We have had games which were hugely important to the club, and to our new manager, some which were ‘must win’ games, which were ultimately lost, but tomorrow’s League Cup tie against Hearts is a must win game for different reasons.
A year ago we lost in this competition to one of the worst teams to win at Celtic Park in the last half century, possibly longer, but thus Hearts side are a Premiership team in all but name and come with the weight of their history behind them to fell Scottish football’s last superpower.
I’ve seen Hearts win at Celtic Park before, there is one particular painful memory as they taunted us while drawing, but Ronny and his new recruits should know, this game ranks above all league matches in order of importance.
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Greenpinata
Are you suggesting that John Collins is hoping that Ronny and him fail in the job?
Ed Miliband yesterday we need to rescue the NHS
Can someone at the Labour party tell Ernie ?
But we don’t just need to improve the health service, friends; we’ve got to rescue it from these Tories. And the Liberals too. Now look, before the election, I remember the speeches by David Cameron. I remember one where he said the three most important letters to him were NHS. Well he has got a funny way of showing it, hasn’t he? And when they came to office, they were still saying how brilliant was in the health service, how the health service was doing great things and the doctors and nurses and so on. Now have you noticed they have changed their tune recently? Suddenly they are saying how bad everything is in the NHS.
Bedtime for me, up early tonight to watch the game before going into the hun infested workplace.
P.s. Is the draw after our game? HH
Delaneys,
I am not suggesting that, however to remove any ambiguity he should be left in no doubt that they come as a package and will leave as a package.
We should not and will not do a St Mirren
HH.
sipsini,
The draw for the quarter-finals of the Scottish League Cup will take place at Tannadice at the conclusion of Wednesday’s third-round ties.
It will be aired live on BBC Radio Scotland’s Sportsound programme (MW only).
The quarter-final draw is unseeded and ties will be played on October 28/29.
TICTAEWIN
YOUGOV held that poll. The result which they declared was not the result which their polling received.
They weighted it. Something I believe they have never done before.
Although I was always in favour of Yes despite not having a vote,I always believe in fair play.
Neither side was treated with anything but contempt by our betters who viewed us as a means to their end.
Some things will never change. That is one of them.
Greenpinata
Thanks for clearing that up.
Totally agree that a management team are just that, a team.
John Collins is hopefully intelligent enough to realise that.
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blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
22:49 on
23 September, 2014
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To Quote a Very Much respected Poster on here..(Past Tense)..
Children read this Blog..
lol
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charlie72
It’s interesting. I spoke to a former Celtic player once and askd who the best trainer was and was surprised at the answer. The best player at that time was Darren Jackson. This player said he was untouchable in training. All flicks tricks and scored goals for fun from all angles and with both feet and the head. When it came to games he just didn;t look the same player. Darren had a very good career and was a decent player for Celtic but I think that is a good example of a player who couldn;t replicate his training form into matches. BTW Henrik was at the club at this time albeit it was his first season.
LB
chippybhoy
11:17 on 24 September, 2014,
Cheers mate. HH
tictaewin,
This is one of many areas where the SNP want things both ways.
For a long time we were told that the polls were underestimating Yes support. Then when it got close and eventually ahead we were told they were overestimating Yes support to scare people.
JJ ,
I agree with you about the lack of confidence shown by too many players and the total lack of patience of far too many of the supporters, including a fair number on here. The manager is trying to make us a European team, and a good one at that. Too many of the support think being top dog in Scotland is all that matters; some, imo, would settle for being better than the deid team fae Govan, whom, I gather, were given a wee helping “hand” from the MIB last night. Plus ca change, as we say doon the watter.
Come on Stephen Gallacher.
Do us proud son!
Delaneys Dunky
11:18 on 24 September, 2014
‘Totally agree that a management team are just that, a team.’
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Managers normally chose their own assistants.
lionroars67
11:12 on 24 September, 2014
So when do you , as a nat, reckon the nhs in Scotland will be destroyed?
ernie lynch
Van Gaal choose Giggs?
LB
Gordon j……YES =SNP….really?..
Deila and Collins to give a rendition in two part harmony before to-nights game of We Shall Not Be Moved Celtic’s anthem of the swinging sixties.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:17 on 24 September, 2014
‘They weighted it. Something I believe they have never done before.’
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Is that belief based on anything in particular?
‘All reputable research agencies weight data as a fine-tuning measure’
http://yougov.co.uk/publicopinion/methodology/
ERNIE LYNCH 1127
I said similar yesterday.
Ronny needs to ditch Collins in favour of someone he knows and trusts.
I cannot remember any other Celtic manager who was told who to work with.
LiviBhoy
11:30 on 24 September, 2014
ernie lynch
Van Gaal choose Giggs?
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And that’s going well, isn’t it?
I said normally.
Ernie
Did Ronny not choose JC?
livibhoy
11:20 on 24 September, 2014
charlie72
It’s interesting. I spoke to a former Celtic player once and askd who the best trainer was and was surprised at the answer. The best player at that time was Darren Jackson. This player said he was untouchable in training. All flicks tricks and scored goals for fun from all angles and with both feet and the head. When it came to games he just didn;t look the same player. Darren had a very good career and was a decent player for Celtic but I think that is a good example of a player who couldn;t replicate his training form into matches. BTW Henrik was at the club at this time albeit it was his first season.
LB
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And this player was……???????
Darren Jackson!!!!!!!!??????
;-)
HH jamesgang
ERNIE
The head of YOUGOV stated that at the time,then said that he wished he could dissociate his company from that one poll.
So make your own mind up. His company effed up and he knew it.
Management teams?
When a manager takes over at a club he normally surrounds himself with people he knows and trusts.
Big Jock had Sean Fallon, Neil Mochan, Willie Fernie…all former teamates from the
50s.
Cesar had John Clark…
MON had John Robertson and Steve Walford.
WGS brought NL, his former captain, back
as coach.
..
Ronny and John Collins had never met, let
alone worked together.
I hope it works.
HH!!
murdochbhoy – To a large extent the delays in benefit were has been caused by the staff reductions in the Dept. Work and Pensions.
So the civil service would have us believe. Their answer to any criticism is always “we need more money” and “we need more staff”.
I’m sceptical though. Their incompetence in paying out benefits on time isn’t a new problem that suddenly arrived after the 2010 election.
And they still have more than 92,000 employees! That’s more than BT. What are they all doing? (thumbsup)
folly folly – Somehow, we (as a nation) probably need to get used to the idea of there being a sizeable proportion of our society prepared to thole the indignity of ‘relative poverty’.
The Prince of Peace said the poor would always be with us.
And if we measure poverty in relative terms, he was right. In a relatively free society there will always be some people who are smarter/luckier/better at earning money than others. Even societies supposedly founded on the basis of radical egalitarianism, like North Korea or the old Soviet Union, had a large gulf in living standards between the ruling class and the proletariat.
Anyone with an ounce of compassion ought to be able to admit that hitting the poor with a big stick
I want to hit the civil service with a big stick. We give the DWP £175 billion pounds every year to disburse to the poorer members of our society, but they persistently fail to do their jobs effectively. (thumbsup)
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo – and with 1 in 10 civil servants due to lose their jobs next year. It is going to become even more inefficient.
It’s hard to imagine a private sector organisation with 92,000 staff and a £175Bn budget failing as hard at basic administration as the DWP does. Maybe we should privatise the DWP. (thumbsup)
LiviBhoy
A very good example. Every team has both kinds of player. The key is being able to tell the difference.
I suspect at a small club with little pressure or weight of expectation it is easier for a player to replicate the form shown at training in competitive matches.If a manager’s only experience is at a small provincial club in a minor league it is no surprise that he presumes the level of performance on matchday will reflect training. He is unfamiliar with the effect of pressure on some players’ shoulders.
The manager too is unused to performing under intense scrutiny.
This is yet another reason why Celtic should only appoint managers with pedigree at a reasonably high level.
ernie lynch
11:30 on
24 September, 2014
I am not a Nat
Ask your superiors in the Labour party, Ed and Andy keep telling us it needs saved, why is that ?
BMCUW
Although I was always in favour of Yes despite not having a vote,I always believe in fair play.
?????
Thought you’d said you were a No now and/but a mibbee returning emigre Yea within as little as a decade?
ConfusedDotTim
HH jamesgang
BGX,
Did I say that?
Or are you arguing that all Yes supporters are hypocrites, not just the SNP?
lionroars67
11:37 on 24 September, 2014
It’s called electioneering.
I dealt with the point weeks ago by quoting an anecdote about Mo Mowlam.
The point is the nats said if we didn’t vote yes the nhs wouldn’t survive in Scotland. I just want to know if you’re still standing by that vow, and what time scale you envisage.
Did Wim Jansen know, or choose, Murdo McLeod?
OOPS,SORRY.
JAMESGANG IS 100% CORRECT.
My Yes was to staying part of The UK.
But yeezaw knew that.
“Although I was always in favour of Yes despite not having a vote,I always believe in fair play.”
You lickle liar tommy:)
David
Did Dr Jo know or choose Eric Black?
ernie lynch
A bit like saying Ronny didn;t sign Gordon. I prefer to think he did. JC was interviewed by Ronny and they agreed so much in their thinking that their was almost some man love their in their first photos.
My thinking was that JC and CG were suggested to Ronny he spoke to both and had them assessed by other members of the coaching team or by his own judgement and agreed. Ronny needed a man with some knowledge of Scotland and Celtic. JC ticked both boxes. Craig Gordon was a no brainer. Low risk signing.
I’m afraid to say that the one member of the coaching staff I think is the biggest risk is John Kennedy. A very young man and although he has done a good job so far with the youths and development squad does he have the experience or the coaching nous to advise the first team? I tend to think he doesn;t. I may take some flak for that but our defence especially centrally has been nothing short of woeful since Mjallby departed. Hope JK has a long succesful coaching career andmay one day be our manager but right now I think first team coach at Celtic is too soon for JK.
Whether Van Gaal chose Giggs or not at Man Utd it is not Giggs fault they are not getting results. Van Gaal is showing how easy it is to buy the wrong players and not strengthen at the back. Good teams are built on solid foundations. Their defence is as weak as I can ever remember. Money does not guarantee success. Man Utd may have many years of dark days ahead. Not that I will shed any tears for them.
Jamesgang
It was not Darren Jackson I spoke to but hat doffed for the banter.
LB
Did Danger Mouse choose Penfold?