Their three most recent games, all on the road, have not been kind to Aberdeen. Defeats at Livingston and St Mirren, and a point at Ross County, took the air out of their sails after taking a point from Newco on their first outing after the winter break.
Their away form has been terrible. Since taking a point at Ibrox in October, they have lost four, drawn one and won once away. They are a different team at home, where they have not lost in three months. It is the latter stat that Ange Postecoglou will be most exercised with.
Tonight’s game at Pittodrie is one of the most important in what is left of our season. Win, and your confidence will receive an endorsement. Fortunately, Celtic are on their best form of the season and travel with as strong as squad as they have had in years.
My generation of football fans are probably more circumspect of our prospects at Pittodrie than younger fans, who were not conditioned through the 80s to celebrate a fighting draw. Be in no doubt, a win would be celebrated heartily.
I saw some confusion after Celtic’s correspondence to fans in the standing section yesterday. It is not Celtic who make the rules on flares. The stadium is licenced to open for football games subject to Health and Safety rules, which nationwide do not permit flares. Everyone should be aware of this. When rules are broken.
Flares provide Instagram-ready moments that are shared worldwide within moments. For some, this is a large part of their football experience. This debate is at least a decade old, it will continue for years, with sporadic outbreaks and consequences. I doubt anything will change soon.
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TURKEYBHOY on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:40 PM
Thanks for the reminder! Still have 2 to watch.
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POR CIERTO
My dad and I were saying the same this morning in out family chat. Mind boggling stuff.
I like flares. I like the atmosphere the GB generate in a stadium that often needs a nudge. Last week’s images projected worldwide with a massive wow factor.
I think we’re ruled by tinpot, bureaucratic, council jobsworths and like the standing section beforehand, would like to see the club establish how we can balance atmosphere and health and safety concerns.
Raith Rovers home game will be like a morgue, which is a pity, as I have no faith in the rest of the stadium filling that vacuum.
All a bit self-defeating to me.
Tonight, let the good times roll on the park. I’ll take a 4-0 and a 2-2 at the Bigotdome….
HH
I’m glad to see the unionist cut n paste twins are pals again.
Having no friends at all would have been unsettling for them in the bedsit.
putting on a show
Well I didn’t see the red flare display because I’m behind their banner😱 not that I agree with it anyway.
However is P67 suggesting that the club is abiding to H&S rules because I don’t see any other club following suit, I maybe wrong and someone else has.
Perhaps revenge is a dish best served cold and the board has taken this opportunity to avenge the Higgins debacle😵
AIPPLE on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:20 PM
Thanks for that pic. It really puts things into perspective, too much ******** perspective.
SpinalTapCSC
I would like to ask the people who bring flares to a football ground to explain what right they have to subject asthma suffers to the smoke produced.
Would love another look at the boy Dawson,maybe Weekend game a chance.against St Johnstone.I was really impressed by him.Probably the best debut for a while.
Mixed my teams up there.Raith Rovers.What a kerfuffle of a post.
Deary me.
HRVATSKI JIM,
Well said! As an asthma sufferer, I agree 100%
HH
Nope,just my punctuation that was crap.
Time for tea.
Just got a great picture sent to me, seems that the Keys in Wishy is flying a Japanese flag.
Apparently our friends who are normally wrapped in the butchers apron are finding the whole thing difficult to accept :-)
As ever they are pulling together to complain………. Sad Huns.
Stadium vlog: MOTHERWELL FC – CELTIC FC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMexvYrVUHs
Sounds like the Dortmund pyrotechnics are professionally organised, numerous complaints over the years of breathing difficulties, claustrophobia, not wanting to be a spoilsport…….if the Club done it with a licensed company it might be different
Football ultras — low rent attention seeking wallopers who want to be more famous than the team.
What comes first for them — the football or all the fancy dress stuff?
It is just another expression of hyper masculinity in an increasingly gender neutral world.
And then you have the GB who have outgrown their St Al’s Sixth Form Common Room roots to embrace rampant militarism / anti democratic physical force republicanism along with sectarian sing-a-longs about big hats / American fire arms manufacturers / 26 county fascists / retro artisanal farming / wearing green on the banks of the Liffey.
All the while draining the atmosphere with there crap drumming and the lack of a football song book.
File under muppets who do not want to grow up.
I don’t agree with flares in the ground but seems we are (again) being treated differently from games at Hampden and Ibrox (same Glasgow Council as well as across the globe. So are we bending over as per or is something else at play.
If anyone wants to protest this decision do so outside, away from the ground rather than inside which will only cause more unwanted focus, attention and consequences.
Re Flaregate
You or I could drive a car, day after day, without wearing a seat belt.
We may never think this practice to be a danger to ourselves or other road users.
But if the rules/law states that seat belts must be worn, because of the potential risks involved in driving a car, then we must abide by these rules.
Complaints should be addressed to the lawmakers – not the car manufacturers.
Flares at football grounds could be incident free for now and the foreseeable, but there is deemed a risk in having them in football grounds.
As such, the rule makers forbid there use. Supporters should abide by these rules, in my opinion, whilst sending complaints to the relevant parties.
Breaking the rules, and consequently costing the club repeated fines, does no good whatsoever.
Incidentally, a colleague of mine was in the standing section last Wednesday. He showed my a video clip that he took as flares were being let off. You couldn’t see a thing. He said he missed the kick off as he couldn’t see. What is the point of that? Flare users may not mind seeing the game, but those around them might just have paid their money to come watch the football.
Just an opinion.
HH
TURKEYBHOY on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:08 PM
I also read somewhere,the fantastic banner”Send them to Hell” was “Offensive”.
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I read the SAME with the Pic and word ” OFFENSIVE” Below it… on the Daily Ranger.
The HUNS. The .ANIMALS ?… it makes NO difference..,,,As thats what they are.
Who would win a fight between the Huns and The Animals ?
LOL
HH.
Quick word on the Flares. I love seeing them…..
However, at the away game in Leipzeg a few years ago, I ended up on the ramps at the back of the stadium, eyes streaming, puking and sucking an inhaler after being caught up near the lads letting off Flares.
Not only was it an unpleasant experience, but a potentially dangerous one.
It is extremely rare for me to use an inhaler, once every few years, had I not carried it that evening the situation could have been much worse.
As I said, they look fantastic but we can’t have everything we want in life.
Sometimes the health /safety of others or indeed requests from or Club or the Law, must take precedence over our visual enjoyment.
I ain’t getting into an argument and I ain’t condemning anybody, simply offering my experience and my opinion on the subject.
Now , lets put the Dons to the sword.
Always weary of them, but, we are playing our best football in years and I reckon 3 or 4 nil to the good ghuys.
in Germany more fans are injured by plod’s use of pepper spray than fans’ use of pyros.
It is clear therefore that to minimise the risk of injury to fans plod should be banned from football grounds.
On another Topic.
Thought the folks here might be interested in a recent post on the Facebook Page, Athlone Past.
I attended this school and in an era when football (soccer) was banned, the Marist Brothers always made sure we had an area to kick a ball around. Most of them were Celtic fans.
Athlone Past
Aidan Griffin · 2h ·
Noticing Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premier League this weekend, it reminded me of our French teacher at the Marist in the 1950s. Bro.James was a likeable man from Glasgow who enthused quite regularly over his hometown team, Glasgow Celtic. Indeed, it was said a read of the Sunday papers was not required to find Celtic’s result on the Saturday: whichever class was first for French on the Monday morning eagerly awaited James’s demeanour, a glowering look on entry signalled a loss, a bright, breezy, carefree entry and all was ok with the world. He was a leading member of the town’s French Circle and I’ll always remember his constant uttering of, “You’ve got to speculate to accumulate”.
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Hank Lockman
A decent man.
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JP Burke
He could dribble a ball through a half dozen lads while wearing the long soutan. Then he would turn and say. Ye can skin a banana but ye canna skin a Scotsman!
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Brendan Macken
I got the home Celtic Programme for a long time, probably organized by Brother James.Nice memory, Aidan.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/former-rangers-owner-craig-whyte-to-face-trial-in-september?utm_source=app
FRANKTERRY on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:44 PM
Ha! I hear you. Hope you and yours are well.
Last two points on the pyros.
Those setting them off and those defending them must realise that they are being selfish & self-centered. There will be situation at sometime, where someone will be maimed, or, killed. What will the defence be then? Should there be no regulation – are pyrotechnics to be sold outside grounds to ‘enhance the experience’? Absurd!
Celtic is a muti-million pound business, employing hundreds and important to hundreds of thousands more. It must obey the law of the land and live up to its insurance undertakings – this is non-negotiable. There are also laws that govern its participation in all eligible football competition that must be observed.
Why on earth can’t some grasp this?
GOOD NEWS – The RSPCA have seized Zouma the Zoomer’s cats – thank God.
My own two, Derek & Clive, whom I adore, have been following the story with trepidation – just told them the news. They have scampered off…..to write a sketch about it, no doubt….with suitable expletives😅!!!
POR CIERTO on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 1:14 PM
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Why don’t Celtic and other supporters in England as well have a meeting of minds before the start of next season present a joint letter to SFA, EFA, etc saying “There’ll be no renewal of tickets till majority, 70%, 80%, of these needless soul sucking seats are removed, fans paying for seats then standing up, as even Liverpool fans agree that the “Taylor Report” was a massive cynical overreaction to the Hillsborough disaster, ruthlessly exploited by Maggie the witch Thatcher who couldn’t control English football hooliganism so she deployed a dragnet approach which has opened a backdoor for dodgy £investors to to remove the working class romanticism of the game, and inject a “Thatcherite greed is good” toxification of the working folks beautiful game where at Hillsborough 1989, 96, now 97, innocent Liverpool souls were lost because of criminal policing on that fateful day, not because of football terraces, and any govt blocking these demands will be voted out, or dragged out, your choice.”
How can you vote out any govt who instructs / bribes its local councils to “rig” elections to keep out politicians who want to serve the public, not themselves? as happened to George Galloway last year at the by election at, Batley & Spen, GG’s vote was more than the toxic Labour candidate, so the sitting toxic Labour council in Batley & Spen waited till the dark of night and called in dozens of vans full of “black bin liners” full of ‘extra’ votes ‘vote rigging’ that were exposed in hundreds of videos on various internet platforms, dodgy votes were deployed to keep GG out of the HoC in London or there would already have been a ‘general strike’ throughout Britain as GG wouldn’t have stood and happy clapped the Tory govts dubious lockdown policies, like Sir Savile Starmer, the supposed opposition lol, did for 1.5 years, then sleekitly whined about it afterwards as that’s what masonic bstrds do, all the time, every time, and they’ve rigged politics so that they can’t be voted out, so what does the public do? GG has a live case going on into Labour Party voter fraud, my guess is its not just happening at, Batley & Spen, corrupt to the core Scotland? So hopefully GG wins his case and removes the lid from the can of vote rigging worms. 👍
Corbyn 2019 – cheated by postal vote rigging BBC removed evidence of them bragging about the cheating 2.5 days before GE 2019 had even taken place.
Trump 2020 – cheated by vote rigging dodgy votes still appearing 2 years on.
Galloway 2021 – cheated by Batley & Spen sitting Labour council extra votes appeared in dozens of vans after vote had been counted, Workers Party of Britain led by GG, had more votes than sitting Labour party in the WPGB’s 1st election of any kind, they took 22+% of the vote despite all of the cheating so the vote rigging against WPGB in future will have to be more robust, so again, how can you outvote a toxic political party? my guess is that it can’t be done. So what then? kick the doors down and drag the crooks and pedos out? send them a petition saying the voters want you gone Mr Swamp, and Mr Swamp will say “Let’s have an election.”
and on and on……
The truckers will spark off a general strike, a group of lawyers have already been given the go ahead to take “all” politicians, media, scientists, doctors, non cooperative law officers, etc, etc, to the Hague which “all” media has been ordered not to report that this Hague case is even a thing, I mean these listed groups must’ve done something pretty serious if they’re all going to the Hague, and they are.
P.S. innocent refugees who come to Britain have their names used dozens of times over, in dozens of different constituencies from the one that they’re actually living in, their names copied into various constituencies by dodgy politicians to rig the vote and keep undesirables like, Corbyn, Galloway, Trump, Salmond in Scotland probably as well, Galloway too in Scotland, in a country that’s corrupt beyond belief, how does Joe Blogs manage to drain the swamp of corruption if countless thousands of “other” votes usually out of black bags will cancel out the vote of Joe Blogs??
hh
What Uncle Jimmy said @ 1:15pm
Will tonight be gios night to bang in þhe goals ?
Mon the GioCSC
LEFTCLICKTIC
Got a feeling he won’t start – Jota, Maeda and Abada
One game at a time, Celtic – 1-0, 4-0 or 5-4 – its still 3 points.
why am i reminded of that old man in highholm street that used to shout out the window at the bhoys playing football in the street.
sure jealousy of the youths is a terrible thing
Time should be up for the GB. Would they actually go to the games if they didn’t have their clique?
I don’t like flares.
I know little about the type of flares used by the GB …. so probably revert a little to fear and experience.
If they generate smoke and lots of light, my guess is they are combustible.
If they are indeed combustible I don’t want to be near them in a confined space.
I certainly don’t want to be under a large cover while multiple flares are set off underneath it.
I am old enough to remember Bradford.
Much later, I had the opportunity, during fire safety training, to sit through the video.
Time lapse from initial smoulders (accompanied by frivolous comments from TV match commentator) to an absolute raging inferno?
Six minutes.
So, I don’t like flares.
meanwhile man who never goes to the cinema complains about noisy eaters.
LEFTCLICKTIC on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:01 PM
Will tonight be gios night to bang in þhe goals ?
Mon the GioCSC
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I think Ange is playing the wrong kind of game for Gio and that’s why Gio constantly looks like he’s in the wrong movie, imho.
Ange plays the ball over the top for Gio to lay off for a team mate, or actually score himself, Gio looks like a different player.
When we’re under the cosh Gio should be utilised as the oot ball, but Ange always plays out from the back, and
wants it to be all nice and pretty and sometimes its 20 passes later before the ball reaches Gio’s area of the pitch, which means that Gio is in effect a big lumbering extra in “Ange the movie” imho.
Park the bus n blootir it and Gio will be talked about in the same sentences as, Hartson, Sutton, Craig Beatie, Cillian Sheridan, JVH, etc, etc.
hh
Big Stubborn Ange CSC 👍
MADRA RUA on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 2:14 PM
On another Topic.
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While in Athlone I was fascinated by the number of public art works , memorials, and plaques, just fascinating.
I stumbled on the Marist brother one, and was struck by a likeness to Walfrid, in cassock wear for sure.
And actually did wonder is the bhoy holding a gaelic football or a soccer one.
https://statues.vanderkrogt.net/Foto/ie/ie325-2.jpg
The sculpture consists of a Marist Brother, who points the students to a wider horizon. The younger boy in the statue symbolises the primary school and sport, while the older boy symbolises the secondary school and education. The younger boy looks up to the Brother as a model, guide and protector, while the older boy looks in a different direction, as he takes what he has learned and imagines his own future. This reminds us of the former student who said to Brother Seán Sammon that the Brothers gave him “ a window on the world.”
Why am I reminded of the young upstarts who think it’s ok to throw eggs at passing motorists; or drop bricks from bridges onto motorways below. Young uns, eh…
Not many disco dancers from the 1980s on this blog ?
Here mate, can you turn that smoke machine off? It’s clouding up my Pernod and blackcurrent…
:)
Hope I die before I get old csc
HH