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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,996 Views) | |
| Zurawski 7 | 31 Jul 2014, 02:24 PM Post #581 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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compared to what generation? i grew up dreaming of winning the league cup nevermind thinking about competing with the best of europe the current generation dont know how lucky they have it |
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| Midfield Maestro | 31 Jul 2014, 02:26 PM Post #582 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Exactly, whilst making do with Charlie Mulgrew as his replacement in the meantime. |
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| Terry | 31 Jul 2014, 02:26 PM Post #583 |
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First name on the team-sheet
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Have a look down through the english leagues and spot all the teams that used to sup at their big table but over the years have faded from the scene. Then look at Celtic and how they have dropped from the stature they once held. Now look at the difference. For one reason or other they have fallen on bad times but not one of them have deliberately self destructed like us. Even the dead crowd across the city did not do it deliberately. We have deliberately downsized. No one at board level prepared to take a gamble. When we had what was in my opinion one of the best strike partners in the business, Larrson and Sutton, we refused to invest to turn a great team into a fantastic team and we have been on the slide ever since. We have lost three managers because the board would not back them. We tried to hire Keane cause he should be honoured to manage Celtic but the name does not work any more. Much as I dislike Keane, I will grant him this much, he is nobody's yes man. He would have wanted full control over buying and selling and a budget to work from. He was not for getting that so he snubs us to become assistant at Villa. There was a time when only a fool would have made that choice. No, our board wanted, and I believe they have got, a yes Mr Desmond, no Mr Lawell, Three bags full Mr Park, forelock touching lackey. How I hope I am wrong but its what I have been thinking since RD got the job but did not want to say out loud outside of my family. The future definitely is not looking green I fear |
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| MILLIGANS ISLAND | 31 Jul 2014, 02:27 PM Post #584 |
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....give us a glimmer......
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Totally man.
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| Mjallby Back | 31 Jul 2014, 02:29 PM Post #585 |
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Club Captain
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I think many people will be in that boat today. Edited by Mjallby Back, 31 Jul 2014, 02:30 PM.
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| One sharp cookie | 31 Jul 2014, 02:32 PM Post #586 |
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Getting on a bit
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I grew up in the 80s watching some very good and some truly wretched Celtic teams. But never did I hear anyone say we couldn't ever aim to compete with similar sized clubs in Portugal. |
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| Stephane_Mahe | 31 Jul 2014, 02:32 PM Post #587 |
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Getting on a bit
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Did he actually write that? An oracle indeed. |
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| Terry | 31 Jul 2014, 02:33 PM Post #588 |
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First name on the team-sheet
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I grew up with a European cup, defeated finalists and always in there with the best Europe had to offer. I really believed we were back in Europe in the run to Seville but we decided to stop where we were, after all we have to think about the balance sheet. Well, in football, you cant stand still. If you are not moving forward then you are going backwards. Just ask all the teams who used to be the best in England who are way down the rankings now because they couldn't invest. We could, just choose not to |
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| idyllwild | 31 Jul 2014, 02:35 PM Post #589 |
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I grew up when we won the league regularly. Other guys grew up when we won the European Cup. You grew up when we struggled to win the League Cup. No doubt some other guys grew up under the success of MON. There isn't a single generation which is the correct one for people to measure their expectations against. Would it not make more sense to look at the current situation and form an opinion of it based on it's own merits? |
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| Mjallby Back | 31 Jul 2014, 02:36 PM Post #590 |
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Club Captain
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'You were lucky to have a room, we used to have live in the corridor.' |
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| Stephane_Mahe | 31 Jul 2014, 02:40 PM Post #591 |
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Getting on a bit
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Quiet Assasin sums things up perfectly regarding the board: http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=12662169&t=8880981 It's not that the PLC inherently 'doesn't work', it's the way the current 'custodians' are behaving. I'd rather like a PLC who doesn't appoint horrid politicians implicated in illegal wars, and who counts genocidal war criminals as friends. I'd rather like a PLC who doesn't appoint a Conservative Lord to the board whilst his party is dismantling the state and throwing our constituents back to Dickensian levels of poverty. I'd rather like a PLC who doesn't wilfully leave its employees in poverty. I'd rather like a PLC who don't collude with the coppers to harass young guys and treat them like dirt. I'd rather like a PLC who doesn't tell barefaced lies to the guys paying their wages. I'd rather like a PLC who don't give patronising 'we ARE Celtic supporters' when the idea of having greater fan representation is mooted. And that's even before I start considering their wilful vandalism of the football team. Edited by Stephane_Mahe, 31 Jul 2014, 02:41 PM.
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| Stringer Bell | 31 Jul 2014, 02:42 PM Post #592 |
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Getting on a bit
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Jim, you're the real life Atticus Finch aren't you? Too much sense. Too much reason. |
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| OptimusCheese | 31 Jul 2014, 02:42 PM Post #593 |
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Tell my mother that I never wrote a whack jam.
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No, this is science dammit! Where Y = Value of opinion (Year Born/Cost of season book) = (Number of away games attended x Y) |
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| Clydebank Bhoy | 31 Jul 2014, 02:45 PM Post #594 |
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Not as sad as psychoheart
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Absolutely. Can't remember who it was who initially said it (may well have been Idyllwild?), but the general thrust was that the strategy was fine, but the execution of it was pure gash. Hard to argue with that. |
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| Wanyerma | 31 Jul 2014, 02:50 PM Post #595 |
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Considering retirement
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The profits made on Wanyama and Hooper went where? Zero purpose in having a system that sells the best players from under a manager, and he's given feck all to replace them. |
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| arklys | 31 Jul 2014, 02:50 PM Post #596 |
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i'm not even listening
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Yeah I agree, to be fair I said I don't know the answer, which doesn't say much ![]() I certainly expect a decent board would do more. |
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| Zurawski 7 | 31 Jul 2014, 03:00 PM Post #597 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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not when you're trying to feel sorry for the current generation who are having it as good as celtic have had in 30+ years |
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| cdmcc | 31 Jul 2014, 03:01 PM Post #598 |
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I don't believe you...you're a liar!
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When the attendances are 15k in November hopefully there will be a board shakeup |
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| sevilliano | 31 Jul 2014, 03:02 PM Post #599 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Didn't see the shambles-heard the highlights !! PL has to go -he's an arrogant fool who treats Celtic as his toy |
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| Zurawski 7 | 31 Jul 2014, 03:03 PM Post #600 |
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benfica arent similar sized. they are a lot bigger in a much better league. porto won 2 european trophies in the 80s i think people need to be a lot more realistic about were we stand as a club these days |
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