There will have been tired limbs at Lennonxtown when the players resumed full training yesterday after their exertions on Tuesday night but they will still be desperate to take to the field at Firhill on Sunday. This game is a necessary preparation ahead of the Amsterdam AreanA in 12 days.
We have an advantage for Amsterdam…..
Ajax are nip and tuck with a handful of clubs near the top of the Dutch league. They have three home games in the league and cup before facing Celtic and the pressure is on to win each of them. Ajax don’t have the ability to allow players extended recuperation time to ensure they are in pristine condition for Champions League duty, Celtic do.
I would rest everyone we don’t have good cover for. This is also a game for Nir Biton to start. The player needs to get back in the saddle as quickly as possible after Tuesday, he is also unlikely to see Champions League group stage action again this season.
After his international and other duties, Charlie Mulgrew would benefit from a rest. We don’t have sufficient cover for James Forrest and Beram Kayal, so send them away for the weekend.
Use every advantage possible.
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Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
14:47 on 25 October, 2013
“Ole TTTT doesn’t know what each T stands for :-)”
Aye, that’s him to a T
PS :-)
CQN Polis
I only commented on one game, just think Pukki was very very poor. As for bashing Celtic players, well there’s a difference between constantly bashing and having an opinion on one game.
Hope the Bhoy does well, back to the cave.
ICT post a profit for the first time in 6 years – Armageddon indeed, armageddon indeed.
I knew we needed zombies for armageddon – and we have them to be sure – but I thought they would be referring to financial armageddon too…
I have to say that this kerfuffle about PF AYR is a load of nonsense.
I e-mailed the gentleman in question when this first arose.
He simply pointed out that he is bigger than me,and knows where I live.
Which is good enough for me. Anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly a hun.
Desert,have you not heard of google????
Anyone want to hazard a guess at what the ‘T’s stand for? :)
So will King join the Easdales or Murray? WIll he play one off against the other? If he backs the Easdales is that the end for Murray and McColl? My guess is King and Longmuir join Easedale and Stockbridge and that will be enough to kill off Murray’s bid for now. King will find a way to involve McColl too.
And who is Jabba working for? As he was appointed head of communications, is he working with Irvine (who is working for the Easdales) or has been benched after making no impression whatsoever.
viewfaethewindae
14:52 on 25 October, 2013CQN PolisI only commented on one game, just think Pukki was very very poor. As for bashing Celtic players, well there’s a difference between constantly bashing and having an opinion on one game.Hope the Bhoy does well, back to the cave.
Does the cave have windaes mate? :)
DeniaBhoy in awe of wee Oscar’s Courage
14:56 on
25 October, 2013
And who is Jabba working for?
The chef.
Desert -look in celticbars.com under s for switzerland
Viel gluck
Just back from Altinkum in Turkey this week. Managed to catch the Hibs game in a wee pub down near the harbour. Ended up watching with two Hoops from Milton, Raymie and Ricky. The guys each own apartments over there and invited me along to their local that night for the karaoke where we ended up singing Fields of Athenry to the bemusement of the mostly english ex pats living out there (and our families). Made very welcome by two guys who I had never met before that day simply because of our mutual love for the hoops. Don’t know if any of the two guys are on here, but if you are, thanks for the laughs and thanks for the welcome.
Celticfamily.
desertbhoy – might have been covered, but you tried celtic bars website ?
desertbhoy
The Nelson pub in ZH near the BHF or the dubliner or the oliver twist
Dont know bern
HH
swordfish supporting wee oscar
14:55 on 25 October, 2013
Desert,have you not heard of google????
“…………….
Thought that was Craig Whyte……
…no excuse for my stupidity, but battery running low and Swiss sockets are not the easiest to find an adaptor for…..
gene’s a bhoy’s name
14:57 on 25 October, 2013
Desert -look in celticbars.com under s for switzerland
Viel gluck
“…………….”
Danke
Bada
Tinternet?
U
Ulysses
Timternet surely
Talented Tims Treasury of Tips
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
14:10 on 25 October, 2013
Aye that’s the day ye never know whit the morra is going to bring old chap
TTTT
You hate my big mooth always with precision accuracy predicting our future ;-)
XX
HH
Just passing through…
So I’d joost like to ask a wee question and if anybody can be ersed answering
I’ll reply oan my way back roon again…
Right – here goes…..who is currently good enough to be keepin oot Johnny Russell ?
Ach – while ahm here – why does there have to be a foreign agent involved wi any players that we sign these days ?
Back roon again in a wee while – If emdy answers I’ll show due courtesy.
If no – yeez can awe hing az yeez grou :)
HH – Off oot – Laters…
setting free the bears supports celtic’s best fighter- wee oscar knox
14:04 on 25 October, 2013
viewfraethewindae
Pukki was far from a passenger but, like Anthony Stokes (our 2nd best for distance covered) he had the thankless task of chasing down and harrying the pass retention tactics of the Ajax back 4.
Without their joint efforts, Charlie and Beram would have had less time and more space to cover. He sacrificed his game for the greater good and should get plaudits for that instead of being dismissed as a jogger.
The only thing that differentiated Tony Stokes game performance from Pukki’s was that Tony won a penalty and we do not expect Tony to work as hard so we give him plaudits when our misconceptions are overturned. Pukki does not seem to receive such consideration.
I am reserving judgement before I see whether Pukki can be a decent scoring attacking midfielder for Celtic, just like Tony Stokes is already. We still need a potent striker to supplement these guys in the future.
Where was Vic Wanyama in the October of his first season with us?
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With the greatest respect,Pukki was not presented to us as an attacking midfielder.
A title you have also awarded Anthony Stokes.
If you are correct,we are likely to have a formation similar to the infamous Craig Levein 4-6-0
That’s not Celtic,that’s not good enough,and it’s not effin on.
Well, we all know how a Hobbit requires second breakfast.
Well 4T’s is similar. He requires 4 teas.
MWD
It does, one of the caves you escape to, you know with windaes, computers, radios and all. Oh and plenty and plenty of wine and beer, lovely wee place, only for Celtic fans, bit like a shrine to all things Celtic actually.
I was reading some of the comments on Paul mc connville’s blog. This was posted by one of the regulars….
And they owe more than £3.3million to other clubs in Scotland, England and Europe. Celtic are owed £40,337, Hearts £800,000, Dunfermline £88,370, Dundee United £65,981 and Caley Thistle £39,805….
I was under the impression “thems” had to clear all football related debts.
P.s… What charity benefited from the Dundee utd v scum cup game?
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
15:00 on 25 October, 2013
desertbhoy
The Nelson pub in ZH near the BHF or the dubliner or the oliver twist
Dont know bern
HH
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Thanks.. Assume BHF. is the train station??
Henriks sombrero.. Thanks also.. And anyone else who has advised…
Kevjungle
I’m way you.
I’d take johnny Russell in a nano nano.
Bhoy is a big Tim. Sat behind me at Stan game and again saw him at CP on tuesday night signing autographs happily for young hoopeees while Gary Hooper ran past them all at the entrance as he was too important to stop on his vist to The park.
MWD
KevJungle…
Mrs Russell, once a month.
Kevjungle
Whoever is keeping him out the side at derby -unless he is injured or suspended
Kevjungle
I think he may possibly just be getting kept oot would be down to the fact he has a broken leg. Don`t know if thats enough to keep him oot, what dya think?
philbhoy – bring it on!!!!
14:30 on 25 October, 2013
As said earlier today where was he when Samaras was hitting the bye line and there was nobody in the box
A mini version of Mr Brattbakk methinks
RE: Johnny Russell
You Johnny Russell fans are short-sighted.
If we signed Steven Fletcher he would have scored 300 goals by now. Think of the big picture.
Kevjungle
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-County-striker-Johnny-Russell-facing-weeks/story-19903297-detail/story.html#!
Bamboo
I do recall once when big FF got rid of the ball upfield quickly to a young Tony Watt and thus providing the assist !!
Celtic v Inter Milan 1972 – I never realised until recently that Dixie came on as a sub for King Kenny.
If Kenny had stayed on…maybe history would have been kinder to us.
BMCUW
I described them both as I see them this year not as how they were presented to me (by whom?).
Pukki is palpably not a Gary Hooper type and neither, any more, is Antony Stokes. Both drift too often out of central roles to be consider a focal striker.
As decent footballers both, they can make a fair fist of impersonating a striker but it is a position that is not best use for either of them.
I am on record, in conceding Sydney Tim’s point (while disagreeing with a lot of what he adds to that point) in that we do not have a Hooper replacement. Balde could be played there but he will take most of this year to find his feet with us as he is a type of player we have not had for some time. He is not a Killen type as, despite his height, he prefers the ball on the deck to stretch his long legs and use his frame to protect the ball. He is more like an upgrade on Daryl Murphy and Cillian Sheridan who both liked to play football on the deck, with varying success, than be seen as aerial attackers.
Our other main central striker option, Tony Watt, decided to exempt himself from taking a professional approach to his career. Hopefully, it is not too late for him to reverse that attitude. And Atajic will need SPl game time before he can be counted upon to contribute to our CL effort.
ex cathedra
“we did not retain the ball nor run their defenders into errors enough,however we shall see.”
I agree with the first observation but would say that we did enough to disrupt their back 4 passing as we restricted them to fewer creative attacks than they usually manage in the Dutch league.
Phyllis
Or had the crossbar been 3 inches higher
SETTING FREE THE BEARS
Your reply,if anything,only exacerbates my fears-and backs up every word that SYDNEY TIM and others have been saying.
We are hoping,at best,to sign a striker,and with the exception of Hooper,have not done so.
You are now saying that the players presented to us as strikers aren’t really strikers at all.
Ffs…