Martin O’Neill took the calculated risk of dropping Kasper Schmeichel, Daizen Maeda, Arne Engels and Bejamin Nygren for Saturday’s Scottish Cup tie against Dundee, a team who have already recorded a win over Celtic this season. In from the cold came Viljami Sinisalo, Paulo Bernardo and Reo Hatate, while Joel Mvuka made his debut on the right wing. It is not an experiment he is likely to repeat in the next round.
An uninspiring first half convinced the manager to introduce James Forrest and Nygren at the break, but Dundee went ahead only four minutes into the second period with as sweet a strike you are likely to see all season. That gave the visitors a barricade to defend behind, which they looked likely to succeed in until one of the sweetest moments you are likely to see all season.
Junior Adamu replaced Tomas Cvancara on 80 minutes and gave his best Roy of the Rovers impersonation, by scoring with a delightful backheel with the allocated additional time already expired. The goal also gave Sebastian Tounekti a much needed assist. Seb scored the winner in added time, no more than 75 seconds of play after the equaliser.
Celtic’s history is full of great comebacks. Before we started winning practically everything, we were defined by coming from behind to win. There is an almighty effort being made by this squad of players and management team. Bet against them, even in the 97th minute, at your peril.
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Saint Stivs
It’s not the same at all. The basic tenet back in the 90’s was that misdirection was driving Celtic towards irrelevance, potential bankruptcy and possible extinction.
That is not the case today. There is an argument that Celtic should be better run operationally in this day and age and that sitting on a large reserve of cash shows a lack of vision and strategy – but the two scenarios are totally different.
The 90’s was an existential crisis for Celtic – the current day dissatisfaction is not equivalent.
Of course this past 2 and half season have been a shambles.
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cmon B78,
you cant say we have been a success for 2 decades and more because look at all those trophies,
and then miss out 2 leagues a cup and a league cup the last two.
we can still win something this season as well.
Celtic’s next 9 games in just 4 weeks & 3 days:
Livingston (H)
Kilmarnock (A)
Stuttgart (H)
Hibernian (H)
Stuttgart (A)
Rangers (A)
Aberdeen (A)
Rangers (A)
Motherwell (H)
Is there a biscuit tin big enough to cram £70m into?
They may squirrel another couple away to get 1 custom made.
Tim Malone Will Tell on 9th February 2026 6:18 pm
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good answer, and yet the bloggers persist,
I need to reread the fans survey, I wonder some about age groups demographics, does it shape some thinking,
but sure, its not a sense of entitlement and how very dare anyone mention that.
the Bada Bing on 9th February 2026 6:23 pm
Celtic’s next 9 games in just 4 weeks & 3 days:
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I really really hope Marting and his bhoys are only thinking of the next game, and not about a run of season defining fixtures.
Thunder Road on 9th February 2026 6:26 pm
Is there a biscuit tin big enough to cram £70m into?
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another £2m sell on coming for Oh,
that broken model, keeps on making money that they dont spend.
I think the Half yearly results will be published this week.
Its going to be fun, we may well make a profit.
There is one similarity, the SMSM were loving it:
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” Bhoys Town on 9th February 2026 6:02 pm
My main beef however is with the click-bait bloggers who will happily sow division in order to create the hysteria that generates clicks and whatever paltry income they get from their spewings. They will happily drive the club down if it suits their agenda.”
….and I agree with that post as well !
” the Bada Bing on 9th February 2026 6:14 pm
Seems we are pushing for our 20% allocation for the cup tie at Poundland ”
I didn`t know that. I just assumed Cup games would be 50/50 for CUP games against Sevco.
What is the thinking behind giving the Home team even more of an advantage ?
Authority must justify itself with valid reasoning connected to tangible good or prevention of tangible harm.
If it cannot, it forfeits its claim to legitimacy.
My team to start on Wed.
Keeper
Aurojo,,,,Arthur,,,,Trusty,,,,,Sarrachi
Calmac,,,,,,,,Chamberlain,,,,,,,Hatate
Mvuku,,,,,,,,,Adamu,,,,,,,,Tounetke
Front 3 look very quick.Backed by Hatate,and wing backs.We have become stale,that’s our problem.We need to get our new guys up and running.Ready when needed.More speed.
Scales needing time out.Let’s look at Arthur.Chamberlain can get good game time in.
All the usual sub’s to change it round if needed
Same old,has gone stale..
We need hardness in midfield plus our press is poor in midfield.
What is the thinking behind giving the Home team even more of an advantage ?
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because they have the advantage of the home draw.
The run of games looks hard on paper.Livi.Killie.Hbs,all must wins,only Killie,away.Stuttgart at home.Big Euro night,free hit really.Stuttgart away.Another free hit.Two Hun games,and Aberdeen away,which is not what it was.
Huns hold no fear for me.The League games we can win.Stuttgart ?Who knows.
This is normal this time of year.One at a time.
Dessybhoy,
We need to score more goals.Score 3 lose 2,no problem.We have plenty of options now.Use them.
TB
Most teams we play at the moment seem to know our midfield is the weak spot, Motherwell Dundee Falkirk all gave us a right hard time, yes score goals but the midfield with its lack of tackling puts the defence under a lot of pressure
You would have thought,after the overtones of peace,with talks to be held,and MON adding his comments that a move could have been made today,or over the weekend,to arrange a meeting with the fans regards Wednesday night.Of all the games,this has to be the least attractive,and you just know,the way Living play,the atmosphere will be funereal.
But no,not a bit of it.Another game where hundreds of innocent fans locked out,because one guy is awaiting a hearing on a breach,forget the assault,charge.
Alas,not a fek was given by the Board.
BT,
So so good to see you posting, S. Please don’t stop. There is a dearth now on CQN of folk who contribute positively, as in times past.
DENIABHOY re: 3 players up at a corner
You didn’t imagine it. It was Chelsea.
And yet the one and only time that Celtic won the Big Cup and got to the final again 3 years later, Celtic was financed through a biscuit tin!
And 30+ % of EVERY Parkhead attendance were lifted over the turnstiles for FREE imagine that!
The fans of the future got into Parkhead games for free until they were able to pay, not bad for a biscuit tin run club eh?
So to the OPTICS of the actual attendance at Thatcher capitalism free Parkhead, were a 60,000 crowd only actually had 40,000 Adults paying at the gates.
Well done the Kelly’s & White’s for being Celtic Comrades, despite what future agenda driven PLC erchie kissers would have us believe.
Who are the money lovers?
Did Jesus throw them out of the Temple away back in the day?
I wonder what he’d say about money loving Celtic post the All seating scam?
How much money did wee Jimmy Thelin have to defeat big Brendan Rodgers in the SCF 2025 and deny Celtic a domestic Treble after tens of thousands of Celtic and Aberdeen fans paid 50 quid for a ticket?
How much money did Kiarat Almaty need to put Celtic out of the CLQ?
The Kelly & White board were replaced with a capitalist tyrant from Canada.
We got to a Uefa Cup Final in 2003 after 2 years earlier MON bought some right handy players as well too, to try to compete against an already assembled Hun team worth well into the 140 million region of recruitment level.
But, Shhhhhhhhhhh….tell them MON 2000/05 was only playing against skint pub teams, just like BR was from 2016/19 and also his second spell.
And all we have heard from capitalist board kissers is: “MON almost closed the club down with all of the debt that he created.”
We need a concept that isn’t based on being slaves to money
30+ years of PLC soulless Celtic has made us all forget that Celtic were the custodians of a great Humanitarian concept.
Freedom my erchie!
May be money is NOT the answer?
Maybe Celtic being flush with money is actually a sin against Celtic’s reasons for coming into being in the first place?
Maybe if, DESMOND WHITE, was our Chairman instead of, JACK McGINN, then maybe the “Taylor Report” would have been robustly opposed, and exposed as the media fuelled pack of lies that it was, just like the Covid scam, Climate scam, All Male Refugee scam.
Where are the Refugees Wives and Children?
Did they run away and leave them?
So why not send them back to War Free France to look after their Families?
Who’s zooming who?
Where is the Fake medias Fake Outrage?
When will Tims stop being dim?
Or has that ship sailed away somewhere over the rainbow?
Tims vote for rainbow people.
Maybe running the club as an unaccountable flush fund for dodgy unaccountable directors who are scared to kick, Royal family, Boris Johnston, ass kisser, Sir Rod the Fraud, the big Pharma pro Vaccine Genocide Depopulation shill’s greasy erchie oot the door?
We are a halfway house for sleazeballs!
Maybe if we had stood up to the wildly exaggerated “Taylor Report” then Celtic fans wouldn’t have gone from steel toe cap boots to hush puppies?
And rendered them servile to unlimited boardroom corruption.
Same club lie, EBT Cover up for Brother David from Ibrox, I wonder what hold he had over PLC Capitalism era of Celtic?
Maybe being flush with a lot of money has spoiled fans and made them docile?
Or maybe that was all of the SNP’s dodgy mRNA Vaccines that did that?
If the choice is Swinney or Sarwar then the game, the game is over…Celtic fans who voted you to this point….are dumb!
Nurse ! Nurse!
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Just reading Wiki about my first favourite Celtic player……Duncan MacKay. A great Celtic who never won any honours with the team. Here is a wee snippet from the story..sounds familiar?
He became the captain in 1961, and then led the first team to the Scottish Cup matches v Dunfermline (the final & replay), but in both unfortunately Celtic once again came up short and lost. The side were perennially underachieving despite the wealth of talent on hand.
With Celtic so poor, he actually decided openly to request a move to England, but there was surprisingly little interest (Celtic’s poor state a likely major cause of the lack of interest). You have to take in the poor team management at the time at Celtic, lack of morale in the squad and the constant board meddling. It wasn’t an uncommon position. Jimmy Johnstone, Billy McNeill and Lennox were all also on the verge of leaving or giving up before Jock Stein’s arrival at Celtic.
Good article Paul.
Prior to the window, I feared our chances could be written off.
We have recruited decently it seems; Cvancara and Adamu all on the scoresheet very early.
Araujo is a solid deputy for AJ.
If AOC has some of his old magic the mids will be bolstered, too.
The only puzzler is how you drop a dewy Brentford CB into such a stress-infused run of ties.
But all up, the recruiters have done a decent and prudent joab I reckon.
Kudos CSC
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 9th February 2026 7:32 pm
Authority must justify itself with valid reasoning connected to tangible good or prevention of tangible harm.
If it cannot, it forfeits its claim to legitimacy.
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In Sydney yesterday, the NSW fuzz mass-charged and pepper-sprayed people protesting against the bomb-signing head of a convention-breaching state, who’d just brazenly scolded the nation about its concerning disharmony and alleged bigotry. Farcical as fugg.
It is a paradox that despite having decent players in our midfield, 2-3 of whom will probably raise £millions in the summmer we have been outplayed and outfought there in recent times. And it’s not easy to win games when that happens. So much so, fitba talk here, would Dundee’s midfield improve us, or ours improve them? Think it was B2B who said we dont have a midfield, but how can that be with CalMac and a player we could have sold for £25 mill? The Ox, if he has benefited from training with the EPL’s best team, may well change that balance. We have plenty of width @ full-back and out wide, thought Joel looked lively on his debut, quick, skilful and got the ball into the box on occasion. But despite that, Tomas was left on his own in the centre for much of the game, and Dundee broke our ‘press’ too many times to mention. That said with Serracci back looking fit, Kelechi getting there, and our new Bhoys all making positive impressions, we are capable of winning games, one game at a time, and if we beat Livvy on Wednesday that will be three home wins in row, after four undefeated away. And to use a quote from CCR (out of context) that BRRB will surely recognise….and when the players “Ask how much should we give?” Martin’s only answer will be “More More More”. It worked late Saturday….
Celtic Mac
from previous, my bit about Zelensky was not regarding you – unless you are also GM – but maybe you knew that
We have a decent run of regular games now before a couple of season definers. I see the EL as a free hit.
For me on Wed-
Caspar
Araujo, Trusty, Scales, Saracchi
Calmac, Engels, Reo
Maeda, Cvancara, Tounetki
Subs-
AOC
Iheanacho if fit
Amadu
Mvuka
Paulo
Colby
Sinisalo
Luke
Brass Man on 9th February 2026 9:45 pm
*Lots snipped ok
Just reading Wiki about my first favourite Celtic player……Duncan MacKay. A great Celtic who never won any honours with the team
With Celtic so poor, he actually decided openly to request a move to England
*when he made the break through Sir Bob had him playing right half with a young Big Billy playing in the right back role, he was so good that Sir Matt Busby put a bid in for him but we widnae let him go.
It wasn’t an uncommon position. Jimmy Johnstone, Billy McNeill and Lennox were all also on the verge of leaving or giving up before Jock Stein’s arrival at Celtic.
*The wee mhan and Billy were heading to White Hart Lane and the Buzz Bomb to Falkirk before Jock stepped in and halted the sale, btw the wee mhan didnae play in the ’65 Cup Final as he had been sent off against 1872 in the New Years game at the bigot dome for fighting with their Icelandic player tottie beck so Sir Bob, just like he did with wee ten thirty and Paddy Crerand, decided he had to go for a lack of disciple so he was consigned to the reserves.
Bobby Murdoch who missed a penalty with 5 minutes to go in that hun game was contemplating emigrating to Oz, if they had been allowed to leave and ten thirty NOT been brought back Lisbon or the honest NIAR might never have happened.
spikeysauldman
Must admit that given the post was addressed to me I supposed all of it was directed at me, and that GM was caught up in the firing line, so to speak. Form of induction I think, makes me wrong but does not make you right re GM.
Tontine Tim on 10th February 2026 12:03 am
Brass Man on 9th February 2026 9:45 pm
Dunky McKay was an excellent player.
Billy McNeil did start at full back as I reminded him at a Round Table event.
I started watching Celtic from 58/59 and had a few disappointments until Jock Stein arrived and it all changed at Hampden in 1965 Cup Final v Dunfermline.
Auldheid on 10th February 2026 12:48 am
Tontine Tim on 10th February 2026 12:03 am
Brass Man on 9th February 2026 9:45 pm
Dunky McKay was an excellent player.
Here’s a wee bit of useless trivia, when I was younger I wisnae allowed to go tae Parheid etc unless with an adult so I used to go and watch the Vale of Leven Juniors one week and Dumbarton the other, at that time the Sons had wee ten thirty on loan as well as Dunky McKay, Johnny Bonnar wa aslo there but had been transferred from us after losing his place to Dick Beattie
Meant to add Alex Rollo also played around tah time with Dumbarton, he was actually born in the town but brought up in Possil
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Good morning CQN
Another fine day to be a Celt
Just win the next one, bhoys.
I expect Hearts to win tonight.
I won’t be too disappointed if they do … as I prefer them not to have a tangible drop in results form before going to Ibrox
(where a draw would do us nicely).
Interesting read , if accurate.
No way of knowing if it is of course.
https://www.67hailhail.com/feature/all-celtic-player-wages-salaries/
A midweek win for Hibs and Motherwell followed by a draw at Mordor would be a treat.
Assuming we win our games, we’ll be making up ground on someone.