Like the sun rising and setting, Callum McGregor’s availability has been metronomic. He jogged off gingerly against Ross County on Saturday, so I doubt many of us were concerned that he would miss out tonight. Callum’s consistency and fitness has been nothing short of miraculous for years. Whatever this ‘knock’ is, it it overdue. For you and me, this is a worry. For James McCarthy, it is an opportunity to launch.
Greg Taylor’s absence will doubtlessly see Josip Juranovic shifted left, an unfamiliar position to the player, although where he made his Celtic debut at Ibrox. Boli Bolingoli must surely ponder the career threatening personal consequences of his indulgence last summer. The Yom Kippur absences arrived distinctly from left field.
Expectations are firmly and uniformly set low. Over to you, Celtic.
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I believe in Celtic
:-)
HH
Postecoglou, speaking to the Celtic website, continued: “The gospel I try and talk to them about every day is that there is no football team in the world, or player or coach that doesn’t want to win. From our perspective, it’s about who we want to be, how we want to portray ourselves as individuals and, more importantly, as a team.
“What kind of football team do we want to be? For some people that’s probably too grandiose and I get that, but that’s my way of coaching and what I want to create – and we talk about that to the players on a daily basis. “
AP vs the Scottish cringe — game on.
AN TEARMANN on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:02 PM
FRANKTERRY on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 11:32 AM
AN TEARMANN on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 10:02 AM
Thanks for the link. Out of respect for blog rules I won’t say what I think ot GCC and the police on this occasion.
Yeh,quite Frank.they do not like a light being shone on the inculcated anti Irishcatholic bigotry.was reading earlier in week one cancelled as they could not walk past a Chapel.bigots.
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Why would they want to walk the streets unless it was to aggravate ‘Taigs’?
AN TEARMANN on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:02 PM
Cheers, same to you :-)
Paul 67
We will attack in the same old way, and the sieve will sieve, in the same old way.
Never having played Los Verdiblancos (the Green-and-Whites) I have this new Celtic side as favourite to return having scored two goals and bring home from the beautiful city, at least one Europa point.
Real will never bet us
Score forecast 2-2
Mon the Hooped Heroes
God Bless the Celtic
The OO marching in the street is, and has been for over one hundred years, an exercise in triumphalism, entitlement and a noisy & colourful reminder to all that Scotland is a Protestant country and will stay that way. No politician regardless of persuasion has ever challenged this assertion, nor will any in future – the risks, personal & political, outweigh any perceived benefits.
Our Catholic/Irish/Celtic community is small, numbering some 800k out of a population of 5.5 miliion – c15%. In the unlikely event of independence, our advisories will be much bigger and more emboldened fish in a smaller pool. In addition to their marching, they will assuredly enter the Scottish political arena, Ulster-style, in order to protect and strengthen their position. We will be squeezed till our ‘pips squeak’ and the sentiments of the Famine Song will become an achievable political goal – starting with the discontinuation of Catholic schooling & leading to the erosion of our culture and way of life. Cost savings and budget cuts needed in a new small and de facto bankrupt country which has just cut the UK umbilical cord, will be the PR reason given. I daresay that there are draft proposals hidden away in a safe in Bute House – the same safe that also housed plans for a politically-controlled National Police Force. That Police Force will chaperone organised racist & sectarian hatred through our streets this weekend.
Our people must think things through and be careful what they vote for.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:39 PM
“Real will never bet us”
Am right onto UEFA in the morning if they do! por cierto
SQUIRE DANAHER on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:18 PM
Why would they want to walk the streets unless it was to aggravate ‘Taigs’?
Hi Squire.a wee chance to repost
The Council, the Police and the truth: anti-Catholic marches in Glasgow
https://www.callitout.org.uk/amp/the-council-the-police-and-the-truth-anti-catholic-marches-in-glasgow?__twitter_impression=true
HH
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Yup they aggravate tags,thats been a core pillar of the fascists since their inception.
But they are now aggravating a whole new strata of business which are seeking trade.days like Saturday cost traders.
Ordinary mobility is hampered as traffic seizes up due to the crimplene cruisers and faecal strays block streets and pavements and as we seen in the past splitting and abusing as they go.
The oo are in crisis as the faith they claim to follow(their pishstained trousers they do!) in the 6 counties becomes a minority.
With the union on its death march its fascism comes to the fore,the ‘othering’ comes out,(taig etc) as insecure unionists realise the power they once had is a memory,a memory tho that is a handy chatel for union hq,history shows that.
:-)
HH
Protestantism and the Orange Order are entirely different, one is the practice of Christian religion, and the other is an Anti Catholic, Anti Irish procession, manifesting as a church parade, and bears no resemblance to the way of thinking of the vast majority of Protestants in Scotland, por cierto.
AN TEARMANN on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:56 PM
Don’t kid yourself. If Scotland ever does leave the UK these people will still be here in the same numbers, and they will still feel the same way about us. And they will have more leverage and influence in a state of 6 million than in a state of 60 million.
AN TEARMANN on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 12:56 PM
Hello m8
I felt this also may be of interest given our enforced consideration of the PUL mindset.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/16/unionists-brexit-northern-ireland-dup-border
ERNIE LYNCH on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:04 PM
Genuine question.
Would you say that the Orange Order have more or less influence on contemporary Scottish civic society than The Scottish Green Party?
I have long felt that Patrick Harvie is a bigger threat to the Scottish Catholic community than 50000 derided Orangemen.
For reasons other than your anticipated association of the Greens as “cult” facilitators.
Not bad Pablo but I’d query one line ….
“Boli Bolingoli must surely ponder the career threatening personal consequences of his indulgence last summer”
Why?
He’s just entered the third year of a very large four-year meal ticket.
Bank balance no doubt ticking along nicely.
And plenty of time from his mid-to-late twenties onwards to resurrect a career.
Toaty Trumper / Rich man’s bag carrier @ 12.56
That is some amount of frontier gibberish and then some.
As the tide for Indy in Scotland recedes / withers away to its traditional 30% I think that you are somewhat out with your analysis.
Trad 30% for Indy — face painters / sheet wavers / anti English roasters / dreamers ‘n schemers / Tartan freaks / Oil junkies / House of Stuart groupies.
Paying out pensions / wages in Scottish pounds / bawbees is killing the dream as we speak.
You might argue against this but Not Jacinda knows the score.
That awkward moment when Boli Bolingoli gets mentioned
Could have been doing with a full-strength team tonight – this is a really decent team we are up against.
Canales is a proper player – genuine top quality. Guardado a real technician. Fekir on his day can be devastating. Carvalho doesn’t even get a guaranteed start which probably tells you something.
Not sure about defensively, but if we don’t have the ball we won’t find out. Will need to keep hold of it when we have it – Callum will be a miss in that regard. Would probably go with McCarthy sitting and Soro further forward to try to stop them building. Turnbull or Rogic – sub one for the other after an hour.
Will need to cut out the ball watching – Canales will lay the ball off and make runs round the back. If Welsh is playing he’ll need to cut out the daft lunges.
Not overly confident but usually I get over-optimistic and we lose!
Oh, I see Joaquin is still on the scene. Must be pushing 40 – fair play to him for keeping in shape.
Come on you Bhoys in…
Hang on, we don’t have any strip that doesn’t clash with the Betis strip.
Dun dun dun….
Real Betis forced to wear an away strip?
SD @ 1.17
Interesting question — no clear cut answer.
Current / actual influence — Greens.
Future / potential influence — O/O plus their ultra Tory pals.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:24 PM
Both teams are wearing away tops tonight, Real Betis will be in blue and Celtic in their 3rd Strip, por cierto
MADMITCH on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:20 PM
Trad 30% for Indy — face painters / sheet wavers / anti English roasters / dreamers ‘n schemers / Tartan freaks / Oil junkies / House of Stuart groupies.
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4 and 6 for me please (thumbs up, as Philvis used to say)
Por Cierto
Real Betis will be in blue
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Boooooooooooooooooooo
Really hope Betis lose now.
Wait a minute…
SQUIRE DANAHER on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:17 PM
As someone who went to a Catholic school and who sends my two boys to the same it’s obvious what side I’m on… however the impending climate disaster should be the primary focus of everyone’s vote. Unless we somehow avert it then there won’t be any schools to worry about…
SQUIRE DANAHER on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:17 PM
My point related not to contemporary Scotland but to a hypothetical future in which Scotland have left the UK. In that situation the OO would be more influential than it has now.
It’s maybe just worth considering for a moment what the political landscape would be like in that eventuality. Could I suggest that you would have the SNP, Alba, the Greens, Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories and that it’s entirely feasible that out of that lot the Tories would be the single largest party?
Meanwhile back in the present reality of SNP dominated Scotland it’s being reported that Sturgeon is planning to bring in the army to help out the ambulance service.
Jeezo…some celebrating how powerful and colourful they think the mob is and how weak and powerless everyone else is.sorry to say, for you,
Not everyone is hiding under the bed when the big bad OO come out to play.
Hail Hail Brothers
FT @ 1.37
There are too many like you — misplaced focus on saving the planet.
For whom — the poor so that they can starve in the same old way?
The political focus should be on economic development and a more equal share out of resources and opportunity — that will save the planet for us all not just rich and powerful.
Mad Tam the phone in ranter/ jhb
Vomit!
Your fascist friends in union arebeing challenged by Call it out
Your unionist side men are fascists and have very little to do with protestantism in Scotland.the C.o.S ministers do not give them the biblical blessing except for the extremists you follow.They are an embarrassment to that faith as told to me by a local minister.
‘No politician regardless of persuasion has ever challenged this assertion, nor will any in future – the risks, personal & political, outweigh any perceived benefits.’
Submissive drivel.could have come from any of your fellow vermin on follyfolly/hunmeeja.So your answer is not to face up to fascism but buckle to its fear and intimidation- political shite bag,but as a unionist we know your voice is a whisper,best you be totally submissive and wave your fleg.Our police force have been chaperoning them since the days of the Partick riots
“Our Catholic community”- tam your not part of that community,your sleekit submissiveness does not speak for my faith.
Why when ranting and getting banned from most radio station would you open and greet a non Muslim with an Islamic greeting and talk to him of your faith?
Are you a follower of Islam?
Or are you ripping the pish out of that great religion in the same way you rip the pish out of the Catholic faith when farting bout your unionist stormtroopers.
‘Our culture’ spelt that wrang Tam/jhb- kultyir
“Cutting the umbilical chord” – yup union does not like change,your union loathes fully informed democracy,which as brexit shows was not there in 2014.ireland 1918 onwards,India in fact most ex empire countries put up with withdrawal of brit unionist capital (repatriate those profits to london) as that was the democratic want of people voting.
In independence ref2 I am confident,despite your poor attempts at ‘othering’ that the corrupt Eton set currently piling on the debt to future generations will be told to gtf.its democracy and as 1918/2014shows your union makes it up as it goes along.corrupt.
Keep making up your drivel.it is shite.
Now a couple of wee questions
You vote/are a member of which unionist grouping?
Its not labour- sun vomit- to commie
Which right wing group are you a member of.
You have bored us to tears with yir rants about ‘nats’
Yet you gagg on Boris.
Not a letter of criticism to him or any tory overseer of death since covid came on the second time after flouncing into the arms of your hun friends
https://twitter.com/radiofanjohn/status/1303639914622472198?s=19.
Still awaiting your latest twitter handle so we can have a wee delve into your views in the same way you stalk mine.ps you’ll find v little politics on mine exc for ones promoting the war on our poor weak and needy by those you enable.
MADMITCH on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:54 PM
‘There are too many like you — misplaced focus on saving the planet.’
Every day I feel more like Yossarian in Catch 22 surrounded by the insane…
FT @ 1.57
As long as the sun on your back — who cares about the rest of us?
Take the sun off your back and suddenly everything must change.
Progressive politics / the future — Aye right.
Think I’ll come back when the footie is on, oops, no, probably not, por cierto :))
MADMITCH on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 2:02 PM
You are not making any sense.
ERNIE LYNCH on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:46 PM
Could I suggest that you would have the SNP, Alba, the Greens, Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories and that it’s entirely feasible that out of that lot the Tories would be the single largest party?
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Thanks for civil and considered reply.
I had to re-read the above excerpt.
Daft as it initially sounded, there is some merit in what you say, although I would also suggest that post-independence there will be a distinct re-branding of the political landscape.
Suffice to say there will be a Unionist-minded rump which will coalesce around the current Scottish Tories. The SNP will undoubtedly fracture and members split/go elsewhere on traditional left-right lines.
I still believe that the Scottish centre-left still SWs itself as cuddly and right-on and sees the Greens as a reflection of how it sees itself.
Toaty Trumper @ the edge of reason
Step away from the keyboard — please step away.
Bean counting has finally taken its toll.
You made more sense when you were ranting for Socialist Vanguard in 91.
POR CIERTO on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 1:00 PM
Protestantism and the Orange Order are entirely different, one is the practice of Christian religion, and the other is an Anti Catholic, Anti Irish procession, manifesting as a church parade, and bears no resemblance to the way of thinking of the vast majority of Protestants in Scotland, por cierto.
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dont know anything about this stuff. cheers POR CIERTO. good to know
HH
SD @ 2.08
Interesting view of the left of centre politics in Scotland.
The Nats have long given up on progressive politics — they are Identity freaks trying to do populism.
The Greens are a global brand run by bunch of local hyper alphabetties trying to make themselves feel normal — all rampant individualism and very little about collective progressive politics.
If Indy ever happens then it will be a political dog’s breakfast the day after.
Not for me — it would make the Darien project a beacon of rational planning by way of comparison.
JHB
If independence would be such a bad deal for Scottish Catholics and such a big plus for the Orange Order and its minions as you constantly claim, why are they so rabidly against the very idea?
There is a very good reason why the Orangists and Rangers supporters are terrified of an independent Scotland. You know it but are too dishonest to admit it.
SQUIRE DANAHER on 16TH SEPTEMBER 2021 2:08 PM
We’ll never know, because it won’t be happening, but I’d suggest the SNP would remain in existence but their right wing, free market demographic would switch back to voting Tory, because, well why wouldn’t they.