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  1. Once Forrest is fit and Wakaso back playing, Mulgrew available with Lustig and Matthews it is going to be very interesting to see who plays.

     

     

    For the first time in a long time the team won’t ‘pick itself’.

     

     

    For me,

     

     

    Gordon

     

     

    Lustig

     

    VVD

     

    Denayer

     

    Izzy

     

     

    Brown

     

    Mulgrew

     

    Johansen

     

     

    Forrest

     

    Wakaso

     

    Guidetti

     

     

    But, as I say, lots of variables there.

     

     

    Exciting times ahead.

     

     

    A true number 10 and a extra defender in Jan and we have a very strong squad.

  2. Dallas Dallas

     

    Serious question, when Nielsen was interviewed post game, do you know what he was saying?

     

    He just seemed to mumble incoherently, and I honestly thought they should have added subtitles.

  3. garygillespieshamstring on

    Enjoyed the game tonight. Just a pity we didn’t get a few choruses of “go home ya Huns” after third goal.

     

     

    Glad sevco won’t be coming calling. However if they were, I would have priced it at 15 quid for adults and a fiver for concessions. They would get less cash and being priced as a lower tier game would noise them up no end.

     

     

    However I wouldn’t go even if they made it free on the ticket

  4. Sorry i ment Dante….message remains the same….you need qaulity defenders to play that system…especially in europe….

  5. Jungle Jim

     

     

    22:38 on 24 September, 2014

     

     

    Good night, all. I predict there will be more stuttering along the way but that will decrease and, eventually, we will be very happy with the way our team performs. Anthony Stokes will continue to improve.Early days but his demeanour has changed of late.

     

     

    JJ

     

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    I thought he was excellent tonight and showed a range of perfectly weighted passes that were exquisite, to say the least.

     

     

    That much maligned pair played very well doon that left. Europe is the Big Stage however.

     

    Ronny Deila, I am rooting for you – Big Time

  6. Captain Beefheart on

    Anthony Stokes is not the answer and will not be the answer. Unless the question is ‘Who should not be playing up front for Celtic?’.

     

     

    A pity as he has ability.

  7. captain beefheart

     

     

    Strange that should be criticising Stokes so vehemently after he gives, in my opinion, one of his best performances in a Celtic jersey.

  8. HT

     

     

    Maybe depends on where you sit tonight I was shifted

     

     

    I was in corner of North Stand and Celtic end and looking along lower

     

    North stand I thought it looked to have a decent crowd.

     

     

    In saying that I have thought that before and then saw head on and been surprised

     

    At the spaces.

  9. garygillespieshamstring on

    JC2

     

     

    Forgive my cynicism, but a crowd of around 15k seems a bit too close to the sevco crowd from last week.

     

     

    I smell more Gladys knight from the BBC sport dept.

  10. YouTube is brilliant for teaching history to your wee ones.

     

     

    Tonight – The Maestro….and that turn on a sixpence and pass to Chris Morris for the Macc goal.

     

     

    ‘That’s how to play football wee Mhan. And look how muddy the pitches were…..and the Ghuy there is tommy Burns, the one I delays talk about…..’

     

     

    ‘That’s whats so special about them right there,Jim. Just right up there; that’s what’s so special about them. They’re there and they’re always there. And God bless every one of them’

     

     

    TB

     

     

    Bedtime for this youngish (by CQN standards!) Tim!

     

     

    Night.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  11. jc2

     

     

    You could be right mate. I was sat right in the middle of the north stand. The number of maroon monkeys probably increased the number quite significantly.

  12. Captain Beefheart on

    Not really HT.

     

     

    The opponents were not good.

     

     

    He isn’t good enough for Europe. Europe matters to me, not a worthless tournament.

     

     

    However, I am pleased if Anthony played well.

  13. Marrakesh Express on

    Bit behind the times here but been reading the Sunday Herald’s extensive coverage of the GS trouble last Friday.

     

    Plenty of social media evidence of vanguard bears trying to organise a mob and calling for attacks on the GS Yes crowd. Some criminally vile stuff posted and how the scuffers aren’t onto it is astonishing, or maybe they are.

     

    This will be the same VB who display their banners at the bigot hoose ‘demanding answers, honesty and integrity’. Even one of their own castigated them in the article, saying he was ‘ashamed of his fellow Rangers fans’. I dont buy the daily rags but can anyone say if a reference was made to the Huns in them?

     

    And by the way, any Celtic fan who wants the Klan back at CP needs their heads looked.

  14. the glorious balance sheet on

    Captain Beefheart 2246-

     

     

    Stokes has skill but he lacks the speed required to be a top player; speed of movement and speed of thought. Charlie Mulgrew is exactly the same.

     

     

    Tonight though Stokes deserves a lot of credit. His partnership with Izaguirre produced some fantastic football. The Hertz right back will be having nightmares for weeks to come, they ripped him to shreds.

     

     

    I was also impressed with the way Stokes gave Guidetti a big pat on the shoulder to say well done when Guidetti was being substituted. Its the small things like that that build team spirit.

     

     

    Stokes isn`t a CL quality striker, we all know that. Its not his fault that we are still relying on him. All that we can ask is that he gives his all and plays at his best whenever he is handed a starting slot. Tonight he did exactly that.

  15. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    pfayr,

     

    hahahaha.

     

    Did you see the two penalties Falkirk were denied last night?

     

    Absolute stonewallers.

     

    I’ll be very surprised if St.Johnstone beat them.

  16. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    As Edward R Murrow used to say:

     

     

    Good night…. and good luck.

  17. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    garygillespieshamstring

     

    22:45 on

     

    24 September, 2014

     

    Enjoyed the game tonight. Just a pity we didn’t get a few choruses of “go home ya Huns” after third goal.

     

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    The `60s mantra.

     

    A joyful chant,with just a touch of venom.

  18. I was there and did not think we had 15000 in.

     

    Very sparsely populated, lower tier only; Celtic Way empty, food outlets empty, toilets empty, parking easy.

     

    No conspiracy by BBC just no’ many punters bothering to go with the game on the telly.

     

    I actually thought it, (very small home support), helped Hearts settle quickly and take us on for the first 20 minutes.

     

    Hopefully more tickets sold for the Zagreb game.

     

     

    EC67

  19. Evening Celts

     

    I enjoyed rhat tonight.

     

    Good performance,pleased for J.G opening his account.

     

    3-0 tribute to the late John Divers rip.

     

    Happy here tonight

     

    :-)

     

    HH

  20. Always great to win, and there are so many other aspects of tonight’s victory that pleases. The run up to it, the opponents, etc

     

     

    However…

     

     

    Stokes and Izzy were allowed the freedom of the left wing, and I struggle to imagine a more inept defensive formation that often had three players on them and still couldn’t stop them. Hearts were naïve as much as Motherwell were cynical.

     

     

    We were lucky to go in 1-0 at HT and the coaches know that. Our sloppiness, complacency, carelessness, lack of concentration….call it whatever you want…was very evident.

     

     

    We were also lucky that we did not concede from their penalty, and again our coaches know that too. VVD kicked the boys ankle, inadvertently, but kicked it nonetheless. Thank goodness our man Sow made his pig’s ear of it. But we were that close to being 1-1 and who possibly 2-1 down.

     

     

    We were in control of the game, but we couldn’t put it away until KCs penalty.

     

     

    Tonight we scored one goal from open play, and that is a story we have heard before this season, Sunday being the most recent.

     

     

    A win is progress though and hopefully the other things are being addressed.

     

     

    The team photo video from the official website is nice viewing….team spirit on show.

     

     

    http://www.celticfc.tv/archive?video=1868

     

     

    HH