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Brace yourself.  It was a simple step, but when referee Nick Walsh warned the Livingston keeper for timewasting early in the game last night, at a stroke he stopped one of the drags afflicting Celtic games.  Hopefully other referees will hear of this ground-breaking move and act accordingly in future.

If a referee could only bring himself to notice the other Great Tactic when facing Celtic: put your body between ball and man, then flop to the ground when the Celtic player is in contact, our sport would be transformed.  Until then, Celtic will doubtlessly continue their untroubled march to the title.

Greg Taylor is having the season of his life and was rewarded with the opening goal last night.  Setup perfectly by his first touch, he shot through a busy penalty area into the corner of the net.  It was just rewards for a man who has made himself invaluable to our play.

For the second time in a month, Daizen Maeda’s desire to press inside the opponents box brought the ultimate prize when an attempted clearance ricocheted off him into the net.  If you don’t buy a ticket….. you don’t earn a league winner’s medal.

I am sure Livingston are better than they looked last night.  As halftime approached, they appeared punch drunk and when a poor attempt to intercept failed, Kyogo was left one-on-one with the last defender.  No one backed the defender.  I expect even David Martindale looked away as his approaching team-talk turned into a ‘keep it respectable’ exercise.  Still, he has the PPP Table to console himself with.  If only Opta carried a points-per-pound stat he might get the Man City gig when Pep moves on.

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  1. Emeraldbee

     

     

    According to the DR he broke club rules and sacked by the board

     

     

    Might have done a George Burley at Derby (had it off with chairman’s wife)

  2. I don’t watch sevco games, but for those who do, is the VAR checks for goals noticeably different in the time it takes? Any English checks seem to be done pretty quickly (mostly)

  3. SCOTTISH football chiefs are poised to hold an emergency VAR summit within days in a bid to force changes to the controversial handball rule.

     

     

     

    The Professional Game Board has contacted all Premiership clubs for their suggestions ahead of the crunch meeting early next week – and plans to take the comments and remarks straight to the law makers at IFAB, insists a report in the Daily Record.

     

     

    It is also believed the SFA hierarchy are planning an overall technology review with all top-flight clubs in a bid to clear up the confusion which has created chaos since it was introduced on October 21 last year

  4. The Goldson one is the limit.

     

     

    Must have ruled it out based on arm not making him bigger and not deliberate

     

     

    Fair enough in isolation but plenty pens given in these circumstances

  5. Yorkbhoy

     

     

    My Irish/English team colleagues reckon VAR was a disaster the first season so suggest it might improve

  6. CARPE DIEM

     

     

    Thanks re. Laffatme. I did a quick recce on the media and see that McInnes is still in there batting for him.

     

     

    You would have thought that a guy with that experience in Scottish football would know when to just shut up. If he doesn’t want to go into detail on why the Killie board effectively got shot of him, on the last day of the windown which meant there was no time to replace him, then a ‘no comment’ would have done the job.

     

     

    I suppose these guys see sticking together as the way forward in Scotland?

  7. Emeraldbee

     

     

    I have a lot of time for Phil’s stuff

     

     

    Nowhere in Phil piece does it say this was a Var meeting.

     

     

    This needs dealing with openly not behind closed doors.

     

     

    IMO BSR was spot with his comment

     

     

    Unless Phil is able to name this source it is hearsay

     

     

    Also Phil piece brings up Jim Farry.

     

    Compare and contrast with how the current board measure up ?

     

     

    Earlier this month Paul did a piece quoting the daily Ranger which was also full of un attributed hearsay

  8. Emerald Bee/prestonpans bhoy.

     

     

    I searched at time,found little,i would say phils narrative emerged/grew from the meeting(what happened).i was looking more for an offocial document from spfl/celtic-a statement and maybe a minute

     

     

    Each week with Var a new wave of stupidity confronts us.

     

    It’ll not go away imo,

     

    Deal with it openy and transparently

     

     

    HH

  9. Prestonpans bhoys on

    AT

     

     

    I mentioned on SC the other week if anyone had heard anything about this supposed meeting, Alas no one did.

     

     

    Phil’s comment, which I assume is true, is the only reference to such a gathering. A public statement would be remarkable event given the previous silence on these issues, well apart from Ange.

  10. Tom McLaughlin on

    So there we have it. If it suits a certain agenda, it is absolute fact.

     

     

    If not, it’s hearsay.

     

     

    Welcome to the interweb.

  11. Interesting that Beale says he can live without his front 3

     

     

    Knows he has the refs and also putting pressure on them to sign

     

     

    A Del Boy but maybe not as daft

  12. bournesouprecipe on

    Tom McLaughlin @ ages ago

     

     

    Hope you find your listening ears again whilst other CQNrs were busy trying to find your source. Anyway, It fair underlines my thoughts that the board might be squirming , I’m sure it’s a word they don’t like raising, if they did.

     

     

    Awkward questions that pop up in our Celtic lifetimes ‘rock the boat’. You’re not telling me that we don’t have directors in a PLC, that don’t like Parkhead boat rocking?

     

     

    Countless instances of inactivity where grievance was perceived and not pursued. Silence and occasional media room sneering at about how they are still here and called Rainjurz hasn’t satisfied all Celtic tastes.

     

     

    If VAR disparity doesn’t have the Celtic board squirming about ‘what to do next,’ to preserve the future, they’re not paying attention or have fallen asleep at the wheel or dozens of other relevant cliches. Maybe they were again too comfortable in their ‘old firm’ jammies? Bobbing down and maintaining the status quo, win the league and shut up, they can’t chalk them all off , blah de blah de blah.

     

     

    In any event your rejoinder doesn’t change the original question, which BTW had nothing to do with last nights game in terms of the plain sight

     

    ‘cheating’ which began at Tynecastle last year.

  13. Paul67,

     

     

    Brace yerself for Referees getting in the way just outside the box that is possibly possible?

     

     

    And thats just wan of thems tactics.

     

     

    Looking forward to these next 2 games against OLDFIRM FC. It is Time to annihilate them.

  14. TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 2ND FEBRUARY 2023 7:26 PM

     

    So there we have it. If it suits a certain agenda, it is absolute fact.

     

     

    If not, it’s hearsay.

     

     

    Welcome to the interweb.

     

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    Do you have a source Tom? You typed it mate ie Celtics response.

     

    As i said to others i have difficulty squarepeggin phils implied suggestion(if that was your source)

     

    Am only trying to deal with what we know i believe the club petition behind closed doors.(the old way) i think wi var it should be open and transparent,everything recorded and in real time,us in the park are the last to know.

     

     

    HH

  15. An Tearmann on 2nd February 2023 7:53 p,

     

     

    The powers that be couldnae care less if there are Supporters @ the game.

     

     

    They’d much rather armchair subscription watching a product. They can always make it seem like there are over 60000 at Celtic Park.

     

     

    Not Good. :((

  16. woooffffttt.

     

     

    —————————-

     

     

    Referee’s injustice shattered the dream of a European title…

     

    This year, the Football Club Vojvodina is marking a great and valuable jubilee – 55 years since winning the first league title, ie the year in which the myth of the so-called “big four” of Yugoslav football was crushed and in which Vojvodina became the first team that managed to win the title ahead of Red Star, Partizan, Dinamo and Hajduk.

     

     

    It was a great generation, led by perhaps the best Serbian goalkeeper of all time, Ilija Pantelić, the elusive scorer Silvester Takač, and many other national team members and top players of the time, Ivica Brzić, Stevan Nešticki, Dobrivoje Trivić, Vasa Pušibrk, Radivoj Radosav, etc. From the bench, the team was led by the legendary Branko Stanković, and the technical director of the club at that time was the famous Vujadin Boškov.

     

     

    In 1966, that generation wrote its name in the history of FK Vojvodina, but also in the history of entire Yugoslav football, as well as in the sports history of Novi Sad, considering that the title from that year was the first title won by a Novi Sad club in any sports. The following season, the then team of Vojvodina showed its quality on the international scene, where, due to a foul on the goalkeeper and a goal in the 92nd minute of the rematch against Celtic, it was stopped in the quarterfinals of the European Champions Cup, and Celtic then became the first British team that won the title of European champion. The only defeat in that season, counting the matches in the domestic league and the Cup, as well as in the European Champions Cup, Celtic suffered in the first match of the quarterfinals against Vojvodina, when they were defeated 1-0 in Novi Sad.

     

     

    read the rest here …………….

     

     

    https://www.fkvojvodina.rs/referees-injustice-shattered-the-dream-of-a-european-title/?lang=en

  17. Tom McL

     

    hearsay

     

     

    information received from other people which cannot be substantiated.

     

     

     

    Most happy to change my mind Tom if you use facts.

     

     

    I won’t take offense at your use of interweb, I have shared on the blog previously that i have dyslexia and that isn’t my only neuro diversity, perhaps have a think as to how language can be construed.

     

     

    “Passion being the enemy of discourse” and all that

     

     

    Tom, May your feet always find the path

     

    💚🖖✌🕊☮🕉

  18. Tom McLaughlin on

    DALRIADABHOY

     

     

    I hope you can believe that I meant no slight to you by using the word interweb. Obviously I knew nothing of your dyslexia and even if I did, I fail to see the connection.

     

     

    Hail Hail ☘️

  19. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN @ 5:54 PM

     

     

    I don’t think the referee did anything wrong last night.

     

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    Pretty much agree Tom.

     

     

    If I’m being picky?

     

     

    He could have awarded a foul and issued a yellow card early in the game when the Livi player clearly kicked McGregor when Calum was sliding into a tackle with the guy then deliberately landing on Calum and bloodying his face.

     

     

    Oh … and he could have awarded a foul and issued a yellow card for a nasty foul on Abada when he was breaking clear … which Liel tried to ride but then pulled up.

     

     

    Come to mention it, he could have penalised the Livi forward for a blatant push on Starfelt which he was in a position to see clearly … but perhaps he just wanted Livi to score to make the game more interesting?

     

     

    Now that I think of it, he could have cautioned that arrogant sub (the one that kicked lumps out of Abada unfettered at Almondvale) for raising his hands to a Celtic player

     

     

    While we’re on the topic he could have decided against keeping Kyogo on the touchline for a friggin eternity after Kyogo had exchanged two words with the physio … only after Walsh had waved the physio onto the pitch while Walsh was still 20 yards away from our Kyogo who clearly didn’t want treatment.

     

    (A few minutes later Walsh couldn’t wave Joel Nouble back onto the pitch quick enough after lengthy treatment)

     

     

    Since you raised it he could have avoided breaking up our rhythm while repeatedly and toothlessly lecturing Livingston players (as if they give a toss about his opinions).

     

     

    Finally he could have refrained from the standard Scottish refereeing tactic (perfected by Bobby Madden) – the awarding of a free kick in Celtic’s half for a nonexistent foul … to simply give them a free play into our box with their players in there.

     

     

     

    Other than that (and the obligatory getting in our way while we play football) ?

     

     

    I think wee Nicky Walsh did fine.

  20. Still nearly an hour left to add to the 60 that have already voiced their opinions (and they are very varied!!). 3 names, one email to SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM and results should be out just after 10pm.

  21. Tom

     

     

    I have a much better opinion of you than that.

     

     

    It was taking interweb in context with the rest of your post.

     

     

    I found it a bit patronizing the use of hearsay was an attempt to use logic.

     

     

    Have a look at the post i put on earlier from Paul earlier this month and as Phil would say pick out the words that are doing the heavy lifting in the Daily Ranger piece that Paul quotes.

     

     

    “The more things change, the more they stay the same and the worse they get”

     

     

    Behind closed doors, meeting don’t work they never have, they never will.

     

     

    I have always loved the bits you have posted about playing football and coaching.

     

     

    So again trying to use logic, your a coach how long would you persist with strategy and tactics if they are not working.

     

     

    Am away for a while

     

     

    💚🖖✌🕊☮🕉

  22. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    I understood VAR was introduced to help the referees?

     

    A resource the ref could use if unsighted, not replace the ref as the decision maker which is whqat appears to be happening.

  23. Canamalar, I was speaking to a former Grade 1 ref today and that was his exact words it was supposed to help the referee.

     

     

    He was definitely not a fan of the process

  24. *SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2022-23*

     

    RESULTS FROM GAME #34 – CELTIC 3 LIVINGSTON 0 (TAYLOR, MAEDA, KYOGO)

     

     

    Good evening, friends.

     

    A bit of a game of two halves last night but job done, and convincingly at that. I’ll make it easy on myself with this particular report and just go straight to the voting, except to say that in my own humble opinion last night was Daizen Maeda’s best game in the hoops (so far), never fading out of the game and running as strongly in the final minutes as he did in the first.

     

    Domestically we have now played 28, winning 26, drawing 1 and losing 1, scoring 89 and conceding 18.

     

    Thank you to the 65 who emailed me with their 3 nominations. The total votes cast for each player with my own choices asterisked are as follows –

     

    Hart: 0

     

    Johnston: 1

     

    Carter-Vickers: 10

     

    Starfelt*: 5

     

    Taylor: 42

     

    McGregor: 19

     

    Hatate: 37

     

    O’Riley: 2

     

    Jota*: 17

     

    Kyogo: 13

     

    Maeda*: 49

     

     

    Subs (no votes for any of them): Mooy, Abada, Oh, Turnbull, Iwata

     

     

    And so the players receiving POINTS for the game against Livingston are –

     

    Maeda – 5 pts

     

    Taylor – 4 pts

     

    Hatate – 3 pts

     

    McGregor – 2 pts

     

    Jota – 1 pt

     

     

    And after 34 games the overall standings are as shown below –

     

    73 points – Hatate

     

    49 points – Carter-Vickers

     

    43 points – Jota

     

    42 points – Taylor

     

    37 points – Mooy

     

    34 points – McGregor

     

    29 points – Kyogo

     

    28 points – O’Riley

     

    26 points – Abada

     

    23 points – Maeda

     

    22 points – Jenz

     

    15 points – Haksabanovic

     

    13 points – Giakoumakis, Juranovic and Starfelt

     

    10 points – Ralston

     

    9 points – Bernabei and Welsh

     

    8 points – Forrest and Johnston

     

    7 points – Hart

     

    5 points – Turnbull

     

    4 points – Kobayashi

     

    0 points – Abildgaard, Iwata, Lawal, McCarthy, Oh, Siegrist and Vata

     

     

    Our next game is on Sunday with a High Noon kick off away to St Johnstone.

     

    Hail Hail!

  25. BADA BING

     

     

    So you think I chased Dalriadabhoy off the blog?

     

     

    You really are a drama queen.

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