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07 Nov 2023 21:46:37
To be fair I didn't see a lot of difference between Maeda red card and the Ross County red card on saturday so not going to blame red card for defeat. Like it or not I don't think we would have got a draw even with 11 v 11. What is the good about this is that many of our separated brethren are watching the game anxiously worrying that we might beat their champions league record set last year. Someone should tell them that we already have a point.

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1.) 07 Nov 2023 22:26:55
There was a big difference because Yang’s foot was planted and he nearly got his leg snapped.
Tonight the Atletico player swung his leg and both players clashed.


 

 

05 Oct 2023 17:56:13
9minutes O Noooooooooo.

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1.) 05 Oct 2023 18:36:41
Can Steve Davis get out of this snooker?


2.) 05 Oct 2023 19:00:56
Hope lamps gets it ?.


3.) 05 Oct 2023 19:17:06
They must have let Alex Rae do the tactics. ?.


4.) 05 Oct 2023 19:42:28
I want parker mally.


5.) 05 Oct 2023 19:50:17
Wonder if they'll be posting on their SPFL section tonight?.


6.) 05 Oct 2023 20:49:18
Sevco have their Aris handed to them in Cyprus. Now that's Progres ??.


7.) 05 Oct 2023 21:31:09
I like your style Kwaj ?.


8.) 06 Oct 2023 11:31:22
Ditto Buzz.


 

 

03 Sep 2023 12:45:57
Think we might need to say a rosary for the VAR assistants.

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1.) 03 Sep 2023 13:41:30
Getting a VAR decision means you get absolutely no decisions in the second half. How many feckin fouls has Robertson ignored . Maeda gets a yellow for one non-foul We need to cut out the mistakes and slackness and concentrate for a huge last 20 minutes here Bhoys.


 

 

20 Aug 2023 21:10:40
It just shows you that we are so used to winning, we just can't take losing. As far as i'm concerned we do not have a divine right to win everything, all the time. Im sure the dark side will say now we are in meltdown but if i remember right, a couple of weeks ago they lost on that artificial pitch. Of course i hate the feeling of losing, even though you could see we were never score. The downer seemed worse after the high of realizing that once again football wasnt coming home. So looks like we have no chance of winning treble this year but i will waith until The Rangers have won the league cup, the league and are in the final of the scottish cup before i hit meltdown mode :-P.

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1.) 20 Aug 2023 23:02:42
On this day 10 years ago, Celtic had a 2-0 away defeat to Shakhter Karagandy but we overcame that shock to still win 3-2 on Aggregate.

Today is a setback but we can still have a good domestic season by winning the league and hopefully the Double as an added bonus.

Celtic can however forget Europe again this season because once again we’re nowhere near ready.


2.) 21 Aug 2023 01:23:06
At last, someone talking sense.
I couldn't post or read anything earlier due to the meltdown happening.
I would rather lose in the league cup than lose the league.


3.) 21 Aug 2023 07:14:41
We shouldn’t be losing any of them. And certainly not getting knocked out by Killie. Rogers has destroyed our flow, our speed of movement and his system is bring to watch, even if it does win. We have basically the same team apart from Jota. Nobody is playing well under the tweaks. Nobody, that’s the worry. We haven’t a clue what we are watching and the players don’t know what they’re doing. A real worry.


4.) 21 Aug 2023 12:27:52
Magicpole u say we have really lost only Jota . True, but we have half a team injured which doesn’t help team to settle in new season . A Johnson, CCV,
S Welsh, Hatate, OH, Tilio . Most if not all teams will struggle missing 6 outfield players . Those left need our support and encouragement.


 

 

30 Jul 2023 03:04:24
I understand the bewilderment etc when Jota went to Saudi Arabia and I, too, couldn't help thinking how sad and stupid this whole situation is as he will go there and he can kiss goodbye to trophies, champions league nights etc and all for Money but then I asked myself what did Edoard, Ajer, Tierney and Christie do? Left Celtic for middle table premiership or championship teams and more money
For me the only difference between them and many others like them and Jota is that Jota got a hell of a lot of money more than them and i think if anyone is going to leave Celtic then their best shout is Saudi Arabia because unless they are another Virgil the only thing they have to look forward to is the money.

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1.) 30 Jul 2023 10:31:40
There is a lot more to these players moving than just money. The SPL is not a great league, these players want to test them selfs against better players and teams on a weekly basis. They are human beings who want to try new challenges. Only a Celtic fan would commit their entire career to our club. Winning trophies in a supposed 2 horse race isn’t enough of a challenge. Yes money can play a big part but it is hypocritical to criticise this as most of us would jump at the chance to at least double our salaries at another company. I think the green tinted glasses need to come off and a bit of realism is needed.


2.) 30 Jul 2023 11:01:30
If super fan boy can leave why would people with no allegiances consider staying if a better deal is on offer. we as fans tend get too emotionally attached and its akin to a break up in a relationship when someone we like leaves but we're also hypocritical when someone who isn't good or we don't like . and turn on him and want him thrown him out like an old scud book.


3.) 30 Jul 2023 11:05:56
SosBhoy,
so how does going to Saudi pitch them against better players?
This buying of big names by the Saudi's is only just starting and there is no doubt it is all about the obscene cash right now.

Same with the golf where the players are going for the money, not the prestige or challenge.

Boxing is also selling it's soul for the cash.

There is another agenda but too deep to get into here now.


4.) 30 Jul 2023 12:34:50
Tiny Tim Jota’s situation is different to the other 3 players mentioned by the OP. He has been handed 200k a week tax free. It is generational wealth for his family. Jota would have also been sold on the project of the Saudi league. Playing with Benzema and Kante isn’t too shabby either. 75% of the players in the initial post are in the PL. We are hindered by our league and even our business model shows we are a stepping stone for players. Fans should enjoy what we have and stop being butt hurt every time a player or a manager leaves. The only constant in life is change. There are so many petulant grown ass men/ woman on here when something happens they don’t like the toys get thrown from the pram.


5.) 30 Jul 2023 12:40:02
I for one welcome what the Saudi league is doing they are not using bully bhoy tactics and offering a fair price although I don't think any footballer is even worth a million pounds never mind 25 million. I hope the demise of the epl comes soon along with sky where they have undermined and bullied the rest of football with the scraps of their tables and thinking no one can or should compete with them.


6.) 30 Jul 2023 14:03:34
Most talented young footballers now are motivated simply by finances, not by history!

Supporters are the same we get out of bed to earn a living, we all have bills.

The EPL hate competition ever since their brand became so lucrative, why wouldn't they be scared of new ventures like Saudi as they know players come to the EPL for the big bucks, not because back in the day Nottingham Forest won a few European Cups back in the day!

We poach players from lesser clubs its a natural order that allows our club to continue to dominate domestically. Would anyone really come to us from abroad if we weren't paying more than they are currently on?

Football is a business and unless it adopted a fair and systematic approach that the Americans use for their sporting franchises in order to allow balance then money will always be the dominant factor.

I can guarantee if that system was discussed as an option to bring into Scotland we would all as fans vote to back hand it instantly as we wouldn't be then top of the pecking order, the way we like it, the EPL is the same, we can't moan at a franchise that has the monopoly of Europe as we monopolise scottish football.

So on this basis players will always come and go, generally for money, not for the love of the club, not really to test themselves either, and the only ones who would ever say different is someone like myself who would play for celtic for free because I wasn't good enough to make it professionally!

If I was well you never know I too could be tanning it up on a 2 year holiday in Saudi knowing I'll never have to worry about money again!

Football is the only loser in all of this, every competition is simply dominated by the Rich.


7.) 30 Jul 2023 15:54:24
Donjim, you need to accept that players who aren't Celtic fans don't want to spend the best years of their career playing against the absolute dross this league has to offer. One of our biggest clubs just got spanked off an Andorran mob who play in front of 1300 fans. Europe has always been the Ace card but 6 CL games doesn't stack up against Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Chelsea etc. every week.


 

 

 

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05 Jun 2023 11:20:06
@Timalloy
I try to respect everyones opinion and over the years many on here have spoken negatively about John Kennedy and i have never understood why. I was wondering could you explain why you don't rate him because against this opinion there is the fact that Rodgers (an extremely successful manager for us) tries to take him to Leicester and now Ange (another extremely successful manager) wants to take him.

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25 Aug 2021 01:21:31
Must say I was half expecting Anne Robinson to make a post on this thread. If I think back, as someone else has said, anyone of our players could at some stage or other been considered the weakest link. It is true that at the moment the backline is weakest but ceertainly since Jow Hart came in that has been changing. In the game against hearts Celtic had 74% possession with 19 shots but only 7 were on target resulting in 1 goal for Anthony Ralston. Perhaps the forwards are the weakest links because if they scored with their shots the fact that hearts got two goals wouldn't have mattered as we would have scored more. Interesting that our goal came from a defender that until his recent performances most would have considered not good enough for Celtic.

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28 Apr 2021 09:48:14
or Stephen KENNY ;-D.

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24 Feb 2021 18:47:09
Agree with you Corey that NL's departure was overdue but better late than never. I believe he finally realized that he wasn't the man to turn things around. I am glad he resigned rather than being sacked as I hate the way things are going, particularly in football with managers not really being given a chance and getting sacked within monthesof their appointment. I know this is not the case here but I am glad he chose to resign.
Agree also that he should be thanked for his services to Celtic both as a player and a manager he can hold his head up. Both appointments as manager came at difficult moments with the departures of Mowbray and Rogers and I don't think he did too bed until things unravelled this season.
This is a strange season without fans etc and the effects can be seen around europe with various teams one would expect to be winning easily being upstaged such as Liverpool but also Juve who are going for 10 in a row this year (and are still in a position to do it) are 8 points behind Inter.
I just hope Celtic don't rush an appointment and get the right man for the job as he will have to do some rebuilding and get the players who want to stay on board and also win over the celtic fans who are not the easiest to please.

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05 Jan 2021 15:34:17
There are bombscares all over the pitch it's just that general opinion is that if a defender makes a mistake which costs us a goal and ultimately the match we are all over him even though in the same game 2 or 3 sinners missed by a forward are overlooked. We never think that it was the 3 mistakes of the forwards which cost us.

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05 Oct 2023 18:36:41
Can Steve Davis get out of this snooker?

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05 Oct 2023 00:39:45
I feel tonight just like the Lazio fans did four years ago when Nitcham got the winner in Rome in the 95th minute. I watched the game tonight with some friends who support Lazio as I live in Rome. Before I had a chance to say anything they admitted that they had stolen the game as Celtic were by far the better team. The Lazio team we beat home and away just four years ago was far superior to this team. It's true they are not some Cypriot mob but they aren't far of it. Unfortunately in football the better team doesn't always win.

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03 Oct 2023 00:24:04
Just saw Ed's post that Timalloy is having difficulties with his health and I was sorry to hear it and want to assure him of my prayers for him, Mrs T and the ghirls. In my recent reflections I came to the conclusion that silence is more important than the word. The word is founded on silence as it comes first. In the deep silence God spoke "Let there be light". Without silence words don't exist as there is silence, even if just a fraction of a second, between one word and another or it would just be a continual noise which makes no sense. In times like this there are no words just silence and in that silence we find meaning for everything. Get well soon.

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30 Sep 2023 18:24:38
Ah you forgot that we're all in 7th heaven. that would be four 7's, fantastic if you want to poker some fun at The Rangers.

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23 Sep 2023 10:10:41
Even an unmarried single person has to budget and this is even more important for the father of a family. I can only imagine how vital it is for a football club, so like it or not Money is important. If all money raised is put jnto the team who pays the tealady, and army of people who work behind the scenes.

In all walks of life management of funds at our disposal is vital otherwise we start to spend funds we don't have and The Rangers can tell us what that leads to. Of course for things to happen on the field we need the best management etc behind the scenes otherwise as has happened a fortune is spent paying waged to people who never should have been signed.

Both sides of the discussion on this thread make valid points but we are all fans and want what's best but there needs to be harmoly and realizing that every cog is important. Would i sell our best players: without a second thought if they don't want to wear the jersey.

My memory goes back to the Lions so i can say supporting Celtic has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows. let's just enjoy this time and let the guys behind the scenes work to keep the quality on the pitch up and ensure that we generate the money to do that.

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