It’s been a long time since we’ve had a home game; 4th August, against Aberdeen. Since then we’ve played five games on the road, three of which involved international travel, with two games in the Highlands.
Statistical analysis shows that form suffers when teams are forced to pile-up away fixtures. Training schedules are interrupted as travel eats into time which would otherwise be spent fine-tuning fitness or working on defensive/forward strategy. Instead Celtic have improved enormously from their Flag Day at the beginning of the month, despite, or perhaps, because, Neil Lennon has indulged in extensive use of a squad rotation policy.
No one at Celtic will be complacent ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League play-off, the ghost of Ross County in 2010 and Inverness in 2011 will see to that. One ‘Big Dan Moment’ is all it takes to turn a comfortable lead into a tight tie with a player deficit, but I suspect Neil Lennon will be more concerned with putting the brakes on his players, rather than motivating them. A calm and organised performance is required.
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dirtymac
Just visit Airdrie.
There’s no discernible signs of life there either.
fanadpatriot
22:04 on
27 August, 2012
Philvesreturns
Going to the chapel,and going to get married.God forgive me,am a turncoat.
Of course you are correct.Get me to the church on time,back in the flock,thank God.HH
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My mum and step-da picked me up for my wedding and I kid you not, as we drove through the arch at Arbroath Abbey (as you could back then), that song came on the radio.
Cool as ice til that moment, then suddenly (and genuinely), felt sick.
nervouslikemintyatthehighcourtCSC
Chapels- shocking expression. The formal term is Pineapple or Piney to the vulgar.
Clash CB
Howdy -yes I just checked SFA website and there is a pdf file showing all appointments.
it seems they only have a 4th official when games are televised live…
presumably to help the ref decide if last minute headed goals from conrers should be chopped off …;-)
HH
dirtymac – And:
Alan Rickman – Hans Gruber and Severus Snape – got his first movie role at 46.
Roget Invented the Thesaurus at 73.
Colonel Sanders invented Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was 65. (thumbsup)
That SPL channel on youtube is excellent.
Excuse me if I am talking Gibberish tonight,I have 6 females of the family,in the kitchen,drinking all my wine,and trying to break the sound barrier with their conversation,whilst one of my grandsons and me,are watching Ireland’s West Music Tv.
Never mind Daniel will be put on later.HH.
dirtymac
Why am I not surprised that anything to do with uefa, and the betterment of clubs is not the topic of conversation in scotland with the msm.
It is everywhere here, in the press, on the radio virtually every day.
Something will happen, the big boys are determined to make it happen.
And oh for the day of no more international football, the sooner the better IMO.
TET
Not got the time to dissect EPL wage bills – but often think that CFC (on a bad/ good day) could initially feature in the EPL somewhere between Liverpool and Aston Villa (in terms of; finance, fan-power/ popularity and credibility).
It’s their recent spend/ wage .v. purchase of player that I question.
Compare and contrast: Downing signed for £15M (wages £50-60K p.w?) – or………
Aiden: £9.5M
Forrest: circa £7-10M
Even McGinn: less than £1M
Which player(s) represent better value for money?
I sincerely hope that KI explodes on the EPL scene – it might just provide us with a profitable revenue stream (providing we replenish) till such times as we witness the long awaited European new formula!
What has happened with Broadfoot?
A67
Well done to Kuban Krasnodar in the Russian Premier League who paid their own personal tribute to the 6:2 game anniversary by trouncing the Huns of Volga Nyzhnyi by that exact score today.
Kuban sometimes play in all green and Nyzhnyi sometimes play in all blue.
Everything Connects
voguepunter:
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Watched the game in your pub on Saturday. It’s been years since I’ve seen guys as drunk as the bhoys at the doors of the pub at that time of day. One guy fell asleep standing up and ended on the floor. Made me chuckle.
I love pubs with all the Celtic regalia.
3-0 ath Madrid vs Bilbao but Bilbao sub looks aboot 12 yrs old,,…I’ve got madrid at 3-0 for 10/1 at beginning think I might have to cover it with 4-0 or 5-0 it’s a rout in the making
philvisreturns
22:12 on
27 August, 2012
dirtymac – And:
Alan Rickman – Hans Gruber and Severus Snape – got his first movie role at 46.
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Didn’t realise he was so old –
played the deliciously devious Dev in Michael Collins 1996
HH
reilly1926
Saw that numpty,Don’t know the guy,I was up the far end of the bar. RECOGNIYou might have
put your CQN badge on.
My post almost made sense there.
So Armstrong went to the moon because it was in one of those “100 things to do before you are 40” books?
Interesting story I was told a while ago re: Neil.
Neil Armstrong (of Scottish descent) became the first man to walk on the Moon. When he achieved this incredible feat, he spoke to US President Richard Nixon (also of Scottish descent). They spoke on a telephone (invented by Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell); and the whole world watched their conversation on their television sets (invented by Scotsman John Logie Baird).
Incredible. Except of course everyone knows Bells stole the telephone idea from the great Italian inventor, Tony Meucci.
philvisreturns
22:12 on
27 August, 2012
dirtymac – And:
Alan Rickman – Hans Gruber and Severus Snape – got his first movie role at 46.
Roget Invented the Thesaurus at 73.
Colonel Sanders invented Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was 65. (thumbsup)
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Charles Green (or was it Jim Traynor?) invented the McEwans Book of Govan World Records at the age of 1690.
Good Andy Murray/sevco story I must share. I’m a bit of a Murray fan, so me and Morarghirl have downloaded the US Open phone app to follow scores. So she clicks on My US Open and then Players. On choosing Andy Murray, the following information is provided;
DID YOU KNOW
Murray loves soccer—he was once offered to play for the minor league team the Glasgow Rangers.
Love it!
Saltires,
Presumably it is to ensure there is a back up if one of the 3 officials get injured, although I would have thought there would be no shortage of qualified officials in the crowd:-)
ItaliaBhoy
22:22 on
27 August, 2012
So Armstrong went to the moon because it was in one of those “100 things to do before you are 40″ books?
Interesting story I was told a while ago re: Neil.
Neil Armstrong (of Scottish descent) became the first man to walk on the Moon. When he achieved this incredible feat, he spoke to US President Richard Nixon (also of Scottish descent). They spoke on a telephone (invented by Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell); and the whole world watched their conversation on their television sets (invented by Scotsman John Logie Baird).
Incredible. Except of course everyone knows Bells stole the telephone idea from the great Italian inventor, Tony Meucci.
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And Baird stole the telly fae his local Dixons in Soho during the annual riots.
Morarbhoy – that seriously isnae true, is it?
thegiftjustkeepsgivingCSC
saltires en sevilla
22:20 on
27 August, 2012
philvisreturns
22:12 on
27 August, 2012
dirtymac – And:
Alan Rickman as Rev Obadiah Slope in Barchester Chronicles TV series …. superb.
praecepta
I think Ki will do very well in england, his game is suited to the epl, he will get protection first and foremost.
As for value for money, it’s a minefield, something is only worth what someone is willing to pay, but 15 mill for SD, 35 mill for AC, 18 mill for JH, and untold others, Brendan Rogers paid 15 mill for a player I had never even heard of the other week.
Aye, the likes of Ki needs to shine, and he will, he has the tallent, he has the skill, he can see a pass.
Chapel,church does it matter.
We’re all Celtic.
!!bada bing!!
20:48 on
27 August, 2012
Hen1rik-A bhoy posted last week re Keevins saying,he was doing a piece about a Testimonial which Sean Fallon never got allegedly,it upset Sean’s family and PL.
Thanks matey sorry i didn’t reply earlier i was on phone.
There is no team in the world now called The GLASGOW Rangers.
A67
Clashcitybhoy 22:24 on 27 August, 2012
They would definelty fit the required criteria.
Saudi Arabia won the FIFA under 16’s World Championship Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow in 1989
When their players were all 36 :-)
HH
Berra is no berra than what we have,no thanks.
Dirtymac at 22:26-
Can’t do links to pics and all that, but it is genuine! Maybe Bocanegra helped with the research!! We were in stitches!! I keep reading ‘minor league team’ in a bad American accent!! Hail hail!!
hen1rik -HH.
saltires en sevilla 22:32
I remember it well, I was there. They were certanly most of them beyond their teens.
saltires en sevilla
I was at that game, went with a mate whose son was in the squad, it was men against boys.
Not sure about their ages, but most of the Saudies had beards, well into their 20’s I would wager.
Just another bit of corruption allowed to go unchecked.
So is it 111 then?
Clashcitybhoy
22:24 on
27 August, 2012
Saltires,
Presumably it is to ensure there is a back up if one of the 3 officials get injured, although I would have thought there would be no shortage of qualified officials in the crowd:-)
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LOL – or lynched …
HH
Bwahahaha, it is true
ItaliaBhoy – Incredible. Except of course everyone knows Bells stole the telephone idea from the great Italian inventor, Tony Meucci.
I heard it was Elisha Gray, but you’re right that it looks like Bell stole his “invention”.
Also, John Logie Baird was an incredible genius, but he didn’t invent the television as we know it today. Baird invented the first working television apparatus but it was an electro-mechanical device made out of bicycle parts. The electronic television was devised by Philo T Farnsworth. In Britain, it was a firm started by the great Italian inventor Marconi that kicked off television as a mass market proposition.
Unlike Bell, Baird didn’t try to pass off anybody else’s invention as his own. Bell died one of the richest men on the planet, while Baird died poverty.
Also, Alexander Graham Bell did little to introduce penicillin as the wonder drug we know today. An Australian, a German Jew, and an Englishman made penicillin into a product that would save hundreds of millions of lives. (thumbsup)