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  1. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Goodnight Celtic men and wummin, I’m away to talk to a cabbage, I don’t mean kevjungle.

     

     

     

    HH

  3. Delaneys Dunky on

    WBC

     

     

    Jimmy Calderwood told me that Celtic are the best team in Scotland by a country mile and he loves watching us. He is a fitba man wi a season ticket for Ibrox. Dichotomy

  4. jamesgang on

    Dallas Dallas.

     

     

    Thank you Sir……

     

     

    Doc

     

     

    Even the wise mhan of Cowie must be being won over….at least a wee bit!!!!!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  5. weebobbycollins on

    Goodnight bhoys…remember yer prayers…

     

    Dear Brendan please………..Paddy Roberts

  7. Delaneys Dunky on

    James

     

     

    48 is ancient when I was 18.

     

    Young now I am 52. :)

     

    Miss your patter big yin. Hope I see you soon.

     

    HH

  9. jamesgang on

    Gaz

     

     

    ‘Love’

     

    Speak soon. Drink soon too I hope.

     

     

    I know a place….where we can carry on….

     

     

    1LoveCSC

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  16. Delaneys Dunky on

    WBC

     

    His grandweans will be Celtic, Partick Thistle or Glasgow Warrior supporters. Weans are not daft these days.

     

    Your club’s deid mate. Beat it! :)

  19. INVINCIBLE 'GG on

    Superlatives have just about been all used about tonight’s performance.

     

    If Paddy arrives over the weekend the blog will explode.

     

    I can see a few us having to put nitro pills under out tongues.

     

    The euphoria will last the whole season

     

    Or the first time we draw and then the pitchforks will be retrieved from the shed.

     

    Meantime

     

    https://youtu.be/8gFNLGWHmjI

  20. INVINCIBLE 'GG on

    From the official site

     

    By: Mark Henderson on 08 Aug, 2017 23:36

     

    Tweet

     

    BRENDAN Rodgers said a young Celtic side were a joy to watch tonight as they dismantled Kilmarnock 5-0 in a completely one-sided League Cup contest in Paradise.

     

    Despite making eight changes from the team that eased past Hearts 4-1 at the weekend, and fielding five teenagers from the start – Ralston, Kristoffer Ajer, Calvin Miller, Eboue Kouassi and Kundai Benyu – the Hoops turned in a complete performance, dominating from start to finish.

     

    Another double from Leigh Griffiths and Anthony Ralston’s first-ever goal for the club had the hosts in charge at the break

     

    Captain for the night, Kieran Tierney, lashed in a wonder-goal made it 4-0 midway through the second half and Stuart Armstrong found the net to seal the Bhoys spot in the last-eight of the competition.

     

    Speaking after the game, the manager said: “It was a brilliant performance. It was a joy to watch the team this evening. I genuinely think I can pick a team out of the squad I have and it will function to a high level. They all understand how we play and they all have clarity in their roles, and it was great to see the concentration of the young players tonight and their focus from the first whistle, and they defended really well.

     

    “Kilmarnock are a very good side, especially in terms of counter-attack, they have quick players and the boy (Jordan) Jones down the side and the boy (Lee) Erwin up front has shown he is a talent. But we really pressed the game very well and once we lost the ball, our numbers around the ball were really aggressive, which allowed us to have lots of the ball. When we had it our creativity was excellent, along with the speed of our game.

     

    “It was a great demonstration of the strength of our squad. We had six players who started the game who were 20 or under so it also shows it’s a club for young players to develop and come through.

  21. sean thornton on

    Driving back along the m8 last you couldnae take the grin of ma coupen after that performance.

     

     

    After kt strike did any you oldies like me wander back tae that great man Tommy GEMMILL.

     

     

    Ye can rest in peace Tommy bhoy, kieran has yer position covered.

     

     

    Hail Hail.

  22. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    SEAN THORNTON on 9TH AUGUST 2017 6:51 AM

     

     

    And Neilly Mochan ” the cannonball kid ” before them.

  23. IanBhoy929 on

    Good morning CQN from a cool, dull and dampish, very unaugust like East Devon.

     

    Great result last night, KT’s goal was a thing of beauty.

     

    Thanks for the updates.

  24. lionroars67 on

    Corruption everywhere in football, tv money at the heart

     

     

    210 million tv deal, scottish football tv deals are pitiful

     

     

    MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian soccer faces an embarrassing intervention this week as a joint FIFA-Asian Football Confederation delegation arrives for talks aimed at ending a bitter power struggle that has plunged the domestic game into crisis.

     

     

    The governing Football Federation Australia (FFA) has been at loggerheads with the country’s 10 professional A-League clubs, and come under pressure from FIFA, to expand membership of its 10-member Congress into a more democratic model.

     

     

    The Congress, which elects the FFA board, has representatives of the country’s nine states and territories but just one delegate for all 10 clubs in the top-flight A-League and none representing the players.

     

     

    The FFA have proposed a 13-member Congress, offering two additional votes to the clubs and one for the players, but this has been rejected by both the clubs and FIFA.

     

     

    The clubs, who say they generate 80 percent of revenues for football in Australia, want at least five seats but the FFA, led by chairman Steven Lowy and CEO David Gallop, have dug their heels in.

     

     

    Lowy has been vocal about his distrust of the clubs’ intentions and, like his billionaire father Frank Lowy, who was chairman before him, has rejected calls to allow an independent commission run the A-League.

     

     

    “Club owners have made no secret of their demands for more power, and more money. They seek an independent league, run by them for their benefit,” he said in a 2,000-word communique addressed to the ‘Australian football community’ over the weekend.

     

     

    “But it’s worth noting that more than half of the clubs are wholly or majority owned by foreign individuals and organisations with little or no connection to Australian community football or our national teams.”

     

     

    ‘DISGRACED ORGANISATION’

     

     

    Apart from more Congress votes, the clubs have also demanded more money from the FFA. They have rejected the governing body’s offer of A$3.55 million in annual distributions following the record six-year, A$346 million (210.16 million pounds) television deal announced in December.

     

     

    The clubs have demanded up to A$6 million, a figure the FFA has said would damage the grass roots of the game and cut deeply into funding to the national teams.

     

     

    With the dispute rumbling on throughout the year, the FIFA-AFC delegation is set to arrive to hold talks with local stakeholders over the next two days in Sydney in a bid to end the impasse.

     

     

    Without resolution by a Nov. 30 deadline, FIFA will disband the FFA board and install a ‘normalisation committee’ that would effectively take over governance of the sport.

     

     

    That it has reached the point where FIFA has intervened is seen as another black eye for the FFA, which was embarrassed by the Garcia report into the World Cup bidding process for the 2022 tournament won by Qatar.

     

     

    The report found “strong evidence” that the FFA had made payments to influence one of FIFA’s voting members.

     

     

    Australia’s failed bid, which employed over A$50 million in government funding but secured only a solitary vote, has long overshadowed the FFA’s stewardship of the game.

     

     

    In addition, the ongoing power struggle has revived memories of the strife-torn National Soccer League, which collapsed under a weight of debt in 2004.

     

     

    The idea that FIFA, an organisation still buffeted by corruption scandals on a number of fronts, could take over the running of the game is scarcely believable to many in Australian football.

     

     

    “It makes me sick to think (FIFA) are here doing this,” Jack Reilly, a former FFA board member, told local broadcaster SBS.

     

    “They are a totally disgraced organisation.”

  25. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    The media will probably not mention the fact that our goal scorers were all Scottish, last night , 4 of whom are full internationals , the other plays for the under 19’s .

  26. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    LIONROARS67 on 9TH AUGUST 2017 7:33 AM

     

     

    Thanks.

     

    Very interesting.

     

     

    ” Lowy has been vocal about his distrust of the clubs’ intentions and, like his billionaire father Frank Lowy, who was chairman before him, has rejected calls to allow an independent commission run the A-League. ”

     

     

    Raw nepotism.

     

     

    I trust they don`t have a claw in the women`s game.

     

    Oz women are serious global contenders.

     

     

    Hope you saw the recent tourney in Las Vegas.

  27. Thirds63 on

    To summarize…..

     

     

    A joy, a complete joy!

     

     

    (PS….if Kilmarnock aren’t relegated there must be some really awful other teams in our league football)

     

     

    HH

  29. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Some goal from KT last night,absolutely stunning.

     

     

    In other “news”,I hope he wasn’t trawling his best pal Paddy round the kebab joints in Glasgow,cos it seems he’s got a taste for them.

     

     

    Rumours he’s off to Galatasaray for the season.

     

     

    Bliddy hope not!!!

     

     

    (How long does he have left on his contract now anyway?)

  30. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    There was a tweet on twitter, available on etims twitter, stating since 2001/02 season, 168 players who came through our youth system , have went to play professional football for two or more years.

     

     

    A very good figure of giving players a. Good foundation for professional football.

     

     

    In saying that, i wonder what figure , as a percentage , of all the players we have taken onsince 01/02 , the above is.

  31. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    THIRDS63 on 9TH AUGUST 2017 7:45 AM

     

     

    Mate.

     

     

    Q. Why are we so good ?

     

     

    A . Brendan.

  33. Moonbeamswd on

    TD67

     

     

    That’s why I pay around £150 to immunise my cats from that horrible disease.

     

     

    Good to see you stand up for something even though you stated you physically abused one of the animals you are trying to use to defend a point you were trying to make.

     

     

    More insincerity.

     

     

    Next.

     

     

    MWD

  36. Hot Smoked on

    I thought Thistle were one of the better sides we played last season so I guess we will be back to full strength on Friday……whatever full strength is for this excellent squad. Is Ralston, for example, currently a better choice than Lustig? Who accompanies Simunovic? Biton or Ajer? Does Broonie start or does the impressive Ntcham get another hour or so?

     

     

    JJ

  37. lionroars67 on

    The most important appointment at a football club > the manager, we are very fortunate to have Brendan Rodgers

     

     

    Its all about standards

     

     

    Treble again ?

     

     

    “He’s top of the pyramid but he’s got a great set of coaches below him, a great understanding with the players, he’s in touch with the ground staff and catering people – his door is always open,” Commons told BBC Scotland’s Sportsound.

     

     

    “All his training sessions are tactical and he does a lot of preparation on every single game, no matter the level.

     

     

    “With the reserves and under-20s, he’s always looking to try and bring someone new in, always looking to give advice and do one-on-one sessions.”

     

     

    Commons was very much part of the Celtic squad when Rodgers arrived and he explained how the manager sent an early message to his players that helped lay the foundations for his reign.

     

     

    “One of the first training sessions when we were in pre-season, the lads were walking off the park and I think someone said, ‘look at him over there doing extra training’,” Commons said.

     

     

    “Brendan got the group together and said, ‘Listen, if I hear that phrase again on the training ground you’ll be out the door. There’s a boy there looking to do extra work, working hard, wanting to earn more money, wanting to do better things in the game, improve his weaknesses,’ and since that day everyone’s on the training ground until one-two o’clock now.”

     

     

    The Celtic manager told BBC Scotland after their Scottish Cup final victory that his treble-winning side ticked off six of his seven targets last term.

     

     

    “He’s set a few more than that,” said Brown when asked how to stay motivated after an unbeaten domestic season.

     

     

    “We’ve got a few more targets than that, so we’ll see if we can hit them all.”

     

     

    Improved teamwork and better possession are among the goals for the season.

     

     

    “We’ve just got to maintain the same standards that we set last season – that’s in training and in games – and try to improve on the amount of touches you get, the amount of shots on target and maintain every stat we had last season and try to improve on it,” Brown added.

     

     

    “Every month of the season we sit down and have a meeting to see if we’ve hit our stats, whether it’s goals, possession, whatever it is, and we have to build on the ones we didn’t hit last season.

     

     

    “We set standards high in training every day and we need to maintain that, whether it’s in training or in games.

     

     

    “The gaffer wants to hit those stats and that’s what we need to do.

     

     

    “We’ve got a huge squad now and there’s competition for places, so somebody else can easily jump in.”

  40. Big Jimmy on

    I firmly believe that Dunfermline will lie down to the Huns tonight !

     

     

    Maybe the Dunfermline should issue a club statement TODAY before they take the field, along the lines of……….” We are fully prepared to lie down to the marvellous , best team in Europe mighty same club Ranjurs tonight. Myself and fellow brothers ( sorry directors) here at Dunfermline FC feel very strongly that it is only fitting and correct that we declare our intentions BEFORE we play the mighty Ranjurs, and this declaration will also show that Dunfermline have learned our lesson, that at the very least BEFORE we lie down to the Rampant Ranjurs, that we fully intend that by lying down to the best team in Scotland, we are, YET AGAIN bringing the game into disrepute, just like previous times in the past, but we also firmly believe that we as a club,, should be applauded by all in Scottish football, for our honesty and clarity in declaring our intentions for Ibrox tonight.

     

    Our “openness” is the future of this club, and hopefully this “openness” will open doors of ALL other Scottish clubs, and Scottish referees to do as we do, and just simply declare their intentions to either ” lie down” and/or ” cheat”, in order to ensure that the Glasgow Ranjurs prevail in all matches before them”

     

     

    HH

  42. bankiebhoy1 on

    How much of a gormless, awe-struck stooge does Jummy the oranj parody come over as when referring to his relationship with The Busted Flush????

     

     

    i always figured he had a wee bit more about him than that…..

     

     

    ……….Knuckle-crunching foot-soldier for knuckle-draggers.

     

     

    Astounding.

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