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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PHIL
It feels like you are having a lovely time!
HH
Take me to your Paradise,………………………..
I want to see the jungle.
na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na.
CSC
Decisions Decisions Decisions.
Guinness or coco pops for breakfast????
LMCBHOY
I am thank you!
Just enjoying the peace and quiet before the ghirls get their breakfast in bed!
Apparently, ole Pedro Caixhina asked to see the players this morning.
The club said no, and told him Brendan had it covered.
Jokes CSC
Morning all from a very mild and bright darkest Lanarkshire.
BT
Pass on my regards to Wee Neilly, he probably will not remember me but he was a one of the good guys and I even played a couple of matches for his mates Burnbank team as a big daft laddie.
HEBCELT
Enjoy your birthday. I truly mean that.
Today is all change for me, I will ‘fess up right away by breaking a promise not to watch us play Sevco. A good pal of mine( fine son of Donegal) offered me a seat beside him for today’s match, I could not refuse. Hopefully I will not be a Jonah.
As the result does not matter I feel fairly relaxed about it all. My original plans for 11am Mass then 90 minutes in the gym have now gone belly up. So , did the gym stuff early , off to half nine Mass and off to Celtic Park.
Sunday lunch has been pushed back till later but it will still be a lovely Galician fish stew.
Be careful out there everyone, those bears don’t just shit in the woods. Hail! Hail!
BSR
Actually Pedro could not see the players this morning until after mass.
I’m sure that bodes well for the future of all involved.
Phil
Belated birthday wishes to young Olivia
Take care big man.
My grandfather (god rest him) went for a walk when we played deadco in Cup final 69 as he was too nervous to listen on radio, David Francie (Sp) had that effect on most.
Anyway after a 2 hour walk down the Clyde he returned to meet two young bhoys running down the street and he asked them the score. 4.0 mr Daley, his heart missed a few beats until they told him it was for us..
My brothers paraded around Blantyre with the Scottish cup a few days later ☘️☘️
Match Gear At the Ready
PHIL
I am merely a seed………….you are the plant :-)
Had a tough day yesterday trying to explain things to Zombies.
I know I know , but I like to think of it as missionary work, seems as though they have next season all tied up in a nice wee bow.
Brendans going to Arsenal, Moussa is aff to the Russian cockneys, and Sinky will either follow Brendan to the Gooners or be a one season wonder.
O aye and we are skint.thats right WE are skint, ffs once I stopped laughing and wiped up my spilt Guinness I had a ball trying and I mean trying to explain to them how wrong they are.
Stupid stupid zombies.
4 nil today
KT to score one of them
H.H
Turns out I’m just a bigot
Hebcelt- Hoopy Birthday
1981
Thursday 12th March
Fr Toner was in tonight, and brought me in some religious magazines.
My weight is 58.75 kgs. They did not take a blood sample because they want to incorporate other tests with it. So the doctor says they’ll do it next week.
Physically I have felt very tired today, between dinner time and later afternoon. I know I’m getting physically weaker. It is only to be expected. But I’m okay. I’m still getting the papers all right, but there’s nothing heartening in them. But again I expect that also and therefore I must depend entirely upon my own heart and resolve, which I will do.
I received three notes from the comrades in Armagh, God bless them again.
I heard of today’s announcement that Frank Hughes will be joining me on hunger-strike on Sunday. I have the greatest respect, admiration and confidence in Frank and I know that I am not alone. How could I ever be with comrades like those around me, in Armagh and outside.
I’ve been thinking of the comrades in Portlaoise, the visiting facilities there are inhuman. No doubt that hell-hole will also eventually explode in due time. I hope not, but Haughey’s compassion for the prisoners down there is no different from that of the Brits towards prisoners in the North and in English gaols.
I have come to understand, and with each passing day I understand increasingly more and in the most sad way, that awful fate and torture endured to the very bitter end by Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan. Perhaps, — indeed yes! — I am more fortunate because those poor comrades were without comrades or a friendly face. They had not even the final consolation of dying in their own land. Irishmen alone and at the unmerciful ugly hands of a vindictive heartless enemy. Dear God, but I am so lucky in comparison.
I have poems in my mind, mediocre no doubt, poems of hunger strike and MacSwiney, and everything that this hunger-strike has stirred up in my heart and in my mind, but the weariness is slowly creeping in, and my heart is willing but my body wants to be lazy, so I have decided to mass all my energy and thoughts into consolidating my resistance.
That is most important. Nothing else seems to matter except that lingering constant reminding thought, ‘Never give up’. No matter how bad, how black, how painful, how heart-breaking, ‘Never give up’, ‘Never despair’, ‘Never lose hope’. Let them bastards laugh at you all they want, let them grin and jibe, allow them to persist in their humiliation, brutality, deprivations, vindictiveness, petty harassments, let them laugh now, because all of that is no longer important or worth a response.
I am making my last response to the whole vicious inhuman atrocity they call H-Block. But, unlike their laughs and jibes, our laughter will be the joy of victory and the joy of the people, our revenge will be the liberation of all and the final defeat of the oppressors of our aged nation.
Thanks Philbhoy.
Paul67 penned a piece recently regarding Celtic Caretaker Managers.
I remember at the time of Lou Macari’s appointment on the week of an Old Firm match.
We were the underdogs, Luigi left the Caretaker in charge. Personally I was delighted with this, I knew we were in good hands.
Yet couldn’t help thinking, Louie was not the Man for us, IMO a Manager with any ambition and confidence in their ability would be chapping at the bit to be in charge for that game.
Could you imagine Brendan Rodger’s taking a back seat?
NewCo’s New Manager doesn’t want to face us for whatever reason MMMmmmmmmm
We beat Oldco 2-1 that day.
Celtic 7-1 NewCo
Hail Hail
Who’ll win in a fight for the right between James Forrest, Paddy Roberts, and Gary Mackay Stevens?
BSR @ 9:03 AM,
“Who’ll win in a fight for the right between James Forrest, Paddy Roberts, and Gary Mackay Stevens?”
Brendan Rodgers of Course:)
Hail Hail
Celtic go into today’s new Glasgow derby 3️⃣3️⃣ points clear of Sevco.
CHAIRBHOY
Or Callum MacGregor?
James in the first half to run the legs off them then Paddy to make them dissy in the second.
Or vice versa.
4 nil today
H.H
Looking forward to the game today.Think it is the first time we have managed to get 3 tickets for a Glasgow derby and I will be up in the god’s!
No predictions re score for me but confident of a ‘good’ win.
Hoping to make Creighton before kick-off for usual ‘lucky libation’
COYBIG
Remember Bhoys, overconfidence, arrogance and braggarts talk do not sit comfortably on our clubs shoulders.
Let’s do the talking after we have done the walking.
HH
Yes -indeed .
From a Napoli blog -12 3 17..
” Rube are gifted an extra time penalty v MIlan and it gets coverage in the national and international media .Compare that with the Omerta re UEFALONA 6 -PSG 1… Seems some cheats have a higher level of protection than others “.
Lovely day -way down south – no fitba for me today — off oot to Caltagirone .
3 choons for the road –
7″-Lazy Lester -I’m a Lover Not a Fighter (Stateside ).
7″ -Slim Harpo -Rainin’ In My Heart ( Pye ).
7” -The Undertones- Teenage Kicks (Good Vibrations )
Stupid Zombie quote from yesterday
” it disnae affect us so I dont give a f###”
In answer to the question. How do you think the supreme court will rule?
Thats what im up against.
COYBIG
Massive 6 pointer today. 30 or 36. I’d start to worry at 30.
:@-)))
MWD
Hebcelt
Many happy returns
Jmmcormick
This is not over confidence, the new Huns are pash, I know, you know they even know we will win today, we live in great Celtic times…… Brendan will let us eijits be confident, he won’t let his players
Always wary of placing a bet on Celtic games for fear of jinxing us. So off instead just to research the odds for ‘total goals in the game….’.
undertheradarCSC
Hoopy Birthday Hebcelt have a good one .
SOUTH OF TUNIS, 9:14 AM
Undertones on Good Vibrations sits beside my Stiff Little Fingers on Rigid Digits (artwork stuck together by the band no less, all 500 of them, bless)
BT
Thanks,I tell Olivia!
Hope you are well too!
I’ll
Please take me home
Almore, I’m at 10:30 Mass in St Mary’s; should be done by around 11:15. I’ll be going up to Paradise straight from Mass (along the Gallowgate). I won’t go through Orc territory on London Rd as a matter of principle.
Call me when you are making your way up and we can meet up there or at CQN corner.
I don’t gamble but if I did I’d be taking Celtic for more than 4 goals today.
KTF
Spare a thought…………………….. for the toilets.
BSR @ 9:09 AM,
Could be Callum, seems to come from that fine Highland Stock…
Touch of the immortal about him:)
Mind you that’s ubiquitous in some parts of Glasgow I’ve heard;)
Hail Hail
HT
God bless Ireland!
Hello again all you young rebels.
Well it’s that time again, the tension has been there all day here in Oz
the wee mhan and myself are sitting with the hoops on just waiting on
the kick off, wee Grace has run herself ragged with her oversized Celtic
jammies on and is now sound asleep, she knew there was something
going on and tried to hang on, after all it’s Papa’s Celtic day and that
means fun and i,ve got a feeling there’s lots more laughs to come, even
the princess is not herself she just poured me a drink and never said
” thats your last Mick your driving in the morning ” the reb tunes have
been getting blasted out in the garden all day and the wee mhan is
having a moan because i’ve got Rod on singing WE CAN WIN with the
wonderful green brigade doing the vocals in the background he would
play the botob constantly.
One of our CSC phoned from Mornington and said there was hoopies
everywhere and the pub was jumping ” are you coming down ? ” naw
i’ve got the weans and it’s jumping here as well ” so lets go, COYBIG.
H.H Mick
Beatbhoy
Just read back, it wasn’t as boring as I thought :-)
Enjoy the game today, right I better get ready to go to church, still in shock that I am missing the first 40mins of the Celtic game
Enjoy your day fellow Celts
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