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I like Scott Brown and Leigh Griffiths’ reactions to our recent adversity.  It says a lot about them.  They both personalise responsibility for what happens next, this is an important part of recovery – and success.

A week ago I wrote that the League Cup semi against Ross County was the biggest game in the rest of our season, and that it wasn’t a game I’d bet on.  It provided the toxicity cup football can generate, creating a crisis mentality which rolled into Aberdeen on Wednesday.

This psychological phenomenon has to end now.  Feel free to put a date in June in the diary to get back to it.  We are in a genuine league title contest, something you and I talked about as a great thing for Scottish football not so long ago.  We have no God given right to be miles ahead of anyone.  We are here because we’ve made mistakes and an opponent stepped up.  Welcome to Celtic.

If you want to open an inquest when the patient catches a cold, knock yourself out, but I’m not up for it.  If we want this title, we circle the wagons and give the manager and players the encouragement they need to get the job done (and, erm, that includes you, ‘Phyllis’).  You can be sure Aberdeen fans will do nothing less.

Tomorrow the focus switches to Perth, where Aberdeen take on St Johnstone.  They won their first 8 league games this season, but the wheels came off the tractor immediately after their most important victory away from home – at Tynecastle.  Next up was a League Cup game against Hibs, the loss of which plunged them into a five-week chasm.

They are a team who get notoriously nervous just when they begin to think they are in with a chance.  We’ll see what Tommy Wright does with them tomorrow.

Enjoy your football.  Enjoy this league race, the challenge and the disappointments.  Enjoy that thrill when a goal goes against Aberdeen, or the downer when they score.  It will make the finale all the more rewarding, I promise you.

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  1. bmcd48 on

    Well done John Savage on winning his Mastermind round on JOCK STEIN

     

     

    At least a good result for Celtic fans

  10. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Roy C

     

     

    From a very early age I can only remember my father never having a good word about any Celtic board, the more times change the more things stay the same, like yourself it will just be Celtic for me…….

  13. mike in toronto on

    Roy … can I jump in and make a selection?

     

     

    one of my favourite pieces of music, and it seems to fit the mood of the blog this week ….

     

     

    and Lee Morgan is one of the trumpeters who has inspired me to go out and buy a trumpet and start trumpet lesson this week! neighbours are none too pleased!

     

     

    Art Blakey … Moanin’

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynZDm50EgBY

  14. Celtic Mac on

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    Well we have brought a few players in recently who seem to offer something different to the team, and appear to be genuinely enthusiastic about being at Celtic. That is a positive and should not be discouraged. Let us assume they are bone fide Ronny signings, could be, if so he, deserves the opportunity to see what they bring to the team, through to the end of the season. I hope, and as we all know that is the hardest part of being a football supporter, that we will dig deep, find a settled way of playing like we did this time last season and push on. May not reach the promised land, may well need to make big changes in May, and will still need to strengthen the actual first team looking ahead. Until that point will continue to support the Bhoys, Ronny and all.

  21. mike in toronto on

    Roy … cheers pal. Good to be home on CQN. Particularly missed the chat during games and the Friday night sessions,.

  22. Melbourne Mick on

    Hello again all you young rebels.

     

     

    Not had much time on the blog lately due to the wee mhan’s

     

    pre-season training starting, he rampages about for a couple

     

    of hours and i’m the one who goes to bed knackered should

     

    be the other way about, any way it’s extremely heartening

     

    after Celtics last couple of results to see our young hoops

     

    giving it everything against the bigger aussie boys even our

     

    big Sudanese convert ( budding Bobo ) and it’s funny hearing

     

    him shouting ” get in tae thum ” with his coveted hoops top on

     

    maybe some of our lot should take a lesson from them.

     

    Made a few phone calls back home to some of my mates to try

     

    and gauge the mood of the support for Ronnie or not, and the

     

    consensus is the experiment is over not just for the manager

     

    but the whole loan and try debacle, the main gripe being that

     

    they cannot build an affinity with any of the players because

     

    they know they will be off at the first hint of the EPL. but

     

    interestingly none of them could suggest a better way forward

     

    or who they would like as new manager, what is worrying is

     

    that these are ghuys like myself, generally happy clappers who

     

    have seen the good and the bad since the early sixties and what

     

    they are feeling is a disconnection from the club which they have

     

    never experienced before, so what is the answer? me, well i’ll

     

    take comfort watching our kids running about and doing our club

     

    proud until some clever tims come up with an answer.

     

    H.H Mick

  23. ernie lynch on

    AULD BERTIE on 5TH FEBRUARY 2016 8:10 PM

     

     

    Is the main driver not Saudi driving down the world price to make fracking in the US uneconomic?

  25. kikinthenakas on

    Starry

     

     

    You read my mind..good manager lost his way..heard he got caught up in the hype n love at Liverpool. Left his wife furra young hing..changed his clothes had portraits of himself all over his trendy bachelor pad..

     

     

    But I think he would be great for us..

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  27. ernie lynch on

    MARRAKESH EXPRESS on 5TH FEBRUARY 2016 8:17 PM

     

     

    You’d wonder who set the questions.

     

     

    Mind you I thought it was a bit unfortunate that the answer to the first general knowledge question for the fat burd was whale. It can’t have helped her concentration.

  32. The Spirit of Arthur Lee on

    kikinthenakas

     

     

    changed his clothes had portraits of himself all over his trendy bachelor pad..

     

     

    Are you BR

     

     

    Love

  33. mike in toronto on

    starry …. with the exception of Trane (maybe my favourite ) I have always favoured trumpeters over sax … so, honestly, didn’t know his stuff very well, but, have been listening a fair bit to AB&tJM recently, so picked up on his stuff, and am developing a real appreciation for Mr. Golson …

  35. mike in toronto on

    WITS … cheers, mate. Glad to be back. I just have to learn not to take it too seriously …. but I’m working on it! :)

  36. starry plough on

    kikinthenakas

     

     

    Happens tae the best of us:))

     

     

    Celtic FC : We won’t make a mid life crisis out of the drama:))

     

     

    Hastily takes down portraits of self!

     

     

    He’d be good I think, a good fit at the right time for both parties…

     

     

    We can but hallucinate:))

  38. eddieinkirkmichael on

    Great idea, ditch a successful manager who has won leagues in 2 countries and who’s team currently sit top of their league, a manager who successfully negotiated the group stages of a Euro tournament and was narrowly beaten by a team from 1 of the top leagues in Europe with someone who has won a league in Ireland lol.

     

    Oh I forgot over 12 games(or there about) he managed to get NI into the Euros. You are setting the bar high this time guys lol

  40. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Melbourne Mick

     

     

    The mood here (ma house) is we are top of the league with a possible double in the offing

     

     

    Hail Hail

  41. Barcabhoy on

    There doesn’t appear to be much disagreement over where the key issues are for Celtic at this time.

     

     

    Injuries and recruitment challenges are almost universally accepted as being major issues, with the club performing under par on both. There is divided opinion about the performance of the board and the manager. The area’s of excellent performance such as the Foundation and the Development team are barely mentioned , which is a shame as both are doing terrifically well.

     

     

    My take on injuries is that there needs to be a full analysis of why we suffer so many injuries, with many to our key players. I understand the argument that we play significantly more games than any other Scottish club, however we don’t play as many as top European clubs, and i’m unaware of any of them having the horrendous injury record that we .

     

     

    This isn’t a new phenomena for us either, it happened under Neil & WGS as well. We have an expensive centre at Lennoxtown which makes it hard to believe the issue is a facilities one.

     

    I don’t have an answer for fixing this, but it needs to be fixed, and fixed soon.

     

     

    Recruitment has been borderline disastrous for 2 and a half years. We have had one home run in VVD in that time. We cannot live on past glories, and given how key buying low and selling high is to our strategy the problems here need to be fixed quickly. There are many versions of how recruitment works and who is to blame or who gets the credit. Frankly i don’t care about that. Just fix it and get back to the hit rate we enjoyed previously. One thing i will be critical of is squad balance. When there is a limited budget and value is harder to achieve, then overloading on certain positions to the detriment of others makes no sense to me.

     

     

    Equally it is clear that playing in the SPL still requires a robust player in all positions. Someone who can be pushed around easily is going to be a liability . Nobody would ever accuse MON’s teams or Jocks of being physically limited. Unfortunately that is an accusation that can be laid at the feet of many of Ronny’s players. That needs to be addressed and is a current failure of recruitment.

     

     

    When it comes to the board I can’t be overcritical. To do so would be hypocritical of me. I support the current strategy of buying , developing , selling as i see no viable achievable alternative. I was enthusiastic about appointing Ronny and saw the logic and said so at the time. If the board got strategy and appointments wrong then so did I. I believe the commercial results are very decent in the current climate and the overall financial results have , over the last 4 years been more than acceptable.

     

     

    Which leaves me with the manager. I like Ronny, He is the type of guy i like to see representing my club. I really really hope he makes it. I am however less sure than i was previously . Not because he lost a couple of cup games. Lenny had a dreadful cup record, far worse than Ronny, yet Lenny developed into a manager capable of getting us to the CL Group stages , albeit with much more help on the recruitment front.

     

    My worry over Ronny is that he takes too many risks. He puts out teams that are full of lightweights, who are found wanting in intense physical games. Not only that he continues to do it time after time. I would not entrust my job to the abilities of Callum McGregor, or GMS or Armstrong in a high intensity physical game. Not one of them , especially playing Armstrong out of position, and certainly not all 3 together.

     

    I wouldn’t get rid of Ronny just now , partly because if we retain the same strategy we would be looking for a similar style of manger, but I would be questioning whether we have the best possible team of assistants . If someone like David Moyes was prepared to take a huge cut in his normal wage then that might be a change worth making, but i believe the chances of that are virtually zero.

     

     

    All in all , the only thing to do ,in my view, is get behind the team and the manager and trust the areas of concern will improve . There is however not much margin for error for many of those in recruitment, fitness and team management

  42. kikinthenakas on

    SOAL

     

     

    Touché

     

     

    Starry

     

     

    Would love to see him given the chance.

     

    We all need to love ourselves ❤️❤️

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

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