The Celtic All Seasons thread

[Greenlantern]

I thought McGregor is out for tomorrow?
Bitton can bench for me, his passing and ball retention is way off.
Henderson is looking better in each game he plays.

[GNU_Linux]

Whats with Bain getting a run of games? Is he no longer a complete bombscare of a keeper?

[Drew Brees]

Whats with Bain getting a run of games? Is he no longer a complete bombscare of a keeper?

No, he’s a top keeper now.

Scotland’s No1 in waiting.

[Greenlantern]

Just watched BR presser. He spoke well, as he always does. And understands the frustration amongst the Celtic fan base.
One thing that needed clarity was when asked if he had the option to wait he said no, it needed a decision.
Well you've got Leicester's Thai owners in the press saying the opposite.

I do think that when all the emotions have subsided BR will be remembered for all the trophies and unbeaten runs he achieved at Celtic, it's just his ambition outweighed the love of the club.

[killiekranky]

27 minutes ago, Greenlantern said:

Just watched BR presser. He spoke well, as he always does. And understands the frustration amongst the Celtic fan base.
One thing that needed clarity was when asked if he had the option to wait he said no, it needed a decision.
Well you've got Leicester's Thai owners in the press saying the opposite.

I do think that when all the emotions have subsided BR will be remembered for all the trophies and unbeaten runs he achieved at Celtic, it's just his ambition outweighed the love of the club.

Thats a beautiful sentiment and even more so because I realise you are hurting right now.

You should watch this movie and see if it helps. 

 

[The Real Saints]

https://thecelticblog.com/2019/03/blogs/confused-are-you-brendan-even-a-little-hurt-thats-just-too-damned-bad-im-afraid/

An amusing little read. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, a profound extract of Walter Scott’s poetry is included as some sort of attempt to validate the delusional ramblings.

[Greenlantern]

Thats a beautiful sentiment and even more so because I realise you are hurting right now.

You should watch this movie and see if it helps. 

 

Hurting? I can't even eat or sleep. It's akin to a death in the family.

[killiekranky]

4 minutes ago, Greenlantern said:

 

Hurting? I can't even eat or sleep. It's akin to a death in the family.

That's how I felt when you stole Tommy from me.

I'll send you the mix tape I made**

 

 

 

 

 

 

**No Rebel Songs included.

[Greenlantern]

That's how I felt when you stole Tommy from me.
I'll send you the mix tape I made**
 
 
 
 
 
 
**No Rebel Songs included.

Appreciate your concerns.

[killiekranky]

1 minute ago, Greenlantern said:

 

Appreciate your concerns.

 

I'm here if you need me.

[bennett]

1 hour ago, The Real Saints said:

https://thecelticblog.com/2019/03/blogs/confused-are-you-brendan-even-a-little-hurt-thats-just-too-damned-bad-im-afraid/

An amusing little read. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, a profound extract of Walter Scott’s poetry is included as some sort of attempt to validate the delusional ramblings.

A celtic blog actually about celtic?

 

 

 

[IrishBhoy]

1 hour ago, The Real Saints said:

https://thecelticblog.com/2019/03/blogs/confused-are-you-brendan-even-a-little-hurt-thats-just-too-damned-bad-im-afraid/

An amusing little read. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, a profound extract of Walter Scott’s poetry is included as some sort of attempt to validate the delusional ramblings.

The person/people who run that blog should be locked up for their own safety. It gives normal Celtic supporters an even worse name than we already have. 

There’s very few people on the planet who turn down a job which gives them more money, a larger platform to showcase their work and the chance to move on to bigger and better things in their career if they succeed. I work for an Engineering firm at the minute and if I got a phone call from someone offering me a job that was even a couple of grand a year more I would be having a good think about it. 

Gullible Celtic fans got taken in by Rodgers and his love for the club but it wasn’t that hard to see through and I personally never expected him to be here if Celtic were to reach 10 titles, as there was always a high probability that a team like Leicester would come in and he would rightly jump at the chance. Good luck to him, he’s doing what any normal person with a normal job would do. There shouldn’t be any romanticism because his job happens to be managing a football team. 

[Dons_1988]

The person/people who run that blog should be locked up for their own safety. It gives normal Celtic supporters an even worse name than we already have. 
There’s very few people on the planet who turn down a job which gives them more money, a larger platform to showcase their work and the chance to move on to bigger and better things in their career if they succeed. I work for an Engineering firm at the minute and if I got a phone call from someone offering me a job that was even a couple of grand a year more I would be having a good think about it. 
Gullible Celtic fans got taken in by Rodgers and his love for the club but it wasn’t that hard to see through and I personally never expected him to be here if Celtic were to reach 10 titles, as there was always a high probability that a team like Leicester would come in and he would rightly jump at the chance. Good luck to him, he’s doing what any normal person with a normal job would do. There shouldn’t be any romanticism because his job happens to be managing a football team. 

You’ve basically nailed it there

[Drew Brees]

Today’s times nails it imo

 

PREMIER LEAGUE | DAVID WALSH

march 3 2019, 12:01am, the sunday times

Cold-hearted opportunism trumped sentimental talk of boyhood allegiance for Bredan Rodgers when Leicester City job came up — and Celtic fans won’t forget

david walsh, chief sports writer

 

At the turn of the century Middlesbrough signed Alen Boksic. They paid Lazio £2.5m for a player who had played in two Champions League finals, winning one with Marseilles. Boksic did not come cheaply. In the dressing room it was believed he was on £63,000 a week. That was £63k after tax. It was widely believed Boksic was then the Premier League’s highest earner.

 

In his three years at the club the Croatia striker scored some terrific goals and delivered moments that showed Boro fans the player he had once been. Alas, Boksic took the money without ever giving of himself. During running drills at training he did not so much excuse himself as walk nonchalantly to one side. The local newspaper ran a story that he’d had six viruses over his time at Boro, all of which coincided with tough away games.

 

One morning in January 2003 the Boro players turned up for training and the space where Alen had sat for more than two and a half seasons was empty. Nobody knew he had left. There were no goodbyes, no promises to keep in touch, and since then no postcards from the Dalmatian coast. Michael Ricketts arrived from Bolton and was told to sit where Boksic had sat.

 

On Monday last week Brendan Rodgers supervised first-team training at Celtic. Like Boksic, Rodgers had given two-and-a-half years to the club. After training ended Rodgers left and never came back. No goodbyes, no explanation to his players about why he had to depart at such a pivotal moment and, of course, no hanging around to explain to fans who wouldn’t have understood anyway. The difference between Boksic and Rodgers is this: Middlesbrough’s fans knew what they were getting with Boksic. At Celtic Park it was different. They believed Brendan Rodgers when he told them he had been born into a Celtic-family in County Antrim, they lapped it up when he assured them Celtic was not just another step on his managerial ladder. “Dream job,” was the phrase he used.

 

Hell hath no fury like that of duped and jilted football fans and the hostility towards Rodgers from those who previously lionised him has been intense and hateful. Time will pass, people move on and find new things to fret about, but there is a good chance Rodgers, an extraordinarily successful Celtic manager, will never, ever, be welcomed back to Celtic Park. His record in domestic competitions was close to perfect. Seven potential trophies became seven actual trophies. Two league titles, two Scottish cups, three League Cups, and in his time at the club Celtic won 24 consecutive domestic cup games. It is so easy in football to have one slip, one night when the preparation isn’t right and the team gets beaten by a pumped-up underdog. Rodgers never let that happen.

 

 

It is true that his team played football that was easy to watch. Celtic fans liked that. Most of all, though, they loved him because he could not resist telling them that he was of their tribe. Their dream of winning 10 consecutive Scottish league titles was his dream and, now on seven, he could help them to realise it. Inside the club, the view of Rodgers was not quite so adoring. His first season was outstanding and the team had competed well in the Champions League, twice drawing with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. Since then, the team have remained dominant in domestic competition but have performed less well in the Champions League, failing to qualify for the group stages this year.

 

Hearing Rodgers complain about Celtic having nothing like the resources of Zenit Saint Petersburg or Valencia irritated some at the club, especially when the moaning came soon after Celtic had agreed to pay a record £9m for the Paris Saint-Germain striker Odsonne Edouard. During Rodgers’ time at the club, Celtic’s wage bill doubled.

 

 

It was noted too that while he complained about European rivals with more funds, his recruitment of new players had been far from prudent. They smiled to themselves too about how he never mentioned the huge advantage he enjoyed over his Scottish rivals in terms of resources. Aberdeen twice finished second in the SPL with their top-earning player on £2,500-a-week.

 

They look at the first-team squad Rodgers has left behind and, counting all the loan-signings, the overall number runs to 37, which means several of them can’t actually train with the first team. All that would have been forgiven and forgotten had Rodgers chosen to leave Celtic in the right way. At 46 he is probably too young to have known Paul Simon’s song “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” but it seems like he was guided by it: “You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan/you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free/Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much/Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.”

 

Rodgers’ choice was straightforward. Stay until the end of the season, help Celtic win the domestic treble for the third consecutive season and then explain that it was time to move on. People would have been disappointed but understanding. They would have felt respected and wished him well. Now, the phrase on the banner is damning: “Never a Celt, Always a fraud.”

 

At first the word out of Leicester was that the club were prepared to wait until the end of the season if that’s what it would take to get their man. Rodgers insists this was not the case, that Leicester weren’t prepared to wait. Either way, this matters not a whit. Rodgers had a choice and he chose to leave Celtic with 11 games of their season remaining. He chose to exit his boyhood club and his dream job by the back door.

 

He should be a success at Leicester, at least in the short to medium term. There will be slogans on the changing room walls, plenty of talk of values and honesty and everybody being in it together. Leicester’s players will enjoy the tactics and the one-to-one conversations because Rodgers is good at these.

 

They should be wary, though, in Leicester. Paul Simon was right. There are 50 ways to leave your lover.

 

Rodgers chose the wrong way.

 

 

 

[Guest Moomintroll]

To be fair, I believe that any Manager who walks into a new job & immediately says he will die for his new Company should be disregarded forthwith irrespective of his background. He is, always has been & always will be a narcissistic twat of the highest order.

[jagfox]

I liked Chris Sutton’s comment that Celtic Reserves were bigger than Leicester City. Slightly awkward that Filip Benkovic is on loan at Celtic from Leicester City’s under 23 team. 

It’ll be interesting to see how BR gets on with a better standard of player in the big league over the border...

 

[Dons_1988]

Today’s times nails it imo
 
PREMIER LEAGUE | DAVID WALSH
march 3 2019, 12:01am, the sunday times
Cold-hearted opportunism trumped sentimental talk of boyhood allegiance for Bredan Rodgers when Leicester City job came up — and Celtic fans won’t forget
david walsh, chief sports writer
 
At the turn of the century Middlesbrough signed Alen Boksic. They paid Lazio £2.5m for a player who had played in two Champions League finals, winning one with Marseilles. Boksic did not come cheaply. In the dressing room it was believed he was on £63,000 a week. That was £63k after tax. It was widely believed Boksic was then the Premier League’s highest earner.
 
In his three years at the club the Croatia striker scored some terrific goals and delivered moments that showed Boro fans the player he had once been. Alas, Boksic took the money without ever giving of himself. During running drills at training he did not so much excuse himself as walk nonchalantly to one side. The local newspaper ran a story that he’d had six viruses over his time at Boro, all of which coincided with tough away games.
 
One morning in January 2003 the Boro players turned up for training and the space where Alen had sat for more than two and a half seasons was empty. Nobody knew he had left. There were no goodbyes, no promises to keep in touch, and since then no postcards from the Dalmatian coast. Michael Ricketts arrived from Bolton and was told to sit where Boksic had sat.
 
On Monday last week Brendan Rodgers supervised first-team training at Celtic. Like Boksic, Rodgers had given two-and-a-half years to the club. After training ended Rodgers left and never came back. No goodbyes, no explanation to his players about why he had to depart at such a pivotal moment and, of course, no hanging around to explain to fans who wouldn’t have understood anyway. The difference between Boksic and Rodgers is this: Middlesbrough’s fans knew what they were getting with Boksic. At Celtic Park it was different. They believed Brendan Rodgers when he told them he had been born into a Celtic-family in County Antrim, they lapped it up when he assured them Celtic was not just another step on his managerial ladder. “Dream job,” was the phrase he used.
 
Hell hath no fury like that of duped and jilted football fans and the hostility towards Rodgers from those who previously lionised him has been intense and hateful. Time will pass, people move on and find new things to fret about, but there is a good chance Rodgers, an extraordinarily successful Celtic manager, will never, ever, be welcomed back to Celtic Park. His record in domestic competitions was close to perfect. Seven potential trophies became seven actual trophies. Two league titles, two Scottish cups, three League Cups, and in his time at the club Celtic won 24 consecutive domestic cup games. It is so easy in football to have one slip, one night when the preparation isn’t right and the team gets beaten by a pumped-up underdog. Rodgers never let that happen.
 
 
It is true that his team played football that was easy to watch. Celtic fans liked that. Most of all, though, they loved him because he could not resist telling them that he was of their tribe. Their dream of winning 10 consecutive Scottish league titles was his dream and, now on seven, he could help them to realise it. Inside the club, the view of Rodgers was not quite so adoring. His first season was outstanding and the team had competed well in the Champions League, twice drawing with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. Since then, the team have remained dominant in domestic competition but have performed less well in the Champions League, failing to qualify for the group stages this year.
 
Hearing Rodgers complain about Celtic having nothing like the resources of Zenit Saint Petersburg or Valencia irritated some at the club, especially when the moaning came soon after Celtic had agreed to pay a record £9m for the Paris Saint-Germain striker Odsonne Edouard. During Rodgers’ time at the club, Celtic’s wage bill doubled.
 
 
It was noted too that while he complained about European rivals with more funds, his recruitment of new players had been far from prudent. They smiled to themselves too about how he never mentioned the huge advantage he enjoyed over his Scottish rivals in terms of resources. Aberdeen twice finished second in the SPL with their top-earning player on £2,500-a-week.
 
They look at the first-team squad Rodgers has left behind and, counting all the loan-signings, the overall number runs to 37, which means several of them can’t actually train with the first team. All that would have been forgiven and forgotten had Rodgers chosen to leave Celtic in the right way. At 46 he is probably too young to have known Paul Simon’s song “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” but it seems like he was guided by it: “You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan/you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free/Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much/Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.”
 
Rodgers’ choice was straightforward. Stay until the end of the season, help Celtic win the domestic treble for the third consecutive season and then explain that it was time to move on. People would have been disappointed but understanding. They would have felt respected and wished him well. Now, the phrase on the banner is damning: “Never a Celt, Always a fraud.”
 
At first the word out of Leicester was that the club were prepared to wait until the end of the season if that’s what it would take to get their man. Rodgers insists this was not the case, that Leicester weren’t prepared to wait. Either way, this matters not a whit. Rodgers had a choice and he chose to leave Celtic with 11 games of their season remaining. He chose to exit his boyhood club and his dream job by the back door.
 
He should be a success at Leicester, at least in the short to medium term. There will be slogans on the changing room walls, plenty of talk of values and honesty and everybody being in it together. Leicester’s players will enjoy the tactics and the one-to-one conversations because Rodgers is good at these.
 
They should be wary, though, in Leicester. Paul Simon was right. There are 50 ways to leave your lover.
 
Rodgers chose the wrong way.
 
 
 

Good article

[jagfox]

6 minutes ago, Tynierose said:

It wont be long before he is moaning about the gulf in budgets the hypocrite.

On the other hand it’ll be funny when he flogs Chilwell for £50m+ then bags Tierney for £15 and Filip Benkovic 

[RandomGuy.]

2 minutes ago, Tynierose said:

A proper sellick man like Brendan surely wouldn't raid his old club.

After all he was born into a Celtic family...

Hes apparently already instructed Leicester to get Boyata for nothing. 

[Guest Moomintroll]

Hes apparently already instructed Leicester to get Boyata for nothing. 

Uncle Peter about to be Gordon Gekko'd. Wee shame that.