Shaping midfield, Tomoki’s run of starts

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Shaping the midfield for the game before the game is the challenge for Brendan Rodgers on Sunday.  Callum McGregor and Reo Hatate are both likely to be available to him for the trip to the Plastic Pasta Stadium and both would benefit from gametime, although putting them in together would be too much of a risk.

Callum is uber-fit and I have no concerns about him coming in from the cold to a high-pressure environment.  Reo is the man I would concentrate on.  Start him alongside Matt O’Riley with Tomoki Iwata in the holding role.

This would be Tomoki’s sixth successive start.  For a player who (in the main) deputises for the captain, that is more than he would have expected at the start of the season.  It is also enough for you and me to make a proper assessment of the player.

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  1. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    We are 54 points ahead of Livingston…let’s pray that it will be 57.With the hunz game two Sunday’s away we ought to be very careful that ‘revenge’ does not come into play,not that they need an excuse.Put the game to bed early and concentrate on the fixture that gotta win.Please God.

  2. DESSYBHOY on 28TH MARCH 2024 5:08 PM

     

    Go and read about it I’m sick explaining it.

     

     

    got a link ?

     

     

    what has a governance issue today , were there can only be one outcome according to the rules, got to do wqith the 5 way agreement from 12 years ago ?

  3. BJB

     

    How can Celtic stop any revenge and how would taking care prevent it? The game is rotten and refereed accordingly. All we can do is win every game but officiating and now with the assistance of VAR operators is going to have a huge influence.

  4. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    Robertson: Ref.

     

    Graeme Stewart and Andy Milne: linesmen

     

    Euan Anderson:Fourth official.

     

    Alan Muir and Graeme Leslie Var controllers

     

    I’m sure these chaps will do their upmost that a fair and just football game will ensue.

  5. Prestonpans bhoys on

    My understanding of the 5wa is a dispute between Celtic and the rest of the league with the SFA/League is dealt internally. A dispute between the SFA/League and the hun has to go to CAS, may be wrong haven’t look at leaked papers for a while!

  6. If you are meaning PL, he stated he never read it, and would never read it.

     

     

    the agreement if i recall correctly was between SFA, THE SCOTTISH LEAGUE, THE PREMIER LEAGUE, OLD RANGERS REPRESENTED BY DUFF AND DUFFER, AND THE NEW SEVCO ENTITY.

     

     

    iread the draft a longtime ago, i dont see what celtic plc could do about any of it.

  7. Bhoyjoebelfast on

    DESSYBHOY 5 :16

     

    Re Livvy game.We have to be careful and give the ref and his assistants no reason to ‘deny’ Celtic,players for the hunz game.

  8. Maybe the board should hire Tony Mowbray for these occasions. It will save money generating bland statements. Statement can be reduced to “We’ll take it on the chin”.

  9. BJB

     

    Ok, but its a competitive game and we need to be competitive. I think we will win comfortably if we play our game.

  10. !!Bada Bing!! on

    SS- Today came about from events at Tynecastle,why does the statement not expand on the issues? Something like,our legal team are awaiting/listening to the Audio between referee and Beaton, we will update our supporters in due course, meanwhile we acknowledge Mr Robertson has been put in an invidious position, after being appointed to our game on Sunday, while an investigation is ongoing from the Hearts game…..blah blah blah….smarter guys than me on here ,from the Greater Marmaris area usually, could come up with better. The Club always looking for us to buy strips,tickets etc,they must start including us on major issues, and not lie down every single time. So let us know what the Club have done,and are intending to do, instead of the usual try to make VAR better nonsense.

  11. i actually gave up caring about believing him or mot a longtime ago.

     

     

    people who i trust told me he lied to them wrt to res12.

     

     

    so i believe them on that.

     

     

    but i dont care anymore that PL might be a liar.

     

     

    in all my corporate service the ability of senior executives to tell untruths is remarkable.

     

     

    but even with all that, what has it got to do with the events of today ?

  12. I always laugh when I see Muir on Var, his eyesight must have improved from the ICT semi final.

     

    Probably the worst decision in the history of the Scottish game. We took that on the chin too.

  13. Prestonpans bhoys on

    Yes the Govanhill legend BRRB has a happy 🇮🇪hoopy birthday today 🍻🍺🍾

  14. !!BADA BING!! on 28TH MARCH 2024 5:32 PM

     

     

    if the smatest sports lawyer was in the room, and he tells celtic thats yir lot, and you cannot even complain, no statment will say anything other than “we are disappointed with the outcome”

  15. TOBAGO STREET on 28TH MARCH 2024 2:35 PM

     

    Just got a text from my brother.

     

     

    Row 26 seats 6 and 7!

     

     

    I have 9 tickets on row 26, starting seat 20 upwards.

     

     

    MNCelt – hate to be pedantic but your tickets in row 24 are 2 rows below row 26 😉

  16. Anyone thinking Beaton not getting anymore of our games will ease the cheating hasn’t been paying attention.

     

     

    They’re all at it when it comes to going hard on us and soft on our opponents with regards to fouls and cards. Looking for any infringement to chop off our goals, and giving penalties against us for next to nothing.

     

     

    Beaton is only one of the many willing participants in this ‘Rangers must win the league’ season.

     

     

    Fancy Hibs to get at least a point on Saturday in a 2-2 draw. Unless of course the officials cheat them out of the result as per the cup game at Easter Road.

  17. BRRB – Was born?

     

     

    WOW.

     

     

    Only kidding Johnny bhoy Happy Birthday shhhhun.

     

     

    D. :)

  18. Well if he has and repeated it to shareholders while others know something different he is compromised hamstrung, and will be unable to challenge any SFA decision until the truth outs. He is in a senior club position he doesn’t feed the cat.

  19. What happend to the audio?

     

     

    Why was Robertson not downgraded?

     

     

    Why was Beaton not shot at dawn? 🤣

     

     

    Durty cheating bar stewards the lot of them.

     

     

    Bankiebhoy is right empty Hamdump and fix fitbaw.

     

     

    D. :)

  20. “As for the SFA the only way to stop them is to pursue them in the Court of Session.

     

    This anachronistic organ should play no part in Scottish Professional Football…..”

     

    Celtic PLC? No JohnJames in his ongoing onslaught on the SFA

     

     

    There is a defence of ‘Fair Comment’ in Scots Law, qualified true, but it does exist.

     

    Doubt very much if Nick de Marco KC would have offered that up today though.

  21. !!Bada Bing!! on

    SAINT STIVS on 28TH MARCH 2024 5:36 PM

     

    !!BADA BING!! on 28TH MARCH 2024 5:32 PM

     

     

     

     

     

     

    if the smatest sports lawyer was in the room, and he tells celtic thats yir lot, and you cannot even complain, no statment will say anything other than “we are disappointed with the outcome”

     

     

    That’s exactly the cowardice we expect from this Board, get the guns out,they have never been in a weaker position than now,back it up with video evidence, let them charge us again and again…..

  22. BRRB , feliz cumpleaños

     

    PS i spoke with the matron in your care home and she said i need to have you all back by 7 pm at the latest tomorrow 🤪

  23. DAVID66 on 28TH MARCH 2024 5:43 PM

     

    What happend to the audio?

     

    Why was Robertson not downgraded?

     

     

    DAVID, agree 100% The Hun would NEVER accept Robertson as a ref after a display like that against them, but we seem to just suck it up. I’ve tried every ‘reasonable’ scenario for Robertson being appointed to our game this weekend, but can’t come up with any conclusion other than they (SFA, Crawstuck Allan) were trolling us. He was appointed to the game BEFORE Brendan faced this charges so, in theory, something could have come out of the so-called discussions that meant his position was in question. But, the Sectarian FA didn’t give a feck about that and rubbed our faces in it.

     

     

    Crawstuck Allan has a a couple of months before he packs away his brogues and wee briefcase and we can expect a few more googlies (as I mix up my metaphors) before he rides of into the sunset on his white horse.

     

     

    I genuinely feel that that barsteward will do his damndest to help the Hun and hogtie us.

     

     

    Ave Ave

  24. A pretentious manager who only calls out mibbery when his image is smeared when we lose a game. 👀️

     

     

    A pretentious Old Firm complicit PLC. 👀️

     

     

    A pretentious fan base x 60,000 who stand for nothing and fall or everything, succulent suckers who are completely unconscious of the damage that their lazy conceited too far up themselves aura inflicts on folk near and far. 👀️

     

     

    Celtic fans voted against setting Ireland and Palestine free…by voting for the sleekit masonic crooks who stabbed Jeremy Corbyn in the back in 2017 and 2019 UK General Elections. 👀️

     

     

    Just think about that…when you whine about PLC puppet manager who only outcries about mibbery when it takes the polish off of his image. 👀️

     

     

    Just think of how many innocents have died because you voted against peace and freedom TWICE2 because YOU are so incapable of getting over YOU. 👀️

     

     

    On season ticket renewal day you can either Suck or Sack the evil corporate PLC. 👀️

     

     

    On General Election day you can vote for Peace Freedom and Prosperity…OR…continue wasting your own and everybody else’s time. 👀️

     

     

    Sack or Suck! 👀️

     

     

    Peace and Freedom and Prosperity or Biblical Genocide? 👀️

     

     

    PS, Freedom as in free Ireland and Palestine and you’ll free the world…

     

     

    NOT Scottish Indy dafty pish…they are all going to jail…and big educated Ponsonby won’t make an emergency virtue signalling 5 minute video from his new Scottish home in Florida right next to yon ither [devout Scot] Brian Cox lol who thinks that Scottish Indy would be a great thing….but he’ll be living in the USA to fk oot the road of it, so no….big educated Ponsonby won’t make an appearance to tell you why Indy crooks and c19 mass murderers are going to jail. 👀️

     

     

    PPS, Maybe big bought and educated Ponsonby and 100% of Scottish Woke Media will be behind bars for not reporting a single word…as FOUR4 death threats were made to George Galloway during 2021 Scottish Election campaign? 👀️

     

     

    Why do these masonic orange hun lying thieves and murderers fear George Galloway? 👀️

     

     

    PPPS, In 2021 One glaikit Indy idiot went to jail [for a few months 👀️] another got fined for threatening to kill GG. 👀️

     

     

    Scottish Woke Krankie media after attempted murder of a Scottish Election Candidate….

     

     

    “Sssssshhhhhh…..not a word” lol

     

     

    GUILTY jail the fkrs!

     

     

    …..oot.

  25. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Predictable outcome.

     

     

    Predictable reaction.

     

     

    I’ll wait for the minutes.

     

    (Do I hear sniggering?)

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