CELTIC hold their AGM tomorrow, and, as usual, there will be some searching questions asked from the floor.

However, I am sure everyone on the board will be delighted this meeting is going ahead now and not a couple of months ago.

Had it been scheduled for just after Celtic had lost out on qualification for the Champions League and were sitting in mid-table in the Premiership, the temperature within the meeting would have been much more heated.

When Peter Lawwell, Ronny Deila and the others sit down in front of the shareholders, they will do so with the team sitting on top of the table and on the cusp of qualifying for the last 32 of the Europa League.

Of course, there will still be some questions that require to be answered, and issues like the Living Wage will be brought up and debated.

But the club finds itself in a much better place than it was not so long ago.

It is, as always, all about timing, and Ronny and his players face a massive couple of weeks when their season can be shaped.

The manager will be anxious to see the condition of the players who have been away representing their respective countries before he can decide on his line-up to face Dundee on Saturday.

It is vital they pick up where they left off at Aberdeen before the break for internationals, though they will obviously miss Scott Brown, who is suspended for his red card at Pittodrie.

Mikael Lustig is another who looks like being ruled out again after reportedly picking up a hamstring injury while playing for Sweden.

To lose players to injuries sustained while they have been playing for their country is a real frustration for any club manager.

But, at a big club like Celtic, having to hand the bulk of your players to international team bosses is something you just have to accept goes with the territory.

The other side of the coin is guys like John Guidetti will have been given a huge confidence boost - not that his confidence is ever low - after making his debut for the full Sweden team in France.

And many of the lads will be returning to Lennoxtown after helping their countries secure important results over the past two weeks and will also be on a high.

For all that, though, I am sure Ronny will be pleased that the regular interruptions to club football are now over until next March. Since he came to Celtic, it has been every month.

Now he will have the chance to get some continuity in his training and coaching.

That could not come at a better time because there are so many big games on the horizon at home and in Europe.

Next midweek, Salzburg come to Glasgow for a game that could see Celtic join them in qualifying in the Europa League's knockout rounds.

A chance to do this was missed in Romania, and no-one will want it to go down to the final group match in Zagreb next month.

Then there is the Scottish Cup tie against Hearts at Tynecastle. That will be a tough test for Celtic's players because Hearts will be desperate to show how far they have progressed since losing to Celtic in the League Cup earlier in the season.

However, Ronny's side showed against Aberdeen - the team I still expect to run them closest for the title - that they have the strength of character and spirit to deal with games like this, and it is one they should be relishing.

Celtic will also be playing their league game against Partick Thistle, the match postponed from the start of the season.

That will give them the chance to put some daylight between them and the rest of the teams in the league.

Despite their early inconsistency in the Premiership, Celtic will be crowned champions for a fourth season in a row.

But it is important they show their supremacy and nip in the bud any notion other teams might have that they are not unstoppable this time around.

The recent seven-game programme between the last two lots of internationals was huge for Celtic, and they handled it well with six wins and a draw.

The next two weeks will be every bit as important and can allow Celtic to lay down a real marker for the rest of the 2014-15 campaign.

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