Kilmarnock had a pretty ropy start to the season, defeats to Motherwell and Ross County coming either side of a win at Hamilton, but they travel to Celtic Park tomorrow on a run of three consecutive draws.
They will be confident of scoring (scored in five of their six league games while we’ve yet to keep a clean sheet), and there is the added incentive that if results to their way elsewhere, a win could see they jump to fifth, behind Celtic, Hearts, St Johnstone and Aberdeen.
Brendan Rodgers will have a few selection options to consider with Champions League duty coming up on Wednesday. For these two games we’re going to perm two from Toure, Sviatchenko and Simunovic in central defence, one of Dembele or Griffiths as striker, while Gamboa could make his Celtic Park debut tomorrow. I’m hoping for a straight back four against Manchester City.
The other big area of outfield competition in the team is for the right midfield berth. James Forrest and Patrick Roberts both make good cases for inclusion. Don’t be surprised to see them subbed for each other in each of our next two games.
I see a lot of confidence after the League Cup semi-final draw, pitting us against Newco next month. This game will be six weeks after the 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park, when a vast chasm between the teams. I expect us to win, but I also expect a considerably more difficult time.
We had the run of the show earlier this month. Moussa Dembele mustn’t have been able to believe the space he got, something denied to him by more tactically aware teams like Alloa and Inverness.
We benefited from the capitulation of one central defender, Senderos, shortly after his partner was subbed as part of a tactical change. The sight of Joey Barton unable to get off the ground to intercept Mikael Lustig’s cross for Celtic’s fourth is unlikely to be repeated.
In short, Newco’s mistakes were so evident and avoidable they are bound not to be repeated. The semi-final will be a different game.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist about last night’s draw but the League Cup has been a financial lifeline to Newco, who were rewarded with large home attendances for earlier rounds, and will already be busy selling premium hospitality content for the semi-final. There could be enough income in this one to buy more Velcro for the roof.
Here we go again………
Hot on the heels of that magnificent news from Mary’s Meals that we will be feeding 650 school kids in Liberia for the next year, I’m running the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon for the Foundation on Sunday, 3 October.
We’re getting to that time of the year when the Foundation’s plans to assist those most chronically in need in our own community need to kick in. The winter challenges aid providers. It kills many poor and homeless.
If you can help, please do. There’s a MyDonate page here. Your money goes straight to the Foundation, where it will used quickly.
Thanks.
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ROY CROPPIE 1051
Fancied hunners in my time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtCO3_tWYAA849h.jpg
GUESS What stadium?
SurpriseSurpriseCSC
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtBhpw1WcAAebqX.jpg
CELTIC
Bobby has won the Scottish cup 8 times…
Statue for Bobby
YNWA
g’night troops
A young guy was arrested, charged and subsequently appeared in court yesterday. He’s been charged with hanging a plastic doll from the upper tier in the game against the monkeys.
This is a charge he irrefutably denies.
It was a plastic doll.
Despite that, social media went manic, some on here vented in opposition. Don’t get me wrong, I think it was tasteless and ill advised.
Now, because of what was expressed on monkey sites, and sadly here, a young Celtic supporter faces charges under the OBaF Act that could determine his future.
Aye this is a blog but please, please realise that everything you post is monitored.
seen this mob a few times,playing the barrowlands in November,one of the best live bands I’ve seen
https://youtu.be/FlPalDkWsuA
DALLASDALLAS
I’ve seen it,Mibbe on e-Tims,few days back.
There’s an Egyptian artefact,think it’s in The Ashmoleian,definitely in Oxford,which is a spit for Henrik.
Can’t say if he was top scorer then,think he was still waiting for the right move.
Last track of the evening
Young marble Giants Final Day…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngl-kx5ltEw
Driving With the Brakes On is a classic imo
HT – OK, you win, nae idea!
SOAL
Empty?
Yer heid? X
Out after the game if you fancy it?
MWD- Spot on, in a country where the ‘top’ pundit has an EBT, and a Rule Book to pull out when it suits him.
Just caught SSN warbiola press conference and since sound off in bar realised that the logo behind him is completely different from the old ran#(2s one, it’s also a different colour. New glasses not withstanding I thought it was purple, nae papal, in colour.
HT
Yip, I said at the time the dolly hanging was ill advised, and I also said at the time that whoever done it would be in for a serious problem, sad but there you go, a plastic dolly gets you in bother but up to yer knees in Fenian Blood is fine, there is your problem staring you in the face.
Half an hour ago I was getting nostalgic about coming home and you have woken me up, thanks, why in Gods name would I want to come back to the shit you have to deal with daily, it’s the reason I left the shit hole in the first place, and I admire yous all for living with them, it’s bad enough reading about it.
HH
HT
Your a week early
LOve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
Victoria
The KInks
I only discovered today that one of my favourite posters is in the middle of a health battle; I have every faith in your fortitude and your love of the KINKS will surely assist.
dedicatedfollowerofHEBCELTCSC
HAMILTONTIM
Expect a few arrests over the Aberdeen posters too.
About ten years ago,the UK govt tried to pass a law which outlawed offence in comedy. Pardon the pun,but it was laughed out of court.
Comedians and politicians of all stripes lambasted the idea.
It’s the same here. It cannot be against the law to make a crap joke,and very badly at that. It’s ridiculous,and again if you’ll pardon the pun,getting beyond a joke.
People are finding offence for no reason and the law allows them to do that. Utter madness.
Blondie
https://youtu.be/QbdCpi4qTNY
TET 11.04pm….
In my opinion it’s getting better…… itscalledhtemalvinas was a brilliant post tonight, times are a changing, but not quick enough with the FAC Shiite, there is a long way to go but am sure my father and his father wouldn’t have thought they would see what we have…….. I love living here and no Hun will ever change that, I get homesick on holiday for 7 days :-)
Hope Craig “crouching tiger” Gordon gets the nod tomorrow, although Doris the backie will probably get the shout….. BR just pick the best goalie
CGCSC
Grace
https://youtu.be/920WD_eEpp4
A convincing performance tomorrow would be nice. We’ve been a bit off the pace in the last fortnight against Barca, ICT and Alloa. Far too many errors in general play, i would like to see us tighten things up and be a bit more solid. Tomorrow i would go with the following team,
DDV
Lustig Kolo Jozo KT
Brown Christie McGregor
Forrest Dembele Sinclair
Griffiths to get 30 mins at least from the bench
Boaby-Ashmolean Henrik? Think i know the one you mean-partial reconstruct?
Anyway as everyone knows thats where our true roots are from.
“Pharaoh’s a grand old team to play for..”
“Ooh ah up the Ra”
“Hail, hail” during Moses time
And when Marc Anthony went to an away match “Roman in the gloamin”
I’m sure there’s other links :-)
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ROYCROPPIE
Mid 30s at Ibrox. Back when RM was still a decent site-aye,it was for a while-they had a huge argument about it. Not about whether it happened,but the justification for it.
HT
Very cool. You’ve got me thinking back now. … In the lyrics or liner notes?
https://youtu.be/2l5Q7E2iTzA
THE EXILED TIM on 23rd September 2016 11:04 pm
The guy that’s been arrested wasn’t even involved in the blow up dolls thing and yet his details were passed on by our club. Tastetless or not, they’ve got the wrong guy and our club are complicite in marking this guys life with a negative label. The fact that fellow Tims were demonising a tasteless act by one of their own has led to this situation. Accusations about us listening to L5 in terms of the team/club are prevelant on here but when our fans stand accused, they jump right on the bandwagon.
Just in for a evening at the Pavilion seeing Professor Brian Cox Live.
He stated as fact that the Earth is going to be wiped out by a rogue cluster of stars in 4 billion year. He didn’t give the precise time.
On the way home I listened to the recording of Sutton on SSB.
I was concerned the BFDJ was going to erupt and the Earth would be gone today.
http://youtu.be/1hx54STYl18
Dean ford
In dreams
TET/BMCUW
Ross has been a prominent member of FAC.
That is the only reason he’s been arrested.
Any polis reading this know why he’s been lifted.
Swastikas Over Ibrox
There is a famous photo of the England football team giving the Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938. But less well known is the part Nazi politics played two years earlier, the last time a united Germany faced Scotland at Ibrox, on Wednesday, October 14, 1936.
The countries had only met once before, in 1929, when a makeshift all tartan Scotland team had drawn 1-1 in Berlin.
Yet despite the curiosity value, a crowd of 40,000 was much smaller than expected due to the political feeling about the game – even in 1936 there were strong misgivings about the Nazi regime, combined with bitter memories of the Great War.
The press even hinted that a demonstration was feared, but there were no signs of trouble on the day thanks to a heavy police presence. “Here were our enemies of a few years ago,” one reporter wrote. “Were they fated to play the same role in the near future? Was this great gesture of sport a useless thing, already destined to be jeered at?”
Three days before the match the German party arrived at Renfrew Aerodrome and booked in at the Central Hotel before enjoying the time-honoured tradition of second house at the Pavilion. The next morning they went to Ibrox for a training session and were observed performing “a kind of goose-step, diverting the ball from one knee to the other”. Sounds like keepy uppy!
As the game approached, the political overtones were rife. There was an atmosphere of having an unwanted guest to stay; no-one wanted to be rude and everyone ended up being overbearingly polite instead.
Mind you, Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper Jerry Dawson tried to make light of the situation: he dabbed a small black moustache on his upper lip and pulled his hair over his right eyebrow. “Dat’s good fonny,” a visitor remarked, trying hard not to show offence.
There was widespread suspicion that the German ‘amateurs’ were playing for more than just national pride after the humiliation of losing to Norway in their own Olympic Games. According to the Evening Dispatch: “The visitors will be keen to uphold the honour of their Fatherland, and as was the case with successful athletes at the Olympic Games there is no saying what reward will be meted out to the scorer of the winning goal should there be such luck for a German in the contest.”
Rangers manager William Struth, familiar with most of the German players, said they did not have the finesse of Scottish footballers but were very fast, and their sudden bursts could rip open an opposing defence.
As it turned out, they could not have been more sporting opponents, and every time a German fouled an opponent he instantly extended his hand to receive the shake of forgiveness.
When the match came around, the start was delayed for 18 minutes, with the German party held up in heavy traffic. When the team eventually came out, they were wearing white shirts with red collars and cuffs, and black shorts – the Nazi colours; their shirt badge was a Nazi eagle.
The players lined up and gave a Nazi salute to the main stand to “loud applause”, turned and saluted the opposite side, and again repeated the salute during both national anthems. The Scottish team refrained.
The visitors’ actions, however, were echoed in the stand by about 500 Germans who had arranged a cruise to fit in this match with the weekend’s encounter in Dublin against the Irish Free State. During both national anthems they stood to attention and gave the Nazi salute, as did the German press contingent, much to the bemusement of the Scottish reporters.
To make their politics entirely clear, the Germans had brought with them two large Nazi flags – red with a black swastika on a white circle – and these flew over the Ibrox stand together with a Union Jack.
At last the match could start. Playing attractive one touch football, the German forwards threatened the Scots goal regularly but nearly always failed to get a shot in, and when they did Dawson came to the rescue. Gellesch did have the ball in the net after just three minutes, but was marginally offside.
Scotland made few chances as they stuttered along, and reached half-time with the scoreline blank.
Stamina and experience paid off in the end, however, and Scotland’s second half performance was enough to secure a 2-0 win with strikes from Celtic’s Jimmy Delaney (67 and 83 mins), his first international goals.
Overall, it was a poor performance by Scotland who, although never in much danger of losing, failed to settle to a steady game. All the flair came from the visitors.
The Germans left the pitch with another Nazi salute to the crowd, and went on to Dublin where they lost 5-2. They can little have thought that it would be almost 60 years before a united German team again met Scotland in Glasgow. They would hardly recognise Ibrox, either, although the Union Jacks are still there.
Scotland: Dawson (Rangers), Anderson (Hearts), Cummings (Aston Villa), Massie (Aston Villa), Simpson (Rangers, captain), Brown (Rangers), Delaney (Celtic), Walker (Hearts), Armstrong (Aberdeen), McPhail (Rangers) and Duncan (Derby County).
Germany: Jakob (Jahn Regensburg), Munzenberg (Alemannia Aachen), Munkert (1FC Nurnberg), Janes (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Goldbrunner (Bayern Munich), Kitzinger (Schweinfurt 05), Elbern (SV 06 Beuel), Gellesch (Schalke 04), Siffling (SV Waldhof Mannheim), Szepan (Schalke 04) and Urban (Schalke 04).
Referee: Harry Nattrass (England).
CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB
John Glass is my ultimate hero…but there are so many more.
Spoiled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azghP1daq6s
You’ll Never Walk Alone,
Caeser
Hamiltontim on 23rd September 2016 11:22 pm
I’m absolutely sick of it. They’re trying to put us back to the back of the bus and fellow tims are helping them do it.
*** LAST MAN STANDING 8 ***
Good late evening all.
Very pleaseD to say that (subject to any last minute buy-backs) all of this weekend’s picks are now in. At the moment we have 116 still standing including 9 who bought back their history. That option is now no longer available.
Thanks to all of you for getting your picks in in plently of time. It really does help us when we get everything signed off nice and early so thank you all.
Having analysed the choices of the 116 still standing, just over 50% of you (and me) are relying on The Bhoys so good luck there. Surprisingly, not a single person has ‘bet’ against Aberdeen on Sunday. Hmmmmm.
Here’s the games that feature the LMS selections –
Saturday 24th September
Celtic (60) v Kilmarnock
Hearts (14) v Ross County
Inverness (3) v Dundee (1)
Bournemouth (2) v Everton (4)
Middlesboro v Tottenham (7)
Swansea v Manchester City (14)
Sunday 25th September
Aberdeen (10) v Rangers* (1.00pm)
Hamilton v St Johnstone (1)
* – also known as :
Sevco
The Deadie Bears
Triggers Broom FC
GFTB
Many years ago, late 80s I worked for a co in Coatbrig, they employed me for one reason and one reason only and that was to get work, it worked, we all got rewarded, how sad, the sad bit was they employed me cos I don’t have a Timmy name, I wouldn’t have gotten the job had I been an Patrick or a……………how feckin sad is that, yip I do know it’s getting better but we are still talking about it in the year of our lord in 2016, that really gets to me, there is no excuse for that, it’s still happening today.
I well remember looking at the letters and the photos of prospective employees looking work, some even had the balls to show their balls, they were that desperate.
It’s said it takes three generations to change the mind set, we will see, they are saying your grandweans will be Celtic supporters, me thinks not, it will take much longer, the hate is so much ingrained.
HH
X ray spex
https://youtu.be/rSrOJ1ig6tI
Hamiltontim,
Was he arrested because of social media?
He needs good friends and family around him at his age for support.
Whoever has not sinned at that age cast the first stone.
Mountain out of a molehill springs to mind.
This incident should not hinder his future prospects.
Any arrests or names yet for the destruction to the toilets?
GORBALSTAM on 23RD SEPTEMBER 2016 11:21 PM
THE EXILED TIM on 23rd September 2016 11:04 pm
The guy that’s been arrested wasn’t even involved in the blow up dolls thing and yet his details were passed on by our club. Tastetless or not, they’ve got the wrong guy and our club are complicite in marking this guys life with a negative label. The fact that fellow Tims were demonising a tasteless act by one of their own has led to this situation. Accusations about us listening to L5 in terms of the team/club are prevelant on here but when our fans stand accused, they jump right on the bandwagon.
There’s a real worry about your post that may indeed be accurate.
ARTOFWAR
Sounds like the very one,bud. Must do some digging about,it will be online somewhere.
No point in me even trying all the museums in Oxford,I’m not that daft.
I’d pretend my research time was better spent in the real wells of knowledge,the many nearby pubs.
I’ve learned so much over the years by doing that,so much more teaching and information to be found in a pub than in a museum or a library.
It’s only my s…e memory that prevents me from proving that(!)