Forrest’s long road back

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The last thing James Forrest needed on returning to the first team after a lengthy injury absence is a two-week international break.  James needs games to deliver the match fitness that is simply not possible by training.  It could take him until the end of the season before he is at anything like his best.

John Kennedy will be keen to get James fit for the business end of the Scottish Cup, so I expect he will make substitute appearances in most games over the coming weeks, and perhaps a start on 3 April and play part of the game against Arbroath or Falkirk in the Cup itself.  The Cup is only a landmark, though, like the rest of his teammates, the priority for James is to be in peak condition for the summer’s Champions League qualifiers.

In terms of Sunday, it’s not often I say this, but I think the players owe us one.

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  1. I’d play Soro, Brown and Henderson.

     

     

    No Moi or Christie.

     

     

    Pity Griffiths is not yet fit after turning up for training overweight, err, a year or so ago.

  2. Why are so many people convinced Kamara is telling the truth and the Slavia player is lying?

  3. Pat Nevin once told a story in a major football magazine of a friendly between deidco and Chelsea In the mid 1980s.

     

     

    The Pensioners had a black player called Keith Jones who was getting dogs abuse by the home side crowd the whole game long.

     

     

    Too save him from anymore racist scheidt they decided tae sub him for a young white lad tae great cheers from the hostile crowd.

     

     

    Across the tannoy it was announced “Chelsea’s Keith Jones substituted by Phil Priest”.

     

     

    The crowd was stunned and silenced and then it broke out with “bring back the darkie”.

  4. Guard of Honour – can’t win either way. In one way I think we should claim the moral high ground (if there is one?), and then again do we legitimize them unnecessarily. Above all – just best them in the game and everything else will be irrelevant – but they will probably kick the feck out of us and start a fight either on the pitch or near the stadium, and it will all be lost in the mist of, ‘they are as bad as each other.’

  5. De ye mean if we don’t do a lap of honour we will get a bad press?

     

     

    What planet do you live on???

  6. prestonpans bhoys on

    TONTINE TIM on 20TH MARCH 2021 7:15 PM

     

     

    I remember Paul Wilson getting dogs abuse from Der Hun, our reply ‘I would rather be a darkie than a Hun’ And we all thought at the time that was ok!

     

     

    True accounts from the 1970’s……”

  7. Please do yourselves a favour and stop embarrassing yourselves by suggesting a Guard if Honour.

     

     

    Its embarrassing if you want a guard of honour stand up in your living room and clap the cheating bassas.

     

     

    D :)

  8. Liam Henderson doing well in Italy starting in a lot of games this season and his Lecce side now up to 2nd in Serie B

  9. prestonpans bhoys on

    Has anyone actually meet a bhoy who is in favour of this guard of honour shite? I don’t👏

  10. “Rangers Celebrations”……….

     

     

    c;mon scoddland….

     

    that’s just sick!

     

     

    HHH.

  11. I have posted similar in the past.

     

     

    Things will never change until Celtic declare the intention to do a Belfast Celtic.

  12. PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 20TH MARCH 2021 7:50 PM

     

    Has anyone actually meet a bhoy who is in favour of this guard of honour shite? I don’t👏

     

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    Please read back.

  13. PB I recall that well and sung it tae along with “I’d rather wear a turban than a sash”, we didnae view it as racist at the time.

     

     

    What I was getting at was they would rather watch a black player who they had verbally assaulted for at least an hour than a player called Priest.

  14. prestonpans bhoys on

    GREENPINATA on 20TH MARCH 2021 8:13 PM

     

     

    I mean a real life Tim that you know not the wild west of wwb!

  15. Let’s hear something from the Filth………….

     

     

    scoddland is sick and won’t get any better till it owns up to the truth.

     

     

    HHH.

  16. https://youtu.be/OE9OaujxHPg

     

     

    Fields of glory……play it in the dressing room pre match

     

     

    The High KINGS……..What a band , harmonies , atmospheric ,story telling, lyrics fantastic

     

     

    The High Kings LIVE is just over an hour of uplifting emotional songs.

  17. Bada

     

    It’s a tough watch

     

     

    Hats off to the NHS and other volunteers – over 711,000 vaccines today – astonishing

  18. meanwhile….

     

     

    ;0

     

     

     

    Jock Tamson’s Ear-Bangers……………………….

     

     

    :))))))))))))

     

     

     

    Incredible stuff…………………..

  19. On a positive note Vale won for the second time in a week. Still not out of danger for relegation from the football league.

  20. ” Tonight Mathew, I’m gonna be………………………..”

     

     

     

     

    :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

     

     

    *howlin*

     

     

     

    :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

     

     

     

    Fubar CSC?

  21. Prestonpans Bhoys 20TH MARCH 2021 8:31 PM.

     

     

    It is certainly more difficult to gauge at the moment, especially if you discount social media, messages and telephone discussions.

     

    There is no doubt most Celtic supporters are against giving the huns any recognition whatsoever.

     

     

    However there is a train of thought that our players, managerial staff and directors deserve embarrassment for our pathetic,insipid performances this season. Self inflicted disaster of a season deserves self inflicted shame.

     

    A guard of shame is how they describe it. i can see both sides, and I hate a tit for tat that signifies we are the opposite half of the old firm.

     

    We are morally better than the huns, so reluctantly I would give them a guard of shame.

     

     

    Incidentally over the last few weeks at work I have had ” face to face ” discussions with about 10 real live Tim’s.

     

     

    Absolutely no dig intended, but how many Tim’s have you actually spoken to in person ?

     

     

    Cheers and HH.

  22. Bada

     

    Newcastle have set up as if they’re playing Barcelona not Brighton who themselves have only won 1 home game .

  23. prestonpans bhoys on

    GREENPINATA

     

     

    My whatsapps group is 45, does that answer your question or are we being pedantic and you have to have a face to face meeting😱

  24. fergusslayedtheblues on

    Re the so called guard of honour

     

    Mostly all I have seen on the blogs is people affiliated to celtic being asked or highlighted

     

    Has one single hack asked Gerrard or any other sevconian their view on it

     

    If not then why not

     

    Could it be that we (celtic fans) would then ask why the same hack did not challenge them on WHY they refused to give CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB the same respect

  25. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Gene- can see Bruce getting bagged, Ashley won’t gamble with relegation, that’s where they look headed for

  26. “boays av goat tae tell ye summit…………

     

    ………..see ma lumbago, it’s aff the scale…………..

     

    Aye, so it is……am no’ lyin’……………an’ huv you clocked the coast ay a loafabreid?

  27. fergusslayedtheblues on

    Bada

     

    Maybe he will take super G and his backroom staff in lieu of his court debt