After a solid, if not unapproachable, home win last week, expectations are high that Celtic will qualify for the next round of the Champions League qualifiers in some comfort tonight. Beyond the result, the area of most interest is the increase in sharpness, particularly in front of goal.
A week is a long time in preseason. The players will be rested after the first leg and have had more conditioning sessions before leaving for Iceland. Pay attention to any changes in formation. Ronny slipped into a 4-4-2 briefly early in the second half last week. I expect him to experiment a bit like this tonight.
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Sky
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Cut the cable.
PS
listen for the comment from DCK whilst perusing his 35,000 bottle wine cellar
and I kid you not .
Every bottle here is for drinking ,they’re not an ASSET they are for our enjoyment .
I presume just in case SARS were watching
spat my beer over the keyboard at that
Bcw @ 6.12
He’s a self-made man. Deep down he’s still a Rangers fan from Castlemilk.
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I put that into google translate. Sevconian into Truth
Came out as….
He’s a greasy wee stoat. Deep down he’s still a zombie from Castlemilk.
HH jamesgang
London Evening Standard – tonight 22 July 2015
THE BIG INTERVIEW. MARK WARBURTON
I am well aware of the size of the task….. I relish the challenge
Now,he is trying to lead Rangers back into the Scottish Premiership for the first time since 2012 when the record 54-time champions were dumped into the Third Division after the original club were liquidated.
Despite the poor English ( were liquidated ) , I love the accuracy!
Eejit at Glasgow plants a fake bomb in groom’s luggage on way to stag do..
..and gets arrested and misses stag do.
The not so ‘best’ man
Paul67
The template adopted by Ronny has plenty of scope for variatiion already built-in:
The derided 4-2-3-1 template often becomes 3 2 3 2 and regulary 4 2 4
The ongoing call for 2 up top fails to take account of the reality that in phases of the game we see 3 up top with any number of combinations going on behind that.
It’s almost impossible to define and a helicopter snapshot view at any phase would be interesting.
Ronny encourages lots of rotation in different phases of play and there is more movement now than we have seen in recent seasons.
I feel we sometimes confuse ‘formation’ with the ability of players selected to cope with what they are being asked ro do.
The most valid criticism of Ronny last season was asking players to do things they were incapable of.
The best managers learn not to ask for the impossible.
The test of what he has learned will be in the next two rounds.
Not tonight!
Remember to bet sensibly..:-)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 33s33 seconds ago
Celtic team to play @FCStjarnan Gordon; Lustig, Boyata, van Dijk, Mulgrew; Brown, Bitton; Mackay-Steven, Johansen, Armstrong; Ciftci
Why 8.15pm ?
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 26s26 seconds ago
Subs: Izaguirre, Ambrose, Griffiths, Stokes, Rogic, Forrest, Bailly
Great team :)
Yes COYBIG
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 33s33 seconds ago
Celtic team to play @FCStjarnan Gordon; Lustig, Boyata, van Dijk, Mulgrew; Brown, Bitton; Mackay-Steven, Johansen, Armstrong; Ciftci
Celtic team to play @FCStjarnan Gordon; Lustig, Boyata, van Dijk, Mulgrew; Brown, Bitton; Mackay-Steven, Johansen, Armstrong; Ciftci (MH)
Barry Bannan not travelling with Palace on their pre season tour to South Africa.
In protest at White grovel fest no doubt.
Big Celtic fan and left footer (sic) so maybe he can play/cover at left back?
Ho hooo, just watched a ‘succulent lamb’ interview by Jim Whyte with G&S in South Affrika, as the white Afrikaners call it! First thing, Jim actually still had a bit of shite on his nose at the end of the ‘chat’! Anyway, the gist of the interview was this cracker from G&S “Rangers will never become the biggest club in Scotland until the supporters stop their boycott of merchandise, n start to outspend the Celtic supporters!!!” Wow, he has realised that the ‘peepil’ not buying Mr. Ashley’s strips is actually costing Rangers money! Lol! Not he has decided to come out with this bombshell when he is in SA, n not in Govan! The other two proclamations were quite funny; he is going to meet with Sports Direct officials to try n get a better deal for Rangers! Hahahahaha! N he still doesnt regret losing £20m to David Murray’s Rangers! In that case, why keep going on about if FFS lol! So, no questions then about Nomad’s, Auditors, or when he might actually put some money in himself (this time!) No, dont be silly! One question comes to mind though; why would Sky Sports, a multi billion pound, global sports organisation, send a senior reporter thousands of miles around the globe, at great expense, to interview the chairman of a Scottish CHAMPIONSHIP club with a three year history! Im afraid the tentacles of the deceased Rangers Football Club still manage to extend into areas of football administration!
That Jim White interview, 6mins at the top of the hour, another 2mins at half past.
Every hour. At least during White’s shift.
You can’t buy that kind of publicity.
Thankfully though it was 50% lies, 50% glib and 100% shameless. And that includes the interviewers questions.
Borderline criminal journalism.
Subs: Izaguirre, Ambrose, Griffiths, Stokes, Rogic, Forrest, Bailly
braw
Tallest back 4 and sharpest front 4 – comfortable win tonight
I feel for Griff but hey ho score the goals Nadir
Right, pile of work will still be here tomorrow – on my toes now to the Bass Ass to watch the game at the Dublin CSC
Leinster bhoys, Leinster bhoys, laced up boots and corduroys
antipodean red,
The pictures were superb mate.Fair play to Raith.
Pity our youngsters couldn’t match the quality with our shooting!
Thomson’s goal was a peach mind ye..
I think its harsh on the Griff but I hope Cifti shows us why we bought him. Maybe Ronny will bring on the Griff when they tire. H.H.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
12:01 on
22 July, 2015
Shock horror
Orc council cleanie man in bookies bemoaning their loss last night
Had a wee snigger to myself, loud enough for him to notice
I love their pain. 8)
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BT…..You telling me one of them’s works for council? How did the unseen Fenian hand
allow that to happen?
Lad on the Huddleboard spot on with the team!
I think it’s Ronny posting on there..:-)
An away goal tonight and they will need to score 4 to beat us and that’s not going to happen.
We can compete with their big forwards with a big back 4 and the front 4 presumably are those that feel most comfortable on the playing surface tonight.
Griff will come on and score.
I mean who’s going to take the pens now….
Mum’s gone to Iceland,
Biscuit Tim heads to the QPC in anticipation of comfortable win and some entertaining football. Hail hail.
Mulgrew for Izzy apart from that got team spot on.
Goooooood evening voguepunter
How did Mrs Roy Croppie ,manage being the Rose among the thorns the other night?, fine looking thorns I may add :)))))
MadMitch
Bacchus is showing it Glassford st
VP
Indeed , I was astonished myself
Deary me
If you’re a tim in Iceland and you subscribe to Celtic TV…then you are out of luck.
I hope council telly has it live in Iceland or is that another Sky/Direct TV outpost.
Mark WARBURTON interview update:
” Rangers took 350,000 fans to Manchester and sold 600,000 tops”
– don’t you just love the guy. He’ll do for me.
Happy with the team, as I would be whoever played.
Looks like Tom Rogic is back in the picture, must be shining at training.
HH
Just flipped a coin for either Nir or Broonie to score anytime in 90 mins interest bet ,
broonie won ,
Get yer tank on Nir :))))))))))))
Is it hoops or dayglo tonight?
Land of the Midnight Sun CSC
Nae Griff,surprised….
Blantyretim.
If Richie is in the Blane Valley the game will be on.
Knocked my bbq down,renewing the grill & fire so that I can get the correct difference between fire & grill,Hard work.
Sensible decision at left back after last week’s performance.