Celtic comfortably reached the Scottish Cup quarter final with a 0-2 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle this afternoon but the home team will rue two moments of suicidal defending which gifted Celtic the important chances. Georgios Samaras put his laces through the ball to score from a tight angle before Scott Brown converted a penalty after Gary Hooper created a chance from nothing.
Hooper tried a cocky back heal early on after creating a chance for himself but Inverness keeper Tuffey blocked. Nick Ross was first to test Fraser Forster with a shot from the 18 yard line but the keeper dived to his bottom right to turn the ball round the post. Meekings had a good chance from the resultant corner but Kelvin Wilson blocked.
Kris Commons started his first game in over two months and could have converted but missed his shot after Hooper cut back from the goal line. Samaras and Commons then combined well to setup Hooper for a shot from the edge of the box that was saved by Tuffey.
The opening goal arrived after 33 minutes when Commons played a forward pass from deep which Ross Tokely should have cleared but didn’t make a clean contact on, allowing Georgios Samaras to run clean through and thunder an unstoppable shot from a tight angle high into the net.
Five minutes after the break Matthews, Brown, Commons and Hooper combined in the best move of the game before Hooper crossed but Samaras shot from 6 yards flew over. Moments later Samaras had a chance from even closer when Ledley crossed from the left but he could not turn his attempt from three yards goal-wards.
The Greek striker was continually a threat and got on the end of a Mulgrew free kick to head from 12 yards but the attack was temporarily cleared. Gary Hooper collected at the corner of the box and passed deep to where he thought Scott Brown was but on seeing Brown was elsewhere the Englishman chased after the ball and robbed Proctor on the line. The Inverness defender then tripped Hooper as he closed in on goal to concede a penalty. Scott Brown converted with the kind of ease that will have Neil Lennon wondering how his team managed to miss so many penalties in the last two years.
James Forrest replaced the tiring Commons and ripped up the field before shoot wide from 8 yards as Celtic closed out the game comfortably.
Let’s hope we get a home draw in the next round. Although, Tannadice would be acceptable….
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Watching the rugby.
Now if big Victor was a rugby player, we’d have nothing to worry about.
HT
aye
Fraser Wishart said that Craig Whyte isn’t used to football business as he comes from business background with no rules/regulations and football has football rules regarding admin/liquidation and then there’s the public element to it.
Are these guys on Clyde serious. Serious.
MWD
Just ordered the curry.
I’ll be more amenable once I’ve eaten.
Underdogs England dominating play.
philbhoy
still get into the English curry or not
Saturday night curry from Dan Singh on Ice?
Paddy G
what did you do to my pal Esataio yesterday?
he was a mouse after you put him in his place?
owen farrel for England…
dear lord o(
blantyretim says:
4 February, 2012 at 17:24
Estadio is many many things, but a mouse? never. A good mhan like your goodself :-)
whats got 4 legs and more dosh than the huns?
Harry Rednaps dug
dannysbeard says:
4 February, 2012 at 17:28
whats got 4 legs and more dosh than the huns?
Two tramps
you are all invited
P G
Ice??Crushed or cubed??
IS that really a Celtic fan? Neil has to win the treble with all the trouble surrounding rangers
and just who is sellik?
And see all you Catholics living in Scotland who would leave if the SNP got to power.
Stay an fight, if you don’t the last 40/50 years have meant nothing.
BT
A chicken korma and a chicken malidar, plus all the accompaniments (is that a word)and a mince stuffed paratha.
Lovely!
The Legend Johnny Doyle 16.03
Ashtray on a motorbike
Hail Hail
HAIL HAIL THE CELTS ARE HERE
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ says:
4 February, 2012 at 17:30
P G
Ice??Crushed or cubed??
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Paul might describe it as White Star titanical proportion…:-)
Scotland to take the lead?
Yes!!!!
6-3
HT
I am a proud Scottish catholic….(Irish grandparends)
I will always be a socialist unlike the SNP..
we have made great inroads and we shall overcome..because of the fauth of our fathers…
PG I ken like…
Tom McLaughlin says:
4 February, 2012 at 15:15
Tom ,good to hear from you,wit happened to you normally
you talk pish, now a wee bit of sense creeping in to your posts.
Hail hail GCT
Sir David Murray
blantyretim says:
4 February, 2012 at 17:37
HT
I am a proud Scottish catholic….(Irish grandparends)
I will always be a socialist unlike the SNP..
we have made great inroads and we shall overcome..because of the fauth of our fathers…
PG I ken like…
share
…..and you are a really nice guy!
BT
Thanks mate I sometimes think I’m a lonesome voice. Oh and I’ve probably been to more Republican parades than most CQN members combined :+)))
Here’s an interesting post from a good friend of mine on TRC
tullythedhog says:
04/02/2012 at 5:27 pm
Having read some of the guesstimates of the impact of Rangers’ away support it struck me that the published information (from ESPN and club sites) allows us to make a very robust assessment of this. Essentially, we know clubs’ average home attendances for the whole of season 2010-11 and also their home attendances against Celtic and Rangers; in turn, this allows us to impute their average attendance for all other games. We already know what attendances amounted to in that year (including Rangers). We can estimate what total attendances would be for each individual club by taking the average figures for Celtic visits and the average figures for visits from all other teams. For the top 5 teams below Celtic (presumably) they would be expected to have two visits from Celtic and for the others they would have only one visit).
On these assumptions the following figures emerge::
Celtic (total attendances down from 930,932 to 908,390, a reduction of 2.42%);
Hearts (total attendances down from 269,496 to 264,466, a reduction of 1.90%);
Hibs (total attendances down from 223,345 to 217,111, a reduction of 2.87%);
Aberdeen (total attendances down from 172,349 to 166,282, a reduction of 3.65%);
D. Utd. (total attendances down from 140,391 to 135,363, a reduction of 3.71%);
Kilmarnock (total attendances down from 122,094 to 102,459, a reduction of 19.16%);
Motherwell (total attendances down from 99,826 to 89,829, a reduction of 11.13%);
ICT (total attendances down from 85,994 to 80,189, a reduction of 7.24%);
St. Mirren (total attendances down from 84,531 to 81,874, a reduction of 3.25%);
St. Johnstone (total attendances down from 72,979 to 70,531, a reduction of 3.47%);
Hamilton (total attendances down from 55,043 to 50,161, a reduction of 9.73%);
Total attendances down from 2,256,440 to 2,166,165, a reduction of 4.14%.
There are some slight anomalies in here (for example, Rangers’ average attendance at Kilmarnock is particularly high as they clinched the league there). The figures deliberately do not attempt to take account of any points of conjecture about the changed dynamics of the league and what effects these might have, one way or another. Nor do they take account of additional catering sales or policing costs, which might reasonably be assumed to cancel each other out. These figures simply extrapolate attendances based on KNOWN FACTS, essentially substituting “normal” attendances for the relevant number of Rangers’ visits.
I will leave it to others to form their own judgements on this data. However, what is clear is that the incremental impact of Rangers’ away crowds on the home attendances of other Scottish clubs varies significantly from club to club. Overall, however, the impact is fairly modest, averaging out at only 4.14% on a weighted basis.
This is not to downplay the potential impact on other clubs but a reduction of 4.14 on attendances is hardly earth shattering.
HH
Mike
Hun & Speirs Pistols at dawn???
hahaha!!!!
bitching billy boy gavin a go at Speirs and his apparent agenda against the hun
BT/HT
Pair of numpties
The David Leggat fan club now on Clyde.
Pee stained boxers, string vest, balding, fat, ugly and stinking of voddy.
They’re not hard to spot.
the funny thing is Im sitting here in an irish rugby top..
anyone else think butcher is becomin the spitting image of sir walter?
Ha, ha, ha…….Hun on Clyde, just now.
Boy but they are hurting.
Spiers handled him magnificently!
James Forrest
that was a scream. Apparently Scott Brown elbowed a Caley player – yer bahookey.
Is there a full moon in Scotland tonight?
James Forrest is Lennon says:
4 February, 2012 at 17:47
The David Leggat fan club now on Clyde.
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Thought that also. Just came across “Leggo” in the last week. He’s a real peice of work.
That guy on Clyde, dare I say it, sounded somewhat paranoid.
Hurting, hurting, hurting.
Interesting slant over the past couple of days where David Murray’s involvement in Ranger’s current predicament has been dragged firmly into the spotlight. Looks like some of the media are backing the pre-Whyte board of directors – makes you wonder what their briefing has been. Apparently this board of directors had no influence or power so could not challenge David Murray – could they not have resigned and let the Rangers supporters know exactly what was going on.
S
Dalziel: ‘Aluko has stepped up to the mantle’. You what? Also, apparently diving in the box is an off-the-field matter. Dear oh dear