Ross County are involved in a fight for sixth place with four other teams all within two points of each other. Hamilton Accies win last night pushed them to the top of this mini-league, but despite a run of form which has seen County without a win in over two months, a win over the Champions tonight would see the Highlanders climb into the top half of the table.
Their best chance of getting a result like this surely lies between the ears of the Celtic players. Over the last eight days Celtic have twice played to packed out crowds in Champions League and League Cup semi-final encounters. Victoria Park, Dingwall, will provide nothing like the same intensity. How Brendan Rodgers sharpens his players wits for what will be a cup final for the hosts, will be a significant challenge.
County are one of only three clubs in the league who have not beaten any of the table’s top half teams (bottom club, Dundee, and ‘The Rangers are coming’ ‘Going for 55’ ‘Narrowing the gap’ Newco are the other two). This type of statistic is often interpreted as a negative, but beating the teams at the bottom of the league is a critical objective of any team who want to survive.
Ross County are not having a great season, but they have achieved the most important things and can play with the pressure off tonight. It’s a result I’d not put money on.
While the Celtic engine rolls on, Aberdeen’s stalled at Hamilton last night, albeit to a soft-looking penalty. If we win our games in hand we’ll have an eight point advantage over Hearts and 10 over Aberdeen., which is a remarkable lead so early in the season, especially as we are the only team distracted by European competition.
One issue on team selection: 72 hours from now we’ll be underway at Pittodrie. While we need to pick a team to win tonight’s game, players are not machines. This should be a night for Griffiths, Armstrong, Roberts, McGregor, Izaguirre and Gamboa to start.
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VFR
Thanks but I already knew this, I ended up sitting next to JP at the open meeting :-)
I have really serious concerns about this and although there won’t be changes this season I suspect this isn’t going to end well, particularly for those who aren’t Associated or Affiliated to Celtic.
MOONBEAMSWD
Hope yer feeling better,old bean!!
We all watched Tomorrow’s World. It’s was a bloke’s programme. Full of stuff that were no use to women,like CDs-think of a lass’s CD collection,do a double Van Gogh!
And jet-packs. I only moved to Swindon so I could get home in twenty minutes using a jet-pack.
Now,wi modern technology I find it takes me nearly five hours on the train to go to visit my mate in Essex. I could drive home in that time before speed cameras were invented!
Traffic moves at 9mph in London,similar in other cities,motorways are clogged,roadworks block you elsewhere. The quickest way to get round London is by tube,a 19th Century innovation,or a tram,ridiculed and pulled in the Sixties.
We still need power from the same sources as fifty years ago.
And batteries haven’t improved much since they were invented in Iraq about 200 BC.
I reckon technology is moving at a slower rate than in the first Industrial Revolution. Much of it has stagnated. Only computer/TV technology is keeping up the average.
Mainly because the “inventions” piloted on TW didn’t come to pass.
Makes me wonder if people expected them to happen,and planned accordingly.
Bobby
You`re `avin a laff.
“And batteries haven’t improved much since they were invented in Iraq about 200 BC.”
Now Al Cohol , that`s a different matter.
BMCUWP
There is a battery farm up the road from me and I hear so much noise coming from it that it really does sound like one powerful battery. It’s going to be the next best battery I’m sure. Although it may just be for chicks.
MWD
I used to walk up from Pollock St to the Ferry just before Tradeston,over to Anderson,get the 64 bus up to Celtic Park,a lift over,then back home same way.Tuppence was the princely sum for a wonderful day out.I can remember the Tram before the 64 bus.I was around 7 or 8 at the time.My parents would be jailed now.
BMCUWP
Im still waiting for a Hover Skateboard….back to the future style.
Wouldnt mind having a Robot to help out around the house either, make me coffee, could paint my shed etc.
And while we are at it….I want to live forever:)
HH
HT\VFR
Maybe it’s time Celtic started talks with clubs who struggle to fill their home grounds to provide a higher allocation for our fans rather than restrictions on fans who have attended away games frequently over the years independantly. The carrot being a lower cost for their fans coming to Celtic Park. It’s not as if we make a fortune off them.
MWD
Looking at the numbers in the Joey Barton situation, I reckon a best case scenario for the zombies is that they have to pay £450K.
Joey is contracted to be paid at least 20 weeks January to end-May and 48 weeks for next season, so a total of 96 weeks wages @ £20K = £1.36M.
Assuming Burnley are willing to pay him £35K a week for 26 weeks remaining this season (big assumption now that they are in a stronger negotiating position) that comes to £910,000, so a shortfall of £450K.
The difference between 20 weeks pay and 26 weeks pay is unlikely to be that large so I’d guess that another £50K would need to be thrown in.
So basically it will cost them the same to get Joey to walk away as we paid for Moussa Dembele.
MACJAY 125
In which respect,time or improvement?
Time is a best guess from archaeologists,improvement on the opinions of many experienced people.
Seriously,no idea of the power or charge held by the Iraqi battery,but a Toyota Prius cell only holds about 150kWh.
Not much improvement in 2200 years.
I have no idea why so many Celtic bloggers feel the need to costume as the prophetic moral crusaders and call out Mr. King of ‘The Rangers FC. Why do they feel the need to rock the boat so much? Me… personally… I’m happy for Mr King to reign over Ibrox for decades – if not generations – to come.
If they don’t know their ABC’s it is not our place as ‘tarriers’ to teach them anything.
Leave hubris to those who need the high.
From Radiograms to Robots.
In saying that, you could have bought an electric car in 1904, if you had the dosh.
Phyllis
Thanks for doing the sums.
My calculator battery went flat.
Anyone know where I can get one cheap, or even cheep.(do hens go cheep?)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 26TH OCTOBER 2016 1:34 PM
“And batteries haven’t improved much since they were invented in Iraq about 200 BC.”
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My innate scepticism is aroused.
:-)
Off to the town of Sweet Dungloe.
Ah,the old Babylonian battery debate.Anyone got a clue what they used to power with it?.
Macjay,
I remember the 64 tram. We left the big pennies on the track when it was doing its last run. The Calypso was going at the same time as the Stirling Castle in the 60s. You didn’t go there did you?
For The Green Man
https://youtu.be/t1TcDHrkQYg
TURKEYBHOY
Air conditioning.
GORDYBHOY
Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan wrote a song with the same title.
Somehow,it can still make me well up listening to it forty years hence.
jimbob71 on 26th October 2016 12:33 pm
Yeah, it’s strange how something so familiar to us is so strange to them.
I’m an avid music listener and I have hi-fi separates and mostly listen to vinyl. The first time my Grandson saw a record playing (he was about 6) he was genuinely spooked as he’d never seen it before and thought it was bizarre!
Now he’s 15, I recently had to buy him a record player!
KTF
Correction – it’s 68 weeks wages Joey is due, not 96, but the totals are still the same.
MoonbeamsWD ‘Stand up on 15 for the GB’ on 26th October 2016 1:33 pm
I completely agree! Dundee and ICT played with half their home allocation untaken.
Doesn’t make sense!
HAMILTON TIM, you have mail.
KTF
H,mmmm,going by some of the stories circulating,indeed JJ referred to this one the other day,does anyone think its strange,that the wonder kid Rossiter,has been missing from the Hun team at the same time Game Of Thrones has started shooting the new series.Seems being Tyrian Lannisters stand in pays more than the Hun.
How much salt you pinch to take with this is up to you.
Since the Norn Irn trip some weeks ago there has been an unease in the Auchenhowie camp. Barton aside however this is not a rowdy dressing room but a more quiet resignation that a wage is a wage, see it out. To me that is more dangerous for them. In essence somewhere around one third of he squad are not what you would say as playing for the jerseys. Warbs knows it, knows why, and basically isn’t dealing with it. I’m guessing O’Halloran hasn’t been banging down his door for a game! He’ll surely play tonight right enough.
Secondly the credit line issue is an immovable object for the audit certificate. No facility, no clean audit. No clean audit on Going Concern and suppliers get nervous, European licenses for next season become an issue and a spiral downwards intensifies. Has to be resolved first half of November given timescales for AGM and filing accounts by 31 December. Unlike the hearsay rumours of unrest we won’t have to wait long for this one to play out. A clean audit and you should put the ice cream back in the freezer.
Source is mostly pub talk, or break out areas as they call them in certain circles.
BMCUW,
Air conditioning?.Really?.I would have thought that Plunka Wallahs would have been in great abundance in those days.
HAMILTONTIM on 26TH OCTOBER 2016 1:21 PM
VFR
Thanks but I already knew this, I ended up sitting next to JP at the open meeting :-)
I have really serious concerns about this and although there won’t be changes this season I suspect this isn’t going to end well, particularly for those who aren’t Associated or Affiliated to Celtic.
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Reading between the line here HT – your concern is that the changes will mean only members of Associated or Affiliated clubs will have access to Away tix…..or the other way around??
These young folk, eh? Don’t know they’re living, with their easy technology enabled lives.
Don’t even know what polio braces are for, or that modems made a noise like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum loading Dizzy…
Another thing these young folk won’t know….a pension!
BlantyreKev
I read similar elsewhere last week but I cannot remember where. I think it was a comment on either Phil or JJ’s blogs.
MWD
I think babylon Batteries were powered by Tripple AAA Slaves.
MWD
DAVIDOPOULOS on 26TH OCTOBER 2016 1:57 PM
These young folk, eh? Don’t know they’re living, with their easy technology enabled lives.
Don’t even know what polio braces are for, or that modems made a noise like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum loading Dizzy…
Another thing these young folk won’t know….a pension!
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Why would young folk need a pension? It’s a product specifically for old folk…?
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Ohhh aye advances in technology a fantastic thing…….no longer do spotty 15year old youths have to worry about their wee mammys discovering their scud book planks under the mattress
MWD
Interesting. I don’t read either of those as it happens for different reasons.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Certainly domestic, general purpose batteries have not changed at all in my lifetime (30 years). Which is a hell of long time to resist the temptation to lick the top of a 9V battery…
Rumour now doing the rounds the Huns owe a Roll man in Milngavie 700 quid for said comestibles being bought by players and stuck on the “Tab”.Seems the players were munching into rolls and Bacon,Sausage,etc.
A Grass,err,spokesman for the club,Lee Wallace said”This is disgraceful conduct by these players,they know fine well the breakfasts at Auchenhowie are “World class.I love them”
MICKBHOY1888 on 26TH OCTOBER 2016 2:03 PM
Ohhh aye advances in technology a fantastic thing…….no longer do spotty 15year old youths have to worry about their wee mammys discovering their scud book planks under the mattress
Mick,is there some traumatic experience from your youth you would like to share with the group?.
NatKnow
That’s very true. We should just take the lyrics to My Generation literally and never become old.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 26TH OCTOBER 2016 2:08 PM
NatKnow
That’s very true. We should just take the lyrics to My Generation literally and never become old.
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You mean book them on a trip to Dignitas? That would save a fortune!
I’m surprised that you’re slightly to the right of Macjay, but “open to all” etc. I suppose…
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#(Shay)LogansRunCSC (not this Saturday though)
Turkeybhoy
I only kept my 10 Players No 6 and a book of matches under my mattress my copies of Mayfair and Club International were concealed within ma brothers programme collection