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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,913 Views) | |
| Klepton | 30 Aug 2014, 02:50 AM Post #2201 |
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Considering retirement
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Look at Fraser Forster: he wouldn't have been below Ben Foster in the England pecking order if he'd been playing the likes of Liverpool and Spurs every week rather than Motherwell and Caley Thistle. |
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| direct | 30 Aug 2014, 02:54 AM Post #2202 |
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Getting on a bit
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Agree totally in regards to Lennon's contribution. |
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| tomtheleedstim | 30 Aug 2014, 07:21 AM Post #2203 |
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First-team captain
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We have a shampoo team, that's the problem. |
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| Lester Burnham | 30 Aug 2014, 07:42 AM Post #2204 |
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I don't think that's entirely true. The best players will want to play in the strongest league possible, in my opinion. Our league is poorly marketed, the coverage isn't great, the standard of football is generally not that good, there is ZERO competition (even when the huns were in the league it was a predictable, two horse race) and the attendances aren't great. We have to be offering players over the odds wages to come and play here. You can throw as much money as you like at players wages but that will do nothing to improve Scottish football or change the environment we play in. Edited by Lester Burnham, 30 Aug 2014, 09:33 AM.
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| GreatPoint67 | 30 Aug 2014, 07:45 AM Post #2205 |
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Club Captain
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I'm certain Lawwell and the board will know that the 'Good Ship' Sevco is about to hit the rocks again, and we might not be seeing them for some time. Sadly, the proof is there. Without playing some bastard form of 'Rangers', a high percentage will not buy Season Tickets. |
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| Dewey | 30 Aug 2014, 08:16 AM Post #2206 |
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Formerly Flatlandbhoy
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ST decline over last five years probably attributed to three things. Economy. Death of the bastards. And pawnin off our best players and not replacing them, leading to supporter apathy. Making this just about Them is not the complete picture surely. |
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| Glenn Quagmire | 30 Aug 2014, 08:29 AM Post #2207 |
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First team training
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Bang on the money I am at the stage were I can't bear to listen to him. He is sounding more like a politician every time you see him. He is a pompous, arrogant arsehole who treats the fans like crap. The last couple of years has seen some amount of P.R. bull come out #because,the celtic family. Pure shampooe that they use when it suits them. Three or four years ago I was arguing with a couple of people when I said that he would be the highest paid guy at Celtic within 3 years. If it wasn't for Scott Brown he would be. I wasn't far off but it isn't one you would feel good about if you were right about it. |
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| lenobhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 08:33 AM Post #2208 |
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Catch some light and it'll be alright
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I still don't understand why we didn't get a striker in on time for the Maribor game? Why are we getting him in now? Invest that £2-3 mill in, have the guy ready & that outlay may end up getting you the Champions League place & earning £15-20mill. It's more of a gamble not to invest before these games & end up panic buying. |
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| bhoyle | 30 Aug 2014, 08:38 AM Post #2209 |
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The sad fact is we need two new strikers if this guy fits the bill great,but if gets injured we are back were we started. |
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| Marado | 30 Aug 2014, 08:47 AM Post #2210 |
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I'll give you a war you won't believe.
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Corporate bawbag defends policies and business strategy of other corporate bawbags and claims things are actually great despite huge amount of evidence to the contrary. concerns and anger of others dismissed as the grumblings of a minority of folk and no change in current strategy even contemplated - current strategy does see all corporate bawbags handsomely rewarded. Jesus, supporting Celtic feels more and more like a job every day. |
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| lenobhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 09:01 AM Post #2211 |
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Catch some light and it'll be alright
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And we will be light at centre back, when we sell VVD & that's not even mentioning left back. |
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| southern bhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 09:04 AM Post #2212 |
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Considering retirement
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Depressing interview from PL. Probably the direct opposite of every conversation being had in the cars and buses coming away from the game on Tuesday. Talk about out of touch with the support. |
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| Beard of Shame | 30 Aug 2014, 09:16 AM Post #2213 |
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Is there any sign or prospect of any supporters' groups responding to this pish? |
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| Silent Witness | 30 Aug 2014, 09:26 AM Post #2214 |
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A voice of reason at last |
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| Frank Ricard | 30 Aug 2014, 09:26 AM Post #2215 |
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Using Shane long as an example was a tad ironic. A player that Lenny desperately wanted and tried his best to get the board to sign. When Lenny was after him he ended up going for 4.5m (a fee Lawwell says we can afford) and a few years later went for £12m. Would have been a good investment....
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| Frank Ricard | 30 Aug 2014, 09:30 AM Post #2216 |
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I don't know what the guy does day in day out.
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| CarlisleCelt | 30 Aug 2014, 09:39 AM Post #2217 |
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Downsizing for many years, even when they have brought in huge levels of cash. Lawell wish you would gtf and take that dick Deila with you. |
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| Silent Witness | 30 Aug 2014, 09:40 AM Post #2218 |
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Ok, I think I might upset a few with this view, but.... The predominate emotion amongst the support is not anger, but apathy. And that's hard to reconcile with supporting a club that remains successful by the measures that we've been judged on since the club was born. A successful season was winning at home, and Europe was a bonus. Now the parameters are changing, and now success has to be measured differently. Fair enough, but we're attempting to do so from a disadvantaged position. Remember, we used to buy up players from West Ham and Villa, and they would remark about making the step up. Now we're a nursery team for Southampton. Is that really a result of incompetence ? Apathy is an entirely understandable reaction to our circumstances. I don't blame some for picking and choosing their games. But it's not something people like to admit to. And along with that we have frustration born out of our circumstances, and not helped at all by the tremendous highs we've experienced since 2003. So it all has to be justified. So apathy, combined with frustration, is justified by anger and the urge to blame someone. It's a pitiful example of modern day consumerism. We complain about having a capitalist board, but we behave like consumerist capitalist brats at the same time. If the support has its way, then all long term planning goes out the window. We've been through 14 odd years, many successful, but ultimately driven by short term measures. So we had some very effective short term managers, and we behaved like an EPL team, when we could afford to. Now we can't and the whole strategy has to change. This is simply because the players that we could buy are now harder to get. And what we spend ultimately proves to be second rate. The footballing recruitment division is failing because of bad judgement, and not because of unwillingness to spend. We will only get out of it, but finding a means to unearth more Wanyamas and producing more McGregors. And that is not going to happen overnight. |
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| ssmith81 | 30 Aug 2014, 09:41 AM Post #2219 |
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Mo..Mo..Super Mo....Super Mo Camara!
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I'm sorry but I don't remember too many of us demanding 4-6million pound players. 2 or 3 at 3million would be nice though. edit; have we as a support, maybe underestimated the zombiefication of deid co? Edited by ssmith81, 30 Aug 2014, 09:42 AM.
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| JimG31Bhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 09:52 AM Post #2220 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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Here's a simple analogy. You come into a windfall but your house badly needs a lot of maintenance. Do you choose to reduce your mortgage, patch up the repairs and let the value of your house decrease? This is Lawwell's masterplan. |
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