Those who were at Murrayfield today…I know it’s a superior stadium to Hampden, but how did it compare atmosphere-wise?
Delaneys Dunky on
NB
Love Harry Hood.
Celtic legend
YNWA
Dobra
'GG on
Jamie Lyall on BBC Scotland thinks the penalty was “debatable.”
Celtic booked their place in the Scottish League Cup final thanks to a debatable penalty, a goalkeeping error and a 20-yard stunner that all arrived in 19 second-half minutes
celticrollercoaster on
Good evening LMSers
Set off at 9:40am this morning and we got into our seats at Murrayfield at 1:15pm having been cattled along the way, but it was worth it after a fabulous second half performance.
Anyway, let’s get down to LMS business and it had to happen! The LMS11 supertreble had to fail and it took out 33 entrants choosing Killie.
Only 34 teams made it through this cup semi final weekend moving onto week 6
TheCelt45 St Johnstone
SCAM Barcelona
Thoms Sellick Barcelona
Celtic Rose St Johnstone
Danny Mac Manchester United
Lennybhoy St Johnstone
Connemarabhoy Manchester United
Deccyrollercoaster Bournemouth
Slabbhoy Manchester United
MOBYFUGRUMBLE2 Manchester United
TimsinOhio Bournemouth
Channelislandcelt Manchester United
Gordybhoy64 Manchester United
Shuggiebhoy67 Barcelona
Onemalloy St Johnstone
Indi the Disobedient St Johnstone
16 roads Barcelona
TravelBhoys Pardnur Manchester United
Pannysbhoy Manchester United
Jobo Baldie Manchester United
praecepta Manchester United
The Exiled Tim Manchester United
Gutenberg Barcelona
Celticrollercoaster St Johnstone
SetantaBhoy Leicester v West Ham ( DRAW)
Hearthan Celtic
MikeinToronto St Johnstone
bognorbhoy St Johnstone
Paolos Boots St Johnstone
Big Archie Celtic
GG Celtic
Itscalledthemalvinas Barcelona
Stephbhoy Manchester United
Lionsroar67 Manchester United
And this weekend, we say bye to Steven Gerrard’s Huns, Craig Levein’s mini-huns and the following 37 CQners
AndyF Kilmarnock
Hamiltontim Kilmarnock
CiaranF Kilmarnock
AuroraBorealis79 No pick
David 17 Kilmarnock
stpatricksbhoy Kilmarnock
The Token Tim Kilmarnock
Celtic Soul Brother The Rangers
gerryfaethebrig Kilmarnock
Toor A Loo Kilmarnock
Zico Maltese bhoy Kilmarnock
Kelvinbhoy Kilmarnock
The Boss The Rangers
Janice67 Kilmarnock
Bateen Bhoy Kilmarnock
BRTH Kilmarnock
Googybhoy Kilmarnock
The Good Ship Celtica Kilmarnock
Bobby Evans Superstar Fulham
TravelBhoy Kilmarnock
Letterkenny Bhoy Kilmarnock
HenriksHaircut Kilmarnock
A Source said Kilmarnock
The Young Fella Kilmarnock
20 hats Kilmarnock
londonbhoy88 Kilmarnock
Belfast2013 Kilmarnock
Edinburgh&Ballymote2012 Kilmarnock
Forres 2015 Kilmarnock
Lejog2016 Kilmarnock
Lisbon2017 Kilmarnock
LondonClaus2014 Kilmarnock
The Lurker Kilmarnock
Kolncelt Kilmarnock
Blantyre Tim Kilmarnock
StevieH Kilmarnock
pogmathonyahun Kilmarnock
Good luck to all in week 6. We also hope to announce the prize monies next week and monies raised for our great charity causes, so if you still have to pay then please send us your dosh please
HH
CRC
Gerryfaethebrig on
DD 9.25pm
We can be as fickle as the rest of them, our young team are a young team take Lustig out of the back 4 today and there is 3 bhoys who are kids, again Europe is a major step up but hey ho the usual suspects will pick holes…. I can assure you Celtic bring joy into my life, not the be all or end all but joy all the same…. some Celtic “fans” on these pages take no joy from Celtic winning … attention seeking, ego driven, or just nothing too be happy about …. life is far too short, sometimes it can be draining on here when posters who don’t even post about Celtic (the actual football) but there is far more good on these pages than bad
Hail Hail
Enjoy Dens Park hope Scott Sinclair starts … his mojo has returned ?
Back in Glasgow just in time to see the sickly Sevcs dissipate, two pints in Rose St £11.50 two pints in The Iron Horse £7.50
Brendan Rodgers still has the better players and a better formation altered at half time and Hearts just couldn’t compete. The predictably but brilliantly man managed Tom Rogic was head and shoulders above anything in maroon, and Callum McGregor romped it, with captain Lustig giving the Jambo nada all afternoon.
But it wasn’t until after Rodgers made his alterations Celtic flourished hitting in to the ‘Celtic end’ in the second half a turkey shoot unfolded, in another three that should have been six.
Whilst the sceptics among us expected Lewis Morgan?, wiley Brendan unleashed Scott Sinclair in the only role he’s ever succeeded, and he picked up the gauntlet, torturing then breaking Hearts. Ryan Christie ‘high fived’ with his team mates coming onto the vast perfect pitch at half time , then twice again after being chopped. His neat dribble for the penalty then when he despatched the ball sublimely under the Murrayfield bar for conversion number 3.
With the fringe players stepped up, Benkovic and Ajer busy performing the immaculate combination Boyata wasn’t needed, giving not a sniff to Hearts, even Scott Bain could have smoked cigars and only got in on the act when he dummied a Hearts forward to set up the latest attack. Mikael Lustig dominated and finds new legs every other week for big games, Keiran Tierney gave a men v boys display against anything that came down his zone, taking the ball from Hearts like a thief in the night.
Whatever Sinky was short of it wasn’t confidence as he grabbed the ball from Edouard and despatched it with aplomb, it was always going to be a day for ‘Lets all do the Huddle’
M.O.M. Tom Rogic
nally81 on
Great day, just watched all of the 2nd half and I thought we were brilliant.
stephbhoy on
Good preformance second half, first half not so much. Introduction of sinclair and christie made all the difference.
I like eboua, he guards the defence, loves a tackle, works hard for his team and is calm in posession. He is very good for a 20 year old.
Ps sevco hahaha!!!
HH
Gerryfaethebrig on
Southside 9.28pm
The MacGregor stuff is vile, he is playing to his gallery and officialdom are letting the thug away with it ….
Some unfortunate footballer is going to get hurt with one of his kicks/elbows …. a thug playing to a gallery
Bateen Bhoy on
Last Man Standing 11 Week 6
Good Evening Standers, and hearty congratulations to those who avoided the carnage in Week 6.
Killie’s failure to get a referee who would gift them two late penalties against Hamilton saw almost 50% of remaining contestants take a seat in what was a calamitous weekend.
In contrast, Celtic breezed past the current league leaders as Levein graciously admitted that his team had been outplayed and outclassed by the Champions ( Okay, I made that last bit up )
Next weeks fixtures are revealed below. All the big teams are available for selection next week, so no-one should have a problem picking a winner in week 7 ;-)
Contestants failing to pick a winner ( or predict a drawn game ) will drop out, take a seat, and watch on in a state of permazombie-ism, until we are left with Last Man Standing, and the competition winner.
Please note the various kick-off times and get your picks in before the game of your choice begins.
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur (19.45)
Sunday 4 November
Kilmarnock v Aberdeen (12.15)
Manchester City v Southampton (15.00)
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (16.00)
jamesgang on
Unrepentant Fenianology CSC
Delaneys Dunky on
GFTB
Celtic matters to me more than I imagined.
Looking forward to Dens Park Wednesday.
The Drumchapel bhoys are some of the best Tims you will meet. Dallas for example
YNWA
nally81 on
Ajer….is going to be a leader of men and I predict he will be his country’s captain in 2 years.
CalMac….has definitely went from boy to man and the brilliant thing about it is that the understanding between CM, JF, TR, KT and others as they play more games in the seasons ahead is that it is UNBUYABLE.
Other teams might chuck decent squads together but they will never touch us over a season with us having these guys as a nucleus.
Sinclair was magic and really hates Hearts.
Lastly….Odsonne Edouard……What a brilliant player for someone so young and so few professional matches under his belt….such a mature CF performance.
Much better stadium view and facilities. Traffic and crowd congestion in the surrounding area is horrendous because its built in a residential area, with no suitable road infrastructure.
Gerryfaethebrig on
DD 9.53pm
Dallas is a talking Celtic historian am sure he won’t take offence to that :-)
I struggle to remember what years players played he tells me the dates, he is like a Tontine Tim apprentice
Delaneys Dunky on
BSR
Tom Rogic was the best fitba player in the world today. Our only world class player.
YNWA
Delaneys Dunky on
GFTB
Dallas has always been like that.
An intelligent Celtic man.
I blame his Catholic schools
YNWA
Delaneys Dunky on
GFTB
Dallas has always been a Celtic historian.
I used to love talkin about Celtic with him when we were weans in Knightswood.
YNWA
Gerryfaethebrig on
DD 10.05pm
Sitting on my own some today (wife was Christmas shopping so wee yin wasn’t allowed to go) Rogic got me out of my seat, BR was brilliant about Kouassi he said I thought he wasn’t a hundred per cent so I make the decision but something caught my attention we call it the “holding role” the “Broony” position or even wee “Lenny” breaking up the play, Brendan said “Callum was excellent in the controlling position” Callum always wants the ball wanting the ball is good
No hiding CSC
Enjoy Dens on Halloween, just get a tie and dress up as a fitba manger Hunny Gee has done that for months and got away with it
Fellow Celts good night n god bless there were many out there not wanting Brendan to be in another final :-)
Happy days ?
David66 on
Well that was a doddle today bhoys and ghirls.
Dare I say it…….
With a treble treble yell, Brendan cried more, more, more.
It’s on.
Levien
Hun journalists
Sleekit G
Get it right up you
Hail Hail
D. :)
David66 on
Oh and by the way now that the debacle of today is out of the way.
Celtic fc you claimed on our behalf that we were discriminated against (and I think you were right) what is happening after you made the statement ????
Please chase this up….??? from a position of winning…
D. :)
Delaneys Dunky on
David66
We are Glasgow Celtic
Get it right up the Embra Huns fae Gorgie.
Treble Treble on.
YNWA
David66 on
BMCUWP not seen you on for a while. If you are lurking.
Excuse me if you were on today.
I hope all is well, I always enjoy your posts, I hope you have not gave up.
D. :)
David66 on
DD I hope you enjoyed your sons today, and hope your family are all well.
This was like winning a final…. Levien is a Sleekit G type
D. :)
Sandman on
SANDMAN DEFINITIVE EDINBURGH REBELLION v ‘HUNS’/HEARTS RATINGS:
‘Up at Six. Bus at Eight. Lunch at two. Huns Pumped at five. Sheared at seven. Wait ’til nine to get the Sandman ratings. Busy fckn day.’
Dolly the sheep.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to the Hun as it is, desperate. For the Hun has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”
William Blake.
‘Let’s go! To Fck.’
Slippy G.
Bain: 7/10
Fresh from battling Batman in the climax to Christopher Nolan’s superbly re-thought Dark Knight trilogy, our reserve goalie swaps unintelligible face-maskery for famed yellow jersey and superglue gloves to provide competent goalkeeping. Troubled? Only by the Tetris level he reached on his phone before having to catch a cross sometime second-half.
Solid, played more with his feet than hands.
Lustig: 7/10
Mad Swede. Mad for it. Uncompromising in the face of sleekit Jambo-ism. Sleekit enough himself to get arch-Hun fanny McLean booked in the first seconds of the game.
Never the nouveau-Tims favourite, Mick is the guy who delivers the bacon when the chips are down. You can never have enough of guys like him at your side. Ask the Celts, ask the Swedes. Stop playing yer FIFA pish.
Benkovic: 8/10
Why Leicester paid £13 million. THE young Croatian centre-back in vogue, and heir to the national throne, despite what the Hun would have you believe about their pale imitation who no longer flick’s Slippy G’s bean.
Our loan is a belter. sadly we will never own him but he’s a fine watch to wear awhile.
Ajer: 7/10
Like Ajax or ‘Ayax’, young Chris is an AJER or an Ajir. Either way, a Norwegian descendent of a runaway Roman-era Praetorian guard. A presence designed to induce reflexive knee-jerk in depraved Hun goalies, the bhoy is fearless and dependable. He may run into trouble occasionally but he learns all the time; great physical presence today to defy the Mini-Hun tactic of bludgeon-a-Tim.
KT : 7/10
Roving, relentless, worrying – bhoy could do with a rest to plat Red Dead Redemption 2 on his console. maybe that has been the plan – full effort until release date of the greatest game the world has seen and then let him shoot cowboys until December, when he can return fresh in prime Hunskelping mode, by order of the Peaky Blinders.
Sam Jackson 6/10
No muthaf###### idea what was up. Seemed to grow into the game first half then disappeared like a muthaf###### after 45 minutes.. Possibly problem with Edinburgh fast food – no muthaf###### Chicken Royales on the half-time snack menu.
Calmac – 5.5/10
Callum The Undroppable escaped the hook due to good fortune and bad fortune with injuries piling up around him.
Nowhere near the physical presence required to fill the Broony boots but he has factored into his game a willingness to keep on keeping on – no matter the awkward manner of his form-lapse, exemplified today in a smorgasbord (see what I did there, Scandinavian food-fetishists?) of poor decisions and touch.
Need a refresh.
Forrest 6/.5/10
The Prestwick Flyer stuttered on take-off, looking at moments both blistering and bemused. Final ball let him down too often but he was there to do the biz just when he was needed and remains the finest boaby-flasher Prestwick nightlife has ever known.
Kouassi 6/10
Whit? Attitude looked top-notch. giving and taking. Even found time to indulge Hun-wannabee -but-never-was/will be,l Steven (with a ‘v’, fenians) McLean’s, fetish for fondling the BBC; Nothing to do with an almost-irrelevant broadcasting corporation…
Hey, kids – let’s just say young McLeans’s fondness for grabbing, equates with his search engine history and reveals a lot of interest in ‘BBC’, but no Doctor Who included on those sites….
Presume EK took a knock/ couldn’t shake off the knee buckle.
Keep playing him, tho – something good and fiery about him; great attitude to dominating the mid.
Rogic -6.5/10
A nearly-man today. Ball kept nearly running for him, nearly becoming unstuck under his feet; he nearly made enough space to nearly make the right contact on shots, nearly made the right weight of killer pass.
Ball wouldn’t run for him. He was a split-second/half-yard off his mercurial best. Still, some player to have floating around between the lines.
French Eddy 65/10
Another falling short of superstar Sunday performance due to some poor final decisions. ‘Nearly’ wasn’t good enough for his price tag, but he’ll thrive in an attacking philosophy that looks to free his runs earlier.
Could have scored a couple, didn’t. Next time, eddy. Save them for the final against the Hu…oops,
lulz.
SUBS:
Much more like it – players seizing their big moments –
Sincy – 8/10
Found the MOJO for an afternoon. Long may it remain in his medicine pouch. All that talent, that pace and guile, that missus, that powerful pokemon heid – there’s no excuse for someone so blessed to be low in confidence. If it was me I’d be paying lackeys to haul me off the new Doctor Who in time to pump the Huns too, then lifting me back into position.
C’mon Sincy bhoy, realise what you’ve got and go swashbuckle the fck out those zombies and every other clugging Scottish (and Euro) side in yer way. Lit up the game today, turned Jambo keks to an off-maroon to match their depressing Victorian-dad taps.
Christie: 8/10
Beefed-up, focused, driven – just sort of player we need at this juncture in BR’s tenure to make incumbents realise they need to up their own games or lose their jerseys. on it like a boss- tough and skilful, glorious goal, main contributor to comedy second. Do. Not. stop. son. We might have a right player on our hands.
Hendry: 5/10
No chance to show/impact. Filled in at CH for Ajer.
BR: 7/10
Juggled Thursday’s ineptitude, looked like it was in vain after a tepid, disjointed first-half.
Thankfully, his two big substitutions changed the entire complexity of the encounter – whether that was by design or luck is irrelevant; all good managers carry luck and manipulate it to their advantage; BR’s today looked stricken at one point as Kouassi went lame, but the unintended early input from Sincy balanced the universe in our favour.
Likewise, the Sam Jackson for Christie switch worked brilliantly too. A good manager not only plays his luck but makes his own and deservedly too.
For whatever critique levelled at him, BR responded by making his seventh domestic final in a row.
At the same time, he resisted being out-coached by a current nemesis; If-Harry-Potter-Had-Grown-Up-Into-A-Sex-Offender Levein.
OVERALL: 7.5/10
Turgid first-half raising many questions and doubts, Grim aura alleviated only by injury to snarling apocalyptic sci-fi wasteland mutant progeny of daemonic jackal and rancid travelling whore Naismith wh, in medical terms, shat it for the Hoops early doors.
Such was the organic nature of this match, everything evolved from seemingly innocuous events onfield – our unintended subs changed the match and the result. But that’s why they are paid big bucks by Celtic – to influence.
They did their jobs to a man. Brilliantly, if not beautifully – blame the rugger pitch for the slow pace.
Onwards toward the TRIPLE REBEL TREBLE we go.
Epilogue: LOL @ the Huns. Again.
David66 on
Sandman you are a talented man.
That was a brilliant read, superb.
Thank you.
D. :)
Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on
Gerry and Delaney’s , thank you for your kind words .
Tontine Tim Celtic memories are incredible and always worth reading.
I’ve only seen our goals but very pleasing on the eye. We can never score enough goals against that shower.
I passed through Mount Florida about 5.25 tonight . The polis had sealed off the junction at Cathcart Road and Carmunnock Road along to the car showroom is leading down to the hun end of Hampden. I dont know if something had kicked off or not.
My son’s house in Archerhill Road today was Celtic magic. Knightswood was Green and White today. His neighbours are Tims and Scouse Everton fans. Perfect place to party.
Culbin Spacemen
YNWA
NatKnow on
Sandman –
Awesome dude.
:-))))))
weebobbycollins on
BSR…thanks. Football fans descending on Corstorphine must be quite different to those rugger-types who are the usual visitors…Having been in and around the stadium quite a few times, I know it is an improvement on hampden, however, I did wonder what it would be like on a football day…
Glad you enjoyed two good results today…
David66 on
DD superb….
Familia is everything???
It makes supporting Celtic even better, knowing we have passed it on. ?
HH
D. :)
Delaneys Dunky on
D17
Dallas would have given a penalty for that.
david17 on
DELANEYS DUNKY on 28TH OCTOBER 2018 10:41 PM
D17
Dallas would have given a penalty for that.
——–
Apparently Rob McLean thought it was a push.
David66 on
David17
I noticed that in the pub….
On Thursday night they had about 20 odd penalty claims, this must be getting coached into those players to dive, although I have said it for years with the previous entity as well.
That clip is a belter, is it a plane? Is it a bird? Naw it’s a Sevco man…??
HH
D. :)
Delaneys Dunky on
D17
Rob the prod would think that.
Hun monkey
YNWA
weebobbycollins on
Btw…didn’t see the game today as I was out with my son and grandson but did manage to hear some of it on radio…big Packy! Dear, dear…he tries too hard to show he is not pro-Celtic…I suppose it’s easier for Willie Miller…
And the BBC say Steven Gerrard’s rangers are seeking their first major trophy since 2011…
History has truly been re-written over at Pacific Quay…maybe it’s because PQ is so close to the bigotdome…every home game thousands of zombies walk past both bbc and stv buildings…and we all know what the raging, hun-loving, un-dead can be like…don’t we?
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Those who were at Murrayfield today…I know it’s a superior stadium to Hampden, but how did it compare atmosphere-wise?
NB
Love Harry Hood.
Celtic legend
YNWA
Dobra
Jamie Lyall on BBC Scotland thinks the penalty was “debatable.”
Celtic booked their place in the Scottish League Cup final thanks to a debatable penalty, a goalkeeping error and a 20-yard stunner that all arrived in 19 second-half minutes
Good evening LMSers
Set off at 9:40am this morning and we got into our seats at Murrayfield at 1:15pm having been cattled along the way, but it was worth it after a fabulous second half performance.
Anyway, let’s get down to LMS business and it had to happen! The LMS11 supertreble had to fail and it took out 33 entrants choosing Killie.
Only 34 teams made it through this cup semi final weekend moving onto week 6
TheCelt45 St Johnstone
SCAM Barcelona
Thoms Sellick Barcelona
Celtic Rose St Johnstone
Danny Mac Manchester United
Lennybhoy St Johnstone
Connemarabhoy Manchester United
Deccyrollercoaster Bournemouth
Slabbhoy Manchester United
MOBYFUGRUMBLE2 Manchester United
TimsinOhio Bournemouth
Channelislandcelt Manchester United
Gordybhoy64 Manchester United
Shuggiebhoy67 Barcelona
Onemalloy St Johnstone
Indi the Disobedient St Johnstone
16 roads Barcelona
TravelBhoys Pardnur Manchester United
Pannysbhoy Manchester United
Jobo Baldie Manchester United
praecepta Manchester United
The Exiled Tim Manchester United
Gutenberg Barcelona
Celticrollercoaster St Johnstone
SetantaBhoy Leicester v West Ham ( DRAW)
Hearthan Celtic
MikeinToronto St Johnstone
bognorbhoy St Johnstone
Paolos Boots St Johnstone
Big Archie Celtic
GG Celtic
Itscalledthemalvinas Barcelona
Stephbhoy Manchester United
Lionsroar67 Manchester United
And this weekend, we say bye to Steven Gerrard’s Huns, Craig Levein’s mini-huns and the following 37 CQners
AndyF Kilmarnock
Hamiltontim Kilmarnock
CiaranF Kilmarnock
AuroraBorealis79 No pick
David 17 Kilmarnock
stpatricksbhoy Kilmarnock
The Token Tim Kilmarnock
Celtic Soul Brother The Rangers
gerryfaethebrig Kilmarnock
Toor A Loo Kilmarnock
Zico Maltese bhoy Kilmarnock
Kelvinbhoy Kilmarnock
The Boss The Rangers
Janice67 Kilmarnock
Bateen Bhoy Kilmarnock
BRTH Kilmarnock
Googybhoy Kilmarnock
The Good Ship Celtica Kilmarnock
Bobby Evans Superstar Fulham
TravelBhoy Kilmarnock
Letterkenny Bhoy Kilmarnock
HenriksHaircut Kilmarnock
A Source said Kilmarnock
The Young Fella Kilmarnock
20 hats Kilmarnock
londonbhoy88 Kilmarnock
Belfast2013 Kilmarnock
Edinburgh&Ballymote2012 Kilmarnock
Forres 2015 Kilmarnock
Lejog2016 Kilmarnock
Lisbon2017 Kilmarnock
LondonClaus2014 Kilmarnock
The Lurker Kilmarnock
Kolncelt Kilmarnock
Blantyre Tim Kilmarnock
StevieH Kilmarnock
pogmathonyahun Kilmarnock
Good luck to all in week 6. We also hope to announce the prize monies next week and monies raised for our great charity causes, so if you still have to pay then please send us your dosh please
HH
CRC
DD 9.25pm
We can be as fickle as the rest of them, our young team are a young team take Lustig out of the back 4 today and there is 3 bhoys who are kids, again Europe is a major step up but hey ho the usual suspects will pick holes…. I can assure you Celtic bring joy into my life, not the be all or end all but joy all the same…. some Celtic “fans” on these pages take no joy from Celtic winning … attention seeking, ego driven, or just nothing too be happy about …. life is far too short, sometimes it can be draining on here when posters who don’t even post about Celtic (the actual football) but there is far more good on these pages than bad
Hail Hail
Enjoy Dens Park hope Scott Sinclair starts … his mojo has returned ?
play the final at Murrayfield
please
‘Oh Celtic we love you’…………………… we sang ,
Back in Glasgow just in time to see the sickly Sevcs dissipate, two pints in Rose St £11.50 two pints in The Iron Horse £7.50
Brendan Rodgers still has the better players and a better formation altered at half time and Hearts just couldn’t compete. The predictably but brilliantly man managed Tom Rogic was head and shoulders above anything in maroon, and Callum McGregor romped it, with captain Lustig giving the Jambo nada all afternoon.
But it wasn’t until after Rodgers made his alterations Celtic flourished hitting in to the ‘Celtic end’ in the second half a turkey shoot unfolded, in another three that should have been six.
Whilst the sceptics among us expected Lewis Morgan?, wiley Brendan unleashed Scott Sinclair in the only role he’s ever succeeded, and he picked up the gauntlet, torturing then breaking Hearts. Ryan Christie ‘high fived’ with his team mates coming onto the vast perfect pitch at half time , then twice again after being chopped. His neat dribble for the penalty then when he despatched the ball sublimely under the Murrayfield bar for conversion number 3.
With the fringe players stepped up, Benkovic and Ajer busy performing the immaculate combination Boyata wasn’t needed, giving not a sniff to Hearts, even Scott Bain could have smoked cigars and only got in on the act when he dummied a Hearts forward to set up the latest attack. Mikael Lustig dominated and finds new legs every other week for big games, Keiran Tierney gave a men v boys display against anything that came down his zone, taking the ball from Hearts like a thief in the night.
Whatever Sinky was short of it wasn’t confidence as he grabbed the ball from Edouard and despatched it with aplomb, it was always going to be a day for ‘Lets all do the Huddle’
M.O.M. Tom Rogic
Great day, just watched all of the 2nd half and I thought we were brilliant.
Good preformance second half, first half not so much. Introduction of sinclair and christie made all the difference.
I like eboua, he guards the defence, loves a tackle, works hard for his team and is calm in posession. He is very good for a 20 year old.
Ps sevco hahaha!!!
HH
Southside 9.28pm
The MacGregor stuff is vile, he is playing to his gallery and officialdom are letting the thug away with it ….
Some unfortunate footballer is going to get hurt with one of his kicks/elbows …. a thug playing to a gallery
Last Man Standing 11 Week 6
Good Evening Standers, and hearty congratulations to those who avoided the carnage in Week 6.
Killie’s failure to get a referee who would gift them two late penalties against Hamilton saw almost 50% of remaining contestants take a seat in what was a calamitous weekend.
In contrast, Celtic breezed past the current league leaders as Levein graciously admitted that his team had been outplayed and outclassed by the Champions ( Okay, I made that last bit up )
Next weeks fixtures are revealed below. All the big teams are available for selection next week, so no-one should have a problem picking a winner in week 7 ;-)
Contestants failing to pick a winner ( or predict a drawn game ) will drop out, take a seat, and watch on in a state of permazombie-ism, until we are left with Last Man Standing, and the competition winner.
Please note the various kick-off times and get your picks in before the game of your choice begins.
The pick from Celticrollercoaster is Celtic
Send your pick for this week to cqnpredictor@gmail.com
Good Luck !
Saturday 3 November
St Mirren v The Rangers (12.30)
Celtic v Heart of Midlothian (15.00)
Hamilton Academical v Livingston (15.00)
Hibernian v St Johnstone (15.00)
Motherwell v Dundee (15.00)
Arsenal v Liverpool (17.30)
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur (19.45)
Sunday 4 November
Kilmarnock v Aberdeen (12.15)
Manchester City v Southampton (15.00)
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (16.00)
Unrepentant Fenianology CSC
GFTB
Celtic matters to me more than I imagined.
Looking forward to Dens Park Wednesday.
The Drumchapel bhoys are some of the best Tims you will meet. Dallas for example
YNWA
Ajer….is going to be a leader of men and I predict he will be his country’s captain in 2 years.
CalMac….has definitely went from boy to man and the brilliant thing about it is that the understanding between CM, JF, TR, KT and others as they play more games in the seasons ahead is that it is UNBUYABLE.
Other teams might chuck decent squads together but they will never touch us over a season with us having these guys as a nucleus.
Sinclair was magic and really hates Hearts.
Lastly….Odsonne Edouard……What a brilliant player for someone so young and so few professional matches under his belt….such a mature CF performance.
Smashin stuff all round
UPTHECELTS
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS @ 9.32
Much better stadium view and facilities. Traffic and crowd congestion in the surrounding area is horrendous because its built in a residential area, with no suitable road infrastructure.
DD 9.53pm
Dallas is a talking Celtic historian am sure he won’t take offence to that :-)
I struggle to remember what years players played he tells me the dates, he is like a Tontine Tim apprentice
BSR
Tom Rogic was the best fitba player in the world today. Our only world class player.
YNWA
GFTB
Dallas has always been like that.
An intelligent Celtic man.
I blame his Catholic schools
YNWA
GFTB
Dallas has always been a Celtic historian.
I used to love talkin about Celtic with him when we were weans in Knightswood.
YNWA
DD 10.05pm
Sitting on my own some today (wife was Christmas shopping so wee yin wasn’t allowed to go) Rogic got me out of my seat, BR was brilliant about Kouassi he said I thought he wasn’t a hundred per cent so I make the decision but something caught my attention we call it the “holding role” the “Broony” position or even wee “Lenny” breaking up the play, Brendan said “Callum was excellent in the controlling position” Callum always wants the ball wanting the ball is good
No hiding CSC
Enjoy Dens on Halloween, just get a tie and dress up as a fitba manger Hunny Gee has done that for months and got away with it
Fellow Celts good night n god bless there were many out there not wanting Brendan to be in another final :-)
Happy days ?
Well that was a doddle today bhoys and ghirls.
Dare I say it…….
With a treble treble yell, Brendan cried more, more, more.
It’s on.
Levien
Hun journalists
Sleekit G
Get it right up you
Hail Hail
D. :)
Oh and by the way now that the debacle of today is out of the way.
Celtic fc you claimed on our behalf that we were discriminated against (and I think you were right) what is happening after you made the statement ????
Please chase this up….??? from a position of winning…
D. :)
David66
We are Glasgow Celtic
Get it right up the Embra Huns fae Gorgie.
Treble Treble on.
YNWA
BMCUWP not seen you on for a while. If you are lurking.
Excuse me if you were on today.
I hope all is well, I always enjoy your posts, I hope you have not gave up.
D. :)
DD I hope you enjoyed your sons today, and hope your family are all well.
This was like winning a final…. Levien is a Sleekit G type
D. :)
SANDMAN DEFINITIVE EDINBURGH REBELLION v ‘HUNS’/HEARTS RATINGS:
‘Up at Six. Bus at Eight. Lunch at two. Huns Pumped at five. Sheared at seven. Wait ’til nine to get the Sandman ratings. Busy fckn day.’
Dolly the sheep.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to the Hun as it is, desperate. For the Hun has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”
William Blake.
‘Let’s go! To Fck.’
Slippy G.
Bain: 7/10
Fresh from battling Batman in the climax to Christopher Nolan’s superbly re-thought Dark Knight trilogy, our reserve goalie swaps unintelligible face-maskery for famed yellow jersey and superglue gloves to provide competent goalkeeping. Troubled? Only by the Tetris level he reached on his phone before having to catch a cross sometime second-half.
Solid, played more with his feet than hands.
Lustig: 7/10
Mad Swede. Mad for it. Uncompromising in the face of sleekit Jambo-ism. Sleekit enough himself to get arch-Hun fanny McLean booked in the first seconds of the game.
Never the nouveau-Tims favourite, Mick is the guy who delivers the bacon when the chips are down. You can never have enough of guys like him at your side. Ask the Celts, ask the Swedes. Stop playing yer FIFA pish.
Benkovic: 8/10
Why Leicester paid £13 million. THE young Croatian centre-back in vogue, and heir to the national throne, despite what the Hun would have you believe about their pale imitation who no longer flick’s Slippy G’s bean.
Our loan is a belter. sadly we will never own him but he’s a fine watch to wear awhile.
Ajer: 7/10
Like Ajax or ‘Ayax’, young Chris is an AJER or an Ajir. Either way, a Norwegian descendent of a runaway Roman-era Praetorian guard. A presence designed to induce reflexive knee-jerk in depraved Hun goalies, the bhoy is fearless and dependable. He may run into trouble occasionally but he learns all the time; great physical presence today to defy the Mini-Hun tactic of bludgeon-a-Tim.
KT : 7/10
Roving, relentless, worrying – bhoy could do with a rest to plat Red Dead Redemption 2 on his console. maybe that has been the plan – full effort until release date of the greatest game the world has seen and then let him shoot cowboys until December, when he can return fresh in prime Hunskelping mode, by order of the Peaky Blinders.
Sam Jackson 6/10
No muthaf###### idea what was up. Seemed to grow into the game first half then disappeared like a muthaf###### after 45 minutes.. Possibly problem with Edinburgh fast food – no muthaf###### Chicken Royales on the half-time snack menu.
Calmac – 5.5/10
Callum The Undroppable escaped the hook due to good fortune and bad fortune with injuries piling up around him.
Nowhere near the physical presence required to fill the Broony boots but he has factored into his game a willingness to keep on keeping on – no matter the awkward manner of his form-lapse, exemplified today in a smorgasbord (see what I did there, Scandinavian food-fetishists?) of poor decisions and touch.
Need a refresh.
Forrest 6/.5/10
The Prestwick Flyer stuttered on take-off, looking at moments both blistering and bemused. Final ball let him down too often but he was there to do the biz just when he was needed and remains the finest boaby-flasher Prestwick nightlife has ever known.
Kouassi 6/10
Whit? Attitude looked top-notch. giving and taking. Even found time to indulge Hun-wannabee -but-never-was/will be,l Steven (with a ‘v’, fenians) McLean’s, fetish for fondling the BBC; Nothing to do with an almost-irrelevant broadcasting corporation…
Hey, kids – let’s just say young McLeans’s fondness for grabbing, equates with his search engine history and reveals a lot of interest in ‘BBC’, but no Doctor Who included on those sites….
Presume EK took a knock/ couldn’t shake off the knee buckle.
Keep playing him, tho – something good and fiery about him; great attitude to dominating the mid.
Rogic -6.5/10
A nearly-man today. Ball kept nearly running for him, nearly becoming unstuck under his feet; he nearly made enough space to nearly make the right contact on shots, nearly made the right weight of killer pass.
Ball wouldn’t run for him. He was a split-second/half-yard off his mercurial best. Still, some player to have floating around between the lines.
French Eddy 65/10
Another falling short of superstar Sunday performance due to some poor final decisions. ‘Nearly’ wasn’t good enough for his price tag, but he’ll thrive in an attacking philosophy that looks to free his runs earlier.
Could have scored a couple, didn’t. Next time, eddy. Save them for the final against the Hu…oops,
lulz.
SUBS:
Much more like it – players seizing their big moments –
Sincy – 8/10
Found the MOJO for an afternoon. Long may it remain in his medicine pouch. All that talent, that pace and guile, that missus, that powerful pokemon heid – there’s no excuse for someone so blessed to be low in confidence. If it was me I’d be paying lackeys to haul me off the new Doctor Who in time to pump the Huns too, then lifting me back into position.
C’mon Sincy bhoy, realise what you’ve got and go swashbuckle the fck out those zombies and every other clugging Scottish (and Euro) side in yer way. Lit up the game today, turned Jambo keks to an off-maroon to match their depressing Victorian-dad taps.
Christie: 8/10
Beefed-up, focused, driven – just sort of player we need at this juncture in BR’s tenure to make incumbents realise they need to up their own games or lose their jerseys. on it like a boss- tough and skilful, glorious goal, main contributor to comedy second. Do. Not. stop. son. We might have a right player on our hands.
Hendry: 5/10
No chance to show/impact. Filled in at CH for Ajer.
BR: 7/10
Juggled Thursday’s ineptitude, looked like it was in vain after a tepid, disjointed first-half.
Thankfully, his two big substitutions changed the entire complexity of the encounter – whether that was by design or luck is irrelevant; all good managers carry luck and manipulate it to their advantage; BR’s today looked stricken at one point as Kouassi went lame, but the unintended early input from Sincy balanced the universe in our favour.
Likewise, the Sam Jackson for Christie switch worked brilliantly too. A good manager not only plays his luck but makes his own and deservedly too.
For whatever critique levelled at him, BR responded by making his seventh domestic final in a row.
At the same time, he resisted being out-coached by a current nemesis; If-Harry-Potter-Had-Grown-Up-Into-A-Sex-Offender Levein.
OVERALL: 7.5/10
Turgid first-half raising many questions and doubts, Grim aura alleviated only by injury to snarling apocalyptic sci-fi wasteland mutant progeny of daemonic jackal and rancid travelling whore Naismith wh, in medical terms, shat it for the Hoops early doors.
Such was the organic nature of this match, everything evolved from seemingly innocuous events onfield – our unintended subs changed the match and the result. But that’s why they are paid big bucks by Celtic – to influence.
They did their jobs to a man. Brilliantly, if not beautifully – blame the rugger pitch for the slow pace.
Onwards toward the TRIPLE REBEL TREBLE we go.
Epilogue: LOL @ the Huns. Again.
Sandman you are a talented man.
That was a brilliant read, superb.
Thank you.
D. :)
Gerry and Delaney’s , thank you for your kind words .
Tontine Tim Celtic memories are incredible and always worth reading.
I’ve only seen our goals but very pleasing on the eye. We can never score enough goals against that shower.
I passed through Mount Florida about 5.25 tonight . The polis had sealed off the junction at Cathcart Road and Carmunnock Road along to the car showroom is leading down to the hun end of Hampden. I dont know if something had kicked off or not.
Honestly man ?
https://twitter.com/netjel/status/1056614767891103744
David66
My son’s house in Archerhill Road today was Celtic magic. Knightswood was Green and White today. His neighbours are Tims and Scouse Everton fans. Perfect place to party.
Culbin Spacemen
YNWA
Sandman –
Awesome dude.
:-))))))
BSR…thanks. Football fans descending on Corstorphine must be quite different to those rugger-types who are the usual visitors…Having been in and around the stadium quite a few times, I know it is an improvement on hampden, however, I did wonder what it would be like on a football day…
Glad you enjoyed two good results today…
DD superb….
Familia is everything???
It makes supporting Celtic even better, knowing we have passed it on. ?
HH
D. :)
D17
Dallas would have given a penalty for that.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 28TH OCTOBER 2018 10:41 PM
D17
Dallas would have given a penalty for that.
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Apparently Rob McLean thought it was a push.
David17
I noticed that in the pub….
On Thursday night they had about 20 odd penalty claims, this must be getting coached into those players to dive, although I have said it for years with the previous entity as well.
That clip is a belter, is it a plane? Is it a bird? Naw it’s a Sevco man…??
HH
D. :)
D17
Rob the prod would think that.
Hun monkey
YNWA
Btw…didn’t see the game today as I was out with my son and grandson but did manage to hear some of it on radio…big Packy! Dear, dear…he tries too hard to show he is not pro-Celtic…I suppose it’s easier for Willie Miller…
And the BBC say Steven Gerrard’s rangers are seeking their first major trophy since 2011…
History has truly been re-written over at Pacific Quay…maybe it’s because PQ is so close to the bigotdome…every home game thousands of zombies walk past both bbc and stv buildings…and we all know what the raging, hun-loving, un-dead can be like…don’t we?