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Keep telling yourself that Paul67
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We should be used to this by now.
Concentrate on the game, stuff the refs.
Lubo.
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They are trying hard to upset us arent they.
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Every Celtic player will have to be on their best behaviour - turn the other cheek mode - on Saturday. Rangers heavy challenges will go unpunished and any Celtic retaliation will be clamped down upon heavily. If we start picking up yellow cards, never mind reds, early on I fear the game will be lost.
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Edward
From the last. I wasn't suggesting it should be illegal to hate Celtic, but that hatred of Celtic is now the only outlet for generations of now illegal prejudice, which is the same as saying it's about much more than rivalry. It goes much deeper. The examples are all around you.
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Just gub them
As Lubo says STUFF THE REFS.
Any Celtic supporter who believes we will not win on Saturday should be ashamed of themselves.
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS.
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS,
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS.
Martin.
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Lennindinho18 :- Due to problems with blogger Paul is posting far more threads than usual, this can lead to mix ups in a replyI left an answer on the last thread and have pasted it here.
Lenondinho18 :- This isn't a cop out but I honestly haven't heard that chant at Ibrox, if it were being chanted I would be happy to condemn it. Sorry about not answering last time, I do remember reading it and meant to answer. The only chant/sound that I can think on that I've heard used at corners outside the normal songs is a long drawn out "ooooooh" like the Zulu chant in the film of the same name or the chant by the Germanic army in Gladiator.
I'm not saying no one at Ibrox shouts out paramilitary slogans but it's been a long while since I've heard any concerted chants about it.
Alobundy :- While I do know there are chants against a Celtic great take place and I do disagree with them I think you have your chants mixed up, I can't see any way the "oooooh" chant can be against anyone connected with Celtic.
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Is this Stuart Dougalls last year?
as well as Kenny Clarks last year?
Both going out with a bang me reckons.
Oh dear - another controversial day looms on Saturday.
What i would like to see is the Celtic players hit the deck at every chance and us to go absolute Tonto at every challenge - put Dougall under pressure coz thats what they did to McCurry.
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I think we do our selves a grave disservice if we don the sack cloth and ashes and play the role of martyrs.
We were not cheated at Ibrox last game we were out played, out fought and out thought.
The better team and manager won on the day.
We have the better players if we play the correct team no matter what any Hun mason does we will win.
We will win if bobo plays and Donatie does not.
We will win on Saturday fear not.
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Paul,
If we win on Saturday I expect Dougal’s career to drift towards obscurity.
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Reading FIFA's Laws of the Game 2007/2008.
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/laws_of_the_game_0708_10565.pdf
Page 117
Celebration of a Goal.
Leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offence in itself but it is essential that players return to the field of play as soon as possible.
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Did you all get what I was saying,
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS.
Isn't it a wonderful word, "CHAMPIONS"
It just conjures up all sorts of thoughts in the mind.
"THE BEST",
"BETTER THAN ALL THE REST",
"SIMPLY THE BEST",
"THE WINNER",
"FIRST",
SO,
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS,
Martin.
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Does anyone know if this the first time Dougal has reffed one of our games since November.
If so, how did he do?
Lubo.
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CelticFirst :- I can only speak for myself and I can honestly say my dislike of Celtic is nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with bias.
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Martin42 :- I hope you don't mind me suggesting that Paul & Kevin should buy you a good chair for next season as I don't think you will be doing much standing for the champions :-)
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Mmmm - paul list the charges aginst Stuart Dougal. But he can clain membership of a pretty exclusive club. Not many of MIB can lay claim to have sent of the captain of Glasgow Rangers in an old firm match.
If memory serves me correctly he officiated at a certain famous victory in August 2000.
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mickybhoy
On last thread
In order to overcome the referees I will remind you of a quote made by Martin O'Neill '' we need to be so much better than anybody else''.
With the current players we have and tactics/system we adopt we are nowhere near good enough.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
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Chairbhoy @ 1506hrs,
Apologies for misreading the intent behind your question and therefore my response to you.
In further answer to both you and Hoople, as far as I am concerned, if, as has been stated elsewhere, the Fifa Rule does not apply to friendlies, any player that does not wish to participate in any friendly international has the right to withdraw himself from his country's squad, should he wish to do so.
It may harm his future chances of international call-up's (dependant upon the international manager's thought's) but I think the right to do so should still be there, especially when the player/his club has a match of vital importance the following weekend.
Can I now draw a halt and withdraw my participation in this subject please? I feel jaded and need to recover my energies and focus for the important articles coming up this week :-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token.
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At 25/03/08 16:28, Blogger gweedorebhoy said…
You are absolutely right and I agree with you ... except your assertion
no matter what any Hun mason does we will win.
Quite patently not the case
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TTT,
your always on the lookout for a square go ? ;-)
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Token,
Didn't know the rule doesn't apply to friendlies;
You would have thought as Celtic and Rangers posponed matches for the European qualifing game, common sense could have prevailed.
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awe naw
Where are the knights of st columba when we need them.
My view is if we play to our strengths and have the right tactics the hun masons won't be able to stop us.
I admit they have sometimes but not the last game at ibrox where we were well and truly pumped.
This will not happen again as we will win on saturday.
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Gweedore
Scott McDonald nearly scored in the first minute of that game. McGregor, to his credit, made a great save.
From the resulting corner, McGregor, to his discredit, assaulted Scott McDonald, who retaliated and could have been sent off. He only got a yellow card, which a lot of people said at the time was lenient of McCurry (and I suppose it was).
However, he was far more lenient towards McGregor who, in keeping with the laws of the game, should have been sent off and left his substitute facing a penalty kick. In other words, it could have been so different.
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Well said Martin
It's becoming like a wake on here.
The fear from some bloggers, with regards Saturday, is palpable.
Forget about the Ref
Forget about the Assistants
Forget about Rangers.
Concentrate our minds on CELTIC
And BELIEVE
Stand up for the champions.
glasgowdavewhobelieveswellstuffthem
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the forces will b so hyped up to win on saturday
something will give.
come saturday they'll have had 17 games at home with only 12 away.
thats why wer'e paranoid
still its only tuesday and i'm beginning to fancy the
tic.
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In the dark
I will tell you what hurts,
The fact that wgs was a terrific player and played with qaulity defenders and midfielders and serves up a team lacking spirit and fight so far.
MON was not my favourite manager but he always put a competetive team on the park hence his results against the dark side (with one exception which he remedied within a week)
I have been supporting celtic since the dark days of the fifties
and I remember the 1957 league cup
when they breached the "iron curtain" seven times and as you are a betting man you would have had your tank on the dark side that day like everybody else.
Always expect the unexpected
Us mere mortals can only hope
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Paul,
I've always believed that the refs only make a difference when we and them are evenly matched. For much of the last 7 years the Rt Rev Ian Paisley himself could have been in the middle and we would still have hammered them.
The fact that we are talking about the MIB so much is itself an indication of how confident we all are, in our hearts of hearts...
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Edward your ooh oooh ooh has an n in front of it. Quite audible and clearly obvious who its aimed at.
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Celtic-first
Good point, perhaps I am harsh but let’s not forget the bottle merchants all over the pitch.
With the lack of shape and no discernable tactics we got what we deserved.
You no doubt have played football as I have and it’s strange how when you pull out of tackles or are half hearted you sometimes end up fouling people.
We had players on that pitch that had no right to wear the hoops.
It’s Strachans job to ensure they are not on the pitch on Saturday. We all know who they are.
The first game at Ibrox was as bad as it gets.
However, I am sure the pride of all of our people both players and coaching staff will not let this happen again.
This is why I am confident we will beat the Huns on Saturday.
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Edward U,
Behave yourself there.
Go on admit it, you know that the Tic will win on Saturday.
Go on,
Go on
Go on, admit it now.
Seriously though, I will have a whip round the good bloggers of C Q N to buy you the best relaxer we can find.
We will make sure there is plenty of padding so as another year sitting down does not cause you any further pain in the rear end.
Edward, Cheers my friend.
Martin.
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mickybhoy,
with one notable exception .. black Sunday.
I have to say that WGS with a lower budget has more than matched MON over inflated budget. So all credit to him.
WGS might not have had the money that MON was given but to say that he hasn´t served up a team lacking in spirit and fight is nonsense as far as I am concerned.
How many times have Celtic one games in the last 5 minutes this season?
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ItaliaBhoy,
You are spot on - sure the refereeing wasa disgrace last time but we didn't deserve to win.
I think we'll see a different performance from the CHAMPIONs on Saturday.
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I’m with you Celtic-First 15:41.
It is so transparent what is going on, but the truth isn’t being told, and this is what sticks, it’s the downright dishonesty about it all from the huns and newspapers to the radio and TV. It is a shambles an embarrassment and cheating. But, a club that cloaks itself with words like dignity must have something to be ashamed about otherwise it’s a pretty stupid way to describe a football club. The Fod have always looked after themselves, and let Scotland come second. And Celtic send their players, glad to honour our country.
This has often been the case, and yet many Celtic players get ignored for important games and world cups.
Unfortunately, we are preaching to the converted once again. We see this, the rest don’t want to or ignore it. Sometimes I hope the almighty sees this injustice – ok I know its football – but it still affects our lives and poisons our society. We have put up with this for as long as I can remember, thanks to internet we can now communicate and reach many supporters with our thoughts and opinions on all these matters. Bizarrely the media have access to all this too, they read and must understand our grievances and still don’t tell the truth, not even that they use our discontent to stir up more distress between supporters.
To the countdown:
I for one can certainly see us beating the Fod, and by God they need a good skelping. The Mib will intervene a some point, this won’t be a fair contest, but like I and others on here have already posted, we have the better players. We only need to get stuck in, just get stuck in, and a win will give us the momentum to go on and win a row of games, while the Fod start flapping.
It’s magic you know, it’s gonnae be 3 in a row
Hail Hail
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Chairbhoy,
To be honest I wasn't sure either, but I am certain that another poster confirmed this earlier, either yesterday or this morning.
Otherwise my whole stand would be wrong, as, like you and others, I am not in favour of bending/breaking the laws of the game, even although we know they have no compunction whatsoever in doing so.
Re, the choice of Dougal, my initial thought was: "It could've been worse!"
However after reading Paul's article and being reminded of Dougal's stand vis-a-vis the Neil Lennon incident, now I am not so sure.
A MIB at any time is trouble enough, but one potentially holding a grievance against us????
Batten down the hatches Bhoys, it could be a long 90 mins!!
Gweedore mate, I am surprised at your naiviety, surely you must be aware of just how much a Ref or in this case a MIB can indeed influence a game?
I take your point as to how poorly the team played earlier in the season at Mordor, however, if you see a ball that is a 50/50 you would fancy your chances, however when you know that almost certainly regardless of how you win the ball, a foul will be given against you and possibly a booking, it will definitely influence your decision making.
I think it was In the dark who pointed out just how frustrating a Refs decisions can be especially when it is obvious to you how biased he is being. That will obviously affect how you play.
I am now expecting the great majority of 50/50's to go their way and hope we can get an early goal to force them to have a go at us. 1-0 with 5mins to go will not be enough.
Be interesting to compare how our "first tackle" and theirs are interpreted by Dougal.
Hope the Bhoys In the Broomloan are in fine voice (as usual) as I have a feeling the team will need all the backing they can get!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Ps - Awe-Naw you know that I am much more of a pacifist than a fighter......usually :-)
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aw naw
I was basically talking about
the first encounter at ibrox where
we wimped all over the pitch.
On that particular day they were lacking spirit and fight.
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TTT
Perhaps a misunderstanding,
My point which has been made far more eloquently by italiabhoy was if we play to our true potential then the Hun masons can try and stop us but they won't succeed.
Our problem is we have not played to our full potential. We need to start Saturday.
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Mickeybhoy,
Could you tell me how come we had 9players booked thsat day ifm as you say, wewimped all over thre pitch, lacked spirit and fight.
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS,
Martin.
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Expect a the usual penalty and punishing of JVOH in the air on Saturday. Dougal to send WGS to the stand as well??? He will revel on the cameras being on him. Bettings on a celtic player being sent off???
My money will be on him picking on Brown and McGeady on Saturday. Will there be any point on turning up on Saturday with this referee in charge?
Apart from Dougal if there was anybody else Walter could have hand picked it would have been McCurry. Seems Walter may have been on the phone to his good friend Don McVicar.
Dougal should never have been given a game of this importance given his past history with Celtic. Over to you John Reid and Lawwell. The campaign against our club is growing.
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Gweedorebhoy,
we did not deserve to the win the 9bookings game you are correct in saying that, but as others have pointed out and you are probably aware the MIBS can heavily influence a game, we know that.
So what do we do?, we take the ref out before he takes us out.
If we want to triumph in this fixture we will, if we are going to worry about the ref and the opponents we won't.
We have got to have the "fire in the belly" from the opening whistle till the final whistle.
Martin42, can I sit down now? I'm getting a sore back trying to reach the keyboard! :-)
BF
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Just been reading your recent articles, Paul. Excellent stuff in this of all weeks. Only problem is that none of the Establishment will ever bother reading, never mind admitting to, allowing bias against us. They are, as ever, looking after their own. Always has been so in Scotland...
Fraser Wishart was saying on Scotsport last night that the season ought to be extended, as it was about entertainment. When did Ed's mob (or those in thrall to them like the MIBs) ever think of entertaining the concept of honesty or fair play?
ParanoidareweCSC.
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Bohoysfour,
Don't you dare.
Well if you do, certainly do not tell anyone you sat down.
That's Edward's job, to do all the sitting.
Cheers,
Martin.
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As the game draws closer I am becoming more convinced that we will not be allowed to take anything from this game.
We will be kicked all over the park and if we retaliate we will be punished.
Considering this is the dirtiest rangers team for years I cannot believe the lack of bookings they have had.
Maybe John Reid is keeping his powder dry until the end of the season to see how things pan out, but I would say there is open cheating and manipulation of results by match officials being carried out this year and UEFA/FIFA should be handed a corruption complaint at the end of the season.
PS - I don't normally subscribe to the 'Paranoid Celtic Fan' but I can't argue with what I am seeing.
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It would be good to hear continued chants of "Cheat, Cheat, Cheat" during the game on Saturday.
It would cover so many individuals.
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It's beginning to look like there is more at stake here than three points this weekend. The appointment of Dougal is a complete provocation and a declaration of intent. Shrouded in business parlance the Suits are making the moves and stoking up our paranoia.
My declaration of intent would be, as Paul has written, JVOH and Samaras up front, Aiden and Naka on the wings. Hartley and Donati in the midfield. Defenders clear your lines. Let battle commence.
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Tickling Stick
As the song has it, that's WHY we're paranoid. If you don't normally subscribe to that point of view, how do you normally explain things? Do you think they even themselves out over a season?
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GweedoreBhoy,
Sorry mate, I now realise what you and indeed Italiabhoy were saying.
Methinks the fiery, bubbling blood pulsing through the veins today has put me slightly off kilter.
Stuff them, Let's just get out there, take the game to them, get the early goal and then force them to come out and we shall run riot.
CHAMPIONEES, CHAMPIONEES OLE! OLE! OLE!
In all seriousness though, The Bhoys have to be walking out of the broomloan on Sat afternoon, in full voice giving to Wattie, Fattie, Baldie, Duffield, Bain, Minty, Wishart, Jingle Jackson, the whole lot of them a full-blooded GIRFUY after our victory!!!
Let's not beat about the bush here, a draw whilst Ok will not suffice, what we NEED is to stuff them in their own backyard, leave them rocking on their heels and watch them panic as we let them know that WE ARE KEEPING OUR TITLE!
Gerintaethem!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
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Martin ,in a word no
I cannot explain why this blog was jammed with comments re their lack of fighting spirit and capitulation at fod and we had nine players names in the book
I don't think Arthur C Clark could either
One of the worst memories in my long supporting life, watching my team being humbled by mediocre opposition and watching
a player of the calibre of fat chas adam allowed to showboat
I will need to lie down now
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When we last visited the Death Star we picked up 9 bookings.We look at everything through our own green tints so to get some objectivity and context I looked for a neutral analysis.
The 'Sporting Life' carried out an on-line minute by minute analysis of what was happening the language / descriptors and the outcome for the tackles etc. should give an insight into the fairness of McCurry's performance.
Comments in quotes are from the Sporting life .
6 'McDonald appears to push keeper McGregor'... Yellow Card(missed McGregor stamp twice on McDonald- sees the retaliation, Skippy is naive)
9 Weir foul 'on O'Dea who is going to need some treatment' No action
( McCurry failed to balance the books in the "don't mess with me I'm in charge" school of refereeing Derby games.
22 Jiri 'needless challenge' on Hutton Lectured
25 Hutton 'brought to abrupt halt by Donati' Yellow Card
( no argument here)
31 Brown on Papac 'crude challenge' Yellow Card
( no argument here either)
34 off the ball clash between Thomson and Mick 'but ref takes no action' No action
( Hmmmmmmm!!!!!!)
42 'nasty' clash of heads Mick off No action
( Deliberate assault )
45+2 'Cousin gets a lecture after another aerial challenge this time on Donati' No action
( should have been carded for reckless endangerment or malicious stupidity)
48 Jiri penalised for a foul on Thomson 'decision looked a little harsh' Free to FoD
( that means no foul)
52 'Thomson hacks down McDonald' Free to Celtic No Action against assailant
( hack sounds bookable !!)
55 Kennedy 'chops down Hutton' Yellow Card
( Chop must be worse than a hack because we get another booking)
59 'McGeady hacks down McCulloch' Yellow Card
(no I was wrong, a hack is the same as a chop card no 5)
67 'McGeady and McCulloch tangle- this time the ref penalises the Celtic man' Free FoD
( tangle sounds like 6 and two 3's but must mean a 'sneaky Tim foul' )
70 'Celtic almost create an opening inside the area but ends when whistle goes' Free to FoD
( good way to stop the threat !)
71 'After slight delay ref calls Jarosik back and shows him the yellow card' Yellow Card
76 'Novo clips Snow but comes off worst' Free to Celtic No action
( Oh sh!t I haven't booked any FoD players yet - I really should have done Novo)
88 "Face off between Hutton and Naylor sparks mellee" Cards aplenty ( Hutton, McGregor, Naylor, O'Dea. Boruc)
In the scuffle of hand bags; a ref could justify booking as many or as few as he likes.
The fact that he was calculated in his actions was illustrated by the fact that he looked round the scrum and picked out the two instigators and then two further Celtic players of the 4 remaining players who had not previously been cautioned.
I have not checked the footage but Brown, McGeady , Skippy, Donati, Jarosik, and Kennedy can't all have been any more innocent than O'Dea and Artur.
However McCurry knew that to give them a card would mean a red.
To me this shows the level of cheating that occurred.
If the game had been refereed fairly I believe the bookings would have been as follows
1 McDonald McGeady Kennedy would have been lectured
2 Brown, Donati, Cousin McCulloch would all have been booked.
3 The end of show handbags would have resulted in a lecture from the ref who would tell them all to grow up.
The man is a cheat.
Expect more of the same on saturday
The Onlooker
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I will be standing up for the champions on Saturday Martin. From my vantage point in a pub!!
COME ON YE CELTS.
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everyone should read tosh Mckinly in the ET just about sums up the whole debate here about gordons tenure and the extenion of the league,he is spot on and a must read
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Rimtimtim,
That will do just fine, as long as you are STANDING.
COME ON YE CELTS,
Martin.
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In fifty odd years of following and watching Celtic I cannot ever remember us getting a fair crack of the whip on more than a handful of occasions.
For nearly all of my life we have complained about referees.
The only times we did not moan about referees were during the Jock Stein era and the Martin O'Neil years.
Why was that?, were the referees pro Celtic during those 15 odd years, most certainly they were not.
We had no need to complain about them, we were simply better than our opponents and the referees could do nothing about it.
On Saturday if Gordon plays a team fitted to our strenghts then we will win.
It is in our hands, we are more than capable, our opponents may be hard to beat, they may be defensive, they may be tough as nails, but they have always lost out to teams who passed the ball, played football on the ground and run at them at speed.
As someone already has said, "TAKE THE REFEREE OUT OF THE EQUATION ON SATURDAY AND WE WILL WIN".
PLAY THE RIGHT PLAYERS,
PLAY FOOTBALL AND
VICTORY WILL BE OURS.
STAND UP FOR VICTORY,
Martin
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Lou,
Why not give us a quick summary.
Gordon's tenure, Good or Bad,
Extension of league, for or against.
Martin.
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Martin
What line-up would you go with?
I think WGS will likely go with the following....
Boruc
Hinkel
McManus
Caldwell
Naylor
McGeady
Brown
Dunno
Dunno
JVOH
Samaras
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Lou, heres link to that story,
Tosh's article
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Referee Dougal will have a trick or two up his sleeve. Unless we get a 2 goal lead, quickly it isn't going to happen.
When was the last time we scored in the first 5 mins? First 10? Can anyone remember.
The cards are stacked high against us, even more so now, GS can either play or be the Joker. Get Hutch on! Get Bobo back and put Caldwell in the middle!
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Looking forward to the game, I think we all know what we'll be up against, the less-than-inspiring 4-5-1 so favoured by Smith.
Looking back at previous SPL games we've played this season, I think it's imperative that we match them up with the same formation, for the first half at least. We've been overun in midfield by lesser teams than ourselves and indeed Rangers this season, and often without the confidence (or speed) to play a slick passing game to cut such opponents apart, many such games being saved in the last 5 minutes or so.
For me, five in midfield to take control of the game is a must, though perhaps we could throw their so-called tactical genius with a line-up like below;
-------------Samaras---------------
Robson--Sno--Naka--Hartley--McGeady
Naylor--McManus---Caldwell---Hinkel
--------------Boruc----------------
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I hear supposedly neutral Players union representative Fraser Wishart was spouting about allowing rfc to extend there season.
This guy is supposed to represent the best interest of ALL players of ALL clubs.
Not just the establishment club's interests.
Another high ranking officer in a position of influence along side G Smith.
Comments like this will expose this guy and make his position as untennable as Smith's should be for pandering to the best interests of the establishment team in Scotland squad selections and turning blind eyes to the mass withdrawals.
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Tictical Genius
I would play broon - know he has been major dissapointment but bhoy does he owe his manager and all of us a big, big performance. Same could poss. be said of JVOH.
The manager has show both (to much IMO) faith in these 2 all season.
Time for payback.
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anyone watch the bbc sport tonight and think that big mick looked loaded with the cold?
patnmick
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Hunbelievable !
Lodge SFA appoint head hoodwearer Brother Dougal to help the huns on their latest step towards The Tainted Title .
With his past history of vindictive harassment of Celtic Minded redheads,
captains and managers-
and being proved a liar as he tried to get Neil Lennon a 10 game suspension-
the huns must be very worried to go to such depths in picking such a blatantly anti-Celtic official.
This season ,the SPL and their cheating cohorts at the SFA have made Scottish Football a laughing stock.
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half and half,
Great article from Tosh. Can't really see him fitting in at Radio Clyde. I think that he is the one guy in the media who will stand up for Celtic. How long he will last in the media is a different story.
Hail hail.
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mncelt,
Added to your players I` would have Robson and Hartley.
I tend to agree with Tosh, I think Gordon will start with Scot ans Jan, although I would prefer your pairing.
If a player is AN IMPACT PLAYER, then let him make his impact at the start of the game, to win the game, rather than later, to save the game.
The most successful midfield players in the last three years in Scotland are now wearing green and white.
Hartley could run from box to box all game long, now because of an international, he is a holding midfielder.
He was signed as a box to box player, let ho=im play to his strenghts.
Robson is the other outstanding midfielder, he has however to find his niche in our setup.
ON TO VICTORY,
Martin
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Alobundy :- There is a chant of BJK and I've made my feelings clear on it, but the ooooh chant is not it, if it were that clear why did another poster think it was uvf rolled into one.
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Martin42 :- That's unfair, as I python fan I know that no one expects the comfy chair.
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caeser1967 18:45- 100% agree, I heard him (Wishart) saying this on Saturday, his mask slipped big time.
brenlox 18:58- did oor Tosh not have a wee stint on Clyde but suddenly departed under controversial circumstances? Can anyone recall the reason?
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I typed a rant about Dougal that has now been lost with the injudicious click of a mouse.
Suffice to say if there is a game changing controversial decision on Saturday that goes in Celtic's favour i'll eat a hat of Edward's choice. Humble Dougal
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Re: Appointment of Ref’s for Hun games at Mordor.
Cast yer mind back 4 years, 1st game of the season there, Celtic player sent off (or was it 2), Huns win.
Now, 2 years ago, 1st game there, Celtic player sent off, Huns win.
I’m sure it also happened 6 years ago as well but can’t remember!
Now can you see a plan?
Can you also remember Duffield was getting pelters on here for his anti-Catholic comments in some hun book just prior to this season’s 1st game there?
What happens? And, I predicted it. He appoints a CoS Minister to ref the game. Ironic, don’t think so.
But what happened at that game broke the mould from the previous 1st games there. Instead of sending off a Celtic player he decided to be even more cunning, book 5 before half-time (3 midfielders) and render them practically ineffective. Worked a treat.
Now this Saturday’s game (second in a row there) and who do they appoint? A guy who has already been embarrassed by Gordon Strachan this season and Neil Lennon before. Ironic, don’t think so.
And guess what? I predicted Dougal would be the ref this Saturday.
Ironic eh?
AlanisMorrissetteCSC
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Martin, MnCelt,
Robson is injured - surely you're not suggesting he will be "fit for the game on Saturday!" :-)
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From another board-
Brother Dougal Gets His Orders At Murray Park Today
Wonder if Superally has a license for that blade...........
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Calton- 4 years ago- that was the infamous Lovenkrands/Thomson game where Sutton also got red carded- K. Clark (this was also the game where MON/Neil Lennon showed their solidarity at the end to the support under such oppression- which you may recall they where roundly condemned by all and sundry in the media "could have caused a riot"). Ironically this is one of my most cherished moments as a Celtic supporter.
2 years ago S Dougal and the Lennon red card at the end.
McCurry 9 bookings.
Last year the no penalty for Neil Lennon.
Further back Jorge Cadete
Can anyone tell me when was the last time we ever got a "break" at that god-forsaken place?
(Ed- please don't offer the irrelevent "offside" goal in the last game)
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Lubo.......
from much earlier.
I rely on Bhoy for my information on referees. He thinks that we have had Dougal once only this season against Motherwell. Scott scored a hat trick (including a penalty)but got booked for diving too. He was supposed to referee against Falkirk but called off (Underhill took over).
My abiding memory of Dougal is his sending off of Alan Thomson at Ipox...any bets on him doing the same if a hun perpetrates a tackle like that?
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Martin 42 18:16
That’s true, dreadful isn’t it?
Unfortunately we haven’t got that inbuilt belief those teams had. Those teams were at times truly difficult to beat, and usually won the game before a ball was kicked. To win against them the opposition really had to be on song or the Mib gave them a helping hand, or we had an off day, but that was merely a blip, and didn’t affect the team’s performance.
The recent games we have had to witness means we will have to call on a different kind of belief – namely that we ARE better than they, which is what we believe. Celtic now have the opportunity of showing us this, of showing us they can skelp this team of lucky hammer-throwers. We are not being treated with fairness and this should sting us into show them that cheats don’t win (well not on this particular Saturday).
Looking forwards to it. Standing as I type :-)
Hail Hail
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goldstar10,
I should have said seasons instead of years!
I knew there was one game when we had 2 sent off.
I'm almost certain that the last four seasons we've played the 1st game there we've had a man sent off each time.
Can anyone remember if the Alan Thomson 'nudge' on novo was a 1st game?
I'll need to stop taking the paranoia pills they're dulling the memory or maybe that's what all the hun doctors are tryin to do:-)
Only kidding mine's a TIM.
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This whole sham of a season is getting rather tiresome.
Agree with the previous poster who mentioned a complaint to UEFA.
Seriously looking at a wee weekend in Barcelona to get away from it all.
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Anybody watching U-21 England:Poland? 50th min 0:0.
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Martin42
I'm amazed you weren't annoyed by Scottish referees in Big Jock's time.
It was a golden age for the MIB's.
R.H.Davidson (Airdrie).
J.P.R.Gordon (Newport-on-Tay).
Tiny Wharton.
Syme's Faither
And on and on.
Jock understood what he faced.
His solution was to encourage his players to score goals galore on the basis that "they can't chop them all off"
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Zbyszek,
I am now.
Is there anyone we should look out for?
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Calton.......
Yes it was a first game.
zbyszek.......
yes - it's like watching Rangers versus anybody! Not very entertaining.
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Another example of cheating by the huns-
this time they're cheating the hun support!
"RANGERS are giving free official match tickets to supporters attending the away UEFA Cup t
