With about as much enthusiasm as I can muster this is the game thread. We're low on confidence and hampered by injures to key players. The game is going to go one of two ways: we're either going to get a serious humping or by some miracle we're going to pull off a win. I'm expecting a humping.
please log in to view this image I'm sure Tarquin will be lying in a field of magic mushrooms somewhere in southern Holland praying for a Rennes win.
With all the injuries , nobody has a clue what team we will put tonight, personally I think it will be a draw and hopefully no more injuries!!!
It'll be Loovens and Big Maj at CB (that's all there is). Left back and right back? Matthews and AN Other. I suspect he'll play Wanyama in front of the two CB's to clear up their mistakes. Samaras up front on his own?
Cha right back , Commons hopefully on the left McCourt in midfield plays there for n Ireland , forrest in behind big sammy , give hopper and stokes the night off !!!
I wonder how we'll shoot ourselves in the foot this time? Every game we've played in this compo we've done it: own goals, sending offs, penalties etc.
Stereo is such a positive poster, with his renown love for Celtic I am sure he could get a job at the Record. No doubt it will be difficult tonight but it is a long time since Celtic has had an easy game in Europe. We have been missing key players from very early on this season. Last year's Scottish player of the year and our Captain and probably our most influential player, Scot Brown. Brown does a great job on the right hand side of midfield both in his own contribution and the contribution he exhorts from colleagues. Personally I don't see why the replacements of the other players who are ineligible through non registration and injury, cannot perform on any given night to, at least the standard of the missing players. At least we know that the rumours concerning Commons and Lennon were just........ rumours. I am hoping for a win tonight Harryhood but expect I will be glad of a draw by ten pm.
At least the game is on at a normal time tonight. Hoping for a performance tonight, got to the point where I don't care who plays as long as they put in a decent display
Forster; Cha, Loovens, Majstorovic, Matthews; McCourt, Wanyama, Kayal, Forrest; Samaras, Stokes. Stereo got his wish
Sammy and Stokes Basically, any combination including Sammy and AN Other is doomed to failure. Let's hope I'm proved wrong (at least it would give super trooper something to gloat about.)
