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01 Aug 2021 11:00:15
Last night was as predictable as it was depressing.
Eddie howe who is jobless and undoubtedly desperate to get a job, now looks like a really disciplined guy, who wouldn't put his own ego over his football values and beliefs.
Who would want to represent a clubs hierarchy are destined to squander the efforts and investment of our great support and football legacy.
I am not convinced by our domestic dominance, the decline in Europe said all. Particularly if we look over the road to the resilience they display on a European stage.
Dominic mackay, a marketing guy from Scottish rugby, says it all, his one press conference left me with the sense his own ego had led him to the job as opposed to really looking at himself in the mirror and saying he could do it for this club. His words meant nothing, saying we need to modernise is meaningless. Words that look even more empty now.
The whole transfer of power from lawwell to Mckay looks like murrays midnight flit from rangers, putting the hollow shell of a club up for a pound.
We now need to find serious investment and go into debt to rebuild.
However the most tradgic thing which has been lost at our club, is the ability to tell the truth, be honest with us the supporters.
I will give any manager a chance, but the fact Ange didn't insist on his own backroom staff speaks volumes for the lack of the influence he holds or the fact he doesn't recognise great leadership requires a great team.
I reckon the guy has vision, but maybe his achilles heal is the sense he can do it all on his own.
1.) 01 Aug 2021 11:10:54
Imo-67, that's one of the most concise posts I've read on here in a very, very long time.
2.) 01 Aug 2021 11:24:50
We all knew we had to be patient and constructive with the huge task that Ange and McKay inherited, however, when we see the same stupid mistakes being repeated all over again, with a backdrop of hollow promises and echoes from the previous regime, we feel apprehensive.
3.) 01 Aug 2021 12:26:32
I'm beginning to wonder if MacKay is a front and Lawwell still pulling the strings.
4.) 01 Aug 2021 14:30:00
"We’ve all got to realise that the majority doesn’t succeed; it’s always the minority. So I am always looking for a minority view"
Desmond D
This is a quote from our press shy owner, a man who clearly only trusts his own view.
Football is a team game on and off the pitch. This guy doesn't like teams, amd he won't relinquish enough control for them to be formed.
He quiet simply has to go, nothing substantial and sustainable at the club will happen with him there, beyond the bi annual trophy exchange with rangers, in a very depleted league.
28 Jul 2021 22:24:11
That was as obvious as it was painful. We are in an awful position with very weak resources.
Take a deep breath it will be a long season. I hope the manager hasn't been to optimistic in his assessment of what is required.
25 Jun 2021 19:30:05
Haven't posted in sometime, nothing to say really. Not much happened, watched the press conference.
Our chairman, who is meant to the be the highest level of strategic advise needs to go.
Dominic Mckay needs to stop bite his lip, concerned about the generic words that flowed from his mouth. don't expect to much, scottish rugby is about not a great fiscal success
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Big Ange, I liked him, 5th or 2nd . he does not care, Russell Crowe type of character. I am just hoping
it is Cinderela Man and not Body of Lies.
HH.
1.) 25 Jun 2021 23:47:05
I was really worried at mckays answers they were so scripted and generic as you said lmo, all his answers to every question were the same and wernt really answers, I hope the disconnect between us and them doesn’t become even greater, as a fan all you want from the board is ambition and transparency.
14 Mar 2021 16:32:14
Keane would be step up from lennon in many ways, authority, player pulling power and general profile internationally etc.
Clearly not at the same level as Rogers in terms of player development, but what matters in that regard is the support team.
Regardless of manger it would be a larger concern if Kennedy and the chief scout remain in post.
Kennedy is stale and unproven outside the walls of celtic his body Language with lennon was shocking. The head of recruitment is a long-term mistake.
So Keane is not necessarily a bad choice, but his support team is fundamental.
At celtic he would instill a mentality which has been absent, even during the Rogers era as evident by our European record in that time which was poor.
1.) 14 Mar 2021 17:02:34
Totally agree Imo.
2.) 14 Mar 2021 17:26:12
As a manager remind me how many times Keane got his team to the last 16 of the CL?
How many league titles has he won as a manager?
How many cups has he won as a manager?
From my recollection his greatest achiement was getting Sunderland promoted from the Championship.
Really have no idea how you reached the conclusion that Keane is a better manager than Lennon.
3.) 14 Mar 2021 17:47:31
Crazy logic.
4.) 14 Mar 2021 17:51:47
In fairness he took on two jobs where the teams where awful where as Lennon got Celtic at a time where we had no real competition
For every good level result Lennon had he had 2 or 3 hugely embarrassing results
You can’t judge the two fairly. Keane flopped at Ipswich Lennon flopped at Bolton - that’s the only things that these 2 can be judged on.
5.) 14 Mar 2021 18:28:57
Not saying i want Keane but going by your logic LAW we should just hire Lennon back as anyone we hire will be a backwards step as they won't be as a good a manager as Lennon.
6.) 14 Mar 2021 18:35:32
There are better candidates than Keane to be our next manager.
7.) 14 Mar 2021 19:58:11
LennonAtWork are you on having a laugh?
You are going on about Keane not winning any cups, not getting into the last 16 of the CL, not winning any titles but yesterday on another post you said that although he wasn't your first choice you would be happy with Wilder as our new manager. How many things has he won?
How many Titles, Cups had Rodgers won or got his teams into the last 16 of the CL before he came here and how did he do in Europe with Celtic?
O'Neill won the League Cup but what else had he done?
You then also stated in another post that because Ferguson and Mourinho had been sacked that Wilder isn't a bad manager.
You honestly can't be placing Wilder in the same bracket as Ferguson and Mourinho.
8.) 14 Mar 2021 23:04:21
Wilder has a much better track record than Roy Keane.
Rodgers had taken Liverpool to within a whisker of winning the EPL.
O'Neil had won the League Cup with Leicster and done Wonders with Wycombe Wanderers before that. He had also got Leicster to the Quarter Finals of the UEFA cup.
Lennon actually took over an extremely rubbish team after Mowbray, had to sell his best player and done a complete rebuild. In his first season he was up against Walter Smith and finished 1 point behind and after that he won every league title apart from this one.
Now you do not have to agree but I would take Lennon before Keane every day of the week as I think Keane will come in and upset the players and don't think he will improve us in the slightest. Would also take John Kennedy before Keane, although I don't want any of Keane, Lennon or Kennedy.
Don't get me wrong I really like Keane and have nothing but respect for his playing career, just don't rate him as a manager. Getting Keane would make me feel even lower than I did when we appointed Lennon right after winning the treble treble.
9.) 15 Mar 2021 13:20:50
Lennon should never have been in contention to return to celtic. Sacked at Bolton and hibs.
16 Jan 2021 17:43:55
Success is built upon great decision making across a range of areas.
The club has lost its aura and resilience entirely, and that hurts.
What Rogers provided in terms of professionalism has been pissed up the wall, yes he didn't cracked Europe, but he turned a bunch of under achievers into invincible.
He wasn't afforded the luxury of investmemt like MON in real terms, but he took us as far as he was allowed to. Anyone who questions why he left should consider the context of his employment. A senior executive who are stale and arrogant.
We are in crisis and we should turn of our subscriptions off, until the board and those who have authored this decline do the right thing.
He left because the club didn't want to support him, he didn't leave because he didn't support the club.
Lennon nice guy, but a manager who isn't of the correct calibre, But the buck stops with DD, I don't want the scraps of his table, I want him out, because he failed to build in the Rogers legacy, has allowed that vision to be ransacked amd the contempt he has for the average supported.
He is simply the whytes with cash.
1.) 16 Jan 2021 18:00:37
Imo-67, good post. Unfortunately I don't see DD leaving unless someone comes along with deep pockets and buys him out.
I get the impression that being the 'largest shareholder' of Celtic Football Club is a nice conversation piece at corporate events and family do's.
2.) 16 Jan 2021 18:09:54
DD treats us his little hobby, he should have been attracting investors so that we could retain the s had and build on it this cycle of selling quality and gambling on ‘future prospects’ and loan deals for players who are stagnating in the EPL is a disastrous strategy added to that placing our success on a coach who was cheap, easily manipulated by PL. The board are let’s face it interested in balance sheets not the club our proud history, or our supporters so yes I agree let’s make sure they realise that the money will dry up if they don’t take decisive action and put together a strategy for success.
3.) 16 Jan 2021 18:46:55
Limo-67 (QUOTE) ‘ He left because the club didn't want to support him he didn't leave because he didn't support the club. ’
What total and absolute nonsense. The man is a rodent and it’s all about Brendan. He jeopardised the 9 never mind the 10 and tried to take our backroom staff with him that would have damaged us further. It was always all about Brendan. We were used as a stepping stone to the EPL which was fair enough. Regardless of what he would have achieved or how he was backed be was heading south. He’s been there longer than he was in Ireland and they’re welcome to him. What isn’t fair enough was the lies and the bullsh****t he spouted along the way. If Brendan Rodgers told me the date I’d check the calendar.
4.) 16 Jan 2021 20:20:19
Exactly jfp. I don’t deny he was a great coach and done well but the mr Celtic persona sticks in my throat.
5.) 17 Jan 2021 15:05:48
Totally agree jfp was never taken in by his bullsh#t rhetoric as I once said to a guy speaking of an article in one of the rags I would not believe the date at the top of said hh.
25 Jul 2021 16:29:16
This department that department the next department, any business which falls apart illustrates one thing, a lack of collective values and focus.
We can dice, slice, and mince each others opinions, lament past errors, but the reality is our club is controlled by one guy, who hasn't built a collaborative business culture.
If we can't change staff without falling apart we are not a business, we are trading on the assets of individuals, mainly players, who will see the lack of overall coherence, equally they have 15 years to reach there dreams.
The manager the ceo, these guys are employees, no more no less.
We should acknowledge the league is out of grasp, we are a cup team this season, and if change is not rapid next will be same.
Europe is a windfall, but otherwise a distraction.
Let's keep and bring in players who see our club as a destination not a spring board.
21 Nov 2020 20:39:36
We need to realistic, the current gig is a poisoned chalice so we are not going to attract anything like that level. until this 10 thing is done and dusted.
An old friendly hand with international experience, so this doesn't become more embarrassing. is a possibility.
01 Aug 2021 14:30:00
"We’ve all got to realise that the majority doesn’t succeed; it’s always the minority. So I am always looking for a minority view"
Desmond D
This is a quote from our press shy owner, a man who clearly only trusts his own view.
Football is a team game on and off the pitch. This guy doesn't like teams, amd he won't relinquish enough control for them to be formed.
He quiet simply has to go, nothing substantial and sustainable at the club will happen with him there, beyond the bi annual trophy exchange with rangers, in a very depleted league.
29 Jul 2021 16:48:59
No, we are paying over the odds for a depleted squad, the idea that soro is a replacement for brown or any of the raft of sub standard full backs we have brought in for Tierney and lustig reveals our senior leaderships mentality.
12 Jul 2021 18:17:41
Wim jansen brought in Henrik within 3 weeks of his arrival on the 3rd of July 1997, ( best keeper we ever had) others did similar.
Ange has not landed one of his own yet, his lack of eye contact in the after match interview against Charlton said alot.
The oz keeper, would have been a step up between the sticks, both bain and barkas are mentally burst at celtic.
All new eras need a bounce, a statement of intent, supporting the new manager. I haven't seen any such gesture.
That is a huge concern. The champions league is beyond us, but we all know that. I would however like to see a vision for the club being set out, not the empty rhetoric I have heard to date.
Back the manager, but his lack of eye contact last week said a lot about how supported he feels.
Get rid of all who have not shown a desire or the respect to play for the club in recent times, it is contaminating our season before it even begins.
The manager, we cannot fairly judge the man until he is properly supported, I suspect that may not happen.
This could be a very long season.
23 Nov 2020 20:04:30
Its hard to disagree with any of that, and other points made elsewhere, regarding our player quality, versus output on the park. it is just wrong.
It can be argued that DUff inspired our post Christmas renaissance, and those foreign player with us saw him as the man who helped them progress.
Gone. and not replaced with any profile.
Something has changed, and went badly badly wrong during the summer.
A patch work quilt of signing who couldn't get a game elsewhere, almost to a man. and a lot of cash. Ajeti plus klimala = eddy investment!
Who was monitoring Griff during lockdown these guys are tracked all the time, if not why not.
At falls on NL and great servants should know when to go.
If we were going to change manager before Christmas it would have happened during the international break as other have said.
Lennon isn't happy, he doesn't appear to look after himself either.
The league would be miracle without another collapse ( unlikely, they have progressed as we have gone backwards. beeping in the parking bay where RDelia left us.
Our full backs have been down graded to a 3m signing from Kilmarnock! , a journey man on loan, and a young player learning his trade.
We will have a sorry from the board at the end of May and not before.
Why would they spend now on what, a miracle!
I am praying for several!
21 Nov 2020 18:57:21
The wishful thinking has to end, we have no resilient shape or structure of play.
Lennon who I like as a person, seems under pressure ( playing the blame game) , out of shape ( no example to the squad) , and out of ideas ( no coherent strategy to control play) .
We do have the best resources, but have made some shocking signing decisions and that alone means he must go.