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The count of how many times I’ve heard “I hope we don’t take the foot off the pedal like we did last year” has reached double figures. This is never a good sign. Football games, against any level of opponent, need to planned for and respected.

During last season’s League Cup semi-final, Celtic went two goals up early on, then made 100% sure the result would never be in danger by denying Newco even an attempt at goal (the match stats recorded one attempt, which was actually a wayward cross from a free kick). Compare and contrast with Borussia Dortmund’s two goal advantages last night. While I’d love to score a barrel-load, winning the game is all that really matters.

We have seen enough Celtic teams dominate possession in Europe against less-resourced teams only to lose to the sucker punch. This has been a harsh lesson, which I hope has been learned.

I doubt many of us know what to expect from Newco. They won the Championship but this season didn’t have to contend with vastly superior Hearts team. They are also in the semi-final because they thumped Premiership Dundee 4-0 at Ibrox, which is a huge result for any lower league team (we’ve failed to score twice against Dundee recently).

All my “Rangers” supporting pals tell me they are hopeless at defending, so there’s a decent possibility they will defend deeply and play on the break – just as several others have done effectively against us this season. We’re going to have a lot of possession in the final third, but Scott Brown and Nir Bitton will need to offer a lot of defensive cover.

Most of all, we’ll need discipline. There’s a red card winging its way to the first Celtic player to stare at an opponent in a rash manner. The First Minister will probably get involved too, so be prepared.

Did you read Walter “dare I say it, 10 in a row” Smith? What a man to have in your corner days before a big game. He’ll have them thinking it’s 1957 all over again!

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  2. Hamiltontim on

    Fanadpatriot

     

     

    I do understand your point but surely on Sunday you’d want as many unrepentant Tims as possible there in the Celtic end.

  5. Gerryfaethebrig on

    HT

     

     

    Magic, from the heart….

     

     

    logged on this afternoon and logged back off as Tommy Gemmel was on, my Da would have battered me if I spoke out of place to a Lion …. (Not that I would,d have) but I did log off…….WinningCaptains your work is appreciated, again if my father was still with us he would be in a pennycab to Tommy’s house in a minute, that is an offer money can’t buy !

     

     

    As for Sunday, not one Celtic fan should even be questioned for attending, they are there to watch Celtic…….but for the holier than now mob, trust me come Sunday morning if you honestly think this is just like playing Ross Co last season ? Fair enough, remember the shoite might be different both those flies don’t care about the shit they just love the smell ………

     

     

    Mon the Hoops ……

  7. Alasdair MacLean on

    Just wondering how bitter are Naysmith, MacGregor etc are after Charles GREEN tried to take them to court for not staying in line with the lie.

  10. dixiedeans on

    Like it or not,the new huns are The old huns fans with the same clothes on,and thus need to be skelped.

     

    Get them Skelped.I know they deserve it,and I sure know you and every right thinking person knows it too.

     

    Skelp the huns on every issue,any pish they come out with,Skelp.

     

    Lying,cheating,tax dodging,no morals inbred fuckwits.

     

    Mon the Tic.

     

    HH

  11. Art of War on

    The only Sevconian I was worried about (ahem) was O’Sellyoursoulohan, but realised he only scored once against us in a draw…. and he’s cup-tied.

     

     

    Wallace? Draw him out for a Charlie long diagonal for PR to cross for Griff.

     

     

    Otherwise… they are powderpuff. Only boys with a mis-guided sense of their kwality. Albeit a better proposition than their play under the Cookie monster… they haven’t met our level.

     

     

    I think they’ll cave in if we score early.

  13. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    JUDE2005 IS NEIL LENNON \O/ on 16TH APRIL 2016 12:47 AM

     

     

    Always the final play of the night at Joanna`s Disco on Bath St.

     

    Monday night session.

     

    Faintly depressing. :-)

  15. An Tearmann on

    Alisdair maclean

     

     

    Och dont be letting basic hisorical fact alter the attilude of entitlement to cheat.lol :-)

     

    HH

  18. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    I think we need CKR as a start on Sunday. Him and Broony are the only hard steel in our team and both will be needed to protect our young inexperienced players. If both these start and keep the hied in the face of a hun biased referee the dirty hun bastard cheats could be in for a right “royal” pumping.

  20. Art of War on

    Macjay- danced wi a lassie called Joanna at Joanna’s while Kool and the Gang sang Joanna!

     

     

    Didn’t believe her until I saw her ID later. She was crap on the piana though!!! :-(

  21. An Tearmann on

    Art o war

     

     

    O’sellyoursoulohan

     

    Belter

     

    Ha :-)

     

     

    Heard rthey’r passin the plate roon him at mass :-);

     

     

    HH

  22. Alasdair MacLean on

    Hamiltontim,

     

     

    After reading back…..

     

    Got past the punctuation, and you took me on your journey beautifully. Your writing made me feel I was there as well. With you. You’ve got a talent for writing son.

  24. Art of War on

    An Tearmann – hah, is that in case he dips it?

     

     

    Was he not with us and Bolton?

     

    Can’t get my head round it.

  25. Hamiltontim on

    ACGR

     

     

    You’re alive? !:-)

     

     

    Play the footballers and we’ll win in my opinion. That doesn’t include CKR.

  26. clunks on

    ACGR

     

     

    Agreed we play the battlers and fighters for the most part.

     

     

    These are Broonie, Lustig (always our angriest player), Tierney, Sviatchenko, Mulgrew, CKR, Boyata, Johansen and Griffiths.

     

     

    Mix in some flair; Roberts, Commons, Biton, GMS, Rogic

     

     

    And we win our battles and create chances.

     

     

    The emphasis on this game is winning our battles.

     

     

    We need to be tyson ugly and brutal, street smart and ruthless.

     

     

    If we do this the flair players will pick them off??

  29. Hamiltontim on

    Alasdair

     

     

    Thank you sir, disappointed we’re not making a further journey to Dingwall after the split.

  33. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    ART OF WAR on 16TH APRIL 2016 1:04 AM

     

    Macjay- danced wi a lassie called Joanna at Joanna’s while Kool and the Gang sang Joanna!

     

     

     

    Didn’t believe her until I saw her ID later. She was crap on the piana though!!! :-(

     

     

    =================================================

     

     

    Anything she was good at ?

  35. Art of War on

    Macjay-aye she was a nurse.

     

     

    My mate is all nostalgic about the ole dancin in Glasgow. He’ll love it that you mentioned Joanna’s- a favourite.

  36. clunks on

    Stand Corrected,

     

     

    THIS………………

     

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wkYocRVnYc

     

     

    Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly

     

     

    If you drunk beer, smoked weed, did pills, got drunk, stoned or otherwise I guarantee this song was played in the background of the many parties an “empties” you found yourself at!!

  37. Alasdair MacLean on

    HamiltonTim,

     

     

    Sorry you and your team are not up in this neck of the woods until next season.

     

    To be honest, I’ve had a year of graft and struggled to fit anything in.

     

    Long story but long and short is I’m way overdue to meet yourself and quite a few others.

     

    Will be with you all in spirit this weekend.

     

    My line with regard to what you’re facing this weekend is always, “Rubbed every team in Scotland’s noses in it it for 20 years on tick, and when you’re found out? It’s our fault? Eff off”.

  38. An Tearmann on

    His ronaldoness had not formed yet.tho evadin the plate does get yi a rep lol,

     

    I think he was with us then england before comin back to st johnstone,

     

    But I jus cant help laughing at huns suppin up this ronaldoness in thr meejah :-):-)

     

    HH

  40. the_huddle on

    clunks on 16th April 2016 1:28 am

     

     

    Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly

     

     

    If you drunk beer, smoked weed, did pills, got drunk, stoned or otherwise I guarantee this song was played in the background of the many parties an “empties” you found yourself at!!

     

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    You went to better parties than me, I had to suffer techno shite, the Es helped :O)

     

     

    Though thanks for the Gomez reminder I bought the album

  42. TheBarcaMole on

    HT…

     

    10/10 for your ‘composition’… (is it still called such?)

     

    Please submit the completed work by Monday a.m.

     

    Thus far, well done C.

     

    Gold star.

     

     

    Naw, really, superb pal…

     

     

    Regards & Hail Hail

     

    TBM

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