Winning the league at Tynecastle, or against Aberdeen at Celtic Park, would both be acceptable. The one blot today’s fixture announcement threw up is the possibility that we could win the league while not playing, if Aberdeen fail against Motherwell, a game which kicks off after our match at Tynecastle has ended.
Whatever way it falls, securing five-in-a-row is surely now a matter of when, not if.
After ‘news’ that our chief executive could be a target for a relegation-threatened English club yesterday, our media have moved into the playing squad today. Is there a game coming up they’re worried about?
These transfer pieces are always available. Every club has records on literally hundreds of players. You can write a piece on any player, at any time, on tenuous information, they just happen to pop up at a convenient moment.
Still holding out for a love rat story before the weekend, or a reprisal of the ‘Refs let Scott Brown off the hook’ narrative.
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Was that Paul67 on ssb
I am in Munich on Saturday. Can anyone give me a pub/supporters club where I can watch the game?
Strange that BBC Sportsound feel that they can broadcast Walter Smith’s complete interview including the tripe about “Rangers being demoted” and then blatantly and openly say that they will not discuss that particular highly controversial statement.
Was checking if any other Scots had won U.S Masters apart from Sandy Lyle,noticed
that there was no tourney 1943 to 1945 due to WW2
Winner in 1946……Herman Keiser :O( shoooooooorly a wind up?
Struck by how feable…………….. P.Ness and the Auld Indulged Ned looked during their respective outbursts……….
Yesterday’s men.
Amen.
When the shit hits the fan … when the blood flows… when the tears run down the faces of those who lose loved ones … when property is vandalised and innocent people are threatened and bullied …… the old firm will be back .
Not for me thanks
THE RESOLUTE MR PASTRY on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:59 PM
Strange that BBC Sportsound feel that they can broadcast Walter Smith’s complete interview including the tripe about “Rangers being demoted” and then blatantly and openly say that they will not discuss that particular highly controversial statement.
Strange you say?
More like normal service resumed.
16 roads – Celtic über alles… on 12th April 2016 7:24 am
A few words re Merle Haggard – Decent enough country singer.
*the legend that Johnny Cash wished he had been, ironically it was a Johnny Cash concert at San Quentin which inspired Mel.
George Jones was the greatest country musician of all time, as far as I’m concerned.
*Not a country fan myself but the purists who are would agree with you there.
Jim Reeves, second possibly, Kris Kristofferson there with the best of them. Obviously Glenn Campbell, Johnny Denver – Cash et all Nelson, Kenny, Cline, Williams,Conway etc.
*Jim Reeves was a big favourite in Mrs TT’s house as was Eddie Arnold. BTW Kris was a Rhodes Scholar.
My bother came in one day happy as a pig in Raphael with his new Patsy Cline album, I was going through my John Sebastian phase at the time.
I did like Sweet Dreams but by Cajun singer Tommy McLain which got plenty of airplay on “Radio Scotland playing just for you so beat the ban and join the clan on station 242”, great babysitting song.
Did you know that one of Patsy’s biggest hits “Crazy”, the biggest jukebox song of all time, was written by wee outlaw Willie. Not sure if this is one of his earlier songs he “sold” whilst a penniless songwriter similar to “Funny How Time Slips Away” which Georgie Fame did a cracking version of.
Can’t bring myself to hate anyone, or anything, not even those wretched zombies.
*being a pacifist socialist as well as a Secular Franciscan I feel the same but they stretch the limit to my nicety.
TIMBHOY @ 5.23pm
Think that you will find that when the Main Stand was rebuilt there were massive problems regarding the foundations. Much of the subsoil (?)I believe was thick layers of gravel and for safety reasons there had to be heavy pillars at the ends and retractable ones in the middle.
The toilets do need improving. Not helped when you have graffiti – including one with F*** Celticeltic Fen***Ba****** in one of the toilets in the North Stand which has been there since the Commonwealth Games.
Presumably cleaning is contracted out. HH
Rarely comment on the deadco but have to say something after Wattie’s comments.
Right to be bitter, about what! Clubs who shunned them, how dare they stand up for integrity, spurn one of their own member Clubs who just about broke every rule in the book, how dare they indeed. He blames others and claims that Scottish Football is poorer for their absence, even citing Clubs who are facing relegation (without naming them) who stood against them.
If only those the Clubs would have turned round and said wait a wee minute, we cannot through out the might Glasgow Rangers, they are the establishment, we must bow to them, we must let them continue to cheat, continue to rule the roost, because if we don’t, we could be relegated.
Wattie and the rest of their followers should be bitter but not to the hard working, rule following Clubs but to the one and only Sir David Murray!
I will finish with this, Wattie’s comments are exactly the reason why the padlocks should be put on and their colours retired to the SFA Hall of Shame. You, me and thousands of Supporters of other Clubs know they died but until they are cremated (figuratively speaking), they will always exist in the eyes of the world.
Oh, I’ll turn it on Wattie, me and thousands like me will always be bitter that deadco got away with years of cheat. Yes, HMRC will get their decision they need but the SFA have and will not allow them to be punished for their wrong doing.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
NORTH CYPRUS (FORMERLY BAKU) BHOY on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:56 PM
Well said “Paul in Pllockshaws”!!
NORTH CYPRUS (FORMERLY BAKU) BHOY on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:56 PM
Pollockshaws, even!
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Pollokshaws, actually.
Wonder what the rest of the clubs thought after listening to Smith’s comments today, it’s like welcoming the Black Death into your house
BlantyreKev
Great post. Sadly, regarding Celtic filling the void next season, I expect you’ll be disappointed.
SSB
Ragers don’t need Celtic but Celtic need Ragers.
Haven’t Celtic won 4 Scottish titles without the dregs?
Filling grounds don’t win titles.
Next year when the dregs are getting pumped by teams in the bottom half of the SPL & are fighting for a place in the top 6 then, & only then will we see the dwindling crowds of the Ibrox Roadies.
IKI on 12TH APRIL 2016 7:09 PM
NORTH CYPRUS (FORMERLY BAKU) BHOY on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:56 PM
Well said “Paul in Pllockshaws”!!
NORTH CYPRUS (FORMERLY BAKU) BHOY on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:56 PM
Pollockshaws, even!
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Pollokshaws, actually.
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Can ye tell that Ah’m fae Fife, ken? :-)
SHEIK YERBOUTI on 12TH APRIL 2016 6:57 PM
Was that Paul67 on ssb
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Whoever he was, he certainly wasn’t a Hun!
HH
The mistake that many, even well-meaning ex Celtic players and commentators make when repeating the “Celtic have missed Rangers” mantra is precisely this:
If Rangers had ‘crashed and burned’, because of their debt – had done everything in their power to settle their with their creditors – sold players for that purpose – apologised for cheating over tax and registering players they could not afford – had they been properly relegated because they could not compete – then there may have been some merit in saying that they have been missed and if they had managed to ‘claw their way’ after all that, we might have said that Celtic had missed the strong challenge.
However, how can you really say Celtic have missed a ‘Rangers challenge’, when that challenge has been predicated on cheating and tax evasion for twenty-five years. The football challenge may be missed, the cheating and skullduggery certainly will not.
Yes Celtic and the top-tier have been affected by the death of ‘Rangers’ – you simply can’t take 40% out of a league structure without ramifications.
They may be back ‘in the mix’, however the bad taste will last for a very long time.
We at Celtic have a young and on paper an exciting squad – I firmly believe that we will add three quality players in the next window and of course jettison seven or eight that are surplus to requirements.
I don’t think Walter is daft. He called it at the time, he said good luck to the new lot of something along those lines.
What he is doing now, is towing the Dave King, Level 5, SMSM propaganda line. Feed the people what they want to hear and they will come out in their droves. Season ticket renewal time is soon. With the League in the bag, a defeat on Sunday is the end of the line for them this season. A real doing will do a lot of damage.
Expect a lot more of this.
Ps. I wouldn’t have a problem loaning a handful of players to Dundee Utd next season.
Baku bhoy/lefcosia
That is for I think it’s him tho
The Secret Lies of J Walter Smithy
Apparently wash basins were torn from the walls at Hampden on Sunday. I was shown pics by a friend of mine after the golf yesterday. Never made the papers!
Mr Pastry, if you are on call,
I have just remembered your post from this afternoon (posted below and I have, hopefully, emboldened 2 sections).
It was memorable to me as it is the first time I’m aware of that you have written something personal, shared something of yourself on the blog. It was also memorable, as it reads to me that you went from John Street to a coffee and roll and sausage roll stall off Pollokshaws Road.
Is that what you meant?
If do, were you the Memphis Flash?
“THE RESOLUTE MR PASTRY on 12TH APRIL 2016 3:20 PM
JUNGLEJIM@11:43 (last article) – Wee memory re The Marbles.
Remember being in a very young band that was on the same bill as them, up at Strathclyde Students Union in John Street 1969.
We did two spots, one either side of the Marbles. We were good harmony group and had one of their numbers in our set “By The Light Of The Burning Candle” – we did it early in our first set, place was still quite empty and Marbles’ roadies were still putting the finishing touches to their gear on the main stage.
They stopped and came over to our stage and watched us perform the number – they were impressed but mentioned to our manager that it would better if we didn’t do anymore of their numbers, as that sort of thing was frowned upon in ‘real showbiz’ circles – however we were kind of stroppy and did “To Love Somebody”, their Bee Gees cover, as our last number before they came on.
They were long gone into the night when we finished our second-set, so we had no contact, but they were good with some top players in their band – it was just the usual visit to the coffee and roll and sausage stall off Pollokshaws Road for us – last time I thought about this vignette, was when seeing Graham Bonnet on TOTP some years later – he has a mighty voice – sort of an earler version of Michael Bolton.”
COSY CORNER BHOY on 12TH APRIL 2016 7:30 PM
Apparently wash basins were torn from the walls at Hampden on Sunday. I was shown pics by a friend of mine after the golf yesterday. Never made the papers!
Just because you don’t know what something is for………………is no reason to vandalise it:-))
Cosy,
If the smsm got involved, they would blame the Peterhead fans or Peterhead fans dress in Hun tops, mischievous barstewards……..
I wonder if Smith’s pronouncements today are a cobbled-together “squirrel”, to distract from Souness’ admission yesterday. If the supporters of the NewClub are too busy being worked up, angry, bitter and resentful then they might be too busy to think about the implications of what was said yesterday with regard to an appeal in the BTC.
What if they hadn’t been admonished to the lowest league?
Given the level of players they had available I’m guessing they would have been relegated. Would that have appeased the loyals? Would they have played to full stadiums every week? Would they then have been relegated to the next lower league?
From where I sit, they should count themselves lucky.
This weekend in Scotland some football team will be sanctioned for messing up the team lines. Or playing a suspended player. Or playing a cup tied player.
If it’s cup football a team will be expelled.
If it’s league you lose 3-0.
It happens. That the administration of the game.
None of these teams hopefully are giving the players any type of payment off the books.
Walters old team did.
That the bottom line truth of it.
Not an administration error. But players falsely registered. Full contracts not disclosed. Side letter not lodged (sic ) with the governing body.
Each and every trophy won in the ebt big and small should be struck off.
Walter. You were never punished not once.
Not one football sanction. Not one 3-0 overturn per season.
Scottish football. The club’s owe you sweet fa.
The not sweet sfa with an ebt recipient as it’s head gave you the zombie lifeline.
Walter a delusional relic knowing nothing about corporate law. And even less about fair play and justice.
Some kid on some side will get hurt this weekend. For wearing green and white.
A feck in disagree Walter.
Shame on you.
I was slightly disappointed when I saw the post split fixtures this afternoon and noticed that there wouldn’t be another wee day out in Dingwall.
The prospect of winning the title at Tynecastle sounds mouthwatering though.
Staggered, absolutely Staggered by the arrogance, ignorance and rallying call for bitterness and hatred to spill out before, during and forever after their game v us on Sunday.
I hope his comments are challenged by ‘Nil by Mouth’ and I hope that he is asked to explain his disgraceful out bust to Police Scotland. His poison has only added more venom to the hatred put out by his kind.
Good Evening.
I finally managed to catch my breath and write some thoughts about Walter Smith’s remarkable outburst this afternoon…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/a-pint-of-bitter/
smyth/ebt man is right about one thing – they should never have been let into the third division
Vinniethebhoy
Celtic Bars has the Champions Sports Bar on Berliner Strasse in Munich.
Rangers have been punished enough
and when the European Court of Human Rights finally gets around to investigating the way they have been treated ….well heads will roll,
The problem of course is that the SFA and the Scottish Media are so riddled with Celtic supporters that many of the files relating to this scandal have been destroyed
Make no mistake this was a papish conspiracy on a grand scale involving members of opus dei and the knights of Columbanus,their tentacles stretch all the way from The White House to the Vatican.
Meanwhile reports are emerging of a training ground bust up between 2 prominent Celtic players,one of whom has been having an affair with the others wife.Both have been suspended and transfer listed with Norwich apparently ready to table a £50,000.00 bid
Finally Mike Ashley and Dave King have had clear the air talks and seem ready to bury the hatchet,as Newcastle plummet headlong to relegation Ashley has told trusted sources that he now intends to pump money into the long suffering teddy bears in order to have a proper tilt at the Champions League next season.
There ye go
Easy
I wonder what the oldco’s creditor’s will think of having someone like smyth in charge again
WITS
Excellent!
I also read that Police Scotland have yet to deny that CKR may be questioned in relation to his alleged assault at the weekend which could rule the controversial Celt out of the Old Firm clash if it was true.
Vinniethebhoy 6.58pm
The Shamrock, Trautenwolfstrasse 4, 80802 Munchen.
It’s been a few years but this place showed every Celtic game a decade or so back. Nowhere else in the city did.
Take the U3 or U6 underground train to Giselastrasse. Head north from Giselastrasse station up Leopoldstrasse. Trautenwolfstrasse is short side street on east side of Leopoldstrasse a short distance north of Giselastrasse station. The Shamrock is small basement bar on right hand side of street. Nice wee Irish pub.
Give them a call. It should be a safe bet to see the game.
SHEIK YERBOUTI on 12TH APRIL 2016 7:27 PM
Baku bhoy/lefcosia
That is for I think it’s him tho
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I’m a Zeytinlik Bhoy, not Lefkosa! :-)
And you?
HH
HT…
Spoke to a big Tim mate in work today, he travels to most away games and is annoyed that there could be the possibility he won’t get a ticket for tynecastle if we can win the league there.
I can see where he is coming from due to the reduced ticket allocation.
I’ll see if I can do anything for him. HH