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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WITS…..I’m here until Sunday morning. . Then on a plane to Faro.
WITS
A squad are visiting West, Glasgow Green after the Dundee match. Buy you a Saint Mungo ale there.
Celtic Squad v Partick Thistle
7 Games 6 Shut Outs Craig Gordon
8 Games 1 Goals Emilio Izaguirre
8 Games 0 Goals Nir Bitton
7 Games 3 Goals Kris Commons
7 Games 0 Goals Scott Brown
6 Games 4 Goals Leigh Griffiths
6 Games 0 Goals Efe Ambrose
5 Games 1 Goals Callum McGregor
5 Games 1 Goals Gary MacKay Steven
5 Games 0 Goals Mikael Lustig
4 Games 1 Goals Stuart Armstrong
3 Games 1 Goals Liam Henderson
3 Games 0 Goals James Forrest
2 Games 1 Goals Tom Rogic
2 Games 0 Goals Kieran Tierney
1 Games 0 Goals Dedryck Boyata
1 Games 0 Goals Nadir Ciftci
1 Games 0 Goals Jozo Simunovic
1 Games 0 Goals Erik Sviatchenko
Frankmarker,
Thats how the team shouldbe announceed over the tannoy AND written on the official team sheet. Shirt names should be changed to reflect the changing performance of individuals thus making collectors items out of such examples as….”Craig “79% finds a teammate with a bye kick” Godon”, or “Thomas “Aye the rest of the world thought I was going there too but my hips changed my mind” Rogic.
Mind you it would be funny to see Craig thompson trying to spell..”Scott ‘supercalifragilisticexpialodoshious or is it stocious’ Brown”
Hail Hail
Matt
(ps…I am half way through a bottle of Dalwhinnie Winter’s Gold Single Malt…so I may have got some apotrophes wrang…but not the spelling of ‘wrang’ unless I was referring to who I called on the phone which woud obviously have been spelt…”you shouldnae have called her after a half bottle of Dalwhinnie”
Frankmarker
Note** Bottle now looking as full as a the wisdom of Gazza believing that he has a strip joint named after him in Palestine
In fact I think season ticket holders should get to propse and then vote on the players “characteristic handles” which would be printed on the back of the shirts.
This could obviously change from game to game ,,,,or in the case of some who I will not castigate publicly….from being “effin magic” when on the bench, to “what a????? …(weans read this site) ” when we need to demonstrate that we still have players who epitomise the Celtic ethos of “a club open to all….even fitba players who dont know how tae spell fitba!
Hail Hail
Matt
Ach well, nobody else is here….so I may as well pish aff masel or take the opportunity of having an arguement with the other one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven …or is it eight…..eejits inside ma heid..
Another wee glug and who knows…the bubblewrap conjecture…or possibly conspiracy…may be revealed.
Hail Hail
Matt
Ouside my obvious predilictions (in reverse order) for a football club that sort of chimes even in mythology – myths are so important, who would have wanted Taggrt to be a money grabbing wee corrupt shitebag frae govan when we already had Alex Ferguson – , followed by my daughters who hav restored to the world the enlightening emancipation of the opening scene from macbeth, and in number one slot….my one and only slabbery woman who has made me realise just what a sacrfice she made by dismembering the psyche of Mother Teresa and unselfishly leaving that fine lady with all te good bits…and ten forgetting what the eff Iwas going to write about…it may have been bubblewrap…but who knows….back after the desperate clamber for the podium or in mecca terms ‘Hajj’ which interestingly translates into Glaswegian as Bingo.
If anyone knowswhit I’m wittering on about, I am auctioning the answer to the lowest bidder….but you’ve got to strat at £1000 and lets see where that goes. Proceeds to the Nigel Farage Society of Supporters without straitjackets…membership 2…including Nigel.
Hail Hail
Matt
I’m Scottish..ach who gives a feck…I;ve been brought up in an enlightening society that taught me only one thing of importance….find out the facts for yourself and see ‘changing your opinion’ as the greatest virtue.
Now CQN for all its qualities has also seenan intemperance of views that Scotland is somehow a scabby queen in the hand of theworlds cards.
I have a slightly diferent view…this is my scotland..my Alba….My Childrens’ future
Shades of Alba
“Ye can keep your toon tae wander roon, ye can keep your cities fair,
ye can keep your land-locked burns and lochs, cos the place to stand and stare
is where the sand and the rock strewn shore, meet the pools of foaming life,
where the breakers beat and the seagulls scream and the wind cuts like a knife. “
Aff ye go ye romantic lud, yer winds are full of pain,
for colours on the hills abound and life comes wae the rain,
where the heather’s green, the bracken’s brown and the mosses every hue,
where the land beneath my feet is sod and the earth is rich and true.
Yer both of ye well aff the mark, ye’ve held our country doon,
the place tae see the heart of man is the city and the toon,
where coal and iron fashioned lives, where the smiddies’ hammer’s call,
formed ships of steel, from calloused hands and made this world so small.
Whit’s a’ this row yer spouting forth, wae selfish ignorance,
yer senses miss the subtleties of nature’s simple dance,
each step and twirl, each bow and spin, each partner on the floor,
is touched by music’s haunting spell and the sum of parts is more.
For no wan colour shades the map, no wan contour its height,
no wan sound and no wan voice has a stranglehold on right,
like daein’ a jigsaw in the dark, nae box tae gie us clues,
the task’s tae find the place to fit each bit we’ve still tae use.
Hail Hail
Matt
Genius,Matt.
Btw,we got a roll of bubble wrap delivered at work. I didn’t know where to put it so I decided to pop it in the corner
Most stress-free day I’ve had in years…
BMCUWP
How are youdoing my internet friend (thats me on the news the morra…arrested and possibly acused of fraternising wit people who are too intelligent to be in the mis-named intelligence services.”
The second stage of episode of the ‘bubblewrap saga ‘ involves ny wee sister shiteing on my face and me digging an escape tunnel through missus murrays loft just before the fire brigade came out to doude her bra that ‘someone st on fore’ ….bu tats a tale
Whisky glass is empty///
Back shortly
I dont meant your name is shortly.
Hail Hail
Matt
You just have to look all around the world to see that Scotland isn’t that bad a place to live. We are Lucky.
Celtic are going to grow, and I hope we stay in Scotland, ye can keep all your Global Elite junk. Celtic are the Underdogs again – frae Scotland.
There was a real assurance in our play Tuesday. Something Big is happening and it is coming from a small Nation. I am very confident next Season we will get Wins away from Home and @ Home in the Champions League. We can’t get a tougher draw that is for sure.
The most annoying thing is, there are likely nefarious Scottish influences trying to scupper Celtic going from strength to strength, at the highest levels of European Fitba.
Tommy Burns.CSC
It has to be said. Scott Brown has been incredible in the Champions League this Season.
He has shown a real maturity and a real awareness of where to be.
Ah had a wee thing that upset my balance of sense and memory a wee while back…..so I MAY HAVE TOLD THIS STORY BEFORE.
September 2003….location -MUNICH
After the game, I’m standing in the hotel with the eejit Dominic Diamond…before the game was different. It was a bridge packed wae celtic fans trying to work out the earliest versions of phone cameras as they watched nude bathers on the islands below ….mind you the marrienplatzwas also interesting as te guide showing the touring party saisd” … this tower is the story of Munich. It is said …and you brits will know this (to a resounding silence of the ‘us’ brits) that like Gibralter when the apes leave, te island willmreturn to spain, similarly here , if any invading force climbs this tower, bavaria will have fallen”
Just at that moment…over the top of the tower a Celtic flag was draped and te song rang out….”hail hail the Celts are here”…and some eejit…possibly me …said….”Bavaria has fallen”
As forthe other story about dominic dimanod…back in a minute.
Hail Hail
Matt
One day in the Future, when all is well, we can display a Domestic Treble, European Cup and a Balance Sheet to really embarrass most of the, ahem, Big Clubs.
In the Future
Keep it goin’ Brendan.
Celtic don’t want to be in Leagues where they are paying their best players £1Mill a month. Howevaaaaah, if Celtic had contracts that stipulated a heck of a lot of Money went to Charity in each Contract, well then yeah get in there. a Heck of a lot is 15% when someone is getting £250000 a week.
It is Good for the Player, he is giving away a decent portion of his Celery, and those most in need really benefit.
philvisreturns.CSC
And to be fair Dominic Diamond was a greatguy,,,also a dick…but a great guy.
And as he maeandred across the floor ensuring rhe tray stayed under the pints, he slipped and thefraulein who was doign table service noticed him almost tumbling his wilkies”
“you are f*ckin staggering….
And Dominic responded….. “and you’re no’ bad lookin yersel”
Hail hail
Matt
First half sonics in Manchester.
Naw. It is Time to Seperate from the Hun – permanently. The Queen wears the Green. :))
Second Half was a lot better.
Powerful comments on CQN about this. I don’t need to add anything.
CELTIC CELTIC
McC
Matt Stewart on 9th December 2016 2:54 am
It is all starting to kind of make sense now.
I liked Kojo and his straight talking JIBBER JABBER.
Brendan is on to things 2.
The Lord he FORGIVES every wan of us – especiallllllly me for some reason.
Nailed it.
GENIUS
GOSPEL
Do your self a Favour, if you like reading?
Start Reading the Bible, the New Testament, just a chapter a day would be Good.
fast readers would have it done in No time at all.
Noone Knows Anything.
Celtic are ROCKING.
The Undercurrent of SUPERB players…….
The Rise of the Current.
God Bless the GREAT Ronny Deila.
A lot of stress when you have to care for 1 person never mind 40+
Brendan Blootered the feckers that Ruined Ronny’s only Chance.
Thankfully.
Selfish little feckers.
rascar capac was right about spacing Sentences online.
Genius.
Poland, Uganda……
I know I’m a Terrible Sinner.
Submit to the Lord Jesus Christ.
As I Look
up to the Sky.
Back2theFuture.CSC
Some Haters just want to Continuously HATE.
Just scratching the surface
Dig Deeper.
Evolution Started in the Garden.
WOW – TRUTH as well.
It is the TRUTH.
CELTIC CELTIC
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/hibernian/hibs-keen-on-january-loan-move-for-kris-commons-of-celtic-1-4312782
It is Hard to Realise you have been DUPED.
macjay1, I’m surprised he hung about so long.
macjay1 – Lenny Empowered Kris…. it, IMO, went to his head when it, it came to Ronny Deila taking CHARGE of CELTIC.
BRENDAN SUBBED Any Slackers straight away.
Early Doors
macjay1
The Young Lads coming through will mean we won’t need to SPEND Money buying Players.
I urge you tooooo to keep an eye on that Temple being Built. ;))
MACJAY
Never mind KC going for some Sunshine on Leith.
Rick Wakeman’s joined Hearts!
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/hearts/austin-macphee-why-i-picked-hearts-ahead-of-sfa-job-1-4310789