I like Scott Brown and Leigh Griffiths’ reactions to our recent adversity. It says a lot about them. They both personalise responsibility for what happens next, this is an important part of recovery – and success.
A week ago I wrote that the League Cup semi against Ross County was the biggest game in the rest of our season, and that it wasn’t a game I’d bet on. It provided the toxicity cup football can generate, creating a crisis mentality which rolled into Aberdeen on Wednesday.
This psychological phenomenon has to end now. Feel free to put a date in June in the diary to get back to it. We are in a genuine league title contest, something you and I talked about as a great thing for Scottish football not so long ago. We have no God given right to be miles ahead of anyone. We are here because we’ve made mistakes and an opponent stepped up. Welcome to Celtic.
If you want to open an inquest when the patient catches a cold, knock yourself out, but I’m not up for it. If we want this title, we circle the wagons and give the manager and players the encouragement they need to get the job done (and, erm, that includes you, ‘Phyllis’). You can be sure Aberdeen fans will do nothing less.
Tomorrow the focus switches to Perth, where Aberdeen take on St Johnstone. They won their first 8 league games this season, but the wheels came off the tractor immediately after their most important victory away from home – at Tynecastle. Next up was a League Cup game against Hibs, the loss of which plunged them into a five-week chasm.
They are a team who get notoriously nervous just when they begin to think they are in with a chance. We’ll see what Tommy Wright does with them tomorrow.
Enjoy your football. Enjoy this league race, the challenge and the disappointments. Enjoy that thrill when a goal goes against Aberdeen, or the downer when they score. It will make the finale all the more rewarding, I promise you.
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Weefrathetim
Their actions can also hurt their own family…..as a young bhoy some of my friends would have a few shandies “because they were driving” thankfully we were never involved in any incidents, but in this day and age the easy answer is don’t do it……by the way as a stupid young guy as a passenger I didn’t give it a second thought…..more fool me
hoopy and oscar.
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Another clean sheet from big FF
Forster …. BRILLIANT
Van Dyke ….BRILLIANT
Wanjama ….sent off but still BRILLIANT
….as Southampton beat West Ham 1-0 …… Great game
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we are the mods ?
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WeefratheTim on 6th February 2016 7:16 pm
Nail on head
HH
CRC
Your title, REACTING TO ADVERSITY won’t sit well with our Board ….. They seem to have had a wee problem with ‘REACTING’ to the worst ADVERSITY in history of Scottish Football …… Watch the fun when the hordes crawl back into the SPFL ….. THEIR CLUB MAY BE DEED, BUT THEY ARE AS RANSID AS EVER….and some Celtic Supporters also want these hate-filled Neanderthals to desicrate our stadium once again…..JEEEEEEEZZZZE
Paul67….!!!!
Bob O’ Baldy – 6:47 pm
“No a fan of rugby, full of manky, greedy no voters, but, fwiw rugby and football fans are different…”
It’s the Yes voters who are the greedy ones, all my life the single refrain of the SNP was “It’s Scotland’s Oil” and to eff with the poor in England, Wales and NI getting any of the money generated from it.
And this continued to be the refrain until the erse fell oot the oil market, gone from trading at $110/ barrel at referendum to $34/barrel now. Sure dodged a bullet there as we would know austerity right off the richter scale if the Yes campaign had won.
Still, at least the SNP have remembered not to redistribute a single penny from the wealthiest to the poorest in all their years in office, and at least they gave us the OBA and gay marriage too of course, two things the country really was in desperate need of, so at least they got their priorities right there.
I wonder what Brother Walfrid would make of them though?
a dinner for the tenth cup win, check out the menu
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trifle a la gallagher
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Both mascots at the EK game tomorrow are great wee guys.
One is a ST holder at Paradise and went ballistic when a newspaper reporter and photographer thought he was an EK fan and wanted him to pose in EK colours. Hope they both have a great day tomorrow.
EC67
peerless patsy – no trifling.
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Lubo
How many people in Scotland have lost their home due to the bedroom tax?
Compare to how many have in England
Btw
I’m not an SNP voter
BT
I will utter not many words on this subject but trust me whatever part of the islands you live in “under occupancy” targets all……
Good to see 3 ex Celts VW, FF and VVD do well for Southampton tonight.
Lawwell took the money from these transfers close to £30M and blew it on a variety of projects. The signing of the Dundee Utd compared to that standard of player highlights the extent of downsizing he has driven. No manager in the world could deal with the hand that Lawwell has dealt Ronnie.
Never mind blowing £30M of transfer money on dross , Lawwells projects have cost us £50M of CL revenue.
Dermot must be asleep at the wheel if he allowing the CEO to burn £80M. I think not.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-E7LNuEnI
Gerry
I know but the Scottish government have ensured no one in Scotland is effected by bedroom tax mate
Monies I’m sure have to be moved to pay for it as do monies for no prescription charges etc
I am just stating the facts
I’ve had a great family day today.
Not working so headed for St Andrews.
Great walks, lovely meal and a terrific laugh with my wife and wee girl.
McGregor’s folly hasn’t put a damper on my day.
I’ve seen the damage drunk drivers can do. I hope he is innocent.
ERNIE LYNCH and CANAMALAR
You two can come on now and make jokes about the casualties of drunk drivers.
The floor is yours.
CANAMALAR
Maybe I shouldn’t drive anymore either.
Eh?
Forster, Wanyama, Van DIjk…….we sold off our spine.
Along with our soul.
McGregor is just a young lad and like all young lads has made a mistake.
Whilst what he has done is wrong lets not use it as an excuse to sound off and climb on our soap boxes.
Too much of that in here and a fairly depressing place it has become.
BT
Don’t want too say too much on an open forum but things change, by the way much appreciated your links back in April about “you see” am now permanent and in with the bricks (for now) if you think a certain country is different from the some others you might be mistaken, the politicians can dress things up whatever way they like…..
For me I just go to work and look forward to the weekend, if you are out for the Gold Cup in the tyre we could sort Celtic & the country out over a few magners….although if Cuecard wins I might be on the Pernod
Even though I went out of LMS today, I was still feeling dirty about having picked the zombies …. so, as an act of contrition, 20 quid is on its way to Mary’s Meals.
Have never bet on them before …. should have known better.
Ah well …. at least a few kids will eat because of my transgression.
HH
Gerry
Look forward to March my friend
As I stated earlier I have never been an SNP voter in my life and I have given them my personal experience from working in DHSS local government and now WRO
But we know uni graduates know more than we who have experience do
bigshuggy on 6th February 2016 7:11 pm Just thinking. We won the league by 17 points last season. We beat the sheep X 4. Had the sheep won twice, our margin would have been 5 points. Had the sheep won x3, we would have lost the league by 1 point. What does this mean for this season.? Can only afford to lose v the sheep if we win all our games. Beating them at home , I think,would guarantee us the league –
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You’re assuming we’ll be playing them at home in the last game. Wouldn’t bank on that……..
Philbhoy – I get you mate!
A beauty pageant. Celtic Queen. Brill.
Paddy Gallagher
Hope you are well!
Can you email me at my work address please, if you don’t mind!
I was talking with supporters today who go to every game and they believe in RD. They said there was some ugly stuff in Aberdeeen. For the life of me I can’t see it. There is a real dichotomy just now between those who believe in RD and those who don’t. Regardless we must support RD now until the we win the league. I seriously doubt RD will be there after this season. But until then RD will have my backing.
GREENPINATA
Lawwell would win that one!
BT
I have voted once in my 45yrs here on this planet and that was for independence, I didn’t vote SNP, I voted for my daughter’s future, but my labour supporting parents were always disgusted with my attitude to politics, I was so interested in the actual politics but the politicians were the let down for me….. We now have a politician in North Lanarkshire who didn’t want to discuss the offensive behaviour bill or whatever it’s called, I know the family and they are Celtic fans, what politician doesn’t want to discuss what his constituents want to talk about, although he wasn’t up against much, our last MP sounded like a Sevconian board member his philosophy was “vote for me as I have helped every family in Coatbridge”
Apologies for the politics post……it’s even worse than the Ronny out brigade
Try walking away from a fatal crash involving five vehicles that result in three deaths and you don’t even have a scratch. Try that then crack jokes about it.
Genuinely beginning to despise that dishevelled band of ragamuffin Sheep.
It’s like a pesky gnat tormenting a great buffalo.
Pure scum they are.
HH.
Philbhoy will do mucker.
MiT
Your punishment for choosing thems was getting papped oot :-)
I bet you feel soooo much better and cleaner now, good to have you back.
HH
Paddy Gallagher
I’ll be touch Monday then!
TET …
If there was ever any doubt that God is a tim …. I should have known not to mess with the Big Yin ..(not Billy Connolly, … I mean the REAL big yin! :)