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27 Dec 2025 23:07:26
Im with WeeJoe, Nancy's set up simply invites teams onto us. Everyone we play gets multiple chances to score. Seen comments blaming Yang for 2 goals, yeah he is a winger go figure. That's like playing Scales up front and criticising his finishing.

Whether its Yang, Tounetki or whoever else we will give up chances if he persists with 3 at the back with current crop of players. If your back 3 had AJ and CCV it might be a bit more secure but it's not working and players know it.

28 Dec 2025 00:07:52
2nd goal Yang was way out of position trying to help obviously but impeded ralston in trying to deal with cross . could he have put more pressure on they're player before he got chance to get in on goal? Could sinsalo done better? . bottom. line though we won 4 -2 we never stop?

28 Dec 2025 00:10:06
AJ is a RB, how can you post about players being played out of position then say it might be more secure with a RB at CB? It has to be 3 CB's at CB. The players asked to play the wingnack role has to be players like AJ, KT, Sarrachi, Ralston etc.

I said on the live chat that the way we play, defend, play players out of poistion and continue with playing with one CB the next bad result is just around the corner.

28 Dec 2025 07:05:26
He likes his CBs to attack as well and often only has one CB as the back. KT is perfect for his system as he has played this role before. We don't have anyone on the other side that can do it.

28 Dec 2025 09:11:42
AJ plays as a RCB for Canada so is more than capable of playing the position.

27 Dec 2025 20:46:13
Some of our attacking play is great too see. Added to this we don't play back to keeper as much. Once our back line is sorted and a new striker found we will be great to watch. But Nancy needs to replace Ralston with a taller central defender, please.

27 Dec 2025 21:57:46
Go check how many goals his previous teams conceded. Things may improve with better players (which we don't even know if our board can and will deliver) but we will still be poor defencively.

The guy is clueless, you just have to look where he is playing players to see that.

Ralston at CB?
Yang at wing back?
McCowan at wing back and on his wrong side?
Forrest at CM?
Maeda at number 10?

Not to mention the fact he tried to implement a new system despite having very little time to practise it on the training ground and not having the required personnel to play it.

Please end this nightmare, I have seen enough.

27 Dec 2025 22:23:32
Some of Motherwell attacking is great …….

27 Dec 2025 23:38:37
Totally agree weejoe, guys out his depth. Can't believe we're in this state. Down to the board by all accounts but wow, we've went from bad to worse. Still not watched since the first week he was here and stand by it. Man's a disaster waiting to happen.

28 Dec 2025 00:12:12
It staggers me that people think there is anything positive about Nancy and his tactics.

28 Dec 2025 01:03:21
Joe take a day off for your mental health mate. IV been on here 15 years plus and honestly mate you're like reading death incarnate. We all know the problems but fucks sake mate.

28 Dec 2025 06:28:33
I have watched every game since he was here. We were lucky against Aberdeen, as they got a guy sent off and had played a midweek game in Europe.

We were also lucky Livingston are pish as they had us pegged back for much of the second half.

28 Dec 2025 08:26:52
Joe even with 11 against Aberdeen it was like shooting in.

28 Dec 2025 08:37:00
I reckon he's convinced Nicholson he can get all players playing multiple positions in his system negating the need to spend money. 👍.

28 Dec 2025 09:07:21
Belbhoy what games are you watching. Sinsalo probably had the most touches of the ball in our team. All we did was play it to him. AR knows no other ball but back to him, even from the opposition half.

Sinsalo held onto the ball until their forwards pushed our defenders right back, then he passed it to one of our defenders, mainly AT, even when he was marked and he put it out to KT who was also marked. That is how WN teams play.

KT then put it out to Maeda or LM who moved it inside where we had space to break.

When it worked it looked great but it puts an awful lot of trust in the players to get their passing right and for the opposition press to fail. If their press works we are in real trouble.

It also puts a lot of responsibility on the keeper to be able to hold the ball to the last second before getting the ball away and for the receiving defender to receive and move the ball very quickly before being clised down.

That us how WN wants his teams to play, drag the opposition forward and create space in the middle of the park to break on the opposition defence.

It is very high risk hence the reason his teams concede lots of goals.

Even in poor leagues his teams lost many goals, which is something we should take seriously, as the teams we play are better set up to play that way against us, as they are used to sitting back hoping to pick us off, now they can because we are so open at the back.

27 Dec 2025 18:25:51
As promised, I stayed I wouldn't be posting till after Christmas….

This rotten board and DDD need to how now!

We are a mess.

Nancy needs to go.

Handing a league title and their entry to CL is unforgivable.

Protest and don't turn up to any more games.

The league is gone anyway…….

27 Dec 2025 18:39:36
How is the league gone?

27 Dec 2025 19:01:32
It is not gone yet but sticking with this imposter will ensure it does go.

27 Dec 2025 19:07:56
Do Hearts go straight into the CL?

27 Dec 2025 19:25:52
Bhoy 88

Are you for real?

Rangers are a much bigger threat than the mob from Edinburgh…

You probably think the French man will turn it round ….

Our only hope is for DDD to go!

We are a shocking standard of a football team managed by a a experienced exceptionally poor person.

27 Dec 2025 19:34:54
Bhoys 88

Black humour won't save you.

Hearts aren't winning the league.

But keep burying your head in the sand… you'll feel better!

27 Dec 2025 19:54:24
I think you'll find I called it on here before Nancy arrived that his favoured 3421 formation is trqsh and wouldn't work. I'm no fan of Nancy and can't see him lasting if he sticks with his formation as any half decent team will destroy us! We need rid of Nancy before DDD ( Whoever that it is) !

27 Dec 2025 20:31:35
The guy that appointed Nancy… despotic is his first name.

27 Dec 2025 20:41:01
Jeez, the melodrama. I've got teenage girls that are less dramatic.

27 Dec 2025 20:59:50
Quite… have a word with yourself …. For sure!

27 Dec 2025 18:09:18
Ralston and Kenny - wow, they try but they are not great. Surely, scales, Murray or the Man City bhoy would be a better fit. Nancy couldve tested any of them in the last 20 but persisted with Ralston. The 2nd half again we were shocking.

27 Dec 2025 18:53:50
That's 3 managers now who haven't select Pusey. must be something they ain't seeing in training.

27 Dec 2025 19:03:16
He must be shocking if he is not a better CB than Ralston.

27 Dec 2025 19:10:36
One of they managers signed him🤯.

27 Dec 2025 23:49:02
It was the board not the manager, same as Shin, Inamura etc 🤦🏼‍♂️ wake up or are you at the wind up?

28 Dec 2025 00:15:42
Did the manager not say he had the final decisions on all transfers? Wakey wakey.

27 Dec 2025 17:33:13
Here are Nancy's managerial stats:

At Montreal he had a 47% win rate. His team scored 123 goals and conceded 105.

At Columbus Crew he had a 51% win rate. His team scored 262 and conceded 179 goals.

The stats alone suggest he is nowhere near Celtic class.

However, that is only part of the picture. He has never managed a big team in a high pressure environment and does not have the media savvy or gravitas to handle the Celtic job.

Nicholson admitted that they had been following him for sometime and that he was also the outstanding candidate for the job. If they honestly believe that he was the outstanding candidate for the job, they need to go and take their failed experiment with them, as I could have told you from his stats alone that he should never have been anywhere near the Celtic job and after watching him in action, I stick by that assessment.

27 Dec 2025 17:55:09
Joe I agree, my belief is our board have a complete disregard and respect for the rest of Scottish football, thought his style with gulf in players would possibly blow team away, I'm happy to give it credit, some of our losses wether it's Dundee United / hearts or goal losses like today have been errors on individual parts, and games have been a good watch but for all the wrong reasons, I'm dreading this going forward to be honest.

27 Dec 2025 18:16:21
Got to agree even though we have won the last two (from six) every opponent can score against us far too easily and with the current squad it will be highly unlikely to expect us to score 3-4 every game. Granted he has come in right at the deep end with no pre-season like AP had for example, but that again is down to Board incompetence and ridiculous timing - apparently to save a few quid.
Celtic have played well middle to front in the majority of his games, but today for example both full-backs were very poor and we were exposed twice by the worst team in the division.


Hand on heart Ralston and Tierney have both been rotten lately. Obviously, he has very limited options and there is quality urgently needed in key positions but too many players have went backwards with only Yang, Nygren and McCowan looking the part today. Whereas under MON we saw much more from Engels, McGregor, Scales who has list his place and even Kenny scored goals.
The next few weeks worry me:- results-wise, what will happen when the transfer window opens and do we really want to appoint Celtic manager number 4 in the same season?

27 Dec 2025 18:28:06
Outside of Celtic oneil never achieved a higher win percentage than 52%. Was he not good enough then?

27 Dec 2025 19:12:45
Had to laugh when the commentator said they rave about Nancy in the MLS and he MLS coach of the year over there at one point. The MLS is a poorer standard than the women's game!

27 Dec 2025 19:34:51
O'Neil got leicester promoted to the premiership (not the MLS) and kept them in it for a good few years, despite having a small budget. He also got them to 3 finals, winning two of them and got them into Europe twice.

In addition, he also studied law at queen's university, which indicated he was smart and he was also great with the press and could run rings round them. That indicates someone with the credentials to manage Celtic.

27 Dec 2025 19:45:57
Cory O'Neill when outside Scotland managed in very Competitive league, if nancys stats where in a similarly competitive league there would be no issues, his stats that aren't that great are in the mls, place where not coming top of the league still gives u a chance of being champion, newsflash we need to be top in our league,

27 Dec 2025 20:47:43
Well said jaa. 👍.

{Ed007's Note - I was away googling Cory O'Neill 😂😂

27 Dec 2025 21:46:24
Ed, I think he done a duet with Daniel O'Donnell. 🧑‍🎤🎶🤣.

{Ed007's Note - 😂😂

27 Dec 2025 21:50:00
You can argue the mls standard is poor (still better than scotland though overall) but in terms of competitiveness different teams win it yearly they are all of equal standard. So a 50% win rate is fairly respectable.

27 Dec 2025 21:52:17
And ange similarly outside of Celtic and Australia u20 never achieved a higher win percentage than 51%.

27 Dec 2025 22:21:59
Ange had pedigree and trophies in the bank that u guessed it the teams needed to come first to be champs, the comparison is a non starter, the mls is donkey stuff fact, I have no doubt that Nancy could in some countries run a mock and his system would excel I'm also in no doubt it will excel here against livi, Falkirk, Dundee etc and I also suspect we might even win the league as our standard of player will so out weight other team but he's not the answer for us, il support that team to the hill no matter who's in charge, but il say if he's wrong or not and he's wrong.

27 Dec 2025 16:58:28
The longer our board persist with this clown as manager, the more damage it will cause to us and any shred of credibility they had left will be gone.

27 Dec 2025 17:33:37
I still think he will be good for us Joe but I respect your thoughts. Look who he has to work with players like Ralston and Kenny, I will give him the benefit of the doubt IF the board back him in this window no excuses about players in regarding the boards usual excuse tough window to do business in, what was the excuse about the summer window? We need better players simple.

27 Dec 2025 17:45:11
Tony he has scales, Pusey and Murray available. All of whom are better choice for rcb. He even admitted that one of our weaknesses was defending set pieces (how stupid is admitting that in public) and his solution was to take scales out the team and replace him with someone who is terrible at defending set pieces. The guy is clueless. c.

27 Dec 2025 18:09:18
Hari Kari stuff. My only defence is teams will fancy themselves against our defence and therefore less likely to park the bus.

27 Dec 2025 18:12:24
We are playing better and its the players. We don't go backward because players aren't good enough, we bring in ones who can play. We have been utter p ish to watch for nearky a year. Are the Nancu haters aware of tjst, or have they forgit. Nancy is shining a light on our recryitment in a way even our board can't ignore. Hold tour nerve!

27 Dec 2025 19:37:09
We are not playing better. Yes there has been some good football in spells but that is intermittent and is cancelled out with our shocking defence.

27 Dec 2025 20:45:33
I agree with you Joe about the defence 100% but what I would say is look at the players he has to work with Scales I am not a fan with him but he would be a great improvement or Ralston but not sure if he can play on the right side? No matter who we have as a manager the players we have just now aren't good enough in most positions we were all screaming that in the summer window yet for what ever reason the squad was not improved.

And I think no matter what manager we put in would struggle with the squad that he has inherited.

27 Dec 2025 21:49:51
Trusty can play on the right, scales in the middle or Dane Murray on the right.

I like Ralston but he has been poor this season and it is bang out of order playing him at CB as he is going to kop some amount of stick for poor performances. The poor boys confidence must be shot to pieces.