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With Logan Bailly out injured, Celtic are down to two keepers, Craig Gordon (33) and Leo Fasan (22).  That’s insufficient for the months ahead, which will see the club play eight European games, the visit of our perennial league rivals, Aberdeen later this month, as well as seeing the League Cup come to a conclusion.

So the reasoning behind Dorus de Vries (35) pitching up for a medial at Ross Hall this morning is clear.  What remains to be seen, is whether Brendan Rodgers reckons the Dutchman, whom he won promotion with at Swansea, is a safer pair of hands than Craig Gordon.

de Vries won Notting Forest supporters’ Player of the Year last season, a significant accolade for a keeper, so Stevie Woods can look forward to working with a genuine contender for first choice.

As we witnessed even against an outclassed Motherwell on Wednesday, defending corner kicks remains a problem for Celtic, which will again cost us dearly in Europe if the issue is not resolved.  How Dorus matches up in this area may well determine who gets the nod.

A word on Darnell Fisher.  He has the talent to perform more than adequately for Alan Stubbs at Rotherham, but he was judged not to have sufficient enthusiasm for getting back to do his day job, after venturing forward to assist attacks, which finished him at Celtic.

In this respect he didn’t fit the Ronny model, but the next generation of young full backs have come through having learned a lesson.


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  1. embramike says "the Huns are Deid" on

    Away leg against Be’er Sheva will ko at 7:45 pm our time which is 9:45 pm local time (2 hr time difference) so temperature should be very bearable particularly after our pre season in Slovenia when it was up in the 30s.

     

     

    Let’s hope that these issues are not relevant, as after watching their game last night, I think if they are a couple of goals down early, their temperament may be suspect.

     

     

    They have Nigerian and Brazilian players added to their Israeli players, and they might not fancy a cool and noisy Glasgow evening after a long journey.

  2. THE EXILED TIM on

    Clunks

     

    I watched the bit a couple of times as I was flabbergasted to say the least, I had always been led to believe we were in bother, little did I know it was a stitch up between minty and the bank, yet the scum is protected to beat the band, and as a support we do feck all about it.

     

    We always suspected they were at it, now we have the proof and what do we do, gorge on Jelly and Ice Cream, how fecking sad is that.

     

    HH

  3. clunks on

    TET

     

     

    I was right.

     

     

    watch from 21.50 to 23.10

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2qtsPng5U

     

     

    In particular the last 30 or secs.

     

     

    We had better financials than the huns and the BOS tried to bend us over as fuck us, with no lube.

     

     

    Let me say that again. Our financials were better but they tried to liquidate us. Just before the huns came into real prominence. They tried to kill us while bank rolling rangers into 9 in a row.

  5. Hrvatski Jim on

    Toor A Loo on 12th August 2016 9:07 pm

     

     

    I hope our brother got it sorted out.

     

     

    Pity the insignificance of the inspector. He must be a sad person if he takes any pleasure from such actions.

  7. embramike says "the Huns are Deid" on

    Spotted John McGlynn in the stand at Be’er Sheva’s game last night in his new role running the rule over our opponents for Brendan.

     

     

    Will be interesting if our Israeli player Nir Bitton is asked for his input – probably so. If he makes the 18 man squad for the game, I wonder how it might affect his preparation or performance if there is a political protest at the match ?

  8. weebobbycollins on

    I see those two yobs that attacked Rab Douglas were jailed for 3 months…great!

     

    But what is really galling is that they were convicted of breach of the peace…only!

     

     

    “Mr Douglas told Forfar Sheriff Court that he received sectarian abuse from supporters in the crowd and was spat on as he took a goal kick towards the end of the game.”

     

     

    “An allegation that the crime was motivated by sectarianism was removed from the charges.”

     

     

    ……………………………………………………………….SCUM………………………………………………………………..

  9. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    Not read back, seems some sevco stuff. My niece is in Normandy, her boss is a good guy working a medical thing in Dubai.

     

     

    Thanks, Charles. You’re a guy I could take to Celtic Park. Maybe not this season.

     

     

    Celtic forever.

  10. Gordon64 on

    Respect to Howard Gayle who refused an MBE for his work with ‘Show racism the red card’ campaign. Gayle who is from Toxteth was the first black player to play for Liverpool. He said he had to decline the nomination as it would be a betrayal to Africans who suffered at the hands of the British Empire.

  11. Neustadt-Braw on

    See the duke died and has been buried in record time…..you would think something was being hushed up…

     

     

    To live your life as a lie …but let the tock tick …

     

     

    Roach slime at work.?

     

     

    Braw.

  15. embramike says "the Huns are Deid" on

    GORDON64 on 12TH AUGUST 2016 10:10 PM

     

    Embramike Celtic fixtures have Be’er Sheva away game KO at 6.45pm CP time. HH

     

     

    Checked again on UEFA website and they have the KO time in Israel as 20:45 CET (21:45 local time) so that makes it 19:45 our time as the time difference is currently 2 hours.

     

     

    Interesting that our website has ko an hour earlier. At least the team won’t be late !!

  18. Toor A Loo on

    HRVATSKI JIM,

     

     

    Hope so mate, total scumbag of a man a few others were delighted with his actions.

     

     

    One Scotland many cultures my arse

  20. Gordon64 on

    A big shout to our resident DJ and all round good guy who suffered a sore one this week. They teachers will go to some lengths to avoid going back to work after 6 weeks on holiday. HH

  29. Hrvatski Jim on

    Toor A Loo on 12th August 2016 10:35 pm

     

     

    Well done to you for supporting him.

     

     

    These people may still be a significant factor in the sad west of Scotland world but their world is disappearing in front of their eyes.

     

     

    They are the losers when all is said and done.

     

     

    Something inside so strong.

  30. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    Ok, CQN. You’ve done what you did. I’m just a Celtic fan posting to a Celtic blog.

     

     

    Bring what I’ve written wrong, here

  36. Mats Nilloc on

    CLUNKS@8:54

     

     

    Thank you for the link – have tonight shared it with my match-day mates, who are not CQN junkies like me.

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