Celtic FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 25/26

Aye being the richest club in the league with resources most of the other clubs can only dream about does that to you!!

Yes.

“I’m not pleading the fifth amendment, I don’t know. If there have been some Hearts players accosted then that’s just not right at all. But I genuinely didn’t see the scenes at the end.

“I thought the game wasn’t over, so I’m trying to push some of our fans off the pitch again to play whatever’s left. The fourth official had said to me there was like a minute to go when we scored the goal. But with the best will in the world, they’re not going to get two goals in that time.

“I didn’t see the incidents. Obviously, there’s a lot of commotion in the tunnel, so I don’t know. But if Hearts players have been accosted by some of our fans, that’s pretty serious.”

It is 100% certainty that there would be a pitch invasion at Tynecastle in the same circumstances. The media and others will laud it all up as part of celebrating the title win.

The pitch would have been cleared within 5 minutes. The ref decided to blow the whistle. There was a maximum of a minute left and there was a two goal difference between the teams. The ref made the call to blow the whistle. I suspect if there was only one goal between the teams it would have been restarted and the minute of time would have been played.

A practical decision was made. That ref had a good game actually given the scrutiny the officials were under. There was a shocking decision by the assistant referee to flag Maeda’s goal as offside. Because there was VAR a shocking mistake was averted. The standards in officiating in Scotland are generally poor but Don Robertson had a good game and it was his call to finish the game as there was 2 goals between the teams.

It was the ref that called it. Comments above that Celtic should offer a replay to be sportsmanlike are havin a laugh. 😆

Still no sign of any evidence of Hearts playing being assaulted.

Somehow I don't think any will surface.

Day 8 of the collective meltdown in Scotland since the Motherwell game at Fir Park - Celtic issue their next statement

Double would round things off nicely now.

Double winners after a disaster start to the season. What a job MON has done.

Nice moment between Lennon and MON at the end

I think MON gets another year. Said he's meeting the 'owner' in a few days and definitely isn't ruling out going again next year.

It's probably the best option we have at the minute, especially if there's an rebuild across all areas of the footballing side of the club.

If it wasn't for his time in Israel, he'd be a definite. I can't see the board or rather Desmond giving him the job when it's obvious there will be a massively negative reaction to it.

But who knows, Desmond has shown this season he doesn't care what the fans think.

Kasper Schmeichel retires due to that shoulder injury.

Hope he hasn't done permanent life long damage to it.

Its been by others but it bears repeating most of the Celtic board both executive and non, including dictator Desmond have been in situ for over a decade and some including dictator Desmond more than 20 years. Tom Allsion was in place for 24 years, dictator Desmond has been a NED for 31 years now. Brian Wilson 21 years, Chris McKay 10 years. Michael Nicholson at 7 years is under that 9 year mark but I think its fair to say his monumental incompetence should have seen him gone a long time ago never mind the 9 year marker.
What is know as the gold standard for directors is a maximin of 9 years. The reason for this is because long term incumbents become stale, they become resistant to change. The culture ossifies. Power becomes entrenched and the directors become lapdogs saying yes to the entrenched dictators. In short the directors cease to be independent.
To say the above paragraph describes everything pretty much that is wrong at Celtic is an understatement to put it mildly. Now dictator Desmond is a business man who holds and has held other board positions at other companies. He knows full well the standards for directors and yet when it comes to Celtic he just ignores them and now in his hubris that he knows best he has been engaged in a policy of retribution and scorched earth against some within Celtic. His tirade on the clubs own web site against Brendan Rodgers has done severe reputational damage to Celtic within the professional football world to the extent that no reputable and established elite level manager will touch Celtic at the moment. The scorched earth policy certainly applies to sections of our supporter base who he has attacked and recently just stabbed in the back, post the end of the season. This sabotage of the club allied to his long standing incompetence is costing the club massively both financially off the field in terms of income lost that was very attainable and on the field in terms of the quality level of the playing squad. Dictator Desmond is a clear and present danger to the immediate and long term future of Celtic that is as clear as day. His refusal to step down and now his vindictive and spiteful actions as well as his massive incompetence show that contrary to his claims that he is a Celtic supporter he is nothing of the sort. If he was he would have sold up and passed the baton to some one else to carry. Instead he is continuing to and actively sabotaging our club and when the day does come that he sells up he will be justly reviled and vilified by the vast majority of our support for the parasite he is.

Call me cynical but:

A popular manager like MON - all the fans anger directed to board.

A manager already on backfoor with fans... perfect lightning rod for fans anger.