90 minute treble tightrope

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Did we get a fright at Inverness last week?  That’s probably overplaying it a bit, but we didn’t get our own way against a team who have already overachieved this season and are more than capable of raising their game for the big occasion.

This is a team who will have no fears of facing Celtic.  They have a manager who will arrive at Hampden tomorrow with a plan to win the game.

John Hughes will not be the only one with such a plan.  Ronny Deila knows this game is the most important on the roster between now and the end of the season.  Only a potential Scottish Cup Final would be a bigger game.  Without wanting to be disrespectful of Aberdeen’s title push, which is an arithmetical challenge only, we are two wins away from winning the treble, and Inverness are the only top flight team who are able to stop us.

It we do achieve a treble this season it will be our first in 14 years.  Martin O’Neill’s triumph in 2001 was our only one in 46 years, so we have to wait a long time for these occasions.  Unfortunately, it takes only 90 minutes to extinguish the opportunity.  A few refereeing decisions the right way and Dundee United had us in a vulnerable place in the last round.  Without absolute concentration the same could happen tomorrow and the remainder of our season would take on an exhibition-game feel.

Feeling a bit nervous now.

Keep your eye on Kris Commons, he loves Hampden.

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  1. Just fore I go, getting near 70 and don’t feel any older. Until I have to carry food bank donations from the bus park!!! :-)) Jobo will confirm. So out of breath, felt like starting the fags again. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO won’t be happening. 6 months now after 60 years of smoking. Dead chuffed. Would not say I was clean, but, hopefully on my way.

     

     

    Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar

  2. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Bournesouprecipe- any day now wee Sue Perkins will be goin’ ‘Podium?’, and demandin’ to kno what happened to the Willo Flood money.

     

     

     

    Chairbhoy- you’re not wrong.

     

     

    Like you as I get older I see the innate goodness in people [or at least the ones I agree with]

  3. bournesouprecipe

     

     

    ‘…I think of men who fought in Toryglen’…

     

     

    ermaybenotcsc

  4. long haired yins man on

    Just watched Hibs v Bairns highlights…..talk about fine margins…just hope Leigh and co have their clinical shooting boots on tomorrow…

  5. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    AYRSHIRETIM

     

     

    Ffs. I noticed it and blamed the device rather than the eejit pressing the buttons…

  6. jimmynotpaul

     

     

    You better believe it. So proud of myself, but know that the addiction can take control at any time. Must guard against that. :-)))

     

     

    Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.

  7. GlassTwoThirdsFull on

    the_huddle 19:10 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    Such a boring game at Chelsea, both teams know that Chelsea will win it 1 nil so Man U get over 70% possession in each half

     

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    Is that 140%?

  8. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Bournesouprecipe- have you seen Sue Perkins and Kevjungle in the same room?

  9. Evening Timland from a warm hun free mountain valley.

     

     

    When I were a young fella many, many moons ago, I never heard my Da saying a bad word against hardly anyone, apart for two who have been a topic on here tonight, Jack Glass and Paisley, smart cookie was my Da, IMO.

     

    And he wasn’t a Catholic.

     

     

    HH

  10. GlassTwoThirdsFull

     

     

    20:44 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    the_huddle 19:10 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    Such a boring game at Chelsea, both teams know that Chelsea will win it 1 nil so Man U get over 70% possession in each half

     

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    Is that 140%?

     

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    200% in total yep, or 70% each half :O)

  11. Stringer Bell on

    This is from the Scotsman, comments section.

     

     

    It’s about MharinBlavk – an SNP candidate in the forthcoming GE. she is standing against Douglas Alexander.

     

     

    Anyone know if these comments are for real (The anti Celtic ones)

     

     

     

    ” Black, 20, who hopes to unseat Douglas Alexander said, “I’ve only just realised – I really f***** hate Celtic” and “Celtic, yer a joke!#scum”

     

    The putative MP for binge drinking said, “Smirnoff Ice is the drink of the gods – I cannae handle this c*** man.”

     

    And how she finances her binge drinking, “Woke up beside half a can of Tennents and a full pizza and more money than I came out with. I call that a success!”

  12. Weefra

     

     

    If you’re clran then you’re deffo shiny!

     

    I can see the glow from dunblane – the Weefra borealis!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  13. stringer bell

     

     

    20:49 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    Well it’s a fiscal policy…..of sorts!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  14. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    DBBIA,

     

     

    I never met either of the two men under discussion, but if I had, then I, too may have been charmed and impressed by their respective personalities.

     

     

    However, by our deeds are we known and those two festered a lot of sectarian hatred within their communities, which resulted in a lot of people being hurt.

     

     

    That they did this not out of conviction, but out of personal advancement within those communities, somewhat dilutes what little bit of Christian charity that I possess.

  15. TET

     

     

    My Dad too!

     

     

    Big guy. Long arms. So ended up in High & Mighty suit shop to get one to fit.

     

     

    Assistant started boasting they’d had Ian Paisley in the week before. My Faither told him one more word about that man and he’d lose the sale!

     

     

    I love ma Da!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  16. chairbhoy

     

     

    20:35 on 18 April, 2015

     

    Slickest of nutmegs, blink and you miss it.

     

     

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tp48V-HoRp8

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

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    I never tire seeing the goal, the joy of the ball boys and then the sheer ecstasy in the crowd.

     

    Goal of the last decade.

  17. saltires en sevilla on

    Glad it’s Falkirk in the final – not assuming anything – if and when we get there.

     

     

    Just love thrashing them wee sticky buns.

     

     

    I’m amused at the reincarnation of oul’ shredded wheat heid McPherson, as a friend of Celts.

     

     

    A far better commentator and journalist than anything doing the rounds these days

     

     

    Decent enough guy. He was never as bad as Alex Cameron, but a friend of Celts…

     

     

    No chance.

     

     

    Would happily have a few jars with him, no probs. suppose he must have an unplumbed depth of good chat about Fitba in Scotia

     

     

    Sticky bun all day long!

  18. chairbhoy

     

     

    20:35 on 18 April, 2015

     

    Slickest of nutmegs, blink and you miss it.

     

     

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tp48V-HoRp8

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

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    Aaaah my dear Fhriend. That’s a post that even Roy Croppie would be proud of!!!!!

     

     

    My favourite goal of all time.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THOMTHETHIM

     

     

    That they progressed themselves via a professed Christianity should not deter you from Christianity itself.

     

     

    Nor of course should it be relevant,since your beliefs are your own.

     

     

    I reckon your beliefs have caused no harm to others-the men of the cloth,Glass and Paisley,may not be so sure of their ground on that one.

  20. saltires en sevilla on

    bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers

     

     

    20:02 on 18 April, 2015

     

    DONTBRATTBACKINANGER

     

     

    I never once believed that Pastor Jack was inherently evil,as I have said. His preaching of intolerance towards Catholicism had certain outcomes which were inevitable,zig not planned.

     

     

    The religious divide was his raisin d’être. His pay packet.

     

     

    As for heroes with feet of clay,we all have them. And in the areas which matter most to us. Whether it be football,music,literature. Even family.

     

     

    We can love yet criticise. In all the aspects I mentioned above.

     

     

    I doubt Pastor Jack once read a sermon of love. No harm to his memory by that comment.

     

     

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    Hope you are well mate

     

     

    Next time I we you remind me to share a wee story about the pastor as described by an ex – view journalist

     

     

    Would confirm your own View perfectly.

     

     

    HH

  21. jamesgang

     

     

    Missed you big time on Wednesday. Thank you so much for your support on my fight against a terrible addiction. Hopefully I have put it behind me, for the duration, onwards and beyond, as they say. Dead chuffed csc.

     

     

    Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.

  22. gg and chairbhoy

     

     

    The thing i loved about that goal was that Henrik knew he was on a completely different level from them and instead of doing the safe/percentage game thing he went for them and let them know what he could do to them.

     

     

    Just how demoralising would that be to have someone that knew they could do that to you, doing it to you, when you knew they could do it but still couldn’t stop him?

     

     

    It was a Mental goal :)

  23. GlassTwoThirdsFull

     

     

    21:06 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    the_huddle

     

    Just goes to show how over-rated possession is, eh? :-)

     

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    Yep, though I’d rather follow a team that craved possession of ball than didnt. The game is supposed to be about entertainment and teams like Chelsea are destroying that.

  24. jamesgang

     

     

    Aye, if it wisny for my Da I wouldn’t be half the man I am today, taught me well, was never a footy man, told me that supporting Celtic would give me grief over the years, didn’t have a clue what he meant at the time, but he did :)

     

     

    HH

  25. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    ‘GG

     

     

    That made it 4-1.

     

     

    I’d have settled for that. I watched it in the Orange Club in Kilwinning,and I reckoned anymore goals I would have to be on my toes.

     

     

    As it turns out,I was right. On my toes celebrating.

     

     

    Surprisingly tolerant lot that day…

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