Age group/worst times

33
undoubtedly the pre-fergus years particulary when macari was in charge. watchin the huns spend millions while we went to within an hour of bankruptcy. very very dark days. in contrast i think the best day may have been the day of the announcement " the rebels have won"

all hail fergus

 

im 33 and the 90's were * although tb gave us some great football to watch but our only success was a scottish cup against airdie.
The only thing i will say is that after suffering those years makes you enjoy the good times even more the atmosphere at cp when we beat st johnstone to stop 10 in row is something i'll never forget.

 

Excellent post.

 

Good post m8

If you didn't see the pish flowing down the steps of the jungle you have not seen the lows.

 

35 years old, the early 90's were bad but the john barnes era was pretty poor also.

 

Im 17 and it was most of Strachans tenure. Could excuse maybe his first year but apart from that everything else.

The Barnes Era was pretty bad from what i remember but i dont remember much of it also.

 

SEASON 77-78 and the early 90's and last season

 

Never witnessed a bad era... I started watching during the run to Seville. I'm 20 btw.

 

Interesting to see the poll results here, regarding ages. I see 14-25 has the lions share of the vote.

I myself am a slightly more elderly 32. I started going to games around 1992, and one of my most abiding memories of that time was "The Last Day Of The Jungle", when we beat Dundee 2-0. I also vividly remember losing the Coca Cola Cup to Raith Rovers in penalties at Ibrox, and one of the most surreal moments was watching the sadly deceased Justin Fashanu pull down his shorts and moon at the Jungle whilst turning out for Airdrie.

I was only a young guy then, and you could say the results and success on the park were non existent. In fact it took until the cup final of 1995, when van Hooijdonk scored against Airdrie, to resolve that.

But do you know what, although our team was *, our fans were second to none. We used to go to away games at Easter Road, Starks Park, Tannadice, and it's not like now when you expect a victory. We didn't even expect a draw most of the time, we expected a defeat. But we sang our hearts out in great numbers, the favourite was "always look on the bright side of life, na na, na na na na na na", remember that?

Now we have a new generation, dare I say it the guys who Charlie Nicholas rightly or wrongly derided as the kind of guys happily tucking into their £4 portion of * chips whilst taking breaks to sing "The Fields of Athenry", a lament about the famine. They are the Nike generation, who know nothing but success, and think Celtic FC have a * given right to win every game they play. They get angry and deride the manager, the players, after one result.

They are, for better or worse, the new breed.

But they are there, filling the ground, they are Celtic fans as much as me.

Yes, their expectations are different, but that comes with each passing generation. I wasn't there in 1967, the pinnacle of our club. Some of you guys weren't there in 1992, 1993, the absolute low.

We are all Celtic fans, it doesn't matter at the end of the day.

Hail Hail





great post! I'm 32 , and i'm just glad were fighting for something every season now, to think back to my dark day's of celtic early 90's, went nearly every week then too, hooijdonk's goal being pinnacle at the time, looking back to joe millers goal against them in the scottishcup final being oor last big celebration. an thank * we don't sing "always look on the bright side of life" now,
3 out 4 is great, lets get 4 out 5 this year
HAIL HAIL

 

*, you passed the test.

 

ah, everyones a critic, and yes i was wrong about who signed Henrick,
but we are still in our purple patch, and long may it continue,

hail, hail,

 

39 And have to AGREE STRONGLY with josep14,89-94 were horrible ugly years,to many times did we travel back on the boats wondering why in * were we putting ourselves through such misery and pain,but in the end WEE FERGUS AND WIM came and all changed,dark days but in the past they are, BUT FOR THE HUNS ITS JUST BEGINNING,HAIL HAIL:bbpd:

 

33 years old and its gotta be having lived through 9 in a row. the early years were the worst at least in the latter stages we had some hope whereas in the first few years of the run we couldnt manage more than 3rd or 4th. wouldnt wish that on anyone.

 

Im 16 , And In My Opinion Last Year Was One Of The Poorest Seasons Ive Seen In Terms Of Good Football Being Played

 

after the centenary year it all went to *.....until wim the time rescued us.

 

The whole point of this poll was, to see if any of our older members thought that the last week has deserved the mass hysteria, we have witnessed from some of our younger members.

It seems that everyone older than 20ish, remembers the real bad days, where we were signing total diddies and the huns were spending millions and doing 9IAR. Oh thats right, we were literally hours away from folding.

So,to to some of the * idiots that have been spouting complete nonsense about Mowbray,Mowabry,Mowberry, being pish and his tactics,signings * etc.

Try and realise that we have only had 1 competitive match and you have never had it so * good.

 

Well said mate,i'm pretty new to this forum thing and some of the absolute * * thats been posted in the last few days has had me thinking about giving it a miss,but then theres good and bad in everything so i'll stick with it.

 

kids these days eh...

 

Nah, there is some really good posters as well as fannies, stick around, I'm sure it will calm down.

 

Aye i'v read some really good stuff it far outweighs the bile.