It is not a challenge. It’s a game. It is not under-10s where you have got to play everyone every week. We bring the players in to compete and fight for the shirt.
So, either Celtic are very, very unlucky to be drawn away or someone is making tricks behind the scenes. Seven years on the spin this club has been drawn away at that time of the season.
Trying to spin the ‘action’ from Prague into a classic night of entertainment is quite a stretch but he did drop in one truth-bomb about Cyriel Dessers.
He returned to action, sharing striking duties with Tony Watt and managing to get a couple of appearances at a time when Gary Hooper and Tony Stokes were the first picks with others like Georgios Samaras, Miku and Lassad Nouioui around competing for places.
Very few Celtic fans would dream of handing cash over to purchase the Record with the online edition racking up the clicks but barely bringing in the advertising revenue to justify the massive overheads, mainly through the wage bill.
Being physical and athletic will get you a long way in the SPFL but outwith that some basic football ability is required. To describe Bassey as limited is a compliment but like Oli Burke a little talent can be very lucrative when handled by the right agent.
Five minutes in, despite being a goal down, Lowry had the bears purring with a drag-back that left Reo Hatate lying on the turf. Proof of his genius, not that it was really required. Sadly for the watching bears that was as good as things got for their in-house superstar.
Yesterday’s match was barely a contest with Hearts hardly able to muster up the level of aggression that Naismith managed as a player when he put the boot into anything in green and white before inevitably being substituted with his side losing.
That move and the execution set the tone for what was to come. Celtic played some exquisite football that their hosts had no answer to.
But it is great to see the gaffer back in the building and we have all really enjoyed working with him. So it is new faces, new tactics and a new start for the team. We have to push on.