From Celtic’s starting lineup at Aberdeen last night, only Callum McGregor will expect to keep his place when the teams meet in the Scottish Cup Final in just over a week. That prospect should terrify Jimmy Thelin’s players, who were thoroughly dismantled in a 1-5 defeat.
Aberdeen’s most effective strategy was to clear the ball off the goal-line in desperation. A 7 minute interruption to play lulled Celtic into momentary complacency, which allowed Aberdeen to break down the left, for Kevin Nisbet to score with a fine header. That equalised Maik Nawrocki’s opening goal. The Pole delivered another flawless performance, adding to the wonder of why we have not seen more of him.
Three goals either side of the interval ended the game as a contest. Yang punched home a loose ball inside the six-yard box. McCowan was given Freedom of the Beach End to put his laces through a shot from 8 yards, but the goal of the game went to Johnny Kenny. The Irish striker scored his first goal for Celtic with a fine timed run and header.
Aberdeen lost discipline; Dorrington collected a second yellow card, Reo Hatate was brutally kicked and the score should have gone higher before Adam Idah knocked the ball over the line in added time.
Aberdeen have lots to consider before Hampden.
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bookmark this – excellent souce and the tables allow for you to sort by columns.
wiki list of celtic seasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celtic_F.C._seasons
ps.
if i was brendan and the coaches, i would be telling them, you have that chance to become celtic greatest ever goal scoring league winners,
look at the spread of goalscorers, we definately can do it, no thoughts on the cup final, just a day of great record breaking, why not.
IiMO,Nawrocki is the best passser of. the ball of all our CHs.Passing through their lines quickly and sharpply last night when opportunity arose.Serviice. out to wide areas,excellent.
Some on here. really.love to have downers on some players.We all remember well when iitt was Jamesy.
Neverlearn CSC
It’s a testament to the work that Brendan and his coaches have done at Lennoxtown that our second string can go to Pittodrie and play like that.
Two years ago, in identical circumstances with the league won and a cup final upcoming, Ange played his second string and got tanked at Ibrox and Easter Road.
We’re doing very good work at Lennoxtown with this squad. Best leave the experts to it…
Please exxcusee sooome double letters in my posts,in this. case treble.
This machine is aff its. heed.Another little pecadillo its picked up
If I try to correct,really goes mental.
An Dún on 15th May 2025 2:20 pm
It’s a testament to the work that Brendan and his coaches have done at Lennoxtown that our second string can go to Pittodrie and play like that.
Two years ago, in identical circumstances with the league won and a cup final upcoming, Ange played his second string and got tanked at Ibrox and Easter Road.
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we finished on 114 goals – 2 short of equalling the record, but worse for me on reflection, with 6 games to go, we could have broken all the records, having lost only 1 game to that point we managed to lose 2 and draw 2, hindsight is easy but i wonder if he knew he was leaving by then,
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/police-issue-do-not-gather-warning-ahead-of-celtic-title-party-and-orange-walk-in-glasgow
It’s very clear Celtic fans are being set up to take the blame for failure of the civic authorities.
Glasgow centre faces multiple road closures to facilitate an assembly of orangemen – who seem to be celebrating VE Day a week later than the rest of Europe…
What a brilliant performance last night. To make that many changes and still sheer the sheep was brilliant. That goes to show you the work put in by players and coaches alike that players who very rarely play, are paying close attention to what the coaches expect when you do get the chance. Little things like the in/out run by young Kenny for his header, or the constant movement of our mids, to the directness of both Yang and wee Jamesie was a joy to watch. Now getting back to the seriousness of Saturday, of course our fans will be blamed if/when something bad happens. This lot hijack any day/historical date or whatever they can. VE day, 5/8/1945, and I thank them for celebrating my Fenian grandfather and his part in that awful war. I remember as a wee kid and the walks going through Wishy main street and my auld man and his friends locked in the Cross Keys as the tangerine mobs walked by , banging their drums and throwing their wee sticks with the tennis ball up in the air. We used to go play in the big park with our Celtic tops on or our Donegal Gaelic tops on, the hordes would get so pissed. My wee maw used to tell us to stay in but nah:))))
Be safe all you fellow Tims. Enjoy this weekend. Thanks Brendan and the Bhoys. Hope wee Reo is safe and sound.
Hail Hail.
Sean
bournesouprecipe on 15th May 2025 1:57 pm
The cry was whits ma gender ?
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Is that the krankie song?
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 15TH MAY 2025 12:10 PM
Contrary to the views of others, last night’s match will have great significance in the Cup Final for the injury-absence of Reo Hatate.
That the challenge merited only a booking is a disgrace and shows up the lack of game knowledge by the referee
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Not disagreeing with anything that you say there but if Reo is out BR’s teamtalk will need to consist of two things only – run the video of that tackle and then tell the players to do it for Reo.
That should be enough for whatever team is picked to destroy Aberdeen.
We move on. St Mirren on Saturday. Give them a severe doing Celtic.
Kev ,you are, after all, an expert . Kelly 🤗
Good afternoon CQN.
Beautiful day.
If only this weather holds up to and including cup final day.
Weatherman now saying it might
“The Pole delivered another flawless performance, adding to the wonder of why we have not seen more of him”
Hmm.
IMHO, you’re making it difficult to rebut suggestions there is an agenda here Paul.
Played well? Yes
Flawless? Nope. And not that close.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cd624g409p2o
Maybe, just maybe … this chicken is finally about to hatch and we can count it.
GCC “advice” noted
Police Scotland “warning” noted.
If events unfold as I expect two things will happen.
1. Celtic will win the league next season
2. The celebrations will be focused around our new fan zone.
Good advice posted earlier.
Go about your business on Saturday as free citizens …
… but in groups of 12 minimum if you can.
So let’s me get this correct celtic supporters are being told where they should and should not go before ans after a game of football, is that correct? Sorry I am a tax paying members of the public but my choices are being dictated to from local government. Does any other group I.e. concert goers, rugby supporters etc…. get their liberties restricted and removed ???
Glasgow city council urges celtitic supporters to stay away, we should take that seriously. police scotland urged glasgow city council to organise something to help control things better knowing that supporters would like to celebrate. Perhaps if the council had practiced what they preach there would be no issue at all.
Finally the idea that it cost the council 100 of thousands to pick up some rubbish is ridiculous. Also if it is such a big issue they could place skips around the area to reduce the issue.
It was business as usual last night as Celtic prepared in style to collect the Championship
trophy on Saturday, the only Cup that matters at the end of the season.. Disappointing for Aberdeen to be subject to a five goal hammering with a Scottish Cup final looming in
a couple of weeks time a much changed Hoops..
I liked the look of young McArdle some nice skill on the ball by the lad, hope to see more,
impressive. Rocki also had a good game and Johnny Kenny generated some power with that brilliantly headed goal to the delight of all his teamates, obviously a popular lad.. Adam probably one of the most forensicly scrutinised player in the squad getting his 22nd goal of the season which I include the deflection against Young Boys and for the ROi against Bulgaria.
James Forrest , a player I love to watch with his control and wonderful skill can go on for
another couple years at least. Jamsie will get that record score no doubt soon.
gonna get something off my chest about paedos/child SA/ chants if youse don’t mind cqn
apologies to survivors if it is unhelpful to log on and read my views ( and thank you for your strength)
They are elected, everyone should remember that on election day. GCC appears to have shown no interest in managing this effectively but will leave it to the Police, an Orange Walk allowed for VE day a week after the event but that’s ok,the Police will do as they do, and as I stated earlier I expect special powers to be granted and to be used.
Don’t worry there’ll be plenty of police on hand – a good number will be on ‘the walk’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2qyq00wq9o
This is an article on my local news. They crop up regularly.
In my experience , it is a part of our behaviour, it is not going away, we must get a way to open this up and help ourselves to help children to protect against abusers who cannot stop themselves damaging children and by the way, they’ll be abusing adults too. They are dangerous.
It is not part of a gender or faith (the church managed this appallingly), or race or age.
So why did we hear ‘he’s one of your own’ last night or ‘paedos’ at ibrox?
In my view, it’s all they’ve got left to shout that we are below them, not right, other
Brendan is the best fit manager for us.
I said that before he signed and that is still my opinion.
He has blown domestic opposition out of rhe water, and brought credibility back to our European aspirations.
His stock will never be higher if we win another treble. He will be top of the castle.
I think Brendan is fiercley ambitious and will not tollerate complacency
I really hope he has ambitions for our European journey, we have unfinished business.
Anyway, our new strip is selling in record numbers. Saturday will demonstrate that Glasgow is Green and White.
HH.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cyvm76rl5jgo
lovin the drama of this one
I’m gonna start shoppin at aldi so, ehh, cannae go to maryhill lidl this weekend
“ I’ve never seen s situation so dismal a Policeman couldn’t make it worse “
Brendan Behan
Any news on Hatate, in my book, our best player. Hope he is ok
KINgLubO
The evolution of the east end of Glasgow city centre to what it is now, in my lifetime, is something I certainly never foresaw.
That Celtic supporters can go and drink in really good quality establishments in that area without fear of trouble and with no intent of causing trouble shows how far we have come as a society.
It also speaks volumes to the bravery and initiative of people like my former business partner who created Graces. I honestly only saw challenges when he shared the idea with me. He ploughed on and to his credit he has created a venue to be proud of. More importantly it is a really decent hub for decent Celtic people to visit. Just as it is also a decent hub for people from all around the world to visit. It is a quality anchor for Celtic fans in the town I would never have imagined possible.
I really hope the actions and comment from the authorities do not stoke the flames and lead to any problems on the side of the city which has been green and white and largely peaceful these past few years. I really hope our support respects the boundaries of reasonableness too. More importantly I hope those who would seek to disrupt us can be properly ‘managed’ by our law and order enforcement officers who appear to have absolved themselves of responsibility early on with their statements.
We could have 2 weeks of great celebrations to enjoy as yesterday another season of success comes to a close. We may not see this kind of domination in years to come. Hopefully we can all enjoy it the right way.
Burnley78
Graces seems a good pub to go to,I have never been in it ,but one of my grandsons has sung in it a few times ,he says it’s a good pub to play a gig in .HH
Fanadpatriot
It is a really good place for sure (not in commission lol) . As is the newly formed Irish Centre. Good for your grandson performing. They usually have some good folks on there.
I just love that such a place is possible and credit to them for making it happen.
HH
Not sure where ‘yesterday’ came from in my post above ?
does brendan need a new ryan christie?
night night youse
love you, thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyl7GP_VMJY
“I,ve never seen a match so dismal a MIB couldn,t make it worse”
Brendan Rodgers
bsrcsc,
JACKIEMAC on 15TH MAY 2025 9:11 PM
does brendan need a new ryan christie?
Not for me Jackie , a new Roy Aitken ,Davy Hay , Bertie Auld or Broonie yes please , we have more than enough Ryan Christie’s presently , someone who will protect our classy players from hammer throwers like we saw last night pal
Brendan reacted to Reo’s assault because it happened right in front of BR, in full glare of the ‘live’ TV Cameras. So BR couldn’t deploy his usual silence routine.
Or, maybe BR is due some sort of redirected kickback ‘£bonus’ from the sale of Reo in the summer window?!
And, maybe BR silence on mibbery incidents are restricted to when the mibbery decision brings about a defeat or draw which smudges BR image and status ever so slightly.
In other news, it is disappointing that Celtic fans will again reduce themselves to the level of the hun fan desperado’s who desecrate the city centre with songs about ancient conflicts, and other cheap ditties, and sewer songs that relate to Davie Cooper, etc, and leave Glasgow’s streets as though you had all been brought up by trashy SNP/GREENS/LABOUR MP’s and their cheap point scoring, piss fuelled agendas that never address the BIG GIANT ELEPHANT in the room.
“What are you all about?”
You have won millions of trophies and yet you never Once celebrated on Glasgow’s streets – until the huns fans did it, and made a proper ass of themselves!
Doing what huns do is not a good look.
And a lack of leadership and direction from Celtic FC is the reason for this puss-filled lapse in discipline, integrity, identity, because nobody from the Celtic FC gives a toss about, integrity, identity, or we would not be competing in ANY EU-Fascism/European Competition.
Which has been rigged so that an Arabian desert Imperial Colonial Settler country, THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM EU, can get into European competitions, which the Kelly’s and White’s would not have Celtic FC’s graciousness sullied by kowtowing to crooked cartels, whilst at the same time, Europe’s biggest, and by far the best country, Russia, is banned for defeating the NATO Imperialist invasion through Russia’s backdoor, and sticking it right up the Western banking cartels.
Celtic the “Fairy story Club” has long gone we are now just a another, Tory run and Managed PLC with backdoor’s to who knows where????
Kelly’s cheerios strikes again
An unrepentant feckwit lol
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #55 ABERDEEN 1 CELTIC 5 (NAWROCKI, YANG, McCOWAN, KENNY, IDAH)*
Good evening, friends.
Yet another fine performance from The Champions saw us ultimately blow Aberdeen away. And that was with a starting line up which arguably only featured 1 player likely to be in the cup final starting 11. Those Bhoys put on a fine display of quick attacking football, getting forward quickly and looking strong on both sides.
Yang’s early positive play led to the first yellow card for Dorrington after only 2 minutes when he stopped our South Korean winger from breaking clear down the left. Loads of positive play followed with complete domination of the possession and yet we had to wait 30 minutes for the breakthrough. A great inswinging cross from McCowan was rewarded when Nawrocki held off his marker and rose to place a well directed header into the bottom corner.
Shortly after this, play was halted for around 7 minutes due to a medical emergency in the crowd and this stoppage seemed to affect the flow and pace of the game as Aberdeen got their equaliser within a minute of the game restarting. The Celtic central defenders could have done a lot better but Nisbet rose unchallenged in the 6 yard box to head home. However, deep into first half stoppage time (53 minutes after the kick off time) Celtic were back in front. Determined play by Forrest down the right saw his tight angled cross (shot?) parried by the Dons keeper. And Yang reacted quickly to fire into the net.
The second half turned out to be one way traffic. In the 48th minute Forrest had his second assist of the night playing a ball into McCowan who kept composed, took a couple of touches and then hammered a shot in off the keeper’s shoulder. And 5 minutes later we put the result beyond doubt. Yang did well inside and fed McCowan out on the left. Luke’s cross was met by Kenny and a top class glancing header gave 21 year old Johnny his first Celtic goal.
With half an hour remaining, Brendan withdrew Ralston and McGregor for Hatate and Johnston with the Canadian being given the captain’s armband. I’ve said before that I hope he is our permanent captain one day. 10 minutes later and it was Yang and Kenny who completed their shift, replaced by Kuhn and Idah.
Celtic continued to create chances and on the 77th minute Bernardo played a penetrating pass through the middle for Adam to run onto. Dorrington clipped Idah and rightly received his 2nd yellow and Aberdeen were down to 10 men.
Our final substitution was in the 80th minute when McCowan made way for 17 year old Sean McArdle. Although the youngster only got 15 minutes he shone very well during this period suggesting a maturity well beyond his years. Hopefully he gets more game time before the season end.
With almost the last kick of the ball Celtic completed the rout when Kuhn’s effort bobbled off the keeper and a defender but Adam Idah pounced to bundle home his 20th goal of the season.
A very enjoyable Wednesday night’s viewing!
Our gap at the top remains 17 points. We have now played 55 games this season. In Europe we played 10, won 3, drew 4 and lost 3 scoring 15 goals and conceding 17. Domestically we have now played 45, winning 36, drawing 5 and losing 4, scoring 142 goals and conceding 32.
With just 1 league game remaining our goals scored in the SPL total 111. The record, held by Celtic under Ange in season 2022-23 is 114 so we need 4 against St Mirren to beat that.
Since we lost to St Johnstone we have played 6 games and scored 24 goals. Arithmetic is on our side!
Thank you so much to the 71 who voted this time around, 1 more than my own end of season game by game target! 2 games to go and 142 emails required to probably convince me to do it all again next season!
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Sinisalo: 1
Ralston: 2
Nawrocki*: 56
Trusty: 0
Schlupp: 1
McGregor: 87
Bernardo: 7
McCowan: 13
Forrest*: 67
Kenny: 14
Yang*: 38
Johnstone: 0
Hatate: 0
Idah: 2
Kuhn: 1
McArdle: 3
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against Aberdeen are –
Forrest – 5 points
Nawrocki – 4 points
Yang – 3 points
Kenny – 2 points
McCowan – 1 point
And the overall positions after 55 games played are –
105 points – Maeda
75 points – McGregor
69 points – Hatate
66 points – Kuhn
61 points – Engels
52 points – Schmeichel
44 points – Scales
41 points – Bernardo
39 points – Johnston A
32 points – Trusty
31 points – McCowan
30 points – Carter-Vickers
26 points – Taylor
24 points – Kyogo
22 points – Jota
21 points – Yang
19 points – Schlupp, Valle
16 points – Forrest, Idah
11 points – Nawrocki
8 points – Sinisalo
7 points – O’Riley
3 points – Welsh
2 points – Kenny, Murray
1 point – Ralston
0 points – Bonnar, Cummings, Holm, Johnston M., McArdle, Palma, Turley
We can now look forward to Trophy Day and the visit of St Mirren. Kick off on Saturday is 12.30pm.
Hail Hail!