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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Hamiltontim – yes I have – I come from Drumchapel. I;ve seen a lot more anti catholicsim than that.
And are you seriously trying to suggest that sectarianism is a bigger problem in England that Scotland? Seriously??
petethebeat
13:45 on 16 September, 2014
The only age group supporting a NO vote is the over 65s
My associates and I are middle aged curmudgeons and lucky enough to be what would be regarded these days as reasonably financially comfortably off.
We are all unequivocal YES voters.
It must be the company you are keeping :D.
Green man – no you are calling your so called fellow scots curtain twitchers and cretins.
That says it all.
Sure you hate the english etc but you hate anyone who disagrees.
I wonder who will wake on Friday with regrets…. with head in hands sobbing “my God forgive me, what have I done?”
Will it be the coin in their pocket punters, or the soil on which they stand punters?
Neganon2
Are you really upset because I said….unionist curtain twitchers?
Come on now….I could call them a lot worse:)
HH
strand67 @ 13:43…
I will keep 2 adult tickets for you.
I am off to Salzburg and will not be back until very late Friday therefore Saturday is the earliest I could post them to you.
I will drop Paul an email and ask for your email address and we can make arrangements to either use the post or to hand the tickets over outside of the ground.
The Green Man:
Stop bleating about it – Get your money on it – there’s coin of the realm to be made.
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan.
13:55 on 16 September, 2014
NAtKnow
Since Thatcherism privatesiation has hit all enclaves of our lives. labour began the process in NHS Scotland with PFI and thus it will likely never wholly disappear. I accept that in today’s age private involvement is a part of our national and social fabric. 0.8% is not a large percentage of an overall budget. I would however prefer to see a 0% spend from our public services in the private sector.
I will never be happy to see the NHS reach a position where it is not free at the point of contact. If you read up I believe you will find that Andy Burnham believe this is the way the NHS in England is going to go hence why he joined the public demonstration in Jarow not so long ago.
I will never be happy though to see government ministers take finaincial positions on boards or shares of companies whom NHS Scotland are contracting services to. And I am certainly not happy that WM ministers are taking up such finaincial positions and shares on companies being contracted to NHS England at this current time. That is criminal, greed and misappropriation.
MWD says AYE
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MWD – I think we have the same view of how we’d like the NHS to operate. Where we diverge is how best to get there. I have pointed out that the current SNP Government is spending more now than anyone has ever done on outsourcing NHS Scotland operations to private companies. At the same time they’re telling us that they have no plans to if we vote for them. I’m afraid they’ve spreading scare stories and telling us lies to us in order to win the argument. So I have no trust in them.
Good chatting with you – civilised debate has been rare in this campaign. Need to work now…
Paul67
Hoping to see high concentration and competency levels on Thursday.
Co-efficient points gained in this campaign are banked for five seasons. This is a big opportunity for the club to improve our standing for pot-placings rather than our bank balance. Within the current ranking system, as a fan I prefer this scenario.
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Tom McLaughlin
13:05
Charing X food. I like minibar, on bath street two corners up from the King’s. Easy parking thereabouts after 6pm and seldom swamped by pre-theatre diners. Brasserie menu.
It’s my occasional drop-in after work for some Innes&Gunn.
The Green Man:
What about just treating them with the respect you’d have them treat you with.
Worth a wee thought eh!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
13:56 on 16 September, 2014
NATKNOW
For all that I love my music,I’m not a huge fan of live performances-hence how long ago those I mentioned.
Something must have put me off,eh?
I blame The Wombles in The Piv,nearly forty years ago!
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Yeah – they were LOUD! :-)))
My tuppence worth on the demographics of the YES/NO debate.
I believe it’s split along 3 lines.
1. Class. Middle class will vote NO, working class, YES.
2. Knowledge. The uninformed will vote NO, informed, YES.
3. Sectarian divide. No explanation needed.
Tin hat on.
HH
End London rule.YES,
neganon2
14:02 on 16 September, 2014
Hamiltontim – yes I have – I come from Drumchapel. I;ve seen a lot more anti catholicsim than that.
And are you seriously trying to suggest that sectarianism is a bigger problem in England that Scotland? Seriously??
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I must admit I’m impressed. I’ve seen countless acts of sectarianism in my lifetime but never the burning of an effigy of the Pope.
Was it does as part of a procession in the manner it’s done in Lewes?
Eh can you point out ANYWHERE in my post that even hinted that I thought that sectarianism is worse in England?
Have you heard of Mary Honeyball?
Have you read or heard her views on Catholics in the Westminster government?
Google her. You’ll discover she’s not Scottish by the way.
Don’t insult our intelligence by attempting to claim that sectarianism only exists in Scotland.
Sevco shares now trading for less than 19p.
Was there any coverage of the large turnout of Clydebank Yes voters at the Town Hall earlier on TV. There to greet Gordon Brown and his bussed in better together supporters. All I have seen is Gordon and Labour activists on TV in the hall. Nothing of the protest outside.
Neganon2
I apologise if you were bothered by the grow a pair comment, I felt that you were reading bullying and intimidation into a post when it wasn’t there, it certainly wasn’t the worst I had seen on here, once again sorry
Gentlemen,
I applaud your tenacity and engagement in this whole process over the last few months. Your commitment to debating the why’s and wherefore’s of the referendum has been impressive, and the output has been englightening.
HOWEVAH (copyright Kojo), we are now at an impasse. Battle lines have been well and truly drawn and liberally reinforced. At this late stage nobody is going to have their mind changed via the constant back and forth that is taking place still. When there is no hope of changing the other side’s views then all that is left is bickering and point scoring.
By all means, continue passing comment on the referendum but arguing is just proving futile and only serves to further entrench the other side. What is said here today and tomorrow will have no bearing on Thursday, as you have all made up your minds.
Les jeux sont fait, no more bets please.
neganon
win lose or draw, I hope a big hairy arsed nationalist farts pubes into your soup
oh mammy.CSC
Gordon 14.06
Gordon that’s great, we can sort the tickets outside the ground, look foward to hearing from you, ps enjoy salzburg HH
Kitalba
The media are trying to skew the reality, as are the bookies.
If I was a betting man…Id say the yes vote, is where the money will go.
However….if theres a no vote….I want a square go with Douglas Alexander, and Alastair Darling, right in the middle of Westminster.
You can watch my back:)
HH
NatKnow
I believe the NO campaign are insulting you and you are letting them do so freely by accepting their Vow of unwritten unspoken promises to be discussed, agreed, put before parliment and the House of Lords of ratification. Surely if they were to hold an honest campaign and did not believe they had it in the bag these policies would have been documented, agreed made publically available for the eloctorate to peruse, critique, agree with, disagree with prior to the referendum.
I would go as far as to suggest that what the Better together campaign are doing right now is illegal within the bounds of an election. i believe they are lucky, and know that they may get away with it within the bounds of a referendum.
Shysters and panic merchants.
MWD says AYE
Hamiltontim
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You raise a good point and it all comes back to something that we all already know all too well: Some people just don’t like other people who are different. Independent or Union – doesn’t matter, this mentality will not leave mankind
Twas always thus, and thus it will always be.
Jonny the Tim:
Are you saying that all the No voters are thick rich huns?
On Saturday night we (well me and whoever else was watching) witnessed the extraordinary spectacle that was the main BBC News, on BBC 1 immediately following the pomp of Last Night of the Proms.
Of course, the programme led with the developments in the Independence Referendum, no surprise given that it is the single most definitive event in UK constitutional history, 1707 aside.
BBC News led with a report forecasting a “Great Depression” level event in Scotland should independence occur.
It went on to suggest Scotland would resemble Weimar Germany, underlining this with the prompt: “The circumstances that gave rise to the Nazis” – that quoted by the Presenter herself.
The programme prompted Paul Mason, currently Economics Editor at Channel4 News, and formerly the same at BBC Newsnight to state:
‘Not since Iraq have I seen BBC News working at propaganda strength like this.”
While it is important to support a free media, and that includes freedom to interpret or report events through a narrow, subjective prism, BBC have an altogether different role to all other media outlets.
BBC’s role is defined in their Public Purposes and Charter. It is to educate and inform, by:
Sustaining citizenship and civil society
Promoting education and learning
Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities
Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK
In doing so, it requires to:
Provide independent journalism of the highest quality
On Saturday night, BBC News became part of the political apparatus of the Better Together campaign.
In doing so it acted unlawfully.
Pointing that out does not represent the “intimidation of journalists” at any level.
strand 67 @ 14:13…
Your welcome.
Travelling to Salzburg in hope rather than optimism.
Hamiltontim:
I have lived in England (on and off) for almost 18 years. I’ve never once encountered sectarianism from anybody other than Scots.
davidopoulos
I agree but anyone who makes an attempt to claim that sectarianism only exists in Scotland is not considering the facts as they are.
Anyway I salute your continued efforts to add an element of fun and humour to the blog amidst the multitude of YES/NO posts.
C,mon…..cant we have a bit of light hearted baiting without moaning.
Let me rant….its good for me.
All you intellectuals can give us chapter and verse, me….I’ll rip the pash.
Don’t have me rolling out my virtual guillotine.
Cheer up.
Its not the end of the world….yet:)
HH
The green man @ 14.05
Neganon2 gets upset awfully easy, he even accused posters of bullying Ernie ffs!!
kitalba
I too have spent time living and working in England.
In addition I’ve travelled to several English cities and towns under the Celtic umbrella.
I’ve been called a Fenian @@@@ in many of them and not by other Scots.
Whatever happened to the bookies paid oot referendum money?
Hamiltontim
14:20 on 16 September, 2014
davidopoulos
I agree but anyone who makes an attempt to claim that sectarianism only exists in Scotland is not considering the facts as they are.
Anyway I salute your continued efforts to add an element of fun and humour to the blog amidst the multitude of YES/NO posts.
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Yes, it is a silly point – sectarianism/bigotry are rife in all parts of the world (and we think ourselves civilised because we stop for tea at four o’clock. PAH).
Multitude is a good word. I would have went for deluge though. Then I could have used my American boss’ favourite expression:
“I’m drinking through a fire hose here!”
Aahh, Americans, eh. Oops, is that intolerant? ;)
Kitalba
Try an Orange Lodge in Liverpool for example.
Not nice.
HH
The Green Man
14:29 on 16 September, 2014
Kitalba
Try an Orange Lodge in Liverpool for example.
Not nice.
HH
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Liverpool or the Orange Lodge?
Hamiltontim:
Then you have experienced that which I have not. Did you recover from it?
The Green Man:
Why would I step foot into an Orange Lodge, more to the point, why would you?
pedrocaravanachio67
Ernie cant be bullied….he is like Joe90, hooked up to the worlds most powerful mainframe computer.
He thinks he cant be wrong about anything, Ernie is beyond the realm of human understanding.
We are just ants to Ernie:)
HH
HH
Greenpinata
13:39 on
16 September, 2014
gordybhoy64 @ 13.33hrs.
“was there not supposed to be breaking news about sevco today”
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Me thinks Thursday will be a day for burying news.
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I thought the Keith Jackshun exclusive was(try and get this right)
Some dodgy character from the board(vat fraud i think) was pictured dining
with a Interpol most wanted dodgy character.
Interpol dodgy character was explained away by sevco as being part of
of a Malaysian football team looking at youth set up at Auchienhowie.
(super Ally knew nothing about these things he is a simple football manager)
Anyhow today Guy from Malaysia has said PLEASE do not
associate us with Interpol most wanted dodgy character.
We know who he is but nothing to do with us.
Hope that clarifys things…
PS Interpol most wanted dodgy character might not be a friend
of Malaysian group but he is a mate of Auld big hauns
If Scotland has, let’s say, 10 % of the national debt, does that mean that we also have the same amount in the national assets ? As part of the union, we’ve paid our share over the last few hundred years.
10 % of the gold in the bank of england
10 % of the nuclear weapons
10% of the army’s planes, armoured cars ,etc
and so on…
They have likened it to a divorce in the media. Who gets the cds, the car, the pets, children ??
It’s not all about debt.