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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Leftclicktic,
Just read back and found you were already on the case :D))))
Lennybhoy, VVD will be there for the qualifiers. We’ll see thereafter.
Don’t dismiss the Grenta outcome for Newco (and I don’t mean promotion).
DBBIA, 12:59, like it.
Chairbhoy, it is.
I suspect Moshni will slip out of the country and others will hope everything just goes away.
TBB
There were no footballing reasons to suggest sevco could win by 3 goals at fir park. Motherwell were the form side in respect of goals scored and points collected. Their superior stats were strengthened given the fact they were achieved v stronger opposition. The strongest case being offered for a sevco wide margin victory was that the officials would deal the cards with a stacked deck. The ref was strong, as evidenced by the Miller incident, which I actually thought WAS a penalty. That was at 0 0. At that point, proponents of fairness could breathe again. I said on here last week Motherwell would not fold. If you examined the stats beforehand, and assumed the ref would do his job, then 3 v 1 to Motherwell in both games was the percentage bet.
…..and no, I didn’t bet it myself, for fear of jinxing the outcome:-)
Dedryck Boyata is 1.887654568643m tall (approx)
BT
I’m surprised your colleague didn’t opt for a fish supper. That would have been his rightful plaice.
McCall: ‘Three of the goals were deflections.’
Yes, Stuart, good point.
So let’s apply Hun Law, which cancels them out. So we’re left with…Ahhahahaa…Three-One…
Ahahahaha…Still pumped!…Ahahahahahahahahaa…
Paul67
On Twitter last night a Motherwell supporter who was sat in the Main Stand claimed that the flare was thrown by huns seated close to him. He also applauded the bravery of the stewards who he stated dealt with the 20 odd RIFC casuals who’d been responsible for the flare.
Also….yesterday’s outcome shows the division for what it is. Piss poor. Celtic humped Hearts 7 v 0 over 2 clashes this season. Well, who toiled in the top league, destroyed them in similar fashion. Hibs are poor, QOS are poor. Both were made to look better cos they beat a very poor sevco.
leftclicktic
13:09 on
1 June, 2015
That was brilliant m8. I think I might have damaged my underpants laughing.
I was only on briefly last night and again briefly today. Has Tom McG walked away?
twists n turns
13:15 on
1 June, 2015
TBB
There were no footballing reasons to suggest sevco could win by 3 goals at fir park. Motherwell were the form side in respect of goals scored and points collected. Their superior stats were strengthened given the fact they were achieved v stronger opposition. The strongest case being offered for a sevco wide margin victory was that the officials would deal the cards with a stacked deck. The ref was strong, as evidenced by the Miller incident, which I actually thought WAS a penalty. That was at 0 0. At that point, proponents of fairness could breathe again. I said on here last week Motherwell would not fold. If you examined the stats beforehand, and assumed the ref would do his job, then 3 v 1 to Motherwell in both games was the percentage bet.
…..and no, I didn’t bet it myself, for fear of jinxing the outcome:-)
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The problem for the referees is that when these wee teams go to big grounds like Fir Park, the crown influence his decision-making. The big teams always get the decisions going for them… ;-)
BT
Did you have a wee bet on the play offs then decided to fritter away your winnings
Crown? Crowd!
FAN-A-TIC 1231
Que?
Nae offence,mate. Keep firing in yer thoughts and opinions.
The blog is only as good as its arguments,IMO.
The Battered Bunnet
13:19 on
1 June, 2015
BT
I’m surprised your colleague didn’t opt for a fish supper. That would have been his rightful plaice.
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Th blog enjoys good humour, but no need to fillet with this kind of remark!
Afternoon Timland from a hot hun free mountain valley.
I flounced once, but I think I got away with it……….
HH
Dbbia
“Boyata is 1.887654568643m tall approximately”
How tall is he exactly? I have a bet on that he is exactly
Fish puns every day of the week, Barramundi.
Ive never seen this Bhoyata playing.
Is he any good?
twists n turns, 13:20
“Also….yesterday’s outcome shows the division for what it is. Piss poor. Celtic humped Hearts 7 v 0 over 2 clashes this season. Well, who toiled in the top league, destroyed them in similar fashion. Hibs are poor, QOS are poor. Both were made to look better cos they beat a very poor sevco.”
Indeed – a good argument against league reconstruction. Clearly the top teams in the lower division are not of a standard to allow them to compete in the top flight.
1.887654568439
Littering the blog with Bitter fritter tittering?
Is there not enough spam on the ole inter web?
Hamilton Tim, Tom did say he was finished with blog but hopefully he will reconsider.
hamiltontim
13:20 on 1 June, 2015
Paul67
On Twitter last night a Motherwell supporter who was sat in the Main Stand claimed that the flare was thrown by huns seated close to him. He also applauded the bravery of the stewards who he stated dealt with the 20 odd RIFC casuals who’d been responsible for the flare.
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Apparently it was Chelsea fans wot did it
Thunder Road. There is a clip of him playing on news now Celtic. H.H.
natknow
13:28 on 1 June, 2015
The Battered Bunnet
13:19 on
1 June, 2015
BT
I’m surprised your colleague didn’t opt for a fish supper. That would have been his rightful plaice.
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Th blog enjoys good humour, but no need to fillet with this kind of remark!
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Natknow, that’s you been put in your plaice.
MACJAY 1312
That’s what I like about this site. Having to be on the ball to spot the ‘in yer face’ stuff and the subtle ones.
Unless of course you meant it,ya choob!!!!!
Corkcelt
Cheers for that. I hope you’re well sir.
Henke
Those pesky Chelsea thugs get everywhere!
Who holds the record for most cqn flounces in the same season?
JFH
Thanks but im at work so pretty limited to what i can do!
Will check it out later.
Was wondering what any of you bhoys thought of him?
Wa
I’m ooff ooot to lunch, check in later to lap up the wit and the humour. P.S. Over on the darkside they are looking for an upfront investment of 30 million in the squad. How many supporters have they got, is it 50 million or 500 million, now if they all threw in a quid……
Miss Sevco – June 2015
Tbj
Indeed
Can you flounce more than once? Surely if you flounce, then post again, your flounce wisnae a flounce at aw?
Salmon here love their fish puns.
Having now watched the game (I didn’t want to jinx the result) it’s clear that Sevco have a side good enough to finish third in the championship. Looking at the crowd scenes in the aftermath I wondered how it would be treated if it was us. We get dogs abuse for made up riots so how will the authorities deal with something far more serious than the so called shame game. If the OB bill was brought in to deal with crowd behavior in that Shame game I’d doesn’t seem to have word pied as far worse happened yesterday.
twists n turns
I’ve nae where tae flounce tae , so I will just stay here :)))
Till later all