Playing Adam Matthews and Emilio Izaguirre as wing-backs with Kelvin Wilson, Charlie Mulgrew and Mikael Lustig as a back three looked a bit clumsy and didn’t last the 90 minutes but that was to be expected. New defensive formations are not supposed to operate as smoothly as familiar systems.
I’m far from certain three at the back is a good idea, or if we have the correct personnel for this formation, but Neil Lennon should persist with the experiment. We will not learn and grow if we don’t take chances, which was one of our abiding frustrations under both Martin O’Neill and Gordon Strachan.
No experiments on Tuesday, of course!
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
14:57 on
19 August, 2012
Unfortunately I don’t have an image to go with this one …
Alex Salmond’s High Wire Act
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Good article Gordon, I personally think that the SNP will try another little move to save defeat at the referendum.
The SNP know they cant win the debate and vote to separate Scotland from the UK, I think the tactic will be to provoke a massive bust up with the UK Government over the issue of the second question (I dont think Westminster will agree to the second question on the ballot paper) this will allow the SNP to storm off in a huff and crucially not have the referendum, as losing the vote would kill the chance of independence for a generation.
It will suit them to say they are not playing because of the second question, the SNP know they are beat, better to retreat while blaming big bad Westminster. This I suspect is where they are now.
timbhoy2
Boring.
Change your medicine.
Auld Neil Lennon heid
19:03 on 19 August, 2012
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I read your reply to oldand… and I genuinely admire your tenacity and judgement throughout this mess.
I posted, next door in TSFM recently, that the only chance the game has is for the force that thwarted the Shoehorn to redouble their efforts with their own clubs, informing them that the same sanctions will be taken against them, re STs, if they don’t ensure fair play and integrity throughout the power bases of Scottish football.
I reckon that we have one season to save the game.
If not, then there will be many divorces involving fans from their respective clubs.
Celtic will have to publicly stand up for integrity and let the underfunded forces of law ans order deal with the threatened “social unrest”.
If not, then Scotland will become a very nasty and dangerous place to live.
A united front of supporters groups is obviously the way to go for a coordinated approach.
Good luck with your efforts.
shimmies,
Just about everything you say is true, BUT……If as apparently trailed in one of Paul’s leaders is true….i.e. we are going to have very poor financials, there will be tremendous pressure to focus on that again. In these days of PLCs as the custodian’ sof the club’s leverage and attraction, suitors may find Celtic very willing to do business.
That is where Peter Lawwell will demonstrate his skills, in getting the most from the buyers recognising that they know our financial position and the forecasts for the future….they also understand the pressure that comes from us, the fans, for success, developement, new faces and more success.
Peter Lawwell doesn’t have a great hand to play.
The amount we receive (if he goes) will be a real measure of his abilities. (and no I don’t know what his price will be but it should also be balanced at least by the value that the manager feels he delivers to the team.)
My fear is it will be a piece of flesh trading that removes a known burden from out variable expenses.
If the latter is judged to have occurred (we’ll all judge it independently), then what will the voice of the fan say….and will be acknowledged never mind heard?
If he tries for the first option, it will all depend on the importance that Lenny puts on his presence. If he wants him I think he’ll win and the price will be high or we might even keep him.
If he doesn’t want him, he’ll go cheap(ish) because Lenny won’t care, he’s not the money man. He’s probably already identified his main targets over the next 6 months. Whoever is on it, well nobody knows. But I would bet that major feelers are out already to oil the relationships that keep a potential deal, a secret.
Is that going to be Peter Lawwell’s priority. Ki’s place in that priority will also be decided.
The price that we get will be a combination of Lenny wanting Ki seeing him as expendable and how silent the grapevine is, and Peter’s success criteria that he will have signed for the board.
5 and 7million are my guesses.
Hail hail
Estadio
Whoever has compiled the YouTube highlights of our game yesterday has decided to omit the Samaras penalty claim.
hmmm…
Had a wee lurk earlier saw some post relating Ki to Swansea for £5 million and Dobbie as part of the deal…two chances. As some would say phew.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Iust saw the extended you tube highlights by spl of yesterday.
Would be interesting to know why they excluded Sammi penalty incident?
Operation protect the biased or incompetent mib at all cost in full swing.
This is one area i expect them to be very consistent this year.
Is Gerry Armstrong a Sevcovian? He talks mince.
JinTIm
NOOOOOOOOOOOO you must stay and fight no matter how futile it seems at times.
This is not a recent fight as you and your battle scarred history will show.
YOU ARE NEEDED with all you have to offer on here so keep posting :)))
They have hated and cheated us for years now we are beggining to see a chink of light in our battle with them.
Blatant, Corrupt,Dishonest, Skulldugedness(is that a word :)))).) yes
Is it right NOOOOOOOOOO
If we give up now we will be robbing our children & grandchildren of victory .
Will we ever get victory I dont know but it seem closer than it has ever been DUE to people like Paul67 Phil Mac RTC now TSFM & many others.
You my friend are needed more now than ever before they are a desperate bunch and even If victory does not come in my lifetime. THINK OF THE JOY WE WILL HAVE WATCHING THEM SQUIRM & LIE THEMSELVES TO DEATH.
With so many of us a wee post or Email Even a letter might just be the straw that breaks their lying corrupt back.
So join me and all the rest of the BAMPOTs in keeping up the fight as I learned at school “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” THAT GOES FOT THAT MOB AS WELL so keep going it may not seem like much or nothing has changed(My favourite photo is of my 2 and a half grandson posing with a copy fo the sun (bless me father I have sinned) where its headline is them RIP and them getting lowered into the ground DEID DODOed GONE soon to be liuidated extinct :)))
Who Would have thought that was possible only a short time ago.
YES WE HAVE MANY MANY MANY BATTLES AHEAD ….. BUT THEY ARE WINNABLE thanks to the NEW MEDIA AND SOLIDARITY we just have to keep chipping and chipping away at their rotten corrupt tower.
I see possibilities that my Da & uncles who went to their graves never ever thinking it was possible that we would have come so far in such a short time.
OUTRIGHT VICTORY can be ours no matter how distant it seems to them what we have now was impossible, if it takes another century so be it I will never buckle to that shower.
I may not have the words or the education of some but by *&*& they know im here.UEFA SFA SPL FIFA RAGS MPS I have contacted them all just to let them know THAT I KNOW and are watching what they do,it may not seem much but I couldn,t switch a computer on till i was 47.
I came on hear in 2008 and read stories of keeping at them and fell in love with this place and so many people on it who I have never met.
Im 51 years of age and believe with all my heart I will out live the red tops and all the MSM Peddlers THEY ARE DOOOOOOMED.
NOW IS OUR TIME TO PLAY OUR PART what a privelidge it is to be part of.
Sorry for wee rant and maybe spelling wont check back or may change how I felt typing.UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL
HAIL HAIL
A quick question on the new club which i thought i would never ask … If they had the world no euroean no uk no record yesterday…. was the club deck open? I thought that was owned by the creditors or did they include that in the figures?
Opening week-end of the EPL season and Sky Italia are showing 6 of the 10 matches live.
3 yesterday, 2 today and the game tomorrow.
It will be the same every week-end and mid-week when games are on until May.
SPL? Aye right!
HH!!
We’ll win on Tuesday not by choking up central defence but by dominating midfield in the same way as the Helsinki ties, particularly the 2nd leg wher ewe bossed around 70% of the game.
Helsingborgs, like Helsinki and many Scandinavian sides ( are instinctively efficient and conservative. They’ll work harder to close us down and deny space than they will pushing on and pressurising our defence.
If we take the midfield high ground it’ll give players like Commons time to pick his pass.
Big Vic’s absence in the first leg Tuesday will be telling. If we can come away with a result his return at Parkhead will be a major plus.
think 5 million for ki with dobbie thrown in is/ or would be poor business from celtic, but then i dont think there is any truth in it, i dont think celtic would even come to the table for anything less than 6 million tbh.
lots being said about the teams preformance and the need to signed players. i agree that we need a centreback of good quality, but i dont think we would be signing another centre forward, unless he’s better than what we have, lets get watt and keatings in the team when needed, yesterday is not the first time watt has come on and done a good job, i am sure with more time on the park our younger players would progress well.
another thing, everyone suspected that celtic would walk the league this season and that would be that, i dont think that will be the case and tbh seeing a consistant challenge from dundee united, hearts, hibs and/ or aberdeen without rangers in the league could trigger better attendances for these clubs and might just make the other teams realise that it would be in their interest to have a larger league with fewer games (2 x per season) against each team, thus avoiding the 8 games involving us and thems (sevco) which simply kills competition
what you ghuys think?
think Armstrong is originally from the Springfield rd in Belfast
Don’t really get it with the “we need central defender” line and especially those who say we need a defensive coach.
As I remember, we had the best defensive record in SPL history last year; or was it the most clean sheets; or both? Anyway it was a pretty good record.
And despite those who moan about the zonal marking at corners – I don’t think we lose too many goals at corners. In fact, I’d say it is well below the average.
I think our real problem jointly lies in lack of creativity in midfield couple with forwards who are too static – and hence our lack of goals so far this season.
Sammy has to play wide left or not at all. Izzy has to have his left foot re-set to point in the right direction. And until injuries to Forrest and McGeoch are healed we need to play Broony wide right.
Noticed the calls from all and sundry in the world of media and music asking for the release of the Pussy Rioters yet they have all remained silent regarding their views on what probably is a bigger event about freedom of speech happening right on their very doorstep
Step forward Julian Assange he now asks the free democratic world the question are you pussys or cats
Will the UK storm the embassy and capture the man the US wants to put on trial more than any Al Qaeda suspect
This could be very embarrassing for the UK if they don’t let this man leave for Ecuador
Thomthethim
Disgruntlement is not restricted to your age group
I’m just fed up with the whole thing
think I will resign from ~diplomatic service if the don’t let him get out of UK..
Timbhoy2
Yir a rerr laff.
Manager:”I don’t know how to tell our star player I’m dropping him for the next game”
Tommy Burns:”I’ll tell him boss”
Tommy Burns a bit later:”Sorry you’ll not playing in the next game for medical reasons”
Player:” What do you mean, I’m feeling fine”
Tommy Burns:” Aye, but the way you’ve been playing is making the rest of us sick”
blantyretim
The diplomatic service in colonial days was all about “business” doubt it has changed much
Blantyretim-thanks for your help-much appreciated
Cracking game in Bilbao…
3-5 to Betis
Off out to watch Barca, last night of the Fiesta too.
Have fun….I will :>)))
Thin dime bhoy,
He’s gone.
When I was watching the BBC News item on his speech, I could see that it was a hologram AND in the bottom right corner, there was a bloke with dyed hair, false moustache, glasses and nose on, a tee shirt that said ‘I love Quito – free the Ecuador 1’, sneaking out behind the back of the polis.
I’ve heard he’s made it as far as Airdrie where he has to stay for two days…..he now wants to go back to Sweden!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Neil Lennon says that having Ki Seung Yung back in the squad “will be like signing a new player”
*beats Mark Hateley again*
SuperSutton 19:36:
Stats are a horrible thing, I cannot argue with the amount of goals we lost last season but there for the grace of God we could have lost more. However, we do need a dominant experienced CH, a no nonsense player. In the ilk of Johann Mjalby, indeed he should be well aware of the type of CH we need, after all he is our defensive Coach.
Everything else in your post I agree with.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)
Anne Robinson:…………………….. Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: Prison or the Conservative Party?
Contestant: …………………………….The Conservative Party.
Kevin McKenna,
why didn’t you just instruct your sports writers to present a balanced view and not just to print Rangers propaganda at the instruction of Murray?
Maybe you would have sold even more papers if you had done so. Your industry is in terminal decline and no wonder.
C’mon the internet bampots!
St.John.Doyle,
I can’t see any way they can get out of a referendum – but a bust up and blaming the UK government will be a tactic I’m sure. They are very much into division – and blaming the “Tory-led” No campaign (as they call it) for everything.
leftclicktic
19:31 on
19 August, 2012
JinTIm
ALSO, when they are finally / FORMALLY Liquidated, and the FTT publishes it’s long outstanding EBT appeal decision, AND when the SPL’s independent tribunal rules on the undeclared second contracts, they will lose everything, including their assets……ipox, minty park, car park, players etc, the bhuns will receive a ‘world record’ reality check …….THEN …… THE COURT CASES WILL START….
The ‘punishments’ haven’t even started yet …….. Silly, silly bhuns ……… Green makes Agent Whyte look like an amateur ……. It’s coming to them …..hang in there, JinTim …..
Madrid
drop two points at hime
sack Madrid manager
Bhoy George
Estadio
I find the irony and hypocrisy of this unfolding event interesting
For the last few days pussys have been big news now a whistleblower of naughty deeds is also big news
Just wondering is freedom of speech a selective thing depending on what’s said about whom and where
bt
Neil Lennon to Real Madrid?
philbhoy..
good shout…
I wonder what dirt they have on Kevin McKenna?
Must be bad to get him to write such a cringe-inducing piece about Jabba.
Kevin McKenna
Another soup taker!
HH!!
Big Nan
Thats what flew into my head when reading