“Decapitated” was the word Hearts manager Robbie Neilson suggested would be necessary for a Celtic red card after a challenge by Alexandro Bernabei on Wednesday night. Why he thought it was necessary, or helpful, to add invective language to the ether ahead of Saturday’s Scottish Cup quarterfinal is a puzzle.
Whatever his desired outcome, he has reason to ponder before giving Celtic players a cause to rally against again. The game was clearly a no-contest before Aaron Mooy converted Jota’s cross inside two minutes at Tynecastle. Hearts were lucky to escape with just the three-goal deficit.
You can train players all week, but send them into their 42nd game of the season and getting absolute sharpness from the same voice can be a challenge. Footballers are not machines, they can only climb the mountain so many times before it feels like another hill walk.
When Neilson picked on a young player, still settling in Scotland, it gave his team-mates a cause célèbre. Ange Postecoglou had an opportunity to proverbially pin the Hearts manager’s words to the dressing-room wall. It was a rookie mistake from an experienced manager.
You and I have seen Inverness, Falkirk and Newco take us out at the semi-final stage of the Scottish Cup. Maybe we should shout for Ayr United tonight?
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Glad we’ve drawn them in the semi . Not just denying them a cup , denying them a cup final appearance as well .
Melbourne Mick
I give you Tony McBride, who was described as a Jinky with more power and
more direct, I suppose a kind of turbo Jinky.
******
The last time I saw Tony he was in the Chinese carry oot place in Castlemilk and was struggling to stand never mind talk. Probably about 1972 or thereabouts. As Ian Dury would say… What A Waste. He really was a terrific talent.
SFTB – is that the Margaret Mary you refer to? Frankie Gray would also be added to that list… in the round about way à la James McCarthy.
I think the all powerful TV fellas will want it on the Sunday .
Agree wholeheartedly with wanting thems in the semis.
A wee gift for us.
Eyes on the treble. Take them at Hampden and bury them there.
Cops will want it midday on Sunday I think,Bank Holiday weekend.
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Sunday 2 pm I reckon, for continuity of TV coverage – there’s a big EPL fixture that day 4.30pm.
So they have 4 games plus Celtic pre split.
Assuming we beat them at CP and the drop points in one other game then we are set for a league win on coronation weekend.
We now have a chance to end their season the week before in the cup.
This would give us the entire month of May and into June for the final to celebrate and impending treble.
A treble which will be claimed against clubs who have previous against us in the cup. Also with more of our fans able to experience the pleasure at Hampden.
Great Celtic times if we can win that match.
SCANIEL
TONY McBRIDE 🇮🇪 👍
H H. Mick
Said Charlie to Camilla weekend !
https://twitter.com/joetaylor67/status/1635397956584218626?s=48&t=G-iyih6HekTnrHnRpJyR0A
How pathetic is this……
Canamalar 8.58
😁😁
Delighted with the draw.
SFTB 12:05
Apologies for responding so late. I haven’t been at my best today.
I think as things stand we are almost certain to qualify automatically for the next couple of tournaments. I’m hopeful that we can get at least a third place and even a second.
What happens after that is down to the organization of Ange and the desire of the team to progress.
When does the new format kick in and how will it effect us?
And final question, how will going out in the semi, losing the league after losing the league cup, effect ticket sales for the gullibillies?
If we beat them on 7th April and in the semi on 29/30 April we could effectively (on GD) win the league a week later.
Revolting Huns will abound…
May, may be fun
I think there are to many Celtic Fans on hear and on Radio Stations getting to complacent regarding Sevco v Celtic semi final ,me I’ll do all the talking if we beat them ,my only concern at the moment is for 3 points against Hibernian on Saturday.
TIMBHOY163 on 13TH MARCH 2023 11:59 PM
I think there are to many Celtic Fans on hear and on Radio Stations getting to complacent regarding Sevco v Celtic semi final ,me I’ll do all the talking if we beat them ,my only concern at the moment is for 3 points against Hibernian on Saturday.
*you are a grumpy oul Hardy Krüger at times but you are 100% right here and that’s the way the Big Mhan always saw it, remember the night before a hun game on reporting scotland when davie scheidt was predicting a hun win the following day, Jock retorted “only a fool would predict the score in this game” or words to that effect..
Tontine Tim
That was the 1969 cup final. On the Saturday pregame TV show, Davy said that they had one or two thing up their sleeves.
My much loved soon to be mother in law immediately retorted “Aye oxter hair.”
4 of us getting ready to leave for the game burst out in almost uncontrollable laughter.
Complacency and confidence
Confidence is a result of training and discipline.
Complacency comes from accepting mediocrity.
Canamalar
1.a)i will stick with the truth that Merlyn Rees-showed fascist behaviour in 1976.Ulsterization being the vounteers being criminalised,wear prison-uniform- it put men on blanket.that is an example of your unions fascism in a fascist act
b) you cut n paste whatever that was you posted in support of your union.i will stick with my friend who was in a cages in Long Kesh when it was announced.
Its a historical fact Canamalar,nice try unionist
2) The murderbombing of Iraq
You,me,and all you mention were against war
Alas The labour govt of day on behalf of the union went to war.That is a 2nd example of a fascist act.yup and you,me et al can argue bout the rights/wrongs as dissent.what luxury,we are not one of the iraqi dead.its their souls will get my prayers,always,not the luxury we are enjoyin of something that can unhappen
I know you me and yir mammy dissented,did it change the fascists mind.no.as i say on that topic i pray for the dead or is that pigeonholing and stereotyping too? Na its a truth
3.you ignore denis healeys intro of
monetarism in 1976,altho debatable Monetarism(friedmanism) had only been tried in Chile before! Like Tony above blowin the genie out of the middle east policy,Denis unlocked the gates of capitalist hell(granted it was desperate IMF or run out of money) swingin public sector cuts,it did enable ‘Daughter of Friedman’Thatcher to suggest her cuts in blohard terms were not as bad as Denis’s
GG views i have no interest in really.George is about George is bout George galloway,in a way he personifies what am sayin and always critiquing about
The betrayal of the in government/in power Labour government of its own.its working class oriģins and voter( 1,2 & 3 are example of that) it had swept George out of that movement.
Keep fishing wi Corbyn all i can say is wrong
You could read the Ford report might help.
Wrong too in suggesting i said anything inferring JC was antisemitic he got the same treatment your pal got by the marketing wing, you know that pro zionist,embarassed by unions,fleg knobbled force being marketed as an alternative to Torys by Keev.
The advances of the working man are known by the labour Party.
I am pointing out where they betrayed their base. 1976,iraq,and Bank debt Nationalizatìon 2008-not quite the Marx model more the death of socialism in the face of feral capitalism one.
You self identify C in whichever form of unionism you wish.thats your right C.
On here i am for all things Celtic and its continuity since we left the hall in 1887.
Close to ma heart is that.
Dont be upset that i point error by Lab in betrayal of its own while in goverment.
:-)
HH
On Sky Sports “Falkirk first Division One team to reach semi final since Rangers in 2014” 😂😂😂
HH
Glasgow Cup Final 1966. 4-0. Buzz bomb was unplayable.
This is the first time I’ve seen footage of it.
https://youtu.be/0WEfdK-AIfA
Brings memories flooding back.
My friends in Celtic,
Celtic v ” Rangers” Scottish Cup semi final.
We can now right a terrible wrong. Madhuns last game was a shocker. One of the worst referring displays I have witnessed.
My admiration for Ange soared as he kept his cool. If he didn’t know before, he knew then what he faced in Scottish football.
Bring it on.
We face a team that will soon qualify for the bus pass, let’s run them ragged.
HH.
And finally before the storm hits.
The George Connolly final.
It’s a wee bit long. The first half goals are around 5, 38 and 40 minutes.
https://youtu.be/jCu46R_m1SE
Stevie’s final nail at 1:04.
And it’s a good night from me.
‘GG
The 69 final was my first v hun game :) :) :) :)
And in more good news for Thems….
Humza Yousaf has said Scotland could ditch the monarchy within 5 years of independence
Good morning all from a snow dusted Garngad.
Bring on the Hibees.
D :)
Good morning all from Govanhill. Cheltenham Tuesday!!!!
The BIG DAY has finally arrived….
NO…Im not getting married…
NO….Im not getting Divorced…
NO…Im not about to start paying any maintenance for those 27 Weans….
Its…CHELTENHAM !
Whether I back ANY Winners is a different matter ?
LOL
HH
I posted in the last few Days that I would much rather face the Huns in the Semi Final of the Cup rather than the Final, so I was happy to get them in the Draw.
A great chance for Celtic to destroy their season completely, PLUS ….NO Huns for the Cup Final day oot !
IF we win the League and also the Scottish Cup to add to the League Cup…..will it become known as ” The CORONATION TREBLE” ?
That would sicken the Huns even more surely…?
A few short years ago, the Hun Players were CHEERING in their dressing room when they got Celtic in the Scottish Cup Draw…..Somehow, I DON’T think many Hun players would have been cheering last night ?
LOL
HH
Today’s tip from my cousin in Roscommon; The Goffer 2.50 Cheltenham. Avoid. 😂
More chance of a Madhun refereeing type performance in a semi final than a final.
League cup final was, relatively speaking, officiated well. We won reasonably comfortably, as we are a better team, but it was still close enough for a mib to influence it.
https://cdn.celtsarehere.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/viaplay_final_rangers_celtic_3542-1920×1613.jpg
So its the huns then……could have been worse.
https://cdn.celtsarehere.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/viaplay_final_rangers_celtic_2575-1920×1493.jpg
https://www.celticway.co.uk/resources/images/16552979.jpg?type=mds-article-962
AN TEARMANN on 14TH MARCH 2023 1:59 AM
Canamalar
1.a)i will stick with the truth that Merlyn Rees-showed fascist behaviour in 1976.Ulsterization being the vounteers being criminalised,wear prison-uniform- it put men on blanket.that is an example of your unions fascism in a fascist act
b) you cut n paste whatever that was you posted in support of your union.i will stick with my friend who was in a cages in Long Kesh when it was announced. Its a historical fact Canamalar,nice try unionist
“C”, – Was not in support of union, as I’ve told you I support a United Ireland. The point was to identify the stated motive, you might remember Wilson’s Govt was also a potential victim of the UK deep state, chances are that is what led to the Labour party’s divergence with the working class and why they are now nothing more than a glorified liberal party. But that’s a tangent.
2) The murderbombing of Iraq
You,me,and all you mention were against war
Alas The labour govt of day on behalf of the union went to war.That is a 2nd example of a fascist act.yup and you,me et al can argue bout the rights/wrongs as dissent.what luxury,we are not one of the iraqi dead.its their souls will get my prayers,always,not the luxury we are enjoyin of something that can unhappen
I know you me and yir mammy dissented,did it change the fascists mind.no.as i say on that topic i pray for the dead or is that pigeonholing and stereotyping too? Na its a truth
“C”, – The majority of the EU members supported the Iraq war, it was not official policy only because of the anti-democratic veto, see later below.
3.you ignore denis healeys intro of
monetarism in 1976,altho debatable Monetarism(friedmanism) had only been tried in Chile before! Like Tony above blowin the genie out of the middle east policy,Denis unlocked the gates of capitalist hell(granted it was desperate IMF or run out of money) swingin public sector cuts,it did enable ‘Daughter of Friedman’Thatcher to suggest her cuts in blohard terms were not as bad as Denis’s
“C” – I did not ignore anything, It’s you who ignores and continue to try and own the narrative by changing the subject of, who is responsible for bringing the NHS into existence? All the tangents you want to provide cannot escape the fact of the original point.
GG views i have no interest in really.George is about George is bout George galloway,in a way he personifies what am sayin and always critiquing about
“C”, – I disagree and now believe your gripe with GG is at a personal level.
The betrayal of the in government/in power Labour government of its own.its working class oriģins and voter( 1,2 & 3 are example of that) it had swept George out of that movement.
“C”, – Completely agree on this 100%. Not sure of relevance though.
Keep fishing wi Corbyn all i can say is wrong
“C”, – as I said I could be wrong and willing to stand corrected, also can’t be bothered doing the research but your memory does not serve you well when you can’t remember commenting on the NHS a few hours previously.
You could read the Ford report might help.
“C”, – Read it when it was published, still have a copy.
Wrong too in suggesting i said anything inferring JC was antisemitic he got the same treatment your pal got by the marketing wing, you know that pro zionist,embarassed by unions,fleg knobbled force being marketed as an alternative to Torys by Keev.
“C”, – Again open to correction but again your memory is demonstrably unreliable.
The advances of the working man are known by the labour Party.
I am pointing out where they betrayed their base. 1976,iraq,and Bank debt Nationalizatìon 2008-not quite the Marx model more the death of socialism in the face of feral capitalism one.
“C”, – Again agree 100% never disagreed.
You self identify C in whichever form of unionism you wish.thats your right C.
“C”, – I do and your opinion and attempts at commanding the narrative and ownership of the word fail to influence my choice or my position.
What it does, is demonstrate your own inconsistencies with your preference for membership of a European Union whose policies are decided by unelected commission, who had there been a vote would have supported the Iraq invasion, lucky for the EU its anti-democratic veto powers used by France and Germany kept them on the right side of history. The minority of French, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, and neutral states like the Republic of Ireland. Would have been voted down by UK Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark all of the Central European and Baltic members. And that was the last time such sovereign division existed. Today the EU is in lock step with the US empire, invasions of Libya and Syria were/are fully supported by the EU. The US/EU led coup in Ukraine and now next on the list is Georgia, yet you think theirs is a more democratic and not a fascist imperialist union, which has even less chance of democracy making any difference than where you currently are. For someone who pontificates so much about democracy you appear to have double standards on what democracy should look like, it’s ok for some Unions to have anti-democratic veto powers.
On here i am for all things Celtic and its continuity since we left the hall in 1887.
Close to ma heart is that.
“C”, – Again 100%, shouldn’t stop debate on other issues though, or should it?
Dont be upset that i point error by Lab in betrayal of its own while in goverment.
:-) HH
“C”, – Why would I be upset on things I agree with, they were never a point of divergence it appears only a tool for you to fire off on tangents to introduce off-topic and unrelated to my original point which was, going the logic you use, anyone who supports the SNP has fascist sympathies based on their historical connections and foundation, everything else is yours. In an attempt to ridicule and devalue arguments and points you don’t agree with, how very undemocratic.
I note you have avoided a few of my points, hopefully that’s because you agree they have merit but one question you have consistently avoided is ‘what is your vision for the future, if your hopes are realised?’
I’ll add, if your vision can’t happen, do you have any other strategy to fix what we have?
HH