The absence of Jozo Simunovic for our Champions League game in Monchengladbach set off alarm bells, but few of us expected that he was rested as a consequence of being on a one-game-per-week long-term recuperation strategy.
This was a bold decision by what is clearly a confident manager. It was also informative that Brendan Rodgers prioritised the league game against Aberdeen to deploy Jozo over the Champions League – an equally bold decision. Defensive performances in both games suggest the manager made the right call.
This is the kind of gamble that is going Brendan Rodgers’ way but which would have backfired on Ronny Deila. It’s not down to luck, of course. Brendan has proven the point that defences are systems more than anything else. Get the system right and you can move the players around. Get it wrong, as we did in Barcelona, and it doesn’t matter which or how many defenders you deploy, you’ll take a hiding.
After surviving an onslaught at home to Celtic in September, Inverness scored an added-time equaliser to deny Celtic their only league points of the season. Since then our domestic form has been even better than it was before that game, winning everything for the loss of only a single goal in seven outings.
One thing we know about Inverness-Celtic games, though, is that lightening doesn’t only strike once, or twice for that matter. This team have punished Celtic repeatedly over the last 16 years, usually against the odds. Their only defeat since an abysmal August came against Newco, who denied the Highlanders their own onslaught. That was also the only game Inverness failed to score since Same Old Alloa dumped them out of the League Cup in August.
After tomorrow’s visit of Inverness, Celtic’s only home game in the next six is against Barcelona. If Brendan was to cast his eye over the fixture list for opportunities to experiment, this is as good an opportunity as he’ll have until Accies visit on 13 December.
Maybe an opportunity to go one at the back and five up front. Or just to give Patrick a start. Either works for me.
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Petec
re: Matthew …
I remember during my patristic class, there were some really fights over Markian priority…. I stayed out of that debate …. far too heated .. plus I always liked John the best.! :)
Mike
The bookies have Watford at 8-1, while Everton are half those odds to prevail at The Bridge, if that’s any help.
However, great form shown by Chelsea since Conte went 3-4-3, hammering Manure, and winning away to a good Southampton side convincingly.
Just watched a great football match there, which I’d recorded due to all the CL games this week.
American football, right enough, but Atlanta 33-32 v Green Bay was some shoot-out between Rodgers And Ryan, winning touch down being scored with 30 secs on the clock.
mike in toronto,
John is Incredible.
MIT
Listen to wise Neustadt-Braw
NB …. cheers. I really like JKlopp ….he’s mad as a hatter, but I think that is why I like him! But Chelsea seem to have a solidity that, even now, Pool lack….
but, what the hell. i’ll stick with Liverpool. cheers.
This picture reminds me of the New Rangers same as the old Rangers except…?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/nov/03/best-photographs-of-the-day-a-weigh-in-and-a-boot-camp#img-10
MWD
Beatbhoy … I was thinking that Chelsea are looking pretty tidy of late …. now you have got me thinking again! GGRRR! but if the bookies say 8-1 , I ‘ll go with that. cheers!
Petec … as soon as I typed that, I figured someone would chip in with ‘Ringo’ John’s fun…. all that Revelation stuff …. cant beat it.
mike,
Dinnae be looking at the Revelations dude. Listen to the Word.
Urquell Pilsner is the wisdom juice this evening..
Smiley ous thing….
Braw.
Petec …. I’m a pape … so Revelations is part of the Word for me. And, as I said, it is fun.
Urquell Pilsner is the wisdom juice this evening..
Is that the stuff bottled in Chernobyl ?
Petec
If you can get the fight on, I hope someone runs a book on it, as I’ll be betting on DD, given that you’ll obviously have to turn the other cheek.
Evening J
Awfy braw stuff …
Pilsner Urquell is a Czech lager brewed in Plzeň, Czech Republic. Pilsner Urquell is the world’s first-ever pilsner type blond lager, making it the inspiration for more than two-thirds of the beer produced in the world today,
Prost
Braw
!!BADA BING!! on 4TH NOVEMBER 2016 3:24 PM
I wonder of hurting hun Al Lamont who stuck the Republic in?
Some joker called Martin williams did his bit in yesterday’s Herald.
beatbhoy on 4th November 2016 4:15 pm
Petec
If you can get the fight on, I hope someone runs a book on it, as I’ll be betting on DD, given that you’ll obviously have to turn the other cheek.
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Who knows what would happen?
I’d have my Crew there, puzzled why I’d became a boxer!!!!
Mad Cyril
Boxing makes it legit.
I know DD is a fighter, I know he fed me Nonsense for whatever Reason?
When BT verifies, it made so much sense.
I’m not one for the clicque Rudi Vata.
Get it on for Charitable purposes.
The DD vs the Petec.
He’s not wrong!
https://www.morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/library/backissues/issue5.3/urquell.html
Zum Wohl!
Tickets on sale for cup final. Showing a lot of sold out areas online.
All you Bible scholars not the least concerned at the prospect of a brass Trumpet sounding woe from the White House?
No fan zone in Manchester !!! 2500 allocated..
Interesting…
Braw
The Battered Bunnet on 4th November 2016 4:29 pm
All you Bible scholars not the least concerned at the prospect of a brass Trumpet sounding woe from the White House?
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All?
Dontcha know the Lord Almighty uses Everyone, even You and Me.
Abortion should be, awk shucks.
mike in toronto/hi mike :-)
It seems like many FA’s (including UEFA and FIFA) have their own skeletons in their own closets, so are not too likely to want to get involved in addressing corruption in case someone shines a light on them .….
oh i think its important,they in effect control 12.5% of the worlds law making in football-The sfa,little wonder the game is corrupt if its their game rules being applied,inculcated ‘whats in it for me’ in every FA as you say
and, even if someone wanted to clean up the corruption in the game generally, the Scottish game (and the SFA) are, I suspect, of such little consequence that few, if any, outside of Scotland would know or really care enough to do anything ….. which is why I always thought that, if there were to be change in Scotland, Celtic would have to lead the charge …
Scottish football will change,that is unavoidable,history will take care of the cheat
Celtic always lead :-)
Evening A……………………………Nazdrave.
Try this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZy9cFHtZVY
hail hail
good post other day that vanished :-)
HH
Thats enough for me….
Goodnight all…
Braw
You checked oot the Running Mate of Donald?
After All is said and Done, there is Nowt new under the Sun.
Neustadt-Braw on 4th November 2016 4:36 pm
Thats enough for me….
Goodnight all…
Braw
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OK Good Afternoon.
Hahahahaha…nice wan J
I can open beer with a sheet of newspaper….page three only though….
Smiley thing
Braw.
Hi Bhoys. I see the cup final tickets are gone on sale today to STH. If anyone knows of any two spare tickets going anywhere – please keep me in mind. I’m a huge Hoop travelling over from Ireland for the game – CorkCelt and Almore will vouch for me. HH
I’d Love the Green Brigade to be Pro Life, Noone knows how much I’d like the GB to be Pro Life.
Hearing people taking tests to make sure their Child is ok. I know what is happening.
Eugenics again. The Garden…. LOL
Yo, you need Money to get that tests for deformities.
End Times for Sure.
that those
LYNCHIEBHOY…
“a huge Hoop…”
https://goo.gl/images/PkexVt
Sorry,couldn’t resist. ;))
feeling a little peculiar
Lazy links.CSC
Summer before last Mrs H and I had a week in Prague. Pilsner Urquell was my swally of choice.
Liked it so much that I bought a branded water jug out of a bar. It sits on my dining table now.
Managed to buy a few bottles of Pilsner Urquell in Aldi a few weeks ago.
Braw, it is braw.
When was the cup final tickets on sale announcement made?
I almost didn’t get one as it’s nearly a sell out NOW!
How does one get to know, if and when you are due a ticket?
Eurochamps67
Resolution 12: Where it currently stands.
There seems to be some idea that nothing more can be done about Res12 and that Celtic will simply say nothing at the forthcoming AGM.
It is timely therefore to remind folk who have funded the exercise since the AGM 2013 what that adjournment at the 2013 AGM meant and why if Celtic were to say nothing at the forthcoming AGM, that would be a betrayal of what we (and so the shareholders we represented) were led to understand when the adjournment (not abandonment) was accepted, along with what an adjournment meant in AGM terms.
There was some debate on CQN at the time in 2013 that might still be retrievable, but Video Celts copied the essential aspects of it which can be read at the following link for what was said in 2013 in lead up to the AGM . It contains information from BRTH from CQN who was involved in the adjournment discussions and confirms what was said to two other requistitioners on Skype by way of explanation at the time, plus a reliable witness.
http://videocelts.com/2013/11/blogs/latest-news/celtic-take-shareholders-licence-concerns-straight-to-sfa/
Our understanding from the above, then and now is that Res12 (AGM 2013) is still on the table and that it should either be passed or voted against at the forthcoming AGM given that the exercise the adjournment allowed to take place has ended because the shareholders representatives have taken it as far as we can. However that exercise has been revealing.
Celtic’s position at the 2013 AGM was that Res12 was unnecessary. The information provided by UEFA on 8th June 2016 about the new club (which is of interest to many so fill yer boots)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6uWzxhblAt9VlVMT2Q0cnFLdTQ/view?usp=sharing
contained much more relevant (in Res 12 terms) information about dates that suggests that the information given to Celtic in 2011 and later by the SFA, which led Celtic to conclude Res12 was “unnecessary” was less than candid and certainly subsequent utterances in public by Regan have been misleading.
This excludes the famous leaked 7th December 2011 e mail from Regan to RFC which explains the basis on which the SFA wanted to justify in public the granting of the UEFA licence in spring 2011. This justification (that the liability was potential at 31st March) if it is the basis on which the grant was allowed, is highly questionable and possibly involves fraud.
Consequently Res12 is anything but over, both in AGM process terms and until it can be shown without doubt the licence was granted as UEFA intended and the statements made that allowed the granting in March 2011 were true as much as the statements made afterwards by the SFA to explain the granting.
Over 100 signatories to Res12 have been given an Account of Activity on their behalf including correspondence with the SFA and UEFA as well as the Conclusions arising from the correspondence and an interesting similar case involving a Greek club whose use of private agreements as well as having an overdue payable saw a licence refused.
That Activity Account itself with links to all the correspondence can now be read at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6uWzxhblAt9aHZaQUNKajJ0c2s/view?usp=sharing
There is a lot to absorb so The Conclusions can wait a few more days to allow Celtic, who have a copy of both Timeline and Conclusions, to consider their position in terms of addressing Res12 (2013) at the forthcoming AGM in order to meet their responsibility to shareholders.
No meaning should be read into the absence of any response from the SLO, whom signatories who received the paperwork last week were advised to e mail, John Paul Taylor is only the public mail box in this case so do not expect a response from him.
To repeat: Any response has to come within the AGM framework . That was the point of using the AGM route in the first place, to make the point to the SFA that one way or another they will be held accountable.
Lets hope Celtic will reinforce this point at the AGM and afterwards, why wouldn’t they?
Scotland u-16 hammered. Future looks bleak