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Agree with the congrats for BBJ. He sounded well chuffed this morning on Talksport.
BTW this is my 100th post. Do i get a special mention too :)
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Reading about our injuries for the Rangers double header - Sutton, Zurawski, Beattie - I began to get a little worried. Then I remembered, it's only Rangers. They'd be hard pushed to beat our reserve team and even if we were to lose to them in the league, it'd hardly kill us.
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Paul67,
while I agree with your assesment I´d be interedssted to see how this team would fair against a Inter Milan or Shaktar or Barcelona.
First test on Wednesday and if we are being honest its not a very valid test!
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Also, was it just me or was that a fine game from Mr Camara?
While too many simple passes go a stray, his attacking and defensive play is improving all the time.
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Well done to wee Aiden for doing his talking on the pitch. His two passes to Camara in the lead-up to the first and third goals were well weighted and must have been the result of a lot of practice on the training ground. Camara's overlapping runs also bought Aiden some well-appreciated space and time because they put the Falkirk right back in two minds. This is key to a lot of Celtic's attacking play.
Well done to John Hartson, too, not only for his 100th goal but also for a rampaging performance at centre forward, where he performed a true leadership role and even displayed, dare I say it, a tad more pace.
Petrov was class, Lenny was Lenny, Telfer was Mr Reliable, Naka was kicked off the pitch (again!), Bobo won everything in the air, Mick McManus won every tackle on the deck and Boruc made the one save he needed to make. And wee Shaun scored one, and set up two. Not a bad afternoon's work.
The Celts won without getting out of second gear. But the victory was earned on the training pitches of Barrowfield. Gordon Strachan is making these Celtic players work and think like never before. And when I say the following, just you wait and see it come true:
Celtic can only get BETTER,
Rangers can only get WORSE. Much worse!
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Weeron
Thanks for the reply(last article), you are right in that the antecedents of their demise go back much more than the month of Oct. and again you are right to point out that it is based on financial restrictions generated by David Murray.
Again I agree Wednesday and the 19th are important for us not least as this is us against Rangers but it is the first major challenge for WGS’s Celtic since we lost to Artmedia and them, moreover, we did not win against Hearts at home. We have to step to step up our game unless we see a similar game to the Man Utd Chelsea one, for I don’t see them trying to play football.
This is a key game for us as a marker to how much we have progressed. For while we have shown metal in coming through the games against Dun Utd and Falkirk to go and stay top of the league with due respect to them both they are not good teams.
As for the media as I have said before we are playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in the chamber while at times the media don’t even have one bullet loaded for them, by that I mean we have very little latitude for mistakes, poor results before the roof caves in.
Yes it may work in our favour over the piece but it would be nice to see the press Rangers FC (or should I say MIH FC) get the press they deserve rather than the sycophantic one as displayed by the article in the Scotland on Sunday a few weeks ago which was a reheat of the Jim Traynor `succulent lamb’ and fine wine obsequious article.
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Off topic, but does anyone know of bars/venues in Cape Town that will show Celtic v TFOD on Wednesday? My brother and 400 other Irish builders are over there on a busman's holiday and are looking to see the bhoys.
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burtman
try this.
http://www.celticbars.com/
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I agree with a number of posters on here - we need to be slightly cautious about the next 2 games. It's easy to say they're playing rubbish, but Old Firm games have a habit of being difficult to predict. We know they'll be all out to win and we also know that they've been struggling to break down teams who sit in and frustrate them. We won't be doing this - we'll be all out to win the game. It therefore means we won't have it all our own way.
I feel it's a big test for the team. We've only beaten Hibs (narrowly) from the top 4 teams (I'll never tire of having to say the top 4 teams so it includes Rangers!) after defeat at Ibrox and the draw against Hearts. We therefore need to show we can win these important games. If we take two wins out of two, I predict we'll romp to the title. I think the confidence we'd gain from it would be huge.
If we win the league game, it'll also hopefully give Hearts and Hibs the opportunity to pull further ahead of them - imagine us and Hearts 15 points clear and Hibs 11 clear in mid-November! It sounds too good to be true! But it also shows how important it is that we drive home our advantage just now when they're playing as bad as they are. They've then got Porto away then Hibs away and these are all must win games for them. If they don't, Eck will be out of a job and George Burley will provide a far stronger adversory for WGS, of that I'm sure.
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When we win on the 19th I'll start posting out my `End of Your Season's Greetings' card to all of the huns I know.
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Now maybe it was just the Crew-neck training top he was wearing... but did anyone else think BBJ looked a little bigger than normal?? and build wise for once.
So what team we going with on Wed
Boruc
Telfer, Bobo, McManus, Camara
McGeady Petrov Lennon Nakamura
Maloney Hartson
Marshall, Wei, Didi?, Pearson, Thompson, Virgo.. can really think of a seventh with 3 strikers out
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Paul,
A very professional performance yesterday. I thought Camara was great and Big Mick was excellent! Aiden looked very relaxed and made the most of his opportunity. Paul Telfer had yet another assured game.He always looks to play football. We have the best full backs we have had for a number of years.
The referee was very poor and as for his assistant over at the open field side, he should not be allowed to officiate again. He was quite simply biased. I was glad to see Stan withdrawn. Denied the ref his big chance.
Onwards and upwards.
SB
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Wallace maybe
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Would anyone hae a link to a site with the goals from yesterday?
Never made he game due to illness so would appreciate seeing them.
/Bishop B
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Would anyone hae a link to a site with the goals from yesterday?
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18975
From Kerrydale Street
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Len-
Gavil guy-
put a hyperlink on the last thread.
Still working- I,ve just watched it 3 times .
weeron- g r a s s.
noel.
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Great song paul lets get it sung from the rafters on wednesday. It maybe me but there is something special about going to Parkhead on a night game especially with the huns lets raise the roof and let the rangers foreigners left to not know what has hit them! As a team we are playing superb as a unit and long may this be the case whereas on castle greyscull Dado seems to be doing it himself lets hope for a convincing win and lets roar our bhoys to victory. hail hail
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Paul,
can I take it from your comment 'the books must be balanced' that you expect the bank to take some action on MIH/Dignity FC, or am I just reading too much into things?
Peat_Blog
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Anyone know if the game is being shown in Ireland (what channel)?
Do Falkirk fold up the stadium after everyone goes home?
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Sh*t-
I,ve just taken 3 days off work
togotobigjoesfuneral/cremation
thenIheardithadbeencalledoff
forsafetyreasonsandbecausehe
wasnotdeadbutMrsbigjoetoldme
tocomeoveranywayandshewould
justputsomemorechloroformin
hisriojaandmeandhercouldtalk
aboutCELTIC........
:P
noel
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Lenny's PR Mhan,
The game is being shown live on Setanta Sports in Ireland.
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Lennys PR-
The game is being shown on BBC Scotland-
The falkirk stadium is an inflatable-they just let the air out and stick it in the boot of Yogis' car till the next game....
noel.
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My only complaint re the Falkirk game is that WGS spurned a chance to have one of the younger strikers on the bench IE Roco Quinn or another.
Unless he s intending to throw Virgo up front I would have liked to see one of the younger strikers come on for the last 15 mins.
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BattlefieldTim said...
"Reading about our injuries for the Rangers double header... I began to get a little worried... even if we were to lose to them in the league, it'd hardly kill us."
Mate, if they do a "BlueRedand Whitewash" over us this season we will still be three points ahead of them. As long as we can match their results against the other teams... 0-0 v Aberdeen (H), 1-1 v ICT (H), 2-2 v Livingston (A), 0-0 v Dundee Utd (A), 0-1 v Hearts (A), 1-1 v Falkirk (A), 0-3 v Hibs (H), 2-3 v Aberdeen (A).
2 wins in the last 10, and counting... It's THAT easy!
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Was there yesterday... Naka really s**ts himself on 50/50s but can't fault him other than that. What about Lenny these days...I think he's on top form.
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Hail hail Paul and all
I watched the video of yesterdays game last night, and enjoyed our performance immensely.
McManus and Aiden were superb yesterday, Mo played well but is still realistically to be tested by an out and out winger, but none the less deserves credit for the way he is playing.
Telfer, like wise, sorry Seanbhoy I have to disagree with your assessment of our fullbacks overall. IMO, Didier over the past 4 years has been a steal considering the pennies he cost.
Also I have a prejudiced view of Telfer from his days at Cov - sorry they are not the best we have had.
Pearo yesterday came on again :-) but I notice that there were comments concerning his performance soon after the game.
Gash was one. Err forgive me but what did he do wrong?
He missed a shot after he ran half the length of the pitch to get into position.
One miss equals a slating?? It just doesn't work that way for me.
If we want the kids to develop, we have to play them and allow them to make the odd mistake. Abusing them just because they made a mess of a chance they helped to create is not exactly going to help.
I just wish that some of us would understand that match fitness and form comes from playing First Team football. Young players with little experience or those who have not played for a year are not realistically going to walk straight into the team as world beaters. By all means point out the deficiancies that players have but do not slate our young players for trying.
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Hi Paul,
As I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear I still disagree with the generational viewpoint, I'll admit things look good just now, with a good young team playing good football, they seem in the ascendancy just now, but are still an untried team, in that they have still to win a trophy or go through a season. I'm not saying this is a fault, just that they haven't yet had the chance to prove themselves, in footballing terms I feel it's going to take a couple of years before such projections can be made.
The other side of the equation is the current poor form of Rangers, no doubt finance has a large part to play in this, and also no doubt that it will take a bit longer than I would like for things to turn around. However the present position with what seems to be tensions between certain players and the manager wont last, one or both will move on, then it's an unknown quantity, but it will be an improvement on the current position. Financially chickens may be coming home to roost but it will bottom out and start to improve. This could be under the present board or a new one, if the latter again an unknown quantity in the factor.
I always enjoy reading your points and find myself in agreement with many, but not this one, however it's one that's easy to settle, time has the answer and will give it in due course
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I find it very heartening to hear on the radio these days that the three deadline day signings that the 4th placed team made in August were classed as duds this week yet three months ago they were being hailed as the signings which could propel them to the league title. Or perhaps they were meaning the First Division title next season?
I doubt we will ever see a broken Rankers crest on the back pages, but it is excellent to hear them all berating them and telling Jeffers he should go back to Charlton.
Fourth in the SPL indeed! How many more weeks until they are fifth, sixth or even bottom half of the table?? Not too long I hop, they are only six points ahead of 8th place!
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First post and can I just say what an excellent site. I've been reading for months now but haven't had the need to post anything worthwhile as most of what I wanted was being said previously by others. Does anyone have a link to the Traynor article concerning "succulent lamb and fine wine", as I piss myself everytime I see this quote, and would love to read it in its original form?
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The site I us is “ Lovely Jubbly “
It shows every sporting event in the world ……………………
And also what satellite its on……..
http://64.77.87.5/sport/
Bigjoeback2hauntUall
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Paul: you're Fourth in the SPL
*cough*
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For once, listening to a game on the radio wasn`t so bad. The commentater and the summarisers all agreed that the ref and his assistants made a few dodgy decisions.
Only thing, with the zero tolerance approach to sectarianism the "cheer up Alex McLeish" song will have to be amended.
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Paul
Good positive article and in keeping with reclaiming the Celtic agenda for ourselves. These are some of the real issues, the superb form of McManus, the focus of McGeady in fighting his way back to the first team and the malaise across the city.
Also lead me to a thought. On the eve of the last Old Firm game Celtic released the accounts in an attempt to ensure minimum exposure.
What chance MIH accounts published this Wednesday or Friday 18th?
Let there be no doubt, Rangers are in as big a crisis as they have been in for 20 years. But they will come out fighting on Wednesday like they haven't fought all season, but focus, focus and focus again on everything we've worked for this season and it could be a special night for the green and white.
Aye it's Celtic, Celtic, that's the team for me.
Celtic! Celtic! On to victory.
They're the finest team in Scotland, I hope you will agree.
They'll never give up 'til they've won the cup and the Scottish (Premier) League.
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Paul……….good post………….
BUT……………………………….......
as I have stated………………B4.…………………..I don’t think we should write off………………..
…………….TFOD…………………………. just yet…………………..
I hope I am wrong………….but…………….
They can raise there game……….. as they did against Porto and Milan……………………………..
Please ………….CELTIC……………………..
Prove me wrong…………………………..
Oh and Noel…………..sorry I didn’t die……….
Look if I have spoiled you’re plans.
We will jst have 2 make other arrangements…………….
Oh and Weeron ……………………………
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We are ON2 YOU …………..
bigjoewhoissAliveandkicking.
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will somebody please pass the sick bucket......
no we ll.
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Hi everyone.
First up, belated thanks to Gerry for his answer to my query about the impending share issue.
Secondly, regarding yesterday,s game. A good performance without really having to get out of second gear. I thought McManus was excellent and it is looking good for the rest of the season.
However my main point is in regard to the tackle on Nakamura. Can anyone tell me the difference between that tackle, and Thompsons' one at I****? Since he was ordered off, I have seen numerous tackles similar to his which have been punished by a yellow card at most!!
I was stupid enough to think that all over the ball tackles would result in a straight red, (which I think they should), but I guess that ref's are consistently inconsistent, eh?
Sorry about the above rant, but this issue is really p***ing me off!!!
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Muchas Gracias Senor, I had read it previously but didn't take into account the ammount of toady-grovelling that was being done. I took the article (at the time) as being triumphalistic.
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Noel, maybe Len has an e-virus if you're feeling sick too! Yikes!
I know we all agree on the ignore the red tops idea, but I have another superb example of why this is so. McGeady's interview after the game - Celtic's official site summary as follows: "Aiden McGeady has said that he doesn’t expect Hearts’ title bid to falter as a result of the internal turmoil at Tynecastle and insists that it remains too early in the season to discount Rangers as championship challengers."
The Daily Record's back page headline is "Ger out of it now- McGeady says Gers are out of the title race" (I took a peak at the back page on Asda - so don't worry, I'm not funding them!)I'm not sure the headline quite fits what was said in the interview - lazy journalism once more!
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I used to like lamb!!!
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Cheers Burtman & Noel90
Does franny J look more like 45 than 25? Does he know Charlie Miller?!?!
Same team for Wednesday Gordon!
Notice GS talked about being right in the head at training (DA?) after the game.
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Well done Celtic great victory against a team who have taken points from Hearts and them.
Camara and McManus were superb.
Note: Camara can only play against what is in front of him and so far he is doing fine.
Shaun and Aiden played very well, I was really pleased Aiden took his chance and IMHO shone.
BBJ well done, keep it up!!
Cannot wait for Wednesday as usual it will be difficult as derbies always are however if we play to our ability I expect to be in the semi's
Hail Hail
Stephenwitha "ph"
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Hoopinessiseggshaped
4th position is the league placement to which they are entitled and to this Paul concedes their claim. 'Your fourth' is therefore perfectly acceptable.
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I've deleted the Traynor piece, as such drivel really has no place here.
I'll put it somewhere and post a link later, if anyone wants to make themself feel ill...
Senor Pablo
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Where are all the neeeeeeeeeeeeps..
Who……….. in this site………………………….
Called……………….
Camara
“ the worst Celtic player………. EVER “
Hang you’re heeds………….. in shame…………..
BigjoewholikesH.camara
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Paul.
I was slightly intrigued by the body language of Aiden McGeady during his post match interview standing alongside BBJ. Is there more to this than meets the eye, or was he put out by the Falkirk fans ranting during the game. Just curious as he did seem a little angry.
Hail Hail.
Wayne
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Blantyrekev,
Afraid hoopiness... is right on this one.
your fourth would be right if it refered to the position of fourth i.e 'Your fourth position in the SPL' but that doesn't work in the song.
but it's you're fourth as its the proper conjunction for you are.
:-P.
TBE
bigjoewholikesH.camara????
thebaldegowholikesM.Camara!!
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Senor Pablo Diablo………………….
Can you do that………………..
We get a row………………….
For doing a lot less……………..
BigjoetheInquisitive
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BigJoe
IhopeyoumeanMoCamara!
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Sorry………………….
I did mean M Camara
what a neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
bigjoewhocannyspell
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The top 6 / bottom 6 split in April may just rob us of an od firm game aqt Paradise. If the mighty gers continue their rich vein of form, we will not see them make the top 6.
On another note, too many peolpe saying McLeish is not responsible, as his hands are tied financially. How many players has he brought in in his time? How many have moved on? He has had time and money to build a team and done nothing.
My point....
MCLEISH MUST STAY!
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Towards the end of MON's reign last season, i had serious reservations about how he would go about engineering a team that could evolve into something quicker & with more variation to the play.
Without going overboard, WGS has definitely shown early signs of progress. MON's teams played with an emphasis on goals from free kicks & corners, however we are scoring goals from all over the park & in open play as well. The emphasis is now on fitness, movement off the ball & fluent passing. Young players are being given a real chance to shine. Strachan is looking at a global market for players, there is a serious focus on fitness techniques used successfully in different sports to enhance performance levels & his general outlook means we are watching a better product this year.
I hope we can keep the momentum going & put TFOD in their rightful place.
Remember - feet firmly on the ground as it's still early days
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Hear, hear , baldymeister,
i to thought the stick threw towards Pearson was unwarranted and out of order. He was after all only on as sub. I thought his runs from midfield where superb , did you see the ground he made up to get into the postion to have an attempt at goal!! He has played around 30-40 mins of first team football and contributed with a goal not bad i would say in this stage of his rehabilitation.
What price of pearson for last goalscorer against the TFOD?
Interesting i might say.........
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Al Obundy, I believe Rocco Quinn is injured at the moment.
Edward, I cannot see the possibility of a new board at Ibrox, though I agree it is needed. The £50m ‘investment’ will make if very difficult for Murray to sell the club without getting his cash back.
For Rangers 2006, I am thinking; much the same, but without Prso and Klos.
Agree Celtic are still a work in progress, also agree with others who are concerned we have yet to win a big game.
Step up to the plate Mr Strachan.
Welcome Baljaffreybhoy, on this occasion I will not refer to your vernacular adjective, oops.
Hoopiness, I have updated my post, thanks. Though Kevin is correct, fourth place is theirs (or should I write ‘there’s’ to stay consistent).
BlantyreKev, I am sure the MIH accounts will be released in concert with other big news, as you have alluded to.
Wayne, I had also noticed that Aiden seemed to be getting picked on by the Falkirk players.
Michael 67, I had to delete that comment as it screwed the page width, which annoys people reading on a handheld device.
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It IS early days but I`ve noticed that the league has been won with a points total in the 90s for the past few years. I think it was 93 last season. I`d just like to point out that our Southside rivals can now only achieve the total of 95 if they win all 24 games left.
Come on the Bhoys!
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D'oh! sorry folks (at least no one will know it was me who said Super Mo was slightly less then super, alright i said technically the worst to wear the hoops)
D'oh again!
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VargasShampoo 2.20 As you are known Celtic fan I have to admit to being surprised at your second last line in your post, however it's good to see I'm not the only one who thinks Rangers should be top of the league ;)
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Quiz time folks. Name the four brothers, 3 of whom played for Celtic, and one managed Rangers. Anybody?
Raymond McStay, Wullie McStay,Paul Mcstay and Eck Must Stay.
I thang yew.
Frank Carson.News at 10.Paradise.
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Paul - do you not think that making predictions such as 'Rangers won't be in the champions league next season' is just setting yourself up for a fall similar to 'that' post before the end of last season.
My view on Journalism is that it is good practice to avoid such catastrophies by saying something like : should they fail to qualify ... then...
Just a thought. Keep up the good work.
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Iaininjesi,
What does Jesi do when you are posting? :¬)
SB
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qotsa75
What about their cousins;
Jeffers MustStay
Ricksen MustStay
Bernard MustStay
and so on
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Hail Hail
Bhoy O'Bhoy
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True tim
I see what your saying, but surely even better journalism is where you use your knowledge in such a way to illustrate the outcome of such an event or situation. A good journalist doesn’t ‘make predictions’ but doesn’t hide from sharing his (or her) views on preceedings…
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Note to self:
Must remember to finish satirical comments with an emoticon. ;P
It's a sad day when we start discussing mistakes in grammar. Grampar will be particularly perturbed.
Oh aye, :-)
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TrueTim, for many instances you would be correct, however…..
This football team is dead.
They have ceased to be.
They are an ex-football team.
‘Hello, hello’, wakey, wakey, is there anybody there? [Silence].
Nope, they have gone. Rangers will fail to qualify for the Champions League next season.
Fourth in the SPL
you’re Fourth in the SPL
you’re Fourth in the SPL
you’re Fourth in the S.P.L.
I mean this most sincerely and extract no enjoyment whatsoever in relying these harsh facts to you.
Thanks Michael.
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Iaininjesi, good spot! Since 99/00, a points total of 95 would only have won the league twice - last season and all the way back to 99/00!
04/05 93 points (a gift)
03/04 98 points (Celts)
02/03 97 points (goal difference - 17 more competitive games)
01/02 103 points (that's the target WGS!)
00/01 97 points (MON!)
99/00 90 points (gers)
98/99 77 points (gers)
Looking at the above also shows we should be going for 6 in a row this season. Paul is saying we are entering a generation of dominance - we should be living through one just now! The Seville season and last year should have been ours, no doubts about it. Let's hope we have less slip ups in our next generation of dominance!
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Seanbhoy,
you`ve found me out. I`ve only been in Jesi once and that was in the Palio of San Floriano disguised as a rich merchant.
Was Jim Duffy being kind when he said that Virgo looked pacy?
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rossio
Agreed, how on earth the Daily hun could interpret Aidens words to mean what they splashed across the back page is beyond me.
They have given TFOD something to pin up on the dressing room wall, something Mr. Oneill used to out of his way to avoid, not that AMc is guiilty of anything here.
By the time they get round to kicking Aiden, Maloney will be clean through.
Isnt it fantastic to say that 3 of our most important players will be youth team products on Wed night, look forward to not only dominating TFOD over the next generation as Paul says, but doing so with our own.
Wallace long term at LB, Beatts to come back, Irvine at RB and a couple others im sure. (ferry & mcglinchy in particular)
Happy hoops days again.
Please dont give me one of those crazy unjust games on Wed. Let the best team win and let us celebrate!!!!!!!!
By the way, if Rankers lose points in their next two league games (us and Hibs away) they could be leapfrogged by two teams and go down to 6th after 16 games INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!
The only team to qualifiy for europe after Xmas and miss the split?? Get relegated?? Calm down everyone!!!!!!!
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At 1:12 PM, Brido raised the great point on Rangers summer signings
"on the radio these days that the three deadline day signings that the 4th placed team made in August were classed as duds this week yet three months ago they were being hailed as the signings which could propel them to the league title."
Sad as I am I kept this article regarding how good the signing’s of Mr McLeish were.
Interesting to note that with Fanfan signing the first psychological blow was struck by Rangers. Talk about what you say coming back to bit you…
`Blow for Strachan as Fanfan heads for Rangers
DARRYL BROADFOOT and MARK WILSON July 05 2005
RANGERS will today negotiate the signing of José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan, the Paris Saint-Germain central defender, from under the nose of their Old Firm rivals, Celtic.
That will add to the frustration experienced by the Parkhead club in the transfer market …
The Herald understands Gordon Strachan was offered the player weeks before Rangers for around £800,000 …
Pierre-Fanfan's representatives grew tired of Celtic's procrastination and informed Rangers of the player's availability via fax. It is the first psychological blow struck by Alex McLeish against Strachan, his former Aberdeen team-mate and now Old Firm adversary.
Pierre-Fanfan has a rich reputation in the French first division and had also attracted interest from West Ham United and Portsmouth.’
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Oh I forgot
Youre 4th in the SPL,
Youre 4th in the SPL
Youre 4th in the SPL,
Your 4TH IN THE SPL>
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sometimes wonder if its celtic I love most or the teams that inflict pain on the evil ones!!!!
Your forth in the SPL!!!!!!!!
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well done celticBhoy
Did you keep the cut outs from last week when rankers had 3 games to save their season (all 3 drawn). And BF the fud saying before ICT game that one more slip up and he would consider them out of it (2 slips since))).
Is it just me or would the writing be on the wall for celtic over the press if it were us, yet papers lead with SThomson saying that they can still do it.
Paranoid???
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Come on lhads (and lhassies?).
We are all getting carried away here.
We have played about 1/3 of our league games. Rangers are at their nadir at the moment.
A change of manager, sooner rather than later, and a revolving door in January will see them get a shot in the arm.
They may not be title contenders due to the handicap of the 12 point gap, but they will certainly have a huge influence on the destination of the title.
We certainly need them to be able to take points off Hearts and Hibs.
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Mcgeady is really showing a maturity and a grit and is really thriving in the new training culture that has been adopted at Celtic. Guys like Balde, McManus, Maloney and Beattie have all commented at some stage that they are enjoying training more than ever. A contrast to the start of the season when the more senior players all had a wee moan atthe more rigorous regimes introduced. The young ones are leading the way in terms of attitude they have learnt a lot already from GS Long may it continue.
Michael: Paul is always been fond of making bold predictions that his style however the abilty to use your knowledge in such a way to illustrate the outcome of such an event or situation before the event has happened (as you say)is more a kin to astrology than journalism. Far too early to predict the outcome of the top four for me! True-Tim makes a good point I have always loved MON's mocking mentality - Rangers are the champions and the benchmark!!
Fanatastic!
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greekster67 said...
With Rangers it seems to be how long is a piece of string, it is interesting to note that the tone from Mr McLeish has change to become along the lines of as long as it is mathematically possible to win we are still going to win.
Do you remember BF saying earlier this season that Rangers would go on to dominate Scottish football for years to come?
You are right the whole thing would be different if it was us and along with S.Thompson, Burke is going on about how the game on Wednesday could kickstart their season, sorry but I think I’ve heard that too many times already this season from them.
With regards to it being too early to make predictions Abraham Lincoln said that they wisest animal of all was the chicken as she only crowed after the egg has been laid.
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paul,
i agree with your comments on mcgeady. it always baffled me how MON continued to play him last year, when he clearly was not up to the job. Decisions like that helped contribute to costing us the league.
However, i think some of us are going overboard with him. let's get realistic. A decent 90 minutes, for the first time in 12 months is not something to get too excited about. He needs to put in 20 games in a row before you can say he is decent. The same rules for all players.
I was also concerned with Virgo coming on as a forward. I really think Gordon does not rate him as a full back?
With regards the Walfrid Statue, a few of the boys were suggesitng on Saturday that perhpas it would have been a better idea to rename Celtic Park to the Walfrid Stadium. I liked this idea. What do you think?
TERNAR
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Kev it is indeed a sad day when we feel the need to point out grammar mistakes so we'll forget about it. My riposte was tongue in cheek as you felt the need to correct someone else hence the :-P, so I thought if your gonna be such a pedant you may as well get it right, thats all.
TBE.
ps. :-P
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Kev it is indeed a sad day when we feel the need to point out grammar mistakes so we'll forget about it. My riposte was tongue in cheek as you felt the need to correct someone else hence the :-P, so I thought if your gonna be such a pedant you may as well get it right, thats all.
TBE.
ps. :-P
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Someone sent me this story, taken from another forum. How true it is I don't know, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story. Lazy journalism? I'm too lazy even to be a journalist!
In the days of rebuilding at Parkhead, wee Fergus met with some opposition from the local residents along Janefield Street when the main stand was finally erected at Celtic Park. Apparently, residents living along the row of flats along the street were experiencing difficulty with their television reception due to the increased height of the new stadium, and demanded a meeting with the Celtic chairman to resolve the issue.
Fergus obliged, and duly met up with the locals and their representatives in one of the newly-built conference suites at Celtic Park. When the meeting started, the angry mob hurled abuse at the bespectabled money maestro, and demanded immediate action.
"Fine," said the wee man. "I'll put an antenna on the roof of the stadium and boost the signal to your houses."
The representatives then consulted with the angry mob and returned with a response to the offer: "It's not good enough," they said. "We want compensation."
Wee Fergus whispered into the ear of his lawyer and consulted the Celtic accountants. He then replied with a very tasty offer:
"I'll put an antenna on the roof of the stadium and boost the signal to your houses - plus - I'll give every household £150."
The representatives went away with the improved offer and returned,
smiling: "We accept," was the overwhelming majority vote.
Fergus then made arrangements for all of the local residents to sign a legally binding agreement, waiving their right to additional compensation when the offer had been honoured, and the mob formed an orderly queue to scrawl their monickers on the charter. When everyone had finished, wee Fergus stood up to make an annoucement, just before the meeting was called to a close.
"Thank you for coming along today and being so open and honest with your views. I would just like to add that I'm very pleased we managed to reach an amicable resolution to the television reception problem.
"Now, if everyone could return here on Monday, I will personally issue cheques to everyone affected - as long as you bring along your current television licence."
Monday arrived, and not one person turned up at Celtic Park to claim their £150 cheque.
Wee Fergus never did put up that antenna...
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Battlefield Tim
Sorry mate but that story surfaced here a couple of times on CQN a few weeks back.
It's still a great story though and a wonderful anecdote about Fergus.
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Ternar
Not sure about the idea of Walfrid Stadium
Not even sure that Andrew Kerins himself would have thought that a good idea from what little we know of his character. But from all reports he was a modest man who was intensely devoted to those in his pastoral care and such gestures even 117 years later would not have sat with him.
Also our stadium has always been and in my humble opinion must always stay Celtic Park
I am sure the powers that be at Celtic could ask or persuade Glasgow City Council to re-name Kerrydale Street in honour of Walfrid but I'm not in favour of the stadium going that way.
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Heres a wee story that might raise a smile on CQN.
I work for a company and one of our directors, on occassions, has dealings with David Murray. Anyway after the Ibrox game this season old Zsa Zsa Gabor Murray (I still remember that analogy, Paul!) was meeting our director and he said "I see Celtic are in for a Chinese international." and our director replied "Aye, Du Wei or something like that." To which the bold David replies "Nah, Win Wan Soon!"
Wonder if he's still cracking that joke?
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Would love to but can't share this easy easy optimism guys - fourth in the SPL or not, the Teddies are still capable of turning us over in the League Cup AND the League. We played a m
