As we walked from our seats after the 1-1 home draw with Shakhar Donetsk, I engaged in a detest-fest against that day’s whipping boy. “Juranovic is in ahead of Ralston because he is a better player.” There was a lot of push-back against this opinion.
In my view, Josip did well to get goal-side of the supremely talented Mykhaylo Mudryk, who then cut inside before scoring from the edge of the area. So before revisionism kicks in, we should acknowledge one of the stars of this World Cup was being compared unfavourably with Anthony Ralston as recently as last month.
Despite my support of him, I didn’t think Jura had a performance like he gave last night in him. Vini Jr made so little impact against him he was hooked as Brazil failed to overcome a professional Croatia performance.
He is the best full back in Scotland, Celtic are currently cash-positive and on current trajectory, we should win the league and qualify for the Champions League group stage. So why should we entertain the thought of selling him?
It is about what you want to happen next at Celtic. I don’t just want to see Celtic win the league, I want to move beyond this season’s CL cannon fodder status and start winning games, qualifying for the knockout stages, as we did so recently. To do this, we have to buy increasingly better players and pay higher wages.
Few of those we buy will excel at a World Cup the year after they arrive, some will fail to make the cut. Not every success is destined to move on, many will become a mainstay of the team for several years. But I would like to see Celtic increasingly get them in, inflate their value and quickly move them on before their contracts being to run down, or their age profile counts against them, or form slips.
At 27, Josip is in prime Asset Management territory. We have already recruited his replacement, the only question is, how much? Or do we just settle for being cannon fodder?
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They are oot
What a wonderful result!
Won’t have to listen to their xenophobic sh!t for the next few years!!
au revoir
I make that 60 years of hurt now
kane the escape goat to boot
Thank Ghod for that.
Keano is brutally honest – looking forward to his assessment assuming he is Dani Bher.
Celtic victory
Hun defeat
Engerluund getting papped oot
Things that bring me joy
Aw shucks!
They’re coming home
They’re coming home
Oh well! They’ll win it in 2026…
Thank eff for that
Croatia furra cup
Pengland 🤷♀️
Rely on pens to win and it’ll get you eventually
THE EXILED TIM on 10TH DECEMBER 2022
I have one of these box things that stream all the channels, netflix et all, netflix and youtube work perfect, no buffering whatsoever, as soon as we try to watch the TV, it buffers like eff, done a speed test and it’s fluctuating big time, but no matter if it up or down we still can’t get the TV but we get netflix, I am thinking there is a prob with the box, am I right ?
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u got a vpn on it?
Violins and hankies time.#### ’em.
Rangers will be turning in their grave at that result
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 10TH DECEMBER 2022 8:47 PM
When players started pulling their socks above their knees is when football started to go downhill…
I quite agree . They’ll be wearing suspenders next .
l’angleterre sont la truite brune
Whatever young Harry does in the rest of his career…..
He will relive over and over again ……..Missing the critical penalty.
Crushing a nations hopes and dreams………..Sending a nation into mourning..
And every..”It’s coming home ” merchant back home..
Nae luck Harry…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBp2ke5Bye4&fbclid=IwAR2Ycmj-aEGj0ULGu2-LnhHoPYcl6ijXJtCq_GQGTQecWwtmaWcvZ2wkHlA&ab_channel=MShanghai
Mod
No, the vpn was taking up to much speed.
Been googling it and I think that there are upgrades that the router needs and I don’t have a clue how to go about it, when I speak to the provider, Spanish version of BT, my Spanish is not good enough to explain the tech terms to them and the effers just hang up, frustrating, aye, but it’s my fault for not being fluent enough.
The Mrs is watching a film on Netflix just now without a problem, I can also at the same time watch youtube and neither of us have a problem, as soon as we try and watch the TV virtually eff all, so it’s either the box which I think it is or the router, everything is hard wired, no wifi
@T.E.T What box?? Have you got a firestick…with apps???
Parkheadcumsalford on 10th December 2022 9:03 pm
Thank Ghod for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hL9NRkQZG0&t=314s
Ange is a Manager ye will run through a Brick Wall for.
I expect the Awesome Josip to leave in January after a crazy amount of money being offered.
Then again I Hope Celtic keep hold of this Smiling assassin for another crack @ winning any Euro Trophy.
Individual brilliance beat the better team.
The French defence is absolutely honking. Argentina will rip them apart if they beat Croatia.
Feel sorry for kane who will be ripped apart by the English MSM.
For the record: I’m a Francophile and glad England are out.
Just calling it as I saw it.
GLENDALYSTONSILS
Nobody not even Harry can pull their socks up like TavPen
Drambowie
The box is called Infomar, it’s never been a prob till the past month or so, been perfect if the truth be told, yes we have a firestick, no clue what apps are on it but she doesn’t seem to think there is a prob with it
THE EXILED TIM on 10TH DECEMBER 2022 9:21 PM
I have a magbox that streams all the films and stuff perfect
sometimes when i watch live footie, it’s a no go
May be an idea to transfer the software from the box to the firestick (where u can install a vpn) to test if its the box or router
K..The firestick is the way to go….you can get everything …
With the right apps….in the early years i even got the game Madden
gave the penalty against us v Morton….Madden
Big Ambrose fell and touched the ball…..1 0 ton…An early version of V.A.R..
Netflix, Prime etc have huge servers (and money)so you won’t experience buffering.
Live TV channels won’t have the money to pay for the backend servers, so too many connections can cause buffering.
The first genuine top class team Engerlund play they go out. No surprise there.
Also, like sevco, they rely on penalties to get them through.
They are not good enough at this level and never will be.
QED.
Mod-Dram
The Mrs has arranged for her friend to call the provider in the week to change the router and sat receiver, if that works, fine, canny mention the TV box as it’s not quite cosha, will see how it transpires, hopefully it will solve the problem.
Thanks for the input, much appreciated.
From the Observer:
Vintage Croatia have long passed the consistency test but still defy belief
Josip Juranovic and Borna Sosa back the old guard to keep producing for the World Cup semi-final against Argentina
Nick Ames in Doha @NickAmes82 Sat 10 Dec 2022 16.20 GMT
In Ban Jelacic Square there was not a soul who cared about the Friday night temperature, which had plummeted towards freezing. A reveller removed his shirt and dived into a nearby fountain; it always takes one to go first and soon enough he had company. Zagreb’s city centre was packed, celebrations continuing into the early hours under the shine of Christmas decorations. Now a country wonders whether it, and the football team that continue to defy belief, can do it all again twice more.
Walking out of a stadium 2,400 miles away in Doha, a smiling Josip Juranovic clutched a plastic bag. Its contents were inescapably yellow and it did not take much to prise out the nature of his loot. Croatia’s right-back had managed to swap shirts with his idol, Dani Alves, a non-playing substitute, who is squeezing out every last drop of a stellar career at 39.
Should Alves ever pluck up the courage to watch a rerun of Brazil’s latest quarter-final exit, he would see familiar traits in Juranovic. The Celtic player rampaged forward whenever possible and was rarely outdone at the back, seeing off the challenge of Vinícius Júnior within 64 minutes. It was a distillation of what Croatia achieved at Education City: their opponents had arrived with songs in their hearts and a quickstep in their feet but came second in all the charts that mattered.
Juranovic may never share a dressing room with Alves but knows the benefit of a wise, evergreen teammate better than most. “We believe in our team, especially our oldest players,” he said. “This is my first tournament and they said some words to us younger ones.”
It is all relative: in footballing terms the 27-year-old is middle-aged. But Luka Modric has seen it all and forgotten anything else; this was another big occasion when the veteran set the tone with a colossal performance that seemed to pull everyone else along.
“For me he’s in the top five midfielders of all time,” said the left-back Borna Sosa. “Nobody, absolutely nobody, has performed to his level at 37. When it’s most important he gives us this experience and confidence. He’s really calm on the ball and hopefully he will stay with us as long as he can.”
In this nick it would be foolhardy to dismiss at least a European Championship swansong from Modric in 18 months’ time. The mechanism he runs with Marcelo Brozovic and Mateo Kovacic has no parallel in this World Cup. “I can say we have the best midfielders,” Juranovic said. “If they’re on their game we control 90% of it and because of that I think we win.”
It is a fair assessment. Croatia are not polished in every area but it rarely tends to matter: the three in the centre take a grip their way. It is a collection of cogs that works through glances, appreciation of half-space, moving possession in a steady wave rather than through a lightning bolt of transition. Against Brazil they barely created a chance until extra time. What they did, beyond opportunities that were carved out in isolated attacks rather than through concerted spells of pressure, was treat the match as if it was to be played purely in the middle third.
Keeping the opponent at one arm’s length while not pushing unduly with the other: that is the balance Croatia strike. They have the confidence to do it and the psychological edge from another shootout success is real. “When the scores were level it was a really good feeling because we knew that, if it comes to penalties, we have the edge on our side,” Sosa said. That was echoed by Juranovic. “When we equalised for 1-1 I was thinking: ‘Yeah, we have this,’” he said.
When does an underdog cease being an underdog? Legend and accepted wisdom are developed through layers of experience and achievement: a 31-year-old country of 3.9 million has reached at least the semi-final stage in three of its seven entries at this level. It does not matter whether they got there via the flair of Suker, Prosinecki and Stanic or the durability of their indomitable successors. Croatia have long passed the consistency test and should not be considered a notch below Argentina. It is among the small clutch of leading football nations from this era and the past one.
“We showed in the Nations League against France and Denmark that we are one of the top teams in the world,” Juranovic said of a campaign when they took 10 points from four games against those opponents, including two away wins. Their only defeat in 21 games since a rollercoaster Euro 2020 exit to Spain was an anomalous no-show against Austria, which Modric did not start. In form like this, what are an extra pair of high-octane assignments for that triumvirate in the engine room?
“We don’t have 25 players who are playing for Barcelona and Real so everybody has to be ready,” Sosa said. “Luka is playing every game because he has to. There is no place for him to rest, because we need him every second on the pitch.”
Modric and Croatia have made it this far, yet again: the water in those fountains may be even chillier on Tuesday but they look ready to light their biggest fire yet.
END
Good day.England out.
Game time for Calmac..
In a new nadir for Scotch sports journalism, red-tops report the huns have changed the pic of the Queen in their dressing room, for a pic of the big-eared, King Grumpy the turd.
Pathetic, fanzine stuff.
🎼🎵ça rentre à la maison
ça rentre à la maison…🎼🎵
Quad
Yip they have
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Hello again all you young rebels
From a very happy and sunny Melbourne.
Wonder who I could wind up today down the local club ?
🤣
H H. Mick
Oh, I think the term is Jug eared >:)