Celtic didn’t need to get out of second gear to overcome Dunfermline yesterday, making it one of the most comfortable performances of the season. After the festive season games against Rangers in the previous two seasons we played the team bottom of the league, Falkirk and Hamilton, both of whom were subsequently relegated, but we dropped points on each occasion. Teams fighting for SPL survival are filled with players fighting for money to pay their mortgages, no result can be assured.
Dunfermline are everyone’s hot tip for relegation but they are still missing several players and having watched Hibs capitulation against Hearts yesterday I reckon nothing is clear cut yet. Hibs are in trouble.
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Absolutely stephbhoy….
Get our business done early … Then spend the rest of it to offload our dead wood!!!
This could be a great window
ThomtheThim……SPOT ON…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn’t. matter how many CH. we have,if the ones are not. Up to standard ,sign one who is.
I cannot understand the thinking that we have enough players,I want to win this league,keep signing till we have the right quality.Slan
The most important signing would be a 30 goal a season striker.
Neither Hoops or Stokesy are prolific enough and alarm bells appear to be ringing about Bangura, although he’s not had any kind of run in the first team.
It’s been pointed out on here before, our so-called dodgy defenders are not the problem. It’s our lack of firepower up front.
How many of the victories in the recent 9 game run were won by a single goal, when we should have battered the opposition? In fact, some of the games should have been over by haf-time!
TTTT
Bhoys/ Ghirls: * Special request for a friend – Does anyone know where i could pick up a copy of the Blarney Pilgrims live at mcNees CD?? He has tried A1 music etc HH
fandapatriot. Lustig hasnt kicked a ball for us yet,Victor looked good at centre back Dan was playing well until he got injured Rogne looks good as does Mulgrew K.wilson I need to see more of and loovens I would agree not quite good enough.However,to say our current Centre backs are not up to standard is wrong imo.H.H.
The King Vic 67…
Dunno if this helps but seemingly you can download it at
http://mp3skull.com/mp3/blarney_pilgrims.html
HH
tommytwistsandturns. A good post fella you have hit the nail on the head.H.H.
thebhoywithmcgraininhisside
appreciated, you have made this Bhoys day!!
No problemo…
HH
Joe Filippis Haircut
Lenny says he wants a new CH,so he does’nt think they are good enough.I will agree that I hope.we get a top class striker.In Lenny I trust.Slan
Tricoloured Ribbon says:
3 January, 2012 at 16:42
TT,
Know the area well and still have a lot of friends down there and in Dumbarton.
My da, god rest him,played a lot of juvenile football down there with Tontine Hibs and Renton Guild in the forties.
*my da’ played for the Guild tae in the 40’s, my uncle, his future brother-in-law, ran them along with my future wife’s uncle. And we talk about the royals being inbred :-)))
RogueLeader says:
3 January, 2012 at 12:32
Post of the year so far, and it’ll do a bit to surpass it, even this early.
Catching up and seen the link to the huns new year tribute to ma’am. What a bunch of rockets. You couldn’t make that up. jardine looks like a 16 year old watchin his drunk parent dance in public.
It’s like a sketch from only an excuse – only it’s for real !
*THE KING VIC 67* says:
3 January, 2012 at 17:31
Bhoys/ Ghirls: * Special request for a friend – Does anyone know where i could pick up a copy of the Blarney Pilgrims live at mcNees CD?? He has tried A1 music etc HH
There are a few live recordings on you tube, do not know if
you can gleam some info from there.
great nights down at the toll.
So, we should just keep buying until we get quality. Personally, I think that’s for the burds. There is IMO only 1 position that we need to fill (and I know it will be very difficult to fill): a centre forward who can cope with the rough and tumble of SPL defenders. If he can and can stick the ball away regularly, I think he would have the same effect on our team as Joe McBride had on what became the Lisbon Lions. We all knew that season that when Joe went on the park he would score (and often a barrel load). The rest of the team’s confidence grew in leaps and bounds. We were very very fortunate that when he got that awful injury that there was his ready made replacement just signed: Willie Wallace.
Team confidence is the key. A bit more experience would be a wee bonus. The quality is already there in our team.
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.
Paddysmarket says:
3 January, 2012 at 17:53
Thank you, ill check it out
HH
Our team is already packed with quality players young though they may be, I would like to see us sign a striker as we are very short of cover should Hoops or Anto get an injury which is very likely in cluggerland!!
Sp in the hunfree valley
Joe F- agree a CB is not a priority.A striker is,Hooper again IMO poor yesterday.Poor work rate,touch and link up play.Sell Loovens Rasmussen and O’Dea,might pay for Forster too.hh
Tontine Tim says:
3 January, 2012 at 17:49
Happy New Year cousin, hope it is a good one for you and your family.
BadaBing Fella I like your thinking its a decent striker for me as well.H.H.
ernie lynch says:
3 January, 2012 at 16:21
Buddy Morrisey says:
3 January, 2012 at 16:18
‘Ernie
No comparison!
A young man was murdered by racist thugs – the other is a football club.’
If you bothered to read the article in the link you might understand the point I was making.
There is no comparison to be made and, with this day providing a small degree of closure after the 18 years of unimaginable suffering for the Lawrence family, to try and make one is offensive (regardless of which angle of this story you chose to link to). In my opinion.
Now this what you call SPIN, from The Evening Times
LOL…..!!!!……’Heads in the sand’ stuff……and they wonder why we resist…!!!???
A COMFORTABLE win over Motherwell was of huge importance to Rangers after back-to-back SPL defeats to St Mirren and Celtic.
But the 3-0 victory at Ibrox was of great significance for another reason – it showed the Gers can cope without Nikica Jelavic.
Jelavic, the Croatian hitman who is the SPL’s top scorer this season with 12 goals to his name, was left out of the squad altogether yesterday.
Ally McCoist revealed he was injured after the game against the team managed by his old Rangers and Scotland team-mate Stuart McCall.
But, inevitably, the absence of the champions’ most saleable asset on the first day of the January transfer window led to fevered speculation.
David Healy did really well – not just his goal either, his all-round play
Was the striker in England finalising a big money move? Has the £4million signing played his last game in this country? Had he handed in a transfer request?
This being Glasgow, where the most outrageous football rumours are quickly passed on as hard fact, the simple truth is he has a groin injury.
Jelavic was actually a serious doubt for the Old Firm game against Celtic at Parkhead last week and only played after passing a late fitness test.
Yet, it appears almost inevitable the hitman’s employers, with worrying off-field financial issues hanging over them, will cash in on him at some stage this month. They have already received a written offer from English Premier League strugglers West Brom for their prolific star and more bids are almost certain to follow.
This highly professional display against one of the form teams in Scotland this season, though, suggested they can survive – thrive even – without him.
The loss of Jelavic was exacerbated early on when Kyle Lafferty was stretchered off with a hamstring injury which is likely to sideline him for up to a month. But the makeshift frontline of John Fleck and David Healy – as unlikely a strikeforce as Rangers have fielded in some years – performed superbly.
Healy scored the first goal in the first half after some fine work by Maurice Edu and set up the second goal for Sone Aluko in the second half. At the age of 32, something of a senior citizen for a front man, the legendary Northern Ireland international is not exactly one for the future.
However, he possesses experience and intelligence, qualities which have been distinctly lacking in Rangers’ play in recent weeks, and is clearly still not short of ability. The fact he came through the full 90 minutes, despite a distinct lack of first-team action in the campaign, also suggested his fitness levels remain high.
“Losing Lafferty was a big, big blow to us,” admitted McCoist. “But we made a change and, I have to say, I thought the change worked. David Healy did really well – not just his goal either, his all-round forward play.
“One criticism I have had of our front play in recent weeks is that the ball hasn’t been sticking enough for us. We haven’t been able to hold the ball up and bring people into play. But I thought David did that extremely well.”
Meanwhile, Fleck, at long last, showed why so much was predicted of him when he first forced his way into the Rangers first team as a baby-faced 16-year-old. Playing in a deep role behind Healy, his passing was pinpoint, his vision excellent and his willingness to burst forward and attack impressive.
Perhaps unfairly, given that he is still just a callow youth of 20, many feel the skilful forward has failed to realise his potential at Rangers. The predicament his club finds itself in – without the crocked trio of Jelavic, Lafferty and Steven Naismith – presents him with the perfect opportunity to stake a claim for regular inclusion and prove his doubters wrong.
McCoist confirmed a club – believed to be Sheffield United – had enquired about taking Fleck on loan. However, he remarked: “John played particularly well for us. I would have to say it is doubtful he is going anywhere. That will be put on the back burner.”
Aluko continues to stick two fingers up at those who sniggered when he signed for Rangers. The winger looked a threat whenever he got on the ball yesterday and buried his first goal for his new club beautifully.
Lee Wallace, too, is more than justifying the £1.5m Gers paid Hearts for him in the summer just now. Playing in left midfield, he was the deserved recipient of the man of the match award after a strong showing. Wallace was unlucky not to get his name on the scoresheet. His powerful goal-bound shot was turned into the Motherwell net by visiting captain Stephen Craigan towards the end of proceedings.
With Thomas Bendiksen returning to his native Norway and Kane Hemmings joining Jelavic, Lafferty and Naismith on the treatment table, the need to bring in bodies, whether it be on short-term loan deals or permanent contracts, is great.
Nacho Novo returning is a possibility. And there are other targets. But McCoist could do worse than persevere with Healy, whose first-team opportunities have been limited to say the least since he joined his boyhood heroes this time last year, in the weeks and months ahead.
Has James Grady ever had a contentious opinion..ever.
How the hell he gets that gig is beyond me
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!! Tick Tock !! says:
3 January, 2012 at 18:06
The words fawning and balderdash come to mind for some unknown reason!!
What where they drinking from the poisoned chalice today.
Was it goat’s blood or goat’s milk?
gsu
Ulster television sports headlines,’he’s back’David Healy finds his scoring boots.
Now they have managed to show him scoring twice and thats just to let us know its coming up
Sir Francis Joseph, born in Liverpool, married into the mining industry
http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/324.htm
more on the Loving Cup…
from KDS via BBC…
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/496735/1/
and from fishal RFC site…
CHAIRMAN Craig Whyte and the Directors of Rangers and Motherwell will take part in the traditional Loving Cup ceremony in the Blue Room ahead of today’s match.
Found within the Ibrox Trophy Room, the Cup is one of only thirty cast from a unique mould to commemorate the coronation in May 1937 of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The story of how it came into Rangers’ possession is part of the club’s folklore.
Identical Loving Cups were presented to the 22 English First Division clubs of the time, with the others going to the British Museum and various organisations.
Back then, as now, Rangers were recognised as one of the world’s great clubs and so it was that they were asked to participate in a special match to raise funds for the dependents of the miners who lost their lives in the Holditch Colliery Disaster in the Stoke area.
Manager Bill Struth accepted the invitation immediately and Stoke City President, Sir Francis Joseph, gifted Rangers his own club’s Loving Cup after the match, which finished goalless.
His one request was that the vessel should be used in perpetuity to drink to the health of the reigning monarch prior to the club’s first home match of every year.
So it is to this day, the News Year toast is celebrated in the Blue Room by the assembled directors and guests of Rangers and their first visiting opponents.
Bendiksen gone to Tromso
:)
Greensideup: 18:14
Irony Bru.
Starry Plough……..LOL….much stronger words came to my mind, but, fortunately, we both do not have FF / LL mentality….!!!
They’re trying to ‘talk up’ Healy, on snyde……..absolutely hilarious….!!!!…..they really are a shower of fuds…!!!!
and oh aye…
lets boycott STV
Top Corner…..that’s the reality……amidst all the spin, they will sell anyone / anything they can get £1+ for…..LOL….!!!!
Top Corner….I’ve already started to do just that….
mon the Victor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kenya
If we want to guarantee the league this year spend £4m on jordan Rhodes or Diawarra…… Simples.
67Heaven
yeh me too
since it was announced !
and i see no links from here to their site since then too
sad but gotta be done
neither RT any of their stuff