I’m having none of this frozen Arctic Circle nonsense, Bodo is due to be 1 degree colder than Lanarkshire by kick-off this evening. The plastic pitch is a challenge, but we need proper game time on plastic with that visit to Livingston looming a week on Sunday – so let’s think positively about this opportunity.
This game is winnable, the tie is winnable. Bodo/Glimt remain preseason, they will end the game as tired as they looked last week and would find extra-time an impossible endurance. Celtic can and must play far better than they did in the first leg. They lost, because they were poor and made the wrong selection decisions. This is not a time for flamboyant midfield experimentation, start with our strongest 11, pass the ball with speed and we should find pockets of Arctic space denied to us last week.
If the score is 0-0 at 60 minutes the tie will still be there for us. These are the challenges players get into the game to face. It is a great opportunity for so many in this new Celtic side. Bring it on.
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Supporters plane landed in Trondheim, nae chance of getting there
YORKBHOY on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:41 PM
Back to Basics
I did post the points total from a previous post.
My thinking was that last season was a disaster from start to finish ( just my memory rather than checking)
I would guess that most posters would, if asked, thought we had a bigger gap than 8 points compared to last year. Just thought it was interesting.
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I agree with Madmitch on performance being a better indicator of how we are doing than points. In the first half of 20/21 I reckon we spawned about 8 points. 6 of those prior to the 0-2 Rangers game. The early season tally hid huge issues in perf/mgt/player attitude etc.
To be fair to P67, he did an article after the 5-1 opening day game vs Hamilton on our defensive issues (i had been scared witless since pre-season games).
He also did an article on how marginal the 2020 Jan to March post Dubai run had been vs the Rangers collapse. We were not imperious with the 3-5-2 and they were a bit unlucky. Covid curtailing the season worked for us
JHB,
Can you please tell me the person,or persons,from the SNP,who uttered the much used Media soundbite,”A once in a generation vote”.
The clue is in the question.
If you want to state facts,make sure they are facts,not Media inspired myths.You know,say a thing long enough,it then gets taken as the truth.
MADMITCH
You were one who told me I was talking crap when I said an invasion was inevitable so I’m not going to listen to your arrogant nonsense now. You don’t half talk shite when it comes to politics.
Hopefully the team get home asap
Trondheim airport is in a place called Hell , was medivacced from it many moons ago ,was well named.HH
LIONROARS67 on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:45 PM
The reason I ask is that you suggested you’d voted for Colin Fox, but his organisation only stood on the list vote, not the constituency vote, so I just wondered if you had voted for a constituency candidate and how that panned out. Did your candidate win and how did they vote on the repeal of the SNP’s Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012? No need to reply if it’s too upsetting for you.
And you appear to have missed this.
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ERNIE LYNCH on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:55 PM
CLINKO on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:49 PM
No the guy had no connection with Switzerland that I’m aware of. He was only ever an occasional poster but I haven’t seen him on for a long long time.
JHB
You know,say a thing long enough,it then gets taken as the truth.
My God coming from you of all people, that is hilarious in its irony.
!!BADA BING!! on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:51 PM
Supporters plane landed in Trondheim, nae chance of getting there
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My pal just said he is still stuck in Tronders
CONEYBHOY
Ask him to get you a postcard from hell. HH
OHITS on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:58 PM
CONEYBHOY
Ask him to get you a postcard from hell. HH
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I will! Sounds like you have a great tale to tell; maybe at a Hoot or a Big Jimmy bevvy 😎
West Craigs
The Celtic bus leaves from the Redbrae pub so you should see it there. I imagine that the Chase Inn in Harestanes will be showing it too along with McGinleys bar at Eastside.
They’ll probably be showing both games. The latter would be my preference.
Good luck.
Bada Bing – the Celtic fans charter flight has been diverted significantly south! Apparently they may not make it!
OHITs,
I too remember Trondhelm Airport.and the crazy roads.
Are you in the Engineering Construction industry by any chance. ?
HH.
Yorkbhoy – cheers.
“would guess that most posters would, if asked, thought we had a bigger gap than 8 points compared to last year”.
Indeed. And that includes me.
The stat surprised me.
And partly prompted a bit of digging.
I’m routinely interested in overlaying thoughts/feelings with data to see how close or far apart they are.
In this case I think the data indicates the depth of the fall and the point in time the falling stopped …
… which for me was 2 weeks after Ange arrived.
Admittedly, it took a further 8-10? weeks for the upward direction to translate into winning games regularly.
(When delivering improvements on a significant scale, there’s always a lag ! )
But, statistically at least, we haven’t looked back since.
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
CONEYBHOY
I would love to attend a wee Hoot again but I am now a Spanish resident.I will be over for Ross County on 19/03 and will definitely be in the BV for a couple. HH
TMcL @ 1.53
How about some context — help me out with my grey memory syndrome?
When did you say it and what were you basing your judgement on?
Plus I still don’t agree with your appeasement vibe.
ERNIE LYNCH on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:55 PM
Not upsetting at all Ernie
What is the big secret with you ? do you consider yourself a character from a John Le Carre novel, are you in the masons, work in national security to reveal where you voted would imperil the nation in some way
The Spanish inquisition act gets boring Ernie for everyone on the blog
last time
What was the name of the Labour MSP you voted for and what was the name of the constituency ?
What was the blog name of the Japanese poster
How did you contact the Japanese poster ? e- mail
TMcL @ 1.53
And not forgetting the old classic …
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
GREENPINATA
Yes mate , for my sins. Was at Tjellebergoden (spelling) when I had my little accident, nothing too serious. HH
LIONROARS67 on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:04 PM
Please don’t say you voted for an SNP candidate who went on to vote against the repeal of Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012.
Just please, don’t. It would be too ridiculous for words.
I don’t recall the guy’s name on here but I do remember it had Japan in it. As I say it was quite a long time ago and probably before you started posting on here. When was that by the way?
MADMITCH
Anyone who says “If the Iraq war was illegal why were there no arrests?” is naive in the extreme and a political pygmy.
ERNIE LYNCH on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:11 PM
I don’t recall the guy’s name on here but I do remember it had Japan in it. As I say it was quite a long time ago and probably before you started posting on here
Mr memory man cant remember dearie me, but the Japanese poster had Japan in it very original
Away and gies peace, your a fraud, unmasked last night, a troll who no one knows or ever met
OHITS,
I was also at T with Petrology.
Brilliant stories to be told if anyone was ever sober enough to tell them.
What a coincidence, In Aberdeen on Tuesday I just bumped into a guy who worked on that job .
Cheers and HH.
Why has the supporters flight been diverted?
Tom
It might be because it’s also a military air base as well.
Hope not
Lads on the plane say it shouldn’t be too long now. 1 hr flight so might just squeak to the game
GREENPINATA
I was there with Motherwell Bridge working on the ASU , nightmare of a place to get to. HH
OHITS on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:22 PM
GREENPINATA
I was there with Motherwell Bridge working on the ASU , nightmare of a place to get to. HH
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my mate briefly worked for Motherwell Bridge in the early 90s.
You must have been the token Tim😎
LIONROARS67 on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:16 PM
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree. We’re talking about something that happened before you joined the blog and of which you can have no knowledge.
William Hill odds for tonight:
Bodo/Glimt 11/5
Celtic 19/20
Rangers 16/5
Dortmund 3/4
Celtic and Dortmund both odds-on fav to win.
Tom
Bet the odds were similar last week 😨
CONEYBHOY
There was a few of us on the job, late nineties we had just signed the KOK , happy days. HH
ERNIE LYNCH on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:33 PM
The point is you have no knowledge with no verifiable proof to offer on your story
Deny, deflection, question the other guy, change tact when your losing
Troll behaviour
BTW Get me a blog name I can get all the info I need and you know it !
TMcL @ 2.12
For someone who couldn’t deal with / explain / understand the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in the time of Pol Phot — no military threat and no UN Resolution — you seem to have no problem parroting Nat ? trot propaganda.
Still nothing about your Nostradamus act regarding the invasion of Ukraine.
On a slightly more positive note — missing pharma programming bloke who works from home in the east of Ukraine has been located.
He is hiding out in a cellar / shelter and is waiting for news on where the Russians are heading.
Small victory but worth a celebration.
Results last week x 2 = Bookies would have made a killing.
Just saying like.
Time for Celtic
Off to meet 3 CQN posters from way back none of you will remember them ! Japanese, American, and Russian we are meeting up at the Burns Howff to watch the game, I’m on the bell all welcome
True story
COYBIG
Tom
Bodo is closed by snow. This may affect the team returning after the game.
there were two Japan based supporters on CQN back then.
One was Starry Plough, a chef with a sideline in street photography, whom I met in Switzerland shortly before he went back to Japan.
The second guy was Mike(I think)inJapan who was doing nano technology work but moved back to Newcastle and traveled on the supporters bus from there. I met him too.
Neither post on the board any longer.
There may have been others who spent time in Japan that I cannot name or recall but I’ll take it on trust that, if Ernie says he has furnished tickets a while back for a Japan poster, he did so. I know Ernie annoys a lot of people on the Board but it is not a tendency to lie that has annoyed people; there are other faults of intemperance and rudeness that are more justified.
However, Ernie has suffered some fiction (lying) about his persona. It was a well published trope on here that he lived in Croydon, based on nothing stronger than a desire that it was so because t made his Independence opinions less relevant somehow. Living abroad did not seem to delegitimise the opinions of Sean Connery, Brian Cox, Irvine Welsh or Alan Cummings.
The political debate is a legitimate one and the passion you feel for one side or another is mostly admirable but you should defend or attack someone based on what they actually say and do , and not on what you imagine and then believe about them.
Now- back to the football for me