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When looking for a new manager, Celtic usually try to fix the biggest shortcoming the previous guy had.  In May 2019, Neil Lennon’s biggest asset was his “eye for a player”.  There were other attributes. he twice got Celtic into the Champions League group stage where he delivered some of the most memorable nights in our European history, but Celtic’s decline started with his predecessor’s inability to sign quality players after the arrival of Scott Sinclair.

When it fall apart last season, Neil seemed unable to imagine how to organise a squad that was performing significantly below the sum of its individual parts.  Apparently simple tasks, like how to organise at defensive set pieces.  The answer to that particular question was Eddie Howe.

Howe took a team of lowly £17m misfits and marshalled them into a very solid unit.  He also had other attributes, but that ability to defend a corner kick was very convincing.

I spoke to Peter Lawwell soon after Brendan Rodgers left and again after Neil Lennon’s departure.  Neither Neil nor Eddie fitted the bill he was initially looking at.  On this occasion, Ange Postecoglou fits perfectly.  Technically proficient, capable of withstanding the intensity of our game, with an ability to make us a far better team three years out than we were when he took over.

It’s that last attribute we recruited yesterday.  Neil and Brendan both left teams that were poorer than two years previous.  We hired a builder.

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  2. ernie lynch on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH JUNE 2021 9:24 PM

     

    Netherlands score a second. VAR check for offside. Goal stands. McCoist confused, saying if he was offside it should have been disallowed.

     

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    He assumed the player was in an offside position and that the goal was allowed because he wasn’t interfering with play. His point (that the goal shouldn’t have been given because the player was interfering with play) was valid, though based on a misunderstanding, as the player was apparently in an offside position.

  3. 31003 on

    Gene

     

     

    I heard him say that

     

     

    To think he gets paid for this

     

     

    And Ally was right

     

     

    There’s a winner there for someone

     

    Double his pay

  9. 31003 on

    “That’s for sure”

     

    “There’s no denying it”

     

    “You must agree”

     

    Every comment he makes he backs it up with one of the above…right or wrong

  14. BelmontBrian on

    Should read

     

     

    BELMONTBRIAN on 13TH JUNE 2021 9:56 PM

     

    !!BADA BING!! on 13TH JUNE 2021 9:27 PM

     

     

     

     

    Petrescu has had about 15 clubs in about 10 years…

     

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    Bullet dodged IMHO

     

     

     

     

     

     

    HH

  16. CamusBhoy on

    Caught up with my cousin who lives in Melbourne, played at top level Scottish Football for Morton when he was stopped from scoring at Celtic Park by a brilliant Danny tackle and then played in Oz for number of years.

     

     

    He reckons Ange is a winner and that is good enough for me, although if it doesn’t work it’s one for the family discussion for years 😀

     

     

    Sorry if I don’t get back to posters on here, I use the phone and have almost instantly developed cataracts and struggle to see the phone at times never mind the text, hope I haven’t got massive spelling errors as this has took me ages to type

  19. 31003 on

    CAMUSBHOY

     

     

    Your post was fine

     

     

    And it gives a little comfort as we head into the unknown

  20. ziggydoc1 on

    Ukraine threw it away. Never a time to try and play football, from the keeper. I like what I hear about Ange, apart from one journalist, who said he’d never settle for a 1-0 with minutes to go (European ties spring to mind). Best team I’ve seen thus far at the Euros, has been Italy. Early days yet.

  24. CardboardCSC on

    Seen quite a bit of unfair criticism of English folk on here today. By all means hope the England team get pumped at every opportunity but lay of the people, we are better than that ☺

  25. Truth_Beauty_and_Freedom on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX @8:24pm

     

     

    I wasn’t fully aware that Mr Stein lost half of his first 4 games…

     

     

    I wonder if Ange Postecoglou will get the same latitude on here? 🤔 Can you imagine someone here on CQN saying, quite reasonably, ‘I know he’s lost 4 of his first 8 games, but give him time; he could be our next Jock Stein!’ 😂

     

     

    I can just imagine too Mr Stein being forced out prematurely had Social Media been in play back then! 😊

     

     

    I think we need to understand and accept that a new regime will take time to truly grow and flourish; hopefully sooner than 8 games will tell. I have no idea what a suitable period of patient grace is, but I expect we will have a good idea by Christmas, but hopefully much sooner. 😊

     

     

    If I were a Hun with a Time-Machine I would definitely go back to 1964\5 and instigate a full-on FUD SMSM campaign to undermine Jock Stein so that he would never get appointed as Celtic Manager in the first place! 🙄

     

     

    But let’s change this subject around…

     

     

    If I were a ‘Tim with a Time-Machine’ I would go back to 1970 and ensure that Mr Stein and the Celtic players did not underestimate Feyenoord. 👍😊

     

     

    I wonder what other good CQN’ers would do if they were a ‘Tim with a Time-Machine’? 🤔 😊 🍀…

     

     

    Take Care, Keep Safe, God Bless and Hail Hail! 😊 🍀

     

     

    Yours in Celtic,

     

     

    TB&F. 😊 🍀

  27. Celtic Mac on

    Truth, Beautyty and Freedom

     

     

    Dont know so much about a Time Machine, wouldn’t mind a Silver Machine though, but would probably prefer to take a Time Tunnel back to 1965, just to check that Big Jock, Big Billy and Wee Bertie really did help Celtic FC win the Scottish Cup at the end of the 1964-5 season. And that time really did stand still when Charlie Gallagher took that corner, or at least long enough for Billy McNeill to get on the end of it….

  30. Por Cierto on

    When Jock lost 4 of his first 8 games, it was not a surprise at that time in Celtic’s history. Not like today when we have just completed 4 trebles, then a win was something that was treated with the expectation of having a chance to go on and do something, which, of course, never transpired. :)) por cierto

  31. Sionnaigh on

    POR CIERTO on 14TH JUNE 2021 1:08 AM

     

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    Jock Stein won his first game as manager of Celtic, 6–0 at Airdrie, but then losing 4–2 to Hibs and 6–2 to Falkirk. In the period between the announcement of Stein’s move to Celtic and his arrival, Celtic had progressed to the semi-finals of the 1964–65 Scottish Cup. Celtic came from behind twice against Motherwell to force a replay, which they won 3–0. This set up a final against Dunfermline. Celtic again came from behind twice before Billy McNeill scored the winning goal, giving Celtic their first Scottish Cup since 1954.

     

    Please continue.

  36. park the bus n blooter it reshape simples on

    Good to see that Ange has arrived and also hope that Paul 67 is correct and Ange is indeed a builder.

     

    I still also feel that the ‘move on’ dynamic has started to alter the focus away from the scathing scrutiny that the PLC must be subjected to. With a delay in purchasing season tickets by up to six weeks as suggested by the Green Brigade.

     

    We have to be 100% focused on the Celtic PLC reaction as to whether the Huns get into Champion’s League groups and get their hands on the apparently much needed financial payout and this is the crucial bit for us – what will Celtic PLC do if the Huns fail to get that much needed financial payout?

     

    If the Huns don’t get that much needed financial payout, will Celtic PLC pull the transfer window rug from Ange like they did with Brendan recently with John McGinn etc etc and everybody before Brendan, although WGS didn’t complain about the Willo Flood transfer window that handed Sir Walter a much needed first title of a much needed 3 in a row for Sir Walter with the collapse of RFC still not being avoided but so far going unpunished apart from a £250k fine which remains unpaid to this day for the Huns theft of £140+ million from HMRC which was used to cheat Celtic fans and Celtic’s directors have still not defended their cheated fans at any opportunity since all of this shambles began. Rory Bremner jokes don’t cut it!

     

    I personally blame US Celtic fans for not pulling the plug on the directors of the PLC who’ve facilitated Hun corruption since 2008 and a fair few Celtic fans have been aware of this since at least the ‘honest mistakes’ season in 2009/10 under Mowbray when our directors on the PLC simply looked the other way, and we fans have waited until 2021 to get angry about PLC directors the same ones who looked the other way away back in 2008.

     

    Maybe Celtic fans deserve to be cheated robbed mugged humiliated?

     

    Ange has arrived and guess what?

     

    The Celtic fans who’ve been cheated robbed mugged humiliated by the collusion of the directors on the PLC since 2008, the fans are again doing what seems to be all that they ever do these days – moving on – this time because Ange has arrived.

     

    Its as though these Celtic fans were desperate for any manager to arrive so that they can then bury the burning issues with the PLC and rally behind Ange, not in relief about the arrival of Ange because he’s the clubs number 1 target which he certainly isn’t but these Celtic fans will bury the burning corruption issues because these Celtic fans are as big if not a bigger threat to the integrity of Celtic FC, than a bunch of corrupt directors who cement Old Firm collusion from the PLC executive offices.

     

    Maybe corrupt directors on the PLC, and cowardly season ticket purchasing fans are the perfect couple for escorting Celtic FC through what could prove to be the death throes of a club which is now nothing more than a rich mans pawn in a game of deceit lies muggings betrayal corruption stabbings and deaths.

     

    The Fools The Fools The Fools.

  37. TheLurkinTim on

    Welcome to Celtic, Ange Postecoglou

     

     

    That’s a ballsy move from the other side of the world…but I feel it’s not enuff for the permanent negatonians and doom sayers…fuk them

     

     

    I hope yer given enuff time to stamp yer authority and style on the squad…but suspect that the entitled arseholes amongst us won’t giv u it (u know who u are)

     

     

    H.H.

  38. park the bus n blooter it reshape simples on

    THELURKINTIM on 14TH JUNE 2021 3:42 AM

     

     

    Canny be bothered being “ballsy” enough to identify who your talking about?

     

    You must be one of the “ballsy” Tims who can’t find his balls to sack a Hun facilitating Celtic PLC board?

     

    Are you still capable of looking into a mirror without the mirror cracking?

     

    If there’s another fifty odd thousand like you “ballsy” n that its no wonder Celtic’s deader than the dead zombies innit? But you knew that right?

     

     

    Fakeful through n through

  40. TheLurkinTim on

    Park the Bus…u are the sort who have totally missed my point…shock horror…;-()

     

     

    guiltymuchCSC

     

     

    H.H.

  41. TheLurkinTim on

    Park the Bus…uf you’re in Glasgow…I’ll b more than happy to meet u ;-))

     

     

    WasteoftimeCSC lol

     

     

    H.H.

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