"You've no right to be angry with John Collins". SPFL, season 2015/2016

We sold VVD and sent O'Connell out on loan, which I think leaves us with a centre hoff pairing of any two from Jozo Simunovic (if we have actually signed him), Efe Ambrose (bomb scare) and Dedryk Boyata (see Efe Ambrose).

Oh, and I suppose Charlie Mulgrew is as good an option there as anywhere else (as good = as bad, logic fans).

I think our current centre forward options are:
- Leigh Griffiths

Ach, be plenty exercise for Craig Gordon with that lot in front of him. And for my drinking arm.

Still, we've got tons of midfielders, eh?

*cries*

Simunovic is definitely in, btw. Um, yay? (I still haven't read a single positive thing about him)

I took a quick look for Simunovic videos - found multiple copies of the same o.g.

Ronnie going for a more midfield-centric version of the classic 4-6-0?

Aye, we're a sore Leigh Griffiths away from that very line-up. Though I'm not convinced we have four actual defenders any more.

Carlton Cole

Hats off to Livi for the best stadium name in Scotland.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/fail/223912/thanks-to-modern-football-livingston-will-have-to-play-home-games-at-the-tony-macaroni-arena.html

Rangers not quite ready to join the big boys yet, innit

It's not the result i was expecting when I was insistent to my stepdad that I didn't want to watch it on the tv...but did anyway.

For the record, i'm disappointed in McLean for thar miss and the whole team for yet again failing to keep a first clean sheet of the season. Especially against lower league opposition.

Ross County could have a great season if they continue to play well the whole way through, rather than the usul half.

Ross County are third in the table for the calendar year so far.

I think we can safely say the wheels have come off the Aberdeen wagon.

fuck that pitch & fuck that ref

dunno how you sell your game when it's played on an ice rink and controlled by a clown

Mixu's no happy :D

https://twitter.com/alancormack/status/658368372212678656

"What's the point in fuckin training?"

FFS DEILA OUT

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It's taken 15 months and umpteen shambolic Euro ties but some people are starting to catch up.

Ronny Deila is a fucking joke of a manager. He consistently picks the wrong team and/or the wrong tactics and can't motivate his players or keep them fit. What aspects of football management is he getting right?

He might well win a treble this season. I'd still sack him. I think anyone with two years of Champ Manager under their belt could win a treble in this country with that budget/squad.

That was a fucking shambles last night.

I really wanted to like Ronny Deila. He seemed like a good guy with a ton of good ideas. He had a wee period when he looked like he was going to turn it round. But naw, he's crap.

He's certainly doing his bit to raise the profile of Norwegian clubs in the rest of Europe.

The problem with sacking Ronny D is who goes next? One of the advantages he had is that, while everyone got to go "who the fuck is this?", he was unknown enough that no one could say he was shite from the off - they had to have him prove it. Name any realistic managerial candidate and 75% of Celtic supporters will point out why he's shite. It doesn't matter anyway, cos no one decent in their right mind would come. Meanwhile, the ghost of Rangers, declared skint the other day, and with their former selves finally officially cheats, look like they're gonna squirm into the top division, and then who knows what? People have been saying since the last lot went bankrupt that it would happen to the new ones, but it's easy to see them just trundling on, somehow. I wouldn't be surprised if, despite all the well-blogged financial turmoil, they end up winning the league against an under-prepared and ill-managed Celtic in the next few years. Then everything's back to how it should be.

I saw one clown elsewhere on the internet suggest Kris Commons ;_;

nu-gers financials are in a mess as well, don't think they'll threaten celtic in the immediate future, possibly never gain.

so continued dominance of the spfl and embarrassment in european qualifiers/europa league group stages in perpetuity for celtic

and ronny deila is obviously not up to much. his youth and scandinavianness seemed to lull people into a false sense of him being progressive and perhaps a change in philosophy and approach was just taking some time to set in. but it seems like his fitness methods are ill-conceived rather than an improvement, and his team selection is woeful and tactical nous minimal.

no point in punting though, we will not get anyone significantly better

Did see a usually sensible Celtic supporting pal on Twitter trot out the old "we need some competition".

Join the Norwegian league.

nu-gers financials are in a mess as well, don't think they'll threaten celtic in the immediate future, possibly never gain.

Yeah, I guess, this is the dream - 10 in a row, 20 in a row - but the thing is multiple people in the know keep saying Sevco are done for, and then they keep on going. Their accounts have them needing £2.5m to make the end of the season, but I remember something like that a year ago, and the year before that - and all this stuff will hold them back a bit - but it looks like they're coming up nonetheless.

If only a Scottish team had recently shown that a Norwegian team was beatable in Europe.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/watch-billy-reid-ditches-dugout-6892473

that was a cracking game!

Great high tempo inventive start that disappeared as soon as Hearts put one long ball behind our back fannies. I saw mostly negatives after that. I think I need to stop watching Deila's Celtic.

Yeah you were completely on top first twenty minutes, but we came right back into it I thought. Gordon's save was terrific. Think a point each was about right.

Aye, you were well worth the point - totally sussed out how to get in and around our pish defence. Didn't see last week's debacle, but I'm not a huge fan of watching Celtic these days.

Why does the 'typical rangers fan' character on only an excuse have dreadlocks and two different coloured eyes? Are huns well known for dressing like the pimp from true romance? idgi!

That was odd. When they going to have Jonathan Watson taken out the back for a quiet word?

Absolutely. McAvennie still being his go-to guy in 2015 about sums it up.

has actual frank mcavennie even been near a tv studio in the last fifteen years or so?

At least he seems to have ditched Dennis Law

As a kid I only knew Dennis Law as an only an excuse character

MacAvennie was on BT Sport the other night when I was in the pub.

Rangers have signed Billy King! It had to happen.

Yeah, if ever a player was destined for Ibrox...

lol kickback's in a froth because the resident itker says we're freeing up a wage for a blockbuster signing. they've decided it's ryan gauld or o'halloran.

nominative determinism aside, it's quite a weird move though

Had completely forgotten Ryan Gauld existed.

Well, that was pish.

judge me on next year's league cup etc

Colin Kazim-Richards :-(

Celtic have signed Colin Kazim-Richards on a two and a half year deal.

Actually feel like the board are trolling at this point.

This is probably unpopular with 99% of the support or so. Can't think of a less popular signing that Celtic have made in my entire life.

It's conceivable that we might field an 11 featuring Carlton Cole and Colin Kazim-Richards. What a time to be alive.

There have been a few head-scratchers (Willo Flood springs to mind), but aye, this is pretty much universally being derided on every forum/social media outlet I can see.

I assume we've long ditched the "projects" system in favour of young loanees and crap old hasbeens.

well Kazim-Richards, at 29, is in his prime. unfortunately it's his prime.

We actually look not-shit on a decent pitch with a big crowd against what is ostensibly a pub team. Yay.

(also no Nir Bitton is a huge improvement)

xpost lol the guys on Celtic TV were on about the disaster that an away goal for Imps would be

Roberts good to watch vs ostensible pub team. Forrest looking like he couldn't get in a pub team.

Off to Kazakhfuckinstan again if we win this.

Lolz galore as I just called my dad who's not been watching/listening/following

"What's the score?"
"3-0"
"For God's sake. Has Rodgers gone yet?"
"No, Dad, 3-0 to us"

http://i.imgur.com/AkxKHJj.jpg

IZZY! FUCK!

Doubling up the left backs - Brendan knows what it takes to manage Celtic.

we're shite again btw

Though Izzy was away anyway?

apparently not

all those tears for nothing ;_;

this second half is fucking shocking

Briefest bright new dawn ever

lol sorry about the coefficient everyone

I'll be putting on an English accent today, and possibly for the rest of the season.

How did I miss that Massimo Donati had signed for Hamilton? This is like when Jorge Cadete rocked up at Partick Thistle.

Was following Hibs and Hearts via Flashscore in the pub last night with a Hearts fan at the next table pretending to ignore me as I kept relaying updates to Neil really loudly.

And a wee bit of sad news for everyone, like me, who used to get all their football via the radio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-36856082

Right, we have a new season. We need a new thread. Title suggestions plz

“We were told the SFA shuts at 5pm on a Friday"

I'll second that.

haha yes

someone start that thread already

no me but

fuck im using my old login again

Done.

“We were told the SFA shuts at 5pm on a Friday" - Scottish Football 2016/17