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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All these people wanting us to get beat on sunday,well i didn’t pay £26 to watch us lose to
a first division standard club and after gerry britons blast at celtic fans buying tickets at firhill I want us to thrash them
As for Ajax anyone know of good friendly bar showing the game in AMSTERDAM as im off
for the game without a ticket
if it sold good beer(and I DONT MEAN GASSY EURO FIZZ LAGER) it would be a bonus
Gene
3 inches? It seemed at the time it needed to be about 3 yards higher. Maybe just the dark side of nostalgia. And anyway. What was that manager thinking taking KD off? I bet you he never amounted to much @
As a guy who watches the bulk of Celtic games via TV or square sausages, the TV fan often has the advantage in assessing an individual incident like a penalty or an off side but for general play and off the ball covering and pressing the guy who is watching live can see a lot more and make a better assessment of individual players contribution. To those who are having a bit of a go at Pukki following Tuesday’s game, I would ask the question were you at the game.
Word reaches me of plans for Amsterdam
Celtic are going to ask that all fans lucky enough to have tickets congregate in Amsterdam Square 3 hours before kick where we will be escorted on foot to the stadium. Not heard what’s going to happen to the other 5000 plus travelling support who don’t have tickets.
Seems that nobody is too keen on us travelling to the two metro grounds servicing the stadium as it’s expected there may be a couple of welcoming committees awaiting our arrival
DBI
Who on her wants us to get beat on Sunday?
Bloody idiot,name one?
ex cathedra
Meant to add
Ajax have score in all 10 games in the Eeredivisie this season and scored more than one on 8 of these occasions.
It was not down to our defence alone that we almost kept them blank for the only time, apart from in the Nou Camp, where they were also scoreless despite creating many chances.
MICKYBHOY
Kidding and joking aside,be careful over there.
Same for everyone else.
Good afternoon, folks.
Been out of the loop for a few days and just catching up on today’s wit and wisdom.
Enjoyed Tuesday’s victory, where, for once, we got the breaks.
I can’t understand, well, maybe I can, the critical appraisal of some of our players’ performances.
I believe that in competing in the CL, we are out of our normal comfort zone. Therefore the physical and, more significantly, the mental effort required at this level is colossal.
This may be the cause of the late lapses. I believe it had a major impact on Scott Brown’s aberration v Barca.
However, what is beginning(?) to annoy me is this Pass the Scapegoat game that an almost exclusive section of our support have.
They form a snapshot opinion of Celtic men : – from Fergus to Brian Quinn to Gordon Strachan, through. To players like Sammi to, more recently Beram Kayal, who they think don’t belong at Celtic Park and now, it seems, Pukki is the new whipping boy on the block.
Of course, Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwell have their own anti fan clubs, which remain with them.
Celtic men? They are not even football men.
Another jug of Sangria, poor favor.
P.S.
Funny how a headline of “The King Returns” means different things to different parts of Glasgow.
BHF=train station
HH
Russell was allowed to go to Derby for the simple reason that if we want him a year down the line then we get him. The only spanner in the works would be them getting promoted but that is unlikely.
Still think he should have been signed in the summer – its great having scouts all over the world but hugely frustrating to miss out on guys like James McCarthy and Steven Fletcher for the sake of a few hundred grand.
Domestic transfer policy needs to be a bit more flexible esp. for the young guys with huge potential. Chances are they will either make you a packet in the future OR play out their career with us like Jackie Mac(well, almost!).
HH
desertbhoy
14:50 on
http://www.paddys.ch/Zurich/Sport
Gretnabhoy
Yeah your right about that one of course.
I’m more meaning the instant throw to an unmarked player which can set up a counter-attack
like Boruc would do.
Its something that he should be getting coached to do.
Celtic plc going about their business is the quintessential embodiment of scapegoating.
Too many arithmetically challenged back slappers on here.
I suppose it makes them feel good about themselves.
It reminds me of limited people who’s only take on the explanation of the universe is from the scriptures.
Proudly ignorant and condescending…the perfect Celtic pavlov dogs
Is their enough of them ?
HH
BMCUW
I am saying what I always said.
Tony Stokes used to be a more out and out striker but he is morphing into a number 10 before our eyes and is now better used in a support attacker role. Do you not agree?
Teemo Pukki seems to have been used as either a twin striker or a support attacker by most other coaches but, like Antony Stokes he can score a fair few from that role.
Now, maybe Neil Lennon thought he could make him a striker, a Larssonesque transformation, but neither I nor you are privy to Neil’s thoughts so we cannot be sure.
However, let us accept that Neil did see Pukki as a potential direct replacement for Hooper. The sign of a good coach is not that he never makes mistaken assumptions; it is that he learns from the evidence to go back on his initial assumption.
I have little doubt that Neil is praying for a number of things:-
That our attacking support players can contribute enough goals in Scotland to keep our European, title and cup hopes alive so that we do not miss Hooper as much as we otherwise might.
That Amido Balde manages to establish an understanding with our team to use him in order to get the 12 to 20 goals per season he might manage in his early career if played often enough.
That Atajic’s promise from last year can blossom in the more competitive senior environment as he will get around 6 to 10 appearances this year.
That Tony Watt wakes up, takes his chance to be more professional in Belgium and returns to CP with a desire to prove lots of us wrong.
And that the transfer window in January gives us another chance to rectify or improve our situation if the other hopes above do not come to fruition.
There even but they do belong to the board like unthinking bitches
HH
PPS
Our victory on Tuesday hinged on our front players preventing their back four from playing the ball out from the back.
This resorted to the hoof up the park, which we invariably won.
Well done Stokes and Pukki.
afternoon all. just boarding the train from brum. any tickets for sunday?
Anyone know how much Margarita and Blue pitch holdings ? have in the deid club.
Saw something today that suggested 6% and 4% much less than I had hoped.
I was hoping these two with a couple of other plants might have enough to ensure control of the club.
Doesnt look like it. :¬ (
It seems like a million years ago when Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo asked me to tape John Peel’s Festive Fifty and I discovered The Wedding Present. That was a life changing day. It was on this in 2004 that John Peel died. Tonight I’m going to see The Wedding Present in Glasgow.
A Million Miles
How come the arena in Amsterdam is called the ArenA? Is it some sort of sponsorship deal – or did someone just mistype it and then thought it looked cool?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie
15:33 on 25 October, 2013
DBI
Who on her wants us to get beat on Sunday?
Bloody idiot,name one?
>>>>>>>>>>
Think you missed an E out there bobby…kids read the blog ;-))
eddieinkirkmochael – that drinks menu looks good in paddyreillys – 9 euros for a guinness – what’s a feldschlossen when it’s at home ?
SFTB
Who are we developing Tony for ?
And why do we bother ?
Its the Andy Lynch converted winger syndrome that we are famous for.
I.e skimming on the football side.
HH
GordonJ
Why are you asking that on a CeltiC site?
Morrisey23rd
Enjoy.
* day
Jackiemac, its a brand of beer.
Is the Celtic scouting system letting us down when the likes of McCarthy Russell and Fletcher go unnoticed and are snapped up by other youth academies in their tender years
morrissey the 23rd
Be good to catch a beer with yourself again. My bhoy will be with me and he’s only sixteen, would he get in the pub?
sipsini
16:04 on 25 October, 2013
Whit ever happened to the packet of plain crisps and a can of coke at the pub door on match days
Somethings been bothering me for a couple of weeks….
I wonder what input the disgraced former SFA referees supervisor had into Scott Brown’s EUFA disciplinary hearing
Awe Naw
That was wonderfully arbitrary.
sipsini @ 16:04
I don’t think so. We could go to the bowling club on London road instead?
What follows are the texts of a letter I sent to Alex Salmond and the reply that I received.
Bland and unsatisfactory as the reply is, Salmond did at least reply.
Unfortunately Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond has failed to even acknowledge receipt of a similar letter from me.
02/10/13
First Minister,
Considered odious, comparisons can often be highly relevant, and at times even necessary.
An hour or so before kick-off time at last night’s Champions League encounter between Celtic and Barcelona, reports were circulating on the internet to the effect that plain clothes policemen were handing out on the spot fines related to the public consumption of alcohol in the proximity of Celtic Park.
Since last Saturday, again on the internet, there have been posted a number of video examples of apparent breaches of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act, at a football ground on the south side of Glasgow.
These breaches of the act, apparently included renderings of ‘Derry’s Walls’ ‘The Sash’ and the UVF anthem ‘A Father’s Advice’. All of which many people in Scotland would find to be highly offensive. Additionally, related to the above, a photograph has been circulated showing uniformed members of the Armed Forces in attendance, flaunting a scarf emblazoned with ‘Keep Ulster Protestant’ and energetically waving an Ulster Flag.
It would appear that any police in attendance either lacked in numbers or even desire to act in relation to the above offences.
As an individual, you have never been noted for backwardness at coming forward.
However, at least one Westminster MP, Respect’s George Galloway, has publicly remarked on your stunning silence on Saturday’s events referred to above
Some, perhaps unfairly, and doubtlessly amongst them a number ‘Parkhead Paranoids’ will compare your silence on the above with your eagerness early last year to have word in HMRC’s ear, pleading leniency in the matter of unpaid taxes, for the self same football club at whose ground last Saturday’s unsavoury events took place.
25 October 2013
Thank you for your email dated 2 October 2013 to the First Minister regarding your concerns about the recent Armed Forces Day match at Ibrox Stadium. I have been asked to respond.
Firstly, regarding your point about on-the-spot fines being handed out for the public
consumption of alcohol within the vicinity of Celtic Park prior to the match against Barcelona,
Glasgow City Council introduced a byelaw in August 1996 prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public places. The exception to this rule is between the hours of 18:00 on 31December and 06:00 on 1 January. These laws were created under sections 201-203 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. Information on byelaws in force within Glasgow City Council’s boundary is available on their website.
Under the provisions of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004, it is a statutory offence to consume alcohol where it breaks a bye-law and a fixed penalty not exceeding level 2 (up to £500) may be levied.
The Government’s view is that sectarianism has absolutely no place in Scotland and we condemn it unreservedly whenever and wherever it occurs. The Government also recognises that the vast majority of football supporters are well-behaved and simply wish to support their team. We will continue to support the police and prosecutors in tackling unacceptable behaviour by the small minority which disrupts the enjoyment of the matchday experience for everybody else.
We are aware of the concerns raised in relation to the match you refer to at Ibrox, which Police Scotland and the Army are investigating these complaints. The Army in Scotland have also stated that sectarianism is a breach of the Army’s strict values and standards and, if any personnel are found to have fallen short of these values and standards, they will be dealt with by administrative or disciplinary action by the chain of command and, if necessary, by the police.
St Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG
http://www.scotland.gov.uk
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TBB
Go for it. Nobody else,wants to.
HH
mickbhoy1888,
Great days… Would walk to the game with my granda and uncles from callie rd. Us kids would be left outside numerous pubs stamping our feet and be fed with crisps, coke and warned…don’t tell yer ma.
Don’t think Pukki was even on the original ‘A’ list of striking options. For whatever reason we didn’t land any of our A targets (the reasons have been debated to death on here). Lenny flew out to watch Pukki play just before he signed. Thus my theory that he was a B option that Lenny had to be convinced about.
Awe NAw
Was away doing some chores
“Who are we developing Tony for ? ”
Before I answer, do you mean Watt or stokes?