It was an unfamiliar Celtic starting line-up at Pittodrie this afternoon which resulted in the visitors dropping league points for the first time in four months. Andre Blackman and Mikael Lustig made their Celtic debuts at left and right back respectively, while Charlie Mulgrew played central midfield alongside Joe Ledley.
Neither full back got forward as often as we are accustomed to see Celtic play, which perhaps contributed to the disjointed performance.
Charlie Mulgrew almost opened the scoring on 5 minutes when his swerving free kick rebounded back off the inside of Jason Brown’s far post in Celtic’s only genuine chance before the 28th minute goal. Mulgrew was key again in the move that counted, controlling a difficult ball before twisting his marker and knocking the ball forward to Kris Commons. Commons spun before playing a perfectly weighted pass into space inside the box for Anthony Stokes to run onto. Stokes first touch took the ball past Brown in the Aberdeen goal before he slotted his shot into the net.
Aberdeen were well out of the contest in the first half and had to wait until near the end of the half before they managed an attempt at goal, a Fyvie shot which was blocked. Then, only seconds from the break, a long ball forward to Fallon brought Aberdeen level. Fallon turned and his forward run drew Blackman, Wilson and Rogne, leaving the right back space unattended. Gavin Rae ran 70 yards to fill that space and fired a shot which was going narrowly wide before Blackman’s block bounced over Forster into the net.
A minute into the second half Ryan Jack almost reached a cross from the right as Aberdeen seemed to take encouragement from their goal.
Anthony Stokes looked Celtic’s best player but whenever he linked with strike partner, Gary Hooper, the ball invariably bounced out of play or to an Aberdeen player, most notably on the 55th minute when Hooper failed to control on the edge of the six yard box.
Aberdeen’s best chance to win the game arrived on 63 minutes when Meganson evaded Lustig but shot wide when clean through inside the box.
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Careful with the downloads lads……
You can never be too careful, eh?
( They don’t like it up ’em)
mwd:
I too had a hun embed a chib in the back of my skull. Strange when I think back on it how the nurses and my mates thought it was so funny. Stranger too how years later I ended up being mates with the guy who did it and as events would conspire he more or less saved me from a bad fate in a Brigton bar.
Goooood morning CQNrs. Great times to be a TIM!
James Forrest @ 2.34
Well said sir ~ brilliantly put! Tackety boots in the haw maws is whats happening to FPLG and long may it continue.
“Flykick”CSC
James Forrest
What another cracking article and spot on regarding the “cheeky chappie”.
I wonder if anyone can post any views of other fans regarding their new trophy haul? Someone posted a spreadsheet showing that Aberdeen had won 2 trebles?
just wanted to know if other fans thought about rankers cheating.
Regarding Burley and his comments,I have also written to ESPN in the UK but got fobbed of. If we write ESPN in the USA we might get a better response?
ESPN are owned by the Disney Channel do you think they might be interested in doing a film about the huns?
Heading out now catch up later.
Top of the morning to you all from a grey, cloudy, and damp Fife where the wind is just managing to turn the turbines.
I have admired James Forrest’s posts in the past and the latest is no exception in the main but like West Wales Celt. I am a bit uncomfortable with the violent analogies even though they are in response to Alistair’s own.
McCoist’s violent theme comes hard on the heels of the Ranger’s fans group who are planning to honour Dunfermline with a visit because Dunfermline F.C. have not put the boot into the Ibrox club but have shown them the proper respect.
All these Mafia cliché’s leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Next thing we know we will have the Capo di tutti capi in the form of Walter warning us posters who criticise the Huns that we will sleep with the fishes.
The thing I don’t understand is:
How can the administrators talk of deadlines for “expressions of interest” when RFC is actually not for sale?
The man who owns 85% of the shares in the company must want to or be forced to sell his shares for any change of ownership to take place?
Am I missing something here?
from Mark Guidi in the Sunday Mail
SPL clubs are drawing up a blueprint of financial penalties and points deductions for Rangers should the club shut down and reform as a new company.
With Gers having to save £1million a month to stay afloat there is growing concern inside Ibrox that liquidation is edging closer.
If they go bust but start up again under a name such as Rangers 2012 the newco would need to acquire the SPL licence from the administrators.
A new Rangers would also need the SPL’s approval to get back into the top flight.
That decision would be down to the six-man SPL board of Ralph Topping (chairman), Neil Doncaster (chief
executive), Eric Riley (Celtic), Derek Weir (Motherwell), Steven Brown (St Johnstone) and Stephen Thompson (Dundee United).
All of them, apart from Doncaster, are due to stand down in July but can be re-elected.
However, regardless of who is on the board, SPL clubs want their own conditions put in place but are also aware they need Rangers to protect the Sky TV deal.
MailSport can reveal it has been suggested a newco Rangers should start next season on minus 16 points and have their SPL payments from TV cash and bonus money cut for three years.
That would see the Ibrox club lose out on around £7million, which would be split between existing top-flight clubs.
However, any such penalties would need to approved by the 11 other SPL members.
Rangers would, of course, fight that proposal and David Whitehouse, of the club’s administrators Duff and Phelps, last night confirmed they are exploring what obstacles a newco would face.
He said: “A newco is a possibility in terms of a way forward. We’re communicating with various football authorities in terms of new rules and fair play.”
With Rangers currently owing money to Dunfermline, Dundee United and Hearts, there is little goodwill from SPL clubs towards them.
Every top-flight club will attend a board meeting tomorrow at Hampden in which several issues are on the agenda in the wake of Rangers’ financial plight.
There is a feeling that going into administration should carry a bigger penalty than just a 10-point deduction.
Also, if Rangers were still in administration on August 4 when the new season starts, they will again immediately be deducted 10 points and some clubs feel that punishment should be increased.
An SPL insider told MailSport: “There is no doubt clubs are discussing how they would deal with the eventuality of Rangers going out of business and reforming as a new company.
“If it happened we’d be in unprecedented territory. There would be so many twists and turns and nobody could say with any certainty what the outcome would be.
“We hope it doesn’t come to this because it would lead to all sorts of internal wrangling.
“And it would be difficult to see a solution being reached that would please all member clubs.”
James Forrest @2.34
Well said The emperor of ice cream …..superb
My fav bit was the tying up and steel toe caps.
Everyone of us have friends that support the rANGERs and are good people
But the heart of the Hun is rotten to the core and the sooner it is tossed into the bin the better.For every Celtic FAN who are not around to witness this great event who suffered at the hands of the Hun bigots and their acts of violence It is the duty of everyone who knew them to make sure the rANGERs are smashed never to return. You get 1 chance in a lifetime to put an end to their kind.So it’s on with the steel toe caps,rope.stake and cement mixer.
NO MERCY
NO NEWCO
Give them NO HOPE Ever
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
HECTOR – Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Eating Jelly & Ice Cream. on 4 March, 2012 at 07:45
Couldn’t agree more.
Kitalba
Put a flower in your muzzle if you wish and good luck to you, your sentiments are admirable but the map would still be largely pink from their types if we all followed suit.
Good morning friends from a slightly damp (and wee bit colder than of late) East Kilbride.
A couple of decent ties to look forward to on Sky today.
Jobo
Kayal33 on 4 March, 2012 at 08:56 said:
”from Mark Guidi in the Sunday Mail
SPL clubs are drawing up a blueprint of financial penalties and points deductions for Rangers should the club shut down and reform as a new company.
With Gers having to save £1million a month to stay afloat there is growing concern inside Ibrox that liquidation is edging closer.
If they go bust but start up again under a name such as Rangers 2012 the newco would need to acquire the SPL licence from the administrators”
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If this ends up with a newco huns in the SPL then they’ve won and we’ll be the mugs.
The jelly and ice cream will have turned to ashes in the mouth.
And I’ll have to find some other way to waste my time and money.
ernie
…and so will I ( find some other way to waste my time and money.).
James Forrest`s posts are nearly always of a very high standard and his 2:34 am post, naturally, contains some of his trademark style. Overall, though, it is too much in the style of THEM for my liking.
All I want is for Rangers et al to be treated as they should be treated according to the Rules of Footballing Authorities and also to the Law of the Land.
JJ
James
Enjoyed your post,one thing though, I think its ‘tenets’ not ‘tenants’.
iki on 4 March, 2012 at 06:41 said:
”Tom English article:
“Sources said last night that the EBTs were not Ogilvie’s domain at Rangers and that they were handled instead by the Murray Group. ”
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Sources this morning said that Tom English and his editor should be aware that company directors have a responsibility to know what is going on with the company they are directing (that’s why it’s called a board of directors, not a board of flunkies).
West Wales Celt 8.06
Fatsally was the very same person, whilst his son was in intensive care for a year or so, was caught humping someone else’s wife. James Forrest was only quoting the facts. Not lazy journalism.
Interesting thread on FF. Quote:
“If the unthinkable happens and we are forced into liquidation I think this idea of starting in Div 3 is gaining momentum amongst the fans if we are going to be hammered by SPL and we should ensure the new owners (who ever they are) is aware of the increasing popular road.”
This in response to a Record or SM article detailing large financial and points penalties that would afflict a NewCo, and in which Administrators talk openly of a NewCo and of potential new owners wanting a “clean slate”
I think the penny is at last starting to drop – liquidation is a raging certainty and the administrators and potential new owners are concentrating on how to phoenix a NewCo into the SPL – but lots of FF denizens are starting to see the appeal of a completely new, honourable, start in Division 3.
But if CW holds firm, then even the establishment of one, definitive, “New Rangers” must be in doubt…
Guidi is full of Whyte.
SPL article 14 (in relation to Transfer of Share) is the only one that is of significance in relation to the Huns and their current situation.
14. If:-
(i) a Member shall cease to be entitled to hold a Share; or
(ii) a trustee in sequestration, manager, receiver or administrative receiver shall be appointed in respect of a Member or any property of a Member, or an administration order shall be made in respect of a Member or any property of a Member or an order shall be made or an effective resolution passed for the winding up of a Member otherwise than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation;
then that Member or its manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or liquidator or any other person entitled to the Share shall, on receiving notice in writing from the Board following the Company in General Meeting passing a Qualified Resolution that such notice should be issued by the Boardand confirming the identity of the proposed transferee, transfer its Share to such other person as the Board shall direct at the price of £1 and the Club owned and operated by such Member shall forthwith cease to be a member of the League and the Club owned and operated by the transferee shall become a member of the League in its place.
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As any fool can see from reading the above. This is not a decision for the Board of the SPL. It is a decision for the Company in General Meeting passing a Qualified Resolution which will be communicated by the Board.
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But let’s not allow the facts to get in the way of hopes and dreams. Made the same point to STV Grant on Twitter last night but another who cannot see the forrest for the trees.
MWD
tomcourtney
Don’t get me wrong mate, when I reflect on some of what they have done in the name of sport I suffer acute mind-boaking. I want them to suffer – proportionately – the consequences of their cheating and all the other evils, most evil to my mind… their silences. I don’t want them escaping, shedding, their responsibilities but one thing I have learned in life is that hate begets hate and violence is a close by-product.
Encourage them to pay and make them be seen to pay and if they have sense and pride they will learn individual and collective humility and tolerance along the way; or they will grow more feral and phoenix – and that I would hate to see.
Jungle Jim on 4 March, 2012 at 09:19
The problem with these fine sentiments is that the hun will make the laws of the land to our detriment and bend the laws of football to suit themselves.
I don’t know where I get these crazy ideas from ……….
James, regarding your post earlier this morning…
I worry that what McCoist said could stir up thoughts of violence on the part of the Huns. The comments appeared to me to be a thinly-directed swipe at Neil and Peter Lawwell, and have, predictably, gone down a storm on FF, with lots of sinister remarks about how those who aimed the “fly kick” will not be forgotten…
Sadly, your post, whilst fluent and funny in places, strays into dark territory for me. A bit too much violence and humiliation in it…
Years ago, before MON’s first season, a moron on FF called “The Gub” wrote an article in which he talked of “stamping on Timmy’s throat whilst wearing spiky golf shoes”. This article has always stood for me as the epitome of rottenness at the heart of RFC. Apart from being fundamentally ignorant about football, it dripped in caustic violent sentiment…
I’m not saying your post is any way as bad as that, but I think we all need to be a little careful. The next few weeks have the potential for some really ugly scenes, and as Celtic fans I think we need to walk the streets with a degree of caution and care.
By all means laugh at them (Lord knows they are funny enough), but maybe stay away from appearing to glory in overtly violent imagery..?
(PS – I think you are a perceptive and excellent writer, so please take these criticisms in the spirit of respect and friendliness they are intended…)
kitalba
“Encourage them to pay and make them be seen to pay and if they have sense and pride they will learn individual and collective humility and tolerance along the way”
Sorry kitalba but what planet have you recently arrived from?
ah well I tried. Let hate reign if that is what you have in your heart.
They’ve still not grasped the nettle of responsibility……
Untill they do so, they are damned.
Their collective mindset doesn’t seem to be able to countenance any culpability.
Individually too, the nodding ‘no surrender’ brigade cling to he basest of billy boy bravura in vain hope.
(And that from the ones who were supposed to be half-way civilised…….)
They’ve sunk themselves and their inability to entertain a dialogue around change / (evolution?) will hole below the waterline any chance of re- launching themselves as any credible force.
Hell mend them.
bankiebhoy1
I thought I was reading Rancho Francho (?) for a minute there o:-)
JJ
kitalba on 4 March, 2012 at 04:53 said:
Good post mate, I have been on record here in the past saying I didn’t think there was such a thing as a decent Hun as that is an oxymoron in the truest sense of the meaning
However, what I should have clarified was my distinction between Huns and Rangers fans ….I feel there is a difference between both groups but essen tially they are the same species.
All the decent Rangers fans we hear about from fellow Celts were standing in the blue corner being decent when their club was adopting a sectarian signing policy whulst their fellow fans were adopting a sectarian singing policy- Then before the current awareness on financial doping there was the blatant cheating …
So I would ask the decent Rangers fans to defend themselves against those allegations !
They had alternative options there are clubs in all parts of Scotland that don’t do the major anti Irish Catholic bit -at least not in a blatantly overt way- what was wrong with supporting the other teams?
Some might counter and say what about Celtic fans who stand by and listen to Ra songs (and they have a point but not the one they think they are making) and that always fails to stand upm as a coherent comparison – confused at best. Celtic fans don’t really have anywhere else to go and our club have stood firm on many of the issues that Rangers as a club and support have either refused to acknowldge or actively nurtured.
Good Rangers fans probably exist and I know a few who fall into the decent guy category…however, I suspect they behave slightly differently when around thier fellows and out of earshot of you and I. Anyone who witnessed the mass hatre fest at the last League Cup Final will know what I mean.
Another thing …how many of the peepul actually admit being ..well, the peepul.. when they are living and working outside Scotland…my general experience is they say they support other teams, usually their hometown club
why is that?
because they are ashamed to admit any connection to the heroes of Barca Birmingham, Newcastle, Dublin, and Manchester and a hundred service stations and towns in between
They know how damaging that would be to their career,,,and especially now
Good Rangers fans …ok fair enough then…but if they have ever denied it .. they know the club they support has always been a carbunkle on the erse of Scottish soiciety
I can look people straight in the eye in any business situation and say I’m a Celtic fan (maybe not every pub for obvious reasons)
which says it all really
HH
M
Kitalba
The hate I hold for that club is exactly the same hate I hold and feel towards The Orange Order, The BNP (or whatever manifestation they go by now-adays), The Nazi’s, The Mugabe regime, illegal invaders of countries in the name of good, liver as a form of food, mushrooms etc.
I just wish they all didnt, or never existed as the world would be a better place without them.
So be gone Rangers, …, liver and mushrooms.
MWD
JJ
Really?
I wish I had his directness.
HH.
Micky Quinn on Talksport this morning suggesting that Chelsea’s problems could have been alleviated if the senior players had been, “integrated out of the team”??
The vast majority of the population in Scotland cares little for celtic supporters or football but are with us if only in a sense of shared shame brought on by the neanderthals from the South side.
Don’t take your foot from their necks, if they squirm out of this they will come back with avengance. We can’t defeat them but can only hope that the decent rankers supporters control a newco gradually rising from the third division.
There is a time for pacifism and fine sentiments, this is not yet that time.
:) Kind of ‘disintegrated then?
Re. SPL clubs having discussions and sources saying unprecedented situation.
What is there to discuss? It may be unprecedented but not unforeseen.
SPL Rules:
Club ceasing to play and be a member of the League
H5 If any Club in the League ceases to operate or to be member of the League for any reason, its playing record in the League may be expunged and the number of relegation places from the League shall be reduced accordingly.
bankiebhoy1
Brilliant response. Made me laugh . No easy matter as I await the rain stopping so that I can go out for a bike ride.
OR
Response incisive with humorous undertoning assistant to endurance of inactivity.
James, A word of caution from the 1880’s……………………
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you”.
Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”, Aphorism 146 (1886)
The smell of hatred from a fatallly wounded animal is incredible….
I suggest to you all heading to iPox on the 25th … Take care but honestly?….
I woudnt take any kids to the game,just incase
celt55
Is Micky Quinn Ranch Franco?
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 4 March, 2012 at 07:16
Totally agree with you on the BBC Sportsound/Daily Record overlap.
Their must be a conflict of interest when a private newspaper has so influence on the National broadcaster. As the radio station of the licence payer’s Radio Scotland shouldn’t be about shock Jocks and their opinions. A National broadcaster should be fact before fiction.
I have no problem with Keevins at Clyde as Clyde are not part of the BBC.It’s just business and crossover advertising. The BBC shouldn’t be promoting any newspaper.
The funny thing is that if 30 years ago someone said Traynor and Keevins were working for the record you would have though that it would be a good thing. Little did we to know they would sell their souls.
Over the last 20 years the Scottish football press has turned into no more than a Hun flagwaver. After “Thugs and Thieves” I stopped buying any papers and don’t listen to phone ins, I think it’s better for the blood pressure!
r
Jungle Jim on 4 March, 2012 at 09:49 said
Sparkleghirl
Include me out!
Deja vu all over again.