My god can’t believe you are leaving Enda - this is by far my favourite podcast- it’s the 3 amicos and it won’t be the same without Chevy Chase!! Fantastic podcast as ever (now feel really bad for criticising it a few weeks back). Best of luck in Australia- delighted to hear that Alan and James are soldiering on
@@CHAPSOLA The plethora of all the other happy clappy, give Brendan the money, sack the Board, Celtic podcasts out there on the world wide web are best suited for you.
@@CHAPSOLA Settle doon sonny with all your telling people to shut up nonsense that you disagree with & then blabbering on aboot ''freedom of speech'' elsewhere in your other social meedya echo chambers. Now as for all your ''wants'' you just might be aware of the old saying '' I want doesn't get'' & for sure NONE of us are going to get the Celtic we really, really, want anytime soon & many will take that harsh reality of footballing life a lot worse than some.
Idah has more impact than OH my how did he miss thst at ibrox! OH panics! Sorry like but im amazed im hearing that you believe they are comparable..Also idah has a lot more potential. Crazy talk
It has been said before but worth repeating. This is simply far and away the best podcast/ channel out there. Many thanks for the great output all season guys and all the best Enda!
From 71 to 74, when we were still a top euro team, we sold Hay and Macari. Connolly left, but the board were happy with domestic success in the 70s and lived off the memories
Happy trails, Enda. Many thanks for all your work in ensuring that the podcast is consistently top-notch. Long may it continue. From Chicagoland via Partick.
Enda, genuinely saddened to hear you're not going to be involved in the podcast anymore. Thanks for all the hours of great content and entertainment over the last few seasons. Happy to hear that the show must go on as they say in the business! But you will be missed and very best of luck for the future, and with the move to Australia.
Something that is unknown (and unquantifiable) is how a new player will settle in at a new club/new city/new country. Some players take to it like a duck to water and some cannot settle. There's no real way of knowing in advance who will/won't settle. We've had players come in from Japan and hit the ground running but also had Calvin Wilson who was famously "Homesick" for Nottingham!! So taking this into account, does this tip the scales in favour of Idah & Bernardo? We already know they like it here. So how much should we factor that into the equation? Maybe we can do better than Idah.... but what if the guy who is "better" doesn't settle in Glasgow or his family don't settle.... Given the sheer number of positions that we need to strengthen, then I think the "We know what we're getting" factor with Idah/Bernardo tips the balance. We're probably going to have to bring in 6-10 players this summer. If Idah/Bernardo are included in that, then it's at least two in the plus column in terms of decent signings
Hi those are all great points. My concern is the fees (and commensurate wages) for players that are on the face of it back ups. When Celtic brought in Edouard, Jota and CCV they were starters but derisked by the try before you buy model. We're now spending the same for squad rotators? Hmmmm
Would love for the two lads to do a podcast discussing players in the league that we should be looking at. The likes of Watson and Miller look the exact types we should be aiming for especially to fill European quotas. Not only have we been poor at holding onto our youths we’ve been really at picking off the best of the rest
It's by far the best Celtic podcast out there. The content is excellent as always. Informed, data-driven, passionate and humorous. Alan's research on the Rangers penalty phenomenon is worthy of a journalist award! I hope James and Alan keep the show on the road or else there will be a Celtic-shaped hole in my podcast schedule! Best of luck with your travels to Oz Enda!
Sorry to see you go, Enda. A big loss to the show and to Irish sports media - heart-on-sleeve Celts are very rare in an environment saturated with EPL coverage so hopefully you’re back some day on our screens or airwaves. Glad Statler and Waldorf will keep the podcast going 😜🍀
My tuppence worth: there is no equivalent to this posdcast. Nothing like it. James and Alan should definitely continue this channel, along with a new recruit to replace Enda. I really hope this will be the case. HH to all 3 of you.
I see no evidence of development with OH poor first touch positional sense ,no composure poor in air and abysmal shooting . Idah much better all round and will improve Oh will not
Celtic could do better - Yet no examples. Miku rated 8m failed & Ajeti 5.5m There's plenty of strikers that you could say would do well for Celtic, but saying & doing are different. You have nothing but pure speculation.
Do you guys actually watch the Celtic games, or just review the data. & come to conclusions? Because you don't appear to be able to see the talents of Bernardo & Adam or how they fit into the team.
It was ALWAYS going to be like this after the last competitive match of the season & two on loan players directly & most comprehensively, contributing to & scoring the last minute winner in a Cup Final against our bitterest rivals & so how else could it be with ALL the most obvious & expected clamour & demand to immediately sign them both on a full time basis & when the harsh reality is & quite right too, we are most definitely NOT signing them both, because as the guys said, we just should be doing much better than these two for the money...
Atalanta play strong teams every week. If you compare opposition teams to weight lifting, our leagues is full of ight weights, therefore if we meet heavy weight, it's harder for us to lift that heavy weight. Lift heavy weight ever week, then a foreign heavy weight isn't so difficult to lift, we are used to it.
For me, last season's SPFL was the very worst in quality ever & that really is saying something, since it's been very poor for the last three decades or so & it's truly sad to see the other Top Five Clubs of Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts & the two Dundee Clubs that Scottish football just absolutely NEEDS to be something like competitive, now just a complete & total shadow of what they once were & most sadly, they'll just continue to plummet to new depths of total crapness & miserable failure with every passing season & it's their continued collective demise that's one of the most pivotal factors in the ever accelerating decline of the overall quality & competitiveness of the whole of Scottish football & everyone just ignores it all.
All the best Enda, I’m happy to throw my name in the hat on a free transfer if you need a replacement. You can pay me in green M&Ms 😂 Fingers crossed we get the recruitment right this summer. Let’s try be positive about it. 👀
Well for sure our ''recruitment this summer'' just can't be ANY worse than last summer's when we spent a huge big whopping TWENTY THREE MILLION pounds on NINE duds & ALL of them on very silly & very erroneous huge big whopping FIVE YEAR deals & NONE of whom even started in the two most recent Glasgow derbies & them's just the facts sadly & we now have this new guy Mark Cooper as Head of Recruitment/Scouting replacing Lawwell Jnr & Dudgeon & Cooper just might be grateful his predecessors set the Recruitment bar as low as you can possibly get, but the levels of expectation amongst most of my fellow Celtic fans will now be at fever pitch & all that money ''just sitting in the bank'' so just go out & spend it!!!!
@@nicholasmcdade1022 I'm ALWAYS a positive realist when it comes to ALL things Celtic as you well know Nicholas & us ONLY ever operating in a duopoly with the other lot & both of us playing oor fitba in the totally woeful & dire SPFL that totally generates NO kind of serious money & for sure it won't be me screaming & shouting at the likes of Bernardo & Idah if we were to most stupidly buy these two for a huge big whopping TWELVE MILLION pounds, when they miserably fail to deliver in the Champions League, but instead it will ONLY be ALL the social meedya bairns who repeatedly said we have to buy them, who will be venting all their fury & derision when they, as I say, then miserably fail to deliver...
Sorry to hear that Enda.....good luck but like our favourite players....people move on .. My daughter is off to university in September ..so I get the turmoil 😂...really pleased James and Alan will battle on ...can't have too much heartache in one close season!!
Thanks for this episode guys, I feel slightly more sane having listened to this as we broadly appear to be in agreeance about what has gone before, where we sit now and what needs to be undertaken moving forwards. One comment by Alan I found particularly interesting , and that was the comparable salary expenditure of Atalanta and Celtic which perhaps goes to show what is possible within the bracket that Celtic operate . For myself, what others perceive as the Holy Grail that being the CL is a real double edged sword. Sure, we all want to sit at the top table and rub shoulders with Europe's elite teams and benefit from the financial rewards, but it's a competition that is so often the cause of multiple disappointments given the gulf in the on pitch ability. We're all familiar with the adage that 'you need to walk before you able to run, and for this reason I'd be happy in the future to see the winners of the SPL go straight into the Europa League until such time that Scottish clubs or a club become much stronger. So, here's hoping that we all come back after the summer much stronger. Best
The Champions League Group Stages is indeed & has been for quite some time & sadly will only continue to be ''a real double edged sword'' in that when we qualify to play with Europe's richest & very best & we get our £60 million or whatever for doing so, we are then ONLY there to make up the numbers & ''perform'' accordingly & so ONLY continuing to trash a once overall proud European record we did have TWENTY YEARS ish ago & before that too of course & this for me is where the real pain & sadness lies & at some time we ALL have to face up to the fact that we're completely NOT a Champions League Group Stages Club anymore for the reasons we ALL know, or should do & probably NOT of a Europa League standard either.
All the best in your future endeavours Enda thank you & H H🍀 As long as Sid Little & Eddie Large are still producing the goods for the Celtic podcast community 😀 👏 👍 Alan & Juco apologies 😉
That News Caught Me Out Enda That’s For Sure, well Enda It Really Was A Pleasure Knowing You And Wish You Nothing But The Best For Your Future, And I’m Delighted That James And Allan Are Grabbing The Reigns Oh And Jim Orr Would Be A Great Shout, So All The Best Enda 🤞☘️🍀👍🏻 live long and prosper… HH
LMAO you now use Brendan Rodgers comments! Yet totally ignore his comments about the Bernardo & Adam. This is a perfect example of cognitive bias - chose only things that suit your view.
Did we lose the league 🙄Fukin virgins my god wow it's like we lost the lot listening to this depressing stuff. Love analysing matches but my god this wild.
Sad to hear you are leaving, but obviously you have seen the light & heading to Oz. Along with Hamish, let the exodus continue lol That’s for another year of bringing some balance & reason into our Celtic world 👍🦘🦘
Europe and the league are different- Rangers did well in Europe and were poor in the league. Play style more important indicator of success. On the ownership needing to be ruthless point - look at Steve Cohen and the Mets in the US - ruthless decision maker, second biggest budget in baseball, horrible team
Just would like to take the time to wish you good luck and success Enda the channel is a really credit to you James and Alan thank so much Enda mate 👏👏🙏👍🍀
''Only'' winning a Double when you had won a Treble the previous season is ''technically'' not ''actually achieving much this year'' when comparing season with season, but overall it was still significant success in the context of a new Manager, new style of play, the poorest recruitment of new players in one whole season in literally decades & this all obviously contributed to a true & proper race to win the League Title that saw Celtic completely throw away an eight point lead around October time last year & then the other lot completely blowing it at Ross County & Dundee when the League Title was literally in their grasp, so yes overall, Celtic winning The Double was, as I've said, significant success this season.
Darby dust not to be too sniffy about that it’s a pressure game - do stats account for opposition Also Idah beat Kilmarnock himself - not seen that type of thing from OH - leading the line stuff Not say Idah is the new henrick but he’s better than OH by more than your margin - think Roger’s could make him a real player
@@alanmorrison5981 you often talk about game state Allan / I’ve learned a lot listening to you - Idah has come on and turned games for us hibs Motherwell Ibrox and the cup final 4 season defining games- when did OH do anything like that Goals per minutes just ain’t the same Maybe my memory is letting me down but can’t recall OH winning games for us
@@alanmorrison5981 I will say though if we get the usual biscuit tin approach then we could maybe spend 6-8 million elsewhere and maybe look for a loan deal stricker but not rely on OH, too much lashing at the ball - don’t think his finishing is great
Re midfield, sign Wanyama clone, move McGregor back to his best position, the one MOR currently occupies. Also did anyone see the YT video of Bosun Lawal at Fleetwood Town this past season? He must be included in Brendans squad for next season as an 8, not CB where he has been in our youth team for 4 years previously.
Do you really think Callum McGregor in that position can get 18 goals and 18 assists? Doubt it As Juco mentioned, we don't behave in the way a top ruthless club should, which would have already phased McGregor out the first 11 by now, he's nowhere near physical or athletic enough for Europe, yet we will continue to play him every game at that level, surrendering the midfield due to it, getting dominated and more often than not, losing
@@CatsRUs1888 I still haven't forgotten Ange talking about '' don't get too attached to your heroes'' & so of course telling us all that like it or not, the facts are ONLY we're a selling Club with everyone up for sale & similarly with his '' we must be more agile & aggressive in the transfer market'' & which is also totally in keeping with James' assertion that we just behave NOTHING like ANY kind of ''a top ruthless Club should'' BOTH on & off the field sadly & particularly in the context of us playing our football in a League that just completely generates NO kind of serious money & so then agility, aggressiveness & ruthlessness on & off the field becomes even more important & significant as a consequence...
@@CatsRUs1888 MOR 19 goals and however many assists is an unusually good performance. McGregor is a dynamic player who we have under used these last 3 years as a 6. Also we have basically no recruitment infrastructure and apparently Dermot Desmond doesn't like directors of football so we will continue to be run like a bowling club.
@@frankbrennan1619 it's been 10 years. You could say I am pretty attached to Callum McGregor who has basically carried this team on his back for 7 years. In fact I am typing this reply right now, taking a break from experimenting with anti aging injections so that Callum McGregor can play in the Celtic midfield for eternity because that is how long it will take for this shower of amateurs in the Celtic board to sign some decent midfielders. Watch this space, another summer of Odin Holm and Paulo Bernardos coming in.
@@John-qy9nw For me, Wee Callum played his very best football under Rodgers the first time round & of course, he was then a good few years younger & not forgetting too that he had much better quality players around him & he was also not burdened with the Captaincy & I really did believe that after Rodgers had done his overnight flit to Leicester City, he would very soon thereafter sign Wee Callum, who most certainly could have done a good job at a Leicester City level in the EPL, but Rodgers' didn't & I wonder exactly why not & sadly now the years & amount of games have caught up with Wee Callum & so why was it he was given a very silly & very erroneous huge big whopping FIVE YEAR deal last year?
Adam Idah has proven his worth. Brendan Rodgers has spoken about his qualities. Yet you come at it with no alternative & expect people to accept pure speculation on a no named, no aged, no experienced player 😂😂😂😂😂
Most supporters don’t think anything about the 70% , there’s still far too many believing the press headlines on players that will never come to Scotland
Bizarre nonsense about Oh versus Idah. Oh hasn’t scored a goal away from home in over a year. Idah has scored at Ibrox, Hampden, Rugby Park(twice) Easter Rd(twice) and Fir Park. That’s most of toughest away domestic fixtures. Oh in contrast has mostly scored in games at home when we were already comfortable or goals late last season after the title was won. The 5-0 at Rugby Park and 7-1 against Dundee were our two best performances of the season and Idah started both of them and was instrumental in our build up in a way that Oh never has. Since Idah arrived in Scotland, only Shankland has scored more goals. A striker who plays 90 minutes every game. Idah has out scored Kyogo and Miovski with a lot less minutes, You’re talking nonsense boys.
It's more just a case of the once oft quoted phrase of ''lies, damned lies & statistics'' & dear old Alan's ''stats'' has Oh & Idah ''about the same'' when the evidence of our own eyes & for me the eyesight test is only ALL that ever has complete precedence & so on that basis, Idah is certainly way ahead of Oh, but then my dear cat has made much more of a contribution than Oh this season....
Agreed. Also these great stats that Oh is suppose to have from two seasons ago. 7 goals in all contests. Idah managed 9 in half a season and generally much bigger important goals too. Also Bernardo is 22 not 23 for the American contributor.
@@Ciaran-xb5qv Indeed Bernardo is twenty two & Oh is twenty three & Idah is also twenty three, so just a case of James, or ''the American contributor'' as you refer to him, getting his twenty twos & twenty threes mixed up & for sure as James says, twenty three is practically ''middle aged'' in the modern game & the fact too that when players are twenty two or twenty three, the die is quintessentially completely cast as to what players of this age can or can't do & no matter how good the Coach is now coaching them & so the already significant weaknesses in their game are never going to improve or get better....
Good luck to Enda in his new 'adventure' .. his tale of ending up at the wrong end at a Celtic-Rangers match reminds me of an old Billy Connolly sketch sadly much too crude to repeat here! 😊
thing is desmond and lawwell's goals for domestic trophies and finances aren't even wrong in a european sense. unless you can show me that atalanta dortmund or olympiacos set europe as a bench mark. i dont think they did. because rangers didn't when they hit the final. frankfurt didn't. west ham didn't. all these clubs took euro success as offshoot from domestic ambitions. for rangers it was keepign players to stop the 10. for frankfurt is was 'oh shit we're going to miss out on top 5 place' etc etc
Analytics does not take into consideration a player's mentality. Idah stepped up from February and delivered under great pressure. Fir Park and Easter Road were best examples of that. Oh was being brought on and was largely ineffectual (with the odd exception). They may have similar attributes and statistical figures. But I know who I would want in the heat of the battle...
Agree on Bernardo would offer them 3 million see how he develops but not 6 They might let him go cheap Think he would be good to come on and hold a game
For sure, Bernardo is worth NOWHERE near a huge big whopping SIX MILLION pounds & I would certainly hugely hesitate at even spending HALF of that on him & thankfully Benfica will just not countenance such a sum, but if by some miracle they did, I still wouldn't buy him.
The £ the bank in my opinion will make it harder to bring in new players, clubs will demand more £ for their players, with the knowledge Celtic are cash rich by Scottish standards
Yes I remember well that most garrulous wee ''rant'' from Wee Enda a wee while back completely slating Idah first & then Kuhn & then backtracking a wee bit on Idah in particular, which for me was a wee bit sad, simply because Wee Enda was completely right about Kuhn & will be proved completely right about Kuhn in the near future & as for Idah, if he was available for £3 million ish as a near complete back up striker, then of course, a case could most rightly & most strongly be made for him in a SPFL context, but we all know, or should do, that Norwich ONLY want very silly money for him & the small matter too that nobody talks about, does Idah really with all his heart & soul, desperately want to play for Celtic Football Club?
from your point of view celtic will always have inadequate players. welsh scales etc. bought or developed. they will remain in the team if only for budgetary reasons because you can't have carter vickers as first and second choice without it costing double
Because we didn't have a serious & proper ''clear out'' last summer, the ''clear out'' task this summer has ONLY become even more ginormous as a consequence & of course, it can't ALL be done in the summer, but for sure we just MUST make the most serious & proper starts to this ginormous clear out in the summer with ALL of the obvious suspects thar we can ALL name & even if we now have to pay some of them off & if we we still have the likes of Invisible Man McCarthy on the books come October, then it just hasn't been ANY kind of a serious & proper start to this ginormous ''clear out'' we ALL know just has to start happening....
The squad was already weakened after losing Jota, Starfelt, Mooy, etc, and later Abada. Now, we have lost Hart and potentially O'Riley. That was a lot of creativity and goals. We ended up playing our 5th or 6th choice in CD because of injuries and poor recruitment and had no cover for LB if Taylor got injured. As such, we need to remove as many of the non-contributing players in the squad through sales, or loans to other SPL clubs for those with a future. We need 4 quality signings who are first team ready with experience and maybe a couple of loan to buys which have worked well recently.
The pain of losing the likes of Jota, Abada, Starfelt & Mooy were ALL most keenly & sorely felt, simply because NONE of them were ever ANYTHING like adequately & suitably replaced in ANY shape or form & as completed evidenced by the likes of 32 year old Wee Jamesy still being quite literally a better winger than Palma, Kuhn & Yang ALL put together for goodness sake & the pressure is on big time for the new Recruitment guy Mark Cooper & Rodgers to get it right this summer & in the two, three, four transfer windows that follow & of course the levels of expectation amongst most Celtic fans will ONLY ever increasingly reach fever pitch with ALL that money '' just sitting there in the bank doing nothing.''
@@frankbrennan1619 Absolutely agree! Rodgers recognised that when he said that in his first term as manager he watched the training in Dubai and his B squad beat the top 11 because of the quality of depth in the squad. We have allowed that to decline over time when we should have spent on quality to put us well ahead of our rivals and be able to at least compete with clubs in Europe in pot 3 and 4.
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Sorry that you have to move on. Thanks for all the hard work. See you back on one day. There is no life without Celtic !!
My god can’t believe you are leaving Enda - this is by far my favourite podcast- it’s the 3 amicos and it won’t be the same without Chevy Chase!! Fantastic podcast as ever (now feel really bad for criticising it a few weeks back). Best of luck in Australia- delighted to hear that Alan and James are soldiering on
Alan and James should invite Jim Orr to join them next season. They would make a great trio.
@@den264They would not get a word in. 😂
@@CHAPSOLA The plethora of all the other happy clappy, give Brendan the money, sack the Board, Celtic podcasts out there on the world wide web are best suited for you.
@@den264absolutely fucking not
@@CHAPSOLA Settle doon sonny with all your telling people to shut up nonsense that you disagree with & then blabbering on aboot ''freedom of speech'' elsewhere in your other social meedya echo chambers.
Now as for all your ''wants'' you just might be aware of the old saying '' I want doesn't get'' & for sure NONE of us are going to get the Celtic we really, really, want anytime soon & many will take that harsh reality of footballing life a lot worse than some.
Cheers bhoys
Idah has more impact than OH my how did he miss thst at ibrox! OH panics! Sorry like but im amazed im hearing that you believe they are comparable..Also idah has a lot more potential. Crazy talk
Usually talk sense but Oh is never gonna be good enough
Enda, if you end up in Canada give me a call ☎️
It has been said before but worth repeating. This is simply far and away the best podcast/ channel out there. Many thanks for the great output all season guys and all the best Enda!
Thanks Enda , this has been my favourite podcast since I came across it. Good luck with everything do 🙏
Sad to see you go Enda , may your future endeavours have much success. The Huddle Breakdown should now go absolutely stats mental !
Good luck Enda. My favourite channel. I'm glad Alan and James are keeping the channel going 🙂
From 71 to 74, when we were still a top euro team, we sold Hay and Macari. Connolly left, but the board were happy with domestic success in the 70s and lived off the memories
Happy trails, Enda. Many thanks for all your work in ensuring that the podcast is consistently top-notch. Long may it continue. From Chicagoland via Partick.
Good luck with your travels Enda.
Good luck in your new ventures Enda but now comes the acid test for Alan & James to "Walk the Walk" in terms of recruitment of a new host!
Enda, genuinely saddened to hear you're not going to be involved in the podcast anymore. Thanks for all the hours of great content and entertainment over the last few seasons. Happy to hear that the show must go on as they say in the business! But you will be missed and very best of luck for the future, and with the move to Australia.
Jeez! Enda is among them for 5 mins and he’s spouting that Rangers we’re hard done by. Clementitis is catching 😂
Thanks Enda! Hope everything goes well for you in the future!
James & Alan! Keep it going, you two will be great :D
Something that is unknown (and unquantifiable) is how a new player will settle in at a new club/new city/new country. Some players take to it like a duck to water and some cannot settle.
There's no real way of knowing in advance who will/won't settle. We've had players come in from Japan and hit the ground running but also had Calvin Wilson who was famously "Homesick" for Nottingham!!
So taking this into account, does this tip the scales in favour of Idah & Bernardo? We already know they like it here. So how much should we factor that into the equation?
Maybe we can do better than Idah.... but what if the guy who is "better" doesn't settle in Glasgow or his family don't settle....
Given the sheer number of positions that we need to strengthen, then I think the "We know what we're getting" factor with Idah/Bernardo tips the balance.
We're probably going to have to bring in 6-10 players this summer. If Idah/Bernardo are included in that, then it's at least two in the plus column in terms of decent signings
Hi those are all great points. My concern is the fees (and commensurate wages) for players that are on the face of it back ups. When Celtic brought in Edouard, Jota and CCV they were starters but derisked by the try before you buy model. We're now spending the same for squad rotators? Hmmmm
By many accounts the pitch was absolutely horrendous. Which was a leveller.
Time for James and Alan to show THEIR recruitment skills in replacing Enda. Just don't call Mark Lawwell for advice! Great job Enda, you'll be missed.
It's Mark Cooper now, not Lawwell Jnr.
Would love for the two lads to do a podcast discussing players in the league that we should be looking at. The likes of Watson and Miller look the exact types we should be aiming for especially to fill European quotas.
Not only have we been poor at holding onto our youths we’ve been really at picking off the best of the rest
This channel is the thinking mans discussion forum. Top notch examination of the games from all of you guys. Best of, Enda !
It's by far the best Celtic podcast out there. The content is excellent as always. Informed, data-driven, passionate and humorous. Alan's research on the Rangers penalty phenomenon is worthy of a journalist award! I hope James and Alan keep the show on the road or else there will be a Celtic-shaped hole in my podcast schedule! Best of luck with your travels to Oz Enda!
Sorry to see you go, Enda. A big loss to the show and to Irish sports media - heart-on-sleeve Celts are very rare in an environment saturated with EPL coverage so hopefully you’re back some day on our screens or airwaves. Glad Statler and Waldorf will keep the podcast going 😜🍀
My tuppence worth: there is no equivalent to this posdcast. Nothing like it. James and Alan should definitely continue this channel, along with a new recruit to replace Enda. I really hope this will be the case. HH to all 3 of you.
I see no evidence of development with OH poor first touch positional sense ,no composure poor in air and abysmal shooting .
Idah much better all round and will improve Oh will not
Celtic could do better - Yet no examples.
Miku rated 8m failed & Ajeti 5.5m
There's plenty of strikers that you could say would do well for Celtic, but saying & doing are different. You have nothing but pure speculation.
Do you guys actually watch the Celtic games, or just review the data. & come to conclusions?
Because you don't appear to be able to see the talents of Bernardo & Adam or how they fit into the team.
It was ALWAYS going to be like this after the last competitive match of the season & two on loan players directly & most comprehensively, contributing to & scoring the last minute winner in a Cup Final against our bitterest rivals & so how else could it be with ALL the most obvious & expected clamour & demand to immediately sign them both on a full time basis & when the harsh reality is & quite right too, we are most definitely NOT signing them both, because as the guys said, we just should be doing much better than these two for the money...
Atalanta play strong teams every week.
If you compare opposition teams to weight lifting, our leagues is full of ight weights, therefore if we meet heavy weight, it's harder for us to lift that heavy weight. Lift heavy weight ever week, then a foreign heavy weight isn't so difficult to lift, we are used to it.
For me, last season's SPFL was the very worst in quality ever & that really is saying something, since it's been very poor for the last three decades or so & it's truly sad to see the other Top Five Clubs of Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts & the two Dundee Clubs that Scottish football just absolutely NEEDS to be something like competitive, now just a complete & total shadow of what they once were & most sadly, they'll just continue to plummet to new depths of total crapness & miserable failure with every passing season & it's their continued collective demise that's one of the most pivotal factors in the ever accelerating decline of the overall quality & competitiveness of the whole of Scottish football & everyone just ignores it all.
Idah is better than oh,better in the air ,stronger more powerful, oh doest score that goal at ibrox
Good luck Enda. 👏🏻 You’ll be greatly missed. Huddle Breakdown is a great show (despite the squeaky chair). 😊
All the best Enda, I’m happy to throw my name in the hat on a free transfer if you need a replacement.
You can pay me in green M&Ms 😂
Fingers crossed we get the recruitment right this summer.
Let’s try be positive about it. 👀
Well for sure our ''recruitment this summer'' just can't be ANY worse than last summer's when we spent a huge big whopping TWENTY THREE MILLION pounds on NINE duds & ALL of them on very silly & very erroneous huge big whopping FIVE YEAR deals & NONE of whom even started in the two most recent Glasgow derbies & them's just the facts sadly & we now have this new guy Mark Cooper as Head of Recruitment/Scouting replacing Lawwell Jnr & Dudgeon & Cooper just might be grateful his predecessors set the Recruitment bar as low as you can possibly get, but the levels of expectation amongst most of my fellow Celtic fans will now be at fever pitch & all that money ''just sitting in the bank'' so just go out & spend it!!!!
@@frankbrennan1619 like I said , stay positive Frank 👀
@@nicholasmcdade1022 I'm ALWAYS a positive realist when it comes to ALL things Celtic as you well know Nicholas & us ONLY ever operating in a duopoly with the other lot & both of us playing oor fitba in the totally woeful & dire SPFL that totally generates NO kind of serious money & for sure it won't be me screaming & shouting at the likes of Bernardo & Idah if we were to most stupidly buy these two for a huge big whopping TWELVE MILLION pounds, when they miserably fail to deliver in the Champions League, but instead it will ONLY be ALL the social meedya bairns who repeatedly said we have to buy them, who will be venting all their fury & derision when they, as I say, then miserably fail to deliver...
I think you’ll eat your words reguarding Ida james
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Sorry to hear that Enda.....good luck but like our favourite players....people move on .. My daughter is off to university in September ..so I get the turmoil 😂...really pleased James and Alan will battle on ...can't have too much heartache in one close season!!
Good luck Enda, you will be missed
Thanks for this episode guys, I feel slightly more sane having listened to this as we broadly appear to be in agreeance about what has gone before, where we sit now and what needs to be undertaken moving forwards. One comment by Alan I found particularly interesting , and that was the comparable salary expenditure of Atalanta and Celtic which perhaps goes to show what is possible within the bracket that Celtic operate . For myself, what others perceive as the Holy Grail that being the CL is a real double edged sword. Sure, we all want to sit at the top table and rub shoulders with Europe's elite teams and benefit from the financial rewards, but it's a competition that is so often the cause of multiple disappointments given the gulf in the on pitch ability. We're all familiar with the adage that 'you need to walk before you able to run, and for this reason I'd be happy in the future to see the winners of the SPL go straight into the Europa League until such time that Scottish clubs or a club become much stronger. So, here's hoping that we all come back after the summer much stronger. Best
The Champions League Group Stages is indeed & has been for quite some time & sadly will only continue to be ''a real double edged sword'' in that when we qualify to play with Europe's richest & very best & we get our £60 million or whatever for doing so, we are then ONLY there to make up the numbers & ''perform'' accordingly & so ONLY continuing to trash a once overall proud European record we did have TWENTY YEARS ish ago & before that too of course & this for me is where the real pain & sadness lies & at some time we ALL have to face up to the fact that we're completely NOT a Champions League Group Stages Club anymore for the reasons we ALL know, or should do & probably NOT of a Europa League standard either.
Best wishes in Australia, Enda.
Thanks Enda.. and best of luck
All the best Enda. Thanks for the great shows. 🍀
We require 5 maybe 6 quality first team players.
Anything less will resign us to Euro also-rans AGAIN
All the best in your future endeavours Enda thank you & H H🍀
As long as Sid Little & Eddie Large are still producing the goods for the Celtic podcast community 😀 👏 👍
Alan & Juco apologies 😉
That News Caught Me Out Enda That’s For Sure, well Enda It Really Was A Pleasure Knowing You And Wish You Nothing But The Best For Your Future, And I’m Delighted That James And Allan Are Grabbing The Reigns Oh And Jim Orr Would Be A Great Shout, So All The Best Enda 🤞☘️🍀👍🏻 live long and prosper… HH
Jim is great but my stuff bores him to sleep so i suspect that's a non starter!
All the best Enda
The goal Scotland had chopped off against Spain was worse !
Good luck Enda
LMAO you now use Brendan Rodgers comments!
Yet totally ignore his comments about the Bernardo & Adam.
This is a perfect example of cognitive bias - chose only things that suit your view.
Thanks Enda, have always enjoyed your contributions from the start. Maybe catch u down under for a game, i am in Melbourne. Cheers guys and HH
Did we lose the league 🙄Fukin virgins my god wow it's like we lost the lot listening to this depressing stuff. Love analysing matches but my god this wild.
Good luck, Enda
Ah bye Enda - been great listening to the show last couple of years - been really good - very sad but happy for you, best of luck in your new job
All the best for the future mate.
Good luck Enda - we will miss you. Hail Hail.
Safe travels
Sad to hear you are leaving, but obviously you have seen the light & heading to Oz. Along with Hamish, let the exodus continue lol That’s for another year of bringing some balance & reason into our Celtic world 👍🦘🦘
Europe and the league are different- Rangers did well in Europe and were poor in the league. Play style more important indicator of success.
On the ownership needing to be ruthless point - look at Steve Cohen and the Mets in the US - ruthless decision maker, second biggest budget in baseball, horrible team
Wtf was the clicking sound throughout the podcast? Drove me insane
The Huddle Breakdown with no Coll at the helm is not the Huddle Breakdown. Gimme a call...
All the best Enda, and thanks for my new favourite cheerio phrase, "Good luck!
Bernardo is 22 not 23... he's a year younger than Matt O'Riley who was nothing too special when he was 22
Just would like to take the time to wish you good luck and success Enda the channel is a really credit to you James and Alan thank so much Enda mate 👏👏🙏👍🍀
A two handed push on the back of a goalkeeper is soft? Really? 🤣🤣 geeiz peace fs
All the best in the future, Enda. As you say, it's been a blast .
Thank you from Alberta good luck in Australia
End of an era. Farewell Enda and good luck.
Bon voyage Enda, flatshare with Hamish? Best. Celtic. Pod. There. Is. HH
Sorry to hear that you're going, but are you also having auditions for a 3rd 🤔😅
Good luck mate if I see you in oz I’ll shout you a beer
Winning a double is always great. Celtic now need to push on, bring in better players and progress in Europe.
You can't. Celtic and Rangers are incapable of attracting Champions League players.
Can't you see this?
Get that creaky chair binned Alan ffs
Are you going to ever return?
Celtic didn't actually achieve much this year. They won exactly what they were expected to win, so was it really a good year?
''Only'' winning a Double when you had won a Treble the previous season is ''technically'' not ''actually achieving much this year'' when comparing season with season, but overall it was still significant success in the context of a new Manager, new style of play, the poorest recruitment of new players in one whole season in literally decades & this all obviously contributed to a true & proper race to win the League Title that saw Celtic completely throw away an eight point lead around October time last year & then the other lot completely blowing it at Ross County & Dundee when the League Title was literally in their grasp, so yes overall, Celtic winning The Double was, as I've said, significant success this season.
Darby dust not to be too sniffy about that it’s a pressure game - do stats account for opposition
Also Idah beat Kilmarnock himself - not seen that type of thing from OH - leading the line stuff
Not say Idah is the new henrick but he’s better than OH by more than your margin - think Roger’s could make him a real player
Oh's minutes include those in CL and Idah's do not
@@alanmorrison5981 you often talk about game state Allan / I’ve learned a lot listening to you - Idah has come on and turned games for us hibs Motherwell Ibrox and the cup final
4 season defining games- when did OH do anything like that
Goals per minutes just ain’t the same
Maybe my memory is letting me down but can’t recall OH winning games for us
@@alanmorrison5981 I will say though if we get the usual biscuit tin approach then we could maybe spend 6-8 million elsewhere and maybe look for a loan deal stricker but not rely on OH, too much lashing at the ball - don’t think his finishing is great
@@georgebarr5102 Winner v St Mirren off the top of my head
Keep going…
Oh wait, that’s it. Just one example.
Bernardo is a good reliable back up player ie cant have too many similar players in my view ☘️ 🇵🇹
A huge big whopping SIX MILLION pounds is far too expensive for '' a good reliable back up player'' End of.
Signings????????
Re midfield, sign Wanyama clone, move McGregor back to his best position, the one MOR currently occupies. Also did anyone see the YT video of Bosun Lawal at Fleetwood Town this past season? He must be included in Brendans squad for next season as an 8, not CB where he has been in our youth team for 4 years previously.
Do you really think Callum McGregor in that position can get 18 goals and 18 assists?
Doubt it
As Juco mentioned, we don't behave in the way a top ruthless club should, which would have already phased McGregor out the first 11 by now, he's nowhere near physical or athletic enough for Europe, yet we will continue to play him every game at that level, surrendering the midfield due to it, getting dominated and more often than not, losing
@@CatsRUs1888 I still haven't forgotten Ange talking about '' don't get too attached to your heroes'' & so of course telling us all that like it or not, the facts are ONLY we're a selling Club with everyone up for sale & similarly with his '' we must be more agile & aggressive in the transfer market'' & which is also totally in keeping with James' assertion that we just behave NOTHING like ANY kind of ''a top ruthless Club should'' BOTH on & off the field sadly & particularly in the context of us playing our football in a League that just completely generates NO kind of serious money & so then agility, aggressiveness & ruthlessness on & off the field becomes even more important & significant as a consequence...
@@CatsRUs1888 MOR 19 goals and however many assists is an unusually good performance. McGregor is a dynamic player who we have under used these last 3 years as a 6. Also we have basically no recruitment infrastructure and apparently Dermot Desmond doesn't like directors of football so we will continue to be run like a bowling club.
@@frankbrennan1619 it's been 10 years. You could say I am pretty attached to Callum McGregor who has basically carried this team on his back for 7 years. In fact I am typing this reply right now, taking a break from experimenting with anti aging injections so that Callum McGregor can play in the Celtic midfield for eternity because that is how long it will take for this shower of amateurs in the Celtic board to sign some decent midfielders. Watch this space, another summer of Odin Holm and Paulo Bernardos coming in.
@@John-qy9nw For me, Wee Callum played his very best football under Rodgers the first time round & of course, he was then a good few years younger & not forgetting too that he had much better quality players around him & he was also not burdened with the Captaincy & I really did believe that after Rodgers had done his overnight flit to Leicester City, he would very soon thereafter sign Wee Callum, who most certainly could have done a good job at a Leicester City level in the EPL, but Rodgers' didn't & I wonder exactly why not & sadly now the years & amount of games have caught up with Wee Callum & so why was it he was given a very silly & very erroneous huge big whopping FIVE YEAR deal last year?
Adam Idah has proven his worth.
Brendan Rodgers has spoken about his qualities.
Yet you come at it with no alternative & expect people to accept pure speculation on a no named, no aged, no experienced player 😂😂😂😂😂
Most supporters don’t think anything about the 70% , there’s still far too many believing the press headlines on players that will never come to Scotland
Bizarre nonsense about Oh versus Idah.
Oh hasn’t scored a goal away from home in over a year. Idah has scored at Ibrox, Hampden, Rugby Park(twice) Easter Rd(twice) and Fir Park. That’s most of toughest away domestic fixtures.
Oh in contrast has mostly scored in games at home when we were already comfortable or goals late last season after the title was won.
The 5-0 at Rugby Park and 7-1 against Dundee were our two best performances of the season and Idah started both of them and was instrumental in our build up in a way that Oh never has.
Since Idah arrived in Scotland, only Shankland has scored more goals. A striker who plays 90 minutes every game. Idah has out scored Kyogo and Miovski with a lot less minutes,
You’re talking nonsense boys.
One correction. Fir Park (twice) and Rugby Park once.
It's more just a case of the once oft quoted phrase of ''lies, damned lies & statistics'' & dear old Alan's ''stats'' has Oh & Idah ''about the same'' when the evidence of our own eyes & for me the eyesight test is only ALL that ever has complete precedence & so on that basis, Idah is certainly way ahead of Oh, but then my dear cat has made much more of a contribution than Oh this season....
Agreed. Also these great stats that Oh is suppose to have from two seasons ago. 7 goals in all contests. Idah managed 9 in half a season and generally much bigger important goals too.
Also Bernardo is 22 not 23 for the American contributor.
@@Ciaran-xb5qv Indeed Bernardo is twenty two & Oh is twenty three & Idah is also twenty three, so just a case of James, or ''the American contributor'' as you refer to him, getting his twenty twos & twenty threes mixed up & for sure as James says, twenty three is practically ''middle aged'' in the modern game & the fact too that when players are twenty two or twenty three, the die is quintessentially completely cast as to what players of this age can or can't do & no matter how good the Coach is now coaching them & so the already significant weaknesses in their game are never going to improve or get better....
‘The American contributor’ wasn’t a dig, just didn’t know his name.
Good luck to Enda in his new 'adventure' .. his tale of ending up at the wrong end at a Celtic-Rangers match reminds me of an old Billy Connolly sketch sadly much too crude to repeat here! 😊
Did you see Idah in Kilmarnock game? Oh will never do that for us. Idah has touch and is intelligent. Oh is thick.
Great point. In no way is oh on the same level as idah.
@@grahamcotter108 Dear old Alan's '' stats & data'' tells us something COMPLETELY different....
I think Oh will come good he just needs to calm down as he always seems to try too hard. Would keep Idah as well.
@@cb745 He's 23, he's NOT going to ''come good'' & hopefully is oot the door furrr good pretty soon.
thing is desmond and lawwell's goals for domestic trophies and finances aren't even wrong in a european sense. unless you can show me that atalanta dortmund or olympiacos set europe as a bench mark. i dont think they did. because rangers didn't when they hit the final. frankfurt didn't. west ham didn't. all these clubs took euro success as offshoot from domestic ambitions. for rangers it was keepign players to stop the 10. for frankfurt is was 'oh shit we're going to miss out on top 5 place' etc etc
A soft-boiled egg and a hard-boiled egg are still eggs. Same with fouls. That was a clear push, the referee does not even worry how hard it is.
Analytics does not take into consideration a player's mentality. Idah stepped up from February and delivered under great pressure. Fir Park and Easter Road were best examples of that. Oh was being brought on and was largely ineffectual (with the odd exception). They may have similar attributes and statistical figures. But I know who I would want in the heat of the battle...
Did you here the one about the Irish man, the American and the Scottish statist? 😂❤
€6 million in today’s market doesn’t get you a lot 🤷♂️
Agree on Bernardo would offer them 3 million see how he develops but not 6
They might let him go cheap
Think he would be good to come on and hold a game
For sure, Bernardo is worth NOWHERE near a huge big whopping SIX MILLION pounds & I would certainly hugely hesitate at even spending HALF of that on him & thankfully Benfica will just not countenance such a sum, but if by some miracle they did, I still wouldn't buy him.
Please keep the channel going! Best by a long way.
The £ the bank in my opinion will make it harder to bring in new players, clubs will demand more £ for their players, with the knowledge Celtic are cash rich by Scottish standards
No one of any calibre is going to move to Scotland when they've a dozen better leagues to choose from are they?
You want evidence of the future?😅😅😅
Karma, Enda, for telling everyone that Idah was never good enough to play for Celtic. Ps Was Alan singing along to Joe, Joe, Super Joe.
Yes I remember well that most garrulous wee ''rant'' from Wee Enda a wee while back completely slating Idah first & then Kuhn & then backtracking a wee bit on Idah in particular, which for me was a wee bit sad, simply because Wee Enda was completely right about Kuhn & will be proved completely right about Kuhn in the near future & as for Idah, if he was available for £3 million ish as a near complete back up striker, then of course, a case could most rightly & most strongly be made for him in a SPFL context, but we all know, or should do, that Norwich ONLY want very silly money for him & the small matter too that nobody talks about, does Idah really with all his heart & soul, desperately want to play for Celtic Football Club?
FYI most players sign a 3 year deal, all over Europe & it's been that way for decades. I'm very surprised you've just learned this.
Did your state not show this😂😂😂
And removing Idah 2 pens from analysis is very unfair. They were massive at the time
Grossly unfair, ridiculous bias.
I though yours guy s new a about football
from your point of view celtic will always have inadequate players. welsh scales etc. bought or developed. they will remain in the team if only for budgetary reasons because you can't have carter vickers as first and second choice without it costing double
Some remain only because of the UEFA requirements for home grown players.
Can’t clear out average players on contracts ? Nobody will buy them?
Because we didn't have a serious & proper ''clear out'' last summer, the ''clear out'' task this summer has ONLY become even more ginormous as a consequence & of course, it can't ALL be done in the summer, but for sure we just MUST make the most serious & proper starts to this ginormous clear out in the summer with ALL of the obvious suspects thar we can ALL name & even if we now have to pay some of them off & if we we still have the likes of Invisible Man McCarthy on the books come October, then it just hasn't been ANY kind of a serious & proper start to this ginormous ''clear out'' we ALL know just has to start happening....
I'm really going to miss this 😢
James on fence again b e. Man James
Haven't seen oh come into the fray and change the direction of the game like idah has.
Thanks ghirls 'n bhoys.
On Big Idah, he Scored big Goals in Big Games. Get him in.
The squad was already weakened after losing Jota, Starfelt, Mooy, etc, and later Abada. Now, we have lost Hart and potentially O'Riley. That was a lot of creativity and goals. We ended up playing our 5th or 6th choice in CD because of injuries and poor recruitment and had no cover for LB if Taylor got injured. As such, we need to remove as many of the non-contributing players in the squad through sales, or loans to other SPL clubs for those with a future. We need 4 quality signings who are first team ready with experience and maybe a couple of loan to buys which have worked well recently.
The pain of losing the likes of Jota, Abada, Starfelt & Mooy were ALL most keenly & sorely felt, simply because NONE of them were ever ANYTHING like adequately & suitably replaced in ANY shape or form & as completed evidenced by the likes of 32 year old Wee Jamesy still being quite literally a better winger than Palma, Kuhn & Yang ALL put together for goodness sake & the pressure is on big time for the new Recruitment guy Mark Cooper & Rodgers to get it right this summer & in the two, three, four transfer windows that follow & of course the levels of expectation amongst most Celtic fans will ONLY ever increasingly reach fever pitch with ALL that money '' just sitting there in the bank doing nothing.''
@@frankbrennan1619 Absolutely agree! Rodgers recognised that when he said that in his first term as manager he watched the training in Dubai and his B squad beat the top 11 because of the quality of depth in the squad. We have allowed that to decline over time when we should have spent on quality to put us well ahead of our rivals and be able to at least compete with clubs in Europe in pot 3 and 4.