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Lose and Aberdeen season is over

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Aberdeen will already be in town ahead of their game at Firhill tonight. Lose tonight and a season which promised so much as recently as Monday, will effectively be over.

Tomorrow’s game against Inverness will present a robust challenge for Celtic. Inverness are one of four clubs locked within a point of each other, a maximum of three of them will be in the top six after the split. Despite the fact that the Highlanders are competing in the right half of the table, with a Scottish Cup quarter final against Hamilton Accies to look forward to, they are only five points from the play-off spot.

Players will be battling for their livelihoods in every sense of the word.

Well done to Erik Sviatchenko’s old team, Midtjylland, on their Europa League win over Manchester United last night. And to the observer who noted that they have now beaten more top six teams in the England and Wales Premier League than Manchester United or Manchester City.

You wonder what last night’s results will do to the marketability of the Midtjylland players, and whether or not we would have been able to get Sviatchenko in the summer, had he stayed. Big results bring focus and scores of scouts. We nipped in at the right moment with Erik.

Good luck to Thistle tonight.

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  1. Neil Lennon & McCartney on

    From the Herald……

     

     

    RONNY Deila is set to unleash £12m man Patrick Roberts against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Saturday. The 19-year-old winger, signed on an 18-month loan from Manchester City, has two matches for the club’s development squad under his belt, with assistant manager John Collins submitting a glowing report about his performance on Monday night against Dunfermline, where he scored two goals and created another.

     

     

    “Patrick is much closer this week than he was last week,” said Deila. “He wasn’t up to speed when he first joined us. He’d been injured a few weeks earlier, he hadn’t played many games.

     

     

    “But he’s had hard training since he’s been here and a lot of extra work,” he added. “He’s had two development games now and he was terrific on Monday night against Dunfermline. He scored a couple of goals, created another and looked really sharp. He looked lively whenever he got the ball, things were happening. So I think there is a good chance Patrick will be involved at the weekend.”

     

     

    Collins, a former Fulham favourite, first heard whispers about the player’s ability when he left his former club for Manchester in the summer of £12m. While he feels the money in the English game is obscene for a player who has played only 20 substitute appearances for Fulham, he is excited at the prospect of working with the player and believes he can handle the expectation. The winger has had to adjust to the amount of defensive work Celtic require from their wingers.

     

     

    “He is a dribbler, but he has a finish on him too,” said Collins. “One of goals on Monday was a chip from 20 yards, the other was into the top corner. Ultimately he will be judged on his end product. He has to create chances and score goals, as well as work hard without the ball. We have been working with him on that, because I don’t think he has been asked to do quite as much off the ball at his previous clubs as we expect. But h has trained well and taken the messages on board.”

     

     

    “When you talk about figures like £12m, sometimes people up in Scotland see it as a massive fee and expect a lot, and for a player to be ready right away,” he added. “But we have to be realistic. It’s a strange market financially in England. He’s only played 20 substitute games for Fulham. Normally in days gone by for £12m you’d have played three years at the top, have 30 international caps and 20 goals, but the world has changed down there. But he’s got talent and that’s why they’ve paid so much money for him.” Celtic had 23 fit first-team players in training this week, with Kris Commons available again after injury, although central defender Jozo Simunovic is still out.

  2. butsybhoy on

    The Green Man says SACK THE Board on 20th February 2016 12:09 am

     

     

    Yep St Marys bhoy first.

     

     

    Great times they were big time.

     

     

    Great memories .

     

     

    HH

  3. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Im stoking that boiler myself.

     

    G13 in G20…if you get my drift.

     

    Wee warm glow:)

     

     

    HH

  4. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    THE EXILED TIM on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:00 AM

     

    MacJay

     

     

    he didn’t really :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    =====================================================================

     

     

    Ay.O.K.

     

    :-)

  8. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    BUTSYBHOY

     

     

    Think i done 2nd year…then bolted to Augustines.

     

    Some of the best footy players going at Columba.

     

    They wouldnt let me in the A team….because i was a wee school dogger.

     

    Only turned up for the footy:)

     

     

    HH

  12. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    Butsybhoy

     

     

    I tell you a player…ruined himself….you will know him.

     

    .played like George Connolly

     

    Leeds and Liverpool looking at him.

     

    Lost it all to bad narcotic habits.

     

    Went to school with us.

     

    Ruchill.

     

     

    HH

  13. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Its good to get the connections going.

     

    One of the best bits about CQN.

     

    Relatives and friends…and new friends.

     

     

    HH

  19. Delaneys Dunky on

    TGM

     

    We are the new Americana.

     

    High on legal marijuana.

     

    Great new single by Halsey. Listening now.

  22. Neil Lennon & McCartney on

    Extract from JohnJames………

     

     

    The former players of Rangers have a loyalty to the club they represented.

     

     

    The former players of CFC are scathingly critical of their former employers.

     

     

    Individuals like Craig Burley would have you believe that CFC are going out of business.

     

     

    This skewed narrative has led many supporters to believe that we will be challenging for honours next season.

     

     

    Many believe that the absence of Rangers has led to other clubs downsizing and that CFC will be our only rivals next season.

     

     

    Derek McInnes, Tommy Wright and Robbie Neilson will soon disabuse them of this notion.

  25. Gerryfaethebrig on

    BSR

     

     

    Just hitting my kip and read your post about Liam Miller……

     

     

    “Hellmendhim” must have been one of mothers favourite wee sayings… made me laugh

     

     

    Cqn, good night & God bless

  27. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    DD

     

     

    Earphones on.

     

    Martin Simpson on yt…Killing the blues.

     

    Cant do the link thingy…my model T Ford laptop will explode:)

     

     

    HH

  30. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Roy C excellent as usual, I will never tire of your good stuff

     

     

    For me Dublin was nearly there but alas will just need to read here how special it will be

     

     

    Bedtime, will definitely waken up to the Foggy Dew the morra, need to learn to put my requests in earlier

     

     

    Hail Hail to Ronny & the Bhoys the morra……..cherish every title 4 and counting

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