“Feeling more confident than any time in the last five years” was the sentiment expressed to me by a Newco fan this morning. And with some reason. They have gone two months without defeat, while Celtic’s blistering runs of successive wins stopped; we’ve won three and drawn three of our last six.
Reasons for any marked change in results are usually varied. With the league won, Celtic rested players, while others were injured. Opponents have also paid attention to their Scott Sinclair Problem. Stop Scott getting the ball and you inhibit Celtic’s most potent danger.
You also have to factor in the reality that Brendan Rodgers has given 52 competitive pre-match team talks. There are only so many times you can vocabularise your rallying call before its effects diminish.
The contrast in the other Hampden dressing room will be stark. Brother Pedro’s accent will still appear fresh to his players, never mind his message. His tactical talks and implorations of effort will seem innovative, whether they are or not. For these reasons, and more, Newco players will fear nothing on Sunday.
This game will be more straightforward that Ross County last week. We know Newco are there to win, to knock us out of the cup, stop our Invincibility Quest and reach their second major cup final. We’ll not face 10 men behind the ball.
Having said all of this, you and me will both be stunned if Celtic don’t prevail. We have the better players, the better manager, we’ve faced many and varied challenges this season and come through impressively.
Dembele, Griffiths and Rogic are back and available. The manager has choices on who to play, and options to change the game, or freshen things up later.
That same Newco fan this morning accused me of selective memory, with good reason, when I said I couldn’t remember Ugo Ehiogu playing for Rangers. It was no less alarming to hear a fit and active man of 44 died so suddenly. Condolences to his loved ones. There but……….
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I talked briefly to ugo ehiogu not that long after that goal at my local driving range, he seemed like a very nice guy.
Gerry, only door opening on Monday will be mine as yours bangs shut :-)
Last joker…..dunno…just won’t be Sevco at any cost!!!!
Good pic of Dallas Dallas wi wee Bertie…he should post it on here.
Jimmy,
In that case, O’Neill’s it is :)
Cheers
AoW 9.53pm
Great pic with (our) Dallas & Bertie, not sure who was smiling the most :-)
Dallas sent me an email today with a great analogy about the cheats and their “history” I can’t post it but will use it on Sunday when in company with Celtic fans that have forgotten more about Celtic than I will ever know :-)
25 picks still to come in for Goals For Shay.
My Parkrun may be in jeopardy!
Kennedy’s in Drumcondra will be main venue for Tims to watch Sunday’s match v Soft Loans Co. in Dublin.
WeeShayCSC@€6aticket
CRC
Glad to see you popular front of Cqn had a clique drink whilst the real cqn front had an open meeting in BV
If that’s how you want to have it ya splitter
AoW 10.02
The analogy I referred to, you probably read, there was nothing bad but I didn’t want to steal it as my own patter…….
Gerry, yep i saw that.
On another matter…cane home to a letter stating that Yoker Credit Union had went bust – my son has savings with them and another one – and that we had to take letter to a PO to make a claim to get money back.
Was raging.
Turns out that he only has a £10 in the Yoker wan and the large amount in the other CU. I just got them mixed up.
Funny thing is, the £10 was a gift from Glasgow CC to encourage kids to save. Thousands of schoolkids got one.
Something fishy going on.
AoW 10.49pm
Get the wee mhan a PCS credit union account in your name, great service, I can thank our union for covering Miss GFTB’s communion……although the loan nearly turned into a mortgage :-)
Gerry the wee yin is your pride & joy. Enjoy these times…and then taking her to see the hoops in the future. Yir a lucky man….except in GFS2 :-)
Good Evening (again)….
Here is the second offering of the evening…
“Tin Foil Hat Man”
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/tin-foil-hat-man/
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 21ST APRIL 2017 10:13 PM
CRC
Glad to see you popular front of Cqn had a clique drink whilst the real cqn front had an open meeting in BV
If that’s how you want to have it ya splitter
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Hope you had a grand evening of fine beverages! Never knew about your open meeting, and ours was a secret one , so shoosh, don’t tell anyone!!!
Hope you are well?
HH
CRC
BT, I hope he’s no gonnay be a splitter in Lisbon.
How’s the auld bastart getting on? I’d like to think you’re looking after him and monitoring his training regime in the run up to the pilgrimage.
Pass ma regards to the auld skank and tell him I look forward to seeing him, and that he owes me a tenner…………………….:_)
BT
Might be in your post code on Sunday, not sure if the PV is a goer but looking forward to a few aperitifs with some of the older Tyre bhoys (me & SH are still the youngsters :-)
Nearly forgot
Congratulations to my wee cousin Breda on her marriage to Peter in the fair county of Donegal today.
Reckon the old man will be belting out “Her eyes they shone like diamonds…” ’bout now!
May your future be filled with happiness and laughter. :-)
Hello again all you young rebels.
Oz tims and anybody else of a Celtic persuasion, our Csc are being
hosted by the Grand hotel again this Sun. for the stickies game, this
time we have pre match entertainment with that brilliant Peninsula
rebel Ritchie McKay so be early he will start the party at 7 o clock
and then the real fun begins at 9 o clock because there’s going to be
a show and the Glasgow Celtic will be there.
H.H Mick
AoW 12.05am
All the best to them both……
One of my favourite wee tunes ….
Another appeal. I am in Malaga for the weekend and need somewhere for the 3 tims in the family group to watch the game. Don’t really want to trek down to Benalmadena as it’s the day of my wife’s 60th and she’s really being quite understanding about our need to watch the game under the circumstances…
Remember from the last Sevco game that someone recommended an Irish pub in Malaga city as a possible. How did that go and where was it / what was it called? If anyone can help, we’d all be very grateful, including the birthday girl as my laptop in the digs is the nuclear option.
BAMBOO on 21ST APRIL 2017 8:28 PM
Hahaha ……..Sally Magnusson(BBC Scotland) must think that if they show clips of rangers scoring against us it will help them win the semi.
I lost count of the huns goals they showed and then to give some balance they showed ……NO footage of Celtic scoring against them! Hehe
I dont care.I still fancy Sally.
JOECUNDY
You might be in luck-we sent our top pub spy over recently!
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ALMORE on 20TH APRIL 2017 9:49 PM
Just back from Timmys in Torreblanca. Watched cup final on an iPad as there was a TV malfunction.
Young Hoops were excellent until they scored. Allowed the young bigots back into it then.
2-1 flatters the wee Huns but well deserved victory for the Bhoys
Big shout out to Kevin, owner of Timmys. If you are in the Malaga area he will look after you for all Celtic games. 200 yards from Torreblanca Renfe (train) station, near Fuengirola
I also have a very big penchant for “Jackie Bird.All that red hair.
Am I the only straight guy on here?.
Good night.
Gerry,
Regarding the ‘apostrophe’, no-one seems to have replied to your request.
There WAS, in fact, a problem with your grammatical articulation.
You should not have added the final ‘s’! (I think/hope).
A treble has never been my dream, especially under Neil when Morton knocked us out of the league cup on penalties after their keeper having the game if his life and some Aussie dud got a start Tom Rogic, I think his name was, slaughtered by some fans, We could still make the CL knockout stages the following midweek, anyhow, the Scottish Cup is different 1980 my first (old firm game) 1985 McGarvey/Provan, when even with tickets we all rushed the Celtic end but didn’t realise the turnstyles were moved to the top of the stairs, how nobody was hurt I will never know, 1988 centenary season = MacAvennie/McGhee …….that’s my Celtic !!!!! And finally in my wee trip back 1989… Joe, Joe super Joe…….. Even when we were never the best our memories are ours
Emeraldbee 12.36am
My poor attempt at humour was for other Cqners posting about grammar…… I never thought I would see the day CQN would be grammaritised :-)
Even Rachel Riley wouldn’t give you that word………
Melbourne Mick 12.07am
Keep the wee mhan doing his stuff, see these “coaches” that say all the guff, tell the wee mhan to keep saying it as it is, he knows the history, he knows the Celtic, tell the eijit asking the questions what does he know …….
Always love the stories about the wee mhan, keep them coming, and keep telling him to keep at it as it will enlighten somebody next too him
Hail Hail
Gerry,
Just in frae the pub, having my last tea-and toast, should have left it at reading back over the Blog!
Hail hail to you and all good Tims, grammatically correct or otherwise.
Good night, my good mhan.
GFTB
Hi Gerry just out the shower and ready for a long day of
Guinness and pure Celticness, the wee mhan has been
strutting about all week at training with his Celtic Academy
t shirt on i think i’ll need to cut it off him to give it a wash
but he’s the envy of his team mates with it on so might leave
it till it jumps into the washing machine itself :-))
H.H Mick.
you know them long days outs when you should be unable to get up the stairs , but you drink yourself sober (never really understood that phrase but here i am).
i spent the day at ayr races, then the savoy hotel in ayr, then lorimars in bishopton. spent sometime with GL2 who got lots of tips from PYAYR, me, i didnt make a penny,
Greenlion2, is seriously one of the best, tales of games, history known, charity from the greenock csc that is just incredible. i doff my cap .
keep it lit.
Finbar Furey & Christy Dignam – “Green Fields of France” | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhao4SHXGo
sing a song on the bus saint stivs.
right now i only know one word perfect. i didnt sing,
grace jim mccann
when padraig called me to his side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMf6IyJI0e4
Christy Moore sings at burial of Martin McGuinness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkYxH3V0EI
Frances Black sings Raglan Rd at the funeral of Martin McGuinness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TE66FkPVNw
Gerry Adams oration at the graveside of Martin McGuinness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqa6kVMRR0
Bring on the Sevco, Newco Rangers is All I can say.
2 early goals and, recording. Recording from the Raphael VAN dER Vaart.
The Prodigy
The First EVENT that the Prodigy HEADlined they took nae Sh!t.
They played 1.5 Songs…. then said NAW… Awe Naw…. were are Offski,. TCHai….
a LOT OF pOLITICAL THINGS GOING oN @ THAT time 2.
The Prodigy Sacrificed the First EVENT.
Used Scotland?
WEweeeeho knows Anything?
One game @ a time. Go Hibs. Cya in the Final.