Penny for the thoughts of Erik Sviatchenko on Saturday as he watched the defence he’ll soon become part of. Players were skipping past Jozo Simunovic while we had Keystone Cops defending from Efe at a corner kick (our problems here are clearly not resolved).
St Johnstone failed to score during their previous five games but would have scored more against a generous Celtic were it not for some fine work by Craig Gordon.
Individual errors aside, there are aspects of our shape I’m not happy with. In previous times you wouldn’t know if the Celtic defence and keeper were having a good game, they were so well protected. In the Premiership, this makes for entertaining football as we march to the title, but at a higher level we’ll be ripped open.
There’s not a proper defensive midfielder at the club. If we’re going to keep to this shape, we’ll need one before August.
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BILLYBEAR
Give it a year tops.
Bulldozers will flatten the big hoose.
Replace it with a Rangers Heritage Village and Car Park.
Oh, and a Tesco as well, so you can get your messages:)
HH
BILLYBEAR?………hun nothin’.
Got to be the windin’est up tim y’ever did see.
Lovenkrands on radio Shortbread sounds exactly like The Chef fae The Muppets…
GLENDALYSTONSILS
Yeah…Billy has been at Celtic Park to watch the Hoops.
He slipped up:)
HH
Billybear…
Like johnjames I’m still not convinced you are huns.
If you are, I hope you read his blogs.
Sevco’s Halliday, 2nd yellow card for celebrating goal in front of Morton fans. The Mullet not too happy !
2 -0 Sevco, after 80 minutes.
If Billybear IS a hun, I might have upset him by calling him a tim at the wind up :))
Oh Dear:))
Name’s too much of a parody to be one.
!!Bada Bing!! on 25th January 2016 6:34 pm Despite the Sevco ban,Radio Shortbread clawing their selves to cover their heroes live tonight.
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Always love it when MacIntyre and Wilson prattle on about Sevco for about 15 minutes then asks for “Rangers supporters” for their views!
Don’t usually watch the huns on tv but switched it on tonight. They are shite, I think they would be bottom 6 easily unless the warchest is unleashed…was worth watching it though for the sending off alone, no idea who the ref is as the sound is turned down but he’ll be demoted after that, still funny though….
Surely there are blogs for sevco fans non?
KLV
Sevcovian sent off for celebrating a goal ?
That must surely end the same club debate. When did you ever see that with the Deid club?
The Onlooker
My daughter got me a fantastic calendar from Dublin…1916 centenary of the Easter uprising.
It might get a few second glances from a couple of mates. :))
KEVINLASVEGAS on 25TH JANUARY 2016 9:28 PM
Surely there are blogs for sevco fans non?
Not so much blogs, as such…….more like hate-fests and delusional laugh-ins , that sort of thing.
GlassTwoThirdsFull, yes, absolutely. When one moves forward, one drops back. But we don’t! Great for pressing SPFL fare, not so much in Europe.
The Onlooker @ 9:37
Very good 0:-)
`night all,
JJ
I was in the Odeon when after playing the first set in acoustic he proceeded to set up electric guitar. Full house of booing (all us folkies) ” the old Bob Dylan is dead, this is the new Bob Dylan”.
His backing group “The Band” said “for a year (or 2) we got booed every night. Still buy his stuff, Legend
*I was there that night tae, I didnae boo, too many pretentious effers thought they were at the Newport Folk Festival.
He had already released Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde was in the can and released that summer. No secret that he had crossed over.
The Band were known as the Hawks then, Ronnie Hawkins former back up group with fellow Arkansas native the legendary Levon Helm, six nations reserve (same birth place as Tonto) native Robbie Robertson, the multi talented Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, all Ontarians’.
Awe naw
Your plaice or mine
I’vebeenadCsc
Radio Shortbread trying to rewrite the rules and get a 2nd yellow rescinded for one of their heroes…
Tontine
The Last Waltz is brilliant and Bringing It All Back Home is an exceptional album.
Paul67 et al
As many of have pointed out we cannot keep signing midfielders and hope that somehow we will achieve a defence-midfield balance that will be able to play at a higher level down the road. Martin inherited Lambert and Petrov, and brought in Neil Lennon, problem solved especially in Scotland. Is that player at Celtic right now, Armstrong in time maybe, Ambrose, well who knows not me, but if no one we need to find the right player for the position. Chances are he will not be a promising young player.
GlassTwoThirdsFull on 25th January 2016 9:16 pm
Interesting article, Paul. Agree re needing a defensive midfielder.
Although I don’t think we should be so bad (at times) without one.
If one of the full-backs is forward, the other one should hold back a bit and be able to defend a counter-attack.
*Big Jock’s philosophy although thank the Lord that Cairney and “Gemmell’s a bassa” disregarded that one pleasant spring evening in Portugal.
We didnae have any defensive midfielders back then just a canny left half.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby on 25th January 2016 9:48 pm
Tontine
The Last Waltz is brilliant and Bringing It All Back Home is an exceptional album.
*agreed on both counts. Rick Danko belonged to an itinerant family of musicians who travelled all over southern Ontario.
NATKNOW on 25TH JANUARY 2016 8:30 PM
GREENSIDEUP-GBWO on 25TH JANUARY 2016 7:59 PM
NATKNOW,
George Bush, same thing
HH
gsu
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Re: Bush – there was an interesting discussion on radio at the weekend about Trump. The usual “Could the Americans really be so dumb as to elect him”. And Bush’s name came up. The point was made that he attended Yale and later Harvard Business School. He had to act dumb to get elected – he wasn;t the dumb cowboy that was portrayed. Americans have a distrust of intelligent politicians. So any that get the opportunity need to play it down. Jimmy Carter was a “simple peanut farmer”? Actually he owned a large business he built up. You’ll remember the scorn that was thrust on Obama for being a “college professor”? Americans like their leaders to reflect themselves – salt of the earth hard-working types. A stereotype – but it plays well.
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Sorry. I will never be convinced that Bush was anything other than “dumb” or perhaps stupidly naive.
I imagine that was why he was chosen by the military industrial complex.
Mission Accomplished……………………..Oh,yeah?
Osama…..”He can run,but he can`t hide”………………..Oh,yeah?…….He did run and he did hide till after you were gone.
His criminally stupid response to the tragedy of 9/11…………..lashing out militarily at any convenient target. Finishing daddy`s unfinished business with Sadaam.
Eight years of unmitigated decline for the U.S.
quite childish i know but,
i was heading towards the port on the m8 at eightish.
a 24 seater of ugly zombie monkeys . was chugging along , at a crawl , towards parkleas roundabout,
i gave them a friendly wave.
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came back doon the hill 20 minutes later, and they were brokedoon other side of the roundabout.
i hope they tried to walk through woodhall or kelburn. or better still phoned a port taxi.
Switched over to bt sports as hadn’t actually seen any lower league football and wondered what all the fuss was about
Almost immediately a goal for sevco and a player yellow carded for an offensive gesture to the home fans
Unfortunately as the same player had correctly been booked a few minutes earlier for quite bad foul this resulted in a red card
Stock marketeer come fantasy football manager loses plot with 4th official and spoken to by referee
Pretty decent entertainment
Tontine Tim on 25th January 2016 9:50 pm
One of the well remembered images of Jock`s days was Big Billy sprinting back to his berth when his foray forward,usually for a corner kick, didn`t produce a goal.
St stivs
Did you not pullover and give them a hurl in a cheeky chic Charnley stylee
Oneofthe70percent
I think you deserve yellow for that comment:-)
I also suppose, Paul67 remembers year this album was issued. Nothing that happened in that year was wrong.
I meant post at 8:44
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 25TH JANUARY 2016 9:54 PM
NATKNOW on 25TH JANUARY 2016 8:30 PM
GREENSIDEUP-GBWO on 25TH JANUARY 2016 7:59 PM
NATKNOW,
George Bush, same thing
HH
gsu
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Re: Bush – there was an interesting discussion on radio at the weekend about Trump. The usual “Could the Americans really be so dumb as to elect him”. And Bush’s name came up. The point was made that he attended Yale and later Harvard Business School. He had to act dumb to get elected – he wasn;t the dumb cowboy that was portrayed. Americans have a distrust of intelligent politicians. So any that get the opportunity need to play it down. Jimmy Carter was a “simple peanut farmer”? Actually he owned a large business he built up. You’ll remember the scorn that was thrust on Obama for being a “college professor”? Americans like their leaders to reflect themselves – salt of the earth hard-working types. A stereotype – but it plays well.
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Sorry. I will never be convinced that Bush was anything other than “dumb” or perhaps stupidly naive.
I imagine that was why he was chosen by the military industrial complex.
Mission Accomplished……………………..Oh,yeah?
Osama…..”He can run,but he can`t hide”………………..Oh,yeah?…….He did run and he did hide till after you were gone.
His criminally stupid response to the tragedy of 9/11…………..lashing out militarily at any convenient target. Finishing daddy`s unfinished business with Sadaam.
Eight years of unmitigated decline for the U.S.
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“chosen by the military industrial complex…”
Not sure about that mate. He came from a political family and was groomed for the job by them from an early age. As many US politicians are. I don;t think he was in there as a patsy, though I admit that he must’ve made a killing from it all. If you’ll pardon the pun. I’m not saying he was Einstein, but he was never as dumb as he played.
PAUL67
Great to see you keeping an eye on YOU’RE blog. Thanks for your recent support, was well appreciated. Now, get tae yer kip and get a good nights sleep. A star indeed you are Paul. HH
Album covers
My favourites from my early yoof – Alice Cooper : schools out
Ruggyman 7:47
Correct re Bitton v Molde. As Paul pointed out he is not really a natural “defensive” midfielder.
That goal was an absolute shocker btw. Think I counted about eight mistakes in all! Ambrose didn’t see the scorer running behind him, Izzy too far upfield to get back, Gordon’s poor attempt at the save….
Hello again all you young rebels.
Australia day kicking off here this morning, big celebrations
all over the country, bbq for us and the flags are up on the
garden fence already a tricolour flanked by the lion rampant
and the Oz flag which I’ve managed to stick the butchers
apron part behind a big gum tree, the wee mhan has all the
reb cd’s looked out and ready to blast once the beer and
party mood starts, i’m sure the neighbours will understand.
H.H Mick
Tontine Tim 9:50
Fair point!
HH
melbourne mick.
enjoy your day.
Very strong winds and heavy rain forecast for Scotland from 0200 am. Off to my cot now to get a couple of hours sleep before the deluge starts. Take care all. HH.