Celtic v Norwich City, Live updates

Gene on 24th July 2022 2:29 pm

I’m not buying the inference that Martindale won’t be trying next week. Close to relegation last season, players playing for their place / futures not to mention bonuses.

big wavy on 24th July 2022 2:34 pm

Huns pedigree ?

As usual, they’ve planned for that flawless execution of the ole hype curve you get from players who have kicked the ball less than their fans have kicked the pope in July….

Another season out of 41 year old McGregor? He stepped up as No. 1 again yesterday.

Their back 4 will have the 2 usual suspects in Goldson and Tav pen on the right but a new left hand side of Davies (small and ball playing over dominance) and the new Turk over golden bassey. Souttar and Barisic their stand-ins.

Their middle 3 will have brawn and lack of brains Jack and Lundstrum and all hope pinned on Lawrence to find the goals and footwork left by Aribo.

Front 3 will be underscoring showboater Kent on one side and Matondo on the right (the new Olly Burke) with harder wiorking Colak keeping the shirt warm until the unsellable Morelos loses several stone.

The old fellas like Davis and Arfield kept for security and new golden generation off the bench in the form of Tillman and a bizarre love of the limited Scott Wright..

I’m pleased they’ve lost Bassey and Aribo and equally thought the size and pace of Baloguon was an asset they’ve lost too.

Bring it on huns. Bring it on.

HH

GFTB on 24th July 2022 2:43 pm

Big Wavy 2.34pm

On your post about our nearest challengers I think in games against us Balogun actually defended well against us … Aribo was effective against other teams in the league and was actually a decent footballer

I think our team has strengthened not necessarily in the new signings (they can still get much better) but a settled squad with no CL qualifiers and our Japanese bhoys having a full preseason along with Giamakous and our loan players now Celtic players are all major factors

I am very confident of domestic success and at least 3rd in the group stages of the CL without ruling out a wee chance of 2nd place and a CL last 16 spot

But … 3rd place and Europa might keep us in Europe longer :-)

An Tearmann on 24th July 2022 2:52 pm

Aipple/bada

Recall in Fergus days proposals being made for subscription channel that was analogous to wwf wrestling at the time,instead of showing a wrestling bout it would be a Celtic game and (mid90s) would tap into the global diaspora. £x per match.

It never got progressed and iirc it went to sky or standard.

It is an area we could improve on and may have to open up as income,

HH

big wavy on 24th July 2022 2:59 pm

GFTB,

Agreed fella. The emergence of a rested Reo and Daizen will be transformational this season and agreed, some do seem to have undervalued continuity over bling. By the end of the window I think we’ll have both to celebrate. The huns are caught in relying on the old guard and taking punts on overhyped youngsters.

HH

big wavy on 24th July 2022 3:03 pm

Next week’s oppo on flag day on premier sports and hesgoal……

Plus ca change ?

HH

Aipple on 24th July 2022 3:03 pm

AN TEARMANN

Just searched the App Store for Celtic FC. Second hit is the Daily Records. Top hit Celtic News No.

Laughable.

The Celtic View is in there as well. Seems like it hasn’t been updated in an age. Brendan on the first page and a Scott Brown “Going for the 10” on page two. The most recent review id form 9 years ago and to paraphrase the review it says “pile of poo.”

bognorbhoy on 24th July 2022 3:05 pm

!!BADA BING!!

Celtic hosted Norwich City at Parkhead while Rangers played Tottenham Hotspur inside Ibrox.

———–

The wording is a wee bit weird …

Parkhead forge ? Parkhead cross ?

Ragers played them inside ibrox as opposed to outside ?

Aye but they scrapped with them outside 😜

Aipple on 24th July 2022 3:06 pm

Some typos above, oops.

GFTB on 24th July 2022 3:08 pm

BW 2.59pm

Even though Kyogo grabbed all the attention last season, and quite rightly so … I think both Reo and especially Daizen could really kick on this season, Maeda especially, his workrate is pretty special, I quite like the fact any time he missed very good chances last season it didn’t effect him and he scored the next one, always good for any striker to not let missing chances effect them

Aipple on 24th July 2022 3:11 pm

Wee read for later for those interested in such things.

How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped

Picasso’s giant mural about the horrors of war left its first viewers cold. How did this painting become one of the most important in the history of art?

When it comes to art against tyranny, no work is more seared into our consciousness than Guernica, Pablo Picasso’s dark, howling mural against fascist terror. Created in 1937 at the height of the Spanish Civil War, it has in the 85 years since become a universal statement about human suffering in the face of political violence. Throughout World War II, it stood for resistance to Nazi aggression; during Vietnam controversies such as the My Lai massacre, protesters invoked it against the U.S. military. Today, its shrieking women and lifeless bodies conjure the corpse-strewn streets of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha after Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault.

But Guernica’s enduring status was hardly foreordained. Picasso was deeply apolitical and had shown little interest in the Spanish Civil War before he created it. Nor had he ever done a public mural, let alone one about a bombed city. And the work was so disdained when it was first shown that it very nearly didn’t make it past its debut.

The story begins in the fall and winter of 1936–37, amid Europe’s first great military confrontation with fascism. From the outset of the war that summer, there was blood in the streets of Barcelona, where Picasso’s mother and sister lived. In September, in an attempt to draw international attention to its plight—and without, it seems, consulting him—the Spanish Republican government named Picasso director in absentia of the Prado, the country’s revered national museum. Nevertheless, two months later, Franco’s forces, aided by Hitler’s planes, were besieging Madrid, forcing a frantic evacuation of the Prado, which suffered a direct hit on November 16. Then, in February, Franco captured Málaga, Picasso’s hometown.

Yet through all of this, Picasso was back in Paris, mired in personal turmoil and emotionally detached from the war. He was still in the grips of a bitter and drawn-out legal battle with his estranged wife, Olga Khokhlova—having just ceded to her his beloved country house, Boisgeloup—while managing his two rival mistresses, Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar. Fearful that his art would be claimed by Olga’s lawyers, he had spent much of the previous year not painting at all. And while his friends were consumed by the vicious fighting, he was seeking escape in carnal pleasures. “In Spain they’re killing each other & he wallows in brothels,” the Irish Italian art scholar Margaret Scolari Barr observed after meeting Picasso in Paris.

Instead of painting, he spent long hours at the Café de Flore. And when he did make art—apart from the satirical comic strips he had started but not yet finished, called The Dream and Lie of Franco—there was hardly a trace of the war in his work. Four days after the fall of Málaga, he painted an absurdist scene of two robotlike nudes playing with a toy boat on the beach. “Picasso was joking, trying to shock, playing at contradictions,” the critic John Berger wrote. “Because he didn’t know what else to do.”

Then, one afternoon in late April, Picasso was sitting at his usual table at the Flore when the Spanish poet Juan Larrea jumped out of a taxi and accosted him. That winter, Larrea had helped persuade Picasso to create a large mural for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Paris World’s Fair that summer. But months had gone by, and Picasso had done no more than a few sketches. Now—according to Larrea’s friend, the Basque painter José Maria Ucelay, who later described the encounter—Larrea had an idea: A historic Basque town had just been completely destroyed by Hitler’s planes. What if he made the mural about that?

In Ucelay’s account of the meeting, Picasso demurred. It was not his kind of theme; he wasn’t even sure what a bombed city looked like. But then he read about the atrocity in the French papers and saw the pictures. He couldn’t get them out of his head. That weekend, he stayed in his studio and furiously began to sketch: a woman holding a lantern; a majestic, terrified, writhing horse; a woman, upturned in agony, grasping the limp body of a young child; a fallen warrior; an appalling pile of twisted limbs; a menacing bull; a petrified bird.

But it was a case that almost no one wanted to hear. By nearly every measure, Picasso’s huge, dark painting stalled at the starting gate. Le Corbusier, the architect who reviewed all the murals at the World’s Fair, wrote that Guernica alone “saw only the backs of visitors, for they were repelled by it.” Sert, who was by his own account at the pavilion constantly during its four-month run, was struck by the almost-universal disdain. “The people came there, they looked at this thing and they didn’t understand it,” he said.

The Spanish and Basque governments hated the mural. President José Antonio Aguirre snubbed Picasso’s offer to give the work to the Basque people; Ucelay, the Basque painter, called it “one of the poorest things ever produced in the world,” adding that Picasso was just “shitting on Gernika.” Several Spanish officials suggested taking it down and replacing it with a different work altogether. Buñuel, a notorious radical in his own right, found it so unpleasant that he said he “would be delighted to blow up the painting.”

So little sympathy did Guernica generate that the French papers greeted it with almost complete silence. Despite nonstop daily coverage of the Expo, Excelsior, L’Intransigeant, Le Temps, Le Figaro, and Le Matin made no mention of the work. Even the communist L’Humanité, which had done more reporting on the destruction of the Basque city than any other French paper, made only glancing reference to the painting. (Picasso’s friend Louis Aragon, a prominent L’Humanitécolumnist, apparently disliked it so much that he resolved not to mention it, or the artist.)

So how did Guernica become the enduring statement that we know today?

For decades, Picasso scholars have assumed that the artist’s loyal friend Zervos had single-handedly rescued Guernica’s reputation by publishing a special “summer” issue of Cahiers d’Art, his influential art magazine, devoted to the painting. Featuring rapturous appraisals of the work and Maar’s remarkable photographs of Picasso creating it, the issue supposedly circulated throughout the international art world the moment the painting was unveiled. “A powerful defense of Guernica. . . was almost immediately marshaled by the artists, writers, and poets of the Cahiers d’Art circle,” Herschel B. Chipp, one of the painting’s prominent chroniclers, wrote in his classic 1988 account, Picasso’s Guernica. In recent years, other scholars have assumed that Zervos timed the release of the Cahiers d’Art issue for the exact day the Spanish Pavilion opened.

None of this is true. Like other issues of Cahiers d’Art, the Guernica issue is undated, but the magazine’s account books make clear that it was not published until October, a full three months after the painting was unveiled and just days before the Spanish Pavilion closed. For the more than 30 million visitors who visited the Expo that summer, the only mass-circulation publication that wrote in any detail about the painting was the official German guidebook to the fair, produced by the Nazi government. (Designed by Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, the monumental German Pavilion loomed over the low-slung Spanish Pavilion, which occupied a small adjacent plot.) The guidebook ridiculed Picasso’s work as “the dream of a madman, a hodgepodge of body parts that a four-year-old child could have painted.”

As a personal political awakening, Guernica marked an astonishing turn. As a rousing call to defend the Spanish republic, it had utterly failed. When the Expo closed, Guernica did not accompany the pavilion’s Miró mural back to Spain. Instead, it was returned to Picasso’s studio. Its owners apparently didn’t want it. “Does anyone think it won over a single heart to the Spanish cause?” asked Jean-Paul Sartre, who that same summer had published “The Wall,” an acclaimed short story about a Spanish prisoner awaiting execution by a nationalist firing squad. If its reception in Paris, before a huge world audience, had decided its fate, Guernica might have remained little more than a minor footnote in the career of a painter who seemed temperamentally ill-suited for political art.

But Picasso’s friends were not ready to give up. In the fall of 1938, a year after the Expo closed, the surrealist Roland Penrose, who had been to Spain and was deeply involved in the war effort, helped arrange a tour for Guernica in Great Britain to raise funds for victims of the war. Once again, however, it largely failed to connect with the public. “It has had an indisputable moral success,” Penrose told Picasso after the London showing, “but we didn’t have the crowds of visitors I had hoped.”

Still, there was one more chance. Serendipitously, at the time of the British tour, Alfred H. Barr Jr., the first director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art , was nearing the end of a decade-long quest to introduce Americans to Picasso’s art. For years his plans for a huge Picasso exhibition had been stymied because he couldn’t get the paintings he needed from Europe. But now, with the threat of a Nazi invasion, many French collectors were desperate to get their Picassos out of the country: The show was on. And given the circumstances, no work would be more important than Guernica.

With the Spanish republic in desperate straits, though, Picasso was adamant that the painting travel only for fundraising purposes—despite the uninspiring results in Britain. In the end, he agreed to let Barr have Guernica, but insisted that it go first to the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign, an American advocacy group, to be used in a fundraising tour of four American cities.

As before, however, the tour fell flat with the public. For one thing, by the time Guernica reached the United States, the Spanish republic had already surrendered. But there was also little evidence that Americans were ready for Picasso’s wrenchingly bleak vision of war. The Spanish relief campaign had an impressive roster of sponsors, including Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and writers like Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway. Despite the heavyweight backing, though, the reaction to Guernica was little different than it had been in Paris two years earlier. In L.A., just 735 people came to see it. West Coast papers called it “revolting” and “cuckoo”; in Chicago, it was dismissed as “Bolshevist art controlled by the hand of Moscow”—words that sounded eerily close to the Nazis’ own attacks on modern art. Given that Guernica had been created precisely to protest a Luftwaffe atrocity, Barr realized he would have to work even harder to shape a new understanding of Picasso when his exhibition opened that fall.

On November 15, 1939—two and a half months after the start of a new war in Europe and two and a half years after Guernica’s disastrous Paris debut—Barr’s big show, “Picasso: Forty Years of His Art,” opened in New York. Its centerpiece was the immense, terrifying anti-war painting. It was the show’s culminating work, presented as the sum total of Picasso’s prodigious journey through modern art. Barr had decided to give it a long, gray gallery of its own, carefully illuminated by ceiling fixtures hidden from the viewer, where it could be taken in from a proper distance, in all its apocalyptic splendor.

Up to the last, it was unclear what people would think. Picasso had never done particularly well with the American public. For years, Americans had been hostile to the Paris avant-garde. And just that summer, Guernica had been ridiculed in the press. Yet now, under the cloud of a new world war, Barr’s lucid celebration of the art that Hitler was trying to erase somehow electrified the city. Several thousand people came to the opening night; in the weeks that followed, viewers lined up to get in the museum in numbers that smashed all previous records for a living artist. “COLOSSAL SUCCESS 60,000 VISITORS SURPASSING VAN GOGH” Barr cabled Picasso after the first few weeks. Soon, more than a dozen other museums were clamoring to host the paintings. And because it was too dangerous to return any of them—including Guernica—to Europe, they mostly got their way. Crisscrossing the country, the show went on to Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans, among many other cities; in San Francisco, it was so popular that hundreds of visitors refused to leave the museum on the final day of its run.

Here was Guernica’s true debut. The war that provoked it had already been lost, but another, more urgent one was just beginning. It was in Barr’s New York show—not the Paris Expo in 1937 or any of the Spanish relief shows that had come after it—that Guernica was finally recognized as a definitive statement about the horrors of war and the freedoms that were now being brutally crushed on the continent. As Barr put it, “Picasso has spoken of world catastrophe in a language not immediately intelligible to ordinary man.”

Suddenly, something had snapped inside this jaded, middle-aged man who’d spent more than nine months sipping coffee as the world collapsed. Maar was stunned by what she called his “indignation”; José Bergamín, the Malagueño poet and ardent anti-fascist who had become a close friend, could only describe it as “Spanish fury.” Man Ray, the photographer and surrealist who had been part of Picasso’s circle since the early 1920s, had never seen him react this way to world events. Having shut out the war in Spain for so long, another friend, the publisher Christian Zervos, noted, Picasso now let his paintbrush explode with “distress, anguish, terror, insurmountable pain, massacres, and finally peace found in death.”

First in an intensive series of sketches and studies, and then on the giant canvas itself, Picasso’s tableau of horror, with its contorted faces and agonized animals, rapidly took shape; in just 35 days, the thing was done. For any painter, it was an improbable feat. For an artist in his mid-50s whose life was in disarray and who had, just two years earlier, almost stopped painting altogether, it was an astonishing, athletic act of self-reinvention.

Eleven and a half feet high and more than 25 feet across, Guernica should have been a sensation when it was unveiled at the Paris World’s Fair. Occupying the entire back wall of the entrance hall of the Spanish Pavilion—a simple steel-framed glass box, designed by the artists Josep Lluís Sert and Luis Lacasa—it confronted viewers with unremitting blacks and grays and whites; like the burnt Basque city, there was not a flicker of color in the ashes of human life that Picasso had depicted. Along with Guernica, the pavilion featured another mural, by Joan Miró, and a fountain by Alexander Calder, as well as war photographs and a film program organized by the director Luis Buñuel. Here was Republican Spain, even as it fought for its life, making a case that art could be both aesthetically avant-garde and politically urgent.

Aipple on 24th July 2022 3:11 pm

Sorry for long text above but The Atlantic has a paywall.

big wavy on 24th July 2022 3:16 pm

@AnthonyRJoseph

Toulouse have made an enquiry for Celtic defender Stephen Welsh.

It’s understood, Celtic don’t want to sell him, as he is part of Ange Postecoglou’s first team plans.

In January, the Hoops knocked back a loan-with option-to-buy approach from Udinese for the centre-back.

– I’d sell him FWIW. He will stagnate as 4th pick at Celtic.

HH

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 3:35 pm

Watching Aberdeen v Raith Rovers.

Michael Stewart:

If he wasn’t already booked, I’m sure the referee would be brandishing a second yellow for that tackle.

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 3:44 pm

Tremendous goal by Ross McCrorie to put the Dons 2-0 ahead. 25-yard cracker in off underside of the bar.

GFTB on 24th July 2022 3:49 pm

Tom 3.44pm

Was an excellent strike from Mccrorie

Liam Scales looking very comfortable at left centre back … hopefully comes back to us a better player much like both Mulgrew & Christie after their time at pittodrie

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 3:51 pm

BIG WAVY

Ange said he wants a solid squad where he can rest players and use backups when required to avoid last season’s situation whereby players picked up injuries due to not getting a break.

Welsh is a decent backup option in defence. I don’t see him as 4th choice as he can stand-in for any one of the 3 central defenders.

Aipple on 24th July 2022 3:54 pm

GFTB

Didn’t Aberdeen fans complain about taking Celtic players on loan? Might come back to shear them.

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 3:54 pm

GFTB

Yes Scales has been impressive in centre of defence. His time at Pittodrie can do him a power of good.

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 3:55 pm

AIPPLE

5 Dons fans with a banner looking to get in the papers.

GFTB on 24th July 2022 4:00 pm

Aipple 3.54pm

I think they unfurled a banner saying no more Celtic loans … stupidity to not want any players who will improve your team … don’t think Jim Goodwin will care as long as he gets his team winning

Enjoy your “holiday” and hope you have a great time at the fitba next Sunday

Tom 3.54pm

Exactly, playing week in week out will help Scales and hopefully us in the longer term

Aipple on 24th July 2022 4:03 pm

TOM MCLAUGHLIN and GFTB

Cheers gents! Thought I had read something. Cut your nose off etc.

big wavy on 24th July 2022 4:03 pm

GFTB,

Striking the ball nicely from the back but not convincing as a defender, especially the mess he made of the offside they broke through. Expect him to be a perm at Aberdeen this time next year. Never looked quite good enough.

Tom,

Welsh hasn’t made the first 2 CH berths his own yet, playing less SPFL games per season since he broke through and nearly 23 years old. Would show a huge lack of ambition to be hanging around waiting for starfelt, ccv and Jenz to hit an injury. I think it’s more of a necessity given Heldje left, Murray got inhured and Lawal looks raw as sushi.

HH

GFTB on 24th July 2022 4:08 pm

BW 4.03pm

I don’t disagree … but playing week in week out will breed confidence and it could help Scales in the long run .. still relatively inexperienced … so who knows

carpe diem 63 on 24th July 2022 4:12 pm

Two general questions folks …..Firstly when are Sevco going to announce the loan signing of Billy the fish (“ the future of Scottish football “) and dispel the red herring of Everton !?…my money is on Thursday of next week and secondly Why is that quisling Bankier still in a job at Celtic ( Masonic infiltration of the highest order )…or does tenure of post not apply to the Celtic board !?

big wavy on 24th July 2022 4:19 pm

All-Ireland half-time

Kerry 0-7

Galway 0-8

HH

carpe diem 63 on 24th July 2022 4:21 pm

Oh and I would be glad if anyone can confirm the unbelievable point, if true , that there was no match day programme issued for the 1970 European Cup Final between the famous Glasgow Celtic and Feyenoord ??

Bhoyjoebelfast on 24th July 2022 4:26 pm

CARPE DIEM 63

There was a programme issued.

!!Bada Bing!! on 24th July 2022 4:31 pm

Back to- i get it mate…

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 4:33 pm

This afternoon’s draw for the Premier Sport League Cup 2nd round takes place after Aberdeen v Raith Rovers.

Seeded:

Celtic

Rangers

Hearts

Dundee United

Motherwell

Aberdeen

Partick Thitle

Ross County

Unseeded:

Falkirk

Arbroath

Annan Athletic

Inverness CT

Dundee

Kilmarnock

Livingston

Queen of the South

!!Bada Bing!! on 24th July 2022 4:35 pm

bognorbhoy- Wee Fergus liked to call it New Celtic Park.

Tom McLaughlin on 24th July 2022 4:38 pm

Scrub that. Made an erse of it.

CamusBhoy on 24th July 2022 4:43 pm

Big Wavy, close game thought before that Kerry might have run away with it as the form team.

Gaillimh Abu

An Tearmann on 24th July 2022 4:47 pm

Aipple

Celtic news NO.

Think your typo is insightful :-)

The 2020 info addict is sorted there,the ownership of bots used by the meeja.is visible.clicks count as their sales are plummeting.

I believe there are ownership rights in these days of t’net.

Was raining Glasgow now warm front felt.

HH

petec on 24th July 2022 4:49 pm

lionroars67 on 24th July 2022 9:37 am

Good morning CQN

Our first proper pre-season preparation games rather than the Russian roulette of C/L qualifiers we have had to endure in previous years are at an end, Ange sets his standards and expectations of the players at a very high bar set, and these demands take their toll on players throughout a season, Ange is now on stage 2 of the rebuild he undertook last season, we still have some time left in this window in which Ange can make additions to have a squad capable of meeting his exacting demands.

Context is important, remember where you start from, Ange inherited a football dept in turmoil, lacking leadership and direction, infrastructure was non-existent, given little time for pre-season preparations many of us wondered how we would fare under our experienced but largely unknown antipodean coach, our much missed CQN friend Garry forecast success, and bhoy did Ange deliver domestically and with some style, Ange ball returned paradise to a happy footballing arena worthy of the name paradise, by end of last season we had a core of players who gave us a strong spine and no little skill, Stage 1 in the rebuild was completed when CCV, Maeda and Jota signed on for this season, joining Hart, Starfelt, McGregor, Hatate, O’Reilly, Kyogo and Giakoumakis 9 of this 10 being Ange signings was top quality transfer business by our Aussie manager he certainly has an eye for players who fit his footballing ethos, Postecoglou has waited a long time to get his chance in Europe it would be fair to say time wasnt on his side which goes some way to explain his decision to take over a club with potential no doubt but with a football dept in dissaray, AP himself has referred to the cost on himself last season he was exhausted doing it all, he has since made some coaching/techincal and recruitment appointments which will hopefully take some of the pressure away from him, managing Celtic is not for the faint hearted you have to win every game, 2nd in the SPFL is nowhere and certainly finishing 2nd 25 points behind is completely unacceptable, it has been an enjoyable experience getting to know Ange the man as well as his footballing philosophy he has warmed too and understood the club and its fanbase, in return Ange has deserved the warmth from the support the songs and cheers have grew every week last season, although it seems not all on CQN are happy, the perils of social media, he comes across as a well grounded all round good guy, IMO he has the stature and behaviour i expect of a Celtic manager, he has educated some of us with his footballing philosophy, his set in stone 4-3-3 formation with inverted full backs we know we dont change formation or tactics, “we never stop”, Ange doesnt do one dimensational or even two dimensational players, im afraid those on these pages wanting/waiting for CDM enforcers or big bruiser C/Bs havent been listening to Ange at all, multi-faceted players, players who can do it all plus football intelligence, those high expectations and high demands to play also involve doing a high press defend from 70/80 yards from your goal, fitness and running abilty are also important for players, the recent Blackburn game at H/T saw both the strenous warm up/warm down of the players, the days of sitting eating tunnocks tea cakes in the dug out are gone.

Stage 2 rebuild is well underway, we have signed Siegrist, Bernabei, Mooy and Jenz (as with all signings i wait to see them in a Celtic shirt and with some decent game time before i judge them)with some time remaing in the window to go, we wont see the dramatic progress we witnessed last season that graph curve will start to flatten out, remember the very low starting point, we have some top talent in Jota, Kyogo, McGregor, Hatate and O’Reily all of these could play anywhere, McGregor and Hatate if both stay fit will for me will take us to title No.2 this combo is the best by some distance in Scotland, looking forward to flag day next week, it will be exciting dramatic football its the Ange way, Ange ball faces its toughest test on the European stage, Europe is a tough experienced sophisticated arena, wealthy clubs with top talent in both players, coaches and managers is an unforgiving competition to be in, i will keep my expectation level low, comparing Celtic to clubs with over 500 million turnovers plus owners with deep deep pockets is a futile irrelavant exercise.

SPFL title will be a dog fight with Sevco, GVB recovered well after a blip, i wont undererstimate him or his team with the SFA refereeing club to assist i expect a very close race, to reach the Europa cup final confirms how tough it will be

Hasta la vista

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Superb post.

Anyone know if VAR will be used in the Scottish Cup in this upcoming Season – even just from the Semis onwards?

Maddens performance last Season really did show him up for whit he is – A Hun Cheat. His parting gift to his Zombie club.

Gene on 24th July 2022 4:51 pm

Unless it’s the Huns it’s just lazy – here’s a caption from the BBC Aberdeen game updates

“Former Aberdeen and Scotland boss Craig Brown (top right) and ex-Aberdeen midfielder Paul Hartley, now in charge of Fleetwood Town, take in today’s match at Pittodrie”

And here’s me thinking Broonie manages Fleetwood and Paul manages Hartlepool.

Tobago Street on 24th July 2022 4:56 pm

TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 24TH JULY 2022 1:13 PM and

BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 24TH JULY 2022 2:24 PM

Thanks for the responses lhads. Appreciate your time

T

big wavy on 24th July 2022 4:56 pm

All-Ireland latest – 62′ min

Kerry 0-16

Galway 0-14

As a point of interest, the referee today is the nephew of hunger striker Martin Hurson.

HH

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