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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Syd Negakev
11:57 on
17 September, 2014
If you miss playing the National Lottery you can always play Euromillions.
Oh wait…we won’t be in Europe….sorry!
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What??
Will a YES vote see the land mass of Scotland broken off and dragged to another part of the world?
Wow, I hope we end up somewhere sunny.
NegAnon2
10:23 on 17 September, 2014
I promised myself that I would ignore your myopic nonsense today but I have failed when I read this:
“The yes campaign has been despicable and disgusting and continues to seek new lows on a daily basis.It has taken on sinister facist undertones.”
Go on then prove it.
MWD
Come on down,the price is right!
£2 a pinta Guinness. Works for me.
Not sure about Miller Time though.
Captain Beefheart
12:05 on
17 September, 2014
‘British jobs for British workers’. Gordon Brown.
The ugly side of nationalism.
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Not as narrow minded as “It’s Scotland’s oil”
An Tearmann
11:58 on 17 September, 2014
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Good article, AT.
Hope you’re still DOON WELL.
Good Luck.
hen1rik
10:25 on 17 September, 2014
From Bthebhoy twitter.
I would advise to get headphones on & volume up full blast.
The Great Dictator – David Hayman – Scottish Inde…: http://t.co/JnmfcAhTBU oofft! Im welling up here!!
A MUST WATCH
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Thank you for that
Pog 22:47 on 16 September, 2014
If my Face Book newsfeed page is a true reflection of the voting intentions of the Scottish people then I can’t see it being anything other than a massive Yes vote, but then again birds of a feather flock together and perhaps all my friends are commie, pinko, subversive bassas like myself ;-)
I see the Govan Team won tonight they’ll be fine until the come up against the Cumbie!
Hope yer no referring tae the Busby Cumbie….!!
HH
Right,folks.
Changing the subject to something close to the hearts of many on here.
Betting.
Paddy Power,it seems,are offering a voucher to cover yer bet if an English team draws in the CL.
I’ve just checked the prices on the two games tonight.
To win £100-the famous over round-you would need to bet….
62 on Bayern and 20 on Man City.
73 on Chelsea and 11 on Schalke.
That’s £82 and £84 for a £100 return,with yer money back otherwise.
Check the small-print before placing the bet. But I’m sure I’m right.
Off to the cashpoint.
Here is the sinister YES campaign for all to see –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQ5WEZG1Yg
Or the video which might win the campaign –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMXuEmqAHA
new article posted.
Jungle Jim
Glasgow e/w @ 8/1 looks a good bet. The schemes and youth of Glasgow are so pro independence it will be a landslide here. Hope and pray the rest of the country are similar.
Free Alba
Carpe Diem
Listening to LORD Reid on Radio Scotland man he is easy to dislike, snakeoil salesman,was never comfortable with him as our chairman. From earlier ellbhoy you asked if we could still take part in the Euromillions, the clue is in the name -doh, If that is your major concern jeez just vote no. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Rogue Leader
The EU question could have been settled two years ago had Cameron asked them for an official position.
Why didn’t he?
It suited his purposes.
The currency?
There may or may not be an official union but given the BT people have sent out literature telling people explicitly they would not BE ABLE to use their own currency they have contributed to the creation and wealth of (until Darling contradicted it and then they quickly focused on the reality of the dispute which is the share in the bank of England and not the use of the notes themselves) I would say to you why would trust people who refuse to give the full information they are in the position to deliver and then trust them on currency use?
Auldheid
So you would stick with it until your leg festers and gangrene finally sets in before those medical failures you entrusted have to cut your leg off anyway. But first tehy will have bled you dry.
Ah!
Me. I know after years of festering I am one for taking the opportunity to save my leg based on the evidence that the current medical team is poop and to long in the tooth to change.
Do you mean Alex Salmond when you say Salmond? BTW how is your pension fund under after Brown’s wee term as Chancellor? Helped pay for a nice weee war in IRAQ eh! Nope, you never got that wee % back on your fund afterwards and your current government still accepts that pillaiging of your fund with a big smile.
A wee coutnry of 5 million buillying a larger neighbour of 60 million. C’mon? When the agreement for CU is signed it will be because it is in the best interest of both WM and Scotland. You can wordsmith that up in rhetoric all you wish but that will be the outcome. do you really believe that WM are going to put in place restrictions on their economic trade that are not already there if they do not have to? do you really believe WM are going to risk armagedon economically playing hardball (could call that Bullying but I won’t) over a CU when they know Scotland has a wee card up it’s sleave ( I assume the one you believe to be Bullying), oil tax revenue, which is holding up the UK economy. they will come to agreemnet based on what is the best solution for them not because they are forced to.
And anyway. We have the Smackeroonie to fall back on. :-)
So NO THANKS to your NO THANKS and it’s a BIG YES for me.
MWD says AYE
Auldheid
As an example if Salmond bullies the UK into currency union using their fear of not doing so as leverage, what if they do as we would do and say stick it. We’ll manage better than you?
Eh no he didnt.
The £ is made up of the 4 home nations
Take any nation out of that you do not have the £.
Gideon,when announcing to the City,from Edinburgh that if the Scots (democratically) voted to opt out of the union they could not use the £.
He was actually the idiot who introduced the uncertainty.When he made his announcement the polls suggested a 72-28 lead to the No campaign.
The change in polls since then means Gideons announcement appears like a speculators charter,whether it be £(sco) which thro interdependency and market interactivity would knock onto £(eng,nir,wales)
The £ should have been left to the negotiating stage imo instead of becoming part of the govt orchestrated ‘city be afraid’ stories
Gideons announcement could be a speculators charter,we will see,most traders were initially suprised it was brought up as each time it causes uncertainty.
Then again its not like the tories to shore up the city and use our reserves(oor money) to battle against the market…just like black monday
Still it was not a patch on the Brown/Darling/new labour mess and bail out of the banks in 2008.it was simply the biggest transfer of wealth from POOR to RICH…socialism eh!!
whichever party increases the debt WE PAY.
vote yes and end the whitaboutery
It is our £ until negotiations take place to say different
:-)
hope your well
HH
As a Yes supporter, I suspect that the outcome will be No. It will be interesting to mull over the possible repercussions.
As we are seeing today, there are some few Tory MPs who are already saying that “it is for parliament to decide” on post-referendum Scottish powers, not the party leaders. They are quite right of course. After the referendum, with independence kicked into the long grass, normal politics will resume, which largely means the war over Europe in the Conservative Party (at the moment, the other parties don’t have politics, they just have policies; in other words, they are only interested in managing things, rather than changing things). “Middle England” is the battleground, and so everything else will take second place. In my view, too many concessions to Scotland would lose Middle England – and remember that we are talking about what the right of the Tory Party thinks is correct at this point – this is the current battleground in UK politics. So I don’t think that in a UK context, Scotland’s situation will change too much; in politics, like much else, you react to what is in front of you, which come Monday morning will be the election, UKIP, the Party Conferences, etc. Cameron will stay in place until Boris gets elected to Parliament, then, off with his head; Boris is the King over the Water. Boris’s stronghold is London (obviously), so he will not give too much to the regions.
I think that lots of No voters will vote with their heads rather than their hearts – nothing wrong with that, but people generally don’t like to admit that to themselves (I’m not saying that Yes voters are any better). So unless there are very radical changes in Scotland pre-May, I suspect that Labour will take a kicking in the May election. I think that lots of Labour voters will not like the current alliance with the Right, even though they may think it’s the correct thing to do at the moment. The Tories cannot go down any further. The SNP will probably present themselves as competent government. It wouldn’t surprise me if the SNP vote increases substantially. Will that be enough to swing the election to the Tories? I don’t know. Certainly, I think that given that we expect should some realignment of political opinion in Scotland post-referendum, and I think that this will go against Labour (as a protest vote perhaps). The polls will shift.
So my thoughts are that things in Scotland will have changed a lot, but things in Middle England will not have changed so much. Scotland will be Last Year’s Crisis.
But don’t forget that there’s a football game tomorrow night.