After a long international break, the full Celtic squad resumed training this morning, two days before the visit of Hibernian. With a depleted Hearts facing Aberdeen at the same time, a win for Celtic could see the champions go top of the table on goal difference.
Aberdeen, in seventh place, are enduring their worst start to a campaign in years. The contrast between the trauma this has caused in the north east, with the euphoria of the team in sixth place is stark. But, with the Pittodrie squad is getting back to full strength at the same time as Hearts’ has weakened. I expect a return to trend at Tynecastle on Saturday.
The next two months will not be easy for Celtic. With European commitments, we have two games per week, apart from when the majority of the squad away on international duty again next month, but the sight of Celtic at the top of the table will look ominous to the rest of the league, and quieten down some of the manufactured hysteria over our early season dropped points.
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JIMTHETIM53
Agree about that, but PL might not be there forever.
H.H Mick
Neg
I just think of 60,000 Tims gathering in Paradise for a fun afternoon. Glad I will be there this Saturday. God willing.
YNWA
NEGANON
I’ve got to agree with DD on this one. 60,000 Celtic supporters aren’t going to heed calls for a boycott. Undermining the board and getting rid of them entirely will have to be done some other way.
Always sad to see that some of our number can`t simply share the joy of just being a Celtic supporter.
Particularly in these heady days of domestic success.
JTT- The Real McCoy
BMCUWP
Michael did you get my mail the other day?
H.H Mick
MM saw your post about the beach party on the 9th. we will be just leaving Sydney that day. I’ll see if we can change plans. pity it was’nt the following weekend but hey ho we’ll keep in touch Hail Hail Hebcelt
MM
Would have Lenny back as manager no problem. Love the Armagh Bhoy. He is getting better as he gets older. Fine Wine Lennon. ?
YNWA
Crowd pullers arsenal now charging £5.00 entrance fee for Europa league games…………Lenny welcome back anytime…….them bassas would still make his life a misery. best where he is…
JTT53
Never knew Yogi had that pub.
Us West End Bhoys were always feart to drink in the big bad East End boozers. ?
YNWA
HEBCELT
If you do make it just head down to the beach and you’ll see our
banners up the trees and probably Paddymac as well tying them
on lol, i’ll be the grunny sending them up to him 8-))
H.H Mick
DD: I think his first pub was Yogi’s Bar which was in Coatbridge, just on the Glasgow side of the Fountain bus stops. Can’t be more specific than that as I was just a West Lothian boy passing through!
MElBOURNE MICK,Aye the old Railway Bridge leading up to the Celtic End ,what a lot of Celtic Supporters would give to see that old line back again, especially the amount of traffic on London Rd,and elsewhere,I’m sure if it was still there ,it would have had a Railway Station built , all aboard for Paradise,oops I to liked the Lanlique,
Joe Cundy
Thank you. Thought that myself.
YNWA
Yogi’s old boozer at the corner of London Rd and Springfield Rd,I think it’s called McCoy’s,packed to the rafters on match days.
TIMBHOY2
Could never understand why it was never utilised, what a benefit
it would be to Celtic and our supporters.
Oh yes maybe that’s the reason.
H.H Mick
MM
It was great to hear from Paddymacoz that Melbourne has a Smith Clydebank connection. Jamie Smith’s parents are my sister’s next door neighbours. Billy Smith cut my hair when I had hair. So many names I know that you know. Half a World Away.
Oasis CSC
I’m ashamed to say if we were comfortably ahead with 20 mins to go, I would sneak out and head for the London Road Tavern Lounge.(entrance on Springfield Rd). Imagine my surprise when I was met with about another dozen from our supporter’s bus!
My brothers and my nephew were not best pleased. Called me a traitor amongst other things!
DD
Jamie’s uncle Brian does a sterling job as our club secretary
and sometimes i think Paddy knows and has met anyone
with Celtic in their heart.
The world is getting smaller by the day and the love of Celtic
never goes away.
H.H Mick
JTT53
If I was your Parish Priest?
It would be a decade of the rosary for sneaking oot Paradise early for the demon drink young man. ?
YNWA
DELANEYS DUNKY on 18TH OCTOBER 2018 10:38 PM
Yogi had the Great Bear Pub in Calder Street, ML5, near to where he was born in, believe it or not Greenend, two years younger than Mum. I also think he may have owned the Woodside in Mitchell Street, later to be owned by Peter Hetherston, once of Aberdeen, a bigger Tim you would never meet.
Alfie Conn and Willie Henderson owned the Barnyard, Wallace Street, ML5 back in the day. Both would pull pints in the Pub, sometimes at 07:00 before our Bus left for Aberdeen.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
JOE CUNDY on 18TH OCTOBER 2018 11:09 PM
Not the Glasgow side of the Fountain mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
DD, ‘Young man?’ I’m 65 now! However you are correct I deserve to be punished.
Staying on the Saturday 3pm theme.
I was at the game – a cup game – against ICT when a bit of the roof came loose above where the away supporters sat. The game was cancelled. Rearranged mid week, big row in the dressing room. The rest is history.
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
DD
Speaking of priests, did you know that one of the schools (the priestly class) of Rastifarianism is called the BOBO Ashanti? No connection to Balde though ….
Lenny
Alfie Conn is probably the most humble, nice ex Rangers/Celtic players I ever met. Got stoned with him one night in Captain’s Rest his boozer. He admitted he was a Jambo, but preferred us to huns. Sound guy
YNWA
Mick, Talking about other religions, I once knew an old German priest. Very intellectual. He told me he once studied ‘Comparative Religions’.
The best advice he got when setting out on this was from an old priest who said as you read the books, keep a rosary in your other hand. It could really mess up their minds, Comparative Religion.
MIT
Had a dream last night that I fulfilled my vocation and became a priest. Denied the call in my teens. Is He calling me again? ?
YNWA
Lennybhoy 11:41. Thanks, as I said I’m a country boy and easily confused. I remember it from getting the bus through to my granny’s in Shettleston. Number 16, Glasgow via Bathgate. That was a loooong journey,
HH
JC
Jimthetim
Co-incidentally, My grad work was in Comparative Religion, as part of which I studied moral theology with a well known German Jesuit, Fr. Fuchs.
DD
Check out The Twelve Tribes of Israel … a favourite of one Robert Nesta Marley
DD, One wish I have is that priests be allowed to marry. It was OK for the first thousand years or so. Would solve a lot of problems.
The idea of a life dedicated soley to the service od God is a wonderful aspiration. But that calling is for the few I think. Give a choice. Religious Orders for the Celibates. Parish priests for the marrying ones.
Mike, The German priest I knew was in Societas Verbi Divini. The Divine Word Missionaries.
DD,
Alfie Conn’s father was one of the devastating Hearts inside trio of Conn, Bauld and Wardhaugh,
Who cuffed us in the 1956 Scottish Cup Final, my first final.
JIMTHETIM53 on 19TH OCTOBER 2018 12:13 AM
Marriage for priests.
Where would the prime responsibility lie ?
With your wife and perhaps family.
Or with your parishioner and his / her needs.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 19TH OCTOBER 2018 12:26 AM
Why not both?
No need for a prime responsibility.
The qualities of a good husband and father should suffice in being a good pastor.
Bed time.
Melbourne Mick
Pub on London Road………….Turnstiles?
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 19TH OCTOBER 2018 12:34 AM
Your wife`s in labour and your Parishioner is dying.
Labour ward or Extreme Unction ?
Where does your duty lie ?
What is your priority ?
A squillion possibilities of where one`s prime responsibility lies.
The old phrase . To my mind a valid description.
Holy Orders…………………Married to the Church.
Or , in these ” enlightened ” times.
Married to Christ. :-)
BADA BING
Come ON!! Don’t leave me Hanging! por cierto