Motherwell started the season as Scotland’s first laughingstock, losing home and away to Sligo Rovers (apologies for the unavoidable slight, Rovers). Their fragility was soon resolved with wins at St Mirren and Aberdeen, and home to Livingston, in their opening four league fixtures.
Since that win over Livi nine weeks ago, results dipped. Defeat at Kilmarnock, a home draw against Dundee United and a thrashing at home to Hearts last time out (although they comfortably disposed of Inverness in the League Cup during this spell), suggest a system very much in flux. Oh, how we’ve been there.
Steven Hammell was confirmed as permanent manager in August. He clearly has the backing of his players and brought a system that can bloody the nose of most teams in the league. I suspect, however, that the same system’s fragilities are now well know. Hearts soaked up waves of attacking play at Fir Park, before delivering three sucker punches without reply.
Ange Postecoglou will be desperate to get this game underway to put the debacle of Paisley behind him. The trip to Germany will also be on his mind, though I don’t expect anyone to be rested tomorrow. Ideally, we will secure the points early on and allow the manager to rest his captain and a few others. Some of the early brilliance we have seen in games from Celtic this season should be enough.
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GREENPINATA on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:07 PM
I think I saw a ” corpy” bus with a destination of Celtic Park.
Awaiting incoming from the PC brigade pedantically stating : It’s not a Corporation Bus, it a First Omnibus. 🤣🤣
Your the anti pc brigade? 🤣🤣
Nah Greenpinata,as GaryGillespies says it’s our to call as we wish
But yi do need a boot in the haw-mawz in a totally physical non pc way for bringing the term “Parkers” to the blog :-))))
Your confusing them that read and don’t go near our ground.
POR CIERTO on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 12:47 PM
I said something very similar earlier. If it`s true, it means that those who say `I always called it `Parkhead and I always will.` are simply buying ,unwittingly though it may be, into the anti-Celtic MSSM message.
Hundump,craphouse,bigotdome,fraud Park,who gives a flying one what it’s called,just make sure its not Govan:-)
HH
Westhorn Park, Lilybank. Names from my chilhood. Played in Westhorn once or twice, I think. More than half my class came from Glamis Road, which was in either Lilybank or Newbank. Are they considered part of Parkhead? I thought Barrowfield was actually the area where the Emirates are now.
Part of the whisky bond on London Rd,was/is called Westhorn Bottling Plant…..
CCV definitely out tomorrow GG doubtful
`ERNIE LYNCH on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 2:58 PM
I’ve always thought it a bit Hyacinth Bucket to call it Celtic Park.`
Do you not subscribe, even as a possibility, to the view that the Scottish Media liked the idea of `downgrading` Celtic Park to `Parkhead` ?
CCV,and G Mak, possibly ok for midweek, Starfelt out
I thought Barrowfield was the area of housing boundaried by Fielden Street, London Road, the gallowgate end of Janefield Street and the railway line behind the Celtic end.
Didn’t realise it included the other side of London Rd.
Is there still a district called ‘Mile End’ ? – I think it was to the west of Parkhead (district and stadium) on the stadium side of London Road.
Jimbo
Just a final reminder from New Orleans that the Superbru predictor competition starts back tomorrow. I have left reminders on the 2 other channels involved but if anyone else can post a final reminder tomorrow before lunchtime on these channels as I willl be asleep until just before the match starts
Sftb
Take it easy in the Big Easy
TomMcLaughlin
Tom,may I ask what time period your friend was signed at fraud Park?
I only ask as woods butcher(pre 99) players were subject to a different type of tac fraud.Various offshore deals in this time where used,this before the DiscountOption Scheme(DOS) was introduced.
The dos which 4 huns were illegally registered to is the forerunner of EBTs which meant that between DOS and EBT 92.01% of players signed were illegally registered 99-2011.
Murray-Bader as Tontine of these pages was the son of a tax cheat.murray group toileted and pensions not paid.
Your Del Piero tale,is a new one to me and I don’t doubt your good self,but to me it joins a loo roll list of Romario,Bebeto,real Ronaldo,Rivaldo,Augenthaler,
Late 80s,early 90s transfer windows were a source of laughter at transfer window.
There were many more ‘aye he’s coming” many more as they walked the road of Liquidation.
HH
I also thought that the velodrome was in what was Dalmarnock
ANGE presser today
https://youtu.be/6p7Y4-OAGRw
HH
Jimbo
Yes
The area between Fielden St and Calton was/ is Mile End I believe
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Th6PjFc67Vm2mYFAA
BRRB and Leggy, McSorleys Bar yesterday. Terrible thing, the drink.
BTW-
A quick read back suggests to me that we are back in the old Dojo days of blog hijack.
Relentless shock jock posts of a tabloid nature generating more heat than light, coupled with a real ignorance on the topics being discussed. (I know some found Kojo’s style to be funny but I’ve never found racists funny and some thought he had inside info on the youth set up, but he really didn’t and constantly misidentified the prospects, never picking a winner).
Well, our Kojo replacement is confidently ignorant over a much wider range of suspects. He still attracts the same poster defendants as Kojo did- those who are more comfortable with shock jock misogyny etc;
Distance is lending some disenchantment to my reading. Think I will just check in on match days now.
Aff oot
HH to all the good guys struggling to keep this place readable
SFTB
Enjoy. Many years ago, I went to see one of the great New Orleans Jazzmen — George Lewis — in Glasgow. Absolutely brilliant.
Garygillespieshamstring
Thank you. I think when my dad took his car we sometimes ended up parking there- sort of the back of what is now St Mungo’s. I am hardly ever on London Road between Bridgeton Cross and Fielden Street and have kind of lost track with what is there on that stretch of land south of the Gallowgate.
Jimbo
Hot Smoked
Yes , i liked it but posted it too near the change of article so……….
Oh Send for McGrory
Garrygilliespieshamstring ,Fielden Street /London Rd /or up at the Gallowgate ,we’re the famous Domino Kid ran about ,
JIMBO67 on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:17 PM
Millwall fans seem to be an argumentative and disputatious bunch.
Who knew?
The post on here by Richard Edmunds about his ancestor Patrick Houlihan is interesting.
https://borussiabeefburg.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/millwalls-scottish-myth/
HOT SMOKED on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:36 PM
No.
Doesn’t ring true and has the essential characteristic of an urban myth about it
ie people would like it to be true.
New date,Celtic v Livingston
Wed 21st December
wooft …………
Plan of the County of the city of Glasgow constructed for the Post Office directory by John Bartholomew F.R.G.S. 1927-8
has abercromby street as the border between calton in the west, and mile end to the east,
East Rose street, the church hall, and st marys technically in mile end.
Mile end border to parkhead is the old railway line, so celtic park is right on the border,
Onion bag
Shy
Punt over
Parkheid
Paradise
The themes of my youth – 60s and 70s
Hardly heard Celtic Park but that have been peer group or family – seemed to bloom during Thatcher’s reign – Coat on🤣
AT,
I really couldn’t fu@king believe some people calling Paradise ( being diplomatic there ) Parkers.
I found it unbelievably funny and I do apologise for bringing it to the blog.
Might use it tomorrow to gauge the reaction.🤣
Cheers and HH.
Parkers? Wiz that no Lady Penelopes chauffeur?🤔…😂
I remember an easy quiz question from years back to name the 3 Scottish clubs that had the same name as their ground
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/ee/81/bcee819c428d932df4cce3767ec0a7a2.jpg
Yes ma lady
😂😂
New date,Celtic v Livingston
Wed 21st December,can’t believe we are playing after the huns…..they away to Aberdeen tthe night before…
Ernie Lynch
Interesting stuff. Thanks for passing on- does not quite tie in with what I read around 3pm but both still contradict what has been presented as fact.
It al does though make me wonder where the idea that Millwall was in some way a Scottish ( or Scots Irish ) club comes from because it’s been around for a long time and is an odd thing to invent. I wonder if it is just the case that back in their early days a lot of Scottish immigrants ( from Dundee and quite possibly actually Irish) just supported the new team and lazy journalists /historians saw the crest , the colours of the team , knew that Dundee FC played in the same shade of blue and came up with a nice wee story that had become ‘fact’ by 1972 when I read it first.
Jimbo
so why did we rest players for the st. m game, strange.
BRRB
Charlie Parkers in Royal Exchange Square late 70s is where trendy me would try n be part of the “awfullyawfully mwahmwah 2kisseez types’ from milllguy or up the road here in nootonmurns :-) I seemed to be popular with those lovelies,they all called it “parkers”…snobby bassterts lol.
Still asking around for ticket,:-)
Hail Hail
Greenpinata 4.46 🤣🤣🤣
Mind stan away from me,🤣🤣🤣,I find it funny a lot of pals have young Celts goin,jeez yi laugh at some of the patter,onto a win the morra 👍
BitOcraic:-)
Hail Hail
!!bada bing!!
And I find it even harder to believe we’re going to be playing on the Winter Solstice, when the days are shortest, the dark longest and the light bill highest. Not to mention a day when we should be out there running around chanting and singing pagan carols!
Oh wait a minute………