Kilmarnock are having a nightmare start to the season. It’s not so much that they’ve lost both games played, or the manner in which they lost, but every other team in the league has picked up points and either shown glimpses of form, or like Ross County, are feeling really good about their start to the season.
Dundee’s 0-4 humiliation of Kilmarnock on the opening day of the season found some context last night, when, before a TV audience, they played some really good football last night in Scotland’s biggest derby fixture. With this in mind, and aware that the evening’s visit of Celtic could make their four goal skelping by Dundee look modest, Gary Locke is likely to put his team into, erm, lockdown.
The challenge for Celtic tonight is simple: find your scoring touch. Three 2-0 results against Stjarnan, Ross County and Partick Thistle, and a 1-0 and 0-0 against Qarabag are great defensive scores, but only the 1-4 win in Iceland looked like a team who are in free-scoring form.
Kris Commons gave us 88 minutes on Sunday. He must have been exhausted at the end but the experience will have pushed his fitness on considerably. It’s important he uses tonight, and Saturday’s game against Inverness, to balance the requirement to increase stamina without tiring muscles for the Malmo game. Another full shift tonight and a cameo appearance at the weekend sounds like a reasonable compromise.
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RobertT,
I know a few who’ll be missing.
Selfishbuggersgettingmarried csc
thomthethim
I hit the big five o the other week, ☺️ and just found out that Upton Park is called The Boleyn Ground.
HH
RobertTressell
That’s not fair that’s a ST holders game, and they don’t go.
I very very enjoyed Ronny taking the stupid questions about JC’s comments being twisted, to task, he rammed it home whose fault it was.
Bsr @ 1644
I had a special birthday a few weeks ago too.
But I got cards and presents :))
HH
Tallybhoy on 12th August 2015 4:36 pm
See, tel’t ye :-)
Can anyone confirm if Hampden Park is now officially called ‘The National Stadium’?
I’m sure I read when it was redeveloped the name would change.
LB
Bada
Welcome sir.
Bourne/TTT
Out of interest what do you call it now?
BSR
I found that out at 4:44 today!
Canamalar @4:49
Do you have a link to that?
JJ
Geordie
Ha – what I got has to be seen to be disbelieved.
To add my tuppenceworth, I used to call it Parkhead but now call it Celtic Park. Always.
JJ
JJ…,
It’s on CTV, no sure if it’s on free view
JJ,
Ditto.
HH
I am from Port Glasgow we always called it ” Parkheed “
JJ…,
Try this
http://www.celticfc.tv/archive
ger57
it was no charge they will fix any problems you have.
there is definetly teething problems,knowing then what I know now I would have stayed with my windows7.
Brilliant.
Had arranged with a colleague that next Wednesday, he would come in two hours early to let me away at midday so as I could get home , let the dug out and have a leisurely trip to CP in plaenty time to see the Malmo game.
Into work today and there is an email announcing a PCC ( Plant Consultative Committee) meeting next Wednesday. The normal arrangement is that early shift gpo to the meeting 1300 – 1500, and the back shift come it a 1300 to allow this to happen.
Approaches my boss, who is a tim, whose father actually played for the hoops and asked if I could be excused
Answer. No.
A previous gaffer who is a lapsed sticky allowed me to do a similar body swerve a couple of years ago for a CL game.
So now, meeting guillotine at 1500 and take my chances with A9 average speed cameras etc in getting to paradise for KO.
If you see a stressed ghuy simultaneously pulling on his Celtic tap, trying to eat a burger and running across the Celtic way at 1 minute to kick off, that’ll be me.
HH
I hope Rogic gets another start tonight
He needs to get up to speed
It’s obvious that he offers something different and good to know that he understands the benefits of hard work in the gym
No excuses about tired legs tonight so let’s see some up-tempo stuff for at least an hour
For me, Sturm Graz’s UPC-Arena will forever be the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadion…
It was always Parkheed when I was growing up in Carfin and Hamilton.
HT
Same as I always did…………………….Parkheed or on a posh day Sellic Park
that boss needs to take a good look at himself.
“The BBC has learned”
WhenYouKnowSomethingsMadeUp csc
Canamalar
Thanks. The clip cut out after a few seconds but I think I got the idea ie Some of the teams in the CL are better than some in the SPFL. Earth shattering opinion.
Geordie,
That`s it then. Celtic Park it is and if I hear anyone saying otherwise I will know what they really mean 0:-)
JJ
Saint Stivs
He’s well known as a jobsworth.
HH
That wee stadium in Milan is almost always called the San Siro.
But its official name is the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium.
HH!!
Tallybhoy,
It’s a shitehole whatever it’s name is.
Bourne
Toff :-)
Belated birthday wishes to you sir.
Willy Maley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28HyPAF57w
“Oh Willie Maley was his name,
He brought some great names to the game,
When he was the boss at Celtic Park”.
————
“most of the football greats ,have passed through Parkheads gates”
“the trophy ended up in paradise”
take yer pick
Any of the above are suitable to me and a boot in the stones to any sevco zombie ,
tallybhoy
AC Milan offski to a brand new stadium for 2018-19.
No casino, or floating pitch csc
JJ,
You knows the script.
If me, you and HT all say it, it’s law :))
HH
Interesting to see who starts tonight…
Like some others have mentioned , maybe lustig could be afforded a rest…Jancko for me deserves a stint at right back
——————C.Gordon—————–
Jancko. Boyata. VanDijk. Izzy
————-Bitton. Johansen———-
—–Commons. Rogic. GMS——
————–Griffiths—————
Môn the hoops !
ruggygman
Give young Liam Henderson a run instead of Tom Rogic and its a yes from me :))))
Continued speculation that big VVD is off to Southampton for 10 million I still think we are selling ourselves short by letting him go to cheap. I am looking forward to tonights game I just hope we are more clinical in front of the goal.I dont expect Killie to be a push over but for me the 3 points will be returning the East End of Glasgow. H.H.
“a boot in the stones to any sevco zombie”
Goal ⚽️
Till later all
Let the People Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkdy0AOpaM
Ronny said a couple of weeks ago Lustig would only play one game a week for the foreseeable, so if he does start tonight he must be back to full fitness.
Joe Filippis Haircut
Is that the ole ‘a Southampton insider says’ – didn’t think anybody still took that stuff seriously.