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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Good morning CQN
The nurse that looks after my wife in Queen Lizzy hospital
Never misses a game home or away God Bless Her
Come on you Bhoy’s in Green and White
Safe journey to and from the game to all those going
I will be watching the game on the wife wee hospital telly
Hope for a good win
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Mt
Saltines
That is a yellow card offence no way should anybody on here should admit to understanding WITS (unless horsey related)
I reiterate anybody going today get plenty of clothing worn it’s horrible out there
Ronny if your looking in give Scotty Allan a wee run out from the start
Morning fellow celts
Frantic07 and Good ship Celtica I have your new CQN beanie hats in the back of my car!
Hopefully meet up at next weeks Ross County game.
Best of luck to my bhoy in the East Kilbride goals today, I have a feeling it won’t only be the wind and rain that will be hurtling towards him.
He’s a great lad and I can only hope he has a great game. Whatever happens just remember he is a mad passionate Celtic fan.
We have given out 56 tickets so don’t be surprised if you hear his name getting shouted out.
HH Paddybhoy1888
Latchford
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Thank you for you reply – I don’t believe anyone is ‘shoving Ronny under a bus’ – I supported his appointment as a brave and imaginative one.
I also believe that having been appointed, he had to be given an appropriate amount of time to make his mark – I think twenty months, two CL & EL campaigns, one and a half league campaigns and four cups, is time enough to judge how things are going.
There must be concern now that, even with the vast superiority of our resources, the league title, our must win red line, could be ‘frittered’ away.
Many of our fans are, I believe, being ‘bloody-minded’ when it comes to Ronny i.e. just sticking by him because some they don’t like are calling for him to go and saying that he is ‘out of his depth’.
We can’t afford these mind-games, we must do what is best for the club – a new manager/management team is best – I would not be in favour of John Collins taking over in the interim – a clean break is needed.
Paddybhoy1888
I sincerely hope your bhoy is on the losing side today but gets man of the match and has a great day / night
MR PASTRY
Our flawed recruitment policy le to RD’s appointment. If we get rid of him,I have no faith in that flawed recruitment process delivering an improvement.
Satires
Thanks for your post. Appreciate the sentiments and I would accept that constantly posting ronny out was in hindsight a little silly. All it did was annoy people. That said I still don’t think he should have been appointed.
Let’s hope for a good performance and a few goals from some of the new lads today
Sips..,
never I tells ya
Paddybhoy1888
Obviously I hope Celtic win with ease today but I hope your Bhoy gives a MOTM performance.
PADDYBHOY1888
Best of luck to your lad today.
Up to a point,of course(!)
Afternoon Timland from a very windy hun free mountain valley.
Looks like Ronny will be here for some time, he wouldn’t be allowed to bring in a ” Thought field Therapist ” from Norway if he was for the ofskie.
Shame, as he has one already in place with Jim McGuinness, he should use him.
I love reading about the wonderful continuous history of Scoddish Football, and caught up with some this weekend in the build -up to the Sevco match yesterday.
“Kilmarnock FC, founded in 1869, is the oldest club currently playing in the Scottish(sic) Premiership. The club took part in the first ever official match in the Scottish Cup against the now defunct Renton in 1873”.
Nothin’ the matter with that. But then,
“The Light Blues have played Killie 25 times in the Scottish Cup, with 9 of them being played at Ibrox, the ‘Gers (sic) winning 6 of the matches at home and 16 in total”.
I didn’t realise it was a monthly competition!
And what happened to the “now defunct”??
PADDYBHOY1888 on 7TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:37 AM
I know your Bhoy is a massive Celtic Supporter. I am sure he will equip himself well today and sincerely hope he has a great game but obviously I hope and expect Celtic to prevail.
Enjoy the game mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
paddybhoy1888…
Goodluck to your bhoy today, you must be as proud as punch.
Have a grand out with the family. HH
Mr Pastry,
Agreed on the clean break and that rules Collins out. However if you expect an announcement tomorrow then the replacement has been in the works for a while.
You might not see it as pushing Ronny under the bus ; however Ronny was a Lawwell appointment. Lawwell backed him up at the AGM. Ronny advised recently in the chats he has with the CEO he is supportive. If Celtic replace Ronny tomorrow or soon , the principal behind the hire and the length of his stay will distance himself from the failure. Nothing will touch Mr Teflon.
Ronny has lost the confidence of the support and we are one bad league or cup result away from a full scale mutiny. That applies to Ronny or the new guy. Mr Teflon will be positioning himself accordingly.
I wouldn’t rule Strachan out as an interim.
On the subject of Paddybhoy’s bhoy playing against his team today, I would try even harder against Celtic hoping they would sign me or if I was passed that would try my best to tell them they should have signed me earlier
Monthesellic put these EK upstarts in their place
Anto Stokes starts the day….. Mon the Stokesy
Afternoon Celts
I hope PL now realises he is in trouble.
I hope he watched yesterday how well Linlithgow played against Ross County.
That gives you a wee glimpse of how bad we have been recently.
I believe if PL wants to save his skin….He better get a decent manager sorted out pronto.
Supporters have had enough of the team going backwards.
HH
Feck I just lost a day in the last post…that’ll make it Monday now :(
Live from Temple Bar Dublin where there is very live music on a Sunday morning
I hope Celtic score a barrowload and we play some of the hopefuls.
Celtic to win to nil is where the betting bhoys can pick up free money.
Is there a Rugby game here?
Once again TSMSM drooling at the thought of RD failing.Not any great wonder really as all they have to do is read the Celtic blogs for support.For gods sake,he is our manager,support him while he is.The ludicrous calls to replace him,are just that.With whom?.We were blatantly robbed of the treble last year,and this year,the man in black did his utmost to make sure it did not happen again.The media are on his case non stop.If we thought Lenny had a rough time with physical abuse,and threats,and supported him throughout,then why not RD,who is being subjected to a witch hunt,the likes of which I cannot remember,from the media and their lap dog,ex Celts.
Support the man,and the team.
MR PASTRY on 7TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:38 AM
Latchford
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Thank you for you reply – I don’t believe anyone is ‘shoving Ronny under a bus’ – I supported his appointment as a brave and imaginative one.
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“brave and imaginative appointment”. Are you sure? Think back to just before his appointment, when it appeared that Roy Keane was all set to be our new manager. Dermot Desmond was running the show on this but there was something about the job that Roy Keane did not fancy so he turned it down despite all the mood music at the time.
That left the club with no manager and CL league qualifiers fast approaching. Desmond then dumped this massive problem on Lawwell in a classic “monkey off my shoulder on to your’s” move. Lawwell’s plan B was the assistant manager vacancy shortlist which included Ronny Deila’s name on it. Far from being bold and unimaginative, it struck me as a bit of a panic appointment because the club had placed all its eggs in the Roy Keane basket. I fully expect the process to replace Ronny Deila to be just as shambolic.
Turkeybhoy @ 12.15
Well said
Gordon Strachan has served his penance not a chance in a million years would the wee man do it again, far too many didn’t appreciate him the first time……
Not sure why I am typing this as we have a manager whether people like it or not
Turkeybhoy 12.15
You put it better than me
Ronny is our manager …… blind faith is better than no faith (just my opinion)
Am away to cheer on the Hibees
Mon the hibees, Stokes to score.
Apparently, having spoken to him “privately” ( him being Stokesy), Tanner states authoratively, “a wee bit indiscreet, now, but he’s away from Celtic, he hated playing wide left for Ronny Deila”.
Stokesy had just said “I have it in my head that I’m going back to Celtic at the end of the season to fight for my place ”
Can’t leave it at that!
Tight offside ‘goal’ chalked off for Hibs. Cummings.
PADDYBHOY 1888 Best of luck to your Bhoy HH!
You can see a pattern developing in regards to Celtic managers cant you, since O’Neil, we have had Tony Mowbray destroyed in the media and cheated on the park at critical times he was too weak to handle it and was gone almost as soon as he arrived, Gordon Strachan brilliant manager, undermined by a constant drip of criticism in the media about the style of his football, that he was never a Celtic man they never said it to his face but the narrative the media created eventually wore down our support for him, Neil Lennon was Tough it took bombs and bullets, SFA collusion suspensions constant media barrages eventually he had enough, now we have our Ronnie Deila I think he is potentially going to be great manager for us, but he has no idea what he’s in for here at Celtic in Scotland, he thinks he’s only here to be in charge of a football team, Has anyone told him he is the Celtic General in a war that been going on for hundreds of years, time will tell if he is tough enough or if we have the stones to show him what it’s all about.
I have complete faith in Deila as a football manager, my doubts are with, us, have we shown Ronnie what we are up against here. Someone send him a batch of Celtic books to read, things like Downfall things like Anyone but Celtic, Jock Stein’s biography, get him on the phone to Neil Lennon.
Hail Hail.
PADDYBHOY1888 on 7TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:37 AM
Morning fellow celts
Best of luck to my bhoy in the East Kilbride goals today, I have a feeling it won’t only be the wind and rain that will be hurtling towards him.
He’s a great lad and I can only hope he has a great game. Whatever happens just remember he is a mad passionate Celtic fan.
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Spent many a Sunday morning and afternoon watching both my lads play for their respective football teams but the nearest either of them got to playing against Celtic was matches against a local side called “Holy Name” who played in green and white hoops. I understand the founder of the Holy Name club was a big celtic fan. My sons’ team played in blue and black stripes so every match was a re-run of Lisbon (in my eyes).
I have to say if I was in your position, I would be rooting for my boy’s team no matter the opposition. Damned difficult call to make but family always come first. I don’t envy you one little bit.
TurkeyB
Too many Tims believing the msm hype about RD, the same Tims who don’t read the msm :-)
HH
No saying he is without fault mind you.
Is there any c
Handle the game could be called off? Weather absolutely attrocious. Or his The Excelsior an all weather pitch?
Paddybhoy1888
All the best to Matthew for today.
Only the second time the traditional Edinburgh rivals have met when not playing in the same division.
Obviously,that never happened in the history of the Glasgow traditional rivals.
Billybear
All weather pitch me thinks.HH
That post should have read…
Is there any chance the game could be called off? Etc etc
Ajax Feyenoord on live just now
TET
Ronny has made mistakes and lost matches he shouldn’t have .
Remember when his team lost against motherwell in the last game of the season .. 2 goals in 5 mins lost the league . With an all star team including a right few £6m players on £30k per week .
I remember his team losing to ict with superstars all over the park .
And I I remember his team losing to ross county in the scottish cup semi final as well as against Kilmarnock in the league cup final.
Buying duds like scheidt. .. Douglas. … Stuart slater … muggleton. .. bo ricter. . Amido. . Etc etc .