Celtic Banter Archive December 20 2015

 

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20 Dec 2015 22:43:40
Got the message below from a mate ) on FB) Heard anything or is it just a ramble.
Hi Tims rumour is just to let you know, theve had a meeting, and thers going to be an announcement tomorrow he's not been sacked but thers talk he's leaving Celtic find out tomorrow, Kennedy to take over as caretaker manager tomorrow.

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20 Dec 2015 23:08:02
Not against a change of a manager but my god surely even on a temp basis Kennedy or Collins for that matter can't get the nod. If there is any truth at all in these rumours, surely the board must already have someone ready to step into the managers role, especially as we've a transfer window just about to open?

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20 Dec 2015 23:41:21
I heard he quit mate like you no sure how true it is will find out tomorrow if he does quit surly Collins and Kennedy need to go aswell.

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{Ed007's Note - If it's true then surely Lawwell has to fall on his sword also.}

20 Dec 2015 23:50:59
TinyTim was about to post same thing myself. don't know if its a fb rumour.

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21 Dec 2015 00:19:37
Gaz1977 personally i hope rumours are untrue. Regardless anyones opinion on RD, its who we get in next is my concern.

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21 Dec 2015 07:00:51
I think these rumours are all rubbish. If they were true who would we want. I would like stevie Clarke.

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21 Dec 2015 07:23:44
DN30, I personally think the rumours will be untrue. The only way this will be true I feel is if RD has chucked it himself. Lawell has not long ago stated that RD would be here to take us (possibly) into Europe next season, so I can't see RD being sacked. I do however feel that something needs to change. What that is I'm not 100% sure. I love RD's philosophy on the game and he comes across as an intelligent man but even at that I just feel we're not were we should be at. Surely most fans would agree that Celtic as a team should be better than they currently are and while not everyone wants a new manager, when things at any club aren't smelling if roses it's the manager that cops it.

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21 Dec 2015 08:18:35
A lot of us would agree with that Gaz;
We seemed to be going down a more modern and innovative path with RD, but after such a promising finish to last season - we have certainly stalled and in some cases went backwards.
Stalled in as much as European progress and although a good few players have flourished under him, there are those that have repeatedly under performed or not reached the level shown last season.
I liked the guy and was open minded about his ideas and we certainly played some very good football in many games. However, we also had some very mediocre games where we were so predictable and pedestrian in our style and this season we have faltered at home a few times.

It's never good to sack - or part with a manager - as the board and players who are part of the problem always escape criticism and consequences.
If the rumours are true? It is also a slight gamble with so much still to play for without upheaval and uncertainty, but I can understand the reasons - even though it's Christmas.

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21 Dec 2015 14:53:07
There is not a snow ball in hell's chance that Deila won't be our manager for at least 3 more months but in reality 3 more yrs . Didn't MO'N lose 2 -1 to a worse 'Well team and That directly handed league to Rangers, yet Martin is rightly regarded as a God by many Celtic supporters .
The nonsense of changing Manager at this stage is a) we haven't got anyone with proven ability or popularity from within to step up on a temporary basis b) there isn't many managers dreaming of taking on the job permanently that we would want
Roy Keane, Moyes, Jackie Mac, Owen Coyle Brendan Rodgers and many more of similar failed backgrounds .
Deila given time will work in the youth, the only way we can afford that will improve us. If the supporters recognise we have problems and really get behind the team we can reach our goals.

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21 Dec 2015 19:20:26
Rumours not true but if he loses to Hearts I think they will bin him at that point. I have heard that there are serious concerns at Board level and Lawell is getting put under pressure. Up to now it was Lawell who was keeping the support for him going now that is becoming difficult.

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22 Dec 2015 22:59:10
Johnnymac
With all due respect when I read that there are serious concerns at board level

And when these concerns back your posts, you forgive me for been sceptical .
Could you explain your sources?

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20 Dec 2015 22:06:20
Oldbhoy my place is a hoot far from what is going on at parkhead motherwells 1st win at parkhead in 7 years pumped in Europe and teams that can't get into the Europa league competing with us and beating us ie aberdeen hearts soon to be sevco hope I'm wrong oldboy but we are not as good as you think we are get behind the team I do when we were 2 1 down against we'll I wanted us to come back but we're not good enough atm we need to go to another level I want champions league I want parkhead to be feared again at home and in Europe I want us way ahead of aberdeen not 1 point and not them taking us to the split I mean hearts aren't that far off Ronny s team don't do well under pressure that's what worries me for next year hail hail.

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21 Dec 2015 07:58:15
Lawwell has to go first and foremost. I wouldn't be against RD staying as long as a much mooted DOF was in place. this person needs to be exceptional.

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21 Dec 2015 14:59:24
PaddyMaguire I remember a Celtic team with a splinkling of stars all through the team losing 2-1. To ' Well, maybe before your time but that defeat handed the League to Rangers on a platter . The manager of that team is still idolised by very many of our fans for what he achieved over 4-5 yrs just as WGS and Lennon after him . Some of these men wouldn't have as good Celtic CV's as they now have if they had been tossed out when things weren't going too well in their first 2 yrs .

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21 Dec 2015 15:33:52
Oldboy, the defeat you talk about came at the end of his tenure in charge, before that her had won a treble against a strong Rangers team, he took us to a Uefa cup final, and generally took us from being a mile behind Rangers to overtaking them. Martin o'neill had done plenty of good things for Celtic, that fans don't hold the Motherwell defeat against him.
I don't know how you've got the brass neck to try and compare Martin o'neill's record with Ronny's. You constantly spout absolute drivel but this just about takes the biscuit.

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21 Dec 2015 15:35:11
I think that Motherwell team had a lot more quality than the current one plus that celtic team were finished if us remember it was on its knees.

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21 Dec 2015 18:42:57
MO' N won a lot of trophies with Celtic and we should always be grateful for what he achieved, however he also deserves to take the negative vibes for allowing his team to be on their knees .
Deila with a far weaker squad wouldn't be allowed that excuse, from those who make most noise and matter least .

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20 Dec 2015 21:37:19
Has Ronnie quit.

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20 Dec 2015 23:03:04
Hope so like Ronny as a man but he's outa his depth.

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20 Dec 2015 23:14:51
Hopefully!

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21 Dec 2015 15:05:56
Paddy, how often have you met RD, have you spent many days / nights in his company . I wonder how you like him as a man?
Does he know how you feel about him as a Manager, or that you are posting behind his back.

As a man I am neutral about RD, I don't have to like him .
I think he is trying to improve Celtic ( on the cheap) as he knows there is no other alternative, unless by some rare chance we can enter a competition annually without preconditions which gave us an opportunity to earn real money .

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20 Dec 2015 19:59:53
I check celtic news every day in hope celtic have got rid of rd and jc before the transfer window opens please give me a good present before Ronny does anymore damage if we don't get a manager that knows what he's doing this time next year well be out of the champions league. If we're lucky enough to make the qualifications and Europa league and dare I say it trailing sevco in the league maybe then the Ronny fans will wake up this Ronny rein is doomed for more failure if he thinks this is pressure being a celtic manager wait until next year as he's always says that will be real pressure.

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20 Dec 2015 21:13:38
You seem to be a very happy and positive person, living in your house& area would be a hoot . Your thoughts about RD is one thing but I would give you a lot more credit if u could suggest a couple of names that u are sure will improve Celtic .
I am surprised that you think Sevco will be in front of Celtic in 12 months time, first of all it will take a minor miracle for Sevco to exist this time next season, if they do survive an administration event is certain which will put Sevco/Rangers out of play off places. So Patrick don't fret about that part and get behind Manager and players you will be amazed how with encouragement results can Improve.

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20 Dec 2015 21:21:16
Minor miracle us must be joking Motherwell 1st win in 7 years pumped in Europe hearts not far off us maybe you think we're better than we actually are just stating the facts aberdeen took us to the split and were still in it like they are now 1 point off Ronny s celtic at Xmas if Ronny was managing aberdeen and d McInnis was celtic boss Wed be out a sight sorry but these teams that are not far behind us can't even make Europa league.

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20 Dec 2015 21:26:20
Is that your great hope then oldboy that sevco go into administration? teams with smaller budgets are competing and beating us.

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20 Dec 2015 21:25:34
Old bhoy you can't keep on getting behind the manager when its clear to most he hasn't got it. Your blinded by loyalty and like most Ronny Revellers just don't want to admit the guy is way out of his depth and lose the arguement. Take your head out the sand.

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20 Dec 2015 22:52:18
Old Bhoy, do you seriously believe that admin is going to happen?
Paddy, as for being out of sight. not if you keep selling your best players. No manager can do much better. Why do you think MON, WGS, NL left? The club made the decision to sell at every opportunity. You build a team, they sell the nucleus. You cannot plan to have a group of players over 2-3 seasons (while putting in players to be ready to replace possible sell-ons)

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20 Dec 2015 23:09:41
U can if you use the money like Porto do if you don't you get the best man tell me one good Norwegian manager.

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20 Dec 2015 23:40:56
The chances of a managerial change in the immediate future seems unlikely unless we have a major meltdown in the next month or so and the treble hopes evaporate.
Most of us are unhappy at the direction the club has taken since - even since the WGS days with the ongoing sale of our better players with sub-standard replacements and the apparent decline in European ambition and performances.

The situation at Celtic could be a scaled down version of big EPL clubs, where players have failed to respond or 'buy into' a managers philosophy or interpretation; as although a few players have improved per say or are having a good spell - there are others who have went decidedly backwards or have fallen out of favour and then there's the ones who are just simply not good enough.

The performance and result yesterday is worrying at least - if not a total disaster - as it again shows that Celtic park is not the fortress it once was in recent seasons and inferior clubs have been breaking hoodoos and getting results that were unthinkable against a decent Celtic side.
Another concern is the lack of clean sheets the defence and in particular this goalie has had all season, but as we have an untested deputy who doesn't have the managers eye - we seem to be in a hope for the best situation?

The transfer window is almost upon us and we seem to be concentrating on Scottish 'talent' as it's cheaper (and the scouts can use their transcends)
Instead of looking at the fourth or fifth team in the SPL or lower divisions- why not try Aberdeen as they have one or two who could certainly do better than some of the duds we have at present - or are we too afraid they'll say Naw when we offer the usual postal order and gift vouchers?

Sorry just having a laugh guys;
Have a great Christmas and new year all you regular posters, contributors and characters and thanks ed007 for keeping the best supporters site online 'Tic-king' over.
Hope Lawell gets a visit from the ghosts of Celtic past!

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21 Dec 2015 15:18:30
Tiny Tim obviously nobody can be certain that Rangers will go into admin . However the signs are stronger than this time in 2011 and we know about the Valentine's massacre at Ibrox . End of 2011 Rangers had a squal of SPL players, apparently worth quite a bit of money . This yr waifs& strays picked up on loans and short term deals . Kenny Miller one of the few whose contract doesn't end in June .
Rangers have liars without money running the show . A mth ago they sent off £5m cheque to M Ashley for his loan . Ashley is hoping it is by Santa post .
Rangers need £2.5 m and more to see out season . They need millions upon millions to prepare stadium and team for SPL if they do make it . Millions on legal fees
A con man would always look for administration in these circumstances and what is King?

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21 Dec 2015 17:30:23
So Paddy, now that you can't find anything else bad to say about Deila, your starting to talk shit about Norway as a whole? Then maybe you should take a look at this years European standings? Norway's tippeligaen is acctually higher placed than the scottish SPL, two teams are better placed than Celtic and our national team is not doing that bad?
Yes Norway ain't the best league in the world but the SPL isn't exactly the cream of the crop at the moment.
This is like "my father is stronger than yours" debate and i don't like you talking shit about something you just don't know shit about.

Sorry, rant over.

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21 Dec 2015 20:49:44
As a Celtic fan I can have my say ronnys not cutting it at Celtic so take it easy fella count to 10 or something hail hail anyway although u don't seem to be much of a Celtic fan over and out!

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22 Dec 2015 23:03:44
Paddymaguire Are you sane?
Norwegianred doesn't write post after post making totally stupid and inappropriate statements about people working day and night for Celtic
Yet you are rude enough to question Norwegianred support for Celtic .

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23 Dec 2015 17:24:30
Also I think you'll see I've had mostly agrees on here.

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20 Dec 2015 16:24:00
It seems some of our posters want a new manager, can't really blame them but RD is certainly under pressure.
Who could we get if that was the case.
Jose? Cudnt possibly succeed as he wudnt be allowed his own assistants.
Ancelloti? Nah he would have to down size.
Pep? Plays a high pressing game, but does it work.
Moyes? Wud prob only play 1 up top. And not pick his own signings.
Coyle? A puppet no doubt.
Stubbs? Forward thinking manager idealistic but results are now not in the future.
Ebbe Skhovdal? Why not he did it in his own country.

And your favourite DN, Lennon? Nah cudnt possibly have him because he had a calender, but he does get results in Europe.
Just a light hearted slant on some of the excuses that get rolled out for Ronny.
Guys the sheer fact that Ronny needs excuses tells us he is not doing a great job.

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20 Dec 2015 19:45:40
If anyone could come up with the name of someone who we can realistically get and reasons why this new person would do a better job than RD, I would listen, at the moment I have my doubts, any new person would be too big a risk .

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20 Dec 2015 20:17:35
Derek McInnis 1 point off celtic with aberdeen! Says it all really if the dons had Ronny they would prob be mid table.

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20 Dec 2015 21:20:48
Paddy someone else could say RD could be 6 points clear .

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20 Dec 2015 22:39:20
And they would be mad because Ronny s struggling with the best team players budget yet would be 6 clear with aberdeen lol.

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21 Dec 2015 15:28:28
Paddy your argument lacks sense . I f leagues were won on budgets alone, every league set up would have every team with the same budget .
Football people throughout the decades knows that the biggest budget alone is not enough .

What more can Deila do, he won league at first time of asking and despite playing 8/10!more non leagues than any other team he is one point clear and a game in hand . I know that if the board appoint another manager there is a chance he could do better or he could do worse .
Deila is our Deila and as a Celtic supporter I will support him and encourage him .
I am sorry if it is wrong to support our manager and our players .
I remember in the 70's when ( maybe your grand-father ) were chanting Stein out because some anti Celt had written in the record that it was time for a younger man.

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21 Dec 2015 16:40:09
ronny the next stein then? i think we can do better that's all.

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21 Dec 2015 18:45:04
Paddy why try to make yourself look sillier than you really are .

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20 Dec 2015 15:58:03
Alright Ed?, You very quiet mate know you like the dust to settle either that you over did the christmas night out or fed up listening to us :-)

we were dire yesterday mate and not for the first time

A noticed a while back one of the Eds had said RD might not be the man to take us forward but it needs a full overhaul

Like others a don't know where we go from here but it cannot go on like this RD is now only starting to talk about a Plan B or C and he should have had that figured before now

But if he goes there no queue forming to take the post under PL's restraints

In all honesty how much longer do you expect it to be allowed to motor on like this mate/folks?

ATVB JB7.

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{Ed007's Note - There was far too many passengers in the game but yesterday was the poorest performance I've seen under RD.}

20 Dec 2015 16:39:32
Do u think its time for him to go ED? I honestly can't remember watching such an uninspiring team on the pitch! No leadership, no guile, no quality and no clue! That yesterday was abysmal mate! And how many times have we said that now under this guy?

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{Ed007's Note - No.}

20 Dec 2015 20:04:14
So u honestly think we can progress under this guy ED? After what's happened yet again in Europe and that yesterday?

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{Ed007's Note - I've backed worse managers.}

20 Dec 2015 20:45:06
We are in a results oriented sports industry, yesterday was bad, very bad and it's a moot point when you see so many players under performing, is it the manager or individual players that are not performing who is to blame .
La lObviously we can't continue with the team playing like yesterday but I don't think so we will under Deila . Deila last season won the league and league cup and is well placed to do the same this season and add the cup as well. Wouldn't it be ridiculous to sack a potential treble winning manager.
We were very badly missing a bit of drive guts and determination in midfield, a certain Scot Brown would certainly provide that and I am sure Deila is worried that he will be missing at least until March.

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20 Dec 2015 22:14:00
Old Bhoy Brown played in the away defeats to both Malmo and Molde and also the defeat away to Aberdeen. Also played in both draws at home to Hearts and Kilmarnock so your taking nonsense we don't miss him at all what we are missing is real quality in that area of the pitch in fact all over the pitch tbh.

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21 Dec 2015 15:35:41
Celticforever you are a great man at listing out bits of facts . Obviously Brown can't play the entire opponents on his own but I think most normal Celtic fans would feel that his presence playing when any way near fit improves the team .

We are supposed to believe you ahead of Scottish International managers and Celtic managers for the last 8/10 yrs .
If you did have an iota of influence of how footballers think, Celtic players would all leave after a couple of yrs rather than have their reputation tarnished by your nonsense

I could understand if you were a Rangers fan who wandered over .

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20 Dec 2015 12:22:34
Hi ed

Yesterday was poor. I had an improved view yesterday with the benefit of hospitality and for the four hour visit there was 90 nondescript minutes. For me he issues were multifaceted. Chiefly ENERGY. It wasn't there and RD didn't seem to change his body language throughout first half. It is as if we all expect the breakthrough and then we will find a rhythm and take it from there with the pressure off. The energy was wrong from the first minute. The second aspect for me was DIG bee have a SOFT CENTRE. That is a character thing. A winning mentality. Difficult to coach in to a player. Then old adage BORN WINNER springs to mind. The next thing has to be CONFIDENCE. With 20 minutes to go the only player who seemed capable of even attempting to deliver a killer cross was TIERNEY. He was knackered. Everyone kept giving him the ball and he threw one ball in, one after the other after the other. He had nothing left by the end. The issue here for me was a TOTAL lack of leadership. Give it to the young lad because I don't want the ball. We are ALREADY over reliant on an 18 year old

The long ball up to CIFTCI and COLE was very depressing to watch. Very predictable. COLE looks incredibly slow and laboured. CIFTCI didn't even flirt with an acceptable tempo from the start. Is the hunger there?

The quality isn't there. Where the buck stops is more difficult to gauge but the fans are saying away in droves and that must be a concern

Lethargy is ENGULFING our club. So long as the cash register is ringing up a profit few at board level will care. But if they're honest they will know that their strategy is turning fans away.

I was there yesterday but folk are now giving up free bar and food all day plus match day tickets! You can't give your season ticket away. The green brigade could have fitted in an über excel Vauxhall people carrier!

If we're honest we know that big NiR isn't a £10m player. His touch yesterday was woeful. His tackling inept. His leadership qualities blatantly absent. The mercurial lustig played with lead in his boots and Scott Allan played like a Rangers fan in a Celtic Jersey upset at the lunchtime result!

Would Aiden Nesbitt do any harm? Should we offer ICT another few grand to cancel Christies loan and get him down the A9

RD is told to say that progress is being made and that good times are ahead. PL pokes fun at our city dwellers across the city to deflect. Our players are dropping like flies because the hunger and desire is t there.

Our issue isn't poor form or dressing room Unrest. We have a distinctly average crop of players ( no harm intended to the more youthful players ) and a vey average management team. Why should we expect anything other than what is being served up? Because we are a club like no other? Who plays like they are with a club like no other?

Celtic were a big colourful charismatic charming characterful club LIkE NO OTHER in a backwater league and we got the benefit of the doubt from time to time and were able to watch and enjoy some outstanding talent.

The magic has gone. Just as there is lethargy on the pitch there is lethargy off it.

Could you imagine Celtic park without the GB?

Dear Santa please bring back the thunder. Whatever it invokes. If I have to dig deeper then so be it

I don't need to watch a winning team. But I wouldn't mind terribly watching a starting eleven that cares as much as I do

Not wanting to slaughter RD. He is a lucky man to have been given the opportunity! He didn't give himself the job. That said, inexperience aside, he does have the responsibility to motivate organise and set up our mediocre squad and IF HE DOES CARE he needs to find a solution that manifests in the players playing as though they care too!

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20 Dec 2015 13:44:54
Yeah.

Disagree with the above. Makes a lot of sense! NOT.

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20 Dec 2015 13:51:21
Would you agree wth

Fans upbeat
Celtic park rocking
Players playing with style
Future rosy
RD the next stein
Majority of players heading to camp nou
CL qualification a given

The cancer ripping through our club is LETHARGY. We have convinced ourselves that the balance sheet is the only priority

The priority is entertainment. Entertainment drives interest and interest generates revenues

Season ticket sales next season will drop like a stone unless they get promoted and they spend money and they say we aren't inextricably linked HA.

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20 Dec 2015 19:40:17
I agree with all that paradisewon, the lethargy affecting our club is becoming a cancer, unfortunately it's not until the revenues start to take a dive that anything will get done about it.
I left home yesterday at 5.30am, and got back at 11pm, for the first time I can remember I was driving back thinking why on earth do I bother.
It's not the defeat that was so depressing, it was the performance, in our last two home games we have managed 1 goal against two of the bottom teams in the division, and we didn't look as if we had any idea how to break these teams down.
Changes need to be made at the club from top to bottom, we need people running the club with a bit of ambition and vision, otherwise the finances at the club will nosedive, we won't get any Champions league money because we're so poor, and the season ticket sales will fall off a cliff if this continues.
Fair play to Motherwell, they deserved their win yesterday, but that sums Ronny up for me, even Mark McGhee seems to have a better tactical brain than Deila, and he can seemingly motivate his players better as well.
For the posters on here that like Deila because he isn't Neil Lennon, I would like to ask, how low do we have to sink before you will start to consider the damage this manager is doing to our club? .

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20 Dec 2015 20:59:36
I find your post dated and wearsome Paradisewon Christie has already joined up with Celtic injured for another month or so, but not going back North. Your jibe about PL making jokes about them is also historic . Thunder reference very dated . I think your comment about Scot Allen is really beneath you, all that it takes is a few other idiots to believe you and Scot Allen who could be a player who could provide a spark of brilliance in the future could have a Celtic career finished . I dislike your comment as I don't think you can judge how a Rangers fan whose team got beat at lunch time would play like .

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21 Dec 2015 12:07:18
Old bhoy

Your post makes absolutely no sense. My post dated? Really. I was at the game and so it is technically up to the minute

The Allan comment was in jest. When he came on he was abysmal

Christie comment ( injury aside) is plain silly and you were simply point scoring

Why don't you give all of us 5 fact based reasons why RD should be entrusted with our club's future. Fact based mind. And don't tell us such and such has improved because for every improved player there are two that are going backwards

Your reposte will take you a very long time because you have nothing. I have reviewed your posts and you sir are like a broken record. Wearisome. Laboured and repetitive

Are you RD or PL or a relative of either?

Remember. If responding don't lower yourself to point scoring. Leave that to me. You focus on WHY RD is to be backed. But fact based mind. Fact based.

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21 Dec 2015 15:43:52
Paradise lost
P L pokes fun at our city dwellers Was that Saturday or years ago?
Bring back the thunder, Surely that was Lennon said again years ago!

I have no intention of discussing the game, you say not in as many words, but it was obvious that you were drunk as a Lord .
Too much old cheap Scottish spirits and not fit for it .
Surely u should have enough self respect to not report on things seen when drunk.

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21 Dec 2015 18:55:33
Fact based with a far smaller budget Deila's first 18 months at Celtic compares very favourable with the first 18 mths of MO'N WGS and Lennon.

Our only hope of building our club seems to be through using our youth . Deila has experience bringing youth through .

Most important Deila is our Manager, he is the Celtic manager, and it is our role as supporters to support& encourage manager and team .
Celtic seem to be getting better results away from home than at home . Are our fans getting at our players rather than getting behind our players, confidence can lift teams to a higher level .
Us supporters cannot pick team or manager but we can encourage . sneering about Rangers link may seem funny to someone snozzled but not to people in normal fit and proper state to discuss game .

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20 Dec 2015 11:33:04
I was driving in Glasgow and I had just passed Ibrox stadium where I stopped to watch 2 men in their 40's each nail their scarf and season ticket to the big wooden front door of the main stand and drive away! Once I was sure they were gone I got out of my car and was able to retrieve them for myself. You can never have too many nails!

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20 Dec 2015 17:16:26
So, you disagree about having enough nails. sad.

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{Ed001's Note - maybe they work in a hardware store?}

20 Dec 2015 11:05:03
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, 10 Things In The News

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20 Dec 2015 02:29:10
What other celtic manager would survive this unbelievable.

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20 Dec 2015 05:21:08
Lennon.

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20 Dec 2015 08:03:47
The board will never sack RD as the board have never truly caked him in the transfer market or even to allow him to bring his backroom team with him. So how can they sack a guy that they have never give en a y kind of budget too ut consistently sell his best players.

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20 Dec 2015 09:10:25
Lawell won't sack him as it would make him look bad. I like RD but I can't even bring myself to watch games anymore there that bad.

I see no progress, maybe we don't have good players in Tierney, Bitton and Griffiths it's just the rest are really poor.

We badly need a quality signing or two to help bring fans back. Some of my mates have had season tickets all there life and now won't watch Celtic until RD is gone. There genuine supporters that simply won't accept what's happening to our club.

Does a new manager make any difference and if so who? Can't think of anyone that is out of a job that will do anything great for us.

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20 Dec 2015 09:37:11
Goid one DN bud!

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20 Dec 2015 09:50:59
Cheers JimTim lol.

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20 Dec 2015 11:03:46
I like Ronny as well, but I've got friends with 3/4 season tickets and most are getting unused every week - even the kids/teenagers are bored with it! It is brutal and have not progressed since last year, fact! Ronny is a clever guy, has good ideas but the world is full of managers/people in general who can't turn that into success! It could be one thing in their character that kills them! John Hughes or Derek McInnes couldn't have done a worse job for us this season, and I wouldn't have either as manager! I think we need someone older, I think it would help in the pressure/European games, especially with this team being young aka rubbish! I would like Prandelli, then Bielsa, I think Prandelli could be talked into it with a good offer, he went to turkey and left a few months ago because the club are a shambles! Bielsa spoke to Swansea, so surely he would at least speak to us. We would have to pay both a good wage but I'd prefer that to 2/3 average players! I would let them bring in their own staff if they wanted, or contemplate guys like Hartley/Stubbs (if he'd take it) as an extra assistant/coach. A lot of top managers have 2/3 assistants and having someone who knows the club would be a huge help, certainly initially! I also think doing it now would give them a chance to improve their English for next season! Pochettino didn't speak a word of English and what a job he's done, - I read a stat that he's coached 10 of the last 11 players who's made their England debut! That's incredible, and I know he adores Bielsa and said he's an inspiration to him! I hate saying this, I was praying Ronny would do better - this season has been an absolute nightmare though!

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20 Dec 2015 11:06:06
Well done DN 30 I see you are asking for Lenny to come back. It takes a big man to admit his mistake.

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20 Dec 2015 11:48:05
The odd domestic draw and defeat will happen I accept that. However what I don't accept is the manner in which Celtic are playing its just the same old garbage we don't look any fitter and don't have any entertaining players. Rd is a poor mans Mowbray. I have no faith in him whatsoever. He fails to inspire me let alone an overpaid modern day footballer. Punt him now because if Celtic struggle to beat low end spl teams that can't get past euro qualifiers against Kazakhstan Romania Iceland Sweden minnows then what chance do we have in the qualifiers.

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20 Dec 2015 12:06:32
Spot on. Last years good players going backwards and the coaching staff can't get a fit squad to pass properly, and as for defence we've all seen the disasters that Helen week in and week out. When we can't see any improvement it's time to get rid of RD, his signings have been terrible and the prospect of him bringing in more duds in Jan - duds that we'll be landed with for the next 4years. Do the right thing and let him coach a team that's at his level.

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20 Dec 2015 12:06:41
I think Ronnies a nice guy, but he is an idealist, I just don't think he's a manager, why does he change the team every week?, if he's not changing the defence he's changing the midfield, as for Lennon, I can't remember as many bad performances domestically when he was in charge, even some of the games that have been won, the teams not played well, I know some people have an issue with the board that means they are blinkered to Ronnies shortcomings, but Celtic have got the players, that shoud be storming away with this league, but they are not being coached or managed properly, maybe Ronnie will get a grip in the second half of the season, but if Aberdeen win the league, he has to go.

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20 Dec 2015 12:34:50
Experienced managers currently not working. Prandelli, Mazzari, Spalletti, Bielsa, Heynckes, Hitzfeld, Schaff. 3 novices - Yakin, Seedorf, Monk. My potential dark horse - Lucien Favre! I forgot he just left Monchengladbach, he is a great age, and very highly regarded! I remember the last time (when Lennon left) I fancied Tuchel, I remember Ed talking about Yakin, - he's left Russia! There's 3 Italians there, the thing about Italians is they would settle easy in Glasgow for obvious reasons. Think of the players we have had, and the other mob have had! So there is options, the majority wouldn't be interested but with a good offer I think Prandelli and Favre would be!

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20 Dec 2015 13:18:08
Keeping in mind that I don't think we will sack RD anytime soon, I think that we should get rid of Collins and replace him with Joe Jordan. He is working as a pundit just now (I think) He has a huge amount of experience and drive and would very quickly sort out any players not giving 100%. I don't know how much anybody can improve the skills of the existing players, but I would be happier if every team player gave everything on match day. As an ex boxer, I understand the problem of leaving your best efforts in the training area and I think that this is part of our problem under RD. big Joe could offer advice in a lot of the areas that RD struggles.

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20 Dec 2015 17:10:25
Massive backward move, Joe Jordan had his chance at Celtic Park, and couldn't get away quick enough.

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20 Dec 2015 21:23:31
Paddy Maguire could you tell us what other manager in the last 30!yrs has done much better than RD in their first 18 months .

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