Den Bosch and Janko in town, clogs to clogs

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My expectation is Den Bosch will be better than an equivalent second-tier Scottish team (any of whom would give us a game on a summer evening like tonight), so they will hopefully present a suitable challenge to help stretch the legs.

Most attention will focus on Dedryck Boyata, but no matter if he looks great, or lousy, you will learn nothing of his abilities tonight. For Dedryck the objective is to get the limbs and lungs moving, just as with his new team-mates.

I hear Saidy Janko (19) was spotted walking into Ross Hall Hospital this morning.  Although known as a right back, Saidy can apparently play right side of central midfield and as a winger.  While he’ll be the fourth right back in the first team squad, positional definitions aren’t what they used to be.  At Celtic in particular, there’s often little difference between a full back and a winger (the former can hopefully tackle, the latter, less so).  They both have a responsibility to make runs into the opposition box, and to track back and defend.

Reports this morning that Dundee United have agreed a £1m fee for Nadir Ciftci with Gary Caldwell’s Wigan will be more palatable to United fans than seeing another player agree terms with direct rivals Celtic.  The fee agreed is within Celtic’s grasp, should they be sufficiently motivated to move for the player.  After a rising through the ranks, Wigan have endured two relegations in recent years.

They still have Premier League parachute payments coming in, which explains the seven figure bid.  It remains to be seen what Dave Whelan’s 23-year-old grandson makes of the opportunity, now he’s in day-to-day control.  There’s an old Dutch proverb about families with money going from clogs and back to clogs within three generations.

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  1. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    Japan not looking as good as they were cracked up to be, so far anyway (hoping for commentators curse!!)

     

     

    Who the fek is Paula Fudge??

     

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  2. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Sandman, I’m warming to the Japanese No.13…

     

    …………….

     

     

    No 22 is better, comes wi noodles.

  3. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Sandman

     

     

    I’m sorry I missed them. Only started to watch late on in the Japan v Oz game.

  4. Delaneys,

     

    did you see any bother in Paisley?,

     

    I spoke to a girl I know working there who told me there was fighting in the town centre

  5. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    Duggan – just (30 metres) over the bar, in an obviously cold Canadian stadium.

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  6. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Oops

     

     

    ACGR is on. I eagerly await the first mention of nubbins :-))

  7. BCW,

     

    When was the last time you addressed me ?

     

    When was the last time I addressed you ?

     

    I’ll give you a clue, you asked me to scroll on by the last time I did not agree with you.

     

     

    Effort ? Why would you think that ?

     

    I’m simply answering your question, the same as I try to answer anyone who asks me a question.

     

     

    Nothing wrong with me trying to be clear I don’t think, especially with someone who has previously spent a time trying to have a go.

  8. Delaneys Dunky on

    St Stivs

     

     

    A hun I grew up with in Knightswood, approached me in a pub in Partick recently and told me that he had sussed that I was Delaneys Dunky who posts on CQN.

     

    I told him that he was correct and did he have a problem? They look!

  9. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    TOSB………….:_)

     

     

    Incidentally nubbin is second only to flange as the finest word in the dictionary.

     

     

    Goal Japan.

  10. Big Georges Fan Club - Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar on

    1 nil.

     

     

    Commentator “…If you put up both arms like that, and push the player in in the back, then you run the risk of giving something away…” – eh, well, aye (she’s sharp, this one)!!

     

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

  11. pedrocaravanachio67 on

    Hope to get up next year to strangle one or two fish on Loch St Clair. If you see a young lass (an adopted Barra girl) goes by the name Poppy, tell her Mick D says hello.

     

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    I hope that’s the only time you’ve had a poppy on ye!!!

  12. angelgabriel on

    Slowest walk up to a penalty results in a goal by a non Naka look alike for Japan

  13. BCW 23.35

     

    Can you define make amends?

     

    ——-

     

    Make amends. When you have done something wrong, if it’s too late to fix it, then try and make sure you don’t do it again.

  14. theoriginalsadiesbhoy

     

     

    23:52 on 1 July, 2015

     

     

    Re: Guerilla posting.

     

     

    When did you see me in the shower?

     

     

    HH EnnisBhoy

  15. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    a ceiler gonof rust

     

     

    00:32 on 2 July, 2015

     

    TOSB………….:_)

     

     

    Incidentally nubbin is second only to flange as the finest word in the dictionary.

     

     

    Goal Japan.

     

    ……..,,,,…………

     

     

    I chuckled for days when I read your first post mentioning ‘nubbins’. I hesitate to ask what the feck a flange is.

  16. After watching the game on rerun I think we should be asking for refs from Europe, some of them tackles were potential career enders, Celtic need to put down a marker that Scottish refs are not good enough, the standard in Scotland is shameful.

  17. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    ennisbhoy

     

     

    00:36 on 2 July, 2015

     

    theoriginalsadiesbhoy

     

     

    23:52 on 1 July, 2015

     

     

    Re: Guerilla posting.

     

     

    When did you see me in the shower?

     

     

    HH EnnisBhoy

     

    ……,,,,,,,,,,,,

     

    Lol :-))

  18. Delaneys Dunky

     

    00:32 on

     

    2 July, 2015

     

    St Stivs

     

     

    A hun I grew up with in Knightswood, approached me in a pub in Partick recently and told me that he had sussed that I was Delaneys Dunky who posts on CQN.

     

    I told him that he was correct and did he have a problem? They look!

     

     

    ==============

     

     

    DD.

     

     

    local recognition is funny,

     

     

    to go abroad and be told who i might be, in a business context, thats unsettlng.

     

     

    to have it brought up by someone i dont like is well ,

     

     

    who knows who watches

  19. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    St Stivs you’re on the CIA watch list. Not that I want to feed your paranoia:_)

  20. Delaneys Dunky on

    Gordy

     

     

    The LSD were jumping about pre match on Greenock Rd. shouting nonsense. The polis were following them. They were all 12 year old St Mirren fans looking for a game of chases.

  21. pedrocaravanachio67 on

    ACGR

     

     

    A personal favourite of mine is “sphincter” as in : “when big packie came oot fur that cross, ma sphincter was twitchin”

  22. Wee Jap fella saves it!

     

     

    No he doesn’t. Close but cracking penalty by English girl.