I watched Kilmarnock previous home game against Inverness, as shambolic a defensive performance as I have seen in the SPL. Shipping six goals against the team who were, and remain, bottom of the league is the kind of result that can decimate team morale, but St Johnstone’s result at Ibrox last week offered some encouragement that you can get at this this Rangers team.
It’s worth pointing out a few things. Rangers are still four points clear at the top of the league, if we were in that position we would rightly be delighted and confident. Pascali’s goal for Kilmarnock was also only their second goal conceded in eight SPL away games and only their seventh overall in 16 games – getting on for half a season. By comparison, Celtic have conceded 14 goals, including three at Kilmarnock.
While that defensive record is commendable, the loss of Steven Naismith leaves them disproportionately dependent on Nikica Jelavic to maintain their goal-scoring threat, and Jelavic is not known for season-long durability.
When news came through that Sone Aluko had paid his transfer fee to become a Rangers player few of us expected him to make as quick an impact on the league table as he has, single-handedly playing three Kilmarnock players onside at the goal. This is an unfortunate start to the player’s Rangers career but Rangers fans have a reputation for scapegoating (among other things). For some, Aluko’s card is marked. He’ll need a lot of talent to recover from this one.
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donegalbhoy67 says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:32
Best footballer in the SPL unfortunately won’t be allowed to fulfill
his potential due to MIB interpretations of the rules.
Kevtic says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:25
And Celtic have an even money chance of progressing whilst being in a group with probable tournament favourites Atletico and Udinese.
And all happening when Celtic were in crisis and had an injury crisis as well.
Something Really stinks in Scotland.
I don’t know Danny Lennon but going by the way his team played, fairly, he is a footballing person first and foremost.
I knew Dunfermline would play the game in the correct fashion also as Big Jim is a football man first and foremost.
What the hell is really going on in Scottish football, it is rotten to the core.
The continuous recycling of debased Scottish managers within our game really has not helped.
Hopefully there is a brighter future on the horizon and we can actually start playing football.
I think Ross County would enhance this league also, if they are getting Celtic players they are interested in playing the game in the right way.
Well done also to Kenny Shiels, trying to play football the correct way. Big respect for standing up for Neil last season also.
donegalbhoy67 says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:34
Stringer Bell says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:33
No mate, no wind up.
Proven ch, 2 million price tag, fits the experienced player profile Lenny outlined today.
It would, however, send brer Hun ballistic, which would be an excellent by product!
donegalbhoy67 says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:32
now who likes ki?
not me
I like Ki
I don’t like you
pigalle
great weekend for celtic,
R.I.P gary speed
goodnight all
ps we are gonna win the league
Ceaser67,
Your reference to Rosanna Cunningham reminds me of a discussion I had with a work colleague, who happens to be a supporter of Tax Avoiders FC, shortly after she had made the “aggressive sign of the cross” remark, labelling it sectarian and potential liable for arrest under the proposed new legislation.
I asked my colleague in what context could someone make an “aggressive sign of the cross”. He gave me two examples.
The first example he gave was a Celtic /Rangers game – standing in the Broamloan and blessing the Govan stand, he said.
The second doing so at the side of the road as an orange parade was passing by.
Against my better judgement I attempted to explore his logic further.
“Deliberately provoking them” was his first explanation. He couldn’t quite put together a cohesive response to my “Why would it provoke them?” query. He stumbled to a conclusion that it would be “advertising the fact they they were RC”. Again he struggled with the “Why would that provoke them?” question.
“What if someone showed up at an orange parade wearing a Celtic top?” I asked, probably provocatively. His response was that they would “deserve all they get” for being so stupid. (No answer to my “What would they get?” question, though.)
I asked if he thought Rosanna Cunningham was correct in that someone could be arrested under new legislation for an “aggressive sign of the cross”, using his example, at an orange parade. He said yes, as it was clearly provocative.
“And if I showed up at an orange parade in a Celtic top, as that would also be provocative in the same context, would I be risking arrest?”
Silence.
Like taking sweeties from the weans.
It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Our politicians are attempting to have this stuff enshrined in Law. And totally missing the point.
It’s truly frightening. I’d rather take my chances with Westminster if this is the calibre of comment we are getting from MSPs at Holyrood on the back of a fundamentally flawed proposal for an unjust and unworkable law.
pigalle
Ki does not really need defending, he will continue to be a Brilliant player for Celtic. ;)
Kilmarnock fans singing “go home ya huns” is a standout moment of this wonderful weekend.
i just love their crazy sectarianism.
Hats off to it.
pigalle
petec says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:56
Ki has been good – I hate to think that he’s gonna suddenly be Sammi-ised by certain posters.
pigalle
pigalle
Just fantastic. If you see the link on newsnow r@ngers to the match report by the KFCSA, the first webpage in their links list is to Ayrshire Masonry.
Clearly a hotbed of anti-Protestant sectarianism which will undoubtedly have the Special Branch folk who stopped the GB’er at Glasgow Airport recently sharpening their pencils in readiness for a swoop.
Utter farce.
Broadsword
http://i42.tinypic.com/2dhdy75.jpg
I personally think he Clubfoot thinks its halloween every week and dresses up like a football player!! LOL!!
TootingTim says:
28 November, 2011 at 01:06
Tis all a bit of a farce methinks, compadre…
Hey, twas ever thus
pigalle
Sabre67 says:
28 November, 2011 at 00:56
Just read your post and I agree most wholeheartedly with what you said….scary times…
pigalle
Has everyone gone to bed ?
pigalle
Kinda like Kenny Shiels, but what a load of mince he spoke today.
Fans who travel from Ayrshire to support Glasgow clubs aren’t real fans.
What a crock…I was born and raised in Glasgow,but I should support Killie because I moved house?
Get a grip.
He was totally wrong.
pigalle
I thought he was struggling to say something.
It felt like he wanted to make an important point.
But that point he made was, yes, mince.
pigalle
pigalle says:
28 November, 2011 at 01:05
Ki has been very good this season so far.
I posted a while back saying he could be a number 10, I don’t look to him to be a ball winner but solely to be creative.
I would like Neil to go the 4-3-3 (otherwise known as the 4-5-1) and drop a striker, playing Ki in front of the Centre Mids would be quality.
Neil has tried and tested so many things, and thankfully, like you, he appreciates Fully what Ki brings to Celtic.
I see tumbleweed and now I retire.
In Celtic we trust.
Night night.
pigalle
petec says:
28 November, 2011 at 01:35
True, my friend.
Night night part 2.
pigalle
Fred C. Dobbs says:
28 November, 2011 at 01:20
If he is saying that then he is being a bit stupid. I am guessing he was trying to make some sort of point about something.
He did stand up for Neil last season so I will give him more time than most managers in this league.
pigalle
Hail Hail m8.
Sorry for delay in replying, playing Online matches and only get to post every 20 mins or so at the mo.
nn m8
great result yesterday.
great result today.
come on you bhoys in green.
squeeky bum time sally.
keep going agent aluko your doing well.
Greetings from China’s biggest port on a possibly bright November morning – hard to tell wth the smog tbh.
That said, what a beautiful “Shanghai Surpise” this morning – the Huns got beat at Rugby Park for the first time in 17 years! Hah! 4 points in it, we’re on the up they’re on the down.
I was counselling that we hadn’t lost the league a week or two back (almost had a barney with a bhoy in Barca watching our game at Killie a month ago – its tough being an opTIMist sometimes) but equally we’ve won nothing yet…
Roll on the 28th December – am soooo looking forward to that game…
jocky bhoy
I am SURE, EVERY Celtic player is looking forward to the 28th and exacting revenge in the proper manner.
Sportingly and with a Smile as we put them in their place for the Final time.
God struth what a weekend
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2011/11/26/ally-mccoist-equalling-bill-struth-s-rangers-record-would-be-nice-but-i-m-just-after-four-in-a-row-86908-23589250/
Margaret McGill says:
28 November, 2011 at 02:00
Genius my Good Lady.
It would be an early, and significant, feather in McCoist’s cap if Walter Smith’s successor at least had a statistical similarity to Struth © H. Keevins
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha etc
pigalle WhoHasnaeGoneToBedYetCSC
Margaret McGill,
Truth whatever was on the site Saturday saying precisely what Waddell printed……
poisonous
Kudos to Fortunes Favour Mibbes for highlighting so much at that time.
http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gordonwaddell/2011/11/shoulder-to-lennon.html
Neil and Gordon have sold these repribates a dummy.
Wee Gordon is a Legend, doubt he will be invited back on to ESPN LMFAO. They thought they could get some dirt but the WEE man showed them that once a True Celtic man ALWAYS a True Celtic Man, Woman or Child.
These cheaters really do not like getting it put right up them.
Quadruple is on.
Atletico beware the Jungle Roar (Green Brigade in the modern age).
pigalle says:
28 November, 2011 at 02:16
A tune for you my Friend…..
Celtic Celtic
petec says:
28 November, 2011 at 02:45
“We’ll never give up til we win the Cup and The Scottish Football League”
Yo !
pigalle ShouldDefinitelyGoToBedSoonCSC
Estadio Nacional
I know you are overseas and you cannae access the youtube links directly.
Whilst perusing through old skool mixes I have enjoyed the mix below by Laurent Garnier… Not a 12 hour Arches set :))
Laurent Garnier live at Energy 93, Zürich Hallenstadion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL6ODBQcNhg&NR=1
Hail Hail m8.
pigalle
Many were concerned about us competing in Europe.
Nobody will want to play us when we get out of this group, especially when they realise things.
Thanks for staying up m8, these times are so exciting, especially as Neil has decided to stay and fight despite being under the most horrendous pressures from a whole system that can only be descibed as being sectarian/masonic.
Neil has always spoken the TRUTH when the questions were loaded.
At the end of the Day all that will be left is the Truth.
I am so excited about Celtic right now, even more so than when Martin joined us.
petec says:
28 November, 2011 at 02:38
Spot on. I know. They think irony is metallica.
petec
the Celts march on
but the beers have done for me
gone, totally gone now….
pigalle
Ironically, although not in the way anticipated by Keechins, Sone Aluko did walk into Rangers’ history on his first competitive day at work. He played 3 Sons of Killie onside for their only goal to end their 37 year gubbin at the hands of hunnery at Rugby Park. Not an 82 year old record but a 37 year one. Still ironically worth publishing in the Scottish press tomorrow I would think. No?
Been thinking all day about Gary Speed. What on earth drives someone with such success and bright future to suicide?
I’ll have to reconsider what depression is all about. Senseless.
Margaret McGill
There will be hell to pay when they are finished for good, all trophies etc.
pigalle
You have been more than just a night watchman, keep playing this way and you will be an opening batsman. :))
Test Cricket is much better than 1 day Cricket.
Hurry Hurry Everything…. sigh.