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Brendan and Ronny. Even what looks like a lucky gamble isn’t

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The absence of Jozo Simunovic for our Champions League game in Monchengladbach set off alarm bells, but few of us expected that he was rested as a consequence of being on a one-game-per-week long-term recuperation strategy.

This was a bold decision by what is clearly a confident manager. It was also informative that Brendan Rodgers prioritised the league game against Aberdeen to deploy Jozo over the Champions League – an equally bold decision. Defensive performances in both games suggest the manager made the right call.

This is the kind of gamble that is going Brendan Rodgers’ way but which would have backfired on Ronny Deila. It’s not down to luck, of course. Brendan has proven the point that defences are systems more than anything else. Get the system right and you can move the players around. Get it wrong, as we did in Barcelona, and it doesn’t matter which or how many defenders you deploy, you’ll take a hiding.

After surviving an onslaught at home to Celtic in September, Inverness scored an added-time equaliser to deny Celtic their only league points of the season. Since then our domestic form has been even better than it was before that game, winning everything for the loss of only a single goal in seven outings.

One thing we know about Inverness-Celtic games, though, is that lightening doesn’t only strike once, or twice for that matter. This team have punished Celtic repeatedly over the last 16 years, usually against the odds. Their only defeat since an abysmal August came against Newco, who denied the Highlanders their own onslaught. That was also the only game Inverness failed to score since Same Old Alloa dumped them out of the League Cup in August.

After tomorrow’s visit of Inverness, Celtic’s only home game in the next six is against Barcelona. If Brendan was to cast his eye over the fixture list for opportunities to experiment, this is as good an opportunity as he’ll have until Accies visit on 13 December.

Maybe an opportunity to go one at the back and five up front.  Or just to give Patrick a start.  Either works for me.

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  3. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar...... Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    Typical Hun behaviour from McInnes …. pathetic display from a wee shoite when asked if he thought it might have been a penalty for Thistle

  4. Stayinguplate on

    We have Celtic tops in Rebel Canberra ( Rogic effect?). I make sure that I always put them prominently on display at the front of the rack, usually in front of EPL tops. Can’t believe I still act like a wean but it must be done to get the message out there.

  8. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar...... Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    I hear it’s a skeleton staff at sevco these days

  11. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    MELBOURNE MICK on 4TH NOVEMBER 2016 9:55 PM

     

     

    We can but try , mate.

     

     

    Our day will come.

  12. the_huddle on

    BABASONICOS71 on 4th November 2016 9:55 pm

     

    I’ll definitely be giving it a try.The big massive dude from the Icelandic show ‘Trapped’ is in it I see,he was excellent in that.

     

    ——————–

     

    And Dewey Crowe from Justified

     

    And Marlo Stanfield from the Wire

     

    And Peter Mullan

     

    :O)

  13. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    STAYINGUPLATE on 4TH NOVEMBER 2016 10:01 PM

     

    We have Celtic tops in Rebel Canberra ( Rogic effect?). I make sure that I always put them prominently on display at the front of the rack, usually in front of EPL tops. Can’t believe I still act like a wean but it must be done to get the message out there.

     

     

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    That`s the way.

  14. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Babasonicso71 10.01pm

     

     

    Ah the memories….. The Specials – Gangsters was one of my first singles purchased

     

     

    Stuff the Mods

  16. !!Bada Bing!! on

    olde worde huns next to me in a bar in EK saying young Dembele is in steroids , i burst out laughing, i hope i upset a few hurting huns

  19. BABASONICOS71 on

    STARRY / HUDDLE…

     

    I will def be checking Quarry out,just going by the cast alone.

     

    That then The Missing.

     

    Thanks fhellas,some place the ol’ CQN.

     

     

    GFTB…

     

    Gangsters reminds me of Janeys in the old Bay Hotel in Gourock,still the best club i’ve ever been to.Top tune. ;))

  21. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    67heaven, you posted the other night about the government’s refusal to have an inquiry into the battle at Orgreave Coking plant.

     

     

    The government may think we cant give the plebs another victory after facts about Hilsborough came to light.

     

     

    I hope those suffered at Orgreave have their voices heard .

     

     

    One victim was interviewed on radio 5 the other day.

     

     

    He was brought up to trust the polce implicity and raised his family to do likewise. His aim was to bring back that feeling of trust in the police but an inquiry into behaviour and what happened at Orgreave had to be done first .

     

     

    The OBAF has , in some case, lessened any trust in the polis also.

  24. Stayinguplate on

    BABASONICOS71 at 10.14

     

     

    Went to Janeys once or twice. Wasnt for me. I liked The Specials and the ska scene but my fave band around that time were The Chord,.a Mod band in the mould of The Jam

  27. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Bada Bing, two sevs were sitting behind me on the bus ths morning.

     

     

    Both worked for the same building company.

     

     

    Each was as loud as the other.

     

     

    I couldn’t help overhear one say to the other, ‘ have we got that training course on dealing with asbestos, next week’.

     

     

    Maybe they were preparing for games at Ibrox this season

  36. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Top 10 Scottish/Irish singers & writers

     

     

     

    Sandy Denny (claiming her for her Hebrides ancestry)

     

     

    Hugh Nicholson

     

     

    Andy M Stewart

     

     

    Scott Hutchinson

     

     

    Michael Marra

     

     

    Charlie & Craig Reid

     

     

    Kyle Falconer

     

     

    AL Stewart

     

     

    Roddy Frame

     

     

    Mike Scott

     

     

     

    Top 10 Irish singers & writers

     

     

    Van

     

     

    Shane McGowan (he counts)

     

     

    Andy Irvine (the real talent in Planxty)

     

     

    Phil Lynnott

     

     

    Leo Moran & Davy Carton

     

     

    Dominic Behan

     

     

    Damian Dempsey

     

     

    Neil Hannon

     

     

    Dolores O’Riordan

     

     

    Paul Brady

  37. What is the Stars on

    Ah Jaysus

     

    TET

     

     

    Bonnie Tyler… a sad middle aged west brit dubliner has been taken back to the teenage discos of his youth …cider and rebel songs and then the disco.

     

     

    Course I am all grown up and respectable now

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    Almore

     

     

    I will give you a call,want to give the 20 pounds sterling for that race night

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