2014 saw Celtic win their third consecutive league title, but we didn’t reach either cup final. A period of significant change got underway during the summer when we said farewell to Neil Lennon.
Neil took over from Tony Mowbray, his first managerial appointment after working with the Youths at Lennoxtown. His first season was the one that got away. Defeat at Inverness with the title within their grasp, Walter Smith’s Rangers took their third successive title against the third difference Celtic manager.
Three months into the next season, Celtic were 10 points behind a Whyte-McCoist inspired Rangers, but that was overcome, with interest, by Christmas. Celtic went on to win the league by 20 points, although 10 of them were as a penalty for Rangers incurring an insolvency event.
Thereafter it was plan sailing for Neil. He never looked back in the league and reached the Champions League group stage twice, progressing to the knock-out stage on the first occasion. He learned the managerial ropes at Celtic and did enough in his four years here to establish himself as a European-class manager. He was our third unqualified success in four appointments.
By this summer it was evidence to all, including Neil, that significant rebuilding was needed. The job was handed to Ronny Deila.
Ronny’s first challenge came in the Champions League qualifiers in the form of Legia Warsaw. Despite the record books showing Celtic progressed after a 3-0 default home win, Legia wiped the floor with Celtic home and away. Celtic looked like a team of strangers, unfamiliar with the system they were asked to play.
That was, of course, true, the system was unfamiliar, but it’s execution was miscalculated, the on-field results were deserved. The Champions League playoff round against Maribor was unusual inasmuch as Celtic dominated the away first leg and deserved more than the 1-1 draw, but the Slovenians arrived in Glasgow with their game face on. Celtic were outplayed and out of the Champions League.
Things slowly got better, although home performances against Motherwell (by my measure the worst) and Hamilton Accies (who were impressive), and latterly Ross County indicated there is still a long way to go.
Ronny’s Celtic found their feet in the Europa League, where they finished second behind a very accomplished Salzburg. The away performances against Salzburg and Astra gave an insight into how things could be for this Celtic team.
It was, to say the least, disappointing not to qualify for the Champions League. It denied the club millions of pounds and shaded our trump card in to be used in attracting players, but in reality we’re not a Champions League team this season. The Europa’ gave us an opportunity to play European football on our level, pick up coefficient points and extended interest after Christmas (if you’re young this won’t mean much, if you’re my age, you’ll recall this being our Holy Grail).
Inter Milan await in the next round. They are also going through a rebuilding exercise and are as vulnerable to lesser-resourced teams as Celtic – so unlike Juventus two years ago – we have a sporting chance.
The tactical direction of the club is visibly distinct from what went before Ronny. Is this a good thing? Probably. Neil Lennon and his players over-achieved in their first Champions League season on a scale it’s difficult to measure. That squad had no right to reach the levels they did; theirs was a herculean effort. Play Matthews at left back, alongside a central pair of Wilson and Ambrose. Put Miku up front, with Mulgrew and Ledley in the middle – then go beat Barcelona. It was beyond impossible.
Barca, Ajax and Milan were prepared for Celtic last season; we finished bottom, out of ideas and direction on that stage. We needed to change, same again wasn’t going to wash.
Ronny’s played a high-pressing game, mostly with players who are unaccustomed to the demands of this game-plan. This has been a mistake on several occasions, most notably against Legia and Maribor. He’s working on player fitness, but in all likelihood it will take the next two transfer windows before he can craft the squad into the shape he wants it to be.
We’re halfway through the season and, with Aberdeen playing before us tomorrow, there’s a chance they could go top of the table, for a couple of hours, anyway. That’s not good enough, by any measure. Notwithstanding the revamp, we should have done better in the Champions League qualifiers and we should be further ahead in the league, but the fundamentals remain intact:
We needed to start post-Neil Lennon with a new tactical strategy.
Trying hard not to be disrespectful to Aberdeen, but we’re going to win the league.
We’re in both cup competitions.
We remain in the Europa League.
I was happy with the direction we took in appointing Ronny Deila and remain so. The problems of the last six months could be classified as First World Problems. We’ll get over them, while others watch on from the Other Worlds.
Have a Happy Celtic New Year, strap in and enjoy the ride, I promise it’ll be a great one.
Sale on at CQNBookstore, fill your stockings.
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burgas hoops
13:16 on 2 January, 2015
Correct
tonydonnelly67
12:54 on 2 January, 2015
There’s a thing WHY doesent someone put up the SFA SPL website and we will all e mail Doncaster and ask him if he speaks for every club?
Naaaaaaa to easy, let’s just stick to PL again.
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Nice one TD….. done. HH
info@spfl.co.uk
I would be more hopeful of getting a reaction from Stephen Thompson, he doesn’t pander to Hampden of Ibrox and has nothing to gain from any tribute act, indeed his club is positively thriving since their death.
NORWEGIAN FOOTBALL ENTHUSIAST CHRISTIAN WULFF DISCUSSES THE PROGRESS OF CELTIC UNDER RONNY DEILA, AND THE INTENSE MEDIA SCRUTINY THE CELTIC BOSS HAS HAD TO ENDURE SINCE HIS SUMMER ARRIVAL.
If I ever was to be blocked by someone on twitter, the likelihood was always that it would be discussing the finer points of the capacity and potential of Norwegian football managers. For a man who revels in re-tweeting the banal abuse he gets in order to prove his own righteousness, putting up with a ‘patronising nuisance’ engaging him in a rational discussion is seemingly too uncomfortable. Ewan Murray’s allegation of smugness toward me as a reason for taking his ball home (to be fair, these first few sentences goes a long way in validating his argument), was a jarring way of shutting down the debate. He dismissed my enquiries about what exactly he based Ronny Deila ‘being out of his depth’ on by claiming I had a ‘vested interest’ in the matter, the logical conclusion being that my arguments are then automatically invalidated, with no need to actually engage with them. Now, this is was discussion on Twitter, which automatically makes it completely irrelevant and insignificant when compared to most other things in our lives. Twitter is fun, but it doesn’t really matter. Especially when discussing football. But it did prompt me to embark on a little bit of writing again, so please do indulge me while I dive a little bit deeper into the conversation.
I am biased when it comes to Ronny Deila. I’ve followed him closely for seven years, in a period where he turned a club that would be happy to survive relegation into one of the top teams in Norwegian football, on a budget that ranks in the bottom half of the league. He did it playing attractive football, cultivating young players and squeezing unknown mileage out of older ones, his man-management fostering a culture of spirit, togetherness and enjoyment everyone around him could not praise highly enough. He did this in his early and mid-thirties, an absurdly young age for a football manager. Being a small country on the fringes of Europe we Norwegians have a tendency to hail – and often exaggerate – any achievement by a fellow countryman or woman on the international stage, however minuscule. Any Norwegian’s success on a wider stage allows us to bask slightly in that glory with them, reinforcing our identity and makes us a little bit more proud of belonging to our country, whether we want to admit that or not. So when a fellow Norwegian takes over one of the world’s most famous football teams, in my adopted home town, you can be absolutely sure I want him to succeed, defend his cause and trumpet his achievements. Unfortunately for Ewan Murray that only puts my arguments in context, rather than invalidating them.
Murray, who cultivates and has nearly perfected his Prickly Curmudgeon twitter identity, is a very good writer in print and often poses uncomfortable and pressing questions worth asking about Scottish football. But he and several other writers were curiously quick to proclaim Deila as clueless, out of his depth and not having what was required to manage Celtic Football Club. Even as early as September the judgement seemed to have been made that this bargain bin option should be put out on the street and discarded in the weekly pick-up. It was astoundingly knee-jerk stuff, smacking of pre-conceived opinions, especially when several commentators, such as Murray, was almost ridiculing Deila’s statements on the dietary sacrifices and discipline needed by professional footballers. With eight straight league wins, qualification from Europa League group stages and emphatic cup wins, the criticism became more subdued, but still always lurking in the shadows, waiting for the inevitable next slip-up so that it can again be fully vented.
Let’s be clear; Ronny Deila deserves some criticism for his first six months in charge. At the start, he seemed caught between whether to be pragmatic with his tactics and using the players he had in a system he didn’t prefer, or to stick fully with his beliefs and to keep trying to squeeze square-sized players into his circle of tactical conviction. Not committing properly to either probably played a significant part in the early jitters, especially in the Champions League qualifiers. A full examination of the Tonev case is for another day, but it was also a stark learning curve for Deila in the fine balancing act between treating your own player fairly but to also not diminish the seriousness of the allegations against him, all in an intense media glare. It’s something that he could have handled better, although he didn’t fall into some of the deeper pit-falls far more experienced managers than him have done before in similar situations. Some have also raised the point that for a manager talking about giving opportunities to young players, he has hardly given them any, instead inflating the squad with loan players of susceptive quality.
The most curious criticism of Deila so far has been almost an existential one; that he is who he is. Because he was unknown, inexpensive and came from a small footballing nation such as Norway, he was touted by Murray, among others, as the symbol of the diminishing ambition of Celtic Football Club, the once proud institution now rummaging in the bargain bin in terms of both players and managers. In one sense, the observation is entirely correct; Ronny Deila would not be Celtic manager if it was 2004, not 2014. If Celtic were still relatively close to the financial powers of clubs south of the border, if the money from domestic broadcasting rights were not only miniscule in comparison with England, but also significant lower than comparable countries, then Celtic would not have hired a 38-year-old from- at best –a medium sized Norwegian club. What is odd is that rather than giving credit to the Celtic board for realising the financial constraints the club now most operate within, they are instead accused of a lack of ambition. It becomes an even more curious line of attack when you consider the immediate context of what has happened in Scottish football the last five years.
The Celtic board realise that the club can’t be competitive through traditional ways, that only flexing financial muscle will not be enough to compete in Europe. For one, that muscle is downright puny compared to most of the clubs they are up against and secondly, doing so could lead to a much more serious problem than not reaching the Champions League groups stages. The board clearly understands that to be able to reach the European levels Celtic were at even just five or ten years ago the way the club does things on and off the pitch must change. They have to be cleverer, more constructive, and more effective in every aspect of their operations. Most importantly, they need the players on the pitch to become a team that is greater than the sum of their parts, because they can no longer afford the very good players that can paper over flaws and cracks within a tactical system. The collective has to be outstanding player; the system has to be the star.
Many Celtic fans recognise this and it was probably the very reason why many were so positive about Deila taking over. While they probably didn’t know much about him, they were excited about the idea of Ronny Deila; the young, brash manager who shared their opinion on how football should be played. Who also has that personality, the little swagger, the spark. If Celtic can bring in a Kenyan midfielder from a small club in Belgium and a goalkeeper from Newcastle reserves and then sell them on for a combined £23 million few years later, why can’t they also unearth the new, unpolished managerial diamond? Just as Celtic can no longer attract established players of high quality, the same applies to managers. So you’re left with a choice; the same old, tired managerial merry-go-round or something different, something new, a calculated but exciting gamble? Looking at it in this context, bringing in Ronny Deila made perfect sense.
Just as with cultivating young, exciting players, hiring young, exciting managers also come with obvious challenges. They will need to learn from failure, to overcome a tougher challenge. They will need to prove that they can take the step up or they’ll fade into obscurity, an opportunity lost. While Celtic’s financial reality is such that they need to be a club that now allow players and managers time to fail, settle and prosper over time, their history and size is one of a major international club that demands instant success, with just as an intense media spotlight as any Champions League stalwart. It’s a tricky combination.
Consider also the scale of Deila’s brief and his plan; to introduce a modern, highly demanding tactical playing style with a squad that has been depleted of its brightest individuals over the last few years, put together by managers with different tactical outlooks than his own. It takes time to introduce a culture of high level fitness and nutrition, to teach and convince players of all the benefits of your new system. It takes time to replace the players that won’t or are unwilling to fit into your plans, and bring in the new ones that will. What takes more time than anything is the raison d’etre of Deila’s management philosophy; building up that intimate trust with and between players, cultivating the togetherness that underpins success and creating that sense of trust, on a footballing and personal level, that he always talks so passionately about.
All this is basically a roundabout way of saying that if you want to see that full potential of a team under Ronny Deila’s leadership, you need to stick around for a while, you need to be patient, you need to accept that there will be mistakes, slip-ups and the odd frustrating, Ross County-themed set-back, before you get to the promised land. It’s the almost complete unwillingness of many football commentators to give such a viewpoint even the resemblance of a fair hearing that I find inexplicable, especially as it’s such a clear example of the short-termism and impatience that the same people often bemoan in football fans. Put that in context of the actual results Celtic can show to at the end of the year; top of the league with a points tally comparable with three out of four of his predecessor’s seasons, qualification to the knock-out stage of European competition, semi-final of the league cup and still in the main cup after a very convincing away win against what is currently one of the best teams in the country.
Criticising what the Celtic board and Ronny Deila are trying to do – restructuring the club to try to make it as competitive as possible while still operating within its financial limitations – seems completely nonsensical. However, criticising the execution of the plan is a whole different matter.
Ewan Murray and those who share his opinion on Ronny Deila might end up being completely validated in their opinion. Perhaps he isn’t up to it; maybe he is just not able to replicate what made him such an astounding success in Norway in a different country and on the bigger stage at Celtic. It could be that he is just not the right person to implement the strategy and the plan that the board has laid out. He might well be out of his depth. But a person claiming to know the full verdict on that after only six months – let alone after a few week – can surely only be able to come to that conclusion so quickly if they too are starting their argumentation from a point of ‘vested interest’, of pre-determined judgment, from a preferred view of the final outcome? A bit like me.
Anyone not willing to have their beliefs tested, their arguments debated and scrutinised? Well, there’s another word for that.
Dear Mr Doncaster
Having read your statement in reference to The Rangers International Football Club and it’s current status regarding liquidation, same club etc.
Can you confirm for me, are you stating this on behalf of your committee, are you speaking on behalf of each affiliated club or is it just a personal opinion.
I look forward to your reply
Ayrshire is Green and White
BobbyM
moo @moo_ted · 2m 2 minutes ago
(2) ” no discussions have taken place on the subject” , ” no opinion was asked or given” and that ” he does not speak for our club” . End
moo @moo_ted · 4m 4 minutes ago
I’ve spoken with the co owner of a Scottish Premiership team who confirms that Neil Doncaster “has no mandate to discuss this topic” (1)
HH
itscalledthemalvinas
The ad is scheduled to appear on 25th January although we are looking at boxing clever on this at the moment. More to follow on this but we are planning to expand on what we are doing and the ad is being re-written at the moment.
There was a raffle and it was drawn by the Celticrollercoaster and two young ladies from his work assisted. All prizes were sent out before Christmas and all the winning numbers were published by Paul.
Nice to see that Caesar & The Assassin is being read and enjoyed. I was on some Aberdeen forums last night to see what they were saying about Doncaster – very little as it happens – but they seem to have a Back to the Future link which they reckon is a sign that they will win the league. They are confident and with the return of the Honest Mistakes starting at Tannadice last weekend it is going to be real competition this season.
The Celtic support is going to have to up a gear to match the enthusiasm elsewhere or we could be in trouble.
You only have to look at the TV deals put in place for the hun to see they are required.
Every time you switch the box on ………………………they’re featured in some small village or town “LIVE”.
After that nonsense statement from Doncaster yesterday, can see a lot of interest in owning Scottish clubs coming from Nigerian “businessmen”
Wouldn’t be surprised if Doncaster is on to a wee blue envelope from the powers that want to be,
It’s a strange world they live in, maybe they should be known as Pixar f.a.
Draw was made? Never saw the four numbers I paid for…I never win anything anyway:(
LIONROARS67
Great post,and an utter condemnation of how,like every Celtic manager before him,the MSM have been pushing the agenda for him to fail.
That it comes from an outside view is all the better. Clearly others now realise what this country is all about.
The MSM are like a pack of hyenas. First sign of weakness and yer f….d. Show your strength,and they will slink away into the darkness from whence they came.
THE EXILED TIM
Doncaster dead in the water,then.
Gross misconduct,gtf,no compo.
Happy New Year.
Good enough for him,he should stay off the Babychams!
Dungcaster says same club: ………………………Next move must be over to the 276 creditors then?
MICKTT
Have you managed to schmooze yer gorgeous wee blonde into saying yes?
Naw,not for a referendum,nor even a ring on her finger. I’m talking big pikchur here,Belfast.
Get yer finger oot,ffs.
Email as follows just sent to SPFL – will let you know if I get a reply.
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Dear sir / madam
Can you confirm whether the statements by Neil Doncaster in his Q&A session with the BBC yesterday in relation to the club now operating under the name ‘Rangers’ were made with the full knowledge and agreement of the SPFL Board?
Specifically, can you confirm that it is the considered, agreed and unanimous opinion of the SPFL Board that the current incarnation – The Rangers – is the same club as the Rangers that was liquidated in 2012?
If so, can you confirm that the Board has therefore deliberately decided to ignore the fact that the former Rangers club was placed into liquidation in 2012, and what is the legal basis for this decision?
Can you also clarify the basis for placing opinion above fact in terms of the status the new club?
I look forward to your reply.
Kind regards – [BGFC]
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HH
BGFC
bournesouprecipe
12:26 on
2 January, 2015
End of year review 2014
Good assessment,agree with most of it although Scepovic a bit high for someone who makes Owen Coyle, in his playing days, look like the Hulk.
You did well to catch Forrest and assess,bit like waiting for an eclipse.
Happy New Year to all.
Winning Captains
Thanks for getting back to me regarding the advert.
I must have been absent the day of the draw. Will get my mum to write me a note.
HH.
TD67
Thanks for the idea
Email sent.to SPFL hope PETER has sent one.
HH
someone is set to legally challege the doncaster statementm interesting.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/neil-doncaster/#more-5626
lionroars67
That’s a quality bit of football writing I enjoyed that thoroughly:))
Chapeau Mr Wulff!
Mon The Ronny
BMCW
It is always good to see the other side, I have my doubts ref Ronny Delia and his open attacking philosophy mainly it is far to vulnerable defensively but no doubt he should see the season out to the end, sorry WITS but calls for his sacking now are nonsense
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
His next job will be as a female impersonator in the working mens clubs of Northern England, he will go by the name of Beyonce Babycham:))
Email sent to SPFL….
lionroars67
13:25 on 2 January, 2015
NORWEGIAN FOOTBALL ENTHUSIAST CHRISTIAN WULFF DISCUSSES THE PROGRESS OF CELTIC UNDER RONNY DEILA, AND THE INTENSE MEDIA SCRUTINY THE CELTIC BOSS HAS HAD TO ENDURE SINCE HIS SUMMER ARRIVAL.
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Great post mate – is it from his blog? where did that originate?
Re. Doncaster:
Eric Riley of Celtic is on SPFL board. Along with representatives from Raith Rovers, Dundee United , Aberdeen, Alloa & Brechin.
Doncaster is speaking with the full authority and endorsement of that board. The board act on behalf of all member clubs.
42 senior Scottish clubs are shoulder to shoulder on this, or the majority are.
Unless we hear to the contrary…
I see we are back to the post -bellum Dixieland shouts of “The South shall rise again” from the Jacobites.
Several posts from thindimebhoy (including language that is not welcomed on this blog) telling us that a Yes vote would have prevented there ever being another case of diarrhoea in this land or that the Rangers situation would be altered by one whit (or even a Whit?).
Yet ernie lynch makes one post reminding us that Wings Over Scotland has called out Celtic supporters before and he is the one that gets the backlash.
Now, I won’t excuse ernie’s unnecessary rudeness to posters, but that was not the issue that caught him the flack today. He was accused of bringing pro-Labour Party referendum posting onto this blog and polluting it.
The same thing happened to me a week or so back, when I reacted to a string of pro-Yes posts. The “pollution of the blog with politics” was only noticed and criticised because it was the politics that the poster wanted to disagree with. Political expression in keeping with the views of the complaining poster is acceptable but a dissenting view was not. Only when a No voter dared to stand up for himself, was “politics” a dirty word.
It prolongs the poisonous and bitter legacy of the Independence Referendum and, if CQN posters do not call out their own side when the mark is over-stepped then we will continue to poison this well.
And yes, I have reacted with venom of my own again. I have never ever been or claimed to be a pacifist. If anyone thinks they are going to lay jibes about “brown brogue wearing Unionists/ Orangemen” at myself, my friends, my family and my forefathers because we supported Labour over the SNP movement, they can think again.
Good afternoon,
FAO…. FFM,6.15am,
There was me,in all my innocence,thinking I was having a chat with you,and I wake up to that!
Where to begin.I have no idea where you get your assertions from,so, Ive just conducted a straw poll, Half wit? the jurys’ out,Egotistical? definitely not, Psychotic, maybe, but Idiot? no.
Can I ask you something though? why take up half a page,to say what you want, when a few lines would suffice? I can only assume you get blisters on your typing finger, but fear not they’ll heal. I do worry though, that the blisters on the palm of your hand wont heal so quickly,not at the present rate of usage.
lilys
Good Afternoon.
I read a tweet with some interest earlier on this morning, where the author said that he had spoken to one joint owner of one of the clubs in the SPFL who confirmed that, as far as he was cocerned, Neil Doncaster had no right whatsoever to make the comments that he made yesterday and that he did not have any mandate to make such comments.
it will be interesting to see how this line develops — if at all.
However, my own witterings on these pages yesterday spelt out that successive administrations in Scottish Football, officers, Directors, players and staff of Rangers PLC, The tax man and all their company documentation held out that Rangers PLC was in fact the very same as Rangers Football Club.
The Wings over Scotland article highlighted just how much third parties had taken that message and set of representations to heart when it pointed out that if Rangers Football Club had been separate from Rangers PLC there would have been no need for further and fresh application for membership of the SFA or indeed the notion of “starting again” in the lower regions of Scottish Football.
The article also makes a mockery of the one club argument when it points out that of course at one point Sevco and Oldco were both members of the SFA at one and the same time. The obvious question to ask at this juncture was just what clubs did these two companies “hold” at that juncture because it surely could not be the case that two different companies could be “holding” the one club under separate memberships of the SFA?
That would just be silly.
However, let’s move on from such silly and childish arguments and consider the position of the other FA’s in Football.
Who can recall the English FA giving formal advice to Southampton FC advising that they should not pay any money to Sevco for the “transfer” of Steven Davis because Sevco were not the same club as Rangers, had never held Davis’s registration and so any transfer fee should be paid to the SFA for them to deal with?
This was something that annoyed Charlie Green at the time.
Perhaps Mr Doncaster’s comments can be explained by the fact that the SPL ( now the SPFL ) have always held the position that Rangers at every stage were subject to their jurisdiction and rules — even after administration and Liquidation. They did this so that they could levy fines and withold money from Oldco, Newco and any other possible legal codswallop dreamed up by Charlie, Duff n Phelps or whoever.
Here is a quote from the SPL commission:
“Paragraphs 2 and 6 of the list of preliminary issues advance essentially the same argument, which is that on 14th June 2012, when the business and assets of Oldco were transferred to Newco, Rangers FC ceased to be a club as defined in the Rules, and is accordingly not subject to the jurisdiction of the SPL. and thus of this commission, in relation to any breach of the rules committed in the period prior to that date. The SPL disputes that Rangers ceased to be a club on 14th June 2012, and argues that the relevant date is 3rd August 2012; But in our view, nothing turns on the exact date, as all the breaches alleged in the Notice of Commission relate to a period before the earlier of the two dates.”
Accordingly, at one stage even Charlie’s lawyers formally argued that Rangers FC had ceased to exist.
The result of that seems to be the terms of the secret letter between the SPL, The SFA, The SFL, Rangers PLC in administration and SEVCO where the SPL undertakes to Sevco that it shall not punish that company for the unlawful use of EBT’s by RFC ( Rangers Football Club PLC in administration)/ Rangers FC at various points in the past and which payments would have breached the SPL rules.
Now just stop and think about that.
That is the SPL saying that they will not punish a newly admitted member of the SFA ( Sevco ) for breaches of the SPL rules by a former or co-existant member if the SFA ( RFC PLC/Rangers FC ).
If there was a seemless, transparent continuation of the one club throughout this process, why on earth would the SPL be giving an undertaking to a club to not punish it for rules breaches in the past?
The only explanation is that someone somewhere viewed Sevco and Rangers PLC/Rangers Football Club as two distinct entities and felt that it was essential to record that one would not be held liable for the previous transgressions of the other.
If it were just the same club then such a situation would be a mockery.
The more you examine what happened, what was agreed, what people and organisations did and did not do, the more you realise that this cannot be the same club in terms of the rules and administration of the game that actually took place.
To argue otherwise makes no sense at all.
lionroars
great article by Christian Wulff.
Looking forward to a response from What Is The Stars (no not the usual 3 word or two word chant).
You can fool some people someone
But you cant fool all the people all the time
Well that’s Christmas put back in the loft for another year, nativity set excepted. Whilst i was up there i had a good look round for duncaster’s brain cell, integrity or backbone – couldn’t find any
BRTH
Great follow up post.
My concern is though, and maybe you could shed some light on this…
In what arena will this be discussed? – will it remain in the purview of the ‘internet bampots’ or the red tops? Or is there scope for this to reach more weightier (sic) platforms?
U
BRTH
If there was a seemless, transparent continuation of the one club throughout this process, why on earth would the SPL be giving an undertaking to a club to not punish it for rules breaches in the past?
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To ensure a larger customer base especially of the armchair variety
HH
Brogan Rogan
Happy New Year sir.
Great and logical post. Stuff you are good at. Cheers ad hope to catch up soon.
lionroars67
13:25
That article should be compulsory reading for every Celtic fan.
Setting Free The Bears
Way too much logic, perspective and sense on the Noreweigans article for it to ever catch on.
The guy Delia is a dud ……….because we know best and because we are all victims of a conspiracy Simples.
Celtic underground site saying Ronny has lost a couple of major players in the dressing room . Seems a bit of unrest kicking in
I’ve always agreed with the view that the celtic board should remain aloof of the omnishambles at ayebrokes but dungcaster has blown that out the water, its time for a statement