After Sunday’s win over Motherwell, that’s six points Celtic have added in three league games this season with winners coming from the 87th minute or later. Luke McCowan’s deflected shot against St Mirren was early, compared to the added time penalty by Kelechi Iheanacho at Kilmarnock or Daizen Maeda’s stoppage time header against Motherwell.
Celtic are not the only team to strike late this season, Hearts also won with a late goal at the weekend, against Hibs, while Motherwell left it just as late to score twice and win their first game of the League Campaign against Aberdeen the previous week.
Again, summer signings made an impact. Benjamin Nygren scored the equaliser, but even before that, he was knocking on the door. Michel-Ange Balikwisha has endured a baptism of fire since joining from Royal Antwerp late in the window. He was thrown in at the deep end with a debut at Ibrox, then played in an unaccustomed position at Kilmarnock, before two brief sub appearances.
Michel-Ange’s assist for Daizen’s winner showed the edge Celtic needed and have lacked for much of this season. He turned 24 in May and will be a litmus test of our potential to develop a talent. There were fighters on the field at fulltime on Sunday, including Michel-Ange.
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Woooft!
Hate heights.
Ave Ave
Ai no carrido!
A good performance again from Celtic – Xg again hitting 3 goals, but unlike the Hibs game the week before, we scored the goals our play merited.
Our left flank is heavy with competition, Maeda showing his best form when moved to that side.
We’re unbalanced but will have to come up with a solution to get the very best from the squad.
Might’ve even made the difference against Kairat….
What meeting?
Nothing to see here, Timmy.
The Board is wonderful.
“ Signings made an impact”……………ah, but were they “club signings”??
Who leaked the statement about the manager?
None of the Board because we asked them and they denied it.
Oh, well. That’s OK then.
philcool on 7th October 2025 12:08 pm
Ai no carrido!
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Classic Chas Jankel tune
“ Who leaked the statement about the manager?
None of the Board because we asked them and they denied it.
Oh, well. That’s OK then”.
Why are you so vexed about this particular issue?
When ‘The Movement’ succeed in its aim to “sack the board” it won’t really matter who leaked it.
Afternoon all
Mob speak, ‘You talking to me?’
RobertDiNeroCSC
Ai No Corrida – Quincy Jones
https://youtu.be/vbKSPU2_qCw?si=EMqHTmZITCZCsZfw
Paul John Dykes attended the meeting last night and while he hasn’t went into details today, he’s commented that in his opinion, Michael Nicholson is too weak a personality to be a Celtic CEO.
This ties in with Nicholson’s lack of public engagement and may well explain why deals aren’t getting closed in a timely manner.
Vale Bhoy – Celtic board caught in an “appalling vista” conundrum.
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM @ 12:38 pm,
Think I’ll wait for the official minutes before arriving at the Board’s response.
Yet you are missing the point.
A “Celtic Insider”, briefed from the “Celtic Hierarchy” planted a damning and lying piece in the Sun newspaper.
I remember a few years back someone took a meeting agenda out of a wastebasket and it was posted on social media.
All he’ll broke lose and people lost their jobs over it.
However is responsible for the briefing and the Celtic insider who spoke to Roger Hannah need to be dealt with – we know the Hierarchy are toxic, we don’t know how toxic or how insidious this type of behaviour is.
If it’s part of the organisations culture it needs root and branch changes.
Hail Hail
Paul. No thoughts or comments about some meeting that took place yesterday?
Thought not…..
Celtic sanitised news……
“Who leaked the statement about the manager?”
There wasn’t a statement, there was some ill-advised scuttlebutt that the journalist picked up and turned into a story. A ‘Celtic insider’ could reasonably be anyone who ever walked into the stadium.
The story itself has been rehearsed on here and elsewhere long before it was written up and published in The Sun. It’s basically a collection of quotes that could have been lifted from myriad blogs since July.
That’s not to say that the views expressed aren’t real, or indeed, aren’t held by folk in the leadership group at the club, I’ve no idea, but running round the neighbourhood trying to find a witch to burn rather misses the point – Roger Hannah got a lot of eyes on a story that was essentially written for him by you and me; the easiest dollar he’s ever earned, and it’s still getting eyeballed today.
“ …..we know the Hierarchy are toxic, we don’t know how toxic or how insidious this type of behaviour is.
If it’s part of the organisations culture it needs root and branch changes”.
I’m not “missing” anything. It’s quite simple: these issues disappear when you’re successful getting them sacked.
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 12:49 PM
“we know the Hierarchy are toxic”
We dont.
“we don’t know how toxic or how insidious this type of behaviour is.”
We’ve got pretty good evidence of what toxic behaviour can do to our club and in our own little community.
on the subject of root and branch changes – thought the advert for Haed of Business Operations was very good.
If we get someone with those qualities, surely a C-suite desk should be offered.
Hail Hail
Making stuff up is toxic
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM
Have you read reports circulated last night about the meeting?
The point is that the meeting was a sham.
Treating the fans with contempt.
No real surprise.
They know who leaked it but don’t see it as a problem, perhaps like you.
However, the real concerns remain that many fans, having watched years of failure in the transfer market, failure to beat under resources opposition to qualify for the UCL and a complete lack of ambition or vision, have no faith or connection with this Board.
The ‘meeting’ did nothing to change that.
Celtic40me @ 1:01 pm,
Yes we do…
The evidence is now overwhelming.
The only question is how insidious it is and us it part of the organisation’s culture – if it is, it will beyond healing itself.
Hail Hail
An Dun
Makes you wonder how bad the other candidates must have been…..
Looks like,going from the snippets released,there is a chasm between fans and Board.Not all fans,a few on here excluded from that statement.A chasm that cannot be bridged.
Seems to me,that the Board will sit this out,hoping the anger dissipates in a few weeks,victories at Tynecastle and Hampden,would help their cause greatly.On the other hand,defeats will send the support to levels of unrest not seen since the Kellys and White fiasco,which the incumbents lost.
The fans who pay the STs,pay extra for Cup ties,Europe, buy the merchandise,the hospitality,pay the Boards inflated salaries,are having their lifelong investment and love for the club,along with their hopes and dreams on the playing field,are having all this gambled upon,by people who look upon the vast majority of them with disdain..Who look willing to let the season collapse in failure,then blame it on them.
We are in great danger here.Their ” Innocents abroad”act to everything football related,not the cash side,we pay that,is there for most to see.They have told us it won’t change.We have a lot more pain yet to come.We the fans will suffer for this stupid arrogance..
The liar and coward that briefed against BR is known to Nicholson.
But knowing and proving are different things.
However, why no statement defending the manager ?
Nicholson is too weak to do something, do anything, that upsets others on the board.
Je suis and BB,
Yes indeed the late great Quincy Jones and written by Chas Jankel .
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 1:05 PM
Celtic40me @ 1:01 pm,
Yes we do…
We being?
You don’t. Unless you have far more knowledge of the situation than the rest of us you cant.
Chairbhoy
Toxic
Don’t make me laugh.
You have been at it for 20 years on here despite never even buying a season ticket.
Every year stirring it up. Enjoy your wee buzz.
Maybe one day you will see the club back down where it was when you started. Like the clowns who really prefer moaning and campaigning against authority than our club winning and succeeding.
In 57 years since I first went to a Celtic game we have won 33 titles.
In the 57 years before that we won 8.
Of the 33 we have won 19 in the past 25 years.
Aye we really are badly run.
Which of the malcontents there last night would you suggest could run the business better ?
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM @ 1:01 pm,
Well here is my point.
What was written in that so called newspaper should have been countered with a robust statement from the Football Club.
It was discussed on TNT with ex-players during our first European encounter of the season.
It is showing our club on a very bad light and can’t be ignored.
Sacking the culprits is only a small part of what was required.
Hail Hail
Who is John Paul Dykes and what has he ever done in the world of football that warrants his opinion on anything to do with Celtic mattering to me ?
CHAIRBHOY
I think theres a lot of toxic behaviour at Celtic at the moment, most of it not from the board, and that the Sun article is pretty much accurate, but I don’t know it though.
I think the bad atmosphere and culture at the club will improve when the root cause of it leaves but I don’t know that.
Burnley78 @ 1:18 pm,
Take your point.
My idea of toxic, and your idea of fair game are probably pretty congruent.
Hail Hail
“ The point is that the meeting was a sham”.
You should have sent 3 or 4 credible people then, not a collection of folk who’ve appointed themselves to speak for Celtic fans.
It wouldn’t surprise me if a few of them left saying “don’t forget to like and subscribe “.
A much cleverer person than me described the crap going on as ‘Toxic Male Angst’ from lots of wee angry men.
It did give me a laugh.
I genuinely think some folk at the game would have been happy had we not won on Sunday to justify their wee angry positon.
What is written about football in the press is generally bollocks , think back to Fergus ( compared to Saddam Hussien) and the muppets in our support believed it and booed him unfurling the league flag, a total disgrace. Fast forward 20 odd years , and another journalist makes up crap about what the board are thinking , yet again the muppets in the support believe it , hook ,line and sinker.
The latter event is now presented as ‘evidence’ of incompetence etc etc etc. amplified by the Celtic internet which needs the clicks for money.
You can argue that the Commercial side of the business is flying , the football side is brilliant domestically but in Europe mixed trending to poor.
The question is how do we improve the football operation (without trashing the finances ) , the model of the ego manager spending his way to success is not one we can follow, due in part to the ever rising transfer fees ….. what is the alternative approach and what steps / actions do the club need to take to support this new approach.
I’d suggest these are the relevant question for the Board , the fact that these questions need to be asked points directly to a disconnect between football and commercial responsibility; the board needs a refresh in this direction.
HH
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 1:23 PM
“My idea of toxic, and your idea of fair game are probably pretty congruent”
Your idea of toxic and your behaviour on here are pretty congruent.
Celtic40me @ 1:15 pm,
When Brendan Rodgers left the Club in 2019.
Alison McConnell reported in it.
It was a character assassination.
It was syndicated to the newspapers.
If you look it up now it has been re-written but I have the originals.
Alison McConnell was from the Celtic View
Alison McConnell had an exclusive and the briefing must have come from within Celtic.
We seen the same behaviour this year in the briefing to the Sun – we have the same Board.
Hail Hail