Motherwell v Celtic 19/4/14 SPFL 12:45

Good to get a match thread fired up prior the weekend before the actual game!

In all seriousness, this should be a good content. Away to the third placed team in the country. We'll have to fight against complacency after waltzing the league.

Can't believe it's two weeks off, though.

 

Easter Saturday. Magic.

 

Is this on tv?

 

Say a prayer for the seats. hopefully they make it through the match unscathed.

 

This is too far away from today.

 

Commons will hit his 30th goal of the season in this match, calling it now

 

Not been massively on the Balde bandwagon this season but I have to admit I hope to * he gets a start in this game.

 

No. And by no I mean yes.

 

http://tinyurl.com/pj5p855

 

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Why?
If he hasn't shown enough to the boss and his assistants in training why should he get a start , just for the heck of it . I think that would be a very dangerous road for Lennon to take .
However if he has shown up well in training I would be delighted to see him starting .

 

So it gives us the opportunity to see what he can do on a match day. Playing games and training are two very different things. Besides, squad rotation and giving youngsters and fringe players some game time in the last few games of the season when you've already won your league is very beneficial for the players themselves and the squad as a whole in terms of morale and harmony, as everyone has played some part in the success and the final reading of the league table.

It is a common thing for any manager to do. Alex Ferguson did it at Man U, so I doubt it's a dangerous road to go down at all, just sensible and good utilisation of the squad.

 

The scout who found him should be sacked for buying a guy for £2m who can't even make the pitch against teams like Toss County.

 

We're gonna murder these lot,i'm going five with no reply..

 

Scouts don't buy players

 

Just got tickets today, hopefully same atmosphere and same result as the last time at Fir park :smiley-laughing002:

 

Neil Lennon does plenty of squad rotation, but maybe you are too interested in following the red nose Hun to realise . I don't think Old red nose give playtime to many of the dudes that he signed if he didn't judge them good enough . In the same way Lennon would be wrong to give game time to Balde if he felt he didn't deserve more playing time .
Ferguson didn't become the successful manager that he was by playing players he did not think good enough .

 

The club should sack someone who claims to be a Celtic fan and posts such an ignorant uninformed post .
No thought or consideration is given to the players, this scout may have picked out and who could have been some of our best stars . The Ciaran 67 guy hasn't checked, maybe the same scout , pointed out Victor and Virgil .