I know a few who were indifferent about winning the league at Easter Road on Sunday with the prospect of winning it against Newco this weekend, but it is not how Brendan Rodgers views things.
It doesn’t matter how you regard Newco in a historical context, these games bring an inherent pressure for Celtic to win (and Newco to at least lose while competing) that it would suit the manager to have already won the league before crossing swords with Graeme Murty for the third time in seven weeks.
We should also remember, this is not a Harlem Globetrotters game, where an exhibition of slick entertainment will take place with the result predetermined. We hurt Newco’s players. They have been professionally embarrassed in a very public manner, something which could inhibit their career opportunities – and let’s be clear, many of them will want to move on from Murray Park this summer.
We have to anticipate that they will play better at Celtic Park than they did at Hampden. At the very least, someone inside the away dressing room is likely to say “Lads, can you keep an eye on the big Australian guy?” They have learned several of our stock plays in recent weeks and they have learned what does not work against them. This fact alone will make them better prepared. Napoleon warned his generals not to fight the same opponent too many times, as they will learn all you moves. He had a point.
Scott Brown quite rightly called the prospect of winning the league on Sunday the “sweetest” way, but this is not what you want to hear from players prior to a game. As the captain himself noted after our Scottish Cup semi-final win, do you talking on the park. Opponents use words like this to create a common purpose, especially when they are struggling to find any commonality naturally.
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Norrie
A joiner?
Mental today. Common place in the 70s.
Who would win in a fight between Mo Sylla and Mo Salah?
DD – I hope they win it too HH
NORRIEM on 24TH APRIL 2018 10:07 PM
Who on earth takes a hammer to the fitba ??
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Quite a few opposition SPFL players ????????
Norrie- very low key coverage of violence down there these days
And Eusebio Di Francesco will be hunting out film of Sevilla knocking 3 past the Scousers without reply in a torrid second half earlier in the competition.
If Roma score first, with enough time remaining, and of course don’t get any perfectly good goals chalked-off by a swivel-eyed referee, then should be a cracking second leg in that big old Stadio Olimpico, where Roma once blew a great chance of joining great clubs like Celtic in the pantheon of European Cup Winners, against Liverpool, of all teams, anaw.
NorrieM
Maybe a Roma fan wanting to board up the goal they were “defending”?
The guy with the hammer at the Liverpool v Roma game has been identified.
Maxwell somebody or other…
Allegedly.
HH!!
Beatbhoy,
I was glad that Liverpool won that 1984 final after Roma had cheated Dundee Utd in the semi by bribing officials.
HH
Oh look it’s Statement Time:
“RANGERS notes Hibernian’s decision to cut our supporters’ ticket allocation for the final match of the Scottish Premiership season at Easter Road on Sunday, May 13.
First and foremost Rangers hopes the safety of our fans, who will now be in only one section of the South Stand rather than filling it completely, will not be compromised by this decision, which beggars belief.
This is the least Rangers expects for supporters who have repeatedly proven themselves to be the most loyal in the country by selling out away ticketing allocations at opposition stadiums for years.
This was evident as we rose through the divisions when clubs the length and breadth of the country, including Hibernian, benefitted financially from the presence of our fans.
Rangers will of course bear in mind Hibernian’s decision when considering ticketing arrangements for future matches – both home and away – against this particular club.”
If, Liverpool reach the CL final, that’ll be their second European final in three years, since thei got rid of Brendan the pub team skelper.
Anywye, I hope all sick CQN’s get well soon, my wife has just got over pneumonia after having it for almost a year, thoughts and prayers to all sick CQN’s.
DD, grand ole Junglistic application to yer new job Amigo, but you knew that, right ; HH
WEEBAWBABBITY – Guid, grand ole ghuy that you are, take care ; HH
……oot.
No one likes us we don’t care.
Have they not suffered enough
We don’t do walking away
Vfr
Any chance you could add Angel Gabriel to the Coias list
Just been texting him. Said he would love to come along
Little Alfie
“I’m not giving up because Alfie is breathing away. He is not suffering, he is not struggling, he is fighting
Please please God help him.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Managed to drag myself home from those mad peninsula rebels.
Not had much internet even if i had, unlikely i would have been
sober enough to write anything sensible, but i managed to read
that our CQN stalwarts BMCUW and LIONSROAR were ill.
PADDYMACOZ and i both sent Michael mail but realise now that
he wont read it so all the best from the Oz tims hope you both
are back on your feet and shouting on the bhoys again.
H.H Mick
Tontine Tim on 24th April 2018 1:58 pm
wrote about the killings in Toronto yesterday
I’ve just spent40 minutes composing a response to the above remarks.
It’s fortunate that I mistakenly deleted them in my word document.
So here is a more measured and muted response.
I feel the remarks were both overly pessimistic and partly paranoiac.
Toronto is a safe place to live and work. The fact that there are
tall buildings and Jewish folk does not make it a target for terrorists.
To link the horrible events of yesterday in Toronto
with the London subway bombings, the terror in the middle east
and tangentially with September 11, 2001 is
conspiracy nutcase rambling!
We live outside in this great country with the people who are here,
not hidden away inside wrapped in a blanket of
‘it was only a matter of time, it’s the world we live in now’
T
I don’t know why sevco are complaining they couldn’t fill their own stadium on Sunday never mind anybody else’s ?????????
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES ???♂️??? on 24TH APRIL 2018 10:03 PM
Looks like Kate’s secret is finally oot the bag ?
awfy braw…clever lass that …cos in my time with hellliocopticians they could never be truly relied on putting anything doon or up where it wis needed….
smiley go and feck yerself thing…
Braw
Huns trying to create the illusion of a siege mentality to get over the line this season and to sell season tickets. Trouble is they are still issuing statements written with crayons.
I see Sevco are still making friends on The Journey.
Hibs have been warned!
Jobo, further to your report on GSL being sighted at Anfield, beside Rush and Dalglish, Sly Sports are “understanding” that he has opened negotiations with L’pool for a loan deal on the boy Salah.
Toby nailed it….
https://twitter.com/Tobyallan7062/status/988898013581139968
sevco, the club that loves to produce statements – as long as they’re not bank statements.
NEUSTADT-BRAW on 24TH APRIL 2018 11:15 PM
My wife giving me gyp for making fun of ‘that poor lassie’ with the salami in the photo. ??
There was one Hun on radio Snyde tonight who thinks they are 2 centre hawfs away from overtaking us next year.
Ffs theses gullabilly ‘s beat a not interested Hertz side and all of a sudden they are world beaters again.
Hunbelievable
D. :)
Pog….as always the other half is correct..
(in case she is reading oor yir shoulder) wee smiley…
have been busy posting that pic worldwide…
smiley “whiptail lizard ” thing ….
Braw
Sundays Roll of
DisHonour for a Coias breakfast is:ACGR
Delaneys Dunkey
BRTH
POG
Almore
Almores brother
WITS
Angel Gabriel
VFR
I’ll get the table extended tomorrow morning; any more, let me know!
KTF
BMCUWP,
Get well soon neighbour :-)
Hebcelt will be popping in to Coias to deliver some essentials to ACGR and possibly Almore and BRTH. What time you all meeting? Hail Hail Hebcelt
Pog
That statement from the famous Statement Club
– Written by a work experience person who will fail ‘O’ level English
– Specialising in run on sentences & incomplete thoughts
– Safety of Hibs fans in that stand is at greater risk based on the cup final at Hampden May 2016
– Hibs had to get approval of Safety Team & Police for this change in allocation
– Its Hibs ground & they are entitled to accommodatre their fans “first & foremost” :o)
– Last game of season with final places up for grabs, & Hibs want 2nd place, so why wouldn’t they get more of their own fans in
– Ask many of the clubs who “benefitted” in the early years many would trade that money for their dignity
– Rangers always squeeze Hibs fans into that small pen in the corner, so nothing will change there
– Statement written by an angry person who still thinks he’s one of the People & should always get his way
– Statement promises repercussions for future Hibs matches “Home & away”. Home is fair enough but..
AWAY?? What they going to do, not turn up at all? Turn up in numbers and cause trouble? Turn up & invade the park? Turn up and not sing sectarian songs? Turn up & trash the toilets? Turn up and turn their backs?
Turn up and sit in the wrong place?
When you arra peepil you think that this statement is grand & you can actually do what you want.
Calibhoy,
In Sonora beside Yosemite . Tahoe Reno area is the usual jaunt away but certainly could head north.
Where are ye and do ye ever be in these parts?
Canamalar, times have changed now and guess who stays at home while the better half slaves so any extra burden will fall on these shoulders .If I do take on too much well I made my own grave and its only right thats its me gets the punishment . Hope youre well hey.
Was avoiding the site last few hours so I could watch the pool game tonight after dinner without knowing the score. Only watch a few games these days and I knew it would be entertaining.
I had my doubts about Jurgens style of football but he has surprised me. Dont think they will take it though,,not if Real make it when theyre going for 3 in a row and have the best on the planet CR7. and Bayern are a super solid outfit. Roma where soo naive. They played a back three so the pool played four on them as soon as they got possession and went long.
One comes deeper and receives, turns and runs at pace with three others trying to make options.
If no option then shoot with the others following in.
Their manager couldnt suss it. His midfield was bypassed by the long ball and his defence played a high line against pace,,a cardinal sin.
How can people invovled in the game not see things the common man does.
Does proximity blind them ?
I did hear a good comment this week that Arsene was the most knowledgeable man in football,,yet knew very little about his own team and where he was going wrong also.
Knew absolutely everything else there is to know.
So I guess its true that love is blind.
Hail Hail
Good morning friends and Happy Midweek Wednesday.
4 more sleeps until we have our second attempt at securing or 7th (SEVENTH) league title in a row. And 24 until we try to complete the Double Treble.
Off to read an alleged statement ;-)
THat was a quick scroll back!
And the inner is….
POGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES ???♂️??? on 24TH APRIL 2018 11:24 PM
sevco, the club that loves to produce statements – as long as they’re not bank statements.
Hope you dont mind, Pog, but I’m sending that out to the Twitteratti, with credit to you of course.
Time for work ;-)
Sweary word alert?
Hibs reply to the huns
Jobo,
Feel free ????????
Pretendy rangers supporters statements…
Cut the ticket allocation to celtic supporters……get more gers in….
Hibs have cut our ticket allocation..they cannae dae that…we should get more tickets
Boo boo ????
Word of The Day
Interpellate /ɪnˈtɜːpɛˌleɪt/
verb
1. ( parliamentary procedure) (in European legislatures) to question (a member of the government) on a point of government policy, often interrupting the business of the day
2. to call formally upon (a minister or member of a government) in interpellation.
Derived Forms
interpellation, noun
interpellator, noun
Word Origin and History for interpellate
v.
1590s, from Latin interpellatus, past participle of interpellare “to interruptby speaking” (see interpellation ). Related: Interpellated ; interpellating.
KTF
CCB, best wishes to M, hope for a speedy recovery.
LR67, get well soon B, that burger and fries won’t eat itself!
Weefra, hope you are getting back to form.
HH from sunny (for now) Dundee. Just off to invigilate some layabouts, sorry students, at Dundee University.
HEBCELT on 25TH APRIL 2018 12:24 AM
We are meeting at 10 o’clock; do you want a reserved seat?
KTF