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26 Mar 2026 19:21:26
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26 Mar 2026 09:26:03
Saw macca and Peter talking on the TV last night and it reminded me of the sack the board years when former players came out and pleaded with the board to get their act together, I wish I shared the view that we will win this league, yes its possible and I haven't given up hope but my head says different to my heart, this is a basic average team that's struggled against most in our league, this lies squarely on the board the recruitment is the worst in years the loans are a joke and there's been no investment but we've taken in plenty maybe they think none of us can count, absolutely scunbered with the club, we need to go on a run and get a settled team that we ain't had this season, time for the soft touches to stand aside this is the business side of the season guys like tounekti Adamu nygren guts with no heart or dig can't be starting games, yes nygren nicks a goal but he contributes little.
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26 Mar 2026 10:15:07
Nygren top scorer 15 league goals 4 assists. and you think he contributes little. be thankfull he has been played or season would be long over.
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26 Mar 2026 11:02:01
A said he gets a goal but he contributes nothing he's a bench player imo.
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26 Mar 2026 11:36:59
I'm disappointed in the more experienced players for not contributing more when the chips are down. Yes you can look at injuries and ridiculously inadequate and useless transfer strategy, but half this team has done it all before and are way off it. without naming names.
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26 Mar 2026 11:46:24
DRB - still baffled Nygren gets pelters.
Football is about results and you don’t get them without goals.
He’s clearly not the type of player to run all over the pitch so just change formation and play him as one of the 2 up top where he can and does affect games.
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26 Mar 2026 13:12:09
In our present team he's an impact player maybe in a more solid better team where we dominate games he'd do well, but this team does not suit him as he can't do the dirty side, when he comes off the bench he can make a difference like Aberdeen game bit like tounekti.
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26 Mar 2026 13:56:19
Mally its Not he gets " a " goal. its 15 and 4 assists and 4 goals in Europe. he's responsible in contributing to a third of our league goals. It's getting like the monty python scene (what have the Romans done for us ) that's more than our strikers combined ( and i think our wingers? fact check needed ) now there's players that contribute very little.
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26 Mar 2026 19:12:16
Agree mate honestly a get it his goals have been Invaluable but if he's not scoring and is in the midfield I think we're a man down, would love a team where we could play him prob the team from last few years he'd have been good this season the decline is frightening.
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{Ed007's Note - Nygren reminds me of Rogic in so many ways, he struggles to be the main man when he starts, he can look lazy and be out of the game for long spells but he is always capable of scoring on creating something. In a stronger team he would probably be on the bench most weeks but would still be an important squad player.}
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26 Mar 2026 08:43:25
Maybe I will get pelters but here goes anyway.
While still in a title race, Rangers are announcing plans to raise money for the summer transfer window and bold as you like putting up the cost of the season tickets up also.
Still no banning of the UBs because they are hoping to gain any advantage they can this season.
Just as important they use the phrase "for the men's team".
I might be in the minority but personally I couldn't care less about the women's team.
yes am I dinosaur, yes it's not political correct. but if we announced the closing of the academy I wouldn't loose any sleep either.
Yes there's more to a club the just the men's team but if you are completely honest with yourself who thinks the same.
Does anyone on here actually sit and watch the women never mind actually going to the games.
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26 Mar 2026 10:37:50
Thought you had to have a wummins team to play in Europe but could be mistaken?
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26 Mar 2026 11:26:01
Sag don't think they did anything wrong just the gb.
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26 Mar 2026 11:48:12
JJ - I can’t bring myself to watch reserve, U21 or woman’s football.
It’s a cure for insomnia. Men’s football can be bad enough at times 🤣.
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26 Mar 2026 12:34:49
Put all available money into developing our youth.
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26 Mar 2026 18:29:29
Celtic could spend money opening up Football schools in Africa ETC.
I wouldn’t put another penny into our Youth system in Scotland due to the shambolic Scottish setup with no compulsory reserve league.
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26 Mar 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - BlueNose1878 has posted a new article entitled, Everton Still Need a New Starting Centre-Back
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26 Mar 2026 06:52:12
Should we be worried that as of yet we still don’t have a dof type person in, whole football side needs people and with a wc coming up surely it’s imperative there in well before that thing takes place ( so many teams will mean so much opportunity to spot players especially at our end of the spending spectrum)
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26 Mar 2026 07:24:01
Jaa while desmond is running the show we won't get a DOF. Too much modern thinking goes into that sort of thing. He sees MN as good as a DOF.
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26 Mar 2026 10:41:21
DOF - Defender Of Finances?
Except of course, he's not doing a good job at that is he? No CL this year and even less chance of CL, or even Europe altogether next year if current trend persists!
We're on a downward spiral which if not addressed immediately, will take many years to reverse.
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26 Mar 2026 14:27:53
The main thing I worry about is that the crustaceans that run this club tell us feck all, so I don’t know what I should be worrying about.
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26 Mar 2026 06:37:35
In our 3 defeats visiting both Dundee grounds this season,
The games have all been lost when Dundee and Dundee United have been attacking down the slopes at each ground.
At Dens Park we were losing 2-0 at Halftime and although we done all the attacking down the slope in the 2nd half, it was just one of those games when we could’ve played all day and not scored.
At Tannadice in December,
Celtic were brilliant attacking down the slope and we were leading 1-0 at Halftime.
But Johnny Kenny missed 3 sitters to put the game out of sight in that 1st half.
Dundee United destroyed us in the second half down the slope.
On Sunday Celtic controlled the first half but we didn’t create many chances to take a first half lead.
For the second time at Tannadice this season Dundee United destroyed us going down the slope in the second half.
The last time Celtic visited Dens Park in October they were bottom of the league and Pressley has done a good job since.
That day with a victory Celtic would’ve went 10 points ahead of Sevco with the same amount of games played.
But we lost there for the first time since the late 1980s and Dundee were bottom.
A massive chance was lost which might come back to bite us especially since we could be 5 points behind the latest Ibrox club by the time we go back to Dens Park.
Celtic need to be more careful on Easter Sunday,
with this typical game of two halves which have already been played out in our 3 previous visits to the City of Discovery this season.
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25 Mar 2026
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25 Mar 2026 20:35:14
Anyone know what script is with aroujo, just injured, long term/ short term, or something else.
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26 Mar 2026 05:42:56
Heard hexwasxsent back down due to the partying after buns game, not sure if that true tho.
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26 Mar 2026 06:40:52
Yeah think we’ve all read that, but no substance to it, mon as far as I know was ok with players having a night out after a big win (culture people like Lennon Sutton have talked about since retiring ) what we saw in pics definitely deserved a kick in baws imo as we are still so far off it and won a game we had no right to win, as fans was great but how do we know a certain injury wasn’t a result of said night out and not from playing 120 mins, none the less I want him signed, if he has a strain and it’s not season ending can’t wait to see him back, I’d play him in front of a fit aj,
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25 Mar 2026 20:32:26
My team for the run in fellow Celts
Sinsalo
Arthur
Trusty
Scales
AJ or Arajo
Hetate
Calmac
Engels
KT or Saracchi
Maeda
Nygren
Forget the other wingers, go 3-5-2 and use the wing backs and throw the kitchen sink.
HH.
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{Ed007's Note - Why the fascination with 3-5-2, it is one of the easiest formations to play against, the players we have showed under Nancy they can't play 3 at the back and we don't have 2 strikers worth starting places.
The squad is ready made for a switch to 4-2-3-1 and I was surprised Rodgers didn't revert to that when he came back....
----------------------------Sinisalo----
-AJ/Aruojo(?)--Trusty/Arthur----Scales----KT---
--------------------CalMac----------Engels-----
-Yang----------------------Nygren----------Maeda--
--------------------- Iheanacho/Cvancara------
Throw Hatate into the mix of the pivot 2, Tounetki coming on......
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25 Mar 2026 21:10:20
Zero clean sheets in our last 7 league games for the first time in many years suggests that a new formation is needed.
A 4-2-3-1 system would give our back 4 better protection and also help to control games easier.
Engels could make a big impact beside Calmac and Nygren would be better suited playing his favoured Number 10 position.
Celtic definitely need to change something.
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26 Mar 2026 06:46:41
Can’t disagree with your team Ed, Engels being the engine beside calmac (captain communicator organiser ) Engels for me is the only player capable of making up some the ground Nygren leaves free, I’d prefer reo roaming in front of Engels and calmac but nygrens goals can’t be ignored suppose,
With how we never spent a penny in Jan Dyu think we should have paid a penalty and demanded Palma back?
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{Ed007's Note - As soon as I seen Palma playing I thought "that lad's never a winger" and said he should have been given a run out as a No.10/CAM.
I don't think he would have made much of a difference but it would have been another option I suppose.}
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26 Mar 2026 10:50:30
Ed, Nancy played 3 at the back but expected the 2 wide defenders to bomb forward effectively leaving 1 (Trusty) at the back. What little confidence the boy was building was crushed by Nancy. MON then plays him on the wrong side of a CB pairing.
A 3-5-2 with proper wing backs/ defenders providing the width in midfield would be a much stronger defensive unit and in no way comparable to Nancy's nonsense tactics.
Also, it would give us increased steel and numbers in midfield, where we've been swamped all season under the 4-3-3 system. Nygren definitely worth a try further forward as he is at his most dangerous in and around the box.
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{Ed007's Note - Any team with fast wingers can easily counter against a back 3 with long (diagonal) balls when the WB is out of position, with only the WB covering each flank, he is left exposed by quick switches of play or it ends up 2v1 with the oppositions FBs & wingers. Could KT's body handle the step up in fitness/endurance required to play as a WB with no winger in front of him or to help him defensively?
3-5-2 is one of the easiest formations to set up to play against.}
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25 Mar 2026 19:53:05
I don't think we can dismiss the effect the pitch had at the weekend. As soon as I saw it i knew we'd struggle big time. Even our best teams in recent seasons might have drawn or scraped a win.
If the pitch was decent and we played sh*t i'd be worried. But 7 games on 7 decent pitches (mibee except Falkirk) and I think we'll do it.
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{Ed007's Note - The pitch was an absolute disgrace but it's no excuse for the performance and even set up/tactics. In saying that the bounce the ball took at the Dundee Hibs fumble was like something out The Matrix 😂
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25 Mar 2026 21:48:34
Dundee United only had a 50% successful pass rate but yet had 19 shots at goal.
Whatever tactics they were doing on that pitch worked and I think Hearts and Sevco would’ve also lost.
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25 Mar 2026 19:11:32
In 1986,
Our 7th last game was against Dundee and we won 2-1.
In our 6th last match Celtic beat St. Mirren 2-1.
I would take those results in our next couple of games before the split.
It’s not great for our goal difference but getting maximum points is crucial.
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25 Mar 2026 10:48:58
Ed.
I put a post up this morning about the post split fixtures.
I was wondering if it went through, Cheers.
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{Ed007's Note - 👍🏻👍🏻
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