It feels like an age since we’ve seen Celtic but it was only 12 days ago. Can you imagine what it’s been like for teams who lost their last game. It must hurt. Really, really, hurt.
I’m thinking about Hearts, of course! Last time out they lost at home to a Dundee United side who had 34% possession but were able to frustrate Hearts and leave with all three points. That leaves Hearts joint bottom with Kilmarnock on one point from four games.
Hearts have endured a torrid two months. Preseason defeats at home to Orient and Spurs, and away to Fleetwood Town, set them up for a Glorious start to the season. Their first competitive game of the season ended in a 0-0 draw, their only game not ending in defeat since May. We’ll return to that game shortly.
Since then, it’s defeats have been delivered by Dundee, Falkirk in the League Cup, Viktoria Plzen twice and Motherwell, before that loss to United.
So it will be straightforward at Celtic Park tomorrow, right? Not necessarily. Hearts are a footballing shambles, who are underachieving at Olympian levels. Their lowest possession level in those three league defeats was 60% – an indication that this is a team with all the resources who are poorly directed or motivated.
The outlier was their opening game draw. That was achieved with 37% possession. They limited their ambition, defended properly and managed to break with purpose on occasion.
If you were a beautician and somehow were tasked with managing a Scottish Premiership club, you would surely find it easier to come up with a game plan which didn’t extend beyond “Get everyone behind the ball”, than trying to figure out how to beat a Motherwell side, who themselves decided to get everyone behind the ball.
I’m not suggesting Steven Naismith is a beautician, you need to go to college to be a beautician these days, but he has a lot in common with a beautician who was asked to manage a top flight football club. Both Steven and the beautician would send Hearts out tomorrow to get behind the ball.
If Celtic play to their strengths, none of this will matter, but we are not facing a bottom of the table squad tomorrow, just a team who are being managed like one.
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4-0 to the good guys👍
Timbhoy163 from previous blog
I was at Celtic Park during the summer and there was a great deal of maintenance being carried out on the metal structures. I seen 2 cherrypickers doing the work, there was maybe more at the North Stand. I would like to see more facilities for fans and passing trade with food and drink in a comfortable setting. It’s difficult to get into the Sports Bar because it’s so busy. And a cafe for Almore.
The Blogger
I hope you mean after 20 minutes. 🤔
H earts
U under
N aismith.
Ha ha
What kind of beautician gets behind the ball?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/scottish-premiership/article-13844617/Even-sugar-daddy-help-Rangers-bridge-gap-Celtic-new-UEFA-Fair-Play-rules-affect-spending-players.html
Early reminder that Superbru deadline is 3 pm tomorrow. Get your picks in.
Agree with that, Paul. I don’t think it will be as straightforward as the league table would suggest.
If we get our customary early goal that will help, although even one down I wouldn’t expect them to release the bus.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 13th September 2024 12:05 pm
What kind of beautician gets behind the ball?
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A brazilian……
I think I am right in saying Hearts are the only team to beat Celtic at Celtic Park since Lazio in the last minute.
Also the only Scottish team to win at Celtic park since 20/21 season.
AJ,Forrest and Taylor all trained today
Still cannot post from desktop.
£60 a single ticket for brat game.that for season ticket holders.
Public sale online 2pm.
Greedy greedy greedy plc
Bada – if the huns could get their hands on some cash they’d find a way to cheat the rules.
It’s what they do.
£37.
For Hearts fans to get in 😆
What ever happened to the twenty plenty campaign. 37 for hearts fans is also rampant profiteering
I thought the 4 game package was quite competitive for ST holders. Pity i couldn’t find an acceptable way to pay.
Is it really £60 general sale for a single game?
Surely not, at this rate the seats will be full of train drivers.
HH.
Good afternoon from a sunny but fresh North Wales.
If £60 is too much then they won’t sell.
marketeconomyCSC
General sàle limited to 6 tickets at £60 each.
Suggests plenty left
School kids priced out. Families cannot afford it.
Greedy plc
In Stephen McGowan’s excellent article in the Daily Mail – referenced by Bada Bing earlier, he concludes with this final paragraph:
“But Rangers have a lot of hard work to do in a country where finishing second is finishing nowhere so far as the fans are concerned.”
There is angst and resentment amongst some when Paul, or, posters mention the goings-on at Ibrox club in articles and comments – “what’s it all to do with Celtic” is the usual complaint. Well as the paragraph above illustrates, it has much to do with Celtic. Playing second fiddle in Scotland, as the Ibrox club know to their cost, blocks off the route to where the real money can be earned – the real money that is transforming Celtic.
Of course being in the position that we currently enjoy did not come about by accident. Celtic is run on a sustainable and profitable basis by good people who know what they are doing and have the club’s best interests at heart – the Ibrox club are the polar opposite – long may it continue HH
Celtic40me
Re impact of FSR in Scotland:
Even a sugar daddy couldn’t help Rangers bridge the gap to Celtic now https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/scottish-premiership/article-13844617/Even-sugar-daddy-help-Rangers-bridge-gap-Celtic-new-UEFA-Fair-Play-rules-affect-spending-players.html?ito=whatsapp_share_article-bottom
I could have written this. 😎
The fact it has reached main stream is interesting. Were Celtic happy to let the support at large know how things have significantly changed?
Had the article used the term R2ngers “hobbled” by FSR I would be claiming plagiarism. :)
Who would win in a fight between Aston Villa and Oasis?
DARWIN
Pleased to see you catching up on impact of FSR.
Pete and I have been on the case in our separate ways ever since 2010 when I suggested to him a change to Club Licensing that can be seen in FSR.
It’s been a long haul but back in 2010 it was obvious to any watchful observer during the season of honest mistakes that Rangers HAD to win titles to meet their paybill. This impacted on the integrity of what supporters thought was a sport contested in a sporting manner.
Cutting off their supply of money not based on football earnings was an obvious strategy to follow, but with domestic hurdles in the way, hence the back door route via UEFA.
Clever stuff.
UEFA were well aware from evidence put to them by Celtic shareholders lawyers that Scottish football was corrupt which must have helped ease the path to FSR involvement, which btw saw a tightening of the rules on overdue payables to avoid a repeat of events in 2011.
Game set and match.
Auldheid.
What do you think about Celtic plc ticket prices
If a book is ever written, of CQN’s finest posts, this one from Clunks must get a mention…
“What kind of beautician gets behind the ball?
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A brazilian……”
A Beautician Manager would firstly wax lyrical about their side’s chances before taking the team tactics out of the file, then nailing the game plan with a plucky game plan that set the side out with no small amount of pluck and polish.
Anyways, if the Diets are set out with all the tactical savvy of a beauty therapist, why will it not be straightforward , Paul?
I agree with TBFKAGM – 4-zip to the ghood ghuys.
Darwin
You can read the article sent to and noted by PL in 2010 at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/0B62m3ggkEX2RN2ZYaUxzeGwxWkU/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=107947982974245186134&resourcekey=0-24wsH7Vnd-zq0WePX2jGQw&rtpof=true&sd=true
It also covers Refereeing as a Service
Club Ownership with the article on
Club Licensing in the middle that contains the basic elements of FSR and why it is necessary.
A long read but hopefully educational.
Darn the hair do we care
Happy Friday All.
You have to love the BBC sports always trying to put a positive spin on the Huns, “Tavernier turns his back on move to Turkey!!!” I thought I read somewhere that Turkey had reached the limit of foreign players allowed in this window!!! Anyhow, I hope that we get Greg Taylor sorted out with a new contract. Bhoy is always very consistent and plays the inverted role better than most. I remember watching Alistair Johnston play in the MLS and didn’t like him as he was a brute, what the heck do I know :))) Bhoy has been tremendous since signing for us.
Hail Hail
Sean
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Auldheid.
What do you think about Celtic plc ticket prices?
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As a 78 year old more used to the warmer climates of the Spanish winter I am just grateful to the supporters that pay prices that they themselves help set by
a) buying them and
b) driving up the price in order to pay the wages of the players they rightfully expect to entertain them.
AULDHEID on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2024 1:44 PM
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Thank you for this. I will read with interest.
Of course I know and respect your involvement and input on this subject….and others. HH
bournesouprecipe on 13th September 2024 1:44 pm
Darn the hair do we care
Darn yir socks.
The poor children’s dinner table.
This plc would be charging a rental fee for the bowl and the spoon
Boondock Saint.
I remember watching AJ play for Canada, might have been in World Cup around time Juranovic was for offski.
I thought “he looks a player” and was delighted when I realised he was on Celtic’s radar and when he signed.
I think the same of Luke McCowan, so fingers crossed.
Going way back I asked my knowledgeable footballing daughter who the blonde haired snarling nyaff in Leicester’s midfield was as I thought Neil Lennon, as it turned out, was just what Celtic needed.
Turned out so did MoN after losing 5 1 at Ibrox.
I only remember the ones I get right. :)
Lols St.Stivs
HH
Darwin.
Of course I know and respect your involvement and input on this subject….and others. HH
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Think of the subject and others as an iceberg with most of it underwater.
Rumsfield territory.