Having pummelled Newco repeatedly this season there is a notion that we’re going to do it again on Sunday. I’d be tempted to hold that result. St Mirren, an inferior team, demonstrated for 57 minutes how far blanket defending and a bit of organisation can take you. If Celtic record an impressive result at the weekend, they will have to be at the peak of their powers.
We can expect Newco will have watched replays of the opening 20 minutes of our Hogmanay tie dozens of times recently. They will do their best to capture what worked for them during that period, and attempt to replicate it on Sunday.
We started slowly that day, which is not entirely out of character, but one or two also looked spooked by the occasion. Newco started on the front foot, again, something they repeatedly do, but just as they have done throughout the season, they soon ran out of steam.
There is not a great deal they will be able to do about Moussa Dembele, short of cutting off supply to him. As a consequence, they will stick tight to Scott Sinclair, who will have work to do to even get involved in the game, never mind hurt the opposition. This is no bad thing, as while Scott is our most productive player, the team will be full of players hungry and capable of hurting the Newco defence.
This is a game which could be in the balance with 15 minutes remaining, but which Celtic could score three times in the closing period. They have the superior fitness and mental fortitude.
Our greatest danger will be from officialdom. Conceding a penalty, a red card, or both, opens the only door possible for Newco to take anything from the game. Keep cool heads as we’ll do just fine.
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Beat bhoy
I can assure you I have no interest in Chico Green or his council….. Am oot
My words were about Heidi Poom as I knew people that knew her, Charles Green is pretty insignificant in my life
What a shoite exchange of rubbish posts
ctrl alt del………………currants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo
CQN
Good nigh & god bless
It has been a sad week but sometimes through the sadness we then realise what we still have
Hail Hail
Bankiebhoy
Every Monday is happy when you are a Tim.
In fact every day. :)
GFTB
It’s the instigator of the Big Lie admitting that’s what it is. Via his QC , before 3 judges.
He didn’t buy Rangers, Sevco bought a basket of assets from what was left after the CVA failed.
“The Rangers Football Club does not exist”.
GFTB
Sorry you feel like that. Thought it was quite interesting myself!
Big Jock once said, “only a fool would predict the score in an OF game. He was right. I have seen too many OF games to remember. But, but, this is not an OF game. This is Celtic playing a 5yr old club. I don’t think we are comfortable being top dogs but it is what it is. If Celtic were playing Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Dundee or anybody else, nobody would be predicting a high scoring game. I’ll put my cards on the table right now. I would take 1-0 now. Here’s the thing, it’s a Glasgow derby. Against a team called The rangers. They’re supported by the same sectarian scumbags that supported rangers. The build up feels like it did before they died and that is why they should be afraid, be very afraid. If these Celtic players are up for this game, like it was an OF game, then there is definitely the potential for giving them a right tanking. COYBIG
Delaneys
Dunno if you missed it earlier……I’ll be in Lisbon for the Cup final.
Hope to see you there.
CalleyRoad
New shite same flies.
Swat them flies and flush the shite.
TAL
Magic. Thought I would be on my own in Lisbon on SFA Final day. :)
Now awe we need is for the ‘tic to make the final :-)
I’ve got a smashing t-shirt,BOCA10 special.
Big green star,The People’s Republic of Paradise.
(I’m glad he spelled People’s correctly,even if it brings back bad memories of a vomit-coloured strip.)
Anyhooooos…
Some of you will be lucky enough to be in attendance tomorrow at Paradise. Maybe you need to be only an occasional visitor,an accident of geography and timing,to realise how lucky you are.
God knows,I took it for granted long enough. Aye,every game mattered. But it’s only when you canny get there that you realise what it means when you do.
The heightened senses as you inch ever nearer to Paradise. The “Awe,ffs,I can see it now!” moment when you just get a hyoooooooj buzz.
I won’t be in Celtic Park tomorrow. I’ll be 400 miles away. My Dad and my two sisters will be there. A lot of really good friends wil be there. And some 50,000 other guid Celtic men and women too.
And I’ll be jealous of each of them.
Here’s a wee choon whose title sums up Celtic Park for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuHHHNi-l8
The main point of the above post was lost in my meandering,so I thought it best to leave it separate.
IF YOU HAVE A SPARE TICKET….
CORKCELT has two friends mucho in need. Let down at the last minute,but still travelled over from Clonmel. They have my phone number for last-minute contact.
If you can help these fellas,mail me and I’ll phone them. Think of the brownie points.
bmcuwp@gmail.com
HH.
TEUCHTER AR LA
Mailed you,bud.
Re golf.
shot in the dark here….anyone got any IPTV football playlists. I have loads of links but not too many for the SPL
Boaby,
I know that, although your body won’t be there, your spirit and the spirit of hundred of thousands of others will be. That’s what makes us what we are.
1-0 will do me.
Delaneys
Did you see my post to you on page 25 at 0005?
Btw, I agree. Different shoite, same flies. HH
DD
Sorry, 0019 page 25, HH
Might all. UTLR
Night:-)
Boaby,
Got it..
Looking forward to it too, will be great to meet so many CQN’rs.
I’m going up the TOCSC tomorrow and will see Torontony, to see what his latest is.
I will contact ACGR re clubs when I hear from Tony about accommodation.
HH to you sir.
It’s late and the wee voice in my head is whispering
“But what if?”
What if we stumble tomorrow and don’t turn up?
And the logical side says “Brendan will fix it at HT.”
And the voice answers “But what if they are better than we think?”
And the logical side laughing answers “Have you seen them?”
“Aye but what about the referee?”
“Even the refs have been unable to make them look competent.”
And without missing a beat continues
“Gordon, Tierney, Brown, Armstrong, Sinclair Dembele and Roberts.”
Game, set and match.
GG
Brilliant post.
UPLIKEABIRD
Your feelings are much the same as ours,and sometimes in the pub or the ground we express them the same way.
PAUL67 has done his damnedest over the years to prevent this site from being,like so many,a haven for the foul-mouthed,and it is much the better for it.
Hasn’t stopped one or two of us letting our feelings get the better of us. Lord knows,guilty!!!!
As I was reading your post,my first thought was-eh,naw,language Timothy!
My second was-darn tooting,bud!
(My third was to c&p,but too late,haha!!!!!)
TEUCHTER AR LA
Tell Tony to buy you a small snifter and to put it on my tab.
It’s not like I can run faster for a $200 debt than a $100 debt(!)
It will be good to see the f…y-magnet again,and I canny wait to hear you,my Dad and OLDTIM giving us all black and white newsreel flashbacks!
OrgasmicCSC
Maybe people look at a football club as being an alternative to a real Human relationship, they put their all into it, they get tattoos on them as a sign of love and commitment, a distraction,..the clubs realise this btw..what does sicken me really is when i go to the local grave yard and see a Celtic crest on the grave stone and know these poor people have died and they have went to the grave giving their all. more than likely would have gave their life’s or would have went down fighting for their cause. and for their club. It’s so sad society has got to this stage.
CELTIC HAVE been systematically cheated. We all know that by law it has happened and been brushed over it cant be disputed. The people in charge of our club who think that our best interest is to get as much money as we possibly can for which ever player we might/can acquire next and we might think we are as good as the Billy big shots from England shire and we might one day get a shot at them, then we will see them as our fake GODS …..Delusional wee souls..it will not happen. Celtic is as far as i am concerned Helping the Hun out to be a challenger to try and get this shit league into some kind of position that it can compete again (where we can maybe get 2 teams into champions league) by hook or crook .we are all living a lie, delusional unrealistic sad individuals,.The scenario in which has happened to the Scottish football in my eyes is a sad state of affairs. I believe nearly every one of the fans out their has got no self respect and would take back a cheating wife if they offered them the lie that they swear it was an accident and it wouldn’t happen again and they put on a fake tear, bought them a new BMW (brendan) same as the Hun SFA situation buy into any old bullshit as it will make you feel better..
i am out,.i once was caught in the football hatred , but i respect myself, my life my family past/ present
Do yourself s a favour open your eyes
10pm on the frigid Easter seaboard.
In 4 hours it will be 3am and ………
You know the rest.
For everyone attending the game, be wise, be safe and enjoy.
or maybe Celtic will do the right thing 1 :)
EASTERN.
And it’s a goodnight from me.
UPLIKEABIRD
You know,mibbe I’d just settled wi acceptance. Not quite chuffed that the huns had somehow survived,railing against it,trying to figure out how truth and justice could nonetheless prevail.
But,still,acceptance.
I needed to read your post. It reminded me that one thing we don’t do is acceptance.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 12TH MARCH 2017 3:10 AM
You know,mibbe I’d just settled wi acceptance. Not quite chuffed that the huns had somehow survived
They were always going to survive, no matter what, go through my archives to 2009 i said they were to big to dissapear /die
I am not fooled that Celtic has not known about all these scenarios from day one, five way agreement, it’s everything else that has came along with it. the years before hand FLO, DeBoer the rest, they are getting away with it Scot free and the Honest Mistake years mate, have some self respect ..seriousy
Up like a bird on 12th March 2017 2:54 am
I too believe this. The fact that we are playing Glasgow Rangers tomorrow(make no bones about it thats who they are) sickens me no end. Up to our knees in fenian blood? whats to get excited about?I too hope the club do the right thing this year but they wont and I will transcend all the 5 phases of 1. Denial and isolation; 2. Anger; 3. Bargaining; 4. Depression; 5. Acceptance. of what the PLC have done or lack thereof and move on. Total hun loving BS. This year I will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions but know deep in my heart football is finished as a sport.
Any way
yours in Kindness
Betrayed
Uplikeabird
God Bless the Fearless Lions
If video assistance was used to help referees making red card, penalty and contentious offside decisions. Barcelona would be out of the CL.
Boaby,
Mail back at ye.
Took ages to write, as the beter half is texting me saying she is in Lexington, Kentucky eating burgers :-)
looks like Mujahadeen TV is showing the game live on the internet tomorrow for free.
GG
Do the birds on the Easter seaboard lay chocolate eggs?