Champions League match day six was a dead rubber, I wasn’t at the game only watched on TV, but two days on I’m still full of the emotional thrill of the occasion. With that in mind, the thought that today will be the players final training session before a league game tomorrow illustrates the challenge for Brendan Rodgers.
The players put everything into the game in Manchester, they were visibly flagging near the end. They will also have shared the high of the occasion. Bringing that all together to face a team who have been planning nothing but how to frustrate a potentially lethargic and distracted Celtic for a week and you have a game punters would generally avoid backing the favourites in.
News that James Forrest’s hamstring isn’t causing too much concern is welcome. We’ve all been there. You feel the twinge but it’s not enough to stop you, so you carry on. James has more experience of injury than most footballers, as a consequence it looks like he left the field before a “tightness” became an injury. He was a loss to the game but rather that than a loss to the season. This counts as very intelligent play.
I’d be reluctant to press James into action tomorrow, especially as it gives Gary Mackay-Steven an opportunity to revisit Firhill, where he scored 37 seconds into his Celtic debut.
Directors’ Box hospitality auction ending soon!
At around 12:18 this afternoon our Directors’ Box hospitality auction in aid or Mary’s Meals, courtesy of Intelligent Car Leasing ends. Money raised will go towards our seventh school kitchen across Malawi and Liberia – just incredible.
At the Celtic-Dundee game on 17 December, you can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
And a match programme
Many thanks to Intelligent Car Leasing for making it possible.
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I’ve sat in every corner of Parkhead but this season I’m right next to the away dugout. You really do see the game different at pitch level. The pace, quality of pass, and movement of players is so accentuated The gulf in class between Spl and CL is even more evident.
Everything at CL level is done at a higher pace and tempo and with greater accuracy, with better players and top class coaching methods. At Barca level its frightening to watch close up. BR has a team somewhere in between these levels. He said post match that he realises very well that in the CL, players are sharper and more physical. It’s obvious he wants to get us to pot 3 and higher.
I like the sound of that. Exciting times.
I think the msm get BR’s message too. We are a runaway train in Scotland and all that’s left is Operation Tarnish at any cost. Surely something the club must be looking at by now. Are they trying to sicken the manager?
DD Thank you. I will call you during the weekend.
BMCUWP leaves us to it with his definition of world class. …..At what?
Drinking. ?
Rudi
Daniel Fergus McGrain, Henrik and King Kenny are three World class players I remember in the Hoops. Was taken to see the Lisbon Lions. 11 world class players who I unfortunately canny remember seeing in the flesh. Praise the Lord for VHS & DVD.
Guys I’m hoping that the posts describing Partick Thistle fans as Huns without the bus (or was it tram) fare was a joke because it’s very far from the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnfib8Q-Jk
We fail your pain you desperate huns you..
Next instalment Hogmany:))
Daniel Fergus McGrain should have been a contender too. Remember in the early 90s when the so called Celtic fans didn’t come in the Pippin bar at Parkhead to support his business.
Danny McGrain was world class.
Delaney’s
Is there a cqn meet up in Lisbon? Me and some mates from the Brazen are booked up.
Zbyszek
Look forward to your call.
Look forward more to my first visit to my motherland Polska. :)
Pogmathonyahun
Of the 5 quotes in the article illustrating anti-Irish sentiment by the “English”
Quote 1 is from a Norman-Welsh cleric
Quote 2 is from wee Davie Hume fae Embra
Quote 3 is from a parliamentary committee (of Brits, obviously)
Quote 4 is from a genuine Englishman admittedly.
Quote 5 appeared in housing notices all across Britain
I suspect here that England has merely been used as a substitute word for Britain. The point made about separate RC schooling applies even more so in Scotland than in England.
There was anti-Irish sentiment in almost every country where emigrants were dispatched and a lot of it, whether in Scotland, England or the USA or Canada had to do with the alien religion they brought with them (well, from 16th century onwards, it did).
I think the assimilation debate can become simplistic at times. Often, part of the price of assimilation is to give up some sense of roots and re-brand yourself as 100% Scottish or English or Murkin. Even then your speech and colour or religious preference can see your attempts to assimilate rejected by the host community.
It’s a tricky area. Ask Jeanette Findlay how well her use of the Irish slogan Tiochfaid ar la went down in SNP and Independence circles.
Rudi
I was in the Pippin manys a time
The Hand of God
Is it ok to describe them as a mixed bunch of Communists and out-of-work actors?
ME
BRTH is organising Lisbon 2017 for CQN guys.
I will be there. He is guiding me. :)
Danny McGrain was called a cone carrier by some on here. They know better now , hopefully.
Of course I do Ernie, all those Irish Catholic loving, English landowners who were quite happy to see people die of preventable starvation.
A late, good friend told me when he moved from Ireland to England to work for the bank in the early 60’s there were still plenty of signs up in lodging houses that stated “No dogs, no blacks, no Irish.” So I suppose if that is your definition of assimilation then fair enough.
An Tearman is correct Westminster is historically anti-Irish (Catholic).
DElaneys
Thinking of going to Lisbon next year myself
Might even bring she who must be obeyed
Miama csc’s if anybody knows for the game
Thanks
Remember Bhoys and Ghirls a troll is not just for Christmas.
Celtic and Celtic fans let him down.
Daniel Fergus McGrain.
THOG
Why are all the Jags fans I grew up with in Partick, masons, orange walkers, kid on huns or all three?
You huvnae a clue.
SFTB…fair enough Sir although it sounds more like the candidates for the U.S. presidency.
Rudicantfail,
Looks like your choice of venue to watch the CL the other night is a ‘dead rubber.’
According to Find My Pub.com, it’s up for lease.
Ref number, 07041975 / P0037 if you are interested.
Maybe if they fitbaw on, the Lord Nelson might do a better trade?
It’s probably one of those ‘Sevco switcheroo’ things. Same pub, new management etc, etc,
http://www.findmypub.com/properties/view/21630
Till Later ;)
DD
Good stuff. Looking forward to it.
WITS
Bringin yer mammy?
The only member of the opposite sex I have ever obeyed is my mammy.
Why I am single. :)
DD…….I cannot speak about you’re experience but I know many Thistle fans and they are very different from the one’s you seem to have encountered.How did you arrive at the conclusion that I don’t have a clue ? A bit of an odd statement.Someone who has experienced something different from you is regarded as clueless that seems a tard harsh
SFTB, the point An Tearmann is trying to make, and as you have highlighted, that things weren’t as hunky dory down in England as Ernie is trying to make out. I agree that the anti-Irish (Catholic) sentiment in Scotland was far greater but England was no Utopia for the Irish immigrant.
And before Neganon comes on and accuses me of being an anti-English Nazi I am happily married to one of them having rescued her from England ;-)
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winters light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night
And they told me a fairy story
‘Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked TO the sky with excited eyes
‘Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise
DD
Lisbon is a great city,been a couple of times,
I will be over for the Dundee game next week,staying with my cousin near Falkirk
Going to suggest they come to Lisbon also,The more the merrier
What is the Stars on 8th December 2016 11:26 pm
WITS
I have a scheduling conflict.
Think you will find that was the Salutation Bar and the Bandstand mate.Do keep up lol.
I was at a match about ten years ago at Firhill, Thistle v Stirling Albion.
The announcer read out the half time scores and when he got to the big Glasgow derby result which had just finished, he said ‘the home team won 1-0 in that other game down the road’.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 8th December 2016 11:30 am
I remember ma first pint….podium. Sorry!
Whomever threw that hamburger at Donny Toadily cut it out will ya?
Why the long face?
WITS. You near Gorton or Ardwick mate ?
We dont care what the animals say
THOG
Sorry. Didnae mean to sound harsh. I know one good guy Plastic Whistle fan. Know at least 20 *anks. Mainly orange lodge types.
Canny go them.
WITS. In the Lord Nelson now if you’re anywhere near Gorton. Ardwick or Ancoats. Stopping in Malmaison at Piccadilly. Job on in Ardwick in the morning. If you fancy a beer let me know.
M McGill
The poor Tim realised after one bite that he was eating the horses cousin. Mancy bassas serving Shergar burgers isnae on.