{"id":8905,"date":"2016-04-07T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T08:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2016-04-07T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:44:07","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-april-7-no-more-interviews-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8905","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday April 7: No More Interviews, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronny Deila, ahead of Saturdays crucial league encounter, at motherwell, a game in which Celtic cannot afford to fail to register a win, has told the supporters he’s ready.<\/p>\n

In an exercise on how to focus on the job at hand, which must surely inspire confidence amongst a support which is beginning to get a little nervous, he said’<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have showed that they are the best team in the Championship and we are ready to take them on next year Of course it is a big club and when they are good enough then that can only be a positive thing for Scottish football.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Who ? Motherwell \u00a0?<\/p>\n

Hang on….<\/p>\n

He’s talking about, or been manipulated into talking about next seasons games!<\/p>\n

So, before I continue, I’d like to ask the Celtic PR guy, you know, whoever sets up these sessions if he could do me a favour…<\/p>\n

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What is he playing at ?<\/p>\n

He did get round to mentioning the Motherwell game..<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has changed from our point of view. We would be going to Fir Park to get three points no matter what had happened with the game at Dundee or with Aberdeen on Friday night. We always want to win.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I believe we are going to win the league. There are a lot of positives here and I believe in my players. That has not changed. Yes, there is pressure but I enjoy that pressure. If you don\u2019t enjoy working under pressure then you should not be the Celtic manager.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a number of reasons why someone should not be the Celtic manager, and as every day passes, Deila ticks another of the boxes.<\/p>\n

Kieran Tierney, one of the few shining lights amingst the general gloom surrounding the east end of glasgow these days, was a little more interested in the Fir Park game;<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a few hostile shouts probably, but I\u2019m looking forward to that, I have played there for the U20s and so it would be my first time for the first-team.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey beat us the last time at Celtic Park so we will be looking to get back to winning ways against them. They are playing well under Mark McGhee, have climbed the table and are pushing for a top-six place while we are pushing for the title so it will be hard game. But we have confidence and we are all motivated to do well.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

How will it go ?<\/p>\n

Well, Motherwell will employ their usual defensive set up..<\/p>\n

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venturing forward rarely to show a little enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

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whilst Celtic adopt their usual style of waiting for something to happen.. and then bringing on Colin Kazim Richards to make sure it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Whilst the overall theme here may be one of despondency, it doesn’t have to be that way.<\/p>\n

When it clicks, Celtic are a fearsome side, way ahead of anything else in Scotland, its just that somewhere, the train appears to have left the tracks. Maybe we just need to make a few adjustments to set it back on the line.<\/p>\n

Surely there’s no need for the heavy machinery just yet ?<\/p>\n

4-2-3-1 can work, it just needs a bit of enthusiasm, and so now is the time to put it in there.<\/p>\n

You see, we’ve got it all wrong.<\/p>\n

Just as ali beat foreman back in the seventies, Celtic have been engaged in a massive game of rope a dope to keep us all interested until the end of the season. a bit of box office to keep us all interested.<\/p>\n

Haven’t they ?<\/p>\n

On Saturday, we’ll see the real Celtic, the side that will take us to the champions League groups…and guess what, we at Etims have been told how it will work…. except the defence, where it will just be a case of who hasn’t hurt themselves this week.<\/p>\n

Gordon, Lustig , Mulgrew, Boyata, Tierney ( probably )<\/p>\n

Then the back two midfielders….Scott Allan and Stuart Armstrong<\/p>\n

Then the next three, Patrick Roberts, Tom Rogic and Kristoffer Ajer-oh wait, he can’t come yet, so We’ll get Ryan Christie in…all interchanging, none of them with a specific posotion. They will just go with the flow…<\/p>\n

Leigh griffiths will be on hand to add to his tally, having been told there will not be a striker brought on to help him at any stage, because we haven’t got any.<\/p>\n

On the bench will be Scott Brown, in case someone needs to be stared at, Stefan Johansen incase we need someone to run around a bit, Kris Commons in case we need to plant an obstruction in the middle of the park, emilio Izaguirre in case anyone wants a fight and James Forrest in case anyone gets tired.<\/p>\n

Oh, and a substitute goalie, doesn’t matter which one. The lad from dundee will be sitting there next season.<\/p>\n

All or nothing. Lets go for it.<\/p>\n

It might actually not be as far fetched as you think. There’s a virus sweeping Lennoxtown, so a drunk guy told us, and on the coach back from the Dundee the other night, around half the players were feeling sick.<\/p>\n

Not, if I may be so bold as to venture, as sick as some of those on supporters buses making the same journey …<\/p>\n

So, all Ronny has to do, to justify a gamble and maybe see some players he wants to see play his way is blame it on the flu….<\/p>\n

This PR lark is a piece of piss…<\/p>\n

The Scottish Cup semi final will see Craig Thomson in the middle, with Bobby Madden in one of the supporting roles. we hear Hugh Dallas and Bobby Tait are being called out of retirement to help due to a sickness bug ravaging the referees meeting the other day.<\/p>\n

I bet they’d get away with that as well.<\/p>\n

Told you, PR , a job anyone can do. Except whoever is doing it at Celtic, obviously…<\/p>\n

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Carl JungleBhoy noted the 1888 on yesterdays picture, and won when he wondered if it was Brother Walfrid being asked to move on after he was out to help the poor in Bridgeton…<\/p>\n

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Today, we have another vintage image…which is claimed to be the BBC sound effects department in 1927. but of course, it isn’t….so what is it ?<\/p>\n

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