When the numbers are crunched from Celtic’s unbeaten domestic run it gives a scale of their achievement:
69 games, 60 victories, 9 draws.
Celtic scored 197 goals and conceded 40.
The opposition failed to penetrate Celtic’s defence in 38 of the 69 games.
Yesterday was the first time that Celtic had failed to score in a domestic match since Brendan Rodgers became the manager.
Sadly, it came as no surprise to your humble correspondent to receive reliable reports that some of the dignified stenographers were giddy with glee as the match unfolded at Tynecastle.
It is perhaps worth noting that the five-year-old club that they love has yet to win five matches on the bounce this season.
The Irishman in the away dugout was quick to commend Hearts for their comprehensive victory.
Since he first walked up the Celtic Way as manager in the summer of 2016 Brendan Rodgers has been a class act.
He was, of course, correct to point to the fact that the British record that his players have set will probably never be equalled.
No one who took their seats at Tynecastle or watched on TV expected a 4-0 scoreline to favour the home side.
I congratulated my Jambo buddies yesterday and one of them messaged me back:
“Dunno where that came from. Brown looked a bit old and tired compared to our kid”.
The last time Celtic suffered such an unexpected reverse was in April 2016 when Sevco won the Scottish Cup semi-final on penalties.
The men in the boardroom at Parkhead knew that they needed to push the “reset button”.
Consequently, it was that cup upset which directly led to Brendan Rodgers becoming the Celtic manager.
This time the re-set will almost certainly mean an additional resource allocation in the January window.
It will be a net spend that no other club in Scotland will be able to match.
We are still in an epoch of Fitba unipolarity in fair Caledonia.
This generation of Celtic fans are blessed to have witnessed that 69 match run.
On Wednesday the men in the Hoops will go again.
The club that was set up by immigrants to feed hungry children now towers over the rest of Scottish football.
What happened yesterday at Tynecastle is big news precisely because of that unipolarity on Planet Fitba.
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A huddle to mark the end of a historic run by Celtic’s Invincibles is the least we can do to celebrate a tremendous achievement. Many fans were aware of how hard it was to grind out results, and it is clear the Hibs match set up Celtic for a torrid time at Tynecastle. Some would highlight players for criticism, but they should be considered Invincible no more, rather they are, in fans’ memories, the Immortals. It is highly unlikely that anyone anywhere will play in a team which replicates such a winning streak. So well done Celtic. And well done Hearts. A well-run team working tightly to a game plan to become giant slayers. It will be interesting to see whether they manage to achieve their season’s target, of a top six finishing spot. We’ll see.
Back to Celtic… the players need to regroup and find the resources to rebuild Fortress Parkhead. We have been unlucky with injuries, and slightly off the boil both in attack and defence. Each player has the ability to change that. I am sure every man of them will.
Some really good posts above Phil, Of course our run was going to end sometime. However, Given the money we are apparently have I am really disappointed that we look like spending £1m on a centre back.
Brendan is better than that.
So he was No. 33 at Leipzig now he’s 33 at Celtic and he turns 33 in June …
And still folk wonder how he just turned up out of ‘the blue’ ..?
😉
As a Jambo there was nobody more surprised than me with that result on Sunday, fair play to Levein he got his tactics spot on. As for Celtic you could tell how much respect they have earned as even at 3 nil, we jambo’s were ******* ourselves everytime they got the ball. We only relaxed after the penalty made it 4.
Credit also to Brendan Rodgers, he showed his class at the end of the game and how he handled things afterwards. Craig Levein said that Celtic may well go on to do another 69 matches unbeaten, which is an incredible feat even just the once.
All the best in the Europa.
My Marron buddies were in shock after the result Andy.
Hearts fully deserved their victory and if they play like that every week they should have a great season.
I agree with you that Brendan is a class act.
Think the run was starting to have an impact on performances.
Wish it had finished at 67,would have been apt in this special year.
Freshen things up and back to winning form for the rest of the month.
Aberdeen will be well up for it on Saturday knowing a win could bring the gap back to 2 points if Celtic win their game in hand tomorrow night.
The media would be creaming themselves about the challenge to the Hoops if the team providing the challenge was clad in blue.
Tony Pulis is being talked up as the most likely new manager candidate. He’s old school and been around the block and is sure to have lots of questions for the selection committee.
Whats keeping M’lud over the King judgement? We know the ruling will set precedent for future cases but come on.
Then we have the Compliance Officer skirting around the details of the UEFA 2012 licence granted to Oldco.
We all know, as does Regan, that the application was fraudulent and there was not a hope in hell’s chance that an independent body would be charged with the investigation.
It’s difficult to envisage the CO finding his own line manager at fault or anyone else at the SFA.
I suspect there will be some admission of admin errors at the SFA and Oldco that require some minor adjustments and that perhaps the SFA will ask the clubs for permission to contact HMRC directly in future to ascertain that there are no outstanding tax bills at the appropriate UEFA cut off date rather than rely on the honesty of the clubs to make their own declaration given that for some clubs European income can be a matter of life or death.
If I remember correctly all the wives and children went to Dubai during the winter break last season. Please correct me if I’m wrong
HH
It was one of those days yesterday.
A toothless and a little lethargic celtic team were outdone by a young vibrant hearts team.
We were a little greedy in final third but also it was just one of those days it wasn’t to be.
I had to give a wry smile and Young Cochrane and his fellow adolescents took part in thumping our invincible Bhoys……and that’s this: IF THIS IS A “SLOW PAINFUL DEATH” (Sic) FOR OUR GAME HERE THEN WE ARE BETTER FOR IT.
I hope some stars were born yesterday at tynecastle.
The manner of the defeat isn’t good but now comes the real test, how We respond. Also we are now building up to 3 big things.
1. Delivery of league title. An absolute must. Let’s start of by winning the remaining games of year and Putting Aberdeen and Ibrox tribute act to bed.
2 Get going in Scottish Cup to set up a possible, historic back to back treble.
3. Build up team for the zenith game in Europa league.
HH
Wonder if we need better defenders or to defend better
Seems to me the triangle of Gordon Boyata and Simonovic don’t always communicate well or even understand their roles
I think that Boyata is a better player when he is partnered by someone other than Simonovic
Anyway congratulations to the Bhoys and thanks for the memories Great to be a Tim
Typical of the media in this country to belittle Celtics great achievements under Brendan
Im certain the after match huddle and words which follow will inspire the bhoys to another piece of history when they win back to back trebles
Phil,Your comments on Celtic’s achievements over the last 18 months is fabulous. I have been supporting the great Glasgow Celtic since 1959. This achievements with Brendan Rogers at the helm is up there with Jock Stein era, yes Jock won the European cup in 1967 ( i was there) bit even Jock’s 1967 team lost to Dundee Utd home and away that year. To all Celtic supporters enjoy what we are witnessing 4 trophies in the bag and another 2 still to come for back to back trebles. Hail Hail.
Last season was historically unprecedented.
It was always going to be incredibly difficult to replicate that feat.
Despite the result on Sunday, I wouldn’t bet against Rodgers and Celtic delivering another treble.
I concur.
The treble is on.
Well there is only one team in the country capable of doing it
COYBIG
Absent a disastrous collapse it boils down to the Scottish Cup. What odds a Sevco FA heated ball route of Tynecastle/Easter Road in the last 16 followed by Pittodrie in the QFs? Perhaps a Hampden semi with Motherwell choc full of “honest mistakes” to “even out” the “controversial” decisions in previous encounters?
I note Clancy’s eagle-eyed night vision to spot Tom Rogic a few centimetres offside in the 5-1 win over Motherwell was strangely absent for Sevco’s visit to Easter Road.
Also absent was the media’s sanctimonious outcry on the Easter Road aberration, so as to avoid pressurising the referee in Sevco’s next fixture.
Phil, one of my currant bun mates showed me this thread on Follow Follow, even he’s ashamed at the comments:
https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/antoine-griezmann-oh-no-he-hasnt.13206/
One game is not going to derail the treble, we may have lost a battle but we can still win the wars.
Irish immigrant Hibs fans from Edinburgh founded your club please remember your history as we are still here ..in Edinburgh and Leith mostly Leith.We still do food banks Tory shame .hail
Spot on Johnny!, nae hibs nae celtic.
God bless
And
Hail Hail.
No. Hibs supplied five players for Celtics first game. They did NOT found the club.
Hibs…. hmmmm, The Tri-Colour tribulations, Rod Petries insistance of continuation all things blue, the ‘moving on’ monologues…….. Look, we get it, you’re our cousins in the east, as we are your’s in the west. But, ffs will you just grow a pair and start fighting for change. Do you have any idea how many supporters you lost to us when your board fought us for flying our flag? (yep, ours… mine and yours! ) Almost every one of those ex-Hibs fans would have had kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. They all follow The Hoops. We didnt need them, but we welcomed them with open arms, one and all. This is why you now witness so many Celtic buses depart Lothian, even your beloved Leith, for the welcome embrace of Celtic FC. They’ re not hunting glory, they’re following the team in who’s tradition they were raised. Hibs had great teams through the 50s and 60s, we were rank rotten, for the most part. But, as always, you let your board decide what was best for you, and, in doing so, alienated around a fifth of your support. For them, their Irish heritage overrode their love of the Hibees, and they could not bring themselves to support Hibs whilst trying to destroy their brothers (not cousins) in the west, when they were at their lowest ebb. The upshot being that their unborn children were raised as Celtic supporters. Their already-Hibs-supporting children then had to fend off their Irish Grandad from converting the grandkids, and subsequent generations, upwardly financialy secure, now travel, fortnightly to Glasgow for their fitba fix. We didnt steal your players, we don’t steal your fans. They are our fans, thats your clubs fault, not mine. However, if we work together, we can change Scottish Fitba forever, for the better if all clubs. Petrie excluded, Hobs appear to be a forward thinking force once again. Dictate to your board who and what you are. Do not be dictated to, in order to feed one man’s ambition. Yes, he may end up the figure head president of the RFA, but the structures and historically partizan bretherinships will not aid Hibs in any way, shape or form. Petrie will have his life pension but we’ll still be stuck with an association run for the benefit of an organisation that doesnt even own a football club but aligns itself with the most heinous miscreants, and their hate church masquerading as a dead club in the historically Irish immigrant enclave of Govan.
Get Petrie out, then we can talk. Allow him to ascend to Mount Florida’s highest office of sycophancy? Well, that’d be just like youse.
Going into hibernation, not the bears den… Have a handsome Christmas all…..
My sincerest thanks to Brendan & all the Bhoys who made this phenomenal run happen.
Shame it was there but respect to Levein for his recognition of their tremendous achievements, spoken like a true fitba man.
And a fantastically fitting eulogy to the run by your good self, Phil, stats like that just can’t be beaten so cheers for the reminder.
Hail Hail!
Defeat is always hard to take but at least it wasn’t to Sevco and at least it came at a very opportune moment, in terms of persuading the board to spend some money in the upcoming transfer window. Fair play to some of the young Hearts players too, who did their club proud in what must have been a daunting game. Putting it in context, I think most fans would bite your hand off, if you could guarantee them one defeat in 70 games with the added challenge (and financial benefits) of playing CL football when European competition for your rivals typically ends before the season has even started. Let’s keep some perspective.
Having followed Celtic through the dark days of the 90s, I think it’s important to enjoy the good times while they last. I knew plenty of the cloven-hoofed ones that spent their time during that period bumping their gums about not being bigger in Europe, not winning domestic trebles every year etc etc, rather than just enjoying what they had (albeit under EBT-fuelled false pretences). They wrongly assumed that it would last forever and, in truth, many of us saw no end to it in sight back then either. Certainly no one ever dreamed that they’d end up where they did in 2012. I doubt anything that extreme will happen to us but, as yesterday showed, nothing is forever so thanks to the players for a fantastic ride and let’s go again against Thistle.
We have plenty of quality in the squad and in the youngsters. Its time for them to step up and let some of the first team be rested even before the break. The unbeaten run had become a monkey on the back. Glad we done it but glad its behind us now.
An incredible run indeed Phil and the stats are awesome. A record that will stand for some time that’s for sure. It’s worth noting though that this season so far, Celtic haven’t managed to chalk up 4 League wins on the trot. I get the feeling it won’t be too long though.
Something of a blessing in disguise. It had to end some day, we all knew that day was coming sooner rather than later and I’m glad it went to Hearts rather than ibrox! Would have preferred it going to Hibs or Aberdeen to maintain pressure for second and third but hey ho, still better than gifting it to THEM! Besides, I see it as a reflection of Celtic’s charitable origins to donate to the needy at this time of year.
Here’s the problems:
1. It was a hard treble and CL run last year. There was effectively no summer break with mini tournaments (£) and pre season for early CL qualifiers 2017. No rest to make £ for the club.
2. It was tough qualifiers with long flights and a tough CL group stage this year. Mentally exhausting. Lots of air miles.
3. Three domestic grinding tournaments.
4. Scottish football sucks them down to it’s level.
5. Never same 11 two games in a row. Also differing formations. Tactics appear to.be attacking passing football from the back. Leaving defense exposed.
6. Rodgers signings raised the bar for all others. When those guys don’t play well or are injured they all drop a gear. Dembele, Sinclair, Roberts injured….
7. We have defensive issues but our previous No.1 defender Sviatchenko doesn’t get a game. Why?
8. I believe BR sometimes makes wrong decisions. Hey nobody is perfect, he’s the manager, but that can effect morale. If they think the boss put them out with wrong formation/ tactics in CL game and it’s a bad result then morale takes a bashing. If players think another player should be on the park and isn’t that affects morale.
9. They must be sick of looking at each other’s faces each day. They should be released for 2 week holidays this winter break away from each other. Time with partners and families. Not sunshine training camp pish in Dubai (more draining flights). They need LESS Celtic time not more. They don’t need the management around them. That’s not relaxing. LESS Brendan Rodgers exposure. If they want to get drunk blow off some steam, eat kebabs, go do it. They deserve it.
Finally, a very well done to all of you. Thank you very much indeed. It has been a pleasure and inspirational. Please try and dig deep and find some grit for the next two games, then get some well deserved down time and recharge the batteries. I hope the club will let you all go and do your own thing and relax in your own individual ways. Spend some of your wealth, enjoy yourselves and come back refreshed and ENJOY your football.
I forgot to add all those international qualifiers, physical and mental efforts and stress.
Celtic Bhoys invariably play for their national side’s. I think Strachan’s Scotland had eight CFC players flying around the world. It’s all too much for them.
Wouldn’t it be funny if hearts pipped Sevco to 4 by 1 points.
Great comment I agree with everything ?
And a blessed and holy Christmas to you too
Rumpole,
On point 9, I have just been talking with Tom Rogic in Emirates lounge at Glw airport……big man is heading home for some family time due to knee injury……meeting up with team mates in Dubai in Jan……..so at least one player should come back fresh!
All good points above!
Brendan will fix for second half……
I think your point 9 is 150% on the mark. They badly need downtime. As you say with wives, kids, partners, girlfriends whatever. This whole situation impacts on THEIR lives as well.
On point 5…. it’s not so much passing football from the back leaving the defence exposed, as playing passing football from unrealistic positions with players not equipped with the technical ability to do so, leading us to lose possession in dangerous areas. We need more variation to our play.
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the goalkeeper wasting time the fans withholding the ball the aggressive behaviour from the fans and the player’s wasting time they committed 14 fouls not one a booking so they had to leave the field most from the other side of the park hobbling off then sprinting back on even the ball boys were not old enough and we’re told not to return the ball PS must be the most spiteful fans in Scotland and that’s saying something hope this comment is not out of place on this matter
Frankly, the Hearts supporters withholding the ball were doing us a favor.
Classic! 😀
Phil, I like thousands of other Celtic supporters was at Tynecastle yesterday supporting the Bhoys,and felt the sadness of defeat. Driving back to Coatbridge along the M8 we had Radio Scotland Sportssound blabbering out their joy of a result for Hearts F.C. Fairplay to Craig Levien for addressing our teams achievement of 69 unbeaten run. during his interview. The match commentator may be lucky to keep his job as he gave a glowing referrence of the Invincible Team that had done remarkably well over the past 18 months. Thanks to him,but I am mystified by the ramblings of Packie Bonner as he tends to follow those other former Celtic players who tend to disparage Celtic with their comments for the sake of a few pounds.
“The club that was set up by immigrants…..” is wholly incorrect. A myth.
In 1888 all of Ireland was in the United Kingdom and all Irish Citizens were British Citizens.
Passports stated The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Irish travelling to Glasgow were doing so within the UK. It was the same as Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff or Birgmingham people travelling to Glasgow. British Citizens travelling within the UK. Not Immigrants.
Those descended from Irish Diaspora pre the Free State are descended from British Citizens. Only post Free State (1922) would be Immigrants. Unless British Citizens by choice.
There were no Irish Immigrants in the UK. In the USA, Canada, Australia, etc… yes! In the UK, NO!!
Most of them were not famine victims either but were economic opportunists who arrived 5,10,15,20 years after the famine to work in the burgeoning Scottish economy on infrastructure projects (roads and rail). Hard labour work Scots did not wish to do.
Weekly pay packet beat subsistence farming in Donegal. Never seeing coin in your hand. Eating what you grew.
The cultural dislocation of leaving Ireland as result of oppressive historical circumstances was real, no matter the legal technicalities post 1800 Act of Union.
You tell Rumpole,way too many people stating what they believe to be facts, and in fact their not all too sure;until you put them right.
If you n Rumpole were on Mastermind answering questions on Irish history and the Detrimental Effects of the british empire,I know who I’d put my wager on.
As far as these detractors go,well they should go and just keep feqn going.
Constructive criticism,by all means,but moaning like huns after a run like that is just negative and serves no REAL purpose.Please check reality with your coat and hat,thank you,Phil.??☮️✅??
Oh and migration doesn’t have to be across national borders dummy! It can be internal as well. There’s a whole body of academic literature on this. Ask my wife, whose PhD is on this very subject.
I do not disagree. But not Immigrants.
A lot of them continued to travel back and forth. Going back for a few years disliking the hard work. Coming back to Scotland because missing the coin.
They stayed with family in accommodation of 6,8,10,12….. cousins, uncles, aunties…. got jobs by word of mouth.
The concept of a single phase of Irish immigration during a five year famine period across a 15 mile stretch of water that had been crossed regularly for 20,000 years is a false perception.
The Scotland-Ireland-border has always been porous. Indeed there’s dozens of surnames in Ireland that are viewed as Irish Catholic that are Scottish and a result of Gael’s fleeing the reformation in 1500’s and the Gallowglass Scots warriors of earlier centuries.
But even these people were returning to Ireland as they were descendants of the Dalriada tribes of the 4th century (The Scots) who conquered and assimilated the Picts.
The late Romans called Ireland Scotia Major and Scotland Scotia Minor as they identified the tribes as the same culture and language.
Gaels from the Hebrides and Irish from Donegal speak Gaelic to each other with no problem.
You’re doing a racist dance on the head of a pin.
All serious scholarship (as opposed to anonymous trolls) consider the Irish migration to Scotland in the Victorian/Edwardian period to be immigration.
It’s pedantic gibberish, Phil. To describe emigration from one island to another as anything other than “immigration” because of a corrupt, purely political Act of Union at the beginning of the century is fatuous, but no more than I would expect from revisionists. It was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, two separate geographical and previously political entities. It’s like saying there was no emigration to America from England before 1776 because America was part of the Empire. You have to laugh.
The truth points to itself.
It always does.
Let your readers decide.
Playing the man and making a discussion personal should be beneath you.
They were legally British Citizens.
Oh and although they didn’t know it, a lot were Scottish Diaspora returning to Scotland after 300 years in Ireland; McCleans, McDonalds, Campbell’s, McPhadens/ McFaddens, McDougals, McSweeney, McCabe………..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallowglass
http://www.irishorigenes.com/content/gallowglass-do-you-belong-warrior-clan
Given that you are heroically anonymous and bravely concealed I can hardly “play you”.
However, I can spot racism when I read it.
The Famine Irish were immigrants to Britain and treated as such.
There were tens of thousands of Irish men and women in mainland UK before the famine. Long before.
In Scotland and England they joined Scottish and English Regiments to fight in the Peninsular War (1807-14) thousands of them. All on records.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
There were thousands of Irish in the Scottish and English Regiments at Waterloo 1815. Recruited in Scotland and England.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/just-how-many-irish-fought-at-the-battle-of-waterloo-1.2254271?mode=amp
Wellington himself (Wellesley) was an Irishman who had moved to England. I doubt he thought of himself as an immigrant.
There’s actually been legal precedent that all British Isles peoples (Irish, Scots, Welsh and English) are all commingled and of the same race. (North European Caucasian). It was an employment law Judicial Review finding. An Englishman employee claiming racism against a Scots company. Judges found could not have been racism as British Isles is all same race. It makes entirely perfect sense. Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Viking’s, Norman’s, Celts, Romans, Iberians, and many more commingling over millennia. They have found Stone Age axes and flint tools in Ireland that came from Scotland and one area of England. Unaware of borders in the Stone Age or Christianity variations, they travelled where they wanted and didn’t attribute culture to a geographical land mass.
Did the an Gorta Mor Diaspora regard themselves as immigrants to Glasgow? I don’t think so. I think they were aware of their status as being UK citizens within a unified UK. That they had the right to travel unimpeded throughout the UK wherever they liked. And they did so. They knew the King was their King and they knew their nobility was uk nobility and they knew they sent MPs and Lords to London. Like hundreds of thousands of Irish over hundreds of years before them they travelled to GB.
The journey and passage across St Patrick’s Channel was not long, dangerous nor hazardous, it was a regular ferry or shipping service state of affairs. They went to Edinburgh, Dundee, Liverpool, Manchester, London and many other places.
An Gorta Mor was 1845-1849. More Irish travelled to mainland GB and settled in 1850’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 1900’s, Celtic was founded in 1888 forty years after the famine. You could say two generations as people got married as 15yo-20yo back in 1800’s. Celtic was not formed to provide relief for famine arrivals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
I don’t disagree that they didn’t get a brilliant welcome from Presbytarean Scots 1845/49, but nobody could stop them going there. They were not foreigners from a foreign country. I can understand illiterate working class Scots having a problem with thousands of illiterate working class Irish arriving off boats over four years. Tough times. Worried for jobs. Cheaper labour.
I agree the administration of Ireland by the British Government was inept, possibly criminal. The evidence that they refused aid and allowed the situation to continue for years is anathema to the modern mind.
The Catholic Church were educated men. They told people to get over to the mainland where supplied parishes fed them with soup kitchens.
And Scots and English would doff their caps to the Irish Gentry and Lords as quickly as they did to English or Scots Gentry and Lords.
The legalese and splitting hairs over the term “immigrants” is a waste of time and I’m more with Phil on this. Whether the Irish who came to Scotland in the famine years were immigrants (documentation speaking) or not, is irrelevant. What is relevant is that they TREATED as immigrants by many of the Scottish population, especially in west-central/central Scotland. As such, they were discriminated against in all manner of ways and treated as 2nd class citizens. Some will argue that it still goes on today albeit in more subtle forms although that could be argued as being more anti-Catholic than Irish – but again that is splitting hairs because they were once synonymous.
Some good points.
People need to read into it and educate themselves rather than run with folklore.
Ireland sent Members of Parliament to the House of Commons and Lords to the House of Lords during that period as stated above. They were hardly immigrants.
Mainland UK was full of Irish before the famine and they travelled back and forth to Ireland. Irish Gentry had town houses in London and the East End was full of Irish before the famine. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was typical.
If you go from the country of your birth to permanently reside in another country that is immigration. They may have been technically within the UK, neither necessarily by choice, but they were, and remain very different countries.
You would think teams in this wee shithole would be grateful that celtics endeavours in Europe would be welcome with 360 grand they got this season and the other 400k winging their way next year!, but naw death threats, batteries and other missiles aimed at players at away grounds.
Well done bhoys!, this truly is a great time tae be a Tim.
Oh and can somebody tell how a club can rent a training facility at riccarton from Edinburgh council, go intae administration owing taxpayer nearly 400k and still get tae use it while small kids teams who pay up front can’t.
Answers on a postcard tae.
The masonic hall.
Edinburgh City chambers
High St
Edinburgh
Eh1.
Hearts don’t rent from the council, they agreed a 25 year lease with Heriot Watt Uni and contributed over £2m of the £6.5m building costs.
Can’t begrudge Hearts – at least that club and fans and even players owned their mistakes and made amends.
Tell that tae their creditors that got pennies in the pound.
They paid hmrc, unlike their billy boy buddies!, everyone else got stiffed!!!.
All gr8 things come 2 an end , time to start a new run of the unbeaten variety, hail hail
Great wee summation Phil,reminding Everyone exactly what was achieved
There’s cries of sack the board, sack BR and punt Broonie!!!!
I thought it only huns that made totally rash statements.
Evidently NOT
FFS
LEST WE FORGET HH.?
The huddle after the game shows to planet fitba that the team remains together and they will get stronger … An unprecedented back2back treble will be the reply to the. giddy stenographers when the team gets back from a well deserved winter break in Dubai fully recharged with some new recruits for 10 in a row
I think we could all see that the run was going to come to an end. As magnificent as it has been, over the last month there were signs that the team was not firing on all cylinders anymore. Yesterdays’ game to me was a combination of both physical and mental fatigue – physical because of the sheer number of games played (break can’t come soon enough) but also the mental side because it difficult to get players ‘up’ for every match when you know you are better than any of the teams. Well, on most days, at least!
However, it shouldn’t mask the honest, self re-assessment that needs to happen with regard to some of the team. There are a couple of positions where standard of play has dropped from before, a couple of players who appear to have lost a step and also a couple where the quality is good enough for Scottish level (maybe) but not good enough for us to be respectable in Europe. I am hopeful that the club will undertake hitting that ‘re-set button’ you mentioned and get us off on another run.
Including the Anderlecht game , we have been leggy and jaded. We need a few new faces in January to kick start the season again and also to give a few folk a kick up the backside.Don`t know if I`m grasping at straws or did anyone else think we had the wrong footwear or studs for the conditions ? Well beaten on the day. They had more appetite for the fight.Broony was overrun in the engine room with a few of his colleagues posted missing.Chins up guys.Glasgow will always be Green and White HH.
I think Hearts deliberately waterlogged the pitch to make it difficult for us to pass and we slipped at the vital moment on two of the goals. They deserved to win but the state of the pitch didn’t do us any favours. Wednesday at CP will be different.
What a tremendous achievement for a celtic team
At 44 years old it is up there along with the Magical centenary year and Seville
Bundling my personal emotions and experience of “the road to Lisbon” during the past five years, the chapter ending 2017 was very special indeed
Yours in celtic
Mouldy67
To say that celts will bounce back quickly is a falsehood,the way the manager sets his defenders as attacking extra midfielders is always going to be a concern,2 nil up at hibs and lose two soft goals because defenders breenging up the park ,hits then lose to sevco and dons. Why ? Because they defended properly,dodgy penalties or not .this passing from the back is a problem when it’s done at the wrong time .hopefully the weight of not getting beaten is of their back but I think it will be after the break until Celtic will be back to being good .they need a settled team first and foremost.onward and upwards hopefully.hailhail
Totally agree with your comments about defending….
I think we over-pass at the back…and do it with players who aren’t comfortable making passes…which quite often lead to goals against us.
And that is…namely …..our CB’s.
Simunovitch and Boyata are culpable here….but its not their fault.
Its how they’re told to play.
It will be interesting to see how the “anticipated” new CB will be told to play.
Levein was quite open about spotting Anderlecht’s tactics against us….and copying them.
Unfortunately, for us, it worked a treat…and we can expect more of it in the future, from other coaches.
Should BR have different thoughts now regarding certain games at certain venues….or do we just carry on like before ?
This is not a knee jerk reaction to Sunday….its something I’ve been unhappy with for quite a while.
And surely its acceptable to change our style of play…to suit the circumstances…?
Actual dignity…some could learn from the man who was born into Celtic
We won 4 trophy’s in the time it took them to win 4 games in a row . I think we are tired and in need of a rest bring in Ajer Hayes & Miller on Wednesday
Like Brendan after the match, your article can only be described in one word – class