When you are full of confidence, every game is anticipated with a sense of purpose. A ‘Bring ‘em on’ attitude lifts poor sides to great heights. When a team are on a losing streak, no game looks easy. Dundee United have won one game in all competitions since September, a 3-1 win over St Mirren seven weeks ago. Jim Goodwin is not in the position he endured in the late stages at Aberdeen, however, he needs any win almost as much as Wilfried Nancy.
United are the only Premiership side Celtic have yet to face this season, but there are reasons for more caution. They have played clubs from the top half of the table eight times, drawing twice with Newco and once each with Hibs and Hearts, once with Motherwell. Hearts and Motherwell managed wins against them, while United beat Aberdeen.
This trend was further evidenced by their home and away draws with Rapid Vienna, who enjoyed over 60% possession in each game, before eventually prevailing on penalties.
United’s problem lies when playing weaker sides who defend and give them the ball, their strength is playing on the counter. Goodwin’s gameplan for tomorrow is well-rehearsed and ready. On this issue, he will have the advantage tomorrow.
An interesting aspect of these games is the amount of goals scored. There were four 2-2 draws, a 3-3 and a 2-3. United are conceding like a team near the bottom of the table but score on the break more effectively than most. Saturday’s 0-0 with Motherwell was only their second clean sheet in 19 games since playing Luxembourgers in July.
Wilfried Nancy will know to expect Celtic will have chances and to defend against counter-attacks at Tannadice. That, at least, is one consolation for our new manager.
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I think he has to, to leave the existing structure in place after such a bad year is not how he got billionnaire status
Whether Lawell stays or goes is neither here nor there for me, but Nicholson and Tisdale need to be replaced and be replaced with football experience at a much higher level than we have (and pay for it too)
NED’s need a shake up as well
Now here is a Bluffer
In less than two weeks …………….every time I switch on Sky sports now I sort of expect to see Headlines ….”Celtic sack Nancy”
sad indictment of our club .
Yang centre forward tomorrow night anyone ?👍🥴
As I wrote earlier,the only guilty party here is the Board
Just who in their right minds,would look at the clusterfek of a pool of players we are left with through a shocking transfer window and key player injuries,and decide on WN as the new manager?.It beggars belief.He had a day then was thrown into those 3 games,while the Board took their bone dry seats and watched a fek up taking place that most could see coming a mile off.Utter madness.If you wanted him so badly,he starts Jan 1,Mon continues until then.
He can watch,take notice,learn,pick his wants and dont wants.He and his staff preparing the list required.
THE BOARD FULLY TO BLAME.
We are in the same position now as we were in the covid season. We are failing badly and funnily enough no one is accountable for it.
The board will react as they did then, they will sit back, watch and do fuck all. Then it’s a big push for season tickets for 26/27. No one will lose their job except the manager, that will probably happen in April.
dessybhoy on 16th December 2025 7:46 pm
How do you know he WILL change the Board?
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I dont want to be morbid, but they are in their late 70s.
Oh right
Ah, the old strategic death planning! I knew Nicholson was working on something.
Nothing is changing, even if The Cardboard Cutout wanted to go,DD wouldn’t let him
The Parkhead Santa,has put a panel line in…..
Burnley,
I am astonished that you cannot see,for whatever reason,why the majority of the support are in revolt for what is happening to our club.You are an intelligent person,so it can’t be stupidity,pig headedness.Loyalty only goes so far.
A few on here will remember,ONIL for one,I used get a hard time for not criticising the Board.They just never were within my radar,after Kelly,White fiasco.
To look now at whats happening,and think everyone else is wrong,while our club is in crisis,is just beyond my credulity.There were a good few to stood behind the Kelly Board,as our club nearly went out of business,7,000 breaking the boycotts.Wonder how they felt when the truth came out.
I knew nothing about Nancy but the thought crossed my mind at seeing his first interview (and this is for the oldsters).
This guy will be as welcome to the Celtic support as Mike and Bernie Winters were to their Glasgow Empire audience.
They went down a bomb.
It is so inexplicable there has to be more going on.
Now thats optimism.
BB
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Auldheid,
The old” Aw FFS theres two of them”.
Auldheid
I dont think he has been exposed to media scrutiny quite to this level
And to be honest he must have done a good 7 or 8 press conferences in 2 weeks
Which will be 5 or 6 more than he would have had in ‘murica in the same time frame
I can’t help but get totally confused with the naivety in relation to the manager. If anyone genuinely believes that this board will act with the best Interest of the football team at heart I have to ask what show have you been watching? He’s a cheap option so they are willing to run with it until the league is out of our reach and all of the pressure is on the manager and the board walk away scot free.
Then we have the usual world’s least accountable new manager selection process.
On and that fanny Brian Wilson will still be hanging around.
am i allowed to say that chelsea strip is pretty nice?
got a bit of portugese vibes about it 🇵🇹
On and that fanny Brian Wilson will still be hanging around.
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about time that Boy was Beached 😁
Auldheid on 16th December 2025 8:15 pm
I knew nothing about Nancy but the thought crossed my mind at seeing his first interview (and this is for the oldsters).
This guy will be as welcome to the Celtic support as Mike and Bernie Winters were to their Glasgow Empire audience.
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🤣 The Empire audience knew a thing or two.
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
I say, a pressure drop, oh pressure
Oh yeah, pressure drop, a drop on you
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert 1969
AULDHEID on 16TH DECEMBER 2025 8:15 PM
Mike and Bernie did the straight bloke start the show and then the big tall goofy looking one appeared from behind the curtain , only to be welcomed from the audience with the wisecrack “ah naw there’s 2 of them”
HH
Anyway,still cant wait for tomorrow night.A win,I will be delirious.Another at the weekend while hopefully the other two stutter out a draw.
Pseudo-intellectual drivel, dripping with condescension and faux wisdom, is merely a desperate attempt to whitewash the board’s gross incompetence by dressing up capitulation as enlightened humanism.
“Turkeybhoy on 16th December 2025 7:55 pm
.If you wanted him so badly,he starts Jan 1,Mon continues until then.
He can watch,take notice,learn,pick his wants and dont wants.He and his staff preparing the list required.|”
Of course, we don`t know all the ins and outs and what goes on behind the scenes but that makes sense to me..
EKBhoy on 16th December 2025 8:32 pm
Yip. That`s what happened ! Very funny :-))
EKBhoy,
What planet are you on?
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 16th December 2025 8:33 pm
Pseudo-intellectual drivel, dripping with condescension and faux wisdom, is merely a desperate attempt to whitewash the board’s gross incompetence by dressing up capitulation as enlightened humanism.
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Thats one way to describe Nancy’s interviews but I prefer the Glasgow Empire angle.
Beaton,Ref.Dallas on VAR tomorrow.
Aw FFS,theres two of them.
After doing weeks of research , I am now convinced who is to blame for Celtics disasterous turmoil..”……………………………………………………………………………………………
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Pangolins…..
Fukcen Scaly Pangolin basturts..
As my old granny used to say “ Never trust a Pangolin”!!
Hail Hail
Burnley78 on 16th December 2025 7:45 pm
I thought that was a fine read.
Turkeybhoy on 16th December 2025 8:41 pm
Excellent ! :-)))
833pm….pseudo intellect right enough….ffs
People keep trying to appeal to the “intelligence” of the board apologists on here.
Why the Hell are you bothering? These people are clowns, and a couple of them are complete wankers who delight in abusing fellow Celtic fans for caring about their club.
If there were enough braincells between the lot of the to power an electric toothbrush they’d diagnose the issues at this club in five minutes as most of us have.
You are not dealing with intellectual heavyweights here, so all the “you are a smart guy” comments only serve to make the rest of us laugh. What a site this is.
For tomorrow’s game I’ll reposition the crib next to the iPad stand for extra support during the game.
Read earlier Wilf commenting on periods of the games we played , for me that is just reflective of an exposed and shaky defensive unit which simply can’t keep the back door shut for more than an hour. Our response to going behind is to throw the kitchen sink at it leaving us more exposed to the counter. If this is not corrected we’ll become a win , draw , lose team with the results roughly corresponding to league placings of the opposition
Hope to god Wilf has some secret sauce and it clicks , he’s embarked on a high risk strategy of changing playing style so dramatically from keep ball to chaos ball , it must have been sanctioned by Tisdale and the Board. The risk being we write the season off , see who can adapt to the new model and have a totally mental summer transfer window , with a patch up job in January using loans. Clearly , this approach can’t be articulated by the Board.
So given the players available, a first stab at who would survive
ANO
ANO ANO KT
ANO Arne Cal. ANO
ANO. RH
ANO
So we’re short 7 first picks , CCV , AJ , Jota come back we need 4 good first picks plus another 4 as back up.
Anway for tomorrow night , I suspect Wilf will go with
KS
DM. AT. KT
JF Arne Cal DM
Bal. RH
JK
Liam needs a game or 2 on the bench to recharge his batteries, keeper stay for now as their too much already changing in front of him.
Dundee United will up their game best we can get is a draw , defeat in the next 2 games with no discernible improvement in the pattern of play will be 5 defeats in a row , it can’t go on but sacking Wilf means Tisdale going MN will also need to walk the plank ….. earlier ….. as I suspect they will be cleared out in the summer.
Apologiesinadvanceforthetyposcfc
MOM…..ye betting big mouth?
Minimum £200
C’mon pseudo boy ….free money.
Hunbassa
“We’re not going to take on any debt. We don’t have any other resources other than the ones we create for ourselves but that’s fine because we’ll spend everything we can. But it’s about getting the right manager to spend it wisely.”
Peter Lawwell
From the last sentence it’s not difficult to see why Celtic supporters could think that the PLC board decide whether football players, are good or bad or wisely or not wisely bought. They might also reasonably conclude what is, and what isn’t the right price when bidding?
‘Spending what we can’ is another airy fairy line especially during record turnover, ( thanks to fans ) player sales and the ridiculous £80M in the bank that no clubs have.
Still never mind manager 3 and violah here we are now blaming other Celtic supporters, their social media sites ( but no this one ) and the place is ten times as toxic.
Win with Wilfried CSC ✌️
Balikwisha is at AFCON
Burnley 78
Thanks for your measured reply , but with due respect you are talking about the past, and obviously has more insight knowledge than I have .
The present is my concern and I am deeply concerned about the way our club is run.
I blind man could see this catastrophe happening in front of us .The board are full of old men,and by the way I am in that bracket,who have ran out of ideas but enjoy the gravy train.HH
TURKEYBHOY on 16TH DECEMBER 2025 8:36 PM
EKBhoy,
What planet are you on?
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As my mum used to say Planet Zannusi !
HH