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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Couldn’t possibly comment on the name of Young Boys of Berne’s stadium…….
Bournesoupreceipt. I hope you are right and im wrong but the rumours are very strong.H.H.
HT-HH , I hope you and the Minx are well.
JFH
You show that you know it is only speculation but then respond as though it were a fact ! Don`t let them get to you! You know what the Media is like where Celtic are concerned.
JJ
I think £15m is a realistic and fair price for VVD tho I’d rather hold onto him.
There are 5 billion reasons for Celtic to draw a line re his transfer fee. If we hold firm, we will defo get £15m
JungleJim. I have no idea wither it is fact or fiction but there is an old saying which says there is no smoke without fire. H.H.
!!Bada Bing!!
Yer a Bada Mahn:))
Unless we have already agreed a fee
Top story in BBC Scotland site
“Virgil van Dijk: Southampton in talks over Celtic defender”
By Kennnnnnny Macintyrrrrrrrrre
“No offer has been made … by the Premier League club. ”
Sounds like serious stuff …
In other news, the famous Glasgow Celtic have a game tonight.
MaCoolick and MonsterMunch will be embarrassing proof (for some) that JC is on the money.
MaCoolick a player-COACH !!!
Jeez – what about our future and current coefficient !???!
JFH-£10 mil wouldn’t buy his dog IMO, he should be valued on his ability,and what he can bring to a team, the old chestnut of what league he plays in is nonsense, the SMSM were telling us a few months ago Leo MacLeod was worth £5 mil…….I wouldn’t entertain anything less than £15 mil HH
SP-Hope you are well sir.HH
Evening bhoys and ghirls travelling all day….
Any team news??
I’d be happy to extend his contract by two years and pat him £35K a week inflate the value of asking price.
Could still sell him to the first to meet the asking price which I think will come very quickly if we get CL
Bada Bing. I agree 100% with you. H.H.
!!Bada Bing!!
Doing good mate where ye been??
No the Big Bada Hoose again:)
Just think Lhads, if we could offload big Virgil for £15m, we could be in the running for Scott Allan…
Ha ha
Big Virgil is going nowhere else but on to the big table with us decked out in the tuxedo.
HH
Thompson Twin ..
Would you agree that the would be Labour candidate for tomorrows council by-election in Falkirk looks like a hun ?
http://m.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/local-news/labour-dump-denny-by-election-candidate-hours-before-vote-over-sectarian-facebook-messages-1-3856137
if VVD is to leave this transfer window, then it should not be concluded until the last day.
thats when the crazy last minute inflated deals really happen.
£10m, not so hot a price, let it stew some.
SP-Took a wee break, after making an ar$# of it on here.Nice wee holiday in Malta , seeing my old pal Zico, been lurking , disappointed to see a few supporting the hysterical , orchestrated attack on John Collins.Anything to have a dig at CFC .Ronny looked pi$$ed off with them the other day, I would love to see the day when we bin the lot of them, and use our own media outlets
St Stives,
Depends on how lying he has left on his contrat
Better check his contract as well
Joe Filippis Haircut
I agree it’s a massive Celtic talking point, but SMSM always do their bit in trying to sell Celtic’s best players.
With respect, the rumours are incredibly weak even by their standards, no source, not so much as a Southampton taxi driver. Could it be Southampton again because of Wanyama and Forster, bearing in mind last week, it was Everton.
Celtic are concentrating on CL qualification and any sale is on hold until we’re in or out, at which point we
might have a decision to make.
Allegedly VVD is unlikely to sign a new contract, we may keep him and sell in January if we’re in the CL , we might even keep him till the summer, as he still has two seasons on his contract.
Ultimately there has to be a bid, and up to now despite paper talk since last season, or since he first played a great game for Celtic, there isn’t one, unless you choose to disbelieve Ronny Deila.
We’re on the road again. C’mon the Celtic!!
!!Bada Bing!!
Good to see you back, a mat of mine just came back from Malta with a load of cracking photos, looks lovely..
Aye there’s no need for some of the keech posted on here:))
Mon The Hoops The Night.
I should be in the hoose for the second half:((
Comfortable win tonight
Anything else and Ronny should go……
to the pub afterwards and have a few nice cold beers
HT,
Celtic Park.
BSR,
Belated congrats on your half century.
It is only recently that I knew it wasn’t Upton Park.
I took trip to Parkhead,
To the dear old Paradise,
And as the players came out,
Sure the tears fell from my eyes.
For a famous face was missing,
From the Green and White Brigade,
And they told me Johnny Thompson,
The last game he has played.
Bit of fun before the game…
On a scale of:
£0 for Killie’s Boyd and £15m for Virgil Van Dijk
Where do you position:
a – Scott Allan
b – Nir Biton
c – Scott Brown
d – John Stones
Tallybhoy,
Is it not the case that it is called the San Siro when referring to the home ground of AC and the Guiseppe Meaza when Inter are at home?
PS,
Or vice versa.
I’m assuming the meeja are looking for another anti-Celtic story now that they have beaten the JC story to death, when I read that Celtic may be interested in scott allan …….he is an absolutely hopeless player and sevco have no intention of paying £1, let alone thousands for him…..an absolute joke…
I work often in MIlano….
AC are allegedly moving to a new stadium.
Inter will renovate the San Siro.
That’s the rumours anyway and have been for. While.
Thomthetim
My inter supporting pal told me that the formal name for the stadium (which is in the San Siro district, and hence was called the San Siro) was changed to the Giuseppe Meazza stadium. But since GM was more connected to Inter (although he did play for both), the Milan fans refuse to use that name, and still call it the San Siro.
The troll roaster’s efforts are taking up more and of the blog’s page bandwidth.
He/she should be paying for the real estate they use.
You’ll be spared my rubbish on the “live updates” tonight, as I’ll have to watch the match “live” later.
Given that it’s our 7th match (including 1 friendly) in 21 days, with 2 of them being away trips in The CL qualifiers, I’d say any win would be a great 3 points tonight.
I tried the watching “live” later with the Barca game last night. Stayed off here to avoid the score, recorded a re-run, started watching it this morning, and 5 minutes in on the Ticker news feed on the bottom of the screen, up came the legend “Barca edge 9 goal thriller”.
Cheers BT Sport.
‘Mon The Mighty Hoops!
Likelyladscsc
sixtaeseven – Gardez la Foi on 12th August 2015 6:18 pm
Bit of fun before the game…
On a scale of:
£0 for Killie’s Boyd and £15m for Virgil Van Dijk
Where do you position:
a – Scott Allan = £ 500,000
b – Nir Biton =£ 5/6 million
c – Scott Brown = £ 4million
d – John Stones ???????????? only madmen can play the transfer game down there
Not be long now till Embramike posts the team :)))))))))))
Celtic team v Kilmarnock – ko 7:45 – live on BT Sport 1
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 45s45 seconds ago
CELTIC v Kilmarnock: Gordon; Janko, Ambrose, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Bitton, Johansen; Commons, Rogic, Forrest; Griffiths