If you were an opposition manager planning to face Celtic, what would you do? At Ibrox we will meet a team that attacks us, but on all other occasions, we will face a packed defence intent on shutting us out. That’s not all. Every opponent will play for free kicks in the final third and corners, when possible.
It is not difficult to gain possession – then a foul – in wide positions 30 yards from your opponent’s goal. This would be the staging post I’d aim for when facing Celtic. We are winning games but set-piece crosses into the box continue to be poorly defended. We are the football equivalent of a boxer with a big punch and a glass chin.
If I was Dundee United manager Tam Courts, who face Celtic in the Scottish Cup a week today, I would play for penalties. Failure from 12 yards has been a regular feature of Celtic performances for years. It has not cost us a trophy since 2016, but until we improve this crucial part of the game we are asking for a sore one.
Practice, practice, practice. You can be sure Dundee United will this week.
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PRESTONPANS BHOYS
On the rare occasion I miss a home game – twice this season – my ST goes to the bus and is sold to someone on the bus. I don’t get the money for it. It goes into club funds.
much rather Billy over Rod
On the rare occasion I miss a home game – twice this season – my ST goes to the bus and is sold to someone on the bus. I don’t get the money for it. It goes into club funds.
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thats very fair
or an alternative would be a donation to a charity
but i wouldnt take the cash myself
even for the 49 quid same club games 😄😄
Seated stadia largely quelled trouble, drunkenness and crowd disorder. Subsequently more females and families felt safe to attend.
My daughter attended Parkhead when she was 5 years old. Never in a thousand years would I have taken her to the old jungle era.
HH.
Can ye lift me ower mister?
Having been lifted over by my dad throughout my childhood, I well remember the pride I felt when a wee bhoy asked me to lift him over.
Jaysus,
Some ole sentimental pish getting in the way of the club trying to maximise more revenue streams and create a better atmosphere (given the large gaps that appear in the ST areas when 1 and 2 below doesn’t produce for you).
1. Go to the game with your ST book.
2. Give it to a mate if you wish. That option remains.
3. Make use of a marketplace that allows you to sell the seat to a celtic supporting stranger for the game and get a proportion of the money back on your ST, if you want.
4. Create as a big a crowd as possible on the day.
HH
can you life me over mister ……………..
I was still getting punted over when i was 14.
big big shock when i had to start paying at the bhoys gates
the run in…
If we get beat at Ibrox – God Forbid – but if we did – yet managed to win all our other games – we would still win the league,
Of course winning all our other games means having to beat them again at Parkhead,
maybe not – our goal difference would mean we could draw with them at Parkhead – and win the league on goal difference,
that’s assuming of course that no on else takes points of of either of us,
if it does go this way everybody’s nerves mines especially will be well shattered,
of course if we beat them at Ibrox – its all over imo.
i was using the bhoys gate or my pals UB40 till i was 20ish.
and half fare on the trains for away days.
being small has its com[ensations
Tom @5:53
That’s a good idea, our supporters club might be missing a trick, always got spare tickets.
I can’t remember the game, but my pal and me once tried to crawl under the turnstile. We got caught, of course. I must have been about 8 or 9. It was probably a reserve game, as my Dad usually lifted me over.
Saint Stivs – I remember getting lifted over many a time and then being planted in front of a crush barrier to keep me safe while my dad stood on the other side. Also remember seeing an awful lot of priests being allowed in for free :)
When talking about average gates in those days, you need to remember the massive amount of fraud going on. I was at loads of games where there were easily 40-50,000 fans and the official attendance would be 24,000. Wonder where it all went . . .
RTB,
too early to be working it out, dont sweat on it, just take the next game as it comes, the pressure on them is immense. I interloped on FF over weekend, they want their non triers gone, they are after everybody, GVB is appor appointment, changed the system, doenst make effective subs, if Fat Al is not at it, they struggle and the loan deals are baffling.
Pile on with many openly talking about the money troubles, playing support act for Ange homecoming and the absolutely pish 150th (sic) celebration which were done by the angry bears leaving plastic ponchos on seats, and they are crapping it.
One season in 12 the won something relevant, and our collapse, no supporters , they are cracking up.
some are talking trebles, cos Sounness says they can win the europa, others are saying we just want the money but the titlt is priority.
they dont know what to do next, we just need to keep winning.
My friend’s dad was a steward at Celtic Park in the early 70s. He was stationed at the stand turnstles. There were only about 2,000 season tickets and they weren’t assigned to a specific seat. If you had a ST you sat anywhere. Other than the Glasgow derby and EC ties it was cash at turnstiles.
Some of the bigger games (Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen etc) saw the stand turnstiles closed before kick-off as it was full.
My mate’s dad told us how, with the gates closed at 2:45 it was his job to explain to supporters why they couldn’t get into the stand. They turn up from the pub at 2:55 and demand entry as a ST holder.
He said he wished he had a pound for every time he was told – I pay your wages.
neil lennon appointed head coach of a cypriot club?
didnt see that coming
i guess the hot sunshine will be right up his alley being a fair skinned ginger 😆
When the season books came out for the new stadium, Fergus set up a deal with Scotrail whereby you got free train tickets to Celtic Park on match days. My mates and I used to get the train from Motherwell.
I used to work with a bloke who had an ST for Dortmund. He could only go about 6 times a year. He told the club if he couldn’t go and they sold the seat and split the take. Don’t know the exact details but seemed pretty sensible. Better than empty seats
Agree a full house adds to the match day experience.
Now if only our players would sit on each of the match balls until they were oval shaped? ….
… We could have a pint at the game !
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Mark Hately on STV.
He always sounds like he is about to burst out greetin.
Meanwhile BBJ is full of the bhoys can win it.
As a wee special treat the Skelpies were featured on the news, and they interviewed 2 of the local old bhoys (probably in their 40s) but you know what am mean.
my wife turned to me and said “nae wunner people canny make oot wit ah say” if i sound like that.
exactly dear, its a port thing.
Probably a lot on here myself included were at the league clincher
v Dundee in our centenary season where I think 67000 was actually
given as the official attendance when there was closer to 87000 and
the corner of the old Celtic end and Jungle was downright dangerous
In actual fact does anyone remember playing St.Mirren at home the midweek
before when we aalso only needed a victory to clinch the league but drew 0-0
This midweek match was also chocablock although nothing like the Dundee match
but I think they gave the official attendance as about 35000 when there was aa near
67000 capacity
Our board was definitely at it and trousered a lot of of cash which wasnt declared
CELTICFOREVER on 7TH MARCH 2022 6:29 PM
check out the corner here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saint_stivs/
SAINT STIVS on 7TH MARCH 2022 6:32 PM
It was only good luck and Gods will that there wasnt a crowd disaster that day
Our board was definitely at it and trousered a lot of of cash which wasnt declared
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no no no
they were saving up the cash to build us a magnificent new stadium in Cambuslang
which was a great idea for us South Lanarkshire folk
i could have got to the ground in 10 minutes instead of 15 😄
and we would now be playing in a stadium similar to Spurs’ current ground and not a stadium with a few thousand restricted view seats
honestly, it would have happened…
shallower terracing, low fence to escape onto the park, incredibly well behaved crowd, with the priority on the day being get in and get a place without going for a bevvy.
we were in like 45 minutes before kick off, and unbelievably deposited youngest brothers and cousins down the front against the wee green barrier, and told them not to move,
its menatl looking back at it now.
if celtic park held 75,000 – 80,000 on those great european nights then there must have been similar crowd for the dundee game.
CELTICFOREVER
The Dundee clincher was indeed dangerously overcrowded, but you can’t criticise the club for listing the official attendance as 67,000 because they can only count turnstile clicks.
Thousands got in for free that day by climbing the walls and an exit gate that was opened. You can’t expect a club to count them as part of the official attendance.
they could hardly have given the official attendance as 80000 when the capacity was 67000
think the glasgow cooncil and polis might have had a word with them
ZIGGYDOC1 @ 5:49
Practise, practise, practise.
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Yes indeed!
Ise – where it is the verb in a sentence,e.g. “I want to practise my posting!”
Ice- where it is the noun in a sentence,e.g. “practice makes (penalties) perfect.
I remember Chris Morris lining up to take a corner at that Dundee game and he had to move some fans out of the way as they were sitting on the track beside the flag. Corner of main stand and the old raingers end.
Saint Stivs
I was being conservative when I said some observers thought Fergus was ambitious with the 60,000. An overhang, towering above Janefield St and it’s cemetery, was a Paradise too far, for some.
Great cavalier Celtic sides right up to the Tommy Burns era, never mind the Lisbon Lions performed in front of 25,000 on a good day, McCann made them plus another 25,00O money up front men.
A ST and a seat to see Celtic? – It was the perfect antidote to a generation of wet legs in the Jungle, when it was bone dry outside. The Celtic ‘away’ supporters are a special breed, and they’ve also paid for home brief.
I ( and possibly you) went ‘the fox’ game where there were around 7,000 at a guess, what an atmosphere I love a Celtic party with an atmosphere.
I remember the look on a guy’s face when I was 10 year old asking for a lift over, then again I was 5 foot 10 and towered over him 😀
“ Mark Hateley will be like a new signing “
STV
FFS Lee Congerton has landed on his feet. Or he wants to top up his tan 🤣🤣
SAINT STIVS on 7TH MARCH 2022 6:13 PM
Thanks for the reply – I’m sweating on it already!
I am practicing how to spell correctly practices, pratise practice praktise
Now that wee have all settled down after yesterday’s win,I posted a question about the Hotel ,Musuem ,Ticket Office ,but never got a reply ,If it gets the go ahead I hope they incorporate good eating and toilet facilities,
Bsr
I ( and possibly you) went ‘the fox’ game where there were around 7,000 at a guess, what an atmosphere I love a Celtic party with an atmosphere
I flew up from London,down next morning,
For that game. Cheers for the memory tinkle,they were tough times.
HH
If yis are meaning the boycott game, Kilmarock March 94, I was not there, you splitters,
celtsforchange not a csc