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Adrenaline dip, reds, wanton ruffling

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Cast your mind back to earlier this month.  February ended with a 100% domestic record, qualification for the League Cup Final and two merit awards for performances against Inter Milan.  We then walloped nearest challengers Aberdeen 4-0.  A small matter of a game against St Johnstone lay ahead before the Scottish and League Cup double-header against Dundee United.  Which we lost.  At home.

If a team drops even a few percentage points below its optimum the actual drop in results achieved can be enormous.  Celtic have answered all the big questions over the last seven weeks, despite the reversal in Milan; there will inevitably be a drop in adrenaline when normality returns, which is tomorrow, again against United.

We have a month to prepare for the Scottish Cup semi-final but another St Johnstone-type episode would cut the gap at the top to zero points, with Celtic having one game in hand.

I’m a great believer than a manager cannot and should not ask his players to climb the mountain every time.  If he does, he loses that special intensity he’ll need for the truly big occasions.  The players, from captain to novice, must carry the burden.

Niggles between players happen in every game.  On most occasions it will be a couple of months before you face the same opponent again, so whatever happened last time will have been replaced in the mind’s gallery of items the player feels sore about.

Since Scottish football became the Celtic-Dundee United show that’s changed.  A player who elbowed you last game will be running at you next time out.  This is the stuff red cards are made of.

There is a chance that we’ve beaten United into submission and that they’ll turn up in body, not mind, tomorrow, but if Jackie McNamara manages to convince them they are victims of wanton Celtic player’s face-on-United player’s elbow action, you can expect more reds.

Keep your cool, Celtic.  Nothing more than wanton hair ruffling.

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  4. bournesouprecipe on

    TinyTim

     

     

    It’s only the internet, where the level of civility sometimes slips beneath the radar, nice of you take time to debate though.

     

     

    I happen to value your opinion as an away Celtic supporter of some standing, and it made me say *bollocks * – sorry.

     

     

    I suppose not informing yourself about what it is you are having an opinion about is one way of controlling the terms of the debate, but if you’ve read what McNamara said, it’s desperate and merely to do with attacking a favourite SMSM target.

     

     

    At best he fell into the their trap, at worst he’ll have to send in Simon Donnelly again.

     

     

    I hope CSC

  5. sipsini on

    mike in toronto,

     

     

    I reckon the huns won’t make the latter stages of the play offs if the hibees pump them on Sunday.

     

     

    For one, they’re p**h, secondarily, I reckon as some have said, they will go for administration before the season ends…maybe as early as next week, due to a wage balance to be met.

     

     

    If I’m wrong, I’d prefare they get St Mirren as Motherwell would lay down to thems.

  9. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    Mike

     

     

    Did you know the Pierotti’s from Paisley with the fisn and chip shop?

     

     

    I have a friend who had an Irish Mother and an Italian Father.

     

     

    However, his “Italian” granny was born in Donegal and went to Italy to live with the new husband after they married.

     

     

    Accordingly, it was his Italian granny that spoke Irish which I always found funny.

  12. mike in toronto on

    sipsini… I hope and think you are right about administration … I dont think they have the money to get through, and suspect they will take the points hit this season …. but, I think it will be the end (again) of them if they do … fans wont turn up next season ….

     

     

    dont know what they were thinking pissing of MA, and putting the Lying King in charge. Utter madness.

  15. TinyTim on

    BSR

     

     

    Thanks for the response.

     

     

    I have had personal contact with Jackie Mac a couple of times.

     

     

    He is a very sound bloke.

     

    Not a Celtic diehard.

     

    He never claims to be .

     

    Just someone who likes to win and takes it badly when he doesn’t.

     

     

    I had more truck with his previous comments that the Huns should keep their cheated titles as they were won on the park, fair and square.

     

     

    It never entered his head that the players on the park would have been inferior had they not been steroid induced by cash to improve the Hun team.

     

     

    There was nothing fair about it.

     

     

    TT

  16. beatbhoy on

    Über nyaff Imrie the width of the post away from a real goal of the season contender.

     

     

    A yedontsavethose special it would’ve been.

  18. BGX on

    Negannon2….Scotland being the sectarian country that it is, how would you go about changeing it, if you wanted to that is, if i may ask…

  21. Zbyszek on

    Tom McLaughlin & BRTH

     

    I love Panis Angelicus. The other two sacred songs for podium would be Bach’s – Jesus bleibet meine Freude and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus

  22. Jimmynotpaul on

    Ivehadtochangemyname.

     

    Hang in there and remember all the good times.

     

    I never had a good relationship with my Dad so I can’t feel your pain.

     

    However my best friend died five years ago, very suddenly, aged 45 and there’s not a day that goes by, without me thinking of him.

     

    That’s what I do to bring me back remember the good times.

     

    Hail Hail

  23. nakasammi on

    mike in toronto, sipsini

     

     

    Sevco vs the Buddies in a play off.

     

     

    How would Cheeko Young cope with that?

  24. Slan_Abhaile on

    Getting my pride out of the way, which isn’t easy, I take my hat off now to Ronnie and admit I was wrong and too hasty in my condemnation of him.

     

     

    He is turning out to be a decent manager. Well done RD.

  26. Stringer Bell on

    Anyone taking up the etims cudgel re cancelling Sky?

     

     

    When you look at the numbers, it’s a fairly chastening experience……

  27. bournesouprecipe on

    TinyTim

     

     

    Oooofffttt – You’ve won the debate outright, on the basis of what he said before, and what he said regarding RD pales into insignificance.

     

     

    However, your post also underlines that his Celtic credentials were as a decent pro player, nothing more. His views about the dead club merely underline, he’s not very bright.

  29. Stringer Bell on

    nakasammi

     

     

    20:26 on 20 March, 2015

     

    mike in toronto, sipsini

     

     

    Sevco vs the Buddies in a play off.

     

     

    How would Cheeko Young cope with that?

     

     

    ——

     

     

    Very easily. He’d support the Huns. He always did..

     

     

    Wee turd that he is.

  30. BGX on

    Mike in Toronto…the problem the huns have regarding Ashley is that he never wanted to be involved with the football side…it is and always will be for him about the retail..and the assets…King was the only show in town…..Now its beg from Mike for money on even worse terms, Or get your money out time for Dave….or…SEVCO 3…

  31. mike in toronto on

    BRTH

     

     

    I lived in glenburn … and cant remember the name of the chip shop we used to go to… that family had a few of them as I recall…. and I think we went to one when it was closing about a decade ago…. or do I have them confused with someone?

     

     

    You’ve got me thinking about fish & chips in now …

  32. praecepta on

    The first 45mins of the ‘Nae Grassico’ at FirPark is enough to make you tune into Gardeners’ World!

  34. mike in toronto on

    serious question …..

     

     

     

    if we served jelly and ice cream the last time …. what are we going to serve this year when sevco go under this time (hopefully, for good this time) ….

     

     

    man cannot live on jelly and ice cream alone!

  36. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    stringer bell

     

     

    20:31 on 20 March, 2015

     

    Anyone taking up the etims cudgel re cancelling Sky?

     

     

    When you look at the numbers, it’s a fairly chastening experience……

     

     

    *****

     

    Did it years ago, for the reasons that are being quoted now.

  37. Hamiltontim on

    A wee reminder for anyone who’s interested.

     

     

    The Celtic Trust’s AGM will be held tomorrow in the London Rd Social Club starting at 11am. You don’t have to be a member to attend.

     

     

    So if you have something to say regarding issues affecting the Celtic support this is your opportunity to have your say.

  40. BGX on

    Neganon Neganon, where for art though Negannon…..i was looking forward to your solution to Scotlands sectarian problem….i await your wisdom….

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