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26 Feb 2026 16:52:39

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26 Feb 2026 19:44:08
Good victory for Martin in his last European game.
Plenty of players gave themselves a chance of starting on Sunday.

Celtic never got many shots at goal but we had several corners and multiple of good crosses into the box with nobody to attack them.

It doesn’t look like we have any more injuries so it was a good night.
It should give our players more confidence for Sunday.

26 Feb 2026 20:08:40
Great goal by mccowan who has that in his locker.

26 Feb 2026 20:15:44
2nd that, superb evening.

26 Feb 2026 22:16:52
I think McCowan should definitely start on Sunday. Hatate can gtf, terrible showing again.

26 Feb 2026 15:30:51
Glad we never got ta bi he needs ankle surgery.

26 Feb 2026 20:25:00
Would have been a better signing than the donkey we nearly bought from Lorient.

26 Feb 2026 14:41:10
Having watched every CL game that I could, I honestly believe we would have taken some real thrashings from the upper tier teams. We can't win against Scottish teams even at home. If we win our league this year it will be against all odds. Never thought we could regress like this. Fur coats and no knickers. Unbelievable.

26 Feb 2026 19:11:39
I can actually see this getting much worse and it rolling over into next season.

26 Feb 2026 20:14:51
Didn't get any worse jo. Take a night of and enjoy a Celtic win.

26 Feb 2026 12:36:04
What about Schmeichel not my choice Arthur scales and kt saratchi Donovan callum aurejo hatate cvancara yang or tounekti in a 352,we normally lose the midfield battle at that midden.

26 Feb 2026 10:50:12
The Cheltenham punters are getting a break this year

Because of my own health issues I am unable to help out editing at Cheltenham this year, I have already informed ED033

If any of you guys on here fancy helping out I am sure ED033 would welcome your input, some of the once a year punters for Cheltenham know their stuff and some of their tips can be profitable and it is quite enjoyable.

26 Feb 2026 09:04:32
So the board have left us with a rookie cb even at 22 Murray has never played in a game like this, think tynecastle and oh that's right another rookie in Arthur, what a mess, be better putting kt in there and saratchi at lb.

26 Feb 2026 10:44:42
Mally I want Martin to play mostly fringe players tonight as it is a dead rubber and keep strongest team for Ibrox
Play the Finnish keeper tonight to give him a run out before Sunday and play him at Ibrox also.

26 Feb 2026 11:27:21
It wouldn’t be fair putting Scales or KT on the right side of defence.
Welsh would’ve been the better option.

I watched Atalanta playing a 3-4-1-2 last night and I think that’s the system which would suit us, when we get Alastair Johnston and Engels back hopefully after the International break.
AJ could be playing on the right of a back 3 at the World Cup.

Kasper or Sinisalo
Johnston, Trusty, Scales
Araujo, Engels, Calmac, KT
Nygren
Any 2 strikers

We currently don’t have the players to change it but I believe we will need to change our formation at some point to give us a better chance of being successful this season.
Every single winger has been inconsistent all season and it would take them out the game.

26 Feb 2026 11:44:21
It would make no sense playing Kasper tonight.
The same if we started both Trusty and Scales.
Give Murray a run out and he could also rest Scales or Both.

26 Feb 2026 13:17:17
A think Teirney played RCB for Scotland when he scored that good goal.

26 Feb 2026 15:01:14
Playing a 3-4-1-2 formation would at least keep players like Tounekti away from our own box trying to defend, instead it would be wingbacks backtracking.

26 Feb 2026 16:06:54
I like the look of that 3-4-1-2 formation Buzzbomb and as I'm sure you agree, MON needs to change it up.

Beefing up the midfield and playing two strikers has to be worth a punt to get us on some sort of winning run.

26 Feb 2026 08:47:08
Reading all this nonsense about not being able to compete with the top European clubs and how we need to become Bodo mark II. Pretty sure most people don’t expect us to even try and compete with the top clubs, we do however expect us to compete with clubs at our level.

What we have is a board that won’t even try. They need gone before anger is replaced by apathy.

26 Feb 2026 09:43:26
We've been beaten by 4 of the top 5 in the league this season, hearts twice, hibs once, sevco once, motherwell once when did that ever happen.

26 Feb 2026 10:04:17
So what is our level? . is it teams like bodo glimt who thrashed us 5-1 on aggregate just a short while ago . God forbid trying to learn lessons from a club that thrashed us so easily.

26 Feb 2026 11:06:49
That’s the point, our level should be above Bodo, IF we had a functioning football club ran by competent individuals. Instead we have a collection of belligerent dinosaurs who think that they can do no wrong.

They’ve made no attempt to compete at European level and folded at the first sign of a domestic challenge. Whilst the contempt they hold for the collective and fans in general, is off the scale.

26 Feb 2026 11:56:55
Bodo has a lot less of a income than Celtic yet they can compete with clubs a lot more wealthy than themselves why? Because they have a structure in place to do so They will never win the CL. But they will be respected by most teams they play against. While at this moment in time most clubs in Europe would be celebrating if they drew us in a competition.

And for me that's because Celtic is very poorly run as a top club . Even in our domestic league we are poor . The board have to take a long look at themselves and be honest about the mess they have got this club into.

26 Feb 2026 12:31:05
They are looking at themselves, Wilson thinks Nicholson is doing a good job!

26 Feb 2026 08:23:45
Seriously couldn't care less about tonight.

26 Feb 2026 11:18:23
Think a lot of us feel that way but a hammering regardless of who plays does nothing good for the club.

26 Feb 2026 08:00:31
Be as well kot having refs, the one on Sunday said he seen incident with trusty and says to var he'll have a word yellow card, so why did var get involved if he said he seen it, irs a fecking joke but wee collum will defend it as per.

26 Feb 2026 07:39:14
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 27 - Quick Round Up

25 Feb 2026 14:16:22
Ed, just wondering have you heard anything about a takeover? I haven't but the reason I ask is that we are a very lucrative Club in a very good position in terms of finance albeit our current board are trying there very best to tear our club apart, but surely there must be a consortium looking at us and think we could make a huge difference? Just a question.

Thanks as always.

{Ed007's Note - I don't know mate, there's some rumours that Willie Haughey - the fridge magnate - is trying to put together a group to try and oust DD 🤷‍♂️

25 Feb 2026 19:47:47
That would make sense on several levels.

I can't see Willie H, as a Celtic supporter from Glasgow, being happy with what is taking place at the club.

In terms of finance, he's a very rich man, with I'm sure, a wee black book full of very rich friends.

Fingers crossed.

25 Feb 2026 20:06:50
As opposed to A fridge magnet. 😉.

{Ed007's Note - Touche Davie 👍🍀

25 Feb 2026 20:41:55
God a hope your right Ed he's the right man Willie loves the club.

{Ed007's Note - How did it turn out at Livingston and Queen's Park? I honestly don't care if the people running Celtic love the Club, we're pat that now and need people that will look at us as a business BUT also the potential of what we could (should?) be. We really don't need any individual or Saudi investment funds money, we just need people in place to spend the money we make more wisely and use it to progress the entire Club.
Where's the 1 year, 5 year or even 10 year plan, does anyone in that board room have any kind of vision of where Celtic can/should/be in 10 years time?
The majority will have had their steak pie send off by then!}

25 Feb 2026 20:43:33
You would need about10 Willie Haugheys to get to the wealth of Desmond🙄.

{Ed007's Note - DD's wealth has nothing to do with it, could Haughey and his people force the LSE's hand with DD's exemption from the 30%+ ruling where DD would need to offer ever single shareholder market price for their shares or sell/dilute his own? That was always a bit weird to me.
We don't need rich owners Stevie - but it helps obviously with connections etc - all Celtic need is people to spend the £ we make more wisely. Putting the current wars aside, if Celtic ever need £ fans will step up.}

25 Feb 2026 21:10:11
Totally agree, Ed. Well said.

{Ed007's Note - 👍🍀

25 Feb 2026 21:18:28
My gut instinct is telling me some major change will happen in the coming months either desmond stepping aside or a major clearout of the boardroom. These guys look at Celtic first and foremost as a business and not as fans. As business men they can't be happy with how their "business" is being run.
Other than engels there is bugger all players we have that will get us a substantial transfer fee. That is these guys bread at butter. Big transfer fees are what whets their appetite. This along with 10s of millions lost in CL revenue will be seriously hurting them inside.

And to some extent DD must feel a sense of shame at how fast one of his business' is being run into the ground.
The only way he would stay on and keep this going is he is intentially making a mockery of the club to spite the fans or he is mentally lost the plot.

25 Feb 2026 21:35:09
DD's net worth is approx $2.4B and WH's net worth is approx $525M.

DD's 34.7% shares in Celtic are worth, give or take, £60M (sterling) .

I'd imagine WH could comfortably buy out DD's shareholding, but, I'm guessing he would look to bring in others to spread the risk, add additional expertise and prevent the current dictatorship occurring in the future.

{Ed007's Note - I've had a wee snoop at Haughey's finances the last few weeks and it's a bit cloudy I thought Pedro, apart from the money he's made year on year he sold his personal stake in City Facilities Management Holdings (what the fridge company became) for £640m in 2021 although he still ran the company.
He's definitely not poor right enough and he is funding some of the propaganda in the fan media.}

26 Feb 2026 08:33:38
DT you mentioned the lost CL revenue hurting the board, but for the best part of 20 years that’s been the case and they did nothing about change the scenario.

26 Feb 2026 09:02:22
Ed the difference with Haughey is he'd be there every game we know he's a real fan, he knows football and he'd be more aligned with rhe punters over our never seen landlird.

{Ed007's Note - Why does that matter if the owner attends games, i don't know any other set of fans that care about that. Would you expect US or Saudi owners to be at every game?
But yeah I'm sure the multi- millionaire British Lord will have a lot more in common with the support than an Irish billionaire has.

26 Feb 2026 12:00:55
I would say he does but that's my opinion, he's at most games because he's a genuine fan you'd need to drag Desmond from his first love the golf course.

{Ed007's Note - Aye, OK. I wonder if the fixture computer that helps Sevco out also made sure that Celtic never played when Livingston and then Queen's Park were playing, surely he'd have been watching the clubs he owned or had his money in?}

26 Feb 2026 12:46:20
Ed we just need change mate and haughey imo would be a smart move, regardless of wealth we just need a freshness new blood with new ideas.

{Ed007's Note - 100% mate 👍🏻🍀