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Celtic assistant manager "rues rivals lack of class".

I read in yesterday's Sunday Herald sports section "Sometimes we switch off and think it doesn't really matter because they are not going to punish us.... No disrespect to the other Scottish teams but they're not clever enough players or quick enough thinkers to punish us."

Our manager has already taken issue with these remarks and rightly so. When Celtic have a budget equal to the rest of the division and can cherry pick the best players from other sides then it is hardly surprising that they have a better side than all the rest. To use this as an excuse for their ultimate failure on the European stage shows that the real lack of class lies with Collins himself.

 

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It's this sort of pish from Celtic that helps devalue the league. This in turn leads to the shitty commercial deals offered by TV companies and sponsors when clubs in the league don't even rate the league why should they? Which other league would you hear a club consistently slag of the opposition on such a regular occurrence? Looking towards the big European leagues... Bayern, PSG and Barcelona's dominance of the their domestic games still I'm yet to read their disregard for their smaller rivals in the same way Celtic do.

 

 

McInnes is 100% correct if Scottish football is such a walk in the park why aren't they defending the treble for the fourth season in a row?

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It's this sort of pish from Celtic that helps devalue the league. This in turn leads to the shitty commercial deals offered by TV companies and sponsors when clubs in the league don't even rate the league why should they? Which other league would you hear a club consistently slag of the opposition on such a regular occurrence? Looking towards the big European leagues... Bayern, PSG and Barcelona's dominance of the their domestic games still I'm yet to read their disregard for their smaller rivals in the same way Celtic do.

 

 

McInnes is 100% correct if Scottish football is such a walk in the park why aren't they defending the treble for the fourth season in a row?

And, as Hartley said, why are they recruiting players from other Scottish sides? Good to see two managers stick up for the league but not enough IMO. Need some of the others to stand up and be counted, cause a bit of disharmony between the management team at Parkhead.

 

Fed up of these comments over the years though. Celtic are the dominant force because they get given the money, then they patronise us for doing excellently within our means.

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Even if it's true, why bother saying it?

 

Disgusted to hear Jonathan Sutherland, Mark Wilson and Stuart McCall agree and effectively endorse Collins' comments on Sportscene last night? Begs the question - why bother? What was the point in carrying on with the rest of the show after those comments? We really, really do not help ourselves in this country sometimes.

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From BBC, Leigh Griffiths:

 

Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths

"I think Aberdeen last season pushed us really hard and I think maybe John's comments have been taken out of context.

"I read this morning that Derek McInnes has hit back a bit and rightly so because, whenever we play a Scottish Premiership team, we show the utmost respect to them.

"We go away from home and teams try to press us and it becomes difficult at times and Aberdeen pushed us a long way last season.

"We played teams last season and they beat us home and away. Teams are always fired up against Celtic."

Aye like this? http://bit.ly/1IEKnll

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I liked how Celtic started their recent qualifier with Armstrong, Mackay-Steven and Ciftci, who played for a team that have finished 4th and 4th. Not good enough players in the league to challenge their defence, but good enough players in the league to buy to replace your own and challenge other defences in the Champions League. It defies logic.

 

Now, I'd like to know how much Collins watches football in Slovakia, Poland etc to see how much their representatives get challenged by opposition to draw comparisons.

 

Celtic haven't qualified for the Champions League in years, because they aren't good enough. They have been shown to be pretty poor in cup competitions for years, against Scottish opposition. They've won 5 domestic cups in 20 attempts and been to 7 finals in 20 attempts. To me that suggests that there are plenty Scottish teams and players clever enough to beat them. Just over the course of a season, budget and squad size means they will do fine enough in the league.

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see the thing here..?

 

just as a recent example, they spunked what, 2/2.5m on scepovic?

 

now...much did they pay for:

 

van dijk

wanyama

forster

 

lets take those 3 for a kick-off

 

im RELATIVELY certain, the 3 of them were less than what they paid for scepovic, so...if they hadn't failed with signings like scepovic and instead bought players of the quality of the other 3...would they not be doing a lot better in the champs league?

 

as has been said before, they've not even "conquered" domestically, as when did they last win a treble?

 

they've got a LONG way to go to improve themselves, before they start blaming others

 

Virgil van Dick was £2.6M

Foster was £2M

Wanyama was £900k

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Amazed nobody has picked up on the comments from John Hughes in that bbc story. Apparently according to the inveress manager celtic have 'the best supporters'. Not only disrespectful to his own fans bit typical of the arrogance of celtic fans. Would love to know why a celtic fan who follow his team week in week out is better than the fan of any other team that does the same.

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I also don't particularly want our wanky media turning AFC/ Celtic into Huns lite. Nothing wrong with intense rivalry, but a shockingly poisonous atmosphere is a Glasgow phenomenon I'm quite happy to go without. Call me old and grumpy if you like.

 

Fuck that, we need hatred to close the gap in quality, let's do them, on and off the park.

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