Fixtures between now and the end of the season fall into two categories: games between Celtic, Aberdeen and Hearts, and the rest. Aberdeen and Celtic each have to play Hearts home and away, while the only remaining fixture between the top two will take place at Celtic Park.
Despite the last minute turn-around and Aberdeen’s collapse two weeks ago, we are still very much in a title race which a reversal tomorrow would illustrate. Aberdeen don’t play until Sunday, so, as with two weeks ago, they will have to sit on wait on Celtic’s result. Derek McInnes will have marked this game out weeks ago as one he needs Celtic to drop points in.
Celtic have a settled look about the side. The goalkeeper and defenders have settled into good form, while a fully fit Brown and Bitton anchor the midfield. With Leigh Griffiths up front it’s the three places behind the striker Ronny Deila has to make decisions for.
Kris Commons enjoys playing against Hearts and has not been exerted by international football, he should play. Unlike Tom Rogic, who will surely sit out after his trip to Australia. Your guess is as good as mine as to who will play on the flanks.
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BGX on 2nd April 2016 12:30 am The Nextt 3 Games Are Critical For Us, Win All Three i Believe we will Win The League, We must win 2 morrow coz Aberdeen Will Beat Hamilton on Sunday( Best bet on the card)..
Btw….Had a convo with Jeanette Findlay on Twitter…Same as Hamiltontim( Suprise Suprise)..She wont vote Snp…But She Wants Independence..How Do You Get Indy Without SNP…..HaunWringers.com
.YOU DONT…
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I suggest you recheck and evaluate your ” conversation” on Twitter for factual reasoning.
Anyway
COYBIG.
Dallas
Also off next week, any excuse, a wee (or big) win today will set the week up nicely, that big yellow thing in the sky definitely breaking through
BMCUWP
Safe journey back down the road, am sure you have enjoyed your wee holiday
Hail Hail
Macjay
HH bud
Good Morning Timland.
Looking forward to the game,even though I will
be subjected to the away fans vile song book.
No doubt Mrs Hertz will condemn her supporters
after the game……well unless she’s away checking
what’s on the lavvy doors,paying the living wage
washes away a lot of sins.
Griff to put them to the sword,catch yees on the other
side.
GREENPINATA
Oh,BHOY,yes!
Must do it more often.
Hopefully back in August for my Mum’s birthday. If not before.
And if they’ve jacked up the price of the Guinness in Swindon again in my absence,I might be at Motherwell next week!!
THE DONALD on 2ND APRIL 2016 8:51 AM
Cheers,mate.
Sad state of affairs when so many good Tims on here are being demanded to show their bona fides
HH jamesgang
Where’s The Coarnir please?
Morning Bhoys im looking forward to the game today Hearts will make it difficult but I hope for a narrow Celtic win.H.H.
GREENPINATA on 2ND APRIL 2016 9:14 AM
BGX on 2nd April 2016 12:30 am The Nextt 3 Games Are Critical For Us, Win All Three i Believe we will Win The League, We must win 2 morrow coz Aberdeen Will Beat Hamilton on Sunday( Best bet on the card)..
Btw….Had a convo with Jeanette Findlay on Twitter…Same as Hamiltontim( Suprise Suprise)..She wont vote Snp…But She Wants Independence..How Do You Get Indy Without SNP…..HaunWringers.com
.YOU DONT…
You could have had it 18 months ago, and if you wanted it, and a Labour Government in Holyrood. in May.#
Being Better Together, you will have neither.
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JAMESGANG
It is indeed,mate.
Never doubted you,big fella!
Hope the mad rush to Celtic Park comes off.
(I also hope we are three up by the time you arrive,but nothing personal…)
Bankiebhoy
The corner is at the right hand side of the superstore. I think the doorway on the right of that building is the pools office and we meet at the front of that.
Hi TImland
Bit late but I have 3 kids tickets FOC
109 lower if any one needs
Will be in the Tavern Tollcross or can meet at gate at the park.
Hail Hail enjoy the game.
Be good and be safe
TBJ
Bingo!……..and thank-you………
:)
HH
Looking at the last couple of games, Ronny switched from his signature 4-2-3-1 formation to what was listed as 4-3-3 on Celtic’s twitter account, but looked more like a 4-2-1-3, with McGregor playing ahead of Brown and Bitton, the two wide men tucking in and all three forwards, especially Commons and Griffiths, interchanging in an attempt to unsettle the opposition defence.
This hasn’t really worked so far. It was abandoned in the 2nd half v Kilmarnock, when the introduction of Roberts meant a switch to a more orthodox 4-4-2/4-2-4, while we looked stodgy in the Thistle game.
It also put more pressure on the two central midfielders to stay back and defend. Neither Brown nor Bitton (especially the latter) adapted well to the change.
For that reason, today’s game may see a return to 4-2-3-1. Both the significance of the title run-in and the standard of the opponent will put pressure on Ronny to opt for tried and tested.
The problem here is that, for the likely centre-back partnership of Sviatchenko and Mulgrew, 4-2-3-1 will be new to them (unless you count the Morton game as a stiff enough test, which, being a sane, objective, handsome individual, you don’t). The new formation didn’t exactly thrill, but it gave the defence the benefit of having two midfielders helping out most of the time.
Decisions, decisions. My feeling is Ronny will persist with what I’m calling 4-2-1-3, in the hope he can coax Hearts to come out a bit more. If this happens, I think he’ll make a change the attacking three, as the last two games saw little incisive play in the final third.
QUONNO on 2ND APRIL 2016 9:38 AM
Presumably you would vote to leave the EU, so that you are independent of Europe.
But I suspect that when people say they want to be ‘independent’ what they really mean is that they want to sever any ties with England. They don’t really want to be ‘independent’ at all, because the notion of ‘independence’ in today’s world is a nonsense.
Now, why anyone would want to sever ties with England, but wish to maintain and even increase economic and political ties with other countries, make me wonder just what they’re all about.
And the notion that anyone believes if we’d voted yes we would be now be anticipating a Labour government here, presumably because the nats had disbanded their party, is just ridiculous.
Just how they would have dealt with the £15 billion deficit, with much worse to come next year, when the fall in north sea income really starts to bite, would have been interesting though.
SFTB @ 12 25.
25 Miles.
Motown borrowed it from –
Hoagy Lands -32 Miles Out of Waycross.
To their credit , they eventually coughed for the writing rights.
So glad the fitba’s back. Looking forward to watching the Champions perform in Paradise today.
Massive attendance and a full pre match Gazebo anticipated.
Love it when it gets to the business end.
Love it when you are surrounded by Celtic supporters, supporting Celtic.
Today will be one of those days.
Eurochamps67
GreattobeatimCSC
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Bobbio
Cheers bud.
I have a similar dilemma any time the Wee Mhan goes to the loo at the game!
Do I want us to hold off scoring till he’s back?
HH jamesgang
Think RD will stick with 4-3-3 but hope he plays McGregor and Johansen either side of Brown and not Bitton. Bitton would be better as the sitting central player in this formation but the captain won’t be dropped and struggles to get up and down the pitch like he used to. The main problem with this formation v Killie was the immobility of Commons and Richards, worked a lot better when GMS played at Firhill. Commons will keep his place despite having ab awful season as he is a goal threat and has a great scoring record v Hearts.
Gordon
Lustig Svietchenko Mulgrew Tierney
McGregor Brown Johansen
Commons Griffiths GMS
Subs – Armstrong Bitton Roberts CKR Forrest (although he shouldn’t be anywhere close to the squad), Boyata Bailly
Personally I’d be playing Christie ahead of Commons, I’d at least have him on the bench instead of Forrest.
3-1 Celtic, Griff hat trick
Gordon
Lustig .. erik .. mulgrew . Tierney
Bitton brown
McGregor Johanson commons
Griffiths
Not the team I would select – the team I think ronny will pick
up_over
Ronny doesn’t like Izaguirre, and didn’t from an early stage, he’s wrong to have excluded him from
the side totally though, and he’s had the opportunity to have rested the KT who is still
in his honeymoon period in the Celtic side.
He’s also taller than Izzy.
Gordon
Lustig Erik Chico KT
Bitton Brown
Commons
McGregor Johansen
Griffiths Offside
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 2ND APRIL 2016 8:40 AM
Vmhan is alive and well. Not from Blackpool but originally from Port Glasgow, now living in Clevelys.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
CQN Coupon picks for today, good luck if you have a punt:
AWATR: Stoke
BT: Gillingham
GL2: leyton orient
Jobo: West Ham
LB: Accrington Stanley
PF: Man City
Pog: Notts Forrest
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Now off to ‘The Office’ to attend to some business and then on to Paradise where I will enjoy the company of Leftclicktic and some other good mates.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Ernie Unionist 9, 57
stop fretting Ernie,the union you loyally defend and the path to power is still there for your labiur and hunlike memory party alas tho not to be treaded for a while.
Cringingly laughable that anyone from your shower of city socialists can even comment after the mess the war criminal and brown left your beloved union in.
Have a nice day now
HH
I’m reading the exchanges between, Kill Ultra/Big Nan on one side & Auldheid, BRTH & Canamalar on the other with a degree of incredulity. It has shades of the start of the Irish Civil War & The Treaty negotiations about it.
I don’t know any of the above 5 but I have no doubt that they are all great Tims and are sincere & genuine in their beliefs.
I believe all of them want exactly the same result but at this stage personal hurt & perceived insults have poisoned the exchanges.
There is absolutely no reason why any of the 5 should take a blind bit of notice of me but could I call for a truce & even a bit of reconciliation between the factions.
Res 12 was a brilliant concept, whether it will be ultimately successful or not it was worth the fight, but let the fight be against our enemies and not amongst ourselves.
Now that I have broken my promise to myself to stay out of the politico side of CQN back to the fitbaw, I think there is a match on today.
Post international games are sometimes more difficult than post euro games
So I expect a time tough game versus the Diets who will sit deep and chase everything that moves
However the squad now have the double in their sights and their determination will take care off hearts.
I would like to see Johansen return to the side as a run in the team could be crucial….just like Hartley/Robson almost a decade ago. A fresh player without something to prove at this time of season is game changing.
Celtic by a couple of goals today would do nicely.
bournesouprecipe
I’ve always been sceptical of players whose praise has, more often than not, been used as a stick to beat the rest of his apparently workshy teammates.
Izaguirre has suffered under Ronny’s (look out!) system, but his points to games rate remains exceptional. He’s a winner.
Good luck to the Celts today, a step closer to 5IAR.
Ready to travel now to the latest gathering of The Grand Old Spectacle Society. Celtic forever.
If fit hope GMS is back in starting line up, the wee mhan was on great goal scoring form before his injury
I see the march if right wing national socialism continues in Scotland and democracy continues to be its victim. The nationalists still attempting to ram indepdence down the throat of the country despite the very recent clear will of the Scottish people who said no.
But even more bizarre for me is the desire to allow the institutionally racist Scotland even more power to attack it’s minority.
Enough of the politics….Saturday should be about football , feck all else. Off to Paradise in 10 minutes, looking forward to it.
I think we are due to give a team a real doing. Hope it’s today. 5 goals in the for column. Griff to bag a couple and CKR to get on the scoresheet.
This predicting lark is easy.
In reality I’ll settle for 3 points via a 89th minute Rogic wonder goal.
NEGANON2 on 2ND APRIL 2016 10:40 AM
I see the march if right wing national socialism continues in Scotland and democracy continues to be its victim. The nationalists still attempting to ram indepdence down the throat of the country despite the very recent clear will of the Scottish people who said no.
But even more bizarre for me is the desire to allow the institutionally racist Scotland even more power to attack it’s minority.
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The first and only thing I have seen so far today.
What a start !
Good Morning, Starshine CSC
Morning bhoys n ghirls
I am doing four runs this year for Solving Kids Cancer and in memory of my wee pal Oscar Knox
My 1st run is now two weeks away and 8 weeks till my 1st EVER marathon (GULP)
Great Edinburgh Run (10 miles) – 17th April Edinburgh Marathon – 29th May
Glasgow Men’s 10k – 19th June
Glasgow Half Marathon – 2nd October
Hopefully raise a few quid again and also raise more awareness, please feel free to donate :-)
HH