“Feeling more confident than any time in the last five years” was the sentiment expressed to me by a Newco fan this morning. And with some reason. They have gone two months without defeat, while Celtic’s blistering runs of successive wins stopped; we’ve won three and drawn three of our last six.
Reasons for any marked change in results are usually varied. With the league won, Celtic rested players, while others were injured. Opponents have also paid attention to their Scott Sinclair Problem. Stop Scott getting the ball and you inhibit Celtic’s most potent danger.
You also have to factor in the reality that Brendan Rodgers has given 52 competitive pre-match team talks. There are only so many times you can vocabularise your rallying call before its effects diminish.
The contrast in the other Hampden dressing room will be stark. Brother Pedro’s accent will still appear fresh to his players, never mind his message. His tactical talks and implorations of effort will seem innovative, whether they are or not. For these reasons, and more, Newco players will fear nothing on Sunday.
This game will be more straightforward that Ross County last week. We know Newco are there to win, to knock us out of the cup, stop our Invincibility Quest and reach their second major cup final. We’ll not face 10 men behind the ball.
Having said all of this, you and me will both be stunned if Celtic don’t prevail. We have the better players, the better manager, we’ve faced many and varied challenges this season and come through impressively.
Dembele, Griffiths and Rogic are back and available. The manager has choices on who to play, and options to change the game, or freshen things up later.
That same Newco fan this morning accused me of selective memory, with good reason, when I said I couldn’t remember Ugo Ehiogu playing for Rangers. It was no less alarming to hear a fit and active man of 44 died so suddenly. Condolences to his loved ones. There but……….
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MARGARET MCGILL
Rent Boys Shirley:))
Mags,
I have a whole theory regarding this trial and how it will pan out but it is not for publication on here.
I think there are many different factions at play and that not all the Rangers brethren are either on the same side or speak with one voice or intention.
I don’t think the cardigan was ever sacked twice as he says he was ?
Win on Sunday confuse the huns With Scot Sinclair at centre forward
I think we have played really well when he has been s been in there
BRTH
Check your email.
If anyone knows Joe McHugh of Videocelts you might want to contact him to suggest that his headline of
“Walter Smith in the Dock” should really be changed to “Walter Smith in the Witness Box”
There is a big difference and the current headline might be regarded as defamatory.
!! BADA BING !! @ 1 .21 .
Davy White was sacked . The morning after Gornik humped the Deady Bears @ Ibrox. .. I went to that game with a Polish mate . . Gornik humped them . Gornik humiliated them . The Bears were raging .!!!!
SoT- you are right, but the passed Club of unsurpassed dignity(sic), always boast about not sacking managers.HH
Mags
The prevailing wisdom is that to get convicted of a (achem) Whyte collar crime, you need to be either particularly stupid or particularly unlucky.
The sense is that much of the activity on this and related cases by COPFS has been motivated by affiliation to Football than application of Law. We’ll see how it pans out, but I’d reckon on acquittal on both charges given only the difficulty in bringing a jury to a point of understanding on the relevant law.
Reading James Doleman’s thread this morning, Findlay appears to be going down the line that the promised £5M investment in players (part of the first indictment) was irrelevant in the demise of the club set against the failure to qualify for the Champions League. He’ll probably suggest Whyte would have put the dough in, but UCL exit made insolvency inevitable, and therefore the investment moot. The circumstances had changed materially between May and August.
Hey, we’ll see…
!! BADA BING !!.
Indeed !! .
John Lawrence got an Accountant to tell Scott Symon –” You’re sacked “
So a former RFC director and owner is on trial over charges relating to the purchase and subsequent collapse of RFC. He is represented by a former RFC director, who questions, as the first witness, a former RFC director and manager.
As our host might say… hmmmm….
The Battered Bunnet on 21st April 2017 1:56 pm
Yes I agree with that. Yup Findlay already manufacturing confusion and obfuscation for the jury. It will be a total whytewash.
Am I correct in thinking that this eagerly awaited trial will, in fact, be yet another damp squib?
JJ
https://twitter.com/johnny_scotland/status/855380432568946689
This guy is eager to be called…
JJ
Depends on your definition of damp. The outcome of the trial is neither here nor there for most folk. Its the material that is released into evidence that is more of interest.
Unless proceedings are ended prematurely, I expect there will be at least the odd banger.
A well rehearsed masonic whytewash on the cards here, Whyte acquited, move along nothing to see here.
!BADA BING!
Questions might be asked re waste of public funds in bringing the case if he is acquitted without much preamble.
Might look bad for Murray claiming he was duped anaw.
I’m surprised it got this far,tbh. And I don’t think Findlay likes losing. I reckon they want him sent down-or even put down!-but Findlay is the imponderable.
The result will be the one that he has decided suits him best.
If I dont care about apostraphes ….. does that make me an apostrate?
(that one’s for Davidopolous)
BMCUW- there has been 2 long running inquiries into the Ibrox debacle, huge cost to the taxpayer.I think the only way someone will cop it , is if City of London polis are looking for a body for the financial stuff.HH
MIKEINTORONTO
Naw,makes you a bad speller though(!)
!BADA BING!
Aye,probably right. Smashing wee country,innit?
Minutes “Mr King insisted Rangers would always be afloat, either in an ocean or a small pond”
1/2
Findlay “Any idea what that means?
Smith “No”
Findlay “Me neither”
#WhyteTrial
BMCUWP
As Mark Twain once said, “Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”
MIKEINTORONTO
Was his Dad a typesetter?
Next witness, Alistair McCoist
TimReaper ….
God forbid I was counsel in this case…. but, if I were … my first and only questions for fat sally …
‘so, what the F*** did you say to Neil that day?’
Once he answered, I’d say ‘the defence rests’ and sit down.
Can’t really get excited about Sunday. Progress in Europe is now Brendan and team aim, while operating honestly, transparently, and giving a sair heid to the odd Financial Doping Xl.
Sunday is merely another opportunity for bigots and cheats to air their hatred, while pretending there is form of symbiotic relationship with us. Dinosaurs slowly sinking into the oblivion of extinction and yesteryear in their sweaty, oversized sky blue tops.
My hope is that we win the game, yes. I hope too that our players get to 90 minutes with their bones and ligaments intact.
I would rather see celtic players being able to take care of themselves . Yes they have a few who are capable of leaving the boot in . But to call holt , garner . Windass , hyndman , hammer throwers , God not a six footer among them . We allowed them to bully us at celtic park last time , I sincerely hope we have learned from that , and be prepared to battle tooth and nail , do that and we will triumph . We sound at times like the little boy running home to mummy after the school bully takes his play piece off him . Instead of getting stuck into him .
https://twitter.com/cecilteaspoon/status/855381560048177152
Wonder if Mutton Chops, when questioning Fat Salary about finances – will ask about the Hedge Fund?
PRAECEPTA
It’s a hun thing,they hate hedges.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/rangers-legend-john-greig-tackles-6955181
Diedco Shares and Bonds, found under Benches and Hedges…:))
BMCUW
Probably the fact that they’re evergreen!
I wonder if say turnbull Hutton rip had been a qc , would he have got the nod to defend whyte
McCoist says he had no input on financial matters, was his job to “put out the best possible team”
#WhyteTrial
JIMTIM on 21ST APRIL 2017 3:16 PM
Firstly, we should be asking ourselves in this day and age, why the absurdity of even having a conversation about hammer throwers?
Secondly, even the hardest man in football is going to suffer a dehabilitating injury when officials are blind to scissor tackles from behind (on Paddy Roberts and Scott Sinclair) and launching yourself like a scud missive two feet up at a planted leg (Millar on Armstrong).
Hard men, or the lack thereof isn’t the problem. Look at the published list of officials for Sunday. Do you trust them to protect our players, and punish infringements evenly and fairly?
thetimreaper on 21st April 2017 3:36 pm
McCoist says he had no input on financial matters, was his job to “put out the best possible team”
#WhyteTrial
He’d better be careful or he will end up in the dock anaw…..
#kevinkyle
Anyway, enough of this distracting fitba talk.
Let’s get back to the insults and bickering of entrenched politics, choreographed and led by trolls on a payroll.
Really looking forward to the summer break.
:-)
McCoist says there were “no verbal discussions” about his managerial contract. “It was just put in front of me.”
#WhyteTrial
Smith: “Mr McCoist negotiates his own contracts, is clearly cleverer than me.”
Hmmmm.