A big pitfall in the autumn fixtures is who you face after a demanding European game. Teams are more likely to drop points domestic away from home immediately after an away European game than in any other scenario.
A few years back, Celtic had the misfortune of four domestic away games after European fixtures, a wave of complaints perhaps ensured these fixtures are now evenly spread, as they are this time. Following our Champions League games, we have away trips to St Mirren, St Johnstone and Livingston, and we face Livingston, Hibs and Dundee United at home.
Livingston caused Celtic lots of problems last season, so facing them twice will cause some concern. In their corresponding fixtures, Newco have home and away games against Aberdeen, who are a perennial thorn in the Ibrox club’s soft underbelly. Points will be dropped by whoever is unprepared.
Celtic, Newco and Hearts – likely to be Scotland’s group stage competitors, are all kept apart after European games, to assist fixture scheduling problems. Motherwell and Dundee United may surprise everyone and qualify for the Conference League groups.
Between the league kick-off at home to Aberdeen on 31 July and facing Ross County on 12 November, when club football breaks for the World Cup, Celtic will play 16 games in the league, six in the Champions League and probably two in the League Cup.
24 games in 15 weeks sounds like a lot, but it will be our lightest load at the start of the season in many years. Others are likely to play 28 games in that time.
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Just go for fast attacking forwards, skillfull, fast attacking mids, fast attcking full backs and 2 or 3 big ball winning, ball playing centre backs.
Seemples.
Managing is soooo easy sitting in a cafe in Kirky.
D :)
BelmontBrian – Keep the jokes coming.
Big Jimmy if lurking let us know how you are fella. Hope you are feeling better.
D :)
UNCLE JIMMY on 18TH JUNE 2022 10:18 AM
Henrick Larsson did not have issues beating taller players in the air.
CCV regularly wins headers against taller player, Bitton who is taller still was a liability in the air.
HH
TLT – Hope you are well to.
D :)
Surely some bargains to be had from Russia….see the huns are being linked to ex bodo centre forward who went for over 6 million and can be had for he haw…..
I’d have a safe bet that Ange has never bought a CLUGGER in his life…
Lundstrum is a dead ringer for fleshlumpeater in BFG movie.
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-bfg/trailers/7091364
The Big Match Revisited ITV 4,jumpers for goalposts, marvellous..
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Just about every large and powerful nation on God’s green earth has went out of its way to conquer other nations and have throughout history attacked smaller less powerful nations for their own purposes. Those powerful nations proclaim themselves as legal and just. Any uprising is regarded as illegal and criminalised. You are a terrorist if you stand up, ask Mandela.
Every oppressed people since the beginning of time have used song, music and dance to help through the struggles and to remember thier loved ones. The powerful nations don’t like people who remember because they cant airbrush history. They point to the freedom fighter’s cruel crimes as if their were somehow worse than the crimes of their own army’s and soldiers and never talk about how the situation started in the first place.
I have to laugh when I think of the nice brits who invaded ireland removed her people of their land, made it illegal for those same people to own land, split the island or ireland into 2 countries and then oversee and engaged fully in oppressing one part of the population.
When the minority is under attack in the North the same brits go to protect the minority and then conspire with the unionist community and set about attacking and killing the victims cause they thunk they should have equal rights. The brits help trigger the rebellion and swell the numbers of IRA members, bloody Sunday the most obvious one.
If the roles were reversed the english, scots, welsh and just about every other nation would fight back, by hook or crook. I don’t understand why people are so surprised the Irish did.
JIMTIM
Don’t mind me mate. I’ve still got the hump cos I can’t go to the first Huns game.
Hail Hail.
STEPHBHOY67
I’m currently reading a history of New York and you wouldn’t believe the inhumane way the Brits & Loyalists treated the Patriots during the wars of independence in the late 18th century.
Also, the Americans, under London rule, celebrated bonfire night every 5th November. But instead of Guy Fawkes, they burnt effiges of the Pope.
The reason players like Xavi, Inesta, Messi wouldn’t make it in scotland is the lack of protection they would be given, all this talk of enforcers and hardmen are a waste of time, the club should demand a level playing field, end of.
STEPHBHOY67 on 18TH JUNE 2022 10:41 AM
UNCLE JIMMY on 18TH JUNE 2022 10:18 AM
Henrick Larsson did not have issues beating taller players in the air.
CCV regularly wins headers against taller player, Bitton who is taller still was a liability in the air.
HH
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Correct. Wee Jinky scored a few crackers with his heid.
STEPHBHOY at 11:21
You’re on song today. Guid stuff.
TET Also correct, but it’s not just the Iniestas etc that need protecting from our MIB- just ask big Tom Rogic, David Turnbull etc
Just watching my 10 year old grandson playing this morning and there are some brutal tackles going in. Wonder where they learn that from?
No referees at this level, of course.
Vinniethedog – Assuming Krasnodar were paying in installments, Bodo Glimt would have received maybe 2-3m of the reported 6.7m fee. Krasnodar have lost their player so it’s unlikely they’ll pay another penny on the fee, that leaves Bodo Glimt out of pocket for 4.7m and Krasnodar down 2-3m. Both clubs, especially Bodo, will want their money back.
UEFA are creating a difficult precedent here and we might see an exodus of EU players from Russia. Any club with an appetite for litigation would jump at the chance of getting in the middle of a situation like that.
Then you have recent Russian transfers where installments are still due. Do Celtic cancel all payments to Rubin Kazan for Starfelt?
The scottish press are certainly all over sectarianism (even when it’s not) especially events 5 thousands miles away.
I can only imagine their coverage when sectarianism and racism walks the streets of Glasgow shortly.
Otherwise, they’d just be hypocritical shitebags and that’s not the case
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 18TH JUNE 2022 11:30 AM
Did the Brits and the Loyalists treat the Patriots any worse than the Patriots treated the indigenous people?
UNCLE JIMMY on 18TH JUNE 2022 12:09 PM
‘The scottish press are certainly all over sectarianism (even when it’s not) especially events 5 thousands miles away.’
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If your referring to the shindig in Las Vegas, none of that was sectarianism.
It might, to some people, be regarded as offensive behaviour.
Not the same thing.
A distinction our political masters here in Scotland are well aware of.
Right on cue.
Ernie obviously believes two wrongs make a right.
ERNIE LYNCH
Did the Brits and the Loyalists treat the Patriots any worse than the Patriots treated the indigenous people?
Yes.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 18TH JUNE 2022 12:18 PM
‘Did the Brits and the Loyalists treat the Patriots any worse than the Patriots treated the indigenous people?
Yes.’
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Thank you for clarifying your grasp of the issue.
Tenuous might be overstating it.
Ernie @ 12:15
I agree, hence the parentheses
ERNIE LYNCH
Go back to your knitting.
Re,the Bodo player,Huns only being linked because he is a free.Bigger,better clubs than them will be in for him,think we should be.Allegedley looking for another striker,who knows.
Get big Porteous signed ,play him for as long as it takes to clug Lundstrom,then sub him.There ye are,problem solved.
I am going up to celtic park and barrowfield for a wander around, anyone need anything,
will report back any works going on
First visit to CQN today.
Interesting comments over last 2 hours.
Who is holding the jaikets?
St Stivs @ 12:58 PM
I am going up to celtic park and barrowfield for a wander around, anyone need anything,
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A picture of Celtic Park?
A nice to have rather than a need.
a very good day to everybody in Celtic Land.
No Jota yet, but still hopeful.
I note , the first Hun game at CP is on my birthday, so no way we will not win.
A wee change for all you music fans everywhere.
You can forget about Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck at al, here is THE BEST guitarist of them all annd then some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e2VgycfSw
KINGLuBO
Good afternoon all from Ruglen. A fine day for beer and roasting huns.
ERNIE LYNCH on 18TH JUNE 2022 12:10 PM
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 18TH JUNE 2022 11:30 AM
Did the Brits and the Loyalists treat the Patriots any worse than the Patriots treated the indigenous people?
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In Scotland they ethnically cleansed them,death by coffin ship,the ones left exchanged slums for sheep
I do not expect you to remember any of this.
You are a unionist first then a socialist(my arse)
You know your latest attempt at populist marketing
Will f
Your selective memory is as good as always
Socialists who align with Tory policy
Socialists who do not repeal one bit of anti union law.
Socialist who nationalize Bank debt.
Socialism turned into a marketing exercise by a war criminal
Your party was abused from the inside,raped some would say by the ‘we are all middle class now’ leader
Ps. Did he pump murdochs Mrs?
Fack off wi yir shoite
Sonsoferin…I’d hope we continue payments….absolute nonsense to punish football clubs anyway…..
AN TEARMANN on 18TH JUNE 2022 2:08 PM
Your grasp of the nuance of complicated historical events and processes is as limited as your grasp of the English language.
Or maybe you’re just over emotional.
Which is a shame, because behind the miasma of spittle flecked outrage you’re probable well intentioned.
But you fallen down the rabbit hole of nationalism.
KINGLUBO on 18TH JUNE 2022 1:37 PM
I feel that only guitar players themselves can tell the quality of another player. The rest of us can only go by how good it sounds. Using that criteria, I thought your man ( Roy Buchanan) ,was superb.
ERNIE LYNCH on 18TH JUNE 2022 2:35 PM
Considering the nature of your comment, are you annoyed by your `probable` and `you fallen` mistakes?
:-)))
JIMTIM
How about a Barry Robson type player, Barry could play a bit too.
No Earnest,my grasp of history is fine,it is especially sharp when fake power assumes the mantra of the poor,and it was fake,it also caused 1,000,000 dead(minimum)
No complexity in ethnic cleansing
No complexity in being put of their land.
No complexity in coffin ships
‘Down the rabbit hole of Nationalism’ haha.
You see,if that was true you’d be able to explain your socialism.you can’t.
Your mess are ‘hands on’ with Tory councils(2 hand grip)in Scotland
Your mess are ‘hands on’ priest spitters as council members- your fellow fascist party members…..its OK they are socialists
All ‘Limited’ as you imply just means outwith that little selective memory bubble you have.
So what rabbithole are you in- one that had a motorway paved over?
TIMHORTON on 18TH JUNE 2022 2:59 PM
JIMTIM
How about a Barry Robson type player, Barry could play a bit too.
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Seem to remember him getting in a “retaliate first” marker against OldCo early doors once.