It was Brugge who showed the way in our Champions League game in November last year. They pressed Celtic in the middle third which was enough to inhibit our ability to progress the ball into advanced areas. Other managers watched.
Five weeks later, Phillippe Clement copied these tactics in a 3-0 win over Celtic at Ibrox. Barry Ferguson followed this up in March, winning at Celtic Park, then again in a draw at Ibrox. Already-eliminated Young Boys came to Celtic Park, went man-for-man in the middle and lost to a late own-goal.
We watched the same show in the Scottish Cup Final in May: 120 minutes of midfield suffocation before a penalty loss to weaker opposition. It was no different over 210 painful minutes against Kairat. Yesterday’s failure to land a glove on the most nervous defenders in Scottish football follows a well-established pattern. Russell Martin changed every tactic he has used in Glasgow and reverted to the play we all know succeeds against Celtic.
Games with against lesser sides and without Kyogo, Jota and Kuhn have floundered in the middle of the park. We seem to be focussed on adding attacking options today. This is necessary but attacking players are blunt if you cannot break a soft press in the middle of the park.
We got draws at Ibrox, against Kairat and in the Cup Final because we can defend well – Liam Scales was well worth his Man of the Match accolade. That will probably be enough to win the league while Newco beat themselves and the Hearts project is too new. But we are at a tactical cul-de-sac. Chris Davies did more than put the cones out.
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It is just before Midnight…..
Wasn’t that when Robbie Keane was introduced to 000s of adoring Celtic fans?
Indeed it was
We live in hope…
sionnaigh
celtic aint just for christmas – and neither are dugs – and your mates have just sold us a pup
We presently have a midfield who are way of the mark. On sunday , Hatate terrible . engels very poor . Ngres very poor . Calmac well sussed by opponents poor . No steel in the team , no aggression , new winger
Can only get better ( or can he ) diazan looks totally fed up . He is stuck with us till Christmas window now . Our great defensive
Hope iS still not up to speed ,( will we see the real KT again ) . Meanwhile lawell and Nicholson will spend the international break wondering if they missed the opportunity to sign a goal scoring centre forward . What a state we are in .
Back to Basics – Glass Half Full on 1st September 2025 8:53 pm
Auldheid (who I’ve never met but whose content I enjoy immensely) even knocked up a playbook years ago … which he reposted today.
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What that playbook does (nice term) is for the supporters to take some responsibility for the current situation .
Shareholders will be amongst supporters who complained about poor communication yet have never used the facility to communicate their thoughts and feelings to the AGM announced in 2022 AGM,
In this podcast featuring James Forrest at 28 in or so
https://www.youtube.com/live/d2KdalHuaD8?si=EBh9VQ6Z8QuVfmg1
James made a keypoint about “can’t” that is the thinking nothing will change that excuses the need to act to make change happen.
That self defeating thinking is the biggest barrier to change it prevents change happening.
That is an anathema to me.
I was once asked to take on the job of managing part of an IT unit split between London and Scotland.
My boss wanted to free himself to look after the London IT Unit and said 2 things to me.
You make things happen
and
You have a way of letting folk know you aren’t happy.
The second surprised my self image as a really nice guy but as it turned out both are true.
We will get there in making change happen. It just takes time, but if we are patient time ceases to exist.
Everything happens when it is supposed to.
The aloof Tory board have got you in the bag, 60,000 in a plastic bag like a monster with a bag full of kittens dangling it above the stoorie burn, threatening to let go of the bag, if you don’t all hurry the fk up and renew, and purchase ALL £100 Europa League tickets, or automatic renewal will be removed and you’ll be placed onto a list to see if you qualify for your chance in the ballot.
These are just some of the university drop out PLC shyster games and stuff.
Those were the days my friends….we thought they would never end…
I hope Brendan does manage to galvanise the team and support despite the pitiful efforts during this window….if he can’t pull it off he’ll have every right to be thought of as an elite manager…c’mon Brendan…we can do this…
If you all had listened to Kev instead of mocking him, you wouldn’t be getting shafted by anybody just now.
If you had listened to KOJO, you wouldn’t be so dumb about World events and how they can, and probably will affect you.
If you look in the mirror you’ll see who fuels the PLC and their grifting Old Firm ticket revival, Rodgers puppet.
But you don’t listen – and here we are, or rather, here you are, feeling sorry for yourself after giving the Tory PLC another £1,000 per head.
Wash your ears out, wipe your mirror down, then you’ll learn and see new stuff.
Can’t…..can….
Roco Vata and Daniel Cummings should have stuck around. They would be the the 1st team strike force now.
Fuck off you dick
P67, I’m very much looking forward to your post-window piece explaining and justifying (with proof points) the wisdom of waiting til the end of ra transfer period for doing deals of real import and value; deals based on a system replete with analytics, data and shrewd recruitment practices.
From here in the cheap seats it just looks a lot like clutching at straws.
WindaeHingin’ CSC
Rodger now has to tell the current players they are good enough , after telling them they are not good enough
Croftcelt on 2nd September 2025 12:14 am
Roco Vata and Daniel Cummings should have stuck around. They would be the the 1st team strike force now.
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Rodgers would have made them look like Idah.
Nitey nite bedwetters et al. Ave Ave
https://youtu.be/liTBF8X_JlI?si=dTOd3EYEdpx0WkDw
Chairbhoy on 1st September 2025 6:07 pm
Auldheid @ 5:04 pm,
If, you are minded to go up against our principal shareholder, then getting some of our supersmart supporters to look at the legality of that share issue may be interesting.
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I would not know where to start on that but you might find this on SDM, Rangers EBTs and UEFA worth a read although no one is really interested any more. A long read but if you do wade through it and have any comments post on SC to get my attention.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-T4ddYTfCKb5whVEwcsyU_nTxs0ywrt/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107947982974245186134&rtpof=true&sd=true
Tictastic on 2nd September 2025 12:15 am
Fuck off you dick
………
I assume that you are one of the more clever ones who pays your season ticket in full, in one payment, unlike those less committed who can cancel their direct debit when the shaft gets too much to bear, like today, I was wrong before once.
2000 words
told yeese
:-))
Auldheid on 2nd September 2025 12:25 am
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You do know that Celtic fans went along with the same club lie with their £49 tickets when the Rodgers circus first appeared in 2016?
Rangers 2012 ticket price £49
Sevco 2016 ticket price £49
You are obviously unaware of this development?
The reason that I ask is because, out of the trillions of words that you have typed about this, same club lie, etc, subject, you have obviously not read KevJungle’s stuff, only he out of the ENTIRETY of Timdom, has ever posted about this scam, this cheap trick, that you seem to have missed, or when asked about it you become a politician, and answer a different question all together.
Did you teach Brendan how to grift Timdom to death?
If it wasn’t you, then who was it?
HH
james forrest.
your blogger pal erik
says you earn more than 70k a year with the celtic blog.
is that true ?
Auldheid @ 12:04 am – thanks for this and for your earlier post of 10:52pm from which this caught my eye.
“the CST have around 100 members having dropped from 2000 after David Low left and after pissing off some members by altering a resolution their members had voted for”
I’m not close to the politics (small ‘p’) of the CST but it was disheartening to hear of these tactics.
The whole situation of competing supporters bodies smacks of People’s Front of Judea to me.
I find it boring and unpersuasive.
These numbers you’ve provided including the number of shares garnered are indicative (nothing more) of the possibility (nothing more) that the majority of shareholding celtic fans are either equally unpersuaded by these groups or actually don’t give a damn about change?
Teary mann, your favorite creature is about to burst onto the scene again. lol
https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FGzc4k4LW0AAsAp2.jpg%3Fname%3Dsmall%26format%3Dwebp
or the blogger has no blog
Teary man, you cheered this, Sarah Witch on when she says all of the stuff that she says, whilst you were demanding the banning of concerned citizen Tims who knew that, ALL Tims were being lied to by these medical people, media, politicians, celebrities, etc, and being gaslit not to believe anybody who is not on the media etc.
What will your script be this time?
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@KateShemirani
Aug 28
Dame Sarah Catherine Gilbert, the Oxford vaccinologist co-developer of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine, who holds the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to science and public health in COVID‑19 vaccine development… blah blah blah
So on BBC radio 4 today said we need to ‘ramp’ up for the next PANDEMIC . A lack of preparedness. Apparently young adults Children and it may be a different scenario.
AMAZING. Crystals ball.
https://x.com/KateShemirani/status/1961098374213460212#m
Auldheid,
Keep on keeping on my friend. A soldier. A guy I’d share a foxhole with any day of the week.
You shame some of the pygmies who have criticised you over the years.
A true Celtic man. A true ambassador. A guy who leads from the front.
Proud to know you mate.
sionnaigh
an apt band to end the night with – they have also just ripped the pish out of their fans and their pockets
a foxhole behind your mams couch ?
you will not allow dissenting comments on your own blog.
erik says you earn 70k a year from the celtic blog. what you on here for ?
A thoroughly depressing day ends a thoroughly depressing window.
Night to all the good people on here.
i am awfy depessed
Grow a set Spikey. Dermot Desmond’s “Long War” strategy is in place. Fear not. Ave Ave
Encore for the bedwetters et al –
https://youtu.be/tjpgJjdk52c?si=248ZvXK4Yk-Qhzsy
Post Scriptum: Vatican Media Live
https://www.youtube.com/live/J6MqpK91bEA?si=bfrIMd5zE8OZiNnd
sionnaigh
And?
Mac, Directors have a board-level responsibility for Celtic’s direction and finances. Dermot Desmond’s “Long War” strategy is in place. Celtic ain’t just for Christmas.
Ave Ave
Incompetence from the Board/Execs
Nicholson prime culprit , weeks to close deals. Failed miserably. Lawwell puppet appointment like Lennon shower appointment. Needs to be sacked.
Lawwell needs to go , since he came back and brought the son in it’s been a complete mess. For sure he is interfering with puppet Nicholson listening. Lawwell still blames Rodgers for his son sacking for £20M wasted in transfers. His appointment of a guy who hides as CEO so he could still run Celtic and bring in family to key roles highlights Celtic is just an ATM to these guys.
Rodgers will need to perform a miracle without a strike force and imbalance in the midfield.
Fans , like others family will be boycotting all commercial stuff from Celtic. No Europa league packages. Rodgers should play the weakest 11 possible and reserve our better players for league games. These EL games need to be played in front of 10k crowds.
This shambles has been due the incompetence of Nicholson, he should never have been there. The mute invisible CEO needs removed now. He will not resign, he will want every cent of his contract like Lawwells son. Great Celtic men. Nicholson failures led to the CL exit and £40M cash bonus gone — absolute disgrace he is still in place.
He can team up with Mark Lawwell and not one club will have any interest in either. Amazing these turkeys landed in top jobs at Celtic. The damage they have both done has been immeasurable.
Nicholson calamitous failures have put the title at risk. Hopefully Rodgers can get us over the line.
Boycott all commercial merchandise — support the team in the league. The rest is a write off this season.
Post Scriptum – divide and conquer is how der hun will try bring Celtic down. How ironic is that? Ave Ave
Good Morning From A Rainy Verdant Chilterns…
Auldheid @ 12:25 am,
Thanks for the reply, think I’ve read most of it, wiĺ certainly give it another perusal.
Need to reply to you on a couple of topics – have C&P’d your comments and will get back to you on SC.
Will be an interesting week of fallout.
My bet… radio silence over the International break, as they try to brass neck this clusterguano out.
🎶 Brendan Rodgers is here for five in a row🎵
Hail Hail