Last night’s performance was at the upper end of my expectations. We were sharper than I remember from a year ago, although not Nadir Ciftci, who is a couple of weeks behind, and looked a couple of pounds over, his team mates.
You could see how Stjarnan did so well against Lech and Motherwell last season. They defended with six along the back and have a good keeper. Celtic’s passing looked off, but I think that had as much to do with Stjarnan’s denial of space in advanced areas. The chances came when we broke forward having allowed space to open up 50 yards out, and from a set-piece for the opening goal.
Stefan Johansen was my man of the match, he was the creative fulcrum behind all that worked. And yes, Stefan, in a public spat with you, Leigh Griffiths, a man who eats Tea Cakes on the bench and cultivates a rascal persona, walked away looking the grown up. You think about that for a while.
Emilio Izaguirre had a horrible World Cup and started all over the place last season. It was months into the campaign before people started to notice his consistency was back, but the head seemed as though it was still on the beach last night. He would have been punished severely by a mainland European team.
Ronny started with his traditional 4-2-3-1 but for a while after Leigh replaced James Forrest, he played a 4-4-2, which coincided with our best period of the game. Nadir had someone to link with, instead of being isolated in a sea of blue shirts, resplendent with the old World of Sport logo.
It was great having Mikael Lustig back and although Dedryck Boyata was not challenged defensively, he was clearly on a par with Lustig as being a defender who is comfortable on the ball. No mistakes and a goal is pretty much all that could be asked of him.
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Motion = notion
MIT
Youngster graduating last month
Got his Dip LP to do …starts in Sept
Re trip over …still very keen ….as are Mrs and Miss.., they’re all waiting for me to stump up for it …..
I’ll need to get enough time off to make it worthwhile …..
25th…,
That’s an excellent budget the hala arjaan by rotana does apartments excellent broadband and should give you a free pas to their beach resort complex ten min walk, in the abudhabi mall.
But there is plenty of choice
48,000, one thing for sure those fans deserve a successful team.
jamesgang …
re: not being at the game…
its the old joke about two drunks who see each other in the street …
first one says, ‘do I know you? did I see you in the pub last night?”
the second one says, ‘wasn’t me… I wasn’t in the pub last night’
the first one says, ‘no, me neither … must have been two other fellas’….
yes … I know … stick with the law, I’ll never make it to vaudeville…
PF … I thought it would have been some time around now that he would have finished, but I couldn’t remember for sure….. well done to your bhoy! you must be proud.
It is NOT the BBC, it’s the people who work for it – sadly we have now lost one of our own in Spencey.
Can you imagine our 17% in a separate Scotland – we’d be run ragged – the gathering pace of the shared campus schools policy is the slippery-slope to the end of Catholic education – reason will be financial – just like the political branding of the police and the financial reasons cited to close down local Control Rooms – resulting in the culpable homicide of a young couple by Salmond, MacAskill, House, Sturgeon, Mathieson and the SNP administration.
MiT
;-)
HH jamesgang
A cooling break in the sheep game. They’re lucky to be still 0-0.
Setting Free the Bears wrote this season review for us. He made predictions last summer and reflects on what he got right and also wrong and he looks ahead to the new season.
Given our rate of conceding in European football last season the nil in 2-0 was an important occurrence.
http://www.cqnmagazine.com/?p=6409
Call me nieve but when was cooling breaks brought in?
TWIN, think you are ‘mental’
Sips
I’ll not call you Neve till after your op!
Don’t be going all ‘daddy kardashian’ on here youngster!
;-)
HH jamesgang
sipsini
20:24 on 16 July, 2015
Call me nieve but when was cooling breaks brought in?
The SFA have decided we don’t need it.
themaestro72
To be fair having seen the forecast it we were playing this weekend the players could just run about with their mouths slightly ajar!
HH jamesgang
I’d like to think we can win the return leg too.
Would love to see Mulgrew and JF sold.
Woukd like to see two or three come in, shake it up a bit – look to try something new something different.
Winning captains
Whenever I try to access the magazine from my iPad or iPhone,( which is all of the time) I get kicked out after a few seconds.
Very frustrating.
TT
Water break in sheep game after 30 mins as temp is over 32 degrees.
No such break in ICT game !!
Sheep still 0-0 but Rijeka missed a sitter with ball off post after 10 minutes
jamesgang…
How did your leaving do go?
Bet your party frock went down a storm ;))
1-0 sheep
themaestro72…
Maybe I was watching the game in advance.;)
Freaky if they get a 2nd..
Sheep score from a corner where some of their players ran out of the box and the rest moved into the 6 yard box. Considine rose above defence to nod in at the back post.
I mentioned yesterday of the efficacy of set piece coaching and trying something different.
The Beach End Leisure centre is now open for frolicking Dons fans and their wooly companions..
1-0 Sheep
Sips
At no point did my frock go down
NeverChasedAlwaysChasteCSC
HH jamesgang
Should the Sheep result remain as is….McInnes will have the MOTY sewn up before the season starts
Sheep have Pawlett diving header in the net but well offside.
Sips
They did me proud. Pub crawl courtesy of the Glasgow tourist bus tour.
‘Hopping’ on and off as it were!
HH jamesgang
Embramike
Like Charlie’s goal against Huns or Vic’s against Barca
2-0 but just offside from sheep so still 1.
embramike says “the huns are deid”
Agree about set pieces. I also get annoyed at defending corners as we bring everyone back, we should leave at least 1 up.
Looking good for us to negotiate this Icelandic banana skin – much to displeasure of the Scottish media no doubt.
Anyone else notice that the Paradise Windfal Ticket has a reduced payout of £10,000 and is still the same price £2per Ticket . Hmmm
Dena29
I Googled then went through a series of possible links so I cannot help you with the exact link. Nevertheless, the automated reply I received came from here:
bbc_complaints_website@bbc.co.uk
Hope that helps.
JJ
jamesgang…
Glad your night went well, I predicted it would;)
Evening Timland from a hot hun free mountain valley.
Struggling with the heat this year, nearly 50 in the day, still mid 30s, feels kinda cold :-)
Techy question.
Had to clean my computer yesterday, reinstalled windows, everything running like a dream, apart from it won’t download pictures from the camera, the drivers are loaded etc, tried everything, even Mrs TET is stumped.
What am I missing ?
Thot the sheep offside goal was level, should have stood imo.
HH
Windfall ticket prize and price must be down to PL surely ☺ that’s what many portmanteau ‘bhoys’ will have us believe
tinytim
We are aware that the site is crashing some iPads, although not all. We had another issue with a flaming annoying game on mobile which we have only just sorted. The iPad issue is the last snag to sort, the two sites will be merging very soon.
malorbhoy
20:50 on 16 July, 2015
Anyone else notice that the Paradise Windfal Ticket has a reduced payout of £10,000 and is still the same price £2per Ticket . Hmmm
Now that you mention it, very sneaky.
My daughter “won” 2nd prize last season and got a signed Broonie picture with him lifting the league.
As I’m sure all dad’s know kids can win the prize without even paying for the ticket!