Neil Lennon said we didn’t deserve to lose 4-1, as we dominated large parts of the game against a team who have lost their last four games (not against Celtic), conceding 14 goals in the process. But oh, Neil, we absolutely deserved to lose by at least that margin.
Our disorganisation is a marvel. Scott managing to start his jump goal-side of a dropping ball and ending up wrong side. Callum playing three onside. Kris A. not committing to block the cross (forgiven, trying to cover two positions), Chris J. attempting to intercept with the wrong foot (forgiven, fitness). Hatem reliving his Ferencvaros highlights. Full backs who are never back and produce few assists; there is no defensive midfield, unless you count the goalkeeper who feels the need to leave his box and play that position, just a midfield of nomads.
The team is a collection of individuals unencumbered by a workable strategy. Opposition managers have their game plan written: defend deep, play on the counter and put numbers forward at set-pieces. If we could defend counter-attacks and corner kicks, we would be having a legendary season, but we can’t, so everyone looks awful.
In sport, if you have evident fatal flaws and persistently fail to resolve them, you deserve every setback that comes your way. It is hard to recall a Celtic team that deserved to lose more. Let me give you a cheery prediction, you will soon forget about last night, as there is worse to come.
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TURKEYBHOY on 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:24 PM
To my mind not busting a gut to win the 10 is a far less egregious offence than the involvement with the five way agreement or the way res 12 was dealt with.
I suppose the difference is that the former is current and ongoing whereas the others are done and dusted, all in the past ,a ship that has sailed.
Hence the reluctance to entertain the idea. It’s more difficult to process.
Jamesgang,
Make sure it’s just the wan ‘Hello’!
Hail Hail
Matt
Unbelivable Global Police Stsste incoming
Only a knob could deny this.
Pedro Lawwells head will be on the chopping Board early.
Neil is Sound. Imo he is fighting within.
Snakes are snakes.
Lets get that Winning Jive again.
Win that qiad treb and it is Showtime.
Can anyone tell me how to sign in for the game tomorrow? I received mail from Tracey Moore yesterday telling me I would receive sign in details later that day. So far I have received no message. Anyone else waiting for an email detailing how to sign in?
MELBOURNE MICK on 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:30 PM
Not fishing at all.
I’m just making the point that an idea that was dismissed and ridiculed at the time is now generally accepted by most Celtic fans.
Connaire12
Activate your pass here…
https://www.premierplayer.tv/subscribe/celtic-weekend-pass?g4id=2
Hail hail
Matt
FRANKTERRY on 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 11:20 AM
I do the same thing with them. Had my good lady in tears on a few occasions as I do my different accents and “pass” the phone around different family members (all me) that handle the thing the caller is asking about.
It’s the small things.
HH!
Aye right 8-))
H.H. Mick
Sorry for errors.
Celtic Neil 10.
Oui,Si….lets see.
Go Lenny Bhoy.
You deserve yer ain backroom staff Neil.
Anger is an Energy.
Right then bhoys you all read it hear, piss up at MELBOURNE MICK’s place.
Let’s get rowing as I sure as heck ain’t hitting any airports right now.
Did I get all my apostrophes right?
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/apostrophe/
M.M. “Aye Right”. Is that a tip for the big race today? BTW it is well fancied and has a decent chance.
AIPPLE
Post yir trophies all you want, if the boat people can reach here
so can any determined Tim.
All welcome.
H.H. Mick
Asked my mum back in the old country to dig out the photos (no apostrophe) of me in my Packy Bonner kit as a kid. Let’s (apostrophe) see if she comes through.
Aipple
Hope she didn’t drop them lol.
H.H Mick
Melbourne Mick on 28th November 2020 12:50 pm
I’d be on the boat now if things didn’t keep appearing on my ‘honey-do’ list.
I spoke with ZBYSZEK while he was stuck over here, had hoped to meet but we were smack bang in the middle of the travel ban.
HH!
RAY WINSTONE
Always said when I gambled ” pick the subject of the day ”
Never worked for me though, but who knows.
H.H Mick
JAMESGANG
:-0 Damn phone auto correct.
Interesting stuff from the usual suspects.
Plus the usual board friendly nonsense from SFTB.
W e are where we are because of executive level stupidity.
PL is at best a second rate property bean counter with a specialisation in lining his own pockets.
We are where we are because DD is not interested in the club only his own ego and his personal wealth.
He got involved with us because he could see an opportunity.
In the same manner that he could see an opportunity in London City Airport at thje price being asked.
He is into arbitrage — buy cheap and unloved and sell dear as current and active.
Buy at SPL prices and sell at EPL valuations — we have done this with players but the real money to him is the club.
That is why our focus in on getting into the EPL and it has been for 21 years.
MON was appointed manager because he had an EPL profile.
FMcC’s tight control of the finances disappeared overnight to deliver a 3 year splurge.
However Attempt 1 fiailed.
Now all the stuff is coming out about the 2011 attempt which must have been years in the making.
But the issue we have than and now is that we will not get into the EPL on our own.
We need TFOD1 / TFOD2 and worst of all they know it.
That is the case today and it was the case in 2008 / 2011 when a lot of strange things happened.
Most prominently the financial trainwreck that was TFOD1 became critical.
So we have us by way of DD’s ambition desperate to get into the EPL.
All the while knowing that we need to take the TFOD1 with us.
They are on their financial uppers — what could we do to help?
2008 and their strange run to the EuC meant that the finances were not getting any worse.
2009 + 2010 and the issue was not so clear cut and the help would need to be local.
So what happens — the MIB step up to the plate and we step back from player investment.
So we are in a bad place.
The TFOD2 can make progress in the SPL while DD only see’s progress in terms of the EPL.
A cute operator could deliver a lot for their club with that leverage.
A case of history repeating itself?
DD is just a low rent arbitrage nutter who works on a binary plane — SPL bad / EPL good.
If we get into the EPL he sells up and makes a lot of money.
Everything else is secondary to that goal.
Ten is just a number / a league is just a bauble.
DD runs the club based on a minority shareholding.
He gets away with it because we are a sporting audience where finances come second.
The future could be so much better but at the moment we have the perfect storm.
The “owner” is not interested in the day to day — only interested in one big pay-off.
The CEO is a complete muppet whose main role in life is to keep the owner happy.
The manager took a job he could not turn down even though he is washed out to the max.
The squad has been thrown together with one eye on who their agent is and what tricks can be turned not how good they are or where they would fit in.
The captain is three years too late with his exit strategy.
Disfunctional at every level.
The TFOD2 have leverage because of the “owners” EPL ambitions.
They are using this to the max.
We have a CEO who has taken knee jerk management to the next level.
And we have a manager who is in survival mode.
A captain who can only scowl.
We will be lucky to come third.
This episode has been two and a half years in the making.
And yet some still want to clap.
I am not a betting man but RC tomorrow look like a stick on.
The squad want the current version of NL out.
His Rab C impersonation is not going down well.
Not his fault but enough is enough.
I think KevJ has gone for the record number of log in names in order to troll the fans who kept the club going whilst he claims to have stayed at home reminiscing about the days when we could pish down each others legs, tthrow screwtap bottles at the weans in front of us and play chases with 13 year old huns on the park at Hampden
Glory Days, eh?
CONNAIRE12
Check your junk
WG
Matt Stewart thanks for your help. Will do so.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeo has paid tribute to Diego Maradona on his passing by posting a picture of them meeting just after the World Cup in ’86, back when she was just a wee boy.
https://ibb.co/L56MCRW
Goodnight bhoys/ghirls
it’s been a long day and a great night on the blog.
Big thanks to our host P67 for having us, and it’s back to our wee
Irish town of Koroit which I forgot to mention tomorrow for us.
In case you’re wondering that’s a Aboriginal name and speaking to
one of the original Aussies he said ” it means feck ugly huns ”
Sounds about right.8-))
H.H. Mick
ernie@ 9.05
“Do you think that the effects of the Covid pandemic might possibly have influenced the Celtic Board’s strategic plans?”
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Of course it must have. We have heard dire warnings about the effect this will have on the general footbal indsustry all over the world. All senior clubs are likely to see serious downsizing, in jeeping with the austerity that is going to hit us all when we have to pay back all we spent but did not earn during Covid lockdown.
Since all clubs are equally affected , there will be a regression towards the mean in all clubs as we cut costs. That means our financial gap will not be as wide and significant over other clubs, as it once was. This is an inevitable side effect rather than a chosen path of collusion.
Unless you are suggesting that our Board has been ultra -cautious about our finances during Covid and the Huns have been reckless (and we should have been too??).
Or unless you are positing that Peter Lawwel ate a Pangolin in a Chinese wet market in order to spring a chain of events resulting in Sevco winning the league?
WG
“Check your junk”
Is that prostate cancer advice?
MATT STEWART on 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:31 PM
Jamesgang,
Make sure it’s just the wan ‘Hello’!
Hail Hail
Matt
——-
Trust me, I was very careful, careful!
😉
100 Years ago today a week after the Tans attacked the crowd at a GAA match in Croke Park. Young men from my part of the world hit back & under the Leadership of Tom Barry and sent a message that shocked the Empire.
So Here’s to the Boys of Kilmichael.
Whist you honour in song and in story
The memory of Pearse and McBride
Whose names are illumined in glory
With martyrs that long since have died
Oh forget not the boys of Kilmichael
Who feared not the ice and the foe
Oh the day that they marched into battle
They laid all the Black and Tans low
On the twenty eighth day of November
The Tans left the town of Macroom
They were seated in Crossley tenders
Which brought them right into their doom
They were on the high road to Kilmichael
And never expecting to stall
‘Twas there that the boys of the column
They made a clear sweep of them all
The sun in the west it was sinking
‘Twas the eve of a cold winter’s day
When the Tans we were eagerly waiting
Sailed into the spot where we lay
And over the hill went the echo
The peal of the rifles and guns
And the smoke from their lorries bore tidings
That the boys of Kilmichael had won
The battle being over at twilight
And there in that glen so obscure
We threw down our rifles and bayonets
And made our way back to Granure
And high over Dunmanway town, my boys
They sang of the brave and the true
Of the men from Tom Barry’s bold column
Who conquered the red, white and blue
There are some who will blush at the mention
Of Connolly, Pearse and McBride
And history’s new scribes in derision
The pages of valour deny
But sure here’s to the boys who cried, Freedom!
When Ireland was nailed to the mast
And they fought with Tom Barry’s bold column
To give us our freedom at last
Final chorus:
So forget not the boys of Kilmichael
Those brave boys both gallant and true
They fought ‘neath the green flag of Erin
And conquered the red, white and blue
Watching the Brighton v Liverpool game. The phrase “you can’t defend like that at his level – you will get punished “ doesn’t seem to apply. Liverpool should be 3-0 down.
We don’t seem to get that kind of luck. Rangers at the moment have everything going there way. Teams they play against are weakened by injuries p, suspensions and COVID. But they never are.
It won’t take a seismic shift in fortunes for us gain the upper hand. But we need to start making our own luck.
SuperSutton on 28th November 2020 1:26 pm
Missed pen, that Connolly miss. You are not wrong.
SFTB — regression towards the mean ?!?
Are you doing some OU to fill your spare time?
Retired school teacher — recent best guess.
Players performance will not reduce just because we are in the middle of a pandemic.
That will stay the same — the issue is how much will it cost and can we be on the crest of the wave regarding change.
Supersutton
No doubt we get punished for every mistake.
SS @ 1.26
The TFOD2 seem to be on the crest of a wave regarding luck.
However their issues are still there.
2-2 on Thurday and CG produces a bambi on ice mopment.
Lucky to get away with it.
One thing going for them is that they are one year more experienced compared to last season.
They struggled when things went against them — now they seem to be more resilient.
First loss will hurt them — shake their growing confidence.
However to their credit — and the credit of the SPL MIB Ludge — they seem to be spinning it out.
Still a poor team in absolute trems.
Their tactics at CP suggested they were not confident enough to play football.
Work the touchline and wait for our mistake.
Don’t know if this has been posted previously but a good article on CU.
https://celticunderground.net/the-curse-of-the-accountant/
HH
Corkcelt
Phil has an article on the Boys of Kilmicheal
SFTB
For those (of us) of a certain vintage.
WG
The CU article is top notch.
All too easy to spot our failures now.
MADMITCH on 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 1:01 PM
The Great Desmondo may well still have ambitions of getting Celtic into the EPL and most probably considers it’s more likely to happen as a member of The Old Firm rather than as a standalone entity. Hence the need to sustain a viable version of the huns. Hence the five way agreement. Hence the omerta over the continuity myth. Hence the rope a dope tactics over Res 12. All for nothing though if the huns run out of money. How to ensure that doesn’t happen? Answers on a postcard to…….
One thing though, if the plan works I suspect he’d hold the shares rather than sell. The kudos would be too much to walk away from.
Corkcelt.
boys of kilmichaei.
Thank you.
https://twitter.com/RTEArchives/status/1332625531162955776?s=19
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