Your grandad will tell you Jock Stein was master of the news the week before a big derby game. He would seed positive news stories about players or the club to make sure everyone had a spring in their step and to put pressure on opponents.
Graeme Murty is not the master of his own domain, so has few levers to pull in this respect, but he must have despaired when news broke that Newco were unable to retain a 21-year-old central defender they bought from Raith Rovers in January 2017.
Newco are dead in the water if they cannot retain recruits from Raith Rovers who have played a dozen league games for them this season. Dead. In. The. Water. They cannot buy the finished product, they cannot even compete for the French youth international talent Celtic seem partial to.
The only team development strategy available to them is to develop, retain and benefit from young domestic talent. And according to Murty, they cannot afford to offer competitive wages for David Bates.
They couldn’t even convince him to keep his contract business to himself for a few days until after his team face Celtic tomorrow. What a hopeless shower.
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And on to the more important matters of the day. Celtic to reign supreme with a hard fought, and lucky, 7-0 victory.
I’ll take 2-0.
Good morning friends. Another day that The Lord has made. Another opportunity to Rejoice and be glad in it.
In sport there is no divine right to win anything. On most occasions it will be the best team that wins. Today we simply need to be the best team out of the 2 that will be on the park.
Our bench today will probably be the strongest in our history.
God bless the 96 souls. 29 years ago today.
YNWA
https://youtu.be/ex2lp4aqpDo
In managing expectations and appreciating the task in hand we face today,
perhaps it is worth remembering that we come up against two opponents today – the rainjurrz and scoddland.
For the guid o’ scoddish foo’ball it is vital that the Tims get beat, ( doesn’t really matter how, the win’s the thing).
After the whistle sounds and it kicks-off…it is anyone’s guess how the 90 plus minutes will unfold but we can expect them to be characteristically rabid, in our faces and ferocious in the tackle……confident that initial transgressions will be overlooked. Boaby wull be a big player for thums……..
Celtic can expect to be penalised for first offences, often sight unseen.
I expect a tight, bad tempered game where unless we dominate the midfield we will see hunned-up brutality and stuffy sleekit resistance from the grizzly bears, especially the season buik hun with a whistle…….. As much as i’d love it ( really love it) I don’t see us steam-rollering thums……….I think it’ll be nip and tuck with genuine goodness and quality being the difference.
Here’s to a Tim victory and a right good drink later!
HH
Don’t give der hun a sniff I think we have actually made them look better than they actually are when we’ve played them. So no complacency 100% commitment & focus today Celtic .That should overcome 300% brawn & lack of skill plus dropping like flies when touched
DD 10.08am
Puts the football in perspective
As a daft 16yr old at the Celtic v Liverpool memorial game was a poignant time, probably didn’t appreciate being there at the time as much as I should have
Sipsini,
Hope it’s a fantastic return to action for you today.
You old Bhoys are getting too fragile for the old Euro away games :-)
Seriously though, glad you’re back to full health, and look forward to catching up before the end of the season .
Hope we stick it to ’em hard today. Hard and often.
HH
My young team neighbours are out early in the morning sun, in their green and white Hoops. Nice to report today that;
Dalmuir Is Green and White.
COYBIG
Sipsini dude,
Good to hear yer on the road again. Take it easy m8ty.
HH
…….
And…and,………………… keep the guns trained on our sleekit opponents.
Clearly, they neither like it up thum or can deal with it bein’ put up to thum.
It’s good to be a Tim.
HH.
GFTB
My sister and I took her pal Liz to that Celtic v Liverpool memorial match. Liz was from a Knightswood hun family and at her first Celtic game. Her dad was raging that she was going to a Celtic match in Paradise. Today Liz is as big a Celtic fan as you and I. She saw the difference between Celtic and her dad”s team Rangers that day, and at 19 year old, converted to Celtic for life. Hope she is celebrating today in her dad’s house.
HH
As regular readers will know I am not one to repeat myself…
However I feel I must make an exception today
Carthago Delenda Est
An important game today, as all semi finals are, I expect it to be tighter than it should be, BM will be in the spotlight from the get go.
It’s important for me too that we vanquish the pretend cheats as they should be nowhere near a cup semi final and without their placement all through the stinking rotten game they would be nowhere near a semi final.
It’s important too that we beat them and extinguish any hope they might have of “closing the gap”
No quarter asked today Celtic and none given, the Double treble is only a few games away, let’s make history!
Come on Brendan and his Bhoys give us a day to be proud of..
UTLR
when your going to the game …but you have to Kill Bill first….
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaqlxKzXUAMpmir.jpg
smiley improvisation thing
Braw
4 to zero …first half ….a wee coast then finish strong ….
a big six for the Celtic ….
claim the middle ground and whack them pretendies …
Braw
Lovely day for it, although heavy rain due circa 14.00hrs.
Optimistic, confident but nervous.
COYBIG.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Good morning Timland. The cup hangs in the balance today. Hopefully a Celtic win. As always i am nervous – can’t stand all this positive talk. C’MON THE HOOPS!!!!!!!!
P.S. Da, as always, is very confident. He’s giving me palpitations.
HH
WEE BGFC
Good morning champions!
Wee BGFC
Listen to yer da. I am confident that we will pump the rotten mob rotten today.
Keep da faith G
One Love CSC
Wee BGFC
your big da wrote an awfy braw post late this morning …
have a braw day ….no worries wee man we will rip intae thems…
smiley Celtic thing
Braw
Popped out to local supermarket for a wee swally to prepare for the game, had my retro hoops on and was met with dirty looks & rage.
Felt good, dont think it was huns, think it was because their local team got pumped yesterday & they dinnae like thae weegies.?.
The ref and the pitch is all we’ve got to worry about the day. HH
Mood music for today…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u5WWVJhuRTk
HH
DD 10.31am
Brilliant, open to all :-)
Anyhow 2 Morton rolls with some Galloway roasted under the grill awaits, only time the wife makes me breakfast, “you need to eat something if your going out” she sounds like ma wee maw did on many of these type of games (semi finals :-)
Hail Hail
hey Burgas ….foo ye dain loon…..warm in Burgasland? …sweltering I bet…
going to be an interesting day….
Braw
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR
Great post last night, we’re either all Celtic or we’re not!!!
HH
Cheers Neustadt-Braw (and others).
We are in a hostile environment – it would be helpful if we could avoid attacking each other.
I’d go further and say we should foster a wider Tim alliance of ourselves, Dundee Hibernian and Hibs (and East Kilbride).
The Huns, and their press lapdogs, like to sow division – we shouldn’t help them.
HH
BGFC
Rumoured Starting eleven
Gordon
Lustig Ajer Boyata KT
Brown Ntcham
Forrest Rogic McGregor
Dembele
Good luck to the Celts today, two steps to heaven.
Been gifted some bronze debs for this one and will be on the road soon expecting our match winners to prevail after a tight game.
Heard a good line on television this week from New Orleans, so come on Moussa, Leigh: laissez les bon temps rouler, let the good times roll!
BGFC
…..ne’er a truer word said old bhoy!
Good on ye!
HH.
BGFC
Light breakfast then visit to see my wee Celtic daft mammy, then to my son’s for a Fenian bbq around the match. This is the day…….
COYBIG
Over and over…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_5zC2WrBU
HH
This tv thing is doing my nut in. Any help appreciated:
Thought the game was on Sky main event which I have through BT. Schedules say it’s not.
Thought BBC might have it. Appears not.
Is it on Sky sports extra which never appears to have anything on it as far as I can see?
Failing that, any sausages?
I pay through the nose to watch Celtic on tv and they are hardly ever on. Lesson learned. What I pay would account for a large part of a Season book. Maybe not the transport to get over but a few changes planned for the coming year might see me back in Alba a bit more than I have been in the last decade or more. To hell with this crappy tv deal.
Any advice on getting today’s game would be appreciated.
Any recent news on the appointment of the new CEO of the SFA?
Very unusual for a national organisation to take as long to fill such a central position. Nefarious skullduggery and shenanigans definitely afoot.
HH
BGFC
RT- if you have a Firestick, PC , mobile, download Livenet.tv, best app around for football, it plays with MX Player, good luck.
DELANEYSDUNKY 1031
Few things warm the cockles like the pleasure of watching a convert.
Well done,that man. And well done,that girl!
HH
Robertressell
Check out hesgoal
HH
DD – give yer maw and your bhoy a hug from me and Wee BGFC.
Have a great day – no matter the result, we are all still Tims together.
HH to mad Dalmuir Timland from The Plains – a shining beacon of Timmyness in deepest, darkest North Lanarkshire !!!
HH
BGFC & Wee BGFC
OneLoveCSC