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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On the eve of the recent Glasgow derby, I received a text from my CSC offering me a ticket for the game. It was one of the extra tickets released after it was decided not to supply away tickets.
The price of the ticket? £56.
I said thanks but no thanks.
Think your leader is incredibly harsh on wee Stevie Nai-wins, Pablo
Just because he
– has a Union bears haircut
– has a greetin’ face like a Union bear
– talks like ‘wan u the Union bers’
– wears a hoodie at work (the hoodie is the similarity to the Union bears, not the “work”)
… doesn’t mean he isn’t a capable, tactically astute, professional leader who can …
… Actually, just forget it.
Obviously playing for Scotland was holding Callum back.
T
https://youtu.be/bq-Q8Epcgnk?feature=shared
We have a top class manager, to be looked after,I would try and get him on a 5 year contract, to let him build the club up to where we should be in Europe.
bigrailroadblues on 13th September 2024 5:58 pm
You are an absolute shower of rascals, cads and bounders. And as for Prestonpans he is a rogue, varlet and knave
Hit the nail in the head 🎯🎯🎯
Huns four-match package coming in at £168. That works out at £42 per individual fixture.
Coming from a newsnow site – no idea how reliable that is
£4 cheaper than ours but then again, they have to fill 3/4 of a stadium lol
Dortmund on sky free btw.
Spying mission
Evening, all.
2 nil please celtic
SS,
Dortmund’s opponents are very poor.TOTL before tonight.Very poor tonight.Adyemi very quick and dangerous LW,star of last season,and looking great this one.Good team Dortmund,a big test for us,3-1,HT.
Need at least 3 tomorrow,for my 2.5 goals bet.
Those of us wishing to see more kids attending Celtic matches should get our money out tomorrow when it’s the Kano bucket collection again pre-match. Give generously as this allows kids a taster of the CP experience.
And it’s named on behalf of a much missed CQNr. Martin Kane, from Perth Western Australia
sorry, but this is as perfect a sentence as I could imagine to sum up themses predicament-
‘Philippe Clement insists Rangers have received no bids for James Tavernier and says his captain is motivated to “get the love back”‘!
BBC sport
Evening all.
A wee trio of tunes from an incredible artist, IMHO.
I give you Marvin Gaye.
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On Live 1972
https://youtu.be/fPkM8F0sjSw?si=DFX-Qh4aPZGxvZC-
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
https://youtu.be/9vAiESu5wrA?si=KgieJp8A4Qc5VnQI
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
https://youtu.be/rjlSiASsUIs?si=eMmB7M2cuw3VOEn9
Nite y’all
Stay classy.
Tell your friends, they’ll like it.
It’s good to be a Tim
HH
Brian.
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Mrs BB, has just told me she has a headache😂
SFTB
Spot on re the Kano collection.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on @8:53pm
Those of us wishing to see more kids attending Celtic matches should get our money out tomorrow when it’s the Kano bucket collection again pre-match. Give generously as this allows kids a taster of the CP experience.
And it’s named on behalf of a much missed CQNr. Martin Kane, from Perth Western Australia.
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The much maligned and castigated, by people like you, the Mr Desmond White, allowed the school children to be lifted over the turnstyle free of charge, a practice which happened at most football stadia at that time.
But, if DW was the tight skinflint that the endless steam of happy clappy brainwashing, PLC arse licking history books since 1994 have suggested, then he and his board would have found a way to block these free admissions, almost 30% of the attendance allowed in for free and yet, Mr White and Mr Kelly before him, were accused of ‘pocketing’ the different attendance actualities.
Maybe if Mr White was still the Celtic chairman during the 1989 ‘Taylor Report’ scam on behalf of the then Thatcher Government who couldn’t control English International sides hooligan problem, Mr White would have generated an alliance with other like minded Chairmen of lets say, Manchester United, Liverpool [ the 97 victims club ], Leeds, Nottingham Forest, etc, etc, to articulate why the Hillsborough disaster was Government sanctioned as the endless cover ups have proved, and all seating scam would have been exposed to the extent were enough anger would have generated a Government collapse.
That is the power of comradeship, young fans being allowed in for free was not a written rule, but a comradely blind eye was used by leaders who new the environments from which the Celtic Da’s and Ma’s had to bring up these young fans of the future.
And now we have a 60,000 all seated family section.
the 97 victims club???
clunks on 13th September 2024 10:05 pm
the 97 victims club???
…………….
Liverpool had 97 fans killed at Hillsborough.
That kids being lifted over happened vs white allowing it to are two different things.
Yeah I know
But to refer to the as the “victims club”
Is that a normal thing.
It feels like a right shitty way to talk about 97 people who died.
Unless I got that wrong, am sure I never heard death referred as a “victims club”??
Burnley78 on 13th September 2024 10:13 pm
That kids being lifted over happened vs white allowing it to are two different things.
………
Prove it.
clunks on 13th September 2024 10:14 pm
……..
Liverpool were the club which had 97 victims.
Maybe its your shitty mind thats kicking off.
I don’t think so
clunks on 13th September 2024 10:20 pm
I don’t think so
………
So what now?
Does the word victims in some personal way harm you?
Or are you just a drama queen?
I have never posted a political comment in all my years with CQN..So scroll by…
Today setting out the meals at our local centre…One auld boy made this comment.
Ach Thatcher..Wee Jimmy Clitheroe,This Reeves….No difference.
And with that he steamed into his soup…..
For those of us not lucky, or not able to attend CP tomorrow:
Pay to: The Kano Foundation
Sort Code: 30-13-01
Account Number: 00989961
*********
A fabulous initiative
(Check details, I’m always wary of scams,but I believe the above is gen
P.S. Worked for me.
Remember the semi final about 2 years ago,when the huns had info if was Madden’s last game? When they knew that they could kick fk out of us,at least 2 red cards,Aribo and Bassey,this clown gets paid by us on Radio Scotland, and will get a job amongst the Brethren…..for you guys who think there could be a new dawn out there….
@Scaniel..always make sure i stickmy donation in around xmas time..
But your post just made me step up…..
H.H
Wee Bawwy screaming to get Balogun in the team, oh my days…
Belmont Brian should be playing Nat King Cole
Hun Media.
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Tav knows he’s a limited footballer and wouldn’t be able to handle the abuse sure to come is way from rabid Turkey fans.
He is here for the remainder of his contract now.
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Can’t bear to watch him dominated in another old firm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aJfZw3SA2c
Again off the cuff..Only Murders in the Building series….
worth a watch…The fantastic Martin Short..Steve Martin…Selena Gomez.
Funny .Sad..and very watchable
Slow Horses with Gary Oldman on again
Tremendous
Good night all. Hoping to thrash the embra hun and the bookies tomorrow. First part more likely, I’ll settle for that.
@Clunks…How beautiful was Grace Slick…