I was pleased when the league fixtures were announced, and we learned Newco would start their season on Kilmarnock’s plastic pitch. Already four competitive fixtures into their season, Killie present a randomness of a challenge at home. For Newco’s sake the pitch is unlikely to be dry on Saturday.
Killie will have completed six competitive games when we face them at Rugby Park in the League Cup next month, while Celtic will have faced only Ross County and Aberdeen. That is a material gap in preparedness and surely the rain will have stopped by then, so the pitch could be bone dry and bumpy.
For seven years now Celtic have been imperious at Hampden, only once (after extra time) leaving without the win in 24 visits. They have what it takes to get the job done on the big stage. Cup competitions, therefore, are about the draws we get in the earlier rounds – five games a season across two competitions. It was a tough draw.
Preseason so far has been far from ideal, with players missing across central defence and at right back. Carter-Vickers, Starfelt, Nawrocki, Johnston and Ralston is a concentration of missing talent that will soon start to bite.
Tomorrow’s game against Athletic Bilbao, our first at Celtic Park of the new season, takes on greater importance than it should. We are not as ready for the new season as I would like to be.
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You got a solid voice mate
You aint phil whatever the fook he calls himself today mate
You are An Tearmann
We live in society today dominated by videos that last 20 secs or less
If you cant get your point our in that???
we get bored mate
And flick past you
AT,
May I remind you it was you who posted the link.
This is a Celtic blog, I only asked the question if that link reflects well on Celtic Football club.
HH.
God Bless the Green Brigade
We are lucky to have them 🍀🍀
Might not get everything right but a few food banks gain more supplies
Aipple …
canny wait for tomorrow, MissGFTB totally buzzing … the old adage it might be a testimonial/friendly … but sometimes you dont appreciate what you thought you just took for granted back in the day 🍀
BHOY FROM THE BOYNE on 31ST JULY 2023 11:11 PM
What’s fat Charlie up to these days?
According to GENE scaring the good people of Stoke by threatening to sign for the but latest accounts Mr Beale may be back in for him on a food to play deal on less money :-))
HH
Ps glad you enjoyed Saturday as bro in law had 2 up 6 and 8 from Co.Wicklow and mate and pal had 2 over from Galway bedecked in hoops.splendid sight,the Belfast ones it was the usual dress code.
HH
Mod AT,
Ii agree, it is becoming boring now.
No more from me.
HH.
GFTB makes a good point
And I read up until
The last 3 sentences
Then I got bored as
It was too much to read
Concise arguments
In one sentence
Or line
Lets everyoone understand you
Kapeesh???
Mod1888 12.01am
Mod …
I stopped reading at “GFTB made a good point”
Even aye didn’t believe that
I do this for a living
I teach my clients how to get heard and seen
Over the noise, of everyone else
We cannot take in huge blocks of info
We read in machine gun blasts of noise
And when you pad it out???
In short and concise sentences
You dominate the screen
And force a response
GP
Union Bears can’t afford a spell checker (which is free!) never mind giving what we do to charity.
Please don’t reply with a list of the great things the Union Bears do.
It was a video from a set of our fans who occasionally ,make a perhaps bad choice, but 99% of the time are valid.
Greenpinata .
The same question will stand,why are you continually unhappy with other Celtic fans. Do tell?
Anytime mate Celtic,irishness,expressions of the green,the white and the gold,who we are? Where we came from?
Those questions will stand,and are even stronger now you are associating what Celtic fans do alongside not only the masons but the onion bears.
HH
The kids in my family want to see Celtic but also lobe the Green Brigade …
The GB do not get everything correct but they are a major positive for Celtic and our fans of the future
Helensburgh nightshift CSC 🍀
Mod
Keep on keeping on… you should post your own views as Celtic views are as valid as the rest of us
If you have to take 2 breaths in quick succession
Its a new line
——————-
“Anytime mate Celtic,irishness,expressions of the green,the white and the gold,who we are? Where we came from?”
———–
Anytime mate
Celtic
Irishness,
Expressions of the green,the white and the gold
Who we are?
Where we came from?”
Anytime mate
+++++++++++++
It’s transformed
We can read it in bursts
When there is a new line
We are guided to take a breath
Internally
Read your prose before you hit send
Everytime you take a breath
Make a new sentence
It gets read, and feels natural
Which makes it more authoritative
Aipple,
As Columbo said One last thing.
I live in Anniesland. The Bhoys, the GB and the UB have been treating the street walls as their own personal Easels.
Am I meant to differentiate and condone basic vandalism that blights the community and diverts hard pressed council resources to clean their mess up.
To me the video glorifies defacing trains and neighbourhoods..
HH.
GP
From a Columbo fan, good night.
GFTB on 1ST AUGUST 2023 12:14 AM · EDIT
Mod
Keep on keeping on… you should post your own views as Celtic views are as valid as the rest of us
———–
As a club, we taking in players worth not a lot
And sell them for good money mate
We have a medium hit rate
Meaning for every 3 or 4 players we buy??
We sell for good money
I am delighted with our team
We have 10-20 million plus players in most positions
All the way thru from defense to attack
Where we argue as a support???
Is the positions that we don’t have that…..
GK, left back in the main
For whatever reason these players don’t meet our expectations?
There is a gripe and a bitching to be had
Which is what we have seen here for the last few days
In the main tho
Am happy with our team
Am happy with our recruitment
It’s a process that will take many transfer windows
And as quick as we raise players as hero’s
They will be sold
We don’t have the mega bucks of the EPL or even the championship
But we have seasoned eyes from our directors
Who are guiding us
Albeit slowly
And more slowly than we would like???
But we are getting there
And looking at our team
Our recruitment
And our progress
Am happy
Also, for all the lurking huns
And lurking press
Read the above \
And GIRFUY
Your team is deid
And will never rise to its pinnacle in the 80/90’s
You may wish
And you may dream
But deep down, you know
Yer chasing yer tails
And the mighty Glasgow Celtic xx
GFTB
Can I be more clear
Or concise???
We are dominant
In management
In directors (and we continue to take in more and more digital experience)
The digital experience we have in the above will allow us to massively increase our revenue
And our brand
And our bank
In squad
In stadium size and season tickets
In sponsorship
In training facilities
Whilst we are a minnow compared to Man Utd et all
We are starting to appear in top 50 brands
In revenue size
We will take over the above
It may take 10 or 20 years
But we will do it
For ALL the reasons I stated above
Meanwhile
let’s argue about our shortcomings
Instead of shouting about our growth
And our infrastructure
Thats what “they” want
The peoples behind the scenes know to focus on
What grows us a club
As a brand
Get behind that
As I said
Am a poet xx
Mod
Totally concise 🍀
Life is far too short mate
It’s 1.19am and a like a kid at Christmas … took MissGFTB to Broonys testimonial … thank you JohnBay
But tomorrow (tonight) seems a bit special ..
MissGFTB buzzing for wee Jamesy …
Her Auld man (me) totally buzzing for Brendan
Over the moon our Brendan is back
Actually over the 🌚 🌙
Petec
Obviously a very difficult week mate hope this puts a wee smile on your face … take care
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFmeoCe-pAY
Mod – when really it is nothing to do with you,refer to my earlier answer,its two tims disagreeing.no need for you to interfere at all.if others don’t like it scroll by as many do lol.
AT, I realise that this is the GB,s own ostentation.
May I ask, do you think it reflects well on Celtic Football club and the greater support ?
– separation òf what Celtic fans do as different from any other Celtic
-implying Celtic are unhappy,as generally if they are they say,the club that is.
-‘greater support’ implies most of the support are not for expressions of Celticness when in fact they are.
Therein examples of loaded bias and shaped questions from Gp,that you can take magic mushrooms to,then play scrabble then swallow your grenade with(would only advise scrabble),
I will continue to write the way I write,
Mod if I needed to pay you or anyone on how to get my point across I would eat my elbow friend,but the blog is not about you its about Celtic, i am amazed companies pay you to do that,but such is the shootyirload punchy/burst society today but i guess a crust is a crust and if its honest made good luck.
You be good now.game day the morra,ticket still to get.Celts to meet,food to eat.Celtic to watch in 2 half’s
:-)
HH
AT
Eat yer elbow mate
You, our club, our directors and our support
Need people to articulate what I said above
Or we will continue to believe what the red tops spout as truth
And eat ourselves
As a support
As a club
And as a brand
As quick as that
The trolls appear to try and direct the narrative
Mr Mcquade
Hope all is good
Kev
Ange can go and pee against the wind
If you don’t want to be at a Celtic ,.. there’s the door
“Brand” is marketing speak Mod.
‘Brand’ I watched over as rfc Accounts where continually rebranded until rfc where no more
A ‘brand’ toilet edition as part of the bigger ‘brand’ turd that was MG(mintygroup)
Enjoy what this guy said bout marketing
https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0
God bless Bill Hicks
HH
Where did Matty go ????
I now feel as if am posting to maself …
Whooft
There is only 1 James Forrest
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
AT
Bill HIcks is dead
We have moved into a world
Where who you are
What you feel
Is not your brand
It’s what the people say about you that is your brand
Your brand
Our Celtic
Is what the we speak
That is why the press
And the trolls
And boy did they pop up quickly here lol
Try to tell us what to say
And they know that our brand
Is what people say about it
Which is why we need to make our own media
Which is why we continue to take in directors in digital media
What people say about us
And what we allow people to say about us
Is our brand
It is who we are
And what we represent
GFTB
Matty can GTF x
AT
The deid club can continue to make a mockery of fiscal judiciary
That is their brand
That is why our board do not speak of it
It is not our brand
It is not who we are
It is not our truth
And it is not what we want people to speak of us
Our board and directors understand what our brand is
ie what people say about us
As soon as we publicly speak out
And make a scene over what has been happening
Here in Scottish Football
We will get dragged into a
we are as bad as them narrative
Which we can only lose
As we are not the dominate voice
ie our brand
what people say about us will get royally fecked over
We know that if we sit on it
Hold our breath
Focus on Celtic
It WILL come out
And we
Our brand will not get damaged
We are not as bad as they are
As soon as we shout
We
Will
Be
They will shoot themselves in the foot (again lol)
And that is the time to shout
When their brand is done
Something we never learned
And something our directors failed us
As a brand
When they went tits up the last time
Or they will die
Again
lol
Mod
Celtic.call it Celtic.it has been Celtic since we left the hall.we are Celtic now the same Celtic.its not and never will be a brand to me.but I do understand your concept pseudo corporate ‘speak’more than you will ever know Mod.
HH
Good morning all from a dry at the moment Garngad.
I for 1 like most of what the GB do.
D :)
Good morning all from Govanhill. Gerrintaethum Celtic!!!!