Last night’s result was both disappointing and embarrassing. Considering that Bodo/Glimt were preseason and scored their third long after the affects of cramp and exhaustion took hold, it was even humiliating. Only a remarkable turnaround will see Celtic remain in the Uefa Conference League, an outcome that would be very harsh on the comparatively underpaid and over-performing Norwegians.
When I looked at the teams left in the competition earlier this week, only Leicester and Marseille seemed out of reach. This was a chance, I thought, to go deep into a European competition – perhaps our last and easiest chance for some time, as we hoped to compete on higher ground in the years to come.
We have both seen enough of Celtic in Europe, though, to hedge our bets. On Wednesday, I wrote, “You and I are also full of confidence right now. What we are missing is a test against non-Scottish opposition. Drubbing a limp Newco gave us hope that we are watching something special. Tomorrow night will give an indication as to whether that hope is valid.” We have our answer.
Welcome the truth instead of living deluded. It should fortify us for the challenges ahead, better to know, than to rock up at Easter Road next week with an unbalanced and porous midfield. Or to think that the world has been put to right during two transfer windows.
Cameron Carter-Vickers was head and shoulders above everyone on the field. He operated at a level Bodo/Glimt were unable to reach. Similarly, Carl Starfelt and Joe Hart did not put a foot wrong. Our full backs and wingers on both sides were bossed out of the contest.
Callum McGregor has seen this movie before and covered every inch of the park in a vain attempt to prevent a sequel. Did anyone think Tom Rogic and Matt O’Riley would be an effective midfield pairing? Apart from Ange, of course. Daizen Maeda scored with a peach of a header but spent much of the game isolated. I hope Reo Hatate was carrying an impediment that made his exclusion from the starting line-up necessary. Any other reason would be inexplicable.
And for the record, Ange, no, we did not control the game. That ability lay with the men in yellow, who played exactly how they wanted.
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last chance for Superbru
JHB on 19th February 2022 2:41 pm
self-centered virtue-signallers who do as they please
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Pedalling discontent, even hatred?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:55 PM
Can you offer an explanation for why so many top managers have their own assistants?
Is it just an indulgence?
Or do they think there is a benefit to it?
NFL had his own assistants the first time round. He didn’t the second time. Compare and contrast.
JHB on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:41 PM
Spot on re the GB – great banner, not the right time.
SCULLYBHOY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:57 PM
he hates them, he thinks they are nationalist’s , it is nothing to do with how they support the team, it is as simple as that.
as he does with any other celtic supporter who favours independence as their choice.
that evidence/context/conclusion, was pseduo intellectual superiority nonsense.
A phycologist would have a field day.
Saint Stivs…John Colrain and Alec Byrne are next to Bertie.
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:01 PM
JHB on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:41 PM
Spot on re the GB – great banner, not the right time.
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why is the timing wrong ? what was the message on the banner that needed a timing on it ?
the manager goes to the fans at every match and gives that salute.
were either of you even in the ground to see it ?
did you turn to anyone on your couch or in the next seat and say “oh lovely banner, better it was kept to a later day”
pair of you type a lot of crap.
sowing discontent indeed.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:03 PM
Saint Stivs…John Colrain and Alec Byrne are next to Bertie.
well done fella.
do you know when mcmillan went to ibrox ? I can find a glasgow cup tie in 59 that bertie and peacock played in.
As a conservative and unionist leader i am a little suprised i cant find any reference to it on line as in them cherishing it,
I wonder if the celtic board members enjoyed meeting him.
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/players/all-time-a-to-z-of-celtic-players/c/colrain-john/
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:03 PM
Saint Stivs…John Colrain and Alec Byrne are next to Bertie.
Weebobbycollins
Good to see you post on these pages.:-)
HH
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:00 PM
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:55 PM
Can you offer an explanation for why so many top managers have their own assistants?
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they cant be bothered getting their own tea or answering peoples emails ?
that type of assistant ?
JOE CUNDY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 10:31 AM
ZIGGYDOC1 on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022
Does that just link you to Celtic TV or is it a separate service?
You have to buy it on the stream ppv website but it is the Celtic TV coverage you get once purchased.
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Yeah Celtic tv, same coverage thing as pass to pa
* same as pass to paradise
Some “CONTEXT”
they wont know where the statement references –
Marching down O’Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high
There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky
Leading them is a mighty man with a mad rage in his eye
“My name is James Connolly – I didn’t come here to die
SAINT STIVS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:09 PM
Thank you for your contribution. Once again, most insightful.
Naismith to St Mirren….
St Stivs,
Agree.Magnificent Banner,which could have been put up anytime.To combine it with a Connelly tribute,sheer genius.
Why are people coming on acting mystified by the way Ange sets his team out.Don’t you ever listen to the man.He changes for nobody.He has players to come in,not the finished article,but they will be brought in with a view to playing this way.
Just like Bodo did with us on Thursday.Park the Bus.No way.
An Tearmann…Aye, it’s been a while 👍
The sages –
Lennon needs to go, the board forced the backroom team on him, and that means he is a board patsy
Lawell needs to go , he thinks he is a Director of football, and the Recruitment office, that undermines Lennon.
Ange is being undermined before he even starts, not bringing his own staff (something he hasnt done anywhere else anyways),
Ange response to anyone that brings it up “i dont need anyone else mate, I do it myself”
Ange goes top of the table , wins a cup, keeps existing staff, tells us they do a good job , are good coaches, and they are the prep before matches as he hardly goes into the dressing room before a match as that is the players domain. Recruitment completed by others and satisfactory. Funding for transfers achieved by being highly profitable in player sales (lawells moneyball).
But Ange loses a European game.
Sages.
Ange needs his own assistants, and a director of fotball.
rinse and repeat, ad nauseum for ever and ever.
now is thw winter of thier discontent.
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:15 PM
SAINT STIVS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:09 PM
Thank you for your contribution. Once again, most insightful.
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your asking the question , i will give you the answers when i can.
your welcome.
SAINT STIVS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:04 PM
Thanks for the compliment.
Just think it would have been better at a different time, my opinion.
Your posts are fantastic and a real credit to this place, keep them coming.
SAINT STIVS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:25 PM
Well I daresay you’re doing your best.
Ange is doing a brilliant job and must be allowed to continue the build ne is undertaking. I have no doubts that if he wanted a different backroom team he would have one. He also doesn’t need or seek reassurance from the self proclaimed uber supporters that he is on the right road.
A couple of weeks ago after we hammered Sevco, the blog was in lift-off as, apart from the usual exceptions, we celebrated a beautiful victory won with fast, flowing football.
We were top of the league and flying.
I knew then that it would take only one bad result for the blog to turn turtle and here it is.
Ange now getting it in the neck from some quarters with some asking questions about an assistant. He has Kennedy, Strachan and others helping him. Why would he all of a sudden need a direct assistant?
One minute it’s – Europe doesn’t matter and the league is the priority – then it’s oh mammy daddy we’re useless.
AN TEARRMANN
Sorry to say there was definitely booing at the end and not a small number……
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:40 PM
I mentioned the lack of assistants when NFL was appointed the second time. I mentioned it when AP was appointed. It’s an issue, whether you like it or not. And it didn’t become an issue after two or three poor performances.
And the whole point about managers bringing their own assistants is that they are people whom they can trust implicitly when the shit hits the fan, people whose first loyalty is to, and whose ongoing relationship is with the manager, not people with, at best, divided loyalties. Kennedy, Strachan don’t, and shouldn’t, fall into that category. Their first loyalty is to the board.
MARSPAPA on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:53 PM
Disappointing but not surprising.
Customers, not supporters.
So there are no assistants there now ?
He told you he is happy with wht he got.
whats to debate ?
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:00 PM
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:55 PM
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Completely pointless nonsense agonising over Ange having an assistant who is different from his current assistants … usually surfaces after a loss with the usual inference that somehow the club are actively sabotaging the manager … tabloid thinking
EKBHOY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:01 PM
‘Completely pointless nonsense’
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So just like every other post on every football forum on the planet then.
ONIL…
Each to their own, but not for me.
Tomorrow we go again with a chance to get back on track with a good 90 minutes and a few goals for confidence, fingers crossed.
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:40 PM
Ange is doing a brilliant job and must be allowed to continue the build ne is undertaking. I have no doubts that if he wanted a different backroom team he would have one. He also doesn’t need or seek reassurance from the self proclaimed uber supporters that he is on the right road.
Whats an uber supporter? Am a T.o.A man myself.
If they can get one to and fro parkhead sharpish,I would be interested especially in current traffic malaiase existing
:-)
HH
SAINT STIVS on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:00 PM
So there are no assistants there now ?
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Who were there when AP was appointed, and most likely will be there after he’s gone, and whose first loyalty is to the board.
So yeah great, just the guys to have at your back when things are going wrong.
MARSPAPA on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:09 PM
I agree!
Hopefully we will have normal service restored tomorrow and who knows, maybe a wee result next Thursday.
Ange is top drawer and we are very lucky to have him, not sure the “customers” in our support fully appreciate that….
AN TEARMANN on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:11 PM
There are some who would say that they are a bigger/better supporter than others, maybe even a few posting here…..
MARSPAPA on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:53 PM
AN TEARRMANN
Sorry to say there was definitely booing at the end and not a small number…
No down at 106 marspapa,never heard any,team were clapped,sad,as said some come as customers,not as fans.
HH
David66 hope so.
Ernie Lynch for now stability is key and I can imagine everything will evolve once the season is over.
ERNIE LYNCH on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:08 PM
EKBHOY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:01 PM
‘Completely pointless nonsense’
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So just like every other post on every football forum on the planet then.
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Just the shit stirring , drivel posts that are pointless, which are based on tabloid fantasy thinking , other than that there have been some good posts from fellow posters with a good insight into football… I’m afraid your good self for me doesn’t fall into that category…. I’ll not bite for a while which I’m sure will be relief for everyone