Until a reversal at Tannadice on Wednesday, Hibernian were the form team in Scotland. They had collected 12 out of 12 points since August, scoring seven and conceding once. They also secured a draw at home to Newco, the effect of which you still see in the two-point gap at the top of the league table. They will present a far greater test than Motherwell did on their recent arresting visit to Celtic Park.
There would have been no shortage of soul searching at Lennoxtown since Tuesday’s defeat to Leipzig. Waves of chances conceded with those created all missed. We have a squad who are not performing anywhere near the standard they reached as recently as last month.
Without his captain and Portuguese fulcrum, Ange Postecoglou has to fortify the team with energy and creativity. This will be hampered by the knock to Liel Abada. Alexandro Bernabei was forced into an unaccustomed left wing position on Tuesday; I expect to see him there again tomorrow, for at least part of the game.
Ange will also have an eye on balancing squad energy with important games ahead, including Motherwell away on League Cup duty on Wednesday. We could do with an early and commanding lead tomorrow, to give the manager plenty of scope to rest limbs and minds.
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Afternoon.
Concentrate on league now.
Bhoyjoe
For offside decisions the VAR official has really no leaway it is either or.
But for penalty issues etc it must be clear and obvious error and that’s where the cheating can continue.
What we need to do IMO, is win the game we are actually playing in, stop putting 3 subs on after an hour, when a game is still in the balance, we got away with it last week, prepare the team for the next game,after we have won the one we are in.So no balancing squad energy for me,all these Bhoys are fit,if they need to play 90 minutes to get the 3 points, so be it.
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I’m sure the Norn Iron FA,UEFA and the DUP ,will be all over this…….
The Wolfe Tones- Celtic Symphony, No 3 in UK Charts
Seen lots of stuff on Twitter about the Wolfe Tones rising through the charts. I imagine it gets no radio play anywhere?
P67 — we need to concentrate on the basics.
That is score goals — the timing is secondary.
they should give us a good game.
Hopefully we rise to the challenge.
We have the squad to beat them.
The issue is adding the required effort / focus / energy to the talent we have.
P67 — any ideas on the complications / squad attitudes that you allude to?
What is causing us to burn out at 60 minutes?
What is causing us to lack focus / desire / effort in front of goal?
Do we have a happy squad at the moment?
Linfield video — PS say that they cannot 100% confirm that the video has not been hacked / post event manipulated.
Nothing to see here / please move on.
P67 — is P/head well stocked up with loo roll / pies / crisps?
LT is doing a press conference at 2pm — what could possibly go wrong?
Not sure what plagues she is going to unleash.
Kwarteng bagged,……Ange evens to replace him
Bada bing
Kwasi is odds on for the West brom job, can’t be worse than Bruce
The ole moderator is on overtime today.
An Tearmann
Political posts are allowed, if you don’t agree with that take it up with P67, they just aint gona dominate the blog as before
All the name calling was deleted
Be chill man
Bada @12.18
Play your best available xi, tomorrow is a huge game (aren’t they all)
Rees-Mogg for chancellor, you heard it here first , 😨
Team sheet latest…………. James Forrest
We need 3 points. We need to score some goals. Kyogo and Maeda seem out of form and Abada and Jota out then we should bring in a B team striker maybe Dawson or young Vata.
TQM @ 12.39
KK — worse than SB @ WBA …
Just give him time — fracking in the penalty box / half time draw for voodoo bonds?
………………….Hart…………………
…………CCV………….Jenz………..
Jura………………………..Taylor……..
…… O’Riley
……………….Hatate…….Haksabanovic
Forrest……. Kyogo……..Maeda………….
Looking forward to the game tomorrow. Let’s make it a vote of confidence in our team and manager.
A full house , entertainment and a win please will do wonders for the team and the support.
What we must never ever do is become isolationist. European football is where we belong and where future achievements lie.
Incidentally Man Utd are worth a staggering £4.8 billion. A big well done to NL, so close.
HH, the journey continues.
BSR @ 1.02
Be careful what you wish for.
I fear that a start for JF at the moment will finish his career with us.
MM
Between fatigue and form loss it’s time he was unleashed IMO
What’s up with Ideguchi ?
Still injured ?
BSR @ 1.24
Given his socialising history in Ayrshire — I would suggest that “unleashed” is slightly inappropriate.
GREENPINATA
Now that’s a great post, let’s show the whole football
spectrum how to support a team.
H H. Mick
Disgusting posts now, c’mon mod do your job.
MeMi @ 1.32
The spirit of Ned Kelly seems to be missing down under this morning.
Where is your pioneer spirit?
Don’t for goodness sake encourage weird nuggets talkin’ to themsels by engaging directly………………
I’m more on an FT kind of chap myself, but this from The Daily Star probably sums up the current state of politics better than anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0
does maeda deserve a place in the starting 11 tomorrow, don’t think so.
Back to CP and looking forward to seeing Celtic again.
The meme of Celtic being “dead on their feet” at the 60 minute mark is taking strong hold here.
Anybody who has seen the inside of the Sports Science department at Celtic knows that detailed info is kept on every aspect of fitness, so someone must have the details which shows not just how much we run during a game but how much we are running each half and in each 10 minute segment of a game. And we will have access to data showing how much and when the opposition were running.
Those who prefer tabloid thinking and the “evidence” of their own eyes, can assert what they like but it don’t make it true. There are many reasons why inferior teams lose goals to superior teams at the end of matches and physical tiredness is only one aspect of that. I would assert that, if Ange was seeing figures that showed we matched or beat the opposition on metres run in the first 30 and second 30 minute periods but were totally outran in the last 30 minutes, he would be modifying his approach.
I suspect the story of Celtic being physically dead, compared to the opposition, after 60 minutes, is as big a myth as the Willo Window myth. But only, the figures will stand a chance of convincing anyone
MODERATOR1888 on 14TH OCTOBER 2022 12:53 PM
An Tearmann
Political posts are allowed, if you don’t agree with that take it up with P67, they just aint gona dominate the blog as before
All the name calling was deleted
Be chill man
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I am well chilled mate,
You can only imagine how much.:-)
I am into Celtic mate as every other poster here is.
Get all the politics tf.not dissenting Paul’s view its allowed,its the quality.its crap..
That’s good it’s not going to dominate the blog,You delete anything posted by me you wish,that’s your job
All I ask is that you say for e.g- AT 1.15,1.23 gone,etc
That’s all I ask,no dissent,no query no debate after from me.,just time deleted.
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While I am on Mod,you have another moniker called The Buffler,
Is that a fit moniker for this Celtic site?
Advise you to check out Google.i preferred its original moniker.
HH
Bookies made money there — JH for chancellor was on offer a couple of hours ago.
Slimy erse who hobbled the NHS then complained about its response to CoViD19.
That takes a brass neck you could mine.
Do any of the players deserve a starting spot tomorrow? 😃
Maeda has been poor but he’s one of many off form at the moment.
GREENPINATA on 14TH OCTOBER 2022 1:04 PM
Looking forward to the game tomorrow. Let’s make it a vote of confidence in our team and manager.
A full house , entertainment and a win please will do wonders for the team and the support.
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👏Absolutely. I was worried the moan and groan brigade might be primed to make Maeda the latest scape goat. Need to support the boy, if he’s playing. I was pretty pissed off with the mass evacuation once Leipzig scored the second on Wednesday. Stick with the team.
Oh Jurgen you are awful
https://twitter.com/KevMurray01/status/1580869776578326529?t=90dTG8vS59CD5fV55EEc3A&s=19
HH