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GB were great throughout tonight.
Text saying Commons hat trick. First announced as Og by Craig at Paradise.
Very good team performance.
We must play our first team , in their correct positions.
Glad Lenny let Biram and wee James know they need to earn their place.
I hope ICT win tomorrow as I never want to play the Zombies as it will only encourage them to believe they are still a force. They’re not.
EC67
Buddies win on pens.
Just finished. SECONDS AGO
;)
Thought I wanted Aberdeen to win as they would be tougher for Sevco, but they do have a habit of losing to lower-division teams….
Staerry duly done mate 7-5 gooners
Was listening to radio Scotland in the car there………they are ALL hurtin badly …….. No matter what they were talking about, they went back to Saturday’s game………they are a shower of sad / bitter plonkers………Celtic were brilliant tonight….
NEIL must now play his best team in EVERY game, perhaps resting a maximum of 2 players on a rotation basis, or if any player is off form etc………any team will only get better if they PLAY together, and the Fhans are paying good money to see the best players on the park…….
St Mirren
Coupon Down
SOAL
Mug
HH
GTTF
THATS FUNNY.
7-5 crazy ending.
Always had a soft spot for arsenal feel a bit for the reading players and support.hh
SCOTT SICKENS MON.
GM
praecepta saved you the bother :>)
Got a bit bogged down watching the gooners cheat me out of a small fortune :<((((
What page is the link to the goals?
Ta in advance.
glasstwothirdsfull
22:19 on 30 October, 2012
They’re all in denial……. It’s like listening to 5 year olds talking to each other about an imaginary situation …………LOL
AGAIN
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=10768&cpage=7#comment-1606472
Goals
TET
Snap (on the bet)!
Tet,
He cheated. He knew before end.
He’s very praeceptive;)
Well that was a good night. A host of great performances. No team in this country can live with us when we play like that. Brown made all the difference again.
Ah’m frozen mind ye. Going for a warm steep and a large dram.
Awe Naw
Yer some man.
AWE NAW
WHERE?
KRIS Commons was in inspirational form as Celtic trounced St Johnstone in their Scottish Communities League Cup quarter-final clash at Parkhead.
Scorers: Celtic – Commons (28, 32, 57 (pen)), Hooper (38), Mulgrew (61)
Bookings: Celtic – Ambrose, Lustig, Watt; St Johnstone -MacKay, Anderson, Miller, Hasselbaink, MacLean
The Hoops midfielder began the demolition when his shot was deflected into his own net by Perth midfielder Liam Craig in the 28th minute and four minutes later Commons grabbed number two with another drive before setting up Gary Hooper for number three before the break.
The Scotland international scored from the spot 10 minutes into the second half to begin an argument of whether or not that was his hat-trick before substitute Charlie Mulgrew, on at the interval for Hooper, completed a night of misery for the hapless McDiarmid Park men when he made it 5-0.
St Johnstone’s shock 2-1 win against Celtic in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League in September was the second of an eight-game unbeaten run which they brought with them to the east end of Glasgow.
However, Celtic recovered from defeats to Barcelona and Kilmarnock in fine style by sweeping away a Saints side who looked a sorry outfit by the time the Hoops, and especially Commons, had finished with them.
Neil Lennon made five changes for the game with Mikael Lustig, Scott Brown, Victor Wanyama, Tony Watt and Hooper coming into the side which lost 2-0 against Killie on Saturday.
Miku, James Forrest, Adam Matthews, Beram Kayal and Mulgrew dropped out, the latter three starting on the bench.
Saints showed two changes with David McCracken and Kevin Moon in for Frazer Wright, out with a broken nose sustained in the 1-1 draw with Inverness at the weekend, and Nigel Hasselbaink, who was named among the substitutes.
The home side had closed the top tier of their 60,000-capacity stadium and the bottom section was far from full but Commons did his best to entertain those who had braved a miserable night.
His personal duel with Alan Mannus began in the 10th minute when the Saints keeper pulled off a good block from the Parkhead playmaker’s long-distance drive, before making an easier save when Commons tried to curl the ball past him moments later.
With the Perth side doing little offensively aside from launching long balls to lone striker Gregory Tade, Celtic continued to dominate possession.
In the 21st minute, after Saints midfielder Murray Davidson had bundled Hooper to the ground 30 yards from goal, Commons’ deflected free-kick caused Mannus some trouble before the Perth keeper grabbed the ball at the second attempt.
Moments later the St Johnstone number one was again forced into a save from Commons’ 30-yard drive, the wobbly Saints defence smuggling the ball out the box after the keeper had spilled it.
The former Nottingham Forest and Derby player had yet another attempt from outside the box and this time his shot went wide of the far post.
Commons eventually got the breakthrough albeit with the help of Craig whose attempt at blocking the angled-drive succeeded only in taking the ball past Mannus and into the roof of the net.
There was no doubt about Celtic’s second goal which followed soon afterwards.
Lustig’s pass from wide on the right found Hooper who quickly played in Commons and he drilled his shot low past the helpless Mannus from 12 yards.
Steve Lomas’s men looked sapped of all belief as Celtic piled forward at will. In the 38th minute Lustig had a header cleared off the line by Steven Anderson after McCracken had inadvertently headed off his own crossbar.
However, a minute later the tie was effectively over when Hooper, in typical poacher’s fashion, was on hand to knock Commons’ pass past Mannus, who was left exposed once again.
Mulgrew replaced the former Scunthorpe striker for the start of the second half while Steven MacLean came on for Rowan Vine but there was no way back for the visitors.
In the 56th minute Celtic were awarded a penalty when Anderson fouled Watt and Commons, almost inevitably, stepped up to slam his spot-kick past Mannus.
It had become a matter of how many Celtic would score and just after the hour mark Mulgrew made it 5-0 after more indecision in the ragged McDiarmid Park defence had allowed the Hoops utility player to find a yard before shooting into the far corner.
The shell-shocked visitors were all over the place and there was a moment of farce when McCracken almost put the ball into his own net trying to usher a Watt cross away from Mannus.
Celtic kept pushing for more goals but five minutes from time, Hasselbaink, on for Tade, struck the outside of the post, depriving the visitors of a consolation goal.
praecepta
I put on 5 bets tonight.
One single Reading, and four trebles, had Reading in two of the trebles, only team to let me down.
Where did the ref find an extra 3 mins ? Brown envelopes, or dancing girls I reckon :>)
The big question is ….will Butcher plunge to the same depths as McCall did, or will he put the team paying his wages first ??… Answers on a postcard, please…!!
Back home sharpish managing to avoid the squalls.
Always interesting when you see the game from a different angle and it’s warmer in the South Stand rear.
Scott Brown was the main difference in energy level, missing from Saturday and Kris Commons seemed to have benefitted perhaps from a word in his ear via NL, as he was
well up for this game.
Tony Watt has much more presence than Miku and this time shuffling the side to more familiar lines with the exception of resting Mulgrew and Forrest, Celtic swept away St Johnstone, who began along similar lines to Kilmarnock.
The back five were solid and no surprise St.Johnstone’s only real threat was when Ambrose
was replaced. Lustig had another good game, but in all, it was like a training game and by the time Mulgrew had space and time to go from his weaker foot to his left then still have time to pick his spot and score, St Johnstone were in tatters.
The Green Brigade as usual brightened the night, and at least the 14,440 crowd is accurate and not inflated with free tickets.
Hail Hail
Well that was more like it ,took the opportunity to re-locate to the main stand it sure is a good view in the posh seats.
Three stand outs for me tonight :
Broonies energy and ability out wide tonight got us playing further up the park to a good tempo.
Chris showed us how good a player he can be linking play , beating guys for fun and scoring Young Master Watt led the line like an old pro , great first touch and creates space for others. Surely a first pick after tonight , was desperate for him to get the goal he deserved.
only downer tonight was chick young on radio shortbread both before and after game all he could talk about was an old firm derby , chick there deid so no more derbies, so hope big terry can do the job with ICT tomorrow night.
Will be watching the replay on CelticTV…in the meantime, Arsenal stage an amazing comeback to win 5-7. Bread and circuses by the busload tonight.
Excellent celtic – just the response we needed – now lets never see another performance like that one against Kille!
TET
Had Arsenal @ -1 along with Celtic @ -3 + Leeds/ Mboro/ Villa – sore one as extra time doesn’t count. :-(
Hoopy Halloween
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Well folks, back from a Wet, Cauld, Hoopy, Paradise,as has been said before, as Mr Stein always did, play your Strongest Team at all times, and you will get your rewards,as we did tonight,not a failure on the Park.
Awerabest PJ
BTW wonder what the reaction will be, re GB Boooooooooooiiiiiinnnnngggggg.
Did the referee play 2 minutes extra extra time in the Arsenal game…..?…strange, to say the least, if he did…
On a night like tonight, The Green Brigade made all the difference.
Well done you Bhoys and Ghirls
Credit to the club
Guy on ssb tonight put a lot of details out there. I think his name was David. Green never met Whyte then it turns out he met him 4 times.
Speirs says “we cant know everything” Does this guy keep doo’s?
GB were brill 2 nite.
the spirit of arthur lee
22:45 on
30 October, 2012
Brilliant ….. Is that wee chick behind Hoopy…..!!!!!!!!!!!!
praecepta
Did my head in that ref tonight, was looking at quite a few bob, would have well paid for my trip to Lisbon, and treated the wife.
He cheated, no other explanation.
Try as I might, I just can;t seem to stop having a flutter, I would be better off health wise being a junkie, I’m already an alkie so, my blood pressure and ticker are taking a pounding :>)
I can understand the ref playing an extra 30sec onto the added 4 in arsenal game… Because of the sub that came on, he then had several chances to blow b4 arsenal equalised.
Thought reading were hard done by. Also thought koscielny should have been given a second yellow earlier on.
Wonder how many reading fans left happy after 89 mins 4-2 up!!