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After a home defeat to St Mirren in November precipitated Gary Holt’s resignation as Livingston manager, the West Lothian club have won all eight games played, by any measure, they are the form team in Scotland right now.  They were 13 points behind fourth placed Hibernian after that St Mirren defeat.  Hibs have played three games more than Livingston since then but the gap has shrunk to 7 points.

That should illustrate how Livi will be a more difficult opponent than Hibs were this week.  New manager, David Martindale, will fancy his chances of making a name for himself at Celtic Park tomorrow.

Celtic are still without their 13 isolating players, as well as the long-term injured, although Nir Bitton returns from suspension and will likely replace Stephen Welsh.  I expect David Turnbull to move into the middle at the expense of Tom Rogic, with Ewan Henderson starting on the right as he finished against Hibs.

Neil Lennon might be thinking long and hard about Diego Laxalt, who conceded the late foul Hibs equalised from on Monday, and did the same at Ibrox, preceding the corner kick Newco scored from.  It is not totally Diego’s fault that we cannot defend set-pieces satisfactorily, but we need to find a way to stop him conceding them.  Replacement by Greg Taylor is an option.

I have no suggestions as to what we do up front but would not be surprised if Mikey Johnston moved inside.  On the positive side, Livingston will not know what to expect from us.

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  1. ernie lynch on

    THE EXILED TIM on 15TH JANUARY 2021 10:20 PM

     

     

    ‘Off hand without looking at the government stats I don’t know, what I do know is that the overall survival rate is 99.7%’

     

     

     

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    The overall survival rate for someone of your age is not 99.70%, it’s much, much lower, so don’t go making decisions based on that assumption.

     

     

    The Vatican are using the Pfizer vaccine.

  4. Greenpinata on

    Anyway,

     

     

    Don’t care what team we put out tomorrow, I’m really looking forward to the game.

     

    I know we are rank this season on and off the park, but lockdown would be much harder without the footie.

     

     

    HH to all.

  7. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Null and void works for me just fine.

     

     

    If this campaign progresses it’s just a tainted title for Sevco as a result of Covid-19.

     

     

    Not averse to league being suspended and finished in summer / autumn.

     

     

    Rushed through the last few pages so apologies if I conflate posts …

     

     

    Am not sure where I sit re the Green Brigade.

     

     

    Even less sure on the brown, blue, pink and black brigades.

     

     

    If you strike the Whyte (& Mackay) but hit the Red Bull and go in off the Pink (gin) what happens?

     

     

    Hail hail

     

     

    Keep The Faith

  9. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Rumour doing the rounds that the vaccine will run out towards the end of the week. Pfizer chiefs are predicting a riot…..

  12. celtic40me on

    Talking of crisps

     

     

    As a connoisseur of the genre, and at the risk of being called some ghastly names, I can wholeheartedly recommend Mark’s and Spencer truffle and olive oil crisps as the perfect antidote to lockdown limbo.

  13. Greenpinata on

    PITYMEVIN on 15TH JANUARY 2021 10:44 PM

     

     

    Yeah #nullandvoid, but right at the end of the season.

     

     

    N&V

  14. THE EXILED TIM on

    Ernie

     

    I know that, I am in the older age bracket, I said the overall rate, I never mentioned any age band, you brought that up, I will add tho, my Mrs has been tested at least dozen times and has been clear every time as I have, but we know that at the start of the year, way before it was in the news she had what is being called Covid, given her problems her immune system is virtually non existent, but she got through it, it wasn’t easy but she came out stronger for it, but I know nothing and am a fool, aye right.

     

    If you believe that they got a vaccine from Pfizer, fine, believe it, I don’t and it’s my choice as it is yours.

     

    And for those who are slagging some of for being experts, that’s you Phil :>} I am no expert, but I do read and watch videos that tell me the truth, seriously, if you want the covid to go away, stop listening to the msm and as if by magic…..

     

    HH

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

    greenpinata

     

     

    “I can imagine CQN in 2003. ( Yes I do know when Paul originated this wonderful vehicle )

     

     

    A few CQN’ers getting ridiculed for doubting governments and the MSM about weapons of mass destruction. Robin Cook getting pelters on here for being totally out of touch and a maverick.

     

     

    How dare you question facts laughed the vast majority of CQN.

     

     

    How did that pan out. ?

     

     

    Was the government economical with the truth, and were the majority of the opposition clueless, complacent and or gullible.

     

     

    If it wasn’t for inquisitive persons this would still be regarded as fact.

     

     

    Questions must be asked and asked again.”

     

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    Completely agree, but after asking the questions you must also show your workings on conclusions and how you arrived at that point.

     

     

    You have imagined a dialoge on CQN and you have placed people in a position of agreeing with things that were subsequently discredited in order to show that some conspiracies have occurred.

     

     

    But there wass no need to invent an imagined dialogue (on CQN) to show that some people took the right positions and some the wrong ones on WMD and the blair lies. Though the dialogue did not take took place on CQN, it did take place on many forums and particulary withinthe Labour Party. Some Party members whom I admire, such as our director Brian Wilson, sided with Blair on the American-led intelligence. Many others did not and when it emerged finally, after the fact, that it was all a load of bollox, Blair was damaged and disgraced and when he left he took the Murdoch hands-off approach to Labour with him.

     

     

    Many of us sided with Robin Cook, We were hsitorically aware of the US tendency to invent the evidence to justify wars. The sinking of The Maine, saw WR Hearst get his wish for the Spanish American War. They exaggerated the threat of tiny Grenada to jsutify that invasion and they deposed several South American governments, some of whom they had invested theselves previously.

     

     

    So, we have no dispute that there can be conspiracies and there have been conspiracies.

     

     

    But, becaue there have been, does not mean that every new one we assert is true because it “might be”. You still have to show the working of the conspiracy and how you came to uncover what others did not.

     

     

    It’s quite easy in some case. The Lockerbie story when one CIA paid Maltese shop owner claimed to recognise clothes he had sold to a Libyan earlier is so see-through it would be laughed out of a low grade US cop show aiming for the brain dead demographic. The story of an american researcher opening a random suitcase after the invasion of Iraq and finding, at the first attempt, documents whichallegedly incriminated George Galloway and his Oil for Food programme was so unvelievable that every one who concocted it should be sent back to Spy School for re-education. The story of Putin’s pals and their day trip to Salisbury was roundly disabused and ridiculed- but it will have gone down a trea in Russia, where disbelief can see you silenced.

     

     

    So, I accept conspiracies. We are constantly subject to them. There are governments, philosophies, religions and individuals that want to reduce our freedoms. We can index our governments worldwide on various mechanisms to see how much individual freedom they allow and how much censorship they deploy. In western liberal democracies, we enjoy a standard tha most of the world envy. It could and should be better but it so obviously could be worse.

     

     

    There is an authoritarian tendency in Scotland and England but it is nowhere near the definition of an Authoritarian state as yet.

     

     

    So explain to me how Nicola wants significant freedom restrictions and how she will get them. or how Jacinda plans to grow a moustache and start wearing jackboots. These guys and a politiciamn I have no time for, Scot Morrison, have been among the more sensible ones in reacting to changing conditions. Nicola should have been more restrictive, certainly on air travel, but most of her political instincts are for the lighter touch.

     

     

    The guys that are proto dictators and Psychological control freaks, Trump and Orban and Bolsinaro, have actually ben resistant to sensible measures on Covid. Their fewer restrictions have led to greater deaths and they already presided over countries with high death rates due to lax gun control and policies of really unequal income distribution.

     

     

    We agree on the point about Poverty causing more deaths but making fewer restrictions on lockdown has NOT brought about a better Covid rate than the more time-limited approach has brought about. Chinese people , who can be locked down at a dictator’s whim, were back in their shops quicker than us because they accepted temporarily harsher methods.

     

     

    We messed up a lot but we;re still in no danger of becomin an Authoritatrian state – not under Nicola and Not even under Boris. Maybe if Trump bounces back the Authoritarian right will try again harder and more succssfully but honestly, people who live under truly despotic regimes laugh at us if we try to convince them that we are having serious restrictions of liberty..

     

     

    Being Forced to wear a mask is not the thin end of the wege towards Stalin or Adolf. It really isn’t.

  20. 31003 on

    CELTIC40ME

     

     

    Absolutely outrageous that you, or someone you know, left lockdown to buy crisps. My favourite are McCoys salt n vinegar ridged crisps

  22. ernie lynch on

    THE EXILED TIM on 15TH JANUARY 2021 10:52 PM

     

     

    You asked why you should have a vaccine against a disease that has an overall survival rate of 99.7%.

     

     

    What’s the relevance of that figure to you and your chances of dying of Covid?

     

     

     

     

     

    Do you know for a fact that the Popes didn’t have the Pfizer vaccine?

     

     

    Are you saying they haven’t had any vaccine, or that they have had a special vaccine that we’re not being told about?

  24. 31003 on

    Is it just me or, does anyone else hate it when 30+ year footballers, 40+ year golfers and 50+ year snooker players are called “veterans”?

  26. Big G on

    Sweden was ridiculed for not following lockdown rules, masks and so on. Interested to know if people think they were right

  32. THE EXILED TIM on

    Ernie

     

    What’s your agenda here, are you trying to trip me up, seriously what are you trying to do.

     

    My reason for not taking an experimental vaccine bankrolled by a staunch eugenicist probably has a bearing on me not wanting to take it, you may also want to do a little digging on another side effect of the vaccine, but i’m sure the smart bloke that you are will work it out what I am talking about.

     

    As for the Pope’s, like you I have no idea, but I would wager my grandweans lives that they will not be taking an experimental vaccine, just a hunch, maybes if you actually read the sage reports you will see what their plans are for using influencers to persuade the population that the vaccine is safe, btw, Neil Ferguson the serial failure is back on the sage team, amazing how a loser like that is still being believed, the man should be strung up if there was any justice in the world, he has destroyed countless peoples lives, but he obviously has connections, but I know nothing and am a fool as it’s been stressed with some vigour.

     

    I will sleep soundly, I will wake up a Tim or I may not wake up at all, who knows, but I will fall asleep knowing that I am infact not a fool and will be proven correct at the end of the day, I bet you can’t say that.

     

    Defo gone now

     

    Take care

     

    I apologise for what I called you before, the wife wasn’t the may west and I took it out on you, sorry.

  33. THE EXILED TIM on

    MH

     

    Read the Guardian articals for the last eight years concerning the health service and the lack of facilities and beds at this time of the year, they will tell you that this year is just the norm.

  34. 31003 on

    TET

     

     

    I have underlying medical conditions.

     

     

    I’m taking the vaccine when offered.

     

     

    I’ll still be interested to find out results for those who don’t.

     

    Keep me informed

     

     

    I’m a foot in foot out for both camps

  35. 31003 on

    My wife is dead against the vaccine.

     

    I’m all for it.

     

    It’s another tool for creating a division

  38. ernie lynch on

    THE EXILED TIM on 15TH JANUARY 2021 11:22 PM

     

    Ernie

     

     

     

     

    What’s your agenda here, are you trying to trip me up, seriously what are you trying to do.

     

     

     

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    Trying to get you to see sense.

  41. 31003 on

    Personally, I still don’t know anyone who’s had COVID-19

     

     

    I think my youngest son might have had it…..but a telephone consultation tells him he didn’t

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