You could see Celtic mature during last night’s game. They were defensively solid during the first half, and Craig Gordon was assured throughout, but for the best part of an hour we scarcely tested St Johnstone.
That changed after the goal, which arrived just as St Johnstone were enjoying their best period of the game. Kris Commons didn’t have his most productive night but it was his pressing which led to the break through.
During the second half Ronny Deila replaced Commons, Stokes and the tiring Forrest with Boerrigter, Inge Berget and Kayal. Even before the home team were reduced to 10 men moments after the final substitution, Celtic were clearly in a more comfortable shape. Players were finding space which didn’t exist earlier.
Maribor made seven changes for last night’s Slovenian Super Cup Final, which they won comfortably against opponents who are pointless in the league after four games. Celtic’s scouts are unlikely to have learned too much useful information ahead of next weeks’ game.
What is clear about Maribor is their aerial threat. Five of their 12 goals this season have been headers, which may influence Ronny’s team selection. They also break quickly down the flanks, so maybe a 4-5-1, offering protection to our full backs, is the way to go. Hopefully we’ve learned we’re not quite ready for 4-3-3 away from home in Europe.
The Slovenian media are dismissive of Celtic’s chances, encouraged, it seems, but continuing celebrations from Maribor that they pulled an “easy” draw. I suspect they’ve yet to see the Celtic who will take the field on Wednesday.
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I’d like to hear what mr Z thinks about this CL situation, His team were far superior to Celtic as was proven over two legs and in each leg of the tie.
Please come back and talk to your friends in celtic.
Acgr
ACGR
Unfortunately Legia played a suspended player. No sympathy for them. Cheats got found out.
P27, you sound like an animal CB and a durty wee bassa. I like it…………………….a lot:_)
If young acgr joins up you’ll play with or against each other. Wear your shin pads at all times, my boy takes no prisoners and is a dury bass himself………………ha ha
enjoy and have fun.
HH young dudes and fitba
PATRICK27
Congrats on yer grades,bud.
Quite outstanding. I look forward to never needing your professional help!
DD, I know that? Why are you telling me something I already know. I refer you back to my last post, I’d like to hear Z’s take on this and more importantly, he’s not been on this blog since this shitstorm started.
I want his perspective on this, not yours. I already know yours.
Mr Z come back and talk.
You are Celtic and you know it.
HAMILTON TIM
NATKNOW
My kid sis will be pleased to know that she fell victim to an experimental mind-altering spawn-of-the-devil concoction,and not some sociable libation.
If I got that blootered,I would be unable to remember a thing. Sadly,she remembers everything!
a ceiler gonof rust
Haha, I’ll fit into scottish fitba! Will wear the old shinnies, but for my part I won’t be taking out Tims! ;)
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
Haha, Thank you very much :-)
HH
ACGR
Lechia Gdansk.
Poland’s Green & Whites.
Legia wrong wans, like the huns.
BonM, our mutually Michael named pal tells me that the faithir winklepicker will begracing paradise on Saturday. Check his crombie poakits for pyro, he’s a green Brigadier according to some of the fannies / dullards onhere.
Coias at 10.30 will work for me. A full bifter brekky, several pints of beirra Morretti (help me oot there big taxi driver and large pretty boy)……..haw haw.
After that, victory and a great drive Notrh, or a sean bean wouls say. noth.
Fanny
DD, I get it, but want know that Mr Z has not forsaken this place. Let it go bruv. Mr Z is one of us as well as being a Legia supporter.
Let it go bruv.
Lads when ever that asshole tsd posts here just ask him what would Bobby Sands have to say about said situation as he stated awhile back that Bobby Sands condemned Ronald Reagan’s1983 Star Wars project two years after he died
Enough said
ACGR
The bold E put the mockers on yer durty stopout plans,did she?
Nae luck,mate.
Still,look on the bright side. You’ll be home for five.
That’s twelve happy hoursa dramming before dawn!
MACANBEATHA
And that was the closest he has ever been to the truth!
ACGR
My Grandfather was a Gdansk man.
Legia are the army/establishment team. No offence meant to Zbyszek. He will understand the Gdansk Warsaw rivalry :)
Macan
TSD and the truth are polar opposites.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
01:50 on 15 August, 2014
MACANBEATHA
And that was the closest he has ever been to the truth!
Just mention Bobby Sands /Star Wars and he will slink away for a while
PEASANTS NO MORE !
Oiche mhaith daoibh
Papa Francis about to say mass in South Korea.
GNGB
Interesting wee snippet in The Guardian re Tony Pulis resigning.
‘Palace have been operating with a wage limit of around £40,000 a week and Pulis had been frustrated about missing out on other targets.’
If that’s the case,how much is Joe Ledley on?
Oops,should’ve added
I expect he’ll be nearer the top bracket. No wonder we couldn’t keep him.
Legia are behaving like immature we wains running greetin to their maw.
Bear in mind, it is still Legia v UEFA, nothing to do with Celtic.
UEFA rules state: You must do X. Failure to do so will result in punishment Y.
Legia failed to do X. Punishment Y applies.
Arguing that the rules aren’t fair (like a wee wain) does not alter the fact that you had signed up to those rules and AGREED to them PRIOR to participating in the competition.
CAS will not and cannot overturn the UEFA decision. All this nonsense about appealing to CAS does not alter the facts.
Legia, you agreed to the rules. You are happy to agree to them when they work in your favour. You MUST accept those very same rules when YOU failed to abide by them and face the punishment.
On the subject of the MSM and their sporting integrity and fairness campaign. Don’t make me laugh. Utter hypocrisy.
We all know for fact that had it been a certain other club in Celtic’s position, the anti-Legia campaign, telling us all about their racist fans, match fixing history etc… would be in full flow.
Geez peace!
How about you guys who run all these blogs get together and start a coordinated campaign to boycott these rags?
They aren’t even trying to hide their anti-Celtic bias any more.
Hit them where it hurts.
For my long lost pal shady who introduced me to this wee belter of a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOA-5H_L2g
Shady, I hope you’re enjoying and growing in your new land
Fior up thi Barbie mate!!!
Hal Hail bruv
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
22:23 on 14 August, 2014
Here’s the trick
The meeja have been making declarations for years and getting away with it.
Bush election cheating was not an issue.
Obama deserved the Nobel peace prize
Rangers have not died
Everything they have proclaimed is/was a lie
Politics eh
——————–
You are probably tucked up in bed dreaming of Celtic winning the CL Final next May
But I just wanted to put out the truth of the Bush Gore decision for consideration.
Under Florida’s Sunshine Laws, the ballots involved in the decision were provided to numerous newspaper to examine in detail and count.
The prestigious, at that time, NY Times, not know as pro Bush, concluded
Acomprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year’s presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.
Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court’s order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court.
Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations.
It doesn’t mean that cheating did not and does not occur in US or any country’s elections.
Simply that were were spared the hypocrisy and buffoonery at the White House Al has displayed since then.
If he had had a legitimate claim to having been cheated, he would have received the nomination in 2004, and won on the basis that he had been deprived of the Presidency 4 years earlier.
Instead he wasn’t and he has spent his time enriching himself by raising questionable global warming hysteria.
You can tell I don’t like him, can’t you?
DD, you have Polish disturbances like I’ve got hun ones.
We’ll talk bruv
HH, Celtic: a fink?
Seen this? Just not this guy’s day!
http://twitter.com/_youhadonejob/status/499898459831668737/photo/1
HH
End London rule. YES
Macanbheatha:
Said this before, and it remanis true, you have my utmost respect.
On that other matter i remember the post and him being called on it. You’d think he would slink off and change his moniker at least. Hail Hail.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/the-gathering-dark/
…. cause this blog needs cheering up!
Night all, and thanks to all the guys who posted their kind words earlier. I comment more on the bad posts than I do on the good, but I remember all your names and I have nothing but love for every single one of you.
This pretty much somes things up, IMO, ofc.
Ronny, IMO, is going places and it looks to me like he really does know what he is doing – there is definitely a strong self belief in the guy, delighted about this, just like my Heart rose after hearing him talk about Definitely making it through into the CL proper next Season after the Legia debacle.
I can’t see many of the old guard being able to transform to his methods, if they do, I think they will be delighted in the years to come. It’s the youngsters that will take this Club to the pinnacle again, they definitely need the best possible older heids to help them as well howevaah.
I think the Nir Bitton fella can really pull the strings for this team when he is up and running fully, there are some exquisite signs already that he can be coached into a Top Celtic player, for Ronny’s idea of playing fitba. I also hope Beram can get back to his brilliant best, sadly I fear, he will move on – You Never ever say Never though.
I said to the DD fella a wee while back that it would be just Fitting to have Beram and Nir in the same team as certain things happen – I wasn’t meaning what is happening just now in the Middle East.
When Ronny says that wee Jamesie is only 50% fit, well, to me, that said a lot because he played pretty well the other night, I don’t know James Forrest but I think he will be really looking forward to getting to that 100%.
James Forrest
Great to see you’ve been busy.
Best way to cleanse the soul.
HH
Ach I doubt JF would have talked to me anyway. I did try.
James Forrest will be a big loss to this blog and it will be poorer without him
Goodbye bruv
We Are Celtic, with or without you.
CelticDiamond
RWE, the abuse of JF really get on my tits. What a negative hun like experience it is to visit CQN these days and that’s fro a relative newcomer.
Best to you and your young loved boy. I’ll think about you both while I’m aarfjhfqhjf. my normal day.
RWE, HH and be positive.
GTF
The New Lions
Are they about to go Bach to the Future. Sabres of Paradise???
There is no doubt that Celtic Park Spooks even the Greatest players ever, Xavi, my nomination for best ever team player, closely followed by Paul.
Ronny is gonnae make this place impenatrable, IMO, allied to the Whole fenian Army that gives him support.
God – he certainly makes a Good story, we are fighting amongst ourselves whilst lambasting everyone and anyone….entropy entropy…… as DD says, it is written in the Stars, the thing is, noone knows about the Stars and the real story there, except the Creator. ;))
Macjay, I tok your advice. I didn’t cancel my sky subs, I called them and gave them both barrels on my view of their sports coverage.
The lady I spoke to could not have bee less interested..
Maybe when I shag her she’ll get the script.
Mibby eh, mibby naw…
Losing intersrest……………………………..dot com
Nothings gonnae stop us now
Aff oot before the provoetic KevJ commandeers the blog for his own selfish ends.
We are all massive Sinners after all. Especially me.
;))))))