There is something inherently unfair about a knock-out cup game without visiting fans. There is something inherently unfair about three Celtic goals being chopped-off in two games when VAR was unable to confirm one way or another. However, this is the burden we carry.
Celtic were good enough to win both those away games despite an inadequate VAR, they now have to go to Ibrox and do the same without a single Celtic fan in attendance. I believe this is more than possible.
The possibility of extra-time will complicate Martin O’Neill’s gameplan. Tierney, Hogh, Forrest and Sorensen will not be asked to play 90 minutes, while Martin will almost certainly want to refresh the wingers, whoever starts there. There is little room for tactical changes and little for those still working towards match fitness to start.
For me, Sunday’s game is all about pressure and how it is handled. Celtic players appeared over-keen on Wednesday, diving into low-percentage challenges. It will be easy to get pumped up at Ibrox and fall into this trap.
Pressure falls on both sides, though. Five points ahead of their city rivals and with European competition, defeat on Sunday would be a bump on the road for Celtic. It is unthinkable for Newco to have no European football, be so far behind Celtic and go out to them in the League Cup at home. Try focussing that bundle of anxiety.
Who controls their emotions best wins the game. Win your personal battles, avoid red cards and the better team has a good chance of proceeding.
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What he really meant was
We wouldnt have been talking about this if we didnt win the league last year,
Extra time goals, hand balls and penalties
especially in the manner we did in the last day!!!!!!!!!!!
And thats why we are talking about this
In the fashion that we are!
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What St Martin said was
‘probably wouldn’t have taken place had it not been for recent events…’
then the hearts team were NOT asaulted
And left Celtic Park in a huff
McInness and Shankenstein are the new Great Hope
Until they arent
Maybe plod are readying us for the first Celtic player to be arrested for scoring against the Huns?
Martin got the mention of the police visit in straight away.
Nothing compliant or befuddled about it.
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B2B – how does MON mentioning the cops help the club or team for Sunday?
What do you see as the strategy behind what he said?
Quadro
Glasgow Techs Student Union was pretty good in the late 80’s at the weekend.
Actually preferred to StrathClyde’s and the QM.
(Jeezo I’m feckin ancient !)
quadrophenian on 12th September 2026 1:03 am
B2B – how does MON mentioning the cops help the club or team for Sunday?
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How does it not??
It brings it into the public lense/focus
Also define an over celebration?? (as this was one of the reason the polis were there)
We go there just to play football, and to win
The polis will be on the pitch by the way
To protect the innocent rangers fans and players
from the over exuberance and THREATENING
celebrating of the celtic fans and staff
SPIKEYS….
I was an early 80s Coll of Tech bhoy.
I enjoyed level 8 at Strathclyde Uni; saw The Jam there back in the day.
Only went up West End of Sunday afternoon guinnes n snooker at some hallowed hall at Glasgow Yooni
OldiesButGoodys CSC
Good Morning CQN
The CEO that never was🍀
Scottish Government backs £1bn vision for home of Hydro and Armadillo in Glasgow
The Scottish Government has thrown its weight behind expansion plans for the home of the Hydro and Armadillo on Glasgow’s waterfront.
Economy and tourism secretary Stephen Flynn has hailed the “vital contribution” made by the Scottish Event Campus after it revealed plans for a radical long-term revamp.
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Maybe we could have been looking at a South stand development
Nothing to fear but fear itself at the Govan works team home tomorrow
Deeks team is struggling to be a real force, weak defensively
It is very low down on our priority list
Disciplined organised calm game plant to be in the S/F and without injury all 5 subs will be used
Will Police Scotland warn Newco that those going to watch the game tomorrow must not repeat past violent actions towards Celtic FC staff.Seems only fair…….oh,and maybe dig out the klaxon horn for the purpose it was designed for.
Good Luck to Celtic ‘B’
They have the misfortune of playing at Kilwinning Ragers this afternoon
COYBIG
If Dominic McKay or higher level of CEO had been in place until now we would be in an entirely different place. We have Bankier/Lawwell to thank for that…..what was their motivation???
As a result we still have the following in terms of the relationship between fans and the club.
– fan media banned while Nevin, English, Radio EBT, rags welcomed with open arms
– broken relationship with the support bordering on hatred
– NAP still in place with a 60/40 in favour of continuing
On the business front
– Ineffective Board and execs without the capability to progress club
– no ambition
– serial failure on CL qualification which has cost the club in excess of £200M
– First team not at the level required and an injury away in key positions to having material impact
– Dilipidated stadium
– £80M cash with no clue what to do with it.
– broken recruitment model to take team to next level
I fully expect us to have a narrow win tomorrow (assuming the VAR brethren behave themselves although Walsh has previous as well). A victory at CP a week tomorrow would result in championnees echoing round the ground as another treble would be odds on.
However so what ? As a club we have not progressed one millimetre ( I don’t expect any progress in Europe and was one of those who declined our EL packages as part of NAP).
Imagine being dependent on Wilson, Nicholson and McKay to take the club forward. They stumble along from week to week still finding it hard to believe nobody has noticed the scale of their damage to the club.
Cue the usual suspects who are happy to wallow in mediocrity with anger , hatred —- green huns !!!
Lucky Cody…
“….nobody has noticed the scale of their damage to the club.”
Well, at least you have. Well done!
Luck Cody,
Our barometer must be European football. Not being one step better than the huns. I agree.
But how would Dominic Mckay or whoever have made out capitulation against Lask any better.
Our Team was up four nil , we had a player va
Value at least double our opponents then bottled it.
Even if we had a player value three or four times more than Lask I’m not sure the result would have differed.
Directors cannot be held accountable for a defeatest and scared mindset on the park.
It is that psychological mindset in Europe that we must change.
HH.
Linked (a wee bit) to Paul’s leader about ‘mindset’ there was an interesting read in the National this morning from a PHD doctor, former player at Celtic and now employed their in the background team. It basically covers how he tried, and initially failed, at Celtic then took up studying what makes for successful players coming through (and he now has a role in that area). Uses Colby Donovan as a recent success story, with revealing information about how young Colby goes about his work.
Longish read but it’s raining outside and we’re not playing until tomorrow. IF you are interested.
Ave Ave
https://www.thenational.scot/sport/26540654.doctor-phd-celtic-scots-kids-can-shine/
Good morning CQN
Waking up a Celt – aaahh. Feels good.
Quad last night – cheers.
Martin’s motivation for mentioning the police visit?
Honestly don’t know.
Martin’s response to the first serious question
(second question overall after the obligatory “how you feeling about …” soft lob intro)
… was to divert pointedly to the police visit
At a guess?
The club is putting it out there as a marker of police diligence in some aspects while they are simultaneously negligent or lacking in others.
Or Martin is putting “Police” front and centre for this fixture on Sunday.
Alternatively, could be a fly old git simply throwing a curve ball to put people off balance … just because it is always useful to do so.
As pointed out by another CQNer earlier – a visit from police before this city derby is standard operating procedure.
Greetings bhoys …
@greenpinta
8 out of 10 failures at CL do the business early get them newbies gelled and settled instated of buying 10 in one window and a whole host of loans just kicking the can done the road.
Root to branch required as I have said for years & still needed at our club untill then nothing changes even with now £80m in the bank and massive stadium footprint is still a concrete graveyard.
We deserve so much more and better.
lucky cody on 12th September 2026 9:51 am
As a result we still have … NAP still in place with a 60/40 in favour of continuing
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Interesting statistic, Lucky Cody.
Can you share the data that underpins it?
One very blunt indicator of NAP appetite …
(TO BE CLEAR : By no means the only one ! )
Was season ticket renewal uptake refusal this summer … after a traumatic last season.
That figure didn’t quite hit “60/40 in favour”
It was around 1/99
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SPIKEYSAULDMAN Strathclyde student union was a buzz in the early eighties. You’re not that old 😜 not that I didn’t go to gigs in Glasgow tech or even Glasgow uni. We marched to save the travel allowance, I was at the front carrying the main banner. We occupied the Tory headquarters in renfiejd street if I remember right, kicked them out until the news cameras came. Cops let us leave peacefully after we made our point. Travel allowance was retained in Scotland for one more year only. We didn’t win much. Fun when you are young. Life gives you lots of lessons after that and reality shapes opinions more than dogma. Can’t always be a student having fun.
I’m a little surprised at the confidence level on here today. In our only proper away test so far this season we crumbled so I’m feeling a lot less confident going to that shite hole with no support. As I’ve got older I find these games unbearable and I hate every minute of them unless we’re 4 or 5 ahead.
Having hardly missed a game home or away during their 9 I got programmed to get beaten by them but with our more recent dominance bizarrely I find defeat much harder to take. I’ll be shitting myself at KO tomorrow. Can’t wait to get it over with.
Tom English doesn’t get a mention re Hearts game….
Glass half clapping furiously,
From the minutes of Collective meeting recently held. Re season ticket boycott never the plan, just discretionary spend. Hence why we decided No EL packages. There is no decision reached for this season however we will deny the club extra revenue no matter the outcome. We will still be at league games and hampden matches to celebrate. Plenty more are in this camp.
On defeatist attitude it starts from the top. Poor planning and no legs in midfield made the tie 50/50 ; on the night a tactical error at 4 nil up to shut the game down with the required substitutions and park the bus (what Rodgers did against Israeli team with Kolo & crew).
The only positive out of the shambles is that we seen that Maloney is not capable of making the big decisions. Am sure DD didn’t miss it or Ross for that matter. It cost the club £40M.
https://x.com/PaulJohnDykes/status/2098716541827047498
& the tabloids also painting us as the baddies oh for a wee Fergus or a decent lawyer to stand up for our Club bhoys.
@LUCKYCODY
These eedjits have cost us circa half a billion with the constant on and off filed failings.
Field *
Les miserables
Collective are like me when I was in the student union. Wasting your time, energy and only damaging yourself, by your choices.
TET
There will always be an orange presence in Scotland, a diminished presence, but one all the same. Anachronistic bigotry displays for the progressively anaemic.
A freak show for the rest of us.
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I implore my fellow Tims to ignore the BBC. They’re not our friends. And there’s plenty alternatives.
Cease the masochism. 👍
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Nevin is a nyaff. Another that should get blanked.
Indifference is a better weapon than hate.
We give status the these no marks that they don’t deserve.
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Playing 3rd best team in our league tomorrow.
The underhand hun-elevation of mibbery aside, play real fitba & smash the orcs!
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If we beat the orcs will you doomers feel happy or sad. Asking for a friend.
Has enough to drink, hitting the sack. We will beat them in their midden. No doubt about it. Cmon the hoops.
https://x.com/rtenews/status/2098728944711172427
Taurangabhoy,
Win , lose or draw as the song goes.
HH
BSR @ 9:33 pm,
Yes, the “Northern Irishman” knows things in Glasgow are far from normal.
A punch to Captain Scott Brown, an assualt on Nic Kuhn in front of the linesman and many, many more – our players get a talking to, to make ones as bad as the other the normal.
Fergus would never allow it… if the games unsafe for our players to work in their normal way in that venue, close the venue…
The Celtic team will get no backing from the Board who have no compancies to deal with these situations.
If it was me, I’d bring Stephen Welsh up to give the players lessons in Ibrox celebrations…
Hail Hail
Greenpinata @ 10:29 am
“…Directors cannot be held accountable for a defeatest and scared mindset on the park.”
With all due respect, this should be the “Directors” foremost responsibility…
How many players, head of football, managers, coaches etc etc have “failed”…
Same Board, same approach, same failure…
We need a Celtic Board that can provide an elite, winning team, the mediocracy comes from the top…
Hail Hail
emeraldbee@10.47am
By coincidence just finished reading the same article in The Herald. Not always a fan of Matt Lindsay, but good piece of writing, and an even better interview with Dr. Mark McGuigan and his thesis on player development @ Celtic FC. It addresses that age old question……how do we get there from here……answer…..you don’t.
With a background of being a youth player @ Celtic (booted out @ 16 for being too wee…..6’4″ @ 19), college football, then for a variety of clubs in Scotland, and his work at Lennoxtown under Ange and later Brendan, he kinda knows of which he speaks. Eg the Academies will only take you so far, agree on that one, and that even loans which dont work can still be useful, main point loanees still need to be managed away from the home club. Shim has struck it lucky there. Not sure if he is currently working with us, hope so, but if not get him back, or working with the SPL or the SFA. Knows a bit about the pathway to the pro game, needs listened to.
chairbhoy
I thought Celtic FC were an autocracy….
Are you saying now that we are a ‘mediocracy’?
Celtic Mac @ 1:15 pm,
Far from mutually exclusive I’d’a thought…
Hail Hail