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I agree to an extent. Rodgers is currently hitting all his targets. Being unbeaten domestically at this stage is more than would have been expected but at the same time if we want to be progressing we have to be a lot better than everything in Scotland. I am not saying he is the next Stein but at the same time you have to say that so far he has made a very good start and let's see how far he can raise the bar. What I will not do is try to anticipate when it falls apart or if it falls apart. That is for others, particularly the Scottish media who will have the knives sharpened already for any sort of slip and will be dying to create some sort of crisis.

Cargin chinned at Creggan.....back to the drawing board
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Team of old men 

Indeed .......on the way out to pasture......can hear the lamentations......

Haha yeah your boys would be happy for folk to be thinking that way too.

yeah it was a good result away to All Saints last night. played the most of the second half with 14 men as well and came away with a 2 point win. Not a bad start to the season for a change.

Ballymena lack in finesse what they have in physical stature.

Cargin chinned at Creggan.....back to the drawing board

Team of old men 

Exactly.Brendan Rodgers has thus far succeeded in meeting the minimum requirements.He is certainly undeserving of an inflated status for remaining unbeaten against other Scottish teams who are of a similar status to Cork City or Dundalk (in fact no Scottish team came close to matching Dundalk's Europa League campaign this season).Given Celtic's huge budgetary advantage and wage bill,no Scottish team should be capable of even giving them a decent game.

Tony your hole is open permanently.

Yes, unbeaten playing the equivalent of Irish League teams every week.
Bravo

Prize for most original post. The Scottish challenge cup included Irish league teams this season against the mighty lower league Scottish teams who duly dumped them on their erses but sure better to take your analysis from Simon Jordan and his like.

Celtic should win. Depends on the ref, Collum, not letting them away with challenges like in the last game. Hopefully if they resort to those tactics Broonie does what he did to Boyce at the weekend. Their form coming into this game is very similar to the first three games this season under Warburton.

Problem with that is you are depending on the referee being consistent.

No fears at all for sunday, we are the better side, better players, better manager. Who cares we haven't been on a great run of form? we aren't losing games and the titles in the bag, only natural to take foot off the gas. can't wait to put them back in their place at the weekend, there is not 1 rangers player i would have in out match squad, not 1 we are superior in every way. we get an early one and well tank them, but the LC semi was as satisfying with a late winner

We will tank  them.

Celtic supporters generally are respectful of each other.  Not to say they do not differ in opinion, they often do but in a respectful way.

Celtic will take care of that shouer on Sunday with something to spare. The margin of victory will in part be determined by Willie Collum but it will be a victory nonetheless. This is one game lately that we will be all guns blazing and I would be looking at a margin of victory in the range of three goals or more. I am glad a lot are predicting an upset as that is one thing less for us to deal with.

To pull out the racist card in this instance is wrong. It is subjective and turns it into a debate about the implication of one sentence in what was an overall disgusting attack on a young man whose crime is being a public figure.

I don't think McKenzie meant to be racist, although his constant jibes at Liverpool and it's inhabitants says more about the odious p***k that he is.
It's time the PFA stood up for it's members and canvas it's members to not give interviews to the Sun and it now should be a given that Everton ban them as well.

Fwiw, you don't need to prove racist intent in a questionable racist statement in order for that statement to be judged racist.
But it would be wise to look at the context.

One question is what did McKenzie intend by comparing Ross to an ape?
He's saying that he's not human, below a human, dehumanize the target as if to indicate that being a non human is the problem. That why black people were historically  compared to apes/monkeys and still are. It became part of the everyday language of racists and slave trade apologists.

Imo, the racist tag still applies in this case even if McKenzie was unaware that it was in the public domain that Ross could  have declared for Nigeria, due to his family blood ties. McKenzie used the traditional racist put-down of black people and applied it to what he probably thought was a lowly scouser. I think we can reasonably infer that McKenzie is dehumanising  by association, equating a lowlife scouser to a lowlife black person by trying to dehumanise Ross with the  ape comparison.


Here is an example of context, how a word could sound racist if you ignore the vital importance of context.
Recently an Australian pundit who likened a development in the play by Venus Willams to a  guerilla effect (tactic). UnfortunatEly for him, an outraged public thought he said gorilla and context was totally diminished as a value by which we understand the spoken language, it was replaced by ignorant blind emotion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/01/19/espn-analyst-says-he-did-not-liken-venus-williams-to-a-gorilla-but-a-guerrilla/?utm_term=.c5cf8b285d2d

Yes we have all these laws and definitions around topics like racism, sexism etc where someone simply has to be offended in a certain manner for it to be that manner of offence. But there was a lot of stuff in his article that was highly distasteful and a lot of stuff where there can be no ambiguity that was pretty disgusting to stick in a newspaper column. But look guys like this are writing articles like this is titles like the Sun because there is a demand among readers for this type of crap. It says a lot about a section of the GB public that this passed through the editorial process as something that was deemed suitable consumption for their target audience.

To pull out the racist card in this instance is wrong. It is subjective and turns it into a debate about the implication of one sentence in what was an overall disgusting attack on a young man whose crime is being a public figure.

Well i'm not sure if i heard them right on Sat when i was over but i could have swore i heard them say there is a 7000 waiting list for season books for next year?. Considering there was only 41,000 at the game on Sat i'm not so sure about that

Could be right - I know the club are putting pressure on the supporters clubs to get their requests in asap.

Yeah Spurs have a really good mix of players who are strong but can play - you look at their backbone with Alderweirald, Vertongen, Dembele, Ali, Kane - all top players technically but also all strong as an ox.  Walker, Rose, Wanyama, Son etc not too shabby either.

Sadly the Deja vu title of this thread looks like it is not even going to be relevant this season with the usual celebration of finishing top 4 looking less and less likely and celebrating St Totteringham day needing a real miracle.

Sevco will not beat Celtic in the semi final - we  will be on it and it would take a hell of a performance from the referee to deny us (have seen the like before mind).

What are everyone's thoughts on the season ticket price increase?  Happy enough?  For a lot of years we have not had any sort of rise so personally I do not see it as a massive problem.