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17 May 2025 14:04:19
Other than Kasa and Raskin, I never want to see any of these players again. Won't happen, but there we are.
1.) 17 May 2025 14:46:33
Just as well the decision isn't yours gdog.
2.) 17 May 2025 14:52:28
I like the look of kasa an upgrade on what we have.
3.) 17 May 2025 15:29:59
I agree John. From what we've seen before and after injury he's our best player in all 4 of the defensive positions this season. If we can get him, I'd take him in a heartbeat.
Mystar, you're welcome to your view, but if you watch that today (or the rest of this season) and think anyone else deserves to be on the list consistently then it's an acceptance of second place.
Not a single one of our other players make have a chance of making their 11. Most of our squad wouldn't even make their bench. I stand by my view, only Raskin and Kasa have shown anything consistently this season (injury aside) for me.
I might give you Barron. The rest, nope. We do with them it's second again.
4.) 17 May 2025 16:27:55
So you say that Kasa and Raskin you would keep but in same post say neither of those make the Celtic starting 11. if that is the case then surely we can't keep them either. I think we have a good few players that with better quality added will make a good team. next year will tell.
5.) 18 May 2025 08:39:11
Read it again Angus. Really slowly. Then triple check.
I accept your apology.
17 Apr 2025 21:55:03
Raskin: head and shoulders or best player. This is likely the performance that has many a team around Europe looking at him and we'll do well to keep him in the summer.
Diomande: decent game. I'm but good biggest fan and he made a few slack simple passes, but overall a decent game.
Nsiala: to be fair did really well when he came on. His best 45 for us I think.
Everyone else outfield, terrible.
Special mentions to:
Dessers: imposter at this level. Offered nothing. Not a single thing. Falls over in the wind, at fault (with Tavernier) for the second goal, let CBs get in front of him all night. Needs to go at the end of the season. Terrible striker.
Cerny: it's all about him. Lazy, didn't work back, offered nothing. Even if we could afford him, I wouldn't pay the money. Rarely turns up when it matters, average player who will return to obscurity when he leaves us.
Jefte: truly terrible fullback. Can't defend, can't cross, looks lost.
Terrible performance, out with a whimper, so so comfortable for Athletic who didn't have to do much to beat us.
And to cap it off, we got to see our captain drop a man at the back post to lose a goal, like he has done his whole career. Great value, but time to go.
1.) 17 Apr 2025 22:10:00
Raskin was garbage tonight, sorry to disagree.
2.) 17 Apr 2025 22:14:28
My honest opinion.
Kelly 6
Tav 6
Souttar 6
Balogun 6 (injury)
Jefte 6
Yilmaz 5 (injury)
Nsiala 5 (sub)
Dio 6
Raskin 7
Hagi 4
Dessers 4
Cerny 5
Igamane 5 (sub)
Only player to get pass marks was Raskin. All others were very poor.
If we are to progress, we need players and a system that absolutely loves to get pressed because they constantly know how to beat it. We're no where near that atm but we need to get there because that's where we fall down. Teams press us and we jump the ball upfield and give them it straight back. It's a very tough game doing that for 90 mins. We need players and a system that can take the ball, beat the press and put the opposition on the back foot.
Big summer ahead.
3.) 17 Apr 2025 22:24:22
Agree 100% gdog, can't believe some still defend dessers, the guy is a big girls blouse, more interested in falling down than actually trying to make a run, and don't even start with jefte, possibly the worst defender I've ever seen, don't want to hear he is young, he is just abysmal.
4.) 17 Apr 2025 22:54:30
Jefte 6?
17 Apr 2025 21:37:52
Dessers and Cerny still being on the park at this stage is all the evidence you need Barry is, as much as I like him, out of his depth.
1.) 17 Apr 2025 21:46:30
Gdog. We can't make anymore subs. What do you want Barry to do?
2.) 17 Apr 2025 21:48:22
So this is Barry's fault ????
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3.) 17 Apr 2025 21:55:49
Beaten by the better team at the end of the day. We all know barry is just a temp manager but, the players must show a better account of themselves imo.
4.) 17 Apr 2025 21:56:13
Dgers, we made two subs after I posted that bright spark.
5.) 17 Apr 2025 22:02:54
Stevie tonight was Barry's fault jefte LCB and Dio left back that was Barry no one else.
6.) 17 Apr 2025 22:04:42
Google he list 3 players too injury so was hampered.
7.) 17 Apr 2025 22:18:58
What I meant was we can't make anymore subs to effect the game. Our squad is not good enough. Bajrami and Danilo are worse than what we had on the park.
8.) 17 Apr 2025 22:19:44
Unlucky with injuries, very little choice. Don't see what else Barry could have done.
9.) 17 Apr 2025 22:37:15
Barry can only work woth what he's got.
That was the refs fault we should've been 1-0 up and them down to 10 men different game.
17 Apr 2025 20:57:27
Dessers, Cerny and Jefte. Completely empty jerseys.
Maybe we should have had a penalty, but they deserve to be in the lead regardless. You can't carry 3 imposters in a game like this. If Dessers had spent less time in the half up to that point falling over looking for fouls he might have had a chance of getting one. Seriously annoys me. Built like a wall, physical strength of a girl guide.
Some decent performers off the ball in that first half, but we're seriously lacking when we get it. Most of that half was a "hope we get to penalties" setup, so going to need to change something second half. We won't score playing like we are.
To be fair, I didn't expect us to go through tonight, I said last week I thought they'd win comfortably. Quarter final is already a great achievement for a squad this seriously limited in quality.
1.) 17 Apr 2025 21:21:39
Dessers trying but think him and cerny seem tk be playing fir headlines rather than team
Jefte passing do slack
The pen against souttar is so harsh.
2.) 17 Apr 2025 21:40:47
Typing all over place try type and watch.
3.) 17 Apr 2025 21:48:23
Dessers neber availabe for the ball.
13 Apr 2025 12:49:39
Fernandes: Garbage
Propper: Worse than Garbage
Nsiala: Garbage
McAusland: Worse than Garbage
Bajrami: Worse than Garbage
Barron: Squad player at best
Cortes: Garbage made of buscuit
Danillo: Garbage
Igamane: Talented but currently over rated
Curtis: gets a little credit playing out of position.
1.) 13 Apr 2025 14:06:36
Gdog lol man, actually pissing myself at that hideous post.
2.) 13 Apr 2025 17:01:21
Gdog u missed out Kelly sold the goal.
02 May 2025 08:37:26
I'm not sure "put them in their place" is wise thinking given their "place" has been winning 23 of the last 30 domestic trophies available, including 6 trebles (if they win the SC), to our 3. That's the sort of hubris that's got us to where we are with the current setup.
If the new owners are thinking that way they've lost before they started. Their focus should be on getting our house in order so we can build the foundations to go on that sort of run, to actually reclaim our space in top spot in the only way that matters, not playing to the section of our fanbase who haven't realised yet that they've taken over us in terms of Scotland's top dogs and are a long way in the distance.
I'd rather they went about quietly changing the club into a winning machine.
As my old dad always told me: "never be scared of someone noisily telling you what they're going to do in advance, that's bravado and they rarely ever do. Be scared of the ones that don't tell you anything in advance they just do it, those are the dangerous ones".
New owners should be playing chess, not checkers.
27 Apr 2025 18:07:42
100% agree Asa. Gerard would be a ridiculous appointment. You would think the clever folks involved in buying the club would want to avoid such a divisive decision for their first big one (football wise).
If they go with Gerard, which I keep hearing from people who usually have good info, I think it's a huge mistake.
Rose for me is the standout candidate.
25 Apr 2025 15:43:51
Sam, I'm only relaying their fans actual views. I didn't write that, one of them did (and there are many more with similar views) .
I do remember at the time the fallout he had with Matts Hummels though, which is inline with what that fan said. Hummels openly commented on the style of football. He also had several run ins with Marco Reus, a Dortmund legend, which turned many fans off to him.
And yes, they threw the league away on the final day (on goal difference) .
I don't think the views of the fans at the club he last managed should be discounted in favour of stats on paper. Clement had a great record on paper too, but the Monaco fans had similar feedback on him and they were, in the end, right.
On paper GVB won a Scottish Cup and got us to a Euro final. In reality, as much as I like him, his style was terrible and his time wasn't great with us.
As Ebbe said, stats are like mini skirts. They look great, but they hide all the important stuff.
25 Apr 2025 11:42:38
I'm not convinced on Terzic at all. He had a few run ins with some pretty good footballers because of his hoofball style before he threw in the towel with Dortmund. And the Dortmund fans didn't particularly like him or what he did there either, for example (from a post elsewhere in response to the question "why did he leave") :
Well as a Dortmund local, season ticket holder and previous semi-pro myself, I can tell you that the results might look okay on paper, we were struggling badly though and will suffer from transfer decisions that he wanted for quite some time financially.
He was brought in to get better results than Rose, which he didn't. In his first season he got 2 points more than rose, despite the fact that he had the most influence on our squad from any our previous coaches since he was a squad planner before and then became coach.
Let's look at the results. 3 out of 4 halves of the two seasons were far below average in our terms, only the second half of the first season in the Bundesliga was good. Champions league run was highly lucky, as to the xGa we should have lost PSG and Atlético. So 3/ 4 of the halves were terrible, why should he get more chances? On top of that, we would have missed the CL for the first time in a long long time due to only placing 5th. Any coach would have been fired for that, rose and Favre got fired for less. Terzic is the neighbor of Watzke and he pretty much didn't want to kick out his friend. If he was held to the same standards as any other coach, he would have been gone after 6 months.
Transfers were horrific. For over 15 years we have had strikers with depth that could threaten the opponent with deep runs and without any necessity, he changed what made us strong the years before. We got Haller, Modeste and Füllkrug, who were lost up front and didn't have enough speed to pose a threat, hence we had quite a few problems creating chances.
The transfers he was involved in mostly flopped.
He was unable to integrate any of our big talents. Moukoko, Reyna, Gittens, Adeyemi and all the others did not make a step forward. This creates an issue when we rely on sales to keep our high wages going. So we signed old players and developed no talents anymore, which will hurt us tremendously in 2-3 years.
His playing approach is passive. He wants to overplay the midfield area instead of doing what every top club does: make the opponent tired, control the center. Whoever controls midfield, controls the game. He saw it differently. We were number 1 in long passes (>30m) last season. Ahead of Heidenheim, Köln, Darmstadt. More than double the passes than Bayern and Leverkusen in that department. That's a big issue because you'll run into counter attacks because our strikers aren't good enough technically to keep the ball. So instead of controlling the game, we got pure chaos. Uncountable games where we were up 2:0 and lost 2:3. no big club plays like this, yet he didn't see anything wrong with it.
Lastly, he lost the team with his decisions. Our players wanted to play good football and some spilled the beans in interviews. Füllkrug, Brandt, Kobel, Hummels and others. There were issues with terzic when he started giving excuses and blaming losses on the team not following his plan.
This is the short version, I could go on longer. It was the most unattractive football I've seen from a coach that was there longer than a few months.
19 Apr 2025 14:52:09
1 trophy from 9 first time round, failed in his two jobs since, contributed massively to the financial issues we had by overspending on players wages and left us when it suited him to in the middle of a season.
He was hardly successful in his first stint, other than "stopping the 10" in a season in front of no fans where Celtic imploded.
I'm not interested in having him back and after the last few seasons that might even be the final straw for me! For many fans this sort of appointment would instantly wipe out any goodwill coming from the takeover and put the new owners on a "no better than the last lot" footing.
They'd be very, very silly to even entertain such an appointment IMO. I'd go as far as to say Ferguson, who should be nowhere near the job next season, would be a better choice than Gerrard for the new owners.
Outside of a small minority of our fans who often can't see the wood for the trees, Gerrard would be a disastrous outcome of this takeover.
18 May 2025 08:39:11
Read it again Angus. Really slowly. Then triple check.
I accept your apology.
17 May 2025 15:29:59
I agree John. From what we've seen before and after injury he's our best player in all 4 of the defensive positions this season. If we can get him, I'd take him in a heartbeat.
Mystar, you're welcome to your view, but if you watch that today (or the rest of this season) and think anyone else deserves to be on the list consistently then it's an acceptance of second place.
Not a single one of our other players make have a chance of making their 11. Most of our squad wouldn't even make their bench. I stand by my view, only Raskin and Kasa have shown anything consistently this season (injury aside) for me.
I might give you Barron. The rest, nope. We do with them it's second again.
10 May 2025 10:01:29
80s McCoist
90's Laudrup
00's DeBoer (Ronald)
10's Weir
20's Arfield
Not saying these time periods were these players prime, just they are the players from these time periods I'd take now in their prime. Only really McCoist and Laudrup from that list had their prime years with us.
Lots of others to choose from and some tough calls, but if it had to be one from each decade when that player then reached their prime this would be mine.
29 Apr 2025 11:46:12
In the Scotland games he looked like his wrists were made of biscuit. The amount of things he palmed into the net when getting a hand to them was crazy.
No thanks. Not Butlands biggest fan, but he's better than Gunn.
29 Apr 2025 11:44:09
Bringing him back is the new owners admitting defeat before they even start IMO. Would be a ridiculous appointment for no rational reason.
Lot of people like to rewrite history when it comes to Gerard because he "stopped the 10", conveniently ignoring that was his only trophy from 9 over that period (before he jumped at the first PL opportunity when it suited him) and it took a Celtic implosion under Lennon.
He was nowhere near as good a manager as people on here like to make out.
Decent. Better football to watch than anyone since we came back up, but the bar isn't high since then. We can do much, much better IMO.