Patrick Roberts is back and fit, and has previous good form against Newco, but Brendan has relied heavily on James Forrest this season, so may be disposed to prefer the latter for Sunday. I am usually clear on which of the two I prefer against any opposition (James for teams who press us, leaving space for him to exploit, Patrick for teams who defend deep), but I am pulled two ways this time.
If pushed, I would go with James, leaving Patrick as a option when legs are tired.
We don’t usually have chats about which goalkeeper to play, but Scott Bain and Craig Gordon will both be hoping to start. Craig is fit, so If Scott gets the nod, it may indicate that the ongoing first choice keeper slot is up for grabs.
I expect we will see the return of a more recognisable back four, with Michael Lustig returning in place of Jack Hendry. How Brendan deploys Dedryck Boyata will be crucial. The opening goal we lost at Ibrox last month came from a ploy Newco have used repeatedly against us since the 2016 Scottish Cup semi-final.
Their players will often stand off Celtic but press Dedryck whenever he is in possession. Dedryck needs options available or he should go Route One.
Tom Rogic travelled a lot of miles and played a lot of football in March, so I am sure he was rested at Hamilton to ensure he would be in prime shape for Sunday. Brown and Ntcham will sit behind him and Dembele will lead the line.
This leaves one place to be filled by Sinclair, Armstrong or McGregor. My preference would be to favour the middle of the park. Control passing in the central area and we will win comfortably. We failed to dominate there in each of our three draws against Newco (2-2, 1-1, 0-0). McGregor would get the nod for this task, where I would ask him to play a conserved, always-available, role.
The manager has had a week at Lennoxtown with his team – a rare luxury for Celtic. So chill, we will be ready.
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DD
Where’s Marspapa? Should he not be on by now?
M6bhoy
All that proves is that one club checks the price charged by the other. It’s not evidence of a cartel. I would suggest that ASDA know what tesco charge for beans and price accordingly. Not evidence of a collusive cartel however!!
QF
QF
Particularly bad choice to cite British supermarkets as an example ….
In late 2007, British fans of milk and cheese got some bad news: their supermarkets and milk suppliers had been illegally rigging the prices of dairy products since 2002. The Office of Fair Trade learned that many of the U.K.’s largest supermarket chains had been colluding to raise the prices of dairy products, and their milk distributors, namely Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman Dairies, had been the go-betweens for the ostensibly secret pricing decisions.
This is one of the examples of collusion that are often taught in business schools
starry plough on 13th April 2018 2:09 pm
AULDHEID
That is a good read Ole No Surrender as the sacrificial goat??
What’s your take on that??
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If it does not produce recognition that accountability is required and it shouldn’t take 5 years to get it then it isn’t good enough.
There has to be proposals for change that provide assurances it cannot happen again.
Although not an aim of Res 12 ,what it has uncovered requires the setting aside of the LNS Commission because
1. It is an affront to footballing integrity in that s a ex manager of an amateur team ,fielding ineligible players was always a reason to alter the result. It goes right down to grass roots level.
2. It is an affront to the intelligence of supporters and will slowly poison our game.
3. It was based on deception and non disclosure and if it were a court of law a mistrial would be declared.
If that has unhappy consequences for those who lived by the lie then so be it.
That is the reality of the truth biting.
DD
Cheers mate.
Don’t think Armstrong will make the start.Calf problem.I would love Eboue to start but can’t see BR agreeing.Big choices for Brendan.Too many good players.Whatever team he picks,it’s going to be some bench.If Bick Mik plays well,it will be some bonus.
JTT
Marspapa has a few ladies and couple of dugs to keep him busy. Not forgetting the grandweans. ?
Big Bhoy 2.56
There are three possibilities that might be exercising the Compliance Officer’
RFC kept the SFA in the dark on the true nature of wtc liability and obtained a licence fraudulently by doing so and also misled the SFA and SPL during the SPL fact finding stage from March to summer 2012 into the use of side letters.
The SFA learned about the true nature of the wtc liability after May 2011 but before mid March 2012 but kept it from the SPL
They all knew before March 2012 about the true nature of the wtc liability (which HMRC described as fraudulent or negligent and why ) and kept it out of the LNS ToRs.
Interestingly in Feb 2012 Regan and LNS met to discuss ToRs of the Judicial Review into Craig Whyte. One of the charges CW faced was failure to pay VAT/PAYE tax but NOT the wtc liability.
On what basis that decision was reached should be put to Regan and LNS by the Comp Off.
For a bit more check posts on KDS beginning at
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=30832803&t=9124931
AULDHEID
I don’t think there’s any slowly involved in the poisoning of the game, I think the poison is in full flow, wether or not a recovery can made is the question.
It’s hard to see this continue month after month year after year with no end in sight but hope springs eternal and the good fight will continue to be fought.
Who is actually running the SFA now or is it just a free for all cover up:))
HH
MIT
I had a pleasant lunch in Coias pre RC match with 5 CQN guys. At least two of them would run rings round our board. No problem.
HH
QF on 13TH APRIL 2018 3:31 PM
M6bhoy
All that proves is that one club checks the price charged by the other. It’s not evidence of a cartel. I would suggest that ASDA know what tesco charge for beans and price accordingly. Not evidence of a collusive cartel however!!
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The two situations are not in anyway comparable. Asda is in direct competition with Tesco for the same customers. We have a different customer base to Sevco so there is no competitive advantage to be gained by matching their ticket price.
I can understand Sevco pricing the tickets at £49 cos they are desperate for the money. We’re not yet we set the ticket price at £49 for the first Glasgow Derby last season and Sevco followed suit. You are not seriously asking me to believe this wasn’t agreed between the two clubs before a ball was kicked?
DD…
I think you said that you wren’t working just now …. how about you stand for it next time? I dont thiink you would put up with any SFA bullshit … you’d get my vote!
plus, with you on the Board, I’m sure that there would be better music over the tannoy!
:)
am I showing my age by saying ‘tannoy’?
MIT
I will stick to the sounds. Welcome to Paradise by Green Day would be on every week. VFR and BRTH are the guys from that Coias lunch table, I would back to the hilt.
Mike in Toronto
Yes, it would be a bad example if i was saying there was no collusion. It’s the proof but I was getting at. It’s not proof.
M6bhoy
I think you are wrong. The £49 price at CP is picked up mainly by Sevco fans. Most in attendance will be ST holders, like myself, who get the match on the ST. A reduced price at CP would therefore be if it Sevco fans.
QF
benefit
Morning all from a slightly nippy yet sunny central california.
Quiz on tonight as usual.
Ive read back and seen the posts on renewing.
My tuppence for what its worth. No slight on anyone intended.
To blindly renew no matter what is the SFAs dream. No change will ever come in this case.
To go along with it should a whitewash be produced is just saying its ok keep it coming.
A lot of the songs sang allude to people who faced injustice, and sometimes gave their lives.
In the previous generations battle the rebels won remember?
But when this generations battle arrives its lets just renew and ah well yes they are cheating.
Seems ironic to me but im not there and neither will anyone else of mine be if a sectarian farce is whats being served.
Hail Hail
What’s a tannoy:-) :-):-) :-)
H.H
50 shades
In ma school it was a tannoid for some reason?
Arrived in Glasgow on Wednesday.Just thawed out today
great quote from turkeybhoy
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0413/954186-tower-glasnevin-cemetery/
DD..
Mine tae…..
H.H
dd
why has kevj got such a hard on for fergus.
it was like Kleenex .. which made tissues, but everyone called tissues Kleenexes…
Tannoy was a company that made loudspeakers, and eventually, they came to be called Tannoys by most people (except, in Scotland apparently …)
:)
Someone get on the blower and ask about tannoys
#bookies
I think I heard a taanoy announcement when I was listening to the transistor
QF on 13TH APRIL 2018 4:08 PM
Mike in Toronto
Yes, it would be a bad example if i was saying there was no collusion. It’s the proof but I was getting at. It’s not proof.
M6bhoy
I think you are wrong. The £49 price at CP is picked up mainly by Sevco fans. Most in attendance will be ST holders, like myself, who get the match on the ST. A reduced price at CP would therefore be if it Sevco fans.
QF
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The £49 ticket price is charged to all non-ST customers regardless of the team they support and both clubs charge this price. If we charged less then them it would also benefit home non-ST supporters. The club therefore should have set the ticket price to reflect the fact that we were playing a four year old newly promoted club something akin to what we charged when Gretna played at CP for the first time. Instead we treated Sevco as though they were deid Rangers thereby doing our bit to sustain the continuity myth. Like I said earlier, Celtic plc is the the green half of the Old Firm brand and will do almost anything in pursuit of the bigot pound.
Some good music on here today. South of Tunis, here’s , in my humble opinion, is a better version of Who will the next fool be,
Hope you agree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXWtI9iVBk
KINGLubO
There was a lad who worked alongside my father in Rolls-Royce who use to call intercom messages, Interpol.
He also said of his daughter ,who worked in a police station, that she wasn’t a policewoman, she was a typewriter.
SAINT STIVS
New fangled transistors give me the wireless any day:))
While we wonder what the Compliance Officer is up to, many Celtic fans are angry about not having a ticket for the game on Sunday. You don’t need to think hard as to why the SFA want any team playing out of Ibrox to be ‘strong’. Lets hope they don’t take the demand for the SC semi final as a vote of confidence in themselves. It will be hard to force through meaningful change while the demand for tickets exceeds supply.
Celtic are party to the £49 ticket, pure profiteering, and helping der hun.
SOT are you based in Sicily? Got a mate going out there tomorrow for a 6 month contract – chemical enginer.good Celtic man,could maybe meet up with him? H H Hebcelt
Public Address (PA) systems of which loudspeakers were a part.
Think we’re going to have a Tannoy day. That’s the poor dugs out the window.
This has always annoyed me.
When something called rangers got promoted Celtic plc could have made a commercial decision to treat them as well. You know. A new club.
1800 tickets for them in the corner.
No premium added to our kids £50 ticket.
Concession kept the same for the Lisbon generation.
We would have sold record number of season books on that.
It’s profiteering in the worst way.
Ps.
Talking old tech.
I was in Athens this week. The hotel room had the luxury of a full stacked hi Fi.
MIKE IN TORONTO on 13TH APRIL 2018 3:58 PM
am I showing my age by saying ‘tannoy’?
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You’d be showing that you are a discerning listener, MIT.
Tannoy have for many years manufactured some of the highest quality audio products used in recording studios and lusted after by hi-fi enthusiasts all over the world. There’s currently a Tannoy Red speaker on ebay for £5k – and indeed a pair of originals in their cabinets for €10,500. Second hand of course as they are vintage.
They also make those systems used in train stations that render rail employees utterly inaudible. Go figure.
Tannoy is one of Coatbridge’s success stories – along with Lees Macaroon Bars of course. You’ll remember those? :-)
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.mccarthy.3914/posts/1771525586202057