10 September 2016. Five years ago today you were almost certainly worried about the absence of Leigh Griffiths ahead of Newco visiting Celtic Park that day. In the previous season, Leigh scored 31 league goals in 32 starts and two substitute appearances, he was on fire and the indisputable top striker in the country. No one in Scottish football has scored at this rate since.
When he was next available for selection four games later, there was a new sheriff in town. Moussa Dembele used those games to make sure he became indispensable to Brendan Rodger’s Celtic. From then on, Leigh, still only 26, would be used as filler.
The prospect of a month without Kyogo Furuhashi is not the news Ange Postecoglou wanted. Pittodrie, where we visit at the start of next month, will be testing, as will the game in Seville against Real Betis and the home tie against Bayer Leverkusen this month. We have two other international strikers at the club, it is time for one of them to step up.
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If Paul67 is saying he has been pushed, this isnae good.
And now I’ve signed in (to post this) the site is loading properly. Bizarre.
Mikeybhoy – I have that problem when not logged in but you’ve posted a comment so I assume you must be logged in?
The site is slightly better than it was from android but still way too many ads etc popping up.
Probably of no help to you there but that’s been my experience
Concentrate bhoys we have a game manana.
D :)
Ah, mikey bhoy- logging in is the answer then!
It appears so :). Cheers
Martim1980
Spot on sir.
RobertTressell on 10th September 2021 7:21 pm
It’s this sort of p!$# that makes me want to go and watch amateur fitba.
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Thankfully my Son has went and joined an EK team at Amateur – No restrictions there and I will get my fitba fix that I am really invested in.
one of those simple, factual, beautiful, of its time, Jock and the trophies. superb
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-6C3y1WUAUPrkN?format=jpg&name=small
Pushed –
either not following the PLC orders
or
caught doing something you shouldnt.
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then again P67 would say that
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Where does P67 say he was ‘pushed’?
The alarm bells should have been ringing, when WGS was approached for his interim role
ST TAMS on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:42 PM
You only appear for bad news.
THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:40 PM
Twitter
And then try to make it worse.
MARTIM1980 on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:44 PM
ST TAMS on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:42 PM
You only appear for bad news.
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So every other day last year?
Squire D @ 6.32
If I posted more than ; times a year ( and I used to during the first 5 or 6 years ) people would recognise the name. All good here
If that Twitter of Paul B is true , not good at all
Friday night away from the blog awaits….
Match day tomorrow🍀
Why was he pushed?
Is it because he was too ambitious?
Or maybe he wasn’t up to the job?
There’s a big difference between the two.
SAINT STIVS on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:31 PM
A superb photograph.
“BASHI-BAZOUKS on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:47 PM
If that Twitter of Paul B is true , not good at all”
What did the tweet say?
@ THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 7:49 PM
Well there has been nothing to suggest he wasn’t up to it. But if he wasn’t, it’s on those that hired him.
But let’s run with the fact he wasn’t. Amazing that Dom only managed 72 days before being fired while not one member of the board was fired for last year’s capitulation.
After all, our whole transfer window was caveated with the phrase – “considering our starting position…”
Paul’s tweet:
https://twitter.com/CQN/status/1436391369245921284?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
If it was a ‘push’ then the timing could have been better – night before a game when we have no recognised first team striker available!
Starting to look like a real knee jerk, in reaction to an event. Illness would be handled very differently- gradual step away, news management etc
Ange – we are with you – keep focus on the park
Rolling Stone
Thank you.
Paul67
Is that Tweet genuine?
It’s a valid point-
If going from quadruple treble winners to 25 points behind in second place and no one is relieved of their duties, what the hell can you do in a matter of months to justify a ‘push’?
UNCLE JIMMY on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 8:00 PM
We don`t know if it was a `Push`.
Hot Smoked
I’m posting on CQN, basing my points on CQN twitter.
Seems reasonable.
Other beliefs are available
We won’t reach our potential while we have major shareholder whose massive ego is inversely proportional to his competence.
If Ange had a close relationship to Dom then we may have further trouble ahead.
We need Desmond out.
Jock Stein passed away on this day in 1985.
Ange can fill that jersey.
UNCLE JIMMY on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2021 8:05 PM
Fair enough but I feel a `belief` requires a bit more real evidence than we have so far.
Oh goodness, please stop, Rolling Stone for you don’t know what you’re talking about – for the umpteenth time: CELIC FOOTBALL CLUB HAS NO BOARD. It’s a RUBBER STAMPING COMMITTEE necessary to comply with the listing requirements AIM.
DD and the CEO call the shots. End of. The rest merely pick up cash for ticking boxes.
FFS it’s not difficult to grasp.
THE BLOGGER
Correct . Any pushing to be done , DD will be doing it .
Strange set of priorities — CFC style.
Run the squad into the ground / open rebellion on the park / organise a beer fest on another continent in the middle of a global pandemic — make us a laughing stock and reduce our footballing performance to that of a SCh side with a win on penalties …
Nothing happens for 6 months and then change is made with apologies allround.
Introduce the club to the 21st century with new ideas and fresh thinking.
Revitalise the squad and talk about world class operations and the change needed to do it.
Open up the club to the support with better comms and a more involved style.
Let go on a Friday night with a stone cold statement that focuses on your replacement.
The Irish Raj / Crap Bean Counter Strikes back.
What a shambles.
And yet still they clap.
The Celtic statement seems close to the John Park one………..i could be wrong.
I received a txt from a BBC employee as follows:
McKay was sacked by DD
I make no further comment other than I have no way of verifying this. I texted back with a few questions but no response.
Brilliant Sky Arts program on now re Soul II Soul