06 Apr 2025 15:10:46
I got panned on here a few months back for suggesting we’d struggle to win the Championship in England.
Well I’m doubling down on this, we’ve recently lost to Hibs, Rangers, St Johnstone none of whom would trouble the playoffs in the championship.
We’re showing a lot of fatigue and we’re just at the 32 game mark, try 46 games, the length and breadth of Britain, huge teams, huge crowds, teams like Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland would give us a much tougher time than anyone in Scotland.
This is not a negative post, we need perspective, we are what we are, we are the best team in Scotland and on course for another treble, that is astonishing. We’re not perfect, but a Scottish team is never going to be. In fact no team ever will be.
{Ed007's Note - So what's the point your doubling down on? If we were down in England, even The Championship, we would have more money to spend on better quality of players, how would Leeds or Sunderland do in Scotland with the smaller TV & sponsorship deals?}
06 Apr 2025 15:55:27
I bet the Celtic squad would kill to play 46 games in a season. They've played 50 already this season, some of them against far better teams than Leeds or Burnley.
06 Apr 2025 16:05:18
Liverpool also lost today but they also have a big lead.
We can’t win all the time.
Successful clubs win when we need too.
06 Apr 2025 16:24:48
I agree about fatigue to a certain extent, but I also said today that we have been miles ahead in a one horse race for over three quarters of the season causing some complacency and half-hearted displays. Looking back we are night and day from the team that played teams off the park from August to November and had a pretty decent CL effort. Same manager, same players but something is lacking.
06 Apr 2025 17:46:42
Is it to do with the players downing tools as they, like us, know they've won the league? Complacency? Human nature maybe. At this stage of the season when there are lots of dead rubber games across the game as a whole, it makes for results like this. I'm merely speculating. I can see us stumbling over the line with more insipid performances but on the positive, hopefully another Treble.
06 Apr 2025 18:51:07
Brendan hit the nail on the head today after the match. Some people wanting an easy game. Now that the league has been virtually wrapped up since Christmas a lot of games have been flat and lacking the tempo and urgency they had at the beginning of the season. Not the professionalism needed at a big club.
06 Apr 2025 19:17:17
At least Celtic won’t be complacent in the Semi Final against St. Johnstone.
The same happened with Hibs in the last round, when we didn’t need to wait long to get revenge after losing at Easter Road in the league.
Celtic and Sevco have now both lost 4 league matches each since Hibs last lost a league match.
( 3-0 to Celtic at the start of December )
06 Apr 2025 20:59:03
Arne Engels is in the same bracket as Idah, yet one starts and one doesn't, McCowan should be ahead of Engels it's blatantly obvious.
06 Apr 2025 22:43:15
Mccowan owan should start ahead of hatate.
06 Apr 2025 22:58:06
Mccowan is an impact player and should never be starting ahead of engels. Mcgregor should have been subbed off instead of Engels today.
07 Apr 2025 07:09:37
Gerry, as a Celtic fan you should know better than to make stupid claims like that.
Thats the type of pish delusional engerland football fans come out with.
Money talks.
06 Apr 2025 23:40:42
Spot on Ed.
Lets get this in perspective.
In this league we have to sell our best, down south we would not.
Just look at cash pumped in to EPL and the other leagues.
Even relegated teams get a massive parachute payment we can only dream of. (averaging around £50million over a timed period)
I think their is too much complacency creeping in just now and we have not completed the job.
08 Apr 2025 18:51:17
The negativity our supporters post about manager and individual players while Celtic are in the midst of the most successful domestic campaigns in Cup,
L Cup and SPL . The whole world are looking at how well we are performing. Of course Sevco fans and the SMSM don’t give us the credit we deserve .
Why should they our own supporters begrudge everything we win and try to destroy the reputations of many players and our manager .
Is winning doubles and trebles nearly every season not enough for our fans.