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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AULD TAM on 4TH NOVEMBER 2016 7:56 PM
Petec gets away with posting the nastiest, most vicious right-wing nonsense on CQN, on a daily, and sometimes hourly basis, but he is protected. If anyone dares criticise his comments, or even disagrees with him, they are immediately put down by his “gang”.
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By all means criticise his comments.
What I object to is criticism directed at him personally.
To paraphrase ; ” nasty vicious personal “
Starry,
you´d be surprised …. should we go on the road together .. Plan D :-)
HH
On an old tablet which I don’t trust. Only to recognise our club supporting the Green Brigade this weekend for the world to do what it does.
Thanks Celtic.
Celtic forever.
Awe naw the noo…
” and your old lady too”
Celtic warrior fan over wintering in the Alps punch line….
Braw.
Awe-Naw –
Played ‘Downtown’ there (brilliant song!) but would respectfully suggest that the chords in the verse aren’t quite right. Rather than the –
G Bm C D
Down – town,___ things’ll be great when you’re
G Bm C D
Down – town,___ No finer place, for sure,
I’d instead suggest –
G – G/B bass – C/Dbass
Down – town,___ things’ll be great when you’re
G – G/B bass – C/Dbass
Down – town,___ No finer place, for sure,
strictly schmichtly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8
Only when there was nae glue
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO
Whit like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby:))
There’s quite a wee C&W scene here oot in Basellalnd, guys wi big moustaches and sides and cowboy boots, a wee bit like the Gallowgate in the seventies!
G Em C D
Downtown, things’ll be great when you’re
G Em C D
Downtown, no finer place for sure,
G Em C D7 G
Downtown, everything’s waiting for you
Starry
LOL …. Sydney Devine days
All about opinions ;-)
Jobo
No I prefer your’s … sounds more authentic and dramatic
HH
VFR800A8 @ 7:44 PM,
“The nature of an online community is that people post what comes out of their head, particularly when there is nothing of interest or relevance being discussed.”
With all due respect, no it is not.
There are a multitude of online communities, many crude, offensive even sick by some others standards.
There are many sensitive, thought provoking, enlightening.
Many are strictly monitored, many “family” sites…
In some there can be a free for all of course but generally, there is an expectation of what is acceptable within the online community.
CQN is NOT a crude free for all site… never has been.
Dealing with sensitive issues in a crass manner ill befits CQN.
A test of a baby Fetus to determine issues is NOT…
Eugenics the garden LOL
CQN is a broad church but it has standards… well at least it used to have:(
Hail Hail
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO
You’re right about the team by the way, they need to muscle up and stand their ground in Europe, like wee boys sometimes the other night as the excellently timed German machine!
Aye driving me nuts in Europe.
You twa will be needing a braw road manager……plan F######g braw…
Remember brawderator…..flipping….
Fred a stair CSC
Braw
Climb me baby climb me…..slide doon that brawnisster…..
Braw.
We cannae be partly open to all.No matter how much pish,right or left,someone posts they’re entitled to their view.To deny them that is worse than anything they might post.
I mean,ffs,did you see what Big Peat was posting last night?The antithesis of what i’d believe in but that doesn’t give me the right to demand he be silenced.The very worst of both right and left political regimes practiced/practice censorship so no side has the moral high ground.
Freedom is either 100% or it’s not freedom.
Anywho,it’s Friday,here’s a tune
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDAfa-NI-M#
Chairboy
For UEFA to accept SFA interpretation would require them to abandon Article 12 whose purpose is to stop clubs dumping debt and carrying on as if nothing had happened.
Scottish football does not have an equivalent. It should but UEFA are only interested in protecting the sporting integrity of UEFA competitions not national domestic ones.
Watching Brentford v Fulham, wee Sone Aluko just scored for Fulham. Good paced derby game with a bit of needle. My lhad is there tonight, just £12 a ticket?, hope all is good. Fulhams young team setting off some pyro
Thistle v Aberdeen looks utterly shite by comparison. Shame.
Dons score to move into 2nd place “as we speak”
baba
and what a freakin tune
Al, I hope James can get the RC into the top 3.
Wan day a long Time ago, James was mean’t to be signing for Celtic, My Heart jumped up so much reading about the guy linked to CELTIC – I picked up a paper in Safeway I think. Most of Dumbarton was excited that Morning I’d hazard a guess. Tam brought him to Reading.
He is a real fitba man, his Dad was able to be there every Time.
St Peters and St Michaels
It is hard to move schools as a small child.
The New Rangers will huv to play well to get points. :))
Petec,
Great, but I wonder why Ritchie Brittain’s goal against Celtic – their first ever premier league goal – not there?
Ha ha…….just hope things happen for us on Sunday.
Chairbhoy
A couple of eloquent posts mate.
Free speech yes but responsibility with it as well..
Live a good life.If there are gods and they are just,then they will not care how devout you have been,but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
If there are gods but unjust,the you should not want to worship them.
If there are no gods,then you will be gone,but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 161-80 CE
200 years later Constantine, Roman Emperor at Nicaea decreed Mithras Birthday(25th December) be adopted for the newly invented Jesus Christ (previously known as plain old Joshua/Jesus)from a wee town that hadnt existed at the alleged time of his birth.And if his birth was to to fulfil a prophecy,why wasnt he called Emmanuel?
jist asking like
OpentoAllCSC.
HH
I would think that its not what Petec posts that gets up peoples noses here.
But its the sheer volume of nonsense posts one after the other, after the other, after the other etc etc.
I post a fair amount of jibber jabber here myself but if i posted such a volume of it I might be expecting someone to tell me to reign it in a wee bit…….
Clunks –
you’ve got me thinking. Would folk benefit from EK weather reports every 20 minutes? ;-)
I’m on the Home Ticket Scheme ,will I be offered a Cup Final Ticket ,for the Aberdeen game with Celtic .
Jobo,
only if you put random celtic jibber jabber on the end of it and perhaps a youtube vid
Shuggy…,
His name was Mark O’Rielly the firsts do only Irish Roman emperor, yours is the Latin spelling.
Nitol
And a braw road manager has a CE1 …..so we can load the proper amount of alcohol and gazebos etc etc etc..
Toot toot…
Convoycsc
Braw.
Bobby sang the blues. ….
Braw
Alasdair MacLean on 4th November 2016 8:29 pm
Petec,
Great, but I wonder why Ritchie Brittain’s goal against Celtic – their first ever premier league goal – not there?
Ha ha…….just hope things happen for us on Sunday.
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GET YOUTUBING. :))
I dinnae want to say too much about Ross County against the New Rangers. I just hope that James WINS. :))
Take care Canamalar….
Braw has your back ….
Braw
Freedom is either 100% or it’s not freedom.
I like that quote!
Marcus Aurelius is aw right as well!
Each to they’re own.
If you don’t like then scroll past
Consistence beats resistance.
Tolerance beats ignorance
One man’s weird is another man’s wonderful
Alwayslurkingcsc
Downtown chords?
Are you talking Petula Clark downtown, petals? Hope you all sort it out.
Timbhoy3,
Yes
Bit drizzly here in ole EK.
However as they say (do they?) ‘every farm’s a mile from somewhere’
And the mood improves vastly when one simply sings nonsense https://youtu.be/69zZpTRlNvk