After the 10IAR debacle at Celtic, nobody believed lightning could strike twice in the same place. Well, we’d better start believing now
Eric Knott 
As I sit here this morning writing this article, I have to admit, I have a sinking feeling.
It becomes monotonous when you keep predicting what’s going to happen at Celtic.
And it keeps happening.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, was shocked at the outcome of yesterday’s game at Pittodrie.
After what we witnessed at Celtic Park last weekend, it was apparent a result like this was coming.
Add to the fact that Mark Lawwell failed us abysmally in the transfer window once again, and you had the perfect recipe for a result like yesterday’s.
I think it’s a sad indictment of where we are when I’m driven to thinking that if Adam Idah had scored the winner after Nicolas Kuhn equalised, then my main concern was that Mark Lawwell would be hailed as some sort of genius.
Obviously, I hoped we’d secure a winner, but part of me hoped it wouldn’t be Adam Idah.
Which really is a sad state of affairs.
I would much rather be able to watch a game, and enjoy it without worrying what the political ramifications might be if someone does or doesn’t score.
But that’s where we are now.
I wrote an article on Friday, asking where we go from here after the transfer window.
I spoke of the dangers in our upcoming away fixtures, starting with yesterday’s.
We are fast hurtling towards the kind of implosion that happened during the 10IAR season.
All of the warning signs are there, and there is one common denominator at the heart of all of this.
Peter Lawwell.
He is now the single most destructive force at Celtic, followed closely by his son.
Who, in the space of four transfer windows, has managed to completely sabotage the playing squad and reduce it to the final eleven we saw finishing on the field of play yesterday.
Compare and contrast the two teams that finished at Pittiodrie this season, and last season in the fixture played on Decemeber 17th 2022.
2024:
Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Stephen Welsh, Liam scales, Anthony Ralston, Matt O’Riley, Callum McGregor, Adam Idah, Nicolas Kuhn, Kyogo Furuhashi, Rocco Vata
2022:
Joe Hart, Anthony Ralston, CCV, Carl Starfelt, Greg Taylor, Aaron Mooy, Callum McGregor, David Turnbull, Felipe Jota, Giorgos Giakoumakis, Kyogo Furuhashi
Celtic played that fixture 14 ominous days before Peter Lawwell re-entered the building.
Just over a year later, and look at the difference in both line-ups.
Starfelt, Mooy, Turnbull, Jota, and Giakoumakis are gone.
3 out of 4 of the substitutions that came on that day are no longer Celtic players.
How did we decline at such a rapid rate, in such a short space of time?
None of this is a coincidence.
Yesterday, the supporters unfurled a banner, it said:
CELTIC BOARD – ON YOUR HEAD BE IT
The message was being sent loud and clear.
If we lose this title, we the fans, will blame nobody but you.
We cannot blame the manager.
He has been more than vocal in stating what he requires to take this team forward.
He has not been given it.
You could argue he has not been vocal enough.
But how much more vocal does he need to be?
He told the board what he needed, it’s their job to supply him with what he needs.
They, not him, have chosen not to meet his requirements.
The result of that is what we saw yesterday at Pittodrie.
The Ibrox side are playing Aberdeen on Tuesday night, we are now looking for Peter Leven, and his charges, to do us a favour.
Aberdeen will give them a game, but will they have enough to get a result?
If the Ibrox side score more than 3 goals without reply against them, they will sit on top of the Scottish Premiership on Tuesday night.
Our board will have gifted that to them.
Will they hang their heads is shame?
Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Instead you can imagine the back slapping that will be going on.
Game on!
O** F*** Inc. is alive and kicking!
We have a title race for the ages, all by design.
Just a shame you haven’t given Brendan Rodgers the tools he requires to compete to the best of his ability in the title race for the ages.
I sat this morning and read Hugh Keevins article in the Sunday Mail.
Normally, I would take great joy in dissecting his pulitzer prize winning garbage.
This morning, I sat abjectly reading this morning’s offering, and despite the fact Keevins is utterly gleeful in all of it, there was nothing in his article I could argue with.
On a personal level, I’ve hit rock bottom when I cannot criticise Hugh Keevins.
I even contemplated doing a Kew Heavins article this weekend, but in reality, there’s nothing to laugh about.
Unless Brendan Rodgers decides to change the way he plays, this situation at Celtic will only get worse.
He doesn’t have the tools to fit the type of system he plays, because he hasn’t been given them.
So, if he has any aspirations of winning this title, he needs to adapt.
He needs to work with the tools he has, however inadequate they may be, and find a winning formula with them.
Based on yesterday’s performance, we will continue to drop points if he persists with the system he has been using.
The fans will do their job.
They will continue to support the team.
They will also continue to apply pressure to the board.
That started yesterday, and I believe it will continue.
Peter Lawwell wilted under the pressure of his failings during the Covid season.
He never had to face the anger of the fans inside Celtic Park.
He may now have to face that if results continue to decline.
It’s a catch 22 really.
If we continue to drop points, the pressure will ramp up on the board.
Which is what most fans want.
But that will be at the expense of the Ibrox side possibly winning this title.
Which no fan wants.
Except possibly our great chairman.
Nobody believed lightning could strike twice in the same place.
Well, you’d better believe it has now.
Because it has, in the form of Peter Lawwell.
There’s a storm coming to Celtic Park.
It will be interesting to see who is still standing at the end of it.
I know who my money is on.
Developing story…..
Bhoycie 
Totally agree with this article,and unfortunately it will take the loss of the title for their to be any change and with DD in charge that will only be minimal as he has no passion for the club just the cash.
Just a small point.The guy you didn’t want to score the winner,finished the game……..
The old saying , penny wise pound foolish, if anyone of us thinks that all these banners and goings on about what us the fans will do is a complete waste of time, they lot above could not give a jot what we think . Stop buying season tickets , Celtic goods , walk outs during games this has been going on for years and they are still there. If DD is a real Celtic man he has the power to stop all this trash easily enough , that other lots board are backing them with no money, to get the 60mil champions league cash , as I said at the start penny wise.
Lawell and his son need to be sacked also total board clear out
I believe that the rot set in this season when Celtic were beaten in the league cup early on by Kilmarnock . Plastic pitch and injuries to the squad were no excuses . To be beaten by the biggest fraud of a manager (MC Innes ), in Scotland was the beginning of the decline and if the board was doing its job properly rather than sunning themselves on a soft ,warm beach then we might not be in this horrible , completely avoidable position right now . Talk about blind Willie MC Tell territory !
No team in Glasgow are to win 10 in a row , there is a Masonic agreement in place , I know this and every person on the ground staff is aware of that.
Mr Lawwel and his fellow board members have been under mining the playing staff as well as the ground staff for many years now.
The sooner there is a board clear out the better , thus is why we have made no headway in europe
Peter Liewell is totally to blame along with his son, I couldnt agree more, but since Brendan came back into the job, the style he plays doesnt suit Kyogo, or a few other players, also I remember the last time Brendan was in charge we had a lot of injuries and for some reason its happening again, I know Ange had a cpl of injuries to players but no where near what were seeing now so I ask this, ” what if anything has changed in training or how the players are being coached “” remember Harry Kewell has also left and our football is boring, sideways and backwords are at the forfront of our players minds instead of going forward, That Aberdeen was coming and everyone of us seen it apart from Liewell and Co
We are a football club not a bank and the support is what keeps the club afloat really angry at what has happened the board should be ashamed dreaded it when laurel & Hardy came back to the club shameful
We are far too negative and the game play has totally changed under BR, he is the manager and as a season ticket holder, last weeks home game against Ross County was the worst I’ve ever seen, the stats – shots on target 1, goals 1.
The playing style or lack of it is all down to BR and not the board. We can clearly see a team I’m sad to say in decline, our football is horrible to watch, boring and lacklustre and unless BR changes the playing style, it will only get worse. The board have failed to support BR with players we need, but what type of player is required for this inept slow, predictable football – 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
The problem we have in the summer if peter lawwell is still lingering in the shadows is player sales.
The player’s that signed new contracts to stay at the club means lawwell will see more cash to be rinsed from potential suitors due to the lengths of the contracts they signed.
Fingers crossed we win the league and instead of sales the money from potential champions league money forces the board to fulfil Brendan’s wishes and release cash to be spent on the quality additions which he has vocally requested repeatedly.
25 games and counting without separate Entity FC having a penalty given against them. Total conspiracy I say.
Seriously Billy, have you nothing better to do than talk bollocks on a Celtic website? Think I’ll head on over to Follow Follow and see what the craic is myself……not.
Billy Boy
says:
5th February 2024 at 1:09 pm
25 games and counting without separate Entity FC having a penalty given against them. Total conspiracy I say.
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Billie
As I keep telling you, both your club’s fans have been saying since 2012 that your old club was a separate entity from the company, which is bullshit of course.
Then your new club told channel 4 news that the dead club and sevco were separate entities.
But then again, you being a shit for brains thick hun can’t seem to take it in.
Apologies if this sounds repetitive!
It doesn’t surprise me to learn that Celtic’s finances are as strong as has been forecast – £70-80M available to bring in upper tier players.
Brendan Rodgers says the Board “could be braver”. Does that mean Board Members will not be awarded any medals for failing to do the job they are paid to do? Gosh, how could that happen! I would imagine Rodgers sees himself as the club’s diplomat, by trying to convince the press and fan base that Board Members are competent officials.
Well, for my money, that explanation stretches from wishy-washy to namby-pamby tripe. The fan base is not dumb! It seems to me that the Board Members and management have signed up to an ‘oath of allegiance’ they’re bound to take to their graves – and with it the Club!
It doesn’t surprise me to learn that Celtic’s finances are as strong as has been forecast – £70 to £80M available to bring in upper tier players. Brendan Rodgers says, “the Board could be braver.” Does that mean that Board Members will not be awarded any medals for failure to do the job they are paid to do? Gosh! How could it happen? I would imagine Rodgers sees himself as the Club’s diplomat, by trying to convince the press and fanbase that Board Members are competent officials.
Well, for my money, such an explanation stretches from wishy-washy to namby-pamby tripe. The fanbase is not dumb!
It seems to me that the Board members and management have signed up to an oath of allegiance they’re bound to take to their graves, and with them the Club.
I see I have upset you again Chrissy no pals. Get over it.
Eric,
So it was OK for you to go on about Rangers not conceding penalties and it was a masonic and referee conspiracy and all that shite. Cant take it when the shoe is on the other foot. Seems to me that you all can dish it out but cant take it back Awe diddums.
Billie
I’m not upset in the slightest.
I’m showing up how much of a thick hun you are
How upset are you going to be when the Famous Glasgow Rangers wins this years title. Get your sharks at the ready you little reprobate.
Reprobate?! What an absolute fanny
Billy the willy, Glasgow rangers stopped breathing in 2012.
Chris,
Tell me, What does reprobate mean.
Billie Why are you floating about on here like a bad smell? Tell me, did you cry like a wee baby when your old club died? What was the funniest thing you remember of them dying and the laugh out loud parts of the reaction of your old clubs fans?
Billie Why are you floating about on here like a bad smell? Tell me, did you cry like a wee baby when your old club died? What was the funniest thing you remember of them dying and the laugh out loud parts of the reaction of your old clubs fans? Come on, give everyone a laugh.
Chrissy no pals,
I will ask you again, What does reprobate mean.
You really are a silly billy.
Even for a hun you are as thick as pigshit.
You call me something then ask ME to try to explain what it means!!
No wonder with dafties like yourself your old club hilariously died.
AH Chrissy no pals,
So you dont know what it means. No surprise there then. You are the guy that thinks a box of Frosties is a jigsaw.
Silly boy.
Billie
Of course I know what it means, but it shows how much of a fanny that you are that you say something then ask me to explain it to you because you dont know what it means.
What a fud.
Still waiting to hear your funniest memory of your old club dying.
So you will know that it is a
Calvinistic word. Do you know what that means. I’ll give you a few hours to Google it. You will be surprised by the answer ya little reprobate.
Billie
Actually read back what you going on about.
Get help you absolute basket case.
Trolling constantly on a Celtic site.
What a pathetic sad life you must have.
The death of your old club must have put you over the edge.
Hey Chrissy no pals,
That’s because you don’t understand anything due to your limited education.
You are truly the Fuds FUD
Billie
I think you overplay your hand on the no pals routine.
Its obvious that you are a sad loner who doesnt fit in to society and you show how desperate you are by trawling Celtic sites trying to provoke a reaction.
You are more to be pitied.
It works though.
Billie
You have my sympathy.
You have a sad pathetic life.