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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● Scotland Managers that have appeared in English FA cup Finals
1) Losers medal in 1954?
2) Losers medal in 1960?
3) Winners medal 1978 ?
4) Winners medal 1985?
SCULLYBHOY
Appointment on Tuesday 22nd July@ Shankill wellbeing centre (Ophthalmology).Hopefully I get word regarding surgery soon,Take care Kieran.
‘Eddie Howe lavished praise on Celtic and insisted Brendan Rodgers side look Champions League ready.’
Fan Bhoys CSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQgxEG5w6o
Inverkip beach never looked better 😎.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 20th July 2025 1:41 pm
It also meant that our support were on our best behaviour and didn’t get caught up in tit-for-tat chanting with the hard-of-thinking Geordies.
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Great to hear. I know folk who were home from afar and attended with their families. Great that is was such an outcome.
I couldn’t believe it when I thought I heard the Geordies sing F the pope. Daft wee howay the lads.
Selling your better players was palatable in the case of Nicolas Kuhn. Financial triumph sweetened the blow, in the German players ‘easy decision’ to live on four times your wage, to do the same job, and never see another zombie to blacken your eyes. Daizen Maeda on the other hand is a different story, his worth to Celtic should be measured in Larssonesque metrics, seven magnificent years seems about right, for the man from Japan.
He gets Celtic and the old place bristles with his worth to the support, not corporate wealth worth seemingly locked unspendable in a bank never to find his replacement like Kyogo, whose jersey’s still empty, but totally eclipsed by mercurial Maeda.
BR and Co, have brought the best out in the Japanese player who arrived at Celtic as, a mibbees aye, mibbees naw winger but an elite coaching was instrumental in developing the player who was wisely tied up on contract till 2027. BR and Celtic are on the same wavelength as his wideman, enjoying life by the Campsies, not Como.
I wouldn’t quite say you were going to have a riot on your hands, but If you sell Maeda, I just don’t think you understand.
As ever CSC
Roryball now commencing on Sky. 5 hours of nauseating superlatives about a guy flying a flag of British convenience.
Praise the lord for Scottie S and fingers crossed for Bob in this house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eth-NdNQSDA
GO TO 9 MINUTES.
celtic are a serious team,
I agree as to the value of Maeda.
He is as good a player now as when he arrived though.
Sadly the Japanese manager doesn’t quite see it as you do.
He was a fixture in their team back then and is not always a starter now.
Still if you want to peddle some narrative about coaching at Celtic somehow improving him then crack on. Plenty of believers. I think it is hilarious personally. Just as every signing per BR era wasn’t good, nor can every success recently be credit to him. Or every failure.
Honestly I’m not Bitter
I hope Brendan sticks the nut on that that.
Maybe already had 😂.
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All Ireland Hurling final
On BBC ni
HH
Links courses without wind are defenceless and the American has this won after the second hole and he knows it, not into the McIlroy hype either but I find Scheffler utterly dull, wish there was something else to watch on for the last day of the Open and that is poor.
” Burnley78 on 20th July 2025 2:37 pm
Still if you want to peddle some narrative about coaching at Celtic somehow improving him then crack on. Plenty of believers. I think it is hilarious personally.”
You really think it is `hilarious` that coaching at Celtic could improve a player?
That , to me, is rather a strange opinion to hold..
Nice of the rest of the field to take the pressure right off Scottie . He was always going to win it anyway but a bit of a challenge would have been nice to spice things up .
Starting to think B78 has something personal with anyone from Northern Ireland. Been Brendan for ages and now it’s Rory 😂
Burnley78 – not much Roryball on Sky now. Scottie winning with ease.
On football matters, as fans, our opinions on managers and players can differ wildly. The only time I got swept along on mngmt mania was when MoN built a team capable of beating EPL and European teams and thrashing a very good Hun team.
Since Stein, I would argue only he and BR have been considered extra special by the majority of fans. Ange maybe was close to it but departed too soon. TB also a candidate for being most loved but not for his mngrl successes. Others have come and gone, some with greatly enhanced CVs, others with little to celebrate, but none of them were mentioned in the same breath as big Jock.
If a poll was taken on our best managers since Stein, I think it would be BR, MoN and Ange in the top 3 positions. WGS, Lenny, TB, Dr Jo, Billy and Wim might get a smattering of votes but nothing like the aforementioned three.
Out of interest, who do you think have been our best 2-3 managers in your lifetime?
DeniaBhoy on 20th July 2025 3:56 pm
I concur . Jock , Martin and Brendan . In that order .
Burnley78 @ ( or was it Laxalt like you were on Saturday )
**********Sigh*********
Not even the good grace to address your response? – perhaps it was your haste to diss BR ( again )
Daily Bloggers and commenters might be forgiven for thinking you seem oddly fixated with our coach, the very mention of his name, seems to bring out the worst in you.
Anyway – I know I shouldn’t, especially as it wasn’t addressed, but are you saying that BR and his team of coaches aren’t very good? and have played no part in developing Daizen Maeda. A player we actually took on loan when no one else in the West would touch him, who played centrally for Japan, but made his name as a winger wideman with Celtic ?
Maybe It all happened by accident and Celtic especially BR are rubbish, so rubbish we buy players for £1.5M hire an elite successful coach from the EPL and he spends all his time putting out the cones on the training pitch at Lennoxtown? Meanwhile a lack of development from Daizen’s loan spell to us, raise his stock to double figures, maybe you do agree, but failed to get over yourself long enough, to avoid your bizarre loathing.
We’re all only Celtic supporters, even you.
Cork 1.16 Tipp 0.13
All ireland half time hurling update
HH
AT
Massive playing field they guys must be mega fit.
Bhoyjoebelfast
Struggling with 1960 but it was before I was born. Also only got Tommy D because he was a school mate of my dads and he told me about it.
1954 Tommy Doc (formerly of St Marks for WBA )
1985 WGS (Man U)
1978 George Burley (Ipswich ?)
Great question
Bhoyjoebelfast on 20th July 2025 1:48 pm
● Scotland Managers that have appeared in English FA cup Finals
1) Losers medal in 1954? = Tommy Docherty
2) Losers medal in 1960? = Ally MacLeod
3) Winners medal 1978 ? = George Burley
4) Winners medal 1985? = Gordon Strachan
SCULLYBHOY
Appointment on Tuesday 22nd July@ Shankill wellbeing centre (Ophthalmology).Hopefully I get word regarding surgery soon,Take care Kieran.
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JOE
Only seeing this now. Just on the break from watching the All Ireland Final.
I hope and pray all will be well. Keep in touch. I will keep you in my prayers.
HH
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Paul the Spark
Rory is a great golfer but I am not keen on the overboard and ridiculous tv coverage and total fanboy thing around him when there are 160 others playing too.
Yes I also dislike Colin Murray and the Portrush area is lovely but certain things around the demographic there make it not my favourite part of Ireland.
Scullybhoy
Well done on Ally McLeod. I definitely would not have got that as I wasn’t even born and thought he was Third Lanark.
“ It’s very difficult to get players to come to Newcastle “
Eddie Howe
Bournesouprecipe
Maybe you want to take a few tablets my friend.
No idea who Laxalt is. Never met the chap but would gladly meet him and post a selfie to disprove your incorrect conspiracy theory lol.
Tipp overturn Cork’s six point half time lead and now lead by two points. Twenty minutes to go.
Bsr
He also said something along the lines of” if you want a player,the player must really want to come to your club”
Tipp now six points ahead and Cork have a player sent off. Fifteen minutes left.
Burnley78,
Did your Dad come from Shettleston? My Dad used to say, if you called out Doherty along Shettleston Road, half the closes would open up. By the way, he went to St Mark’s too.
Third goal for Tipp. Leading by twelve points now, ten minutes to go.
Watching a video on You Tube from the game yesterday, The rain pelting down supporters being soaked no shelter for the ordinary fan,why because this board are only interested in the rich fans that can afford hospitality while the rest out side have to do with the rip off catering vans ,we’ll i think the currupt Celtic Supporters Association need to stop thinking about the freebies they receive from The Celtic Board and ask why there isn’t a few Fanzones around Celtic Park.
Still 12 points in it. Five minutes to go.
Four minutes injury time.
Well done Tipperary 👏
Not Cork’s day. They miss an injury time penalty.