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Calmness will prevent Big Dan Moments

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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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  2. Mr X loves having a "fly kick" on

    I hope Forres resist the temptation to try and move their tie against Sevco to a bigger ground.

     

    Those Sevco boys don’t like it up ’em.

  3. praecepta on

    Forres Mechanics were formed by ex-pats from Govan.

     

     

    Could mean a reunion for long lost sons (seeking fathers – whereabouts unknown).

     

     

    NotalotofpeopleknowthatCFC!

  5. wonkyradar on

    Forres: population 8,967 (Census 2001)

     

     

     

    For a small place it sure does have a lot of mechanics…do you have to be a mechanic to play for them? A Barrow Boy to play for Barrow? Drive a vauxhall car if you play for Blue Square premier club Vauxhall Motors? Bishop Stotford- are they a team full of Bishops?

     

     

    There is a team down in England that only has people with dyslexia in its team: Dyslexia Untied? Crystal Pallus? Deportivo Lack a Talent? Breast Homage Albion? Bayern Bru? Bayer Neverlosin…my favourite is Hajduk Spliff v Grass Smokers Zurich…

  7. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    sffs,

     

    keep pressing\releasing that f8 key during startup and it should give a restore option, use the arrow keys to get to the reastore option and press enter to select, it should then give the option to restore to last good start.

  9. Kojo on

    Barton ..like Black.. and Webster.. is

     

     

    Tailor Made.. Sevco Material.

     

     

    Widnae be suprised if ..Mr. Green.. sends him an Invitation tae join his

     

    Winter Offensive, in the Hinterland.

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Still Laughin’

  10. Snake Plissken on

    When Barton screws the nut he is a fine player but the trouble is the nut does a 360 and then some with that one.

  11. KJam on

    Would hate to see Barton at Celtic, I am confident it will never happen.

     

     

    Even if you take the moral argument out of it, for all his football talent, QPR join Man City and Newcastle who have jettisoned him out their clubs. Says it all really.

  13. jimmybhoycampbell on

    relax relax…….

     

     

     

    from the Guardian

     

    Joey Barton has claimed that he is close to completing a move to Marseille within the next few days after lifting the lid on a turbulent last few months at Queens Park Rangers.

     

     

    The 29-year-old, who is serving a 12-match ban after his dismissal in the final match of last season against Manchester City, on Sunday night reeled off a series of tweets on Sunday evening that included criticism of QPR’s management, an admission that he offered to resign from his contract, and praise, written in French, for the Marseille midfielder Stéphane Mbia.

     

     

    “Hopefully, QPR and Marseille can finalise the deal in the next few days. My heart is already in the Vélodrome,” Barton tweeted. “I only want to play in Marseille. This is the place for me. I hope to move on with my career, with my life. If that is in France, so be it. I don’t want to be disrespectful to QPR but enough is enough.”

     

     

    Barton said: “I enjoyed parts of last season and believe I am more than capable of playing this year. But the manager [Mark Hughes] doesn’t. I have no problem with this as it’s my fault I am banned for 12 games.

     

     

    “I respect Hughes for this. I don’t agree but accept his decision. Hopefully, the QPR fans will accept that.

     

     

    I offered to resign from the club/contract when I got my ban. I chose not to [appeal] out of respect. But when I returned … I am stripped of the captaincy. Then, made to train at 3pm. I am hawked around on loan.

     

     

    “Then, I have my shirt number taken without any notice. Then, I read I wouldn’t of been signed had the current regime been in place. I am a man. I can only take so much. I want to leave.”

  16. Len Brennan on

    Barton to us sounds like MSM trying to wind us up.

     

     

    Talkspurt had a french journo on earlier stating that he is going to Marseille (I think) as no-one in UK will touch him.

     

     

    HH

     

    /Bishop B

  18. TheBarcaMole on

    Joey Barton’s tweet…….

     

     

    ‘ I wouldn’t of been ‘…………

     

     

    Hate that; really annoys me……..

     

     

    TBM

  21. Chairbhoy on

    Sandman always good to think out of the box

     

     

    But

     

     

    Think I would rather have Sir David Murray as our new Chairman and Ally McCoist as our new manager before Joey Barton as our Mid-field enforcer.

  22. Andrew67 on

    Joey Barton .

     

     

    Isn’t that good a player.

     

    He had never ever bossed one game that I have seen him play in.

     

    He rarely scores.

     

    Infact he is pish.

     

    A67

  23. voguepunter on

    bournesouprecipe

     

    15:56 on

     

    27 August, 2012

     

    Send for The Battered Bunnet

     

    —————————————

     

    That ghuy is too talented for his own good.

  25. wonkyradar on

    If Sevco get through their tie with Forrest Mechanics then they could face a glamour tie with…Ayton Acupuncturists…Boghead Undertakers…Morningside Perambulators…Tobermory Buckle Tongue Makers…Ecclefechan Caddy Butchers…Upper Largo Muffin Men…Cockenzie Chimney Sweeps…Kelvinside Perfumers…Buckie Back Washers…oh the glamour of it all! How refreshing it must be to be beginning from the grassroots again! Can we swap with them…can we?

  27. Sandman on

    Well, predictable reaction to my Barton preference.

     

     

    I’m no great champion of the guy’s dubious actions outwith the game. However…

     

     

    I think he’s partly a victim of the media hype that has seen Lenny so despised among those unable to think for themselves.

     

     

    And on the park…

     

     

    He’s no worse a ‘nutter’ than any of history’s football hardmen – he just happens to exist in a time where cameras catch all and football has become almost a non-contact sport.

     

     

    BUT, he actually DOES posses footballing quality – has held his own among a higher standard of play than the SPL – and I believe he would be great for team morale and strength given his personal experiences of vilification, his need to screw the nut once and for all, and having characters like Broony about him to bounce off.

     

     

    Sadly, public image will determine the popularity of such a move (again, media-led) and we probably won’t countenance it.

     

     

    However, I’ll stand alone reckoning he’d be great value on a free, and a known quantity Lenny could deploy immediately to effect in the big games.

  30. hen1rik on

    bournesouprecipe

     

     

    16:08 on

     

    27 August, 2012

     

    Luca Modric unveiled at Madrid

     

     

    LoL

  31. greenjedi on

    Sandman

     

     

    HTF are the media to blame for Barton kicking the rafael out of a guy in the street and sticking a lit cigar in the eye of a team mate???

     

     

    He is imo a total scumbag!

  36. The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie on

    My Dear Kojo….

     

     

    Dinnae want tae hiv ye blushin’….

     

     

    But it was You and the Legendary Beanie Hat,who were PRIMARILY responsible for Dear Brother Walfrid’s Legacy securing the services of Oor New CannonBall Kid….

     

     

    Ah remember the circumstances with great clarity…

     

     

    Yer Number 2, John Park,wiz away off in Mexico..swimmin’ wi’ the dolphins….organising this link-up wi’ that Laguna Mob…so they can pan-off their pantywaisters…like Juarez and the Next Scheidt….tae the Unsuspectin’..

     

     

    So it is left tae My Maist Perspcacious Palomine..tae take care o’ business…

     

     

    Had tae Stand Up a Lunch Date wi’ Angeline Jolie…tae catch the game oan Celtic TV….

     

     

    But yer well oot o’ that yin anyway….too many tattooos..

     

    An’ all they adopted kids hingin’ about…

     

     

    So you spied Young Watt of the ‘Brig…playin’ as a trialist fer the Development Squad…agin’ the Liverpool….

     

     

    And didn’t he terrorize them….wi’ his powering runs…determination…and shoot on sight attitude….?

     

     

    No flies oan this young tyro…….Outstandin’ 4-3 Victory..

     

     

     

    And when the Definitive History of of this Last Decade is wriiten…it will reveal that Kojo spent the night oan the Hotline Tae PL….warnin’ him tae get the boy signed up pronto..or the Shawlands HeidHunters wid put a Contract oot oan him…

     

     

    Right? Right….!

     

     

    Sir Kojo of CQN…….

     

     

    Even oan his bad days……Worth Five-Thoosand of they Ursine Liberation Front Jessies

     

    (wi’ their Ena Sharples Hairnets)….

     

     

    [Mair Like Ten Thoosand…? Ed ]

     

     

    Kojo….Oor Livin’ Legend fae Las Vegas….

     

     

    An’ that’s the Gospel…..

  38. Mort on

    Re: Joey Barton

     

     

    I seem to remember Craig Bellamy being a particularly problematic footballer in his earlier career especially at Newcastle when he is alleged to have thrown a chair at a team-mate, alleged to have got into fights with Souness and allegedly refused to play in a particular position.

     

     

    He wasn’t really wanted by many teams before he came to us on loan and since then has gone onto greater things.

     

     

    Mort

  40. TONYG on

    On the Barton issue. Who’s reputation was enhanced when Diouf started his crap up here a football clubs reputation is everything. Barton would only bring the circus with him as did Diouf,please leave well alone Celtic you have everything to loose and nothing to gain.

  41. Jungle Jim on

    I am not overly familiar with Joey Barton`s record of misdemeanours. What, over and above whatever is considered acceptable bad behaviour, has he indulged in? Is he in the same bracket as Djiouf or is he more of an Ian Black?

     

    Incidentally, I rate him as a footballer on the few occasions ( a while ago now) I have seen him play.

     

     

    JJ

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