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Under normal circumstances, you would expect Celtic to rest players in a home League Cup tie against Falkirk ahead of a European game, but building fitness and synergy remains a top priority this early in the season.

If we consider the positivity which enveloped Benjamin Nygren following his goal at Aberdeen on Sunday, going full blast on Falkirk might give some of the forwards a confidence boost before things turn serious next week.

Hibs and Dundee United are a long way off league stage European football, but they can both fancy their chances in the third qualification round tonight.  Even Hibs cannot surely ‘Hibs it’ after winning 0-2 in Belgrade last week.  United were excellent in their draw with Rapid but there is still a lot to do in that tie.

This season we have at least three from five clubs in ‘league stage’ competition.  If United and Hibs don’t make it, points gathered by those three are divided by five.  Getting a fourth or fifth side can make all the difference to our coefficient points.

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  2. Weebobbycollins on

    Burnley78…give it a rest mate. You are becoming the CQN bore. It’s so obvious you are supporting the man in the office rather than the man on the training pitch. Perhaps it’s to keep your bread buttered…

  3. Burnley78 on

    Scaniel

     

     

    Great insight re the ref for Friday. Will watch carefully. Could hardly be worse than recent mind you.

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  7. garygillespieshamstring on

    Tim malones

     

    😂

     

     

    As the old proverb didn’t say “ too much bevvy comes before a fall”.

  8. justshatered on

    Burnley78 on 14th August 2025 2:47 pm

     

     

    I was also at the Partizan Belgrade game and I remember watching the highlights when I got home and couldn’t believe how naive we were.

     

    Firstly when Joe Miller went through and instead of heading to the corner flag he tried to score to put the game beyond doubt.

     

    Secondly in the lead up to their fourth goal, Derek Whyte actually checks his stride forty yards from goal to allow the eventual scorer to get in front of him.

     

     

    For me the original “After you Claude”

  9. Coneybhoy on

    Burnley78 on 14th August 2025 2:47 pm

     

     

    In the return game at CP our pole scored 4 and Andy Walker another at home we somehow conceded 4 that night and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in the 90th minute.

     

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    I heard Big Roy went charging forward and got caught out but i wasn’t there.

     

     

    i was in an English pub in Benidorm with pals and new English female friends.

     

    No TV so the barman shouted out the goals from his teletext behind the bar.

     

    ‘that bloke wi the funny name’s scored again’

     

    ‘yaaaas’

     

     

    ‘sorry lads, that lot scored again’

     

     

    The teletext lag was a killer, then the bad news.

     

     

    Lassies told us to cheer up so we did ; singing ‘jack jack jackanowski’ to the hit single ‘ Ride on time’. Pretty good patter from me i thought.

     

     

    I also got down off my anti-sexism high horse and went to Sticky Vicky and her Sexy Magic that night.

     

    Warm up was Roy Jay (Spook! Slither etc ).

  11. garygillespieshamstring on

    Other incident of note in that game was Big Billy trying to make a substitution to break up play and Anton Rogan took a quick shy in our half before he could do it.

     

     

    Next thing is the Partizan end up charging at our goal.

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  14. Saint Stivs on

    True story from the Partizan game.

     

     

    I was early twenties and my youngest brother 7 or 8.

     

    For european games I would take him to the orange seats in the front stand as a treat and so he really could see the game. He was one of those kids who actually watched the game, didnt get distracted or bored, but instead really concentrated on the play and could often make comments on things that I ahdnt noticed.

     

     

    Remembering we had lost the first leg 2-1. I cant remember our goal over there but ………..

     

     

    Sitting in front of us were three priests, one Irish, we got chatting as you do.

     

     

    The Irish father wanted to know what we had to do to win, I said win 1-0 or 2-0 and just make sure they dont score, but how he asked, and that led on to trying to explain the “away goals rule”. He kind of got it, I said the key is just dont lose a goal.

     

     

    SOUNDS SOMETHING THAT lIVERPOOL OR Man United or indeed Abereen or United would have been able to do back in them days, but once again, The Glasgow Celtic way was driven on by an over zealous goal hungry manic passionate support, so off we go.

     

     

    As the game ebbed and flowed, and the score did aso, the priest kept asking me what doe the away goal mean now, what do we need to do to go through. 1-0 – 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-2, 5-3 ……….

     

    Each swing I told the priest we are in, out, in , out through, not through, and so on.

     

    Wee brothers was getting annoyed with him asking, and said to me, how come he doesnt get it.

     

     

    Anyways , 5-3, we are through, but another charge up the pitch, dearie me, ball breaks, they break, ball is in the net.

     

     

    Priest turns to me, and mouthed, “we are fecking out aint we”

     

     

    true stroy.

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  19. Saint Stivs on

    its the club tie question

     

     

    brendan was it a message to the board ……………

     

     

    aye its too hot.

  21. KINGLUBO on

    Off subject I know, but couldn’t help notice that the pro Palestine demo in London was illegal , yet the same day the pro Israeli demo was allowed, kinda says it all.

     

     

    KINGLuBO

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  25. Saint Stivs on

    i really do mis-remember – away goals wiped out after 8 minutes when partizan scored first.

  28. garygillespieshamstring on

    Fair play to BR.

     

     

    It would do my head in having to listen to the pash he gets at those events two or three times a week.

     

     

    Questions about club ties and aeroplanes.

     

     

    What next? Why are your socks two different colours?

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  31. garygillespieshamstring on

    He should ask them what the tumbling sales of their newspapers and dwindling numbers of listeners to their radio shows tells them about the quality of their journalism.

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  37. rimtimtim on

    Almaty is in Europe and the band played believe it if you like…

     

     

    uefahavinalaughcsc

  39. KevJungle on

    The last minute of the Partizan game, and Anton Rogan grabs the ball to take a throw in, in front of the Main Stand, and the entire stand rose to their feet screaming at AR to hurry the fk up, and get the ball up the pitch….and the rest is history.

     

     

    The Celtic Way is a psychological trap.

     

     

    Not The View predicted that EXACT outcome in the NTV edition on sale at that game. lol

     

     

    “THE SIEVE GIVES THE BALL AWAY 20 YDS OUT AND A WEE STRIKER IN TIGHTS ROUNDS THE KEEPER AND SLIPS THE BALL INTO THE EMPTY NET…..THE END!!!”

     

     

    Tommy McLean was manager of Motherwell and Dundee Utd, and both these teams handed out a good few muggings[Robbie Winters of D.Utd became mugger of the Huns, Wim Jansen wanted RW for Celtic and Jock Brown brought in Harrold instead. lol] of the seemingly, uncatchable Huns, whilst Celtic’s solution to the Hun supremacy was to be dragged into the Hun trap, and try to compete financially with the Huns.

     

     

    Which we couldn’t have done as, the Huns were running a stolen money operation which nobody new about until decades later when the bassas died.

     

     

    The lesson is, there are more routes than always spending money.

     

     

    Scott Brown is the latest example of a player playing for Celtic and leaving with an empty head which learned that spending more money than skint opposition in a One horse league is the way to go.

     

     

    So what if you then go to a club in a league were virtually every team is as skint as you?

     

     

    Tactical lessons were taught to Broony by, Neil Lennon, and WGS as managers, but not by Brendan.

     

     

    Tony Mowbray worked miracles at Hibs, by playing on the break and dishing out lots of muggings to bigger teams.

     

     

    When Tony Mowbray came to Celtic as manager, he had to stop doing what impressed Celtic, in effect, stop being Tony Mowbray, and play as though he was Jock Stein, which is IMPOSSIBLE.

     

     

    Joe Miller was the same, scoring goals every week for Aberdeen, then has to play as a winger at Celtic?

     

     

    Joe became “Super Joe Miller” when he was played in his “natural” position in the forward line for the last 3 games of the 1988/89 horrible season, and scored the winning goal in the “SUPER JOE MILLER CUP FINAL” 1-0 vs Souness’s Huns team who were going for a domestic Treble.

     

     

    But an indication of the SMALL minds, and lack of Football knowledge at Celtic FC, which is clearly demonstrated by the utter waste of space at Lennoxtown, with teachers who know fk all teaching their pupils what is known by the teacher. lol

     

     

    Billy McNeill often said: “IF IT WASN’T FOR THE BACKING THAT WE GOT FROM THE JUNGLE AT PARKHEAD, FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE STADIUM AS WELL, BUT THE JUNGLE WERE CLEARLY IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN.

     

     

    THEY LIFTED US BY SINGING OUR NAMES TO US AS WE RAN ONTO THE PITCH FOR THE WARM UP BEFORE KICK OFF, AND WE WOULD SALUTE THEM BACK, WHICH WAS HUGELY SIGNIFICANT, THE JUNGLE LETTING US KNOW THAT THEY’D HAVE OUR BACKS EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

     

     

    THEY LIFTED US SO HIGH WHEN THEY COULD CLEARLY SEE A CELTIC PLAYER HAVING AN OFF DAY, AND THE JUNGLE WOULD CHEER LOUDER EVERY TIME THAT PLAYER TOUCHED THE BALL, AND SINGING HIS NAME, AND BEFORE YOU KNEW IT, THAT PLAYER WAS STRAIGHT INTO THE GROOVE AGAIN.

     

     

    THEY WERE GREAT READERS OF THE GAME, WARNING US ABOUT AN OPPOSITION PLAYER SNEAKING UP BEHIND US TO STEAL THE BALL FROM US, ETC.

     

     

    THE JUNGLE FANS WERE VITAL TO US, AND I WOULD WAGER THAT, WITHOUT THE JUNGLE’S BACKING, WE WOULDN’T HAVE WON HALF OF THE HONOURS THAT WE DID. THE JUNGLE WERE MOST CERTAINLY, CELTIC’S 12TH MAN, NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.”

     

     

    Hail Hail Mr McNeill, Rest in Peace.

     

     

    So trying to play the stupid ersed Celtic Way without Mr Stein or his players, or the Jungle backing that lifted them so high, is just that, stupid ersed!

     

     

    Oh you’ll get away with it in a league were Celtic have all of the money and resources, but if a team parks the bus and plays a quick long out ball, chances are you’ll be punished for it. And boooed off the pitch.

     

     

    Or, you could get away with it in a league were all opposition managers are stupid empty heads who don’t learn lessons from their muggings.

     

     

    Celtic PLC were gifted a massive unspoken advantage when the stupid Huns did them a huge favour and sacked wee Barry, whom super Brendan couldn’t lay a glove on.

     

     

    The only thing that the stupid Huns have that we don’t is, the best midfielder in Scottish Football, Lyall Cameron, as you’ll soon see……

     

     

    PS, tippy tappy with 2 wingers low blocked and doubled up on, because the tippy tappy allows the opposition the time to block off all the attacking space and ensuring all wingers under Rodgers will end up with a Khun face, no wonder big Idah has a Khun face as well. FFS!

     

     

    Lawwell is right not to let Rodgers blow any more money.

     

     

    I’m not a PLC fan, but if they do something right then I’ll happy clap them!

  40. Saint Stivs on

    I have posted this elsewhere, but I would be interested in anyone take on changing Celtic plc, and is there really a desire (beyong just gies players and spending plans) to do so.

     

     

    Is there any of the bloggers or personalities that would untie a movement for change ?

     

     

    I do not think it exists.

     

     

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    saint stivs

     

    says:

     

    August 14, 2025 at 4:00 pm

     

    from previous.

     

     

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    saint stivs

     

    says:

     

    August 14, 2025 at 3:30 pm

     

    I wish I had the answers as to how you can change the status quo at CP,

     

     

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    the answer is always the same.

     

     

    agitate and protest, turn up and be heard. akin to celts for change, save our celts,

     

    but most of all unite behind a cause and find the appropriate leaders to follow.

     

     

    what it definately is not, is a group of on;line mouth pieces, producing blogs and podcasts several times a day, that might be read by a few thousands people (all the smae individuals btw, i can read several dozen articles a day across many platforms) but are completely ineffectual at championing change.

     

     

    the bloggers will hate this – but – you have to take lessons from business and change management.

     

     

    If Joe and James turned up at Celtic park with a trestle table, and gathered signatures calling for change, great. If Erik could go round the Irish clubs and find shareholders to get them motivated that would be good.

     

     

    If they could get their collective total readers and listerners to march behind a themed protest, then that would be a start.

     

     

    But that leadership isnt there.

     

    The voices wont be heard. A shout in the car park at st mirren or a silly question at the AGM, doesnt mean anything.

     

     

    Posting on blogs, myself included is as relevant as writing to the letters page in the old evening times.

     

     

    Change happens when people are involved in the processes.

     

     

    Where are the modern McCanns, McGlones and Orrs amonst the blogs, they dont exist.

  41. bigrailroadblues on

    We are living in the best of Celtic times. You can never have enough good times. Enjoy them ffs.

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