With post-split fixtures confirmed there is clarity on what is needed to win the league and a bit more optimism in some places. Celtic play a day before Newco on each of the next three league fixtures (one before the split). That is not an advantage until you win the games, but if you do, pressure is added to those who follow.
The order of Celtic’s games is interesting. The final three look most difficult [Newco (H), Motherwell (A), Hearts (H)], but there are five weeks before the first of those fixtures. That gives us time to build fitness into the legs of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Kelechi Iheanachio, Arne Engels, Callum Osmand and Julian Araujo. If we arrive at these games with as fit a squad as we have had all season, you would fancy Celtic to win all three.
It is some consolation we do not have Fir Park on the last day, I’m not sure any of our nerves would cope with that. Instead, it will be Hearts, who will not roll over, but we need to beat them at some point. Ignore nonsense about Hearts having a free shot if Celtic are out of it by then, this will not happen. As I have been saying for months, the league title will stay in Glasgow.
The fixtures give a sense of relief because we have just come through a seven game run where six were away from home. Five wins, a draw at Ibrox and a solitary defeat at Tannadice does not suggest Celtic are teetering on the brink, no matter what your most doom-ladened pal tells you. That series could have finished our league challenge and seen us out of the cup. Instead, we are within striking distance of the top of the table and in the semifinal. Perspective, please!
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Thoughts on the post-split fixtures….
Yes, they favor Celtic in the sense that at the business end of the season the overall balance is being created fairly. The 19 home and away thing should be obvious to everyone, and the adjustments to fixtures so that it can be achieved are necessary and nothing more than that. Kick off times are to our advantage, but it was widely reported that the opposite was true for the bulk of the season to date.
The schedule itself was a surprise, and I did not expect two of the three challengers facing each other in the final fixture. It could be a title decider, but imagine it’s 0-0 going into the final minutes and a goal for either team wins the league, and one point each hands it to Sevco!
With all the conjecture in the SMSM, you’d think there were big surprises. Clearly not so, as the bookies odds never budged, which tells me that the punters had already baked in this expected schedule.
The pass for the second goal was worthy of the entrance money.
Sublime
H.H
gp.
the graffiti campaign between the ultras across our dear green place is ugly and childish. not like it is murals on gable ends .
i must be getting old
there was a particular tricolour at anniesland that did our side no favours.
and the wilful painting over road signs is going to cause an accident during the tourist season.
psg football is boring.
76 percent possession.
27 passes to score the 2nd goal.
eyes were bleeding.
watching the cl highlights.
that arsenal strip is hunlike
Saint Stivs on 8th April 2026 11:27 pm
watching the cl highlights. that arsenal strip is hunlike
*going back to their roots before they were rescued by the North London Irish
That’s the thing when you remind 200 narcissistic souls (Green Brigade) that they’re important enough to be given a public announcement: they’ll rip the arse out the Club for evey ounce they can get.
Typical of them to go to war with the Club again, when every ounce of effort needs focussed on the team on the park.
As soon as the season’s over, get them tae.
TURKEYBHOY on 8TH APRIL 2026 9:58 PM
Don’t misunderstand me… I don’t trust BW but I had feared that he was a part of the problem with getting this done. My point being that he saw that for the greater good the GB could be a key advantage in the 4 home games, so parked his own ego, and presumably led an otherwise intransigent board to agreement.
So, “props” with a caveat if you will.
LAXALT on 8TH APRIL 2026 6:57 PM
Always remember that the huns have been awarded 12 (TWELVE!) goals this season in play that have been proven to be wrong and ruled out by VAR.
So whilst the refs can’t cheat like this atm….they can still fo their hun duty when it comes to bookings, corners etc as we have seen in abundance this season.
That’s what we have to worry about in the run in.
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If true, that’s an amazing stat that’s tantamount to what Mr Morrison would call a ‘pattern of assistance’.
Yes, worry about the MIBs but also, IMO, if these dispirited players can ‘shake it off’ and find their mojo.
TaylorSwiftCSC
PS: Often when I hear mention of the GB I kinda make an affectionate mental comparison to Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith.
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gedinte
Must admit never looked too closely at the other post split fixtures after learning our sequence of matches. Was one that did leap out from that Hearts podcast, their May Bank holiday 5.30pm game against the club currently in second place. After we play Hibs away. Course you have to win the games to gain that psycho advantage. And keep doing it. A Cup final place might help….
Gedinte
Top6 fixtures
Get St Mirren out of way
One game at a time.
:-)
HH
Turkeybhoy, for the record. It ain’t “Penalty to R2angers”, it’s “Penalty R2angers”.
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Post Scriptum
Vatican City National Anthem – “Inno E Marcia Pontificale”.
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AN TEARMAN – one game at a … ?
CELTIC MAC – I’ll admit to nerding out a little on this stuff, and for as long as we have the SPFL cabal in charge of organizing the post-split fixtures, I’ll never trust that it will be fair to Celtic!
That said, this time around I’ve no complaints 😉.
I’m actually tuning into the SSB podcast and enjoying listening to the huns and their cousins!!!!
ST MIRREN are a banana skin.
Just saying.
Top of the morning to you all…..
For any twitchers out there – and if JIMMYNOTPAUL is lurking as I seem to remember he was keen on the old nature thing – we saw our first swallow return yesterday afternoon, 8th April. Gets earlier every year!
Trump & Hesgeth held a Protestant-only Good Friday service amid an escalating dispute with Catholic leaders over his wartime religious rhetoric. Pope Leo XIV and Archbishop Timothy Broglio have both criticised invoking Jesus Christ to justify the Iran war, saying it conflicts with Christian teachings on peace. The controversy has sparked legal challenges, raised concerns over religious freedom in the military, and intensified debate about the intersection of faith and policy….
Get yer banjos out…..we’re back in 1950s Alabama…Segregation on it’s way
https://x.com/MikeDrucker/status/2041969947513942350
The new article will be up at noon.
Good morning CQN
Another fine day to be a Celt.
… getting closer to the weekend and the prospect of seeing the bhoys play at a sold out Celtic Park.
Good Morning CQN
Looking forward to Saturday, pressure what pressure
Home passionate support to help us to 3Pts
Perspective
On the much discussed Cycle lanes now being built in Glasgow
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My twitter feed is full of people saying cycle lanes are a waste of money, nobody uses them, we have the wrong kind of weather for cycling … I don’t really know why. But here are some facts.
On the South City Way in my ward monitoring has shown more cycles than vehicles on the road on multiple occasions. If you provide safe cycling routes people will use them.
“No-one cycles in winter”. In November Glasgow launched a new electric bike hire scheme. By the beginning of March 170,000 trips had been made. Demand is such that a further 13 off-hire stations are now being added in my ward alone.
Potholes are not caused by safe cycle lanes – rather, cycle lanes are part of the solution. The scale of the pothole problem primarily relates to the fact that most of our roads were not built to withstand the volume and weight of vehicle traffic that they now carry.
that is particularly so in cities, where we have older roads. There is no quick fix to this, it requires a continuous cycle of repairs and resurfacing. GCC will resurface 800 roads in the next few years and then we’ll start again.
If we want to stop our roads from breaking up we must try to reduce the number of vehicles driving on them. Cycle lanes are one of the key interventions to achieve that.
I don’t know if cities like Glasgow will ever become like Amsterdam or Copenhagen or Paris, where more people cycle than drive. But we can certainly go a lot further on the active travel journey by rolling out more segregated cycle lanes, not scrapping the programme.
What we’re seeing from Anas Sarwar & others is, frankly, policy by facebook. It’s incredibly grim.
If you want to challenge the Councillor, you can contact her on Social Media (keep it respectful)
Cycle parking at Celtic Park ? Electric bike use to take fans from city centre ?
aff oot
Our Club should have said to the Green Brigade no more politics or supporting Palestine ,,for ffs its fooball we go to watch ,not a polictical rally ,i m fed up with Celtic Supporters trying to be the good gu
Guys ,while everyone else including the Celtic Board are the bad guys.
re cycle lanes. just some local observation
bishopton and erskine were absolutely separated villages with no pavements connecting them.
now there is the massive rof dargavel development and it appears to me a joined up plan to connect all 3 communities.
there are new pathways doubling up as cycle paths being laid for a few miles all around here and very well done it is too. i suspect the local govt has to spend quickly .
i am all for it . but here is the rub .
the organised cycle groups around here do not use them.
i dont know the reason but they continue to cycle on the roads. what is that mentality? safe cycling or public nuisance
some rules need applied
ps. the new manufacturing district east of inchinnan and side of the airport. great layout except why build two pavements and cycle paths on both sides of the road.
what a waste of resources and materials.
and you barely see a cyclist
EV’s damage our roads twice as fast as petrol vehicles. They are a big part of the pothole problem.
As for a mad rush for cycle lanes: They take up valuable road space on city’s built long ago, subsequently causing congestion and emissions. They hinder and discriminate against our disabled society with a focus on the young and fit, of whom many have no regard for the highway code. Many are lycra and mushroom helmeted camera fascists.
They impede deliveries.and public transport. Ask any delivery driver, taxi driver or bus driver.
How many shop deliveries do you see made on bikes ?
How many persons go for a meal and drinks in the city centre on a bike.?
How many cyclists do you see on the disproportionate London Rd cycle lanes on a match day.?
Our leaders have taken decisions without asking the people, however I have never seen Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken on a bike.
A bunch of modern day Michael Heseltines.
I say this as a bike owner
HH.
saint stivs
April 9, 2026 10:31 am
just a thought.
but by publishing the split fixtures early it allows the false flag narrative to be flow
ergo – Celtic have been given 4 home fixtures.
the reality.
home to st mirren completes the 33 game schedule.
at that point celtic have had 16 homes. the other 2 have 17 homes.
what do they not understand about balancing the highest profile fixtures needed.
to call up hotlines and papers and to go on tv and complain displays a particular stupidity .
there is no bias or preferences to a team. there is only a set of fixtures needing played and these are scheduled to accommodate tv and allow a fair last day.
as i say i blame their schools.
now lets get back to one game at a time.
gp.
to be fair.
matchday cyclists attending celtic park is up 400% in 6 years.
it used to be 1 guy there are now 4 of them.
gp
to be fair i see that harvey guy on a bike quite often.
usually on the pedestrian zones.
Catering to the most visible, most organized, most online minorities and not the quietly struggling majority has not garnered votes up until now and will not garner votes in the future.
Fix the road first. Then we’ll talk about luxury cycling infrastructure. A bus lane moves 200 people an hour, a bicycle does not.
Finding solutions for problems we don’t have, in a climate we don’t live in, while ignoring the problems we face every day is the virtue signalling that we have become used to in the 21st century.
People will buy any oul’ snakeoil if you put a bow on it.
Let them walk. On the footpath. It’s healthier.
Recorded Martin O’Neill interview with Jim (red & blue) White coming up on TalkSport @11.45
Direct from Lennoxtown I think.
“ it used to be 1 guy there are now 4 of them”.
That would be a 300% increase?
Hopefully you didn’t attend St Als.
saint stephen port glasgow.
o level riffmatic
SS,
Yon Harvie guy was in the top 10 MSP’s claiming expenses.
Not bad for a city guy. His bike must be a Porchesk GT turbo charged king of the cycle lanes 😃