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You could make an argument that last night’s game was the most important of the season. A win away to Hearts, bereft of captain, top striker and creative fulcrum is statement football.

It says we have the wherewithal in the squad to overcome what continues to be a campaign plagued by plague, among other things.

Yesterday we spoke about the need for new leaders.  Matt O’Riley, Reo Hatate and Giorgos Giakomakis stepped forward.  They will continue to improve as Ange Postecoglou shapes the team.

We are far from certain of winning this league, but it well take an exceptional side to stop us.

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  4. RobertTressell on

    Same starting line-up for the weekend or give Abada a run ahead of JF? Or rest Jota and keep him fit for the zombies?

     

     

    I’m not even daring to hope we might have Daezen and Tom on the bench and Kyogo making a miracle recovery and Cal getting the all clear from scans on his cheek bone.

     

     

    In fairness to Ange he is keeping everyone guessing. I suspect that is quite deliberate. Old school mind games ahead of big matches. I like it but it is also killing me not knowing!

     

     

    Wouldn’t it be great if we have one of those days on Saturday where everything we hit finds the net and we are 4 up at half time? Rest some key men and give others game time. Am I asking too much?

     

     

    Some teams are going to get a hiding when we find the accuracy in the shooting. Hopefully that will start this weekend and carry on into Wednesday.

  5. Philbhoy on

    CAMUSBHOY

     

     

    My daughter represented her school on a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

     

     

    It was a one day trip.

     

     

    Flight from Edinburgh at 6:00am ish and home at midnight.

     

     

    I picked her up from the airport and she was very quiet,

     

    I put it down to tiredness.

     

     

    When we arrived home she ran upstairs to her bedroom without a word.

     

     

    She cried in my arms for an hour.

     

     

    An experience neither of us will forget.

     

     

    None of us should.

     

     

    Hope you are on the mend.

  7. prestonpans bhoys on

    ROBERTTRESSELL on 27TH JANUARY 2022 8:41 PM

     

    Would be nice because we are developing a particular penchant for blowing out our arse in the second half😕

  8. Fritzsong on

    Majestic Hartson

     

    Ever since the technology to facilitate mass murder became available it has been dictators’ stock in trade: the Armenians; the Holocaust ; the extermination of Kulaks and dissidents; Pol Pot’s exterminations; the slaughter of the Tutsis and the ongoing eradication of Muslim Uighurs.

     

    Stalin is reckoned to have been the world’s greatest mass murderer. He trimmed his population to ensure ideological uniformity. (Incidentally, he conspired with Hitler to ensure that German Jewish communists who had fled the Nazis were returned to the welcoming arms of the Gestapo.)

     

    All nice stuff. Hotel Rwanda is excellent on the Hutu-Tutsi atrocity.

  10. CamusBhoy on

    Hi Philbhoy,

     

     

    I understand how your daughter must have felt, I was in my 40’s and still took a while to deal with the experience.

     

     

    Halfway through my radiotherapy, feeling ok for now so fingers crossed all is going well 😀

     

     

    Being looked after by great people in the Beatson

     

     

    I think I will get a better idea on progress in April, once I’ve had some more tests

     

     

    Thanks for asking

     

     

    CB

  13. IniquitousIV on

    For decades, I have been visiting different European cities with 4 of my ex-teammates for 10 days every year. ( We all have wives glad to be shot of us ). Our pattern was to rent a large flat in an historic part of the city, spend each day seeing the sights ( mainly on foot, and hiring a large car for longer trips ), then spend the evenings bevvying and telling each other how good a team we were. ( And each year, we seemed to be get better! )

     

     

    We would take it in turns deciding the schedule for the day. One year, we were in Berlin, and I proposed a schedule ending with a visit to the Holocaust Museum. It was just after a liquid lunch where we were splitting our sides laughing at something or other. We toured the entire exhibit separately in silence, solemnly reading all the material in English and viewing the large black and white mounted photographs. We reconvened at a predesignated place and time. Silence ensued for about 30 minutes. Then one of the lads came out with, “Gee, Thanks Iniquitous!” They later all confirmed that they were very deeply affected, but also glad they had made the visit.

     

     

    On a happier note, on a visit to Rome, I had been provided with a detailed itinerary of paintings, sculptures and plazas by a colleague who had studied at the University. These were all magnificent, but were in obscure locations generally not frequented by tourists. For example, some were in churches which permitted visits but did not advertise the fact. I did not tell my mates that the itinerary was not my own work. Near the end of the day, and having impressed my Philistine associates no end with the extent of my knowledge, one of my mates turned to me and said, “Who are you, and what have you done with Iniquitous?” I then fessed up. 4 nodding heads ensued, “Knew it, just knew it!”

  14. petec on

    Camusbhoy & Philbhoy, God Bless. Dad is a regular and it isnae great.

     

     

    Celtic under Ange looks to be Incredible. The Lisbon Lions way of playing fitba in a Modern age?

     

     

    It may take a wee bit mair Time?

     

     

    Fasttracking.CSC

  16. Majestic Hartson on

    Fritzsong,

     

     

    Absolutely. It’s just more heartbreaking when we had enough information and plenty of opportunity to stop the killings but buried our heads in the sand.

     

     

    Yer man from Hotel Rwanda, as you’d imagine, appears in the book. I’ll need to give it a watch.

  20. ernie lynch on

    MAJESTIC HARTSON on 27TH JANUARY 2022 10:32 PM

     

    Fritzsong,

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ‘Absolutely. It’s just more heartbreaking when we had enough information and plenty of opportunity to stop the killings but buried our heads in the sand.’

     

     

     

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    Which is why we would learn more by remembering the Évian Conference than the Holocaust.

  21. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Superbru Round 22 update

     

     

    This week’s winner was Hopeful Hoops with 11.5 points, , finishing half a point clear of Jobo Baldie and Auldheid.

     

     

    The wooden spoon was won by Gutenberg with 1.5 points, edging out a strong challenge from Bada Bing and Paddy’s Maw.

     

     

    Hopeful Hoops win has seen him jump 2 places to the top of our overall Leaderboard with Call me Gerry a point behind and Big Archie a further 3 points behind in third place.

     

     

    Next predictions are due in by 12.30 pm for the Sevco match on Saturday. Plenty still to play for.

  29. jerren on

    Oh please rid Celtic of these un-Celtic vultures its not right not right at all bring us peace

     

    🙏 💚

     

     

    Celtic Support the Scaffs – O’Brien Not Welcome! (@celtic_scaff) Tweeted:

     

    Our message remains simple; vultures like @denisobrien_ who dip the pockets of the working class have no place at our club.

     

    Up the @UnitedScaffs as they continue with all out strike action ✊✊✊.

     

    #PayTheRate #CelticFC https://t.co/oaAutg6zYc https://twitter.com/celtic_scaff/status/1486637387832827912?s=20&t=BbOrr_ZDAW2kRv865rJKqg

  31. iljasb on

    I think the most amazing thing about the victory against Hearts was that the team was playing together for the first time, they certainly don’t really know how each plays his game although Ange’s style mitigates that to some extent. Also: new players and players just returning from lengthy lay-offs due to injuries – the future surely looks great. Ange has the football style and personal charisma of Rodgers but with a better sense of humour, so the fans are loving him and he has a ton of goodwill. Also, Ange arguably has been better in the transfer market than BR (although that may be a result of getting more support from the Board).

     

     

    The big test will be against newco: Ange versus van Bronk (tactically) and Ange’s players versus van Bronk’s (skills and desire to win). I’d say a Celtic win although I’ve never watched a newco game so don’t know much about them football-wise. Most reports don’t show them as playing exciting football. There is as you all know a couple of unpredictable but worrying elements: how good or bad will the MIB be on the day? Will Nir Biton lose control and jeopardise a victory?

  33. David66 on

    Good morning all from a dry but chilly Garngad

     

     

    Camusbhoy- All the best, hope it’s a good outcome.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    D :)

  34. David66 on

    So our upcoming Scottish cup tie is at 4pm on a Sunday….

     

     

    WTF

     

     

    How not to get spectators to a game.

     

     

    Feckin disgrace.

     

     

    D :)

  36. Tom McLaughlin on

    I spent an afternoon visiting the Bergen-Belsen death camp. There is a little cinema which shows film of the British soldiers liberating tbe camp. Bulldozers burying piles of naked bodies in mass graves. There was also footage of the liberators forcing residents of Bergen to line-up and view the dead and the starving victims.

     

     

    In the open are a number of grass pyramids, each with a plaque declaring ‘Here lie 5,000 Jews’ and ‘Here lie 3,000 Russians’ and so on.

     

     

    A harrowing day for all of us.

  38. quadrophenian on

    CAMUS; glad you are in the care of good and loving hands. All best with the recovery plan. HH

  41. connaire12 on

    Today the Funeral Mass for the late Hugh Doherty will be celebrated at 10.00 in Holy Family Church, Port Glasgow. Hugh was a great family man and a great Celtic Supporter home and away. He was for many years President of the Port Glasgow No1 Celtic Supporters Club.

     

     

    Thoughts and prayers for his wife Mary, his son and six daughters. Rest in peace Hugh in the eternal Paradise.

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