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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Gorbalstam
I like Anthony as a player. I am just not that keen on tatoos. Saw Danny Fox the other day and he Islam pretty much the same player but more tatoos. How did he manage that?
quonno
It’s a scam. There’s an article about it on the Celtic FC website. (Sorry, can’t do the linky thing)
quonno
It’s a scam. There was something on the official website about this I’m sure. You did the right thing.
quonno
http://celticfc.net/downloads/Boiler_room_scam_advice_May_2012.pdf
This has been going on for a while now.
Mort
bournesouprecipe
Lol Brilliant, that’s getting stole
wonkyradar
I think someone should tell these clowns it’s only a game of fitba’ efter awe.
gorbalstam
14:23 on
27 August, 2012
Itison is the local Glasgow company , they are part of the Sloans company. I have used them a few times and always found the “meal deals” to be good value. The car valet one was not such good value. You pays , your money….
jmccormick
Always the Michael Collins for Tic games in Barca. There’ll always be anotherTim in there to watch the game with (well the twice I’ve watched games in there anyway).
Luka Modric is a Real Madrid player and Spurs are £33m richer.
Gorbals
Don’t know it myself pal but I’ve just heard about it n thought I’d mention it,I’ll check it out seef it offers me anything.
Forres Mechanics v Sevco in The Scottish Cup….meanwhile back at The Champions League….
Groupon are worth about $30 bil,they take 50% of any deal offered.
Groupon, etc… There is also one on the club website that is always worth a look. Also gets a bit of cash for the club to.
Modric is well overpriced,good player if you are 2 up.
bournesouprecipe
you got a link to the full draw please ?
there were some big name clubs in there, Sevco have done well to miss out on these teams that have been in the scottish cup for years.
For anyone interested in Lance Armstong this is a good read, whether you think he’s guilty or not?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/othersports/lance-armstrong-vs-usada-what-are-we-to-believe/2012/08/24/62940afa-ee0a-11e1-afd6-f55f84bc0c41_story.html
DBBIA
Thoughts and prayers with you..
KTF
Wonkyradar indulging himself in a bit of creative writing.
Naughty boy. He should acknowledge the true source of his ramblings.
Wonkradar.
That is a good read. It has AweNaw’s (or someone similar) fingerprints all over it. No genuine FFer could be so literate.
oh the romance of the cup –
Civil Service Strollers
Edinburgh University
Glasgow University
Hawick Royal Albert (a wee royal connection for the loyal tax payers)
Wick Academy
Burntisland Shipyard
Whitehill Welfare
Inverurie Loco Works
Sevco Debt Recovery Office
Efe (Effin) Ambrose? 6 ft 3 and can play defensive midfield. Sound like big Vic. Sign him up!
********* Tech help needed ********
My laptop is failing to start.
It states “windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause”
When I click “repair” it then states “Windows cannot repair this computer automatically”
Anything I can do or do I have to contact system admin, whoever they are!
Many thanks
SffS
I must have been naive to think that when they went down to the 4th division, the referees’ favours would decline and there would be more fairness around. Obviously not! Apparently poor little Berwick were robbed of two goals – one for an imaginery obstruction and another when the final whistle was blown while the ball was on its way to the Sevco net. Shame on you Mike Tumelty – obviously the Dallas Factor lives on!
Qonno these are boiler room scammers. They pick up your name from the publicly available share register. You did the right thing.
pauloantony
14:22 on
27 August, 2012
I see the record published the servco 666 fans singing banned racist songs ….
Wonder if the SFA will take action ?
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Particularly since the offence appears to be admitted, nay encouraged on Sevcomedia:
“The Billy Boys
Heard it loud and proud today………well done to all those involved, excellent stuff.
Mr Green………..bring our anthem back to Ibrox, officially. PLEASE.
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Loved hearing it today
Bring it back
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Charles is the man to do it…
He wont be afraid to argue the toss…
We have been sh*t since its gone..its talismanic and inspirational “
SFFS
I saw your post earlier and as I don’t know anything about computers I did not reply.
Loads of techie guys on here.
Awe naw and MWD if you are lurking.
Picture of Harry that’s causing the girls to go wild.
DubaiBhoy (nee LondonBhoy)
We should buy him, if only for the song…
One Effin Ambrose
There’s only one Effin Ambrose…
(I stole that from someone but I can’t remember who)
Bring it back
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Charles is the man to do it…
He wont be afraid to argue the toss…
We have been sh*t since its gone..its talismanic and inspirational
re the above, if ever proof was needed that we are witnessing a time warp back to the pre Souness days at Ipox.Appeal to the lowest common denominator and that`s what you get.
sffs
Have you tried taking the battery out for a minute, then replacing.
Ahh sevco fans the gift that keeps giving please tell me they still play “simply the best”… (Aye right…) before games
SCOTTISH CUP 2ND ROUND
Forres Mechanics v Rangers
Houl yer wheest
….oul news mate.
lct
Mrs j says I was like a demented duck when I was unable to access CQN’s. Thanks to Google Chrome problem solved!!
Ps And one of the guys on here.
ally will have the battery charger in the kit bag. Shocking!!!
Huns have got Forest Mechanics away in Scottish Cup.
Pumped out of that competition then. lol!
Surely its not beyond the Highland League Champions to beat a 3rd Division club .
from the BBC –
Scottish Cup: Rangers draw Forres Mechanics in second round
Rangers face a trip to Highland League champions Forres Mechanics following the draw for the second round of the Scottish Cup.
Wick Academy will make the long trip to Berwick Rangers, while Ayrshire junior side Irvine Meadow get a day at Hampden to take on Queen’s Park.
Stirling Albion are away to Dalbeattie Star, Clyde host Nairn County and Peterhead go to Deveronvale.
East Stirlingshire go to Fraserburgh and Elgin meet St Cuthbert Wanderers.
Formantine United, who edged out Brora Rangers 3-2 in the first round, have been rewarded with an away trip to Clachnacuddin.
And Civil Service Strollers will take on Turriff Utd.
Forres Mechanics, nicknamed the Can Cans, won the Highland League last season for just the second time since the division was established in 1893.
The club’s Mosset Park has a safety certificate for 1,400 spectators.
Poor Keith is hurting.
By Keith Jackson 12 Comments 27 Aug 2012 06:30
Arabs make a mockery of claim they can push Hoops all the way
DUNDEE UNITED failed to put a credible challenge to Kilmarnock, let alone being up to beat Celtic.
Borja Perez (centre) is mobbed by team-mates after scoring their second goal from the penalty spot
THEY swaggered into Rugby Park on Saturday feeling for all the world like title contenders.
If they had any sense of decency or shame they would have left by the back door. Shuffling out with blankets over their heads.
Dundee United’s players may well bounce back quickly from this horrendous and embarrassing capitulation but the black mark it leaves against their names will take a long while to disappear. When they wanted to be taken seriously they ended up being laughed out of town.
In fact, the very fact they crashed so spectacularly merely underlines why neither they, not anyone else for that matter, can be considered capable of making a genuine fist of challenging Celtic for the big one this season.
Painfully, this was the day Peter Houston’s players were exposed as frauds. It didn’t take long did it?
But even though the manager always knew his group was neither strong nor experienced enough to go the distance at the top, even Houston will be horrified at the way they disintegrated on what, for 45 mind-numbing minutes, had been shaping up as a wholly unremarkable afternoon.
United had been given the big billing all week but Houston’s star turns failed to turn up. Not even the wonderfully gifted Johnny Russell, who was cleared to play after the club stumped up a grand to have his derby-day red card overturned. Stephen Thompson might as well have kept his hand in his pocket because Russell was one of a host of United players who looked as if he would rather be anywhere else.
They had travelled all this way just to go through the motions but the lack of dynamism and spark about their play was, it must be said, almost what their paltry support deserved.
Yes, there was something despairing about the fact Houston’s league leaders could hardly muster a couple of coachloads to follow them down the road from Tayside.
And the apathy was catching because not one of Houston’s most exciting performers looked remotely bothered about putting on a show for those who did. They appeared to believe they could defeat Kilmarnock without having to try and for 45 minutes they probably had a point because the home side were pretty awful too.
Granted, Kilmarnock were not helped by a sickening early injury to the usually excellent Gary Harkins, who had to be carefully carried off just 12 minutes in after being knocked out cold by Gavin Gunning.
But even despite this loss – and allowing for the eccentricities of a manager who likes to stick two fingers up at convention – Kilmarnock lacked any kind of structure or cutting edge throughout this turgid test of patience. Little Rory McKenzie was left to lead the attack on his own with occasional back-up from Borja Perez and Harkins’ replacement Jude Winchester. By half-time there was no sign at all that this trio were about to click into match-winning action.
Then again no one could have known what was about to come, least of all Houston. If he wasn’t so personally involved in it all he may even have seen the funny side because the way United handed this contest over to their hosts was comical. In fact, it was hysterical.
They had only just escaped from the dressing room when they took it in turns to self-harm. It began bewilderingly when young left-back Barry Douglas suffered a brain melt inside his own penalty area, running with the ball right across the face of his own six-yard box.
To add to the farce of it all, keeper Radoslaw Cierzniak gawped on with an ever slackening jaw as Douglas came closer and closer until the pair of them froze together, each waiting for the other to do something.
And as they malfunctioned little McKenzie nipped in to nudge the ball home from a couple of yards out. It was a cringeworthy concession but the Kilmarnock youngster felt no shame as he raced away to celebrate his first senior goal while stifling his laughter.
But before the sniggering had died down United’s suicide squad struck for a second time, when the ever so disappointing Gary Mackay-Steven capped his own lacklustre display by sliding into a clumsy tackle on Danny Racchi and sending the Englishman sprawling inside the box. It was such a stonewall penalty not even ref Crawford Allan, who was missing a great deal of what was going on, could fail to spot it. New boy Perez stroked home from 12 yards to reduce United to a blundering, quivering shambles.
Jon Daly (left) gets a consolation goal for Dundee Utd
At the back Gunning, Douglas and even the usually reliable Sean Dillon were now taking it in turns to traumatise their team-mates and keeper Cierzniak in particular.
Between them they lost an excruciating sloppy third goal from a Racchi corner when Irish youngster Winchester pounced to slam home at Cierzniak’s back post and complete a devastating 10-minute collapse.
And it could have got worse. There was one moment, 72 minutes in, that summed up United’s dysfunctional United display. First Douglas clumsily gave up possession to McKenzie around the halfway line. Dillon moved across to clear up only for his legs to give way and allow McKenzie to charge forward unchallenged.
Then when he hit the 18-yard line Gunning generously waved him through and invited him to take a crack at goal. Cierzniak made the save but United were beyond help now. Well, almost.
With 12 minutes to go Kilmarnock defender Michael Nelson appeared to take pity when he got down on both knees to allow a cross from Douglas to swing into the danger area.
Jon Daly controlled it and slotted home but this was not even a consolation for Houston who was still simmering as he made his way on to the team bus.
He knows his United are much better than this. But they’re not half as good as they think are.
Jude Winchester celebrates after giving Kilmarnock a 3-0 lead