Lotw Diary

Nooo, the bench again boss.....

We canny lie. After a week of festive hilarity, gloating and the stuffing of turkeys earlier than usual, the last place we wanted to be going is Inversenkie....a place we have never played well, got results right enough, in dramatic last minute circumstance. Wish i could say that tomorrow we were going to win comfortable, easily..but...i canny, in fact, the FEAR of another 2 or 3 points dropped is very real...real enough to worry that the impetuses will shift the the evil over the Clyde.

So what is the gossip, the craic and the views.....

Day off for the tired bhoys

"The pressure of non-stop matches gets to everybody in the end. It's a lot for players and coaches to take in. There's a mental stress involved for the players." said oor wee ginja ninja. So does giving players the day's off to go oot on the swally, Wednesday is grab a grannie or trannie night in Karbon, allegedly, while last week he was berating the fact that he couldnae spend time on the training field at the luxurious Lennoxtoon wie the Bhoys make sense?

No, don't get it either....but he's the boss, he knows his players and their "right guid wans" according to the boss.

GS would like to be seven points clear

“I’d like to be seven points clear but we dropped two last week and we have to deal with that which we’ve done already and I think we dealt with it very, very well during the week.” The facade that we pushed the ghosts of the failure against St Mirren away, wie a 4-0 victory against Fawkirk is being peddled very hard by the Celtic PR machine.

As anyone will tell you who saw both games the only difference was that oor quality, the first names on the team sheet, the Aiden, the Skippy and the Broony, all had guid games. They don't play we don't have a plan B or C. Add to that the return of Donati against Fawkirk, which seemed to give us a mair creative edge.

While his performances have been hit or miss, which can be mockney rhyming slang for pish and that could sum up some of Massimos games...the stat is, in the last two games Massimo has started Celtic have scored 7 goals. If you add the Donestk game into that, he came on after 16 minutes and was Colin Nish but scored the winner, oor Italian Tommy Gravesan- soon to the returned Tommy G if the Daily Ragger is to be believed- when he has been involved the team has scored 9 goals.

Would he fancy Inversenkie in December? Would he take one look at the delights of the Kessoch Brig, the lumbering giants that ICT employ and decide that he would rather be shopping in Milan wie, i'm sure, his guid looking burd?

If he starts would he go the sameway as the Grav and Jiri faired on their first visit to the senkie-i.e sh*te?

The physical presence that the Senkie have and the FACT they are an in-form team means that the managers mithering that “They make it hard for us - sometimes we make it hard for ourselves - but I’d like to give them a bit more respect than that" rings as true as the bell tolls wherever yer nearest bell tolls.

Not, going to second guess the manager...but i am..it's a blog and a blogger is meant to give the impression that he knows what he is talking aboot. Injuries to Elvis and Ryan Conroy mean that, what i thought would be the GS plan, revert to the bigger physical back four wie O'Dea coming in at LB and Jiri returning to the left handside in place of Massimo, may not happen now. I would go on to say if that does happen then the managers take that "we make it hard for oorselves" very, very true.

We can guess one thing though, Deek will be an unused sub and Evander, despite bleating like a typical egotistical Dutchman- yer twenty big stuff and yer no playing for Den Hagg or Fc Twente...yer playing for the SELLLLICK, learning yer trade, yer a lucky man.....- will need to be wrapped up like a Eskimo fishing in Alaska sitting next to Deek on the bench.....at least he will have a chance to get on..even if it is on the right wing...

Forza