Of all the football nonsense, I hate scapegoating most. So Ryan, I’m sorry, but what on earth were you doing? We were 0-2 ahead and had created several other very good chances. Milan were nowhere, they had not mustered a cohesive attack. That foul was conceded in the perfect spot for a free kick taker; you could read the script on how momentum would switch the moment it was awarded.
Attackers are primarily there to exploit opponents weaknesses, Tom Rogic, Odsonne Edouard and Ryan Christie combined to do this and put Celtic two ahead in the San Siro. Tom came close on another occasion, Callum McGregor had a gilt-edged chance and having got himself into the perfect position, Jeremie Frimpong froze with Milan at his mercy. We could have been out of sight.
There is a team in this squad. The formation looked right. Frimpong seemed liberated from his normal wide anchor, Rogic worried defenders before tiring; in particular, I was impressed by the way the ball was accurately bulleted across the field.
Oh, and we cannot defend for buttons. I was chastised by a 16-year-old after the game for talking up the relative merits of this performance compared to Ross County. Apparently there is a rulebook for defending two goal leads away to tier one teams, you defend like Ross County and close the game out. But we don’t know how to defend like Ross County. Imagine that!
What I will say is, they fought for their manager last night, Commando Christie in particular.
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TURKEYBHOY
Can’t argue with any of those posts.
H.H. Mick
Also a big well done to the moderator for his understanding and
patience during these trying times lol.
H.H. Mick
TURKEYBHOY
Agree re. Barkas. The criticism is way over the top.
He has a defence of midfielders in front of him.
The defence makes the keeper, not the other way around
The GK situation has turned into a perfect storm, a GK who doesn’t trust what’s in front of him,and a defence who don’t trust the GK,all stems from a lack of confidence throughout the team.
How many of you aul timers remember Faither, now he wasn’t
the youngest, he wasn’t the fittest, he wasn’t the best looking, but
by feck, he could keep that ball out the net, either by his knee, his
shoulder, or his erse, was it luck, who knows, but when you get
carried off a park by legends like Big Caesar, and the incomparable
Bobby M. you were a keeper.
H.H. Mick
A third of the way through the Boss’s autobiography ‘Born to run’ brilliant read so far. Fascinating to discover the inspiration and origins of the songs he wrote, artists and music he admired and drew inspiration from.
Equally interesting to read of, was all the struggles he had as a musician starting out and as son of a father who had alcohol and mental health issues in his youth through to young adulthood.
Throughout all his trials, he never stopped believing he would make. Belief, he had that in abundance.
BossCSC
HH
MODERATOR 2 on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 11:52 AM
KEVJUNGLE on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 10:50 AM
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Meantime, please post using your original moniker.
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MODERATOR 2, thank you.
Yes I emailed yesterday because an ‘X’ was added to password, good to get clarification, thank you. Peace.
And bless all on CQN.
Bada 12.25
Agree, there’s multiple factors contributing. Another one is the fact he’s a foreign boy in a new land at a new club, with a big price tag to boot. He’s still settling in, not easy for him ATM, harshly criticised by some.
HH
Dandan.
Sincerest condolences.
Prayers said for Daniel and your family.
Today’s lead-off hitter … an open letter to our “leaders.”
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Not for years, since he first breezed into Ibrox under David Murray, has the South African swindler, the glib and shameless tax-cheat Dave King, sounded quite so smug and confident about the future.
This guy is a blowhard and we all know it well, a guy who loves the sound of his own voice, so we should have expected his ego to explode round about now, when nothing has been won, when the future is still unclear, but it is nauseating just the same.
What we, Celtic fans, have to hope is that it induced something more powerful than mere nausea in those who inhabit the Celtic Park boardroom.
If nothing else shakes you people out of your lethargy, complacency and stasis it should be watching that man roam through the press corps like a swaggering conqueror.
Does it make you sick to your stomachs?
Because it damned well should.
So come on Dermott, come on Peter, own up.
Does it make you proud to see him like this, strutting and preening as we descend into chaos?
Do you look at it and still think we can afford to wait before we act?
Do you reckon that the risk is worth taking, or do you want to shut this man up as much as the Celtic support would love to see you do it?
How long are we going to spend waiting for your balls drop?
Until your pride kicks in?
Until you climb out from under the table, way down in the bunker, and start to man up and take this thing seriously?
Do you guys really want to watch this joker unfurl a championship flag whilst Parkhead sits half empty and our fans turn their focus on running you all out of town on a rail?
That’s what we’re heading for. That’s what you will be remembered for.
The last time an Ibrox board was so self-assured and arrogant, you, Dermot, acted and a few months later Brendan Rodgers swept into town.
Does this board have the ambition for such an appointment again?
Do you have the muscle to pull it off? Is King right?
Are we just one bad season away from collapse, from spending years in their shadow?
I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that they are anything special or that our club is so structurally unsound. The circumstances we’re in right now are because of self-inflicted wounds; we aren’t here because of some stunning blow struck from elsewhere.
We did this to ourselves, and we can still pull ourselves out if it.
Undoubtedly, though, King has a point. If they get their hands on Champions League income in the same year as we continue to self-flagellate they will, temporarily, close the finance gap and they might, for a year or two, move in front of us in overall income.
Whilst I don’t believe we’ll wind up in the death spiral King seems to think, it could be bad.
I cannot believe that men who take pride in what this club has achieved will permit that. King has spent this week laughing at you, and I have to believe that hurts, that it gets through in a way that the fan protests didn’t.
I have to believe that sticks in your craw.
How long since you were mocked like this, guys?
How long since you were bested?
How long since someone – anyone – had your number?
Dermot, you are a bona fide billionaire, a self-made man, one of the most talented businessmen these islands have ever seen. Are you really going to let some backstreet pocket-picker snatch away your legacy? Your crowning glory at Celtic Park?
Peter, you’ve enjoyed your reputation as the smartest guy in every room you’ve been in these past ten years or so, and when you look at the paucity of brainpower that surrounds you at the SFA and the SPFL I can wholly understand how you’ve come to believe it.
I know how you feel about the yokels, rednecks and trailer park intellects at Ibrox. I know you feel they’re way beneath your level. Indeed, you’ve intimated that you view them as beneath the amateurs who run Junior Football.
Well, these Peepul are pissing all over you right now.
What are you going to do about it?
Smile, and lick it up?
Or are you going to fight?
Are you going do what you have to do and wipe that glib and shameless smile off King’s face?
I am hard on this board at times.
I have written negative things about you both.
I have doubted your passion and your commitment to this club.
Peter, at times I’ve honestly wished you’d packed your bags when Rangers went out of business. In all honesty, I believe it would have been better for this club if you had.
Dermot, I’ve called you the Absentee Landlord.
Some think of you both as parasitic forces, feeding off our club whilst giving nothing in return. I know that’s untrue.
I know you, Peter, genuinely do want this club to be at its best … but you have way too high an opinion of your own role in that and no sense of where it should stop. I know, Dermot, that you do have an emotional connection to Celtic, but too often you treat it as a mere plaything and you, too, have way too high an opinion of your abilities as a football talent spotter.
If you guys ran the club better and let the football department handle its own business, if you left it in the hands of football people, we wouldn’t be struggling right now, because our advantages over the rest, including those at Ibrox are enormous.
I have my doubts about both of you. I think Celtic will only truly move forward into the next great era when both of you are gone.
But I never thought of either of you as weak or stupid or lacking in bottle.
I never thought you would surrender our position so meekly, not when it took so much time and trouble to build it. I never believed you would surrender it almost without a fight, and certainly not to Peepul who don’t have the professionalism or acumen to run a corner shop.
What the Hell are you waiting for? Are you both too old now, both past it? Has the hunger gone? Does the blood no longer pump through the veins as it once did? Are the old driving forces no longer so strong in you? Is winning no longer important?
Even if that’s true … there’s losing and then there’s being embarrassed by a cowboy outfit who run their own club like a giant casino and have bet everything they have on one big hand. An untested manager. A squad cobbled together at random, but which they’ve somehow knitted into a better unit than ours, and with a coherent system?
Have you conceded? Have you chucked it? Have you thrown in the towel?
That has to be a first for both of you; how does that feel?
How does it feel to even be asked that? Lousy?
It should. It better.
I’ll tell you what I believe; I believe you two could put a man like King in your pockets. Dermot, you could buy and sell this guy and his paltry club with your loose change. Peter, if you were facing this bluff and bullshit artist at the poker table, I think you would take his whole bankroll and what meagre scraps he has left of his crooked South African fortune.
I believe with the right man at the helm we’d start winning games again. I believe once we did that Gerrard and his band of happy wanderers would fold like a cheap suit under the weight of watching a resurgent Celtic do more than go through the motions.
I believe we have a better squad than they do, and I think the right man wouldn’t take too many days, far less weeks, far less months, to put right enough of what’s gone wrong to start putting points on the board and turning the pressure dial in the other direction.
I believe that not only can we still win ten in a row but that if we ante up and start fighting back with everything we’ve got that we will win it, and not only wash King’s face for him but put his club on the brink of another administration, and put the next decade of dominance in the bank with the last one. The next Ibrox chairman would know his club’s place without our having to rub it in; one permanently on our margins, but forever scrabbling in our shadow.
Be remembered with the White’s and the Kelly’s, or rise above all your predecessors, all those who came before you, in this hour, this moment, the finest you’ll ever have. This is in your hands. King might talk the talk, but this guy has never walked the walk in his life.
His entire career has been one defeat, one reversal, one climb down after another.
Make this the most humiliating yet, the one he’s remembered for.
Let that be his lasting legacy, his place in Scottish football history; the King of the Ibrox ashes.
What are you waiting for?
Don’t you two have a job to do?
So, get on with it.
CQN does a very good annual ‘You Did This’ piece, recounting what the fans have achieved over the prev 12 months.
If one were done about the board this year, I wonder what it would say?
Could be interesting
JUNGLE JUICE OR A LIBRARY on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:39 PM
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UNCLE JIMMY on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:45 PM
‘If one were done about the board this year, I wonder what it would say?’
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They build a fence around Celtic Park to keep the fans away.
BlantyreTim pleased to see you back on the site. Hope you are well. Say a hello to your dad for me. Keep safe.
The post about Ronnie Simpson reminded me that I meant to post about him in the same terms. When I am on about Ronnie what about our sweeper. I always think that John Clark was the best defender we ever had, Always there when the rest had gone up the pitch to score, always ready to make the saving tackle. A Lion that does not always get the limelight the others receive. But a great Celt and star in my mind.
Ernie
That’s precisely what I said to myself when I saw the pictures of the fenced off Celtic Park.
“You did this”
JF – Good post.
The Lying king sums up Scottish football, rotten to the core.
He should never have been allowed to darken our shores.
Buying your way out of a prison sentence for committing crime is appalling in this day and age. Horrendous in fact.
If I were DD watching King lord it over the press I would be spending mega bucks to put this Zombie club in their feckin place.
HH
D :)
The statement from the glib and shameless one might do no harm at all.
Desmond won’t listen to us, maybe he will listen to him…
UNCLE JIMMY on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:52 PM
Ernie
That’s precisely what I said to myself when I saw the pictures of the fenced off Celtic Park.
“You did this”
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‘The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become….’
The irony is that these guys own Celtic, but they don’t get Celtic.
MODERATOR 2 on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:47 PM
JUNGLE JUICE OR A LIBRARY on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:39 PM
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Hi MODERATOR 2, I got you the wrong way round, I thought you were meaning to change back to the name on the post that you deleted earlier, when we contacted earlier, sorry. Do you mind if I stick my face in the fridge to get rid of my big riddy. Peace.
Connaire12,
Ronnie was got rid of by Jock while at Hibs. I can’t remember how much we paid for him but it must be the bargain of all time. I think he felt his career was at an end when he came to us.
Arguably our best goalkeeper of my time.
John Clark, apart from maybe George Connolly, the best reader of a game of any of our defenders in my years of following Celtic.
Both Celtic greats.
Swivelled eyed blowhard, I believe we’ve got a lizard
called that here in Oz, James. 8-))))))
Great post.
H.H. Mick
JF
Fine words indeed, appealing to what we hope are the best instincts of DD and PL.
Imagine in an parallel O – – F – – – universe where the business partners maybe recognise they’ve overdone the partnership side of things.
Now imagine.
What would be the most likely issue to unite a Celtic support at war with the club and partially with itself, and deflect from the shortcomings of the senior management whose apparent negligence – or falling asleep at the wheel – is widely regarded as having brought about the current sorry state of affairs?
Kaaarect.
Uppity and gloating Huns.
Cue populist tabloid TV being encouraged to provide a platform for King who regards free publicity like catnip.
Rereading my post I could have worded it better, thanks, keep it as KEVJUNGLE, everyone knows then.
P67 will be in touch.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 12:59 PM
‘ I think he felt his career was at an end when he came to us.’
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I read somewhere that he used to carry his kit in an old canvas tool bag and when he first appeared in the dressing room he was mistaken for a plumber come to fix the showers.
Yes lets hear it for John Clark, most underrated player ever
because of his unassuming attitude.
Swept up after big Billys mistakes time after time, and still
contributing at the club to this day.
LEGEND. .H.H. Mick
MODERATOR 2 on 5TH DECEMBER 2020 1:04 PM
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Thank you.
Dandan,
Apologies for being late to this but massive condolescences on the loss of your son and for those posters who also flagged their losses too. I can’t begin to imagine the pain and my thoughts with you and your family at this sad time.
RIP Daniel.
until we stop selecting our defence from a group of midfielders I don’t think we will stop our goals against tally increasing any time soon.
FWIW I agree with the posters expressing a degree of understanding and sympathy for the goalkeeper, coming to a new, cold country and playing behind a defence comprised largely of frustrated midfielders – and a carthorse who injured him.
Although I have to say that the only save of note anyone seems able to remember him making was at DU several weeks ago maybe undermines these mitigating factors.
KEV J
You’re like a changed man, very modest and apologetic.
I always thought there was a intelligent poster in there under all
those aliases, and toying with the varying emotions of the posters
on each blog night.
Although we all saw through you.
So what’s new?
I’m really curious lol.
H.H. Mick
James Forest – that was a good lunchtime read,
It’s like an Old Bhoy’s reunion here with BT, CelticRollerCoaster, KevJungle & a few others making a return, there are plenty more that I miss but here’s hoping a few more take the plunge.
I must say the original post that got KevJungle redcarded whilst Politically incorrect was the funniest one I ever read, I laughed for days after it.
We could do with some directors with a football playing background on the board, por cierto
Looking ahead tomorrow I hope that we again play with 4 across the back line and someone backing up Jeremy. Elhamed should be doing far better and recently has performed much better for Israel than he does for Celtic, even when he plays left back. But what about moving right footed Ajer to right back and so start with Ajer – Jullien (if fit?) – Bitton – Laxalt
The midfield 4 almost then picks itself – Frimpong – Brown – McGregor – Christie
With Eddie and A.N Other up top
Rogic did well on Thursday playing just behind Eddie. But I’d still rather the A.N.Other was one of our other strikers.
It’d be nice (slight understatement!) if Ross County could do the double at noon tomorrow but I suppose we just need to look after our own performance. Remember, the league title is still in our own hands!
Re the goalkeepers. I don’t go with this what’s in front of thems to blame. FF had the same players in front of him, apart from Duffy! Definitely didn’t stop him making saves, you know the thing that goalies are supposed to do first! por cierto
DanDan
I had a few minutes to spare so came on to have a peek at what people were saying about tomorrow’s match.
Then I saw three references to your post. Then I read your post.
Lovely words and lovely memories.
And really, when all’s said and done, tomorrow’s match doesn’t matter. Paisley’s life and death quote has never seemed more inaccurate.
Prayers from County Antrim will be offered for Daniel and for the family.
God bless and HH.
Melbourne Mick, If you think KevJ is a changed man after reading his apology you have been spending too much time in the sun,
I like this Moderaror fella – Its good to see and hear from you.. on no it’s no, auch you know what I mean.
D :)