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.
You can find more information, including how to book, here.
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setting free the bears – When you chant at the match do you have a calling card so that the opposition fans know it was you?
http://youtu.be/eHxoihUTS0M (thumbsup)
GRRR! Damn phone! Apologies.
… I’ll enjoy the tension, but not the fear of violence. I’ll enjoy the banter, but not the bile. I’ll enjoy the debate, but not the aggressive arguing. I’ll enjoy the match and most of all, I’ll enjoy pumping them good and proper!
I lost a close friend a few months ago. A Rangers man, but not a hun. He was a good, decent guy and we loved ‘Old Firm’ Day. We would laugh, cry, debate and sometimes argue, but we’d always go home as good mates.
I’ll be having a beer in his memory, knowing he’ll be looking down watching too (between his fingers, obviously).
HH… -Tambo-
Very disappointed in John Guidetti.
Only three?
Ffs, son, show some ambition…
Back to normal on the Sevco website after rebooting their sarver.
SFTB
Your call.
My name, my pub, my very seat in that pub has long been known on this blog and others.
‘Estadio’ was never a cloak of invisibility, it was an echo of a particular day in Lisbon.
I disagree with your choice.
I don’t disagree with your right to hold it or your respectful way of putting it forward.
Hail hail
Estadio
Keevins hasn’t mentioned his categoric statement that sevco would fold today if £6′.5m wasn’t forthcoming ……mmmm
I think you could consider it very brave to give details of who you are where you live on any letter which posted a Celtic view on what has been going on at Ibrokes.However, bhoys I assume you have a wife or partner and maybe even children or other relatives.It is fine to be brave and show no fear but what about other loved ones is it right to put them at risk ? I have first hand experience of angry Rangers fans and can only say some of them are just evil and I would ask you bhoys to reconsider if you can stop the publicity at this stage please do so.Now if im thought of on CQN as a coward so be it but in my opinion it is not wise to put yourselves in danger at the end of the day it is only a football match not worth putting your life on the line for. H.H.
Guys we post our opinions
please don’t let it get personal , unfortunately some don’t like people having an opposing view , we just need to get on with it .
Wether we agree or dissagree about the ad .
My origonal question was , why now .
Estadio- people will chant far more inflammatory things at every football match across Britain between now and the cup semi, people will write far more abusive comments on blogs across the country and none of them will feel compelled to shout or post their names and details. Why should a newspaper statement warrant something different?
So the semi final is approaching and the so called advert too, what would happen if Rangers fans put forward an advert saying that they are the same club?
I can only hope that there will be no violence when the game comes around as that would really prove that there is no more old firm.
I know they died, you know they died, the majority of Scottish football fans know they died but it’s only the media and some at Rangers that don’t.
Should we also place an advert saying that it’s dark outside?
Sevco seem to have plenty of Scotsmen Supporters,who have a lot of money ,have we at Celtic men and supporters who are worth a few quid.
67Heaven
Any word from Keevans on the floating pitch or the casino?
jamesgang
18:12 on 12 January, 2015
BSR
Something like that!
Found out I could hurdle…
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That was a close one Zebedee, I wasn’t so lucky…I was on the subway :((
Appeasement does not work.
Wait…
We can have a pseudonym on here?
In that case I want to be known as Rex Funkmaster. (thumbsup)
Bourne
It’s a Mega Super-Mega Casino
… with a shopping centre and a land locked marina and a heliport for Ronaldo’s Helicopter…
U
timbhoy2 – Sevco seem to have plenty of Scotsmen Supporters,who have a lot of money
Aye.
Actual, footage, from the, Sevco, finance department:
http://media20.giphy.com/media/13yNFN1TlNCjC0/giphy.gif?w=320
Be afraid, Timmy! (thumbsup)
Sips
My subway experience was with 2 of them. ‘Sure he’s one of us…’ says one to the other …… and so it began…..finished when I put them right about floodlights for the Luftwaffe!
Me and ma close set eyes an all!
Was once on a full subway with hordes. Skerry stuff mhate.
HH jamesgang
BSR – you don’t mean it coulda been a big hoax, an’ we wur aw duped!?
*ragin*
Biff McDynamite
The Penny Hing
Dalmellington
Stairheed
If it was about chanting etc…I would agree with you entirely. But ‘we’ are projecting this as some form of seminal moment of self justification and rebuttal of an identifiable establishment who ‘we’ view as scurrilously and corruptly undermining our club.
Anononymity is no more effective as I was told today in regards to placating an angry woman, than baptising a cat.
Unattributable opinions carry as much weight as unverifiable science.
We will not agree but I will not fall out with anyone over that fact. It is however gone midnight here in Goa…..so bon unit tout le monde.
Hail hail
Estadio
themaestro72
18:29
So the semi final is approaching and the so called advert too, what would happen if Rangers fans put forward an advert saying that they are the same club?
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They undoubtedly will. Even though the majority of Celtic fans know nothing about it, and therefore it cannot possibly profess to speak for them, their fan response will lead to calls on here that ‘Celtic must realise a statement to stand with their fans’, which would only result in another tit for tat response from Sevco. It achieves nothing.
Why get so worked up about these things? Laugh at them, the collective mocking by the rest of Scottish football hurts them far more than any statements.
On the subject of pseudonyms, Bruno Mars’ mummy and daddy call him Peter Gene Hernandez.
That’s not his real name or anything. It’s just what they call him. (thumbsup)
The Maestro 72
Should we also place an advert saying that it’s dark outside?
If a shower of deluded arrogant supremacists insist that it’s light outside when it’ s actually a dark, and try to bully all and sundry into agreeing with them, then yes.
I would be quite happy adding my real name to the statement.
And my real name is a perfect anagram of ‘Anal Romance’.
There’s baws of steel for ye.
uly
It took them all weekend to work out that Robert Sarver would want his money back (⊙_⊙)
jamesgang,
Yep, in with a nest of vipers.
Are you going to the semi friend? If so, take care as they hunt in packs and their venom is off the radar. HH
Bon unit???? Bon nuit…. Or as they say in Hindi….शुभरात्रि Śubharātri
Hail hail
Estadio
bournesouprecipe
18:43 on 12 January, 2015
uly
It took them all weekend to work out that Robert Sarver would want his money back (⊙_⊙)
……………………
People wanting their money back is not a concept they understand.
Of course there won’t be bother inside the ground at the Semi Final, don’t you know that the new Rangers end will be filled with billionaires just waiting to hand over cash. On the other hand it will be some poor wee lads on their way home from the match/pub that will be made to pay for their arrogance and greed.
I have a 16 year old and he just doesn’t get what they are planning.
Declan, is it you??
Right, which one of you lot has set up the timbhoy2 parody account??
greeninbingley – And my real name is a perfect anagram of ‘Anal Romance’.
http://media20.giphy.com/media/CKx5wUOHoWqZ2/giphy.gif?w=320
(thumbsup)
bournesouprecipe
18:31 on 12 January, 2015
67Heaven
Any word from Keevans on the floating pitch or the casino?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…….(Sally’s ‘pie in the sky….)
Having grown up in the Gorbals and walking to and from Celtic Park since the age of 12 I know from experience that there are a group of people out there who need no invitation from me to do harm to anyone they associate with Celtic or Ireland (something they see as the same). Their hatred isn’t generated by anything we do, its within them, its part of them, its what gives them purpose. They dont behave as though they can read, never mind read a newspaper.
bankie
tuped duped
googybhoy
The elusive figure of ‘the rich sugar daddy’ who is ready to throw millions at Sevco is a recurring image, it is part of their DNA.
bournesouprecipe
18:51 on 12 January, 2015
Yet they reject a Silver Salver
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Rangers Q&A: What happens now after Robert Sarver ends interest?
By Chris McLaughlin
BBC Sport
American businessman Robert Sarver has ended his interest in buying Rangers after two bids were rejected.
So what does the future hold for the cash-strapped Scottish Championship club now?
Why did Sarver want to buy Rangers?
The man who has owned the Phoenix Suns basketball franchise since 2004 obviously knows his way around business and sport in the US, but he has admitted that he knows little about football. That has led to many scratching their heads over why he wanted to invest in the Scottish game and an environment with neither the glamour nor the profile of its noisy neighbour south of the border.
It’s understood he has been monitoring the European sport market for some time and was initially keen to invest in England or Spain but he was seduced by the mayhem in Govan. He says he was alerted to the possibility of investing by the club’s former defender David Robertson, who now coaches Sarver’s kids in Arizona.
He may well have spied a distressed company, a cheap deal and a potential for profit, if he could turn the club around and get the fans back through the turnstiles.
Why were his two offers rejected?
Rangers’ Ibrox home – the fragmented ownership of the club complicates any takeover deal
The Rangers board say his offers did not represent value for shareholders. On the open market, the club is worth just over £20m but, like any business, it comes down to what someone is willing to pay for it – or, in this case, what they will sell for.
The complicated and fragmented ownership structure of Rangers makes a deal even more difficult. The single largest shareholder is the South Africa-based businessman Dave King, who owns around 15% of the company. The rest of the shareholding is held by other businessmen such as Mike Ashley and Douglas Park as well as large investment companies based in London or overseas.
Many of these investors bought into the company for much more than Sarver was willing to offer and appear happy to play the long game in a bid to see some kind of return for their investment.
Why no third bid?
In business terms, Sarver needed 75% of that fragmented shareholding to agree to release new shares, which he would have bought. After taking control, he was then offering to buy out everyone else at 20p per share.
Agreement is not something that’s been free-flowing at Ibrox in recent years, however. Achieving consensus among the various parties has been akin to herding cats, and the power struggles continue between various warring factions. Sarver may well have been looking to align himself to one of these factions to get a foot in the door but it was always felt he would have to substantially increase his offer for outright control.
His pockets were deep but upping the offer a third time meant his numbers would not stack up. Any others waiting in the wings now know what it might take to buy in. They will also require the backing of a support that has been badly bruised by misplaced trust in recent years. Those supporters are now extremely sceptical of potential saviours who offer salvation from a mess created by others who promised the same.
What now for Rangers?
Protests outside Ibrox – fans have become cynical about potential saviours over the years
As the US soccer dad turns and walks away with his cash, the club continues to limp on from month to month thanks to various short-term loans from existing shareholders. The status quo won’t continue for long though and the desperate need for cash will be the catalyst for change.
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley holds the power in the boardroom thanks to a deal struck on a previous loan which allowed him to place his people around the table, but it seems he has now been outmanoeuvred in the battle for overall control.
As the Scottish FA blocked his request to increase his stake, others who oppose him bought up significant stock and are now ready to fire the guns from the tanks they have rolled onto his lawn. An Extraordinary General Meeting looks increasingly likely and it will then be a straight fight. Those with the most shares are likely to be the ones left standing.
Summa
A heard a whistle coming from the dark………………. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7KNtF5KjE
some days are no sae braw ……..wee things like this will pit the brawness back….works for me …..awfy braw ….
braw
Has Regan and Co done the Fit and Proper Person test,on The Lying King yet?
# passwithflyingcolours
bournesouprecipe –
The elusive figure of ‘the rich sugar daddy’ who is ready to throw millions at Sevco is a recurring image, it is part of their DNA.
Along with:
* “wur dignity”
* warchests
* quintessential Britishness
* fatness
* “we are the people”, BUT the hidden hand of Timmydom is to blame for all their misfortunes
* Family trees that look like spaghetti
* Fans who look like rejects from Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop
* Calling their heid huns “Mister”
* Shafting the face painters
(thumbsup)