History makers on Saturday but Brendan Rodgers and his players will have nothing but tomorrow’s game against Bayern Munich on their minds today. In truth, the 100-year-old 62 game unbeaten run achieved by Willie Maley’s team looked like it was equalled despite minds being focussed on Champions League duty.
While there was no shame in losing 3-0 in Munich two weeks ago, Celtic were poor. It was not until Bayern achieved their objectives Celtic players looked less intimidated. We were unpicked repeatedly in defence while we retreated under the merest pressing from Bayern.
A win tomorrow is not beyond Celtic, but win or lose, we have to learn how to compete against teams of this level. We have endured harsh lessons against Barcelona and PSG over the last 13 months. Progress would not necessarily mean repeating the kind of remarkable 2-1 victory we got over Barcelona five years ago, being competitive in the game and defending with discipline would be a start.
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Oh dear. How desperate is MacIntyre!
some of the irish lads may correct me, but I think KT translates to ‘dark haired/ descendant of a lord’ ….
not sure what that means, but it seems like it should be important.
:)
BIG JIMMY on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 4:51 PM
If correct and Bayern will be missing some Top players……….are they possibily under estimating the auld Celtic ?
Just a wee thought….I really hope they are !
COYBIG
C.mon the Hoops..lets rock Celtic Park…and Glasgow…and Europe !
HH
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When I posted the above earlier I obviously had no idea IF Muller and Lewondenski were in fact injured and left in Munich ?
According to STV tonight…Bayern are claiming that Lewondski COULD have at least travelled to Celtic Park…but with Bayern looking ahead to their weekend game v Borussia D…they left Big Rab at home.
PERHAPS….just feckin maybe this Bayern mob are indeed a wee tad over confident about ONLY playing The Celts ?
They are of course perfectly entitled to play who they wish….but now I really wonder after hearing that news tonight about Lewon Lew//////Big Rab ?
Go get ’em Celts !
HH
Mike.
Literal translation from the ancient tongue
Ti ar na he
The golden prince
Or something like that.
Or I just made it up.
Anther good read on the Poppy issue in sport.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/remembrance-day-moeen-ali-jonathan-liew-james-mcclean-poppies-royal-british-legion-a8028301.html?amp
MIKE IN TORONTO on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 6:59 PM
some of the irish lads may correct me, but I think KT translates to ‘dark haired/ descendant of a lord’ ….
not sure what that means, but it seems like it should be important.
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For once Mike you are wrong……KT translates into ” Son of Big Jimmy” in Glaswegian !
If only ?
HH
Huke evens with saint Brendan on Clyde now.
He was terrific says huke.
MIT
http://irelandroots.com/tierney.htm
Big Jimmy ….
from the stories that were posted on CQN recently about your younger, wilder days …. there could be a few KT’s floating around then!
:)
MIT
And another one
http://www.sloinne.ie/surname/en/tierney/
CORKCELT. You sat at the big table in the Blane Valley the last time you were over, It’s the big table next to the Bar, Big Jimmy is thinking of the table he sat at the last meet up,The round table near the toilet is a big table but the one at the bar holds 12 people and it can be added too. good news re KT, pity they haven’t included LG in contract extensions + a few others.
In Glasgow City Centre meeting a few Bayern Munich supporters. Many Bavarians in the toon, all in good humour.
Eddieinkirkmichael
The Royal British Legion? Just another crypto-Communist/Republican/limp wristed bunch of Guardian reading pinkoes more like
Exceptionally angry, Tunbridge Wells
I first heard of Bob Dylan while watching footage of the March on Washington when he sang “When My Ship Comes In” and “Only a Pawn in the Game” at the Lincoln Memorial. However, it was Peter, Paul and Mary singing “Blowing in the Wind” that grabbed my mother’s attention, she enthused about this for a long time,
Fast forward a year and John Lennon is raving about him, with that in mind I set out to find a bit more of Mr. Zimmerman. At that time I was attending Stow College and would wander intae Littlewoods and Lewis’s tae peruse the LPs there at dinner time. The former actually had a really good selection, but Lewis’s had a booth where you could go intae and listen tae records prior tae buying them.
It was in there that I first heard “Don’t Think Twice its Alright” fae the Freewheelin album. I was bitten right away and would spend many a happy hour or so in my bedroom listening tae the likes of “where the wind grows heavy on the border town” and “me and my gal and my gal’s son we got met with a tear gas bomb don’t even know why we come goin’ back where we come from”. Explosive stuff for a wee bhoy fae the Bonnie Bonnie Banks.
Having an obsessive personality I bought all his albums right up to “Highway 61 Revisited” and saw him up the toon 18 months later.
My tastes started tae change and I moved on, nae merr Dylan albums although I still liked him. Then one Saturday when up shopping with my brother in Partick at a store similar tae Esquires that sold made tae measure shirts I heard “hello darkness my old friend”, so “Blonde on Blonde” an absolutely superb album was ditched for “Sound of Silence”, followed by the equally superb Pet Sounds, by this time I’m riding around the Bonnie Banks on a Lambretta as if I was on the Pacific Highway 1.
Still like Bob though and have a dvd of “Freewheelin” and “Beatles for Sale” that often gets played in the car when I’m alone.
My favourite album is “Bringing it all Back Home” and single “Positively 4th Street”, fantastic lyrics, “I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes you’d know what a drag it is to see you”. Genuis!!!, I came in fae the big Yogi 2 penalty cup final goals absolutely euphoric tae find my mother had bought it for me.
Oldtim
See you tomorrow afternoon.
HH
MIKE IN TORONTO on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 7:14 PM
Big Jimmy ….
from the stories that were posted on CQN recently about your younger, wilder days …. there could be a few KT’s floating around then!
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Your right Mike………all the weans up the toon call me Da !
I’ve always been feart to hit a wean up the toon….case it was wan of ma ain ?
APOLOGISES to CORKCELT and OL;DTIM67
My God..I even managed to get the tables wrong….thank God I’m not a waiter in the BV !
HH
DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 7:20 PM
In Glasgow City Centre meeting a few Bayern Munich supporters. Many Bavarians in the toon, all in good humour.
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……Get some of those Bavarian Boys bevvied….and nick their match tickets !
Only Joking DD
HH
Big Jimmy
They are having a good bevvy in Glasgow, like I did in Munich 2 weeks ago. Their tickets are safe :)
Re Irish origins ?
It turns out that my surname is Norsk/Norman/French and wait for it……German !
My descendants apparently settled in Galway and Mayo in the 12th century….and were known as one of “The Galway Tribes”.
Maybe I was a Irish/French/German Bayern Munich fan in years gone by ?
Now that would explain a lot.
HH
Great news on KT. He will be a Celtic legend. Of that I have no doubt.
Already played 97 first team games and still only 20 years old.
He’s a cert for club captain when Scott Brown hangs up his boots.
Great great news.
I hope he gets license to push on tomorrow night. We need to work their wingers defensively and keep them from coming at us again for the bulk of the match.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 7:29 PM
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Glad to hear that.
Are yous in Merchant City by chance ?
HH
DELANEYS DUNKY.
Can I give you a call in a couple of minutes, I read there that you are in the process of meeting a few of your German friends
Hello Bhoys. Good to see a few old names in here.
Big Jimmy
Crystal Palace Jam st.
Oldtim
Will phone you when I go out for a smoke.
that was a quite wonderful interview with brendan.
everywhere he goes he carries a memory of tommy burns.
had me filling up a wee bit.
he is at celtic because its a dream, its not a job.
magical
TONTINE TIM on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 7:22 PM
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In my younger days at the time of meeting my 1st wife in 1972…i was right into T Rex…and never gave Dylan a second thought before then.
She then educated me about Dylan and his music some time later after we got wed.
I was the same with the Eagles back then…..it was only years later I began to really listen to those boys.
HH
Was thinking of making a last minute drive up from Manchester for the game tommorow. No tickets though. Probably wasting my time.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 7:35 PM
Big Jimmy
Crystal Palace Jam st
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I havent been in there for about 4/5 years. Any time I did go in it was to meet some of my old fitba team mates that I known and played fitba with since 1977.
We would meet up once or twice a year in that pub.
HH
Can someone post the link with Brendan on the radio…I missed it.
What an eejit…but I didn’t know he was on to be fair.
HH
big jimmy, they said its going to be on clyde website after the live programme, i will post a link when it becomes available.
Bomber is back, we’re doomed a tell ye, doooooomed
A couple of pals have suggested that I get another puppy as soon after Derry as possible … probably good advice … I’m no good unless I have someone to look after ….although, this past year, Derry looked after me, more than the other way ’round. Although I will have my turn to look after her for (hopefully) the next few months.
so, was just talking to the breeder where I got Derry 11 years ago, and just saw some photos of the newest litter of golden retriever puppies …
for me, there is nothing cuter in the world than a bunch of golden retriever puppies playing!. warms the heart of even a cynical old lawyer, so they do!
MIT
speaking of cynical old lawyers…reminds me of the story about the lawyer doing a deal with the devil.
The devil offers all the worldly possessions you could wish for in a lifetime. In return he wants the lawyers soul,his wife’s soul,his childrens souls and the souls of the lawyers unborn grandchildren.
So the lawyer looks the devil in the eye and says…ok what’s the catch
THETIMREAPER on 30TH OCTOBER 2017 2:53 PM
Bada
Roberts being out is a blessing in disguise. He’s a phenomenal player but a passenger at this level. I genuinely believe we can match them all over the pitch. My biggest worry is set pieces, which is another reason to start Moussa as he defends the front post well. I think Moussa is key, if he can rough up their centre halves it will lift the whole team and the crowd.
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Got to disagree with you. He’s certainly not a passenger at this level. He’s been involved in 6 Champions League matches to date. He roasted Manchester City away, dragged Celtic back into the game in Moenchengladbach almost single handedly and roasted his opponent against Anderlecht. He scored in two of those games. I can’t quite understand we’re you’re coming from to say that he is a passenger in these games.
Mike,
Sorry to hear about your friend.
i hope she leaves peacefully, and with minimum of suffering.
Delaneys,
Tell Maddes and Jurgen the bhoy from Aberdeen say’s “Fit Like”
Hope you have a great night with some fabulous people.
Has Paddy Roberts become the New Scapegoat!!
Bateen … cheers … it was Cowie who first suggested moving sooner rather than later … and I am coming ’round to his point of view.
and, happy birthday, by the way ….
I figure if we say it every day, one of these days we will get the date right!
:)