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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One Battle After Another is a pretty scattered Paul Thomas Anderson fillum Mrs Quad and watched tonight.
It’s also an apt descriptor of the currants manager retention policy this and every season.
PS Sean Penn just stole the show from Leonardo, imo.
A big boy done it and ran away
The Transfer Window was a success,nobody briefed a despised anti Celtic rag against the manager, Mr Grace says ‘you’re all doing very well ‘
Desmond not attended an AGM since 2006,but when the team met The Pope a couple of years ago,he was front and centre,same when we’re playing Barcelona in the CL.
So STFU and keep giving us your money,this ‘meeting ‘ was a total whitewash, and only came about due to a big drop off in buying EL packages,merchandise etc.
We’re gonna need a bigger Car Park.
Accusing journalists of making up stories is defamatory.
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 1:28 PM
I think you might be trying a bit too hard, making stuff up and generally telling porkies about when he left before.
But we don’t know it.
What is toxic to me is expecting parents to pay full price for kids in the Europa cup.
A wee bit of humility would have been good from our custodians acknowledging the complete and utter failure of the board, the players , the managerial and couching teams to defeat a team ranked 315 in European football.
The future of the game and our support ( ie the young ) should not pay the price of collective failure.
Huge salaries, record money in the bank and we punish kids and their parents.
This is not Celtic and is completely toxic.
HH.
Celtic40me…
Told you before…
Your ways and means are known to me
I’m immune to the gaslighting…
Hail Hail
At “The Meeting “, did anyone actually tell the board they were wrong in suggesting they wer doing ok, if not, why not !!!
kingLUBO
What “we” have learned from politics over the last ten years:
We know theres a benefit to be had from accusing other people of what you’ve been accused of doing yourself.
We know theres a benefit of putting a name to it, and suggesting it was you who were responsible for it becoming part of the consciousness.
We also know how important setting the terms of the debate has become.
It’s all normal now in public life.
Celtic40me @ 1:50 pm,
Yes, hidden in plain sight… until folk see it.
You an delude some of the people some of the time…
Most of the people most of the time
You can’t delude all of the people all of the time…
The games a bogey
Hail Hail
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 1:
“I’m immune to the gaslighting…”
Straight out the toxic behaviour playbook.
putting forward an argument you dont agree with doesnt make me evil
It really grinds my gears when people deliberately misuse terms like this. It can be very dangerous when serious psychological abuse is confused with people putting forward a viewpoint that makes people uncomfortable. It’s not just dumb, it’s irresponsible.
An Dún on 7th October 2025 12:44 pm
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.
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Could be precisely why he’s there . Dominic McKay on the other hand ……….
Hi Everyone,
Good win on Sunday, that’s the fight needed when things aren’t going well. I must admit that I felt for Russell Martin, I know you can attack me if you want, but having to be escorted to a car and not be able to travel back on your team bus, watching fans sprint around a stadium because they see him walking across the field, that is ridiculous, no matter what team you support. I bet his family is happy now that he is away from that atmosphere. What the hell is going on with football and fans today???? Lenny receiving death threats and Bullets, players being told not to go out in the cities that they live in with their families, Watching so called football pundits revelling in the fact that a man has lost his job and them grinning from ear to ear because they believe their opinion helped this process. Deary deary me. I live in country where my family, my wife, are worried that their dad, who they believe is a good man, is finding it harder and harder to do the job he loves, teaching, because the people in charge seem to be watching everyone’s every move. It feels like at times, George Orwell’s 1984 and big brother watching you. I am sorry for the tone of my comment. Good Celtic men are at each other’s throats, it seems, at times, and that is sad. I watched a show with Kenny Dalgliesh on it the other day and watching Keane, and Neville and Carragher sit there in awe of the man, made me realize how fortunate we are as a club that this Legend was speaking and always speaks in glowing terms about our club. These former players asked him questions about what it was like to play for Celtic and you could see his face light up when talking about Mr. Stein and training with the Lions. The roundabout point I am trying to make is that we love our club through thick and thin, through good and bad, and to be honest, this doesn’t feel too bad compared to other eras when we went long periods without winning trebles, doubles, or even anything. The song says we don’t care if we win lose or draw, maybe time we believed in it again.
As I said, all over the place I am, but know where my heart is.
Sean
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 1:57 PM
:)))))
What TBB said at 1pm.
Some hack played his pipe and a constituency of the already angry came running out.
Chuckles all round at the Sun.
Some talk of cancelling season tickets?
If this course of action is followed it is, IMHO, a principled thing to do.
Certainly speaks of having the courage of one’s convictions.
If this thing is still festering at season’s end, the number of non renewals of season tickets will give some indication of the depth and breadth of the Collective.
BTW – any chance they can come up with a new name?
Every time I hear ‘Collective’ I can’t help but think
“You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile”
So if theres doubt about the provenance of the piece….
boondock saint – The mob over there never gets criticised, always blame someone else,if that was the GB they would have been kettled and lifted
On a discussion on supporters unrest in Scottish football, BBC presenter, Connie McLaughlin, hosting the programme on Radio Scotland this morning, advised listeners that “Dermot Desmond is pouring his money in to keep the club afloat.”
This lie appears to overlook the financial health of Celtic, but was it more of a subliminal message that the supporters of Celtic should be grateful for what they’ve got? Maybe, there is reason to be concerned about our FSR status if this is what is happening, as reliably informed via the public service broadcaster.
Burnley78 on 7th October 2025 1:26
I genuinely think some folk at the game would have been happy had we not won on Sunday to justify their wee angry positon.
Aye there was a picture of some sullen looking men in suits who were in stark contrast to the delighted bedlam going on all around them.
So if theres doubt about the provenance of the piece…
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Please allow me, Celtic40me:
So if theres doubt about the provenance of the piece you issue a public statement defending your manager stating that the story does not reflect the opinion of the Celtic board – the CEO should be front and centre defending his manager after such an attack.
That is, if your CEO is strong enough to do that.
You don’t hide.
Just seen statement, a total whitewash
HARRYM on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 2:17 PM
Well said.
The person responsible for the leak (or his/her proxy) to the sun is not going to out themselves and Roger Hannah is not going to disclose his source . So, no matter how distasteful , we shouldn’t continue stressing about it . At best we need to accept verdict of ‘not proven’ against someone within the club.
Marathon task in front of us now , we’d best get on with it .
GLENDALYSTONSILS
My main issue is that the Club, our CEO, has yet to set the public record straight.
Log in
AN DÚN on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 2:19 PM
Why would they be square behind him? Hes spent so much time digging them up perhaps they don’t feel they should defend him.
And perhaps the article wasnt a million miles away from their opinion? As TBB said it’s not like it’s not been said by plenty of people before?
What are they hiding from, they weren’t being criticized?
Is Rodgers innocent of the failure to beat Kairat Almaty?
Can Rodgers version/views of how a transfer window turned out be trusted?
Why do I ask?
Well, when Rodgers said that he was happy with Celtic`s transfer window dealings, on loads of occasions, only to start backtracking and letting out whispers that he didn’t sign whatever player that wasn’t measuring up, then I’m afraid that the entire executive sucks and needs to be replaced.
TORY-ism needs to be cleansed from Celtic.
Adidas needs to be removed from Celtic.
Knights of the Realm associations need to be removed from Celtic.
Anybody who’s name begins with “Sir” is not the solution.
The board are full of liars, the manager is a proven slippery liar, who dropped our best goalkeeper because he said during an interview that evil animal Huns threw dozens of bottles and other missiles at him during a game at Ibrox.
Then Rodgers dropped him?
Truth is not allowed at Celtic. So what does that leave?
Scottish Football has been toxic for decades as we all know too well.
But this time, since 2012, Celitc’s board have caused the new toxicity.
A toxicity that removed forever the delusion that Celtic PLC were EVER going to be the good guys.
A real, honest, principled, straight talking, fearless, savvy, socially conscious, ethics based, man management based, Celtic board, in 2012, would have accepted that, YES, Rangers fans are no fans of Celtic FC, but that must not now, not EVER, be allowed to shape Celtic FC’s judgement of a criminal scandal, HMRC/Tax/Doding/EBT/Scandal, carried out by David Murray, and ONLY David Murray should be punished for this criminality.
BUT.
Celtic PLC reduced this disaster to, nothing to do with us Guv, keeping our powder dry, type of hiding behind the sofa level of responses.
It was not Celtic’s concern as their fans were chaeted out of 20+ trophies?
And fans sold the park out with season tickets to thank these PLC grifters?
No wonder the PLC look at Celtic fans as empty head idiots!
Celtic FC became smaller in 2012, like munchkins, compared to the honorable stature of Raith Rovers FC, and their honest and principled leader, who unfortunately is no longer with us, Turnbull Hutton.
TH, made Celtic PLC look like a bunch of shifty, sleekit, pocket picking, pygmies.
Celtic should have approached this from the working class Stein approach, savvy all the way.
Mr Stein, Mr White, Mr Kelly, an SFA guy, an Ibrox guy, Sky Sports guy, would have met, arrived at an agreement to deal with the 2012 disaster, and pursued the arrest, and lawful judgement of David Murray.
Truth, justice, integrity, and most importantly, clarity, would have been the way forward for the Scottish game in 2012.
Rangers fans buy season tickets, merchandise etc, just like every other set of fans.
BUT.
Rangers fans did not steal EBT’s.
Most Rangers fans had no idea that this was happening until many years after it happened, just like every other set of fans.
If fans engage in criminality then the law will deal with them.
No football fans should EVER be punished for the crimes of a crooked director.
BUT.
If a knight of the realm engages in criminalty, a conspiracy of Masons will shift the blame elswhere, to save the knight.
AND.
Celtic FC and its supporters went along with this new layer of criminality.
AND.
Scottish football since 2012, is wall to wall toxic liars.
I just hope that no one from Celtic has any stupid skeletons in their cupboards and if they have, they better join their local Lodge.
Turnbull Hutton [Scottish Footballs last honest Man] RIP.
oot.
AN DÚN on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 2:26 PM
GLENDALYSTONSILS
“My main issue is that the Club, our CEO, has yet to set the public record straight.”
You’ve shifted, though. Why should he?
The Board and the fans are clearly not on the same page whether that is transfer policy or basic communications (merchandising aside) they are poor to say the least.
I didn’t even know we had a head of communications until recently. A department that couldn’t find our biggest infrastructure spend since Lennoxtown to give the fans updates was bad enough but to then compound that by not informing fans that the club were going to errect internal barriers within the stadium bordered on the dangerous.
However, the timeliness of recruitment is undoubtedly the biggest issue: constantly waiting until the last few days to do deals when your biggest financially profitable matches are prior to that is reckless.
Sure, money has been spent but not early enough to allow players to bed in. This has left glaring gaps in the squad which really shouldn’t happen.
CELTIC40ME on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 2:29 PM
AN DÚN on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 2:26 PM
GLENDALYSTONSILS
“My main issue is that the Club, our CEO, has yet to set the public record straight.”
You’ve shifted, though. Why should he?
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The club can’t respond to the rags , it’s a negative downward spiral …. They should only respond when they need to sue someone.
HH
Think this needs to be explored further…
“The club said that transfer business involves a multi-disciplinary model & no part of that model has ultimate authority”
That said, there are some on CQN who believe that one man is responsible for it all.
I slept in. TexasTim for the win.
The boy from Wishaw has looked a little lost.
The Bada Bing @ 2:20 pm,
“Just seen statement, a total whitewash”
Hugely disappointed by the Board’s intransigence.
These people are dug in deep and it will mot be easy to change things.
Hail Hail
There’s some having your cake and eating it on display today.
The brief don’t come from within the board but just happens to reflect the opinion of the board…
An Dún on 7th October 2025 2:26 pm
I agree that simply to ignore the existence of the article could be seen to tacitly support it so I find the silence strange . Unless the board do want to leave that impression . Either way ,we’re not going to find a smoking gun .
There is no scenario re the brief against BR that reflects well on Nicholson;
Either the article is a falsehood and he’s allowed it to go unchallenged, or, the article is reflective of the board’s opinion- in which case he’s taken no action against a manager he sees as working against Club policy.
In either case, he’s weak.
B78, I do not like singling out posters statements but yours earlier tipped me over the edge am afraid. This one:
– 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.
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In about the last 30 to 40 of those 57 years we have seen the likes of Dundee, Kilmarnock, Dundee United, Hearts, Aberdeen and Hibs fall so far behind us financially they have been nowhere near the challengers they once were. Rangers also died which meant we literally had a title guaranteed.
There really is no point in using that as some for of beacon of great business acumen given the change in landscape.
Also, your ask that folks come up with names who could do better in running our club is a diversionary tactic. As stated on here by many, our recruitment process is a very insular one, set that way in order to ‘control’. That could be by DD and/or PL over the years but we rarely look outside and that is a worry.
not sure what else was expected from the meeting.
anyone who works for a PLC and looks at how their bosses operate know that their main focus is ringfencing their own remuneration and power.
everything else is just window dressing.
customers, fans, staff etc. – PLC bosses dont give a fk as long as their cash rolls in.
its like putin or netanyahu agreeing to peace talks – you know they dont give a fk about it but just want to be seen to play the game to keep them going