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For years Celtic players have had little let-up in their schedule during international breaks, so it was pleasing to see so few play a full 90 minutes over the weekend.  Four former Celtic players started for Scotland but Callum McGregor and David Turnbull were only used as substitutes.

Kyogo Furuhashi made a halftime appearance in Japan’s home defeat to Oman (Oh, man).  Nir Bitton got a valuable run out for Israel against Austria, while Liel Abada watched from the bench.  Tom Rogic got the full 90 minutes in Australia’s 3-0 win over China, which Carl Starfelt for the closing 30 minutes as Sweden beat Uzbekistan.

Those who have been in the squad since preseason should be fully fit and more in need of rest than game time.  Any reprieve in the autumn international breaks is welcome.

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  2. BelmontBrian on

    WEEBOBBYCOLLINS

     

     

    Just watched Aquarela. stunning images, jeez, if we do not get our shit together, our children will be under incredible pressure.

     

     

    The sounds of the ice breaking sounded like the ‘big guns’ from WW1 and WW2

     

     

    Loved it, but, it makes you think

     

     

    Brian

  4. Tom McLaughlin on

    So True Blue Ernie and his alter ego JHB come on here and attack the SNP by lying about them banning Catholic schools and it turns into a debate on the rights and wrongs of such a move. Why do people fall for this fascist’s nonsense?

  8. quadrophenian on

    BADA – terrible news about a powerful actor’s passing. He stole the show on The Wire according to me and Prez Obama. RIP MKW.

     

     

     

    All those saying Bitton had a great game v AUS, I have to disagree. I watched the whole thing and while he was customarily cool in possession, he was positionally all over the shop, missed a few key tackles and was, generally, part of a shambolic and lucky Israeli rearguard fortunate not to let in many more goals.

     

     

    Generally, I admire Nir’s passing style but think he’s proving too laconic and bumbling to be a mainstay of our side.

  10. Stephbhoy67 on

    Can someone explain to me how the term hun is sectarian, I always thought it was a description of an illiterate, uneducated barbarian type that causes damage wherever it is to be found. it’s purely referencing their followers behaviour, coined by the press in england, after a game with wolves. They have always played the part well. Offensive perhaps but them stop causing chaos wherever you travel and that will chance.

     

     

    Also is the orange order considered a religion or race? I thought it was a self proclaimed sectarian organisation that declared itself the defender of the protestant faith? A private members club for bitterness and staunchness.

     

     

    I dont know that saying anything offensive toward the o o is an attack on the protestant religion. If a black person called out members of the KKK how many people would think it reasonable for the KKK to call out the black person as a racist against all white people because s/he does not accept the KKK’s world views? The outrage from the KKK’s perspective is that an attack on them is an attack on all white people who they claim to represent. I am sure many millions of white folk dont feel the KKK represent them and dont share the same views as said organisation.

     

     

    I know plenty of protestant that dont subscribe to the orange order as representative of them and find racist norrow minded views adharrant and an affront to their religious beliefs and values as Christians. Many of them have choice words and views about said organisation.

     

     

    On that basis I dont understand how a narrative can be built to in which the word hunt or calling someone out m the o o can be construed as racist or bigoted. Am I missing something here or is it all just flectio tactics and whataboutery?

  15. quadrophenian on

    STEPHBHOY67 on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2021 11:45 PM

     

     

    Thanks for a reasoned, thought-provoking argument.

     

    Addendum; many of us use ‘hun’ as a generic label for all their fans when, statistically, surely not all of them are rotten eggs. As for not understanding how the narrative can be built… – the meeja specialise in seeming to make sense out of nonsense. HH

  16. JHB on

    Who are, and what is the motivation of, the various contributories to the financial stream at Ibrox?

     

     

    My best guess of the motivation of these people is to have the club winning title after title, thus establishing it as ‘top dog’ in Scotland, and in turn a regular participant in the Champions League – “A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CLUB”. Thereafter those who have ‘thrown’ so many millions into the ‘kitty’ in exchange for diluted shares, will look to sell a now ‘attractive’ club, perhaps to an overseas buyer, and recoup their ‘investment’ with interest.

     

     

    There is only one ‘fly in the ointment’, Celtic. A successful Celtic scuppers all these best-laid, or as some might say, far-fetched, plans.

     

     

    So what is Plan B? I can see none. Will the financial transfusions continue ad infinitum? How on earth can they?

     

     

    We are uncertain if there are substantial debts owing/outstanding to outside agencies. If there were they would surely be only a fraction of the sums(e.g. est £60m/£80m) already pumped into the club by their directors and well-heeled supporters. Therefore there seems little likelihood of another Administration event at Ibrox….cui bono?

     

     

    I liked a phrase used by Paul a few days ago – “last season (10iar) was about history – this season is about the future”. I still think it unlikely that we can make sufficient progress this season with a new manager and, to all intents and purposes a new squad, to win the title and of course gain automatic CL qualification. However if we did, where on earth would the Ibrox project be then, especially as the CL target was completely missed this season?

     

     

    Our annual results will be published in a matter of weeks and all the world will know what financial state we are in – where our money comes from, and where it goes, after two Covid disrupted seasons. Will we ever get to the bottom of the Ibrox pyramid scheme?

  22. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Stephbhoy67 – interesting question.

     

     

    it’s a deflection and an attempt at whataboutery.

     

     

    Pejorative anti-Irish sentiment is defined as racism in law. Central to that is the racial identity of the Irish

     

     

    The term “hun”, while derogatory, has no credible racial basis in modern Europe and has come to signify (in general terms) an uncivilised or barbaric group.

  24. quadrophenian on

    SAINT – not sure JHBs latest post warranted such a blast tho I get youz urnae exactly besties.

     

    THEMS – like any club – must be aiming for success and liquidity. WE are a barrier to that.

     

     

    As for their income streams, can we totally rule out the importance of any spanking new laundry facilities?

     

     

    Here, it’s 17deg Spring and sunshine. Awrrabest to awrraCelts.

  35. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    Response to my complaint.

     

     

    Just the usual from the BBC – “…nothing to see here Timmy – move along…”

     

     

    Just for reference – my complaint wasn’t about the report, it was about the headline…

     

     

     

    “….Reference CAS-6902170-Z3G5W0

     

     

    Dear Mr BGFC

     

     

    Thank you for your comments relating to the following BBC News reporting:

     

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58421171

     

     

    We were contacted by a number of audience members who were unhappy with our reporting of this story. To allow us to reply promptly, and use the licence fee efficiently, we’re sending this response to everyone. We’re sorry we can’t reply individually, but we hope this will address the main points raised.

     

     

    We’re satisfied with the accuracy of the terminology used in this reporting.

     

     

    The Police Scotland statement on the arrests and charges detailed that the behaviour they’re investigating was both anti-Irish and anti-Catholic, hence the use of “sectarian”, and the article includes several references to the fact the police are also investigating the “racist” nature of these offences.

     

     

    Thanks again for getting in touch. Complaints are shared with news teams and senior management every morning via our overnight reports.

     

     

    Kind regards,

     

     

    BBC Complaints Team

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints...”

     

     

     

    Love how, like The Rainjurz, they can get away with investigating themselves…

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  36. ernie lynch on

    STEPHBHOY67 on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2021 11:45 PM

     

     

    ‘Can someone explain to me how the term hun is sectarian,’

     

     

     

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    It isn’t.

     

     

    I make no apology for posting this article yet once more.

     

     

    It kicks the feet from under anyone who tries to claim that the term hun means anything more than someone who supports the huns.

     

     

     

    xxxxxxxxxxx

     

     

     

    Why this hun’s on the run

     

    Robin McKie

     

    Sun 18 May 2003 12.21 BST

     

     

    They say Tierra del Fuego is pleasant at the moment – as are Ulan Bator, Antarctica, Pitcairn Island, Mount Everest and the Galapagos archipelago. I know because I checked them all out last week.

     

     

    Then I remembered hearing about Boulby, in Yorkshire: the home of Britain’s Underground Laboratory for Dark Matter Research (honestly). And I knew straight away where I would be heading this week – for the Boulby laboratory has been built in an old mine where delicate instruments, stored deep underground, monitor rare cosmic particles in an atmosphere of blessed silence and complete darkness.

     

     

     

    For a hun – a Rangers fan – it is this week’s dream location, a sanctuary where there might actually be a chance of escaping the gibbering hordes of sombrero-hatted, chanting, triumphalist, banner-waving green-and-white bedecked Celtic-supporting lunatics who have been wrecking my life and driving me mad ever since their team limped past Boavista last month and slinked their way into the Uefa Cup final. Cash-strapped boffins could make a fortune for British science by renting out that mine to equally desperate Rangers fans, I reckon.

     

     

    Certainly, putting several thousand feet of rock between ourselves and the tims – Celtic fans – would seem to be our only hope of surviving the next few days without developing serious stress or mental illness. For, if nothing else, it would at least mean there would be no more rhyming text messages such as, ‘You watching The Bill , while we’re in Seville’; no more emails suggesting that Rangers change their sponsors to Tampax because the club are going through a bad period; no more jokes about my team and three-pin plugs both being useless in Europe; and no more faxes filled with crap doggerel:

     

     

    Tell all the huns that you know,

     

    That we’re sorry they’re feeling so low

     

    Cause we don’t mean to tease,

     

    But it’s 90 degrees

     

    And the San Miguel is starting to flow

     

     

     

    It’s that kind of stuff – ‘You’ll be in chip shops, while we’re in our flip-flops’ – that makes me want to choke someone, though I admit I may be a bit biased. There’s not much love lost between a hun and a tim, after all.

     

     

    At first, I didn’t care that much about the prospect of Celtic winning the Uefa Cup on Wednesday, for their victory would raise all Scottish teams’ rankings with European football’s governing body and make it easier for Rangers to qualify for Europe.

     

     

    On the other hand, I was also aware that if Porto let us down, and Celtic fluked it, it would just trigger more outpourings of those ‘You’ll be cursing and minging, while we’re cheering and singing’ emails that keep making my computer crash. (One of my ‘correspondents’, a very amiable Celtic-supporting cabbie, is unfortunately called Martin O’Neill. Imagine a good Protestant like me finding a name like that in his inbox. It’s like getting a cheque from Saddam Hussein.)

     

     

     

    But in the past few days, things have changed. I have begun to suffer increasingly frequent bouts of unsettling déjà vu and midnight terrors. I started going to Ibrox as a fledgling hun just as Jock Stein gave notice of his greatness at Parkhead in 1967 when he took his team of local lads to Lisbon and an historic European Cup final victory over Inter Milan. He followed this up by winning nine consecutive Scottish league titles, while inflicting a series of grievous drubbings of Rangers. Easily the worst was the 1969 Cup final when we were 3-0 down at half-time and so outplayed it still makes me flinch to think about it. My mate Hugh draped his arm round me as I sobbed on the terracing. ‘We’ll get three quick goals. It’ll be all right,’ he kept saying. Amazingly, I never hit him.

     

     

    Since then, Rangers – under Graeme Souness and Walter Smith – have had their day, achieving their own nine-in-a-row series of titles. But that was then, this is now. Celtic have the real Martin O’Neill, and that ghastly, brilliant man has all the look of a latter-day Stein. And that is why I am so afraid. A European victory early in his reign at Celtic, just like Stein’s at Lisbon, could be a trigger for horrible things to come. Being a particle physicist in a Tierra del Fuegan mine would have a sudden, unexpected appeal.

     

     

    Robin McKie, The Observer’s science editor, has supported Rangers since 1961.

     

     

    https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2003/may/18/sport.uefa

  40. ernie lynch on

    TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2021 10:58 PM

     

    ‘So True Blue Ernie’

     

     

     

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    Doubling down in the face of a manifest error is a hun characteristic.

     

     

    I asked you yesterday why you had stated that I was a liar. You didn’t respond.

     

     

    I appreciate that you most probably have issues. But that isn’t a licence to post whatever you like about other posters.

  42. EmeraldBee \o/ A Double Niner!! on

    WEEBOBBYCOLLINS

     

     

    Watched Aquarella last night – absolutely stunning (once I got my head round the cars being retrieved). I’m not 100% clear about your wife’s connection to it, but she should be very proud about any involvement in that. Uplifting and worrying in equal measures.

     

     

    Ave Ave

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