No trophy left behind

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Sunday’s trip to Perth is the only away game Celtic have this month. With three home points from Livingston in the bag, we have home games against both St Mirren in the Scottish Cup and  Aberdeen – who are going through one of their more interesting periods, before the Hampden League Cup Final against our new adversaries.

By winning on Wednesday St Johnstone avoided defeat for the first time in eight games; this does not make a summer. St Mirren have everything going for them, although they will not look forward to returning to Celtic Park, the venue of their worst result of the season only two weeks ago.

One of the truisms in football is ‘it’s all about the next game’. I know this and so it’s with a bit of trepidation that I suggest we might want to plan for the three fixtures before Hampden as a group. We have a new striker, defensive mid and central defender all needing game time to get up to full fitness. I’m also sure Sead Haksabanovic could do with 60 minutes playing time. Use these games to make sure we arrive at Hampden with as strong a squad as possible.  The bitter anquish at only winning five of the last six League Cups cannot be smoothed over.  There should be no trophy left behind.

Playing in such a weak league has few advantages, but being able to build an early lead and then develop players is surely one of them.

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  1. another wee observaton, i just noticed that the english prem has just now turned the halfway point, they have a lot of fixtures to get through to june. 18 to go for city and arsenal.

     

     

    does who plays first affect the others performance ?

     

     

    celtic have 14 fixtures to fulfill, win 9 we are champions

     

     

    win 7 and beat the huns at celtic park , and its ditto.

     

     

    go to perth tomorrow and win. there is no additional pressure, it was the same before thems kicked off today.

     

     

    meanwhile klippety klopps horse might have bolted, dissenting scousers on talk radio tonight.

  2. Go tell the Spartim on

    Is this like a Celtic fan phoning SSB, a scouser calling in to a show that’s part of the org that owns the Sun, they should hang their heads in shame

  3. Lol,was being serious,:-)))

     

    Its a warped solely in my direction today.

     

    Must be that conditioning to accept the racism of the war criminals new regime

     

     

    HH

  4. go away from home nick a goal, counts “double” in the event of a tied score back at home,

     

     

    how often did managers quote that,

     

     

    take them back to anfield, the county ground old trafford, celtic park

  5. Prestonpans bhoys on

    AN TEARMANN on 4TH FEBRUARY 2023 7:19 PM

     

     

     

    Whit are you in the bad books with the mod this time, wiz it a spelling mistake 😂

  6. AN TEARMANN on 4TH FEBRUARY 2023 7:37 PM

     

    Canamalar : Ernie

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Whats your view of the deletions of my posts?

     

     

     

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    They appear to be rather arbitrary.

  7. Ernie

     

     

    Arbitary!! lols :-)),mmmm the only post not deleted was the one asking the question.but am sure you seen my answer to your wee identity poser lols.You be good hh

  8. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    St Stive,

     

    But using the same analogy you use in the current discussion it makes no difference being home or away, you know what you need to do in both games. Play your best and get the best result you can.

     

    FYI I do not and never have cared about sequence or pitch surface for games, the team performance is what matters. I’m only happy we have a manger that has a similar mind set.

  9. CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 4TH FEBRUARY 2023 8:08 PM

     

    St Stive,

     

     

     

     

    But using the same analogy you use in the current discussion it makes no difference being home or away, you know what you need to do in both games. Play your best and get the best result you can.

     

     

    exactly, play the games as they land, thats it, sunday game might be beneficial if you playwe wednesday before.

     

     

    only when you kneck and kneck do i think players even give it a thought.

  10. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Go tell the Spartim on 4th February 2023 7:54 pm,

     

    I like that idea

  11. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    St stives,

     

    I don’t care if its neck and neck the players are paid to play to their best, if their head is not in it or they are distracted then they should not be there.

  12. My post @ 8.03 doesn’t appear to make much sense, even to me.

     

    But it did before !!!Bada’s previous was deleted!!!

     

     

    ContextisallCSC

  13. SAINT STIVS

     

    celtic have 14 fixtures to fulfill, win 9 we are champions

     

     

     

    win 7 and beat the huns at celtic park , and its ditto.

     

     

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    Can’t get my head round those maths

     

    Celtic on 67 + 27 (9 wins) = 94 pts

     

    Them on 61 with 14 games to play???

     

    After a few glasses of local Greek wine so a bit fuzzy.

     

    Help me out please

  14. floatin,

     

     

    your right i miscounted,

     

     

    14 to go , 11 wins wins the league,

     

     

    or 9 if we beat them twice in that nine

  15. Wife said it was the first time I’ve been right this year.

     

    Can always rely on her to take the wind out of my sails.

     

    Probably as well she didn’t let me buy a boat.

  16. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    Just watched some footage of Celtic v the old Huns from 2010/11 (Broonies goal at Mordor).

     

     

    Crocker and Proven commentating. Sheesh, and I think Walker is bad.

     

     

    Crocker and a soup-taker seems to be the Sky model.

  17. So for the fixture experts,will we be allowed to win the league, hopefully, against the huns?

     

    Yes/No….

  18. Moderator,

     

     

    Moderate as required. It is Greyskull and you are sooooooo acquiscing. 🙂

     

     

    If it looks like it it sounds like it it smells like it then it is Greyskull.

     

    Have you driven past the spooky bleak and dilapidated place recently . Greyskull depicts it perfectly.

     

     

    He man has departed without trace a long time ago, Greyskull still haunts us.

     

     

    HH Moderators are cool.

  19. Greenpinata.

     

     

    That is a lovely post Greenpinata.

     

    If only there was a bit of truth in it..

     

    There is none mate.

     

    HH

  20. SAINT STIVS on 4TH FEBRUARY 2023 5:14 PM

     

    i am not a rugger fan, and in my line of business get invited to the 6 nations games often but i have never taken anyone up.

     

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    Very illuminating, but no surprise. Jolly good luck in your business.

     

     

    HH.

  21. AT,

     

     

    In your dreams. Greyskull is as dicpicted.

     

     

    If you think it is otherwise and it is really idealic, feel free, but beware a haunted hoose is spooky.

     

     

    HH.

     

     

     

     

    HH.

  22. Farry, Dougie Dougie, Dullas, Ex Referees doing after dinner speeches talking up cheating against us, Madhun, cheating Beaton, Var-ious cheating current referees, 5 way agreements, improperly registered players, corrupt police investigations aided by (sherifs, judges) into Liquidators, not paying tax, corrupt bank officials, succulent lamb smsm…to name a few

     

     

    Oh aye it doesn’t matter playing behind those vermin week in week out as it’s all fair and square.

     

     

    Aye right.

     

     

    D :)