22 Mar 2026 15:45:30
Ironic that the last title we lost in front of fans was a defeat against Terry Butchers ICT in 2010-11 where the pitch was deliberately made into a desert, this defeat as good as handed the title to EBT Rangers the season before their cheating caught up with them. We have always struggled badly on surfaces like this.
22 Mar 2026 16:14:48
So we ignore a season that had no fans to support? And blame sandy pitches for the loss of not one, but two league titles? Make no mistake, that result cost us the title. A disgrace of a performance. But it wasn't the sand, it was the poor team and lack of investment. let's stop making excuses. We didn't lose the league twice because there were no fans or sand on a pitch, we lost because we weren't the best time over the distance. And this season we will lose it again, not because of sand, but because we are a poor side due to lack of investment.
I find this post very arrogant and entitled. The only reason we've lost the league twice in the last 15 years is because we had no fans at games in one season, or we played in a sandpit against ICT in another season. Newsflash, another blip in the road coming. Don't blame the sand. If we continue to see lack of investment, next season will feel like we're playing on quick sand all season.
22 Mar 2026 16:26:38
Celtic were forced to go to bottom 6 club ICT in a rearranged match in 2011 after we had already played 2 post split games.
Celtic were screwed over when the post split fixtures were announced and I remember being raging and fearing the worst.
The SPL made ICT play their first bottom 6 fixture away to St. Johnstone on the MONDAY night to prevent Celtic playing ICT that midweek.
The SPL or SPFL would always say they would play rearranged games at the first opportunity.
So Why did the fixtures have ICT playing on a Monday.
Basically it was to put maximum pressure on Celtic with only a few games to play and their plan worked a treat.
22 Mar 2026 16:39:33
???Joebhoy keep your hair on ? Whos making excuses I'm just stating a fact, was it the bit about your cheating club you didn't like?.
22 Mar 2026 18:48:04
I remember that Buzz, was raging myself with the whole ICT debacle. I refuse to blame that game as to why we lost the league. Big Samaras' missed penalty at Ibrox to win the game before the split still haunts me and that's what always sticks in my head from that season.
To lose the league by a point I just think had that gone in they would have been chasing us then and that ICT game in hand would have had less pressure on it.