27 Aug 2014 00:41:17
A few people pulled me up when I commented on the massive changes for last weeks league game. I felt we had not played enough games to justify massive changes. Some may say after this latest result that justice was served. Maybe so but bottom line, we got a second bite and still failed when it mattered. To me we now saw reality. Out manager and team are just not good enough. As early as it is, I think we will have a problem with the league this season. Too many peoplehave become complacent and see it as a gimme. RD not big enough for the job IMO.

1.) 27 Aug 2014
Rd was being brought in as no 2, after 4-5 refusing job and cost cutting he got it, and is totally out his depth.
Agree league will be close this year, as team are just average, absolutely disgusted with the ones running the club at the moment

2.) 27 Aug 2014
My first mail was not a knee-jerk reaction to the result. We are now reaping the rewards for lack of major investment. We are, at present, slightly better than average and we have gone backwards since the other team went away. I see sevco, hearts and hibs coming back stronger than before and we have not done anything to consolidate. RD was not the first choice and now appears to be showing why. Hate being negative but right now I personally don't see too many positives. Every hopeful. Hail Hail

3.) 27 Aug 2014
I knew RD wasn't the right man, I'm still laughing at the fact that your lot had "another" chance to progress but threw it away, now watch the rats desert the ship :-D

4.) 27 Aug 2014
I'm as upset as you TT but I don't think getting rid of RD would solve anything as I can't think of anyone to replace him. He needs to get a settled team and get rid of the rubbish tying up good wages. If he's going to play a system with 1 up front then it can't be Stokes who is no where near good enough.

5.) 27 Aug 2014
27 Aug 2014 09:15:47
If we now hear that the Scepovic deal has fallen through then we know the Bostd are playing games. We need to rebuild and that means investing when things are not going well. RD has no tactical awareness. He has a style of play he is trying to imp linnet but the wrong personnel to effectively play that system against anything but average teams. The Board are responsible for appointing him. Anyone can see that this is going to end in tears and the new manager is going to come in and want to change the players again. Yes Celtic are average but that squad won the league last season by 29 points. Yes we were out our debts in CL terms but with investment we may have improved. Now it looks like we need an entire new team. Sorry don't buy that one. We needed 4 quality players and we would have done ok and if we sell a player bring in a player of around the same quality all we have done recently is sign poor players who can't get a game. No wonder the squad looks rubbish not 1 signing from last year apart from Johanson has held down a place. RD will be gone by Christmas and unless we improve so will the league.

6.) 27 Aug 2014
How long will it be now until we get another chance? I said after Legia too the board need to treat it like a second chance at life. And invest seriously before qualifiers. Coefficients will only get worse, Legia and Maribor are incredibly easy draws as well, better players will continue to leave the sinking ship etc etc. I can't see us qualifying any season soon now the way we're operating. Said it for a couple years now, and it's starting to become realised, unless we start operating like a CL club, we will no longer be one.

7.) 27 Aug 2014
Give Delia a break! He has had no money to spend on squad. A squad that is nowhere near standard it should be!

He certainly has more experience than when Lennon started his reign.

Obviously changes made last week was a tactical drastic tactical decision to save "best" players for maribor game. Its evident he knows how bad a squad he has inheritated and wasnt wanting to take any chances with second crack at champions league.

Its a bad day when it looks as though stokes is our best striker. A striker whos euro record is 23 games 2 goals.

End of the day we can all moan and gripe about last nights result, but we only have ourselves to blame. We have let Dermott Desmond and Peter Lawwell gradually run club into the ground at an alarming rate past 4 years. Unless we stand up and unite things are going to get worse.

If we are in such a good position financially and were going to sign this mystery £6m rated striker back in january. what was wrong with spending this money on 2/3 badly needed players in order to guarantee CL group stages?

All this bull$hit "celtic do business behind closed doors" is an excuse to decieve and get away with leading us up garden path!

The only way we are going to remove these leeches is a boycott of games and purchases of merchandise. And before anyone says "who would want to takeover celtic?" Guarantee you there will be plenty of candidates! We are a massive club! We are just being misguided by greed!

8.) 27 Aug 2014
Cant believe anyone wants rid of a Manager just in the door so if you do the question is who's to replace him? can't wait to see the answers!

9.) 27 Aug 2014
While driving up to the match yesterday, I heard on the radio the manager saying that getting to the çhampions league would be like Christmas and New year rolled into one.
It made me realise how far we have fallen in the last 2 years. From beating barcelona, spartak Moscow etc, we now think beating maribor is the limit of our ambitions.
It appears to me the manager is too inexperienced for celtic, every time we play a big match he gets the tactics wrong. I couldn'tbbelieve how negative we were in the first half, we were playing a very ordinary team, yet we were set up as if we were playing bayern Munich.
Surely we should have gone at them early and try to put the game beyond them, after all we created enough chances over there. By the time we changed tactics they had grown into the game and had grown in confidence.
We have been getting worse steadily over the last 2 or 3 years, surely the aim should be to improve slightly year on year. It should be possible to achieve this and keep the books balanced,
I think the board won't be happy till we only win the league on goal difference, anything more, and the team is too strong, so we can sell.
There comes a point when you have to admit a policy is not working, I think we have long since passed this point as this policy is now costing the club a lot of money
I am not saying we should go out and spend silly money on players, but surely with all the çhampions league money from previous years, and all the money we have received from player sales, we surely can do better than loan signings and a manager who although well meaning, shouldn't be at a club like Celtic to learn his trade, we should be bigger than that.

10.) 27 Aug 2014
Celtic should not be written off yet the game only finished last night

11.) 27 Aug 2014
@10. Petrofac cup. Rest my case

12.) 27 Aug 2014
Your right for once DN stokes not good enoughfor Europe, but since your playing him how do we get the best out of him. Stick him up front on his own where he is useless with no support? Or play to his strengths and put Commons beside him where they can work together? Now the second half wasn't great BUT it was night and day compared to 1st half.We just mighthave won the game if he started that way and Maribor cudnt have controlled the tempo of the game. For me another rookie mistake.

13.) 27 Aug 2014
Rayman i'm always right. You should know that by now.

Issue with stokes not being good enough, is a problem that was attempted to be rectified 3 times last season- pukki, balde and griffiths. Lennons inability to sign a striker has come back to haunt us.

14.) 27 Aug 2014
@DN we all know we need astriker but we are talking about our managers inability to get the best out of his players. I get that you like him, I do to as a person but I don't trust his manager skills. 1 question to you. Do you really think he is getting the best out the players at his disposal?