Kris Commons return to the Celtic team on Sunday was enormously welcome, even if it didn’t produce his first goal of the season. Kris has had a wretched season after arriving with a bang from Derby County in January last year.
He is not the most athletic or skilful player in the team but he has an abundance of football intelligence, well in excess of his contemporaries. The cross-field pass for the second goal against St Johnstone was a perfect example. Celtic players were rushing forward on a break, while defenders were flooding back. To the annoyance of many sitting around me, Kris slowed things down, surveyed the field and switched play to Ki on the opposite wing.
This has been a great and memorable season for Celtic but there remains plenty to do. An hour or so watching Kris Commons is enough to demonstrate the way forward.
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Kittoch,
League rule is at least 25% of games to get a medal so 10 is correct.
Kittoch
Paddy has came off the bench 10 times this season so would be eligible for a medal.
Mort
Kittoch
We’ve also only got 6 SPL games left.
Mort
Kayal33
I thought that must be the case, where are you looking?
Jock Steins Celtic
If it was up to me mate you would be a medal winner, along with a good few other CQNr’s, and Bada bing of course, (he gets upset if I leave him out)
Kittoch on 5 April, 2012 at 12:51 said:
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=44179
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/Samantha-Brick-downsides-looking-pretty-Why-women-hate-beautiful.html
Just listening to Graem Spiers being interviewed by C4 on the “succulent lamb” issue.
He says that HE initiated the phrase.
My impression was that it came directly from a Jim Traynor article.
Am I wrong?
I like it when Kris Commons is in the team. He’s not a predictable player and he can open up defences, too many players prefer the sideways pass.
I’ve got a feeling he’s going to score some very important goals over the next few weeks.
All he needs is games. Looking forward to seeing more of McGeoch as well another direct player who’ll worry defences.
jhilday
Think speirs is saying ha had a dig at jabba the day after jabbas article.
HAIL HAIL
Good so Paddy is safe.
Zaluska misses by 1 if he features in remaining 6 games.
Dylan can make it if he plays in all 6
Izzi requires 3 should be OK
Glenn requires 2 should be OK
jhilday:
A phrase abstracted from an article in which Traynor interviewed Murray about his “vision” for the Great Hun Cause and then integrated into the Tim folklore for evermore.
Congrat to the U15’s on winning the Nike Cup
p
seventyxseven ‘gelee et glace’ – Murdo Fraser has attempted to scrap the Scottish Tory Party which he called “a toxic brand” in favour of a new right wing party which would be more in touch with the Scottish voter. He has spoken often that he wants to see something completely new and consign the present Scottish Tory Party to history.
So he is not against Newcos altogether.
Ibrox will be renamed ‘The Big Hoose o’ Fraser’ in his honour.
How about “Hun House”?
Wacky!
Hun!
Crazy!
It’s outrageous!
Hun house, a whole lot of huns,
prizes to be won.
It’s the real crazy show where anything goes.
Hun house, it’s a quiz,
it’s a race, a real wacky place. (thumbsup)
Auldheid,
Is there a statute of limitation on your tolerance and in limbo determination before apathy and procrastination are beaten by pristine instinct?
You didn’t answer my question, how do you choose your friends? What criteria do you apply or do you just never make friends only acquaintances?
That is not a dig, it is a genuine question.
Daily Record – November 19, 1998 SECRET FEAR THAT DRIVES ME TO WIN 10 IN A ROW:
Rangers chairman David Murray opens up on the highs and lows of his decade in charge of Rangers and promises that the best is still to come
Exclusive James Traynor
RANGERS owner David Murray doesn’t often allow his true feelings to surface, but currently he is finding it difficult to disguise a pain which has been gnawing away inside since the end of last season.
After a period of almost total dominance of Scottish football during which Rangers racked up 17 trophies the club met with failure.
Celtic won the championship and the League Cup and Hearts beat Rangers in the Tennents Scottish Cup final, leaving Murray with nothing to show for a massive investment in time and money.
Even now he winces when he thinks of that season, but it is the vivid memory, and the pain of defeat with which he now suffers, that combine to drive him on.
Last night as he looked back on a decade as Rangers’ owner – come this Sunday, the 22nd, it will be 10 years since he paid Lawrence Marlborough £6 million for the club – Murray’s desire to avoid the miseries of another barren season could not be disputed.
To hear him speak was to listen to a man who believes himself to be charged with some kind of great and mighty mission. Murray, who chose to talk only to the Record about his dreams and ambitions for Rangers, said: “No one should doubt that Rangers are the biggest club in the country, but I know that talk is cheap in this business and that we will have to prove just how big we are.
“That doesn’t really bother me because as long as I am able to influence this club we will be the biggest and we will be the best. “I have spent 10 years of my life, and I know that sometimes I gave up too much of myself to Rangers, but I am not about to give up now.
“Neither am I willing to stand aside and allow another club to overtake Rangers. The failure of last season hurt me a lot and that pain was something I didn’t need nor want.
“It is also a pain which I never want to suffer again, but by God that sort of thing just makes me even more determined to succeed. I am still as driven, still as enthusiastic and I will welcome the challenge of anyone out there.”
Murray was referring not only to the Kenny Dalglish/Jim Kerr consortium who are stalking Celtic, but also the as yet uncovered groups who are bound to make bids to buy out Fergus McCann.
If the past 10 years have taught Murray, who is one of Britain’s wealthiest individuals, anything it is how to win and he believes Rangers will continue to grow and prosper.
“I look upon these last 10 years as a having been a great era, but it is over and Rangers are about to head on into a new era,” he said over a glass of the finest red.
He was about to take in another mouthful of the most succulent lamb – anyone who knows Murray shouldn’t be surprised to learn he is a full-blooded, unashamed red meat eater – when he put down his knife and fork.
It was like a statement of intent and looking directly across the table to make sure I hadn’t yet succumbed to the wine, he said:
“Bring on the next 10 years, there’s more to come for Rangers.
“Understand that I care passionately about what I’m doing with Rangers and believe that in 10 years time we will still be setting the pace.
“Too many of us have put too much into this club and we won’t let someone come along and take it all away.
“What I’m saying here is that no matter who buys Celtic from Fergus, they will need to have the deepest of pockets imaginable.
“The fresh challenge would be good for the Scottish game and lift the profile, but Celtic’s new owners had better be prepared to spend.
“In the past, Celtic’s people maybe just haven’t fancied trying to take Rangers on financially, but if I have to go in deeper to keep my club up there then I will. I have done it too many times to be frightened now.”
From anyone else such talk could be dismissed as no more than empty rhetoric, but with Murray you just feel it is more than bluster and besides, he does have a track record as a spender.
There have been times in his 10 years when he has taken Rangers somewhere between £15m and £20m into debt and he knows that if this season goes belly up like the last one he could be looking at a potential debt of £20m. However, having taken the value of Rangers from £6m to approximately £186m in 10 years he knows how far he can gamble in pursuit of success.
This season alone he has allowed his new manager Dick Advocaat to spend almost £30m, but he refuses to lose any sleep over it.
He said: “I don’t because I consider spending as much as £5million on someone like Andrei Kanchelskis as a necessity. If a club like ours doesn’t do that then we fall by the wayside.
“Look, I have many other businesses so I could find many other things to worry about, but I love sport and I want Rangers to be successful. I know this won’t be accepted by some people but this isn’t about making money. “£56m has been invested in the stadium and in my time £200m has been turned over and after interest our trading profit is minimal. Perhaps as much as £60m has been spent on players and I have even paid in about £1m in hospitality but never taken a salary from the place.
“I get six complimentary tickets the same as everyone else and if I want extra I have to pay for them the same as everyone else.
“There are no free lunches for David Murray at Ibrox and I have never taken part or been at the centre of any of the numerous victory celebrations we have had.”
Murray disappears to celebrate success with a small group of close friends, leaving the roar of the crowd to wash over the players and management.
“Supporters don’t want chairmen hanging around, even though they look to people like me to provide some kind of direction and the new ways to keep moving the club on,” he said.
“I hope I can say that in my 10 years so far I’ve been fairly good at that, but the day I run out of ideas is the day I’ll know it’s over. I’m sure someone will tell me because I have good people around me, I always have.
“But I’m not ready yet to step back and I see enough fresh challenges, staying ahead at home and winning a place at the European table, ahead in the next 10 years to keep my own adrenaline flowing.”
He knows roughly how much it will cost him and he’s heard the rumours that ENIC, who have invested £40m in Rangers, are uneasy at the club’s spending policies but Murray claims these backers have always been supportive of his methods.
He said: “They could kick up a fuss but they don’t. Besides, I am the owner of the club and so far most people seem to like what I’ve done.”
I liked ETims take on it.
Celtic U15’s would like to thank Rangers for the Nike Cup victory as without a “strong Rangers” this would not be possible.
ha ha lol
p
Mark Wilson, remember him, needs 4 more appearances to get a medal.
playfusbal4dguilders
Mate I was talking about that game at work today, do you have any idea how many Scots were in the Celtic team?
I was having a wee battle with some of our southern cousins.
Aw Nae
Interesting article on broadcasting.
Trying to preserve the status quo will be like using prohibition to stop booze being consumef.
Doomed to fail. If its not made avaible them folk get their own through virtual speakeasys.
The trick will be to switch the cost of watching from match attenders to viewers so that the price paid is more equitable, otherwise games will be played in empty stadiums with crowd audio and visual effects.
200,000 say view at £10 and 40,000 watch live at £10 too.
Its a coming -Celtic v Hong Kong Rovers in the Google virtual league.
Mrs Brick’s vanity is not attractive quality- maybe that’s why people don’t like her? In my experience people who have little or no modesty or who refuse to exercise humility are very rarely liked by others.
wonkyradar – Mrs Brick’s vanity is not attractive quality- maybe that’s why people don’t like her?
I think it’s because she’s a 6 at best.
I’ve seen more attractive ladyboys on a documentary about Thailand.
Fascinating creatures… (thumbsup)
leftclicktic on 5 April, 2012 at 13:01 said:
jhilday
Think speirs is saying ha had a dig at jabba the day after jabbas article.
HAIL HAIL
I don’t think so. Without listening again, I’m sure he said that it was HIS remark that led to the adoption of the phrase.
From what I remember, Traynor’s drooling sycophancy was picked up on by sites like this one and it was THEY who “gave it legs”.
Hail Hail!
kitalba on 5 April, 2012 at 13:08 said:
Had a quick check on official site , no names, or squads listed ,which is probably quite right for U15’s.
But from the team photo they are all pelly wally enough to be Scottish and I dont mean that in a Kojo way. ;-)
Play
wonkyradar on 5 April, 2012 at 13:03 said:
Just what I thought.
Thanks!
roy croppie on 5 April, 2012 at 13:06 said:
There ye go!
Cheers.
The question is, though, why is Spiers trying to take the “credit”?
For years I have been concerned that our players do not not (generally speaking) appear to be in the best physical condition. We are talking currently of Commins (fantastic player) and if you consider Hooper as well, there does not appear to be the same emphasis on conditioning that you tend to see in any of the EPL teams for example. If I think back we had players like Boric, MacDonald, Hartley etc. who really didn’t appear to apply themselves to the 100% commitment to the game that we should demand of our players. Commins has had injuries but I think it is plain to see that between him and Hooper their eating and drinking habits could be improved. I would imagine the club monitor this in terms of fitness levels but somehow, with few exceptions ( Aiden McGeady) the fitness standards don’t appear to be at the optimum levels. To me this is opportunity and I do also think that as a team we are not as aggressive/hungry as Rangers for example and if we can add that to our game then we will improve and start to be a force in Europe again perhaps.
Phils Blog
So last week we were being told the 1st tier tribunal would issue it’s decision to the rotten mob yesterday, anyone know if this did happen ?
kitalba on 5 April, 2012 at 13:05 said:
No limit. Infinite patience produces immediate results. :)
Love is patient etc (Corinthians 13.)
Time is an illusion anyway, created by death.
I make friends easily , in fact my best ones are folk whom others have tended to judge/condemn.
I try to make friends with everyone. I do not always seek their company though (nor they mine) the survival instinct kicks in.
Values tend to be the decider in whose company I keep. I think if values are different it is difficult to be at ease in that company.
Values are the result of experience, either taught or learned and capable of changing with different experiences.
Auldheid:
a wee aside, is there not a Hong Kong Rangers?
RTÉ News @rtenews Close
Barney McKenna, who was one of the founding members of The Dubliners, has died aged 72.
Retweeted by Phil MacGiollaBhain
Headtheball on 5 April, 2012 at 10:53 said
I think it would be in the interests of the SPL to have a STRONG Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and Hibs also. Maybe we should grant them 10 years of not paying any tax on players wages. That way they could sign top quality foreign players and punch above their weight. The top of the league would be much more competitive and Sky would love it.
Wish someone would suggest this on phone-in ;-)
NegAnon2 on 5 April, 2012 at 12:13 said:
Rubicon – you have hit the nail on the head. There is great danger to Celtic here – many Celtic supporters will turn their back on the club which would let Rangers off the hook. In essence we may as well watch wrestling if it comes to that.
While I agree with you on the need for Celtic to be strong and let the fans know what they intend to do my friend, I have to say that can you and a few other posters yesterday lay of wrestling. Not the mince that is wwe or the old stuff mick mcmanus etc. I am involved with Olympic wrestling and outside of football this is a fantastic sport and we get bad enough press through the likes of wwe.
thanks mate
HH
I
Philvis:
just what I thought…except for the part about Ladyboys…I like prefer chunky chicks ( real natural women or whatever term you want to apply) .
PS
Are you Alan Partridge?
I joined twatter to keep follow Decan, it’s amazing how much up to date info you get on that thing although it does become addictive. Declan what is your twat name so I can follow follow you
#HH
ToneLoc
Sad news, what a banjo player he was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOWd7ArmWQ
Hail Hail
Philvis, are you mates with Gary Glitter?