Whatever ails Aberdeen, for 15 minutes last night they rocked Celtic in a way no other Scottish side has in months. Their mistake was to do so too early, approximately 30 minutes remained for Celtic to retake the lead; they did so within 60 seconds. Momentarily, Ibrox rocked to “We shall not, we shall not be, ah ****”. As they reached their phones to confirm the Aberdeen equaliser, the score showed 2-3.
The first half was as accomplished a second gear performance as I can remember at Pittodrie. Celtic were 0-2 ahead without having to exert themselves. That proved to be a false position, Aberdeen flooded the midfield at halftime and Celtic looked porous. The home side’s first goal came from a clever free kick from the left, drilled along the turf to Ramirez, who peeled off to fire a deflected shot home.
Their second was more of a concern. A straightforward cross from a free kick and header; textbook defensive scenario, one which haunted Celtic a year ago and we hoped we had overcome.
Some opponents bring the best out of certain players, for Jota, that opponent is Aberdeen. The Portuguese has scored four against them in three meetings, a late winner at Pittodrie earlier in the season, the opener in a narrow win at Celtic Park, and two last night, all invaluable points. He was denied a hattrick by an incorrect offside decision.
If Celtic fans had concerns about one goal they lost, Aberdeen fans would have been incredulous at the opening goal. Neither goalkeeper nor defender claimed a ball they were first and second favourites for. Jota made a run to the back post and hardly broke his stride to meet Matt O’Riley’s cross.
The impressive stats continue to mount up for O’Riley, an assist followed by his first goal for Celtic, a heavily deflected shot, and another in an impressive run of Celtic goals from outside the box. Jota’s winner provided the third piece of evidence from Celtic that you need to buy a ticket to win a prize. His shot bounced off the ground, over the keeper and below the bar; impossible to defend.
It was interesting to see our new and fabulous midfield subdued by a Scott Brown controlled Aberdeen midfield for parts of the second period. He is well off his peak but still has the muscle memory. Sterner tests lie ahead, few opponents will be as ill-prepared as Newco and Motherwell.
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Maybe you should have tried that earlier since you pinged me directly.
In the meantime thanks for scrolling by I’d get fed up explaining.
Context is everything.
Let’s not forget we made our worst start in 23 years this season.
Not many of us would have predicted where we are now.
HH.
‘big bustling attacker’ McDermid – who will look to dominate everything, anything and anyone – a wide-berth may be the answer!
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Getting exercised by a comment like that is cult like behaviour.
I presume Raith Rovers will be using their share of the gate money to help pay off Goodwillie.
Play nice please.
We are in a position that I could only have dreamed of and we are going to get better.
InAngeitrust
9 points from three extremely difficult fixtures to keep the Hoops at the summit and scoring 10 goals is all we can ask from the team. Scoring goals for fun and playing great football against Rangers2 and Motherwell and last night outplaying Aberdeen in the opening half with the goal stream continuing.
PLaying with the best defence in the League, so not surprising the team thought they were on easy street. Despite the shock of the concession of the 2 second half goals, the team did well to salvage full points. Take nothing for granted in this League.
Looks like [setting free the bears] just did exactly that, @4:49pm lol 😕
I wonder if he’s one of the dim Tims who bought a £49 same club oldfirm ticket?
2012 = £49 / 2016 = £49 / = same price = same club = trap = you’ve been caught! 👍
Probably was I’d say.
Those who megaphone their opposition to Celtic fans who properly critique the club, [awe the time], not just on a specific petition day, are usually the weakest links in any chain of resistance to recognizing Rangers / Sevco as the same club. So well done to, [setting free the bears] for doing what he says on the tin. 👏
Cue a chapter of “War & Peace” type of length and sleep inducing correction thingy.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Rock tree bhoy
His own words not hear for Celtic
Here for the politics.
Remember that.
And about those politic,the troll your supporting stated openly he did not like ‘commie corbyn’
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The troll your supporting is a George Galloway sychophant who is banned from nigh on every radio station in the UK over the last 10 years.i am sure it gets thro to Russian ones ok.
That troll is on here for politics only
His own words
The trolls attempt at reapplying to the Labour Party were rejected,use of racism in such a nasty and vindictive way,ask the troll,it was ‘commie corbyn’ who called out the ‘disgusting racism’
On a Celtic forum anything that reeks of racism will be met mate,
Ben Doaks Sunday?
HH
🚨 @4:39pm 🚨 👍
Has anyone else noticed how much our player availability details have tightened up compared to last year.Even our better informed contributors were caught unawares yesterday on Juranovich.Small details that help to win titles and another sign that Ange is totally switched on?.
here you lot, i want to insult you, your intelligence, your religion, your families, your football club, your future, your ancestors, your voting intention whether you have declared them or not, call you names,and dasically diss anything about you and your.
but laters I can say “och it was just tongue in cheek”
aye ok then.
If we midden face is upset by sex crimes why no sack half of its MPs / MSPs ??
Guffy MacGuffery party.
Ernie.
No Ernie,not even in your context.
More my infra red for right wing racism and misogyny :-)
I am right.
You ok now? Thought yi were having a wean earlier!!
CIGALASPORFAVOR on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 6:21 PM
I too like that keeping cards close to chest. I dont know why the fans have to know whats happening with a players injury or hang a date on a return.
Whens julian back , fakng it
How long is forrest out ? heart not in it anymore
Hamstrings, its over training i tell yeese.
Kyogo, something going on there, obvioulsy.
Jota, shop windae.
JJ, unannounced abscene maybe away hoe or something.
It just feeds neurosises.
Val McDermid has called for an independent regulator (probably reporting to Holyrood) to make checks on professional footballers, after the club she sponsored signed a rapist.
“I think that there needs to be some kind of INDEPENDENT BODY that REGULATE the whole game generally, particularly WHAT players can play, WHO can be on the books, to play for clubs,” she said.”
All that she missed out was the WHY, the WHERE & the HOW.
Dr Nick McKerrell, a senior law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, cast doubt on the prospect of a new independent regulator.
He said the government was unlikely to have the appetite to pass an act of parliament required because it would “involve quite a major intervention in the essentially private sector”
A “bustling centre-forward” would be the least of the worries of clubs & supporters in Scotland.
Dr Nick McKerrell is neither racist, bigoted, nor sexist, as far as I know.
Park the Bus,
are you away typing war and peace just now, or have you got it in draft form ready to amend ?
I bet at some point you make the longest post on here today.
you could “emphasis” some words with “inverted” commas, to try and mke “onesself” seem more educated than “the percentages” people.
contextualise that.
https://twitter.com/Zeshankenzo/status/1491836007221764102?s=08
Bhoys if any huns are giving you grief….
SAINT STIVS on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 6:28 PM
Park the Bus,
are you away typing war and peace just now, or have you got it in draft form ready to amend ?
I bet at some point you make the longest post on here today.
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Are you missing me already?
Awwwwwwe
Or are you feeling some pain on behalf of you’re chum?
SS,
Christopher Jullien is our clubs 2nd most expensive signing in our long unbroken history . He has been out now for well over a calender year.
We are into the business end of the season, it is only natural to contemplate and discuss this topic on a Celtic blog.
It’s good to tok.
HH.
Ernie
Sadly,the errors of those at top will be paid for by the fans,as ever.The director who voted for,at least,100k plus.think they should pay too.
AN TEARMANN on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 6:26 PM
Talking of having a wean I see that the Wee Free Finance Secretary, and former trainee accountant, is to be taking maternity leave, which is her legal right, and I’m sure we all wish her and her family well.
But it’s not behaviour suggestive of a party pushing to hold a referendum on independence any time soon.
Huns wear green and white scarves Eye they dae
Huns financially back a PLC that kept hun tickets the same price £49
Huns do nothing against a PLC that didn’t rattle the cages for trophy stripping
Huns sing war songs from the bygone days of yore
Huns sing hate songs at other religions
Huns walk off the pitch for a sweetie wife session leaving Auldheid and Res 12 stranded
Huns spat in the faces of Jungle rebels past when you bought a £49 same club ticket
Huns support the oldfirm by ££££ backing Celtic PLC
Huns are the oldfirm
Huns are blue
Huns are Green
Huns are different sides of the oldfirm coin
Huns are the oldfirm
Farting for union 6.27
Naw,she didn’t,jeez they’ve got it on unsourced article
No one said Dr Nick in your unsourced article was bigoted,racist or sexist
Why does a wee racist bigot who likes the union,talk of val mcdermid.?Are you annoyed at her wanting to be independent of your union? That it.
What fear are you spreading today troll
Hibs Penalty Blanked
Park the bus you got me. Ill bite. Celtic makes you unhappy. I get it. Celtic makes me so happy. Winning or losing, Celtic are my Celtic.
I love this blog and the opinions here but i cant even follow folllow your stuff. Am I a hun?
Ernie,
‘Wee free” sets aff ma sectarian alarm bells Ernie
Your not that lazy.😊 no need
Oh zat her oan the pat n mick,now till the weans at skool? 🤪
Don’t know when another referendum will happen,Ben Doaks starting on Sunday?
Cressida Dick stepping down
Re earlier Posts & JHB’s trolling genuine Supporters, context is important,
Yes we had a disastrous start to League.
We lost 3 games early on, However first game we were robbed, away to Hearts where we were clearly the better team, second it was a 50/50 game in Ibrox where we lost one nil to a Header from a corner and the 3rd was on that horrible plastic away to Livi.
Any & every genuine Celtic Supporter knew quite well we were a lot better than our League position indicated,
There was a genuine worry that we had given Sevco too much of a head start and we were relying on them to drop points in non Derby games.
However the scenario that we might not recover enough to take 2nd place was preposterous and could only come from someone who knew feck all about Football or someone who was using the site to goad us & put the boot in when we were down.
I called him out straight away , 4 or 5 games later when we had steadied the ship & we were 3rd breathing down Heart’s neck, he posted, he was feeling more confident of 2nd place,
A Celtic Supporter throwing in the Towel with almost 30 games to play.
He is now becoming more normal, my guess is as An Tearman said, he has come here to spout his Political Views had very little knowledge of Football or Celtic but is learning on the job.
STEPHENOFDERBY on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 7:00 PM
Park the bus you got me. Ill bite. Celtic makes you unhappy. I get it. Celtic makes me so happy. Winning or losing, Celtic are my Celtic.
I love this blog and the opinions here but i cant even follow folllow your stuff. Am I a hun?
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I don’t hate Celtic, I hate what [so called] Celtic supporters have become, ££££backers of a PLC board who virtually pulled Rangers out of their coffin and kept oldfirm ticket price £49 the PLC sleekit way of saying Rangers/Sevco are the same club same price etc, and Celtic supporters have become dim Tims who bought the £49 ticket trick trap sleight of hand manoeuvre like fkn unquestioning robot idiots. That is all there is to it.
Maybe you could be kind enough to point out what bit I’ve got wrong? Thanks 👍
He is now becoming more normal, my guess is as An Tearman said, he has come here to spout his Political Views had very little knowledge of Football or Celtic but is learning on the job.
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Got it in one.
Celtic were born out of politics….
Now snowflakes want to be judge and jury of what the narrative should be.
Park etc
I don’t think you have Celtic in your heart because you only look at the tangible things not the spirit of supporting the team.
When I started supporting in the early 60s nobody discussed finances / corporate governance etc. It was something I was born in to. I am as angry as anyone over Res12 , LNS etc but my love for Celtic has never wained. I certainly don’t and won’t belittle fellow Celtic supporters for the choices they make.
Your posts conjure up an image of you standing on a high wall and pissing on us stupid unworthy Tims.
CULLYBHOY on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 7:15 PM
‘He is now becoming more normal, my guess is as An Tearman said, he has come here to spout his Political Views had very little knowledge of Football or Celtic ‘
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Well he wouldn’t be the first to do that.
There was a platoon of them came on at time of the referendum. One of them use to post about The Carlton, which was a bit of a giveaway.
Ernie,
is the lady in question entitled to take time off ? then why wouldnt she ?
and her employer, would they postpone their business objective because one person is out the office for a while,
you dont half type some nonsensical guff.
surely anyonne in the cult that can count can step in ?
What you got wrong Kev is hating fellow Celts because they distinguished between the team they loved & wanted to follow, & took the decision to keep following the team despite their intense dislike of the Board.
You obviously felt that, that was a road you couldn’t follow , so you opted out.
I would not be in any way critical of you for the decision you made, I know others who followed the same route.
However those others just got on with their lives, those I know still wish Celtic well but no longer attend games or buy merchandise, They get on well with their former Celtic Supporting buddies and there is no animosity between them.
You however feel the need to go on a Blog & day after day & week after week, post repetitive hate filled Posts at us your former brothers in Celtic because we chose a different road to you.
Nobody here hates you, but you obviously hate us.
Anyhow Peace be with you Kev., I hope you are well in mind & body.
AT, Ben Doak shall be dancing fleet through Raith. 👍
Bus, ‘snowflakes’ and ‘dim tims’. If you love Celtic I cant follow how you speak to other supporters. You seem angry. Maybe you are angry. Im not. Every Celtic supporter i know I consider to be a friend. We disagree often. If you want to spend forever arguing about the PLC then you may be be depriving yourself of the joy of watching the matches and enjoying the football. Just in my humble opinion.
SAINT STIVS on 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 7:27 PM
‘is the lady in question entitled to take time off ?’
Eh, let me help you out there.
‘which is her legal right,’
Is that clear enough for you, or are you still confused?
Someone in her position, supposedly dedicated to the cause of Scottish independence, isn’t going to avail themself of maternity leave if there’s any prospect of a referendum.
Fine by me, but it must make life pretty rudderless for cult members like yourself. I suppose if your not actually on the payroll, or maybe hope one day to be on the payroll, you could throw your lot in with that other lot, the Salmond clown car, but that’s a bit of a no hope outfit too.