I could make the case that Kilmarnock were better against Celtic on Sunday than Hearts were, when the latter won 4-0 at Tynecastle last year. At Rugby Park, Celtic failed to retain possession to anything like an adequate level. The nuances of the pitch were known in advance, I don’t buy it as an excuse.
Players seemed over-anxious to get rid of the ball, most often by sending it forward to players who didn’t have the space necessary to retain possession. A large part of our conventional system relies on passing and movement from central defence. The early loss of Boyata, then Ajer, did Celtic more damage than the pitch.
You know that ominous feeling you get when media and many in the game are uniting behind a candidate for a top job, before the job is even advertised? Leeann Dempster might be the best administrator in Hibs’ and Motherwell’s recent history, but that is modest claim to fame. The job of CEO at the SFA should go through a conventional recruitment process.
As for BBC news this morning that the SFA are considering Walter Smith* as national team manager, a man who walked out on his contract halfway through a qualifying campaign for a club job! This tells you all you need to know about football in Scotland.
*and I didn’t even mention his EBT, because no one ever mentions “Walter’s” EBT, that would just embarrass the man. It must be like a sketch of Monty Python whenever he walks into a room of journalists. Would love to know what it was for……
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Embdae know how to update Cric TV on Kodi? Ta
Bill Leckie today going on about the EPL is awash with cash and how it will end badly , then says look what happened to Dundee, Hearts, Livingston and Gretna who spent money they didn’t have , no mention of der hun !!!
PARK ROAD 67,
Wonder why…..
If you were in the Strong Rangers Association and wanted to appoint Alex McLeish as your new manager but knew he was unpopular with the support because he (amongst other things):
is seen as being too old
has been out of work for too long
plays turgid football
had had the job before but left to go to an English club
Wouldn’t it be convenient if someone else’s name came up who:
is even older
has been out of work for even longer
plays even more turgid football
had had the job before but left to go to Rangers
All of a sudden the first guy doesn’t sound as bad…
Low-“Level” smokescreen.
PHILBHOY, wish you were here.lol half pished but lovin it.hh.
JOBO lucky you !! Enjoy the beer mhate say hello to big Stevie if your in Hoops bar HH !!
Old bigoted dinosaurs with an EBT never die they just become Scotland’s national team manager what a farce
Smith’s record as manager makes for pretty grim reading as well so it’s not as if he was going to take Scotland into qualification for a major tournament
G W L D WR
His record shows 16 7 5 4 43.75
P W D L WR
For comparison Craig Levein 24 10 5 9 41.67
Daryl Clubfoot on Shortbread, he gets wheeled out when his former paymasters want to get a message out……i smell $#!te
Big P- hoopy birthday
!!BADA BING!! on 5TH FEBRUARY 2018 6:35 PM
Daryl Clubfoot on Shortbread, he gets wheeled out when his former paymasters want to get a message out……i smell $#!te
He talks $#!te. Spoke for two minutes there and never actually said anything.
Kenny Mac desperate for the return of the cardigan!
!!BADA BING!! before i get too drunk thanks.hh.
Any news on Boyata & Ajer’s injuries ie how long they’ll be out?
Played 16 Won 7 lost 5 Drawn 4 WR 43.75 Smith
Played 24, Won 10 Drawn 5, lost 9, WR 41.67 levein
Big Packy.
Happy birthday.
Have a blast.
Hail Hail
God give me strength. How can the Scotland job even be discussed when they have no chief executive. They are determined that it will be one of the brotherhood that get it. Malky McKay, Gary Caldwell, Stevie Clarke all tick the boxes in all the football areas but not the one that really matters.
They Will try everything in their power to get them the gig so we can perm any 2 from the aforementioned 2 and the recently sacked Bradford boss. No doubt another opportunity to sort out the game in this country will be missed. Very disappointing when we probably have some of the best young players we have had in a long time. Does anyone believe that the three musketeers can get Scotland up the rankings. As always I hope for the best but fear the worst.
G67- ” the criteria has changed….” Clubfoot
Finally got around to listening to the podcast with Neil Lennon that provoked a couple of memories I’d like to share.
In the podcasts Neil refers to Scott Brown as a mouthy wee something or other just like Neil was.
Prior to Neil coming to Celtic I had noticed this blond haired nyaff playing midfield for Leicester. I wasn’t sure who he was and I asked my daughter, who was well up on who was whom in football. She gave me his name and I said Celtic should sign him, he is just what we need.
A few years later I saw Scott Brown strutting his stuff for Hibs, just as Neil’s playing time at Celtic was drawing to a close.
I hope we sign him I said to my daughter, he is the perfect replacement for that wee nyaff Lennon, a man whom I have grown to admire for his courage and honesty.
Later in the podcast Neil was asked about becoming Celtic manager.
What was not covered was that the vacancy arose as result of the 4=0 defeat at Paisley that signalled the end of Tony Mowbray’s career.
The Celtic family was in turmoil and Peter Lawwell took soundings. One of those sounded was Jeanette Findlay who suggested that Celtic do a A Roadshow to answer questions and establish how the support felt.
Typically Celtic said nothing but announced the idea as their own and Jeanette was asked to Chair with Peter Lawwell and Neil Lennon as temporary manager answering the questions.
Now it turned out Jeanette had used Twitter at other meetings to let those not attending get an idea of what was taking place, but as Chair could not tweet, so she asked me.
I had no idea what Twitter was, but having made a career of not being afraid of technology, I agreed.
I remember sitting in front of the laptop screen thinking “wtf” when one of the Celtic Underground guys Glen/Eddie ??? stepped over and explained Twitter.
“You have 148 characters to get the story across” he explained.
” 148?” I asked “WTF use is that to me”
Anyhoo I do my best to Tweet and as the evening nears its end Jeanette with a mischievous glint in her eye say to those assembled something like this.
” Imagine the aim of the Celtic Trust of having a representative on the Board is achieved and as that representative I propose to the floor that Neil Lennon becomes the next Celtic manager, how many are in favour?”
The vote for Neil was overwhelming, but subsequently led to accusations that Jeanette was responsible for Neil Lennon’s appointment from those not present, who also had not seen my Tweet that said
“Jeanette Findlay has JOKINGLY proposed Neil Lennon as the next Celtic manager.”
That accusation rumbled on for some time but when Neil won his first trophy I remember texting Jeanette to say “you sure know how to pick a manager” and in Neil Lennon we had a real good un and a man of courage and as the podcast shows a great sense of humour.
Thanks for the podcast lads.
Reagan was only a puppet, as Brian Conley would say.
It’s the Masons behind the scenes, who appointed him, that are calling the shots.
Nothing ever changes.
Celtic just have to continue winning league championships – it kills them, it really does.
HH.
Noticed that Ralston played for the youth team today.I would have liked Brendan to have made a robust response to Levein`s attack on Scott Brown as after Saturdays game I think he is going to be targeted more by referees.
AULDHEID @ 6:54
Great story
I too enjoyed the podcast
HH
Soukous- i think Clancy has booked Broonie 11 out of last 12 games that he has been MIB…
okay while im still relatively sober, can i tell you, talking about bigotry, remember as a teenager my dad had to go down south for work to keep me and 3 brothers and a sister with food on the table not because the school he went to but the location all you lanarkshire and dumbartonshiretims will know the name of the village it was croy dumbartonshire when i was young my dad took me to the may procession in croy with the blessed virgin mary statue held high and to you non catholic tims i appoligise but croy was something so catholic i cant put into words, and that in a roundabout way was why inmo he couldnt get a job, sorry about the rant.hh.
16ROADS
You’re spot on. Celtic keep winning everything and that will kill the huns off as the rats desert the sinking ship. God knows every other way of killing them off has been tried and the slippery bandits have slithered their way out.
Watty has to be appointed to one of the two jobs at the S.F.A. cos they need someone who already knows the answers to the awkward questions, so they won’t be asked.
You know the old masons saying “cover your work”. Well they want to cover up.
I’m don’t know many tims who would take the C.E. job but why don’t we start promoting one of our own bhoys for the job. I would love to hear their objections to a tim being touted for the job.
Here goes John Reid he’s the same age as watty.
KEEP THE FAITH
Why is everyone so opposed to Walter’s return ?
Big Packy,
Have a great birthday and don’t spoil it by stop drinking :0)
TonyRome 7.22.
Peter Lawwell would tip them over the edge.
They couldn’t afford him though.
Hail Hail
Aulheid,
I was at that same Roadshow. Personally, I thought Jeanette Findlay was way out of order there, joking or not.
BIG PACKY on 5TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:59 PM
GREENPINATA, know my late father was in the knights of st columbus moodiesburn branch, never thought about the secret society connections.hh.
*they aren’t a secret society BP, you are not supposed to divulge what occurred when taking your degrees, BTW there are only 4 of them unlike the craft which has 32, as the effect is has on you as a person and Christian is quite unique in a positive way.
The goatshaggers take a blood oath and are NOT a service group, how can they be as they are self serving, all others like the Knights, Kiwanis, Rotarians etc do not.
Posters sometimes forget how diverse Dermot Desmond’s business interests are. He has much to gain from keeping certain folk onside as his businesses continue to develop (and how smart he is).
Technology and Secrecy,
Take his company Daon for example,
“Just look at the sort of biometric work that Daon has done for other governments around the globe – airport traveller recognition systems, identity cards, employee biometric identification systems. You’re looking at your future.
Pretty soon, Daon could know everything about many of us. It will know the sound of our voices, the colour of our eyes, our fingerprints, the individual sprawl of our veins.”
“Its US unit, Daon Inc, filed documents this week in Virginia. But all those confirm is that Desmond still sits on the board alongside Grissen, a couple of Virginian lawyers and Tom Ridge, the first US secretary for homeland security after 9/11.”
Thomas Grissen (CEO) explained to me precisely what Daon does: “When a fingerprint or iris is scanned, that information is handed to us. We check it against various criminal databases and government watch lists, make sure the person is who they say they are and manage the system overall.”
That scanning system operates at Dublin Airport and Dermot knows more about you than you know about yourself.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/dermot-desmond-s-daon-will-know-all-about-us-yet-we-know-nothing-of-it-1.3270030
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/better-security-through-biometrics-steve-cook
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=218479&privcapId=7827847
I hope that Walter, The Manager With Only One Name, gets the Scotland job.
It may well be the tipping-point.
The SFA has no chief executive. He left, in something approaching shame.
So who appoints Walter?
As coach of the National team, Walter will be in the glare of the headlights.
Question 1: You were being paid sizeable sums of money by Rangers FC when you were manager of Everton FC. Why?
Question 2: You walked out of the Scotland job in mid-contract, at a crucial phase of a qualifying campaign, to take a job at Rangers. Why?
Question 3: Do you think this sentiment, and these words, are acceptable in ‘one country, many cultures’ Scotland from someone in a position of power and influence: “There’s a sense of Protestant superiority about the place”, accompanied by a smirk?
Just the start.
I pray he gets the job.
SOUKOUS on 5TH FEBRUARY 2018 7:01 PM
Noticed that Ralston played for the youth team today.
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We might see a few CQN’ers showing up at the junior games…. mistakenly thinking that would be big Judith (who seems to be a CQN favourite for some reason)
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Two things.
IF the appoint a hun manager and a hun to replace Regan, I am done with scottish football.
This is a chance to take the game forward, our club should be leading from the front, to resort back to the masonic crap will be the end for me.
I have enough stuff in my life that I can get stressed about without bothering about the hun crap any more.
MELBOURNE MICK on 4TH FEBRUARY 2018 9:14 PM
Hello again all you young rebels.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
John suffered after a couple of early mistakes which all goalies have at sometime
*like a lot of my contemporaraies I was a big Frank Haffey fan, he was colourful which appealed to the younger sect, we called him crazy horse. My da much preferred the much more subdued John Fallon.
At the Dunfermline replay Frank came running out of goal close tae the shy line and tried tae dribble the ball, we were in the enclosure and its the first time I caught my da almost sweaing, “get back in goal ya clown” he shouted.
5 years or so later I’m at the SC replay against the calvinists, this was the replay of a 3-3 tie away that can be seen on youtube in which Wispy gave big Cush a roasting and not for the 1st time, Johnny Hamilton tormented big Billy who played right back that afternoon, and our support invaded the park after each goal.
We were sublime that night in front of a 72,000 crowd, aye that’ll be right we couldnae get intae the Celtic end and stood in that area between it and the Jungle.
Anyways, we were 3 up and closing the game out when Wispy lobbed the faither from what at the time looked like the hauf way line. Not a bit of dissent could be heard just wee titters about being a daft oul bu88er. I turned tae my mate and said if that had been John Fallon they would be going ballistic, and this BTW is a couple of years prior tae that hun game which has probably haunted him ever since.
On leaving the ground a huge cheer went up, deidco had lost at Falkirk while the sheep beat kilmasonic and the buddies the pars our other 2 closest rivals. We were now top of the league on goal average.
In contrast, my first hun game 5 year previous, much tae the consternation of my da an older relative took me tae hades for the League game, this was a very good hun side while we were quite disjointed, and they were talking about revenge for the 7-1 game.
They went ahead early doors fae a Christie, who had just joined them fae Ayr, goal but we rallied and Johnny Divers equalised about 20 minutes later. Just after half time a Wille Fernie goal at the Celtic end gave us the lead and we looked on course for all 2 points as Paddy Crerand and Billy Price nullified the threat of mcmillan and baxter until the last minute when a baxter blooter slipped under big Frank for the undeserved equaliser practically on his doorstep. Frank had just returned from injury and was replacing Frank Connor who had been freed at the end of the previous season and only recalled as both Fallon and Haffey were unavailable.
It was this goal and not the 9 lost 5 months earlier that IMHO created the Haffey, Haffey, Haffey taunt fae the huns in response tae our 7, 7, 7. I can’t recall any animosity towards big Frank for that error unlike what John Fallon faced 7 years later.
Forgot to add this was the game that 2 fans lost their lives and 60 were injured at that stairwell after the game had ended and the crowd was exiting. Glasgow magistrates called for an investigation into the incident, that worked well didn’t it.
Charlie a sublime footballer who would have been worth millions in todays game where players are protected more and also a target for the ” get it up the park ” mob but both chose to stay with Celtic when they could have graced many another teams jersey.
*Charlie eventually left for Dumbarton, at the end of the 1970 season, he played against us in the LC semi and replay which went to extra time 5 months later. He was MOTM on both occasions
At 2-2 local lad Kenny Wilson, who was a prolific goal scorer 67 goals in 74 appearnces, had given big Billy a torrid time, BTW he was rolling barrels in Hiram Walkers the day of both games, broke through on goal only for another local lad Evan Williams, who had probably played against him in the local St Pats v Dumbarton Acadamy school derby, coming out and saving at his feet.
I had a work colleague at the time who was on the Sons books and in the dug out that night and he claimed that big Jock was out on the touchline pointing at Charlie and screaming at Davie Hay tae “dae something about him”. Fine praise indeed.
Dumbarton were chasing promotion the following season and looked on track for it when suddenly there was a dip in form, the wee dive bomber wilson hardly kicked a ball, his namesake Kenny, who I just mentioned, goals dried up after scoring 5 against Raith, this in a season when set the record for the most goals scored for Dumbarton in a season and earned a transfer to Carlisle.
All of a sudden promotion is looking ominous then up stepped Charlie, he practically carried them over the line with 6 goals in the last 4 games, in fact he scored 20 goals that season, not bad for a ball playing midfielder, while the wee reverse three-and-a-half somersault tuck contributed zero and was rewarded with a coaching role, Dumbarton Kilwinning Ludge 16 has a lot too answer for.
Charlie meanwhile bought a grocery store up Belllsmyre which he ran successfully for years, recently on CQN I asked him about it and he said he loved it and the people however only sold it as the commute was getting too much for him. Still a much loved figure in the Ancient Capital of Strathclyde and not just among Celtic supporters.
MIT- :)
tontine .
All of a sudden promotion is looking ominous then up stepped Charlie, he practically carried them over the line with 6 goals in the last 4 games, in fact he scored 20 goals that season, not bad for a ball playing midfielder, while the wee reverse three-and-a-half somersault tuck contributed zero and was rewarded with a coaching role, Dumbarton Kilwinning Ludge 16 has a lot too answer for.
is this a quiz.i’m stumped.i have asked you a dozen times,WHY NO NAMES????????????????????
Just a quick dip in and out:
I was quaking in my boots when the meeja pointed out that Aberdeen are now just 8 points behind Celtic. (I wasn’t really!)
For the record, and I hadn’t thought of it in relation to the END of the season up to now…
Celtic are 8 points ahead of Aberdeen and 14 points ahead of Sevco with just 12 games remaining. Yup, it is indeed a mere 7 games until the split, and Sevco are just three points further from missing the top 6 cut than they are from catching The Perennial Champions.
Charlie Gallagher.
SOS:
Wire on my Garage door has just snapped, unable to get the door closed. Long shot but anyone in or near ML5 that could be recommended or pop down, appreciate it is late. Call me if you have my number or mail me at lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!