Games come thick and fast when you remain in all competitions in late October. The Allianz Arena got your heart beating on Wednesday, but much more is on the line at Hampden Park tomorrow: the first trophy of the season.
While our unbeaten domestic run goes on the line every game we play in Scotland, I wish we were not facing an occasion as important as a cup semi-final immediately after such a huge Champions League occasion. The timing of this game contributes towards Hibernian’s chances of success.
Neil Lennon’s Hibs have already won at Ibrox and drawn at Celtic Park this season. They genuinely have no fears about making the trip along the M8 to face Celtic at the national stadium. While Celtic players were draining every muscle of energy on Wednesday, Hibs players were resting in front of the television. They would have been tucked up in bed before Scott Brown and his team-mates got to Munich Airport and have enjoyed the benefit of a week’s uninterrupted training.
For Brendan Rodgers, the challenge is to pick a team with sufficient energy and ability to ensure a cup final appearance next month. He is able to make changes, which I expect to happen.
Moussa Dembele and Tom Rogic should start. Callum McGregor enjoys the Hamden stage and I would give him the nod ahead of Olivier Ntcham or Stuart Armstrong in the central mid berth, although Brendan will think otherwise.
We are the champions and treble winners for a reason: that we have unerringly raised our standards to meet every challenge presented. Tomorrow is another occasion when our deep reserved will be called upon.
Enjoy your day at Hampden.
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gotta tell you this guys. bloke came into our shop this morning asking could he put a poster in our window. this is what it said. grand provincial orange lodge liverpool commemorating 500 years of the protestant reformation all welcome festivities bonfire and parade st georges church.no i said we dont allow sectarian posters in this shop its not sectarian he said its a religious sevice. where i come from mate thats sectarian. then he noticed the print of the pope ive got on the wall he quickly made a swift exit.
Greenpinta
i regularly make stuff up about Hiedi so guess again
#No1Klummer
Some of the comments about Jozo are a bit over the top. Yes, he has had a fair few injuries. Does this mean he will always have them?
Remember Lustig three or four years ago – seemed to miss as many games as he played. Hasn’t missed too many in the last couple of years.
We didn’t play badly intentionally, they were too good for us & made us look poor.
We did play some loose passes & kicked a few aimless balls, that happens when you are under pressure.
It wasn’t all doom & gloom we created about 4 or 5 good opportunities.
We had what looked like a good goal chalked off, their Keeper touched a cracker from KT on to the post & out for a corner which we didn’t get, Forrest had a good run & shot which Keeper saved & there were a few more decent forays forward which were snuffed out, and yes of course they could also easily taken another 3 or 4 off us.
I’m not chuffed by the display or the result but it wasn’t humiliating or abject as some on here would have us believe.
As far as I’m concerned it’s past tense & the only game that matters right now is the Cup Semi against Hibs.
QUONNO on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 4:01 PM
TONTINE TIM on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 3:57 PM
TIMHORTON on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 3:21 PM
jock parked the bus.
*once and allegedly regretted it.
I cannot imagine that he regretted it at full time in Lisbon.
*naw me neither, i didnae regret he did it in Prague, MTK was only a couple of years before.
i have asked this before but no update , do we employ a full-time experienced dedicated defensive coach ?
Good Evening CQN
Just looking for anymore recommendations for watching the game tomorrow in Belfast City Centre for a good friend.
Cheers Masty for recommendation. Will pass that on with any others received
HH
CRC
Thanks for the replies re the away goal rule.
Meanwhile straight from FF to the Evening Times.
CELTIC IN MUNICH,
RUBBISH REPORTING FROM THE EVENING TIMES…
http://www.scotzine.com/2017/10/celtic-in-munich-rubbish-reporting-from-the-evening-times/
Would youze awe stomp worrying.
At least we’ll be in the you rope a dope league. Better than nuthin. PPV vs cable repeats. Couldn’t be better.
Great few days apart from the result (and that unfortunately is the primary reason for the travel). Have a look at the last 10 home Champions league results for Bayern. That should put our 3-0.loss into some sort of perspective.
HH Lets do the Hibbees amarach
Stomp= stoap
Over in Germany I saw the very best of the Celtic fans. I also heard one of the worst songs that has ever been sung by sections of our support. It’s the one about an obscure member of the Sevco backroom team. It expresses the wish that he die.
I’ll be honest, until someone drew my attention to the existence of said song a few months ago I had no idea whether he was alive or had died already. Nor did I care either way. Indeed, I’ve spent more time thinking about this guy’s existential status in the last few days than I would have given him, ever, otherwise.
That song is a sewer dredging dirge.
It is horrible. It is intellectually stunted. It is juvenile.
It is the kind of stuff the other lot sing.
It has no place in the lives of the best fans in the world, which we are, as this trip made abundantly clear to me.
Now it has to be said that the number of our fans who sing this is very small.
Whenever a group of eejits tried they quickly found that stony silence from their fellow supporters is what greeted it, when it wasn’t responded to with outright hostility. It is not popular, nor should it be. Those who sing it, I don’t know what goes through their minds as they do it … nothing good, that’s for sure.
That song debases them and they ought to be able to see it.
The song is about a kit-man for god’s sake.
I might write a lot about their club – they are a hilarious, basket case organisation that I find endlessly fascinating and I love poking them with a sharp stick – but I don’t spend a second of my time thinking about someone in his post.
Who is Celtic’s kit man?
One of the guys online told me it’s John Clark; with all respect to the great man I didn’t know that.
I wonder how many people do?
This guy, he didn’t do the round of applause for Jinky. That’s the rationale behind this song, behind this ridiculous, gutter level piece of shit. He claims he observed a minute’s silence instead. Do I believe that? I honestly couldn’t give a damn. The kind of low-life who would stand there smirking and ignoring a moment’s respect for such a sublime man … is that someone who I should spend a second of my life thinking about?
Of course not.
I know about the Le Petit Merde kit-story, that he refused to lay out his gear; once again, I don’t give a toss.
The player in question knew what club he was joining. On his own head be it, now and forever. I don’t think you can hold it against a bigot for acting like a bigot any more than you can hold it against a scorpion for using its sting.
When that song was being sung over in Germany, the locals weren’t bothered about it. They didn’t get it. Yet even the yahoos who sung it were exceptionally well behaved in every other way; that’s what makes it especially hard to understand.
How did something that toxic get into our song-book in the first place?
Those supporters were brilliant over there; I said to my old man after the umpteenth time of hearing it that it was remarkable that the fans who it dawned on to sing something so spectacularly horrible would never, for a minute, have thought about insulting our hosts with a chorus of some Brexiteer chart-topper.
We are better than that.
So why the need for this?
Let me tell you what I do know about the subject of this song; he can’t stand us.
He comes from a mind-set that thinks we’re all sub-human scumbags.
All this song does is reinforces that view.
And it makes him a star.
Think he cries when he hears about that being sung?
He must love it.
The morons who sing it are doing him a favour, and embarrassing the rest of us.
Our fans are up to the task of self-policing this kind of garbage; I did it myself over in Munich, although I’m in no mood to share the details. They are unimportant. But there’s rarely been a song so in need of being weeded out of our fan base.
It is bigoted. It is vile. It is sub-human. And the guy in question doesn’t deserve the recognition it gives him.
He washes their socks, right?
We’re not talking about a guy of the slightest significance here.
He’s a nobody this song has temporarily made a somebody.
Let him fall back into obscurity; that’s what he really deserves, after all.
This article has been amended; the minute’s applause was for Jimmy Johnstone, and not Tommy Burns.
BTW – I should have made it clear that the article I put up was a cut and paste job!
Freedom of speech means it’s ok to sing the famine song.
SCULLYBHOY on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:08 PM
Someone who didn’t know The Brush was Celtic’s kitman, and doesn’t know he had retired a couple of seasons ago?
I’d hazard a guess that those signing the song would have known.
So Celtic received £28,427,613 from UEFA for last year’s Champions League.
Add gate money, hospitality, merchandising etc., and it was worth the occasional defeat.
EMBRAMIKE SAYS ” YER TEAM’S DEID…BEAT IT!” on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:13 PM
Agreed!
Us shareholders cashed in big time.
MADMITCH on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 4:30 PM*
I (genuinely) thoroughly enjoyed that reply, sir!
*renews bucketlist pledge of buying MM a pint.
If you ask me us Celtic supporters have always had a soft spot for Heidi Kum.
Ron67@5:00.
John Kennedy is the defensive coach.
He might be helped now with Kolo Toure.
But I don’t know if Kolo has gone to coach the Ivory Coast team ,
If it’s full time or part time?
Re the ET and the Sun running the story about the litter left in the square in Munich .
This should leave no Celtic fan in any doubt as to how low the MSM in this country will stoop to show Glasgow Celtic in a NEGATIVE light .
Is this what paying a piss poor PR company thousands of pounds gets you ,drivel that fools no one to put down a rival who are miles ahead of you both on and off the pitch .Make no mistake here that is exactly where this crass story will have been pushed from .
To any lurking zombies
WE CAN FEEL YOUR PAIN
HH
Look virtually all of the SMSM are of the ipox leaning persuasion. If they were not they might have got involved in some journalism over this past 20 years. It’s not as if there were no stories to be investigated.
That kind of tells you all you need to know. They are written and produced for a particular demographic so don’t buy, read, watch or click on their links.
Don’t feed those whose primary function is to demean our clubs/supports achievements in the present while hankering after “the good old days” when Timmy knew his or her place and the Bearmacht cheated their way to their tainted titles/Cups.
Could never understand how Celtic and Celtic supporters give them the time of day.
Ban them. Freedom of speech my arse. Why provide them with a platform to abuse us. If we are goingto act like carpets then we have to expect to be walked on.
HH
Litterrally speaking you shouldn’t listen to anything the Sun or ET says. Stoap buying them.
NEWRADBHOY
Kolo was with the squad in Munich ,so presumably was working. It’s naive to think that the defensive flaws the punter in the stands can see are not apparent to experienced defenders/coaches like Kolo and John Kennedy.
I can only assume that our defenders were unable to do what was expected of them under pressure. Not helped by injuries obviously.
CRC
Worth the price of a taxi out of the Centre and into the West…For a convivial atmosphere ….Felons/ Devenish Arms
HH
tontinetim
got us to the final, rest is history.
I,m sure wee tinkle chucked washing the kit over in the big hoose (maybe he couldn,t get the kit in the machine for all the cash that was in them (allegedly)
Anyway I think he left to drive the fan dabby dozzy bus but then that got burnt oot .
Think he gets paid now to sit in the dug oot looking pig sick as he is surrounded with RC players and put jackets on the subbed players as they come off .
I am sure I heard he was on crazy money and that was only a few years back .
His boy washes the kit now ,take it he’s not as bothered as his auld da as to players religions
HH
When the Bayern hordes leave Glasgow ,our binmen ( To the most PC amongst us binpersons) will get justified OT. Our retailers and publicians will be singing ching ching.
Everyone a winner , providing Celtic consult the mind God’s/ goddesses and give us a result that can unify all sections of CQN, Including the kindergartens.
HH.
another point, i dont think we have the players to park the bus, if you look at our bench nearly all forward going players.
SIN CITY BHOY on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 3:38 PM
I would say that the team is crying out for a Bertie Auld in the engine room, however.
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I give you………….Eboue Kouassi 88
HH
NEWRADBHOY on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:22 PM
Thanks
hh
Bhoys and Ghirls,
It’s been a pleasure today. Topical debate mixed with humour and no animosity.
I only wish our lapsed or flounced posters would reconsider and that our host would see fit to re-admit those of us who have sinned.
HH and COYBIG.
GEAROID1998 / CELTARELLA
Don’t get me wrong bhoys , I don’t buy papers ,have not bought one in years
You are of course correct regarding them totally failing to report properly on the biggest scandal in Scottish football history .
the thing I am getting at, is they are actively looking to smear our club and support .
I know they have done this for a while but usually they keep the negative story for when they are forced to report one about the clubs playing out of Ibrokes .
HH
TIMHORTON on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:40 PM
tontinetim
got us to the final, rest is history.
*absolutely
Anyway, I’m signing off. Last thought to leave with you on a Friday. 2 years ago we had a wee guy, John O’Byrne, speak at the golf day about his Foundation. He’s currently applying to make it a charity. He basically tries to fulfil wishes of sick kids.
Here is his facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007440166157
He’s a wee Celtic fan, I noticed today he’s made a wee bluenose’s dream come true with a visit to see his Ibrox idols.
Scroll through the timeline and the photos. John is the wee guy in the wheelchair. Utterly humbling.
Hail Hail!
I won’t bother replying to multi-monikered trolls addressing me directly, but I will respond to those comparing Celtic’s dominance over other Scottish teams to that of the rich list’s dominance over us—–> you’re joking right?
Irrespective of your views of the suits in the boardroom, Celtic have got to our position of domestic financial clout domestically through our global support, maximizing resources, financial prudence and open books. The odd punter that showed up in our history in a time of need to sink a million quid of his own cash in the bank didn’t do any harm either. All these factors can hardly be held against us when all the whole we PAYED OUR TAXES.
As to not competing with smaller teams enjoying media sponsorship beyond their wildest dreams, the flourish of a cheque book, or a multi billionaire’s ego, we had better get used to it as ever leaner times beckon on the horizon for those not slurping at the trough.
Allowing a young, ambitious manager time to build a team in some way emulating modern day football philosophy will cope with the disparity in income.
NEIL LENNON & MCCARTNEY on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:52 PM
SIN CITY BHOY on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 3:38 PM
I would say that the team is crying out for a Bertie Auld in the engine room, however.
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I give you………….Eboue Kouassi 88
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Maybe what’s needed is Bertie to pull on his boots for a few sessions of coaching in the “dark arts”?
:-)
HH
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 20TH OCTOBER 2017 5:30 PM
NEWRADBHOY
It’s naive to think that the defensive flaws the punter in the stands can see are not apparent to experienced defenders/coaches like Kolo and John Kennedy.
I can only assume that our defenders were unable to do what was expected of them under pressure. Not helped by injuries obviously.
is it a player ‘ability’ issue or defensive coaches not up to it?