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Ajer was top mhan today. Tackles with venom. Good in the air and quick going forward.
Gets it and is future skipper.
Well done son!!!
An 8th season where predictions of our doom have not been successful.
Some Celts are struggling with that cognitive dissonance of underestimating the ability of this group of men.
to paraphrase their thinking …..
If we keep playing like this…….
I think we might win something.
D66 @ 9.45
Long way to go before he reaches his peak but KA was superb.
He is a winner and a leader — we need to keep him for at least another 6 years.
Better still we chain him to a radiator and tell him the world doesn’t want him.
He is the standard we need to recruit and get in the team.
Same as OE / ON / KT plus find the money for TW / FB and give more game time to OB.
We have found the quality we need — just a case we don’t hold on to them.
Kris Ajer. Thanks Ronny Deila.
Yes indeed; Kris is some player. Rated him from the outset.
:)))))))))))))))))))))
SFTB @ 9.54
If handled correctly — this squad could go far.
That means a better, more complete coach than BR.
It means real investment and fewer loans.
It means squad management and planning.
It means getting rid of the deadwood and that will be hard.
Finally it means getting rid of the vampire squid that is the £3mill man PL>
Hindsight is the foresight of the gobshite all you trolls. Up the RA.
THE NO.13 SHORTS on 31ST MARCH 2019 9:59 PM
Hindsight is the foresight of the gobshite all you trolls. Up the RA.
What? Have you inadvertently strayed from FF Bear Pit.
If so, stay away!
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/three-injured-hospital-city-centre-16056586
Lenny has earned the right to play around with the squad in the run-in but he has to balance that against preparations for the semi-final
We have 2 games against St. Mirren and Livi to provide match fitness for Ntcham and Rogic and to blood some new defenders- maybe a Benkovic/ Simunovic pairing to allow others to recover from injury and wear and tear. Burke and Weah, Henderson and Johnston can replace some of the over-used players in the squad (Brown, McGregor, Forrest, Sinclair etc;)
I know some say we have to play our best but we saw today how empty some of them were.
I think it’s time to shake it up
I’d go
Bain
Toljan Simunovic Benkovic Hayes (or McInroy or Izzaguire)
Henderson Ntcham
Weah Rogic Burke
Bayo
Subs: De Vries Ralston Bitton Ajer Kouassi (or Allan) Johnston Oko-Flex (or Karamoko)
Why do we care about today’s result if the opposition don’t matter?
Even people who don’t go to the game and therefore aren’t actually supporting the team come on here and spout their pontifical pish.
Today was magic and if you had a ticket and didn’t go…well more the dick/dickette you are.
Hail Hail
Matt
Just burnt ma square sliced sausage.
Hail Hail
Matt
This squad of players have guts, they have desire and more importantly they have a never say die attitude.
We underestimate them on a regular basis but for nearly 3 yrs they have never let us down domestically. This is a glorious time to be a Tim, enjoy.
I’m not surprised the horde are optimistic on their forums. They are utterly delusional. They’re 13 points behind us and their season is finished before April. They’re broke, overhaul the squad every season with loans but will no doubt win the league next year.
Meanwhile we have tens of millions ready to strengthen the strongest squad in the country. Let them talk shyte, it’s all they have left.
Eddieinkirmichael
I have NEVER underestimated any players on a regular basis.
For whatever reason, genetic disposition or even mere happenchance, they are out there doing the things that I could only dream of doing. I support them not because of that, but because we have a triumvirate of fans, manager, team. Without that magical triangle we actually have only the boring nine to five routine of accumulating enough money to pay the tally-man.
For us Celtic, and for other fans their club, gives all of us the magic of dreams.
Forget the mundane dirge of existing….every ball kicked is a breath of magic.
Hail Hail
Matt
I wish Lenny would shave before going on telly.
As a winner he should know better.
Loving it
D. :)
I see Slippy Gee has sworn to ” punish Moreloss internally “.
Oo er missus. Whatever CAN he mean?
” Fredo….. You broke my heart! ”
Apologies to Michael Corleone.
Jobo MOTM by a distance – our future captain, Kristoffer Ajer. A 1 man defence in the last 10. Watched the full game again accompanied by my good friend, Rioja. Life’s Good!
SFTB
Keep doing what you do … a poster who actually opens my wee tiny mind :-)
Jobo 10.32pm
For us non partial or surface pros users having a Monday off is pretty dam amazing ???
I honestly think Lenny was in a no win position today, we were expected to win and we did, yet some find it necessary to slag him and the team for winning, that I find astounding.
When you boil things down to the brass tacks, we had half a team, at least, of those who started, who were not 100% match fit, KT, Olly, Calmac, Lustig, Boyata, a couple of the others were probably running on Adrenalin, we just don’t know, Lenny has said a few times in the past couple of weeks about their tiredness.
So what was Lenny to do ?
Seriously what was he supposed to do, not play the afore mentioned players, had he not and we lost he would quite rightly been slaughtered, he chose to play them, we win and he still gets slaughtered, as I said he was in a no win situ today.
KT’s injury is down to the last coaching regime imo, he has been over played in the past couple of seasons to his detriment I fear, I honestly fear the worst with him, TTT said earlier that it is probably the same kinda injury that has done for Andy Murray, I pray to God it’s not, but I heard a couple of things that don’t fill me with much confidence.
This is not Lenny’s team, not a single one of them are Lenny’s players, not that I am endorsing him as the next manager cos he will be, he is the cheap option, the board have zero euro ambitions, if they qualify for the groups of any of the comps they will be happy, today was what it’s all about for them and the majority of the support it seems, the OF is what it’s all about, it sells, hate sells, sectarianism sells, bigotry sells, they don’t have to lift a finger, apart from counting all the cash it brings in, this is their baby, just do enough to keep the huns at bay is what they will hope to do.
A cracking observation from The No. 13 Shorts earlier………
Hindsight is the Foresight of the Gobshite :-)
Where oh where do stories come from? What is imagination? Why do we care, dream, wish? Why do we think it is worthwhile telling anyone? Is it ego? Is it identity? Recognition?
Maybe a story is as much a creation as a wheel, or sliced bread, or a car, or a plane? More than a pastime; definitely worthwhile…yes? No? What about a Celtic Story? Would that be worthwhile?
I’ve got a Celtic story, perhaps it might even be called a Celtic History, but not just another “this happened then this etc”. This is ‘My’ Celtic history, a veritable car-boot sale of memories, unlikely to ever be put to music and almost certainly never be put in verse to “make your heart go oohh oohh ohh oohh”.
But even with the most personal, emotional, inexplicable pot pourri of laughs, tears, elation and “Aw effin Naws” some people, games, myths and legends are unavoidable.
The most cursory of flashbacks or speculative futures could have no substance without the giants, that loom like standing stones at least gently caressing the soil of posterity and austerity in which the likes of Walfrid, Maley and Glass planted the roots that saw a flourishing tree bear fruit such as Gallagher, McGrory, Tully and Johnstone and seeded the orchard we find ourselves in today, and upon which generations to come will feast themselves.
Even the most blinkered of recollections would have little relevance outside the uni-dimensional focus of the my obsession unless it materialised from the misty magic of iconic days and nights when the name Celtic meant so much more to so many more than those who had been weaned on the milk of myth, mythology and legend.
But this will be no diarised chronology.
This is the chorale of my psyche.
This is the doh, rays and me, fahs, soh, la te dohs whistled softly under a table in the living room of a house in a scheme in a far away mythical land called Coatbridge. This is a laughs, tears and surprises as chords and riffs give life to conversations formed from the gaps in clinking glasses, poetry, pianissimo family hopes and worries echoing around the room on that even further away pre-television age (for me anyway) of April 1961.
And yet this isn’t really a history at all.
So few games into this latest season, this is really about what emerged from that living room table and is a tale for today and of today, a tale for tomorrow and of tomorrow.
Most of all since the words, the attempted imagination, the keystrokes and the faults that eventually make their mark on this page arise from a miasma of memories, emotions, flights of fancy and even self-delusion from somewhere inside me, it is unavoidably a story about me, but not principally me.
I am but a bit part player, unimportant but privileged to be an observer, the stage hand in the wings desperate to strut on the stage, but knowing that the costume I take secretly with me will remain unused. But I’ll still take it…still I wear it under my pyjamas and day clothes, ready to rip off the concealment and like a hooped supertim emerge to save the day and vanquish foes.
I know it won’t happen, but feck giving up on that dream.
Most of all I hope it is also about you, and it makes us and the part we play important.
No one else raises their scarves in concert with a Paradise full of other flying banners; no one else is part of that ubiquitous diaspora of ears pressed to scratchy radio receptions, bleary eyed televisions, far flung phone calls, stuttering streams and the magic of ISPs (and in some cases bewildering ESP).
The part that we play makes the Celtic story a tale of humanity with all the foibles, triumphs, disasters, disappointments and achievements that comes with that sad condition.
But of course to distil or even dismiss any relevance, the tale firstly has to be told.
It needs one voice to start it; one voice to build the framework of ‘My tale’.
Good, bad, indifferent, definitely different, and unapologetically ‘mine’, this is a wee attempt at taking just one starburst of time and capturing it in my words.
So how do I tell this tale, how do I make it relevant to others, how do I deal with familiarity, the quirks, the oddballs, the laughter and tears…what the feck IS this story all about?
Well with a fair wind we’ll find out soon enough, but it’s not just about that for me. It’s also about how its told.
Like all stories for me, the telling of it well or poorly resembles the assembly of a jigsaw, let’s say of a ship or an aeroplane, or a cart, or a flower, or a tree, or even a person…of anything you care to imagine. That ‘anything you care to imagine’ doesn’t just sit there in all its glory, untouched or uninfluenced by its environment and surrounds.
There is a sea, a sky, a ground, a house, a town. There is a pond, a car, a dog, a splash of water, a wean in wellington boots, a woman pushing a pram, the moon and stars rising behind the wispy clouds, the sun setting as a halo casting giant threatening shadows from small grazing placid sheep, someone sneaking a peek from behind the curtain of a cottage as a bus pulls in to town, an orchard, and always a dark silhouette of a mysterious chimneyed house on a pathless hill, a jet trail above it and the outstretched hand of a woman in sturdy highland attire pointing and a hundred watchers following her aim with their eyes; in the corner there’s the crouching figure of a tipsy reveller nose pressed back against the window pane of the pub, his paper sticking out of his jaiket pocket, his right hand jingling the coins in his pocket hoping he has enough for a fish supper; and there at the bottom someone is doing something with that plane, tree, cart, flower or some other person that catches your breath and reveals ‘that’s what it is about’.
But then you notice a girl or a boy wearing what looks like a Celtic Scarf. Instantly they become a Ghirl and a Bhoy, immediately they are heroes, without hesitation they are good and as a light comes on in that house on the hill, the story not only changes, myths are created and futures planned……….and all because the girl or boy were really a Ghirl or a Bhoy .
From that one frozen moment in time our mind weaves a magnificent tapestry of how, who, why, when about the past, about the future, where it is going, where we are taking it and where it is taking us.
But of course, unlike a jigsaw there is no picture on the box; well not one picture. There are a thousand, a hundred thousand, a million pictures. As many pictures are there are ‘us’. And of course because it is about the future, it is unfinished.
Celtic – The unfinished Jigsaw, ‘my’ unfinished jigsaw.
But then as I typed ‘my unfinished jigsaw’, I realised that I was wrong.
That is what I didn’t want it to be. I didn’t and don’t want it to be ‘mine’. I want the pieces to come from all over, from everyone, I want ……..ach who knows what the feck I want?
Anyway the words have started to scribble themselves again and as always you can chuck it away, add your own bits, move it around or call a paramedic with psychiatric skills to deal with my trauma.
Where will I start?
At the corners I think. Then the edges…then little groups that seem to fit together and just sit there….and then.. well, will you take a look at that…we’re off.
Celtic….this season…. last season…. 50 or 60 seasons ago….and all that….and hopefully so much more….but who knows….I don’t but I want to find out.
This looks like a corner piece here..it says April 1961, Coatbridge, oh and look here’s a bit with ‘the liberty bell’, a table, a biscuit tin that scolds you with ‘I’m for visitors only’……wait there’s another corner…….this looks interesting….no, more than interesting.
For me it is timeless. I hope when I complete it, you don’t think it’s pointless.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
Hail hail
Matt
If rangers lose against Hearts on Wednesday and we beat st. Mirren, we can seal the title as soon as next Saturday against Livingston.
TET 10.37pm
As per usual we will disagree
Neil would have been “crucified” by fellow Celtic fans ,.. some that think their opinion is better than others
Cheap option ?
Neil for me ..,, maybe like BenetieZ, MartineZ it we call Neil LennonZ it might be a goer :-)
A wee tale from 2007….
And so it came to pass….(and tackle….and shoot …..and score….. and heid the ball), that the immovable objects were blown away, and the unstoppable forces crash landed never again to twitch a further millimetre.
Love may have inspired the greatest poetry, passion, the greatest art, imagination and the greatest vistas, but last night in a conjunction not seen since the main man announced ‘let their be light’, a work of thousand emotions was fashioned, by everyone who was present, everyone who watched and listened, shaped into an indelible experience that will forever have its own little ring-fenced plot in the garden of my Celtic experience.
The uncertainties, the doubts and the worries of yesterday were harnessed into an aura of belief and inspiration.
It was this transformation that really did make OUR team unbreakable and unbeatable.
Two clubs from cities so far apart in miles but with hardly a shaft of light between them, in a background of hard-knocks, skill, desire, and effort, for 210 minutes attacked, defended, made mistakes, tackled, fell over, got back up and ran again and again.
To suggest that the difference was a saved penalty does not even start to explain what happened, how it happened, and who made it so.
I’m no football aficionado, so an analysis from me on the finer points of wing-play, zonal marking, or overlapping support would be a futile attempt at trying to emulate the intrinsic failure of Scottish journalism.
But I can personally vouch for the ingredient that made the difference last night.
From beginning to end, enough people believed that we wouldn’t lose, that took the team to centre stage, and placed and shone a huge spotlight on Artur Boruc and Maxim Kalinichenko.
As that final thrust and parry was about to be enacted,I turned to a load of people across the stairway and the ‘Aiden-haters’ in front of me and simply said,
“get yer fingers out yer *****, and believe, really believe that Arturs’s gonnae save this wan”
They did ….and he did!
And as all around erupted and a tumbling, rolling, writhing mass of exhausted bodies battered me to the ground, I looked across to the main stand and can verify that the 65,000 quoted attendance was correct.
For assembled there on the roof was Jock, and Jinky, and Bobby, John Thomson, Willie Maley, Jimmy McGrory, Ronnie Simpson, Dan Daly, Patsy Gallagher, Charlie Tully, Jimmy Delaney, Jimmy Quinn and a cast of Celtic thousands, every man and woman of them standing and applauding…..both teams.
Well done Spartak, you’re some team and those of your supporters I met were crackin people.
Well done the Celtic team, Gordon, and all the staff.
But most of all, well done to us! We believed and we supported and we made the difference.
Last night The Celtic Way was relaunched and great adventures await us over the horizon.
If we keep pulling together ANYTHING is possible.
Believe enough and ………………..
Anyway Sharkey’s awaits! It’s time to sit back and savour!
Hail Hail
Estadio (Matt)
Enjoyed the game today thought we were well in control until they scored, Kent is not a bad player and took the goal well. But we defended well in our box. Thought Ajar was magic felt Burke should have been on for Hayes not Sinclair and Weah on instead of Rogic who was way of the pace. 2 cracking goals and a win against the zombies whats not to like.
Still buzzing :-)
Ask yourself one question …
How good is it being a Celtic fan ?
Forget Ebts
Forget Rangers
Forget The Rangers
Terrific Celtic times ?????????
No need to log in to follow follow or Hun media nip over to Senile Celts for Neil to be bad mouthed … seemingly when BR left it was big bad Peter Lawell … some Celtic (so called) fans are happy when unhappy ☹️
Sun 31st Mar 2019
Kieran Tierney
100 Career League Games (all for celtic)
096 Starts
004 Sub
012 Subbed
005 League Goals
071 Wins
021 Draws
008 Lost .
Frankmarker 23.54pm
Kieran is special ?
PETETHEBEAT on 31ST MARCH 2019 8:08 PM
Has anything come out about Hayes being injured at HT or not ? It’s pretty unusual for managers to do that when things are going well. I thought he’d taken a bit of a knock just before the first half ended.
*allegedly Johnny was on a booking so Lenny surmising that madhun might try tae even things up took him off.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Really can’t understand anybody moaning after humping the huns.
I don’t care if we only beat them on corners as long as we beat them
and if we play badly and win, well all the better.
Broonie will be castigated by the msm, again who cares? certainly
not me cause i know they are hurting badly.
Our captain is an absolute legend end of.
And we have our next captain waiting in the wings, step forward our
big viking Kris Ajer what a courageous performer, loved him going
mental at cockheid after he elbowed SB.
As regards a new manager? Neil Francis Lennon imo deserves the
chance to take us to the magical ten.
Just keep the faith.
H.H Mick
Gftb,,
Seriously? Good bunch over there, not nice at all.
We’re just fans . Is a happy fan better than an unhappy fan?
If an opinion differs from yours it gets ridiculed?
With regard to Neil’s tactics this lunchtime I offer the following opinion –
Pre-match : brave selection; thought that he was maybe gambling on Tierney but, if Kieran didn’t last we could just move Hayes back and put on a more posiitve sub, Burke or Weah.
Half time : we are 11 v 10 with Hayes on a yellow so I though it was an OK decision to sub Hayes for Sinky.
After their goal : Ntcham had performed very, very well but we were never going to get a full 90 minutes from him. So totally understood the swap for Rogic, as did the fans. As it turned out big Tam offered little but no blame on that to Neil.
Tierney crocked : our options were limited. But asking Toljan to play left back was OK and didn’t disrupt the other positions.
Boyatta crocked: with no subs left, Neil had a problem. I think that, this time, he got it bang on – move Toljan to the right, move Lustig in to replce Boyata and ask McGregor to play left back. It worked a treat!
Summary : still not sure that Neil is as good as we can get but, today, he improved his chances considerably.
MAHE
You’re correct, lots of good Celts over there on Sentinel.
I just think it’s a great shame we’re not all still on the same
blog.
I personally valued all opinions but to me anyway i still don’t
understand why some people are not happy humping the
huns.
H.H Mick
Jobo Baldie
Have to disagree with the Rogic sub, he was so far off the pace it was the wrong decision to bring him on, that decision is the managers fault, who should have recognised in training that he was not ready.
I would have taken on Weah having taken on Burke for Hayes earlier