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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Sydney Tim
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The Belgian club spokesman, whose team in the last 16 for first time, was waxing lyrical in telling us to form a ten-year plan, to get into CL – obviously he was unaware that we have been in the last sixteen THREE times in the last TEN years – of course the story was in the DR – so it might be sh**e.
La bella Italia .
Sicilian radio claiming that AC Milan have concluded that Mario Balotelli is no longer interested in being a professional footballer ( reporter man couldn’t resist a ” debateable that he ever was ” ) . It’s claimed that AC Milan want to send him back to Liverpool but Klopp has said -” No way ” .Item finished with the reporter man opining- ” assume it’s China for Super Mario then “.
Much bumping of gums re the Ultra related violence surrounding last night’s Bologna 0-Juventus 0 .Juve team bus attacked with explosive devices etc ..There will be a lot of talk but no actiion.
SydneyTim
Celtic fans under direction of Peter Lawell can only dream of these type of teams success We cannot complete in Europe to these examples of well run football clubs
Not a massive Lawwell fan but in the last 10 years we’ve had 3 x last 16 CL and a further 2 times in group stages, last 32 of EL and group stages a further 3 times. I would say a better record than any of the team’s you mentioned.
Marspapa
Glad that Eddie got you sorted. He is a good lad.
See you at Paradise soon pal.
Just heading out to Paradise. Ye Ha!
Mdjittiland ? .
I am really surprised at the hype surrounding them. I watched both of their Europa League ties against Napoli . Napoli won 5 -0 and 1-4 .Mdjittiland looked bog standard pedestrian .
Gordon,Lustig,Boyata,Erik,Tierney,Brown,Bitton, GMS,Johanssen,Armstrong,Griffiths Offside
Paddy Roberts to come on for last 25mins.
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:32 AM
Enough to ruin my lunch .
Tv news running an item re a Brexit rally ———— up pops film of Gorgeous George Galloway sharing a platform with Nigel Farage .( hands joined together in a clenched fist celebratory salute ) .Vile !
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Vile to you.
Sanity to me.
When ” left ” and “right ” are in agreement ,that`s the time to take notice and pay attention.
Merkel`s children. Reaping what she sowed.
BSR –
Think you’re team will accord with Ronny’s selections. Would love to see a couple of changes. Any 2, even the goalie. Just to mean we’re watching something slightly different.
Join RISE on Saturday afternoon at Celtic Park as we talk to fans about the Offensive Behaviour at Football (OBA) Act and how we can challenge it. We need to stop disrupting Scottish fans lives and criminalising ordinary people. RISE is committed to opposing the OBA and if elected RISE MSPs will introduce legislation to repeal the act.
We’ll also be supporting fan ownership and fan empowerment so that the people who support the teams can have a proper say in their club.
We will be distributing a fact sheet to the fans and asking them to sign our petition to Michael Matheson MSP, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Justice, calling for the immediate repeal of the Act.
Assemble at the RISE stall on Kerrydale St from 1:45pm.
Call 07833667262 for more details.
LIONROARS67 on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:41 AM
Try as I might I can see no connection or correlation between the Easter rising, which was essentially an anti imperialist revolt against a colonial power, and the petty bourgeois nationalism of the SNP.
I can only hope that people will gradually begin to notice the gap between their rhetoric and their actions. At the moment you couldn’t put a cigarette paper between them and the Tories in their approach to austerity.
I suppose the dreadful weather will affect the attendance today, but I hope that those who are there will give the team full backing, even if things aren’t going our way.
There are many of us who wish we could be there, but can’t.
Give an extra shout for us.
The team need to know that we are all behind them and that they needn’t fear making a mistake.
Let’s hope Leighandowski has his shooting boots on.
Think the sheep caught a break last night, no Hayes and second match in 5 days, heavy pitch. . .dropped points written all over it.
However, Paul doesn’t seem to have considered the fact, in his ‘season over’ prediction, that Leigh Griffiths isn’t bionic.
‘Mon the Mighty Hoops!
Sausages sizzling along nicely accompanied by Dr Heckyl and Mr JIve being the latest ‘random’ iPod tune…
LIONROARS67 on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:19 PM
Is it just a coincidence that every time I see mention of RISE I hear the tune of Flower of Scotland in my head?
TTT
The weather today is a lot better than last Saturday. Let’s hope the support from the crowd is too.
Hail Hail
BIG NAN on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:21 AM
Don’t you just hate South Of Tunis’s weather reports when it’s pissing down here and you’re setting out for the game like Shackleton going to the South Pole?
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I think he does rub our noses in it a bit from time to time.
Bus now on the M8, 50 mins to pub time:-)
Ernie Lynch
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Here Here!
The million ‘converts’ who have attatched themselves to the 500k long-standing hard-core ‘Tartan Tory’ Nationalists…
What on earth do they think they are getting?
They’ve seen SNP doing NOTHING for nine years, whilst joining the Tories in coalition and standing shoulder to shoulder with them on continued austerity and drastic council cuts.
Just finishing tea and a bacon roll – off to Paradise at 13:00 HH
ernie lynch on 20th February 2016 12:22 pm
The SNP government spend what they have been given from the Tory austerity government in Westminster, i must have missed the increase in funds allocated to Scotland
Do you do anything to oppose the appalling OB act apart from acerbic asides on CQN
Looking for to watching todays game with a chance to see the exciting Roberts in action. Also so hope to see Young Christie play some part in during the match.
Come on You Celt’s!
Lionroars67,
Does that spend include handing back money to the Exchequer ?
LIONROARS67 on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:38 PM
Sorry, I hadn’t realised you were an SNP supporter.
I thought RISE was a different organisation.
The SNP could cancel the freeze on the council tax and they could have voted for an increase in income tax, thereby avoiding the cuts that they are about to impose, but they haven’t.
So much easier to blame everything on Wastemonster.
Lionsraor67,
How many food banks opened inScotland when the SNP sent money back to the exchequer ?
Was there nothing left to do for Scotland, how much was it again ? £44M
ernie lynch on 20th February 2016 12:47 pm
Ernie posted two stories which would be of interest to Celtic fans, never mentioned my personal political affiliations
I will be at paradise today supporting Celtic, i will also support those who oppose the OB act
You keep the snidey political digs going on CQN
Looking forward to the crooner from Shuggy and Weep writing an article in which he tells us that we’re ‘better together’ and extols the virtues of Union, as he gets behind what will no doubt be his glorious leaderene’s quarter-hearted support for Dave’s ‘in’ campaign, while privately praying for a ‘no’ victory.
‘Lose and Aberdeen season is over’
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The article title presumably didn’t anticipate the sheep game being postponed and is maybe now tempting fate a little bit.
LIONROARS67 on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:52 PM
So vote SNP but oppose their legislation and hope that somehow, for some reason, they’ll pay attention to you.
Good luck with that.
No doubt you’ll oppose the local authority cuts but support the council tax freeze and be against an increase in income tax.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 20th February 2016 12:51 pm
I have told Ernie before but just for you
I am not a SNP member, nor am i a defender or spokesperson for the SNP
Off to paradise
Hail hail brothers and sisters,
On my way to paradise to give ma tickets away to my real big bro and nephew. Then motoring up to E/K to watch Matt play against Dalbeattie Star.
A real dilemma, so wanted to watch the mighty Celts pummel the tuechtars but supporting my bhoy won in the end.
Here’s hoping. I’m putting a bet on 4-0 to both.
Hope you all enjoy the game and I’ll be getting my updates from CQN.
HH PB1888
Heading to Paradise.
Hail Hail Bhoys.
KLV
Lionsroar67,
I never said you wee, I simply asked if you count money not spent as money spent ?
You did advise they a can only spend what they were given when in fact they did not spend that money but returned money to the exchequer, didn’t they ?
Were even
http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/news/newsid=2330663.html
Team I unchanged from last week but Roberts, Christie, Allan and Commons all on bench
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtF46LNelw
Team is
Gordon
Lustig Boyata Svietchenko Tierney
Brown Bitton
GMS Johansen Armstrong
Griffiths
Subs Baily Mulgrew Commons CKR Roberts Allan Christie
In the latest JJ blog he shows what lengths the SFA went to to cover up the wee tax case.
https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/the-farrago-of-deception/
If we let this shower and those responsible stay in football we are condoning cheating.
We know from Broadfoot that the SFA think it will all blow over when TRFC enter the top tier. The only way to persuade football that it will not is to make further support conditional on SFA reconstruction.
Auldheid, Still continually shocked by the depths the sfa have went to. Baw is Burst if we do nothing.
KLV