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  1. Everyone putting a brave face on our Easter Road capitulation, good to see, makes a pleasant change.

  2. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Eurochamps, excellent news . I hope your treatment and recovery go as well as possible.

     

     

    I’m beginning to think a mixture of teams being more tactically astute , our players’ exertions last season and them them not getting a proper close season break , then loads of games over the the past 5 months, are now taking their toll on our players .

     

     

    I am hoping some players get a week ot two off over the next two weeks and are rested ahead of our games on 23,26 and 30/12, the three more important games from our six between now and the mid season break.

  3. Lots of work to do.

     

     

    Bit sloppy at times with a lack of urgency and focus.

     

     

    SB probably saved us.

     

    Still not a real CDM but his energy made the MF competitive.

     

     

    CMcG was poor and then some.

  4. MADMITCH

     

     

    Agree!

     

     

    We should play brilliantly every game and win easily!

     

     

    No bother!

     

     

    Fuck off ya hun!

  5. Evening all.

     

     

    Just watched the highlights on Sportscene. Looked like we were denied 2 stonewall penalties, which weren’t even deemed worthy of comment afterwards.

     

     

    By the way, someone was talking earlier about how we have had a lot less time between games than the other teams. While that is true, it is only part of the story. Most of our players have also played Internationals in what has been rest time for the others. Some of them must be running on empty, as it was the same last season, and they had hardly any rest in the close season. Thank Ghod only a couple of them are going to the World Cup.

     

     

    68 and counting. Amazing and wonderful. Thank you, Celtic.

  6. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Philbhoy 6.38pm

     

     

    Stop biting … join me in the calm zone

     

     

    These are great Celtic times :-)

  7. JMCCORMICK on 10TH DECEMBER 2017 5:05 PM

     

    GFTB

     

     

    Hi, as some of the stats above will show, we have played a lot of football in comparison to the rest of the SPL.

     

     

    Look at how easily we dismantled Motherwell after they played 3 top level games in 6 days.

     

     

    *fully concur, just a bad luck day, even the Lions had them.

  8. GFTB

     

     

    Cheers mate!

     

     

    I am finished for this evening!

     

     

    Great times to be a REAL Tim!

     

     

    Take care!

  9. PB @ 6.38

     

     

    I blame the schools …

     

    Blow it oot yer erse ya walloper.

     

    Drinking on an empty head?

  10. I agree we have had an overload of games but yet Brendan is very reluctant to rotate the squad,

     

    Made a couple of changes for 3rd Motherwell game & the team benefited from it.

     

    I thought Ajer in particular was very impressive & would like to see him get a few games under his belt.

     

    We definitely need to string a few wins together to settle everything down, then recharge the batteries over the winter break.

  11. Evening all

     

     

    Philbhoy. Hope you are well. Other than having a touch of flu which meant I did not travel east today.

     

     

    If you will permit me I do though think thev last week has been easily the most disappointing we have had since Brendan R took over. We had a strong team out today but looked ill at ease for a lot of the match- almost unplayable pitch in places I accept. Bur some terrible passing and decision making. The oddity was that when Sinky’s third went in we seemed to play as though it had counted, taking our foot off the gas as though the game was dead. A brilliant clearance by Mikael L will ger talked about but we arguably had two better chances either side of it- and missed the targer with both.

     

     

    I suppose if we keep telling ourselves everything will turn out well ww will begin to believe it but from where I am looking we are not in anything like as good shape as I expected us to be as recently as two weeks ago.

     

     

    Inclined to ageee ee MM as he would no doubt style himself

     

     

    Jimbo67

  12. De Vries

     

    Ralston, Eric, Bitton, Kieran

     

    Hayes, Sb, Rogic, Kounasse,

     

    Moussa , LG

     

     

    Lets go for a bit of squad rotation for the midweek game…

  13. lets all do the huddle on

    see the guy who brings the drum to the away games?

     

     

    any chance he can get his ticket allocation stopped?

     

     

    it adds fek all to the atmosphere, just drowns out the singin which is wot it shuld be about

     

     

    and gives me a heed ache

     

     

    haaaaaarrrrrummmphhhhhhCSC

  14. JIMBO67

     

     

    Agree!

     

     

    After a “poor” week we are now officially pish!

     

     

    Thanks for your input.

     

     

    WE SHOULD WIN EVERY GAME EVERY WEEK WITH STYLE!

     

     

    If we don’t –

     

     

    SACK THE MANAGER!

     

     

    Well, what else can we do?

     

     

    Oh, yes, we could employ Caixhino, or mibbe McInness or mibbe Murty!

     

     

    I know where I am with my team and her manager.

     

     

    Thank God!

  15. I have agreed with some posters on here every time I have read their posts; some others, mainly, yet others , occasionally; some seldom and one or two, never.

     

     

    Time for the snooker.

     

     

    JJ

  16. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Fellow Celts enjoy your night I have been summoned to watch “Ninja warrior” ie “dad get off Cqn” I was hoping it was about Shunsuke Nakamura

     

     

    God bless and good night

     

     

    Good times (would be better if Leigh was playing :-)

  17. GFTB

     

     

    Me too!

     

     

    Good night all real Celtic supporters and the rest of you…………..suck it up!

  18. Celtic in the last 18 months have remained undefeated in domestic competition while winning 4 trophies at the same time . Just let that sink in, an invincible sequence of & will probably never be bettered

  19. The Herald

     

     

    The Headline (top billing on their web site):

     

    The Celtic skipper, the drug dealer gunman, and the gang of nine

     

     

     

    The story:

     

    A VIOLENT gunman and drug dealer, one of a gang of nine men convicted last week, was previously charged with assaulting Celtic skipper Scott Brown and also with shooting one of his friends. Mark Richardson, a member of the notorious Daniels Glasgow crime gang, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of having a Glock handgun. He had been charged with shooting rival Lyons gang enforcer Ross Monaghan and Robert Kelbie, Brown’s friend and an adviser when he was transferred from Hibs to Celtic for £4.4 million in 2007.

     

     

    Richardson, a former Hibs casual, was a boyhood friend of Brown’s but the two fell out badly in an alley outside the Edinburgh nightclub Citrus in 2009. Richardson was charged with a vicious assault on the Celtic player but these charges were subsequently dropped. However Kelbie, a former boxer, hunted down Richardson and beat him up.

     

     

    Weeks later Richardson was arrested and charged and subsequently sentenced to 10 years for drug dealing. In October 2010 Kelbie was shot in the back outside Bannatyne’s health club in Edinburgh, following the beating up with baseball bats of Richardson’s father, also Mark, less than 24 hours before.

     

     

    Richardson was released from jail in 2014 and the bitter feud continued. Last year Kelbie’s house was shot up and he then went into hiding. The two came to blows once more when Richardson and Kelbie, by then a convicted mortgage fraudster, decided to have a “square go” at a funeral at Portobello Cemetery last April.

     

     

    The nine Daniels gang members and associates all pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the High Court in Glasgow last week. The Daniels, originally from Glasgow’s Milton estate, have been at war with the Lyons, from nearby Possilpark, over control of the drug trade. In 2001 a large stash of Daniels’ cocaine was stolen from a house in the Milton and sold on to the Lyons.

     

     

    The war has been marked by repeated attacks and shootings. One of the most notorious and bloody incidents occurred in early December 2006, in Lambhill at Applerow Motors, owned by David Lyons, brother of the head of the clan, Eddie Senior. It was like a scene from a gangster movie, one witness said, but it was being played out for real in north Glasgow. Two men in long black coats, wearing masks and holding handguns walked into the forecourt and started shooting.

     

     

    It was over in minutes but when the smoke cleared Lyons’ 21-year-old nephew Michael was dead on the ground, his cousin Steven was badly wounded, as was Robert Pickett, known as Piggy, who hadn’t long come out of prison for the attempted murder of fellow drug dealers, the Rennie brothers, in the Paisley drug wars. Two Daniel gang members were later given life sentences for the Applerow murder and shooting spree.

     

     

    The Daniel’s chief enforcer, Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll, a pal of Richardson’s, was shot dead in the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow in January 2010. He was notorious as the head of the so-called alien abduction squad, which kidnapped and tortured rival drug dealers who, perhaps unsurprisingly, claimed to have no memory of it when questioned by police later.

     

     

    The Gerbil had been shot twice before. Lyons’ alleged trigger man Monaghan was charged with murder but the case against him collapsed in court through lack of evidence after witnesses withdrew statements – and despite his DNA being found on one of the murder weapons. A Lyons associate, William Paterson, was convicted.

     

     

    Last January Monaghan was shot and wounded (and not for the first time) as he took his child to school at St George’s Primary in Penilee, Glasgow. The gunman, head and face swathed, arrived at the school pushing a buggy, before opening file with a 9mm pistol. It was for this shooting that Richardson was charged.

     

     

    Another of the Daniel’s gang was a former soldier also allegedly involved in the Monaghan shooting, Martyn Fitzsimmons. He was jailed in 2008 for 12 years for smuggling a massive army arms cache from Canterbury barracks – including high-powered guns and ammunition – to Carroll and the Daniel’s gang. At the time he was a lance corporal in the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders).

     

     

    Last week Fitzsimmons pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of having a Glock pistol and hiding £36,000 of drug money. Other members of the gang of nine pleaded guilty to serious charges including discharging a firearm, abduction, torture, supplying cocaine and being involved in “serious organised crime”. They were all remanded in custody and will appear in court again later this month.

     

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    I suggest that Scott Brown takes some advice from Martin O’Neill about this. He knew how to handle this type of “journalism”.

  20. MURDOCHAULDANDHAY

     

     

    Aye but we were pish the day and the manger never picked Leigh and……………………………

     

     

    I love the Celtic!

     

     

    What a great time to be a real Tim!

  21. Has there been any comment about Edourd being flagged for offside with a Hibs player behind him AND in his own half. Do any of these linesmen have any idea of the rules or is it the WATP rule only which counts when Celtic play?

  22. Was it just me or did anybody else get that Jim Craig typing voraciously, vicariously, virtually and victual cornflakey kinda way the other day?

  23. Once again our Achilles heel let us down.

     

     

    I expect an acute surgical procedure will take place in January to alleviate the Achilles heel problem. If not then someone will be under performing in their role within our club.

     

     

    MWD

  24. SFTB & ThomTheTim: thanks for the info earlier about Máire Rua. She comes across as a right good character.

  25. Hibs are marginally better than the Huns and the Sheep.

     

     

    They got incredibly lucky today – we were mostly off focus and missed enough sitters to have been racking up 6 or 7 before they sprung to life and notched a couple.

     

     

    I thought OUR luck had gone when the momentum-shift indicated they could finish the comeback and our unbeaten run. A rare Gordon spill and it looked written in the stars. But the Mad Swede popped up like a resurrected supervillain to break Hun hearts everywhere.

     

     

    5 points clear with a game in hand and the Sheep and the Huns to come soon. League will be done by New Year. Hibs to scoop second place if they negotiate their next 2 games unbeaten.

     

     

    As for Celtic, dry yer eyes pedants and armchair Brendans, 68 and counting.

  26. Saw sunday supplement on sky this morning – on about mark clattenberg saying that he went into games with a game management plan – got absolutely slated – i thought ‘ welcome to our world’

  27. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Perspective required?

     

     

    A quick look at Newsnow reveals the knives are out.

     

     

    Quite bad here too. Virtually every player, and the manager, getting stick because we had the temerity to DRAW a game?

     

     

    The wider squad don’t escape.

     

     

    Time to ditch Kouassi? He hasn’t done it?

     

     

    Why don’t we give him the bad news this Wednesday on the occasion of his 20th birthday?

     

     

    Thank goodness for sense from the likes of Auldheid and Barcabhoy.

     

     

    Keep the faith (and the heid).

     

     

    Hail hail.