Thats one thing which is really getting my irk. Lennon ahead of Gravesen and (before he was injured) Sno.

FWIW, I can see Rangers winning the SPL next year, full of cut price Scotland B players on Bosmans unless Strachan gets a couple of players with flair to compliment McGready and Nakamura, but that isn't his style. I hate Smith with a passion but one thing he can do is motivate.

TBH Im hoping an English team comes in for Gordon Strachan and we can start a rebuliding program and get back to the style of play we had under Martin O'Neil.

Hail Hail...

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Oh great. Celtic have won the Championship for the 41st time.



It must be April.

I don't see how fans can complain with the side Strachan is developing. it is young and full of good Scottish players aswell as a few Brits. Compare this with a team a couple years back when I think in 1 Old Firm game there was about 2/3 Scots in the whole of the line up.

It's a big improvement and I'd personally rather see country based players rather than foreigners. At least with the foreigners they have they are top notch and also young compared to some they have had in the passed.

I think Strachan has a good balanced side with plenty of depth too. I do think it is time for Lennon to go though, possibly Balde and sign top quality with a couple of players that will give further depth in the Champions League if Celtic want to progress on this years run.

I think the whole thing was so appropriate.

The game today was simply a mirror image of the season. Celtic play utterly e for 90 minutes, yet pinch it with a last minute bit of brilliance by Shunsuke Nakamura.

It was so typical of the entire season it's untrue.

Strangely, this year has been possibly the worst the team has performed in ten years but the Championship has been won with four games to spare.

As Phonic Bhoy says though the future is bright. Celtic have won the league twice (with something to spare) in a major transitional phase. How many players remain from Seville?

The reserves/under 19s etc have dominated for years, and that can only auger well for the future.

Congratulations to the Hoops, and I foresee I will be able to say this for a few years yet!

The problem with Strachan is this:

He plays his team no matter what. So... for example, he plays Lennon week-in, week out. Now he's playing Hartley along side him week-in, week out. Lennon has been extremely poor. Hartley is now starting to get pelters from the fans.

To me, its summing Strachan up to a tee. Poor purchases (barring Nakamura, Naylor and Venegoor) and relying on flashes of brilliance to win games.

Rangers are going to do a lot better next year, and unless Strachan looks in the mirror, it will be a long season for us next year and the writing is on the wall.

All very true, but after that Motherwell disaster two years ago, everyone was stating that Rangers had it in the bag for the next few years and all the facts pointed to that.

O'Neill had mistakenly let all his team grow old together, and there was little in the way of young talent in the squad ready to take the places of Larsson, Sutton, Hartson etc etc.

Gordon Strachan has had to rebuild that team almost from scratch, mainly with players with age on their side, yet, despite the fact that Celtic are in a major transitional period, they have romped home to the league twice.

That said, Celtic have been very, very lucky this season, because they seemingly get outplayed on a regular basis but just rely on one or two players to get them through.

However, a forward minded midfielder and a decent strike partner for Vennegoor and Celtic would rightfully be hot favourites again.

Remember there has been a massive upheavel in the squad over the last couple of years and there will be troubles along the way, but if those troubles mean only winning the league by 13 points rather than by 20, then it's not too much of a crisis.

There are warning signs though, and Celtic's rotten form of late (has it been any good all season?) is possibly the best thing that could have happened to them because Strachan can be under no illusions that if they play the way they have this season again, then there will be no hat-trick of titles, I'm sure about that.

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Just what we needed to help build into next season,i will be very sad to see Arthur Boruc go if the rumours are true he will take some replacing.
I see we have been linked with Jason Koumas from WBA aswell today which would be a excellent signing IMO.

Koumas would be just the style of player Celtic could do with in midfield.

What's the rumour about Boruc then? That would be a bad loss. Not sure how good Mr. Brown is but he has to be better than the ninety minute wonder Marshall.

The rumour on the Grapevine is that Arthur Boruc was spotted in the Players lounge at Villa Park the other week with Martin O'Neil keen to take him down to the Midlands


I think Arsenal are also showing an interest.

Dunfermline 1-0 Hibs

Scottish Cup Semi

106 years.

Would be very sad to see Boruc go. I think he was a major part in Celtics CL success. Koumas would be a top signing, I still wish there could have been a way to of got Robbie Keane at Celtic. He would be a sensation at Parkhead.

Hehehehe oh well always next year.

In front of 8500 in a 60000 seater stadium too...

They'd have been better playing it at Knowsley Road, they're used to those kind of crowds

The style of play that lost championships on goal difference rather than win the title in April?

Jeeze some people want blood.

Can't see it. Everything to do with Celtic and O'Neill is automatically linked. Boruc is supposed to be Arsenal bound for £7 million according to relatives in Glasgow.

Or more accurately, took over a team that had lost the title by 18 clear points to win it by the same margin in a year, and mamaged a team to three runaway title successes, one that would have been in the bag had it not been for major distractions and one that his team inexpicably tthrew away right at the death. Add to that one treble another couple of cups and a UEFA Cup Final, beating many top European sides, and you have to see that he has a point.

Interestingly not oneof O'Neill's five years saw as many points dropped as this year. It's the shocking standard of Rangers that has seen Celtic through this year rather than the brilliance of the Hoops.

Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.

Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.

Quote ="muskuk69"Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.'" Why? is Roeder on Crack? Miller is pesh.

Quote ="muskuk69"Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.'" Why? is Roeder on Crack? Miller is pesh.

Quote ="marsh316"Why? is Roeder on Crack? Miller is pesh.'" www.fansfc.com/frontpage/frontpa ... sid=163981 www.fansfc.com/evertonfootballcl ... sid=164301 Roeder isn't known for his canny knack in the transfer market now, is he? I mean he's gotten lucky on Sibierski, but barring that look at his signings for West Ham, Watford and the Toon.

Quote ="marsh316"Why? is Roeder on Crack? Miller is pesh.'" www.fansfc.com/frontpage/frontpa ... sid=163981 www.fansfc.com/evertonfootballcl ... sid=164301 Roeder isn't known for his canny knack in the transfer market now, is he? I mean he's gotten lucky on Sibierski, but barring that look at his signings for West Ham, Watford and the Toon.

Quote ="muskuk69"Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.'" Unadulterated joy all round.

Quote ="muskuk69"Neil has seen sense. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 591163.stm On another side note, I am also told that Kenny Miller to Newcastle for £1.5 million plus further incentives (ie. goals scored and dependent on European qualification) is also signed and sealed. So thats another one and half million in the kitty then.'" Unadulterated joy all round.

I've been saying the same thing. We do not have so many foreigners. We have a team made up of mainly Scots, a few Irish and Lee Naylor who is English. I like to see a team of players who know what it means to play for Celtic rather than go where the money is.

15 of 24 are from Scotland, Ireland and England.

Maybe so as Neil Lennon is the latest to be linked with Aston Villa after this announcement. I wouldn't argue with £7m for Arthur Boruc i think that would represent a good deal for Celtic.


Totaly agree with what your are saying.
On players who i would want to sign for the club Kevin Doyle of Reading springs to mind.

15/24? That's a huge improvement to a couple seasons back.