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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Night Night, having nightmares with b/b. Night All . HH.
11.09pm on a Saturday night what pops up on my phone
Fourgreenfields…………..
FGF get your bahooky back on here, for years I heard that song, last year at CQN11 was the first time in all these years I didn’t hear it…. I listened to it
TAL …. will probably head into 9 am mass tomorrow, so likely wont make it to the club pal. but will be thinking about you and will say a prayer for Stephen.
HH
Drambowie Celt what is spotlight ? If I am the Gerry you referred too (there is a few)
Weefrathetim keep the Celticness going…. Dinghy any negativity, you have plenty of friends on here, I don’t even know you but any friend of that big Coatbrig imposter fae Mossend Leftclicktick is a friend of anybody
HT
“I think opposite the bus lane is in the bus lane. ”
???
@Gerry 10.57
sorry mate unsure who your answer is to there…the jinky bhoy?
anyway my ref is to the the recent film ..spotlight.
make your own mind up.
H.H.
Gerry
May I suggest you take a wee trip over to St brides and have a chat with father morton … the way he has managed to keep his faith over the last year is inspiring.
Drunkenness is more than just a state of mind. It’s all about your ability to stay upright when your body says otherwise. Good night. HH
i don’t know how to to do the links and it frustrates me
2468 motorway.
H.H.
Gerryfaethebrig
https://youtu.be/SMf6IyJI0e4
Hail Hail mate
Alwayslurking CSC
Someone mentioned kato.
The partick goalkeeper is as mental as him
Not partick.united.
TBJ
There was a priest in my parish around 2008…. My mother who was as catholic as Catholic could be passed in the March….my daughter was born in the September, I actually thought I was looking for an excuse to to walk away from all that religion rubbish, the priest was a young guy Father O’Brien so of the older people (my brothers and sisters) were gutted because the parish priest didn’t appear…..anyway young Father O’Brien buried the most important person in my life then in November christened an even more important person……. Hopefully I am at an age people make their own mind up up but it’s helped my family (& me) and there is never any hatred, if your speaking to Father Morton ask him if he enjoyed St Augustines in the brig, it’s a thriving parish, no hatred, ask Father Morton if the guy who sang at my mums funeral is at Albion Rovers fan (KB) only him and Paul McConville are the only people I know who admit that ! Paul McC gone but never forgotten
Dram Bowie
Watched that movie tonight … 6% of priests in Boston guilty .
94% being the norm
@St Stivs how you ?
i know you have a soft spot for my uncle J.M….update ..he knows nobody
A fit ex Morton man ..played with my Dad. and on the last visit he asked for him,
My dad died last feb 24th. Uncle Jim so confused with the living curse of demetia.
H.H.
FGF
Am not too far away from you these days……. Do you know the Station Bar or even MacConnels if you fancied a wee magners or 10
Sftb
Oops. Opposite the garage is in the bus lane I think.
TBJ THE 6% OF BOSTON
Translates to 47% of paedophlia assaults in just 5 of the usa states.
Leicester City look great especially for a team who cost £22.5m in transfer fees.
Man City owners must be asking why is our transfer bill ten times theirs and we got well gubbed?
Something said on MoTD about Leicester only starting 2 games with team changes out of 11 or was it 14 games got me looking and I found this in an article on consistency of selection.
” To validate Jason’s point the performances of both these teams have exceeded all expectations so far. There is little doubt that these two teams have performed better because they have found more consistency within their starting XI’s. Both Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy, for example, have started every match. At the back, prior to Vertonghen’s injury, no teams have come close to the combined minutes played by centre-back partnerships than these two. Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri, the artist formerly known as ‘the Tinkerman’, has called their campaign ‘a fairytale’ and it is quite remarkable that their 10 most frequent players are at a combined starting rate over 85 per cent seeing that they have come through the most gruelling part of the calendar. They have certainly been boosted by their core ten’s availability for most of the season and if they are going to win the Premier League they will need that to continue. Ranieri’s men have just 14 games left in the next three and a half months while Arsenal and Man City have the possibility of playing double that amount.”
Not only does it suggest consistency in selection really matters when it comes to good team performance it suggests it’s even more important in the spine, that is CBs and CF.
After 11 games at start of season Celtic never played the same team twice on the trot ranging from 1 change from previous selection to 9 before a CL qualifier. I haven’t had time to check the rest but I’d be surprised if the situation changed much.
If you hire a manager to develop young players then in a league where you expect to come out on top it’s only natural that players will be given chances to play which means change. Add injuries of key players and a reason for Celtic’s inconsistency becomes pretty obvious.
As does the solution now the league is no longer a given. Keep changes one game to the next at a minimum!
Do that and we might be able to discern progress.
The Web site from previous.
http://www.tsn.ca/to-rotate-or-not-why-leicester-are-still-in-the-title-race-1.432914
Obviously I am definitely not defending the 6% …. just stating that 94% are good priests.
I wonder if 6% of males have skeletons in their cupboards
Gerryfaethebrig
Would love to meet up for a few Magners mate , MacConnells sounds good .
Get my number off Lennybhoy
Hail Hail mate
FGF
I thought your link was for Four Green Fields,,,, don’t believe that Jim McCann guy, Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett were not childhood sweethearts, that is a total lie…. It was a shock to both their families when Grace wanted to marry Joseph, Clogher Celt and Almorw know more about Irish history than all the songs put together
HT
“Oops. Opposite the garage is in the bus lane I think.”
Yes, I thought so too from google maps. I just wondered about the fact that it was only a short distance away from legitimate entry to that lane on a dark winter night at 10.40 pm would give grounds for appeal.
How many buses are heading up Maryhill Road at that time of night on a Sunday service?
Almore,
For your flag. Try customflagsaustralia.com.au/product/australia-ireland-friendship.
They do pin badges also. All the best mate.HAIL HAIL
tbj..i wonder if 6%of males have skeltons in their cupboards…
really? ……you mean 60% shirley?
the iowa 15.tulsa 11 new york 30 accused (queens)
all convicted all guilty.
FGF
Lennybhoy might join us, maybe last Friday of the month, I need to kid the wee yin am working late so I get a sneaky couple of hours…. MacConnells sounds good
Auldheid
Leicester defend as a unit and break quickly in numbers , we should be playing this way every week . Leicester have the advantage of continuity of team selection ( as you pointed out ) where we are forced to change team selection almost every week .
Too often we are pedestrian in our play , allowing teams to close us down easily .
The quick passing football that Ronny speaks about doesn’t happen enough .
IMO
Gerryfaethebrig
Just let me know mate and I’ll see if I can make it .
HH
FGF
Will do
I am already delighted you took the bait, the more good Celtic bhoys on the blog the better,
Good night and vid bless
Teuchtar always remember the good times with your mate Stevie…..it will get you through the not so good times
CQN good night and God bless
SFTB.no help I know,but there was a delivery driver got done 4 times in about 2 hours at the same spot a while back,he said the same,it was after buses were off the road.
Gerryfaethebrig
God less mate and hope to see you soon ,
Tx Bada
I see articles about successful appeals but the grounds are not clear.
Bless even – oops
Time for bed
We are A poor team with a poor manager playing poorly…..Said it last night…just thought id say it again coz it has a ring to it…..
If any ronny appologists can show me where we have improved im more than willing, after 18 months, to listen….I Will Wait…
DRAMBOWIECELT on 6TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:45 PM
@St Stivs how you ?
i know you have a soft spot for my uncle J.M….update ..he knows nobody
A fit ex Morton man ..played with my Dad. and on the last visit he asked for him,
My dad died last feb 24th. Uncle Jim so confused with the living curse of demetia.
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allright bud.
i dont have a fondness for Jim Mooney.
i love the guy, and i owe him a lot in life.
there are 3 Greenock “father figures” to me, Mooney, Frankie Gallagher , John McAleese,
all devout Catholics, all die hard tims.
Jim took me under his wing , when i talked following Celtic, with the Raven (who was always jealous that I became Jims favorite -)))))
Me and Jim shared many a back shift, he encouraged me to go do my college work. he covered for me.
he told me his life story. dunoon, saint ants, morton, celtic, milan, missing Lisbon because his first born bhoy passed on. like i say, i love the guy.
is it margaret that is his wife, with the sister that jim helped look after,
he also loved tenerife, and we shared many a story of there.
in a daft co-incidence, i mentioned jim to my wife uncle, turned out he was his apprentince in joys, and Jim got him a trial at morton, that saw him taken on in the 1960s.
jim was the most belligerent, hard stanced, left wing, employee IBM ever had. his jaiket on , walk outs were legendary.
i met young jim at celtic park last year, he looks so like his dad.
anyways, i am rambling now.
Jim, Frankie, John.
these guys won us our place today.
keep it lit.
Amazing that Big Frazer is now recognised as a good goalkeeper now with the mighty Southampton the club that we feed too!
English arrogance at its best
HH
CRC
Ronny Dee is under attack from the Vengeful Press/Establishment.
I agree there aren’t enough Celtic supporters in the Squad, currently.
I’ve witnessed the 2000s age group and I have very high hopes for many of them making the Grade as First Team, Champions League players.
Gordon64 – Respect with yer Rallying Call. HH big fella.