After the adrenaline-fuelled dramas that a return to the Champions League after five long years provided, Celtic are off to Paisley on Sunday. There will be an inevitable drop-off in in energy levels, the players are not machines, after all, as we take on an opponent with more robust objective from the game.
While Celtic have four days to recover and prepare, St Mirren will be 15 days without a game when they take on the champions. During this period, they will have been able to do some endurance training and get plenty rest before what will be a committed 90 minutes’ effort. They will not be easy to overcome.
Whatever motivational chat Ange Postecoglou gives before a game, it cannot always have the same intensity. I expect he fully animated the players for the games against Real and Shakhtar, but words overused lose their affect. Can he really whip them up for St Mirren? I doubt it, in fact, I don’t even think he should.
Our baseline performance must be substantial enough to pick the points in Paisley. The next big emotional effort is three weeks away, save the inspiration for then. One more push before the break.
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SAINT STIVS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:32 PM
Hilarious!
Sorry guys- it may be that 68 out of 70 have made their picks but it is still showing a lot of x’x meaning “not picked yet”- this just means I don’t know who the missing two are
Poor Andy Walker.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1570929176324247555
Interesting take.
https://twitter.com/PalBint/status/1571077038743900161?t=2UJ-xa7ZR6hXt8dsFLK99Q&s=19
HH
Poor Andy Walker:
Keeps you in employment statement.
Checkout this loser
https://twitter.com/GerryHassan/status/1571067816366972929
LIONROARS67 on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:22 PM
Thanks for the link. If nothing else the banners will have pissed off that scumbag so it was worth it-)
Won’t even mention these ex players names who are supposedly
linked to our club, mainly I suppose to try and bring us down.
They’ve tried everything else from bombs , bullets, threats, now
it’s bribe the BBC, SKY, lackeys to dump on their own.
These arseholes will make a lot of money, but die in disgrace.
H.H. Mick
James Whale. Didn’t think he was around anymore.
He’s a disgusting man. Thought he got kicked off radio for “rape shaming” or something similar.
The look on the huns faces as Dundee United fans not observing the silence was funny!
AIPPLE on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:02 PM
Just googled that. Utter cretin… no surprise he’d be an establishment arselicker.
Hope you’re doing well, pal. America seems like a crazy place at the moment but I suppose I only see that worst of it from the media…
A Plea please.
Any eejit going to the game tomorrow, please, for a minute, keep yer gubs shut.#
Any outcry, banner will only give fodder to those who hate us, and there are many.
Please, if you love Celtic, be quiet, suck it up
KINGLuBO
Did the Arabs respect the crown then?
FRANKTERRY on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:11 PM
It is crazy, yes. We just need to get the orange one away and out of politics but he has, like the UK, many willing and perhaps worse waiting in the wings.
Apple
Nope nor did Hibs fans and apparently Wolves fans too😱
Any Celtic fan who wishes, could simply copy Ronan O’Gara and stand with hands in their pockets.
AIPPLE on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:30 PM
Sadly true… I’m reading a book at the moment by the American journalist Matt Taibbi called Hate Inc which is far more enlightening about the state of US politics/journalism than the books on Trump’s time in the white house that I’ve previously read.
carpenters huh
https://twitter.com/i/status/1570284653189431296
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:32 PM
Wolves fans joining in? Interesting. Liverpool game was cancelled, yes?
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FRANKTERRY
I recognise that name, will take a peek.
SAINT STIVS on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:41 PM
Ha!
Rangers striker Antonio Colak has hit back at disrespectful Dundee United fans over their disruption of a minute’s silence to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
Loud booing was heard echoing around Ibrox after the referee’s whistle before a chant of “Lizzie’s in a box” could be heard clearly on broadcast cameras and radio coverage.
Colak opened the scoring after eight minutes for the Ibrox side and the Croat immediately ran over to the Tannadice side’s fans and put his fingers to his lips as if urging them to silence.
Rangers posted the picture of defiance on their social media channels as the behaviour of the visiting fans drew scorn across social media.
Cutting down and regenerating trees in a controlled fashion is the entire basis of the world’s timber harvesting industry, without which we would soon run out of wood for furnitures, building etc.
The man’s an idiot.
AN TEARMANN on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:04 PM
I would argue that Brexit was more as a result of populist nationalism than racism.
And the thing about populist nationalism is that people always think their own kind is benign and progressive but that other people’s isn’t.
Hopefully the GB will manage to recover some of their skill and ingenuity on the banner front tomorrow.
And they could do worse than feature the words skill and ingenuity on it.
D UTD pull one back
2-1 huns
Last night a woman showed me a picture on her phone of a set of candlesticks on which her daughter, a silversmith, had worked on, along with a woodworker and a designer. They created a set of 4 which are being used at the funeral vigil in St. Giles.
She told me the cost overall was 46,000 pounds.
The total cost of all this will be truly frightening
If utd have more belief up front they could get something out of this game
Had to take a wee dip in thems media.
“How can we expect to win a league when we struggle at home against team’s celtic smash 9 past away.”
“Ffs heads up my arse thinking Liverpool was next week”
“Literally sick of this group of players and manager.”
“This boards negligence has ruined two domestic seasons in a row, soul draining stuff again today.”
Should have been 3 poor miss /save from keeper.
A wee bit of handbags now… Let’s see what happens… Mulgrew booked and 2 huns
MARSPAPA
Yip, handbags as Arabs were breaking with a few following and “professional foul” in the middle.
Stonewall penalty denied to united IMHO.
AIPPLE
I hate this professional foul malarkey… Guys getting away and with no attempt at getting the ball hun sythes the player down.
Watching game from Dundee Utd TV ..sevco keeper giving Sadat a mouthful one of the two commentators saying “Don’t think Sadat understood that” other one says “Don’t think anyone understands it”.Then a few moments later one mentions the sectarian singing from home support.
they are absoletly shite,
nae luck arabs, but no improvement in thems at all.
2 oenalty aooeals turned down, hanging on at the end
United deserved a point best team second. Unlucky.
The hordes should be raging with that display
Well done united, surprised me.
Clancy blows final whistle right on 3 mins of added time to deny Dundee Utd a corner.
Not one second over.
We all know the clock is elastic if the Huns had needed something from the corner at the other end.
MARSPAPA on 17TH SEPTEMBER 2022 4:50 PM
AIPPLE
I hate this professional foul malarkey… Guys getting away and with no attempt at getting the ball hun sythes the player down.
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Law should be changed. “Took one for the team,” Good professional foul” nonsense.
Off to garden center then work out back.
HH all.
dundee hibs directors to make a statement after the game
leading question from the bbc reporter “i asked them about the behaviour of thir fans “