Before the second leg against Maribor I went into detail about how important it was for Ronny Deila to rest his players. He did, we lost to Inverness and players spent the bulk the Maribor game looking like strangers.
Since then players’ propensity to look strangers has increased, with the arrival of Stefan Scepovic, John Guidetti and Wakaso Mubarak, not to mention the anticipated return of Aleks Tonev. Ronny has some serious decisions to make.
Does he flood the team with all this new blood, or allow them time to build match fitness and familiarity? New blood is badly needed but so is team cohesion.
Any decision for Aberdeen will be made with the visit to Salzburg one week today in mind. On paper, away to the top seed is our most difficult Europa League game, so we have to be ready.
My expectation is that three, if not all four, of the above will feature heavily on Saturday, which will inform Ronny ahead of his choices for Europe.
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croppybhoy
20:00 on
11 September, 2014
Evening All
Great to see that the football is starting up again
Really looking forward to seeing the new guys get some game time on Saturday
RD needs to start getting his preferred team on the park and letting them gel
Does anyone know if the lad from AV is fit enough to play?
Likewise is Broonie fit to return?
C’mon the hoops in tae they Sheeps!
HH
Seemingly Broonie is fit, however I don’t expect him to start, not sure about Tonev though
Rocket man 15.45
I well understand your fear. Have experience of helping folk face it.
You will find this of comfort.
When a private sector company wins a contract to provide a service (and they will not necessarily if the in house provider rises to the challenge) the new provider does not have a team of workers to parachute in.
They hire the existing staff and if TUPE applies on no less favourable conditions.
If you are good at your job they will want you.
The main danger is some cowboy operation getting the work but that is up to your union to check that the selection process can identify and rule out such.
It is definitely a worrying time but it can bring out the worst or best in people and that is up to what is inside each person.
Have confidence in your skills and competence but most of all your worth as a human being.
We are all miracles you know.
http://www.wisehearts.com/yaam.html
Delaneys Dunky 20:04 on 11 September, 2014
“Broonie is closer to playing than Tonev, I heard from a player today.”
Be good to have / back.
DD
Thanks for that !
Beginning to wonder if Tonev is a figment of someone’s imagination!
Hoping that Wakaso lives up the media talk and that one of the centre forwards has the knack of hitting the back of the net.
We need more pace and power up front IMHO
HH
Would like to ask the Irish Cqners on here . Would you vote yes or no to being part of the UK again.
Broony back
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
19:46 on
11 September, 2014
Ah well I tried….is it all right if I post about Celtic on Saturday,
after all were playing, same on the day of the vote,just for the
record I’m in the no camp……..give me the bastard English over
the masonic cabal that controls every Scottish institution….oh sh#t
I’m getting drawn in.
That’s the third time today I’ve heard this point of view and I don’t live in Scotland nor have a vote in the referendum.
Even as a neutral in the debate….I find it hard to disagree with NBRS assertion re bastard English v Scottish Masonic Cabal……….
Got a feeling a lot of Tim No Voters feel exactly the same way about this issue.
Bada Bing
Cheers mate.
Jungle Jim
Get well soon ,I was of course kiddin earlier.hh
jinkyredstar cuts it back for Neil Lennon
20:06 on
11 September, 2014
I remember 79
Oil was going to run out – in 15 years!
Companies would leave Scotland
Rents would go p by 40%
Toddlers then and Tossers now
If the Tories want something it must be very valuable
YES
And just for the hell of it.
Labour was quietly whispering that a Scottish government would shut Catholic schools.
But we are not supposed to remember those nasty things.
Ernie you are utterly pathetic.
Nobody cares what footballers or ex footballers think about this.
It wasn’t ex Celtic players putting up the no banners it was Orangemen .
What the hell had happened to the Scottish Labour Party when they can’t muster about some real activists to do their job? Sad
timjim
20:10 on 11 September, 2014
Would like to ask the Irish Cqners on here . Would you vote yes or no to being part of the UK again.
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Some of them are still under the tyranny of British oppression.
eddieinkirkmichael
20:03 on 11 September, 2014
So when it’s a no vote, it’s going to be truly decisive.
That’s a good thing.
Because of course it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.
And how many of those do we get in a lifetime?
One, I guess.
SRS
Broonie is not my fave player, but he would be my first pick. We miss our captain badly.
ernie lynch
19:48 on 11 September, 2014
Quoting the herald now rather than the telegraph. You couldn’t make it up. Funnier and funnier, though not as funny as this gem from you.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=16042&cpage=25#comment-2307249
I love it when you don’t take yourself so seriously. When you are game for a laugh at your own expense. You seem almost human.
Connaire
Keep the faith :-) I hope you get to see your beloved Celtic soon.
JJ
Get well soon, sounds like a nasty one.
VP
Congratulations on your 5th wedding at the weekend.
Some stamina mate :-)
Keeping The Faith
20:12 on 11 September, 2014
‘Nobody cares what footballers or ex footballers think about this.’
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You think the nats on here don’t care?
That’s why for me it has been the highlight.
Because you hate it so much.
ernie lynch
20:12 on 11 September, 2014
Unless you are Lazarus.
Dekaneys,
did you manage to get me Miss Mirs phone number like I asked :-)))
TimJim
20:10 on
11 September, 2014
Would like to ask the Irish Cqners on here . Would you vote yes or no to being part of the UK again.
Another wee twist on the above.
How many Norn CQNrs who talk a good game on a United Ireland would vote for it in the secrecy of the polling booth?
Just asking.
Tim jim…..
Just a wee aside on your question.
I seem to remember Phil Mac stating that just after the banking crash ……and the Celtic Tiger ,by then on its knees in Dublin,going cap in hand to UK for a bail out……
When a poll of The ‘Nationalist’ community in Ulster was asked if they would prefer to be ruled from Dublin or London ……a sizeable majority plunked for Westminster.
Our Imperial masters arrive form London and Darth Vader is there to welcome them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMXuEmqAHA#t=156
Reporting Scotland tonight carried an interview with Dr. Scott Hames of Stirling University who has been studying the dynamics of the Referendum. If you can get it on i-player it’s about 23 mins in. He put forwards his observations on how the debate has changed over the past two weeks. His thoughts are worth sharing:-
“If I think about the extraordinary number of, not only young voters but first time voters, people who aren’t usually engaged in politics, who have been encouraged by the entirety of the political class to get seriously engaged in this. To get stuck in, to start asking questions about Scotland – you have a choice. What we find out, in the last few weeks of the campaign, is that Scotland doesn’t decide. The markets decide. It’s industrial magnates and captains of finance who will decide what we are allowed to choose….and I think about those young people and what this tells them about democracy.”
Sums it up for me.
if i was living in scotland i would vote yes to independence
as an irishman i could never vote to be part of the uk
and will hopefully see a united ireland in my lifetime
Timjim
So disenfranchised Scots living in Ireland count as Irish for your survey?
I’m clearly not Scottish in the SNPs eyes :-)
Croppy
I have been told that Tonev is close to fitness and is incredibly naturally talented but Wakaso is Explosive!
They never got the chance to say Yes or No. We have and I will certainly be taking that chance, its YES for me.
Can’t believe some of the posts on here about RD. How gullible can people be this guy is no Celtic manager he’s taking us backwards. One system never heard of so much bull.
Delaneys Dunky 20:14 on 11 September, 2014
Broonie is not my fave player, but he would be my first pick. We miss our captain badly.”
Aye. He brings a lot of energy to the team and was badly missed against Maribor at Celtic Park.
Celtic have been missing him in the last four years or so when he’s not in the team.
ryecatcher
20:16 on
11 September, 2014
Tim jim…..
Just a wee aside on your question.
I seem to remember Phil Mac stating that just after the banking crash ……and the Celtic Tiger ,by then on its knees in Dublin,going cap in hand to UK for a bail out……
When a poll of The ‘Nationalist’ community in Ulster was asked if they would prefer to be ruled from Dublin or London ……a sizeable majority plunked for Westminster.
Just like a fair number of Dublin politicians have done for years, they play a right good Patriot Game.
Who’s lifetime tho ?
If no do win, and the vote is reasonably close, there will be another vote within 5 to 10 years, a lot of lifetimes will have passed by then.
HH
Paul67 et al
Watch out for the guy wearing the niqab on Question time to night…..
That’ll be George Galloway!
Tonev will not be fit for Saturday he is suffering from a groin strain. H.H.
west of ireland csc
20:17 on 11 September, 2014
Would you say that the Scots have suffered more than the Irish under the yoke of English tyranny?
Or would you regard such a notion as an insult to past generations of Irish men and women?
POGMATHONYAHUN 1909
How come you get a vote if you live in Germany?
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Kim Jong-Un Sends Fraternal Greetings..
To Comrade Kim Jock-‘Eck…
Wishing His Courageous Scottish People….
A Glorious Victory Over The Treacherous Gadjin Imperialists….
In Their Great Patriotic Struggle…
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Kim Jock-Un: North Korea ‘backs Scottish independence’
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Campaigners for Scottish Independence will be pleased to learn they have a new supporter of their cause – North Korea.
Officially called the Democratic People’s republic of Korea, the country -has given its blessing to Scotland’s Yes vote and would be looking to trade their natural resources for whisky should it become independent, officials say.
And around 200,000 Korean ex-pats who live in Japan but back the Pyongyang regime said they believe independence would be a ‘very positive thing’ for Scotland.
‘I believe that every person has the right to be a member of an independent nation, to have sovereignty, to live in peace and to enjoy equality,’ Choe Kwan-il, the managing editor of the Tokyo-based Choson Sinbo newspaper, told The Telegraph.
‘And I believe that a majority of Scots feel the same and will vote for independence.’
The people of North Korea are quite into Scotch and Tunnocks Caramel Logs, apparently.
Officials added that if Scotland were to be granted independence, they would be hoping to build stronger trade relationships with Edinburgh, though they doubted they had the resources to establish an embassy in the capital.
‘The result will be very important and if the Scots do vote to become independent, then North Korea will be prepared to respond to that,’ said So Chung-on, director of the International Affairs Bureau of The General Association of Korean Residents of Japan.
‘I believe independence will be positive as it will encourage personal exchanges and provide both countries with business chances.
‘North Korea is rich in natural resources and we like the taste of Scotch whisky, so we can be beneficial to each other.’
MWD says BANZAI !!
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http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/11/kim-jock-un-north-korea-backs-scottish-independence-4865147/
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomgallagher/100286100/even-as-a-catholic-i-support-the-orange-orders-march-in-defence-of-the-union/
???!!!
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lennon’s passion 20:19 on 11 September, 2014
I have to say you are fairly consistent on you RD rants.
Do you have another tune?
G64
She told me she prefers Dalmuir bhoys tae Duntocher bhoys. :)
Keeping The Faith 20:12 on 11 September, 2014
‘Nobody cares what footballers or ex footballers think about this.’
They do have the right to express their views. They also have the same amount of votes that you do.