I’m not going to say I saw this coming, I didn’t see defeat, but when I wrote a couple of days ago that you and I have seen a lot more games like Celtic’s away to Lincoln Red Imps than Brendan Rodgers, and about European football in July, I knew this one was never going to play out in a triumphant manner.
On the first day he was appointed I asked one of you to compile Brendan an Efe highlights video – I assume we were all busy. God love Efe, he’s a fine man by all accounts, but he’s three years into a slump which is not going to end at Celtic. Brendan must now be aware. It’s no longer Efe’s fault if he costs us again.
I also made the point previewing this game that we can’t expect a squad comprising only one addition to last season’s group to perform remarkably different in qualification than a year ago. In this sense, Celtic performed as expected, this one had all the hallmarks of our recent Icelandic ventures.
The manager may not be embarrassed at the result (I suspect he might sound different privately) but many supporters are. Gibraltar has a population similar to Bellshill, but without the football heritage and support mechanism. Would defeat to Bellshill Athletic be embarrassing? You bet. Yesterday’s result was too.
We are woefully slow in build-up and have only one player in the squad who can create the 7 or 8 chances per game needed to get a result, and he’s 33 next month and currently injured.
We remain strong favourites to qualify for the next round but there is an enormous amount of work to be done in the next month. This is not a Champions League squad.
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BB
Ma tatties are dain’ just fine mate…..Secret ingredient this year!
Sips
Take it easy mi amigo,
Crawl to the shower next time :-)
HH
Sipsini, Very sorry to hear of your accident, we won’t be sharing a pint in Dublin after all. A real pity but important thing is you get better soon. Best of Luck pal.
Who? Wilhelm Bungert – used to be coached by Norman “The Carpet” Elphick. Norman was Arthur Lampkin’s cousin.
SFTB, I know
I don’t care about dead teams though.
1994 was indeed bad, as was Caley. Too young to remember 71 :-)
They( including Brendan) let us down badly , and should have had enough in the tank to win the game. I appreciate we are not guaranteed to win every or any game
I compare this as the equivalent of getting beat to Juenesse D’esch when we previously played them. Obviously this did not happen. Heads need to roll! Recent Celtic managers, seem to open with a European disaster. Something wrong here in planning.
Need to win 5, 6, 7 or 8 nil just to remove this from our stigma in my opinion, although I will take 2-0 and a CL qualification :-)
HH
CRC
Dozens killed in Nice as a truck ploughs in to a crowd celebrating Bastille Day,another week,another massacre….
DD-VG
!BADA BING!
Never-ending. I hope there’s a hell for these people.
Dernot Desmond…
You are fekin insane but the right side of Midnight….
After dark…beware….
Right wing Christian fundamentalist Petec and a filthy mouthed midget called ACGR (what the fek that moniker is about would confuse any boy scout) come on here and spout fundamentalism and pish in no particular order.
hail hail
30 dead now….
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH JULY 2016 10:41 PM
!BADA BING!
Never-ending. I hope there’s a hell for these people.
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They`ve brought hell to us , pal.
RUDICANTFAIL on 14TH JULY 2016 10:43 PM
Christian fundamentalism,eh ?
Impeccable timing.
Cheers for the good wishes Bhoys.
On the upside, my son asked me what I thought of him going to Italy to see the girl he met two years ago and has been constantly on Skype to, she speaks four languages and studies in London.
She looks like a young Brigitte Bardot and her parents said he will be more than welcome…oh to be a pup again.
CLOGHER CELT on 14TH JULY 2016 10:02 PM
Tontine,
I found earlier today that he was linked with us in 2006 after the move to Split :)) I wonder why we never went there? Money…Who knows?
*naw as I mentioned earlier we walked out of the negotiations.
I had a few Canadians over last week, I took them to St Brigit’s shrine in Faughart. They were from the Holy Rosary parish, Milton. I think we discussed Milton and Faughart previously.
*going there on Monday night for a KoC meeting.
SIPSINI
Get well soon auld yin!
HH!!
crc
“I know
I don’t care about dead teams though. ”
The point wasn’t directly about the dead team-that is why I gave Celtic examples- it was more about the “worst team in history” tag which has been applied to every Celtic team since MON and Henrik left.
Rangers team at Berwick transferred Forrest (who was a good player) and George McLean (probably past his best)- that was sufficient scapegoats for them, apart from the manager, and they were right in keeping it light.
We knew after ICT that a few like Tebily and Blinker needed to go and Viduka could leave with the attitude he showed. After the LC final of 71, Jock only got rid of Big Tam Gemmell that year and it probably had little to do with the LC final defeat.
We were already a poor squad when we lost to Raith in 94. Good players like John Collins left rather than us getting rid of deadwood.
SIPSINI
Four languages?
That’s nowt,pal.
I’ve been dumped in more languages than that!
TALLYBHOY
Enjoy the golf?
Tontine,
Sorry I didn’t see that, I’ll have a look back.
Good luck on Monday. I have a few family members who attend there, read at Mass etc. I don’t know about KoC. I’ll ask.
Terrible news in Nice, watching CNN.
Prayers for all concerned.
Sad sad news from Nice.
What a fecked up world this is.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 14TH JULY 2016 11:01 PM
I think Scot Symon might have been another casualty.
I was at Celtic Park that day with a pal from Eyemouth , whose second team was Berwick.
Unusually the result was broadcast through the P.A. during or immediately after our game.
Laughter , mate. Just unrestrained laughter.
a real slag yourself of saint stivs post.
i hate golf, gollfcourses, golf fashion, golf players,
other celts on here dont like me for slagging golf,
however.
i do get, why it can be a brilliantly skilful game.
however,
to be fair.
as a sport , it sticks by its rules. if a golfer called
rangers,
tried to hide a scorecard, or play illegal clubs, or hired the caddy
well,
thats rangers the football club
not quite golf is it
someone said they watched celtic in 1946.
the worst celtic ever.
releagtion ?
jock weir and willie miller.
saviours
Macjay- I think Scott Symon hung on for a around 9 months after that defeat before they sacked him.
Tam Leonard wrote a poem about it- not much of a poem but the sentiments are sound:-
“see if ah wiz Scot Symon
ahd tell thim wherrty stuff thir team ….”
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 14TH JULY 2016 11:16 PM
:-)
Scot Symon was a very successful manager at a time when Scottish football had some status.
Davie White didn`t last too long.
But then he had Jock to contend with.
Affoot.
Allons enfants de la patrie.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 14TH JULY 2016 11:06 PM
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 14TH JULY 2016 11:01 PM
I think Scot Symon might have been another casualty.
*aye but 10 months later when they were tap o’ the league and also after signing the govan mooth, orange persson and erik sorenson.
I was at Celtic Park that day with a pal from Eyemouth , whose second team was Berwick.
Unusually the result was broadcast through the P.A. during or immediately after our game.
*theirs was an early ko due tae nae floodlights at berwick
Laughter , mate. Just unrestrained laughter.
*aye and all over Timland.
“Old scot symon’s got a sore heid
Just because of Sammy Reid
Bye Bye baxter.”
Tae the tune of “Bye Bye Blackbird”.
Apparently Dodoo wants to play for the Dodo’s.
TONTINE TIM on 14TH JULY 2016 11:28 PM
Love it.
There really should be a compiler of Celtic ditties .
Pronto.
Afore we`re a` deid.
Brendan ya bas C.S.C.
Ronaldo,who was getting slaughtered by quite a few on here the past month,has donated his 275,000 Euros ,his bonus for winning to a kids cancer foundation.Did the same with his CL bonus.
TURKEYBHOY on 14TH JULY 2016 11:35 PM
Was it an anonymous donation?
Turkeyboy
Maybe he was being slaughtered for his antics on the football field rather than for his brilliant humane and charitable side by those big bad Celtic supporters on this site you often deride.
The man seems like a wonderful human being and is an outstanding footballer but his antics and petulance on the field leave me cold.
His charitable and humanitarian side leave me in awe.
canamalar – from ages ago
50,000 season tickets an increase towards 10,000 new buyers, not a bean spent in the market by the time the first deadline day passes and a dire result in the very first game.
The Celtic fans ‘accepted it’ before they even knew what is was.
What do think is going to happen at Celtic? – more of the same please, or lets splash out on a few £5M upwards men and get them on 20K a week? – oh and BTW Dermot will bankrole the lot of it.
Now that we’ve actuall badly bought ourselves into trouble there is no possibility of buying our way out of it again, speculate to accumulate strategies don’t work in football, especially when the stadium is already sold out.
Brendan Rodgers is just another young manager trying to make a name for himself, he exonorated his players ( the embarrassment remark ) in Gibraltar and took pelters. He even stuck up for Efe Ambrose ( more fool him )
There is no spending plan at Celtic other than try another manager he might be a messiah.
HH
p.s. I never said we all had to accept it.
Rudicantfail,
Having met ACGR: he’s a top man.
Thereby vouched for by me.
Best flask dram I’ve ever had in glasgow town centre. (East side.)
No saying we’d never argue, but nonetheless, that’s what he is: one of the best.
ALASDAIR MACLEAN
ACGR is a complete reprobate,and an utter nutter.
My kinda guy,in truth. Legendary drammer and mirthmaker.
Carmylie man …..different class. …awfy braw…..
Braw
BMCWP,
We’ll meet one day.
Leaving Corfu in the morn – back to “civilisation” – although Homer may take exception to that going by what I’ve read in this wee island.
Wife now sleeping – what’s a man to do but risk the mossies, smoke and drink the dregs.
No driving til sat morn!
Panda is here too.