SUBS –
HAKUNA HATATE – N/A – Still traumatised by the traumatising he gave us on Thursday. Easy 20-minute-therapy afternoon.
YING – N/A – Match done, but another opportunity to test out his dancing feet.
KILLER MUSHROOM – N/A – Hello. Goodbye. Win bonus appearance late Xmas present, I suppose.
BRIAN DE – N/A – You still here, #2? “Make up yer mind, boss…” he swore in Honduran as he trotted into baw-freezing conditions. After being so absent, do we anticipate a joyful comeback of Ferris Bueller proportions? Brendan? Brendan?…
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers prior to the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and St. Mirren at Celtic Park on January 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
THE NOTAPRODDYGAL – 7.5/10 – Major relief after Thursday’s hubris-smashing humiliation. His changes worked – thanks for reading… – and we saw renewed vigour and purpose about the system. If he had hoped for a bounce, this is exactly what the calculated psychology of the past few days inspired. The careful reset of his squad’s belief after so much critique and (deserved imo) downright slating was his major task. Egos repaired, reputations inflated once more, confidence restored, natural order asserted after that Jurrasic Park style abberation when the food-chain got corrupted; Credit where it’s due – Mission accomplished well for the boss and staff.
MIBBERY – 5/10 – Fandannies. Half an hour they had St.Murder hanging in with nitpicking, timewasting and tedious pitiful awards of fouls where there weren’t any. Fall down. Free-kick. Hungover from celebrating Thursday, the main MIB forgot his cards as VAR forgot they had a monitor, then ultimately got short-circuited (literally) by resurgent Hoops.
Greg Taylor is seen during a power failure the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and St. Mirren at Celtic Park on January 05, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
OVERALL – 7.5/10 – A very decent comeback. Tensions around a difficult physical battle were diffused slightly by the lunchtime circus performance in Edinburgh as we were reminded just how much a collective of clowns can make us smile on a dreich post-festive January Sunday. Zombies being Zombies again in the most amusing of manners. So when focus turned on Celtic, it was up to the Bhoys to make us believe in them once again and answer the many concerning questions of the year to date.
After an ego-shattering defeat by a wee diddy team, recovery of form is never straightforward. What we got were New Year resolutions to the max – dispelling any delusions of adequacy from across the town in a composite display of flair and substance that had the hardy gangsters of New Medellin beaten well before the coke ran out. Even sabotage of the power grid by pesky rogue Zombie sparkies failed to halt the green machine’s momentum.
-13 it is, as winter rolls in, and we’re also watching the 27 degrees of warming goal difference. It’s almost as if Thursday never happened. Just like the Zombies insist regards liquidation.
Tick-tock, back in yer box…
Go Away Now
Sandman
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Didn’t understand much of that and I’m a season ticket holder
When we look back on our time as Celtic supporters and someone from a younger generation asks just what was Sellick Da patter?
Link them up to this.
Like him or loathe him, Sandman’s Definitive Ratings gets a huge audience every single time. He has no idea why!
The only reason I subscribe to this blog is to read this.
(Cellic granda looking forwards to seeing a third NIAR)
Agree with you about Engels, Sandman. He will just get better and better.