Livingston pitch up at Celtic Park tomorrow with only one win and two draws from their 10 outings since August. That victory came against the champions last month and is the principle reason we are not comfortably ahead at the top of the league table. We owe them a backlash, Ryan Christie, in particular, may feel motivated to ensure no mistakes are made this time.
For all their indifferent form, they are strong defensively, having lost more than two goals in one game only once in 19 outings (a 3-1 defeat with 10 men at Ibrox).
Recent home games against Motherwell, St Mirren and Ross County saw Celtic swamp the opposition early on, before the tide was stemmed, with each game not being put to bed until the second half. This is as much about energy as any assimilation requirements by opposing defenders.
We will start sharply tomorrow but it is only possible to maintain that level for so long before players begin to pace themselves. An early goal, when Livingston are still chasing shadows, would take the stress out of the second half.
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petec
It’s tradition, move along Timothy
HH
Jobo
Ouch…! Remember it well, but not fondly.
HH
A difficult day yesterday, the hardest of days for my dearest friends whose loss is neither bearable nor touchable.
I had managed to keep it together (yeh yeh) during the service until, filing out behind the coffin, there’s BSR standing at the back of the church, right there, a friend when a friend was needed. You’re some man, B.
Thanks.
*** CQN PLAYER OF THE YEAR ***
** REMEMBER TO VOTE**
Friends, the ever popular (eh?) men of the match thing is, if course, back today. Following the final whistle, decide on who you think were our 3 best or most important performers and stick their names in an email to me at cqnpoty@gmail.com .I’ll tally up all of the votes tomorrow (send your email before 10pm on Sunday evening) and then award the points – 5 for highest votes, 4 for next best, etc.
When we stopped for the international break the placings were as follows –
Brown – 33 points
Edouard – 32 points
Forrest – 23 points
Christie – 22 points
Elyounoussi – 22 points
Jullien – 18 points
Frimpong – 17 points
McGregor – 14 points
Bolingoli-Mbombo – 13 points
Bauer – 11 points
Forster – 9 points
Elhamed – 8 points
Hayes – 7 points
Ajer – 6 points
Ntcham – 5 points
Bitton – 3 points
Bayo – 3 points
Taylor – 3 points
Rogic – 1 point
TBB
Neither bearable nor touchable says it all, the people In that church were a magnificent tribute to unimaginable loss.
BSR
alasdair maclean
From earlier. I quite enjoyed the first two episodes of Ken Burns new doc. though I now wonder if he is going to treat Country music as having started in the 1920s. Early doors I know but that is like me saying popular music started in October 1962 with the Beatles first single.
Doors to automatic….
Work time Celtic
Go to it
:-)
Hail Hail
Good morning from the sunny cold eastern seaboard
Team is Forster, Frimpong, Ajer , Julian, Hayes, Brown, McGregor, Frrest, Rogic, Christie, Edouard.
Team news;
Fallon Young Gemmell
Clark McNeill Kennedy
Johnstone Murdoch Chalmers Divers Hughes
Celtic 5 Kilmarnock 0 (November 23 1963)
(goals by Johnstone, John Divers and John Hughes)
Subs: Gordon, Taylor, Bitton, Bauer, Morgan, Ntcham, Griff.
Gordon Strachan – Paul Telfer
Martin O’Neil – Steve Guppy
Neil Lennon – Jonny Hayes
Sometimes manages appreciate certain players far more than the fans :-)
Hope Jonny gets a new deal, our team needs all types of fitballers
NEW POST UP