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  2. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Very enjoyable game.

     

     

    Thought Kuhn, Kyogo and Maeda were very good.

     

     

    Noticeable how much better Matt started playing at 3-0.

     

     

    Iwata? Guy would rock in a defensive team.

     

     

    Fast legs and big muscles. Brain is slower.

     

     

    No issues with the subs.

     

     

    Brendan wanted to see Holm. Fair enough.

     

     

    I watched him closely and, IMHO, I thought the boy went through the motions.

     

     

    As for Gustaf?

     

     

    Only ten minutes but I thought he looked composed … like a real defender should.

     

     

    CCV clear being brought along gently.

     

     

    Coughing up a late goal in his absence when game is won?

     

     

    Price I am happy to pay if it keeps him on the pitch for the last 10 games.

  3. Big Jimmy on

    Happy Saint Patricks day to ALL the Good Bhoys and Ghirls. on here.

     

     

    I think there will be a few Pints of Guinness sunk Today all over the World ?

     

     

    LOL

     

    HH

  4. Greenpinata on

    Ignore what the league table shows below. Celtic are top of the league. ( Hopefully I can say that tomorrow)

     

     

    Happy St Patrick’s day to all.

     

     

    HH the journey continues.

  5. David66 on

    Good morning all from a very happy dry at the moment but wet underfoot Garngad and a cool 7 degrees.

     

     

    HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY 🇮🇪

     

     

    We done our job yesterday and that’s all we can do at this stage is win.

     

     

    I have a wee sneaky feeling that Dundee will be up for this to keep their momentum for 6th spot and get something from this game.

     

     

    Come on the Dee.

     

     

    D. :)

  7. Big Jimmy on

    DAVID66 on 17TH MARCH 2024 7:21 AM

     

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    A nice wee St Patricks Day BONUS, as Ive just noticed that I backed Celtic v St Johnstone Correct Score of 3 – 1 at odds of 10/1 with the Bookie.

     

    I HOPE that we ALL have another St Patricks Day BONUS….With Dundee taking Points off of the Huns this lunchtime ?

     

    I live in hope…we shall see ?

     

    LOL

     

    HH.

  10. bigrailroadblues on

    Good morning all from Govanhill. Happy St Patrick’s day to all except the rancid hun.

  11. Timbhoy163 on

    Lagerbiele was ok when he came on seems when Rodger’s says about certain players not good enough some on here agree with him ,me I’m sticking with Gustaf Lagerbiele

  13. Chairbhoy on

    Good Morning Fholks – Happy St Patrick’s Day.

     

     

    Great game yesterday, loving what we are doing in the final third these days, great movement and lots of options for goals.

     

     

    Kuhn really coming onto a game is great to see.

     

     

    Kyogo finding his mojo crucial, his assist for Kuhn’s goal shows he has much more to his game.

     

     

    Midfield and Defence slightly worrisome still but goid to see everyone putting in a shift and most looking back on top form.

     

     

    Great game management by Brendan, resting players when necessary, giving others opportunities when the match was “won”.

     

     

    Thinking of the medium and long term and that has to be crucial.

     

     

    James Forrest showing his experience, though we look a different team when CCV goes off, that’s a real concern, yet it was totally necessary.

     

     

    Felt for Joe Hart who deserved a clean sheet.

     

     

    Yet winging it’s way to SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM

     

     

    1. Kuhn

     

     

    2. Kyogo

     

     

    3. CCV

     

     

    Have A Grand Day

     

     

    Hail Hail

  14. Burnley78 on

    Stands by for another Tav Pen day today at Dens.

     

     

    I wonder if their fat fan boy Greg Aitken on VAR can top the 3 pens they were given at that venue in the 2003 run in ?

  15. Timbhoy163 on

    Another bluenose Sky Sports presenter,and Seemingly (St Johnstone supporter) on BBC Football Show this morning talk about being impartial my arse .

  18. Burnley78 on

    Chairbhoy

     

     

    You say greet game management resting guys when 3-0 up. I get that. Paul 67 said similar. I would counter with memories of 4-0 v Motherwell and 6-2 v Dundee when we could have piled on 6 or 7 v Motherwell and won 7 or 8-1 v Dundee in 2003. We took foot off gas and ultimately lost the lesgue by 1 goal.

     

     

    We have no games for 2 weeks now. Surely with the team firing well then playing the 90 with our strongest line up who were on song made sense on this occasion ?

  19. Melvin Udall on

    From the BBC…

     

     

    There will be a second pitch inspection at 10:15 GMT to determine if Rangers’ visit to Dundee can go ahead at noon after a period of heavy rainfall.

     

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    I think it suits them to have their game called off. As they look out on their feet, have a few injuries and Dundee in great form.

     

     

    Let’s hope it goes ahead. As can see Dundee taking at least a point off them today.

  20. clunks on

    Its got to be on if no announcement close to 915

     

     

    Fans will now be well on their way to the game….

  22. Scaniel on

    A very Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all on here.

     

    Hopefully celebrations will follow later.

  23. Moisey17 on

    We did well yesterday but if being picky would like us to have started game much quicker. Took us a good 25m to get up to speed and at this point in season need to come flying out the traps – that said 3 pts in off someone’s arse in the last minute would also work👍🏻.

     

    We do seem reluctant to shoot always trying to tip toe our way through which against packed defences is never easy. We are not perfect, far from it, but we do seem to be improving especially going forward and that’s a good sign with key players to come back (hopefully) making us stronger. If we can be a little more clinical on the many chances and openings we create I am a little more confident than a few weeks ago.

  24. scullybhoy on

    Started in 1887 to raise funds for poor Irish families in Scotland, the Irish can still be felt on Celtic Park today in the Irish folk and rebel ballads sung and the flags that flutter above the stand.

     

     

    Glasgow Celtic FC was born out of the impoverished streets the immigrant Irish called home in the Glasgow of the 1800s when a Marist Brother from Ballymote, County Sligo sought to find ways to help his fellow countrymen there.

     

     

    Andrew Kerins, better known as Brother Walfrid, called for a meeting on November 6, 1887, to establish a football team for the local area of the east end of Glasgow with the aim of raising funds for its struggling Irish families. In a small back room in St Mary’s Church hall on Forbes street, those assembled there under Brother Walfrid’s orders established a new football club for Glasgow.

     

     

    Names suggested for the new local team included Glasgow Hibernia and Emerald Harps but, the steadfast Brother Walfrid had the last word, and, on his insistence, the new club was called Glasgow Celtic. The name was chosen as a symbol of a club born in Scotland from Irish roots.

     

     

    The first jersey of Glasgow Celtic was all white with green collars. On the breast of the jersey was a large red Celtic cross.

     

     

    Celtic’s first game was played the following year, and it was against a neighboring club called Glasgow Rangers. One hundred and thirty years ago, on May 28, 1888, Celtic’s first match was also the first Old Firm between Celtic and Rangers and the bhoys came out on top with five goals to two. From then on, a beautifully intense rivalry flourished between the blue and green sides of Glasgow, a rivalry still very much intense 130 years later!

     

     

    Celtic quickly built a loyal following among the Irish community in Glasgow. The weekend matches provided Irish immigrants with a meeting point and from it developed the club’s Irish parish mindset.

     

     

    The Irish roots of Celtic were solidified when their home ground Celtic Park was opened in 1892. The great occasion saw Mayo man and Land League leader Michael Davitt turn the sod in the middle of the pitch which had a shamrock from Donegal planted in it. T.D Sullivan who wrote the ballad God Save Ireland closed the ceremony with a rendition of his patriotic song.

     

     

    Not long after the grand opening of Celtic Park, the sod in the center circle with the Donegal shamrock was dug up and taken by thieves. The mystery of who took it remains unsolved but, many pointed the finger at those on the blue side of Glasgow and for years afterward the unknown thief was dubbed “the sod who robbed the sod!”

     

     

    Michael Davitt did not have much interest in football but could understand the vital role Celtic played among Irish immigrants in Scotland. Davitt was made honorable patron of the club and in 1894 he was presented to the crowd at Celtic Park before Celtic’s meeting with Clyde.

     

     

    Davitt took his 5-year-old son with him and the lad sported a large green rosette and a white cap with Celtic emblazoned across it in orange lettering. After the game, Davitt was presented with a gold Glasgow medal at a dinner held in his honor and he was given £60 from gate receipts for eviction relief aid in Ireland.

     

     

    The charitable stance of Celtic had always been at the heart of club ethos. In 1892 Davitt wrote an open letter to the Freeman’s Journal praising the Glasgow club for sending £30 to Mayo for eviction relief aid. In the letter, Davitt declared “the members of this renowned athletic association are young Irish men who are generous supporters of every national and good cause.”

     

     

    In the same year that Celtic moved into their home ground Celtic Park, Brother Walfrid moved to London. He had hoped to replicate the same Irish club in the English capital among its large Irish community there but, a London Celtic never materialized.

     

     

    Brother Walfrid later moved to France where in 1911 he met up with the club he founded in a small church hall in Glasgow in 1887. While on a European tour, the Celtic team paid a visit to the now-elderly Brother Walfrid and had a celebration dinner in his honor. He returned to Scotland shortly before his death there on April 17th, 1915. Brother Walfrid now lies in Mount St Michael Cemetery in Dumfries.

     

     

    In 1897 the club directors decided to bring Celtic in line with the developing professional game and they appointed a full-time team manager. They appointed 29-year-old Newry-born Willie Maley who guided Celtic to a league title in his first year in charge. Maley would manage Celtic for 43 years and lead them to 30 major trophies. Such a long managerial career at one club would be unheard of in today’s game!

     

     

    Before the appointment of Willie Maley, Celtic would buy players from other clubs. It drained the club’s finances and did not reflect on the community foundations of Celtic. Maley decided to recruit players from nearby schools and streets. An established club academy made sure that a parish sense of pride strung out through the team and its fans.

     

     

    Celtic’s fan base is legendary and today in Scotland, Ireland, and across the globe you can find Celtic supporter clubs usually named after past players or Irish martyrs. Since the Celtic’s earliest games they attracted strong support that followed them home and away and this was a fan base that grew out of ‘Brake Clubs.’

     

     

    In the early days of Celtic football, fans of the club from different streets in Glasgow would travel to games on large horse-drawn brakes and they became known as Brake Clubs. They would carry big banners proclaiming their street or parish, along with a picture or name of a player from that area. This tradition continued on when the automobile replaced the horse and fans packed into buses with flags, banners, flutes, and bugles! They were usually heard before they were seen!

     

     

    The Celtic fans sang songs such as The Rising of the Moon and The Mountains of Mourne. The singing tradition of Celtic fans intensified in the 1920s when the so-called “shut the window” songs were sung out at home and away games, songs such as the Merry Ploughboy and Kevin Barry. To this very day, Irish folk and rebel ballads continue to be a staple of the Celtic fan’s songbook.

     

     

    The shamrock in the center circle at Celtic Park may be long gone but the same songs and Irish sentiment remain. Just look up at the flags that flutter above the stand at Celtic park – flying with pride next to the Saltire of Scotland is the tricolor of Ireland!

     

     

    * Originally published in July 2018. Updated in March 2023.

     

     

    This article was submitted to the IrishCentral contributors network by a member of the global Irish community.

  29. Moisey17 on

    I reckon that had they been flying and had no game midweek that would have gone ahead.

     

    Sad but I don’t trust a word that come from any SFA official….

  30. An Tearmann on

    A Happy and a holy St.Patricks day to all good Celtic men and woman and their families

     

     

    Have a great day and enjoy the craic

     

     

    Hail Hail

  31. Melvin Udall on

    MOISEY17 on 17TH MARCH 2024 10:45 AM

     

    I reckon that had they been flying and had no game midweek that would have gone ahead.

     

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    Agree 100%.

  32. scullybhoy on

    Speaking to Match of the Day, Postecoglou added: “Our final third play wasn’t great. But it’s more the overall play that was disappointing.

     

     

    “There are things we’ve done all year we’ve prided ourselves on, our intensity and tempo, but that wasn’t there in the second half.”

  34. fourstonecoppi on

    Debate

     

     

    ‘Erin Go Bragh’ or ‘Éirinn go Brách’

     

     

    Is ‘Erin Go Bragh’ anglizised?

  35. fourstonecoppi on

    EKBHOY on 17TH MARCH 2024 10:35 AM

     

    Huns game off

     

     

    how very convienient…although adds to their backlog

  36. EKBhoy on

    Enjoyable watch yesterday.

     

     

    Our right side functioning well with AJ Matt and Nick playing some lovely stuff , third man run into space.

     

     

    Maybe Paulo needs to show more if he is looking for an offer for next year.

     

     

    More optimistic about the run in now

  38. Burnley78 on

    Dundee current owners are more aligned with Celtic than rangers actually. They will be really frustrated actually.

  40. Chairbhoy on

    BURNLEY78 @ 9:58 AM,

     

     

    Well, you could say the substitutions cost us goal difference.

     

     

    That certainly looks the case, yet so did the officials and VAR.

     

     

    That is going to be the way it works until the end of the season.

     

     

    We will win this league by being head and shoulders above the opposition, as we saw at Tynecastle, any opportunity to harm us will be siezed by the cheats.

     

     

    Having CCV in prime condition, seeing what Holm can offer us in midfield and Tomoki in defence is crucial.

     

     

    We saw the hunger back with Kyogo, having Idah breathing down his neck, like Giakoumakis did, seems to focus him.

     

     

    We have lost so much young talent from our Academy, giving Kelly the opportunity will be seen as a huge positive for a dozen quality youngsters having agents bending their ear.

     

     

    So, every substitution made sense.

     

     

    It would be great if goal difference was a big issue for us, it’s actually way down the list of priorities as things stand.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  41. Burnley78 on

    Annoying as Huns injuries and general weariness could have been a factor in a heavy pitch.

     

     

    No real fixture backlog for them.

     

     

    A midweek game between Hibs at home and their game with us is most likely. Or after our game there and before they go to Ross County. Probably the latter now. Thus ensuring an easy run in to game with us.

     

     

    I hope Dundee push for pre game with us but guessing they will want it after as rangers will have given their all against us on a Sunday before going to dens.

  42. Burnley78 on

    Chairbhoy

     

     

    I disagree re goal difference. Even if not the final arbiter just knowing we have an advantage there puts scoreboard pressure on opponent.

     

     

    Agree with much of what you say. I do hope we don’t need Holm though, not because he is bad just because I want Hatate back and McGregor for run in.

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