Scottish football returns tonight after the longest midseason break in its history. Celtic have a nine-point lead, the best squad in the country and a unit around the club which few of us recall. But if you think it’s all over, think again. We have played 15 games and still have to face the teams in second and third place away from home twice.
What’s more, the self-flagellation that ensured the sacking of Giovanni van Bronckhorst is over, now we compete against a talent so formidable he knows to insist on a suit/brogue combo – fashionaccio, for what will surely be a few short months of tenure.
The main positive from the break is the return of captain, Callum McGregor. Pretty much everything else has downside risks. Form changes after a break, training and eating routines are disrupted, what was intuitive can become… tuitive.
You and I have seen Celtic bridge a greater gap with far fewer games to play, towels were thrown everywhere apart from the Celtic dressing room, where presumably a fear of John Clark ensured they were folded neatly after use.
I reckon we will open the door for a challenger only if we are first to drop points, which could easily happen on Saturday. Conversely, if Hibernian take a point tonight to defy their form going into the break, which saw them lose six in seven, including to the bottom three sides in the table, you will not be able to get a bet on Celtic winning the title.
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CELTIC40ME on 15TH DECEMBER 2022 10:12 PM
That looked like a fourth season Stephen Gerrard’s “Rangers” performance, only worse at the back.
Yes , I thought they were rank rotten at the back , until that period early in the second half , when Hibs decided to redefine ‘rank rotten’.
Sevco were the better of the two teams tonight , but if We had put in a performance like theirs tonight , even in winning , there would have been much wailing and gnashing of teeth on here .
And rightly so .
No matter how bad they were it was a win for them.
Really frustrating because just before the equaliser you could sense real frustration and panic as Beale was trying to rouse the funereal atmosphere in tge 4 stands.
Our match on Saturday is massive. We can’t give them a sniff. I hope Ange has our guys champimg at the bit.
They are putting it out that the halftime talk swung the game .
Nothing about a good junior team would’ve beaten that Hibernian team tonight.HH
Tonight’s result wasn’t because Hibs were rubbish in the 2nd half.
It wasn’t because Gio The Broken Horse was clueless.
It wasn’t because of Bealeball
No…it was because a sharp suited failed bean counter is back and needs Rangers to win the league and get the 30 Million Champions league money so that the old firm money can keep flowing and he gets his big bonus.
The Truth is Out There
https://goodlawproject.org/revealed-tory-donors-company-awarded-4-5-million-government-contract-to-take-care-of-mountain-of-unusable-ppe-waste/
Speaking of the truth being out there..
Morning from a Snow covered CALTON.
NOT a heavy snowfall, but maybe more snow is forecast ?
I wonder IF the Celts game Tomorrow is under any ” Threat”, but I hope not ?
i watched the entire Huns v Hibs game, and the Huns were very poor in the 1st half, with Hibs winning many heading battles, especially when they played a long ball to their forward(s) to flick on.
It was a VERY poor show from Hibs in the 2nd half, and as soon as the Huns scored their 2nd goal to make it 2 – 2, Hibs appeared to tire very quickly, and the writing was on the wall.
The ” REF” and the so called VAR played their part when denying Hibs a CLEAR Penalty for HAND Ball against Sands, who appeared to CLEARLY moved his ARM to knock away the ball, with a Hibs player about challenging him.
Sands CLEARLY moved his arm FORWARD towards the Ball, that much was CRYSTAL CLEAR.
Hibs FAILED to provide any attacking threat in that 2nd half.
Will the Huns be FINED for their Pyro display ? I think some Huns must be coloured blind as the Flares were RED….NOT Blue ?
HH.
Has there been another change in the RULES ?
Hibs had a 1st half Throw In, and a Hibs player decided to have a Team Mate take it. Cue the ” REF” Nick Walsh giving the 1st Hibs player a ” Talking to/Warning” ?
There wasnt much evidence of any ” Time Wasting” by the Hibs player, who argued his case to the Ref.
Also, in the 2nd half, Hibs had a another Throw In, and it looked like the Hibs player had stolen a few yards, which is the usual practice by every team in every match.
However, yet again the ” Ref” got involved by OVER TURNING the Hibs Throw In, and awarding it to the Huns instead, allowing the Huns to gain possession.
Is THAT Ref decision actually ” In the Rules”, as why didnt the Ref simply instruct the Hibs player to retreat a few yards, INSTEAD of giving the Huns the HIBS Throw In ?
HH
I switched OFF at the Final whistle, so I do NOT know IF ANYTHING was debated about the Hibs Penalty claim by the so called Panel of ” EXPERTS afterwards ?
HH
Good morning troops from a whiteout Garngad
Beale’s voice already goes right through me.
Bealinbealecfc
D :)
I am not in Scotland but would bet the BBC panel would
say all was ok in favour of the huns
Just a crisp minus 15 here in Oslo
https://twitter.com/McnameeBrenden/status/1603504447161655296
https://twitter.com/J_113CSC/status/1603518737352908800
penalty no doubt
rules for some comes to mind
Exactly the same incident in the Hibs box = penalty kick. No iffs, buts or maybes.
Exactly the same incident in our box at Pittodrie = penalty to Aberdeen without hesitation.
Why did we even bother with an expensive VAR system in this country if its operators aren’t adult enough to operate it neutrally.
I dont think its anything to do with being adult enough its
just thats its operated by corrupt and masonic officials in
Scotland
with an obvious anti-Celtic bias
Aberdeen have a strong home record this season so Saturday will be a significant domestic challenge for us. They played at Ibrox a few weeks back and got tanked piling men forward. Hopefully they stick to that style. If they approach the game on Saturday like we did Madrid away then I’m very confident we’ll out score them.
The huns remain a bad team and really laboured to see off a pish hibs side at home last night.
Mr Malaprop McCann
Some good Celtic supporters don’t / can’t watch Sevco, some even passed on their season tickets when they’ve arrived in Parkhead in 2012. Who could blame them, others have dissected Scotland’s every move in the new club’s short existence.
A SKY midweek follow, follow freebie was just what six months Cinchless FC ordered. New video assisted Rainjurz are still in Michael Nicholson’s ‘teething issues’ period, I wonder which one of the two Celtic types mentioned above he is. It was widely predicted so don’t be surprised when one hun referee ‘misses it’ the second one, will too.
Hibs ripped through the home side’s makeshift marvels and had VAR not been patched for another blatant Rainjurz ‘handball’ the visitors would have 3-1 up? The second half capital capitulation was as inevitable as the Subway Loyal, exodus who don’t care what the score is with 15 to go, when there’s a clockwork orange to catch.
‘ Beale ball ‘ looked very familiar and had SMSM not been in full World Cup break champions mode, for the last four weeks, it’s beginning to look a lot like bullshit, everywhere they’ll go. Taking a bow to ‘Beale’s bears’ would have been bad enough, but taking plaudits from plastic seats is taking the piss?
Neil McCann’s continuous battle with the English language or any intellect, took another turn , but not in a good way. Having assured us the latest mysterious debris on the IBrokes pitch wasn’t meant to hit David Marshall because it had ended up wide of his goalposts, and all was well. Then Celtic supporters picked up his description of the first half play as being phonetic. Viewers think they know what word he meant, but couldn’t find, but then again maybe not.
Born on this day in 1956
God bless Tommy Burns
https://twitter.com/LilZe_7/status/1603540409392693249?t=xQHJXiKgmgpTQnwWRZ-4aA&s=19
HH
Phonetic meant frantic but maybe he thought it “sounded” more like he is an intellectual,
He probably meant ‘frenetic’ but he doesn’t have the vocabulary or the brain.
Big ANGE has been helping a stranded motorist out side of Lennoxtown, as he runs in his training kit, and helps to push the car.
A man of humble standing.
Good on ye ANGE,
Yer some Bhoy !
HH
new article posted.