Aberdeen’s season fell off a cliff after they met Celtic in the League Cup semifinal in November. More recently, form has picked up. They have lost only one of their last 11 games, a 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park, winning seven in that time. That puts them in reasonable form for the battle for European places, before attempting to deny Celtic a treble at Hampden next month.
The scale of St Johnstone’s collapse on Sunday suggests they are too fragile to mount a survival campaign. They are five points adrift of Dundee, but it’s Ross County and Kilmarnock (six ahead of St Johnstone) who are more likely to capitulate. Killie were equally poor a week earlier at Celtic Park. The prospect of making the top flight bigger by adding yet more cannon fodder is not appealing to fans of competitive sport, or TV broadcasters.
Our pal Conaire12, Fr Charlie Cavanagh, passed away yesterday – in good company! He recently retired from a parish in Greenock and was with the team in Lisbon in 67. A good pal to many here, he will be missed. Rest in Peace, Charlie.
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Boondock – Always love reading your posts. Wish I was good enough to walk in your shoes back then but couldn’t get further than the Juniors. Big Billy is the definition of a Celtic legend.
Penang_Bhoy
Well, no, it isn’t certain. Just as it isn’t certain that the quarter-finals at Wimbledon will be higher quality than the first round, but I think it would be highly likely.
Yes, we would probably still keep winning the league but I believe a bigger league would make it closer.
In a “typical” season (and of course every season is different and will throw up anomalies) Celtic will play Aberdeen four times and pick up 10-12 points. Sevco will pick up 7-9 points.
Now, take away two of those games and replace them with two games against Raith. Celtic still pick up 10-12 points. Probably a slightly higher chance of 12 but essentially no real difference. Sevco however go up to 9-10.
Now repeat that for Hibs/Morton, Hearts/Partick and Dundee Utd/Arbroath. Celtic finish the season on more or less the same points total as now, but Sevco go up by maybe 8-10 points.
Sean
A great post…thank you for sharing.
Saint Stivs – thank you.
As expected but confirmation bias is a dangerous thing.
Always good to hear from people who know what they are talking about. Respect.
Basically – very early days.
As for Everton’s new stadium – here comes the confirmation bias again but I suspect it is simply down to size of the site (it’s tight for space) and cost (they are tight for cash).
Still a 33% capacity uplift from Goodison.
Boondock Saint.
That loss at Tannadice …
… was that the one we’re McCarthy fluffed the back pass on the half turn to the keeper and someone nipped in?
Sean- great story HH
Glass Half Full,
yes, Big Mick fluffed it to someone, can’t remember if it was Gallagher but could be wrong.
Sean
boondock saint on 22nd April 2025 5:37 pm
Wonderful post…….to be part of the Club we love must make you so proud. I can feel it in your words and picture the scenes as though i was there myself. Keep posting these insights into what it was like to be with some of our heroes
Wild card here! Just found out that, due to sudden family reasons, will be finding myself in Chorley this weekend. Anyone know of a likely venue to show the game? Found a hotel in Preston, but have to be in the locality of Chorley for possible ‘taxi’ reasons.
Thanks
Ave Ave
EmeraldBee \o/ A Double Niner!! on 22nd April 2025 7:33 pm
chorley now has an irish quarter.
call the irishman bar, ask if they are showing it.
£ 9.32 for delivery !!!!!!!
HI CARAMBA. 😮😮😮😮😮😮
James Forrest Blog on great form today.The article skewering Jacko,top class.
Villa are cheats.
Clearly coached to engineer contact and hit the deck.
Terrible decision to award penalty.
Turkeybhoy on 22nd April 2025 7:52 pm
James Forrest Blog on great form today.The article skewering Jacko,top class.
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I just have to say though, plenty of our fans make it easy for these jornos to use the “tedious, boring, crab like fitba as a mantra,
so boring they leave on 75 minutes even when they are 4 up.
then fill the hotlines and call ins with ludcrous commentary as if their opinion counts.
wee john last night , “that scales is rotten, he needs to go”
we won 5-0 and the bhoy did nothing wrong.
Terrible EPL game.City clueless first half up front.Villa content to waste time.
Best league in the world,they trumpet.Both teams fighting for CL place, in a half. empty lookiing stadium.
BbTB,
agree the penalty. Gutless Ref.
SAINT STIVS. ta. Will try them tomorrow.
Ave Ave
Sorry lhads but you’re wrong. That was a stonewall penalty. We would be screaming for it for Celtic.
Plus if you think the villa players go down more easily than the City ones I’m really not sure what game you are watching.
Both teams have been at it since the ko.
Boondock Saint, I rarely post but lurk frequently and it’s posts like yours that keep me coming back. Don’t EVER stop! Very interesting and a genuine insight too.
Hx2
If it ever happens, The South Stand being upgraded I reckon there will be no shortage of fans wanting a seat there,along with other areas being on the agenda,
I’ve not posted or asked in a while regarding this but where are the clubs original 54 League flags?
Should these not be on display and and on show on the Celtic way and at the pitch side when we clinch our 55th and thereafter be on displays within the stadium.
PENANGBHOY
Seeing your monicker reminded me of a chat Mrs Quad and I had the other day about our last O/S holiday at the Rasa Sayang. We read that the Equatorial (near the Golf Club) was set to re-open in 2025 and I’d also had a brill break there preCovid. Nice part of the world !
BOONDOCK; another nice reminiscence !
https://substack.com/@thisisrobinaqureshi/note/c-111020662?r=bc5xc&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
From twatter
Robbie Fowler
@Robbie9Fowler
Every club, everywhere would take a tedious treble every season .
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Aint that the truth
Don’t believe the current media flaps, as its stinks
Huns can’t buy 3 home wins in a row
They are so bad their shirts rip on contact….
Enjoy the times, don’t listen to those who would try and shit on us
As its a fecking great time to be a tim
You want a Treble?
Look back to season 1968 – 1969
The greatest Treble in Celtic History
And losing out that same season to the last Italian team, a great team, to win the European Cup, until 1985…..
AC Milan in the quarter-finals, a team which went on to defeat Manchester United, and an up and coming Ajax Amsterdam in the Final. A great great team.
In the Scottish Cup Final the Rangers support conjured up two chants, one……AC Milan AC, ….. a very clever play on Auld Lang Syne, and the adoption, for the first time, of the song Wandering Star, from the film Paint Your Wagon, or at least a bastardised version of Lee Marvin’s hit single…….
To no avail, when crushed by the mighty Celtic team of the late 1960s……4-0
That is what you call a Treble,……all won in April 1969
the headline and then the actual contents…..
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/25106782.rangers-set-get-six-figure-payment-boost-uefa/
like something someone writes for a laugh on here
Good morning all.
Good morning from a bright and dry North Staffs.
https://www.celticnewsnow.com/hoople/
Got it in 3 – lucky guess
spikeysauldman
Huns getting 400k oh and BTW Celtic getting double
gene
beyond farcical
Gene – hoople – tks
well done – got it in 5
It’s all clickbait , huns get x amount , huns all click and read , but then they get to the end learning Celtic get double , they then end up like tavpen …
Disappointed 😁😁😉
Celtic Mac @ 12.33,
I’m sure AC Milan said after winning the big Cup that Celtic were their most difficult opponents. They hammered Ajax 5-1, if memory serves., in the Final.
spikeysauldman on 23rd April 2025 6:02 am
Even by MSSM levels, that was special ! I genuinely thought it was Ibrox News or something similar !!
I can imagine us beating them 5-1 and the Evening Times going with a headline like this:
Rangers Score Against Celtic !
`Malone Bhoy on 22nd April 2025 5:40 pm
Paul67 does not speak for the fan base. He maybe speaks for thr Celtic board.`
Or maybe he speaks for himself?
I think those who know Paul would go for that option.
PCS
We should have beaten them at home and in a snowy Milan.