Malmo’s season started well. They were undefeated in their first eight games, recording wins against current league leaders, Gothenburg, and recent champions, Helsingborg, as well as a 2-2 draw at Elfsborg, but form soon slumped.
They’ve only recorded back to back wins in the league once since. Wednesday’s 3-0 over Salzburg is by some measure their best result of the season. Right now, there will be a lot of football fans in Austria wondering how on earth Salzburg are out of the Champions League. There’s a fair chance there’s just as many fans in Sweden wondering how Malmo remain in the competition, but there are clues.
Salzburg lost narrowly to Rapid Vienna days before the capitulation in Sweden, the second reversal in two league games this season. They beat a team from a regional league in the cup (0-7) but that and the 2-0 win over Malmo is the only positives in an early season full of panic.
Preseason friendlies are not to be regarded as an indication of anything, but home win over a weak-looking Southampton was the only friendly in which they avoided defeat in four attempts. At most this indicates their fitness was behind the curve.
The most telling inferences from all of these stats is that the margins between success and failure for Malmo, Salzburg, and Celtic, are tight. We could and should have beaten Maribor a year ago. Dedryck Boyata’s late goal against Qarabag transpired to be all that separated us from them. We are looking fit, and organised, but you and I both know we’ve yet to spark up front. We have a lot of work to do in the margins before the end of the month.
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Here is one for us civil engineers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVwi-kxLFI
Papajoe55
Indeed it is…
Saint Stivs.
That made me laugh out loud.
Weefrathetim,
You are grand, your comments are always worth waiting
Re ,Betting
,Just found out that William Hill was a volunteer for the Black and Tan’s.
Won’t bet there again,
Clogher
Weefrathetim,
Should have been for.
OMACELT
My brother worked with the black stuff for years he loves that song, Luke was a fantastic singer. My next door neighbour was from Achill Island and used to say to my pal her son remember and put your Gansy on to keep warm a word that has gone from the modern vocabulary. HH
clogher celt,
Indeed he was.William Hill tan outed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnGD6xv5ik
Clogher
I don’t bet much but my older brothers do , they won’t be back in William Hills when I tell them that. HH
Right enough!!
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Too many Irish doing the moon howler shift .. Feckin black n tans, and craggy Island ..
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Ernie, Thompson Twin .. Get back, all is forgiven ..
:)
Team today
———————C.Gordon——————-
Lustig. Boyata. VanDijk. Izzy
————-Brown. Bitton——————-
—Forrest. Commons. Armstrong—
—————-Griffiths—————————
HH,
I wouldn’t, spend a penny in a Black and Tan bookie.
HH,
Clogher
William Hill ran away from home when he was 16 and ended up in Mallow Co Cork.
Read up on the guy. Interesting fella.
El Madrigal,
He volunteered for the Black and Tans. He might have been young but they were an awful crowd here.
HH,
Clogher
You’ve got your West Brits .. We’ve got North Brits ..
I’m envious.. That you’ve got independence ..
Thig are latha ..
And it wull !
Nite, Timland.
El madrigal,
The only interesting thing about that scumbag was that he escaped unscathed from the Cork Brigade..
Goodnight Tims.
Firhill awaits.TAL.
William Hill,
A volunteer for the Black and Tans. Served in Mallow, County Cork.
Up to you all if you want to bet with him.
Night All,
Clogher
Can anyone tell me when we actually started calling The Huns “Huns” and the reasons for it. Also what is the significance of their song “the penny arcade” I got into a debate the other day and would love to show these people I am truly informed and not punchy. Thanks in advance!!! HH
I’d like to see some players rested tomorrow and others playing only 60 minutes.
I’d like to see the same pattern for all three games before we host Malmö.
Rested altogether tomorrow:
Lustig, Bitton, Izzy, Armstrong, GMS and Boyata
Replaced by Janko, Rogic, Fisher, Commons, Forrest and Mulgrew.
We need to give some players the chance to get some competitive games in their legs.
We need to ensure that if needed they will be able to slot in seamlessly when called upon.
And of course we need to ensure that some key players stay clear of injury and exhaustion.
If any of those who are given a chance at Firhill are unable to thrill in Maryhill, then we need to find out now and not when they are having to be thrown in against the Swedes.
COYBIG
Stupid.
£1.25million – jump at it.
Sell.
Tony Watt was the answer to all the questions.
See bad apple, blah blah blah – that’s up to the management to lay down the law.
Granted – even Lenny himself couldn’t cope with TW shanagains, but here most geniuses are flawed.
Ronny Delia kicked him to the curb, immediately.
Why? Sure Ronny Delia can transform renegade type footballers, given time .
Our manager was obviously instructed – get rid asap – Grab the miserable £1.25million sure, why not?
Buy some sub-stsndard amateur league type imposter like Bangura.
Scouts, agents – they are recruiting so-called footballers that even a blind person could recognise as being useless.
Shocking.
Out of our price range now anyway – no eating humble pie and accepting that a mistake was made.
Buy another Dirk, Scep or Balde sure.
Something isn’t right.
Sorry for the rant – just disappointed to see another good player cast aside – like Shay Given.
HH.
Anyway:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1t7SS6zYg
IncreaseThePeaceCSC.
Over & out.
HH.
I read somewhere that Watt was demoted to the bench today because he had training field disciplinary action imposed on him.
If this is true, then the lad hasn’t learned his lessons from incurring problems at Celtic Park and in Belgium.
Today’s top footballers are expected to be disciplined 24/7
Heads up time
On now.
Oz v N.Z.
Netball .
Always hard fought.
Sometimes feral.
SPEYSIDE LHAD on 8TH AUGUST 2015 10:36 PM
evening everyone
have been on holiday and had no wifi for over a week so apologise in advance if this has been asked recently
which model of box can you recommend?
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I would recommend contacting Art of War. The box he provides comes fully loaded with everything you need.
It’s my birthday today Lhads .
I’m in Rhodes ,landed last night. Anybody else here?
Can anyone please tell me what time the game is on please.
By the way 58 just in case someone asks.
Hail hail.
NEWRADBHOY
12.45 Celtic park time
Happy birthday bhoy
Quite rightly, for financial reasons, we all want to get to the CL – however we really don’t expect to come out of the group, therefore, a place in 32 of EL, would be our realistic target.
With that in mind, and bearing in mind we would go into EL groups, should we lose to Malmo – I suggest that we approach the tie in a positive ‘nothing to lose’ manner, rather than a fear of failure, with a win to be regarded as a huge bonus.
Our financial budgets will be structured thus.
Let’s face it, we are genuinely only EL class, however CL qualification one year in three, is success for us, and keeps our club solvent, in a ‘Mickey Mouse’ domestic league.
So lets go into the Malmo tie, free from anxiety, and give all we’ve got, and God willing, we might just ‘do’ them. HH
” a grey cloud had gathered………………………”
the sleekits really are a funny oul’ lot…..eh!
Me Pastry
It’s not just the money, the atmosphere on CL nights is fantastic
Although I would afreemaking the group stages is a great achievement
“set phasers……to ‘hun’……..loo-tenant…!”
“oh-aye……..cap’n.”
clogher celt on 9th August 2015 3:15 am
William Hill, A volunteer for the Black and Tans. Served in Mallow, County Cork. Up to you all if you want to bet with him.
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I wonder how many Bhoys enjoy a pint of Guinness not realising the part the company played in the suppression of Irish Nationalism and comments made as late as the 1980’s with regards to the company’s association with Ireland. Up to you all if you want to drink the stuff, me I prefer the Murphy’s.
Founder Arthur Guinness was a unionist, completely opposed to independence for Ireland.
In 1797, Arthur Guinness was named by the The Union Star newspaper as a suspected informer. He was described as:
“A brewer at James’s Gate, an active spy. United Irishmen will be cautious of dealing with any publican who sells his drink.”
Historian and author Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc noted of the Guinness family:
“Arthur’s successors in St James’s Gate were definitely steadfast in their loyalty to the British crown. His descendant, Lord Iveagh, donated £100,000 to the UVF arms fund in 1913.”
In the run-up to the Easter Rising, members of the Irish Volunteers who worked in Guinness’s were discouraged from openly parading. Frank Henderson, a captain in the Irish Volunteers who took part in the Howth Gun Running and the Easter Rising, said Guinness’s staff were wary that they may be victimised in their workplace.
During the fighting in 1916, trucks used by Guinness’s were converted into improvised armoured fighting vehicles by the British Army and used against Irish republican forces.
Even as late as the 1980s the Guinness corporation was willing to cast off its long association with Ireland. Edward Guinness, then a PR guru for the company “was no longer sure the association with Ireland was helpful” due to the conflict in the North of Ireland and the refusal of the Irish Government to back the British during the Falklands/Malvinas War. Edward Guinness said the brewery may have to “emphasise facts such as that Guinness was an English company”.
Sorry bankiebhoy
Too early for my deflecters to kick in
Coffee now
OLAGH
Like the Murphys
Yer not bitter. :-)
Oglagh
I can’t see what I’m posting and as my spelling isn’t the best it can only mean carnage
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on 9th August 2015 7:49 am
OLAGH
Like the Murphys Yer not bitter. :-)
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Was going to use that but with a wee change, unlike the Murphys I am bitter. ;-)
BT
;)
Always on point.
Oglach
Please……As a Cork-convert might I suggest that a Pint Of Beamish is Your Only Man!
Guinness is not guid for you, and Murphy’s is definitely bitter…..
Cheers.
Flann O’Brien CSC
Carnage on here last night.
Where is HT on holiday? Not spent much time in Portugal apart from Celtic games.
P
Praia de Luz I think podi