I remember a situation several years ago when we had five full backs and converted-full backs out injured at the same time. The injured count for central defenders is not currently as high but the situation is just as critical.
Erik Sviatchenko joins Jozo Simunovic, Dedryck Boyata and Kristoffer Ajer on the injured list. Kolo Toure is certain to be added to the Uefa squad before tonight’s deadline but will be pushed to be match fit for next week.
Fortunately, the man who has spent more time injured over the last two seasons than anyone else, Mikael Lustig, is fit and able to move from full back into the middle, with Saidy Janko able to deputise on the right.
More words have been written about Efe Ambrose than any other Celtic player this month. It’s quite possible he’ll move on towards the end of the transfer window but he’s set to be given an opportunity to make good his error in Gibraltar by leading an unfamiliar defensive line-up in Astana tomorrow.
If I had a choice, I would prefer Celtic in adversity than Celtic over-confident. We know we will have to protect the defence tomorrow so the match plan should be straightforward.
Astana are not without their concerns either. Kazak media are concerned Astana are weaker than a year ago, due to the departure of Georgi Zhukov the likely absence of captain and top scorer, Tanant Nuserbayev, added to the turmoil at the club this week, caused by Lyon’s bid for midfielder, Nemanja Maksimovic. They will battle tomorrow, but their preparations are far from ideal.
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Has PL moved to M.Utd? They seem to be taking a very long time to sign up Pogba, surely one phone call settles it one way or the other?
Bmcuw – that is great news for inward investment in sure we’ll be told! Low wage economy. Job insecurity. Political chaos. The great upward redistribution of wealth continues apace!
Good morning CQN
Will we have too many Centre backs available next week
Kolo Toure has been registered by @celticfc with UEFA and therefore will eligible to play in next week’s return leg against Astana.
BLANTRYRETIM
Please pass on my regards to all three.
HH
ROBERTTRESSELL
Oh,aye. They’ll spin that for all their worth.
Swindon has been hit hard by the exponential use of agencies. In 2002,the local paper had a 48-page jobs pullout every week. It fits inside one page now.
Then,a security guard at WH Smiths HQ was on £22k,a warehouse worker started at £10 per hour. If you worked in a certain generic pharmaceuticals firm,about £14 per hour.
All agency staff now. All minimum wage. And I’m not making that up.
Robert Tressell. My thoughts exactly re Daily Rectum. I’d never buy it and probably shouldn’t even give it a hit online.
ROBERTTRESSELL BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Sovereignty? This government will sell us to the highest bidder
George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/sovereignty-corporations-liam-fox-eu?CMP=twt_gu
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 27TH JULY 2016 9:12 AM
Actually that’s more to do with people looking online for work, agencies or otherwise. This directly related to my work. Getting jobs advertised online and in print.
WEEMINGER
My point is that few companies bother hiring directly now,particularly at unskilled/semi-skilled level.
Perfectly happy to farm out the responsibility to an agency instead of using their own HR-if they still have one!
Savings made on management time,admin,holiday pay,pensions,the lot.
They can dress it how they like,but it’s a disgrace.
On top of that,if you decide to sue for Unfair Dismissal-if you have a contract in the first place,of course-you have to cough up £1200+ at the starting gate.
No,sorry bud. It’s a shocking state of affairs.
Heathrow Express. Confidence high.
Lions roar – one of my favourite writers. The lack of popular revolt is as frustrating as it is baffling!
And Liam fox – what we used to be allowed to call a ‘class traitor’. But along with ‘scab’ it’s probably covered by some ‘offensive behaviour’ or trade union bill!
He is one though. Traitor that is. I don’t know if he’s ever scabbed but I’m sure he would approve of it. so he is a scab enabler!
Days like this I miss Philvis!
ROBERTTRESSELL on 27TH JULY 2016 9:36 AM
Lions roar – one of my favourite writers. The lack of popular revolt is as frustrating as it is baffling!
Brexit voters stuck it to the establishment ? you really can fool popular voters all of the time
Morning Bhoys has Paul67 sold the blog to FOXYS music blog ? reading about Kenny Misser he is still in great shape for his age and he works his socks off every game I think we blundered selling him.Well it is big game day and I think we will be tested but I am optamistic that we can get a result as long as Brendan can get in to the players minds that they are no longer European soft touches mind you why im so confident after the away match against the Imps Im not sure . H.H.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 27TH JULY 2016 9:24 AM
I definitely agree with you on the £1200 fee. That’s scandalous.
Our jobs are almost evenly split between agency advertised or directly advertised. Bear in mind that agencies are increasingly used to recruit permanent full time staff by SMEs. So it’s not quite as doom and gloom as you think.
Anyway enjoy your day, about an hour until my nerves will start jangling.
Good luck to the Celts today, hope we come back with something better than 0-3. Missing out on the game with hospital stuff but already looking forward to next Wednesday night.
Foxy served us great stuff from Frankie Miller and Rory Gallagher during the night. Has Scotland had a better singing bag-piper than Dan McCafferty? This’ll waken the neighbours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0BStsIQlg
The differences between employee, worker and self employed = varying decreasing levels of how much you can defend yourself against attacks on your rights by whoever is paying the wages from money that we made for them.
Risk takers? Bollox. Safety nets all round for the monied classes.
anyway, as a wiser man said once – the point is to change things.
Aff oot!
Kenny Miller
The Wee mhan is 11 so has no real knowledge of him (I don’t spend any time watching him on YouTube!)
So at the start of the cup semi final debacle I told him we had to watch out for him. A guy who had quietly gone about earning millions by having an instinct for bring in the right place and shooting instinctively.
Sometimes it’s sh1te being right…..and so it transpired.
Also worth noting subsequent tweet by Stokes after the final thanking him for coming into the Hibs changing room and personally congratulated every Hibs player.
Both of these are instructive for me.
HH jamesgang
Re The posts earlier about the DR bumming up Sevco and undermining Celtic.
I expect that from a Scottish rag but the BBC is supposed to be impartial.
I have not been selective but look at these key words and expressions in giving the desired message:
A) ` cruised` ; `outclassed ( the opposition`; `have yet to concede a goal` ; `controlled the game while operating at a low tempo`; ` dictating the pace and range`; ` grew in prominence`; continued to spray passes`.
The following words were all used to describe one player: `quick`; `elusive`; and he`glided with impudence and menace`.
All of the above were taken from Sevco`z latest game against third tier opposition.
B) `crisis`; `injured list`; ` opponents are top of their domestic League `; `much criticised ( Efe) ` ` whose total first team experience consists of eight matches`.( I don`t know if Sevco`s Rossiter has had any first team matches but his inexperience was ignored when he was mentioned as returning from the England camp for his first outing with Sevco.).
The above were taken from an article on Celtic`s upcoming Champions League qualifier.
Reporting such as the above is one of the reasons I am so against negativity ( even when I agree with the criticism) on here.
JJ
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 27TH JULY 2016 9:24 AM
One last point on this before I go, and it’s not directly related.
The unions, in my recent experience, are no longer there to protect workers rights. My family has had direct dealings with Unison recently and at every turn it was clear that the decisions and advice were made in order to make life for East Dunbartonshire Council as easy as possible. Not help the workers.
“No compulsory redundancies” sounds great until you realise it means workers being moved into unsuitable ‘displaced’ positions until they reach the point where they resign.
WEEMINGER
That should be covered by Constructive Dismissal. It certainly was at one time.
Anyway,thanks for the blether. You’ll gather certain things really piss me off!!!
HH.
Where’s Jobo ???
CelticFC SLO @CelticFCSLO 3h3 hours ago
Much cooler in Astana today with quite a bit of rain, a bit more like what we’re used to
Love the T Shirt sale on the right hand side of this post but like my post this morning it may get Vetoed, CQN North Korean CSC.
http://celtsarehere.com/celtic-register-toure-for-champions-league/
Anyone know of any pubs in City Centre showing the game today? Merrchant City area preferred. Cheers.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 27TH JULY 2016 9:58 AM
You’d think, and obviously it’s a bit more complicated than I’ve laid out, and that’s how CD is avoided.
Only 5 hours till kick off!
Morning all.
On this day in 1971, Celtic legend Charlie Tully passed away in his native Belfast.
Gone but never forgotten.
HH!!
LIONROARS
Thanks for the link earlier,mate. I nearly forgot about it-too busy on a rant!
Fox should have stuck to his old job,he might have s different opinion about the NHS,for instance.
Still,I suppose we have the NHS to blame for how he turned out. Eejit was clearly dropped on his head as a baby…
RED TELEPHONE
A coupla the lads are in The Admiral,nearer Charing X though.
Summer book club
Not a new book (I’m a knock-down price book buyer) but my favourite read this year, Sunnyside by Glen David Gold.
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Neptune’s daughter, the Great War, Russian Revolution, birth of a Nation. Is history a tragedy or a comedy?
It’s the tragedy of it all that makes you laugh out loud.
TALLYBHOY
My Dad’s all-time hero!
Still in Scotland?
Two activities which offer equal and immediate swings of pleasure and frustration to me are golf and watching Celtic. I am off to play the former now and will return to watch the latter later !
Cheerio for now,
JJ
BMCUW
Aye, still here.
HH!!
Whatever 11 Brendan picks i will be right behind,
Fancy we will take a draw today hopefully a score draw.
“Scottbrownsbhoys”CSC
Ohhhhh and good morning all
Guyfawkesaforeverhero
Quality wee bit o Naxareth there.they done some great work in 70s
Ta for that
BMCuW
Re your Swindon wagw chat and agencies.you can bet your bottom dollar the agency is highly profitable..
The pattern here Iis the race to the bottom in pay, non existent health and safety and a management attitude which asserts the right of you as an individual to have no rights!!
Meantime feral capitalists like mike ashley time woman givin birth (I know, I know) and philip green follows the div the ayrshir spiv murray model and uses a knighthood to shite on people.
Mornin rant over.
P.s top podium yesterday
.
HH
TALLYBHOY
Call you in a mo. Bar first!
Scullyboy (9.01am), have you read the Paul Pogba entry on Wikipedia? He and his agent sound like right chancers. And, in any case, why would Man Utd want to spend £100M on a player that they released for nothing a few years back? He doesn’t look to me like the best player in the world, and his career stats don’t seem to suggest that either.
£100M for a decent but not really outstanding midfielder is nothing short of offensive money. What chance have we of competing at the top table if the teams already thereabouts are considering paying weekly “wages” at a level where we are pitching our transfer fee offers for potential signings?!
AN TEARMANN
We sing from the same hymn sheet more often than not,mate.
Yesterday,I spoke to my mate whose grandchild I mentioned in that podium. The family are immensely grateful for everyone’s thoughts and prayers.
Wee Dawson is in good hands,experienced hands. He has a fight in front of him,but he has good cornermen!