We all thought the title was about to be delivered yesterday, until a late goal at Aberdeen put celebrations on hold. Celtic can be caught on goal difference. If we lose our five remaining games by four goals, and Newco win theirs by five goals, we’re done for. For now, anticipation builds.
It is not clear what games were being played by Brendan Rodgers on Friday, when he told the media that either the players or the manager needs to be changed. But it was clear he wanted to provoke a reaction in the players, which was there for all to see, for the first half against Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Without Jota or Nicolas Kuhn, and with Greg Taylor back at his best, Celtic got the job done. Spectacular strikes from Reo Hatate and Cameron Carter-Vickers grabbed the headlines, but the tap-in from Daizen Maeda was a magnificent team goal, while the fourth from Reo Hatate was almost as good.
Viljami Sinisalo was denied a clean sheet by an excellent effort from Danny Armstong. We’ll give the Kilmarnock player the credit and not suggest his effort was a wayward cross…..
With the job done by the break, the second half had an end of season look to it until Anthony Ralston dropped the shoulder to create space and score in the final minute of the game.
A word on Kilmarnock. Celtic struggle when teams press them high up the field. We struggle to progress the ball out of defence and can be forced into losing possession in our final third. Kilmarnock did not do this. They are by a margin the worst team to visit Celtic Park this season. Their six point lead over St Johnstone looks less secure than it should.
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So Paul writes our opposition tactics book press us high up the park and we struggle
RC
Paul isn’t giving away the family jewels .
Everyone who has watched us struggle knows that the high press hurts us.
TT
BADABING Could I ask who is wee Pedro
GER GONE Flop Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha sacked by SIXTH club since Ibrox exit as latest nightmare reign ended after THREE GAMES
Turkeybhoy Can I ask you what stand up at Tannadice is getting upgraded.
Hoople in 3.
But a less than happy reminder.
so i seethe daily mail gonk on line has started using a line that Celtic supporters leave early because they are bored
i wonder where he got that from.
another stick.
PB- Ta
while also saying it was a poor advert for sky because the top club pumps a bottom club like every other league and ignoring last weeks result
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3 ? Did he play that many games 🤔
https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/25087013.kieran-tierneys-celtic-move-leaves-pundit-dark/
Back Brendan Celtic
HH
Brendan the pretender. Sell your top striker cause you play in a league were every team outside of Celtic are bottom 6 material at best.
The Green Brigade get banned and Brendan’s team couldn’t handle the Parkhead library atmosphere, dropping 7 points in quick succession leading to PLC sleekits lifting the GB ban, and zero solidarity from manager or Captain to the irreplaceable 12th member of the team.
Brendan knows that the GB knows what Brendan is really like. And he cant wear that fact, which is why when the after match pissy pitch parade takes place either Brendan or Callum will silently shoo the players a good distance away from the GB area, smiling through their teeth as they do so.
The GB are like the colonised 6 counties of the Celtic supporter base, the 50,000+ are like the other 26 counties, facing the other way from their persecuted GB comrades.
The GB know that the PLC know that the GB have proved their irreplaceable status, and it sticks in the PLC and Brendan’s craw.
A club like no other.
Twat
Good morning from a dry but cloudy North Staffs.
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Got it in 5
Gene – tks for hoople
Got it, same, 5
I see the BBC Scotland Football Gossip page has gone all Football Insider. There’s lots of soothing pieces from them about how all the Sevco players are wanted by ‘hunners of Clubs for mullions and mullions’.
Journalism at the BBC Scotland Sports Department – an oxymoron if ever there was one
MCPHAIL BHOY, I think you could have capitalised the MORON bit after ‘oxy’, just for accuracy you understand.
Way back in my student years (early 70s) I had the privilege of interviewing John Rafferty, then of the Scotsman, for a student newspaper I worked on. For those of a different era, he was the leading sports writer on that paper (after McIlvanney had left for London). What a man he was, knowledgeable, forthright, great insight into the game and not afraid to ruffle feathers. He would not ‘pass ‘ the current crop of so-called Scottish football journalists in the toilet.
Ave Ave
McPhail Bhoy on 15th April 2025 8:39 am
I see the BBC Scotland Football Gossip page has gone all Football Insider. There’s lots of soothing pieces from them about how all the Sevco players are wanted by ‘hunners of Clubs for mullions and mullions’.
Think they have to cos the 49’s deal is a ‘crock of shit’ and they know they are in deep ‘do do’
They’re awe a bunch of chanty wrastlers
We were blessed to have journalists of the calibre of Hugh McIlvanney and John Rafferty when we had a great team and manager whom they greatly regarded.
EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 15TH APRIL 2025 9:02 AM
MCPHAIL BHOY, I think you could have capitalised the MORON bit after ‘oxy’, just for accuracy you understand.
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I should have thought of that!
Re Saturdays boring and tedious game.70% in 1st half!!
https://x.com/antearmann1967/status/1912082353654030429?s=19
HH
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Gene on 14th April 2025 10:26 pm
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3 ? Did he (Boerrigter) play that many games 🤔
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Don’t know Gene.
I stopped counting at 1½ games.
A wimp and a chancer.
Thank goodness for recruitment science (despite its faults)
“He’s got something about him”
Aye. He’s a wimp and a chancer.
AIPPLE will have worn out his F5 button today.
I’m happy for the SMSM to keep publishing moonbeams for the gullible Sevconians. It keeps the revolving door turning – high expectations and inexplicable failures – and means more titles for Celtic.
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Anticipation of a new article has now built to fever point.
well this article is entitled ‘Anticipation builds’ clearly it was not as some of us thought the anticipation of another League championship but another CQN article!
Aipple must be going crazy, hunched over his keyboard waiting to pounce!
T
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