A couple of hours after Celtic lost in Germany on Wednesday, St Johnstone fell to the same fate at Kilmarnock, who started the game bottom of the table without a win.
That was Saints first defeat since August, so any notion that tomorrow’s Premiership game in Perth will be anything other than taxing for Celtic is likely to be wide of the mark.
It is an away game after an away game in Europe, the scenario when points are most often dropped. Add to this recent form, which is well below our early season standards, and injuries to key players, and your have a cocktail of concern.
These are the days where titles are won, the days we acquired such a deep squad to cope with. A win please, Celtic.
More on Callum McGregor after tomorrow, eye on the prize.
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Franks a fighter 🍀
One of my Celtic hero’s
Any reliable news on Calmac yet?
Since BRRB is a day behind the rest of us posted on previous thread …
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 8TH OCTOBER 2022 9:56 AM
Good morning matchday from Govanhill. Gerrintaethum Celtic!!!
andy ritchie
https://twitter.com/i/status/1578002562829193216
Nothing officially from the club regarding Callum yet but I don’t believe we will see him until after new year . Hope I’m wrong.
We are not short of good players who can do a job in there . HH 🍀
Lisbon Lion
@tirnaog_09
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Oct 7
A young Jock Stein with his Hibs side before he joined Celtic. He gave them a great boost & even brought Real Madrid to Easter Road & defeated them 2-0. However the Hibs Doctor gave him some good advice…
https://twitter.com/tirnaog_09/status/1578262547656245253/photo/1
You may not be familiar with the name John Batters but we of the Celtic persuasion may owe the 98 year old a quiet word of thanks. In the 1950s and 60s Mr Batters was the Doctor at Hibernian Football Club when a certain John Stein was mulling over an offer from Bob Kelly to become Celtic Manager. He asked John Batters what he thought he should do. He could stick it out for a few years yet at Hibs who were starting to play some excellent football or take a chance and return to Celtic where he made his name as a player? Dr Batters was quite clear on the course of action Stein should take and replied…’ John you’re a Celtic man, you should go or you’ll regret it.’
http://tirnaog09.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-youre-celtic-man.html
Trevelyan didn’t like his posting or the Irish and dragged his feet when it came to intervening in the crisis. The form of ‘Laissez Faire’ Capitalism he supported did not allow for Government money to distort trade by buying food to feed starving Irish peasants. Businessmen and Land Owners had to be free to maximise their profits after all. His slow response condemned countless thousands to death. He wrote to a friend in a letter which still survives, stating that the famine was an…
‘effective mechanism for reducing surplus population” as well as “the judgement of God”, sent to teach the selfish, perverse and turbulent Irish people a lesson’
http://tirnaog09.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-gorta-mor-and-celtic-fc.html
Frank McGarvey …legend ….You will never walk alone
A Game of Statues.
Of Mince and Men…
George Square in the Centre of Glasgow is in many ways a reflection of another age. Laid out in 1781 and named after King George III the Hanoverian monarch who lost the American colonies and who ended his life deaf, blind and insane. At the west end of the Square Victoria and Albert sit upon their horses full of pride and Imperial arrogance. In the corner by the Railway station is Robert Peel, founder of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Metropolitan Police who were often called ‘Peelers’ or ‘Bobbies’ in his honour. The former Prime Minister, who was also known as ‘Orange Peel’ due to some of his views, was also in office during the early years of the Irish Famine. In the Centre of the Square on top of a tall column is Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, a man known as a proud supporter of the Union with England. One concession to the ordinary folk is the statue of Robert Burns. This son of Ayrshire farming stock knew hard work in his time and celebrated the working folk in many of his tales and poems. The Square is an echo of a time when everyone knew their place in Scottish society and those at the bottom were very firmly kept there. It was to this historic place that several thousand ordinary folk, mainly though not exclusively Scots and Irish-Scots of the modern era came to protest at the harsh implementation of a new law.
The events which took place at the Gallowgate three weeks ago, when the Police ‘Kettled’ a peaceful group of Celtic fans and generally behaved in an unnecessarily aggressive manner, upset a lot of their fellow fans. Not all of us who gathered in George Square are always in full agreement with some of the things the Green Brigade do but this was a time for solidarity. A time to register our protest at an obvious injustice. I packed my camera and headed for George Square with 3 or 4 thousand other Celtic fans of all ages. We were joined by fans of Hibs, Motherwell, Partick Thistle and St Pauli to name but a few. The Police were conspicuous by their absence and this was probably the wisest course to follow given the genuine anger about their role in events at the Gallowgate. That being said, I got chatting to a couple of Cops as I headed down past Queen Street railway Station. They seemed pretty adamant that the new law wasn’t actually necessary as simply enforcing existing laws would have been sufficient to deal with sectarian, racist or other hate crimes at football or anywhere else. They did concede that the internet was a place which did need policing more rigorously and perhaps that is a reasonable point given some of the online bile we see from cowards who hide behind the internet’s easy anonymity.
The speeches we heard were eloquent and rounded on both the ‘Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012’ and the way it’s being implemented by the Police. The targeting of football fans has reached a stage where it is becoming harassment and that can never be acceptable in a democratic country where all Public Servants, including the Police, should be accountable for their actions. Laws made by clueless middle class politicians and implemented by an unsympathetic and heavy handed Police force are unlikely to be successful. Who can forget the inept Kenny McAskill, SNP Justice Secretary, sit through 90 minutes of Bigoted bile from the Rangers fans at the 2011 League Cup Final and then afterwards smile at the press saying it was ‘A great advert for Scottish Football?’ This is the type of person who drew up this legislation seeking some easy popularity among the middle classes. Thankfully some of the judges who deal with the more ludicrous cases set before them are blowing holes in the Act. One recently described it as ‘Mince.’ Are we seriously trying to tell people in a democratic society what that can sing and what they can’t sing? Are we seriously saying that blessing yourself may be a provocative act, even a crime? Is this 2013 or 1690? Are we seriously trying to say that Politicians will decide what we think and which political opinions are acceptable to society?
As the crowd left the Square on Saturday and headed for Celtic Park the songs of people who have had enough of lying down echoed loudly off the walls of the fine Georgian Buildings. Victoria may have sniffed at the noisy progeny of the famine Irish and working class Scots who marched through the elegant square loudly demanding better treatment. But as she and Robert Peel knew all too well from their own age, the Irish and their offspring don’t know when to give up. There is an old Irish song which reminds us of a truth the Politicians had best heed…
‘Laws are made for people and the law can never scorn the right of a man to be free. We are the people and we shall overcome.’’
Tirnaog
Spmeday this will be CQN Corner.
https://twitter.com/tirnaog_09/status/1577899905229766656/photo/1
Celtic: Hart, Ralston, Carter-Vickers, Welsh, Bernabei, Hakšabanović, Hatate, O’Riley, Jota, Abada, Giakoumakis.
Subs: Siegrist, Bain , Kyogo, Abildgaard, Mooy, McCarthy, Maeda, Juranovic, Forrest.
Ref switch to zombie Anderson is SFA intervention to influence todays result
SAINT STIVS
Loved your posts today, good to c your usual high standards
Will be glad on Mon when AnT is back.
☮🕉🕊🖖✌💚💛
Gerry, you always respond, guess you’re a little guy, always like the last word ,makes them feel big , the floor is yours my fellow celt , 3-1 celtic today, Go to work lads .
Carter Vickers is back so let’s play all the forward thinking players lol Ballsy choice Ange, ballsy.
BelmontBrian, glad you posted that. A day late and a dollar short. 🙄
DALRIADABHOY on 8TH OCTOBER 2022 11:20 AM
SAINT STIVS
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passing the time waiting for the big match, well it is for me no matter the competion or the opponent.
that TIRNAOG fella, his contributions over the years are brilliant, its good to did in now and again
GFTB I meant. Ffs I’m having a nightmare.
Playing Abada, Haksabanovic, Jota and Giakoumakis a strange one? I would have thought Abildgard deserved a chance to play in midfield and give us a more physical presence rather than picking three small wingers.
BRRB 11.26am
:-)
I have been compared to worse, will take the Belmont Brian comparison anytime
Enjoy the game … delighted CCV is back, me saying Joe Hart was a cert to have the armband probably helped CCV get back into the starting 11
Am rarely correct on anything
Mental team — working the squad angle to the max.
Kill or cure at the moment — hopefully this was a series of measured decisions.
I think are few points are being made — hopefully the squad respond.
The alternative is that AP is taking some of the CL starters out of the firing line.
MoJ / GT — injured?
Or double cotton wool?
live updates up
Name this famous Celt.?
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