For all of our dominance yesterday, you have to think there is room for considerable improvement. Passing in the first half was frequently poor, shooting throughout the game was invariably off target, and when we managed to keep it down and between the sticks, the keeper was able to read the shot. Gilks played well, but the truth is we flattered him.
Moussa Dembele grabbed all the headlines with his back-heel-flick-nutmeg-winning-goal, but I spent much of the game debating whether it was time he was rested. Against Newco last month, he held the ball up and linked play, while finding and exploiting space. Yesterday his linking was poor and he seldom found space.
The incisiveness we enjoyed watching as recently as the outing against Manchester City, was missing against Gladback on Wednesday and at Hampden yesterday.
There were also enormous positives. Jozo Simunovic and Erik Sviatchenko were absolutely critical on Celtic’s grip on the game. Their positioning – when we were in possession – kept the ball flowing. They both gave us playmaker performances, and they didn’t miss a beat defensively either.
Again, just as on Wednesday, it didn’t work for Nir Bitton. When we play out from central defence like this the deep-lying playmaker role is crucial. He need to create space for us to move the ball forward, while he becomes an auxiliary defender as our full backs are so high up the field.
Stuart Armstrong came on and played higher up-field than Bitton and managed to put the squeeze on Newco.
The game reminded me of the League Cup semi-final two years ago, when Celtic subjugated an impotent Newco without scoring the volume of goals their superiority deserved. There was a chasm between the teams, which makes my belief that Celtic can play a lot better all the more interesting. Conversely I suspect that was a high water mark for Mark Warburton’s team.
The portents are good that he believes that game was a sign of progress.
As for Craig Thomson, that was self-evidently not good enough.
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Weeminger
Just as an aside
Would currency fluctuations affect loan repayments say in HKD for example?
RecentdipsCsc
HH
One should be won obviously
CANAMALAR/ Cowiebhoy
Go to http://www.shareprophets.com – think you will find Douglas Ware gets more than a passing mention by Tom Winnifrith.
Scaniel
I have been looking into a mass exodus to Lisbon between 23rd May and 28th flying with EasyJet from Edinburgh.
I have been in touch with their group bookings team and they have quoted me a reserved 50 seats at around £300 return. I am about to e-mail certain folk about this who expressed an interest but unfortunately I have been unwell throughout last week and so haven’t got to it yet.
Accommodation would be on top of that.
Anyone interested can e-mail me at jjoe88@hotmail.co.uk
SOT
I hope all is well with you and the good lady of Padova was thinking of you both on the taxi ride from Bologna airport to Bologna central statzione as on the sign board on the motorway way was PADOVA :-). We got to Ritzionie and it was a ghost town the place was deserted :-) anyway went to a few nice restaurants La Greppia in Coriano very nice it rained for 2 days grrr we went to Rimini for half a day not much there but it had sunshine for 2 hours and clouded over :-)). We watched the BMG game on calico 378 in the hotel room my wife and son were giving me a hard time for bringing them to Ritzionie. Thank god for the stone island shop in the Vialle Ceccarini it kept my son happy when he got a new jacket :-). All in all a pretty disastrous week but hey we still pumped the Huns on Sunday so who cares. SOT thanks for all your help for the stazionie it was a breeze :-))
Good Morning CQN
Dena thoughts and prayers
Hope all goes well for you and your daughter today
Great result on Sunday
Clydebank is a happy place right now
Hail Hail
Mt
I assume that there will be some team changes when we visit Ross Poldark, although perhaps not from the start.
I would have Armstrong ready for action and maybe Gamboa.
Toure will be back and even Du Vries.
It will be another of those dour, northern tussles, where County will hang in till the end, but it is a big three point game, prior to Pittodrie.
BRTH @ 10.09
On behalf o myself and many others I’m sure, thanks for the clarification (•_•)
Davido
What happened to the Sevco square sliced sausage money?
BRTH
Clear as mud :) por cierto
bournesouprecipe
It was confiscated as a result of too many people calling square sausage “slice”…
Quite right too.
BRTH.
Cheers, so what’s your opinion of if and when it will happen ?
So,Pete Burns. Dead or Alive?
Dead,then.
Davido
Ta –
You’ll never walk a Lorne
South of Tunis
The other day you mentioned a report/book about the Aberfan disaster, I wonder if you would be kind enough to repost its title and author, you said the author didnt miss
Thanks in advance
Ps -4 leavin glen feshie this morn
Cold up north
HH
Canamalar??????
Jeez do you think I am some kind of soothsayer?
God alone knows what will happen with this or when or even by whom to who?
The whole thing is as mad as a box of frogs on a hotplate!
But I will bet that Law Financial will come marching forward and sit and watch the fallout start to happen.
bournesouprecipe
You gotta roll with it?
BMCUW
Spinned me right round there
By the way re Lisbon
There are cheaper flights available from Heathrow, Luton and Liverpool but I was asked to get a rate for a group flying from the Central Belt.
An Tearmann on 25th October 2016 10:32 am
Spot on; Ernie is a clever man but he and Mags McGill are the only 2 I can recall using the terminology of the old firm; they continue the myth along with SMSM and the huns. No one else here, to my knowledge, uses it or supports it. Bordering on trolling to be honest!
KTF
Beans?
BRTH,
Law financial have three officers listed as directors, Spurway, Ware and Liberty Corporate.
Liberty Corporate have three officers listed as directors, Spurway, Ware and Law Financial.
The four of these are the listed as directors of The rangers fc group, so it does not look like there is much conflict,especially where law financial and Liberty corporate are concerned.
BRTH
Thank you for your incisive summation of the Law Financial situation. The whole situation is almost beyond belief. My initial understanding of the scenarion was (as par normal) wrong. I mistakenly thought that they had acquired a further loan/input of capital but was surprised that Level 5 had not been trumpeting the Hallajuh Chorus in a revivalist “We are saved!!” manner.
Hope you are back to full health. HH
Oh and all are registered at the same address in Surry
bournesouprecipe
Bean
ACGR
Your post at 12:47 seems to have disappeared. However I’m dismayed if it did link to Huns who have finally felt the full force of the penny dropping on their nappers. That is the beginning of them being able to rationalise thoughts. I had hoped they would stick to their L5 soup and pudding for many years to come or at least until another insolvency.
I’m good BTW. Just a bit of worsening Diverticular disease identified. Thankfully I took the sedative this time and don’t remember much about the procedure even though I was awake throughout.
MWD
AN TEARMANN
Aberfan -Government And Disasters — Ian McLean and Martin Johnes ( Welsh Academic Press )
Martin Johnes is a Welsh historian –
Dena
Hope everything goes well with your daughter. Thoughts and prayers with her and yours.
MWD
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 25TH OCTOBER 2016 10:43 AM
Excellent summary.
Are you aware that the Worthington Group pensions trustees have presented them with a winding up order? This was in court today and has been adjourned for 28 days, to see if a CVA can be agreed with creditors – most of whom seem to be the directors.
It’s murky.
More from JJ …
https://johnjamessite.com/2016/10/25/gash-garner-glass-egos-glass-knees-garden-gnomes/
Canamalar
Well spotted.
BRTH
Cheers for explanation.
Pretty much think no matter what follow follows this will not touch the existing metamorphosis as a deal will be done and as you say solicitors pockets filled again. Everyone happy.
MWD
CELTIC CHAMPS ELECT .
Oh dear ! — at least you didn’t get lost in Bologna Central. .A place which gives me the creeps – 85 died / hundreds injured there in 1980 – a bomb planted by neo fascist nut jobs called Armed Revolutionary Nuclei .
I went to Riccione once. ( long time ago )——— packed with Italian pensioners , German , Swiss and Austrian cyclists and out their trees on ecstasy fashion victims who there for a jazz dance event I foolishly agreed to DJ at .
“I was, if you like, driving the train when it crashed but I wasn’t the one who set it on this path.”
Craig Whyte
Thought for a while that Sky’s financial gamble in ploughing massive amounts into EPL to support the risible “best league in the world” claim was always a business model bubble waiting to burst.
People, including myself when I stopped subscribing to Sky Sports for that very reason, are finding other sources for their football viewing.
Which will go tits up first – Sevco or Sky – either way the schadenfreude will be wunderbar :-)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/24/sky-sports-bt-sport-people-switching-football-off
WEEMINGER on 25TH OCTOBER 2016 11:12 AM
Sorry who was presented with a winding up petition? I couldn’t follow that part.
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 25TH OCTOBER 2016 11:42 AM
Worthington Group were presented with it by Jerome Group Plc Retirement Benefits Plan. Back in 2012 they made a claim against Worthington that £3M from the pension pot had been invested in RFC by Craig Whyte without proper consent.
My friends and I, a group of 8, are booked up for Lisbon leaving Glasgow with Ryan Air on the 25th returning on the 29th. Plan is to make the pilgrimage on the 26th so no doubt I’ll see many of you there!!
ERNIE LYNCH
Completely agree, If they are a different club why all the excitement on Sunday? doing the msm’s job for them.
We were cheated or has everyone forgotten that after two games? We were cheated again on Sunday until the 88th minute, This won’t go away. They want it to and us cheerleading a narrow victory over them helps cover up the big lie.
Wake up.
KLV