The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

what a joke, and there's eejits who will be on here saying Mowbray shouldn't be judged until the end of the season

[ONeill]

4-4 89 mins

[OverTheBlackSpot]

Celtic's defence are a joke !

[ONeill]

O'Dea sent off. 4-4 FT.

[T Fearon]

The manager is a biggest joke of all. Surely the fans will force a change now. Lennon and Danny Mc Grain could do no worse than this

[reddgnhand]

McGeady at fault for last goal. Gave the ball away again at a time when we needed to hold on to the ball. TM looked a broken man at the end wouldnt surprise me if he walked.

[Minder]

Strachan has to go.

[ONeill]

Saw John Barnes in the crowd. He was making notes.

[T Fearon]

Mowbray shouldn't walk, he should run as fast as his fecking legs can carry him, though with his muddled up thinking that woud probably be round in circles. Get Lennon and Mc Grain in charge and get a bit of passion and fight, and you never know aht might happen

[Myles Na G.]

It isn't Mowbray who's at fault - he's an honest man who just happens to be a crap manager. The people who should be run out of CP are the people who thought he was a good choice in the first place ('he's a Celtic man'). These are the same people who thought it was a good idea to get rid of a successful manager because they didn't like his hair colour, or his post match one liners, or the fact that he didn't invent the huddle, or whatever. Pathetic.

[T Fearon]

Myles Na G, you are not far from the truth. What a shame, Rangers penniless, unable to bring in one player, running away with the league, whereas Celtic flush, wasting money hand over fist and will struggle to finish in the top three. I'd have kept Strachan unless and until a demonstrably better successor with a proven track record was found.

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

Celtic's defence are a joke !

Look back over this thread and see people hounding players like McManus. By no means a world beater but a solid citizen who had done a decent job for Celtic and Scotland. Mowbray clearly didnt fancy him from the start but why shift him out on loan when he clearly didnt have cover at the back? Left today with a kid signed from Stockport for the long term and O'Dea who couldnt get a game with Reading. I can see why he moved on Caldwell to get a fee before his contract expired but again, given the lack of cover, there would even have been an argument for keeping him until proper replacements were found. To fall so behind a shit Rangers team is unacceptable and now Mowbray has blown a chance to close the gap and put some pressure on. I dont particularly rate Strachan but he is clearly a better manager than Mowbray.
Where is GDA? Be on here soon to blame Scottish officials no doubt.

[JimStynes]

Mowbray is a disaster lads. Never mind this crap about strachan either. But when you look at the facts Mowbray has been f**king woeful. he has to go, however will anybody else want to manage that lot.

[T Fearon]

I said when he was first appointed that he had no semblance of the qualities needed to be manager of Celtic and I said also that Strachan's reign woud eventally be viewed in a new light. Whatever you think about Strachan, he gave us legends like Boruc and Nakamura etc, and produced a side with balls to win its last six or seven league games in 2008, under extreme pressure to clinch the title. There has been talk in the dressing room of deliberate disillusionment, and in Caldwell's case you don't suddenly go from Scotland's Player of the Year to becoming a nervous wreck without good reason.

Any football team reflects the personality of its manager, and this Celtic team sure does that, clueless, uncertain and with a total inability to produce under pressure or remotely meet the high expectations of a global support.

I feel sorry for Tony Mowbray, a genuinely nice man (again part of the problem, maybe the likes of Mc Geady needs a boot up the hole, like Strachan did last season, and Big Jock did regularly with all of the Lions) but as I've said before he's better off managing teams like Hibs and WBA, where the punters have no expectation of silverware but are happy to watch nice football, and loads of goals. Meanwhile the Celtic Board needs to act now, an interim appointment of Lennon and Mc Grain might at least salvage the Scottish Cup this season and give the Board adequate time to pursue the right candidate for next season and the longer term future between now and the summer

[Club Rossa]

That was soul destroying yesterday,2 goal lead with less than 20 minutes remaining and can't even close it out.
The defending was terrible even by Celtic's standards.