{"id":18116,"date":"2022-12-28T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2022-12-28T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T07:29:11","slug":"celtic-diary-wednesday-december-28-making-your-mind-up-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18116","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Wednesday December 28: Making Your Mind Up For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

With manager Ange Postecoglou not one for disclosing his plans regarding incomings or outgoings during the transfer window, choosing instead to just get on with it, the way the media works has once more come to the fore.<\/p>\n

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Oliver Abildgaard, on loan from Rubin Kazan, hasn’t featured much since he arrived, which with the boss having picked his first midfield, is no real surprise, and so one wonders if the papers, well, the Record, have taken to speculation…<\/p>\n

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Oliver Abildgaard Celtic loan deal to be ‘ripped up’ as Danish flop set for early Parkhead exit<\/h2>\n

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To be ripped up ?<\/p>\n

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The Dane has failed to make an impression in the east end of Glasgow and could be heading back to his Russian club early\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Er, no, now he “could be heading back to his russian club ”<\/p>\n

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Now Russian reports have indicated that\u00a0Celtic<\/a>\u00a0and Rubin Kazan have reached an agreement to rip up the loan deal and terminate his time in Glasgow<\/em><\/p>\n

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Indicated ? there is no link to any of the stories, no quotes and as usual, no comment from the club, because Mark Walker, the hack who put this together, felt that a denial would spoil a story he seemed to be losing confidence in as he typed.<\/p>\n

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If these people need help in making stuff up, they only have to ask.<\/p>\n

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There will be one or two leaving, indeed Abildgaard may want to leave, but that possibility is never even considered.<\/p>\n

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Robbie Copland, the Record’s “live ” sportswriter, which probably explains the output from some of the others, claims Ladislav almasi of Banik Ostrava is back on the radar, because<\/p>\n

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The Hoops are looking for a new striker<\/em><\/p>\n

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Notice how certain he is that we’re in the market for a forward.<\/p>\n

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I’d expect to see Stephen Kenny get a shot first…..<\/p>\n

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Celtic pop along the M8 tonight to face Hibernian, though talk Ryan Porteous will sneak a seat on the bus back may be a little premature. There is a player in there somwhere, but Ange doesn’t seem to rate the Scottish market, or at least he has little faith in whoever recommends local talent.<\/p>\n

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He has his own targets, his own sources and frankly they’ve not let him down yet.<\/p>\n

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Porteous has too many rough edges for Angeball, and the manager , when talking about the attitude of Reo Hatate, slipped in another thing he looks for in a player…..<\/p>\n

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He knows what it\u2019s like to be a full-back because he finds himself in that position during games of football.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends on individual players and Reo loves feedback. He is constantly seeking it. He\u2019s knocking on Gavin Strachan\u2019s door every day asking for analysis and feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be nothing to give him, but he still demands it because he\u2019s that type of player. That\u2019s why he keeps improving and will keep improving.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think he is going to be a full-back, but the way we play, we could probably take one of our full-backs and put them into midfield and they would understand what to do because the way we play requires them to be in those areas.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Total football ?<\/p>\n

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Not far off…<\/p>\n

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If only we could snap up Scott Arfield ….<\/p>\n

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Three points tonight will keep us on course for a second consecutive title, and the crack at the UCL so desired by Postecoglou. How we fare next season in that may yet determine how long he stays with us….as long as he sees improvement we should have him around for a while yet.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, somewhere over the crazy river, Michael Beale, this weeks Ibrox manager, has inherited the mathematical skills of the accountants over there…. (Scotsman )<\/p>\n

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Michael Beale explains why Rangers should only be three<\/h1>\n

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\u201cThe difference is nine points but we\u2019ve only played each other once and they won that game, deservedly. So the difference should be three points, shouldn\u2019t it? It should,\u201d said the Rangers manager. \u201cSo we are six points behind against the other teams in the league, the other 10 that we play. That is the disappointing thing. If it just came down to Old Firms it would be more interesting, but you have to beat everybody else. That\u2019s the key message.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The sudden, sharp realisation that there are other teams in the league and you have to win against them as well…as well ?….may be a sign he is already maturing as a manager.<\/p>\n

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It may also be a sign that he’s a fucking idiot, and Steven Davis will be manager before Easter.<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, the hack, Andrew Smith , not only let him keep talking, but seemed to encourage him by writing it down….<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the problem had been that we had only dropped points in that one game we would have a chance, on the second of January, to even it up. As it stands that ain\u2019t going to be enough. We have to win all the other games. Unless we can go on a run of winning in big batches of games it is very hard to get to where we want to get in Scotland, full stop. It is very much us or Celtic every season when it starts, so you have to beat everybody else and do well in the Old Firms. So, for me both our games this week are only worth three points. And the three points tomorrow against Motherwell are the most important three points.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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No one from the club\/company felt it worth popping their head around the door and telling him his mum had come to pick him up, so he continued….<\/p>\n

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\u2018If you could guarantee it [a convincing win] I would take it but I just want three points,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d like to have more control at certain times, be a little bit stronger in our positioning and stronger in the duels all over the pitch and I think things in the final third will click. We have been missing Antonio [Colak], Kemar [Roofe], Ianis [Hagi], and [Tom] Lawrence and some of those players have been missing for a long time. The club has invested a lot in those four players and they are really key to us in the final third. I\u2019d like to see a time where I have a problem leaving one of them out or trying to get those four players into the team. I think it will make a difference.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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One wonders if they’ll recommend adult supervision from now on….<\/p>\n

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There still seem to be those who either can;t or won;t acknowledge that indirectly, the Resolution 12 campaign led to a lot of work behind the scenes to prevent a recurrence of the cheating that took place shortly befoire Rangers plummeted towards obscurity,<\/p>\n

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The reaction of the requisitioners to the revelation that Lawwell did indeed use the smoking gun of evidence should tell you they’re convinced, and when you look at the website that contains it, a simple cross reference with Anders Traverso and Peter Lawwell, factor in 5 way agreements and the “new club ” letter….it is real, and again when the media doctored it, some chose to believe their version rather than the version…the original…that I once stood up on a table in Malones in Glasgow and read out aloud in the manner of a Shakespearian actor, then maybem just maybe , you’ll understand that in this world , sometimes we have to get what we can get, and we may not have got revenge, but we certainly put a stop to the cheating.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, we had this….<\/p>\n

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Rangers injury list grows as Mick Beale discovers the training dummy has severe rust<\/p>\n

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Today….<\/p>\n

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