Hibernian v Celtic, Live updates

big packy 1 on 22nd April 2019 8:10 pm

CHAIRBHOY im from glenboig about 1 and a half miles from the fountain in coatbrig, Gerry will not have me as a true brigg person, but I went st augustines in coatbrig and my sister and three brothers went to st pats so ive no chance with Gerry, incidentaly our school team played st ambrose and st monicas regularly, I think st ambrose was from the brigg but not sure about st monicas any help appreciated.hh.

GFTB on 22nd April 2019 8:11 pm

Bada 8.07pm

Benfica v Maritimo on freesports at 8.10pm probably better than Burnley v Chelsea :-)

Channel 64 on BT not sure what channel for sky but think they also have freesports channel

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 8:18 pm

GFTB @ 8:05 PM,

Yes, he was up for a wedding but no relations (and no time for visits) so looked very much from an outsiders point of view, yet to have a Chinwag about it…

Yes… a couple of years ago was up for an uncle’s funeral, the Priest referred to him as a Kirkwood character, I’m not sure where in the spectrum of normal that fits;)

SID @ 8:00 PM,

Well said…

On the tiredness thing, while many players have been out for a chunk of the Season I get the feeling fatigue (and battery – Fritzsong) has played a major part in this. Outside Edouard I’m not sure any players have came back “fighting fit”, KT being a case in point.

The squad played almost fifty European games under the last regime… crazy, when you take in the difference in standard, officiating, travelling that takes. The add to the fact we have played in every round of every domestic cup. It’s a tough ask when your asking the same players to step up to the plate over and over…

Hail Hail

Neustadt-Braw on 22nd April 2019 8:22 pm

Soupy ….awfy braw….allow me to light that “The Wise Man Maduro Robusto.”

smiley with a 1000 swiss franker thing

Braw

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 8:27 pm

BIG PACKY 1 @ 8:10 PM,

Yes remember the villages round the Monklands but I was from Airdrie and moved to England when I was young.

My dad’s from Coatbridge and both he and my mum went to St Pats… most of my Aunts and Uncles did along with my cousins until the “big” St Margrets opened.

My dad was born ON Cliftonhill…

So can’t really give you any info… St Ambrose was definitely Coatbridge, we used to do cross-country running from there.

Hail Hail

big packy 1 on 22nd April 2019 8:31 pm

CHAIRBHOY, thanks for the info where are you now.hh.

GFTB on 22nd April 2019 8:35 pm

Chairbhoy 8.18pm

Well done for fitting Kirkwood and normal in the same sentence :-)

All kidding aside on the football whether it’s tiredness, fatigue, match fitness (Ncham / Rogic) Brendan leaving must be a major influence on our players … been on the go since June, when every qualifier was our biggest game of the season, then Athens then some good some bad Europa performances remember we were the third seed who qualified in 2nd place … anyhow another couple of victories in the league and am pretty sure 25th May the bhoys will end this season in style :-) we got am away point yesterday at a ground where the the manager has never been beaten in any league game he has ever managed in the Spl

Enjoy your night fellow Celts

Hail Hail

bournesouprecipe on 22nd April 2019 8:40 pm

Excath @ 7.28

Now that was funny ?

excathedra44 on 22nd April 2019 8:46 pm

BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 22ND APRIL 2019 8:40 PM

Lets hope we keep it together,Sunday was a bit of a downer but were still in it.

Hot Smoked on 22nd April 2019 8:56 pm

Bain

………. Simunovic Ajer Tierney

Forrest Mcgregor Christie ……….. ……….

Edouard

Fill in the dots for a very good Scottish and pretty good Europa League side.

I am a big, big fan of Broonie but he cannot go on forever.

JJ

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 9:05 pm

BIG PACKY 1 @ 8:31 PM,

I’m in Wycombe, Bucks, hence the Moniker… have been, with a couple notable exceptions, in and around here since the mid-seventies. It’s kinda home now!!

GFTB @ 8:35 PM,

Yes it’s been an interesting season and has had real successes. Lenny is expected not to change much but between him and John Kennedy are expected to do the work of four (highly motivated) people. Lenny having to use tactics and game plans he’s not familiar with and has been instructed not to change.

It’s a tough ask. And ending the Season in style on the 25th will be huge.

Hail Hail

big packy 1 on 22nd April 2019 9:27 pm

CHAIRBHOY, probably passed your house many times on the m40 driving into London, and now and again the abercromby industrial estate, just off the A40 happy memories.hh.

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 9:30 pm

HOT SMOKED @ 8:56 PM,

As things stand, here are the options…

Goalkeepers

Craig Gordon: May 2020

Scott Bain: May 2022

Conor Hazard: May 2021

Defenders

Jozo Simunovic: May 2021

Kristoffer Ajer: May 2022

Jack Hendry: May 2022

Kieran Tierney: May 2023

Calvin Miller: May 2020

Anthony Ralston: May 2022

Andrew Gutman: May 2022

Manny Perez: May 2022

Midfielders

Nir Bitton: May 2020

Eboue Kouassi: May 2021

Youssouf Mulumbu: June 2020

Olivier Ntcham: May 2022

Scott Brown: Jan 2021

Kundai Benyu: May 2021

James Forrest: May 2022

Ryan Christie: May 2022

Jonny Hayes: May 2020

Scott Sinclair: May 2020

Option.

Lewis Morgan: May 2022

Tom Rogic: May 2023

Callum McGregor: May 2023

Mikey Johnstone: June 2023

Maryann Shved: June 2023

Attackers

Odsonne Edouard: June 2022

Leigh Griffiths: May 2022

Vakoun Issouf Bayo: December 2022

With Sinclair and N’tcham showing little interest in Celtic and a great deal of inexperience in that squad. I can see your point of going down the Europa rather than UCL route.

Of course there are a few unknowns that might shine but teir three Europa is beckoning.

Hail Hail

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 9:37 pm

BIG PACKY 1 @ 9:27 PM,

Yes, small world, we choose Wycombe because my Aunt and Uncle… from Coatbridge, were already here. My uncle’s factory was in the Abercromby Idustrial Estate. Worked there on Saturdays and during the School holidays… rather tired and run down there now.

Back in those days Rick Wakeman had a recording studio there…

Yes, the M40 was a great road, getting as busy as all the motorways now…

Hail Hail

Tontine Tim on 22nd April 2019 10:04 pm

rick wakeman hmmmmm wm in the chelsea ludge and also a knights templar

Chairbhoy on 22nd April 2019 10:10 pm

TONTINE TIM @ 10:04 PM,

Well interesting, you’d have thought they’d have got on better;)

My Uncle had expensive stock and equipment protected by, for the time, a state of the art security system… vibrations would set it off… not ideal when you had a Rock Band belting out to all hours…

Hail Hail

Hunderbirds are Gone on 22nd April 2019 10:47 pm

Whoever our manager is going to be next season, it is imperative that his first purchase is a dead ball expert. I can only remember us scoring from one corner all season (there might be more). On Sunday we had nine corners, and we only twice involved the Hibs goalkeeper. Once was to collect a floated high ball, and one ever was a smart save. One save from nine corners? Poor.

Free kicks outside the area are the same. There have been times I have expected Celtic to score from free kicks (Thompson, Nakamura). Nowadays… nah. Eddie drew a smart save from the keeper from one of two free kicks I can remember, so that’s not too bad, but how many goals have we scored from free kicks this season? Not enough, that’s for sure.

If we had converted one free kick yesterday and scored from even one corner, that’s 2-0, and we probably end up taking four or five off them, with the pressure off.

So, for me, the number one priority for recruitment is to procure a wide or midfield player who is also a dead ball expert.

?⚽️

Melbourne Mick on 22nd April 2019 10:55 pm

Hello again all you young rebels.

Still stood standing here at the window hoping the postie

stops and delivers my wee parcel of Celtic goodies.

But no, he’s just drove by again.

I’m sure that posties a hun.

H.H Mick

quadrophenian on 22nd April 2019 10:58 pm

I’m really toiling to buy this ‘we’re just very tired’ line (paraphrase).

In terms of Scottish football, we’re a Man City or ‘Pool – our deep squad filled with million-figure stars.

No other club spends as we’ve spent; position-for-position we should have better players in every dept.

We have facilities and resources, staff and support that other Scots clubs can only dream of. But we’re ‘tired’??

I didn’t hear Pep say his mob were running on empty when going for their quadruple (skooshed now anyway!)

In 2017/18, City played 55 games, many of them against really top teams at home & abroad. They competed.

I didn’t see insipid or wan performances week after week from them; sure, they got done, but they showed up!!

Our malaise isn’t physical – Neil himself said it on his weekend’s interview; it’s about attitude, hunger & spirit.

I’d also suggest it’s about the indecision hanging around the place about who’s in charge next year.

A former coach regularly had to tell me and my team-mates to ‘get the heid oan right’ – that wins games or, in the case of our lesser resourced SPFL counterparts, gets draws and sneaks wins against better teams. HH

Melbourne Mick on 22nd April 2019 11:28 pm

G’day QUADRO

Looks like everybody is off to bed so it’s Oz time.

Where is Macjay by the way?

Think you’ve got a point about ” get the heid oan right ”

it’s obvious some of ours haven’t.

They are certainly good players, hopefully they will find

their form soon.

H.H Mick

angelgabriel on 22nd April 2019 11:33 pm

Quadrophenian

Peps men get a longer close season.

Direct entry into “ champions “ league.

Until this season, they haven’t competed on every front.

They play in a league where mistakes are honest

The FTSFA have no influence in their league.

It is Celtic players, not Citeh , that have played more games than anyone else.

Fatigue has gathered over the last 3 seasons.

Fatigue of the mental & physical side .

It all adds up . KTF.

quadrophenian on 22nd April 2019 11:47 pm

MM – true, we have good players but I wonder if the heid thing is about ‘fear’; fear of losing their mojo, or not getting the 8, 9, 10 we expect them to?

ANGEL – Sure we play more games than them (but 55 top tier games last year musta been tough too)

If ‘fatigue’ has gathered; shouldnt that have been legislated for and managed out…with fresh blood etc?

And to your last point – as per my reply to MICK – our fatigue is mostly mental/fear driven and – fair play – could include the ‘peculiarities’ of the Scottish officiating scene. HH

Melbourne Mick on 23rd April 2019 12:36 am

QUADRO/ ANGEL GABRIEL

All good points bhoys, lets hope Lenny can sort it.

Meanwhile our youths have a game down the rebel peninsula

at Frankston this Sun.

Training tonight will definitely consist of ” getting their heids oan right ”

The first thing i’ll be doing is banishing all those young Sheilla’s who drift

over to run their eyes over our bhoys to the furthest away pitch possible.

Grumpyauldyins csc

H.H Mick

Teuchter ár lá on 23rd April 2019 12:59 am

Dave King…… Liar

https://youtu.be/mFuGkuSY3vA

petec on 23rd April 2019 1:20 am

So many things going through my pea brain @ the moment.

Wan thing is certain, Celtic have played a lot mair games than maist teams because of being successful and because of the horrible Big League bias meaning our players get no rest unless they get an injury.

It has been bugging me for ages as why Brendan Rodgers would try and take out the backroom staff. Is this confirmed?

If it is, then it is a damning indictment on Brendan a lot worse, dare I say it, than leaving Celtic when going for a 3xTreble.

Stevie Woods was a bit older than me @ St Pats, Delighted he is doing so well, and Valued so much.

Scott Bain has been outstanding since he has been given the gig.

Celtic to the core – So many come frae the Olde St Pats in Dumbarton. I doubt many if any would Leave Celtic for mair Money when the Money is already astronomical.

The Theory of Relativity… hmmmm

Kieran is such a mega component to Our Celtic side.

I hope Celtic make sure he is fully fit for Next Season. If that jeopardises a Treble Treble so be it. His A-Game has been sorely missed. No point patching up a young kid ffs. There is nae doubt that Kieran has heard about Sean Fallon and likely would play through anything to help the team.

Celtic with a 100% fit KT is Sensational.

petec on 23rd April 2019 1:38 am

Truth

Broonie still has a massive part to play. Broonie was arguably the MOTM on Sunday.

Build the team around Callum would be ma jibber jabber Neilhino!!!!

Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on 23rd April 2019 1:41 am

Awfy hard this, when yer pished !!!

Back from Dropkick Murpys ( part time Tims IMHO) = good gig. Intro band was The Devil Makes Three – magic.

Wee BGFC away to bed – bless all, and especisally DD / Garry – pray for his mum.

HH

BGFC

petec on 23rd April 2019 1:49 am

Magical

petec on 23rd April 2019 1:53 am

WGS didnae use Shunsuke in the Engine room in Scotland.

Believe in that first touch/Vision….. ;)

petec on 23rd April 2019 2:09 am

GG

Thank You for all you do on Match Days.

Garry, Molly is just preparing your bed in the House of the Lord, Eileen is likely putting a wee 4 leaf Clover there.

petec on 23rd April 2019 2:24 am

Callum is so quick with his feet, the cluggers cannae hit him.

I found it interesting that Brendan tried Broonie ahead of Callum when he came back.

Broonie is such a Heroic figure. Celtic need to get better, a lot Better howevaaaaaah.

Tune

Praise the Lord for Everything we have.

petec on 23rd April 2019 2:34 am

Broonie is a specialist player, he reads the game so well, not as well as Neil Lennon did, IMO – experience means you learn the game inside out. Lenny was the absolute master of that.

Callum needs to be played more Dani Behr especially against packed defences.

The olde Celtic Park will be buzin’ when Callumstigator is pulling the strings.

'GG on 23rd April 2019 2:52 am

As I have almost completed another trip round the sun, I am getting fond of this song from the lastest Eastwood movie, The Mule.

Don’t let the Old Man In by Toby Keith

Many moons I have lived

My body’s old and worn.

Ask yourself how old would you be

If you didn’t know the day you were born

https://youtu.be/yc5AWImplfE

'GG on 23rd April 2019 2:56 am

Many comments on a team that’s running on empty.

Professional players with the latest in training and diet regimes.

A three week winter break and a week in the sun to recharge batteries.