celtic v rangers this weekend

[daschoo]

can hardly wait for this game. only problem with it is its a half past twelve kick off on sunday afternoon as dictated by the police to try and cut down on drunken behaviour at the game. since you can't buy alcohol untill half twelve on a sunday it means no pint beforehand however getting the beers in on saturday night, my dads coming up to mine for breakfast and a few beers then take my hip flask up to the game with a wee touch of whisky. should be a great day

massive game in terms of the title, we're currently 2 points clear so could extend the lead to 5 with a win or if we lose rangers go top by a single point and the final meeting between the two in the league is at ibrox.
four weeks from this game the two sides meet in the league cup final, first trophy of the season so this game also potentially has a psychological impact on that.
heart says 3-0 celtic but my head says it will be a lot closer than that

mon the hoops!!!

 

[gazmc_06]

I'll be at the game as always, fancy a win for the Gers. We've been playing well recently and if we go 4-4-2 I'll be very confident. Biggest game in the world.

 

[daschoo]

as always? so your location isn't really dallas then? liar!

could be a good game, hoping we go with a midfield of right to left

naka brown crosas mcgeady

got a feeling strachan is going to be cautious and play at least one of robson and hartley in place of crosas and possibly mcgeady in an attempt to match up and "win the battle" i can see the logic behind this but to me that gives the initiative to rangers to play football whereas if we go with the more skillful midfield i feel we can get on the ball and dictate the game.

what do you make of that clown murray referreeing (cant believe the short version was censored!) the game? 9 year career and his biggest games have been and edinburgh derby and the celtic dundee utd semi, both this season. what does that say about the guy?

also i don't buy this stuff about us struggling for form while you've been playing well. since we beat you at ibrox we've dropped seven points while you've dropped five.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

my dads coming up to mine for breakfast and a few beers then take my hip flask up to the game with a wee touch of whisky. should be a great day

 

[gazmc_06]

as always? so your location isn't really dallas then? liar!

could be a good game, hoping we go with a midfield of right to left

naka brown crosas mcgeady

got a feeling strachan is going to be cautious and play at least one of robson and hartley in place of crosas and possibly mcgeady in an attempt to match up and "win the battle" i can see the logic behind this but to me that gives the initiative to rangers to play football whereas if we go with the more skillful midfield i feel we can get on the ball and dictate the game.

what do you make of that clown murray referreeing (cant believe the short version was censored!) the game? 9 year career and his biggest games have been and edinburgh derby and the celtic dundee utd semi, both this season. what does that say about the guy?

also i don't buy this stuff about us struggling for form while you've been playing well. since we beat you at ibrox we've dropped seven points while you've dropped five.

I'm was born in Glasgow, I've been spending half a year in Dallas and half a year back home for the past 6 years or so.

I don't really mind the ref choice to be honest, I would rather have an inexperienced ref take charge than one of the seasoned ref's who always seem to make big **** up's in OF games.

As for form, I do believe we're playing better right now and should really go into the game looking to win and only to win. We're playing well in terms of football, I think people see your team as "struggling" because they've had to grind a few wins out recently as opposed to winning convincingly. In all honesty though, prior form goes out the window in these games.

 

[daschoo]

callum murray is a joke of a ref but you're right mate the rest of them aren't great, only thing is he's not inexperianced he's been a grade 1 official for 9 years. if he's not been good enough for any remotely big game in the 9 years he's eligible to ref one why is he all of a sudden good enough now?. standard of officiating is a complete disgrace throughout the country.
to be honest both teams are pretty poor at the moment but as you say form goes right out the window in these games.
be interesting to see if any of these rumours flying around about boruc come to anything.
if you're spending half in dallas and half here i definately reckon you're doing it the wrong way round if you're here for the winter