Dalgety Bay TA

Ultra by Tobias Jones is an excellent read if you like football and Italy, as I do.

One of those games where stats don't give a true reflection. Hearts were a bit fired up for first 20-25 mins and made it difficult for Celtic. Celtic went 1-0 and then quickly 2-0 and that was it as a contest. A heavy touch from Edouard and a poor finish from Forrest were all that stopped it being 4-0 HT. In the 20 before HT and 20 after it Celtic cut Hearts open at will. McGregor failed to finish a great chance second half and there was a couple that on another day Edouard would have finished easily. Hearts had a wee flurry in the closing 10 mins but nothing to really worry about. As others have said, if that had finished 5-0 it wouldn't have been unexpected. I watched Kelty Hearts beat Vale of Leithen 11-0 on Saturday. It was a mismatch both physically and footballing ability wise. Last night reminded me of the weekend. Hearts seemed to be unable to do the basics, such as pass the ball to each other, consistently. Celtic, especially in about the 40 min spell in the middle of the match, took the ball off Hearts when they wanted to.

Its a lassie on one of the FB Groups has mentioned it a couple of times....but there hasn't been much response and a couple of those were around the "What if folks want to sit down in that section" posts. It might catch more peoples attention closer to the game but don't think its really taken off at current time.

It’s not fabricated. Some people want to sing. They feel better off being in a section of the ground where those around about them have the same train of thought.....and will more than likely join in if someone starts off a song. Hampden, at the current time, is nothing like the Hampden of the 70s-90s. It’s dire nowadays. But even then....someone must have started the songs. There wasn’t a collective ESP within the crowd where they all fired up We Hate Jimmy Hill at the exact same moment. All that’s happening here is people who do feel they want to try and start a song here and there know they won’t be a lone voice and the song dies on its arse after 2 lines.

Start of last season when he signed. Its been constant since then. They had to do something to help drop the "The" prefix.

I agree. I don't see a big Tory majority and think we will be back to where we were before the GE was called.

Looks like a cricket top.

To be fair to them they have priced that very well.

You have named 2 defensive/holding players, neither of whom is a ball winner, In front of a centre mid who is not a ball winner. We are as well playing the Mersey Tunnel in the centre of the park with that line up. Our most important game in years and you want to experiment with a midfielder at centre back?

Wouldn’t have Cooper or Mulgrew. Both not good enough.

Was there on Friday. Brilliant night. Best frontman in the UK. They, quite simply, know how to put a show on.

I read The Athletic article on Patterson, sounds very promising. My first thought was “Get him in your first team and then could be a Scotland option”. Did it say he still had to fill out a little? My mate has his youngest laddie in SFA Performance School in Edinburgh so he sees and talks a lot of Youth football. He was saying to me the other week that apparently Rangers have 2 lads, maybe about the 14/15 year old group who are meant to be phenomenal and very big things expected. You hear anything about them?

Excellent. Great venue for them. Place was bouncing from the start. Had a confetti shower half way through and a load of huge bouncing balls flying about at one point too.

Was at the Chemical Brothers last night. All standing tickets folks got one of those sticky paper wrist bands put on them upon entrance. I was out of the arena a couple of times and the checks going back in were there but hardly thorough.

😂😂😂 Aye, I made a bit of a erse of that part.

While I would love that to be the case, being realistic, I just can't see it. Unfortunately.

Assuming everyone is fit and in decent form, pretty much the team which started the last 2 games. I would probably play Roberston or Tierney over Taylor as I don't think Taylor will be getting much game time at Celtic unless there is a LB injury crisis. It appears Robertson may miss this weekends game so there might be some humble pie being served. McTominay is the hard one but I really think we need a Jack like player in there who snaps about the place. And the closest we have to that at the moment is Ryan Jack. None of McTominay, McGregor or McGinn are defensively minded. Its not Jack's natural role either but going with the first 3 just asks our already shaky defence to be attacked at will. Therefore I wouldn't be for dropping Jack.

I can guess you are not very good at poker if you don't apply odds to it. But then you understand odds so maybe you are.

I think this highlights, again, the problem of not having a naturally defensive minded player playing in one of these deeper midfield roles. A good one would, as you say, not leave his man and concentrate in getting back to help the defence rather than chasing the ball. Jack is still my best hope, of available players, for that role as he "gets stuck in". Everyone else who we have played there is midfielders whose instinct is to get forward.

If you are offering the odds of a Brechin to beat Celtic on Scotland beating Norway/Serbia then I will definitely take your bet. I will even take that bet if we are drawn to play either side away from home on Friday. How about it? Also, can you advise where you get Serbia starting 11 valued at over £200m please? Would love to see your breakdown of prices.

At €50, €125 and €150 a ticket I don't imagine many Scots would be!

Nope. Mourinho played him there to prove a point to the board for not buying him a proper CB. Think they got hosed that game.

There is a group within Celtic support who are pally with Wrexham and Bohemians. Hence the banner at the game too.

Plenty people are, here and on FB. Rats and traitors. Didn’t mean you specifically. I used to get worked up about it myself but thankfully apathy took over.

Maybe it’s just my complete lack of apathy about the whole set up and situation that I can’t get myself worked up about anyone calling off. It is what it is. If he/they don’t want to play and rest up then folks fuming about it isn’t going to change the situation. More important things to worry about than some football players with blasé attitudes to Scotland.