I’d a look at the fixture list preseason and didn’t expect we’d be top of the table so early, having played only three games with 10 teams having played four, and two of those games coming against our nearest challengers from last season.
But we stepped up to the task. The earlier win at Tynecastle and beating Aberdeen 4-1 on Saturday has issued a warning to all. Bookmakers are offering Celtic’s title odds of between 2/9 and 1/7, and have created a separate ‘Betting without Celtic’ competition. One of Brendan’s jobs will be to remind players that they need to earn the points every time the whistle goes. Defeats come quickly to teams operating at 95%.
Not that we had it all our own way on Saturday. Aberdeen disrupted our rhythm and passing in the middle part of the game. You can see how Brendan has changed the way we use the ball in possession, but there’s still a bit of work to do for it to become more natural looking.
The goals were outstanding. Leigh Griffiths’ effort would be immortalised in song, if one of the Barcelona players due to visit Celtic Park soon had managed it. Tom Rogic’s technique is of particular importance.
Celtic face a lot of packed defences; having someone able to reliably hit an unstoppable shot from around 22 yards changes how a defence will shape up to play us. This is a player Leeds United thought they could buy for £1m recently.
I was pleased to see Dorus de Vries make his debut. He had little to do, and could do nothing about the Aberdeen goal, but if he’s to be relied upon in any of the important games ahead he needed an outing as a Celtic player.
It was equally important Erik Sviatchenko came through 90 minutes with Kolo Toure. The defence is set for some almighty challenges ahead, and will need to face them with little common game-time to allow partnerships to be cemented.
There’s a degree of trepidation for the Champions League task ahead, but pretenders to our domestic dominance beware: evidence mounts that this is a good Celtic team – one which will continue to improve for some time to come.
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to put forward a resolution you need to attend the AGM.
To attend the AGM you need to have some shares.
Sheflockholmescsc
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lots of guys on here go to the AGM.Has this suddenly become suspicious
Bognorbhoy- his freedom will be short-lived. :-)
So Mr Pastry got his fingers burned and is away to the big oven in Govan, he crossed the line with using the term ‘cancer’ when describing Celtic fans.
Kill Ulta, still waiting on your proof positive of Res12 teams wrongdoing/humiliation. If as you say it’s on your laptop then it shouldn’t be difficult. Put up or shut up!
MoonbeamsWD ‘Stand up on 15 for the GB’ on 30th August 2016 1:05 am
Tiny Tim
Defo Ibrox one. Must have just been my dads favourite song then. We were 2-0 down at half time. I watched it back on Sportscene with him that night. I wasn’t allowed near derby matches then. :-)))
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The Johnny Doyle/10 men game 4-2 game was at Celtic Park on a midweek; there was no TV coverage because of industrial action so it wisnae on Sportscene. That was in 1979.
The game you refer to was in 1983 and was the last game Charlie Nicholas played before he went to Arsenal.
Memories are easily confused form childhood. Still, both were brilliant games!
KTF
Gamboa looks the Biz, Hope he signs up today, Move Lustig into the middle as back up, Sell Jozo and bring in MD player today or tomorrow and a striker, This manager stuff is easy.
Exciting couple of days.
KLV
Kill Ultra, I made no comparison, just stated a fact.
Simples.
Thanks to all for the good wishes for the wee yin, appreciated.
…mind what that EmeraldBee said…………..
HH.
Consider these points which amount to where the anti-Res12 camp have got to.
1. Aulldheid photo has been widely shared on zombie sites.
2. BRTH has been accused of being a CelticPLC plant.
3. Paul67 has been accused of failing to account to a Res12 signaturor who also claims BRTH is a plant.
4. The matter has apparently been reported to the Police.
5. The Res12 boys have taken a payment from CelticPLC to kick Res12 into the long grass.
6. The letter from UEFA – not leaked by Res12 guys of by CQN – is a fake.
7. The invoice for the Same Club myth ad with Winning Captains’ personal details was given by the Herald newspaper to vile bigots.
8. This vile bigot seems to have a relationship with a poster on here who claims to have on his laptop all the evidence to prove that the Res12 guys are nasty villains.
9. The poster when he comes on here is immediately followed by the good cop – neither of them have met anyone from CQN.
10. Winning captains is a muppet who doesn’t know that French isn’t the language spoken in England.
So in conclusion Paul is a crook, the Res12 guys have been bought off, UEFA never said they are a new club, Winning Captains is a muppet but they know where he lives and everyone on CQN has been taken in by these characters.
Oh and it was only the holding company that died.
Oh, and Kill Ultra the investment I referred to was an emotional one, but you knew that:-)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30th August 2016 4:48 am
Like a rolling stone eh? Disane apply to them though. They’ve got nothing and everything to lose! Next instalment at Celtic Park on 10th September!
KTF
DOC
May I add my best wishes to your daughter Doc for a speedy recovery…
SP
WINNNG CAPTAINS
WHY DONT WE JUST GO AND MEET THEM ALL AND KICK THEM UP AND DOWN THE STREET AS THAT IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND
AS MY OLD DAD USED TO SAY THEY ARE ALL YELLA BELLIES
If we do sell Simunovic for the reported fee, that would be 7.75mllion income v spend of 6.5million.
If this was Ronny imagine the backlash.
Still expect to see us sign a centre mid but only short term.
Winning Captains,
There are certainly some strange folk out there. The backbone of The requisitioners shouldn’t be questioned.
Who leaked the letter though and why? Whoever it was has had an underwhelming response.
Thanks Starry.
Mullet and Co 2
That is precisely the intention I believe. Just as the exclusive that STV ran beginning of June saying Res 12 dead etc
Aye did yi see that?
Slipped up three,the lot o ye.
Never notiiced eh.
Slack
Ah mean youz aw fall for the
‘wait til I get new knees patter:-)
(Even tho u’d lea’ Usaine Bolt staunin if u wantit a kebab:-)
Well done Fess19 on yir Podium:-)
HH
Intriguecsc
WC
If they weren’t worried they would be leaving you Res12 guys alone.
Keep on keeping on
Anyone ever read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It is a depressing, distressing and harrowing read. Still, you read it all, cover to cover.
Reading back on the night shift just there was a bit like that…
BT –
Yes, met your dad in Malones. Spent a very enjoyable couple of hours there before the game.
As for Cunny, I’ve started calling him the Scarlet Pimpernel :-)
HH.
WC,
Very depressing reading but they must be very very afraid of what you’ve been striving to achieve. STV seem to be among the worst, and the Herald too.
My favourite times:
1. Meeting Stevie Chalmers & Billy McNeil in St Laurence’s Hall and getting my hands on the Big Cup in 1967 (organised by the 66 Supporters Club in Drumchapel)
2. Celtic 6 Hibs 3 1974 League Cup Final – 2nd Dixie Deans hat trick in a week!
3. Celtic 1 Leeds 0 1970 viewed from the South Stand – old wooden benches. 111,000 of us!
4. Celtic 2 Ajax 2 – watching Tommy Burns making Cruyff look like a mug and winning a penalty. We won 4-3 on aggregate.
5. Celtic 6 Clyde 1 May 1971. Celtic wrap up the league for 6 in a row equalling the old record.
6. Celtic 1 Rangers 0 1980 Scottish cup final. Nuff said!
7. Celtic 4 Juventus 3 in 2001. Was in Manchester for a meeting; took the motorbike so I could get back in time. 3 hours in the pouring rain. Got home in plenty of time and what a fantastic night!
8. March 1994 when The Bunnet saved the club!
9. Celtic 1 Airdrie 0 – 1995 Scottish cup final ending the drought!
10. Celtic 3 Benfica 0. Brilliant goal by big Tam Gemmell In the first couple of minutes. Eusabio made to look like a passenger. Another “great” who was outshone by Celtic.
So many to choose from!
KTF
Winning Captains
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ”
Mahatma Gandhi
HH
Winning Captains on 30th August 2016 8:19 am
As I said yesterday, they can keep telling themselves and others lies; it doesn’t make it real. The truth will out, as the old saying goes. You guys have walked a long road and it looks like journey’s end is in sight. Keep up the good fight and then we will see how the naysayers react then!
It won’t be pretty, but it will be worth it!
KTF
10 Celtic moments -like choosing ten Top Choons or your 10 favourite books . Too many to choose from -but these popped up in my addled ole bonce this am..
Lubo Moravcik – his debut – a fabulous GIRFUY to the MSM and the numpties that swallow their guff
Lubo Moravcik — His first Deady Bears game -a fabulous shift from a fabulous player.. The applause when he left the pitch. . Lubo -Who — indeed !!!!.
George Connelly’s goal at Leeds . A sclaff which meant so much
The astonishing silence following Bremner’s goal at Hampden and then the CELTIC-CELTIC -CELTIC
The Scottish CUP Final 1965
Larsson’s chip past Friedel at Ewood Park – all that hubris bursting like a plook.
George Connelly’s goal v the Deady Bears in the 4-0 Cup Final. -cool, calm and collected . Class !.
The sound of those Klaxons in Milan – will haunt me forever .
Walking from Hampden to Queens X after the 7-1 game . . The comparison between all that joy and all that misery.
Finding a VG + Louis Smith -Smithville LP in a Madrid second hand shop the morning after Atletico 2 -Celtic 0 in 74 . Clouds can have silver linings
VFR800A8
IIRC we beat Leeds 2-1 at Hampden in 1970.
1.
Dec 16th 1961. League. Celtic 4 Hibernian 3. My first Celtic game, a 7-goal thriller. I was 8.
2.
April 1965. Scottish Cup Final. Celtic 3 Dunfermline 2. My first cup final. Mr Stein had recently arrived and delivered the first of many trophies.
3.
October 1965. League Cup Final. Celtic 2 Rangers 1. My first Old Firm game. 2 penalties converted by John Hughes. Feed the Bear!
4.
January 1966. League. Celtic 5 Rangers 1. A Stevie Chalmers hat-trick put the Gers to the sword on a dreary New Years Day.
5.
March 1966. European Cup winners Cup. Celtic 1 Slovan Bratislava 0. My first European game. Also won 2nd leg 1-0.
6.
April 1966. League. Motherwell 0 Celtic 1. A last-gasp Bobby Lennox goal gave Celtic only their second league title since the war, and the first of 9-in-a-row.
7.
April 1969. Scottish Cup Final. Celtic 4 Rangers 0. The media wrote us off because Jinky suspended and Yogi injured. Teenager George Connolly strolled through the game and the Gers were humiliated.
8.
April 1970. European Cup Semi-Final. Celtic 2 Leeds United 1. The English press labelled Leeds the best team in the world. We all knew different and our bhoys proved it with a stunning double-victory.
9.
April 1971. Scottish Cup Final. Celtic 6 Hibernian 1. Dixie’s hat-trick destroyed a very decent Hibs side. Celtic were unstoppable.
10.
April 1998. League. Celtic 2 St Johnstone 0. Celtic win the title for the first time in 10 years.
I could go on all day . . .
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 8:48 AM
Anyone ever read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It is a depressing, distressing and harrowing read. Still, you read it all, cover to cover.
Reading back on the night shift just there was a bit like that…
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A disturbing book made into an equally disturbing film with Vigo Mortensen. I like to think the ending is a ray of hope for the boy and humanity.
Interesting structure to the book; particularly when you are left with the feeling that you have left before the end of the story.
KTF
Posted to me by AULDHEID
Every time you come out with something stupid the desire is to put you straight.
The risk in doing so in public is that what is said to correct you is picked up and used as ammo against not just Res12, but CQN.
So there will be no response other than to say you are as ill informed as ever which leads to the stupid statements you make, but as you are ignorant because of the strategy adopted, then its not fair to say you are stupid, although a wise man might want to be surer of his ground.
On the same basis it could be shown that Kill Ultra is part basing his suspicion on something he thinks is true, but records show is miles off, so same non response to that.
Honestly this guy REALY has a big tip for himself, aloof, pompous, and arrogant, (seeing that being called stupid and ignorant is form of reply) seems to be the MO of the R12 cabal, this is what you’ll get if you ever question them, or called a troll, or a Hun, I’m not a Hun they know that, a troll? If asking questions on R12 makes you …accordingto them a troll? Then in they’r eye I must be one?
When you think your bigger more clever, and higher than anyone who disagrees with you on what you say or do, the landing from that fall will hurt bad,
I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with kill ultra on anything that’s another toilet visit, but there is an awful lot of people on here ganging up on the guy and the pappa55 guy too.
It seems that every time any one makes a post on disagreement with these guys they are all over you like a pack of rabid dogs, for having your own opinions is what it is in here as long as it’s in the COC, the man said that yesterday, as Awe Naw crossed the line with me and was rightfully put in his place and I thank blogger p67 for that.
Making accusations to someone with a moniker is just that its a moniker, I don’t have a moniker Tony Donnelly is my name, I exist, I’m a real person, my own person, some may think I’m stupid and others may think I’m ignorant fair enough, but to be called it from a guy with a moniker WOW!
Do you honestly think I care Auldheid? Who ever you are?
ElDiegoBhoy on 30th August 2016 9:21 am
VFR800A8
IIRC we beat Leeds 2-1 at Hampden in 1970.
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Aye, we did. Typo on my part. 1-0 at Elland Road and Big Yogi and Bobby Murdoch make it 2-1 after wee Bremner scored.
KTF
VFR800A8 on 30TH AUGUST 2016 9:26 AM
Based on that assessment I’d say you’re a glass half full type of guy.
vfr800a8
I haven’t read many books that have been that grim but that engrossing (Birdsong was a mightily depressing – and lengthy – read but another that captured my attention). It is a real talent for an author to be able to do that. I read a critique on The Road which discussed the author’s views on the present, the future and mankind and also delved into why we find these types of stories (dystopian futures, end of the world, zombies etc) so fascinating. If I can find it again I’ll post it – a very interesting read.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 8:48 AM
Anyone ever read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It is a depressing, distressing and harrowing read. Still, you read it all, cover to cover.
Reading back on the night shift just there was a bit like that…
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Was it the polysyndetic syntax that made you draw comparison? :-)
DAVIDOPOLOUS –
I’m a big fan of McCarthy’s. Have read all his stuff. The Road was indeed a dystopian nightmare. Have you seen the movie?
My favourite is “Blood Meridian”.
Auld Tam –
Posted after the game at the weekend – I hope you had money on your predictions! :-)
@MACJAY1 @MATS Are you guys kidding? Engage trolls with “reasoned argument”?! No offence, but have you ever met the Internet?
Emeraldbee’s article was 100% correct–as soon as you engage with these types, they have won. It has become increasingly apparent that troll culture bears (sic) a strong resemblance to the culture of TRFC. One recent article described the typical troll M.O. as “weaponised insincerity”–I can’t think of a better way to describe the sleekit antics that the likes of J. Traynor used to get away with in the Scottish media. I say “used to” because that nonsense just won’t fly any more–too many people have too much information. Which is why the likes of Level 5 are now trying to disrupt influential blogs that tell inconvenient truths about their paymasters/overlords.
Here’s a recent article about the troll phenomenon. It’s from the US, so there’s no football content–but the parallels are obvious.
http://tinyurl.com/gtzybvy
We Haven’t seen Joso enough to comment on his ability . But if true and he gets transferred , then we will need to sign a CH pretty dam quick . Eric and Kolo make a good back line ,but we badly need a rugged tall centre half in the mark reiper . Paul Elliot mould . Not replacing Joso will be a folly .
NatKnow on 30th August 2016 9:34 am
DAVIDOPOULOS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 8:48 AM
Anyone ever read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It is a depressing, distressing and harrowing read. Still, you read it all, cover to cover.
Reading back on the night shift just there was a bit like that…
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Was it the polysyndetic syntax that made you draw comparison? :-)
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It was the syntax and the language they used and the tone they adopted and the reptition of the nonsense and…
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