Hearts fans of a certain age know not to get their hopes up, but most in the media (and the bookies) now consider them hot favourites to win the league title. That status was only achieved in the 91st minute of our game at Ibrox on Sunday. Prior to that moment, Newco were the fancied outfit, they now sit third in the reckoning.
Motherwell are not out of the title race yet. They are two points below Celtic having played the same number of games and still have the champions to play twice this season. The old adage that the best defence wins the league should worry everyone else. Motherwell are incredible defensively, having lost just 5 goals in their last 18 Premiership games. That is title winning form.
Sceptics will rightly say even if they win their game in hand, they have seven points to make up on Hearts (whom they will also face twice), but it only takes one team to combust for that to become irrelevant. I don’t expect Motherwell to win the league, but I don’t expect them to finish fourth either. They have the look of Kingmakers. Jens Berthel Askou has achieved miracles and will surely be Manager of the Year.
God love them. At halftime on Sunday, Newco fans believed they were winning the league. Now many want to sack their manager. They have seen this movie before – notably two years ago. If you want to win the league, you need to eliminate Celtic. They had a chance on Sunday and blew it.
As it stands, they remain strong candidates, but Celtic can change that this week. Win at Aberdeen tomorrow and knock them out the Scottish Cup on Sunday, and watch their fans destroy the last gasp of positivity around the club. When fans turn on their own, it is impossible to hit top form.
Not only would a defeat on Sunday have dented our chances of winning the title, the manner of how we played in the first half was more worrying. Just 45 minutes of football ago, Celtic were not tactically fit for purpose. Coming on the back of recent games against Hibs, Kilmarnock, Livingston and Dundee, a pattern was in place.
I don’t expect us to get it as easy as it way in the second half on Sunday again this season. Callum McGregor and Reo Hatate will not get the room they did so high up the field again. Defensively, we are not good enough, having conceded at least two goals in 7 of our last 11 matches. Unless we can shut the back door and learn to play through the block, more points will be dropped.
1986 was the last year Hearts were such strong favourites for a title, which famously evaded them in the last 7 minutes of the season, breaking a 32-game unbeaten run (36 game season) to allow Celtic to take it on goal difference.
Hearts put an incredible run of results together, but were actually fourth best team in the league. They are the same now. Newco deservedly battered them last month, they struggled for a point against 10-man Celtic at home, and we have already established how good Motherwell are.
For me, the title remains in Glasgow. Celtic have Newco, Hearts and Motherwell at home, with only a trip to Fir Park against title rivals. We have yet to show the form necessary to get over the line, but 1986 has another lesson to give. Celtic did not drop a point after a draw at Ibrox in March that year, taking the title in Paisley. Winning this league is very possible, I’m there for it.
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Without the disaster of nancy we coukd be sitting top of the table, confident & already packing silverware.
An Dún on 3rd March 2026 3:30 pm
100%.
It seems childish at best, stupid at worst that we do not have a packed ground for Home Games
Every point is vital
67ECW
So an example of Brian Wilson’s great communication is a book he wrote nearly 40 years ago (I have a signed copy). What has he done in the interim, apart from taking a wage out of Celtic and write unionist propaganda?
Exactly. Well said.
It is now imperative NOW that the PLC structures of the club are dragged out of the front door screaming for their lives!
Sir/Lord Haughey is a backdoor trap that stinks of David Lowe flavoured fingerprints.
Just ask the Celtic Trust just how trustworthy, David Lowe is?
But then who controls Celtic FC?
To cut a long story short, I did not create the current mess so its not on me to find solutions.
But solutions that merely paper over the cracks aren’t really solutions are they?
If we want to get radical and kick some ass then that will require us to front up and to get over ourselves.
This will be far more easier if some degree of reality is on the table.
But as we see, one posters reality, is seen as arrogance by other posters.
So I wish you all the best.
Sad are the homes….
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AuroraBorealis79 on 3rd March 2026 6:16 pm
“Without the disaster of nancy we coukd be sitting top of the table, confident & already packing silverware.”
Flynn @ 5:32 pm,
Do you how many patients we lost to Covid during the pandemic…
Seriously ill, infirm, elderly, dementia…
I’ll count them out to you….
N + O + N + E
You will never understand, nor care about the “extra mile”, the sacrifice that stuff that takes.
One day you may need the NHS, one day, you may need some extra mile care – I hope you get it – but know you won’t appreciate it.
Hail Hail
Not sure it’s rocket science to say of Nancy had not been involved we would be closer to being champions. Why would anyone chose to make that point. No one would realistically disagree.
Timmy 7
We are aligned politically (you and I) and I have had several spats with Brian on that issue. I think there is a fair bit outside of Celtic he has been involved with from a work perspective though. Also just because we don’t agree with his politics re the union it doesn’t mean he hasn’t been democratically entitled to work in the manner he did for about 20 of those 40 years at least.
I also don’t think for a second he will hang around for long after his current stand in role is finished.
Personally I would not dream of taking in a directors role at Celtic and I doubt many capable folks would after this season. So who know what the future holds re our board.
Tom A and Brian W and Peter L won’t be there. No idea about the others.
Again not sure what attacking our stand in chairman is going to achieve right now though.
any predictions for tomorrow’s first 11?
TBB
Thanks for sharing re form. Really good and relevant insight.
Chairbhoy on 3rd March 2026 6:39 pm
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I’m not a Doctor, but I know a man who is.
Here he is:
Just shut up and learn. Thanks.
Dr Dave Cartland BMedSc MBChB Ex-MRCGP
@CartlandDavid
“A trilogy of New Zealand preprints on white fibrous clots (called abnormal intravascular casts) confirms that they were never observed before 2021. Only after the introduction of the Covid “vaccine”.
Dr Bruce Rapley-
‘This is not just a big blood clot. It is a fundamentally different structure. The profound lack of plasminogen is like building a structure impervious to future demolition: it is DESIGNED TO PERSIST.’
The hypertoxic vaccine spike protein is killing people and filling their bodies with such structures that the body cannot eliminate naturally.
https://nitter.catsarch.com/CartlandDavid/status/2028730200154861779#m
Sad are the homes….
Burnley78, it wasn’t an attack; I was asking what his credentials as a great communicator were because, like most of the senior management, he’s been largely silent in his role at Celtic
sinisalo no. 1
saint stivs
March 3, 2026 6:40 pm
Awaiting for approval
rather than work it out for myself, this is online in the sun, so I wont past a link but they pretty much get it. with only one wrong thing, Hibs will not be allowed 3 home matches in a row.
here goes –
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NUMBER CRUNCHER Supercomputer predicts Hearts, Celtic & Rangers’ post-split fixtures as potential last-day helicopter locations revealed
We’ve already told you how the unique make-up of the top six – assuming things stay as they are – is set to hand Celtic and Hearts a major advantage over Rangers.
Not only will the Hoops face home clashes with Rangers and Hearts after the split – while Rangers must face both Celtic and Hearts away – Martin O’Neill‘s men are set to be spared a tricky third trip to either Hibs, Motherwell or Falkirk – and given a home match against them instead.
The same applies to Hearts – who have hosted Hibs, Motherwell and Falkirk twice already but are sure to get a THIRD home meeting with one of them instead of an arduous away trip.
That’s in direct comparison with Rangers, who will LOSE a third home match with one of those three and be asked to play them away for a third time instead in order to ensure all three main title rivals end with a 19-19 home and away split.
Not least because Motherwell aren’t out of the title race themselves quite yet and there’s the small matter of a fourth Edinburgh derby – which has to be at Easter Road – to be factored into their plans.
As for the police, rightly or wrongly, their influence usually means that Celtic vs Rangers clashes take place EARLY after the split to STOP them becoming title deciders – with everything that entails.
Not to mention Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers not being able to play in the same city on the same day.
So it’s worth pointing out now that this set of fixtures ISN’T CONFIRMED.
But SunSport has attempted to input all previous attempts into the system – including what Beattie has said previously – to try to find out a workable set of fixtures for after the split.
For the purposes of this, we’ve asked the fixture schedulers NOT to ask any two of the three title rivals to meet on the final day of the season – as it could mean an unfair advantage.
But the answer WON’T be perfect for everyone – the supercomputer here sees Hibs finishing with all three matches at home.
Although their fans might or might not be happy about the prospect of them bringing the curtain down on a final day shoot-out with title rivals Hearts which COULD decide the title on their home patch.
But doing it this way the broadcasters will try to get all THREE of the title rivals playing separately and away from home on the final day – limiting any potential advantage for either.
League bosses would rather not ask anybody to play three home or away games on the same day, with Falkirk (assuming they finish 6th) most likely to bear some sort of disadvantage.
In this model, Rangers finish with their third away clash with Falkirk of the season, while Celtic finish at Fir Park having been spared a second trip to Easter Road in favour of a home clash.
The cops might not be too keen on the Easter Road men finishing the season against their title chasing rivals from Gorgie.
But at least the smaller stadiums involving the three teams might allow them to spread their resources.
And at least all of the top six teams will play the same number of home and away games.
Hearts, Rangers and Motherwell go into the top six having played 17 home games and 16 away matches, while Celtic, Hibs and Falkirk will go in with 16 home games and 17 away matches.
and celtic and rangers wont be allowed at home on the same night.
saint stivs
March 3, 2026 7:21 pm
These are the matches than need to be played, but it will not be in that order.
Matchday 34
Celtic v Hibernian — Celtic Park
Hearts v Rangers — Tynecastle Park
Falkirk v Motherwell — Falkirk Stadium
Matchday 35
Falkirk v Celtic — Falkirk Stadium
Rangers v Hibernian — Ibrox Stadium
Motherwell v Hearts — Fir Park
Matchday 36
Celtic v Rangers — Celtic Park
Hibernian v Motherwell — Easter Road
Hearts v Falkirk – Tynecastle Park
Matchday 37 (midweek)
Celtic v Hearts — Celtic Park
Rangers v Motherwell — Ibrox stadium
Hibernian v Falkirk — Easter Road
Matchday 38 (final day)
Hibernian v Hearts — Easter Road
Falkirk v Rangers — Falkirk Stadium
Motherwell v Celtic — Fir Park
If you engage , it gives him the rush he desires , cause it means you’ve read his post , so he’ll post something else for you to read that will provoke your response , he gets another rush …Sad are the homes , in blantyre when wee kev leaves his bunker…
To accuse Brian Wilson of failing Celtic due to Unionist propaganda is childish and just wrong. He has a long history with Celtic and even wrote the clubs official history. He had the bottle to call out the huns sectarianism policy to UEFA when others took the easy option and hid
Brian Wilson as interim chair has to navigate Celtic through an antagonistic Scottish Government and City Council who have demonstrated that they are no friends of Celtic.
Perhaps they are still pis#ed off that as a former SNP member he came to his senses and booted them into touch.
HH.
Greempinats,
What discussions or meetings has BW had with the government or the council? I for one would like to know. Get him the credit if it’s deserved.
Sadly I think this sounds a lot like the Hun hunting on here, lots of talk but no action or result.
Sorry greempinata
GREENPINATA on 3RD MARCH 2026 7:42 PM
To accuse Brian Wilson of failing Celtic due to Unionist propaganda is childish and just wrong. He has a long history with Celtic and even wrote the clubs official history. He had the bottle to call out the huns sectarianism policy to UEFA when others took the easy option and hid
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Again, not what I said or asked. I know he wrote the book (40 years ago) What more has he done? What did he do when the hun’s cheating was exposed? Why do the Scottish football authorities still recognise trophies won illegally? How did his great communication skills influence that outcome?
The only positive for him as a unionist politician, as far as I’m concerned, is that he isn’t in the HoL unlike many of his socialist contemporaries
Greenpinata on 3rd March 2026 7:42 pm
Brian Wilson would really wake the Celtic fans up if he told them who really controls the SNP.
And it would be bang to rights if Brian Wilson used his political contacts to utilise a ball booting statement outlining who actually runs the SNP, and why Parkhead is the last place on the planet for SNP voters.
But he won’t.
And the dim Tims will just get dimmer and dimmer.
Sad are the homes….
Flynn @ 6:53 pm,
So, Kev, you didn’t do a single thing to help or save a single citizen – you couldn’t give a toss what the NHS did for you.
Yet you want to present yourself as a latter day St Micheal…
Then you try to shame those that stood up to be counted… shameful…
Hail Hail
SAINT STIVS on 3RD MARCH 2026 7:31 PM
I know that you are only sharing info from the Sun Online, so no criticism, but they have it wrong. I guess when they were turning the handle on the super computer it skipped a beat….
Falkirk will in fact have played 17 home games and 16 away games, just the same as Hearts, Sevco and Motherwell. Given that they have the inputs wrong, it’s fairly certain that the outputs are incorrect. I actually figured all of this out a couple of weeks ago, as it was pretty obvious that the top-6 was taking shape.
This was the post (including a correction that you provided at the time 😉)….
Arriving at the post-split fixtures will be the usual exercise in secrecy and closed-door dark art meetings at the SPFL. The need for published guidelines on the process exposes two things: 1) their desire to influence outcomes, and 2) their complete lack of self-awareness.
An under-grad with a laptop could write the code needed to automatically generate these fixtures before the season even starts. Very simply, there are a finite number of permutations based on the known pre-split fixtures and the position of all teams in the table after 33 games. It’s just not that hard.
As for the facts as things stand, and taking the top 6 as it is now, by the time all teams have completed their phase 1 total of 33 games, 4 teams will have played 17 home and 16 away (Hearts, Sevco, Motherwell, Falkirk) and 2 teams will have played 16 home and 17 away (Celtic, Hibs).
The “natural” pattern for the final 5 fixtures (where each team will have played the other 2 times home and away), does not balance, so changes will be necessary. Focusing on the title contenders…
Hearts: will need to play one team for a third time at home.
Sevco: will need to play one team for a third time away.
Celtic: will need to play one team for a third time at home.
One of Motherwell, Hibs or Falkirk will finish the season having played 20 home and 18 away games.
The process should lead to the following…
Hearts: Sevco (H), Motherwell (H*), Celtic (A), Hibs (A), Falkirk (A)
Sevco: Hibs (H), Falkirk (H), Hearts (A), Celtic (A), Motherwell (A*)
Celtic: Hearts (H), Sevco (H), Hibs (H*), Motherwell (A), Falkirk (A)
This ensures the top 3 all finish with 19 games home and away, with balanced fixtures against each other, and it also respects the Edinburgh derby home and away balance.
Motherwell would end up playing Hearts away for a third time and Sevco at home for a third time.
It would give Falkirk the advantage or 20 home games, which would arguably be unfair on Hibs but of no consequence to the title race, and of least consequence to the pursuit of European places.
Celtic should have the lawyers ready to address anything that looks substantially different to this, and appears to favor either of their title rivals.
Gedinte on 3rd March 2026 9:22 pm
Thanks for that.
There’s crazy people running all over town
There’s a silver band, just marching up and down
And the big boys are all spoiling for a fight
I want to see the bright lights tonight.
Richard Thompson 1974.
Timmy 7,
We have made mistakes and there will be change.
We have potential double to navigate.
We have an affluent 74 year old interim manager who is bursting a gut for the Celtic cause.
We have a crunch game in Sheepland tomorrow.
This is not the time to continually denigrate or question an interim chair who is a life long Celtic supporter who wants the same as we do, especially not for his politics.
Time to collectively stop throwing the toys out of the pram and support our team.
( Please refer to an earlier post about supporting in adversity )
HH.
I would only caveat what I originally said about the post-split figures with a comment respecting that Motherwell could be more relevant than they were when I did this 3-weeks ago.
Respecting their title credentials means two things; 1) potentially needing to wait until all of the pre-split fixtures are complete before creating the post-split fixtures, and 2) if Motherwell are still a contender, then the post-split fixtures will need to be just as fair to them as the others in the chase
This could lead to fixtures that look more like this….
Hearts: Sevco (H), Falkirk (H*), Celtic (A), Hibs (A), Motherwell (A)
Sevco: Motherwell (H), Falkirk (H), Hearts (A), Celtic (A), Hibs (A*)
Celtic: Hearts (H), Sevco (H), Hibs (H*), Motherwell (A), Falkirk (A)
Motherwell: Hearts (H), Celtic (H), Hibs (A), Sevco (A), Falkirk (A)
Hibs: Hearts (H), Motherwell (H), Sevco (H*), Celtic (A*), Falkirk (A*)
Falkirk: Cdeltic (H), Motherwell (H), Hibs (H*), Sevco (A), Hearts (A)
This still leaves Falkirk as the beneficiary of 20 home games.
The asterisk denotes a change from the natural fixture to achieve 2 home and away against each team.
I’m not attempting to determine which fixtures are played on which day, as given how tight the league is going to be, there will be a whole process to make that as fair (SPFL dark arts) as possible.
“For me the title remains in Glasgow”
Which offers up two, not one, potential SPL winners…..
Us…..
And them….
OldFirmrUsCSC
Some might say that a team’ results in their last couple of games might be a better form indicator than say results of seven or eight games back…..
Hearts @ Motherwell two wins, six points….
Other Glasgow SPL contender, two draws, two points
Celtic one defeat, one draw, one point….
Which, some might say….is better than nul points….
Affluent Martin O’Neill says Alistair Johnston could return in time for Celtic’s post-split fixtures.
It’s a long time till the end of the season
And many people having us dropping many points, whilst our rivals drop none
We are at the half time in the huns game at the weekend
Nothing is set in stone
Del boy is shouldering opposition players in his apres match wander
Captain Rhol (is it a wig, it’s a wig lol) is making crazy tactical substitutions when they are winning – that allow us back into the game – and he did lol (shat it)
And we have
– St Martin O’Neill
– Calmac
– KT
– Hatate
– Maeda
– Scales
Who have all been thru a title run in
Battle hardened, who know the pressures and can take it (see mcinnes above lol)
We have warriors coming thru
– Aruajo (sp??) fighting in the tunnel after the last hun game??????)
– Yang
– Seb (he had goals and assists galore)
– and dont you feckers think The Ox has not got a part to play in this
– Sarrachi, see Aruajo, but quiter
And some on here are shiting it…..
GIRFUY’s lurking huns and even worse (you know who you are) Celtic fans, who continually shite on our team
Few points up for grabs, many points that our unbattle hardened rivals may not have the bolocks to take
There is a league to be won, hero’s to be made
Many a spelling mistake in the above, but it stands
Chairbhoy
So the NHS were doing their duty by distributing a popultion reduction programme?
And anybody opposing this Genocide is “a nasty piece of work” in your words?
Sad are the homes….
https://expose-news.com/2025/12/18/covid-vaccines-are-a-population-reduction-programme/
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Chairbhoy on 3rd March 2026 9:13 pm
Flynn @ 6:53 pm,
So, Kev, you didn’t do a single thing to help or save a single citizen – you couldn’t give a toss what the NHS did for you.
Yet you want to present yourself as a latter day St Micheal…
Then you try to shame those that stood up to be counted… shameful…
Chairboy asked you Flynn
What did you do???
“So, Kev, you didn’t do a single thing to help or save a single citizen – you couldn’t give a toss what the NHS did for you.”
That was the question
And this was your pish reparte??
You never responded to the question, you prevaricated
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“So the NHS were doing their duty by distributing a popultion reduction programme?
And anybody opposing this Genocide is “a nasty piece of work” in your words?
Sad are the homes….”
Remember the question was
“So, Kev, you didn’t do a single thing to help or save a single citizen – you couldn’t give a toss what the NHS did for you.”
Pish from you!
I expected a 116 paragraph 10,128 word reponse, at the very least
Nuthing……..
Robin Monotti
“Did you know that Iran has a Metro station dedicated to the Holy Mary?
Why is there a station dedicated to the Holy Mary in Iran, but no such station in London, New York, Paris, or Rome?”
https://nitter.catsarch.com/robinmonotti/status/2028715397906563522#m
Why indeed?
Who’s zooming who?
Sad are the homes….
CLUNKS
Chairbhoy wanted me to bow before the NHS.
Chairbhoy won’t admit or even acknowledge the NHS’s barbarity during the Covid Hoax mRNA Vaccine Genocide scandal.
CB roared on the Covid Plandemic Tyranny, I don’t think he would have if the evidence was available then.
But the evidence is available now.
And he hasn’t changed his stance one iota despite various Governments admitting “it was all a mistake” except that it wasn’t a mistake, they’re actions were intentional and by design.
I tried to reach CLUNKS, CHAIRBHOY, and so many more to mention, and was banned hundreds of times for this, and tirelessly resisted all of this Government sanctioned evil.
Rest in Peace all innocent victims of this mayhem.
They’ll do it again to keep their evil files buried.
You must never let your guard down.
I’m no St Michael – Nor am I a Government narrative sucker.
YNWA
Sad are the homes….