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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Timbhoy3
Well outed ya clown ……..
As a captain & manager who brought many a silverware to “my” club and who was probably in my opinion the best the player on park in Seville……. I feel your pain, ya Hun
Neil Francis = Celtic legend ….. Fact
Geordie munro
Me :)))))
Jmccormick – very Hooopy birthday
And thomthetim sorry belated wishes to you
Working last Saturday listening to radio scotia……couple of nonentity’s commentating on Hibees gemme
slagging big Efe ,hoping he would make a mistake .
feknfuds!
Don’t feed the troll bhoys – he’s been around for a while
Jinkyredstar
Game was on edge and possibly a worse ref would have missed the Irish errors and the result would have been different.
M7
How you keeping Inspector Columbo?
2 cases solved so far this week. Haha
Good sleuthing ;)
JmcCormick
Feliz Cumpleanos
HH
Lefty,
I was grinning like a maddy. Lol
Timbhoy,
I don’t agree with you but well done for getting a pile of lurkers to put down their knitting and post ;)
HH
Chwarae teg I Gymru.
Geordie Munro
Efe still made time to thank Celtic for giving him the chance to go to hibs
Delaneys Dunky on 10th March 2017 9:58 pm
M7
How you keeping Inspector Columbo?
2 cases solved so far this week. Haha
Good sleuthing ;)
I am good, and as his name suggests it’s not the first time he has been outed, card marked long ago :-)
Dealing with the public can be very trying at times, they ask you the stupidist of questions and you really have to bite your tongue.
Fav is asking what size the stone is, I tell them it’s listed, say 22 x 20 mm, they then come back saying what is 22 x 20 mm, I then have to convert it into inches for them, I even take pics beside dimes and quarter dollars for them, yet all the stupid questions, one customer asked me eighteen stupid questions this evening, had she read the listing it would have saved her so much time, but the customer is always right :-)
COWIE BHOY
Thanks. , hope all is good
TET
Gracias , ‘ migo.
Almore
an-gracious de tú
Geordie Munro on 10th March 2017 9:59 pm
Fair comment, back to lurking
Efe Ambrose – what a quality guy. I was proud to see his performance tonight and so genuinely happy for him.
Time for bed. Big day tomorrow
BBC4 Primal Scream doc
Van Morrison…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpkGkrkiys
Sorry to interupt but sitting outside Ross Vale waiting on Pedro coming for his medical. Has anybody any idea of what time he will arrive or day or even what year.
BT – agree, the game was compelling – I just thought the actual Rugby was poor.
Anyway that was only a diversion from the main feature – Tim Sunday beckons!
Was reading some programmes fae our Euro games this year. Just realised that for the first time in my life I share a birthday with a Celtic first team player. Kieran Tierney was born the same day as me 32 years later. I feel auld :))
J Mccormick Hoooooooooooooooooopy birthday
Huddle
What an album.
Bobby the Tim is some man.:)
Corkcelt,what about the Bhoy earlier on , raffleing a couple of Tickets for Sunday’s Game.
Johnbay
Ssshhh. Pedro disnae really exist. :)
Delaneys Dunky on 10th March 2017 10:16 pm
What an album.
Bobby the Tim is some man.:)
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What an album
DD 10.13pm
It might make you feel old, but when are old, you will delighted to share a birthday with a future Celtic great….. Hope the wee mhan stays for years
GFTB
Souness was a lot of things…….a nasty b and a thug for sure(done in me best only an excuse souness voice) but a coward?
He could take it as well as give it, although he dished it out more and his actions caused a right nasty tie with Dinamo Bucharest while Liverpool were the top dogs in Europe.
He took everything they exacted on him in the 2nd leg to help get them into the final, which they then won.
A coward probably wouldn’t have got on that plane for the away tie knowing what awaited him!
Dunky
I was born on the same day as Packie Bonnar ….I can guarantee I’m a better
goalie.
TB3
Did you think Lenny was an ok player ?
He won a title or two….. Am gutted he isn’t here for 10, although as one of Lennys biggest fans, Brendan is on a different level…… Am gutted I had to type that, but, I suppose the truth hurts :-)
I don’t know Timbhoy, he hasn’t been on since. It would be very short notice to organise a raffle.
DD
But Keich Jakhun says it will happen.LOL Happy Days
DELANEYSDUNKY
My Dad was so relieved at me missing the twelfth by ten minutes that he only recently realised I shared a birthday with his favourite player,Charles Patrick Tully.
Mind,Moussa was born on the twelfth…
Johnbay
Dave King might have his resignation penned before he arrives.
The Token Tim , in the bus park before our game in Dortmund in 1987, one of the CSC’s had a board on the bus with a drawing depicting Butcher and Souness doing the act mentioned in the ditty about them.
Gerry, Billy Stark , to me , is one of our most underrated players of the last thirty years. That double he scored that midweek game at Pittodrie was special.
Its on youtube , Aberdeen 2 Celtic 2 1988. I watched it the other week.
Huddle
Come Together!