John Guidetti has put himself out there by letting us know he’ll score a hat-trick in next month’s League Cup semi-final. I’m not normally an advocate of showing confidence, if not contempt, for opponents prior to a game, but Guidetti’s comments come against a rich canvas.
The player is in a rut and will be feeling the weight of disappointment with each passing chance. He is a goal-scorer, he’ll score again, but he needs to find the spark to fire-up the second part of his season.
You will remember Kenny Miller ran his guts out in his early months as a Celtic player but it was not until a game against oldco Rangers in September that his landmark first Celtic goal arrived. Kris Commons has been a scoring sensation throughout his time at the club apart from his second season, when he took until April before scoring, a delightful chip over the oldco keeper.
Ahead of both of those games I knew it was all going to come together for Miller and Commons. John Guidetti has set himself a target. He will probably score before that game but he knows how important it is to perform at Hampden. He is good enough to deliver on this one, don’t bet against him.
Contrast John’s comments to those last week from newco defender, Steven Smith, who said, “The fans will probably be dreading [the Celtic game]because in the big games this season, we haven’t done well. Everybody has got their opinions and are entitled to them.
“But with the results we have been having and the way we have been playing, I don’t think we can think about it too much.”
You will be hard pushed to find a clearer example of the language of failure: “dreading”, “haven’t done well” and “the way we’ve been playing”. You normally need to work a bit to find a player’s insecurities. It’s good of John Guidetti to mark his card on what to expect. Give me a confident striker over a scared defender any day.
The Second Annual Celtic Supporter’s Féile is on the weekend of Friday 30 January 30 – Sunday 1 February in Philadelphia. The events include live music each day, the US premier of The Asterisk Years, with a Q&A with Paul Larkin and Graham Wilson of Beyond the Waves podcast, as well as live coverage of our first ever meeting with newco Rangers in the League Cup semi-final.
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67Heaven
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Is yer hero – Phil Mac’s name going on the ‘statement’ or, is going off oot afore he’s asked?
TET
All the best to you and your good lady.
Res 12 a place in history :oD))))
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0000000000000.03%.. is the New 0.03%..;-)
Summa of StatManKevCSC
This is murder…….
bed time Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
CHALLENGE THE LIE
Your light isn’t shining too bright this morning, is it …methinks though dost protest too much ……off oot to rm, and have a wee chat with your like-minded friends ……. :)
CultsBhoy
09:54 on
13 January, 2015
“I’m 47 years old – the only opinion I really take account of is my own.”
Fair enough but it does beg the question: From where do you get your `own` opinion?
JJ
DrCults,
My toes have swollen up, should I be asking your opinion ?
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY Birthday
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Cultsbhoy
The main reason I contributed to the statement to appear in The Sunday Herald, was in the hope that it may change the perception of Scottish football supporters who ‘perpetuate the myth’. That includes some in our own support.I know the closed sevco minds will never change.
Kevj,
All these great ideas you have come up with, like writing to the board, can I ask what replies you’ve had to the many letters you must have written by now ?
Kev Jungle
Something that I have occasionally considered. Why is it that you are able to see through the sham of Celtic`s ` real` policy so much more clearly than anyone else? Assuming, of course, that your view is accurate.
JJ
Fav Uncle
Many happy returns to you sir.
Leftie
Brilliant post from you last night, kinda sums you up my friend.
67heaven … i am neil lennon ….the angels are with wee oscar in heaven.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
10:21 on 13 January, 2015
Thanks for the reply mate .
Happy Birthday to Favourite Uncle. A pity I cannot get Carol Robertson to come and visit you and ensure a really happy birthday 0:-)
JJ
KEVJ
If you followed Celtic the length and breadth of the country for 44 years-and I assume you were at least out of your nappies before your first game-but chucked it when MON left,when is your bus pass due?
Miss Prestonpans not happy at not getting a ticket against them, even said about giving up her ST.
Now if I was giving up my ST it would be about the board’s handling of GB etc or the mince I’ve been watching this season but certainly not about failing to get a ticket against them.
Wummin eh
Can’t live with them….
Repost from last night. Seems the ad meets with some approval outwith this site.
http://thecelticblog.com/2015/01/blogs/celtic/celtic-fan-groups-leads-the-way
Can’t shoot them!
KevJungle
10:09 on
13 January, 2015
Bawsman
10:03 on 13 January, 2015
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Well….after following the hoops the lenghth and breadth of the country for 44 years, I’m hardly a glory hunter.
More of a – savvy-uppitty-tim-neabodies-mug-type.
Bring back the Jungle – make it real again.
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Make it real again?????
Really?
I’ll stand behind you wi a rolled up newspaper pouring pish down your legs, tell you there’s 33,000 when you can’t move, then say there’s no money for new players.
As real as that, or shall I sell you pish soaked spam rolls with you macaroon bar and spearrment chewing gum?
We only started being a proper version of what Celtic should be when Fergus re-ignited the charity function we had lost for generations (apart from letting clergy in for free).
BMCUW
Ouch!
Methuselah CSC
Happy birdie, Fav Unc, happy birdie Fav Unc….
Happy BIR-DIE, Fav Unc, happy birdie toooo yoooouuuu….
Although as ugly as she was the shopkeeper was probably glad of the custom she generated due to loss of his regular clientele for the overpriced product and lack of quality he was quite happy to fob off to his longstanding customers over the years
Most of his customers signed up for some of his products before they can out only to find that the product was on loan and only had a shelf life of six months to a year
Canamalar
10:30 on 13 January, 2015
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I dont write letters to the bored – plenty of folk on here have, and….nothing.
I blank the bored financially – thats all they want you for.
To cut a long story short….how many schools, soup-kitchens etc have the billionaires on the bored built for the poor folk of Africa in the same way that the wonderful folk on CQN have. The CQNrs – Celtic supporters in general are the salt of the earth and my frustration at the way they are treated, leads to me calling them sheep, dicks, mugs, clowns etc….it’s all because the Celtic fans – have to – realise, that they live in a glass-house, the problems within their own house have to be fixed 1st – before they think about anything else.
The Celtic bored are – Robin Hoods in reverse.
My approach – fluck thum!
Off tae bed this time, bye.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Bawsman
10:39 on 13 January, 2015
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Not being cheeky or that but, if you or anyone else stood behind me and pissed on me – I’d draap ye!
Kevj…,
But your telling us this morning what the ad writers should do, take the statement to the Celtic board and get them to sign it, you could have done that, no ?
You offer loads of advice on what “other people” should do but do nothing yourself, nada, zero, nothing see what I’m driving at here ?
When you take action maybe some might pay attention to you, no season ticket is inaction not action, so I can’t count that.
What actions have you taken ? Bar come on here and dog people who have and are taking action ?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
10:33 on 13 January, 2015
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Nane of yer business
James Forrest piece on Fields of Green.
I don’t know how he gets away with it .
Laced with innuendo and opinions with no factual evidence.
Put together in a way that he is unlikely to be legally challenged.
Is what some people have said to me about his musings.
TT
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Jungle Jim Hot Smoked
10:32 on
13 January, 2015
Happy Birthday to Favourite Uncle. A pity I cannot get Carol Robertson to come and visit you and ensure a really happy
was first thought on my mind when I got out of bed !!!!!!!!.wait till you meet my wife.she put all thoughts of CAROL and all others out of my mind.forever and ever.
Canamalar
10:51 on 13 January, 2015
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Nah, yer getting me wrong…I dont offer advice…I lend my experience of supporting Celtic for 44 years.
KevJungle
10:49 on
13 January, 2015
Bawsman
10:39 on 13 January, 2015
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Not being cheeky or that but, if you or anyone else stood behind me and pissed on me – I’d draap ye!
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oh really????? :-)
Canamalar @ 10:51 on 13 January, 2015 nails it KevJ
As for how many soup-kitchens the billionaires have built, like me you have no idea ho many, it might be none but you don’t actually know that do you, your simply lying when you make such claims, so I can call you an agenda driven liar base on that statement alone, and I might just do that in future.
Kevj..,
Base on your lies about the number of soup kitchens the billionaires built, I’m happy to call you a liar over your other claim to have any experience of following Celtic anywhere.
tinytim
10:52 on 13 January, 2015
How many blogs does he actually post on…,, idle hands an aw that
A sunny 20 degrees -way down south .
In Pozzallo earlier ———- saw someone wearing a Deady Bears top. ( Laudrup on the back ) .
Wearer was a Syrian .One of a just arrived group of @ 500. New people movement style ——- travel to Turkey – pay 7k dollars for a place on a death trap cargo ship. : Take to sea -leave Turkish water – people smugglers abandon ship and leave men ,women and children to be rescued by the Italian navy
Second sighting of a Deady Bear’s top in @ 14 years. Last one was being worn by a fat sweaty pink drunk with a West of Scotland accent in a Department store in Catania.
tinytim,
It’s definitely food for thought and the way our paranoia has been so accurate up till now I will not discount it.
Some bhoys should know better……..