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by **Torben Piecnik's Y-fronts** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:44 pm

As far as I know(Yeah loads like, honest) O Neil (comeon ya St Malachys boy ya!!!) will go nowhere till the end of season, same as Gerard?
$th spot is the most we can hope for, depressing as it is.
This is (another) massive season for our future.
How long can we live of our name and not our team.

by **THEBARON** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:58 pm

O'Neill would be my choice but would he leave Celtic now ? Probably not..
Toshack should have got the job when Kenny left , not now as he is probably out of touch with the British game.
It sounds great to invite Kenny back but would it work a second time round. Cannot remember many successful bosses returning and repeating their success at the same club ( Howard Kendall , Malcolm Alison both f##ked up the second time ). Remember why he resigned ? PRESSURE ! Could he cope with the increased pressures that the job now entails ?
Keegan !!! Behave !
Foreign options , would that be a step forward at the moment ?
I think that they should give it to Thommo until the man at Celtic is available. However
Thommo should only be a caretaker, he is to much asociated with Houllier's methods and general approach to the game.
Whoever comes we need a change as results are not happening and heading for a season of mediocrity. We do not have a divine right to win everything but we have spent over £ 100 million over the last few years and expect on that outlay to be in a far higher position than we are. We used to laugh at Man Utd in the 1980's and how they had not won the league in 2 decades. Ladies and gentleman we are in danger of emulating and possibly surpassing that. Do we really want that ?

by **jonnymac1979** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:03 pm

Do you think if Gerard Houllier left, Thommo would, in a noble fashion, follow his manager out of the door? I'm not so sure Thommo would take the job. It saddens me talking of the manager leaving, but a change needs to happen. The players are lost of all ideas. The morale has gone, and week by week we are moving backwards, not forwards. We are not a big scalp for other teams anymore.

Personally, I feel that when we play the smaller teams, they can't wait because they know we are not as good as our reputation says we are - but hey, one day, opposition players can still boast to whoever they want to in their retirement that: "I played and scored against Liverpool, yes, THE Liverpool!!!". They will fail to tell though, i'll bet, that it was not the glorious Liverpool, but the Souness/Evans and now i'm sorry to say, the Houllier era Liverpool. Think about it. Hypothetically, if you had scored the winner at Goodison Park against Everton, you'd have a photograph of the moment laminated and framed forever - even though, for twenty or more years, the so-called Mighty Blues have been nothing other than completely dire. I know I would!!! Remember Bradford in 2000? They stopped us qualifying for the Champions League, although admittedly, we did not help ourselves those last few weeks of the season. It's happening too damn often. These are no longer freak results.

Imagine as a professional footballer, being able to tell a Grandchild one day, that you once played at Anfield against Liverpool and won. Unfortunately, there are many professionals around now who will be able to say just that.

Who knows?

I think not. I hope not. But in thirty years, kids might shrug their shoulders and say "Liverpool? Who are they", along the lines of the famous Accrington Stanley Milk TV advertisement when I was a kid. You know the one!

Our reputation has gone. We've been here before, and we rose from the depths. Three years ago - the glorious treble. Two years ago, we were just pipped by Arsenal, I can't help but think what might have been. So, so breathtakingly close. Maybe the players, or the club, ran out of steam at the climax of that season. We need to start again - to rise again.

However.

I leave you with a thought I had last night. I was watching the Premiership on Monday, and I was watching (if I remember correctly) Fulham vs Wolves, and I thought to myself, that Wolves, come the time, would beat us. The worst team in the league could mentally go into a match against us, knowing they have a chance of actually beating Liverpool, "Yes, THE Liverpool!!!", instead of being scared of how many goals were going to be drilled into their net over the next 90 minutes.

I'm telling you. Wait until we play them. You know the thought will be lingering in the back of your mind, even though you dare not entertain it.

"What if they win?"

I understand, if i'm not wrong, from growing up in the 1980's you see, that Wolves were one of the strongest, dominant teams of the 1950's.

Let's not follow suit.

by **Redlester** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:19 pm

At the moment Celtic aren't having the greatest run of luck in the Champions League and if they don't emerge from their group Martin O'Neill, who cannily signed a "rolling" contract last season could very easily become available - I think the challenge of LFC, provided the board wakes up, smells the coffeee and offers it to him, would prove to be too irresistible. How good would it look on his CV to be able to say he turned around one of the ailing former greats of British football. Surely he too must share the fantasy of taking the club into the champions league and winning it.

by **tockycol** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:43 am

ID love to see a manager who knows what us fans expect steve mcmahon or aldo would most welcome

by **hello_red** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:49 am

who why what when? the last post was october 2003 on this thread and its near the top of the discussion forum!

wierd!

unless im missing something.

by **weringo** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:33 am

hello_red wrote:who why what when? the last post was october 2003 on this thread and its near the top of the discussion forum!

wierd!

unless im missing something.

When u vote in a poll it move to the top of the forum. Someones idea of a joke

by **tubby** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:57 am

Why is this thread being allowed to continue?

by **clik** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:45 pm

i reckon some spaniard called rafa should get it:D

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