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After Tuesday night, you might feel a slight sting. That’s pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.  Continue to bank Premiership points, mature as a squad and grow the club, because a year from now when we’re kicking it in the Champions League, you’re gonna’ say ‘We’re progressing’.

A week ago I suggested a case could be made that the game at Ross County was our most important before the international break.  I know that game has already faded into memory, but argument stands.  Champions League football is everything to Celtic – our biggest earner, best way to attract players, the sugar in fans’ tea, we need to be there and we need to improve results when we get there.

We are a significant way off the highs of Gordon Strachan’s Champions League campaigns (yes, some people were always unhappy), and we need to redouble efforts to return to that level, but until then, the importance of winning at the weekend can never be overstated.

Our coefficient monkeys did their best last night to make sure Celtic continue to reach the Champions League in future seasons.  Still a lot of work to do before we can assume anything, but fair play to them – every club in the league must do their best for Scotland’s perennial champions.

While Celtic legs and minds will be weary after our humbling in Madrid, Aberdeen flew back from Greece overnight after a respectable draw with POAK, and will travel south tomorrow ahead of their game at Celtic Park on Sunday.  Barry Robson is making progress but the international break surely cannot come soon enough for a squad which is far lighter than Celtic’s.

I expect a backlash from Celtic.

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  7. EmeraldBee \o/ A Double Niner!! on

    TOM @ 8.55.

     

     

    I take it that that that was directed at me. A wee bit of a dismissive snide remark, considering that you know nothing about me. Football ain’t for me? What do you know about my football background?

     

     

    How are you able to come to the conclusion that I was upset by the result at Dens Park? In fact the tenor of my short post should have been interpreted as the opposite to your conclusion (and I will therefore take responsibility for your misinterpretation of my writing as obviously I didn’t clarify my intention in appropriate terms).

     

     

    What I was intending to impart was that when a team like St Mirren, motoring along nicely in the league, plays the way they did (challengingly) against us then drop those high standards so alarmingly today at Dens Park, then that becomes another example of teams not performing consistently highly so that they, and other opponents, can raise standards highly enough to compete with each other, and Celtic and Sevco, to become genuine challengers for honours each season. Only when they do so consistently will they become a ‘threat’ to us and therefore a positive challenge FOR us, which as well as raising standards in the league in general would also give our players a genuine target to overcome in competitive matches.

     

     

    I genuinely hope that clarifies my original post.

     

     

    As an aside, re. ‘football not being for me’, though now well retired I refereed at a reasonable level (though never trod the Paradise grass) and was a ‘Largs-mafia’ SFA coach where I qualified in the same group as wee Bertie who actually gave me a lift up to the centre on our first day. I coached in Scotland (mainly), England and even in France for a short time.

     

     

    Dismissive snide remarks rarely add to a constructive discussion.

     

     

    Ave Ave

  11. bigrailroadblues on

    Claptons second solo is beyond belief. Baker and Bruce keeping up with him is quite incredible.

  12. EmeraldBee \o/ A Double Niner!! on

    SAINT STIVS, I know you like the occasional gander towards the night sky and I THINK you said your window looks south.

     

     

    Tonight, and for the next week or so, Jupiter is the brightest object in the night sky as you look east/south east.

     

     

    Happy glancing.

  13. Greenpinata on

    St Mirren are a ” proper football team” . Remember the article in which I fully agreed..

     

     

    I never saw this coming. Did anybody?????

     

     

    Never mind. Tomorrow is about us. Our team will be shell shocked, with good reason. They need our support more than ever.

     

     

    If you are able, get yourself to the game. Tickets are there if you really want one.

     

     

    HH.

  16. Tontine Tim on

    EMERALDBEE \O/ A DOUBLE NINER!! on 11TH NOVEMBER 2023 10:18 PM

     

    TOM @ 8.55.

     

     

    As an aside, re. ‘football not being for me’, though now well retired I refereed at a reasonable level (though never trod the Paradise grass) and was a ‘Largs-mafia’ SFA coach where I qualified in the same group as wee Bertie who actually gave me a lift up to the centre on our first day. I coached in Scotland (mainly), England and even in France for a short time. Dismissive snide remarks rarely add to a constructive discussion.

     

     

    *Nae sense arguin with him, he dismissed my claim that dallas has input intae the mitbs not just in Europe but also still at hame, now I don’t say that in the heat of a humiliating loss but based on deep research plus one of the best jobs I ever had was as a research analyst and I still use that talent.

     

     

    But what annoyed me most was when he said I was to be pitted as did his acolytes, believe me I never have to be pitted in fact it has been said that I have led a charmed life, but here he is judging someone who he obviously has zero knowledge of, although I recall him leavin this site in the cream puff when he was gold coast tom.

  19. iljasb on

    CELTIC MAC on 11TH NOVEMBER 2023 4:33 PM

     

    iljasb@2.03

     

    Wim Wenders? Was he Director of Football at the Paradise Theatre at the time?

     

     

    Ha ha nicely spotted. He was flying on the Wings of Desire.

     

     

    WIm Jansen of course I should have written. Just the kind of thing that happens when you’ve one foot in popular culture and one in the art house!

     

     

    Thanks to the others who responded. I guess folk feel the situation is more complex than Alex Gordon assumed. I haven’t made my mind up.

  20. David66 on

    Good morning all from 1 degree Garngad, baltic and frosty.❄️☃️❄️☃️

     

     

    Another tough one today 3 -1 to the celts.

     

     

    1st off to see the wee man play hopefuly.

     

     

    D :)

  23. Hot Smoked on

    RON BACARDI on 12TH NOVEMBER 2023 8:09 AM

     

     

    That sums up well just what Poppy Day has become. Well done.

     

     

    Long, long time since I have worn one and, ironically, on a combat jacket!! An item which was popular at the time :-))

  24. lynott67 on

    Looking forward to the game today and cheering on the bhoys

     

    Will be a tough one

     

    Wrap up , it’s gonny be cold out there

     

    HH

  25. Hot Smoked on

    Just about time for me to leave Arbroath and head for my hometown to see the Glasgow Celtic.

     

     

    I quite like the atmosphere created by the Dons` fans ( apart from one odious chant by some of them).

     

     

    Cheerio for now.

  31. Prestonpans bhoys on

    Good Morning from Mogan Gran Canaria 21° and climbing to 28° later. Football top ironed and pub picked for the game. Life’s hard in retirement 😅🤣😂

  32. Aipple on

    Just read that we have not lost in 49 home league games (won 42, drawn 7), having gone 50-plus just once before. That was under Martin O’Neil with 53 from July 2001 to April 2004.

  33. lets all do the huddle on

    loads of cop wagons in the merchant city.

     

     

    they must be expecting hassle.

     

     

    either that or they heard a member of the green brigade had been spotted in toon with a palesrinian flag so have had to divert all resources to deal with it

  38. bournesouprecipe on

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league

     

     

    They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,

     

     

    They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,

     

     

    From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,

     

     

    To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,

     

     

    There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there’s ever been,

     

     

    Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,

     

     

    And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    Repeat to fade CSC

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