We asked for your thoughts after St Mirren stunned Celtic 3-1 at Hampden to claim the Premier Sports Cup.<\/p>\n
Some of you questioned Wilfried Nancy’s appointment as manager, particularly given the impressive form under interim boss Martin O’Neill.<\/p>\n
Scott: To go from winning seven out of eight games under O’Neill and looking like winning every game domestically and full of confidence to what we have seen these past three games is really astonishingly poor. The new manager needs to understand that the players at the club are not good enough to play his system and do not look confident to do so either. After the Roma game he should have had a change of formation to steady the ship and they would have had a better chance of lifting the cup. The manager needs to think of the team and not his vision of a crazy 3-4-3 without good enough players to execute his plan.<\/p>\n
Sting: It’s time for the major shareholder to act just like he did when he appointed Martin O’Neill. The board have to take responsibility for the appointment of a manager who is clearly out of his depth. Changes need to be made at board level before any new permanent appointment is made. Dermot Desmond is the only person that can make this happen.<\/p>\n
Andrew: Nancy and the persons who hired him are to blame for the sudden demise. Martin O’Neill was doing a good job with average players.<\/p>\n
Tom: As sad as it was to see the match unfold, it was the wrong time to bring in Nancy. Why, just why do you change this now? Leave it for another week then go.<\/p>\n
Calum: In a shock to absolutely no-one except the Celtic board, bringing in Nancy on this monumental week has been a complete calamity. How anyone could have justified this over letting O’Neill keep the helm until January, when Nancy could have had time to implement his own game plan, is beyond me.<\/p>\n
Scott: Bring back O’Neill… ASAP!<\/p>\n
Are shape and tactics the big issues?<\/p>\n
Andy: System has nothing to do with this result. Simply highlights that we have too many players not fit to wear the shirt. Defenders need to defend, then give the ball to the creative players! We are caught with everyone attacking!!<\/p>\n
Pete: Three games in, three defeats and eight goals conceded. The system does not work, Tounekti is an attacking winger with no defensive instincts, Nancy has managed to make Callum ineffective. Wrong tactics but already appears too stubborn to play our players in their correct positions. By the time the board make some form of decision our season will be over and the cabinet will be empty!<\/p>\n
Steve: I made the point on Thursday that not one Celtic player would get a place on the Roma bench and we were deservedly beaten. Today a St Mirren team that not one player would get on the Celtic bench deservedly beat us. Because they were a well coached team with a structure and organisation that complimented the resources at their disposal.<\/p>\n
Tony: Anyone who thinks this is on a manager who’s been in for a week, mid-season, with no time to implement his style is simply not in touch with reality. This Celtic squad have been gutted for profit and barring a few decent results under club legend Martin O’Neill, are way below the standard. Wilfried Nancy has been thrown under the bus by a board not fit for purpose and the fans who want him out need to have a look at themselves. The board have fallen asleep at the wheel and will blame everyone but themselves for their failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked for your thoughts after St Mirren stunned Celtic 3-1 at Hampden to claim the Premier Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-349953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}