I read Kenny Shiels’ comments that Newco’s Barrie McKay was better than James Forrest and Patrick Roberts, making me curious about McKay’s contract. The midfielder’s deal expires in 18 months, but when announcing his contract signing, Newco were unusually frank about their newco status:
“The winger has played a total of 78 times for Rangers, after making his first start in July 2012 against Brechin City at the age of 17.”
Before going onto explain in the same article that “The pacey winger made his Rangers debut against St Johnstone in the Light Blues’ last game of the 2011/12 season.”
If you count, that’s two debuts. For two Rangers.
McKay was clearly Newco’s best player against Celtic, causing problems from the first minute until their challenge ran out of steam. Tying him into a long-term contract will be a priority (or selling him will be).
Yesterday I noted how Kiernan yelled abuse towards Tavernier at Scott Sinclair’s goal at Ibrox, but as this still shows, the entire Newco defence have questions to answer.
There are five defender goal-side of Stuart Armstrong (not counting one on the wing). As the world was about to find out, Sinclair was unattended, but look at the space Moussa Dembele is in! The two central defenders, who will soon claim to be covering him, are five yards away from him. The defensive line isn’t so much a line as a horseshoe.
This is what Moussa scores so many goals against that lot, he doesn’t get this kind of space against any other opponent.
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Loved the way Martin dealt with the “press”, Brendan also superb at that.
@paulthetim:
Koussai eboue looks to be Brendan’s first signing of the window
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
ONENIGHTINLISBON
Martin sued them often and usually won.
And why not?
Best wishes to one and all for a great New Year!
Good Evening.
Here’s something new from Clumpany Towers: “The Sevco Used Car Showroom”
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And a bump for my previous blog
“(For The Thirty-Millionth Time) Where’s The Money Dave?”
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Eboue has a Pogba hair cut. Just saying.
Totally agree MON or BR what a great discussion to be having.
Both were (are ) vital appointments, which were necessary for their time.
It’s like comparing black vinyl roofs on cars which were the bees knees in their day, and the trendy carbon fibre black roofs on cars nowadays.
Both great , both impact statements, both trend setters but very difficult to compare head to head with each other.:-)))
HH to all.
Eboue goal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JJpWtJW1Q
!!Bada Bing!! on 3rd January 2017 5:26 pm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouassi_Eboue
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Christ joins Celtic !!!! – the huns will be beyond permarage.
Seriously good haircut by the way…
Eboue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkqEPXyFeNo
Nearly £3,000.000 say STV
http://russianfootballnews.com/ones-to-watch-kouassi-eboue/
Eboue is 19 and has played 10 times for his club.
Is he a project or does he walk in to the first team?
If Koussai Eboue does sign I would not expect another midfielder to come in. It will be nteresting to see what other position he strengthens, I think personally there will only be two signings. There will I believe be a few that will move on.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Laurie in denniston alert
Is the young Ivorian a defensive middy ?
I hope so, no many goals if he is no :-)
PHILBHOY
They knew they could not get away with anything. I see the same thing with Brendan. Confident, articulate, knows how to play them. Mr Warburton however…….
Sorry, Laurie
It’s the guy after Laurie that’s the zoomer
If the figure is correct, it’s a lot of money for us to spend on a 19 year old with only 10 matches under his belt. I suspect the figure is inflated slightly.
Guy that was stuck overnight in a blizzard in the Cairngorms sparking a full scale rescue is called Elmer.
How appropriate.
MILD MANNERED PEDRO DELGADO
Humiliation…………total and utter.
Read somewhere wee jay spent more time on the pitch than garner.
http://russianfootballnews.com/ones-to-watch-kouassi-eboue/
Another babysitting job for Kolo. He’s did well with helping Moussa settle, hopefully same again with Kouassi
Evening
Interesting to read the discussion comparing merits of MON and Brendan in their respective first seasons.
It strikes me that we are not comparing like with like – Martin took over Rangers were apparently unassailable. We were nearer Hearts than Rangers at the end of the 99-00 season. Brendan took over at a time we were miles ahead at the top of the league – although we’d had a comparatively poor season. As an achievement Martin O’Neill’s in that first season is far superior. MON’s achievement is comparable to Jock’s – and of course whilst we’d been poor for most of the previous 20 years prior to JS taking over Rangers were not champions either. And it was not like Wim either- Martin’s team romped home.
But Brendan has managed his resources as well as any manager I have seen since Jock instilling the team with a panache and vitality that is at least the equal of Martin’s. Players careers have been reinvigorated which was not Martin’s forte.
MON was the right man for the job in 2000 but would his approach to actual play- which could seem as inflexible as Ronny’s last season- be right now? Would the more cerebral approach favoured by BR have worked in 2000. I don’t know. I think we should be grateful to have had both men aboard.
Jimbo67
PS In answer to my own question.”yes”
the zoomer wants gerry to ask laurie “how comes he is allways using big wurds, did he swaly a dikshiniry.
laurie phoned back in.
gerry bottled asking him the zoomers question
however for once i would have liked to hear lauries erudite answer with i hazard a guess of
“yes i know a magnitude of descriptive words , gathered by intentive listening to my school masters teaching in a school of faith”
i blame catholic schools.
Big cup
I take it you mean the zoomer
Serious question
What are sevco doing for the winter break?
Jim Payne,
I was not trying to compare MON and our current manager. I simply think our manager is the best since Jock Stein. We have had plenty of other successful managers in between like Big Billy and WGS. To me, it’s the transformation he’s effected in the players who were on the books when he arrived, like Stuart Armstrong. He’s been moved to a position which suits him and his confidence is obvious, something similar to Jock moving Bobby Murdoch to right half and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kouassi Eboue’s abilities, as expanded upon in that Russian football news article are an EXACT fit for our midfield requirements to aid Broon in the engine room.
Without knowledge of Celtic’s interest the article is very positive about the boy’s prospects; we could be picking him up at the perfect time.
Going by the vid clip of his sending-off, he’s certainly got fire and passion :))
He’d better get used to the bigots with whistles dishing him out plenty more chances to repeat that tantrum.
One nagging question remains though – is he as good as Barrie McKay?
Vfr-4:27pm. It was a dig, just a wee subtle one, Paul 67 has been known to do the same, when it suits:-))
I loved the photos of Brendan with McKay. To me, it showed a level of class to which Warburton, his team, his club, board and the Level 5 liars are incapable of even aspiring to.
Plus, huns everywhere will absolutely hate it.
Brendan Rodgers is on the verge of something great with us IMO.
Mild Mannered Pedro Delgado.
I believe Sevco are playing Red Bull Leipzig. Where they will beg for money. Apart from that no idea. The mighty hoops and the sheep are going to Dubai.
Parkheadcumsalford
No argument here at all – the achievement in helping several players who looked to be headed out the door 8 months ago is superb and not dissimilar to the way that Jinky and the two Bobby’s all turned their careers round. But as an achievement Martin’s arrival and smashing Rangers is almost unsurpassable.
Jimbo67
So we are into 2017. Coasting the league and odds on for a Treble.
We have a management team and a squad of players that seem capable of pushing on to achieve something special in Europe.
50 years on from our greatest triumph.
There will be much to celebrate and I’m booked with with Mrs SeS for the Vegas convention in June.
So why do I have this feeling of gut-churning emptiness?
My dad passed away last year. I miss him every day and reflect often on our chats about the Celts. He was a wee guy ( in stature only) and identified closely with the classic wingers and loved the old style wing-play. He achieved some decent amateur success in his prime, although I only found out about that after he died.
He was born in 1939 and was raised on stories of McGrory & Patsy Gallacher but his favourite stories were of the antics of his fellow townsman, Bertie Thomson of 1931 and 1933 Cup Winning fame, told to him by his own dad who had played with Bertie as an amateur, before he received the call to Paradise.
I will also never forget the day I presented him with a photograph taken in 1887, with his grandfather in a team that included future Celtic legend Peter Douds (sic) and our first proper goalkeeper Neil Dinning (sic). Douds played in the first Celtic team to win the Scottish Cup in 1892 and in the first league winning team the following season. Dinning won the league at Aston Villa, as did Douds, before returning to Celts.
Dad grew up surrounded by Celtic men and his education and induction to Celtic was deep and insightful. He enjoyed first-hand contact with some guys that formed the core of Celtic, that knew the local stars, as they lived in the community and were close to and married into his extended family. Guys like Bertie Thomson and Peter Scarff were connected and he went to school with Jim Kennedy.
He understood what being a Celtic fan was all about and he did his best to pass on the mantle to his 6 sons (and 3 daughters..) He loved all the Lions and Jinky & Lemon of course, but his personal favourite was Charlie Tully. His memories of his formative years including the Coronation Cup, ’54 Double team and Hampden in The Sun 7-1, sustained him all his life. Even now I can see his eye watering as he gazed into the distant past, recalling the games he attended at Paradise & Hampden – a place he loved unreservedly- the moves, the goals, the huge crowds and the wonderful atmosphere!
My dad spoke quietly about Celts, he was a quiet guy. I never once heard him swear and he never once bad-mouthed Rangers. Not once did I hear him say anything negative about any opponent, he always focused on the positive aspects of his own team. When I was much older he told me that he often went to watch Rangers at Ibrox, I was visibly shocked, he told me it was the only way to see some of the top European players back in the day, before Celtic even qualified for Europe ( pre 1962). That was a surprise… but not really. He loved his fitba and would admire guys like Baxter and Wilson without giving the minor inconvenience that they were Gers another thought.
He often applauded moves by other teams and their players, and when that would draw comments less than favourable from fellow Celts, dad would just ignore them. He kept his thoughts on them to himself, but over the years I had sussed out what he was about. It was his quiet way of leading his sons to think for themselves and to speak up when it matters. But, not to antagonise for the sake of it.
In 1971 at a family New Year party, he received an urgent call from the mother of a friend, we were at an aunt’s house in Foxbar. The lady was worried sick that her son had been caught up in the terrible disaster at stairway 13. She was a widow and had no way of contacting her son. My dad didn’t hesitate, and drove directly to the temporary morgue at Ibrox to complete an ID check. To this day I shudder to think what he saw there that awful night.
He had to go back again the next day and I will never forget the look on his wee face as he left the next morning. To do it all again!!
It was a huge relief when he finally saw that ‘face’ walking down the Thorn on it’s merry way home from an all-night party.. oblivious, there may have been a few sweary words tho’…
Dad was 23 when I was born, by the time he died he had only ‘seen’ one more league winning team than me (1954). I often ribbed him that his generation were a ‘jinx’ to Celts, but I knew the truth. They were and will always be remembered as the the classic ‘Faithful’ generation. Enduring the worst of times in a footballing sense, and the height of the cheating and mibbery that knew no limits… or so they thought!
The sense of cheating then was tangible, but there was no real proof. The men of my father’s generation ‘knew’ but they just got on with it, telling us that was what made the victories and particularly Lisbon, so special. They kept on turning up knowing that often enough they would be going home empty-handed, having to suffer yet another honest mistake.
Our generation are probably a wee bit more clued up or dareisay ‘sophisticated’ in such matters, and we found ways and means to find the proof required. What was revealed was beyond anything that the most paranoid hoops fan could imagine.
We were never paranoid enough, it seems!!
Last year Ronny Delia’s team achieved the league victory that drew ‘my leagues’ tally level with my Dad.
So! That kinda makes me feel sad and frustrated as hell, because my Dad should have had so many more victories to savour and enjoy!
Who knows how many leagues he was cheated? How many cups? How many attempts at European Cups did he miss out on in the 50’s and Early 60’s? In the 90’s and so on..
Thanks to the efforts of guys on here, he went to his death knowing part of the answer, thankfully!
The unpalatable truth is that the board at Celtic have clearly decided to lie down to historical ( and extant) institutionalised cheating and have taken a calculated, commercial punt that the majority of Celtic fans, will be sufficiently happy dominating a version of Rangers consigned to a permanent second place, or worse..
They seem to have based that strategic decision on the numbers of season ticket holders who continue to pay to knowingly watch a rigged game. They have chosen to factor-out the potential impact of the minority view, and some who have worked selflessly and tirelessly to bring the issues to their attention.
Unfortunately, it seems those sums add up to their satisfaction.
Now we know that any chance our board will suddenly speak out and demand action on ‘tainted titles’, if the Supreme Court boots out the final appeal in March 2017, is a fanciful notion, in the extreme.
They are content to remain the ‘cheek sinistre’ of the the same ‘Old Firm’ arse! Bigotry rules!
They will follow a money making model that makes me sick to my stomach. The vast majority of Celtic fans don’t seems to care, or they don’t care enough!!
Wait until we eventually lose a title to thems – and how they will go about achieving that!!!
My dad is buried close to Peter Douds and Bertie Thomson, they will all be spinning in their graves for an eternity due to the behaviour of these gutless, money-grabbing, charlatans that would not last 2 minutes with the Celtic fans I know.
A board that will be forever remembered as complicit in the carve-up of stolen dreams and the total sell-out of everything Celtic should stand for!
Happy New Year?
Sadly, I’m not so sure…
Philbhoy
Happy new year buddy
MWD
FAIRHILL BHOY on 3RD JANUARY 2017 7:13 PM
It wasn’t a dig; it was a statement of fact. MON spent a significant amount of money in his first transfer window. BR spent £4M or so on Sinclair. A significant difference.
JIM PAYNE, initially i didn’t compare BR and MON either. KevJ and BEATBHOY put forward the comparison.
It’s always difficult to directly compare to different times or achievements. May will be when we can successfully judge BR’s achievements.
KTF
VFR800-can I ask if this has always been your username:/))
http://m.independent.ie/sport/soccer/striker/from-bluebell-to-the-spl-striker-dean-ebbe-swaps-leinster-senior-league-for-scottish-top-flight-35338945.html