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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Thu 11 Dec 20:03
Ferencvaros 2-1 Rangers
Celtic 0-3 Roma
Aberdeen 0-1 Strasbourg
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
Post Edited (Thu 11 Dec 21:57)
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Thu 11 Dec 20:48
Celtic getting pumped.
And now miss a penalty. This is embarrassing stuff from Celtic.
Post Edited (Thu 11 Dec 20:52)
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Topic Originator: Westies squint kicks
Date: Thu 11 Dec 20:56
Quote:
jake89, Thu 11 Dec 20:48
Celtic getting pumped.
And now miss a penalty. This is embarrassing stuff from Celtic.
They’re rotten tonight. A very difficult job trying to implement a new system mid-season, an Old Firm manager won’t see a lot of patience either. He might not last long.
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Thu 11 Dec 21:07
Stevie Robinson has got to get his team up for Sunday now. If they cant win the trophy then it would be classed as bad now 😂
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Thu 11 Dec 21:20
Only getting beat 6-1 on aggregate tonight🤔. A slight improvement on some recent European nights? To be frank, we`re in the dark ages of Scottish football.
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Thu 11 Dec 21:23
I wonder if Martin O`Neill still has his stuff in his suitcase....
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Topic Originator: Jeffery
Date: Thu 11 Dec 21:24
The board have obviously made a decision to replace O`Neill now (maybe to give Nancy a good look at the squad before the January window opens?). Although it`s still very early days the signs are not good.
Hindsight is obviously great but it probably would have made sense to hold off until after Hearts, Roma and St Mirren (league cup final) were out of the way, to then replace O`Neill. Their run after that looks a little easier.
Maybe the board thought an `easy` cup final win would be a good start to any new managers spell.
I`ll always root for the smaller teams so I hope this change and poor form continues and helps St Mirren absolutely smash them...
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Thu 11 Dec 21:56
Rangers and Aberdeen out (I think?)
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: MinnesotaAndy
Date: Thu 11 Dec 22:05
Caught segments of the Rangers and Celtic games. Rangers made a fist of their game and seem to be improving under their new manager. Celtic seemed to want to play "hospital passes" with little or no evidence of new manager bounce.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Fri 12 Dec 09:56
Nancy is the first Celtic manager to have lost his first two games in charge. Last night was only the second time Celtic had lost three goals at home in the first half in a European tie and the first was the earliest they had lost a goal at home in Europe. Not a great start!
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Fri 12 Dec 13:25
Quote:
wee eck, Fri 12 Dec 09:56
Nancy is the first Celtic manager to have lost his first two games in charge. Last night was only the second time Celtic had lost three goals at home in the first half in a European tie and the first was the earliest they had lost a goal at home in Europe. Not a great start
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: adj27
Date: Fri 12 Dec 17:21
I think Wim Jansen lost his first two games, the second of which was against us.
Andy
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Fri 12 Dec 17:47
According to `Fitba Stats` Wim Jansen`s first two games as Celtic manager were in the UEFA Cup and they won both. His first two league games were against Hibs and the Pars and they lost both of them.
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Topic Originator: McCaig`s Tower
Date: Fri 12 Dec 21:03
I don’t follow Celtic that closely, but it seems that one issue they have is that they want European success and in the pursuit of that they are in danger of compromising their domestic superiority. Perhaps they feel that they can win 2 trophies a season no matter what, especially since Rangers seem to have difficulty recruiting the right players and managers.
Meanwhile their fans expect to win every weekend and losing two in a row is something of a crisis.
(There are also potential conflicts between the need to satisfy shareholders, the concentration of ownership, and the continual problems posed by the insistence of some fans in imposing a political dimension onto a football club).
It seems that to do well in Europe Celtic feel they have to make changes and that the best way is to adopt a more modern, sophisticated, dare I say “foreign” coaching approach. This has been tried before and has not always been successful.
Imposition of changes in the style of play can take a while to bed in – it’s like trying to make changes to your golf swing by going for lessons. It’s almost inevitable that things get worse before you get better, and it is very tempting to go back to the old (flawed) ways rather than persevere as you hack your way round the course. Fine if you are happy dittering about in midtable for a while, not fine if you are expected to win all the time. This makes Nancy’s appointment surprising if he were insistent on making radical changes. Is this a risk the board were willing to take or did they think now was the time as Hearts’ bubble would burst and Rangers had their own problems?
For other teams, I think European qualification is a mixed blessing. I’ve done no analysis, but I suspect that teams that occasionally qualify often struggle domestically – they are required to play 2 different styles of football, they are constantly having to fly to and from Kazakhstan or wherever, play different teams, adopt unusual tactics, eat different food, then come back a bit tired and have to play on Sunday lunchtime. (And they don’t get the gentle league cup warm-ups). It’s difficult to get a rhythm going.
But I am looking forward to the media’s attempts at pronouncing French names – they struggled with the relatively simple Clement.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sat 13 Dec 00:33
I`m sure I read somewhere that ONeill said he would have quite happily stayed until the end of the season.
But , I`m very wary of social media and I don`t believe 99% of what I read on it.
Can anyone confirm or deny that is what he said ?
I don`t even know who this new manager they`ve brought in is but I`m not exactly up to date with the worlds managerial roundabout these days .
What`s the chances of ONeill being asked to come back ?
He still has his club training gear I hear lol
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