If you review the comments section in August, you will note the demand for a holding midfield player to be purchased. There was corresponding anger (to put it mildly) immediately after the close of the window that one wasn’t purchased. Roll on three months and it’s difficult to see where such a player would fit in, even during Champions League games.
Instead space opened up for Stuart Armstrong, who, often used on the left, was well out of the picture last season. Now he’s playing central mid and earned two assists and a goal on Saturday, leapfrogging Nir Bitton and Callum McGregor for his place.
McGregor again answered the call at left back, but his move into the middle at halftime changed the game. Two goals down, Celtic needed someone to take a grip on the game. Operating with very little space McGregor played a one-two with Armstrong, dropped the shoulder on a defender, before finding the corner of the net. True control under pressure.
Kolo Toure’s first game back from injury was memorable for the wrong reasons, caught ball-watching for Louis Moult’s goals, the first of which is Goal of the Season material. Sharpness will improve for Kolo, but the change in defence illustrates how effective the Sviatchenko-Simunovic partnership has been.
Graeme Souness met the Scottish media last week and gave his personal insight into the game. On Celtic’s dominance, which he was unequivocal about, he posed one question: “What does 10-in-a-row matter?”
I know one Celtic fan who is neither here nor there on the subject of 10-in-a-row but for most of us, that number of consecutive league titles has enormous resonance. 46 years ago Celtic broke their own record to go seven-in-a-row. When nine was achieved two years later it met with little enthusiasm, but a target was created – and met.
Nine-in-a-row was a record many of us were enormously proud of but it’s no longer something we can shout about, nobody can, when two share the achievement.
I suspect the week after 10 is achieved we’ll wonder what all the fuss was about but our world view will change. 10-in-a-row represents the horizon for many of us, we cannot seriously consider what lies beyond until we’re there.
Here’s a couple of thoughts for you. We’ll no longer count our achievements in years, but in Generations. Generations of Celtic fans will perhaps know the occasional blip, but that’s as harsh as it will get.
Perhaps more tellingly, Celtic will not to lose another Scottish league title in their lifetime of a fair percentage of fans. It’ll be green and white, right ‘til the end.
Directors’ Box auction prize
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2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
And a match programme.
There are experiences in life which money can’t buy. This one is now available for you to bid for here on ebay until Thursday lunchtime. Two of you, directors’ box, Champagne reception, 5 course meal, free bar, get in there – and tell your pals about it.
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Ahem
…..there is no such think as a sanity clause …. Or is there
See State of New York City versus Chris Crinkle ….
….. Work beckons
ChirsCrinklecfc
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! You can’t fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause!
Marxbrotherscsc
NEUSTADT-BRAW
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Good news about Michael.
Thoughts and Prayers to all who are close.
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
BMCUWP,
Good wan mate the Sanity Claus !
Do you think Santa has a clause in his contract ?…….haud oan mate, you started it !
Citeh fans ” Blue moon , you saw me standing ALONE”.
Celtic fans, ” You’ll NEVER walk ALONE”…………..there lies the difference between the Celts and anybody else .
BIG JIMMY on 6TH DECEMBER 2016 5:23 AM
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I hope yer well fella, and all who know you.
That was grand, just grand.
I would envisage that, Big Pep had been on the phone to Big McGhee who would have informed Big Pep that, there isny a European Winners medal between the collection of squirrels who ‘presently’ occupy the Cellic dug oot (!) :)
All kidding aside, I really do hope that yer match commentary is an accurat premonition re: the events that will unfold in Manchester later tonight – Hail Hail
Now for the fear the worst angle fae the dark room – with the walls bedecked in the pages of the bible to keep oot the evil-anti-Cellic-harm-wishers – which I share with the auld priest(Patrick Troughton) fae the omen…..
Brendan and his assistant squirrel will put a team onto the pitch, featuring Big Kolo who’ll be ripped apart(I hope not) by the Citeh big timers.
Thing is, this game is too soon for Kolo.
Big Moussa has shaded off since Kieran went oot the team, now he looks even more out the picture since Sinky got injured….imho
Also, Cellic teams should ‘always’ play with 2 strikers.
Saturday’s game was grand, real grand.
But,….being the worrier that I am, Big McGhee’s collection of, waifs and strays and, Cellic rejects….took 3 aff us (!) (!) (!)
Magical things can happen when the Cellic go onto the big stage….
So can disasters….
Yer Hoose Must Stay Open
Big Jimmy’s Hoose Is Green and White
HH
To the tune of the auld song ” This old man, he played …”
” We drink beer,
We drink wine,
Celtic already made it NINE…….dorohrooroodiroo !
HH
Morning Timland. Here are my thoughts on the City game….or more importantly my thoughts on the Partick Thistle game.Please share with others and comments on the blog are always welcome. Have a great Tuesday!
https://stayinguplateblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/partick-outrank-city-aberdeen-puzzle-me-and-brendan-the-perfect-celtic-ambassador/
The Magic of Christmas…..is bettered only by the Magic of Celtic ………the story continues as the Celts go marching on !
IMO Big KOLO won’t be in the starting eleven tonight.
Is Brendan about to throw Citeh aff the scent and UNLEASH ” The Griff” ?
Oldco fans destroyed their city,
Celtic fans ( and the team) will destroy their hearts !
COYBIG !
BIG JIMMY on 6TH DECEMBER 2016 6:08 AM
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Hahahaha LOL (!) :)
Big Jimmy, I’m not a leader of the future or, a pioneer by any stretch of the imagination but,…..
Cellic should build a mini-Jungle-model oot of Lego….
With the auld Jungle roof adorned with – hopefully – 6 league flag poles….
This model lego thing could be assembled on a table with wheels on the bottom and, it could be wheeled oot onto the pitch at Flag raising day and, a special cellic kid could hoist a wee lego type of flag onto the wee, Lego Jungle roof every season till we reach the 10 and then,….the model Lego Jungle on the table with wheels on the bottom could be positioned somewhere on the Cellic Way, next tae ALMORE’s Cellic Cafe, maybe even inside ALMORE’s Cellic Cafe ????…and kids could get they’re pics taken with the league trophy and even, have a tour of ALMORE’s Cellic Cafe by the clubs greatest ambassador – Wee Jay ???….Just think of all the Lego Jungles that the Cellic kids would buy ???….Maybe the club could sanction Lego Models of, ALMORE’s Cellic Cafe as well too ?????
Anyway,…my head is a, Jungle, Jungle, Jungle.
Jungle Wannabe’s – CSC
…..laters…..
Just a wee reminder Bhoys and ghirls for those who are calling for wholesale changes in the Celtic line up tonight, IMO it ain’t gonna happen for a number if reasons , including the fact that some of the younger players will not have been included in Brendan’s CL squad at the time of registration ?
HH
All of my life I’ve always said that when someone signs up to be a Celtic supporter…….BE PREPARED Bhoys and Ghirls , because you are in for a roller coaster ride !
That is the nature of Celtic always has been, always will be .
No matter what occurs tonight at Citeh, tomorrow is another day in the life of being a supporter of this totally unique, wan aff football club called Glasgow Celtic .
As for the roller coaster Celtic ride, I for one wouldn’t have it any other way !
There are several things in life that have brought a wee tear to this old man’s eye over the years, in sorrow or undiluted joy Glasgow Celtic have instigated those tears, and again I wouldn’t have it any other way !
Thanks dad, for introducing me to this Celtic roller coaster nearly 60 years ago.
I know you wouldn’t have had it any other way either !
HAik, HAIL.
Good morning friends from a damp and drizzly East Kilbride and welcome to yet another Champions League day.
And if any of you are faced with the ‘it’s a meaningless game’ accusation today please do remember to ask such a person whether they’d like their own club to be involved in a game that’s so meaningless that you get €500,000 for a draw and €1.5m for a victory.
Strongest team tonight and go for the win!
Word of The Day (Guess who?)
Casuistic or casuistical [kazh-oo-is-tik or kazh-oo-is-ti-kuh l] or
adjective
1. oversubtle; intellectually dishonest; sophistical: casuistic distinctions.
2. pertaining to casuists or casuistry.
Origin of casuistic Expand
1650-60; casuist + -ic
Related forms Expand
casuistically, adverb
KTF
Casuistic: Guess who.
I was going to guess but:
`oversubtle` rules out nearly everyone;
`intellectually dishonest` rules in nearly everyone 0:-)
JJ
From the FA in England:
“when it’s our turn to apply the rules, we absolutely will, regardless of size of club.”
Oh that we could expect the same from the SFA .
Also, I notice that, in spite of the many ( understandable) predictions on here that the BBC would be showing the Sevco v Motherwell Scottish Cup game that, in fact, it will be Hearts v Raith Rovers.
i for now,
JJ
Casuistic:
`oversubtle`
`intellectually dishonest`
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Eh,……?
In Craiglang terms……whit does awe that stuff mean ?
Has it anything to do with the Cellic ?
Or,….is it being used to fill a gap…..somewhere ?
Answers on a straight bat – CSC
Just woke up in the leafy suburbs and I don’t give a flying duck what the weathers like,because ahm aff tae Manchester and it’s a Champions league day
Anyway Brenny best 11 out tonight please 750,000€ at stake and travelling fans to consider thanks
Dancing On Ice,Canadian-style…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-beaver-hall-snow-slippery-1.3881744
Brendan on the news there on BBC 1
“How do Celtic FC compare to the ‘big’ clubs….?”
“In terms of, history and fan base,…..Celtic Fc are up there with the world’s greatest clubs’.”
“In terms of finance,….when you compare Celtic FC to, Arsenal, Liverpool Man Utd, Celtic are a long, long distance away.”
He came across well….imho.
Bushy tailed squirrels – CSC
Better the up and doons of a roller coaster than being on a runaway ghost train ready too hit the buffers
Deliberate spelling mistakes and, grammar errors…
To take yeez aff the scent….CSC
Noo is it rolls on spam or baps on chopped pork for the bus
rolls on spam oot the big boax that lay in a warehouse over night….
ye could smell cats piss aff the boax….
…back in the day’s before the prawn sandwiches snobs….
Juuuuuuuuuudith with the weather….
….sorry Jobo….
Re: the dodgy linesman who’s been on the news over the last couple of days….
There was clip of him earlier on on the BBC 1 news and, in the clip was ref JRP Gordon who was straight out of the carriage from hell, Ian Paisley would have been fairer….imho.
Re: JRP Gordon….in 1978, ne’erday at ibrokes we lost the game vs the huns 1-3 and, the mib put in one of the worst displays of mibbery in Celtic FC’s history. The SFA and, the SMSM used to tell us that the Scottish refs were the most, honest, dignified etc..blah…blah, officials in the game.
Well, at the WCF’s in ARGENTINA 1978….JRP GORDON got fun oot to be taking bribes, match fixing etc…..
This was one of the masonic SMSM’s best ever cover up’s back in the day….the mib’s shame was covered up by the wall 2 wall scandal of Wullie (bud) Johnston’s junky issues that swept the mibs activities off the news reels awe the gither. Amazing.
….phone-call-laters….
BIG JIMMY on 6TH DECEMBER 2016 4:53 AM
DAVIDOPOLOUS,
Marriage ??????? In 4 months ???????
Don’t dae it son !
Marriage in March 2017………wife telling you in only May 2017, ” Celtic match , you’re no going to any fekkin Celtic match, I don’t care if it’s to celebrate six in a row , your no going cos your taking me and my mother out shopping then we are gonna get stuck I to the fekkin spring cleaning…….drink ?…they”ll be NO drinking to all the work is done, ertc, etc” !
Ah yes, marriage bliss……..oh how I miss it ! ,………NOT !
Only joking DAVIDO, Im sure she’s a lovely ghirl,…………until that band of gold goes on ?
HH
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Cheers for the…er…words of encouragement ;)
Paul67. I don’t think fans were angry when we did not sign a holding midfield Most fans I know we’re happy the park lawell project transfer windows are at an end now. Where we signed a large amount of untried projects which was a bit like pouring money down the drain which also had the cost of a large amount of poor midfielders who were never 1st eleven players No that’s all in the past
Only quality in windows now
CQN Pishy Spam Roll Clique or CQN Buddy Clique….decisions…. LOL!
:-)))))
City are likely to play fringe players tonight. I doubt they will have even 5 recognisable first team starters.
However, the guys that will play (Iheanacho, Leroy Sane, Jesus Navas, Caballero etc;) will all be seasoned players or players of great promise. As a measure, they will be players that Pep decided to keep with his squad when he approved Patrick Roberts going out on loan i.e. he rates them more highly at this point in time of their development.
We will get the advantage of playing a disrupted and unfamiliar 11 who will not have performed as a team unit before. But we will alos face hungry players who want to show their manager that they should play more often.
City are unbeaten in their last 7 CL home games. Only Messi has scored there in the last 5 CL ties. We have lost 26 out of 29 away CL ties and never kept a clean sheet. We are winless in our last 8 CL away ties and conceded 7 of our 15 goals when we played a big team away this campaign.
And yet the bookies only have City at 4/11 with us at 9/1 when, for contrast, tow other away teams, Ludgorets are 22/1 and Zagreb are 57/2. The bookies obviously smell a chance of an upset, however remote.
I think, when the teams are announced our odds might even shorten.
It is still a huge ask and we should have no entitlement to a win.
Hope and expectation are different matters though. We have a fighter’s chance tonight. let’s hope we have a new hero to celebrate the end of our current campaign.
Aff into work now
NatKnow
CQN Pishy Spam Roll Clique or CQN Buddy Clique….decisions…. LOL!
:-)))))
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What about the CQN Breakfast Club/Knitting Club clique?
I had avocado on toast while wearing my cable knit shawl collar cardigan….
DAVIDOPOULOS on 6TH DECEMBER 2016 9:06 AM
NatKnow
CQN Pishy Spam Roll Clique or CQN Buddy Clique….decisions…. LOL!
:-)))))
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What about the CQN Breakfast Club/Knitting Club clique?
I had avocado on toast while wearing my cable knit shawl collar cardigan….
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That sounds much more up my street.
I had scrambled eggs on toast and a cuppa tea. Then for “pudding toast” I had some marmalade with preserved ginger.
Did you knit your own??
Happy days! Dr. Marc arrived home safely.
NatKnow
Was main toast on brown bread and pudding toast on white bread?
I didn’t. Unfortunately I don’t have the patience or dexterity to knit my own, but I am very interested in any knitting patterns anyone wants to post…such as ones that look like this
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/rugger-guy-looks-again-at-the-rifc-accounts/
Blue Moon VS YNWA? both by same composer!
ALMORE
Delighted for you all,mate. Gonna be some party down your way at the weekend!
I shouldnae,but anyway…
https://mobile.twitter.com/WingsScotland/status/806069385853018112