Performing with an edge, naked opportunism

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If you were a professional football player, you would love to be in the Celtic dressing room tomorrow evening.  You would have the perfect opportunity to challenge yourself; put in a big, meaningful performance.  Record a bit of history and create a uniquely memorable victory.

There are some players who are fraught with anxiety on such occasions, but there are others who NEED these games, need an edge, to reach their peak.  If we have a team full of the latter, Legia are in for a torrid night.

I’m doing my best to ignore the naked opportunism in our media this week.  There is no point complaining about it, lose heavily and you become vulnerable to those who live to revel in a Celtic defeat.  Don’t lose and you don’t give them (friends and foes alike) a chance.

We’ve been here before.  Artmedia, Braga, Utrecht, Sion (despite the reprieve) and Karagandy all exposed an aching heart.  European football is unforgiving, try to transition and you’ll find someone ready to exploit, but that doesn’t mean you are wrong to transition.

We might talk about this transition more later in the month but we have a game to win first.  Can’t wait.

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  1. Delaneys Dunky on

    HT

     

     

    Hope Ronny disnae lurk here!

     

    Some want him oot after a ten man away defeat in Europe to the Polish Champions wi nae Broonie.

     

    Bonkers!

  2. Cowiebhoy

     

    For your info I was back in Kirkie at 10-45 pm M9 skoosh case from the Ingilston P&R, yur bang on it will not matter what time we get home if we pullit off.

     

    Awerabest PJ

  3. the glorious balance sheet on

    Captain Beefheart:-

     

     

    “Our poverty would be the envy of most people in the world”

     

     

    Try telling that to the people in the East End of Glasgow who have an average life expectancy of 55.

  4. VP

     

     

    I’ll text you once I’m in Edinburgh to see if you and Big G are close by….your round :-)

     

     

    DD

     

     

    He must be given time but team selection tomorrow will tell us a great deal I believe.

  5. Canamalar

     

     

    I don’t have the answer. I’m not convinced by the current situation either. What I do know is that after a YES vote we’ll at least have more chance of a say in such issues. The UK government isn’t exactly making us proud with it’s constitutional activities is it?

  6. Martybhoy59

     

     

    Strange you mention Blackpool

     

     

    8 years ago tomorrow 6th August, I was there with my brother, unfortunately not an enjoyable experience, as he lost his son.

     

    Always in my thoughts and prayers Ryan RIP

  7. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    First half hour tomorrow full defensive mode.

     

    False sense of security to Legia.

     

    It`s as much about when we score as how many we score.

     

    I have full confidence that we will score 2 tomorrow.3 reasonable chance.4 outside chance.

     

    There`s only one issue which may be hard to achieve.

     

    Don`t lose a goal.

  8. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire

     

    23:08 on

     

    5 August, 2014

     

     

    I’d read the white paper if I were you, the detailed proposals are all there at the start.

     

     

    However to summarise the May 2016 election would provide the constitutional platform for the process of drafting the written constitution to begin. It won’t be being driven by a single party anyway but even if it was being influenced by the majority party, who’s to say that would be the SNP?

  9. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    March to May 2 months I think maybe 3 if its the start of march and the end of May

     

     

    The Government’s intention is that a constitutional platform will be put in place for Scotland becoming independent in March 2016, immediately prior to the 2016 election campaign. That will ensure that the new Parliament and Government elected in May 2016 have the full range of powers they need to get on with the work of building a better and more socially just Scotland.”

     

     

    Said my piece, hopefully won’t get dragged on again and still open to persuasion but right now that last people in Scotland I’d trust are the SNP the OBB is there to balance up convictions and blessing yourself can be illegal if a sectarian doesn’t like it, sorry naw, no for me.

  10. Captain Beefheart on

    GBS,

     

     

    The people there at least have opportunities. In other countries people have less help. We are lucky.

  11. HT – Hope RD doesn’t see it as a step backwards to pick the tried and tested,in a formation the players are happy with,canny see it masel…

  12. Sevconomics from Easterhoose’s version of Charles Green……

     

     

    She couldnae run a ménage far less a sustainable business model

     

     

    Her and Gordon Ramsay are to running profitable businesses what The Alexander Brothers were to easy listening (used to make my ears feel as if they were bleeding)

     

     

    Nae wunder her man left her…….

     

     

     

    Michelle Mone’s lingerie firm have suffered losses of more than half a million pounds.

     

     

    MJM International’s plunge into the red was revealed in accounts published for the 18 months until last October.

     

     

    They showed a loss of £547,018 for the East Kilbride firm who are famous for their Ultimo bra brand.

     

     

    MJM’s accounts described the loss as “significant”.

     

     

    The firm will need to be supported by MAS Holdings – a Sri Lankan underwear company in which Mone is a partner.

     

     

    MJM were set up in 1996 by Mone and her then husband Michael. The couple split in 2011 and last February Mone severed business ties with her ex and became sole owner of MJM.

     

     

    The firm expect to stay loss-making for the next 12 months. But with the support of MAS and changes in strategy, they expect MJM to return to profit.

     

     

    In accounts for the 12 months to April 2011, the firm made a profit of £1418.

     

     

    Since then, they have seen turnover fall by almost £1million to £7.4million and administrative costs rise from £1.9million to £3million. Accounts for 2010 show MJM made a profit of £800,000.

     

     

    A spokesperson for the company said: “Due to widely reported issues outwith our control, we lost valuable trading time in the market earlier this year, which is reflected in these recent result. What the results do not reflect is the strength of investment from MAS Holdings that has put the company in a solid, competitive position for moving forward. Michelle Mone and MAS Holdings remain very excited about the future of Ultimo.”

     

     

    Yesterday, mother-of-three Mone, 41, who was made an OBE in 2010, seemed unworried by her money troubles. She spent the day watching Prince Harry play polo at Ascot.

  13. Canamalar

     

     

    Fair enough. I can only finish by saying I find it strange that you’re willing to stick with a UK government who leads us into all sorts of atrocities world wide, in which we have no say, so you don’t have to put up with an admittedly unjust situation that we would at least have a chance of correcting.

     

     

    Take it easy & enjoy the game tomorrow.

     

     

    HH

  14. antipodean red on

    dd,

     

     

    Are you going for a beer before the game tomorrow, I’m going through on the train with my brother?

     

     

    AR

  15. The one thing that gives me the most hope for tomorrow night is the fact the Legia players really didn’t show a lot of sportmanship at the end of the game the other night, despite winning convincingly, they also pissed off a lot of Celtic players.

     

     

    It is time to send them home tae think again. A 2 legged game against Celtic, if you are Legia Warsaw, winning 4-1, should never be celebrated like a win.

     

     

    Celtic – Just do it.

  16. Delaneys Dunky on

    AR

     

     

    Hope to be at Hermiston Gate for 6.30, doubt we will get a beer before the game.

  17. Kilbowie Kelt will vote YES on

    When I put my cross on the ballot paper in 6 weeks time, I will only ask myself one question.

     

    Do I trust my fellow countrymen ( indigenous Scots, incomers from Ireland, Asia, Eastern Europe, or wherever) to make the best decisions for our own future, or do I think that our elite & privileged neighbours will do what they have never done before & better handle our affairs than we ourselves can ?

     

     

     

     

    I

  18. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon ....The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    More men were killed in 1918 than in the whole of World War 11 …..History Channel …… Our politicians have a lot to answer for ….. when will they ever learn ?

  19. what the flip dont people get.

     

     

    you vote yes or no for independence.

     

     

    you dont vote in an SNP government.

     

     

    ffs.

     

     

    james Connelly would despair,

  20. Delaneys Dunky on

    Cowie

     

     

    I will be thinking of Ryan rip, as I roar oor Bonny Bhoys to victory tomorrow.

  21. Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    23:21 on 5 August, 2014

     

     

    Cowie

     

     

    I am going through with Petec. Confident he will sort the trams out! :))

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    Eh, you never said I’d do that, but hey, I will have a goosey gander. ;))

     

     

    The auld fella was the best Goose Breeder in the whole really wild world.

     

     

    I will let you know tomorra. ;)

     

     

    Aidan will let you know as well, if he speaks, I dinnae ken why he is still shy whilst being kept on at Dumbarton. He knows the team needs support tomorrow though, I know he will give a voice, because he is a voice within a larger voice. I just want to hear it on the pitch, like his coaches do.

     

     

    michaelastrachan.csc

  22. Delaneys Dunky on

    St Stivs

     

     

    Imagine after voting Yes (which I pray the majority do) we had a James Connolly, John McLean or John Smith to vote for to run a Republican Scotland.

  23. antipodean red on

    dd,

     

     

    Time is starting to run short but I’ll try to catch you at the weekend, even just for a couple of pints.

     

     

    AR

  24. DD,

     

     

    i just find it all so daft.

     

    generations of the diaspora,the people who were starved, and emigrated a million miles in the famine ships. well the people here say, we are scared of scotland and prefer to stay with Westminster.

     

     

    james Connelly ghost indeed .

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpTlcTujEek

  25. Just a lurker and very occasional poster but you’d never think we had a massive game tomorrow. C’mon the hoops. Forster- Lustig, Van Dijk, Mulgrew, Izzaguire- Matthews, Biton, Johansen, McGregor, Commons- Griffiths.