It is nonsense to talk about Hampden Hoodoos, Celtic’s five defeats there since Neil Lennon became manager have been a result of poor performances, not superstition (fighting the urge to mention two last minute penalty decisions). Celtic were unquestionably the stronger team on four of those five occasions, arguably all five, but they have been tactically out-thought at the national stadium time after time.
We are vastly stronger than Dundee United but once the whistle goes tomorrow, unless we can match them for hunger, arrest the defensive lapses which have blighted us all season, and find the key to breakdown what will be a tight defence, there is no reason to believe the outcome will be any different than when we faced a weaker St Mirren.
Shortly before that St Mirren defeat I said we were not playing consistently to win the treble we were short odds for. Consistency hasn’t improved much since, which is why you are hearing talk coming out of Lennoxtown about this being the biggest game of the season.
It’s double time….
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Tommysboy
Indeed it has old school glaswegian humour.
I spose I just cringe a bit in these pc days. .. ffs our boss gets taken to task for calling someone a f@nny… and I cant believe I feel the need to substitute the @for a then :)
Morning all. Back to usual weather: wild, wet and windy down here. BBC (or that should be EBC) saying the weather is suddenly lovely. We have had beautiful weather here for about 2 or 3 weeks.
Any overnight developments chez deady bears?
Pfayr – He is dynamite mate,goals galore.Left foot,right foot,penalty box and outside.Skill to burn.We should have signed him two years ago.The lad went to Germany but couldn’t settle.About time there was another Westie at the club.CharlieTully&AntonRoganCSC. :)
TheBarcaMole
08:07 on
14 April, 2013
Paraphrasing perhaps but…………”they did a sh1te in ma mince and a hid tae throw hauf ae it oot”………..
Which TV play???????
Regards & Hail Hail
film about drug dealing in EMBRA.JIMMY NAIL was in it.
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I have been Away a Long Long time..
But..
I Don’t know..Maybe we are Better off with the Hardcore 30,000 Fans that have been Mentioned on here Many times..
Budget for that and take the Blow-ins as a Bonus..(Which l would class Myself as)..
Maybe our Hardcore Fans would be Treated better by the Suits..
I Have Never Got the..I would Never Give ‘Rangers’ or Now the SFA Money..so l Don’t go and Support Celtic (Team)..
Never have Never Will..
Summa
I can peronally confirm that oor Lenny restricts usage of the word “fanny”. Only for fannies. If Hooper, Stokes or Commons don’t perform, he refers to them as “Haw, bawheid”. If Chico, Joe, Sammy, Big Kelvin, Victor, Efe etc don’t perform, he refers to them as, “Haw, Bawheid”.
I say this trusting that there will be no SFA charge brought against oor Lenny based on my representation of things. And to be fair, I don’t have a secret microphone pointed at the Celtic dugout. But my speculation is as valuable as Flanders, who is also a fanny and a bawheid, in those circumstances.
Summa
Meet you at asda toryglen about 11:30 ;)
from Sunday Herald
CELTIC chief executive Peter Lawwell last night called on Roy MacGregor to listen to the more experienced SPL chairmen who are to vote in favour of league reconstruction tomorrow.
32,000 ST renewals sent out?? Not received mine!!
The Ross County chairman will determine whether the proposed 12-12-18 package will get the 11 out of 12 votes needed for it to be carried when the top-flight clubs meet at Hampden. Only St Mirren’s Stewart Gilmour will definitely vote against the package but MacGregor has major reservations and has yet to reveal which way he will go. He likes some aspects of the proposal and dislikes others. Yesterday MacGregor urged “compromise” in comments which encouraged the “yes” camp.
Lawwell acknowledged MacGregor was in an “awful” position because Ross County’s fans had said they do not support the proposals, but he insisted the club, in its first year in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, should heed the advice of those chairmen who have been in the top division for years.
“Stewart Gilmour has been very direct and clear on his views,” said Lawwell. “I don’t know exactly where Roy and Ross County stand. They are open to persuasion as they haven’t made their position clear. Hopefully they will come with us. At the moment there would be 10 firm ‘yes’ votes, one ‘no’ and one ‘undecided’.
“What I would be saying to Roy is that, with the greatest of respect, they are new to the SPL and the other 10 clubs have been round the block many, many times, been in it for long enough and been part of reconstruction and strategy talks for three years. We have the cuts and bruises. Maybe he should listen. It’s fine being new and fresh and they’ve done fantastically well, but is that going to be his position in two, three or four years’ time once he has experienced it all?
“It’s not a threat, he’s in an awful position, which is really unfortunate. It’s not an ultimatum, it’s just trying to get him to understand what we know and he has no reason to know because it’s new to him.
“The fans don’t know the full picture. And I think there were 130 [Ross County] fans at that meeting Roy held that night and they were against it. Sometimes you have got to take their views on board, which is vitally important, as we do. But at some point you have got to make the call yourself about what is best. And not just for yourself but for the game as a whole.”
Lawwell said he expects debate to continue in the SPL boardroom tomorrow, up until the actual vote, and said he would try to speak to MacGregor. “If that’s what it takes, yes. He’s a great guy. He’s got a great club and done a brilliant job. He’s got the highest respect and I respect his right to vote.
“We’ve never been as close in terms of reaching agreement. We think it’s right for the game. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best available. If it doesn’t happen then the flip side is it stays the same. That, to me, is not palatable.”
Lawwell claimed the proposed structure, in which the top two divisions of 12 split into three of eight after 22 games, would generate new broadcasting and sponsorship income. Without that, he said, £2 million could be lost to the Scottish game each year.
Bemoaning the stagnation of the status quo, he revealed Celtic have distributed 32,000 renewal forms to their adult season-ticket holders and fewer than 10,000 had responded so far. Lawwell criticised Gilmour for changing his voting position after all 12 clubs had unanimously supported the proposal in January.
“I’d question the reasons why clubs would want to vote against this. Everyone has the right to vote against, but I don’t get it. The reasons I have been given so far have been so varied, so inconsistent – you can only speculate. The 11-1 [voting requirement] has never been raised at any meeting I’ve been at but he was saying on the radio that’s the main reason. The 11-1 is a red herring, it’s a total smokescreen.”
If SPL clubs vote in favour the Scottish League clubs will vote on the proposals at a meeting on Friday.
ItaliaBhoy
08:30 on 14 April, 2013
‘Superb post by barcabhoy on TSFM…’
Good article. Concise and clear exposition.
Hopefully some of the MSM will read it, digest it and learn from it.
Or even just plagiarise it.
In particular I hope someone calls out the non executive directors either for not being up to the job or for shirking their responsibilities.
Ffb
I sat in the main stand next to the celtic dug out … for one match last season…. lennys words were a wee bit different from your post… he doesnt miss our players
Good morning friends and a Happy Semi Final Day from a pretty wet and breezy EK.
FAVOURITE UNCLE 09:16 on 14 April, 2013…………
Cheers, will try Google that but really thought it was a Glasgow/West Coast thing……….. Colours of my mind maybe……….
TBM
The Boy Jinky
You actually stay 3.81 miles from Hampden,mind give us a wee wave from
your car while we are walking back in peeing rain.
HH
Every game we win,every piece of silverware that we lift,is another stake in the heart of the zombie.It kills them,it really does… COYBIG
italiabhoy
08:30 on 14 April, 2013
Re Barcabhoy’s article
So Sevco 5088 never did transfer the assets to Sevco Scotland?
It’s all very murky and while any reasonable person would conclude collusion. Would the fact that Whyte had no direct paper link to Sevco Scotland ultimately prove decisive?
It’s been clear that this whole debacle had been orchastrated from the outset. Though it would appear that there are some involved who have been, to use Greene’s word ‘Shafted’ (Though who knows if this is even accurate) i so hope I’m wrong but Green & Whyte will get there pay off disappear and the men behind this whole charade will ride in as the succluent lamb’s media’s saviours. it would sicken me to think such a clear deception will once again be fudged. Though it seems pretty obvious that Sir Cardigan or whoever the media driven ‘Good Rangers Men’ are? That they have been lurking in the shadows and most probably from the very beginning. The bottom line is Green & Whyte will be seen to be punished (but with there pockets lined for their troubles) and a New, newco with Tickitus (Most probably Minty) as an investor. Will then be formed and welcomed into the fold by The SFA and our media lackies.
It will be like waking up from a bad dream. Sickening!
Vp
Thanks for that info… makes me think
I’ve always justified driving as it was 4 miles… might just walk today ;),
TBJ,
:)) Hey.
“pal”, “buddy”, “you AR@EH@LE”, “fella”, “bung”, “referee!!” and “brown envelope” are all acceptabible to Vincent.
“Fanny” is not though. Ye hear!?
It’s just….utterly disgusting.
And the main reason for empty seats at Hampden is of course their failure to clarify where american tourist burds should sit their arses down.
It’s a poorly run organisation that, I tells ye. Fannies.
When did the renewals go out? I never received mine & I’m looking to add one to it.
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Jinks..
I’m Boycotting Asda..
Plus..Tesco has Cheaper Cider..
I’ll just Sit here in My Armchair Spouting..;-)
Summa
Why are the big clubs so desperate to push through this 12 12 18 (to split into 3×8) structure? Any financial advantage is surely only due to novelty factor and destined to evaporate and the structure itself is on the face of it purely ridiculous and horribly contrived. Football is best when the simple things are done well. This looks to me like an utter dog’s dinner. As others have said, a clear out of the compromised (to put it generously) SFA and SPL leadership is required. Simple structure, governed by professionals acting with integrity and fairness, why is that so difficult?
vale bhoy
09:33 on
14 April, 2013
Same here. I’m looking for another for youngest son.
Can’t see how renewals can have been sent out when we don’t know how many games we are playing. Is it 19 league games, as now, or 18 league games as per league reconstruction proposals.
Big shout goin’ out to the ZOMBIES!
Any petrolheads out there?
Old car on it’s last legs and probably won’t pass MOT at end of month.
Wifey had a test drive yesterday in a Nissan Note -2nd hand. She loved it, but it’s an automatic, not a manual shift. Have to make a decision today.
What are the pros and cons of an automatic? I know that it’s heavier on petrol and that’s about it.
Any help appreciated.
HH
16 roads
Very true . I realise many Celtic supporters have massive grievance with the establishment and I fully sympathise with that .
I hope it does not stand in the way of our enjoyment in winning honours.
The sight of us doing so has always sickened them to the pits of their stomach -,now that they are dead, it grates them ten times over.
HH
balhambhoy
09:38 on 14 April, 2013
‘why is that so difficult?’
1. Too many parties with vested interests.
2. This is Scotland, and there is a prevailing, dominant culture about Scottish football. Which other association would have so many club chairman whose primary allegiance is to another club?
I’ve not received a ST renewal either. Maybe that’s the reason for the lack of response. Lets also add to that, that I don’t actually need to respond for it to renew anyway. I hate it when people (anybody) massage figures to make a point.
You are SEVCO!
As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
I met a Strathclyde rozzer man, who put me in his caravan.
The hun did bum his sergeant chum while I just cried, “oh no…!”
And the hampden swell o’er the Clock Tower bell, rang out through the foggy dew…
I hope Craig Thomson has been studying that ——–a player is offside if ——rule.
Warm and sunny —high 20s forecast -way down south
Bhoys off topic…
Looking for some cheap AstroTurf for the garden, any suggestions or ideas?
Kikinthenakas
Start the game at a high tempo,press them all over the park and DU won’t live with us.We started slow and flat against St Mirren and Killie in LC Final ,and we were ordinary.
Kikinthenakas
I’m sure you will be able to buy some from Murray Park soon.
ChannelislandCelt – One only has to listen to that BBC Radio Sevco.Every goal that we concede – they go crazy,even in so-called meaningless games,if there is such a thing.And every goal that we score ruins them,the disappointment is so obvious.
Five live debating Offensive Behaviour.
Art of War
Quick Read
Badly
Heavy rain just returned to ml5 :((
Is it Thompson today??
Oh dear. Might as well be a 45 degree slope on one side of the pitch…both halves, if his company are responsible for its maintenance.
He’s an American bum. :))