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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CONEYBHOY on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:18 PM
Enjoy the gig, hopefully the bhoys supply the encore!
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BASH The Boris.
I like the GB but it was difficult to view the opening minutes of last week’s game through the smoke fog and also a problem for people with health issues as mentioned here.
Great to hear Super Mac is feeling like his old self again and ready for the to-night’s big match. Ange now has an embarassment of riches in his quad to chose from with three points the target.
Uno dos tres
“I called my dog Pele. It was only fair, given that he had called his dog Harry Hood!”
Harry Hood
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BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:27 PM
That awkward moment when you’ve to give £13.99 to an Aberdonian ?
……….
Two Aberdonian Guys walking doon the street.
ONE of them finds a UNOPENED Wage Packet with £400 stuffed inside it.
His mate says…” £400….Your a LUCKY Bassa”…to which the Finder replies….
” What do you mean LUCKY….Look at the Feckin TAX they have taken aff me” ?
LOL
HH
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:27 PM
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I think I have a couple of NEWish Casual Shirts that I bought ONLINE a year or Two ago, and they are very like ” CHEESE CLOTH”
I know that I have sometimes worn ONE of them under a V Neck Jumper.
VERY CHEESE like material.
HH.
MON The Hoops…Just DAE IT !
HH.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:40 PM
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Now that made me laugh mate…VERY Good.
HH
I had a couple of cheese cloth shirts back in the day.
My favourite was the cheddar coloured one
Yeti @ 4.19
I fear you were stuck in the hoose washing your hair that night.
1980’s attention seekers latching on to football = casuals.
2000’s attention seekers latching on to football = ultras / aka GB.
CFC “Casuals” were having a go at “proper naughty” stuff at ER in Oct / Nov 87.
They tried to start trouble in the home end and had to be rescued by the Polis / Plod.
As they were marched around the ground the away support — ie “Us” — started singing “CFC and casuals don’t go” plus throwing their small change at them.
Cue polis ejecting them from the ground as it was not safe to put them in with the scarfers / CFC granda’s in the away support as they were about to be torn limb from limb by all acounts — working definition of why a conscripted army is always more useful / effective / dangerous than a volunteer unit.
I have heard stories that the street theatre that day was started when one of the “piranha” brother’s fired a flare at the Hibbees support — apologies if I have gotten the dates mixed up.
No matter at the dancin — rare venture into the posh £5 dancin — that night and all the talk was about casuals not being welcome at P/head in any way shape or form so Stone Island gear was now not the draw it once was and the TFOD wannabee casuals were lamenting that if we didn’t have casuals they would have no-one to compete with and the game would be a bogie for them as well.
Seemingly the piranha brothers engaged in low level casual naughtiness for some time after but it never became mainstream and their career was ended with a fairly recent run in with a young coked up chib collective who nominally supported us — not good at any level with the NHS needed to stop a tragedy.
For the record the piranha brothers had nothing to do with the GB.
For a start they never went to St Al’s and are 20 years too old.
However their attention seeking was what they had in common.
Again your typing shite. That never happened.
Yeti @ 5.53
The floor is yours — where am I mistaken / what have I got wrong?
The ER casuals episode is the stuff of CFC folklore.
The piranha brothers are also well known.
Plus their demise was very recent.
If you know better then spread the wealth.
Not an easy game tonight.
Aberdeen know this is a cup final for them. Win, and they buy themselves some time.
I said v motherwell, at our flowing best, none can compete.
Thank God we didn’t discuss cat kicking too much today. The blog is often surreal enough
MADMITCH
The day a flare went into the Hibs section was the day Frank McAvennie made his Celtic debut. There was a trackside overspill of Celtic supporters affected by the smoke. Nothing whatsoever to do with Casuals who were run out of Celtic Park years earlier.
till waiting for Superbru predictions from Knoxy, crc, tirconnel, wee McCaff and Scaniel plus JMcCormick needs a Celtic match forecast
Yeti @ 5.53
My first hand memory is that the ER casuals game was Oct / Nov 87 — part of the Centenary Season.
Currently trying to work back when I could afford the posh dancin and the game might have been Jan/Feb 87.
If anyone can offer some light on this then please do.
Flares am with hrvatska jim and yogi,not fair and tough on those suffering respiratory disorders like Asthma.not good on those suffering.
Flares(trip over running for a bus type:-)))
Oxford bags
Arthur Black’s
Madeteez’- made to measure trousers
Loon pants for the dancin it the barras
Troos furra noo romantics elsewhere
If you don’t were flares,yi must be Charlie Nicholas:-)))
HH
Who would win in a fight between a tuna melt and a tuna sarnie?
TMcL @ 6.06
Thanks for giving help with the timeframe.
Not sure you are correct with the CFC casual element.
I think it was still live in 87/88.
If you have a different opinion then please share.
TMcL @ 6.06
Your story doesn’t stand up.
If the flare went into the home support — which I agree with — then why did away fans spill out onto the track?
The trackside spill was the away fans who had gotten into the home end for some casual style street theatre — they were rescued by the plod and walked around the perimeter to the away end.
UNCLE JIMMY @ 6;05
Thank God we didn’t discuss cat kicking too much today. The blog is often surreal enough.
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Perhaps, although good it was aired – an insight to Zouma’s character maybe – top multi-millionaire players think they’re Gods.
There is a football angle to it – just like Rooney’s stiletto- studs, and the Colleen Rooney/Becky Vardy Wagatha spat.
Still it’s football all the way now – looking forward to it. A continuation of our recent form will see us enjoy an emphatic win. HH
CELTIC: Hart, Taylor, Starfelt, Abada, Jota, Carter-Vickers, O’Riley, Maeda, Hatate, McGregor, Ralston.
Subs: Bain, Scales, Bitton, Giakoumakis, McCarthy, Rogic, Johnston, Forrest, Welsh
MACCARGO
Rogic rested Juranovic must be injured?
MADMITCH
Celtic Casuals appeared in the late 70s and didn’t last long as the overall support hounded them out of existence.
The likes of Hibs, Aberdeen and Motherwell had a problem with Casuals right through the 80s but they fought with each other and non-Casuals were left alone.
There was definitely no Celtic Casuals involvment in the Easter Road flare incident.
No Juranuvic!!
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 6:39 PM
Agreed, Rogic makes sense as he played the full ninety after long haul flights. Jura is a strange one, hopefully falls under ‘personal reasons’ rather than an injury.
Bench looking very strong
Juaranovic not even on bench, strange.
live updates up
McGregor
Hatate
O’Riley
Abada
Jota
Maeda
Six Goalscorers CSC
live updates update is updated
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 9TH FEBRUARY 2022 6:40 PM
Great to hear.
Same happens any time Ireland fans might go a bit overboard, quickly spoken to by auld heads.
Over the years it becomes a point of pride to be part of a movement that goes out to support the team and have a good time.
Celtic and Irish fans in Europe are a real joy to be part of.
Coneybhoy
Enjoy what a band still sound great
The way we are playing just now could be over by halftime
3-0halftime CSC
Celtic casuals were going strong right through the eighties a few of mates were part of it they always stood at the entrance of the old celtic end next to the floodlights as it was usually quiet there so they wouldn’t get a kicking of the scarfers 😉
What a start to the New Year.
Five league wins out of five and one in the Scottish Cup.
And that was without a trip to Dubai
No twistin by the pool – No afternoon drinkin – No No
Lets make it six in the SPL then back to Cup duty
Val’s eleven then a Viking squad last seen at Largs back in 1263
Is Hesgoal working?