Tannadice was so packed out this afternoon it looked like a Rangers creditors’ meeting and the Scottish Cup tie on show didn’t disappoint. Dundee United had the better of the opening period but four second half goals from an irresistible Celtic decided outcome.
Jon Daly headed wide early on after a Willo Flood cross early on but the first great chance of the game fell to Johnny Russell on 25 minutes. Gary Mackay-Steven got free on the left and crossed for Russell who mishit his shot, allowing Fraser Forster to make an incredible save and claw the ball away.
With Dundee United clearly on top defender Robbie Neilson received a straight red card for a forearm smash into the face of Georgios Samaras.
It took Celtic 36 minutes to make an attempt on goal. Joe Ledley’s shot from a corner was blocked and James Forrest shot over from a corner seconds later.
Celtic stepped up the pace after halftime. Charlie Mulgrew jinked to create space on the left side of the United box but Ledley couldn’t reach his cross. 8 minutes after halftime the visitors were ahead after the best move of the game.
Adam Matthews passed back to Fraser Forster who played the ball out to Joe Ledley. Ledley moved forward after playing the ball onto Samaras, who passed to Mulgrew before the ball moved onto Stokes. Anthony Stokes fired a low cross into the box which Gary Hooper dummied for Ledley, who never stopped running. The midfielder won the ball by nipping in front of his marker and shot home from 7 yards.
Samaras shot over before a Stokes shot after 64 minutes from 25 yards was saved by Pernis, the first save the keeper made in the game.
United had a great chance to draw level when substitute Milos Lacny latched onto a long through ball but his shot from 16 yards was weak and off target.
Georgios Samaras made it 0-2 when he got on the end of a Mulgew free kick to bullet a header into the top right corner of the net.
Two minutes later Johnny Russell had a great chance to pull a goal back but his shot from 15 yards flew narrowly over.
Stokes should have tied the game up 11 minutes from time when James Forrest combined with Hooper before Forrest cut the ball back to Stokes, who contrived to hit the crossbar with his shot with an empty net waiting.
Samaras and Forrest both had chances to add to the scoring before Ledley threaded a pass through the middle of the United defence for Stokes to clip past Pernis into the net.
With a minute of the game remaining Samaras beat Dillon, who pulled the Greek international down inside the box. Scott Brown rolled the resultant penalty into the net to make if 0-4.
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As it is a Sunday, a little bit of light reading..
http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=213660
I don’t really want to cut and post the article but it may be of interest to some. it is regards a meeting held today regarding the ringers fighting fund.
They are still in cloud cuckoo land…
hamiltontim
Born in St Francis in Govan…
first 4 years in Gorbals…
then from 67 part of the great New Town experiment…
ended up in OZ
If the Save R* site is taken down all my efforts are wasted .
I was giving them real names and email addresses , real leads that they could have followed up on. OK thesewere names of reps for suplliers that I do not use but who think if they contact me 10 times a week I will eventually wilt) I had only got as far as the M’s !!!
Well its their loss and I wont help the next time.
Onlooker
Bunburbhoy
A great place to be born, me too.
My boss is Peter Principle, 20:01
Comedy gold on there. I loved the line
‘We have also been left with a void since our directors were either sacked or resigned’
It’s a big hoose all right with all those boardrooms to fill
Bunburybhoy- a great place to spend your first 4 ears- me too
My boss is Peter Principle
Well, they’re smarter than I thought – they’ll save Rangers by selling wee union jacks! Genius!
Bunburybhoy
A great place to eventually end up :-)
O.G.Rafferty on 11 March, 2012 at 20:12 said:
The old church halls up and down the country are going to be packed out with jumble sales, coffee mornings and face painting for the waens…all for the CAUSE.
Anyone got a link for the goals?
I spent my first four years in Parkhead (Edmiston Street – now the Barrs Irn bru car park), then moved to Garthamlock.
Does that make me posh?
bunburybhoy on 11 March, 2012 at 20:03 said:
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My two sons were born at St Francis in Govan, they’re both out in OZ innaw!
St Francis was a great wee place, just doon the road Fae the orcs.
V
and they have eleven members
£10million each should suffice
hamiltontim 18.22
Goalie change. What was the reason? To get it right uppemmm!! Just my opinion mind!!! <0);)
saltires en sevilla on 11 March, 2012 at 16:36
It was a paltry 10/1 pre season, hey ho £200 smackers en route
Anybody know what’s going on with Ibrahim? Only seen some clips on you tube but the boy looks like he could turn on the showboat! Wouldn’t hurt to give some fringe players a run out in the league now!
My boss is peter principle
On the saverankers site the twitter link buy a red&black orc scarf for£10
100% OF PROFIT GOES TO CLUB!!!!!!!!! look closer erm coughhhh any profit over £7.50 cough cough goes to club. Still ripping one another off till the end. :)))))
HAIL HAIL
Any links to Neils interview cheers on advance.
In
My boss is Peter Principle on 11 March, 2012 at 20:01 said:
As it is a Sunday, a little bit of light reading..
http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=213660
I don’t really want to cut and post the article but it may be of interest to some. it is regards a meeting held today regarding the ringers fighting fund.
They are still in cloud cuckoo land…
Sandy Jardine seems popular. See where this all goes with fighting funds, they will be at each other throats for years to come….
voguepunter
Is James F, the poster, from Castlemilk?
leftclicktic on 11 March, 2012 at 20:19 said:
My boss is peter principle
On the saverankers site the twitter link buy a red&black orc scarf for£10
100% OF PROFIT GOES TO CLUB!!!!!!!!! look closer erm coughhhh any profit over £7.50 cough cough goes to club. Still ripping one another off till the end. :)))))
HAIL HAIL
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I hope they remember to pay the VAT
My son was also born in St. Francis.
Ron Bacardi on 11 March, 2012 at 20:22 said:
leftclicktic on 11 March, 2012 at 20:19 said:
My boss is peter principle
On the saverankers site the twitter link buy a red&black orc scarf for£10
100% OF PROFIT GOES TO CLUB!!!!!!!!! look closer erm coughhhh any profit over £7.50 cough cough goes to club. Still ripping one another off till the end. :)))))
HAIL HAIL
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I hope they remember to pay the VAT
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Haha, so 50p goes to the club.
leftclicktic on 11 March, 2012 at 20:19 said:
Someone somewhere is making a small fortune…all above board mmmm…1 for 2 for me
Jude
That’s what I hoped was the reason!!
I’m gonna have to tell Zipper T Doodah and Vincent Depaul that their combined donations of 25 big ones has been rejected…………….
:)
If you go to page five of today’s programme Peter Houston gives tribute to Lenny for changing Celtic’s fortune from being 15 points behind. Nice touch……….
Anyone else watching Lazio v Bologna and thinking: we could whack 5 against either of these?
lenny, pre-match
http://soundcloud.com/celticresearch/lenny-radio-scotland/s-ukpjT
Just for a laugh before checking out .
“We don’t care what the animals say…”
So far we’ve had the gorilla, the octapus, the pig in the poke (not to be confused with the flying pig, although the two do exist), big whyte horse (Lloyds), paper tiger (SFA), the bears (pure ragin’), rats (deserting the sinking ship).
There might also be the whyte elephant (big Hector’s hoose).
Silver fox (cardigan) has so far managed to stay on the sidelines.
The goats are in there somewhere (for something..).
Not forgetting the cock-and-bull stories thet continue to be spun by the MSM.
Nothing to worry about though for all us Tims who are having a whale of a time.
We are safe in the knowlegde that Hector is watching them like a hawk.
;o)
Just finished a lovely plate of mince and given the mince being talked about Rangers emerging from Administration as Rangers I had another look a business case for that with Rangers carrying the cost of The Ticketus deal and a repayment of the full tax amount (£75M from RTC figures) over time.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq2m3ggkEX2RdDVtcjhQenY2U1pia19GWTJlTi1vSUE
I know it has to be the full tax amount for the money was never Rangers in the first place and a pence in the £ deal would be making robbery legitimate, so so much for a CVA . I also know HMRC are not a bank but they would probably have to have a look at any business case that RangersIA submit to see if it stands up.
Well I came up with one that seemed at first look to do that. It involved tax repay over 8 years and Ticketus having a 5 year recovery from sales. . Why 8? The formula I used could not stretch past 8 but I also think that is the political limit that any deal could survive (and that is stretching it)
To make the bottom line stay black there has to be an average weekly player wage of £2900 in Yr 1, rising to £4605 in Yrs 2 to 4 because UEFA income from EL arrives (and that is a risk) and £5830 from Yr5 after the Ticketus arrangement expires.
The risk HMRC would have to take is that this projection relies on SB sales of 38,000SBs. If that figure drops by 1000 then there is no business case with the bottom line for each year going into the red. With an average weekly wage budget of that shown what are the chances of the SB sales required at the price shown (£450) standing up?
The other factor of course is presentational because should HMRC consider a time to pay deal it is tantamount to HMRC providing Rangers with a subsidy to enable wages that can attract the necessary attendance to make the business case stand up.. You might as well put Hector on the Rangers Board to check their “investment” is getting a return.
Getting back to the mince, talk of Rangers coming to any deal with HMRC is just that – mince, and nothing like as real as the nice wee plate I had earlier.
Guys you can relax…it appears all the details from save rungers are now with Mr dingbat of Faulty Followers (the fans elected member of the board even though 90% of them hate his guts) Thats his 10m on the table wonder how much sandy is taking oot…. sorry putting in :-)
Tommy Joad on 11 March, 2012 at 19:46 said:
Bonsoir,
I’m miles behind today, been at the in laws drinking their beer and eating their food, watching the Celtic.
Just heard NFL’s interview. Good grief. Has there ever been a man who spoke so consistently and concisely for our interests, regardless of the consequences?
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Lenny is the former Padawan of a Jedi master of telling it like it is namely Martin O’Neil. We can all recall MON publically standing up and condemning the abuse Lenny use receive as a player and his tearing a reporter who had the audacity to suggest that Celtic had a ‘sectarian’ problem a new one. The force is strong in Lenny.
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! on 11 March, 2012 at 20:17 said:
I spent my first four years in Parkhead (Edmiston Street – now the Barrs Irn bru car park), then moved to Garthamlock.
Does that make me posh?
like me yes…………..
garngad to easterhouse
Ron Bacardi
:))))) I never even thought of that :))))
£7.50 to the seller + VAT @20% = £9.50 well well well 50p for every scarf to their fund dear o dear o dear one born every minute as they say.
HAIL HAIL
selik gemm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/17335210
Bless, below that fighting fund report, a comment:
“Fantastic , were going to be alright ”
That’s it then.
Within 2 years we will be watching Celtic games via a Celtic feed which will be distributed to other markets via ESPN,
Not Sky
Not Setanta…I have first hand experience of that shoite
THEN..we have the real power.
By the way,,,it’s been great no talkin aboot taxes for a day…has it not?