Aberdeen were on fire in March, winning all four games, scoring 11 without response. Form since has been a contrast. They fell apart at home to Newco, and to St Johnstone, snatched a win against Hibs at Hampden, but recorded decent wins away to Hearts and St Johnstone.
With Celtic already champions and Aberdeen having secured second place, tonight’s Premiership game will be a proxy for the real event when the teams meet in their second cup final of the season in three weeks.
I can’t see Brendan Rodgers experimenting with youth, as he did against St Johnstone last week. The last thing he’ll want is to give Aberdeen encouragement ahead of the final. Much better to give them a bloody nose.
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Paddy Time ???
https://thecelticblog.com/2017/05/blogs/as-city-prepares-for-a-high-spending-window-celtic-will-not-give-up-on-patrick-roberts/
You’re probably looking at the team that played Sevco, with either Bitton in for Brown or Rogic in and McGregor dropping back beside Armstrong.
Tough call as Rogic has a decent record v Aberdeen, but Bitton would give us more solidity.
Or you could go with Bitton/Rogic and leave McGregor out, but that would be pretty tough on Callum with the form he has been in.
On balance I’d probably go with Bitton and McGregor, with Rogic to come on if we need a goal.
Probably rest Armstrong against Partick when Brown is back. Maybe an opportunity for Henderson.
Good luck to Jude’s boy Josh on the rest of his career.
JUDE2005 IS NEIL LENNON \O/:
I too wish the boy the best of luck and bon voyage. I hope he haunts us like a Shay Givens did. I hope all the boys we release, just because the stars didn’t align for them in their time, find happiness and come back often as supporters.
GlassTwoThirdsFull on 12th May 2017 1:02 pm
Eboue? Surely tonight and Thistle game are ones he should be getting game time in.
JUDE…
Best of luck to young Josh,i’m sure he’ll continue filling your hearts with pride.
Have you heard about a big strong flan…
;))
THOM
THANKS FOR THAT ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ps he fair suited that SELLICK tap.
Be intresting watching the team without Broonie tonight,see how our tempo’s affected.
Agree with Ernie,we have to start converting more of our chances for when we play in Europe.Good place to begin with that tonight.
No prediction from me,i’m Brad Pitt at them.
HH
JUDE2005 IS NEIL LENNON \O/ on 12TH MAY 2017 1:10 PM
THOM
THANKS FOR THAT ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ps he fair suited that SELLICK tap.
*****
They say that it doesn’t shrink. Well not the Elite one, anyway!!
THANKS BHOYS AL PASS ON UR GOOD WISH’S TO HIM H H
Thanks to ACGR for giving the raffle a plug.
Very much appreciated.
We will beat the Dandy Dons tonight
ERNIE LYNCH
I think you are right about College.
I’d say he was closer to a one-man band Kurtz who thought he could do as he pleased at no cost to himself.
He was certainly happy to set up some of his own UDR/UVF murder gang accomplices when it suited.
O.G.RAFFERTY:
Could he really do that without establishment sanction?
Wee CQN poll
Just out of interest.
If Supreme Court find in favour of HMRC do you have enough confidence in Celtic PLC that they will step up and fight for proper justice re. Huns cheating?
Yes or No?
MWD
Quick scan
No-16
Maybe if pushed -1
Yes-0
Nice to see the most pro-PLC blog does not have the confidence in PLC to do what they should.
Where are you Yessers?
MWD
A STOR MHA CHROI
I think he had a remit to do as he wanted – in their mind any chaos was good chaos. If he made it up as he went along it didn’t matter. Counter gangs, false flags, all the usual means to an end
from a book leaf:
Mystery shrouds the disappearance and death of Grenadier Guards Captain Robert Niarac, GC, kidnapped and murdered by the IRA in May 1977. More than twenty years after his death, his story still haunts the imagination, not least because of Niarac’s extraordinary courage and the fact his body was never recovered.
In January 1976, at the height of the vicious undercover war with the IRA, Robert Nairac, aged 29, received the call, Nairac, a devout Catholic, student of Irish history, and robust singer or Irish rebel songs, was released from his duties with the Grenadier Guards and seconded o the SAS with the specific task of intelligence liaison. With his black Labrador for company, he was posed to the most dangerous area of operations, the ‘bandit’ country of South Armagh. Here he was plunged into the murkiest of intelligence worlds, awash with dirty tricks, and riven by the intense rivalry between MI5 and MI6.
After months of knife edge operations undercover, Nairac was snatched from a South Armagh pub where he had arranged to meet a contact; he was driven across the border into the Irish Republic, interrogated and shot. (?) Even his captors admit he died like a hero, and he was posthumously awarded Britain’s second highest honour, the George Cross.
But many questions remain; why was he targeted? What was Nairac’s specific role? Why was he working alone and without back-up? Who was he meeting and why? What happened to his body? Could he have been betrayed by his own side? (When you read about him you’ll have a choice to make) Or was his death, as one British MP claimed, for Nairac’s involvement in secret killings?
The price of the elite Cellik tap does not shrink to fit inferior wallets!
O.G.RAFFERTY:
I think he was just a nutter. A born killer. He put himself into harms way to kill or be killed. Both apparently happened.
O.G.RAFFERTY:
He abused his position as an officer in the British Army and to the shame of the British Army and the Crown they honoured him with medals.
Somebody gonnae buy the green man that game… pie face .. ;-)
Apparently the Pittodrie pitch is like a tattie field, its no secret, DM is on record as saying Aberdeen has the worst pitch in the SPFL. BR being the intelligent guy that he is will take that into consideration, so suspect anyone less than 100% fit wont be getting a game. Equally anyone he wants to protect probably wont get a game either. Expecting a few surprises in the line up tonight.
Nice tee
https://goo.gl/images/ksyjAH
Recommended reading on E-Tims today.
Bobby Evans and the Coronation Cup…
http://etims.net/?p=11211
ERNIE LYNCH on 12TH MAY 2017 12:46 PM
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 12TH MAY 2017 12:23 PM
This is good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz–_LkzbII&feature=youtu.be
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Eloquently put,I think I want to have her babies!
Kidding aside,a strong message. This is it,you know where your vote should go,or in ten years time you know who to blame.
A STOR MHA CHROI
I’d say he was what you say in addition to what I had said. Those qualities allowed him be perfectly suited to his task and in that context it makes sense they gave him medals. It also follows that in death he continues to be part of that same game. I don’t think the Crown have ever been ashamed about awarding medals to those who have done what is asked of them
ROCK TREE BHOY on 12TH MAY 2017 2:02 PM
Apparently the Pittodrie pitch is like a tattie field, its no secret.
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Absolutely no surprise there. After all Pittodrie translates into S@it hole, or to be more precise a place of manure.
Did you know that Aberdeen is the capital of the U.K. for unearthing medieval coin hoards. It’s in the genes.
HH and COYBIG.
I see the Green Man is trying to start another Yeaster Rising!
Don’t rise to it!!! :-)
Expect Mr Pastry will be along soon……
O.G.RAFFERTY:
He went rogue mate, nobody gave him orders he went rogue. The medals were just dressing to validate the role of the army not his personal courage.
It was a dirty war.
Do you remember Bloody Sunday, Derry. I know you do. Were medals handed out for that bloodbath?
O.G.RAFFERTY:
The British Parliament, on behalf of the Queen, (the same Queen who honoured those Irish who died in 1916 rebelling against the crown to liberate Ireland from her, eventual, crown) apologised to the Irish and the world for the deadly behaviour of its troops in Derry, unprovoked, on Bloody Sunday.
A Stor
the british O.C. that day subsequently became top dog in the British Army. With all the medals that go with that position
CLINK\O/:
I’ve forgotten more than I know and I’ve ran out of tears, let me go find you a photograph, ignore the uniform, just hold your heart. Give me ten minutes.
Expect the Sheep to try and take a few Bhoys down tonight, with the CF in mind….a few reserves to come off the bench and do the damage.
A STOR MHA CHROI
I’m not disagreeing with you.
Nairac’s going rogue behaviour suited his superiors purposes, all part of Kitson’s grand and ultimately deluded counter insurgency games.
He ended up Sir Frank Edward Kitson, GBE, KCB, MC & Bar by the way.
Wilford, who was in charge on Bloody Sunday, got an OBE and ne of the Paras on the ground that day got an MBE
CLINK\O/:
I don’t care if this kid is Catholic. I don’t care if this kid is Protestant. I don’t care if this kid is Muslim.
I just don’t care.
He is not black, he is not Chinese, he is not an ape. I could not care less if he was because in my mind I have no more rights than he does, he is my equal as long as he does not hurt others.
He is human, just like we all are, regardless of accident of geographical birth.
HURT
O.G.RAFFERT;
and they killed a lot of innocents to get their medals. I wont invoke shame, it is futile above their class.
Gary67 1:07
Yeah – fair point re Eboue. Certainly for the Partick game if not tonight.
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verb (used without object), raffled, raffling.
3. to take part in a raffle.
verb (transitive)
4. to dispose of (goods) in a raffle
Derived Forms
raffler, noun
Word Origin and History for raffle
n.
late 14c., “dice game,” from Old French rafle “dice game,” also”plundering,” perhaps from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch raffel”dice game,” Old Frisian hreppa “to move,” Old Norse hreppa “to reach,get,” Swedish rafs “rubbish,” Old High German raspon “to scrape together,snatch up in haste,” German raffen “to snatch away, sweep off”), fromProto-Germanic *khrap- “to pluck out, snatch off.” The notion would be “tosweep up (the stakes), to snatch (the winnings).” Dietz connects theFrench word with the Germanic root, but OED is against this. Meaning”sale of chances” first recorded 1766.
v.
“dispose of by raffle,” 1851, from raffle (n.). Related: Raffled ; raffling.
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