Celtic’s season will open up if they can take Dinamo Zagreb down a peg or two tonight. The Croatian champions have read the stories about the debacle against Legia and subsequent humbling by Maribor, who turned out to be anything but humble, if their draw away to Schalke this week in the Champions League is anything to go by.
All they know about Celtic is the trauma we’ve come through in recent months. Details, like the aforementioned under-appreciation of Maribor, or the extremely credible away performance against top seed, Salzburg in the last round, will be difficult to fit into their match planning.
Salzburg was a sign that there is more to come from this Celtic team than was previously evident, and unlike Maribor, who arrived in Glasgow aware of our potential, Dinamo confidently predicted they are “here for the win”. Even Juventus were more cautious at Glasgow Airport.
European football gives players an opportunity to stamp their name at the club, and on subsequent team sheets, just ask Wakaso Mubarak, who put a stake in the ground 13 minutes into his debut in Salzburg, or Callum McGregor, who stamped his authority all over our European campaign already this season. Tonight is the game Stefan Scepovic has been waiting for since arriving (without a proper preseason) on deadline day.
I’m not expecting a flowing game tonight, nor do I think such a game would be beneficial to us. Keep it tight and exploit our chances, and we’ll shut Dinamo up.
Don’t want to get drawn off course today, but a quick point:
Remember what I detailed about Fraser Forster’s professionalism? Ronny Deila is 100% correct on what he said on fitness recently; big Fraser was one end of a spectrum.
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Sydney Tim
How could/why would DD sack himself?
I think Paul is Dr. Jekyll and Philvis is Mr. Hyde.
Meanwhile over on a deadco fansite….
Typical
Roon Ye Dalia is only in the country 2 minutes and Peter Liewell has
him brainwashed.
Many roads to where ? ???
Of all the towns Citys contries in the world he picks
ROME.
Billy MCKnuckledragger
BMC-uWP
Is the Wimbledon CSC Irish centre just a walk in job?
I’ll contact them to see if the game is on Celtic tv and if they have access
I’m looking forward to tonight’s game, and I think a celtic win could be on the card, I hope.
The line up should be interesting with many permutations from the guys in here, I’ll leave that to RD and hope the players give us a result, and make the manager happy too.
I’ve also got the long drawers looked out as the temperature will be down tonight, so a word of care to JJ nae shorts tonight mate;).
I noticed in one of todays red tops that big Jig (elbows) was saying that, ” Monday’s result was as bad a feeling as when the club went into administration” just as well they weren’t liquidated then eh?
I hope Ronny is able to match the quality of his banter (ooh, the Glesga banter!) with some quality coaching.
Tonight would be a good start.
Salzburg was a good result but a pretty awful performance in my opinion.
Thank you Craig Gordon.
Bmcuw et all
You bhoys will be happy to know the jubilee answer to Hattie Jakes was on hand to give me my bed bath this morning….
Only acgr may get excited by that one.
philvisreturns
12:46 on 2 October, 2014
That’s the Halloween costume taken care of, although, to be fair that’s not too different to my shopping gear.
livibhoy
12:20 on 2 October, 2014
Doc
How long did it take them to get to those levels?
They can also go out and buy players for £10m+ and discard players for next to nothing if they need to.
Our club strategy is different to Barcelona. They build teams to win things. We build teams to sell players.
LB
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It will take time to get to those level, hence the bumpy road.
This begs the question about value for money from the youth academy..
BT
Just lie back and think Joanna Whalley in the singing detective.
What about Wonga writing off 220 Milion pounds how can a company lose that amount and still stay in business ? H.H.
IGC
During the games anyway,dunno about other times.
A short stroll from Wimbledon Tube/Rail station,good beer,quality company.
All good!
BLANTYRETIM
Best hope she disnae lurk on here.
jc2
My mammy wouldny let me watch that filth.just like my brain won’t allow my eyes to read the poster on here..8-))
BT
“the jubilee answer to Hattie Jakes”
If the jubilee’s answer to Hattie Jakes reads CQN in her lunchtime, your knee might not be the only part that needs replaced after your next bedbath.
Tony D
Thanks for your sartorial advice. I have, in fact, packed my hill-walking gear as I won`t have the opportunity to wear it for a while yet 0:-)
Regards to yourself and the other fine men I met in The Brazen .
JJ
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers –
Male nurses? I thought the male equivalent of a nurse was a doctor.
Men in nurse’s outfits would be disturbing to me. Nobody wants to see hairy legs under a skirt.
Standards are slipping. Have you been on a plane recently? Time was when trolley dollies would sashay up the aisle, plying you with free booze and simpering prettily.
Now they’re mainly leathery old bats and tanned men with plucked eyebrows who want £5 for a can of coke.
I have a recurring nightmare that I’m on a plane and then the pilot announces “this is your capitain speaking, my name is Geraldine and my co-pilot is Kelly-Ann Marie”. I scream like William Shatner noticing something on the wing, but I can’t get out as the doors have already closed and the seatbelt sign is on.
It really rustles my jammies.
My wife said I was “sexist”, but I told her to shush and make me a sandwich. (thumbsup)
jungle jim – the old ones are the best :) (thumbsup)
BMCUW
“Best hope she disnae lurk on here.”
At the risk of giving BT further nightmares I will reply…
Snap Boaby
Joe Filippis Haircut
13:04 on
2 October, 2014
“What about Wonga writing off 220 Milion pounds how can a company lose that amount and still stay in business ? ”
Get a loan?
Bmcuw and sftb..
I’m worried now… She did have a tim sounding name. No more clues or I’m never getting out of here.
SFTB……we disagree again..suprise suprise, i gave opinion ,i hope im wrong but apart from his natter i have saw nothing from the man other than strange team selections, poor performances .So lets wait till November and see where we are,ok,.i can do that.
theoriginalsadiesbhoy – he’s the Edward Norton to my Brad Pitt. (thumbsup)
BGX
I don’t see any disagreement in what you took from the post. I am saying much the same thing. The evidence is not yet there on the pitch but it’s early days.
SydneyTim
12:47 on 2 October, 2014
Heads rolling for losing 20m
Not investing before CL qualifiers is a Sackable offence
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Spending £2m for the services of Tony Mowbray and his management team and another £1m. plus in compensation when they got the bullet after 9/10 months should have been a sacking offence. The millions pissed up against the wall by the signing of other teams duds and misfits should have been a sacking offence. It seems the normal hire and fire rules don’t apply for Lawwell as they do for the rest of us mere mortals.
Wait for one negatonian to arrive then a plethora arrive all at once.
Is plethora the collective name for negatonians? Dunno.
Mmmmcfc
Southside
What about a ‘depression’ of negatonians?
What was ronnies comments.. Anyone have them ?
Think everyone should give ronnie until at least christmas no matter hat happens in europe.
New players
New tactics
New philosphy
New coaching staff
All takes time.. Ronnie is young aswel and i defo think he has potential.. Didnt the dortmund manager give him high praise ??
Do we look to get rid of our young players after a dozen performances ?
Enjoy the game folks.. Be usual wake up and check score for me :-(
Up the tic
PhilvisReturns… (thumbsup)
Not sure Steve Zodiac would appreciate the comment as supermarionation was a bit restricted in the hand gestures department. Although maybe that’s why they used to cut to real people’s hands when they had to do that kind of thing. Or in Skippy’s case why they used a couple of kangaroo’s arms on sticks when he had to use the radio or something (Skippy was a ‘he’, right)? Or was Skippy just a small person in a kangaroo suit?
Bit slow here at work today… 8-)
southside
A grumble of Negatrons?
….and on that note, it`s a cheerio from me as I travel South to watch my interesting team in action.
JJ
SFTB….i just have never got my head round picking Berget in Warsaw …no way should he have played..it was one of the most important games we will play all season and a guy walks off a plane knows no one and straight into the team….it aint like he’s Ronaldo,he’s a dud,a stupid gamble to take and a poor message to send to players already at the club.
Or was Skippy just a small person in a kangaroo suit?
Kangaroos can grow up to EIGHT feet tall 0:-)
m6bhoy
“It seems the normal hire and fire rules don’t apply for Lawwell as they do for the rest of us mere mortals.”
Are these normal(??) hire and fire rules in operation at the Boards of Debrecen, Sherif Tirasapol, Dinamo Zagreb, Legia, Aktobe, Maccabi Tel Aviv, HJK, Sparta Prague, Partizan Belgrade, AEL Limassol, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Feyenoord, Grasshoppers or Panathinaikos?
BGX
You can go through any manager’s team selections in history and find something to disagree with.
I thought it was a strange decision too.
But disaagreeing with me and you does not, of itself, make RD a bad manager.
KevinBhoy
13:25 on
2 October, 2014
PhilvisReturns… (thumbsup)
Not sure Steve Zodiac would appreciate the comment as supermarionation was a bit restricted in the hand gestures department. Although maybe that’s why they used to cut to real people’s hands when they had to do that kind of thing. Or in Skippy’s case why they used a couple of kangaroo’s arms on sticks when he had to use the radio or something (Skippy was a ‘he’, right)? Or was Skippy just a small person in a kangaroo suit?
Bit slow here at work today… 8-)
———-I think you have forgotten skippys langauge skills too Kevin- ” whats that skip? sallys fallen down the well”.I .forgot his radio skills too-wonder if he phones Clyde SSB-he [she?-good point] would make more sense than most…Hello to our next caller Skippy…:) HH
Paul67
FF might have been a good trainer but I don’t think RD would have been at all impressed by his diet – pancakes for breakfast?
BTW-BT thats wasnt hattie jakes – that was me in a uniform-must say you have lovely soft skin:) HH
kevinbhoy – Skippy was pretty good at football for being a diminutive marsupial.
After Celtic he joined a ska metal band called the Wucking Furries. Other band members include London from The Littlest Hobo, and Ben from Gentle Ben.
Unfortunately their gigs have been marred by autograph hunters being mauled. (thumbsup)