After the rest of the world has enjoyed a two-week international football break, Scotland gets back to real business tonight when Celtic visit Kilmarnock. A win would see the champions move level with their three nearest challengers on 12 games played, but 13 points clear of second placed Aberdeen.
Brendan Rodgers will welcome the Friday night kick-off as it allows for extra recovery time before the visit of Barcelona on Wednesday, so Kilmarnock can expect to face a full strength team.
The contrast between our earlier games this season against Kilmarnock and Barcelona could not be more stark. Killie looked like the worst team we’ve faced this season (Red Imps included) when they lost six at Celtic Park, while Barcelona blew us away at the Camp Nou.
My expectation for Celtic on Wednesday is that we will see a react to that painful defeat. I don’t know if we have enough in our tank to repeat our previous recent wins against Barca, but we should be vastly more solid in all areas of the park.
Kilmarnock will have similar feelings about tonight. They have lost only six goals in their last five games, so can legitimately tell each other they are a much improved team. They are also nip-and-tuck with Inverness, Partick, Hamilton, Motherwell, Dundee and Ross County, all of whom are within three points of bottom of the table or a top six spot.
In other words, unlike Celtic, who are playing with the incentive to increase their already daunting advantage, Kilmarnock are playing for their livelihoods, a scenario which should never be underestimated.
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Every time I see that Wobbly Warbo on TV I keep thinking he’s having a stroke ?
What’s that wae his heid ? What’s that all about, he canny keep it still, looking to the floor or the side at something that ain’t there !
He seems incapable of looking anyone in the eye, that alone tells me he’s a bullshitter. He doesn’t have to open his mouth .
I get the impression that hes a just a puppet !
COYBIG !
Re: tonight’s MIB Robertson
He refereed our visit to ICT earlier this season.
Apart from the usual distinct unwillingness to punish the usual agricultural approach of the home side, he was no worse than the usual.
He withstood some pressure to not show Sviatchenko a red card.
TURKEYBHOY
Yer onto plums if there’s nae spearmint choon gum,spam rolls,or macaroons.
We pride ourselves on tradition,you know.
Team for tonight:
Gordon
Lustig
Kolo
Eric
Forrest
Brown
Biton
McGregor
Sinclair
Griffiths
Dembele
Huge and well-deserved congratulations to Phil.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/football-blogging-awards-best-international-football-blog-winner-2016/#more-8322
John Daly on Trump/Bill Clinton……………….HH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBI3XZCD3Gk
The Gazebo to be replaced by a Bedouin Tent????
Celtic Champs
Like you I was glad to see the back of him but had it been done on a dishonesty basis he would not be in a positon at UEFA to promote Scottish referees and it would have sent out the message dishonesty doesn’t pay.
The parallel with Regan is the same. Outing him without changing the process means
dishonesty not tackled.
If it’s not tackled what is to stop more with Celtic on the receiving end?
WEEMAN67
Loved JD as a golfer.
Political analyst,maybe not so much.
BMCUW
Yes, indeed.
And to the Johnjamessite for winning ‘Best Newcomer’.
There’s been some superb stuff on there, regularly tearing ‘Dodgy Dave’ ‘Donkey’ etc new ones.
Hard luck, Clumps!
You would have been a worthy winner, just for your ‘World Cup of Liquidation Lies’ alone.
BEATBHOY
I was unaware that JJ had won too.
Delighted for him,he has put in a lot of excellent work.
Team for tonight:
CELTIC
Team for every day after tonight:
CELTIC
I have to own up to having a slight bias.
Hail!Hail!The Celts are (almost) here…
No time for censorship over petty disagreements. This is a shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/city-university-students-vote-for-campus-ban-sun-daily-mail-express
AULDHEID on 18th November 2016 12:59 pm
The post was actually directed to KEVJ, however, I don’t disagree that the best way to have gotten rid of Dougie Douigie and Dallas would have been to sack both of them immediately. However, I didn’t see that happening, mores the pity!
Not saying the end justified the means but I was very glad to see them go!
KTF
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 18th November 2016 2:06 pm
No time for censorship over petty disagreements. This is a shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/city-university-students-vote-for-campus-ban-sun-daily-mail-express
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Crass stupidity; they are all for freedom of speech until they don’t like the message.
If you don’t like democracy try a week or two in North Korea!
TD67 will have a field day when he returns from the Brazen!
KTF
Based on the league table on BBC, Celtic would actually go 14 points clear tonight. 34 points from 12 games with Aberdeen having 21 from 12.
This would mean that Celtic have 62% more points than the next best team at this stage.
Well done JohnJames and Phil. Great their hard work has been rewarded.
KLV
THECELT45 – you have mail.
KTF
VFR/Auldheid
How you lads doing today?
I tend to side with Auld on this one ….. Celtic should be naming and shaming …. Dallas … Reagan … etc…. it does seem like when the baddies are caught, they are quietly moved up without any real consequence….
If, as VFR suggests, Celtic may be have been working behind doors on some of these things to secure a result … (i) the results haven’t been very good, and (ii) to the degree that Celtic has accomplished some things in this sphere, their silence on many matters undoes whatever good work they might have done .and the good will they may have bullt up with the fans …
As was said in the Sussex case (admittedly, very different circumstances, but I think the principle still applies) ‘It is not enough for justice to be done, it must be seen to be done’
If CelticPLC are, in fact, standing up for the club and the fans (which I doubt, but if that were the case), (why) shouldn’t the fans know that?
Time for the Board to stop treating supporters like mushrooms….
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 2:06 PM
No time for censorship over petty disagreements. This is a shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/city-university-students-vote-for-campus-ban-sun-daily-mail-express
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I ususally hate the expression “grow up” but if the shoe fits…seems they only want freedom of speech for themselves.Utter folly.
Banning publications/broadcasts/speeches etc. should be banned. ;)
My final (probably not) post on the State Aid Nutjob and his assorted goons.
http://thecelticblog.com/2016/11/blogs/lets-all-laugh-at-the-state-aid-nutjob-whos-humiliation-was-completed-this-week/
A week where he was slapped like a band-camp tambourine.
If I sound like I’m happy about that outcome, it’s probably because I am :)
Remember M74 at Raith is closed tonight for the weekend…..avoid
Oh please dont get me started on Steven Craven. That´s when Celtic grew a pair for a week and when were shown what was really underneath the bonnet helped to concoct the Reagan, Doncaster Old Firm smooth over which we are still living with
HH
Current bid for the 4 CQN badges is now £88. Wow!
Highest bidder gets a free Celtic v Barca ticket for the game next week.
Good luck and happy bidding
HH
CRC
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MIKE IN TORONTO on 18th November 2016 2:31 pm
Hope you are doing well on Black Friday; like you, I won’t catch the game tonight as I am doing my MC at the Race Night. I will record it, do my level best to avoid the score, and then watch it (con Amaraone) when I get home.
These assumptions are based purely on my own speculation – no inside knowledge.
It all just seemed to convenient and coincidental at the time. The whole scenario at that time was one where the SFA couldn’t come out of it with any good grace and I felt at the time Dougie Dougie and Dallas were the
succulentsacrificial lambs.Both being sacked for the debacle at Tanandice was the best option but I never saw that happening Craven was sacrificed for that.
As a blood sucking parasitelawyer, you should be well aware that some pretty unpalatable deals are agreed behind closed doors! I eel that this was one of them.
KTF
MIT
That was meant to read
blood sucking parasitelawyer. I got my HTML tags mixed up!KTF
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 8:58 AM
Part of our opposition to OBaF has been around letting people offend and be offended. We cannot legislate that away without losing valued freedoms.
Now, singing about being “up to your knees in blood”- that’s a different level of banter altogether.
*hmmmm interesting slant,what about the child abuse chants that I mentioned yesterday, this is weans we’re talking about and yet they look upon it as point scoring.
This type of abuse has been going on for years whenever and wherever adults and weans mix. I coach minor soccer and have to have police clearance including being finger printed in order to do so as do other adults coaching minors in baseball, hockey, lacrosse etc., even crossing guards do as well, and quite right tae as this is taken highly serious over here.
I mentioned Crewe Alex who have had an excellent youth system for years yesterday, over here we have an ongoing case where an employee of a major sporting organisation has been charged with numerous such like offences, he even had his own ring of creeps, they are not alone either and some former players including at least one star have come forward to say their lives have been tainted and in some cases ruined by this type of assault.
Around 20 year ago the first victim to come forward actually took his own life at the shame he carried while his perpetrators got off with meagre sentences, this however became the catalyst for tougher laws and Canada is now in the forefront of child abuse investigations.
The beast was found guilty and sentenced but more victims keep coming forward hence the continuing court cases.
But nowhere, nowhere I repeat do fans of opposing teams chant slogans like “The former owner knew” or “you’re just a bunch of jimmy s’s”.
And yet not is all lost in Scotland as I read about a beast in my local paper who got done for offences committed 40+ year ago, he’s now an OAP but so what he is now supping porridge, the effer lived roon the corner fae me when I was growing up tae.
But still no one dares to take to task a horrible support who think its funny tae raise this subject even when the game is broadcast tae millions worldwide, mibbees it’s because it’s against a club with Irish Catholic ties.
Where’s yer shame SMSM, SFA and Sevco, do you have none.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 2:06 PM
No time for censorship over petty disagreements. This is a shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/18/city-university-students-vote-for-campus-ban-sun-daily-mail-express
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Pathetic. 182 “students” attended out of a possible 19.500 and passed these motions. No doubt the very same ” students” will be the first to complain about the undemocratic American electional process.
Anyway away out to the boozer to watch the tic.
HH to all, and as always, especially to those who make the effort to get to the game. COYBIG.
VFR
I accept that sometimes unpalatable results happen in any field (lawyers, directors …etc) … but, I dont keep my clients in the dark, and I have to protect the interests of those I represent. …. Can our Board make those claims vis-avis the fans?
Congratulations to Hearts, who have wiped out their £1.6m debts and recorded profits of £623,000 for the year ending in June.
It’s just a shame for other floundering clubs who can’t mobilise their fans, motivate the local community, and genarally get their act together.
On the other hand … maybe not!
Bwa ha ha ha
mike in toronto on 18th November 2016 3:22 pm
No
KTF
Instantly regretted that last post …
… my ol’ Mum used to tell me to never mock the afflicted.
But, I’m sure she’s looking down tonight saying “HELL MEND THEM !!!”.
VFR …
Welcome to the dark side, my friend!
(I feel like I should be saying that in a Darth Vader type of voice)
:)
The POPPY – an absolute annual godsend for the Scottish chip-wrappers and their on-line counter parts.
There are a number of very serious issues (that are by no means recent…) regarding Old RFC, the SFA and UEFA that are beginning to rumble – and stink – very loudly.
Distractions like the POPPY and the “international” Scottish set-up are a godsend (let’s face it Scotland are crap no matter who’s in charge – the SFA and SDM seen to that…).
Even Waggy at the Chippy is more newsworthy than the rape and pillage of Scottish football for 2 decades.
Thank God for the likes of Phil, JJ and Clumps.
Best New Football Blog
https://johnjamessite.com/
Best International Football Blog
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/
Best of te Rest (in my opinion):
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/
MIKE IN TORONTO on 18TH NOVEMBER 2016 3:43 PM
However, they also look after the interests of the shareholders so maybe that’s where their focus diverts to!
KTF
VFR … bang on! It is just a business to them.
So…. fans (unless they own shares) dont come into the consideration …. (except as we are the ones that fund the business ….. so, we have to deal with the Board in the same way they deal with us …. strictly as a business relationship …. if they dont do right by the fans, withhold all funding (stop buying tickets) unless and until the present Board are brought to heel or are replaced by a Board that will, in some measure, represent the fans/consumer fairly and properly.
It’s Friday afternoon. Check.
I’m a Celtic supporter. Check.
Great family, fine friends. Check.
Ok then. It’s all good.
Let the weekend begin.
Auldheid and others, really good posts about Dallas and his dismissal from his SFA position.
It still amazes me six years on that Dallas knew what happened on the Sunday night of the Dougie Dougie game but lied through his teeth about it the following night.
When Steven Craven broke ranks, I can not recall any of our media demanding Dallas be sacked for his and Dougiec Dougie’s dishonesty.
Steven Craven suffered because he told the truth and and I would not be surprised Dallas still has influence unfortunately