If Celtic players and coaches bristled at criticism of the way they marched to what could be a ninth treble this season, they have no better way of answering it that at Ibrox on Sunday. They face a Newco side dealing with a familiar failure, but who have the opportunity to beat Celtic for the third time in the league this season. Bizarrely, both teams are looking to gain some credibility on Sunday.
Brendan Rodgers will surely never have another opportunity to put one over on Barry Ferguson. The former Rangers captain cannot be a serious candidate for the Newco job, but years from now he will talk about the weeks he beat both a Rodgers and a Mourinho side. Allowing him to extend the boast to a second win over Brendan’s Celtic is unthinkable.
Philippe Clement will go down in history as an unlucky manager. With weaker resources, he figured out how to match Celtic; first taking December’s League Cup Final to penalties, then battering us at Ibrox three weeks later. The same tactical battle played out at Celtic Park in March, when Clement’s tactics eventually won there.
We return to Ibrox with fans for the first time in years, have a better manager, better players and our season still has purpose. The script is written for a memorable Celtic win.
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Happy Oaks day!
Let’s hope we do win.
Dead rubber
Jota,Kuhn, Maeda,Johnston miss training today,can’t see Jota making it,hopefully others are precautionary
Idah will win us the game.
On the brink of a treble yet this leader says we need credibility, I judge my team on the points acrued and cup ties won, not as an” Old firmist.”
How the Away strip should look.
BringItBack CSC
Put out our under 18s..Its an absolute meaningless dead rubber.
Oh and cancel the Adidas deal..
No blood stained poppy and/or logo should adorn the hoops
I’m sure BR said Maeda was going back to Japan as his wife was due to give birth.
There are few better places to be than Ibrox when we beat them.
I have seen it from the Copeland rd when Charlie N scored, I have seen it from Govan Stand when Lubo put them to the sword, the enclosure for Brian O’Neils game and the club deck when KoK scored. I was in the directors box to see Big Bad John score and the Broomloan on beach ball Sunday, Edouard 3-2, Lee’s demolition, the centenary 2-1 and so so many more. I was in the corner when Ramsay scored and we beat them 2-1 and when Johny Hayes finished the 2-0.
I loved them all. It’s so good to see their triumphalist pre game rituals crumble and turn to tears as we ‘own’ their manor again.
Can’t wait to be there again on Sunday. Win lose or draw these are great Celtic times. They are struggling to give away their £57 tickets for this one. We could sell ours 20 x over.
Let’s hope Brendan and the team rise for this one. And put a marker down for 25/6. Hail Hail.
Manchester- London train on Cup final day, £208 return….
They know how to contain and at times boss our midfield. BR has to show that he has a plan to change the recent narrative. Far from a dead rubber imo.
dessybhoy- I think Brendan joked that he wasn’t going to Japan for the birth
Jota won’t make it on Sunday
Maeda
Idah
Kuhn to start
Always find it a bit strange when I see this fixture referred to as The Glasgow Derby. I always thought THE Glasgow Derby was Celtic v Rangers. Surely this one is “a” Glasgow derby?
i want Celtic to win. by a few goals as well
but once again how do the champions get up for this meaningless fixture
maybe for the 2 thousand to have a party.
other than that i am struggling to care.
Bada
Right, I didn’t pick that up.
dessybhoy- my bhoy explained it to me,I took it the same way as you 😀
£57 for a ticket, will the GB be throwing oranges on the pitch ?
Statistically it is a dead rubber but tell that to the vast majority of our fans who want to see an emphatic win regardless.
If Maeda and Jota are out, we have a front three of JF, Idah and Kuhn (or Yang) which is typically what we would end games with. With only Kenny as back up striker we are definitely light up top. As in the previous games,this season, they will overload the midfield and swarm all over Calmac to see if they can force errors while we play out from the back. No chance of BR playing 442 so JF, Kuhn (and Yang) will need to do a shift and a half tracking back.
Delighted the league is already won as I think it will be exceptionally hard to get any kind of a result. Let’s see if the ref lets away the early assaults when Bazza’s team talk is still ringing in their players’ ears.
Incredible number of rangers tickets on sale and resale for Sunday.
Given the number of home defeats the Ayebrokes club have suffered recently it should not be beyond our ken to achieve a victory there this weekend especially going there as Champions. That said most other SPL teams, like St Mirren for instance are far more stronger physically than us and are less likely to get knocked about, than say our midfield who struggle to tackle the proverbial fish supper, even on a Friday.
Then again if we play on the front foot, then there is only going to be one winner, the Bhoys wearing green and white.
Paul67
Too much old firmism, conflating both clubs we’ve beaten there ad nauseum. The 5-0 Eddy game should have been the last with any, never mind a restricted by them, 2000 away support.
‘The £49 agenda ‘ does have basis IMO
they are not the same club and Celtic should have treated them as new as they were when they got promoted to the Premier League from the lower divisions.
Celtic have in part, contributed to the same club myth and continuing old firm existence, when they could have buried it in 2012.
I don’t think it’s a dead rubber, we are under more scrutiny now following two consecutive defeats against them.
That said, saying we need to gain credibility is a bit ridiculous.
Win, lose or draw, come Monday morning, I’ll be thinking solely of a SC Final.
P67
New club not newco
No continuity for the club hollowed out and husked by Cheat Murray
Have a look at the league table and reassess your point on credibility.
The only club looking for credibility is the one currently attrmpting to workout the value of its over 540,000,000 bits of confetti so it can deduce who owns them.so then they can be sold.
There is no credibilty in association with a cheat
HH
Good afternoon all from the Brazen Head. A fine Friday in the famous old Gorbals parish. 👍🍻
BRB
Jota playing pool on crutches?
bigrailroadblues on 2nd May 2025 1:13 pm
Good afternoon all from the Brazen Head. A fine Friday in the famous old Gorbals parish. 👍🍻
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BRB
You’re wasted on here you shoud be doing reviews for Lonely Planet! Am more travelled man I’ve yet to meet!
Jota out for 9 months
The last result against them was an “outlier”, don’t you know?
No, wait, it was the January result that was the “outlier”.
I wish I was clever enough to fathom how many outliers make trend.
Sunday is a “must win”.
A new winger required in the summer window then. No Jota till 2026.
Got to say this hyping of a nothing game is an absolute nonsense.
The game means nothing. Yes, yes, we have the old firm lovers but really!?
There is no credibility whatsoever at stake here, even collecting the bigot bucks has been a chore.
If the fholks who want to big up the tie were as vehement when their Big Ange was here in his last run in, that would make sense…
Ange’s games after the split in 2023…
Pld 5, W 2, D 1, L 2
R2ngers 3 – 0 Celtic
No credibility issues for Ange in the Ibrox dead rubber, no Ibrox battering for our Ange…
Once again, we have the fholk that didn’t welcome Brendan back with open arms trying to set him up for a fall… their last hurrah!!
Well, we don’t care if we win lose or draw…
Cause we are Champions again…
Hope all the loathers that have their fingers crossed for a R2ngers victory are crying in their beer on Sunday afternoon
‘Cause it’s…
R2ngers 0 – 3 Celtic
And there is 150% chance no-cred Rodgers will be here next season…
Hail Hail
I think we’ve comfortably established our credibility in both domestic and Euro arenas this year.
Now bragging rights… well, we either get them on Sunday or relinquish them to an average but staunch side.
And I think it will speak to something of our mentality if we don’t do them.
Like I’ll try not to take it too hard of we falter, but it will feel anti-climatic.
!!BADA BING!! on 2ND MAY 2025 1:50 PM
Jota out for 9 months
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Massive blow to BR’s squad plans. Kyogo, and now Jota need replaced.
Lets consign the Wee Ned to the ugly history he belongs…………
Hump thum – hump thum so badly that the Teddies berserk and the Zombie bench start fightin’ with each ither.
Yup.
HHH
Absolutely gutted for Jota – nine months for a knee twist. Larsson’s horrible double leg break kept him out for 8 months. So, so unlucky having already missed so much football in Saudi.
…and if Jota is out – then a replacement, like for like req’d.
So, from Rangers promotion in 2016 were the old £49 ticket price from 2012 was used on so-called new club “Sevco” tickets – and so-called Celtic fans paid for these obviously the same club in 2016? £49 tickets and then sang about Rangers being dead?
To 2025 ticket price of £57 were so-called Celtic fans will pay for these tickets and again sing about Rangers being dead!?
Only one thing died in 2012 and that was Celtic fans honesty and integrity.
Original, real, and integrity driven Celtic fans in 2012 would have wanted our board to get right into the centre stage of this EBT crimes disaster, because of the 20+ trophies that we were obviously cheated out of.
But that didn’t happen, and cowardly shifty deceit was Celtic boards approach, and our cowardly and deceptive fans danced along with this abdication of executive duties.
Real Celtic fans being led by a Real integrity board would have been presented with the facts that only an honest board would have taken the time and care to put facts with solutions onto any negotiating table.
The facts are that there is now Zero honesty or integrity in the Celtic boardroom, or sitting in the Parkhead stands.
Rangers club, players, or fans didn’t instigate or execute the EBT Criminal scheme.
The Rangers fans and probably all of the Rangers players never knew that the leader of the club David Murray was carrying out a cheatng Tax swindle.
David Murray did that and he is the only one who has been unpunished at the end of the day. He’ll be laughing his ass off on some sun kissed beach somewhere.
Rangers fans have been punished for the crimes of David Murray.
That is Wrong! And we Celtic fans went along with it and danced in the street as the wrong group [ Rangers fans and Players ] were hung for crimes that they didn’t commit, and Celtic’s sleazy fans danced along to this carnage.
Celtic fans have been blessed with a sly, cheap, sleekit, and cowardly board since 1994, and now we have fans who buy Rangers tickets then sing Rangers are dead.
How brave is that? How stupid is that? How cowardly and sleekit are you?
Celtic’s board are now so powerful that they don’t even allow themselves to be questioned unless from some powder-puff type at the scripted AGM.
Celtic fans buying rackiteering priced tickets at Tannadice last week and then throwing their Tangerines out of the pram, demonstrated just how bereft of Integrity, Honesty, Leadership, Focus, fans can become when they are led by a board full of Cowards, Deceivers, Liars, Sellouts, Sleekits, Cheap Punks, etc.
Which is a great shame for these present day supporter base who’ve learned that when you get caught lying, just lie some more. Nobody will notice.
If it comes to a head over the same club lie and Huns fans say.
[ “HEY TIM’S IF WE ARE NOT RANGERS FC WHY DID YOU KEEP PAYING RANGERS PRICES FOR TICKETS vs RANGERS AFTER OUR PROMOTION IN 2016? YOU PAID £49 IN 2012 WHEN IT WAS BEFORE OUR SFA STITCH UP.
WE CAME BACK IN 2016 AND YOUR BOARD AGREED TO RETAIN OUR £49 TICKET PRICE AND YOU TIM’S WENT ALONG WITH THIS AND THEN YOU SANG ABOUT US BEING DEAD?!
WHY DID YOU GO ALL 2 FACED AND STUPID AND THE LIKE?
THEN YOU PAID £52, £54, £56, AND NOW £57 AND YOU STILL SAY WE ARE THE SAME CLUB? IS THIS A SCHOOL THING?
MAYBE RELIGION IS JUST A LIE AND CELTIC FANS ARE PROVING THAT NO MATTER WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO YOU END UP A LIAR!
HAS YOUR BOARD POINTED OUT TO YOU THAT WE ARE A NEW CLUB?
NO. THEY HAVEN’T! SO WTF ARE YOU ON ABOUT?” ]
And this is where cheap slack assed dishonest leadership leads to.
No amount of trophies with ZERO opposition will hide the FACT that Celtic’s board and sadly now also its supporter base are the worst liars, deceivers, shifty sleekits, etc, that our great club has EVER seen.
Do you think that Rangers fans would have went along with same club lie tickets to keep afloat the lie that Celtic were alive, if the EBT Scandal etc had been used to cheat the Huns out of 20+ trophies?
What do you think the cheated Hun fans would have done to their board if they had been cheated by EBT’s and the sleekit Hun board went along with the cover up, pretending that Celtic were the same club through the boards sleekit silence, and same priced tickets cover up shifty sleekitry?
I’d say that the events of 2012 and the sleekit cover up that followed, has taught us that TRAITORS are worse than ENEMIES.
Enemies stand in front of you opposing you and being your enemy.
Traitors stand next to you or behind you, pretending to be on your side, whilst they are plunging their steely knives into your backs.
I’d say that we have a Sack The Board and Ban the 2012 to the Present Day Fan base EVENT on our hands.
No more Heroes = No more Ghood guys.
What a time to be alive.
Kev J