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18 Oct 2026 19:29:07
Osmand picked up a slight injury, hamstring apprently but was taken off as a precaution.

18 Oct 2026 17:17:02
Amazing,
Celtic beat Rangers 7-1 in a National Cup Final which the Anniversary is Tomorrow.

18 Oct 2026 17:03:34
Well, thought we'd win but 7-1.

4 points clear again, massive goal difference at the mo.

Players coming back.

Duran is our next £25m man

Now if we could solve the Kasper problem, and the midfield, we'd be looking not to bad.

18 Oct 2026 17:24:14
Our biggest problem is Cb.

18 Oct 2026 18:33:38
AJ is back soon which means CD will get less game time unless we can find another position for him.

He did well today but him and Scales did make a lot of mispasses, giving the ball away to often imo.

We still need a defensive midfield player because that game was so open in the middle of the park. That is where we get punished in Europe.

A decisive midfielder and 2 cbs should be our next purchases because up front we are looking ok.

Crazy to think we had the same shots on target as them today but we score 7 to their 1.

18 Oct 2026 18:40:45
A good result that hopefully meand a few more we will still in contention come Christmas.

18 Oct 2026 18:48:39
Great result today. Only team in Scotland that can beat Celtic is themselves that and team selection. We are far better than Sevco IMO but the strange team selection in both games was suicidal even before kick-off. But no getting away from Great game today.

18 Oct 2026 18:59:18
5 goals lost in league so far isn't disastrous figures. what was it like this stage last couple seasons? ? Only a couple or four players away from being decent to good but will our lot identify then then buy them?

18 Oct 2026 20:18:26
Much more like it. Team selection helped with a more threatening front three but on the whole we had more zip about us, more vertical passing and took our chances well.

18 Oct 2026 17:00:38
Well my predicted front 3 ran riot HH ?.

18 Oct 2026 19:42:44
Considering it's a game or 2 early to start Jota, your predicted front 3 was the same as about 8 million Celtic fans globally. well done!

18 Oct 2026 16:57:37
The board will be spewing with the appearance fees and assist bonuses that will be getting shelled out after that.

18 Oct 2026 17:42:53
Even after a great result we still find something negative to say. GIVE ME STRENGTH.

19 Oct 2026 07:16:32
The only thing I found to even be slightest negative about that performance was the goal we lost and happened few times we have lost goals is baur and mcgregors position. If nygren and Donovan was on mcpake mcgregor and baur don't need to be where they were. Mendy passed to mcpake and moved to a shooting position on edge of box one of them really needs to be on the edge on him.

If I was to really nit pick and be greedy would be we reverted back to possession and not keep going but at 7-1 job done, big game coming up can understand. Hopefully confidence is high and can keep that going now and put poor performances behind us.

18 Oct 2026 16:04:42
Do do do do do do did do do.

18 Oct 2026 17:07:47
Missed the game today, which is typical! But what a performance. Quick, incisive passing and players like osmand who want to get forward and attack opposition or get into space with a purpose. What a difference it made.

Hearts looked hopeless, but we went for them and it worked rather than slowly building it up.

18 Oct 2026 15:55:23
Great first half but I have to say Scales is a DONKEY, he is like the opposition extra man

Also is Yang injured.

18 Oct 2026 17:23:43
You spelt warrior wrong.

18 Oct 2026 17:57:57
Nope,

I think he spelt it 100%.

18 Oct 2026 18:13:44
Not scales's biggest fan but a thought he was pretty good today.

18 Oct 2026 18:21:24
I’m bored with the constant criticism of Liam Scales, 7:1 win, he got substitute captain assists goals but still criticizing targeted on this app is insane!

18 Oct 2026 19:04:50
Totally agree Leeds Celt. When the doom merchants latch on to someone that's them marked forever. Same for Starfeldt and others.

{Ed007's Note - Scales is our best CB, does that mean he's good enough going forward if we want to improve, no - but right now he is the best CB at the Club.}

18 Oct 2026 19:45:17
It’s an opinion not being a doom merchant.

He’s a very poor player at SPFL level which would show up even more if he wasn’t in the Celtic team.

18 Oct 2026 19:54:29
Both Scales and Murray have their haters, would be fans who instantly took a dislike to them and fail to give them any credit whatsoever.

Scales assist for 1st goal and Murray for 2nd.
Defensively they were pretty solid against our supposed title challengers. The one goal we did concede was once again the fault of our midfield.

Wide player knocks the ball back to the 18 yard line where an opposition midfielder gets a free shot on goal, meanwhile McGregor and Baur are in our box marking no one. Will they ever learn?

19 Oct 2026 21:02:52
That's grand to have an opinion on any player, but once some minds are made up there's no changing. I agree though, to progress we need two upgrades at CB.
In terms of Scales I'll go by stats and figures on his performance from StatHub yesterday:

1 Assist
12 effective clearances - (clearances to one of our players)
Won 7 duels
89 successful passes (out of 100) , of which 12 were long to either wings or directly to the front player.

He is being asked to carry the ball forward more and play the ball, and the stats show he is doing well at that. Add a solid 6 at Christmas and both CBs will be better imho.

Don't know how much better he could have done yesterday. He definitely isn't a donkey.

18 Oct 2026 14:23:15
Tounetki not even in the squad.
Someone up there is listening to me! ?.

18 Oct 2026 14:57:13
Martin said he'll be back in for Thursday.

18 Oct 2026 17:49:35
Special spot in the stand set aside for him.

18 Oct 2026 13:45:00

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18 Oct 2026 10:24:25
IF we can win today IF

Going 4 points clear with all our internal problems would be huge and send a message to Sevco.

18 Oct 2026 12:25:25
I fancy Celtic strongly Tim,
I reckon we will win comfortably.
At least 3 Celtic goals and at least 8 Celtic corners is 7/ 1.

18 Oct 2026 13:19:45
Concerned about this one, I admit; m' on the Hoops!

18 Oct 2026 14:28:47
I reckon it will be tight. 5-1?.

18 Oct 2026 09:13:53
My team for today, sinasola just, Donovan, trusty, scales, kt, mcgregor, baur, ox, hassan, Duran, osmand with hopefully nygren jota and mheuka getting a run at some point maybe hogh coming on as well.

18 Oct 2026 09:51:41
McGregor Hassan out for Nygren n Hogh but he probably pick closer to your team.

18 Oct 2026 10:22:16
Mally I want The Ox in team as well but Martin does not play him.

18 Oct 2026 11:25:32
That’s the team we should put out mally
But I wouldn’t be surprised if hogh and Tounekti start again both should count themselves lucky to even make the squad.

18 Oct 2026 12:28:02
All of a sudden we look really strong up top with Osmand and Jota available again.
A team is going to get hammered and hopefully it’s the Jam Tarts today.

18 Oct 2026 12:42:14
Hogh has been poor and least said about tounekti.