The James Forrest Feedback Club were quiet last night. I’ve no idea if James will rediscover his form on a sustained basis, or if his limbs will allow him to attain his potential, but it was good to see him running at defenders with confidence again.
He got the measure of John Rankin early on. Thereafter the United marker could do little more than block James whenever they faced-off.
I’ve been impressed with Dundee United during this series of games. Fojut held things together remarkably well at Hampden, you can see why we signed him subject to a medical, while Ryan McGowan was clearly their best player at Celtic Park, notwithstanding his late lunge at Liam Henderson. Well done to McGowan for coming onto Twitter to share apologies and congratulations.
Nadir Ciftci’s swagger reminded me of Jackie Dziekanowski in his latter days as a Celtic player. He’s probably found his level at United, where he can turn it on at will, but the modern game is looking for something different.
Loved the moment when a fouled Nir Bitton ruffled the hair of his assailant, Aiden Connolly. Nir is growing by the week, I’m working hard to avoid comparisons. We’ve not seen much of an edge from him since that, mistimed, tackle against Ajax, but he could do with some of that in-your-face attitude others in the midfield have.
Not been online much since the game, what suspension have the SFA offered Paul Paton after his altercation with Anthony Stokes?
Keep your eyes peeled for a nomad. They can hide in bins and outhouses. Check your shed. Any will do.
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Pfayr
You had me wondering!
Theism?????
Thought you’d gone all Petec and spiritual in your posts!
And was feeling inadequate cos of my theological ignorance!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Stan and Stefan @7.55
I think you’re being a tad unfair to characterize Lennon’s Celtic as ‘sideways passing’. There were lots of penetrating passes, tricks & flicks. Are you sure this isn’t all a bit ‘wanting it to be so’ rather than it actually being so?
I remember the same thing was said when Lennon’s popularity was at its zenith – people compared his side favourably to WGS’s sideways passing team (here I think they had a point) – it’s natural for supporters to want to see progress.
I like a lot about Deila – his fitness philosophy (although again this is unfairly used to castigate Lennon’s team), his intelligence, and his clear sense of purpose. I’m not a big fan of counterpressing, but willing to be convinced if it gets us results against better sides.
The problem is that, although we may drop points, we can easily win against SPL opposition with a 6/10 performance – that makes it difficult to judge how well we’re playing now, or at least it makes it difficult to convince others. Look at how bad Dundee Utd were on Wed night, for example – is Forrest really on the comeback trail, or was he made to look good next the dreadful Rankin?
Stats don’t tell the whole story, but this season we’re averaging 2.02 goals a game. Last season it was 2.3 per game. And yet so many insist we’re playing sexy football now – I just don’t see it, sorry.
I get that people want to believe in Deila. Maybe I just haven’t caught the bug. I thought and said at the time of his appointment that it appeared to be the right one – a young, gifted manager for whom Celtic was a step up, and I would love to see him do well. But we’re allowed to criticize, for God’s sake. If Ronny doesn’t qualify for the CL I won’t be calling for his head, though I might be having a moan, depending on how we play. (Hope that’s ok!)
Now officially given up on The Herald. It’s been apalling recently and is now sliding squarely into pandering to the hun demographic space.
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jamesgang
08:28 on
20 March, 2015
midfield maestro
08:19 on 20 March, 2015
catman,
yes a good night, great company too, still full. Enjoyed your thoughts on Denayer’s future, looking forward to your close season signing information
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Tantaliser!CSC
HH jamesgang
is it a secret or can we all share??????
Morning all.
Complete and utter guff from horrible hurtin hun Paton.
The fact he has been given a platform to spout this drivel comes as no surprise.
CFC preparing a statement?!
Bated breath here.
HH!!
Morning all.
Stan and Stefan @7.55,
Couldn’t have put things a word better myself.
Not all Huns are monkeys
Some are rats
ConfuciusCSC
HH jamesgang
Mikael Lustig, ooot for at least another 3 months
Anyone surprised, sad really, very very good player
Hail Hail
Good morning CQN
Dundee Utd players and management can use whatever vehicle they want to defend themselves and the club they play for, i expect nothing less from sportsmen who have a desire to win, we all want tougher competition
The problem is the refereeing and the ridiculous decisions of the compliance officer, both these parts of the SFA have decisions bordering on idiocy
If i was playing for Celtic on Sat i would be offering an invite to Mr Paton to view my winning Cup medal collection……… also telling him that he must be gutted at missing out on a cup fina,l however if he wanted i could secure him a ticket for the cup final in the Celtic end……………………..
Enjoy your day
Any link to what paton said ?
The Herald is a newspaper for smug, middle class lefties. They are irrelevant to most people.
Don’t want to alarm anyone but the sun seems to be disappearing.
Anyone got the address of a Mayan Pyramid in Cork to offer a quick sacrifice to appease the sun god ;-)
Scroll up proudbhoy.
lionroars67:
Hoopy Birthday mate, have a great day…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lionroars67
You kept that quiet
Very Very Hooopy Bhirthday Bhoy :-)
Hail Hail to you
Inter / Mancini .
Mancini pitched up.at Inter promising great things – hasn’t gone to plan .Man looked and sounded depressed at this morning’ s Press Conference. Much use of the word ‘inexplicable ‘ in respect of their you’re having a laugh defending.
Man’s mood not helped by knowing that UEFA are about to smack Inter’s bum re FFP- – a fine / an investigation re how their debt is structured etc.
Sunny day – way down south .Oranges and Mandarins to pick.
Up over,
I am a staunch supporter of Ronny but winning a treble doesn’t convince me that we are a wonderful team. Europe matters. Without investment, we may well toil again against those pesky foreigners who have the audacity to practice.
You made some fine points.
Cowiebhoy
100% gen or more pillow talk between you and Doc?!?
Terrible news. Great player. Never plays for us.
:-(
HH jamesgang
Tallybhoy
08:48 on 20 March, 2015
CFC preparing a statement?!
Bated breath here.
HH!!
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Naw!….whit normally happens is….Celtic or, as their really called…the ‘bored’ will do what they do best when Celtic are getting it ruff….they’ll brass it oot and wait till a group of conceited fans….chip-in and ask a gutter-rag to print a ‘statement’ by concerned Celtic supporters….firing the ‘boreds’ bullits….aye….thats right in a gutter-rag that gets kicked-up-n-doon this blog on a daily basis…..ah mean, wtf…is going on?…..never mind….lets all laugh at Rangers……..oot.
Kev
Why do you post ?
Good Morning.
Some considerable time ago, it was the perceived wisdom that a newspaper was essentially a publication which was designed to inform and illuminate it’s readers.
The idea was that newspapers would employ journalists who would either write on a certain subject with a degree of knowledge or expertise having researched the subject matter they were writing about, or alternatively the publication concerned would be known for having writers who came at things from a certain political or social perspective, and so the newspaper would garner a following from a certain political or social spectrum.
In between, the same newspapers would supposedly report the news of the day.
Of course the news of the day could be political, national, international, local, business news, sports news, and ultimately showbiz news, celebrity news and downright gossip.
Then some bright spark somewhere along the line came upon the idea that the newspapers could sell advertising space.
Rather than rely on income of a few pence from each reader, the publishers could collect hundreds of pounds from businesses and organisations who wanted to buy the advertising space in each issue.
However, to attract the really top advertising rates, each newspaper had to prove how many people read their blat, and the bigger the number the more they could charge to advertise.
Then some papers discovered that certain types of stories resulted in greater sales and so earned them more money in advertising revenue.
Solatious scandals, naked women, controversy and sensationalism all hyped up the sales and got the tills ringing. In short, the newspaper industry discovered that crap sells!
Today we see a formerly respected broadsheet publish a story which is supposedly about Dundee United’s Paul Paton.
Interestingly the newspaper concerned used to have the name “Glasgow” in its name but decided to drop that name in an attempt to be a more National newspaper. However, its main sales volume remains from in and around the Glasgow connurbation.
The article concerned says just a shade more than precisely nothing.
Whilst it may reflect some of the views of Paul Paton I personally would be cautious about accepting that interpretation – purely because I know of another far better known football perosnality who received a call from a SPFL manager asking him to explain derisory comments attribitued to said football personality in that morning’s paper.
The comments concerned were detailed and personal — and had never been made at all!
Not only that, the person concerned had not even known that the paper concerned was going to run any kind of interview with him at all and was not conscnious of even having given any sort of interview in recent days when he had discussed the manager concerned at all.
Now, I am not saying that Paul Paton did not give an interview and did not say the things attributed to him, but even if he did there is every chance that the odd throw away remark has been emphasised, highlighted, exaggerated and in general used to cause shock and awe with the result that curious souls will buy the publication or click on the link and so increase views, sales and ultimatly keep the advertising revenue rates up.
That is the name of the game and the only “Newspaper show” in town.
When yopu walk into a Newsagents or a supermarket and you see all the blats lined up for sale just imagine you are being greeted by a sales assistant:
” Do you want to buy several sheets of paper for £2 sir? There are lots of advertisments inside for Bathrooms, Holidays, Double Glazing, and the latest bargains from a national chain of bycicle shops — oh and there is the odd bit of news and by the way you shoud hear what a footballer is saying about this or that! You really must give me £2 or you will miss out on all of this!”
Personally, I keep my two quid.
A newspaper is only as good as the quality of the writing you will find within.
Otherwise it is a chip poke!
J
Is up on news now, apparently ? from Mikael himself
Where is that Roaster anyway, never seen him aboot lately :-)
Hail Hail, work to go to
Just getting off the fast Train to G1, have a great day CQN11.
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Thanks Lennybhoy and Cowiebhoy for the birthday wishes certainly felt the years last night at 5s my unlucky teammates also felt the burden
I share my birthday with Norwegian Poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen, im thinking good omens for my beloved Celtic Norway’s second most famous son after Ronny of course and the name Henrik KOK
There are some surreal posts on here did i just read from the DR greatest aficionado on here that the Sunday Herald is a gutter rag………………………………..
Enjoy your Friday CQN
Nae eclipse in EK….just the usual dark skies. :-).
lionroars67
Hoopy birthday mhate.
The 21st of many….!
HH jamesgang
On Wednesday i thought it rather comical the Daily Record produced a 1300 word report on the Ranger/Alloa game when one would have sufficed.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
I enjoyed your post the other day about Roberto Rivellino – elastico fantastico immensely, it brought some great memories of the colourful 1970 world cup.
Hey: Captain Beefheart @ 09:00
I resemble that remark!
I’m a Herald reader (though, in my defence, I don’t actually pay for the thing).
However, I’m afraid that, while I can quite happy admit to being irrelevant to most people (even less so to most Peepil) and might just qualify as being ‘middle class’ – perhaps even a ‘lefty’ – I cavil at any assertion that I am in any way smug …
Theheraldisfastbecomingacomic.CSC
” The fans have every right to voice their dissatisfaction – believe me – I understand it.Making mistakes is normal but making the same mistakes every game is inexplicable.”
Mancini 20 3 15
LIONSROAR67
A very happy birthday to you!
HH!!
The eclipse almost complete here now in Milton Keynes.
havanalaugh
09:18 on
20 March, 2015
There can be no eclipse in East Kilbride until Jobo declares that there is one.
He is aligned with the planets!
Murdochboy
Te Rivellino story is a good one — and if you go on to you tube you get to see some amazing highlights though apparently many of his greatest games were never caught on camera.
Happy Birthday Lionsroar.
Did you get a telegram?
Just found out my birthday day is also the International day of Happiness, i hope that means mine will be complete………………………….Christina Hendricks please
Where’s this feckin’ eclipse ? …… soar eyes ….haha
Watching the solar eclipse north of Dundee and I must say Kris Boyd’s arse would have made a better job of blocking out the sun.
Lionsroar, have a great day pal.
Hip hip hoooooorah
:-)
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
Your post prompted me to have a look through youtube at the time and he was truly amazing, it wasn’t until I caught the youtube posts that I realised how forceful he could be in defending himself.