[Lex]

Back to league duty and a good old early kick off against the Old Firm for us now.

Celtic have won 11 SPL games in a row, part of that run included the 5-0 thrashing they gave us at Parkhead. We have won 1 match out of 8 in the league and haven't won against 11 men in the SPL since the victory over Dunfermline on the 19th of November. In the two games between the sides this season, Celtic have won both, scoring 7 and conceding 0 in the process.

All stats therefore point towards a comfortable Celtic victory, and so it will likely come to pass. We are a team low on confidence facing a team on a domestic rampage.

Hopefully we won't concede early, as we have done in both meetings between the sides this season - in both matches we were 2-0 down by the 12th minute. If we can keep it tight for the first twenty minutes or so then you never know what could happen....?

The defending simply must improve substantially from the game at Tynecastle. If we offer Celtic anything like as much space as we did Mr Skacel on Saturday we will get another hiding.

Hopefully Goodwin will be back, we have really missed him over the last few weeks. If not I'd like to see either Shuggie or Thomson replace Barron in midfield, but Lennon seems to prefer Div to both of them bizarrely. So unless Goodwin is back it is likely to be the same 11 that started the matches against Hearts and Hamilton:

-----------------Samson
Van Zanten-McAusland-Mair-Tesselar
Carey-McGowan-Barron/Goodwin-McLean
--------Thomspon-----Teale-----

0-2.

This post has been edited by Lex: 21 January 2012 - 10:41

[Borg]

st.mirren will get a tanking in this game, our only hope is that celtic have a very bad off day.
3 nil away win.

[Borg]

st.mirren will get a tanking in this game, our only hope is that celtic have a very bad off day.
3 nil away win.

[Shuggie_Murray7]

0-2

These games are always a write off. It's a bonus to get anything. Meh.

[TheScarf]

2-1 St Mirren.

[The Taxman]

Celtic could probably beat st mirren with 7 or 8 players.

4-0

[Hitcher]

I expect Celtic to win by a couple of goals.

I also expect Neil Lennon to act like a horrible, classless cunt before, during and after the game.

[Tim Malloy]

Hitcher, on 18 January 2012 - 16:21, said:

I expect Celtic to win by a couple of goals.

I also expect Neil Lennon to act like a horrible, classless c**t before, during and after the game.

He won't be in with the St Mirrin support! He'll be sitting with Thompson Mjallby and co.

[Hitcher]

Tim Malloy, on 18 January 2012 - 16:32, said:

He won't be in with the St Mirrin support! He'll be sitting with Thompson Mjallby and co.

An excellent and witty post. You must be quite the intellect.

[Tim Malloy]

Hitcher, on 18 January 2012 - 16:42, said:

An excellent and witty post. You must be quite the intellect.

and your observant!

This post has been edited by Tim Malloy: 18 January 2012 - 16:49

[The OP]

Hitcher, on 18 January 2012 - 16:21, said:

I expect Celtic to win by a couple of goals.

I also expect Neil Lennon to act like a horrible, classless c**t before, during and after the game.

I hope he does, it would make a refreshing change from his every word, gesture and move being misrepresented or blown out of all proportion.

I feel pessimistic before every game at the moment; I think it's a combination of being in front by a slender margin and feeling the run has to come to an end at some point. Any win will do, I predict 3-1 Celtic.

This post has been edited by The OP: 18 January 2012 - 16:59

[sergie's no1 fan]

Easy 5-0 win for my big team

[Kris.]

If the St Mirren players could find it in themselves to boot the utter shite out of every Celtic player on the field, that would be terrific. Do us a wee favour for next week.

[sergie's no1 fan]

Kris., on 18 January 2012 - 17:39, said:

If the St Mirren players could find it in themselves to boot the utter shite out of every Celtic player on the field, that would be terrific. Do us a wee favour for next week.

Theres more chance of them booting fck out of us .

4 of the top 10 most fouled players in the SPL play for us.

McGowan being the most fouled.

[Widge]

sergie, on 18 January 2012 - 17:45, said:

Theres more chance of them booting fck out of us .

4 of the top 10 most fouled players in the SPL play for us.

McGowan being the most fouled.

I'd love to see the stats for this actually.

[chico]

Can we blow it any bigger than the last one at SMP?

Hope there's a fair referee.

[MarreZ]

Saints 4 Celtic 0 (Imrie 2, McAusland 2)

[Greenlantern]

Got a wee soft spot for St Mirren this season now, due to my wonderful Xmas present they gave me.
However.. I feel beating Dundee utd last weekend repaid the favour for the Saints.

0-2 to the hoops

[buddie06smfc]

Widge, on 18 January 2012 - 18:00, said:

I'd love to see the stats for this actually.

My link

[GAD]

Tim Malloy, on 18 January 2012 - 16:32, said:

He won't be in with the St Mirrin support! He'll be sitting with Thompson Mjallby and co.

Saint Mirren fans have a level of class that a Celtic supporter could never hope to reach. We are simply better people.

[Enrico Annoni]

GAD, on 18 January 2012 - 18:42, said:

Saint Mirren fans have a level of class that a Celtic supporter could never hope to reach. We are simply better people.

Captain Sensible, Chick Young

This post has been edited by Enrico Annoni: 18 January 2012 - 18:48

[GAD]

Enrico Annoni, on 18 January 2012 - 18:48, said:

Captain Sensible, Chick Young

Indeed, imagine even those two being classier than you Enrico. How embarrassing!

[RussellV1]

http://www.celtictru..._article& id=349

Quote

We will continue to monitor the situation and we may need to consider some form of protest action against St Mirren if they continue to inconvenience and degrade our supporters in this way.

[GAD]

RussellV1, on 18 January 2012 - 19:19, said:

http://www.celtictru..._article&id=349

Yas! I sense a badly spelt banner on the way!

[TartanArmani]

Got a sneaky feeling St Mirren may win this one