St Mirren, who Celtic play in our opening Premiership fixture two weeks on Sunday, do not have the luxury of preseason friendlies against top European opponents, but they will have four competitive League Cup games under their belt as well as three friendlies before they arrive at Celtic Park.
Celtic have one fewer game, but the considerable benefit that tomorrow, we will be tested against Newcastle United, St Mirren have to hope that Annan Athletic are suitable preparation.
Preseason is not about the results, or even the performance. Indeed, Ange Postecoglou’s memorable first season was prefaced by a 2-6 home drubbing by West Ham. The objective is to elevate player fitness and work on tactics. It is a time for risks without consequence, and gives us a chance for an early look at the new arrivals. I would take another drubbing tomorrow if it better prepared us for the challenges next month.
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BSR
That wasn’t the question 🤣
Aff oot 👍
BSR
Got my T shirt , got my badge .
Let’s get a Lawwell appointed puppet in for next season….let’s get the top tier closed again, and play Qualifiers for the Europa Conference League, canny wait
Gene on 19th July 2025 6:00 pm
SPOT ON.
Gene- nice to see you back,the Test Series has been excellent so far
Aff outwith 👍
still think we have ATLEAST another 1st team striker and 1st team winger to come in
plus another centre half, centre mid and world class breakfast
if not and dare we all hope for a world class lunch…
Be great if Shin turned out to be Kyogo mark 2 . Too much to hope for ?
BSR…chefs kiss…who telt you ;-))
Bada
I had a closed season sabbatical
Test series has been excellent – India has had the chance of a 3 – 0 lead – but England has battled well.
Off oot to 10 pin bowling with the grandkids
THELURKINTIM on 19TH JULY 2025 6:35 PM
BSR…chefs kiss…who telt you ;-))
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Bon mot 👍🍀🇮🇪
Are we sure we need a new left back !
i counted 6 long goalkeeper punts
1x goal
2 x celtic player controlled it
3 x Newcastle controlled it
mixes it up a bit
kenny control remind me of hooper.
idah did better than last game and did have another 3 chances to score
it will come
shin being touted as faster than daizen .
lets see.
tell you what is a fallacy. 5th placed English team are direct entrants to the chamions league phase. and we aint .
its a fein-t….
https://readceltic.com/2025/07/19/the-happy-clappers-call-the-celtic-bloggers-conspiracy-theorists-but-when-the-same-thing-keeps-happening-at-our-club-its-not-a-conspiracy-thats-called-reality/
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Its always after the tickets are souled out that the sleekits start their games.
WGS? lol Damian Duff? lol
Another league to the Huns? lol
I’m a wee bit surprised that Trusty was MOTM. I thought some of his passing was poor. For me, our captain was brilliant. We need to wrap him in cotton wool.
DUSHANBE BHILLY BHOY on 19th July 2025 6:25 pm
Aff outwith
Brilliant, a wee private joke there😀
So much for friendlies not mattering. Fair brightened up our day. 😁 Howay the lads. Let’s get some extra quality in.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1283344246691331&set=a.762633665429061
Trusty was excellent.
newcastle keeper still rocking back and forth asking eddie who
why were they shouting at me
For 20 mins they sang
F$ck the pope
SAINT STIVS on 19TH JULY 2025 7:22 PM
shin being touted as faster than daizen .
By Brendan, no less. Quoting stats
Shin Yamada’s speed stuff
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His top speed this year ranks second in the J1 League at 35.4 km/h. Incredibly, that edges Daizen Maeda’s title-winning burst from 2021 with Yokohama F. Marinos, clocked at 35.0.
While Maeda has since gone quicker, hitting 35.6 in last season’s Champions League, Yamada’s numbers show he’s operating at a similar level of raw pace. That’s no small feat.
Nick Walsh’s interview after the game
Sabotage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA&list=RDMM&index=5
H.O.O.D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1oWym2-4Q&list=RDMM&index=6
After the first 15 -20 minutes,when the passing out from the back,different to the way before,was a bit ropey,it came good.Similar to the USA last season.Strikers available coming back to halfway,first touch sideways to runners bursting forward.Kenny had about 80% success with it.Idah as well.Quicker more direct than the 6 or 8 passes across the back.Newcastle did not cope with it..Been working on it.Very good.
B57 , considerng you like to call anyone who disagrees with you bitter your response at 5 46 was exactly that. Also very childish.
I hope you enjoyed another excellent performance., or are you too bitter?
Oh dear! Ireland’s Government has opened [back doors] to the you know who’z!
https://x.com/wereontheditch/status/1905670806249554391#m
Irish Government, Scottish Government, UK Government, US Government, all EU Governments apart from Poland and Hungary have thrown their citizens under the bus, for the you know who’z.
If the new “Corbyn Party” is confronted by the you know who’z it’ll be interesting to see if JC folds like a cheap deck chair, like he did as Labour leader and said zero as his close comrades and hundreds of thousands of innocent Labour party members were all thrown under the bus. Then what good is that type of leader to anyone?
If you are allowed onto Msm Then you have to perform like this…
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=T1ID3bNgrrM
….or even better like this….
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=J7p7CAyxHgg
Only the Workers Party have shown that they won’t be fcked around by the you know who’z, or the scum media, or allow [back doors] on the sly like the above scumbags have done, not the “Corbyn Party” so far….don’t ever apologise for things you did not say.
If the above link for “we’re on the ditch” is applied to Scotland as well as Ireland, then Parkhead could be closed down if fans aren’t careful, I mean you don’t have an executive who’ll tell these scum to do one, or BETTER STILL, ban all Celtic fans who vote for these sleekitly dangerous scumbags.
tic toc….
I really hope the new Japanese striker is the finished article. It’s the most important position where we are lacking right now. Idah and Kenny do not convert enough of their chances. Fine for SPL where they will get a handful every game, but in Europe they will be lucky to get one, and it has to count.
The squad looks really fresh and hungry. Similar to this time last year, so hopefully we can have an even better season this time round.
Brentford in for Maeda as Wissa replacement if they can’t extend Wissa’s contract
So hundreds of racist thugs attack asylum seeker refuge in Essex and police and less than a handful of arrests.
96 old folk are arrested for peacefully protesting about genocide being perpetrated by Israel on a grand scale. Easy targets for Starmer and his police enforcers lol.
I seriously hope whatever emerges as ‘Real’ labour in the shape of a protest party ensures liars and self servers such as dominate the labour rump in Westminster never get re elected.
Time for a party which reflects what real people are thinking. Not what the heavily influenced old and new media want to magnify.
Timmy 7
You take it all a wee bit too seriously.
I was just having a laugh.
Sorry if it offended you.
Much of the chat has been about BR span of control etc. For someone to suggest we are fitter vs Ange because of Brendan is just funny.
My son worked in that department and respected that it was a step up back then vs before but attributed most of that to Jack Naylor and not really BR.
Of course his fan bhoys seem to feel the need to credit him with everything good. That makes me laugh. Maybe he is responsible for improved cleanliness in the loos also.
B78…did you ever visit the town of Angostura?
Goodnight all