Some players always report fit, whether they are or not, but no matter which way Leigh Griffiths views his calf strain from last night, it is likely that Brendan Rodgers will rest the player for Friday’s Premiership game at Hamilton.
With six Celts playing both recent Scotland games, and others performing elsewhere across the Continent, Brendan will surely take advantage of one of the benefits of having a strong squad in a weaker league and rest some limbs.
Patrick Roberts must be itching to get back into competitive action, while Calvin Miller could comfortably deputise for Kieran Tierney, who has already played a lot of football this season. I’d have Cristian Gamboa at right back.
One player who is likely to be rested for Friday is Tom Rogic, who played in Japan last week and is currently halfway through Australia’s home World Cup qualifier against Thailand.
19-year-old Odsonne Edouard will not have met many of this team-mates yet, so you could understand if Brendan Rodgers was cautious about starting him on Friday, but it could also be the perfect opportunity for the player to make a memorable impact.
Who knows, maybe we’ll see Eboue Kouassi pick up the reins in central mid?
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I have a mate over here who’s family are dikepluggers, he calls us Celtic and them Glasgow
BIG JIMMY on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 8:24 AM
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 8:06 AM
I had one of the best Drinking/Story Telling nights of my life the 1st time I met Bobby Murdoch around 1991. What a world class player…and a world class gent Bobby was.
*I stood on the stage at the first Vegas with him, and others I hasten to add, singing “over and over”. Bobby like the other Lions had no idea who he was.
I was also at his debut against the calvinists where he scored the opener in a 3-1 victory, he only played as Johnny Divers was dropped for leaving his boots at home. Seemingly he had played in a Glasgow Select v Manure game midweek, where he scored the opener, and took his boots home with him. I first saw Bobby though in a greens v whites trial game that midweek where he starred.
BTW that select team continued 5 us, 5 them plus seven past niven who was with the sizzle at the time.
I had the pleasure of talking with a Celtic great and European Cup winner, my 2nd Celtic hero, and mentioned that if he hadn’t left us we would never have heard of Bobby Murdoch, his response was along the lines of “don’t be daft son, if I hadn’t left you would never have heard of me, there’s nae chance I would have gotten a game in front of Bobby”, such humility, another who never knew who he was.
I was introduced to Bobby in The Vogue Bar once,never sobered up so quickly in my life,a lovely guy,an unassuming superstar.
Bada…I used to play snooker with Bobby in the old snooker hall on Stonelaw Road before it fell down…he was quite a good player, I never beat him, ever. My old man had the paper shop next door, that’s how I got to know him before he became famous. I hung about and played with Billy a younger brother. He had two other brothers, Matt the oldest and James, the youngest…Rutherglen wisnae always bad… :-)
Toni Donnelly, is your Maiden name Lawwell by any chance?
TD67…it was obvious they were going to give motm to Tommy Wright and potm to O’Halloran…they can’t give it to Brendan every month, though, I imagine the are dying to give it to you know who + one of their outstanding players…Perhaps if they go a whole month undefeated…not this month though…
Tontine Tim…are we talking Paddy Crerand?
The sevs are all chuffed with themselves after receiving an award from the Ministry of Defence for their continual supprt of the armed forces.
If they are the same club, were they not found guilty of no paying taxes to the government who supply the armed forces with equipment paid for with tax raiseed and not avoided/evaded or am I being really stupid (again)
https://twitter.com/ECAEurope/status/905008395991830528?s=08
Another one for above the fireplace…
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS,
I was going to ask the same question. Paddy, like Charlie Gallagher, could pass the ball. But neither could control a game like Bobby Murdoch. Imo, great players all.
Dallas…why don’t they all just join up and go and fight somewhere? I’m sure we could arrange a war for them…
It would be better than ripping off the poppy people at Erskine Home for veterans…hypocrites…
Big Jimmy , sorry for not replying to your post on the previous thread about the time you met Bobby Murdoch.
What a thrill that would have been for you meeting a legend , a proper one. Bobby and his ilk were heroes to us but would say they weren’t and were only doing a job which they loved.
The first time I had the pleasure of meeting Sean Fallon , I was awestruck and did not know what to say to him. He asked if I was ok as I had lost my power of speech ( hurrah some say). A wonderful, wonderful man, one of the finest people I have ever met.
Bada…shame Peter didnae make the bench… :-)
Weebobbycollins, when the EBT story broke , I tried to explain to a currant I worked with about their love of the armed forces being a sham. I explained because of tax avoidance/evasion , their beloved armed forces were being under funded.
He asked what has tax avoidance/evasion got to do with the armed forces being supplied with the best equipment .
I had no answer to his stupidity.
WeeBobby
Snooker Hall in Stonelaw Rd
Must have been before my time, whereabouts was it?
AURORABOREALIS79 on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 4:16 PM
Toni Donnelly, is your Maiden name Lawwell by any chance?
Nope, and my name is TONY, NOT TONI :))
There are documentarys about people who feel as though they’ve gone through a hole in the fabric of time.
In reality however they’ve just walked along Rutherglen Main St eastwards towards Chapmans
Birnside CSC
A used ti drink in the royal borough, the pop inn, and The Caramea Loung , some good laughs.
The main article reads like we could send out any eleven players on Friday night and still win, not sure thats the case, in fact I know it isn’t, having gone the whole of last season undefeated domestically our scalp is a big one well prized, St Johnstone played against us like their lives depended on it, expect more off the same on Friday.
BSR…Where Specsavers is, there used to be a barber’s shop. Upstairs lived Frankie Miller after the family moved up from Bridgeton. Thirty yards further up, where the billboards are, that was the site of the snooker hall, previously a cinema..but well before my time. in fact Ru’glen had its fair share of cinemas- the Rio, Odeon, Grand Central (where the mall is) and the Greens (kwik fit) also the Rhul in Burnside…TV did the damage…
BTW…the snooker hall collapsed ’65-66. It actually happened whilst guys were playing. A large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling, one of the guys took it up to the man in charge, Tony, who said, ” Right everybody out!” Too late. The whole ceiling came down with everyone diving under the tables. Miraculously, no one was hurt…A few pale faces, some from fright, others from dust…and that was the end of it Bobby Murdoch was a regular and considered a ‘bit of a shark’…
Well, that’s your history lesson for today…
TD…I remember the Caramia…just beside the public lavvy…older types went in there for a sing-song :-)
I have just watched – The Sean Fallon Story on BT Sport, what a man, what a character, I’m sitting here very emotional, tears streaming down my face. He lived the “Dream”. God bless him.
HH
Sean Fallon could be seen most Sundays at mass in St. Columbkille’s, as well as Sir Bob Kelly, Clyde’s Harry Haddock (no fish puns please) and occasionally John Colrain and Johnny Higgins…
Rock Tree Bhoy, Hamilton , like ourselves are in a slump , sorry , on a good run.
Its a place and surface we have rarely played well on, the 3 nil game last season apart.
If we don’t have a full strength team out , those who play should be well aware of what’s expected of them .
I’m looking forward to the game .
Might have been a snooker hall opposite Rutherglen polis station?
Clarification about Peter Lawwell and ECA being reported as new position – not true
Peter Lawwell was elected to ECA executive in 2014, re-elected in 2015 and again this week, when he was also one of 4 elected to the UEFA Professional Football Strategy Council.
http://www.ecaeurope.com/about-eca/structure/eca-executive-board/peter-lawwell-celtic-fc—sco/
Weebobbycollins
Harry Haddock stayed below me in a close in Castlemilk early sixties. Bernie Slaven stayed doon the stair in the seventies.
One Malloy, the Iron Man documentary is a breath of fresh air about a true sporting hero and a man of great integrity.
5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 5:21 PM
TD…I remember the Caramia…just beside the public lavvy…older types went in there for a sing-song :-)
Ffs a was drinking in the Caramia when a was 16, lol, AND was given the best of order when a went up ti chant as well, star turn a wiz :))
Td67
Only time I was ever in the jail was getting lifted by Ruglen’s finest bullies outside the Caramea. I was slapped about, cuffed up and thrown into a cell, all for doing a midnight hit & miss up the lane.
Fiver fine but for an apprentice on 25 quid it hurt.
I think Ruggy plod hated Castlemilk punters even though they kept every pub in the Main Street going.
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 5:52 PM
One Malloy, the Iron Man documentary is a breath of fresh air about a true sporting hero and a man of great integrity.
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He epitomises what Celtic is all about Dallas
HH
Bada…believe you’re right about snooker hall opposite polis station…think I had a game with my brother there. It was on a visit home, so poss 70s or thereabouts…
Marrakesh…are you sure about HH?…he lived in a ‘posh’ house on Calderwood Rd in the 60s…
Onemalloy at 6.10, I agree .
As I posted the other night, in my 50 years of supporting Celtic , Sean, Jock Stein , Big Billy , Danny McGrain and Tommy Burns are to me , the epitome of Celtic.
Kieran Tierney could be the next one for e.
MARRAKESH EXPRESS on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 6:08 PM
Td67
Only time I was ever in the jail was getting lifted by Ruglen’s finest bullies outside the Caramea. I was slapped about, cuffed up and thrown into a cell, all for doing a midnight hit & miss up the lane.
Fiver fine but for an apprentice on 25 quid it hurt.
I think Ruggy plod hated Castlemilk punters even though they kept every pub in the Main Street going.
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Ruglen plod hated everybody…..total bassas!………right enough you castlemilkies deserved all ye got.
NAEWEEGIESINRUGLEN C.S.C :o)
all ye got
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2017 6:20 PM
Kieran Tierney could be the next one for e.
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That would be a disastrous career move. ;))
Bada snooker hall in old cash n carry across from polis station 80s – 90s
was called the ‘ CUE BALL’ (how original)
Knew about the cinema corner of Hamilton rd/stonelaw rd didn’t realise it had been a snooker hall.
Babasonicos71, I should have cleared my comment about Kieran with Gordon Parks and Jabba first . How foolish of me.
VOUGEPUNTER
heading into rutherglen as we speak, with the castlemilk Wild team, lock up your wimin.
https://youtu.be/Vna4AAC1bdE