I know Ronny Deila was delighted Dedryck Boyata pitched up at Glasgow Airport last night. He’s a player the manager has known about for some time and one who was not on the Man City available list when we secured the loan deal for Jason Denayer a year ago.
The mechanics of the deal are interesting. It’s quite possible it wouldn’t have happened at all without the success Jason enjoyed in Glasgow. A year ago Jason was a complete unknown, below the pecking order than Dedryck, but we gave him a platform and now he’s a full Belgian international. The pitch we put to Dedryck was along the lines of “Look what Jason achieved here”. If we’d singed Dedryck instead of Jason a year ago, Jason would still be an unknown and Dedryck would be a Belgian international.
Assuming no late hiccups, Ronny will know his central defensive pairing for the Champions League qualifiers is sorted, allowing him to concentrate on other areas.
There are no guarantees in football, least of all with Champions League qualification, where we have three awkward knock-out rounds, but we’re starting the summer from a good place.
There’s so much to discuss about yesterdays’ Fir Park hilarity, the consequences of which will be profound. More on this later in the week, but a few points on Motherwell. For a team with such glaring shortcomings they deserved the scale of their victory. Barraclough took a squad who finished 11th in the league into two challenging games and out-thought his opponent.
However, if Celtic fans behaved the way Motherwell fans behaved yesterday your Government would be all over it by now. I’ve seen flares thrown onto pitches, I’ve seen pitch invasions (although I don’t remember seeing one congregating in front of opposition fans), but I’ve never seen a player smacked in the face and leg by a spectator’s flag, and I’ve never seen anything close to this entire repertoire from fans at a single game.
Who knows what the score would have been had Newco faced the team who finished 10th in the Premiership! Their attempt to emulate Grenta in winning three successive promotions always sounded like a tall order. They came close, but they’re no Gretna. Not. Nearly. As. Good.
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Listened to RS on way home from work
Young is quite an embarrassment ….defending all things Hun ….Moshni is responsible for all Hun ills ….and Motherwell are a terrible lot ….I found it quite amusing if not a little irritating
Why not.
Maybe because of the ‘Fenian Bastards’ banner they displayed when we played them?
jmccormick, unfortuately baseball and the SF Giants are king around here. We
actually hosted the only west coast showing of Paul Larkin’s “The Asterisks Years” Documentary in Sebastopol in February.
Ridiculous decision by ref in Hamburg game. Keeper’s positioning equally crazy.Will enjoy extra time, especially if someone does a Moshny
Get over it
The Asterisk Years-spelling.
sipsini
Thanks for calling me a ‘cool dude.’
But yer obviously confusing me with somebody else!
I may have had Italian parents, but I was born in Greenock and went to school in Kilwinning ffs!
HH!!
tallybhoy
20:03 on 1 June, 2015
sipsini
Thanks for calling me a ‘cool dude.’
But yer obviously confusing me with somebody else!
I may have had Italian parents, but I was born in Greenock and went to school in Kilwinning ffs!
HH!!
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I think he was mixing up the 2 of us pal!!!
HH jamesgang
glendalystonsils
19:37 on 1 June, 2015
Great post.
“You need hands” :-)
Ron Bacardi
Think someone has hacked your cqn account mate :(
HH
Corkcelt now HT
Think Ron is in a trolling mood
Even allowing for Moshni being out of contract as from last night, surely it is within Sevco’s rights to fine the player one month’s wages for bringing the club into (further) disrepute?
It’s a wonder the guy who counts the Ibrox solitary bean hasn’t thought of that.
Jamesgang
I have never worn a dress in my life!
Well I cant remember ever having worn one!
HH!!
Ron B
Ok no bother.
UTLR
No. So some of the Hamburg fans had those fenian banners, so be it. I just feel pity and scorn for them.
1-1 half time et !
tallybhoy
20:10 on 1 June, 2015
Jamesgang
I have never worn a dress in my life!
Well I cant remember ever having worn one!
HH!!
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Must have been one helluva night pal!
HH jamesgang
Do they have fenian banners tonight?
Ron B, Hamburg are massive huns, they hate Celtic and Celtic fans. So maybe some of US will not be getting over it.
That there thunder and lightning…Wee Chic Dung was right, it’s the end of the world.
Ron B, I’ll get you a ticket for a Hamburg home match if you promise to go there wearing a Celtic top.
Who wants another laugh at Sevco?
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/good-enough-for-me/
JCGE!
Don’t get much of this in the spl
https://vine.co/v/ehgOwQaupqJ
Calibhoy posts and all us muppets think Special Brew rather than Weat Coast of US!
What a State we’re in!
HH jamesgang
They could dock Moshni wages. Unless of course he hasn’t or won’t be paid.
Sad news tonight that Father Noel Barry of St. Agnes’ Lambhill died today after a long and courageous fight against cancer.
He had embarked on a major renovation of the church when the cancer struck but battled on as best as he could despite obvious lack of health.
RIP
ron bacardi
20:14 on 1 June, 2015
Do they have fenian banners tonight?
Why would that matter ?
So is it ok if they only have it at some games, I don’t give a hoot, I bet Karslruher 2-1 in 90mins so I will be quite happy for Hamburg to drop a division, let them start their own journey if that happens
Jamesgang, That was funny.
Father Noel RIP
HH jamesgang
Looking at each end there seems to be a tad more riot police at the hamburg end. I wonder why?
Tells you everything about them. Scum!
calibhoy
In my experience the only better than meeting CQNers on here is meeting them in real life.
Gems
HH jamesgang
Karl Benz was born in Karlsruhe.
Did he not have a daughter named Mercedes?
HH!!
Oh dear!
Naw !!!!!!!!! Dirty bassas 2-1
Hamburg score and will stay up .. Not in a motherwell style , far from it.
Fr Noel RIP
tallybhoy
I think Mercedes was the daughter of his friend