Time to pair Lustig and VVD in central defence

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This afternoon’s friendly against Tottenham Hotspur gives Ronny Deila a dilemma.  Last weekend he played a second string against St Pauli, but with things going so wrong in Warsaw on Wednesday, the pressure is on to pull a game plan together which will work at Murrayfield.

Our other concern is that the squad, without Ambrose, Brown and Forrest, is already looking threadbare.  We simply can’t afford an injury to afflict Commons, Griffiths, Stokes, Johansen, van Dijk, Matthews, Lustig or Izaguirre.

The suggestion was put to me this week that we should play Lustig with van Dijk in central defence on Wednesday.  Lustig can play there, but would Ronny trust them on such an important occasion without a warm-up game?

If I was taking a risk with first-team players this afternoon it would be to pair these two.  If we’re going to get the required result on Wednesday the most important area of the team to get right is the defence.

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  1. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Why don’t you get a Clash one,just to piss off Captain Beefheart?!

  2. Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    02:27 on 4 August, 2014

     

     

    Petec,

     

    I asked did ye know Billy Heaney.It doesnt matter pal.

     

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    Obviously, I don’t know this Guy you are gibbering about, I have not been in that place for over 15 years, so explain your smear. Stop being a Coward because that is what you are by saying what you are saying and not Standing it UP.

  3. Delaneys Dunky on

    Sydneytim

     

     

    You know Peter Lawwell. Do you trust him? I remember you as being Gerry White’s mate? Am I correct? HH bro.

  4. Tricoloured Ribbon 02:38

     

     

    I was in Cheers a week ago????????????

     

     

    I dislike people who have no minds of their own.

     

     

    I REALLY detest people who try and CONTROL things from the BACKGROUND, the Despicable men behind the Curtains, hidden in plain sight.

     

     

    The SouperBowl was all I ever needed to know about CQN at the moment.

  5. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Seriously petec,

     

    What in the name of God is making you be like this?

     

    I only asked you did ye know a guy in Dumbarton.It’s no big deal.

     

    Let it go for feck’s sake.

  6. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Aye, Paul Simonen on the cover of London Calling as portrayed by The Green Brigade, would look nice. :)

  7. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Petec,

     

    You posted a week or so ago that you had been in Cheers years ago.

     

    I used to frequent it myself regularly around 15 years ago.

     

    That’s it.Zilch.Finito.

     

    Noo..I hope yer still ma pal

  8. Delaneys Dunky on

    Petec

     

     

    Get a grip pal. What’s up. TCR is a good guy. You are reading into something that isnae there.

     

    Peace and Love bro.

  9. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    How about Give ’em enough rope,but with the vultures picking at a hun wi a Rangers top on?

  10. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Sipsini,

     

    Liam Henderson is the best prospect I have seen in years.

     

    An absolute workhorse. Great passer of the ball too.

     

    Pity we don ‘t have more like him.

  11. Anyone who does not challenge lies, well, they are pathetic.

     

     

    I’m as likely as any to let people spout their stuff.

     

     

    Just so everyone knows, Cheers was a shocking place to go, and I was a bad person a few times there.

  12. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Bobby,

     

    When’s the next get together mate?

     

    Maybe I’ll remember the next wan..

  13. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Let’s design that as a T shirt, I will flog it up here. It will be a classic. :)

  14. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TRICOLOURED RIBBON

     

     

    If you do,can you fill me in on the details?

     

     

    My recollections are a bit hazy at times!

     

     

    Anyway,hoping to get a permit from my Mum for 11 October. Which by coincidence is an international week,so no clash with a match.

     

     

    Hope to see ya there.

  15. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Petec,

     

    Cheers? Sorry I even mentioned it.Pathetic, liar and coward..I’m not sure I want tae meet you.

     

    That’s what you termed me as.You have lost it completely.

     

    Hey, I know I will hug ye when I meet you.

     

    I am assuming you are full

  16. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Great idea,bud!

     

     

    But Focus would lift you if you wore it.

     

     

    You in Cheltenham again any time soon? I’ll phone The Irish Oak and make sure they’re open this time!

     

     

    I wonder who tipped them off that we were on our way that day,haha….

  17. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Bobby, I had a good charge in me before we hit the Gallowgate.

     

    Then it was lights out.Remember sitting wae Paddybhoy and fourgreenfields.

     

    Very vaguely recall the train journey to Clydebank wae delaneys dunky..

  18. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Now that I come to think of it,the fella at Silverburn who does a natty little line in Celtic t-shirts might be interested in that one.

     

     

    I’ll maybe suggest it to him in October as I buy his latest.

  19. Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    03:09 on 4 August, 2014

     

     

    Petec,

     

    Cheers? Sorry I even mentioned it.Pathetic, liar and coward..I’m not sure I want tae meet you.

     

    That’s what you termed me as.You have lost it completely.

     

    Hey, I know I will hug ye when I meet you.

     

    I am assuming you are full

     

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    You wannae start talking about Israel?

     

     

    Well stop claiming I am in a place I am not.

  20. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    TRICOLOURED RIBBON

     

     

    Well,let’s be honest,you wurnae the only one!

     

     

    Some serious carnage that day.

     

     

    Loved every minute of it!

     

     

    And after Saturday’s performance with Ayrshire Tim,I reckon I need to get some practice in.

  21. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Feck Focus, GCHQ in microcosm. See you in Cheltenham in four weeks. :)

  22. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    My mate got the job at GCHQ,subject to security clearance.

     

     

    I reckon he’s screwed if they find out he knows me!

  23. Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    03:09 on 4 August, 2014

     

     

    Petec,

     

    Cheers? Sorry I even mentioned it.Pathetic, liar and coward..I’m not sure I want tae meet you.

     

    That’s what you termed me as.You have lost it completely.

     

    Hey, I know I will hug ye when I meet you.

     

    I am assuming you are full

     

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    Ronny Deeeee.

     

     

    Step forward and make Celtic what it shoud BE.

     

     

    It takes a lot of Time.

     

     

    Time is Special.

     

     

    destiny labs?

  24. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Petec,

     

    naw I want to talk about friendship.

     

    God is good? You better believe it.

     

    The main man is St Jude.

     

    Now I am going to ma bed shortly.

     

    You have been aggressive towards me tonight/morning.

     

    I know that is not the real petec.

     

    I know people who think the world of you.

     

    People I trust.

  25. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    If Special Branch find out that he spent an afternoon in my company? He is doubly fecked. :))

  26. Delaneys Dunky on

    TCR

     

     

    I think the world of you and Petec. We are all True Fenian Brothers together forever.

  27. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Wooden have thought it would take you so long to think of a reply!

  28. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Off tae bed tae fall asleep to Sandinista. God bless and protect Joe Strummer rip.

  29. Auldheid 02:08 / HamiltonTim 21.04

     

    Re Calton foodbank

     

     

    I am reading issue 12 of The Irish Voice for july 2014 .there is an abridged version of a talk Kevin mc Kenna gave as part of the donegal diaspora project.i found it an interesting read

     

    KmcK covers a lot about us, if I may quote

     

    from section called The ‘phenomenom’ of Celtic FC –

     

    ‘Only last November,Celtic FC and its supporters donated £50, 000 to a food bank that has been established in Parkhead-one of more than 50 throughout Scotland’

     

    The foodbank is run by church of scotland Calton Parkhead parish church.

     

    http://WWW.IRISHVOICE.COM.

     

    HH