You will remember times, not so long ago, when a successful Celtic team went 15 months without keeping a clean sheet away from home in any competition, even against lower league opposition. Already this season we have achieved what until recently was regarded as beyond the club, won two games away from home without conceding.
Helsingborgs are not of the calibre of opponents Celtic can anticipate facing in the group stages of the Champions League (assuming no bizarre reversals), but they disposed of the Polish champions 6-1 on aggregate in the previous qualifying round and are as resourceful as Aalborg or Utrecht.
There was plenty to be pleased with in last night’s but the most striking element was the performance of Kris Commons. He scored goal and was credited with an assist, has scored both our league goals this season and had a further assist against Helsinki; an incredible return for a player who three weeks ago was drawing comment on the size of his shorts!
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Murdochbhoy
Are you a glass half full type of guy?
EC67
Tom , MacJay from a man whose typing is slurred often enough Shaka has a right good strong Jamaican accent which is normally clear and concise. Not on Wednesday. Despite that he managed to at least give credit to the tic. My mate here says that it wasn’t Derek Raengers on with him so I got that wrong but no mistaking his pandering to the sevco media outlets whoever he was, lots of anti celtic radio snyde type remarks. Still not complaining about watching a LIVE Celtic game down under. Hope we have many more to come this year.
Morning all,
apologies if already posted but for those who have 30 minutes to spare then i recommend listening to this interview with John Collins from yesterday on Talk Sport. Besides having to put up with Andy Gray you will get to hear and feel how much a Celtic fan JC was & still is as well as interesting stories on his Monaco move & days. Great listen.
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/richard-keys-and-andy-gray/120822/john-collins-celtic-everton-fulham-and-his-football-career-179239
fourgreenfields
07:50 on
23 August, 2012
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
01:12 on 23 August, 2012
:o)
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/big-brother-is-confusing-you/#more-3031
I was listening to the Clyde comedy phone-in last night on my way home from work and the consensus seemed to be that the newco would retain the oldco history………thought “noone has told them that, when the oldco is formally liquidated, they no longer exist, including their history” …….. Bit of a rude awakening awaits the bhuns ……….. Ah well, at least the ongoing deception by green & co had the desired effect (SB sales) ………. Wait until someone tells them BDO are going to sell ipox etc……..
Morning all, weather perfectly tepid in the Chilterns…
Bit of a debate on MO’N last evening and the procurement of Steven Fletcher.
Firstly on the hasbeen front, MO’N is smart, he operates his Football Managerial occupation as would a career professional (Lawyer, Doctor, Acountant) making sure his CV is looking good, while moving up the food chain.
Now that may seem rather staid and contrived, but in my opinion Martin is a passionate, perceptive and hugely knowledgable Football Manager, complementary to the ambition.
So his M.O. take an underachieving Club with potential and resources and make it better, much better.
Now this did marvels for Wycombe Wanderers and repositioned Celtic as thee force in Scotland and a force in Europe. While both teams have failed to build on that success, they managed to maintain a level above and beyond their pre-mon incarnation.
Now MO’N is an excellent manager the improvement in Villa and Sunderland will testify, the thing is was this M.O. right for that time?Should Martin have set himself a higher challenge, taken a risk,shwon his true mettle when he left Celtic? Quite possibly.
He took some time out and the big English teams were sorted (or the believed they were sorted) on the Managerial front, there were some big shoes to fill someone else’s huge ambitions to fulfil, does Martin take those risks? Abroad? Well MO’N is first and foremost a family man.
He may have missed the big job, he may yet get his chance but he’s definitely not finished.
He spent £6M? on Chris Sutton, most in England and all @ Chelsea thought he’d vastly overpaid, not many at Celtic do.
Sunderland will finish top half this season and Steven Fletcher will achieve his potential.
‘Cause that’s the way the Man Rolls…
Hoping for a good result and performance from the Hearts tonight, the Scottish Football Renaissance continues, a’ hope!
hen1rik
08:30 on 23 August, 2012
The BDO / FTT delay is strange, though …….
Just read Phil’s article ……..thank goodness !!! ……away to read it again …LOL
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
09:00 on 23 August, 2012
hen1rik
08:30 on 23 August, 2012
The BDO / FTT delay is strange, though …….
But why do you think that ?
That Phil Mac article will set the cat among the proverbials.
How does one inform UEFA and FIFA that a member association is not falling in to line with the rules by which they are bound?
Happily The Rangers seem to be making a few quid. So if they want to be seen as Old Rangers (and it will only be a perception) with any kind of credibility then they should approach the national debt helpline and arrange a repayment scheme of some kind.
Now, this may require more than just a few quid here and there when they have it. They live in a big expensive building and have a wee place in Milngavie or thereabouts which is also worth a few bob. The debt people might suggest that they sell this and move in to rented property to speed up the repayment process otherwise interest is just going to pile on.
After that they need to take an honest look at their lifestyle and cut back on the luxuries like having journeymen SPL players while they are in the third division. It’s not healthy. Time to kick the spending habit I think.
Of course even if that all comes to pass they are still not Old Rangers because as we all know they were liquidated. But if they want to pay the bills using the cash generated by the former customer base then the new club might earn some respect in it’s early days.
No chance!
League reconstruction …..
Last year Doncaster advised that a 16 team SPL was unworkable and financial suicide
Yet, the powers that be are now pushing league reconstruction as a necessity for SPL survival
Has something changed in the interim? :-))
09:11 on 23 August, 2012
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
Do you have an email address ?
Morning CQNer’s
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
00:30 on 23 August, 2012
Johnbhoy,
cheers for that, good to know there are some people still digging
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Agreed M8.
Hail Hail
Let me say firstly that I am 100% FOR league reconstruction because the product in Scotland’s top flight is far too repetitive and boring and quite frankly myself, many others on here and indeed most football fans in Scotland would welcome and have wanted a 16 team league for quite some time.
A 16 team league where you play home and away and then some type of play offs come in/split similar to the current one is both workable and will increase turnstile revenue at the end of the season for where it decides titles, European places and relegation. It would also allow for the revamping of the league cup (ties on a Saturday) and it would allow young players to develop and reduce the threat of relegation for many sides allowing our teams to develop playing styles and performance rather than the anti-football we see so often.
Next year a top tier of the current SPL PLUS
Falkirk, Dunfermline, Partick Thistle and Raith Rovers for example would be more interesting as it would bring in more local derbies and enhance the away travelling supports thank to basic geography.
Reintroduction of play-offs will bring huge financial boosts for sides at the end of the season as well as give the fans something to enjoy and quite frankly we have missed these games.
HOWEVER
We all know why this is being done and for whose benefit.
We all know none of this would have been on the agenda had Dead Parrot FC not lived up to their name.
We all know this has the rotting fingers of those who still cannot accept reality all over it.
And they’ve been punished enough…………….
Twas ever thus. Their biggest ever supporters are going to do what they wanted to do last year but couldn’t. I cannot see them failing this time if 4/5 Division 1 sides will go up, 16 SFL clubs will be one division from promotion to the top table and Division 3 clubs will have had their one year financial boost which was only ever going to be one year regardless.
EVERY rule has been bent or broken to ensure they played football this season and still they complain of an agenda against them. This is delusional beyond belief.
I will accept league reconstruction for the good of the game when those arguments are put forward and they don’t involve helping out Sevco’s return to the top table but at the moment this is a step too far.
We need to wait and see how they frame their hard-sell. If it is all about TV contracts and Armageddon then they’ll get another supporter revolt and if they try the same charm offensive (and I use the word offensive with more than one meaning) it is unlikely to meet with any more support than it got this year.
We must wait and see but these creatures running our game cannot be allowed to rail road us.
Back to you internet bampots.
Help us Internet Bampots, you’re our only hope.
http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=80409/profile/index.html
Guys,
Bad news ragers are still listed in Uefa’s teams! Looks like Phil is wrong!
Morning all! Long time lurker now looking forward to participating in the discussions. Thanks to Paul for sorting out my login issues.
Booker T
??? FC Thun’s page??
TELBHOY 67
Welcome Mate..
Are you a Sevconian???
Starry plough.
Thanks for the welcome, but get a grip!
Starry,
A wee play on words! :-)
Booker T
Ha d a wee panic as I live here in Switzerland having Laffatme playing here is one hun too many..
larsson80
08:44 on 23 August, 2012
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Re: John Collins
For me, JC was THEE best reason for going to see the hoops in the early 1990’s.
I say that in the full knowledge that, JC played in the same team as Paul McStay(who will forever be fondly remembered as the Maestro).
By the time JC came to Celtic, the Maestro was towing a caravan in the shape of Peter(the pointer) Grant. Paul had far too much to do when Murdo Macleod was no longer around. Murdo will always be my favourite all-time Celtic player and, when he left for B.Dortmund, his fight/drive/industry and superb goals against the huns, all left with him. That, imo, left the Maestro with far too much to do.
So, when JC arrived, it was one of the best birthday presents I’ve ever had!
JC was correct not to allow himself to be pushed out the door to Middlesbrough of all places as, his talents deserved a far better stage than that and, he got his wish when he went to Monaco and, featured in the champions league semi-finals.
John Collins will always be warmly welcomed in – Kev’s Jungle :o)))
“There’s only one John Collins. He bend’s the ball round the wall, walking in a Collins wonderland” – CSC
Booker T
09:37 on
23 August, 2012
‘http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=80409/profile/index.html
Guys,
Bad news ragers are still listed in Uefa’s teams! Looks like Phil is wrong!’
Naughty step for you.
Back to a hot sun after some very pleasant days way up north .
Very strange game/ great result ——– could have been 3-2 or 0-6.
Celtic rode their luck but should have scored more . That failure to take chances worries me.
At times we were diabolical in defense. Some of Celtic’s defensive / holding play was dreadful.. There is a huge hole between the defense and the mid field..[ a quality CL team will love that]. Had Helsingborg’s final ball matched the quality of their approach play the result could have been very different. Great shift from Forster . Kayal and Brown were very poor , the 2 fullbacks likewise. Some of the team look to be unfit [ eg Ledley] Hooper is a lazy,lazy boy . Samaras is a football player.
Great substitution in Forrest—-turned the tide -forced them to change their shape and approach.
Great result —— a classic smash n grab . We are 2-0 up at half time——– the tie is far from over .
Henrik should sue the creator of that statue for misrepresentation…
Back to the heat —–way down south. . Off to Palermo on Sunday for Palermo – Napoli . — fitba’s back
Booker T
Well it made me laugh.
Henr1ck
Paul67 has my email address……..he will give it to you, if you ask him nicely………
Booker T …..and me ……… Excellent post, Snakeplisken, by the way !!
Snake,Ernie,
Glad you were sion what i did there!
67Heaven … @ 09:00
I think it’s kind of pointless to fret about publication of the FTT(T) result.
Whatever comes to light, none of it is likely to be good for SDM & Co and even if it were it will be too late to be of any help to the dying embers of that part of the Murray ‘empire’.
I suppose it’s remotely possible that there may be some political decision-making/timing issues around its publication, but I think it more plausible that any delay will be the result of the oft-cited backlog of cases or, perhaps (at least one would like to think), because there may be legal implications once it enters the public domain.
If, for instance, the FTT findings show clear evidence of wrong-doing at RFC PLC RIP, it may be incumbent upon HMRC to liaise with the Fiscal/CPS beforehand …
FF
I heard the Clyde phone in last night (well some of it). Wee Dawwwyylllll was peddling the club is separate from the company myth for a bit. He quickly realised he was on very thin ice and then shifted the blame to the SFA and SPL who had allowed The Rangers to buy the history of the club.
The media have learned nothing from this debacle – absolutely nothing and they are still cheerleading the new huns. Their (and the SFA’s) arguments bear absolutely no scrutiny whatsover. They are still trying to decry the Celts at every turn while propping up the stupid new huns. I too laughed at the caption of McCoist being described as impressing.
Then we have the league reconstruction nonesense. For the avoidance of doubt if the SFA/SPL/SFL try to gerimander the league structure to allow the new huns into the top league earlier then the supporters will once again rebel – they can forget their season tickets etc (and this is true for Celtic as well as any other club).
This little country really is a cesspit.
The club and company are separate,had Celtic went into administration and then liquidation anybody could’ve come in and bought what was left including a shiny big cup and all the media would’ve told everybody so,the hearse sent by the record was now looks very foolish on those involved,not because that fate never actually befell Celtic but because those involved in sending and taking snaps of said hearse tried to con the Scottish public by advertising the death of the football club when they knew fine well that,yes,you’ve guessed it…….
‘the club and company are separate!’
Ahahahahahaha
Booker T
I like it, gave me a good chuckle!!!
Anyone on from the Green Brigade? where are the songs for Fraser Forster and Kris Commons? or have I missed them?
Our season would not have started without those 2!!
maidín maith,níl aon tintéan mar do thintéan féin
never a truer phrase spoken
inverness in for a tanking
Had a wee discussion with a sevcovian at the weekend during Bhoys under tens match . He thinks it’s great that they now have someone (Charles Green ) to stand up for them , I asked if he was serious as I thought CG was going to turn them over AGAIN . CG was right , it was bigoted people who punished them according to him .
When asked if it was alright for a team to avoid paying their taxes and cheating other teams , his response nearly brought me to tears – ” you have to look at the HUMAN ASPECT , what about the poor rangers supporters ” .
I responded with ” what about the HUMAN ASPECT of the NHS / Armed forces / elderly etc being denied funding due to thems not paying their taxes – no answer , conversation over .
You couldn’t make these muppets up .
Morning all from gay Paree, soleil aujourd’hui (27C max alledgedly)
Don’t think there is anything to be read into the absence of “Thems” in the UEFA site.
Info about the teams from the top division in each country is updated regularly.
It’s a bit of an anomaly that a search on “Rangers” brings up last season’s data.
Hopefully, someone in Nyon will get round to cleaning up the site…
Ha Ha Ha
Rangers (LanLiq): Languishing in Liquidation
I know that the world of the tabloid and its portrayal of the world can leave a lot to be desired, but you have to admit they have a certain cachet when delivering heartbreaking stories of family feuds and tribal battles.
This is a cracker where the use of words and phrases like ‘slashed’ and ‘do you want yer face in yer hands?’ take on a new allure when uttered by someone called Dimples McPhee, whose fiancee is called John Connor…..TERMINATOR !!!!!!!
One exchange went as follows ….
Anne Teresa McPhee, told the court: “Her face just fell off. Dimples’s face was off. I thought she was going to die.
“To see your child’s face torn off the night before her wedding is a pain no mother deserves to go through.”
Dimples added: “It felt like a sharp, hot sensation. My face felt like it was literally going to fall off on to the ground.”
The drama unfolded at a packed Theatre Royal…..sorry I mean ….Hamilton Sheriff court…..as the culture and traditions of Scotland’s answer to the Colisseum was laid bare before a watching world!!
Sorry for the link (my young brother sent it from his iphone as the methadone queue just got longer….he treats them….so he says) but here we go….
The Hamilton Ripper mystery
By the way, a wee bit of foundation and a visit to staples seems to have sorted the reconstructive challenge.
Hail hail
Estadio
big izzy and wee izzy class http://t.co/kvqEBYsz
Blog broke?
Estadio
I think everyone should try to live in Lanarkshire at least once in their lives..