Managing McGregor

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Celtic players will begin arriving back from international duty today and tomorrow ahead of a six week, 13 game, run that will go a long way to determining the success or otherwise of their season.  Highest on my anxiety list is the condition of injured Cameron Carter-Vickers.  Noises from the US national team were that his condition was not concerning.  We should cope without him at home to Motherwell on Saturday, but he is one man you want fit and on the plane that departs for Germany on Tuesday.

My only other concern is with our perennial metronome, Callum McGregor.  Callum is relied upon by domestic and international managers in equal measure.  Memories of how we complained that Gordon Strachan overlooked the player seem foolish now.  How Ange manages the player during the next six weeks is important.  Get the job done early on Saturday then hook the captain.

A small encouragement, I know, but we still have to beat a Ukrainian team at Celtic Park next month, so the fact that some players we will face lost in Glasgow and drew in Poland to a Scotland side is a mental marker.   Well done to Callum, Greg Taylor, Anthony Ralston, Steve Clarke and the rest of the international squad.

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  1. Hairlikespaghetti

     

     

    I am real.Not anonymous

     

     

    I go see Celttic madmitch does not attend Celtic Park

     

     

    Can meet anytime at parkhead and have a laugh

     

     

    I already have Paul’s email

  2. Hopefully you will be at CQN Corner on Saturday before the game — we have much to discuss.

     

     

     

    As an aside I fear that your desire to use that name hides a deeper truth about your past and attitudes — could I suggest that therapy works better than chemical support.

     

     

     

    See you on Saturday — if you have the backbone to turn up.

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

     

     

    You Don’t wanna See me Angry

     

     

    https://youtu.be/7vZ37mWqgZA

  3. MM requires a pair of wayfinders, a map compass, and radar to find the CQN corner on Saturday

     

     

    Anyone that can help with the above, contact Paul67 who will pass your details on

     

     

    See you on Saturday — if you have the backbone to turn up.

     

     

     

    oh my aching sides

     

     

    https://youtu.be/RUaYbfKZIiA

     

     

    good night

  4. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Cheers MM.

     

     

    I hear you but still don’t understand their tactic to sell government bonds it purchased during years of QE?

     

     

    Announced it August (I think?)

     

     

    £80bn (I think?)

     

     

    Don’t know if they got round to doing it before this current foolishness began.

     

     

    Why now and what prompted the £80bn figure?

  5. BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

     

    Ha!

     

     

    Now you have me thinking about a closed school over that way that my friends played fitba for and cleaned up.

     

     

    St Saviour’s?

  6. Evening all.

     

     

    Just logged for the first time today.

     

     

    I never knew Garry, I was fortunate enough to meet him briefly at my first ‘hoot’ at McChuills on August last year.

     

    However, going by the tributes paid to him here and on another channel, he must have been some character. much loved and sadly missed.

     

     

    Garry Rest In Peace.

     

     

    Brian

  7. The international break has a lot to answer for on here. Wowsers.

     

     

    We got ourselves a functioning team for Saturday ?

     

     

    Any updates on GG, Haksa, Maeda, Turnbull, Abada and any others ?

     

     

    Too soon for Abildgaard?

     

     

    HH

  8. Evening all

     

     

    A few days ago yon Ernie Lynch made a joke about Kwasi Kwarteng which said he is not a real Kwarteng. 5 days on I just got the joke.

     

     

    Always knew that Latin Higher would come in useful one day.

     

     

    Jimbo

  9. #UKRSCO IMHO The biggest factor in Scotland topping this group is the quality & consistency of Callum McGregor. Constantly carries others – whether it’s McGinn, Jack or McLean – never hides, always puts in a shift.

  10. St Tams….Ben Doak signed a 5 year deal….he’ll be 18 or over in the last 3 years of that deal …how it is structured is irrelevant…..12k per week !!

  11. St Stivs

     

     

    The new Mulligan and O’Hare.

     

     

    One of their wives went to Kenya with a bloke from Allied Carpets don’t you know.

     

     

    Jimbo

  12. bournesouprecipe on

    MADMITCH @ ages ago

     

     

    There’s no fantasy deal for Scottish Football not here, no aliens from Mars with a sudden interest in Ross County versus Livingston live from Dingwall, on a wet Saturday afternoon, no siree.

     

     

    Setanta went bust, Sky continues to pony up to get Celtic verse Rainjurz and the same for Celtic verse Sevco. The demographic means it’s a bare minimum and the SPL is regarded as sub division English, just like big brother thinks of wee bonnie Scotland.

     

     

    In the unlikely event that Celtic somehow broke free from the Scottish League, only then would we have true TV league game image ownership. Adelante, with whatever the SPL can get, otherwise there’s no league to play in, and no route one for Celtic into Europe.

  13. Aipple on 28th September 2022 6:37 pm

     

    BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

     

    Ha!

     

     

    Now you have me thinking about a closed school over that way that my friends played fitba for and cleaned up.

     

     

    St Saviour’s?

     

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    St Saviour’s was in Govan NOT Govanhill only ruffians and vagabonds frequent Govanhill. Isn’t that right BRRB.

     

     

    Aipple were any of your friends called Cleary?

     

     

    KEEP THE FAITH

  14. They were McGarrie’s. Two brothers. One of which was the silkiest I ever saw play in school.

     

     

    You are right, it was Govan. Remember going down to the docks with them.

  15. BSR @ 8.22

     

     

    In the 80’s / after Heysel — few people wanted to watch / pay to watch English football.

     

    However they worked on a plan / they invested in the product and they reaped the rewards.

     

     

    To give up on the SPL is just the Scottish cringe to the old tune of Old Money Glands.

     

     

    BT missed a trick with the SPL 10/12 years ago.

     

    The could have used the SPL to work out the dynamics / economics behind the EPL.

     

    How much was football really worth to SKY and acted accordingly.

     

     

    They went into the EPL in a half hearted fashion and have been bit part players ever since — not bad I suppose for a pension fund with a telecoms business bolted onto the side but definitely not good.

     

     

    We can only get others to believe in the SPL if we believe in it ourselves — your comments would suggest that you are embarrassed by the league we play in.

     

     

    If that is the case how can you celebrate any local success we manage to achieve?

  16. BSR @ 8.22 / Part 2

     

     

    Club ownership of TV rights — all we would have would be our home games.

     

    We have a big season ticket revenue to protect — would get very messy very quickly.

     

     

    We need the rest of the SPL to have any product to sell.

  17. Half man / half Christmas dinner @ 8.57

     

     

    And here was me thinking today couldn’t get any worse ?!?

  18. Good lord , the tag team have taken over , dont mean you Lionsroar, incase you get angry , 😂😂😂 al no sleep way worry .

  19. The Bank Of England appears to be operating in an alternative reality.

     

    Does not know what it is doing from one day to the next.

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