Why Didn't We Punish the Huns for Being Skint?

ok then....

 

Why did we not punish Rangers?

Because they're jammy *, and we never took our chances like they did.

 

I honnestly think the board thought they could pummel them with minimal spends, however as it turned out we couldnt!

if we had of spent the money at the right time them they would be nowhere in sight

 

same old celtic failure to strenghthen at critical times,incredible to think we beat them 1-0 at ibrox and moved 7pts clear and poll position to win 4iar and all we needed was a striker and didnt get one and lost the league and now they are going for it this year

 

It was * all to do with Tony Mowbray.

The board were to blame for not going the extra mile and signing Steven Fletcher in January 2009. If they had done so then it is more than likely we would have done 4 in a row and the Huns would have been in deep *.

 

Much as it pains me to say it, the huns deserve credit for winning the title this season. It wasn't because we weren't good enough, our points total would have won the league the past 6 years. The difference between the situation now and the situation when we were skint is that back then the huns had huge amounts of money to splash out, whereas we're hardly going to be doing that. In addition, during our bad patch, we went through crappy, inexperienced managers like Brady and Macari, whereas the huns have a good manager in Smith who can take them forward in spite of their financial difficulties.

 

I wouldn't say we failed to punnish them we gave them a run for their money this season.

IMO, The board didnt want to splash the cash last season with the whole Mowbury dilemma and they didnt want to give Lenny a load of cash to blow incase things didn't work out in his first season.

The huns also had a squad who was small but they were unchanged almost in the last couple of seasons and had consistancy and all knew each others abilitys while it took us a while to gel we still couldnt dig deep when it mattered but I suppose this season is our big season and we have no excuses.

 

Totally agree, board wouldn't spend the £4 million required to secure Fletcher, at a time when JVOH, McDonald & Sammy were going through a lean patch.
If we'd won the league that year, Rangers would have been financially screwed for years & it might have left Rangers competing more with the Hearts, Aberdeens & Dundee Unts in the league rather than challenging us.

Short sighted board, £4m spent would probably have led to a minimum of £10 million CL money guaranteed within 6 months.

 

a few reasons really ,they had a good manager who instilled a siege mentality to them and the fact that they were struggling financially brought them closer as a team .
when they did spend they bought quality in key positions,we made a mistake getting rid of miller ,ok we got a good price and everyone ,me included thought lawell got the timing right when they sold him , but it came back to haunt us as miller was miffed that he felt pushed out.
another reason is they are not as bad a team as we all like to believe and do wot they quite well , we as fans need to realize that instead of laughing at their problems we take our eye of our own.do
filling our team with ball players who want to play beautiful football all the time does not always work unless you are barca.
well thats my theory .

 

thing is mate it was not even 4 million it was only 3 million to get him, and that makes it worse, cause we have handed over 30m in tv and champions league money to them

 

Hibs told Celtic that Fletcher was not for sale at any price to us during that window.

The board DID back Mowbray financially. How much did we spend on Fortune? On Keanes wages? We let him build basically a whole new team, twice. We lost because his signings weren't great and he had absolutely no tactical sense.

I think we probably spent more in the Mowbray season than this year, or at least not significantly less, and look at the difference. It's down to the manager to win games, not the board.

 

i think there skintness caused our board to think they won't need to spend big money to win. steven fletcher was the perfect example.

 

If that was the case we should have signed another striker. That's why Rangers are going for 4 in a row. The board are to blame. Nobody else.

 

naw tony mowbray was partly to blame, he was a * * manager. but that was in the past lads, i dont care anymore, its time to move on and things are looking good for celtic, stop dwelling!

 

The BOARD failed and has done for years, I cant see it any other way, an average team like Rangers with very little funds and finacially strapped winning the SPL title three years in a row, and next year it could be four, I feel is a disgrace!

 

celtic offered 1.2m for him and then the hibs guy said he is not for sale but he wanted 3 million for him..... make of that what you will

 

Simples. The board are entirely to blame. In general you build from a position of strength whereas since O'Neil left we have been downgrading the quality.

Fair enough the O'Neil levels of spending were unsustainable however, the board have got us into a worse financial position over the last few years by not investing well enough in the team and by this I mean net spend.

Even last season we came out in the green. Would it really have hurt to spend 2 or 3 million on a decent centre half especially as we knew that we could do serious damage to that lot by winning the league? If they'd done this we probably wouldn't have lost to the likes of Inverness and dropped points at home in the last minute against Utd.

Celtic could and should have buried them and it makes me sick. I had a season ticket through their nine in a row and would have expected that whilst they were in financial bother celtic would have done their best to return the favour. If we'd had managed to totally pummel them there would be no Fergus McCann type to save them as Scottish footballs completely different from the mid nineties. White would be nowhere near them if they'd lost the last couple of leagues.

I would also ask whether lessons have been learned. Last season there was hints at brining in blue chip players as Lawell calls them, that didn't happen. Fair enough it's difficult for us to do but there's rumblings again about this whilst at the same time we're being mentioned with league of Ireland players. I know what's more likely.

If we don't get this right this season, they'll be on four. Disgraceful and total negligence. The board have had an easy ride from us lot because they have been promoting the "everyone's against us" talk the last couple of years.

 

fantastic post mate

 

The main reason being negligence and mismanagement from Peter Lawwell and co. in January '09.

The second reason being the fact that from January '09 to the end of that season, Strachan and the players were absolutely gutless, spineless and bottle merchants.

 

just like this season in the cally game then, hope we learn from it for next season