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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BMCUW
I’ve just left Bristol and am heading back to London.
Was down for a gig last night of an ex Beltast bhoy who was playing in Arnos Grove cemetery, which has a fantastic headstone of a guy who died of flu just after WW 1, and it had us laughing our heads off.
The inscription read
We whacked the Huns
Robinbhoy, JJ
Whenever (rarely) I had cause to write it down, I used “mollocate”.
The word itself comes from the playground of my childhood, the mass 10-21ers and subsequent chants of “what a mollocation” from one side as it became apparent that the other mob were hopelessly under-equipped to deal with the high pressing game played by all 6 of our moochers.
Peculiarly, despite it being part of the scholastic lexicon in the 60s and 70s, it seems only since the 90s that the word and its derivatives have been used in published work.
Checking the Scots Language dictionary (1700 onwards), they offer a number of alternative spellings:
MOLOCATE, v. also molecate, mollicate, mollocate, malacate. To beat up, batter
Robinbhoy appears to have spoonered a new spelling with Maullicate. Bunnet doffed.
CQN: Supporting Morphophonemics since 2004
Faith of our fathers getting belted out as we left church
Nothing better for getting you ready for a game
C’mon the hoops
LG has to start after Wednesday,he will also move the CBs about,and create space for others.
Terrible tragedy playing out again in the Mediterranean. Hundreds of people feared dead as another boat capsizes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32371348
HAMILTONTIM
Dreadful abdication of responsibility. Shameful,in fact.
Traffic update .. The road from the motorway through cambuslang and rutherglen to hampden – choked up and traffic crawling
Doors to manual.
Celtic (at minus 2) 14/5.
Enjoy the ride.
Offtae work.
Enjoy your day troops. This is it. Don’t be shy all you sweetie wrapper rustlers. Give it laldy.
T-REBEL CSC
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 5s5 seconds ago
Celtic starting XI: Gordon; Matthews, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Commons, Johansen, Forrest; Griffiths
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 12s12 seconds ago
Subs: Zaluska, Ambrose, Guidetti, Scepovic, Tonev, McGregor, Tierney
Celtic starting XI: Gordon; Matthews, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Commons, Johansen, Forrest; Griffiths.
Sorry embra didn’t see your post -)
Team predictable but bench is interesting
Either way enough to beat the ICT farmers !!
HH
COYBIG. Glad to see, correctly, that Griffiths starts. I think that Bhoy likes scoring at Hampden just like KC.
No talk of trebles from me until after today!
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
Early goal is key today imho, could end up 4-0.
Cant see the hammer throwers scoring at all.
Off to Rosie’s shortly. Proudbhoy, I,ll be the one wearing one of TET’s famous Celtic belts if you are in to watch the game, I’d love to buy you some beer.
Hail Hail the Celts are here.
ACEILERGONOFRUST
At those prices,just show him a photograph.
Just another day – way down south.
Hundreds rescued from the sea.Tens of people ( men / women /children ) drowned and floating about in the sea.
Fighting( and arrests) outside a Montakbano land cathedral between Eritreans and Gypsies. Violence was caused by the Gypsies objecting to the Eritreans begging on their patch.Local media reporting that all of the Eritreans have scabies and 2 of them have viral pneumonia.Those things are picked up in hell hole holding camps in Libya prior to making the crossing.
Warm and sunny – way down soutb.
BobM, aye good idea, but 7.50 for the black gold isny bad.
HH bruv
Our God Reigns belted out as I was leaving Mass, heading to Kilkenny for Naional League Hurling Semis, planning to catch game in Pub.
Cork game starting at 2pm so hoping that we are 4 or 5 up with 20 minutes to go, or else I’m in a no win situation.
Anyway best of luck to all Bhoys travelling to Hampden, just win Celtic, please.
One more thing – Local plod investigating claims frim a dinghy load of people from Ghana that some people on their dinghy were thrown into the sea by the armed people smugglers in charge of their dinghy.
ACEILERGONOFRUST
Much better than you were paying earlier.
Happy with that team.
The size and condition of the pitch will make this a very different game from last week’s at Inverness.
We should have too much skill and class for Inverness today.
Still feeling nervous but expecting a comfortable win by 2 or 3.
For the lads today, a practice for Dublin next year.
https://youtu.be/2ZDhnRo8YvQ
Hail Hail
Clogher
Hi,
u arseholes…..been dipping in & out all week…..CQN is becoming a parody of a dysfunctional family…..if you want politics fuk off, if you want religion fuk off, if you don’t agree with what I’m saying fuk off ( c wat i did there )
I was attracted to this site for 1 reason alone….that being CELTIC…..admittedly, my knowledge of CELTICs history is lacking…..but we’re on the brink of something special…..my team for today is…..
……………………….GORDON………………………..
Mathews…….Denayer…….Van Dyke……..Izzy
…………………..Broony…….Bitton…………………
Forrest……………….Commons………………Stokes
…………………………..The Griffter……………………..
Ooh ah up the Ra, sed Ooh ah up the Ra
Hail Hail
CaC
YNWA
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