Yes, Newco players cheered hearing they would face Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final. Manager, Graeme Murty, earlier explained the legendary status awaiting those players who deliver the club’s “first” major trophy, so chances are they will have to beat Celtic at one point.
Murty has twice taken his team to Celtic Park and left with a point, moreover, Newco eliminated Celtic on penalties at the same stage of the Cup two years ago, after a 2-2 draw.
Make no mistake, this is a perfect draw for Newco. Celtic will have the league title secured well before the cup final, allowing Brendan Rodgers to rest players in preparation, should they progress that far. During those final weeks of the season, Newco, Aberdeen and Hibs will fight-out for positions 2, 3 and 4. They will not have the luxury of planning ahead for a final. If you need to beat Celtic, better to face them before the final.
Anyone who thinks all Celtic need to do is go through the motions to win this semi-final, or this weekend’s game at Ibrox, needs to be reminded of trips to Rugby Park and Tynecastle. We have had our warning shots.
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JHatricked ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
THELURKINTIM
Trump? Have a swatch at this.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/jeff-flake-trump-press-speech-analysis/index.html
BMCUW
Know a good venue to watch the Sevvy game, maybe with a high backed sofa to peek out from?
FLOATIN’
Sadly,I’m rooted to Swindon,game being on a Sunday and working that night. But The Gateway beside Reading Station is the local Celtic Supporters hub,and it has sofas!
If you go there,ask for Fiona. She runs the Supporters Club there. Hoping to get over there,or to either Wimbledon or Royal Horseguards in Brentford,some Saturday before the end of the season,and hopefully have a slightly more relaxed day than the last one!
Off to Maldon on The Blackwater Estuary to meet another Ardrossan exile on St Patrick’s Day. Seems his daughter is having a baby shower,so he has an empty(!)
Ireland v England,a steady flood of Guinness,and a bottle of malt to finish off the evening. Makes me wonder if baby showers are actually a bloke’s invention!
Hope you’re feeling a bit better after the last month or so,T. Sair,and no mistake.
Oh,should have said,I’ll be watching it in a pub which opened last week. Sports bar and no kids allowed.
£2.50 Guinness. £1.75 Worthington £2.20 Strongbow
Not checked the lager prices,but I’d expect £2.10-£2.30.
They had me at the No Kids Allowed bit!
Good morning, friends. Mother Nature having a laugh – a big thaw in East Kilbride yesterday and most snow away, other than the larger drifts. Then wake up today to a thick blanket of fresh snow. What’s the point in that?
Jobo no snow down here am getting out for the first time in an age, Docs, medical, then pub tonight, hoping no shooting tonight.
WHITEDOGHUNCH
No prizes for guessing which pub you’re going to!
Hope you have a smashin’ day. At least the end of it sounds good…
WDH – the micro climate that is lower East Kilbride ;-). Or have you moved somewhere else?
Stuck on train again between Newton and Cambuslang due to power failure,,,??
Only sleet down in Tyre Jobo
Jobo still in same place seeking nearly new elephants
JOBO
When I worked in Wishaw,I had a colleague who drove in from Bathgate. He swore blind that Wishaw had a micro-climate.
Get within sight of the place,all you could see was clouds.
Having stayed in Ardrossan/Saltcoats for over a decade,I knew what he meant. The legend there went that if you could see Arran,it was gonna rain.
If you couldnae see it,it was raining already.
Plenty of snow in ml6 ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ HH
Support your local sheriff?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5464673/Police-pay-damages-family-arresting-gunpoint.html
Disgraceful,more so that the thugs who broke into their home and kidnapped them weren’t charged.
Wearing police uniforms,you see.
Word of The Day (is it all bluster?)
Rodomontade /ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd; -ˈtɑːd/
noun
1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
2. boastful words or behaviour; bragging
3. (as modifier): rodomontade behaviour
adjective
4. bragging.
verb
5. (intransitive) to boast, bluster, or rant
Word Origin and History for rodomontade
n.
1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), “vain boasting like that of Rodomonte,” character in Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso.” In dialectal Italian the name means literally “one who rolls (away) the mountain.”
KTF
STARRY PLOUGH on 5TH MARCH 2018 9:32 PM
I agree. Why do we fear them?
We have better players in all positions and will have players like McGregor, Kouassi, Edouard and Roberts on the bench. All of whom would get straight into their starting 11.
We really don’t have anything to fear from them if we turn up (which we will). What will the score be? Whatever Celtic want t to be.
KTF
VFR
Fitba’s not as easy as that,we’d all get a coupon up every week if it was.
Players and management from one team showing complacency,players and management from the other batting above their average,an injury or two,a dodgy decision,etc,etc,etc.
Jock Stein said it to Dave White after he had predicted the huns would win 2-1.
And in that respect,he spoke for every game,not just that one.
I’m hoping to celebrate three more victories over them,and hoping too that I’ll never see them again. But I won’t celebrate till
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0wdxj8-mAU
VFR
” Why do we fear them? ”
I would say it is because the Media is more influential than many think. It is the old `If you say something often enough…etc`. I know many don`t read `papers and don`t listen to the daft radio shows but no one lives in a vacuum. We receive the Media`s `opinion` second and third hand .It still effects us.
William Hill, however, currently reflects a different narrative. Sevco are 3/1 AT HOME and have been for a few days now. As the `We are very confident` messages continue to be issued,those odds might change but it is not real confidence. It is a mixture of bravado, delusion and brainwashing.
JJ
PS In fairness, I must add that unexpected outcomes occur in football. We are aware of that and know how Scotland would rejoice if their team were to defeat us.I feel it is that possible scenario that gives rise to some negative emotion . Overall, though, I think most of us, deep down,feel reasonably confident.
`affects`
HOTSMOKED
I’m never confident,and expect us to win every game. Square that circle!
(True,btw. Drives my kid sis nuts)
BMCUWP – I agree about complacency etc. but if, as I said, we turn up, then we will win comfortably. IMHO, they will need to score 3 goals to beat us. I don’t see that happening at all.
Hot Smoked – the rodomontade from Snake Mountain and the hopeful “title race” stories in the SMSM are all smoke and mirrors in the vain hope that number 55 will happen this year. It’s not going to happen!
KTF
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1409672-loganair-to-replace-ryanair-s-glasgow-to-derry-service/
VFR
I’ll have my fingers toes and eyes crossed going into the pub on Sunday. I’ll probably get kicked out for looking pissed before I’ve had my first pint!
BMCUW
” I’m never confident,and expect us to win every game. Square that circle!”
Me to a tee !
Cheerio for now,
JJ
Before las t years semi
Zombies on euphoria of a draw at Celtic park were full of hope
Pedro wAs being hailed a genius
Who according to him Zombies were top of his mini league
Bears were calling for him to go for the jugular
Hmmmmm
Deja vu Csc
JC2
Sure hope so!
VFR@5:02pm
“I look forward to seeing their reactions come approximately 2:15 on Sunday. My prediction is lots of sweaty words staring with the letters f and c!”
*****
You mean they’ll be feverish and clammy??
BMCUWP
Shocking report about the police wrecking innocent lives and brazenly going unpunished.
I wouldn’t trust a policeman as far as I could throw him or her!
The force is bent from top to bottom and for the length and breadth of this country.
I wouldn’t p*ss on one if they were on fire.
They lost my trust and respect years ago.
Anyone remember the cavalry charge up Janefield Street after a hun game?
Middens, every one of them.
Rant over.
Less than 30 days now to avoid CO vs TO.
Tick, tock.
Never mind the snow! I’ve seen some cracking snow men this last few days.
But you could build an amazing Fear man with the pant kacking panty wetting fear in here.
MWD palpable
MWD
Get oan wi’ yer work yoo an let me worry masel tae death aboot thees gemmes!
(Hope the job is going well and life is good!)
Looking forward to Hun games. I hope we can regain form and put them back in their box.
My concerns are not the form of Hunco as they really haven’t been tested but the complacency of Celtic. That said we have only lost 2 out of 80 domestic games – hardly free fall.
Im hopeful that with our total focus on domestic matters and players returning from injury we can go on to assert our dominance.
No one should allow any amount of Hun driven media manipulation of facts obscure the reality that Celtic have better players and a better manager. The odds should be heavily stacked in our favour.
The double treble has a lovely ring to it.
MWD
Fear Man! Get the copyright on that!
Could be the next Oscar winner after the Fornicatin’ Fish Man this year.
The Academy’s flipped ( or should that be ‘flippered’?).
PHILBHOY
My Mum astonished me a few years back by saying similar. Point being,when the police lose the trust of people like my Mum,something is wrong.
BTW,I was in The Jungle that night,but we always left from The Celtic End. Lucky escape.
Having said that,had I been there I’d justa chucked a pound on the nearest horse and it would have slowed right down!
I don’t think Celtic will be complacent at all- that’s not to say we can’t be beaten – but if we do it won’t be down to complacency.
I think Murty deserves some credit in all honesty for making a fist of what looked like a disaster of a Zombies team. He has them atttacking in every game and it’s a case if you score 2 we’ll score 3. However, that’s all good and well against lesser teams. However, he has also twice shown the ability to nulify Celtic ( to an extent) in previous league encounters and it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
They are at home, they will be encouraged to go forward and I can see Celtic finding gaps as a result. It will be different at Hamden thoiugh, where they will sit in tight and hope to score on the counter or from a set piece.
Much to ponder and I’d taker a draw on Sunday followed by a win in the semi and clinching the Titlke against them at Paradise in late April or Early May.
The fear we feel is not a fear of losing the game to them. It’s going to happen sometime, if they survive the next crisis. We all know that. Any time we play we are capable of losing, just as we are capable of winning. On paper, we have a better team, better manager and coaching staff, and better players in every position ( goalkeeper would be my only questionmark – sorry DDV ! ). All things being equal, we will win on Sunday, and in the Cup, and in the final league game of the season.
The real fear is what will happen after a defeat. The hysteria in the media will be multiplied tenfold. It will be unbearable – it’s barely tolerable now. Their fans will be totally rampant, proclaiming to all and sundry that “The Rangers are back”. “We are foing for 55” that “we told you so, we arra peepul”. And we’ll have to face that ( much worse for those of you who have no real way to avoid them in your day-to-day lives – lucky me, living outside the bubble of the West Coast!)
To me, that would be the worst part of it. At the end of the day, it’s 3 points. That’s all. Same as any other league game. If we lose, we’ll still win the league, because, we have the best team, the best players etc. and week-in, week-out, we’ll win more games than they will, and it’s about the best team ober the course of the season.
Make no mistake, if we lose 3 points on sunday, the antagonism, the provocation, and the bile from the monkeys who follow whatever appears on the park at Ibrox will be in our faces, and very vocal about it.
I don’t fear that, but i do despise the thought of it.