They’ve absolutely no interest in signing him, it’s a PR exercise to get the wheels In morion of ‘gearing up’ for a busy transfer window, just in time for season tickets to go on sale. 
 

Fancy that, talking up a potentially exciting transfer prospect to coincide with season tickets going on sale………

The rangers deserve everything they get, cheated their way to titles which damaged countless Scottish clubs not just Celtic

58 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

he`s had a fantastic season in belgium,union st gilloise have just won the belgian cup and go into the championship play offs in top spot,he`s been a key player for them,union sg are one of the smaller teams in belgium

They've been making a right dogs dinner of the play offs, went into it with a 6 point lead and are now 3 points behind. I go and watch them each year, Sykes spent the first half of the season injured but seems to have played most weeks since then. Been keeping Kevin MacAllister out the team (Alexis' brother).

USG have a couple of players worth looking at to be fair, Cameron Puertas has assets coming out of his ears, Mo Amoura has scored loads of goals and the Japanese left back Koki Machida is a cracking player. 

5 hours ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

You can play with a back 3/5 and be more attacking, so I don't particularly mind if we stay like that. I think the issue with McFadzean is he forces us to defend really deep - be it a back 3 or a back 4 - because of his lack of pace. 

 

I'd be happy to keep him as back up on the cheap and I respect what he has done for us in his short time here, but if he starts more than a handful of games for us then it tells us a lot about the sort of season that we'll be having. And it isn't good. 

 

 

I think it was the combination of MacFadz and Wharton together that lead to us playing so deep, you'd hope with Carter coming in more regularly and Hyam getting back to where he was last season we'd play higher. For all the comments re MacFadz (lack of pace) I don't think there would be much between him and Scott in a straight line.

17 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Agreed, i'd say £330 for the JW Central should be the absolute max'.

They've destroyed the product, so should charge people accordingly...

What if Netflix announced: "Dear valued subscribers, we're halving our catalogue and removing all high-royalty AAA titles, and ceasing future additions. Instead, we'll only be adding movies/shows that in turn will benefit us more financially, regardless of their quality. Meanwhile, subscription fees will stay the same or increase." The result? A mass exodus of subscribers.

They'd better get this right, or Ewood will be a ghost town.

Weirdly, that's exactly what is about to happen with Netflix reducing the screens and putting in adverts unless you pay them an extra couple of quid

This month and next will be the ones where loads of people have final payments on summer holidays, etc due. Leaving it this late is commercially insane with the amount of competing financial priorities that people have going into the summer. As we've seen, once the habit is broken, Saturdays get filled with other things and it's very hard to get people back. 

Bit annoying all these instagram and self-proclaimed twitter experts praising Wharton like they found him down the back of the sofa, also, them calling him the Blackburn Beckenbauer need telling its the Wilpshire Pirlo, end of.

Lad called Kevin Denkey has been ripping it up for Cercle Brugge in the Belgian pro league, he’d be well worth a look. 

FFP has played a blinder for Palace here, due to many of the top end clubs being terrified of spending money they could get him for a snip, can sell him on for double if not more than what they paid in a very short space of time. Realistically they could have him for 12 months and bag 40 million profit.

between Eze, Olise and Wharton they’re probably looking at netting north of 150 million in the next year. 

Siggy is obviously a good footballer, his first few games he looked sharp, took up some really intelligent positions and his finishing was excellent. Converted nearly all the chances that fell to him. Once we started on the death spiral toward the end of Nov his form took a catastrophic dip as he was being asked to do more work, which I don't think he was physically prepared for/fit enough to do. From that point it looked like he was playing catch up and his confidence nose dived, he also seemed to suffer further dips when he went away on international duty. 

Hopefully a successful rehab where he builds strength and underlying baseline levels of championship fitness will set him up to have a good pre-season and be firing on all cylinders. There is comfortably a 15 a season player in there.

He'd be worth the money even if to add competitiveness and bite in training and pre-season. 

Whilst I do think we fell short in what we sold him by 8-10 million, nobody is going to pay 50 million for a Championship player no matter how good we know they will be. 10 good games in the Prem is worth 2 seasons in the championship, rightly or wrongly. 

He's done the job he was recruited to do IMO, nothing more, nothing less. He certainly doesn't get a free hit from me going into pre-season, in fact I think the pressure is now on to prove he's more than an emergency stop gap. 

The next 6 weeks are where he earns his crust, a forensic review of where the strengths and weaknesses lie, how we address those from a personnel and formation/style point of view. Decide what is a realistic style of play to retain our status as a championship club and hopefully get back to chasing play-offs and promotion. He's proved that he can make us hard to beat, I want to see him show how he's going to turn those draws into wins. That doesn't necessarily mean dominating possession or going back to JDT ball, it does however mean we need to either be more clinical or create more.

All the loanees obviously go back and we're left with a fairly shallow squad, the only out of contract player I'd retain is McFazdean as I think his experience and commitment has been invaluable and has been far and above the player Hyam has been the last 15 games. 

Sammie Szmodic FC

1 minute ago, Tugay-is-God said:

Aren't Hull meant to be fighting for a playoff spot right now, what are they playing at?

Yes, there’s is the strangest performance 

it's the fact we've not been in the bottom 3 all season that worries me, it's one of those million to 1 stories that seems to happen in football. Similar to Royal Antwerp winning the Belgium league last year having been top for the final 3 minutes of the season and winning it. I have this horrible feeling we drop into the bottom 3 with minutes to spare, spending the shortest time ever in the relegation places yet being relegated and again with a 50 point total! 

League 1 is a lot better standard than it was last time we were in it

Overall the majority of problems stem from a lack of quality throughout the side, this leads to poor decision making, crumbling under pressure, whatever you want to call it.

Using Wharton as an example, not because he's the worst but because he comes to mind first.

 Wharton is slow, he makes decisions slowly and is criminally one footed. This leads to us moving the ball out from the back ponderously, which leads to possession being heavily concentrated to one side of the pitch when he has the ball, leading to players having to play with their back to goal (predominantly right footed, receiving it on the left). Teams squeeze up, our players move over to condense the play and try to get numerical superiority, we make mistakes and the compounding impact multiplies over a phase of pay with players being out of position to cover mistakes. They switch the play and we're caught out time and time again. 

You could replicate this model across the pitch where individual deficiencies cause massive problems that lead to a disjointed unit that when playing anything other than trench football, with 11 men behind the ball struggles. 

13 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Low ratings all around, but I must've watched a different match to a  lot on here. I thought JRC was atrocious, and when he wasn't lumping the ball forward he lost possession in a variety of ways. Tronstad unusual sloppy as well, and Brittain was so poor. Dolan and Gallagher really struggles in matches like this, where there's too much space between our lines, and we can't get enough bodies fast enough forward. I really hope we play four at the back again versus Coventry and find a place for Ayari in the team. Would give Pickering a rest too, tbh. 

 

Based on errors, Hyam and Pears should sit that match out as well, but can't see that happening.

 

I think JRC has been generally garbage since returning from injury, he seems to be under the impression he’s a much better player than he is. He gives the ball away cheaply so often and is challenging Buckley for the walking booking trophy. 

An absolute disgrace from start to finish, I said to my son (8) this morning that we’d get a draw at best. The mentality of this bunch of players is that after last week the job is done. Turned up today believing they’d waltz around and take all 3 points. Genuinely embarrassed by the team this afternoon. 

11 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Mark, for 25/30 minutes second half Aberdeen were absolutely pegged back in their defensive third and blowing out of their arses. On another day that would have been a routine 3-0 or 4-0 win. Forrest’s introduction made such a difference. Then Celtic’s centre half  Scales had a nightmare spell where he missed an absolute sitter of a header and then lost his man twice to allow goals from similar positions to the one he missed.

Great game though! 

Scales is so slow, the amount of problems be causes himself in possession by how ponderous he is with the ball is criminal . Terrifies me. 

On 15/04/2024 at 11:59, Claytons Left Boot said:

Yep, you usually pass us on the M74, if yours is the white bus with a 01772 number on the back? 😆 Do you end up in the Tavern on Tollcross Road like us?

Aye, they've been going in the Anchor across from Parched Library while the Tavern was closed but they were back in the Tavern on Saturday. 

13 hours ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

I try to get up to Celtic Park once a month. The Celtic Supporters Club that I’m a member of runs a bus up to all home games, some away games if tickets are forthcoming, otherwise it’s a minibus or cars. Week in, week out.

The bus leaves Coventry at around 6am and gets back to the Midlands after games at midnight. There are lads on from Peterborough, the south coast, Wales, Coventry & Birmingham, with a few more being added on the way up.

The coach park at the stadium is full of coaches from all over Scotland and the UK. There are also numerous coaches parked up outside pubs. In addition, fans arrive from Ireland by ferry and plane. Week in, week out.

I can assure you, these are not plastic fans. They are die hards. As much as I dislike those from the other side of the city, their support and the lengths they go to, to follow their team, falls into the same category. 

Celtic is a club founded on charity and the need to help those less fortunate than others. To this day, the supporters continue to raise thousands of pounds each year for those in the east end of Glasgow, the wider Glasgow area, Scotland and further afield. I’m not talking about the club making donations here (although it does), I’m talking money raised by supporters alone. Over the years, it will have run into hundreds of thousands, if not more.

I can’t be arsed going into the details of the Tv deals (or lack of in Scotland) which reduces the Scottish Premiership to ‘Mickey Mouse’ levels, when compared to England. It’s not worth it.

May be do a bit of research before coming out with utter bullsh*t. You haven’t got a clue.
 

 

 

 

I go up on the Blackpool Shamrock CSC Bus which I think a few of the lads from ours get on yours for cup games, etc!

Eustaces’ will be neither clean nor dirty for me, he’s been brought in to do a job, if/when the job is fulfilled then I’ll say well done. To this point he is on target to achieve his goal of retaining championship status, how he gets there is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things and I don’t think has much bearing on how a team would set up next year. 
 

There has been a job to do, some very acute problems to be solved and a seemingly chronic lack of morale that needed boosting. Eustace appears to have been doing the job he was hired for, nothing more nothing less. 

4 minutes ago, LDRover said:

Hmmmm, I like JRC but is that another sick note thrown in there??? Vying with Dogshit Dom for captain of the dinghy?

He seemed pretty desperate to get himself sent off, maybe Eustace was denying him the pleasure