John Guidetti has put himself out there by letting us know he’ll score a hat-trick in next month’s League Cup semi-final. I’m not normally an advocate of showing confidence, if not contempt, for opponents prior to a game, but Guidetti’s comments come against a rich canvas.
The player is in a rut and will be feeling the weight of disappointment with each passing chance. He is a goal-scorer, he’ll score again, but he needs to find the spark to fire-up the second part of his season.
You will remember Kenny Miller ran his guts out in his early months as a Celtic player but it was not until a game against oldco Rangers in September that his landmark first Celtic goal arrived. Kris Commons has been a scoring sensation throughout his time at the club apart from his second season, when he took until April before scoring, a delightful chip over the oldco keeper.
Ahead of both of those games I knew it was all going to come together for Miller and Commons. John Guidetti has set himself a target. He will probably score before that game but he knows how important it is to perform at Hampden. He is good enough to deliver on this one, don’t bet against him.
Contrast John’s comments to those last week from newco defender, Steven Smith, who said, “The fans will probably be dreading [the Celtic game]because in the big games this season, we haven’t done well. Everybody has got their opinions and are entitled to them.
“But with the results we have been having and the way we have been playing, I don’t think we can think about it too much.”
You will be hard pushed to find a clearer example of the language of failure: “dreading”, “haven’t done well” and “the way we’ve been playing”. You normally need to work a bit to find a player’s insecurities. It’s good of John Guidetti to mark his card on what to expect. Give me a confident striker over a scared defender any day.
The Second Annual Celtic Supporter’s Féile is on the weekend of Friday 30 January 30 – Sunday 1 February in Philadelphia. The events include live music each day, the US premier of The Asterisk Years, with a Q&A with Paul Larkin and Graham Wilson of Beyond the Waves podcast, as well as live coverage of our first ever meeting with newco Rangers in the League Cup semi-final.
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Somebody’s cage (or own wee bubble) has been rattled this morning
proudbhoy-aye,RD will be on message by now,he will find out if he is being backed in the next 2 weeks IMO.If he flunks it and we don’t win the league,he will be toast anyway.HH
On the Herald statement.
I don’t think that on it’s own it will make much difference.
But it is a start .
It needs to be followed up .
Fans if other clubs need to be incorporated and unify.
We cannot meekly accept the Big Lie.
TT
Bawsman
10:55 on 13 January, 2015
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Listen fella….Canamaler, Auldhied etc…will try their utmost to make things better for Celtic and, Celtic fans – thats what they do.
But, they go the wrong way about it.
Canamaler, Auldhied will try to purue the proper path, do the right thing, stay on the proper path, play it by the book.
But, thats fine in an ideal world.
Unfortunately… we dont live in one.
Ye see, the celtic ‘bored’ are sharks.
If, yer going into the pond with the sharks, you’ll need to be able to look after yerselves.
Are, Canamaler and Auldhied etc…capable of being sharks – back at the sharks in the ‘boreds’ pond?
I dont think so.
Ye see, Like the Celtic suppport who bought all the shares to re-build the club, I’m on the outside – looking in – in spite of Fergus’s promises.
But, the ‘bored’ of today, have to be – made – to do something about all the corruption.
And, given that the only language that the ‘bored’ will listen to is – kerching – then thats were ye have to get the upper-hand.
The Celtic support have all the power but – they dont know how to use it.
Are ther leaders out there to show them how to use it?
I doubt it or, they’d be in evidence by now.
Sadly – apathy will win.
The game, the game is over – the rebels have gone.
Bye.
I read the Sunday Herald. In fact I get it delivered, so usually start reading it while propped up in bed with a cup of Earl Grey as the wife cooks breakfast.
I read the Sunday Herald to access particular feature writers. When I was a boy, my household’s standard weekly intake was the Sunday Mail and the Sunday Post, in common with the majority of working class Scottish households at the time.
My socialist father expressed no little concern when his 12 year-old son began requesting the purchase of the Sunday Express on the way home from mass. He worried that he might be bringing up a future Tory MP. I won favour by keeping to myself the irony of him giving a weekly donation to the profits of DC Thompson.
I liked the Sunday Express for 2 reasons. Firstly, a unique crossword puzzle where not only were you required to fill in the correct answers, you had to work out and insert the black shaded boxes as well. I loved that crossword.
Secondly, Danny Blanchflower. For our younger readers, Blanchflower was a terrific left-back who played for Ireland and the brilliant double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of the early 60s. Once he had hung up his boots, Blanchflower was afforded his own weekly column in the Sunday Express. He was clever and witty and his work was an absolute joy to read, and an education to boot. It was worth the snide comments from my brothers and the unfounded fears of my father just to read the thoughts of the great Irishman.
The Sunday Herald is by far, in my opinion of course, the finest newspaper on sale in Scotland, any day of the week.
I am delighted that the guys have chosen that particular journal to carry the CQN advert/statement.
So is it still the shopkeeper’s fault that friends and family of the lady with the unfortunately vulgar verruca, forgot to mention her facial disfigurement to her?
Surely one of them could have pointed it out and suggested remedial treatment, some sort of surgery or cosmetic concealment, to assist the poor centenarian plus get through her recent trials.
Should the shopkeeper be party to their deceit? What is to be gained by stating the bleeding obvious? What is to be gained by saying nothing?
We can live in a land of fear of ugly auld bints or we can live in a land of free young maidens taking fledgling steps on their journey.
Honest mistakes or deliberate deception?
EC67
WedoknowtheauldwummindiedthreeyearsagoCSC
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http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/the-death-of-rangers-fc-guest-post-by-johnbhoy/
Came across this fine piece on tsfm from 2013 .
“Sadly – apathy will win.”
It has obviously beaten you a long time ago, some are doing what we can to change views, we are questioning the board, the SFA, fans of other football clubs.
Probably won’t work, then we try something else.
Kevster
Interesting that you comment in Canamalar’s and Auldheid’s styles.
Should say ridiculous.
Consider the action and reactions both have created amongst their fellows.
You do get a reaction admittedly but it’s derision and scorn.
Mickeybhoy1888
On Fields of Green is his own blog.
An exercise in self important self indulgence.
I’ve yet to read a post that is well sourced.
It’s just his own intellectualised perspective put across as researched journalism.
TT
Kevj..,
I am currently operating in a bigger shark tank than Celtic, dealing with more powerful sharks than Celtic and still going strong, that’s not down to luck.
Tom mclaughlin
Danny blanchflower never played for Ireland unfortunately. He played for northern Ireland.
Pedantic Pat CSC
Bawsman
11:13 on 13 January, 2015
“Sadly – apathy will win.”
It has obviously beaten you a long time ago, some are doing what we can to change views, we are questioning the board, the SFA, fans of other football clubs.
Probably won’t work, then we try something else.
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Yeah, by that time the died-huns will be back in the league monstering you just like before and, know the worst bit…..it’ll be because of you and, others like you who like to ask questions – bulls#it!
Dont give them yer money then they’ll no be there to kidd ye on any more.
Please dont respond to this – ah want some sleep – HH
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Canamalar
Eat cherries – sore toe could be gout. Cherries help break down the enzymes that form the crystals that clog the joints on your sore toe..
Tom Mclaughlin
Another wee correction , Danny Blanchflower was a classy “wing-half” or what we call these days a mid-fielder. Henry and Baker were the full-backs of that great Spurs team of the early 60’s.
Was pretty disappointed to hear RDs focus on Scottish players in this transfer window. It’s great to have Scottish players and in Brown, Forrest and Gordon we have three very good ones. We also have Henderson and McGregor (to a lesser extent) coming through.
How many other Scottish players would actually improve us?? I would definitely take Armstrong….although he is very similar to Henderson. Fletcher, McCarthy (yes I know he plays for Ireland) and Naismith would but we can’t afford them!!
Why didn’t we sign Gauld or Robertson in the summer. Both play in positions we are pretty weak in and didn’t move for astronomical fees.
All this talk of Anya?? 26 years old and plays for Watford. 0 goals and 4 assists this season in 19 games in the Championship. Would he really improve us? Wakaso has 8 goals in 24 games for Ghana and has played in the World Cup. Is Anya better than that?
I was hoping that RD would use his Scandanavian knowledge to unearth more Lustig and Johansen’s. He kinda has already done that with Guidetti. Surely there is a younger, better more promising winger in Scandanavia than Anya!!!
Jungle Jim hot smoked
I get my opinion from reviewing facts and making my own mind up. I don’t just accept ehst I read in the papers…
That’s kind of my point in a nutshell.
Challenge the lie
kevjungle
11:08 on 13 January, 2015
You need to go and lie down ………
Currently sitting in a cafe seat at my gate JFK airport Noo Yokk.
Turkish barista grinning and waving his hands at the sight of the Hoops Shamrock on my training jaiket.
Such enthusiasm for the Tic everywhere you go.
If our marketing was up to par, we could be a much bigger fish despite the murky pond.
TOM McLAUGHLIN 1108
Sorry,bud. I don’t believe that for one minute.
Reading the paper,propped up in bed,drinking Earl Grey?
It’s not yer wife cooking your breakfast,it’s Jeeves,innit?
South of Tunis
Thinking of going to Sicily this year.
I’ve thought of flying to Palermo, staying in a resort further on the coast (east), going up Mount Etna (bus & cable car), and flying back from Catania.
Does that sound a reasonable itinerary or should we do something else?
Tom Mclaughlin @ 11 08 .
My childhood featured the Daily Worker ( and then the Morning Star ) , The Financial Times and the New Left Review .
My own reading extended to reading The Listener which I stole from a wide variety of Glasgow news agents . . A weekly thing and therefore I couldnt steal it from the same shop every week . I wandered far and wide stealing The Listener..I stopped stealing it when I discovered I could read it in the Mitchell Library
On today’s piece for OFOG …
I write a blog. Which is freely available online to read, along with True Confessions and The Daily Star online edition.
I do not believe I chisel words into tablets of stone, with the Voices on High telling me what to write. Nor do I pretend to deal in facts.
We know there are a lot of people out there who do. When I am stating a fact I say so, and I don’t miss because until I know something I never, ever write it down.
OFOG is an op-ed blog and I’ve never said or pretended otherwise.
Today’s is uncomfortable reading and it was uncomfortable writing, something I did into the wee small hours this morning making sure I got it as right as I could.
I say in the piece – repeatedly – that I may be joining dots in the dark.
If some people don’t think I should be, then that says more about them than me.
Scottish football has been sold down the river by the people supposed to be running it. Some folk, including the guys who worked on the statement, which is, itself, getting a lot of stick from people who ought to be supporting it, are determined not to allow things to get any worse, and indeed are working in their own way to make them better.
My “exercise in self important self indulgence” is there to offer a different perspective. I think Neil Doncaster is a stain on our national sport, and I want that man gone. If our club is rebranding the rivalry I want to know about it, and others do to.
I am sorry if that challenges the worldview of people who would rather believe every word that comes out of the Celtic Park boardroom.
I don’t pretend to be a “journalist.” Considering what the current class has done to the nature of the national debate it’s a tag I’d just as sooner not wear, if I’m being honest.
I am nothing but a humble blogger, poking my nose into places where it’s not supposed to be, looking for patterns, trying to make sense of them.
But I know when you smell something rotten you follow that smell to the source, all the better to get rid of it.
Scottish football is rotten. I’m going to follow that stink wherever it goes …
Wherever it goes. No exceptions.
You can read what I write or leave it alone. You can agree or you can bitch and moan and throw personal insults like confetti, rather than engage a single point.
It doesn’t matter. You take me more seriously than I take myself.
Which is funny, in the circumstances.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/friends-in-low-places/
DrCults..,
So your opinion is to eat cherries, it’s gout, I think I’ll leave you to follow your own opinion, I’ll take expert advice thank you.
Challenge the lie ….
Hilarious …..
https://www.facebook.com/steven.dickson.90834/posts/10205968277630383
san diego bhoy,
I agree. The Celtic brand must be a marketing departments dream.
How much did the likes of Chelsea and Man City spend to become the global names they are today?
We were already there.
cv
PeteTheBeat @ 11 33 .
Sounds reasonable to me.
How do you intend to move about . ? You might find driving stressful ( particularly in Palermo and Catania ) Currently no train service between Palermo and Catania . Bus takes @ 4 hours. Etna is an experience but- NB – temperature can hit the mid 40s July / August .Which resort ?
Tiny Tim –
I broke one of my own rules and read James Forrest’s latest offering, just to see what all the fuss was about. I wish I hadn’t bothered.
A load of speculative, unsubstantiated drivel. Lazy journalism of the highest order. It is so obvious that he found the photograph, or it was brought to his attention, and he sat down and conjured up a fantasy around it, with no evidence, no quotes, just make-it-up-and-hope-it-sticks bullshit.
He doesn’t even draw his own conclusion, which was the only thing that kept me going to the bitter end. I reached the last word and nothing.
It was a case of, “Work it out for yourself, cos I haven’t a clue.”
James doesn’t respond well to criticism of his work, so maybe he will unfriend me from facebook . . . Oh wait!
WITS –
Thanks for the correction.
kevjungle
I’m not a stalker, just an occasional leg puller!
HH jamesgang
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Forget The Next Old Firm Derby..for Bloody Rivalry..
The Fourth Vs Fifth Estate is where all the Blood lust is..
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Oh and While l am at it..Am l Allowed to read the Papers Now or is that just for One Week..;-)
Hope On Fields of Green don’t find out About the 2 CQN Heavyweights form Qatar and Australia’s secret Meeting in a Tree House Reggae Bar in Koh Sam..Now that would be ‘Friends in Slow Places’..
As Olde Alf from Home and Away is known for saying..”Stone the Flippin CQN Stoners”
Summa
SoT
Planned to take the train but you say it’s down. Might have to be the bus then.
We haven’t really decided on a resort yet – any recommendations ?
Probably going in early May so hopefully the heat wouldn’t be too bad.
Tom McLaughlin:
James responds perfectly well to criticism.
Some people just DON’T READ PROPERLY …
It was NOT a piece of “journalism” lazy or otherwise.
I posed a scenario. You are SUPPOSED to draw your own conclusion.
Maybe that’s too much of a stretch.
SoT
Forgot to say – thanks for the info.
Tom…,
My reading of the JF article was he is suspicious that the Celtic board are trying to reignite the old firm and sell the rights with maybe even a game to Qatar.
I actually thought that was his conclusion and did not really struggle to reach that conclusion, are you sure the herald’s no too hard for you ?
Canamalar:
Mate, I could unlock the key to immortality, and provide a Do It Yourself Guide on the front pages of every national newspaper, for free … and you know what some people on this site and elsewhere would say?
“James Forrest … self promoting again.”
I am used to it and can’t do anything to change people’s minds. It’s what it is.
When Celtic don;t have a game it doesn;t half get nippy on here.
I blame the board!
LB aff oot