After four painful defeats, Celtic steadied the ship with a late win over Aberdeen and a bizarre one over Livingston. We are entitled to recognise that as progress, however, despite the direction of travel, we should be prepared for anything to happen at Fir Park tonight.
Wilfried Nancy will have learned lots from those wins, just as he did from the earlier defeats. He has significantly improved the left side of the team since his initial games in charge, but the right side remains less effective.
Without Cameron Carter-Vickers, Anthony Ralston has filled in at the right side of central defence in preference to Colby Donovan. Jahmai Simpson-Pusey fits the bill on paper, but the Manchester City loanee has now sat on the sidelines for three successive managers at Celtic. You and I might know more about a few in the Celtic squad than Wilfried does, but that does not extend to JSP. If there are to be changes on the right, it is likely to be Colby for Anthony.
After a win and a clean sheet, a goal for Johnny Kenny would be very welcome. The player clearly lacks confidence, a state which will only be resolved by putting the ball into the net. He is miles off the levels shown in the League Cup semi-final win, when he bossed the opening stages and scored with an excellent header. A deflection off his knee tonight could be the fix.
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SS
Excellent stuff.
DW was still handing them out when I got mine, 81/82
St.Stivs
West Nile St
Desmond Whites office was there iirc.
Also I am sure Fergus getting free transport to Celtic Park,from memory your SB numbers are ok,34k ground at that time,the bunnet brought a lot the change in the financially nexus for Celtic,that and the recapitalization and rebuild of Celtic Park are awesome feats when looked at the hostile environment and time frame.
HH
https://www.facebook.com/CelticFC
kenny dropped, scales back
SCHMEICHEL, RALSTON, TRUSTY, SCALES, YANG, BERNARDO, McGREGOR, TIERNEY, NYGREN, HATATE, MAEDA
SINISALO, SIMPSON-PUSEY, McCOWAN, SHIN, KENNY, ENGELS, MURRAY, FORREST, DONOVAN
BERNARDO starting, about time.
live updates up
AT, found this – When we go back to Celtic Park there are now 26,000 season ticket holders in a capacity of 34,820.
I cant remember exactly when the temporary stand was opened, but that took us to 37,620.
Average attendance 34,342. Occupancy 91.3%
For 95/96 and 96/97 capacity is now 50,620, average attendances for the Tommy Burns era are 47.504 (94%) and 48,532 (96%)
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Season Tickets Part 2, Third Celtic Park.
Redevelopment (1994–2011)
The Lisbon Lions Stand at Celtic Park
McCann quickly discarded the Cambuslang scheme and instead started plans to bring Celtic Park into compliance with the Taylor Report.[30] The capacity would have been only 34,000 if seats had been installed in the remaining terraces, which nevertheless was greater than Celtic’s average attendance in the previous six seasons.[35] McCann, who believed the club could fill a much larger stadium, decided instead to effectively build a new stadium.[30][35]
In the summer of 1994, the Jungle, East Terracing and West Terracing were demolished, with only the structure of the Main Stand left intact.[30] The relatively new Jungle seats were used to refresh the seating in the Main Stand.[30] Celtic played their home games at Hampden Park during the 1994–95 season, which cost the club £500,000 in rent.[30] Celtic raised over £26 million to fund the work from two share issues: £12.3 million in a rights issue (£9.4 million invested by McCann) and £14 million in a public offering.[30][35] 10,000 ordinary fans bought into the public offering, while season ticket sales rose from 7,000 to 26,000.[30]
The detailed plans were finalised in December 1994.[30] The club intended to build a 60,000-seat stadium, to be completed in three phases.[30] The first phase was the new North Stand, which was designed by Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates, engineered by Hutter Jennings Titchmarsh, and built by Miller Construction.[30] Celtic Park reopened with a friendly against Newcastle on 5 August 1995,[30] with the new 26,970-capacity North Stand and the existing 7,850-capacity Main (South) Stand in place.[12]
This was augmented by a temporary stand, holding 2,800 seats, on the site of the former West Terracing.[12]
Phase two of the redevelopment was completed in August 1996, with the opening of the 13,006-capacity East Stand.[12] Phase 3a was completed in February 1998 with the opening of the South West Corner. This was followed by Phase 3b, the Jock Stein Stand on the former West Terracing site, which was opened in August 1998 with a match against Liverpool.[36] This third phase added another 13,006 seats, bringing the total capacity of the new Celtic Park to 60,411.[2] Phases 2 and 3 were built by Barr Construction. The whole redevelopment, which made Celtic Park the biggest club stadium in Britain, cost £40 million.[3] In the 1998–99 season the average attendance was 59,224 and season ticket sales exceeded 53,000,[3] the highest number in Britain at the time.[37]