Celtic have lost in the game immediately after three of their previous four European games, shipping nine points which could be crucial in determining the destination of the championship, so it was not surprising they were below par for much of the game yesterday. Fortunately, the Aberdeen goal came early enough to allow Celtic time to raise their game and respond.
How Celtic respond after European games will become even more crucial in the weeks ahead as they have visits to Motherwell, Dundee United and St Johnstone due after our next three Europa League games. Any slim championship aspirations will be extinguished in these games if Celtic are unable to improve performance for the league challenge.
Ally McCoist is defying early predictions and grinding out impressive results for Rangers, who will seldom have started the league with such an impressive defensive record. Six away wins from six games without conceding a goal is the kind of form it takes to win leagues.
Our more immediate challengers, Motherwell, dropped two points on Saturday, meaning we can go two points clear of them if we win our game in hand, however, the teams meet at Fir Park a week on Sunday (three days after Celtic play Rennes), in what looks like being a key game in our season.
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Typical. Sun splitting the trees in Hunterston & Bute. Black as pitch here.
Sandman Is Neil Lennon says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:25
Beautiful post. That bottle of champers has been taking up a lot of space in the vegetable drawer of my fridge. Could do with the extra space this Friday!
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If Der Orc go Belly Up.. Will Celtic offer to Play then in a Glamour Friendly on the 28th of Dec..?
Hope so I’m Going up to Sydney to Watch it..
Summa ft TheFriendlyHunsCSC
Not being a particularly computer minded type, this is a suggestion for the more technically advanced than I. Would it make sense to perhaps get the domain name for the recently created newco? Could lead to some merry japes down the road?
FT
Wouldn’t it be a laugh if it isn’t CW or one of his minions who is registering these like-sounding names at Companies House …
FF
BlantyreK
it would be normal to register a new compay where the bulk of your business domain so not unusual in itself.
However, there are 2 issues that I am concerned about. Normally the name cannot mislead to where you are based. Very strict if it is a country ie.e they could not have called themselves Scotland Rangers. However, Glasgow misleads as to their legal entity.
Secondly, you cannot name a company that would let suppliers etc believe that they are dealing with the same company. The names would seem very close.
No doubt time will tell.
Sandman,
Stewpot?? Shurely you mean the one and only ole Eamon Andrews.
RTC blog stating they have got a hold of rangers cash flow figures and they will be insolvent within weeks.
Mon The Hoops!
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Bang Bang to see a Specialist tomorrow..Could be Out for 2-3 Months..
Summa
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Pmacgiollabhain Phil MacGiollaBhain
I’ve just been told by a usually excellent RFC source to be mindful of the next payment for Jelavich. Is this due soon?
19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply..
Summa
Still getting 9/5 on bet365 for us to win the league, should pay for my holiday next year
New co registered at virtual /serviced offices…
Chancery Court Business Centre
Lincoln Road
Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3RE
01494 473 535
chancerycourt.co.uk
Jack the Ripper had serial flatulence
Summa of Sammi…. says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:36
Bangura out for 2-3 months? From what I’ve seen of him so far, I wouldn’t be upset if he was out for 2-3 years.
Summa of sammi.is he not under warranty? :) can we not send him back and get a new one!..or is Big Dan kicking lumps out of everyone at training?
Sandman Is Neil Lennon says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:25
Excellent post, i have some darkside folk who will be visited over the weekend who have laughed at my “its a big wheel that doesn’t turn a full circle” in relation to their finances, i can hear that wheel grinding to a slow halt after turning 99% of its journey.
………………….When, apparently, Johnny could find no room at the inn, any inn, hotel room, pub, anywhere to lay his weary head, he followed the lead of many of his compatriots and made a makeshift bed near the fountain of Sevilles main square. He kicked off his shoes without undoing the laces and placed them next to the step he intended using as a pillow. He drifted off and dreamed of Lenny holding the Uefa cup up to the stars while all around was bedlam. it was unfortunately only to be a dream. When Johnny awoke some hours later, he found that his shoes were missing. After a fruitless search in his stockinged soles, Johnny quickly came to the conclusion that “some bassa had half inched them” Seeing his obvious distress, two kindly Sevillian police bobbys took pity. In broken English they told him that they would take him to a nearby shoe shop to enable him to buy new shoes. With money at a premium, he needed it for more booze, Johnny had already made his mind up that he would buy the cheapest pair possible to get him by. As he waved smiling to his friends out the back window of the black (it was actually green and white) maria, his friends laughed heartily at his predicament. True to their word the kindly coppers took him to a shoeshop and bade him farewell. Happy with their good deed, the bobbies sat back in their car and lit up a Horsh It cigarette each. Johnny meantime, after perusing the pricelist, (Cheapest shoes were BLUE crocs at 50 euros) decided that there must be better shops with cheaper shoes. Taking matters into his own hands, Johnny perambulated his person back to the parked police car and knocked on the window. Carlos, (for that was his name) the cop rolled down his window. “Qué?” he said. “Erm, awright big chap,” says Johnny, “Ah don’t really like any ay they shoes, take me somewhere else” he said. Cue a string of Spanish expletives from both cops as they brandished their handcuffs and batons as Johnny quickly took to hhis heels.
This is the gospel according to a friend of a friend of a friend. Ah thought it was funny
Gordon_J & BT,
Dr. Byrne’s Patented Elixir guaranteed to make you feel better – laugh at the huns twice daily & 3 times on a Sunday.
WTF is going on ?
Dominos pizza two for the price of one tonight Tuesday, – what happens id you’re not that hungry?
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TheExciledTim..
When Rangers went 12 Points clear in the Tommy Burns Thursday Season l bet Celtic @ 10/1 my Reasoning was we Had a Game in hand = 3pts and they had to Come to Us twice = 6pts thus we Could only be 3pts behind after these Games..Hey Ho it Happened..
Now We are 10pts behind with a Game in Hand = 3pts and Come to us = 3pts so after these Games we Could be 4pts behind with a Long way to go..
I Reckon 9/5 is a Guid bet..
Summa ft AffThePuntNowCSC
Liquidation and re-incarnation
The club finally went out of business officially on 1 May 2002 due to its overwhelming debts. The final match played by Airdrieonians Football Club was an away game against Ayr United at Somerset Park. With an unfavorable score of 1–0 to the hosts, the match was abandoned by the referee after a crossbar was broken during a protest pitch invasion, and was never replayed.
After the club went out of business, local accountant Jim Ballantyne attempted to gain entry to the SFL with a team by the name of Airdrie United Football Club, effectively a direct replacement of Airdrieonians (similar to the way that Yokohama Flügels re-established themselves as Yokohama F.C. following their own collapse and takeover by crosstown rivals Yokohama Marinos, a revamped new identity for a club at the same stadium). Airdrie United’s initial bid for league status was rejected in favour of the application by Gretna, who were then playing in the English Northern Premier League.
In desperation Ballantyne opted to buy control of Clydebank, another Scottish football club experiencing extreme financial hardship and, with SFL approval, the club’s name was changed to Airdrie United, the team relocated to Airdrie and the strip was altered to the famous diamond style of Airdrieonians. Airdrie United are predominantly viewed as a continuation of Airdrieonians, with the majority of the same supporters attending Airdrie United matches and the new club
Ole Bang Bang Chicken [before his injury] was re-defining the role of centre forward.
I don’t think I’ve seen him have a shot/header/bicycle kick in the general direction of the opposition goal.
He makes hoopslegend Chris Killen look like Eusebio.
Anyways, I love days like this.
On the ole CQN we’ve got them done and dusted and us playin’ in the ole National European Soccer League as the Glasgow Rebels.
I had much more modest ambitions at the start of the season eg not readin’ about our league challenge needin’ resuscitation before the clocks go back.
Don’t understand all this, a min ago it was rangers machinery ltd, it keeps changing, how many are they registering ?
ghents
those who represented L&M solicitors and Bain firmly believe that the huns will be insolvent shortly …
party time at the weekend ……..
philvisreturns says:
25 October, 2011 at 12:59
well said
….PFayr says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:50
ghents
those who represented L&M solicitors and Bain firmly believe that the huns will be insolvent shortly …
party time at the weekend ……..
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yaldy :)
SoS
9/5 is as good as it gets, it won’t be around for long, once the bookies get a whif of the goings on we will be well odds on.
DBBIA
bang bang did a wonderfully cusion header straight at the Hearts GK…admittedly it was more of a defensive manoeuvre …does that count …not much anger in it either
signing modern strikers from the Swedish league is rubbish :¬))
Ole DBBIA’s modest ambitions
BSR
Wed breakfast?
bournesouprecipe says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:47
Dominos pizza two for the price of one tonight Tuesday, – what happens id you’re not that hungry?
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Forego your usual trolley full from Greggs and you will be fine.
PF
That cushioned header was caused by his rotten hairdo.
I can’t say I am too upset about Bangura being out. Am I the first to refer to him as *hitty *hitty Bang Bang?
I bet some of you thought I was on a train.
Gordon_J,if you’re reading, get well soon.
Looks like its Dan + Thomas Rogne as the CHs for Wednesday
Celtic striker Mohamed Bangura faces three months on the sidelines, if it is ruled he requires knee surgery.
The Sierra Leone international, a summer signing from AIK, missed his side’s weekend win over Aberdeen and will visit a specialist on Wednesday.
If it is determined he needs an operation, the 22-year-old could be sidelined into the New Year, further delaying his wait for his first Celtic goal.
Signed towards the end of the summer transfer window, Bangura has made two starts and has featured as a substitute on seven occasions, but is yet to find the net for his new club.
Celtic will also be without Charlie Mulgrew and Glenn Loovens for Wednesday night’s trip to face Hibernian in the Scottish Communities League Cup. A sprained ankle will rule Mulgrew out of the action, while Loovens is struggling with a hamstring injury.
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Rangers set up Two LTD Companies..
What does LTD Mean.. Large Tax Dodgers..
Summa
Seven Fishes Four Steaks says:
25 October, 2011 at 12:03
Auld Neil Lennon Heid or anyone else
If rangers do come back as a Newco are they allowed to play in Europe?
I seem to recall an incident a few years ago in the North of Ireland when Coleraine went out of business but came back under a slightly different name. They then qualified fir Europe the following season but UEFA didn’t allow them to play as they needed to be going for at least 4 years before they could play in Europe.
Does this ring any bells?
SFFS
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Coleraine went tits up in 2005 and entered administration the same year. They came out of it in 2006 after they settled an outstanding tax bill debt of £364,000 and other debts amounting to over £1million.
They changed their name to Calver Holdings, but are still called Coleraine FC in the IPL. They won the Irish Cup in 2005, but i’m not 100% sure if they were indeed banned the next year. Will have to check that one out.
On a serious note I hope that the Celtic Trust and the Association release public statements that the Celtic support no longer recognises the history/achievements (ahem) of original hun ad being associated with the new hun.
I think we have a duty to make it known.