Congratulations to Scotland’s Player of the Year, Stefan Johansen, and Young Player of the Year, Jason Denayer. It’s fair to say Stefan had an underwhelming first eight months in Scotland, but the turnaround since October has been stark.
It was during our home defeat to Hamilton Accies that month that I noticed a change in his game. He took on more responsibility and pressed incessantly for the equaliser. The next game, away to Ross County, was a Johansen virtuoso performance and he’s never looked back.
There was a similar ‘So what?’ reaction to Jason’s early season performances. Performances were far more like Efe Ambrose than Virgil van Dijk, but he grew increasingly assured as the season progressed. His international debut two months ago was merited.
Manchester City want him back for next season, where he’ll be second reserve for central defence. On the upside, he’ll get six games, some of which will be in the cups against lower league opponents. If City and the player want to map a route to the first team, this is a step in the process, but it’s not without its risks to the player.
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MICKYBHOY
Four texts-nine so far,btw-make me quite happy about my comment.
As TONYDONNELLY might say,
GIRUY.
If this reporter really is a Celtic supporter he really should hang his head in shame.
Maybe instead of all this ‘huns’ ‘deidco’ ‘sevco’ stuff, we should just call them ‘The New Rangers‘, I mean what could they possibly find offensive about that? Plus its accurate and perfectly legitimate, unlike them.
Plus 2 actually!
leftclicktic
13:05 on 4 May, 2015
From twitter ;))))
Congratulations to Kris Boyd, who finishes the season as the Scottish Championship’s joint-39th top scorer with 3 league goals.
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Only 27 short of all the MSM predictions then…..
tully57
Absolutely agree.
Hannan declares that a sevco in the SPFL will make it more competitive …like the last time they were competing with Celtic you mean Hannan. You know those years that will eventually be referred to as the Asterisk Years?
A competitive league is never so unless it has integrity, an integrity that all clubs respect and buy into. The only thing sevco and their hordes buy into is how can we distort everything to neutralize all opposition but especially, Celtic.
Hannan’s piece is a timely reminder of precisely why footballisfixed have to go beyond Scotland’s media outlets to get their piece into the real world.
HH
People are getting confused with
Players Player of the Year
and
Writers Player of the Year..
Henke has won both twice.
Celtic have more winners at both awards
vale bhoy
thanks for response, just make sure you have a wee L-Word conversation with him at next opportunity!
Greenpinata—I meant it to be derogatory. You have your name or you have nothing– “Who steals my purse steals dross” The Merchant of Venice. Look up the rest of the quote.
Those PFA Scotland Manager of the Year Awards in full …
Season Name Club
2006–07 Gordon Strachan Celtic
2007–08 Billy Reid Hamilton Academical
2008–09 Gordon Strachan Celtic
2009–10 Walter Smith Rangers
2010–11 John McGlynn Raith Rovers
2011–12 Derek Adams Ross County
2012–13 Allan Johnston Queen of the South
2013–14 Derek McInnes Aberdeen
2014–15 John Hughes Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Winners by club
Club Number of wins Winning seasons
Celtic 2 2006–07, 2008–09
Hamilton Academical 1 2007–08
Rangers 1 2009–10
Raith Rovers 1 2010–11
Ross County 1 2011–12
Queen of the South 1 2012–13
Aberdeen 1 2013–14
Inverness CT 1 2014–15
V.I.P.
thanks RWE
agree our best hope is outwith Scotland for a Champion – it would be good if Alex Thomson embraced it post-General Election.
SSN live at CP coming up…
I tried a few pints of Hop House 13 lager last night.
Have to say, I was extremely impressed.Lovely it was.
Might be forced to go for second helpings tonight…!
http://hospitalityreviewni.com/2015/02/hop-house-13-the-next-chapter-in-the-brewers-project-from-guinness/
RAYMAC
I also used the term,about an hour ago.
In its original form,it is contemptuous,but of course we can understand why some would take that route.
Starvation is not something for principles.
I doubt those we refer to are ever likely to starve. The former don’t need my forgiveness,the latter will never get it.
The Green Man
11:41 on
4 May, 2015
GlassTwo Thirds Full.
Unfortunately in Scoodland….we are subject to Masonic rule….
So, I wouldnt be surprised, if said journalist…..was fond of certain handshakes and secrets.
*and if he was a member of the “big hoose” his mother would have fudded his erse up and doon Bank Street.
His mother Susan taught one of my weans at St Kessog’s Balloch before we emigrated and is a distant cousin of Mrs. TT.
His da Jim worked about Our Lady and St Marks in Alexandria for years, pass keeper, running Boys’ Guilds etc.
His bother Stephen the actor went tae St. Pat’s in Dumbarton with Mrs. TT’s wee brother prior to him emigrating.
He was also in Seville with Stephen taking the train from Madrid, there was an article in the local paper after the train bombing of 2004 of how they had left the same station 10 months before.
He is mainly a horse racing journalist and wrote a book about sir awex’s horse “Rock of Gibraltar” as well as assisting Eddie Turnbull with his autobiography.
Oh aye and “Hail Hail !: Celtic’s Old Firm Classics.”
nae goatshaggers or huns. Disappointed in the article though.
Martin Hannan knows the market place he is in and this is how he makes his money. Much like Keevins he knows what to say and when to say it.
The fact that the newco haven’t ‘strolled’ the Championship is a shock to all their backward thinking brains. Hannan is advocating they allow a convicted fraudster to be in charge. Now imagine if-in some parallel universe-a chap like that was near our boardroom. I’m sure some real questions would be asked and not the fawning guff spewed weekly just now by the SMSM.
Hell mend them. 4inarowCSC
Geordie Munro
On the POTY list from the last thread Bawwy won it twice too.
Anyway, here is the list of POTY from the last thread:
1965–66 SCO John Greig Rangers
1966–67 SCO Ronnie Simpson Celtic
1967–68 SCO Gordon Wallace Raith Rovers
1968–69 SCO Bobby Murdoch Celtic
1969–70 SCO Pat Stanton Hibernian
1970–71 SCO Martin Buchan Aberdeen
1971–72 SCO Dave Smith Rangers
1972–73 SCO George Connelly Celtic
1973–74 SCO Scotland World Cup squad
1974–75 SCO Sandy Jardine Rangers
1975–76 SCO John Greig Rangers [note 1]
1976–77 SCO Danny McGrain Celtic
1977–78 SCO Derek Johnstone Rangers SPFA [note 2]
1978–79 SCO Andy Ritchie Morton
1979–80 SCO Gordon Strachan Aberdeen
1980–81 SCO Alan Rough Partick Thistle
1981–82 SCO Paul Sturrock Dundee United
1982–83 SCO Charlie Nicholas Celtic SPFA
1983–84 SCO Willie Miller Aberdeen SPFA
1984–85 SCO Hamish McAlpine Dundee United
1985–86 SCO Sandy Jardine Heart of Midlothian [note 3]
1986–87 SCO Brian McClair Celtic SPFA
1987–88 SCO Paul McStay Celtic SPFA
1988–89 SCO Richard Gough Rangers
1989–90 SCO Alex McLeish Aberdeen
1990–91 SCO Maurice Malpas Dundee United
1991–92 SCO Ally McCoist Rangers SPFA
1992–93 SCO Andy Goram Rangers SPFA
1993–94 ENG Mark Hateley Rangers SPFA [note 4]
1994–95 DEN Brian Laudrup Rangers SPFA [note 5]
1995–96 ENG Paul Gascoigne Rangers SPFA
1996–97 DEN Brian Laudrup Rangers
1997–98 SCO Craig Burley Celtic
1998–99 SWE Henrik Larsson Celtic SPFA
1999–00 SCO Barry Ferguson Rangers
2000–01 SWE Henrik Larsson Celtic SPFA
2001–02 SCO Paul Lambert Celtic
2002–03 SCO Barry Ferguson Rangers SPFA
2003–04 SCO Jackie McNamara Celtic
2004–05 WAL John Hartson Celtic SPFA [note 6]
2005–06 SCO Craig Gordon Heart of Midlothian
2006–07 JPN Shunsuke Nakamura Celtic SPFA [note 7]
2007–08 ESP Carlos Cuéllar Rangers
2008–09 SCO Gary Caldwell Celtic [7]
2009–10 SCO David Weir Rangers [8]
2010–11 HON Emilio Izaguirre Celtic SPFA [9]
2011–12 SCO Charlie Mulgrew Celtic SPFA [10]
2012–13 SCO Leigh Griffiths Hibernian [6]
2013–14 SCO Kris Commons Celtic SPFA [11
Now the list might be a Martin Hannan contrivance and therefore not at all accurate :o)
Remarkably, in 2002 – 03 Ferguson won the award while Henrik was singlehandedly taking on Porto. “That was Europe and no’ Scotland” I can hear the apologists cry.
Now the Scottish Sports Writers (stop laughing) POTY is another thing again.
HH
Tontine Tim
Fair enough.
But I reckon the article was sinister to say the least.
To propose that Celtic be disadvantaged by rule changes that favour Sevco, is absurd.
Journalism in Scoodland at its very worst.
HH
Rwe,
The list you posted is the writers awards.
HH
Tontine Tim
And if what you say is true….im sure his ma will be booting his arse after she reads that hunguffery.
HH
BMCUW
Congratulations………I am sure that will be a great after dinner topic you will be able to regale your cyber chums with for years to come…….”btw did I ever tell you of the time that I called someone a prick on an Internet blog and I got 9 yes really 9 congratulatory texs after it”
I feel yer loneliness mate
Ps only 20 games this season
Embarrassed Mrs LB today by asking the following question in a Barcelona sports shop.
Got the new Celtic tap mate?
She just walked out and left me.
LB
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Crrr9e4BBc
Pity this poor chap:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/may/02/celtic-scottish-premiership-title-side-cannot-judged-greats
Obviously in great pain.
HH.
Lots of talk about who will leave and stay etc…
Denayer, the lad is contractually obliged to go back to City at end of the season long loan. Fact. He is not leaving. He had completed his contractual agreement between the two clubs. If Celtic can negotiate another season. Great. I see no benefit for the lad or City to be sitting on a bench. So I’d be hopefull we can get another season loan deal done.
Now back to championees lurking….
HH.
Livibhoy,
They’ll not have a clue what you are on about.
Go back in and ask for the ‘new sellteek streep’ and Roberts yer fathers brother :)
HH
Excerpts from his piece may have been editorially changed por cierto
This Hannan article is annoying the feck out of me for many reasons
None more so than his assertion that Meekings handball may have done us out of a treble ..but that that would have unfair on ICT as Yogi has worked miracles under straitened circs
Wtf is that supposed to mean…not only hunguffery but illogical poorly written garbage
Hannan should be embarrassed with himself for many reasons
16 roads.
Don’t post links to clap trap like that…
You are perpetuating the myth.
Refer to it by all means.
But don’t post the link.
HH.
Revisionist Realism
Just in case Martin Hannan was serious and the article was not an Aw Naw special
Revisionism:
The gallant SDM made deidco into a colossus of European Football.
Realism:
David Murray, bought deidco with someone else’s money, speculated on it with someone else’s money, over-extended the whole shebang while at the same syphoning off 6 million in EBTs for himself, before, just as the Inland Revenue were closing in on his dirty dealings, having to give it away to another greedy, bankruptcy specialist.
Revsionism:
Sevco have been punished enough.
Realism:
Sevco have never been punished. McMoist at Sevco had a signing ban imposed but he was given 4 months notice of it starting and was able to sign all the players he wanted. Deidco were fined by Nimmo-Smith, but since they are and were at the time a liquidated company who sunk with over 135 million in unpaid debts, the fine was meaningless.
Revisionism:
Scotland needs a sevco in the top league to make it competitive.
Realism:
In their short history, Sevco have colluded with the SFA & the SPL to circumvent rules that were applied to all other clubs in similar circumstances, and have sworn publicly revenge on all clubs opposed their attempt at rule breaking on such a grand scale. Deidco collapsed into a vortex of debt and shame after it spent years ensuring that the SPL was competitive in name only. Sevco and corruption are synonymous, and thus a league with them in it is not competitive.
HH
Rwe @1524
Good post
HH
Livibhoy
Women are easily embarrassed.
My wife and I met the Nigerian High Commissioner of the Nigerian Embassy in Cuba a few weeks ago – a lovely charming lady…
Apparently the first question you ask in these situations should not be:
“Have you heard much about Efe Ambrose?”
(She knew about him btw)
Accepting the credentials from Vale Bhoy and Tontine Tim, on behalf of Hannan, one may assume that he was given a brief by his editor to write up a piece on why a successful Celtic is bad for football; and while he was at it, a joining piece on how it was vital for football, and his job, to anoint the King.
Every news outlet in the country is either afraid of the truth or have been warned off.
The game is dead.
tully57
You can be sure about that.
Geordie Munro
I am no better than the lazy journos whose reputations I impune, and I stand corrected.
Hinging is too good etc :o)
That’s what I get for copy and pasting someone else’s list on here.
That the writer’s voted Henke and Bawwy twice really does speak volumes anyway.
GrudginglyConceding CSC
:o)
So that’s where we went wrong.
It seems that the Zombies have found a new target to harass for having correctly called them a new club.
The article that follows is written by one of the Herald/Evening Times most prolific brain and succulent lamb sandwich munching hacks, Martin Williams, so the pain and venom is dripping from every word poision penned by the despairing Zombie……..
SNP council leader hits out at “bigoted insults” after he indicated he felt Rangers were a new club
An SNP council leader has hit out at what he claimed were “bigoted insults” after he indicated that he felt Rangers were a new club.
Christopher McEleny, leader of Inverclyde Council came under fire from Rangers fans after he announced on Twitter that Morton had become “the second most successful team in Scottish league football with only Celtic having won more league titles than us”.
He was celebrating Morton being crowned Scottish League One champions as they recorded a 3-1 victory over Peterhead.
When challenged that Rangers had won more, he responded: “Only won two.”
He later said to one fan: “Not taking anything away from you, mate you’ve did well to get to the Championship in your first two season.”
The row comes after football supporters had launched a campaign calling for Brendan O’Hara to stand down as the SNP’s candidate for Argyll and Bute after using the word ‘h**’ about Rangers fans on a Celtic forum.
Morton’s title win means the Greenock side have won ten championships across the Scottish divisions. They have never been champions in the top tier of Scottish football.
The comments provoked a fresh row over claims the Rangers are now a totally different club after the oldco’s liquidation in 2012.
One tweeter said McEleny was “the latest SNP figure to have a pop at Rangers”.
Another said: “What a detestable person. You sure know how to make voters hate the SNP.”
When the council leader was asked why he was deleting tweets, he responded: “Just the ones that have attracted bigoted insults at me.”
The accusation was denied by Rangers fans who challenged him over his remarks.
Rangers fans group Vanguard Bears has criticised the SNP over the weekend for taking no action over Mr O’Hara’s use of the word ‘h**’ in 2007 and 2008.
The SNP said Mr O’Hara apologised for any offence caused by the use of the word but had no intention of stepping down.
Vanguard Bears said: “Still no action from the SNP – a clear endorsement of bigotry from Scotland’s so-called anti sectarian party.”
More than 2700 have supported an online petition which calls on SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to take action over Mr O’Hara.
It was previously revealed that a campaign supported by the Rangers fans board has already been lobbying the First Minister to make the use of the word ‘h**’ illegal following the online abuse of pop singer Amy Macdonald.
The campaigners say ‘h**’ is a term of “religious hatred, a derogatory and sectarian term for a Protestant”.
The campaigners say those using the phrase should be treated no differently than those who use offensive words to describe Catholics.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/u/snp-council-leader-hits-out-at-bigoted-insults-after-he-indicated-he-felt-rangers-were-a-new-.1430739649
normanstreet49
15:23 on 4 May, 2015
16 roads.
Don’t post links to clap trap like that…
You are perpetuating the myth.
Refer to it by all means.
But don’t post the link.
HH.
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No worries mate, sorry about that. I was just trying to highlight the delusion and the hurt that they are clearly suffering from.
Some of the comments are excellent though.
It won’t happen again anyway.
HH.