty backlash from all those who are now blaming the CEO & Board, for what any fair-minded person must know is a season of failure by the players.

     

     

    The cry would have gone up in support of Neil “he has been a victim in Scotland for years, now he has been victimised by the Celtic hierarchy”

     

     

    If the season had been played out last year, we would have probably ran out 20+ points winners.

     

     

    Both ourselves and the Ibrox club kept their squads pretty much in intact. We resited big money offers for Edouard & Ajer. We spent c£20m to ‘strengthen’ a winning squad by signing Barkas, Ajeti, Turnbull, Duffy, Laxalt & finally Kenny.

     

     

    At Ibrox they spent around £7m on a losing squad by signing Roofe, Itten, Balagun, Bassey & McLaughlin.

     

     

    Many on here were posting repeatedly that no one from the Ibrox squad was good enough to get into our first team….and that Shane Duffy was the last piece in the 10iar jigsaw.

     

     

    The season started as we expected domestically. Then on the 11th of October Shane Duffy felt it necessary to placate Brighton fans by revealing to the media that Celtic were paying ALL his EPL wages, reported to be £40k/week.

     

     

    How did this sit with a squad who had completed 9iar & were two-thirds into a quadruple?

     

     

    Imagine working for a company for a number of years and contributing to its record-breaking success and the management bring in a ‘temp’ on double, or, treble your salary, just before one of the most important years in the history of the company.

     

     

    After the 11 October there was a distinct downturn in form and results – coincidentally it was the defence that crumbled first.

     

     

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing. In my opinion the CEO and Board done all they could pre-season to ensure 10iar. What else could they could have done? Very few Celtic fans were screaming for another course of action.

     

     

    The players have been disorganised, demotivated – but has it all been down to money? Did certain players ‘throw in the towel’ to spite the club? If they did, they have been spiteful to fifty-three thousand fans who paid their big salaries whilst watching homes games on their TVs.

     

     

    Some of course will bring up past European failure – OK – but remember we were in winnable positions going in to final games on FOUR occasions – Molde, Maribor, Copenhagen & Malmo – players bottled here, not, the CEO & Board.

     

     

    The buck always stops with the CEO & the Board – however responsibility & accountability for a season of surrender lies squarely in the football department.

  42. Celtic Mac on

    An Tearmann

     

     

    Thanks for that link big fellah! Filmed from the Jungle by the looks of things. Was interesting also to see the works getting done on the new stand and the old enclosure, the reason of course we played Ajax at Hampden in the EC Qs a couple of months earlier. Always wondered if we could have done better against them at home, then again we were a pretty good team at Hampden from ’65 onwards, and proved that a couple of times just after that game against Clyde a week or so later.

     

    Hail hail

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