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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WEEMINGER on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:32 PM
KILL ULTRA on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:30 PM
They’re the ones working for Level 5! I KNEW it!
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!
If you can’t come up with something constructive to counter what I’ve written then better to say nothing at all. How about addressing the points I’ve made?
Awe FFS Matt & Kill,
I was looking forward to hearing you and Tony’s opinion. singular all night long at the hootenanny and seeing who you would get off with.
Hoe long before a new name.
I go for 54 minutes going on 55 or 2012 tonight
HH
mats nillocs puppet master must be ordering him onto a new assignment
a thoroughly unpleasant individual
Has Philip Ponderous signed yet for Sevco or is he still thinking about it?
Kill Ultra,
No one knows your identity, an email and a potentially fraudulent signed res12 form are all we have. However I did not and will not publish the details as I have my word that all details supplied would be kept safe and confidential.
As for why didn’t I help clear your name ?
Why should I, a wee bit of the sauce for the gander might help you understand what it feels like to have your integrity questioned by people without proof or even cause for suspicion.
People are rightly suspicious it was you because it is your accusations that are being used by level 5.
So why should anyone believe anything you say ? It’s no nice is it.
Oh I I won’t be checking anything to verify any claims you make suffice to say your not trusted.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION
Verbal Baseball bat is out. :)
KLV
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:49 PM
Awe FFS Matt & Kill,
I was looking forward to hearing you and Tony’s opinion. singular all night long at the hootenanny and seeing who you would get off with.
Hoe long before a new name.
I go for 54 minutes going on 55 or 2012 tonight
HH
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FOGHORN LEGHORN on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:51 PM
mats nillocs puppet master must be ordering him onto a new assignment
a thoroughly unpleasant individual
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I’ve no connection with Mats Nilloc.
replies to my earlier post. Not one of these has addressed my question. Why didn’t Canamalar or Auldheid let on that they knew who I was, and put an end to the speculation?
Celtic now 4/6 to sign McCarthy with Leicester 12/1 and Palace 14/1.
KTF
BMCUWP 3:11
Agree with you blog slower than a week in the big hoose HH
vfr800a8 on 29th August 2016 3:59 pm
Anyone going for those odds should be careful as they are often for permanent deals only and any loan move for McCarthy would potentially see the bet kept open to see who he signs for permanently come January or summer 2017…
HH
Oh and I’m sure I’m the only one who has the information to connect email addresses to res12 support mandates so many students unlikely Auldheid knows who you are unless you contacted him directly.
So it’s unlikely
BMCUWP 3:11
Agree with you blog slower in the big house HH
TRADITIONALIST88 on 29TH AUGUST 2016 4:03 PM
vfr800a8 on 29th August 2016 3:59 pm
Anyone going for those odds should be careful as they are often for permanent deals only and any loan move for McCarthy would potentially see the bet kept open to see who he signs for permanently come January or summer 2017…
HH
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I’m not a gambling man so no chance I’ll get my fingers burnt!
KTF
Kill ..
Are you the loony that stole stuff if your former employe r ? Made you famous for a week ?
HH
If=of
The van taking Senderos for his medical was travelling so slowly it was pulled over by the cops.
When they realised who he was they all lined up for autographs and selfies, and then gave him an escort to Minty Park.
Unfortunately, by the time they got there it was so late the place was shut.
Notice on the front gate stated: ‘Closed due to international break. Back sometime next week.’
Allegedly!
HH!!
So Mats flounces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
and then
Kill Ultra rears his ugly frothing head.
Worried they is not?
MWD
Hearing Senderos has signed a contract to fix the roof, seems he was a roofer in his last job
MATS NILLOC on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:24 PM
To paraphrase Auldheid’s clip at 1:17 “Good Night, Good Luck…..& Good Riddance.
In 1993, James Garner (Rockford etc.) took a lead role in “Barbarians at the Gate”. On 10th September, Joe Garner will do he same. Are these two in any way related?
vfr800a8 on 29th August 2016 4:09 pm
I see Sky Bet have ‘Loan deals do not count’ in their small print right enough.
Wouldn’t want any tims falling into that trap!
I made a bit on Ibrahimovic to Man Utd, after he made his statement about going to them PP were a bit slow to remove the market and it was still 4/6 for a few hours… In fact I believe even then they kept the market but moved it out to 1/9 as it was taking a while for deal to be announced.
HH
Was holding out for a safety harness
Senderos
“Im a builder but ah dont dae roofs!!”
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 29th August 2016 4:13 pm
Hearing Senderos has signed a contract to fix the roof, seems he was a roofer in his last job
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Sorry, the National Association of Roofers cannot verify his details….
MWD…@ 4.12PM
Top tune and good sentiment.
I’d like to add this
http://youtu.be/UVwLhV1oY1c
Canalamar/Kill Ultra
I’ve don’t recall reading anything that gave me KU’s identity, but there is the possibility the folk who wrote the offending item have seen KU’s mistrusting questions on the accounts on CQN, also taken to SFM, and used them.
There will be no proof either way so folk will just make their own minds up according to their own thoughts.
Sevco sign Speed Merchant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-Irn3wPWo
James McCarthy at 4/6 is serious Lay bet. Newcastle and Crystal Palace are offering £20M for him, and there’s a very good reason he was in Glasgow recently – his dad has cancer.
Turkeybhoy
One chop used to feed the family and the bone used for soup :-)
Good luck with your darts tonight…..
Sun splitting the trees in ML5, school run(s) out the way, might have a wee cold bank holiday cider
Are we not getting a wee bit of the much abhorred argumentum ad hominem re Mats and Kill?
How strong is the evidence for the possible transfer , to us, of the West Brom right back?
JJ
Mats Nilloc
The troll who called Celtic supporters ‘cancer’.
Goodbye!
Senderos the builder to Sevco saga is riveting!
BMCUW
Received thanks, you have a reply.
HH
When a new baby is born, the first thing that happens is that a midwife takes her or him and gives it a good skelp on the erchie to ensure it breathes.
Could it be that when the new “Rosemary’s” baby arrives at Celtic Park, Brendan will fill the role of midwife and give them a right good skelping?
Cristian Gamboa filled the right back gap at Rosenborg as Mikel Lustig signed for Celtic.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 29TH AUGUST 2016 3:53 PM
Kill Ultra,
No one knows your identity, an email and a potentially fraudulent signed res12 form are all we have. However I did not and will not publish the details as I have my word that all details supplied would be kept safe and confidential.
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Canamalar. You know very well who I am. You’ve had at least half a dozen emails from me; from a business email address that is easy verifiable. Don’t you realise that the more you deny this the more I believe you have something to hide.
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As for why didn’t I help clear your name ?
Why should I, a wee bit of the sauce for the gander might help you understand what it feels like to have your integrity questioned by people without proof or even cause for suspicion.
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Canamalar, So, it was a wee lesson in life you wanted to teach me? Let’s get this straight. You know my identity, but you don’t know me. Please don’t assume anything about what I may have or have not experienced in life.
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People are rightly suspicious it was you because it is your accusations that are being used by level 5.
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Canamalar. You had the opportunity to allay those suspicions. I don’t know what level 5 has said. Winning Captains just hinted at it yesterday evening, so maybe someone will enlighten me on what was claimed. Don’t you realise you’re just the mirror image of the people you set out to expose. The inference here is that I’m being asked to hold back my opinion in case it gets used by Level 5. If you think I’m going to give in to that sort of spurious blackmail you’ve another think coming. That would mean behaving like them. And you.
There is no way I’m going to be silenced.
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So why should anyone believe anything you say ? It’s no nice is it.
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Canamalar. Take my word for it. People will believe me eventually; I have truth on my side.