Dundee have played 12 games since losing 6-0 at Celtic Park in September, scoring in all but one of those occasions. Only Celtic and Aberdeen have kept them out in 21 games this season. They lost five last time out to Ross County (scoring twice), but scored four against Accies the week before. Season tickets at Dens are excellent value for money. There will be goals when Celtic visit tomorrow.
Kane Hemmings scored five of their six goals against County and Accies. He’s a direct player who makes runs from deep into space but a large portion of his goals come as a consequence of defensive errors. In short, he appears to run at defenders in anticipation of them making a mistake, not a wholly unproductive strategy for strikers playing against Celtic this season.
Ronny Deila will be keen Celtic build on the positives from Tynecastle, although the on-going absence of Leigh Griffiths will be a concern. I reckon we would have seen Carlton Cole at some point against Hearts if it were not for the plethora of injuries which restricted the manager’s options. Hearts had done their homework on Nadir Ciftci, who was well marshalled throughout. He can expect a similar night tomorrow.
Partick Thistle’s role in the title race will come into focus over the next week. They are on an excellent run ahead of tomorrow’s visit to Pittodrie at Saturday’s game at Celtic Park, having won their last four league games. You can win two Premium Seat tickets in the Jock Stein Stand for Saturday’s game, courtesy of Magners, if you answer this question:
Who was the last Partick Thistle manager to win four consecutive top flight games?
Email your answer in the SUBJECT line to celticquicknews@gmail.com before 17:00 tomorrow (30th). My Partick Thistle knowledge is limited, so editors decision if final……
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Ah but, Jobo
your no oan message mate………..
it’s a crisis pal………………
;)
HH
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 30TH DECEMBER 2015 11:13 PM
The_Huddle
“I assume the next 2 films will try to do things differently.”
Why would they do that then? The last 7 seem to be following the Police Academy franchise formula of changing nothing but the silly voices.
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Disney had to recoup the massive outlay and relaunch the brand. Best way to do that is take all the favourite bits from the originals and make a sure thing. Job done.
Next movie will have to try and be original as they’ve used up all the old ideas.
New Year’s honour List
Ms Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette STAUNTON, OBE Actress.
For services to Drama and having a wonderful name.
Star Wars and original, now that’s an oxymoron.
Jobo, excellent post, 3defeats in a calendar year, yeah, that’s a team in crisis.
Bornesouprecipe,
That statement by Graham Spiers is a step in the right direction ……is there hope for them yet …..????
jobo
everything you say is true
and i remind everyone (surely everyhun – ed) in my local every time im in
2 things though
why dont you think its ‘excellent’ when you say its ‘dark’? im so delighted its dark now or i wouldnt get to slee..zzzzzzzzzz
and we are such a poor side to watch, and that isnt ‘excellent’ – even said in a Monty Burns from the Simpsons styleeee
Hrvatski Jim on 30th December 2015 11:28 pm
New Year’s honour List
Ms Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette STAUNTON, OBE Actress.
For services to Drama and having a wonderful name.
*Denis Law who retired over 40 year ago FFS
Barbara Windsor for having big threepenny bits.
Surprisingly naesurname has been over looked again.
Not a good side to watch yet we put 6 past Dundee, 5 past D Utd, 4 past Inverness, 3 past Aberdeen. All at home and still you’re not happy, time to follow another sport as you’ll never be happy watching Celtic and football.
Results have been kind to us… Let’s hope 2 games in hand translate in to 6 points. Hopefully Griffiths will be back in action soon to give us the goals we need.
Have to imagine a central defender on the January list. Doesn’t have to be top drawer just a basic no nonsense presence who can retain focus – ideally with a wee bit of pace to compliment ball playing but slow Simunovic.
67Heaven @ 11.36
Nope
CultsBhoy
Nope, – we need midfielders, wingers, and strikers.
CelticWay csc
Threesie on Huggers?
SadSaque CSC
Foursie?
Fivesie?
Sixie?
(here we go)
Here we go (7)?
Eightsie?
Ninesie?
Here we go Ten in a Ronny Row?
NITOL CSC
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stan-collymore-rangers-sectarian-chanting-5209246#rlabs=3%20rt$category%20p$1
Bar
Striker and Central defender.
I’d still convert James a Forest to a striker …
Cultsbhoy
Praise be, – somebody convert him to something.
Jobo Baldie
(see above) in arrows
and eat your heart out when you check that weather in upper Ruthereglen
Celtic 1994.
Well what an amazing track from that year.
Vapourspace – Gravitational Arch Of Ten
You can dance if you want to!!!!!
Techno.csC
We need a lot more proper Protestants, not these hate filled Calvinists.
Oh feck it.
Yeshua is the only way.
Jesus Christ is the Only Way, in ma wee humble opinion.
Generational stuff, End Times, best not talk aboot that.
As Celtic Struggle and the spawn re-emerge.
Eyes must be putin towards the conspiracy……….
The apple of God’s eye? conspiracy.
These are the End Times.
Sorry to be a bearer of ‘nonsense’
I’m ‘ I am’ most definitely Sorry.
God Bless Nir Bitton.
Love is Incredible
I know how hard oooor north of Ireland guys and gals Sufferered.
No comment is needed on a blog. World Class Celtic Supporters, every single one of them.
Their remarkable Love towards bawbags like me will remain with me forever.
God Bless and enhance that Celtic Corner that Frank cherishes so much.
Frank.CsC
James Forrest
It’s time to put up or shut up laddie.
Aged 25 with 180 appearances and he’s still regarded as a promising younger.
His initial promise has not been realized.
His contributions recently have been minimal and in one recent instance harmful.
His work rate is suspect. I believe he’s lazy and doesn’t support his team mates.
I’d hate to be the full back faced with a winger backed by an attacking full back getting the freedom of the wing as James shrugs his shoulders and appears more concerned with keeping his hair style in place than keeping the full back honest.
His strike rate is another unremarkable aspect of his career to date.
Less than 30 goals or a goal in every 6 appearances is hardly a rate to inspire admiration.
His assists have dried up as he consistently gets channeled knto the centre of the defence and is forced to play a back or sideways pass to a midfielder with nowhere to go.
He has been full of unfulfilled eastern promise for too long.
At 24 Craig, Gemmel, Murdoch, Johnstone and Lennox had European cup medals to add to their growing collection of honours.
It’s time to step up James for the second half of the season or ply your trade elsewhere.
Good.morning Cqn
Hope you all have a happy hogmanay :)
Hopefully be at the coarnir for the Thistle game.
I’ve missed meeting up with my fellow roasters :)
A 3/4 nil win would be nice, but I’d take a 1 nil win in our next home games
I tend not to bother with the transfer windows but the next two are crucial if we are going to make progress with / for RD Imo :)
Anyhoo take care see you next year guys and gals :)
Hoops new year
MARSPAPA
Glad to know yer all alive and well to even see in The New Year!
Bhoy,that was a close one…
Happy New Year to you and yours,bud. I’ll hopefully see you early Spring.
While I’m on,Happy New Year to one and all.
HNY and HH
Good morning all, last shift of the year, thank feck.
Here’s a wee read from johnjames….
A Deflection Failure
As I write this site has achieved 1.7m hits since inception fifteen weeks ago. I would like to think that those who have taken the time to read my articles and make comments will at the very least be much better informed than they were prior to this site’s genesis. I realize that my views challenge established orthodoxies and preconceptions. I make no apology for this.
On Monday Mark Warburton’s team prevailed against Hibs in a ‘six point’ game at Ibrox. However this has been largely forgotten as approaching 50,000 supporters sang a proscribed song. The Vanguard Bears, one of the more respected Rangers sites, welcomed the return of this song. But as I watched on I knew a media storm was on its way. Chris Graham of the RST also foresaw the fallout. He created a narrative that beggared belief. He suggested that the supporters actually sang that they were up to their knees in EBTs; and when Graham Spiers and Tom Morton reported on the actual use of ‘fenian blood‘ they would be exposed as Rangers haters. Graham and another individual with even less sense than his mentor suggested that EBT and Fenian Blood were synonyms. Is it any wonder he lasted only 48 hours as a director with this paradigm shift in stupidity?
Rangers issued a statement at 18.30. It stated that the transgressions were the responsibility of a minority and that the club would liaise with Police Scotland in identifying those responsible for the unacceptable behaviour. Which will lead to the inescapable conclusion that almost 50,000 were responsible. Thirty-three thousand of these are season ticket holders. With their seat numbers and CCTV they could easily identify them. Would the police then follow up with arrests? Would perpetrators be charged under the Offensive Behaviour at Football (Scotland) Act? Would those arrested by the police consider themselves to be ‘sacrificial lambs’ for a much greater malaise?
The question no-one has asked is why did they choose to sing this proscribed song. There are a number of factors. The first of which is Hibs who to all intents and purposes are Celtic-lite. The liquidation of Rangers and the creation of a new club has deprived these supporters of their familiar nemesis. The club for which they reserve their most deep-seated hatred. Then there is the onslaught by CFC supporters (and others) who have mercilessly mocked their club’s demise and even went so far as to publish an advertisement in The Herald to disassociate themselves from a club they refer to as Sevco. When Craig Whyte put the club into liquidation, many feared that there would never be a vital Rangers team playing in a competitive match at Ibrox. I’m not condoning their behaviour. I agree with the board that this was unacceptable. There will be ramifications. The SPFL and SFA, who on occasions like these engage in a game of pass the parcel in the expectation that the music will never stop, will be forced to act as the FAI (Football Association of Ireland) will almost certainly petition UEFA to suspend Scotland from international football for not censuring a club whose supporters engaged in an anti- Irish anthem. If Je Suis Graham had led the choir and we replaced fenian with muslim blood, the club would be closed down within days. The SNP knitting bee that is The Scottish Executive would be set aside as London would intervene.
Some enterprising individuals decided to contact Scottish football sponsors, William Hill, via Twitter. A spokesman for William Hill stated : “Obviously, we don’t condone what was sung and expect the relevant authorities to deal with the situation.” Then there is the problem that the broadcasters have faced when screening Rangers games. If they and the sponsors chose to walk away due to this unacceptable behaviour, which offended their subscribers, then armageddon would be on its way to the Scottish game as a whole.
There is one other reason for the anthem at Ibrox. These supporters believe that they have the ‘right’ to denigrate the Irish. In my considered opinion, the SFA will collude with the SPFL to wash their hands off this. They will defer to the club, a few fans will be suspended until next season or possibly sine die. We will then move forward as if nothing ever happened.
GG
Re Forest
I posted previously that JF should be converted to an out and out centre forward. I pointed out that initially his goal to chances ratio would remain low but that he’d get so many chance he’d be a 20 goals/ season front man.
He is a poor man’e Walcott and I think the same solution should be applied.
Celtic have the ability to retain the ball , draw out defences to create the space that JF would exploit with his electric pace.
Like you – I think he is in the last chance saloon and continuing doing what he’s always done will only reap the results ( performances) he has given to date.
I think other clubs in Championship will have spotted his potential but as you point out, at 25 years old this now needs to be realised.
SIPSINI
You off to the rich “in-laws” for Ne’erday?
Hope you have a belter anyway,mate!
Morning bmcuw’s :)
Hope your in fine fettle, yeah close, I’ll fill you in with the finer details next time we meet. You say early spring, could you not sneak in a visit in January, there’s a guy ai know speaks very highly of you visiting these shores then….. Anyhoo bud, I know wherever you are over the holidays you’ll charm the company you find yourself in.
Take care, best wishes from myself and the Shadow
Censored without breaking rules, looks like a clique to me
Sipsini
I hear your daughters getting married, well if she gets a man half as good as her dad she’s onto a winner.
Happy new year :)
Good morning friends. Dark grey, damp underfoot but currently nothing is falling from the sky. In ole East Kilbride.
Right, that’s one job finished for this year; just the real one to go….
I find the general criticism of JF inexplicable , he is getting it the neck for tripping up a bloke 30 yards from goal, still Effe got the same treatment for giving away a foul on the touch line at Pitoddre ……. Which was one of our 3 league defeats in 2015.
The opposition generally retreat 10 to 15 yards when Jamsie is in the starting line up , the talk of last chance for the wee ghuy is way of the mark ,from my vantage point in the North Stand.