Cameron Carter-Vickers was rested for the second half against Hibs due to a tight hamstring. Were we not two goals ahead, he might well have played on, but there was no point taking chances. The same argument holds for Kilmarnock on Sunday.
Nat Phillips is more than capable of stepping into the defensive leadership role. He is a competent and experienced professional who has played at levels none of the Kilmarnock side will ever reach. Brendan Rodgers comments last week about Gustaf Lagerbielke and Maik Nawrocki were more nuanced that the reported headlines. The manager made the point that neither player have had an opening with Cameron and Liam Scales having established a solid pairing. We have five fit central defenders; our top man has a tightness which could turn into an injury, but four are in pristine condition.
Whatever the perceived levels of Gustaf and Maik, they are is not a reason to leave them in the stands. Celtic are a club which needs to take promising players from other environments and develops them into great talents. This is the path we must follow, we cannot turn into a club which wastes players.
No risks with Cameron on Sunday, please. There is lots for him to do before the bells toll.
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Celtic attendance ?
18,000 EST
As per the Evening Times most weeks
Bob Kelly picked the team Peter Lawwell buys it.😀
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 3:14 PM
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD
Sir Bob saw a young Celtic scarf wearing reserve keeper at the bus stop, so gave him a lift. Told Jimmy McGrory to put him in the team an hour before K.O. What a time to be alive
Allegedly CSC
*no allegedly it was Willie Goldie, he also dropped the wee mhan for Bobby Craig who he then played out of position in a humiliating cup final loss where the huns chanted easy easy and Celtic ha ha ha while their players were literally playin keepie uppie to which he commented that he would rather they put the ball in the net than toy with us, aye and if they had there would have went our 7-1 record
BSR
Something similar happened when KD was our manager and was walking home one evening and trod in some doggy doo 💩 and ended up buying Rafael Scheidt
TONTINE TIM @ 3:02 PM,
Yes, no doubts, there are many abstruse skillsets when managing people, at it’s best it’s an art form.
I’m in Health Care now and some ask why I don’t go up the career ladder.
Well my age and three day weeks are one factor, the other factor is managing people on the salaries.
Folk who work very hard, need to keep refreshing their multiple skill-sets and work unsociable hours.
Last time I managed folk, they were well rewarded career professionals with annual bonuses. No worries with the carrot and stick there.
Hail Hail
GENE
💥 💥
Tontine
👍
McIlroy was responding to a message posted by BBC Scotland’s chief sports writer Tom English, which read: “Rory’s singing a different tune now that it’s Rahm. Didn’t hear this kind of chat from him about the others who joined LIV.”
What a nasty wee sh*te of a man.
If one individual can look himself in the mirror over this LIV disgrace …. It’s Rory McIlroy.
Was hung out to dry by other duplicitous pieces of excrement in the PGA … and was the last man to throw in the towel.
Has reluctantly reset and moved on.
with us, and he did variously in Glasgow, Dublin and London over the years, we were honoured. We loved him. The fact he dug our band meant the world to us.
My last memory of him is when I visited him in hospital in September. He was very poorly, and could see that I was upset to see him this way. Emaciated and weak-looking, his skin stretched taught over his face, cheekbones prominent. Fine, thick silver hair swept back, he looked handsome and strangely beautiful. His skin translucent, his eyes, ever alert and piercing, his keen intelligence still in place.
Also that day I saw the love that existed between Shane and Victoria. Shane had a fraught, frightened look in his eyes over a small drama with a hospital orderly. Victoria took his hand in hers, like you would a wee boy’s, and gave him a kiss on his forehead, telling him that everything would be all right. He needed that reassurance. I felt slightly embarrassed about seeing such an intimate moment between two people so deeply in love with each other. Then I realised I was blessed to have been present at that moment. I was invisible to them; they were united in love. So beautiful to see.
Victoria was his rock. His guardian angel. Underneath the rock’n’roll, rake-at-the-gates-of-hell image, the role of the Brendan Behanesque poète maudit, Shane was a good old-fashioned romantic. He saw the beauty of the spirit and the flaws in people, celebrated them and identified with their struggles. He felt too much probably, saw too much with the poet and songwriter’s gift of vision. And maybe that’s what all the drinking and drugging was about. He had to numb himself to get through his life. His greatest songs exist to help the rest of us get through our lives.
Thank you, Shane. Thank you for the music and the good times. May God rest your beautiful Gaelic soul.
Any idea why St Stivs and Tom McLaughlin are not posting ?
B78
Look no further than mod1888!
Good evening all from the Imperial Bar. You are an absolute shower. So there now.
are the GB allowed back in yet , if not get it done .
RC on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 5:12 PM
are the GB allowed back in yet , if not get it done
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Have they agreed to behave like the rest of the support.?
Maybe our better results when they are absent can be attributed to our players easily hearing each other. 😆
He who sleeps in continual noise is awakened by silence.
HH.
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GREENPINATA on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 5:35 PM
RC on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 5:12 PM
are the GB allowed back in yet , if not get it done
Have they agreed to behave like the rest of the support.?
what’s that , not to wave flags.
No pyro and no getting the club fined might be a good start.
Also letting supporters at away games sit on the seats they have bought rather than pressuring them to move to other bits of the stand should be a given.
No pyro and no getting the club fined might be a good start –
not saying its right but does this not happen at most clubs
Also letting supporters at away games sit on the seats they have bought –
who sits on a seat nowadays at the away games
Point is letting people be in the position for which they have bought a ticket. Whether they sit or stand at the away game is irrelevant.
The point is about them no longer attempting to bully other supporters away from the area for which they have tickets.
Prestonpans Bhoy
Thanks for clarifying. That’s really disappointing if it is so. Bonkers actually.
FF in meltdown as Dunilo and Lawrence both ruled out until after Xmas
B78
SS swore; Tom spoke about women commentators; Petec , whom you missed, cracked a derogatory women comment.
So got binned although I thought I saw SS posting again but can’t be sure…
Brendan’s Presser
I’d have the Gb back in a hearbeat on the proviso, no IRA songs
KINGLuBO
BURNLEY78 @ 6:21 PM
FF in meltdown as Danilo and Lawrence both ruled out until after Xmas.
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Cheers B78.
Saw this on way home.
Those who criticise our recruitment model (with some justification IMHO) equally should perhaps look 3 miles west and be careful what they wish for.
Both players were punts.
I know nothing of Danilo’s pedigree but it is clearly lower than the headlines when he signed suggested. (Quelle Surprise).
As for Tom Lawrence – I said it when he signed and I’ll say it again.
A genuinely talented footballer …..
…. but always injured.
Everyone in England cleared out of the way, leaving Sevco to “trump” INSERT CLUB NAME x 3.
King Lubo
Apart from the pyro, the fines, the ira songs and the other stuff, what have the green brigade ever done to us? :)
Life of Brian csc
It’s all kicking off on CQN . 😉
Popular posters being binned when trolls have always been able to continue as long as they don’t use bad words 🤦♂️
Evening all.
A wee trio of choons from the brilliant ‘Specials’
The Specials – Gangsters
https://youtu.be/lgCZN1rU5co?si=6Jv6zPm-u1WfXlvT
The Specials – Ghost Town
https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4?si=tZIv5MzYI2L0CBnS
The Specials – A Message To You Rudy
https://youtu.be/cntvEDbagAw?si=udmB3lHlbj5Vcx08
Nite y’all
Stay classy.
Tell your friends
They’ll like it
It’s good to be a Tim.
Brian
HH
FAIRHILL BHOY on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 8:22 PM
It’s all kicking off on CQN . 😉Popular posters being binned when trolls have always been able to continue as long as they don’t use bad words
*funny you say taht as I was out the day up country quite a long drive when that thought passed through my heid, now when Paul started this site he said at the time all were welcome as he didnae want a Tim version of fascist fascist but now as yo say if you don’t commit any venial sins yo are more than welcum
Started watching new season of Fargo so far………great.
TONTINE TIM
Big Sandy Maclachlan passed away in April, his wife who was fifteen years younger passed away in January with a brain tumor she was just hanging around until he passed then she would return to Scotland…..don’t think you new his wife she was from Aberdeen what a lovely woman.
TIMHORTON on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 9:10 PM
TONTINE TIM
Big Sandy Maclachlan passed away in April, his wife who was fifteen years younger passed away in January with a brain tumor she was just hanging around until he passed then she would return to Scotland…..don’t think you new his wife she was from Aberdeen what a lovely woman.
*aye I knew big Sandy quite well he was also fae Dumbarton and lived close tae Roddy, Evan Williams was also a neighbour.
I did know about Sandy and spoke tae Roddy’s wife, who is a close friend, by messenger about him.
Hail Hail, anyone know of a place to watch Sunday’s game in Bologna?
“I didn’t realise how important you were to Celtic until you weren’t there anymore, and I didn’t realise that goalkeeper is the hardest position of all.”
Jock Stein to Evan Williams
so be a bit more kinder to Joe Hart lhads
Maybe the Chairman will spot a centre back wearing a Celtic scarf fae the Park’s bus en route to Rugby Park and solve Brendan’s problem. No?
PulloverCSC
Around 20 still to do their Superbru predictions- due 3pm tomorrow
RC
From a very big admirer of the GB,fek them.Their childish,petty,spoilt brat routine should be a brass neck for these Freedom Fighters.Buckle down,ban the Pyros,cut out the sectarian bits from songs,just behave like young adults,get back to singing your brilliant songs,showing your brilliant Tifos,getting the crowd to join in.It was wonderful at the start,now just a RA 1970 songfest no one wants to know.If thats atmosphere,sorry,you have lost me.
Miovski a no brainer.
Lagerbielke should be first choice with CCV.
Those who read my posts know I speak out at the time,not when they become stars.
Jota. Palma. Mooy. Someone tried to slag my defence of Greg Taylor earlier.So sorry that every manager has agreed with me.
Gus and Miovski next 2 stars.I don’t wait till results are in.
TURKEYBHOY on 8TH DECEMBER 2023 11:09 PM
RC
From a very big admirer of the GB,fek them.Their childish,petty,spoilt brat routine should be a brass neck for these Freedom Fighters.Buckle down,ban the Pyros,cut out the sectarian bits from songs,just behave like young adults,get back to singing your brilliant songs,showing your brilliant Tifos,getting the crowd to join in.It was wonderful at the start,now just a RA 1970 songfest no one wants to know.If thats atmosphere,sorry,you have lost me.
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Well said TurkeyBhoy.
Totally agree. 😃👍🍀⚽️🇮🇪🏆