A comfortable win in the end masked a difficult hour for Celtic at Inverness on Saturday. It was not until Ki Sung-Yeung replaced Georgios Samaras that Celtic were able to prize open the home team. Ki has the range of passing and shot that makes him a formidable attacking threat but he has still to require the consistency of concentration that would make him a certain starter.
After Paddy McCourt appeared on 69 minutes Celtic were well on top. The Irishman brings the double gifts of time and space to the team. He has the ability to take and retain possession despite the close attention of several defenders, allowing others to take up advance positions or relieve pressure on defence.
We’ve tried more midfield formations this season that I can keep track of and despite Ki and McCourt improving Celtic considerably on Saturday I’m not going to insist either is given a starting berth. Both still have more to give, as do the rest of the midfield.
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James Forrest
Every war that has taken place to this day has been preventable, every single one.
Gone are the days when the leaders of the respective powers have led the nation into battle, long gone.
War can be fought on a computer these days, seriously scary stuff btw.
You mention Pakistan, they have weapons well capable of taking out Israel as do India, these countries should not be discounted, Pakistan for their religious beliefs [they are as rabid as they come ] and India for it’s need for oil and trade.
There is a massive wide screen picture at play here, there are a few major players, and if said players get together and decide that the fundamentalist’s need to be dealt with they will go for it, I have no doubts about that.
They will take the gamble that total domination and control of all the wealth is worth the risk.
And then the real fighting will start…..never ending so it is.
Why can’t we all love each other and enjoy our lifes as a human being and taste the joys it brings.
praecepta says:
21 November, 2011 at 23:14
RTC blog has posted an interesting link to the £1260 case.
……….
Interesting Company name as well, it’s a bleeding timmy conspiracy! If I was a Follow follow’er I’d be jumping oot the windae by now…. lol
V
worked in middle east
in 2009, i spoke to an Iranian over there
he says
who is USA to tell Iran that we canny have a nuclear programme ? its for us to decide whether we want it or not !
same with as to WHO is our leader –
for us to decide, not USA
and from the guardian at the time…
“The remarks (from Iranian govt) reflected the degree to which the Tehran regime has made the nuclear programme a matter of pride and national identity. It insists that the programme, the existence of which was revealed in 2002, is for generating electricity and medical research and is entirely within Iran’s sovereign rights.”
TET,
that made me laugh out loud, but afraid it will be cruicfied and rightly so.
Yea cannae generalise like that anymore ffs, pay attention.
If Rangers are allowed to re-enter the SPL, with Celtics agreement or not, I will seriously re-consider my position with regards purchasing a season book again.
To allow a bundle of cheating scumbags direct re-entry would be games-a-bogey for me.
I’ve no doubt that is exactly what will happen. No doubt what so ever!
If Celtic do not back their re-entry and it happens then the only thing that will keep me coming to Celtic Park will be our clubs notice of resignation being handed in. That’s it!!! Any other mealy mouthed nonsense will not placate me. If all we get is rhetoric from Celtic then I believe collusion will have been the name of the game and I’m not prepared to finance, however small my contribution is, any part of the Old Firm.
Im hearing the club is against them coming back in but that that position is fluid as DD has yet to decide. Might be nonsense but… well time will tell.
If in my opinion it’s games-a-bogey then I won’t be back.
MWD
Made me laugh too, just thought I would throw in a green herring….
TET that cave yir in, can it be converted to a bunker?
I’m following you’re posts and I just hope there isn’t any Ronald regan types out there, cancel that I’m sure there are. The yanks thirst for oil seems never ending, this has been on the cards since the invasion of Iraq and 9/11.
Have we found any WMD yet in Iraq? Erm …. Next question!
V
Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon says:
21 November, 2011 at 23:28
Methinks quite a few creditors that need paying (pre-Christmas) will be popping out the woodwork in the coming days.
Cashflow analysis with only 2 home games(?) before they meet Us will be interesting.
I hope our CEO has some form of secured payment in place for the circa 8000+ tickets @ £42 they will owe Us? :-)
American foreign policy for beginners
Wonder howmany creditors there are, howmany have have been owed from years ago, giving it a shot
V
I am going to a place called Albox [ familiar sounding name ] tomorrow, nasty place, full of brits who are so brit it makes you want to puke, and I can assure you there are many fat, obese, overweight anti Irish there, have to go cos the Beautifull One is wanting to go to the brit supermarket, I can’t win, I have tried and tried telling her that we came here to get away, but trying to tell that to someone who has forgotten more than I will ever know.
Anyways bed time.
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
Praecepta, in order to assist the Hun with they’re cash flow problem, CFC could sell the tickets direct to the rankers support…..We probably wouldn’t sell many but what a picture that would be….. They’re faces oh the joy!
V
Listening back to the Snyde phone in tonight. Dalzeil seems “passionate” about putting Scott Brown’s case forward. It appears that he has been in contact with representatives from our Captain’s camp. You’ve got to ask yourself what he has to gain from putting his pro Scott Brown views forward in such a robust way.
smellaratcfc…
HOT of the press – courtesy of the Daily Mail:
£80 MILLION SKY/ ESPN DEAL.
A guarantee of four Old Firm games per season is written into the new agreement
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2064512/Scottish-Premier-League-agree-new-80m-TV-deal.html#ixzz1eO5rq7C2
The Caveat:
‘One of the conditions of this deal — as with all major sponsorships — is that Celtic and Rangers remain in the league. It is also a condition that they play each other four times a season. That’s been with us for the entirety of the current deal and before that with Setanta.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2064512/Scottish-Premier-League-agree-new-80m-TV-deal.html#ixzz1eO5y6IOQ
mic1888 says:
22 November, 2011 at 00:00
A guarantee of four Old Firm games per season is written into the new agreement
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There will always be a Rankers. Even if it goes t.ts up for them and they convince St Mirren (On the market for £2m) to do a Clydebank/Airdrie United.
They’re no goin away….
See the soldiers were out in force again before the Tottenham/ Aston Villa game. They are definitely cranking up the ‘glamorise war’ campaign to get the next wave of disillusioned, demoralised youths signed up. The teams are still being picked but it won’t be long before the oil war gets into full swing.
Iran will be sanctioned anyway (like Iraq was) due to having the letters I, R & A in their name.(joke!)
Masters of War
WARISPEACEFREEDOMISSLAVERYIGNORANCEISSTRENGTHCSC
So business interests take precedence over the sporting integrity (not that there’s much here anyway)
Scottish football is a joke.
Think how smug the huns are gong to be now
But wait a minute, has HMRC ok’d this deal ??? the real question
Heard that a few panelists on Clyde have a exclusive about broony to be released on Friday?
If that is indeed the case and he is going then….
GOOD!
You never lived up to the billing son!
reilly
If we are complicit in the saving of the huns I wont be back
pauloantony says:
22 November, 2011 at 00:26
For what its worth I think he’s been sorely missed recently.
“The top 12 clubs have agreed — although not unanimously ”
Who were the dissenters and why?
i am open to suggestions.
It also states that We and Them will be in the league but that might just mean that the deal is off / amended if one of the two is out of SPL for whatever e.g. relegation, decamping to another league or, of course, extinction.
No doubt, commercial confidentiality will be used to fend off any close scrutiny.
reilly1926 says:
21 November, 2011 at 23:52
yep heard it too
Dalziel was bleatin on about how much of a £4m asset he is and to lose him would be such a blow
just so happened to be suppin wi AllynIain yesterday so the mince was truly flowin on the radio ce soir
glad Homebhoys kicked in at 730
iki,
no sure comercial confidentiallity can be used by organisations complicit i tax evasion.
good night good tims
hail hail
Dalzeil sounded like an over eager inexperienced salesman just off an induction course in his pitching of Brown tonight. Sounds as if he has been badly coached by certain people who may have monetary interests at heart.
Eric Reilly is on the board of directors of the SPL.
If he has signed off a contract that stipulates there will be four old firm games a season, what does that tell you?
Hey guys
lookin for a good tim called alan reid lives in the paisley/johnston area? any help appreciated
btw it was sweet goin into work today, the huns are worried, shit scared infact. Lets make it count
HH
The football “business” news yesterday from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The Rangers parent company (not the club formerly owbed by Sir David Murray but the company incorporated by Mr Whyte to buy Rangers) sued for £1,260 by the law firm which did the Scottish end of his due diligence in the take over. – http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/rangers-have-been-sued-but-this-time-it-is-the-parent-company/
At the same time, a new TV deal worth millions, on the basis that Celtic and Rangers are to play 4 times a season? As it looks hghly likley that there won’t be a “Rangers” or at least the same one, unless Mr Whyte procures a very large sum of money, then is this a contract done for headline effects to buoy up interest in the SPL?
Is it convenient that this story comes out just at the point when various SPL teams are tightening belts etc?
And finally, in the sublime to ridiculous mode, the Sun is reporting that Leicester are back in for Jelavic, and are willing to pay £7.5 million for him in January. Bearing in mind (a) that Rangers apparently turned down a £9 million bid in August and (b) that Mr Whyte has told Ally McCoist that players will not need to be sold and (c) that Sven Goran Erikkson is no longer manager at Filbert Street, how much credence does that story have?
Paul McC says:
22 November, 2011 at 00:44
yer up late the night, boss
It pains me knowing that for the £4.4m we spent on broon we could have got both steven fletcher and james McCarthy …
Broon has done NOTHING
Hey we have missed broon, like it or not we have really missed him.
fair play he has not been the player we expected but in the SPL he knows the score, support our captain
HH
ernie lynch says:
22 November, 2011 at 00:41
That is the salient point in all of this TV deal. Sign-off = collusion, IMO
I have defended the board many many times on here. If this is the case I will be totally disgusted.
I had a conversation re this with a fellow cqner and he stated he felt he couldn’t turn his back on Celtic, irrespective what the board do with this. My view is if there is any proof of collusion or support of the huns, I won’t be turning my back on Celtic but on the people within Celtic who support the huns. I would return when they left.
Interesting times ahead….better get the old gowf clubs ready for winter league playing as well as summer….(hope not!)
hh
bjmac
btw I work next door to Levy & Macrae and am always telling the wee birds in there that they’re doing a fine job :)
HH
Bjmac
any compliance wi them fae our board is sure to provoke more harm than good, its a big game of chess
HH
pauloantony says:
22 November, 2011 at 01:05
Aye but thats not broonies fault, that is down to a combination of manager and/or our beloved CEO.
Cliftonville…Cliftonville…You’re the pride of West Belfast.
An old chant that just came into the auld Teuchters heid and he thought he would share it.
TAL