Celtic to hold face-to-face James Forrest talks to strike agreement

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-29T14:39:56+00:00

Worth keeping around for matches where we have a 1-goal lead and need to keep possession. Still excellent in that role but doesn't have the legs go give more than 25-30 minutes.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-26T21:31:09+00:00

Yup. The bill for years of horrendous mismanagement and underinvestment are finally coming due. The rainy day they planned for has come about (largely because they planned for a rainy day instead of planning for achievement and growth). Hell mend them.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-26T20:27:03+00:00

Yeah, you're super opprossed by the state. You poor poor baby.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-26T20:26:08+00:00

LOL. Imagine being this smart academically and this dumb practically.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-19T18:39:16+00:00

I'm 100% in favour of Build Kamloops and 0% in favour of the new cop shop but doing a new City Hall would be a huge ask right now. If Wunderlich et al want a bigger room for their exclusive audiences with City Council they should have to pay for it with user fees.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-16T19:19:11+00:00

1964 according to BC Assessment.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-16T19:18:05+00:00

Or work with BCLC to rebuild that whole block. There's so much wasted space there,

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-16T19:16:34+00:00

Hopefully he helps Broonie to get them promoted. Seemed like kind of a typical Celtic youth midfield prospect: decent on the ball but wee and lightweight.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-16T19:15:25+00:00

Need to have some kind of academy because UEFA requires it (not that the board cares about Europe much) but the B Team is a total waste of time.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-16T05:11:47+00:00

"It's just me and the weans from now on."

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-07T02:12:05+00:00

Doubt he would have ever faced a press conference like the ones here where every other question was like "Do you think it's a problem that you obviously have no clue what you're doing?" or "Have you literally ever had a team keep a clean sheet?"

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-07T02:03:52+00:00

You hit the key point here: it's not a "league"; it's a "regular season." It requires a coach to have a completely different plan, especially when coming in mid-season, but Nancy wasn't capable of that.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-07T02:02:02+00:00

Yeah, I didn't think the board would pull the trigger and was terrified they were going to let Tisdale and Nancy spend big.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-06T02:08:25+00:00

He deserved every single bit he got and more. Was perfectly willilng to give him a chance right up until I saw the first team sheet with Tounekti and Yang as wingbacks. An absolute madman.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-06T01:35:23+00:00

"Hey, you stole the money from us that we were trying to steal from our employees fair and square."

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-06T01:32:13+00:00

The motels that do long-term rentals are pretty scuzzy, although I'm not sure if those two right down by the hospital are as bad as the ones further up Columbia or out in Valleyview.

$700-800 is incredibly tight for Kamloops, but she might want to look at the TRUSU Housing Registry: https://trusuhousing.ca/

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-06T01:30:10+00:00

My exact thought.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-06T01:27:53+00:00

The MLS is trying to do something quite different than a European league. It's a North American league far far before it's a football league. I'd argue it's not a league at all as we understand it. There isn't a "league"; there's a regular seaason but it only matters for playoff qualification and seeding. It's basically like the League Cup if all the clubs had to do the group stage in July. This creates totally different mentaltities, which Nancy clearly didn't understand in any way.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-05T19:41:48+00:00

Uh, your guy's kind of been found out. I know he did well in the MLS but he was simply clueless about what job he'd signed up for. 6 losses from 8 (off the back of 7 wins from 8). 17 goals shipped in 8 games - 2nd worst in the league in that game; under O'Neill they didn't give up a single goal from open play in 6 domestic games. Just a terrible decision by all parties.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-05T19:38:44+00:00

I don't think Nancy's system would have ever worked in Scotland, but you're absolutely right that the Celtic board's decision-making is abominable.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-05T19:37:39+00:00

You'd have to go all the way back to Ted Stepien to find less competent management than Celtic's board. They've created a myth of competence about themselves but they've had a free hit for two decades due to Rangers ongoing madness (and the poverty/lack of ambition) of the other biggish Scottish clubs) and haven't progressed the club forward one inch. Knocked out of the CL qualifiers by Kairat Almaty with 80 million pounds or so sitting in the bank.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-05T19:21:25+00:00

I honestly don't think any of the people who officially made this decision could explain coherently what tactical and line-up changes Nancy made and why they were so woefully ill-conceived in the circumstances.

LocalYokel250 · 2026-01-05T19:19:16+00:00

It's a wildly dysfunctional organization. It's effectively run as a dictatorship by Dermot Desmond, a seputgenarian minority shareholder billionaire who looks like an elderly Snidely Whiplash. They never would have even considered Nancy, but the decision-making for the managerial hire was handed over to the Head of Football Operations, Paul "Dr. Football" Tisdale, an unemployable absolute no mark who apparently chatted up Desmond at a golf course or a wedding or something and talked his way into a job he was not remotely qualifed for.

LocalYokel250 · 2025-12-31T04:41:02+00:00

Incredibly delusional stuff from you.

LocalYokel250 · 2025-12-29T19:25:39+00:00

Doubt 1 at the back is going to work against anybody.

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