The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[rodney trotter]

In fairness to Lennon, he signed some good players when he was previously Celtic manager. Van Dijk, Victor Wanyama, Fraser Foster, Gary Hooper. Celtic made a good profit on those players.

He is a loose cannon along the sideline though. Needs to stop getting involved.

[ned]

f**king hell!
Some blow ins to this thread. Stop reading and believing the media crap about NL or Broonie. Actually take time to watch Scottish football and then come back and comment.
Didn't want Lennon again but let's hope he has learned from past experience. Recruitment is key as past two transfer windows have been diabolical, although I have high Hopes for Shved and to a lesser extent Bayo.

[6th sam]

In fairness to Lennon, he signed some good players when he was previously Celtic manager. Van Dijk, Victor Wanyama, Fraser Foster, Gary Hooper. Celtic made a good profit on those players.

He is a loose cannon along the sideline though. Needs to stop getting involved.

He is passionate along the line. He's competitive. So was Alex Ferguson. There are rules there if he transgresses. However I think it's important to challenge the narrative that he is some sort of monster along the line. That narrative is promoted by the sectarian racist bigots who have targeted him for years. Racism/sectarianism has no place in a sporting environment and if it was directed towards black players there'd rightly be an outcry. 

Neil Lennon has the support of the players, an excellent cv, a good eye for a player, and is now a mature and experienced manager, who deserves the backing of supporters and most importantly the board, to make Celtic competitive in Europe again ( for which he has a great track record) , he's not perfect but all things considered the smart choice.

[trailer]

Rarely watched Celtic but watched this. Tough enough game but just had a wee bit more quality. Good finish from Eduardo.

Scott brown is hard to like. Doesn't really cover himself in glory with his behaviour.

And what behaviour was that

As a supporter, Brown tries to be the hard man - snarling at opposition players etc.  At the end of yesterday's game, he was at it again,  trying to wind up the Heart's sub.

He should just concentrate on playing football - no snarling in big European Champions League games where he doesn't get a kick of the ball.  Last 2 Rangers games, his impact was zero.

Needs to show some humility, like Henrik or Lubo.

He uses this as an act to mask his ability as a footballer. He's very limited.

[screenexile]

Edouard patiently baited the hearts goalie, even the ref had time to get into a position to have a grandstand view of the  goalie falling for the oldest trick in the book, time seemed to stand still just before the goalie lunged at Edouard.

It's a tremendous achievement to get the triple xxx, but Celtic made heavy weather of it today and way too much hoofing the ball up to Edouard.
Pity Rodgers couldn't stay to the end of this season, take the triple crown plaudits and bid  a fond farewell.

That's a fancy way of saying the striker took a dive!!!

[Main Street]

The fancy way is to say he was anticipating the tackle, not diving But to most every observer of that incident opine that it was a fair penalty, that the goalie dived in and clattered Edouard, who patiently exacted perfect timing, thus avoiding most of the potentially leg breaking contact.


   

[illdecide]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

[marty34]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

I'm a huge supporter of Neil Lennon but I've been disappointed with the 2 Ramgers gsmes and cup final.  2 wins alright but application and intensity was poor.  No better in second half so worried about getting best out of players.

Major point also is major investment needed in next few weeks.  Any later and it's no good, too late for Europe.  Board needs to back Lennon with money for 5 new quality players.

As I said before, duds must go - trim the squad up.  Too many passengers on big wages and not even kicking a ball for months on end.  Complete waste of money.  Top with with lads from the academy.

[Main Street]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

AFAICS, for the most part Celtic supporters judge Neil Lennon on his capability to be the next Celtic manager for the next 2 years and for the most part he was by far the less desired candidate. This had nothing to do with  a knowing or not knowing,  because knowing or not knowing has fck all to do with it, yet you keep bringing up or alluding to that you know the real Neil Lennon or that somehow knowing his inner goodness equates to qualifying as being suitable  as the next Celtic manager.
Personally I have a respect Neil Lennon and on a managerial aspect I even think he did an incredible job at Bolton to keep them up when all and sundry said they were a doomed team. 
But now that he has been given the job the discussion is over and I hope he lives up to the big task ahead.

[Milltown Row2]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

AFAICS, for the most part Celtic supporters judge Neil Lennon on his capability to be the next Celtic manager for the next 2 years and for the most part he was by far the less desired candidate. This had nothing to do with  a knowing or not knowing,  because knowing or not knowing has fck all to do with it, yet you keep bringing up or alluding to that you know the real Neil Lennon or that somehow knowing his inner goodness equates to qualifying as being suitable  as the next Celtic manager.
Personally I have a respect Neil Lennon and on a managerial aspect I even think he did an incredible job at Bolton to keep them up when all and sundry said they were a doomed team. 
But now that he has been given the job the discussion is over and I hope he lives up to the big task ahead.

The big task? They've won all before them domestically for years while Rangers were kicked out, they've had it easy. Rangers Aberdeen and the rest shouldn't count even if they keep the same team.

[ned]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

AFAICS, for the most part Celtic supporters judge Neil Lennon on his capability to be the next Celtic manager for the next 2 years and for the most part he was by far the less desired candidate. This had nothing to do with  a knowing or not knowing,  because knowing or not knowing has fck all to do with it, yet you keep bringing up or alluding to that you know the real Neil Lennon or that somehow knowing his inner goodness equates to qualifying as being suitable  as the next Celtic manager.
Personally I have a respect Neil Lennon and on a managerial aspect I even think he did an incredible job at Bolton to keep them up when all and sundry said they were a doomed team. 
But now that he has been given the job the discussion is over and I hope he lives up to the big task ahead.

The big task? They've won all before them domestically for years while Rangers were kicked out, they've had it easy. Rangers Aberdeen and the rest shouldn't count even if they keep the same team.

No competition in Scotland? Granted Celtic should have, and did, win the league for the past 8 seasons. Cups are a different matter. As far as I can see Celtic lost a few league games over the course of this season. In one off games anything can happen which makes the treble treble remarkable. It hasn't been done anywhere before. Man utd with their unfair advantage in the 90's didn't do it, Barca haven't done it, PSG and Man City financially doped  haven't done it.

[illdecide]

What is pissing me off with people is judging him from previous clubs and they don't know what they're talking about. I thought he done well at Bolton considering the position he was in there when they were bankrupt and couldn't pay the players, he couldn't sign anyone and his hands were tied and as you say done better than he's getting credit for. Again at Hibs i thought he done reasonably well there too considering he was competing against 4-5 clubs with better players and bigger budgets.

As for matches this season...Celtic have been playing like this all season even under BR our performances were not good, NL took over Celtic and played and trained using the same systems as BR and didn't change anything yet people are saying we're playing bad under NL. If this was Ronny Deila i'd be saying the same thing and nothing to do with knowing him or not, anyway as you say just let him at it and hope he gets the funds to sign 4-5 quality players in the summer and take it from there.

[toby47]

What's the latest on Leigh Griffiths? Is he going to be available next year?

Would he be a good option again?

[straightred]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

I'm a huge supporter of Neil Lennon but I've been disappointed with the 2 Ramgers gsmes and cup final.  2 wins alright but application and intensity was poor.  No better in second half so worried about getting best out of players.

Major point also is major investment needed in next few weeks.  Any later and it's no good, too late for Europe.  Board needs to back Lennon with money for 5 new quality players.

As I said before, duds must go - trim the squad up.  Too many passengers on big wages and not even kicking a ball for months on end.  Complete waste of money.  Top with with lads from the academy.

The squad is huge. I watched the league presentation last week and couldn't believe the amount of players that were trotted out for their medals. I couldn't name some of them and I'm a bit of a Celtic nerd. Gte rid of 10 of these for a start. NL then needs to be backed with hard cash - no more middle of the road signings as there's enough of them wandering around the place. He needs 4 or 5 quality players in key positions (CB, RB, CM, LM, CF).
Sevco are arguing with Oldham about 100K over some lad no one has ever heard of. Kent will be back in Liverpool or somewhere else in England and buffalo brains cant score against us anyway. On top of all that they have very little money. Lawell needs to open the cheque book and blow them out of the water.

[JimStynes]

Some clowns on here trying to wind up or just spew up crap they read somewhere else...

NL has been offered the job because Celtic feel he's the best candidate available to them, too many people judging him and they don't know him or anything about him. They'll be lining up next season waiting on Celtic to lose their first match so they can say "told you so".  He's a very intelligent guy who knows what he's doing, judge him when the season is over next year when they've played his way and his players...Ohh and being a Catholic from the North of Ireland doesn't make him sectarian or a bigot.

I'm a huge supporter of Neil Lennon but I've been disappointed with the 2 Ramgers gsmes and cup final.  2 wins alright but application and intensity was poor.  No better in second half so worried about getting best out of players.

Major point also is major investment needed in next few weeks.  Any later and it's no good, too late for Europe.  Board needs to back Lennon with money for 5 new quality players.

As I said before, duds must go - trim the squad up.  Too many passengers on big wages and not even kicking a ball for months on end.  Complete waste of money.  Top with with lads from the academy.

The squad is huge. I watched the league presentation last week and couldn't believe the amount of players that were trotted out for their medals. I couldn't name some of them and I'm a bit of a Celtic nerd. Gte rid of 10 of these for a start. NL then needs to be backed with hard cash - no more middle of the road signings as there's enough of them wandering around the place. He needs 4 or 5 quality players in key positions (CB, RB, CM, LM, CF).
Sevco are arguing with Oldham about 100K over some lad no one has ever heard of. Kent will be back in Liverpool or somewhere else in England and buffalo brains cant score against us anyway. On top of all that they have very little money. Lawell needs to open the cheque book and blow them out of the water.

Looks like Stephen O'Donnell is close to signing for £500k.