Does it hurt mcguire martin, does it hurt ?

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,711]

Published on 18 Feb 2010

Tony Mowbray’s time at Celtic is almost at an end.

In my mind, he is a dead man walking as Celtic manager and the next 10 days look like determining his fate.

It won’t be the fans’ calls for him to go that eventually ends his eight-month association with the club, should he lose or draw against Dundee United or Rangers.

No, the parting by mutual consent will come from a board panicking at the thud of season tickets being returned to the Parkhead door in disgust at Celtic losing the title for the second season in succession to one of the most mediocre Rangers sides I can remember.

The buck stops with the manager for failure, but there are other culprits in this farcical situation the club is currently mired in.

They find themselves trying to claw back 10 points on a team that contains a 39-year-old veteran in defence, a workmanlike midfield, a Celtic reject and a £3.5million waste of money.

The catalogue of mistakes is damning on and off the field, and the performances and results are evidence enough that it is not working under Mr Mowbray.

During his stewardship, Celtic have played 39 games, won 19, lost 11 and drawn nine. When Mowbray arrived at Celtic, as second choice, in June 2009, the proclamation from chairman John Reid was: “The fightback starts here, today.

“And there’s nobody better to lead that fightback than Celtic’s own, and Celtic’s manager, Tony Mowbray”.

In Mowbray’s words, he wanted to make Celtic “feared and respected in Europe”.

“We’ll be trying to emulate good football,” he said. “Try to give the supporters a brand of football that they can be proud of; score goals, win trophies, play with a panache and style.”

Feared? No. Respected? No. Scared? Yes!

The defending has Celtic fans looking through their fingers in the stands or, for many ‘stay-away’ supporters, popping up from behind the couch with a quilt over their heads.

I’ve said all along that, with this defence, Celtic have to score three goals to win.

I am sorry, I was wrong, after last Saturday at Aberdeen; it’s five to win a game. Fifty goals scored, 28 conceded and a team now heading into the United game on Saturday without Darren O’Dea, Jos Hooiveld (injured again) and Glenn Loovens, not to mention the suspended Aiden McGeady.

Who’s to blame? Mowbray takes the brunt with a team that contains four loan signings, only one of whom has a realistic chance of staying on. Does that strike you as a long-term plan or short-term panic?

Hooiveld was signed while unfit and I’ve already gone over the complete lack of urgency to get more cover in central defence at the start of January rather than the end.

Defensive mistakes since the transfer window opened have cost Celtic 12 points in their last eight SPL games. There are no excuses.

Remember the bravado of some Celtic fans about the players brought in and what was going to happen in the title race?

Rasmussen has started one match and made three substitute appearances, Ki has had three starts and three sub appearances and Zheng Zhi hasn’t reached double figures in matches started since he arrived last September.

As if to add fuel to the fire – or in this case to try and put out the fire – Tony then appoints Scott Brown captain of Celtic.

Everyone thought the new captain was on his way out; we must have been misled? Could we have been wrong?

Tactical decisions have been bewildering, but since I’m not paid to make those decisions, I have elected not to dwell too much on Brown at left-back at Rugby Park or Robbie Keane’s substitution at Pittodrie.

The financial results released by Celtic this week show a drop in turnover from the last manager’s failings and the increase in debt shows the new boss has not spent it wisely or in the right areas.

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Clueless, rudderless and by the time the final whistle goes at Ibrox on February 28, they will be SPL trophy-less.

Chief executive Peter Lawwell has stated: “We have strategies in place for the further development of the club.”

It won’t be with Tony Mowbray at the helm.

Boydy is one thing Gers can count on

Rangers in debt off the park and indebted to Kris Boyd on it as they booked their place in the quarter finals of the Active Nation Scottish Cup last night with a narrow win over St Mirren.

Don’t worry about the fact this game won’t be released on DvD. In fact, if Sky decide to keep anything other than Boyd’s goal in their digital library it will be by mistake ... this was sheer torture.

Kyle Lafferty could set a new record by failing to score in 13 games and netting just twice in 28 outings.

The least said about the match the better. More interesting, surely, are the financial results and my discussion with Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston.

My reading of the situation is the bank still calls the shots, the club still have massive debt and despite interest from other parties, Sir David Murray holds the key to any eventual sale.

There’s no doubt the club want to keep Walter Smith as manager, but would you want to hang around as even more cuts are made in the summer?

I got the feeling from the chairman that Donald Muir is an unwelcome thorn in the board’s side and Mr Johnston was trying to box clever with his words about his dealings with Lloyds TSB.

There are more difficult times ahead for Rangers, but thankfully for the club there’s no-one putting any pressure on them claiming the money from the Champions League this year again …

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/sport-columnists/peter-martin-jitters-on-board-will-soon-lead-to-tony-mowbray-sinking-1.1007511

[whytes3 254]

F***** rat

[covenanter 158]

He sounds sooooooooooooooo bitter, I wonder if he is bitter?

[bluepeter 5,627]

When Mowbray arrived at Celtic, as second choice

I thought he was first-choice fourth-choice manager? Is he second-choice fourth-choice manager or fourth-choice second-choice manager?

Confusing...

[kplfishtank 4,667]

if stevie davis is workmanlike then what does it say about his green and grey gallactios

[bluepeter 5,627]

if stevie davis is workmanlike then what does it say about his green and grey gallactios

The Matalan giants?

[dezrfc1 26]

if stevie davis is workmanlike then what does it say about his green and grey gallactios

good point

[Davy 68]

...a team that contains a 39-year-old veteran in defence, a workmanlike midfield, a Celtic reject and a £3.5million waste of money.

And that's why we're champion!

Get it right up you!

[bluenose_72 198]

Who's the celtc reject?

[simon 1,758]

I hate that arsehole. So bitter, fuck him.

[Iserdo 1]

Who's the Celtic reject he's talking about,Kenny miller?

[FlippinEck 3,736]

Got to be Kenny? Was hardly a reject, he was on form before he got sold, he was their top scorer... and hes back up in the charts this year... if anything, he was a rangers reject the first time around

[bombaybadboy08 15,660]

Bitter cunt,2 in a row here we come.

GIRUY

[BLUEWISDOM 1]

Published on 18 Feb 2010

Tony Mowbray’s time at Celtic is almost at an end.

In my mind, he is a dead man walking as Celtic manager and the next 10 days look like determining his fate.

It won’t be the fans’ calls for him to go that eventually ends his eight-month association with the club, should he lose or draw against Dundee United or Rangers.

No, the parting by mutual consent will come from a board panicking at the thud of season tickets being returned to the Parkhead door in disgust at Celtic losing the title for the second season in succession to one of the most mediocre Rangers sides I can remember.

The buck stops with the manager for failure, but there are other culprits in this farcical situation the club is currently mired in.

They find themselves trying to claw back 10 points on a team that contains a 39-year-old veteran in defence, a workmanlike midfield, a Celtic reject and a £3.5million waste of money.

The catalogue of mistakes is damning on and off the field, and the performances and results are evidence enough that it is not working under Mr Mowbray.

During his stewardship, Celtic have played 39 games, won 19, lost 11 and drawn nine. When Mowbray arrived at Celtic, as second choice, in June 2009, the proclamation from chairman John Reid was: “The fightback starts here, today.

“And there’s nobody better to lead that fightback than Celtic’s own, and Celtic’s manager, Tony Mowbray”.

In Mowbray’s words, he wanted to make Celtic “feared and respected in Europe”.

“We’ll be trying to emulate good football,” he said. “Try to give the supporters a brand of football that they can be proud of; score goals, win trophies, play with a panache and style.”

Feared? No. Respected? No. Scared? Yes!

The defending has Celtic fans looking through their fingers in the stands or, for many ‘stay-away’ supporters, popping up from behind the couch with a quilt over their heads.

I’ve said all along that, with this defence, Celtic have to score three goals to win.

I am sorry, I was wrong, after last Saturday at Aberdeen; it’s five to win a game. Fifty goals scored, 28 conceded and a team now heading into the United game on Saturday without Darren O’Dea, Jos Hooiveld (injured again) and Glenn Loovens, not to mention the suspended Aiden McGeady.

Who’s to blame? Mowbray takes the brunt with a team that contains four loan signings, only one of whom has a realistic chance of staying on. Does that strike you as a long-term plan or short-term panic?

Hooiveld was signed while unfit and I’ve already gone over the complete lack of urgency to get more cover in central defence at the start of January rather than the end.

Defensive mistakes since the transfer window opened have cost Celtic 12 points in their last eight SPL games. There are no excuses.

Remember the bravado of some Celtic fans about the players brought in and what was going to happen in the title race?

Rasmussen has started one match and made three substitute appearances, Ki has had three starts and three sub appearances and Zheng Zhi hasn’t reached double figures in matches started since he arrived last September.

As if to add fuel to the fire – or in this case to try and put out the fire – Tony then appoints Scott Brown captain of Celtic.

Everyone thought the new captain was on his way out; we must have been misled? Could we have been wrong?

Tactical decisions have been bewildering, but since I’m not paid to make those decisions, I have elected not to dwell too much on Brown at left-back at Rugby Park or Robbie Keane’s substitution at Pittodrie.

The financial results released by Celtic this week show a drop in turnover from the last manager’s failings and the increase in debt shows the new boss has not spent it wisely or in the right areas.

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Clueless, rudderless and by the time the final whistle goes at Ibrox on February 28, they will be SPL trophy-less.

Chief executive Peter Lawwell has stated: “We have strategies in place for the further development of the club.”

It won’t be with Tony Mowbray at the helm.

Boydy is one thing Gers can count on

Rangers in debt off the park and indebted to Kris Boyd on it as they booked their place in the quarter finals of the Active Nation Scottish Cup last night with a narrow win over St Mirren.

Don’t worry about the fact this game won’t be released on DvD. In fact, if Sky decide to keep anything other than Boyd’s goal in their digital library it will be by mistake ... this was sheer torture.

Kyle Lafferty could set a new record by failing to score in 13 games and netting just twice in 28 outings.

The least said about the match the better. More interesting, surely, are the financial results and my discussion with Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston.

My reading of the situation is the bank still calls the shots, the club still have massive debt and despite interest from other parties, Sir David Murray holds the key to any eventual sale.

There’s no doubt the club want to keep Walter Smith as manager, but would you want to hang around as even more cuts are made in the summer?

I got the feeling from the chairman that Donald Muir is an unwelcome thorn in the board’s side and Mr Johnston was trying to box clever with his words about his dealings with Lloyds TSB.

There are more difficult times ahead for Rangers, but thankfully for the club there’s no-one putting any pressure on them claiming the money from the Champions League this year again …

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/sport-columnists/peter-martin-jitters-on-board-will-soon-lead-to-tony-mowbray-sinking-1.1007511

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,711]

When Mowbray arrived at Celtic, as second choice

I thought he was first-choice fourth-choice manager? Is he second-choice fourth-choice manager or fourth-choice second-choice manager?

Confusing...

Fourth choice manager in charge of a third rate team with a 65k a week on loan third choice striker from Tottingham !

[TheHammer 10]

Nothing more than a demented rhat.

[Iserdo 1]

"a £3.5million waste of money"

I hardly think kennys been a £3.5million waste of money.

That just shows us how bitter this t**g cunt is.

:2gunsfiring_v1:

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,711]

Published on 18 Feb 2010

Tony Mowbray’s time at Celtic is almost at an end.

In my mind, he is a dead man walking as Celtic manager and the next 10 days look like determining his fate.

It won’t be the fans’ calls for him to go that eventually ends his eight-month association with the club, should he lose or draw against Dundee United or Rangers.

No, the parting by mutual consent will come from a board panicking at the thud of season tickets being returned to the Parkhead door in disgust at Celtic losing the title for the second season in succession to one of the most mediocre Rangers sides I can remember.

The buck stops with the manager for failure, but there are other culprits in this farcical situation the club is currently mired in.

They find themselves trying to claw back 10 points on a team that contains a 39-year-old veteran in defence, a workmanlike midfield, a Celtic reject and a £3.5million waste of money.

The catalogue of mistakes is damning on and off the field, and the performances and results are evidence enough that it is not working under Mr Mowbray.

During his stewardship, Celtic have played 39 games, won 19, lost 11 and drawn nine. When Mowbray arrived at Celtic, as second choice, in June 2009, the proclamation from chairman John Reid was: “The fightback starts here, today.

“And there’s nobody better to lead that fightback than Celtic’s own, and Celtic’s manager, Tony Mowbray”.

In Mowbray’s words, he wanted to make Celtic “feared and respected in Europe”.

“We’ll be trying to emulate good football,” he said. “Try to give the supporters a brand of football that they can be proud of; score goals, win trophies, play with a panache and style.”

Feared? No. Respected? No. Scared? Yes!

The defending has Celtic fans looking through their fingers in the stands or, for many ‘stay-away’ supporters, popping up from behind the couch with a quilt over their heads.

I’ve said all along that, with this defence, Celtic have to score three goals to win.

I am sorry, I was wrong, after last Saturday at Aberdeen; it’s five to win a game. Fifty goals scored, 28 conceded and a team now heading into the United game on Saturday without Darren O’Dea, Jos Hooiveld (injured again) and Glenn Loovens, not to mention the suspended Aiden McGeady.

Who’s to blame? Mowbray takes the brunt with a team that contains four loan signings, only one of whom has a realistic chance of staying on. Does that strike you as a long-term plan or short-term panic?

Hooiveld was signed while unfit and I’ve already gone over the complete lack of urgency to get more cover in central defence at the start of January rather than the end.

Defensive mistakes since the transfer window opened have cost Celtic 12 points in their last eight SPL games. There are no excuses.

Remember the bravado of some Celtic fans about the players brought in and what was going to happen in the title race?

Rasmussen has started one match and made three substitute appearances, Ki has had three starts and three sub appearances and Zheng Zhi hasn’t reached double figures in matches started since he arrived last September.

As if to add fuel to the fire – or in this case to try and put out the fire – Tony then appoints Scott Brown captain of Celtic.

Everyone thought the new captain was on his way out; we must have been misled? Could we have been wrong?

Tactical decisions have been bewildering, but since I’m not paid to make those decisions, I have elected not to dwell too much on Brown at left-back at Rugby Park or Robbie Keane’s substitution at Pittodrie.

The financial results released by Celtic this week show a drop in turnover from the last manager’s failings and the increase in debt shows the new boss has not spent it wisely or in the right areas.

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Clueless, rudderless and by the time the final whistle goes at Ibrox on February 28, they will be SPL trophy-less.

Chief executive Peter Lawwell has stated: “We have strategies in place for the further development of the club.”

It won’t be with Tony Mowbray at the helm.

Boydy is one thing Gers can count on

Rangers in debt off the park and indebted to Kris Boyd on it as they booked their place in the quarter finals of the Active Nation Scottish Cup last night with a narrow win over St Mirren.

Don’t worry about the fact this game won’t be released on DvD. In fact, if Sky decide to keep anything other than Boyd’s goal in their digital library it will be by mistake ... this was sheer torture.

Kyle Lafferty could set a new record by failing to score in 13 games and netting just twice in 28 outings.

The least said about the match the better. More interesting, surely, are the financial results and my discussion with Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston.

My reading of the situation is the bank still calls the shots, the club still have massive debt and despite interest from other parties, Sir David Murray holds the key to any eventual sale.

There’s no doubt the club want to keep Walter Smith as manager, but would you want to hang around as even more cuts are made in the summer?

I got the feeling from the chairman that Donald Muir is an unwelcome thorn in the board’s side and Mr Johnston was trying to box clever with his words about his dealings with Lloyds TSB.

There are more difficult times ahead for Rangers, but thankfully for the club there’s no-one putting any pressure on them claiming the money from the Champions League this year again …

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/sport-columnists/peter-martin-jitters-on-board-will-soon-lead-to-tony-mowbray-sinking-1.1007511

Hows you GC ?

[Bazza 21]

if stevie davis is workmanlike then what does it say about his green and grey gallactios

The Matalan giants?

That has a bit of potential!!

[stuartmccallsfall 4]

Where did that come from? Ha ha ya bitter fenien cunt. So it looks as though all the tims have given up on this season with 36 points to play for and only 10 points a difference. FcUK the lot of them.

[bluenose_72 198]

"a £3.5million waste of money"

I hardly think kennys been a £3.5million waste of money.

That just shows us how bitter this t**g cunt is.

:2gunsfiring_v1:

You joking aye?

[IfYeCannae 48]

"a £3.5million waste of money"

I hardly think kennys been a £3.5million waste of money.

That just shows us how bitter this t**g cunt is.

:2gunsfiring_v1:

You joking aye?

Let's fucking hope so.

Costa plays for the bheasts...

[Davy 68]

Fourth choice manager in charge of a third rate team with a 65k a week on loan third choice striker from Tottingham !

Fourth choice striker, from a third world country, playing for a second rate team, managed by a first class fanny!

[Iserdo 1]

"a £3.5million waste of money"

I hardly think kennys been a £3.5million waste of money.

That just shows us how bitter this t**g cunt is.

:2gunsfiring_v1:

You joking aye?

Why are you asking that?

[IfYeCannae 48]

"a £3.5million waste of money"

I hardly think kennys been a £3.5million waste of money.

That just shows us how bitter this t**g cunt is.

:2gunsfiring_v1:

You joking aye?

Why are you asking that?

Mhisser was signed for £2 million Kyle was signed for £3.5 million