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.
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UTLCY.
Unseen Fenian Nose!
YikesCSC
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG 1459
Not at all,old bean. Very difficult to even think about retribution when I’m still having a wee guffaw.
And particularly difficult when I remember that yer effin huge.
Oh,and witty,and an all-round nice guy.
Now get back to work,I’m gaun fer a fag.
FromTSFM.
A bit of reading between the lines required?
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jw hardin says:
January 12, 2015 at 2:40 pm
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After the Doncaster statement I emailed CFC for their view and receive:
Good Morning
Thank you for your email regarding comments made recently by Neil Doncaster. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, I had an extended break at new year and only returned to work at the end of last week.
As you may expect I have had a few emails about this matter and in order that I can respond consistently and as quickly as possible I have prepared a standard response based on my understanding of the situation from Celtic’s perspective.
As we announced in February 2011, we have a standalone strategy that does not rely on any club.
That strategy has been successful. We do not need to talk about any other club. We focus on our club.
These are the facts:-
* The Rangers Football Club plc went into administration in March 2012 and liquidation in November 2012.
* Sevco Scotland Limited, later renamed The Rangers Football Club Limited, applied to be, and became, a member of the Scottish FA and the Scottish Football League in summer 2012.
* In the Scottish FA and SPFL competitions, there is a team called Rangers FC, which plays at Ibrox, trains at Murray Park, and has the same crest, strip and supporters as before.
* We need to play whoever we are asked to play in those competitions.
As a club, we stopped referring to the Old Firm some time ago, as we did not think that the term was relevant.
We will continue to focus on our own club and being as successful as we can be by beating whichever team is put in front of us.
To date I’m not aware of any plans for the Club to comment further on this matter however this may change, this is only my own assessment of things as they stand at present.
Best regards
There does however seem to be a contradiction in “As a club we stopped referring to Old Firm some time ago”, and “this is only my own assessment”.
ps re CFC Supporters’ statement – ye canny wack bullet points for clarity.
mullet and co 2
14:42 on 12 January, 2015
Ziggydoc1, you haven’t wached the newco then, they are pish. Really bad. It’s not complacent to treat them as lower division promotion hopefuls. They are not the same.
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You’re right, I haven’t seen them at all, but I’ve seen enough games that we’ve lost to inferior opposition and we need to forget about how bad they are meant to be and prove that they are.
Bobbio
Knitting you some new lungs as we speak.
Purl2Pick-up2CSC
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG
Good man.
How are you on livers and kidneys?
thomthethim for Oscar OK
15:18 on
12 January, 2015
It seems pretty clear to me. The don’t consider the team playing at Ibrox as Rangers FC to be the same as the Rangers that were our bitter rivals for many years.
Bobbio
Meccano and Lego respectively mhate.
I’ll get straight onto them.
Size? XL of course!
BigHeartedTimCSC
HH jamesgang over and oot!
Just finished watching mini series about the war in iraq called Generation kills.
Worth watching
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Winning Captain..
Oops..
Got cut off for Some Reason..
Now where was l..?
Yea ‘Unique’ Viewers..
As l said My iPhone 6 is stuffed so l have Logged on to CQN with 4 different Devices today..Trying 2 old phones..
4 Devices..= 4 Unique Viewers..for ever page l click = Unique Viewer..
Now today as l am Home Alone and Testing out various Phones and Laptops..
Multiplied by 34 Pages on the Last article and 5 0n this..l could myself be 150 Unique Viewers..
Might need to rethink Thon 0.3%..;-)
Summa of StatsWithoutSpinCSC
Philvis,
I’m waiting for the next tweet
I AM going to score 3 :)
67 heaven….,
There are truly (loo ra loo:), about 6000 Celtic supporters who do make every effort to go to all the games, they know each other practically. I expect them to go to hampdump, the place holds no magic for them, only the team.
Mullet & Co,
Bingo, apparently, the authorities are failing to comply with more than one of their own rules and that’s another issue :)
Our manager is a bit wet behind the ears on how the MSM operate in this bigoted wee Country and at times he is to open with them this of course can lead to his players being to open ie J.Guidetti .Unfortunately they need to be more guarded or only answer questions which have been given to the club at least 2 hours before the interview in order that we do not find the manager or players being misquoted as obviously big John Guidetti has been. H.H.
Dear Paul67
Pease excuse Awe Naw from CQN recently due to him feeling morose recently and not wanting it to be contagious. He was just showing Kano HIS wee bit of respect in his own wee way. That news made him more than morose along with international headlines this week and without any domestic fayre goin on he thought it would be best to stay clear and as is it is his Birthday today which he celebrated over the weekend and is now in need of detox.
Mrs. ANNOAN
HH
SUMMA
Not sure that’s how it works.
Yes,each individual device is counted as a separate search,but only once.
Not every time a page is refreshed. That would be silly.
PHILVISRETURNS and BOGNORBHOY alone refresh the page twenty squillion times around noon,and a few minutes after.
And I’ve even done so once or twice…
Zbyszek 06:00 on 12 January, 2015
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Lennybhoy
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blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
09:14
leftclicktic
09:18
Hamiltontim
09:19
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles
09:21
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
09:22 on
12 January, 2015
Aw naw,AWE NAW shares a birthday wi my Dad!
starry plough
09:23
shady – ‘mon the wee Oscar
09:31 on
12 January, 2015
Happy Birthday awe naw.
Can we have one of your specially edited newspaper articles for old times sake?
WeefratheTim
09:35
South Of Tunis
09:51
Tallybhoy
10:32
Neustadt-Braw
11:11 on
12 January, 2015
Happy Birthday awe naw.
aweneeawna the noo
awneeawna the noo
awneeawna awneeawna
awneeawna the noo
braw
Thank to all you bhoys above for the birthday wishes. Please excuse me if I have glanced past anyone. It is eyesight not a slight.
Gordon_J, Pau67 via fb Thanks
and the Birthday wish that cheered me the most today was the one from Pablophanque via his daughter.
Hail Hail and thanks guys XXXX
Sevco were able to beat Inverness reasonably comfortably. We’ve lost to ICT and performed poorly on a few occasions. This game will be their Universe. They will sweat blood. Add Mibbery. This is a one off cup game which we could lose. Save the gloating for afterwards. It’s a no win game for us against the leagues newest club.
TTTT via facebook thanks for birthday wishes as well
HH
weeminger,
That, too, is my reading of it.
AWE NAW
Get back on here,Birthdaybhoy,and give us an AWE NAWED article.
I’ll start you off with this one,see if anyone spots the deliberate mistake.
Happy Birthday to well-loved/loathed poster AWE NAW NO ANNONI OAN ANAW NOO,who today turns 23.
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Every Time You click on a Post/Page it is Unique..FACT(s)..Ha Ha..
Could be Worse if Every Time You clicked on a New Page Phil Collins asked You to Touch the Screen..!!
Summa of EvangelicalCSC
Awe naw-Hoopy Birthday
Okay there are loads of you on fb whose handle I cant remember. I admit it, It is due to you changing them from the original, so it is not completely my fault,
Sannah, vmhan, etc.etc.
Thanks
HH
“Sevco were able to beat Inverness reasonably comfortably. We’ve lost to ICT”
Emusaorphan,
I’m all for keeping a lid on it but playground footy logic is just madness.
Awe_Naw…,
Many happy returns
BMCWUP
The well loved part. That was easy !!
They cant be taken the piss out of anymore. Honestly. They are doing a fine job by themselves
HH
Geordie Munro
15:52 on
12 January, 2015
“Sevco were able to beat Inverness reasonably comfortably. We’ve lost to ICT”
Emusaorphan,
I’m all for keeping a lid on it but playground footy logic is just madness.
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Dunno half of their squad have just sat their prelims;)
HH
“I’m Mr. Bombastic, Mr. Fantastic.”
~ Shaggy
Many happy returns an awe, Awe Naw.
*if the club called rangers FC playing in the SPFL at ibrox and training somewhere want to claim the history of the club who cheated Scottish Football sporting and financially through non disclosure of onerous information, critical to their conditions to operation. That’s ok too ?
Birthday congrats, Awe Naw, as you approach an over ripe old age!
emusanorphan
15:40 on 12 January, 2015
Agreed.
Whilst I’ll not be watching any game against them in the future, I would prefer an attitude and approach of quiet, single minded determination from everyone involved against the cheats. In fact, that attitude should be prevalent in general.
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
Happy Birthday to CC
A big shout out to Awe Naw CQN answer to Ralph McTell
Happy Birthday
Love
Tiny Tim quite right, with Gudetti not scoring in the last 5 games or so,i dont think the huns will be worrying to much.
From the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Rangers F.C. Ltd. (I.L.):
“The words ‘Club’ and ‘Company’…throughout the said Memorandum and Articles of Association shall, where the context admits of it, be of synonymous meaning.”
This morning was an education in how many new posters could question the forthcoming statement in the Herald and the inventiveness of their complaints, going as far as hinting that it would be the cause of violence on the day of the cup semi. A bit like blaming cartoons for murder.
So how are the walking wounded from the PSV boys game doing ?
How many injured ? 3 ? 4 ?
How many next game ?