Dead rubber day

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Celtic arrive in Prague tomorrow for a game many of us consider a dead rubber.  The thumping Sparta inflected at Celtic Park still smarts and almost certainly ended the competitive element of our Europa League campaign.  The most we can hope for is a cohesive performance and an injury and illness free trip.  A defeat, even a heavy defeat, will not resonate as much as the draw at Easter Road.

For me, the pace quickens at the weekend, when your clean sheet domestic record goes on the line for the 36th consecutive time.  We can only hope the week will be used productively.

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  1. Not sure whether the horsey fellas still post at the end of the last thread.

     

     

    Assuming they do, could the arguers perhaps move to the previous?

     

     

    Keeps things cleaner on the live thread.

     

     

    Almost the season of goodwill and all that

  2. JERSEYBHOYS on 24TH NOVEMBER 2020 6:25 PM

     

     

    Can we please ban this clown

     

     

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    no need to ban anyone, we are all a wee bit out of sorts just now, just like our team unfortunately.

  3. RON BACARDI, acc0rding to big jimmy he cant afford a pint, because he is on benefits, and his cat rocky has vet bills,, ive offered to help him with his vet bills, but he has told me to feck off ,and that is another true story👍

  4. BIG PACKY 1 on 24TH NOVEMBER 2020 6:32 PM…AND 6.45pm

     

    BIG JIMMY i have offered to help you with your vet bills, you have declined and called me names, other posters will surely see this, unless they are are in your clique ,

     

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    You have put your foot in it YET AGAIN…You just can not help yourself can you ? YOU have now claimed that I have a ” Clique”…So go on then NAME NAMES….Who on here is in my so called Clique ?

     

    Go on …Im waiting…in fact many of us will be waiting for You to NAME NAMES…

     

     

    You are also a LIAR…YOU managed to anger so many Folk on here at one time….YOU BEGGED and PLEADED with the Mods NOT to be Red Carded….Your EXACT Words were…” CQN is my LIFE !….Your a Feckin SADDO.

     

    you can stay on here all night if you want to…I have a LIFE….Feckin SADDO !

  5. BATEEN BHOY @ 6:52 PM,

     

     

    Well when the games were postponed we were counting that as six points.

     

     

    We have enough to beat Aberdeen at home – no doubts – but the fact is if Aberdeen win that game they will be one point behind them.

     

     

    Not coming third is our reality at the moment, that is where the form is. We never got close to beaten the Ibrox Club and that was at Parkhead.

     

     

    So the point you make is not only moot, it doesn’t bear real scrutiny. Rangers are where they are on merit, their European games are testament to that, their result against Aberdeen reinforces it.

     

     

    The only way we get back in this race is improve greatly and beat Rangers in every remaining old firm game. We need to start now…

     

     

    Capitulation in Prague is not the way of Champions!!

     

     

    Hail Hail

  6. BIG PACKY 1 on 24TH NOVEMBER 2020 7:05 PM

     

    RON BACARDI, acc0rding to big jimmy he cant afford a pint, because he is on benefits, and his cat rocky has vet bills,, ive offered to help him with his vet bills, but he has told me to feck off ,and that is another true story👍

     

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    I could BUY and SELL You… ya FUD……Show me and anyone else ANY Post where I have claimed to be skint and dont have enough Money for a Pint….??

     

    Show me where I have Posted that I cant afford Vet Bills ???

     

    away and get yourself a real job….Walking Dugs isnt really a job is it…You MUST have did really well at School, college maybe even Uni…Ya Muppet.

     

    You are a Feckin LIAR…and defo No.1 CHUMP of the highest Order….NOW …Feck Off…again

  7. Bhoy From The Boyne on

    SFTB @ 6:26pm

     

     

    Yes, that is a fair point. I would hope JK and GS are working on shape daily in training. The support are in a frenzy at the moment and i’m guilty as much as any fan. There are legitimate concerns from what we see on the pitch. The coaches and manager need to step up now and the players need to respond positively. Hopefully 15/15 points in December and NL gets his tactics right on Jan 2nd to at least avoid defeat. Reading that Ryan Porteous interview on Jack Ross H/T team talk last Saturday really bugged me. Teams see Celtic as fragile and know their weaknesses. Its too easy for the opposition at the moment. Hibs changed their whole game plan last weekend and should have probably got the 3 points. Tactics, shape and player buy in must start this Thursday.

  8. RON BACARDI on 24TH NOVEMBER 2020 6:57 PM

     

    Sometimes the drink can confuse some of our posters memory of who said what and so on.

     

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    just for clarity RON…..I havent had a Drink since Oct 9th when the Pubs closed at 6pm. I do NOT ( unlike some on here), drink in the Hoose. So I have been perfectly sober since mid October.

     

    On the other hand…that Packy Chump gets drunk in the hoose with 4 Cans cos his wife doesnt let him go out to any pubs etc…and hes just Hen Pecked…pure and simple.

     

    That BP is just another Feckin ” Lightweight”…he wouldnt last 30 minutes drinking with me…or anyone else for that matter…hes just one of Lifes sad little FUDS.

     

    HH

  9. Willie haughty has no position at celtic PLC.

     

     

     

    Did he not also sell on a load of shares quite a

     

     

    While ago.

     

     

    No longer an influence at all.

  10. BIG JIMMY ,you are the fud and a liar, you bully people on here and call them chumps, just because they dont want neil lennon as manager, you called me out as abusing neil lennon and calling him a puppet, yes he is a puppet to that bassa peter lawwell, but that is not to say i dislike neil lennon

  11. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    St Stivs

     

     

    Willie haughty has no position at celtic PLC.

     

     

    Indeed – busy bailing out the SFA buying Hampden Park “for the nation”

     

     

    BTW – Krasnodar vs Sevilla (in front of a crowd) is a great game.

  12. Fans back in England will lead to claims of unfairness. Clubs in tier 3 will claim that other clubs will have the advantage of a crowd and more income. I expect port vale to be in tier 3

  13. Chairbhoy,

     

    I’m not disputing that we’ve been well below the level we expect from the group of players we have. A blind man could see that, but my moot point is also a fact. Indisputable.

     

    Can anyone say with any certainty that the league is gone ? That this group of players, despite what they’ve given us this far, are incapable of turning it round ? And yet so many here, and elsewhere, have chucked it.

     

    I also believe that we should be doing all we can to win on Thursday in Prague. That door isn’t closed. Yet. If we go with the attitude that it’s a dead rubber, what does that say about our ambition ? Success breeds success, and a winning run, and return of confidence can begin on Thursday.

     

    For me and Celtic, the glass is always half-full.

  14. prestonpans bhoys on

    I’m setting up a new tablet and have yet to install a ad blocker to the browser, different experience don’t know how boys can use it without one !!

  15. When I penned my diatribe on Sunday it was as much for myself as the blog, I was trying tae figure out how we have so spectacularly collapsed.

     

     

    I looked at 1975 but that was in the 2nd half of the season when although we had broken our transfer record and bought who at the time was reckoned the best box tae box midfielder in the country we hadn’t reckoned on father time catching up with the greatest centre half in my lifetime, the player voted the greatest Celt of all time and a player who truly played for the jersey.

     

     

    A couple of years later a life threatening MVA possibly caught up with our greatest ever manager.

     

     

    Fortunately for us the board identified this and with Jock’s assistance his successor, and while not as good as 1965 – 74, our triumphs continued, even when Billy left the Quiet Assassin came in and we had the Centenary cup final as well as Albert Kidd day.

     

     

    This current situation has me conflicted, as I pointed out on Sunday it was deidco who saved us from doing a Belfast Celtic and that was purely down tae money.

     

     

    We have been joined at the hip financially with them since the term OF was introduced in 1904. In fact collusion has been offered up for the hampden riot of 5 years later when after 90 minutes of the replay and extra time apparently looming both teams left the pitch for the dressing room, it is perceived that for financial reasons they wanted another replay.

     

     

    In 1997 after getting dumped out of both European competitions and having spent 14.45 million bader sacrificed their ten for a crack at the Big Cup bringing in aardvark who ironically would win a European trophy but not with deidco, they were the opposition that night when the hun fans did to Manchester what the 3rd Reich failed to do.

     

     

    So in saying that are we being complicit in sacrificing our ten to save sevco, stranger things have happened.

     

     

    As we all know the mitb are doing their job, other teams are hardly trying a leg so just mibbees just mibbees the word is out to save the huns.

     

     

    I know the other clubs helped stop them trying tae come back in the top division after they went out of the game, but if the truth be told that order only came fae the board rooms after the opposing fans threatened a boycott, even down in the Championship. As far as the directors of these clubs, possibly including ours, were concerned titles and cups stripped was enough punishment.

  16. WHERE IS BIG JIMMY,you know where he is, when he gets challenged like all bullys he shuts his big gob, now i say again big jimmy, im an animal lover, if you are having trouble paying your vet bills i will help. just let paul67 know,

  17. Apart from a chance to play a back four of Elhamed,Ajer,Jullien,Laxsalt,in defence,Eddy and Griff up front,this game on Thursday is a non event.No matter how much some are outraged by the thought.A performance to boost morale would be most welcome,and our away performances have been unarguably better than home form.

  18. Dear God in heaven, what has become of this once fine site? Attempted to read the last few pages of playground antics but think I’ve had enough. Play nice.

  19. Weak board.

     

    Weak manager, because he jumped into bed with all of the devil’s on Kerrydale Street.

     

    Weak captain, because he’s done.

     

    Weak supporter’s, who are unwilling to stand their ground.

     

    Weak trophy cabinet this year? Could this be the long awaited medicine?

  20. the league is not over? As it stands it is over!

     

     

    The only team to benefit from Covid situation so far this season is Rangers – playing a weakened Celtic and Aberdeen team.

     

     

    The referees are creating safe passage – See the number of penalties they get and the number of yellows against them (early in the game). Contrasted to Celtic where opposition players can cripple Frimpong, Forrest and consistently barge our strikers without foul.

     

     

    Then there’s our manager – Starts with one striker against SCOTTISH teams and usually reacts with 10mins to go after we lose a stupid goal. He knows our defense is rank , so why not out score our opponents instead of inviting them up the pitch – note, we are talking about Scottish defenses here!!

     

     

    Then there is still our manager – Plays Frimpong as a right back when a) his strength is in attack and b) his weakness is his defending and c) we have an international right back on the books. Bitton is a better midfielder than. brown right now , yet he plays center back. I’d also like to see Luca, Soro and Turnbull in the team than Ntcham and Rogic – two of the laziest players in the league (celtic player and the word lazy should never be permitted)

     

     

    Then there’s the players – At least Duffy tries his heart out – I’d take that over some players who right now who have chucked it!

     

     

    If I was the celtic manager – I’d haul off any player after 10minutes who failed to perform the basic competency of any PROFESSIONAL footballer – work for the team/chase back/ make yourself available.

     

     

    Lennon is the soft one – Ntcham should be playing for the colts, Eduard in the stand, Julien in the stand until his dummy is found and Moi dropped until he impacts football matches like he should.

     

     

    Lennon picks these lazy , soft players lacking attitude – Its his issue and he isn’t fixing it.

     

     

    Then there’s the board – they see what we see, they hear our concerns – they’ve had sufficient indicators to act – but our board NEVER speculates to accumulate (see deplorable European record)

     

     

    This is why the league is over!!

  21. 3 households can mix over Christmas

     

     

    Big Jimmy, BP1 and one night – now there’s a bubble that might pop 🤭