We’ve not met Raith Rovers on league duty since Paulo Di Canio salvaged a point with a last minute goal a long time ago but tonight’s game will be the third time we’ve met them on cup duty in four years. For Rovers, tonight will be all about their glory day in 1994, when they beat Celtic on penalties in the League Cup final.
That defeat is a footnote in Celtic history now, but it meant our trophy-less era would stretch to six years before the Scottish Cup win the following May. It was a huge blow. Some Celtic players were immediately discarded by Tommy Burns, more followed in the months to come. If you tune into certain media outlets you can still detect those who hold grievances as Celtic rebuilt without them.
In previous years I’d suggest that a League Cup game was more important than an adjacent league game, but with Aberdeen five points clear, nothing is of more immediate importance than Saturday’s game against Hearts. For the manager and players, progress to the quarter final will be of absolute importance.
Look out for personnel and perhaps tactical changes tonight. How we play has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. Ronny has experimented during the last two games and I’m sure he’ll do again tonight. Should Nadir Ciftci play, look for the areas of the field he occupies, compared to the role Leigh Griffiths performs.
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Gordon, Janko, Ambrose, Blackett, Tierney, Brown, Johansen, McGregor, Commons, Mackay-Steven, Ciftci.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 1m1 minute ago
CELTIC v @RaithRovers_FC: Gordon; Janko, Ambrose, Blackett, Tierney; Brown, Johansen; McGregor, Commons, Mackay-Steven; Ciftci (MD)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 59s59 seconds ago
CELTIC SUBS: Bailly, Lustig, Forrest, Stokes, Rogic, Nesbitt, Izaguirre. (MD)
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Sounds like your dick turpin party was in full swing last night :-)
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CRC
Doors to manual….woo hoo!
No mention of last night’s Sevco game on Reporting Scotland’s sports news. Ha ha!
Macjay @1.18pm
It is true that many Irish joined the Crown forces, for a variety of reasons, mostly to escape the destitution that was Ireland under British rule. Taking the king or queen’s shilling was the only chance many had to have any kind of job.
However the recruiting sergeant was still the most hated figure in Ireland, apart from maybe the landlords agent.
And I would find it difficult to describe anyone who helped create the British Empire as a hero.
And as for common history, of course the two islands have an interlinked history going back long before British occupation. However, in the past few hundred years you cannot describe it as our “common” history. Irish people were on the other side of that history. Our people endured it, the other side inflicted it upon them.
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Tony Donnelly
that is actually taken from the Fitzgerald family logo, and Saint Patrick was not martyred therefore did not have a cross.
Anyhow even if it were St Patrick’s cross in the Butchers apron, that doesn’t make Ireland complicit in Britain’s crimes around the globe.
The swastika was a symbol used in Buddhism and Hinduism long before Adolf Hitler took inspiration from the deeds carried out by the British Empire, you could hardly implicate Hindus and Buddhists in Hitler’s crimes on the basis that the Nazis misappropriated one of their cultural symbols.
Aye. That eh defence. I am sure it will be eh fine. Right?
Hail Hail the mighty Celtic.
Just read that team, On train on way to match. Not impressed at all. Hope it works out.
Sitting here in PARADISE waiting for another rush of adrenalin as the Bhoys take to the field ….. Oh, it’s good to be a Fenian, a Rhebel and a Tim….and it’s great to be a Celtic Football Fan ⚽
Bbc seem to have forgotten last nights “big game “.
If I was a Saints fan I would be raging, am not am a Tim and am PMSL
Hope he gets the bullet soon down Govan way, wee shades wont let Mrs Shades buy my favourite bread, stuck with hovis in the shades house at the moment
:-(
Shortbread TV sport news… Rugby, Barraclough, Ross Co, Morton. Not a mention of the Huns.
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I see Murderwell have bumped yon guy fae porridge .
Ach well don’t worry Mr Barraclough, You gave us more laughs at the end of last season than your namesake ever did.
Thanks for the memories.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 23rd September 2015 6:59 pm Just read that team, On train on way to match. Not impressed at all. Hope it works out. – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/look-out-for-personnel-and-tactical-changes/comment-page-4/#comments
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Me neither. Too many accidents waiting to happen but I suppose they need to prove themselves.
The excitement builds…….for podium chasers.
counting down…
Oh well looks like the game might be a bit more exciting than I’d hoped for.
67heaven & Hunderbirds
How come you’s have wee baws?
What did you’s do to get them?
I want them :)
Big cup winners,
ye get a ticket neebs?
Chico suggesting to Alan Stubbs that Hibs are in the same situation as The Rangers were last night.
Even I can spot a few subtle differences….
spine of team removed… a bit of a gamble
Am in Roses in nort east catalonia, anyone know possible bar etc round hers to see tonight’s game
Broonie leads out the Champions to the strains of Glenn Daly
4 kids having a magic moment getting photographed with the captains
Raith kick off
Celtic pushing ball around
Johansen nowhere near Ciftci with a pass
CUCHULAINN on 23RD SEPTEMBER 2015 6:56 PM
Macjay @1.18pm
It is true that many Irish joined the Crown forces, for a variety of reasons, mostly to escape the destitution that was Ireland under British rule. Taking the king or queen’s shilling was the only chance many had to have any kind of job.
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How about this man:
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford near Listowel, County Kerry,
Or this man:
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), …born in Dublin
Billy Connolly`s ancestor,born in Dublin, took part in a massacre of Indians.
You may now conveniently wish to disown them,but they were Irish and played a very significant part in the creation of the British Empire which was created prior to 1916.