It is a quirk of fixture scheduling that the farthest Celtic travel before December is Edinburgh. Exerting travel, like last week’s journey to Bergamo, will not interrupt our preparations as we compete on three fronts in the week ahead.
The rest of Scottish football’s attention will be elsewhere when we take on Dundee at Celtic Park tomorrow, but focus will return to Glasgow for Saturday’s League Cup semifinal against Aberdeen, and for our Champions League game at home to Leipzig, one week from today.
The win at Motherwell was doubly welcome as it was an away game after an away European tie, statistically when teams are most likely to drop points. The other interesting dynamic is that our next two matches are against teams who are not practiced at playing two games a week.
While Celtic coasted to a win at Motherwell, Dundee had a battle against St Johnstone before losing to a 90th minute goal. Celtic Park tomorrow is Dundee’s first midweek game since July. The same is true of Aberdeen. They also went to the last kick of the ball against Dundee United at the weekend, will doubtlessly have an engaging tussle tomorrow, before pitching up to face the Champions on Saturday.
We have the bigger squad and playing two games a week is our norm. Let’s make the most of the scheduling quirk and arrive for our next Champions League tie in top condition.
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Remember in 2022 thinking Aberdeen had beaten them as 90 mins came and went. They then lost 3-2 with Arfield scoring two goals in injury time. It’s not over until it’s over.
Hopefully we will have a straightforward evening. With Idah out, I wouldn’t mind seeing Maeda given 30 mins at CF if we are winning comfortably. Kyogo will need protected for the semifinal and CL games.
Who would win between borrowing a further £4m from investors and receiving another £9m in loans
Espanyolification test
Win for us and a draw at Pittodrie is best outcome tonight
nay to that, a dons win will suit me just fine.
Gene
Yeah but looking at the hun sites, they will lose their minds if defeated. Now that would be entertaining 😄
Celtic team:-
Boruc, Caldwell, Kennedy (Pressley 41), McManus, Naylor (Donati 16), McGeady, Scott Brown, Hartley, Jarosik, McDonald, Vennegoor of Hesselink (Killen 79).
Subs Not Used:- Mark Brown, Zurawski, Sno, Caddis.
Booked:- Jarosik, Vennegoor of Hesselink, Caldwell.
Goals:- Jarosik 45, Donati 90.
Shakhtar Donetsk team:-
Pyatov, Srna, Chigrinsky, Kucher, Rat, Ilsinho (Yezerskiy 83), Hubschman, Lewandowski, Jadson, Lucarelli (Gladkiy 88), Brandao.
Subs Not Used:- Shust, Duljaj, Vukic, Shevchuk, Beylyk.
Booked:- Brandao.
Goals:- Brandao 4.
Att: 59,146
SS/ PPB
It’s business – I think dropping a further 2 points behind will send them spinning
MELVIN UDALL on 29TH OCTOBER 2024 8:16 PM
Their accounts report is brilliant.
They aren’t even trying anymore. The Chairman’s statement doesn’t even mention the financial performance.
They are so toxic nobody, not even their own Chairman wants to be associated with those numbers. Good luck with finding an able CEO and Chairman from outside the “rangers-minded” world.
The auditors must have had all sorts of promises about “future funding” aka cash handouts to have come up with that going concern statement.
Celtic to win, huns to lose.
Old, tried and tested. As old as the old snowman who used to be water.
HH.
What’s obvious from their accounts is how essential a coherent, long-term player trading model is. Regular, high profit sales.
Giving their manager free reign to spend a load of their cash on players with no potential for sell one was a disaster that was will haunt them for seasons to come
I’m hoping both of them lose……..good odds.
CELTIC40ME on 30th October 2024 10:37 am
They aren’t even trying anymore. The Chairman’s statement doesn’t even mention the financial performance.
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Couldn’t agree more. There seems no imperative to change things – it all looks like “let’s wait and see what happens, we’ll be fine”
There seems no end to the supply of willing loans and donations from well-heeled directors and ‘super fans’ to ‘keep the sh**show on the road’ – c£125m and counting since 2012. It makes you wonder if they really want to start living within their means – I mean if there is always someone on hand with a wad why bother?
It’s still “the big hoose must stay open” and the win at all costs and under any circumstances mindset from the fans. They don’t care where the money comes from, as long as it keeps coming. They apparently have no interest, or, take any pride, in the proper running of their club.
Complaints about our board bubble-up regularly from some of our support, but my God we are light years away from what passes as the norm at Ibrox. Only the size of the support and wider constituency in Scotland keeps Ibrox functioning, albeit badly. It was always the case even as Sevco Scotland started playing with only an associate SFA membership at Brechin in 2012.
Enjoying the pa pa pa patter…I thought it was a minute silence!? The boy clearly practiced it in front of the mirror – comedy gold
Not sure what’s funnier , the Huns accounts or the Orangeman doing his Flying Pickets impression
DARWIN on 30TH OCTOBER 2024 11:06 AM
It looks like they’re trying to do things differently but it’s too little too late to get near us anytime soon.
If they stick with their manager and stick to a plan they might make it to sustainability, but it will need a decent executive which they show no signs of finding anytime soon
you aint laughing at the lonesome bugle boy now that he is doing the cinema adverts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxU6LT6DonE
a blast from the past – the cappielow bugler –
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For those who are too young to remember, the bugler first appeared (I think) in 1963 when we had crowds around the 10,000 or 12,000 mark every week if my memory serves me correctly. Certainly crowds far larger than most SPL teams get nowadays. I have never heard the name of the bugler revealed, but during the game he used to sound what I think may be known as Reveille, or it might be the bugling way of saying “Charge!”. Anyway it was extremely effective in getting the crowd and the players going. I think it would be an excellent thing to resurrect although I’m not sure how well it would work amongst the current small crowds.
Do not make the mistake of comparing a bugler with the sort of artificial “entertainment” that we have occasionally seen in recent years. The bugler was a product of the crowd, not some marketing manager’s idea of how to sell a “product”.
Correct!
When we played Clyde (who were then chasing us) at Cappielow in an ordinary Saturday afternoon match in the old Second Division, we topped 12,000. That was a wee bit unusual, but substantial crowds in the high four figures were the norm, and of course we exceeded 20,000 in an evening cup tie with Motherwell.
new article posted.