Congratulations to Celtic, who last night became the first Scottish team to win a European tie since, Celtic, last season. While I am sure we would all have preferred to face Dundalk in the next Champions League qualifying round, a trip to Norway to face Rosenborg will be welcome by the club.
Rosenborg are not the same force we faced 16 years ago, and even that team was a shadow of the team who tested Real Madrid a few seasons earlier. The Norwegians succumbed to the inevitable forces of economic plunder, as clubs from richer leagues picked off their talent at increasingly earlier ages.
We should have more than enough in the tank for this one.
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BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 20TH JULY 2017 1:24 PM
Anybody posted that Jonny Hayes can play left back yet?
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He famously played the entire 2016 Scottish League Cup Final at full back…despite Aberdeen already having a full back in that position already…
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Interesting to hear how the SMSM are reporting the problems the Aberdeen fans are having in Bosnia, by all accounts they have been attacked for no good reason by Siroki fans and a few of them have been hospitalised. Now if it had been us it would have been reported entirely differently, along the lines of drunken Celtic fans involved in street fighting away from home again. Then our recent problems with Uefa would have been trotted out again.
Just put on The Open on Sky!!!!!!
Thank God I am not a Marshall there!!! Thought Scottish Open was bad with the Sevco blue top,but,this one would be ideal for all walks associated with 1690.
A sudden sickness would have afflicted me..
Opinion on the GB might be split on here but what about the players?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoc9u-5WaDU
Trad- we need to be prepared if any bids come in for MD too.HH
!!Bada Bing!! on 20th July 2017 1:44 pm
I know, very short up front. Don’t want anyone getting complacent either if there is no one else available to play their position!
HH
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH JULY 2017 1:31 PM
We need another striker no matter what, if MD gets injured we put Sinclair through the middle, then it’s Aitchison…
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I think Griffiths is in there somewhere as well ……….
KTF
VFR- 2 Strikers not enough, LG had a few injuries last 6 months too
It’s beyond dispute that the Green Brigade have provided so much since their arrival on the scene.
Just now though they need to box clever and realise the SMSM will use them to attack the club at every turn.
The SMSM and their partners have been creating this agenda for quite some time now.
Time to wisen up Bhoys.
Thetimreaper
It’s amazing how there are ‘no mechanisms’ when it suits them, but they found plenty to help CG with his basket of assets back in 2012. (Associate membership, anyone?)
The SFA was the Appellate Body for the SPL commission back in 2013, so it would be only right that any appeal against a decision not to review same by the SPFL should be made to them too, I’d have thought.
Just hope they have banned those pesky stripey football tops
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COSY CORNER BHOY on 20TH JULY 2017 1:35 PM
Just put on The Open on Sky!!!!!!
Thank God I am not a Marshall there!!! Thought Scottish Open was bad with the Sevco blue top,but,this one would be ideal for all walks associated with 1690.
A sudden sickness would have afflicted me..
For CCB on reading your post at 1.35pm…
“Acording to Topping, the SPFL, where 42 members ostensibly decide the future of the
business, is “like a golf club” compared to a FTSE 100 company.”
Scotsman 15th July 2017
and Re your apt point about a ‘sudden sickness’………………..
Having returned to Ireland after a trip to Glasgow I spent some time examining the psyche of the typical Sevco supporter.
The following are my observations:)
Easily provoked, prone to aggressive reactions. Violent or threatening of violence often physical. Denial of the truth, compulsion to lie even in the face of irrefutable evidence. A lack of serenity or peace, no patience or kindness.
Boasting of a concocted history of a culture and a now liquidated football club.
Ingrained selfishness or dishonesty.
Offended all too easily, resentful and often characterised by negative, disobedient, or defiant behaviour.
A reliance upon secret type societies and a dependence on a loyalty to a Crown that ultimately ‘struck down’ their club via HMRC.
I believe this condition is a sickness, what’s called a’ Non-Communicable Disease’. With all it’s deceptions and negativity a very painful way of life and that’s why those living with this disease are so aggressive, fearful and difficult to be around.
Yep, an acute case of ‘Hunnism’ is right up there with the other NCDs; “chronic diseases which can last for long periods of time and progress painfully and slowly.”
(Risk factors such as a person’s background, lifestyle and environment increase the likelihood of certain NCDs. NCDs accounted for 68% of all deaths in 2008, some 38 million souls. (World Heath Organisation).
So a measure of sympathy is required when in direct contact with a sufferer of ‘Hunnism’. A chronic condition as confirmed by the World Heath Organisation :) …
HH
Great Post Sandman, God Bless You.
If it’s true Izzy and you’re off, then thank you for all your endeavours, one thing that can be said about you, You never shirked, you always gave everything for the Cause, God Bless You as well.
Very excited about the squad Brendan is building, however with Gamboa & Boyata out injured & assuming Izzy goes we do look a bit light at the back.
I am confident Brendan has a plan for there as well, I expect a defensive signing before Rosenborg game.
Beatbhoy
Your head will explode if you try to apply reasoning to what they do, the game is as bent as an arabs dagger, therefore it will be made up to suit at the time required, where there’s a will there’s a way, for Sevco anyway.
Reading all the arguments about the wisdom or not of the banners, it appears to me that some have forgotten that it will be UEFA who will decide if action will be taken. Now the SMSM have reported matters to continue to live by their anti-Celtic leanings. One wonders if on receiving his daily copy of the SMSM, Dallas has hurried along the corridors of power at UEFA to ensure that those who sit in judgement on these matters will have a clear knowledge of the situation. Surely not?
Sandman @ 12.55…good post…just disagree with one point…ALL Celtic fans are the lifeblood of the club, not just the GB…
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 20TH JULY 2017 1:09 PM
ERNIE LYNCH on 20TH JULY 2017 12:41 PM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 20TH JULY 2017 12:35 PM
Is that the same Jock Stein who had Sean South played over the Tannoy for a European game to get the crowd fired up?
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Please provide chapter and verse.
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Don’t have it to hand.
It was a European game. It was before ‘The Troubles’ started. So all jolly craicster stuff, a bit like Brother Walfrid inviting TD Sullivan to sing God Save Ireland at the opening of the new stadium. Just a lovely Irish song. Nothing to do with celebrating the lives of Irish Terrorists who had been hanged for the murder of an English policeman. Because of course Celtic don’t do politics, never have done. It’s an entirely alien notion to the Club.
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH JULY 2017 12:54 PM
Timaloy- length of contract is nothing, Robertson to Liverpool £10m, KT is a better player.Are you saying if Man U offer£15-20mil, Celtic won’t sell?
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The length of contract means a hell of a lot.
Celtic have only sold key players when they have had to: VVD 2 years left, Wanyama 2 years left, Hooper 1 year left etc.
Andy Robertson only had 2 years left on his deal BTW.
True, if Manchester United came in and tried to sign Tierney there would be a number that would get Celtic to let him go but that number is at least 30.
Manchester United won’t pay that kind of a money for a fullback who’s only played in Scotland. They don’t trust the standard of our league.
Before he earned a move to Manchester United he’d have to spend at least a season in the EPL with a club like Everton or Southampton.
VVD has all the top clubs after him after a year in the EPL. Do you really think he’s improved that much over a year?
Nah they just needed to see him do it in the EPL before they’d consider him.
It’s nothing against Tierney. It’s the league.
Still waiting for the huns to be charged for pitch invasion at Firhill, players attacked at Poundland, and batteries thrown at players…..
Saw this comment on The Scotsman website under an article entitled
‘Celtic fans display ‘paramilitary’ banner during Linfield game’
Sean Mac Diarmada
1:05 PM on 20/07/2017
UEFA to consider ground closure over ‘paramilitary’ banners:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20141946
Timbhoy- 2 years on VVD contract good? 2 years on Robertson’s contract bad? What’s it to be? To think players won’t be sold to top teams is niave, top clubs know all about KT and MD.Brendan said the days of us getting mugged for players are over, you are buying the player, not the league he is in.Dembele had 1 season in Championship,1 season here, both him and KT played well in CL, that’s the barometer.HH
Dessybhoy
Oh, I know. Just trying, having read JohnJames, to apply reason to what PL might be up to!
Reasoning went out the window in Scottish football when the meanings of ‘incorporation’ and ‘liquidation’ were changed to mean ‘separation’ and ‘continuation’.
BHOYJOEBELFAST…
The answer I am fairly sure will be Pat McMahon who signed after the Scottish Junior Cup Final in 1967. I am afraid I am old enough to remember him and didn’t use google :)
I think he would have made his debut prior to that Penarol game though.
Today’s useless bit of information is that when we played Rosenborg in the 1972/1973 European Cup we played our home game at Hampden due to work being carried out on the stand at Celtic Park. We won 2-1.
Simple things amuse simple minds.
Just had a wee read back,SANDMAN,well played fhella.
Why does any Celtic supporter care what the SMSM think about anything to do with our club?They are an agenda driven,anti-Celtic,barely literate,myopic jumble of hacks,WGAF?!
Last night’s banners are this season’s dangly dollies…deflect,deflect,deflect.
Ernie Lynch
Great ‘Gotcha’, from Sean Mac, while educating at the same time.
Gordon
thanks I believe I used that question when I wrote the questions for the Celtic board game but was never likely to remember the answer
I don’t see KT or Dembele going this season.
The only real quality player at immediate risk is Armstrong I.MO.
Longer Term, I have no doubt at all that Dembele will be off and there is absolutely nothing Celtic can do about it.
As long as Sky bankrolls the crazy world of the Premiership any of our imports who impress will be targeted.
They will have no loyalty to Celtic nor can we expect them to have. They are young men who want to do as well as they possibly can, we can offer them medals & love, the EPL can offer them millions.
Sadly no contest, now KT is a little bit different, if we offer him top bucks & make him future Captain of the Club we just might have found the new Paul McStay.
BEATBHOY on 20TH JULY 2017 2:00 PM
Thetimreaper
It’s amazing how there are ‘no mechanisms’ when it suits them, but they found plenty to help CG with his basket of assets back in 2012. (Associate membership, anyone?)
The SFA was the Appellate Body for the SPL commission back in 2013, so it would be only right that any appeal against a decision not to review same by the SPFL should be made to them too, I’d have thought.
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My question would be is the Appellant body the SFA Board or the SFA Professional Game Board?
It’s all speculation anyway, we can only hope the manoeuvring is for good reason and not an attempt from some to distance themselves from what seems to be the inevitable decision of the SPFL not to review.
http://www.independent.ie/videos/sport/watch-brendan-rodgers-brushes-off-question-about-paramilitary-banner-in-celtic-crowd-35949944.html#play
Rosenborg.
Went to the away game in 72 . They were amateurs . Celtic played badly and won 3-1 .. Rosenborg scored first…
Went to the away game in 2001 ( ? )–Rosenborg won 2-0 and missed a penalty . Harald Brattbakk scored both goals ( obviously !!!) . He also won the penalty which they missed . Celtic played badly . Henrik Larsson missed a sitter
Thetimreaper
Re appellate body, only ever saw SFA mentioned, not which board, so don’t know.
I share your hope, because things cannot be left as they are.
GREENPINATA on 20TH JULY 2017 12:13 PM
James Forrest @ 11.54 hrs
If I saw a similar banner at Greyskull I would think : Typical Huns.
We should be above that . Time has moved on and frankly so should some of us. It’s a football ground for Gods sake ,where we welcome all .
If that banner makes any Celtic supporters uneasy or deters any families from supporting Celtic then it should be challenged.
HH to you.
Your post is a bit contradictory.Yes we are a club open to all,as you say.All,I take ,as you mean anyone going to Celtic Park.What about the ones who like the songs,like the banners?.Are they not part of the “All inclusive”you speak off?.You cant say “Open to all”except ,the ones some dont agree with,or some dont like.
SOT
£489 day trip to Rosenberg this time with Celtic travel..
The facts of the matter are as follows;
Armstrong, under the stewardship of Ronnie Diela was pish. Wrong tactics wrong shape. Under Brendan’s stewardship, tactics, shape he has excelled. IF he does go to an English premiership club, unless they play to the same tactics/shape as Brendan’s teams then he is fucked. We should include in the deal a buy back clause cos believe you me, if he goes he’ll be back at somepoint
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH JULY 2017 2:21 PM
“Timbhoy- 2 years on VVD contract good? 2 years on Robertson’s contract bad? What’s it to be? ”
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I was just pointing out that players tend to get sold with a two years left on their contract. It’s after that point the player’s value starts to diminish. Tierney just signed a 5 year deal. Celtic don’t need to sell because his value will remain high for another 3 seasons.
“To think players won’t be sold to top teams is niave, top clubs know all about KT and MD.Brendan said the days of us getting mugged for players are over, you are buying the player, not the league he is in.Dembele had 1 season in Championship,1 season here, both him and KT played well in CL, that’s the barometer.HH”
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Naive? You and I think Tierney is a top player capable of going all the way.
My point is, Manchester United won’t be convinced he is until they see him do it in a top 4 league.
CORKCELT on 20TH JULY 2017 2:33 PM
I don’t see KT or Dembele going this season.
The only real quality player at immediate risk is Armstrong I.MO.
Longer Term, I have no doubt at all that Dembele will be off and there is absolutely nothing Celtic can do about it.
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Totally agree. Dembele will be here another year.
The Green Brigade have got the razzmatazz….
but, sadly, they’ve not got the balls or, the cuteness….
of the JUNGLE…..
Ye see,….back in the day, the JUNGLE, contributed….
emotionally, financially, vocally, physically…..
with the, armed struggle that waged across the sea….
during the period known as, – “the troubles.”
But, the difference is, back then, the JUNGLE’s antics….
were reflecting opposition to,….
similar establishment marginalisation….
only difference is, the Imperialism was militarily enforced…..
across the sea, over here in Scotland, it was all about….
jobs, social, football descrmination, because we were….
looked upon as, interlopers, we still are,…….but,…..
for the sake of the peace process….
let the folk from the six counties…
try to leave – “the troubles” – in the past….
what the JUNGLE sang, back in the day….
had currency, back in the day…..
move on, or yer no more than, muck raking huns….
back to last night,…..ah mean, how many more dafty fines…
are we away from getting banned out of Europe ?
If that happens, how long will Brendan hang about ?
The thing is, don’t try t be something that your not….
JUNGLE-ists…….your not.
But, what is becoming more apparent….
yeez are,…….
Back Of The Bus Provo’s / The Other Side Of The Coin
and that was never more emphasised, than when yeez…..
went along wi the PLC’s 49 quid, same club Lie authentication…
the PLC dangled the hook, and…….
53,000 of yeez, queued roon the building to jump on…..
Sadly, the JUNGLE jury has returned it’s verdict and, it reads…..
The Celtic Supporter base – 2017……
has neither, the balls, or the JUNGLE cuteness……
to successfully negotiate, the compendium of dark arts….
from both, inside and, outside the club, that lie in our…..
Immediate midst, sadly.
Doom Gloom and Despondency – CSC
Oh, btw, LG hizny got the mental capacity,……
to be a Celtic player.
…….off-oot.