We can take some comfort in the fact that Salzburg have lost three games on the bounce but they sit in second spot in the Austrian Bundesliga, Celtic are fourth in the Scottish Premiership and have won only one of their previous five games. The Austrians will see just as much comfort in our form.
Success on Thursday will be determined by who manages to overcome their frailties most effectively. As far as Celtic are concerned, that will mean trying to find the kind of defensive performance that we put in last season.
Our reason for most confidence should be the speed which we can break at, and Salzburg’s only defensive issues. They shipped three goals to Sturm Graz and Malmo in recent outings.
Many thanks to everyone who has already taken our ‘Who we are and Our Values’ survey, it took just over 1 hour to register 1,000 submissions. It’ll take you little more than 5 minutes to share your view on some important matters, take a look here.
I’m a wee bit late to the party but I’ve signed up for the Great Scottish Run on 5 October to assist Celtic Foundation’s work in the areas of health, equality, poverty, and learning. If you’ve already registered with the event, or you have a pair of trainers and an outrageous disregard for the aging process, get involved.
You can register for the Great Scottish Run here and with the Foundation be emailing them, details here.
This is our club, they are your trainers, that is your outrageous disregard for the aging process. Let’s do it.
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John Hughes of ICT was really promoting Sevco at the weekend. He constantly referred to them as Rangers, can`t wait to have them `back` , believes they were a very classy team against Raith Rovers and considers them hot favourites to win tonight. A wee bit over the top if it reverse psychology!
JJ
timmy7_noted
“most of the rest of us have moved on and recognised the improvements in Scotland over the last 30 years.”
But I thought that one of the main strands of the YES campaign when countering the BT claim was “If we are Better Together, why are we not Better Together now?”
Improvements you say?
Shurely shome mishtake?
Timmy7 – the rest of us? Do you speak for 5M scots? Or do you have a one minded view that the world revolves around you.
What are these improvements you speak of Timmy7? And if we had improved why are we so desparately unhappy to become independent?
Speak sense – convince me – make an argument.
Neganon2
That cretin crack was a joke
Im sorry if it wound you up
Lighten up man.
What will be…will be.
I will still be mental
So will eveyone else.
Curtain twitchers eh:)
HH
First the bio so you can assess my perspoective and my question. Born and lived the first 28 years of my life in Glasgow. My father and grandfather were born in the Gorbals. Have been a Celtic supporter since I was six. Have lived in Chicago since 1988 and watch every game at Chicago CSC. I am Jewish. My mother and brother still live in Glasgow and for the first time as Jews they are afraid. There are only a rrelative handful of Jews, a few thousand, in Scotland but anti-semitic incidents have gone thru the roof in the past year. Some like to blame it on the Israel-Gaza conflict, but what have the Jews of Scotland to do with that. if they support Israel, that should not justify violence against the local community. Although I don’t have a vote, I would be in the YES corner if I did. However my family, and many in the Glasgow Jewish community are very fearful that a yes vote will mean greater nationalism and along with it even greater anti-semitism. For the first time many are reconsidering whether they are no longer welcome in Scotland and will probably vote no simply out of fear. Can those of you in the yes camp offer anything to allay their fears. To often in our Jewish history greater nationalism has meant less tolerance for Jews, so sadly we speak from experience. Mr.Salmond met with the leaders of the Jewish community to express support for them as an important part of the fabric of Scotland, but I would be interested in how an independent Scotland might view and treat its minorities.
Thunder Road
17:03 on 16 September, 2014
davidopoulos
Think there may be room for 1 more at Ernies but you may need to change your name by deed poll ;)
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Would it just be for the weekend though?
RSC Socialism was well smashed by Thatcher and subsequent governments. Politics moved so far to the right that even the Labour party felt compelled to ditch their beliefs in order to gain the votes necessary to win power. In Scotland those of us with left leanings have had to grin and bear it up to now because as part of the UK we knew that the choice was either Tory or Labour and Labour was certainly the better of the 2.
Most of the socialists from the Labour Party I was a member of are supporting independence. They are doing so not because of any belief that Scotland is any better than anywhere else but because they believe that in Scotland there is a stronger attachment to policies that are less focused on profit and more focused on people. They also believe that weakening the Westminster stranglehold on power will help all parts of the UK.
If Yes wins the current Labour Party will be absolutely finished as will the SNP. New parites will emerge of left thinking people from these parties and the Greens and the SSP etc. The idea of socialism hasn’t died it’s just been repressed for many years. I very much look forward to this re-emergence of hope and I believe that Scotland would flourish.
It’s not too romantic to think that Scotland can lead the way. The early Labour Party was very well represented by Scots who had visions of what might be possible. These days that thinking is within the Yes movement and that is where all Labour party members and supporters should be.
And here I was thinking – is it possible another idiot could appear on the blog to join Ernie?
Hey presto!!!
MWD says AYE
Ray Singh-Carr
17:09 on 16 September, 2014
Rearrange the following: “At straws clutching”.
The Banks.
Scoundrels.
They should be hanging their head in shame.
What is a bank?
Simply something which is there to oil the wheels of industry.
Why are they running the economy?
How will we ever be able to create new wealth? New money? Without printing it that is.
We need a radical rethink
Instead of being ‘warned’ by that crowd.
What’s their track record like?
New start. Fairer society. New ideas
New growth. New way of looking at things. Vote for change. Change at every level.
Vote Yes.
Neg,”Do you speak for 5M scots? Or do you have a one minded view that the world revolves around you.”
Did you actually type that!! WOW.The man who states opinions as fact on almost every post.You become more ridiculous by the day.How can someone who has 47 years experience behind him still be so blinkered?
canamalar the pendulem has certainly swung away from where I like it but it swings back from left to right certainly over my lifetime. The current tories are more stupid than the thatcher regime I had the misfortune to be brought up in. For all its ills the pendulem swung back during the new labour years (though massive massive mistakes were made).
Do I want it to swing back – yep? Will it happen in an independent scotland. Well I dont know. I know we will spend a generation separating and paying for that separation and that wont do much for social justice.
And then we are told about scotlands inherent sense of fairness. Where is that then?
If England could vote to break away from the rest of the UK, what % would say yes, very high IMO
Well lhads…offski for a nice Japanese meal in the west end.
I hope Scotland has not exploded by the time I finish.
Armageddon again eh
Ha
HH
Jesus Timmy its like arguing with a toddler. Answer the question – make an argument. Convince us?
timmy7_noted
So despite your own admission that Scotland has improved vastly under a mixture of Tory/New Labour/Devolved Governments, you intend to vote for wholesale change?
Would that be a fair assessment?
Mind those cretins green man
j67 at 16:26
Well said – vote “Yes” for the future generations. my daughter and all her friends are hopeful that the result will go their way.
HH
‘Mon the Hoops, by the way!
Neganon
My friend in Celtic.
Can you please read my post below and show me my anglophobia?
Do you think there was any anti English feeling as I spoke to one my dearest pals the other night about our respective intentions. He’s an undecided, now of Edinburgh, originally from bishops Stortford! Or his also undecided, but leaning towards Yes, Geordie wife?
Or the knowing smile I just exchanged with the guys at the English for Yes stall on Buchanan St?
jamesgang
15:48 on 16 September, 2014
Ref ‘leaving’ the English……
…..I’ll still support the English cricket team……
……we’re not going to float away on our sea of oil…….
….and we shall become equally as foreign as………..
Terry Wogan
Louis Walsh
Graham Norton
and sometimes Rory McIlroy!!!
‘Calm down dear, it’s only a commercial!’
HH jamesgang
I don’t think there’ll be ‘large swathes of unhappy people’ but more likely swathes of large unhappy people.
eatsensiblyCSC
Ray Singh-Carr
17:18 on 16 September, 2014
It would be your assessment.If you don’t understand the point I was making go back and read it again.
williamf
17:10 on 16 September, 2014
In answer to your question: we’ll never know.
Syd Negakev
You’ll upset the bigbonedCSC
davidopoulos
Well….guess it may come down to what games you like to play at bath-time :)
YES. Paddle your own canoe.
Oh green man – you are just mental.
Thats ok then.
williamf
The vote in Scotland is not about Nationalism a la Germany or indeed Britain. Here no one is suggesting that we are different or better than anyone else we are seeking self -determination for a country that for 300 years has been dominated by it’s bigger partner. We won’t to run our own affairs that is all.
If you speak to people at the Yes stalls you would find out that by and large they are left wing former labour supporters, as are a lot of the SNP. what they are seeking is not to exclude others but to include as many as they possibly can. The Yes campaign is not racist, sectarian , anti-semitic or anything else. I would imagine that if we vote Yes the future governments would continue to follow that line because the bulk of the population have for decades been left of centre/Labour leaning with very little support for the various fascist parties NF BNP etc.
NegAnon2
17:18 on 16 September, 2014
At what point did an argument start? I must have missed it.Convince you?? Of what?
That Scotland is a less sectarian country now than it has ever been?
I would have thought that was obvious.
Davidopoulos
Probably!…..and also the IhaveissuesCSC and the honestlyIdonteatthatmuchCSC.
Jamesgang the anglophopbia and indeed hatred of no voters is all over these pages – you dont need to look far. I know there are plenty of yes voters who are not anlgophobic – but have a look over the last 7 odd pages. You’ll find it here.
And stop patronising me with the calm down stuff please.
b2k
17:24 on 16 September, 2014
Exactamundo!! But it suits some on here to throw mud hoping it sticks.
Not to sectarianism (real or imagined).
Just vote Yes.For an inclusive Scotland.
It is not easy to bare you soul online and paint a picture in words – of the inner darker self, many make bold efforts but don’t quite achieve it, but you Celtic Champs Elect, you have done it more eloquently than most of the mask-slippers on here. Your evident racism would normally draw howls of derision from the Kojo haters but in the deafening silence I can only suppose there are many who have empathy with your racism.
As I said earlier, sad day when racism is smiled upon in kind; funny how silence can damn you just as diseased as the terminal racist.
Scotland welcomes Racists…. God help Scotland regardless of the result.
Oh! and Celtic Champs my mucker, if you want to insult me to my face I’ll go out of my way to accommodate you next Friday or Saturday night. Do you fancy a beer mate? Just ask Paul for my e-mail address.
b2k
17:24 on 16 September, 2014
The risk would be a yes win, the economy tanks, the moron element within the nats disaffected, angry, alienated and bitter go looking for scapegoats.
I can see why Jewish people would be concerned.
Hatred of no voters,really Hatred!! You’ve lost the plot man.
Williamf – no voters clearly arnt too safe in scotland – take your pick who you believe my friend. Take your pick.
One thing I would say is why is your family feeling like that? Is it the inherent fairness of the yes campaign?
Timmy 7 what age are you?
Is it actually 7?