Well its Clusterfuck +2 days and the rage I and indeed, all of us felt after possibly the worst tactical approach to a vital game for many a year, has been joined with a feeling of being on a rudderless ship.
The enormity of the misjudgment by Lenny. The failure to get quality, even after spending £10m with another minimum of £6-7m in wages for both of them, is truly mind blowing incompetence.
Anybody who ever bothers to read my posts, will have noticed I don’t do sentimentality, or give people a bye because they happen to be good Tim’s. Even legends. It makes me nauseous when people overlook glaring weaknesses in anybody because they have been great servants, or always loved us.
We all love the club. The only thing that should matter, to me at least, is are you doing the job? Do you deserve to be there on merit? I don’t and never have fallen for the badge kissing fucking vomit, the statements of how much they love the club etc. Do the fucking job or fuck off, harsh to some, but that’s the way it is and I think it should always be.
This pre season to me is even worse than last year. Last year we did the square root of fuck all, to either help us qualify for the CL, or to provide additional players to help our players who were burned out win 8.
A shambles in the form only Celtic could pull out of their dithering, complacent arse.
Fast forward to this years fuck up and initially, it started well. I was hopeful lessons had been learned with 3 “defenders” brought in. No support for the midfield as Turnbull was unfit. And Lenny has caused nothing but confusion with every press conference, as he claimed it was four other players to be in for the qualifiers, then three, then two. Then we are ok to go. Really Lenny?
We dug out a 1.1 draw away. We all felt we should go through. At Well last Saturday, neither of the £10m worth of defenders on show filled anyone with confidence. We all talked about how Cluj would he physical and they were.
Lenny’s team selection was beyond strange. CAlmac at LB and young Johnson in such a game meaning he was totally muscled out. They exploited the left side and their first goal came when Callum was beaten in the air.
Ajer and Jose were terrible too, for me, only Hatem, the least expensive of the new arrivals played and he looked better. £10m of defenders on the bench in the most important game so far, tells me we have a massive problem in relation to the competency of Lenny to identify and sign quality defenders. He didn’t even pick his own players. Think about that. Think about the level of clusterfuckery here.
I’m reading they weren’t his players. Well, I don’t believe that and if it is true, then the situation is even worse than I thought. Much worse.
Playing well in defence against the pish we play here, is one thing. Step a foot into Europe against even average teams and we collapse. As I said, Ajer, Jose, Bain all truly awful. Calmac lost at LB and in the end we are out.
Imagine your a mid to front player and you get your act together in the second half, score 3 goals to bail our fucking atrocious defence out, to be continually out done by guys who simply aren’t good enough at the Euro level? The £10m guys aren’t deemed good enough to replace players that aren’t good enough and the whole thing gets worse for going forward.
Lenny’s tactics where abysmal. His selection was abysmal. His game management was abysmal. His substitutions were abysmal.
This year we spent money. But it failed to secure CL. They failed to take the field. That is utterly unnaceptable from whoever sanctioned buying them.
The confidence of the two players must be shot. Calmac must be fucked off for being exposed and run ragged. Ajer and Jozo must be affected too because they came up shorter than the winner of short guy of the year. Eddy who was brilliant, will be thinking I deserve a better team.
It’s not just a failure to invest in time for it to matter, it’s worse. We spent £10m on our Shite Defence and they aren’t good enough to get a game in front of that shite defence. The Mind boggles.
I am more depressed about the situation than angry now. We have failed at every level. Board, Manager, players.
Sevco will go at us from the off. I won’t go down the road of bluster, we will do them blah blah, as the last two visits there were the most cowardly performances I have witnessed in a life of games against those Cunts. Are we better than them? Have they caught up? Have we allowed them to catch up? Do we have the bottle?
Motherwell pressed us from the off and we looked shit first 35 minutes. Cluj pressed us from the off and we looked shit first half. Sevco will press us from the off. Will we get two new fullbacks? It certainly won’t be Gummy and Melling now. It will be cheaper alternative options.
Where we are right now is a place I always knew we would end up due to not improving continually. Lenny is under severe pressure, as he should be after that managerial disaster. I hated he blamed the defence rather than taking responsibility for it. For picking it, for buying two guys he didn’t play. His call his fault. Let himself down there.
We need decisive action to get quality in, or AIK will Hand us our arse too. Will our bottle go? Will anybody be surprised if it does?
I don’t think so. That sums up Celtic right now. It’s down to Lawell, Lenny and the players to win the league and at least qualify for the EL. Right now we are an EL team and not even one of the better ones.
Thanks board. Thanks Lenny or whoever spent £10m on defenders who can’t get into a pish Celtic Defence. How bad a slur on anybody who claims to be a defender is that? You can’t get a game in defence for Celtic? Really? Are you an amputee?
This is crunch time. Again.
A total fucking shambles only we could dig out of our complacent arse. We lose badly at CreditDome and Lenny and Lawell need to resign. No ifs, no buts, just fuck right off.