Celtic v Kilmarnock, Live updates
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Still not saying what golf club it is or how you got in ?
Will you be sober at 7.15
Well ….i drove there…got out the car…and just walked right in…it was mobbed…not an empty seat in sight…
SAINT STIVS on 19TH JANUARY 2025 2:23 AM
Will you be sober at 7.15
No…I have a habit of sleep drinking…doctor asked why I can’t be like everyone else and just sleep walk…
Early post – on the move in twenty minutes.
THE LONG THROW
Over the next few days our focus, quite rightly, will be on probably our most important European match for some considerable time in the Champions League tie with Young Boys at Celtic Park.
However I should like to air a subject that has bothers me for and from what I see is more prevalent in Scotland than anywhere else, namely the use of the long throw-in into the opponent’s penalty box. There were quite a few examples from Scottish Cup matches yesterday.
Football, “the beautiful game”, as the name suggests (except in the US) is a game predominately played with the feet and not the hands; in fact use of the hands is punished by various decisions dependent on location and circumstance. The only player in a team able to play the ball legally with the hand is the goalkeeper, with one exception – the restarting of the game with a throw-in when any player can direct the ball into the field of play using both hands in a prescribed manner.
Where I take issue is that it appears that more than ever some teams are coaching and recruiting players who possess the ability to propel the ball as far as by hand as others do by foot, and with understandable more accuracy and certainty. Most goals are scored within the penalty area and so it seems an anathema to me that propelling/placing the ball with the hands into that area from the touch-line is allowable – there is no FOOTBALL skill in it whatsoever. It is more like a line-out in rugby, a predominately hand game, but with much higher stakes. A team can outplay an opponent in all the skillful aspects of football and be undone by a second-ball and /or ricochet, the result of a long throw delivered into the box. Throwing is a skill in field events in athletics, e.g. hammer, discus and javelin – it should not be countenanced in football.
If we play FOOTball let the ball enter play by a pass-in from touch, with a five-metre opposition exclusion area as opposed to the ten required at free-kicks given for infringements. Only goalkeepers should display hand skills in football – ban the long-throw NOW!
Good Morning Fholk – Grand Day To Be A Tim
31003 @ 11:12 PM
Chairbhoy
“Much less down the flanks and more through the middle, we carved Kilmarnock open with the speed of our counter”…
C’mon….when was the last time we played down the flanks and whipped a cross in from the bye line?….Really?…
Whipped the cross in from the bye line!?
I didn’t say that, that was artistic license on your part:))
No my point was our attacks that went direct through the centre, gave Killie defence a torrid time.
Watch the highlights please…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJiMQ4KO1A&t=18s&pp=2AESkAIB
Hail Hail
SPIKEYSAULDMAN @ 10:24 PM
“To those who dont really like BR or his style of play, as much as I agree with many of the things you guys say (I’m sure you care), I just dont recall the same attitudes towards Ange when he was here (and he most certainly did not vary his style of play against any team). Happy to be completely wrong on that, but just dont.
(and BTW, I’m not BRs biggest fan !)”
Well you wouldn’t get the same attitude to Ange…
For me this has little to do with football and lots to do with corporate politics.
The placemen, and they have popped up again all over the place this month follow an agenda…
It’s a long tried and tested tactic
Try to change people’s perceptions
Let me give an example.
BURNLEY78 @ 18TH JANUARY 2025 10:07 PM
“31003
Agree that we will only progress if we do vary it. No point in the debate when the current man is in charge. He won’t do that”
Compare and contrast that to this…
Paul67 @ 3RD JANUARY 2025 – Lead
“His system has been exposed repeatedly over the last two months and needs urgent revision. Best of luck to those who want to have a chat to him about it.
As I say, and old tactics but an effective one.
I was taught it as…
…”perception is everything”
Yet truth is BR does change things…
Longterm; when Brendan Rodgers was here first time around he consistently played 4-2-3-1
Now he plays 4-3-3 and variations there off.
If you just look at our European games this season.
Tactics against Slovan Bratislava quite different from Atalanta, quite different from RB Leipzig.
In general, compared to Ange we are much more flexible, also our penalty taking has improved, our set plays have improved as well as other aspects of our play since Ange’s time.
Still work to be done of course but you won’t get the loathers giving BR&CO credit for it, so…
Dont~believe~the~hype
Hail Hail
Fake Tim actor James McAvoy 00:7 seconds in.
Pope John Paul 2nd 00:30 seconds in.
Bono the Illuminati puppet 00:40 seconds in.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1880503374992535880
All doing the Illuminati, Masonic, etc, all seeing eye, 3 x 6’s sign or whatever it is called.
I think it was only the Clash Punk Heroes who were the only UK music group who refused the Yankee dollar$’s. And all of the smut which goes with it
There was a pic of Jim Kerr of Simple Minds doing the cross armed Skull and Bones cross Illuminati symbol on an album cant mind which one, but he seems to be doing it on the pic of this “New Gold Dream” single video.
https://youtu.be/rzMgfi9y-nc?si=7Vs8F70EzeAymqCl
Anything beyond The Wolfetones is Babylon. That’s probably why the Wolfies were smeared as “White” out of touch Dinosaurs by woke RTE and Fintan O’Tool the “liberal” journalist. Sic
And all seated era Celtic fans vote for the Labour and SNP cheeks of the same arse in Holyrood.
The Green Brigade are that last lingering example of Celticness since the disappearance of the salt of the earth Parkhead Jungle fans.
Some say that they wont join in with IRA songs?
So were are your precious voices during the vast number of non IRA songs, when only the sacred GB voices are heard?
I stand next to the GB during every game. Who am I?
Hmmmm.
Top of the morning bhoys
https://youtu.be/_yhAgoY0VYw?si=dASygOpMIg63P75g
DARWIN @ 5:35 AM,
Well good luck with your campaign, dont see the shie changing soon…
Interesting at their goal, how the Killie player adjusts his body to ensure he plays the ball with his arm and sets up young Wales at the back post.
A very clever piece of play, by ex-Celt Robbie Deas, if it had been off his knee it would be a fine assist.
As it was off his arm it should have been a foul, though not given.
Presumably as his arm was by his side, however what constitues a natural position when you turn and utilise that arm to pass the ball?
Schmeichel was not at all happy…
https://x.com/fast_sin/status/1880728343915700507
Hail Hail
MAESTRO @ 6:53 AM,
Mornin’….
Thanks for the link…
Meada’s happy, we are all happy:)
Hail Hail
Gerry Ferns
“I stand next to the GB during every game. Who am I?”
A polis ? A security guard ? A cameraman ?
“And all seated era Celtic fans vote for the Labour and SNP cheeks of the same arse in Holyrood”.
Nope, try again. (There might even be few you-know-whats)
“The Green Brigade are that last lingering example of Celticness since the disappearance of the salt of the earth Parkhead Jungle fans”
Those Jungle fans, who are still alive and able are now seated around the stadium you know.
Calmac on the Maestros link
“some unbelievable football at times”
shhh – keep it quiet – dont tell some on here
Good morning all.
Well done Celtic yesterday v Kilmarnock.
Some of our play was very good ( at times ). NICOLAS KUHN was quiet in the 1st half, but he came onto a good game in the 2nd half and it made a difference.
The Killie Goal was a strange one …..I watched the game on Premier Sports and Michael Stewart and the main Commentator were saying that ” According to the Rules, the Killie handball that led to their goal was LEGAL as it was another player actually scored…but IF the Killie player who played the ball with his arm had been the Goal Scorer, the ” Goal” would have been chalked OFF ” ?
I am a bit baffled as does that mean, ANY Player CAN Handball during a build up to a Goal, just as long as THAT PLAYER is NOT the actual Goal Scorer ?
If that is TRUE….Its the FIRST Time that I have heard of THAT RULE ?
BAFFLED and CONFUSED !
HH.
I have to say, some of the chances we missed last night were nothing short of scandalous.
BIG JIMMY @ 8:27 AM,
Yes, it’s stuff and nonsense…
Although not an expert my understanding is if the ball hits your arm and it’s in a natural position it’s not a foul.
OK
Now, if you are in the box and the ball hits your arm in a natural position and it sets you up to score, it is a foul as you got an advantage from “a handball”.
This new variation, if the ball hits your arm but sets up a team mate to score that’s fine!?
Whit!!
Well Robbie Deas made a nonsense of that rule, and if he knew it, smart lad, cause he turns his whole body round so he can set up Wales with his arm.
Of course if he kept his body still and just moved out his arm to play the ball, it would have been a foul.
If Scottish Offiicals have to make a “common sense” decision, no way are Celtic benefiting from it…
Hail Hail
KILLIE HANDBALL ASSIST..
IF Michael Stewart and his Main Commentator are “CORRECT” about the Killie Goal being LEGAL yesterday DESPITE the CLEAR HANDBALL Assist, does that mean that ANY Player can now PICK UP the Ball with Both Hands and THROW or PUNCH or SLAP it to a Team Mate to score ?
WHEN did the Rule come in that a Player can Handball the Ball in the build up to knocking it on to a Team Mate to SCORE….being LEGAL ?
HH
played fine yesterday. made hunners of chances, just profligate in the penalty box! we definitely get less bang for our buck in terms of goals scored from the number of opportunities we create compared to our opponents, as has been mentioned often enough.
as for the hand/arm ball, i get the arm by your side argument, and also the fact he wasnt the goal scorer, but it looked to me as if the player deliberately used his arm to play the ball to the scorer, even if his arm was at his side. surely that rule is intended for accidental use of the arm, whereas the killie player seemed to know exactly what he was doing.
and as for the GB statement, a bit of uber-self-importance about it, albeit they arent miles out in what they say. but dont tell me to put my fone away, none of their business. and how did the barely audible Billy Reid song for example help the atmosphere yesterday?
Any news on Tierney ?
JACKIEMAC @ 8:52 AM,
Don’t think so…
He was on the bench again for Arsenal yesterday but didn’t come on as he has done the last few games.
Make of that what you will…
Hail Hail
I havent seen the GB Statement can someone Post it on here ?
Thanks in advance.
HH.
cant find a text version of their statement, just pictures which i cant paste on here.
they basically banned me from checking the racing results on my phone during the game.
aye right.
oh, and suggested i should sing more.
fair enough.
then told me i cant leave the ground until the jannie has switched the lights oot.
they never mentioned whether im allowed to go for a kebab pie during the game or not so im left with more questions than answers.
so think i will just ignore all of it.
here’s a top tune for the GB
The ultra family
The onion bears issue a statement.
Not to be outdone the GB issue a statement.
A psychologist would call it similarity attraction effect.
As for fones, who wsnts to look at a hamster wheel goung round and round and round.
the wifi has actually been better the last few games.
they must have hired an extra hamster
🐹
The GB statement is another example of their arrogance and self righteous attitude toward the “pleb” customers who occupy most of the stadium on match days.
Maybe if they actually dragged themselves away from the pro IRA stuff that they continue to spout then other may feel inclined to join in..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmQh090xkg
right CB
There’s a reason I don’t visit this site very often.
A couple of Celtic-related articles in the Guardian/Observer this morning, about Henrik and Paul Lambert.
Both reflect well on Celtic, particularly the very last sentence in Henrik’s piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/03/henrik-larsson-i-have-106-caps-for-sweden-but-i-see-myself-as-foreign
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/19/paul-lambert-interview-dortmund-motherwell-celtic-zidane
Ave Ave
https://youtu.be/gst8kDZp3KQ?si=Hfb7mNX7MRnrILDq
Celtic AM I enjoy.
👌🍀
……fore….!!!!
SCULLYBHOY
Morning Kieran,
Called to reception Friday left Henrik book and some tapes (Celtic of course) .Guy at reception tried to contact you to no avail.
Philboy @ 1109
Post of the weekend !
HH
Five,six,seven eight who do we appreciate…
Excellent performance yesterday, again we should have been out of sight at half time, and a rousing minutes applause for Denis Law
SCULLYBHOY @ 11:02
Leeds Utd game 0-1 Celtic wearing of the red socks