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Vastly improved Celtic return to Ibrox

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When we lost 1-0 at Ibrox earlier in the season play was focussed on Odsonne Edouard until he was replaced by Ismaila Soro (yes, really) and Kyogo moved into the central position for the final 23 minutes.  Cameron Carter-Vickers and Jota had yet to join the club, we didn’t have a fit left back and two of the starting line-up knew they were on their last outing in green and white hoops.

Despite this, and playing before an exclusively home crowd, Celtic enjoyed 66% possession and Edouard missed a chance that he hoped Crystal Palace did not see.

Only four of those who started for Celtic are likely to do so again on Sunday: Hart, Starfelt, Juranovic and McGregor.  Beyond those who start, we have options on the bench who can change the game if necessary.  Last time, as well as Soro, Ange Postecoglou brought on Tom Rogic, who remains in contention, and Adam Montgomery.  Resources were chronically weak by comparison.

We will bring a new and vastly improved team to Ibrox, one that has overcome the points deficit we left the ground carrying in August and can effectively secure the second trophy of the season on Sunday.

None of this is conjecture.  Whatever the merits of Celtic as they dominated possession and lost in August, the scale of transformation since is beyond any of the hopes we had back then.  Recent form does not guarantee results, but we can draw confidence from it ahead of Sunday.

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  1. big wavy on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 31ST MARCH 2022 6:16 PM

     

    Good move by Ben Doak. The Liverpool support won’t turn against him if he sustains a long-term injury in the line of duty.

     

     

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    Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey.

  3. call me Gerry on

    Frankterry @ 3:17

     

    Good luck with betting. 🤞

     

     

    SFTB @ 5:05

     

    I always bet very carefully – small stakes – for fun.

     

    Hope, rather than expect a winner 😁

     

     

    Two very true statements re gambling –

     

    1) there’s no such thing as a poor bookie

     

    2) when the fun stops…STOP!

     

    👍

     

     

    HH

  5. bognorbhoy on

    You know what’s funny ?

     

     

    There are Huns in Australia with tickets for a Celtic game 😜😜😁😁😁😁

  7. Hot Smoked on

    JHB

     

    `would make it almost impossible for the one left-standing to operate at current levels`

     

     

    Possibly not at the current LEVELS but I would suggest that achievements would remain the same. ie Celtic would still win almost everything in Scotland and do little in Europe.

  10. maccargo on

    All our main bhoys back from international duty…tick.

     

     

    Current buns in Oz with tickets to a Celtic game…comedy tick.

     

     

    Them’s apparently minus a key player for Sunday…bonus tick.

     

     

    Belter of a unifying renewal video launched…team tick.

     

     

    Today is a good day…

     

     

    On a personal level the Mrs has just served up the Italian side of the family’s secret spaghetti bolognese and a chianti that means a sore head tomorrow and the kid has just unearthed a box of Glasgow Irish/Jinty McGinty’s/Finnegans Wake volleyball memories from the 90’s.

     

     

    Today is a very good day…Cheers everyone.

  12. An Tearmann on

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 31ST MARCH 2022 6:38 PM

     

    Have to retract what I said before about semi-final tickets. I now have one, as does my mate and I now realise that the 10 pounds was for the ticket itself.

     

     

    I was wondering when you mentioned the figure £10.

     

    I had my mate on just prior to reading your post,saying his daughter done the tech thing.

     

    Well done,look out the green and white😊 👍

     

     

    Keep calm with Sunday,underestimate nothing,as long as we play as a unit and prepared to work for each other we fear nowt.focus on how we play support and work for each other.

     

    :-)

     

    HH

  14. itscalledthemalvinas on

    BOGNORBHOY

     

    Maybe best to hold the giggles for the moment.

     

    Having lived among the twisted 17th century bigots all my life I’ve a terrible premonition that the afore mentioned monkeys will probably turn up at the game to make a right show of themselves with their butcher’s aprons.

     

     

    On second thoughts. . . . . . . . I hope they do show up !

  15. Greenpinata on

    My friends in Celtic,

     

     

    Whatever the true reason for the huns pulling out of the Australian gig, it is embarrassing for them.

     

     

    Have they bowed down to swivel eyed zombies ?

     

     

    However I am more interested in this from a Celtic perspective.

     

    There will be a lot of disappointed Tims in Australia and NZ who were looking forward to a potential one of f life time experience of gubbing the huns.

     

     

    It should also be recognised that 80% of tickets sold have gone to local CSC’s.

     

     

    HH.

  18. JHB on

    HOT SMOKED on 31ST MARCH 2022 6:34 PM

     

    JHB

     

     

    `would make it almost impossible for the one left-standing to operate at current levels`

     

     

    Possibly not at the current LEVELS but I would suggest that achievements would remain the same. ie Celtic would still win almost everything in Scotland and do little in Europe.

     

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    Yes agree – domestically – if Celtic were to be run in the same prudent fashion as it is at the moment.

  19. TexasTim on

    OK, can’t help myself…..’No huns in Sydney, no there’ll be no huns in Sydney’

     

     

    That’ll put the insurance premiums down for the city.

     

     

    Didn’t care before and I care less now; and they delegitimized themselves in the process.

     

     

    The lack of self awareness is delicious – now onwards to Sunday…

  22. JHB on

    WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 31ST MARCH 2022 6:16 PM

     

    It took a while but I now know the identity of CQN’s ladies football correspondent,

     

     

    Julia Hartley-Brewer…

     

     

    apparently plays on the right wing…

     

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    Good witty post, even although you poke fun at me – that I don’t mind.

     

     

    Can I just say a couple of things. I am not the “ladies correspondent” per say – I just see what’s ahead of us and happening quicker than we think. Dismissing it, or, burying our heads in the sand, will be counterproductive. The upsurge of the womens’ game will dwarf the effect that Bosman had on world football

     

     

    As for playing on the “right wing”, probably levelled because I’m not part of the SNPcult. There is not, and has never been, a right-wing marker in my family’s DNA. There is not, and never has been, a left-wing marker in the SNPcult DNA. Tartan Tories then, now and forever. I admit that some swallow their propaganda – but that’s all it is…..and it is running out of legs.

  23. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Morelos – bluff or wee shame?

     

     

    Guy never seems to return from international bench warming without some new baggage.

     

     

    Oz tournament? Clowns. Amateurs.

     

     

    I have no inside info at all …..

     

     

    … but if they’ve breached contract

     

     

    Add that to the Ashley bill (when it crystallises)

     

     

    And the latest non-payments to HMRC

     

     

    Against a backdrop of multiple debt for equity swaps by debt carrying director’s in recent times …

     

     

    And GASL being a PITA ?

     

    (First letter stands for Pain)

     

     

    Perhaps they don’t have as much control of the overall indebtedness as people think?

     

     

    Civil war followed by uncivil strife beckons methinks.

     

     

    Tick tock

  25. lets all do the huddle on

    Can I just say a couple of things. I am not the “ladies correspondent” per say

     

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    if you are going to try use a Latin phrase in amongst the rest of your shite then at least get it right

  29. An Tearmann on

    BOGNORBHOY on 31ST MARCH 2022 6:26 PM

     

     

    You know what’s funny ?

     

     

    There are Huns in Australia with tickets for a Celtic game 😜😜😁😁😁😁

     

     

    Has Div no got it covered,whichever way you look at it

     

    the 49 times criminal can look differently.🤣🤣

     

     

    DaveprismCsc

  35. An Tearmann on

    CONEYBHOY on 31ST MARCH 2022 8:19 PM

     

    Celtic FB ad.. £42 for a bottle of Celtic gin. Who would pay that?

     

     

    Seems to be a rich market in Gins nowadays.distillers diversifying.Maybe Burnley78 will give a view.

     

    It not a drink for me,gin,but I am sucker for the whisky marketing jargon,any excuse for a swally,and on a visit to the dram shop would pay 42+ for a nice malt

     

     

    HH

  37. voguepunter on

    posted on sent Celts

     

    Prestonpans bhoys

     

    As the cost of living explodes especially if you have gas, our beloved PLC board announce ST renewals, at a price rise and no token Celtic superstore voucher. They are in a different world, money grabbing bastards. I expect the £6m Aussie money still on offer even excluding the hun😕

     

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    Got to agree ,everyone scratching themselves due to price increases.

  41. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    This afternoon’s Ibrox statement reneging their place in the Sydney Super Cup dropped during the moon-howling hours down under.

     

     

    Business Australia will be arriving at their offices in the next few hours, I trust the lights are still on at Celtic tonight.

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