It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what was different from last night’s performance to our previous outing against Ross County, and so many this season. Kris Commons was on from the start, but our tone of play was different, even as Kris limped on the side-lines during the opening minutes.
How that tone was set is worth examining. Celtic were denied an opportunity to train on Kilmarnock’s new artificial pitch, in a move demonstrating the hosts legendary welcome and sportsmanship, but when Ronny Deila spoke pre-match he made his position clear, “The pitch is great”.
One of my pet hates is hearing a player or manager establish a reason for failure before kick-off. Record your complaints about the pitch, or even being denied the chance to become accustomed to it, and you’re subliminally setting yourself up for a fall. It didn’t matter if a pitch is great or not, the manager and players have minutes to convince themselves it’s good enough for them to put on a show. Nothing got in the way of Celtic’s can-do attitude yesterday.
Kris was phenomenal. He got a hat-trick at Rugby Park last season and deserved no less this time, only the crossbar, twice, and some fine goalkeeping denied him. In a team short of goals, his focus on the target is unceasing. There were important Champions League games when he didn’t make the team under Neil Lennon, and there will be occasions when the game doesn’t suit him, but he’s the required fulcrum against a packed SPFL defence.
We’ve touched on this theme a couple of times but it doesn’t seem to be getting traction. For two years shareholders now newco Rangers have been advised to step aside, or as now, sell control for £18m, in the best interests of the club. No deal will be done until the best interests of the controlling shareholders are considered, any approach which doesn’t recognise this is no more than a distraction.
Newco have four directors, two non-execs, who do not work in the business on a daily basis, and two executives, who do. The latter, chief executive Derek Llambias, and yesterday’s appointment of Barry Leach as financial director, both came from the Sports Direct stable. They are the men working on fixing the funding gap. It is inconceivable they will overlook the interests of investors.
On 27th of this month newco will face an SFA disciplinary hearing over an alleged breach of a written agreement not to allow Ashley influence at the club, in place before they appointed two former Sports Direct staff to the board. I would be very surprised if the Sports Direct owner didn’t have the club’s short-term funding and his long-term security secured prior to that date.
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Gary67
I have seen a few being a wee bit critical of Nir Bitton
I think he has a huge future with us, yes not the finished article,
But
Rarely gives the ball away, keeps the team shape, and good movement for take and give (control), I think a lot of his work is un-recognised
I also read with interest earlier, he lost the ball last night a fraction of the number of times Kris Commons did, yet Kris gets rave reviews
Incidentally, I also highly rate Kris, so no slight on him there
Just think at times too critical of Nir, and the role he asked to play for us
PS, also seen form returning last night with young Adam Mathews, still to improve his passing, but getting better
Hail Hail & Nytol :-)
Zbyszek
Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow are on my visit list. I need to find my Polish family.
Tae lighten the mood.
From Adam McNaughton
Glesga
Oh where is the Glasgow where I used to stay?
With the white wally closes done up wi’ pipe clay.
Where you knew everybody, ground floor tae the third,
And to keep your door shut was considered absurd.
Where are the weans that played in the street?
Wi’ a jorrie, a peerie, a gird wi’ a cleet.
Can they still cadge a hudgie or dreep aff a dyke?
Play hunch cuddy hunch, kick the can and the like?
And where’s the wee shop where I used to buy
A quarter o’ totties, a tuppeny pie?
A bag of’ broke biscuits, a wee sodie scone.
An’ the wummin aye asked, “how’s yir maw gettin on?”
Where is the Tallies that I knew so well?
That wee corner shoap where they used to sell
Hot peas, a macallum, ice cream in a poke?
You knew they were Tallies the minute they spoke.
And where is the cludgie that we cosy cell?
The string fae the cistern..I remember it well
Where I sat wi’ a caunie and studied the rags.
A win fur the auld firm, a loss fur the Jags.
Where is the tramcar that once did a ton
Doon Great Western Road on the old Yoker run?
The conductress aye knew how tae deal wi’ the nyaff.
“If yir gaun then comeoan….if yir no…well gitaff”
I think o’ the days o’ my tenement hame
We’ve got fancy hooses, but they’re jist no the same.
I’ll swap your gizunders, flyovers and jams
Fur a tuppeny ride on the old Partick trains.
Gone is the Glesga that I used tae know
Big Wullie, wee Shooie, the steamie, the Co
The shilpit, wee bachle, the glaikit big dreep
The ba’s up the slates, and yir gas oan a peep.
These days wurnae rosy and money was tight
The wages hauf finished by Setterday night.
But still we came through it and weathered the ruts.
The reason is simple, oor Parents had guts
HH
AlfieNoakes^Horridhenry etc etc
The referendum like multi profiling is so last year :-)
HaHa
Oops
HH
mickbhoy1888
22:37 on 6 January, 2015
BMCUW
I see they neglected to give the name of the Goat and his lovers Lodge
>>>>
….but sally wants names
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2899732/Stephen-Hendrie-dreaming-Premier-League-Hamilton-Academic-teenager-insists-ready-big-move.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Can’t see us spending £2m on a left back.
So similar in script. So obvious. I blame Jack Irvine and his paid CQN interlopers. They are revealed in their words D.
Place is hoaching wi new names.
Delaneys Dunky
Good places and plan. Let me know when you know the day you want to be in Warsaw.
Gary67
The lad Hendrie is the best LB in the spl imo
frannyb67
00:05 on 7 January, 2015
He may well be. And we need another LB. But don’t think we’ll spend £2m on one.
Gary67
23:57
I’m probably being over sensitive here, and you can tell me where to go, but I’d really prefer if this site didn’t post links to a disgusting, fascist, gutter rag like the mail. Copy and paste I can stomach. Every click counts for those sub human scumbags.
Apart from that, yeah zero chance of us spending that kind of money, maybe £1m plus add ons at a push. To be honest, I haven’t being paying enough attention to this latest batch of Hamilton youngsters, which given there league position, I probably should. I dare say they have a few worth monitoring.
Zbyszek
Blantyretim has my phone details. I know he has yours. I need to discover my Polish roots before I die. I speak no Polish bar swear words. :))
I have a translator. :) My family in Gdansk speak very little English. My translator works with me in Clydebank and shares your name. He says Zbyszek is very old fashion Polish name.
HaiL HaiL God bless.
Gary67
In total agreement with you mate HH.
Johnnyrambo67
Hamilton&Dundee Utd streets ahead of Celtic brining youngsters through imo
Franny
I have a family member at Celtic U 20s. I have another at DUFC U20s. Celtic players are far superior at that level.
BMCUW
A wee royalty pint for you for lifting the so last year patter lol
:-)
HH
frannyb67
00:23 on
7 January, 2015
Johnnyrambo67
Hamilton&Dundee Utd streets ahead of Celtic brining youngsters through imo
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What’s your opinion based on?
Delaneys dunky
Do you think they get the opportunity at first team level at Celtic as they would at DU?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-boss-derek-llambias-gives-4930632
Wasn’t far out with my post earlier HH
Franny
Defo no. That’s where it changes. My nephew at DUFC has the bigger chance of a first team game.
Re The OBAct.
http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/incoherent-illiberal-and-ineffective.html?m=1
HH
frannyb67
00:37 on 7 January, 2015
That is also true at every other club in Scotland, but we still have the best youth team HH
Cowiebhoy
Sad news ,puts a lot of things into perspective
R.I.P.
Goodnight Timland
HH
Hunskelper
Thought this was funny
https://twitter.com/OneHumblePie/status/552605366912303104
:-)
HH
hun skelper
00:41 on
7 January, 2015
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-boss-derek-llambias-gives-4930632
Wasn’t far out with my post earlier HH
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Indeed you were not!
However when a club/company cannot meet their set out expenditure, including their day to day bills without the access to a never-ending stream of ‘crisis loans’, it must be apparent to all and sundry that the club/company is trading in an insolvent manner.
Does anyone in their right mind really believe that if administration was on the agenda, the Ibrox supremo would tell Doncaster?
One only has to look at the farce that surrounds Ibrox and the almost daily releases from the LSE, to see that this entity is on its last-legs.
Doncaster should be demanding a business plan from Llambias outlining how the cost-base will be brought into line with revenue. He should not be looking for a single insolvency event – when what we have is an ongoing insolvency process, with apparently no end in sight.
HS
How’s it on Tayside?
Hartley eating awe the paes I see. ;))
A report into The OBAct by Stv from Jeanette findlay on twitter.a must watch
https://twitter.com/JeanFind/status/552585152141205505
HH
An tearmann
How’s you my friend?
Thanks for posting that link to the peat worrier fella. Like his style.
Watched the vid earlier.
Hopefully catch up soon. Should be at Hamilton away and the inter game at least if your about. The way this competitive league is, I’ll get to any game I can. Lovin it, so I am.
HH
BMCUW
Booked my Belfast bed & Aussie Pink Floyd ticket tonight. Canny wait now! :)
BMCUW
The Endless River is on constant in ma house. We all love it. PFrool :))
AN TEARMANN
I remember saying it,but canny remember when!
Yer royalties are safe in my hands,awaiting delivery.
DELANEYS DUNKY
Aye,sounds like quite a weekend,bud. looking forward to it immensely.
I doubt 16 ROADS reputation will ever be the same afterwards,mind!
BMCUW
If he gets us the game on, we beat Saint John’s Town we will be happy :))
Skyis
Lovin you lovin it. See you at Hamilton I hope bud. :)
HH
Every representative body bends over backwards to accommodate Sevco.
For Sevco it’s OK to take their word that things are OK (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary) but for everyone else it is “sorry, you are gone”.
SFA, SPFL, MSM, judges, police, you name it, they all do it.
DELANEYSDUNKY
It’s on Sky Sports,1245 ko.
Which means dive off the plane and into a boozer,pdq.
But we would do that anyway,haha!
ZBYSZEK. 2334
Ah,done me up like a kipper!
following on from weet weet weets post about olden day glesga
i can remember when a crisis loan was something that broo gied oot tae help someone buy a bed or a cooker, nowadays it seems a crisis loan is something that Doncaster believes is to keep a business going on a day to day basis
if Doncaster isnt fit and proper how can we expect him to judge if others are?