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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anything in the papers about broadfoot.
would love to know how they spin this, if true.
Heard a comment on the radio yesterday,Rangers 15 pt lead is beginning to wane..Beginning,I nearly cut myself peeling the spuds..
Ceci n’est pas un Gazebo
Ghuys
I am on a weeks holiday (use them or lose them), not planned anything, may go into London Christmas shopping but what a way to start the week.
A win on Wenesday would be a another great GIRUY to the Orcs of Mordor.
Hail Hail
JD
Le Gazebo est dans l’arbe avec la sange?
Sannabhoy – if you’re looking in, I’ll give you £20 to see the video evidence of you suffering during the leg wax on Saturday night….!
S&M
TTTT
Sone Aluko est dans la back post!..
Ally Mc Coist consoled Sone Aluko,after the game yesterday..He promised he’d take him to paradise before the new year,and he could see all the stars he wanted..and if you practice hard enough,you can be like Jelavic and fall at there feet!!
whats the story about clubfoot then please? and when does work start on the celtic triangle for the commonwealth games, or has funding fell through
coorslad
In fact Sally was so eager to ‘console’ Aluko after the goal, he hooked him about 2 minutes later … !
(For Aluko’s sake, I hope he paid for his transfer using a credit card that will refund him when the Stickies to belly up.)
FF
Thanks Tom and Summa all sorted.
Wee Jamsie est juste d’entrer l’Esprit ole Movember
Folly Folly,he’s on rangers new plan,’pay’n’go..he was seen last nite buying credit at a service station..
johann murdoch says:
28 November, 2011 at 10:31
johann murdoch says:
28 November, 2011 at 10:31
Sone Aluko est dans la back post!..
est dans la back post!..
Does that translate to ‘Sone Aluko is sent back in the post’! :-)
I’m sure this link will have been posted earlier, but a few of us might not have seen it yet … so worth a re-post:
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=10940806&t=8611133
FF
Paddy G…Regarde le taxi pour Aluko!!!
Was it not funny that the Huns away record wasnt broken especially after all the media bollocks and that they were playing Killie who they hadn’t lost to for donkeys. Did anyone see the when the ref stop play due to an injury late on. Killie were in possession when the ref blew and after the chappies had been looked after they had a contested drop ball. Rangers should have passed it back to the Killie goalkeeper but didn’t and ended up winning possession. It was completely outrageous and at worst terrible sportsmanship. Andy Walker seemed to think it was good to have a contested drop ball for a change. Yeah good on ya Andy.
Who cares they lost.
Le gazebo, c’est moi.
Gazebo gazebis gazebit gazebimus gazebitis gazebunt.
Gazebo, gazebo. Wherefor art thou, Gazebo?
A new form of cover to protect supporters from the elements while they fill their lungs with e-Lites has not been successful.
Celtic have confirmed they will not be pursuing an interest in the Dutch built Gazebolo Zenden.
‘The Celtic support does not shrink to fit the interior gazebo’ said P.Lawell.
nil gazebo illigetimi
Infernal interior! Should be inferior.
My fingers are gettin’ fatter every week.
Bhoys the missus has just text to say that a letter from SCIAF arrived this morning. It relates to the West Highland Way excursion that myself and two friends undertook back in June/July.
If you remember I opened up a Just Giving site where Folk could donate directly. Well the final raised through that page was just shy of £1000.
The vast majority was donated by CQN’ers many of whom I have never met. This generosity is truly astonishing and is a shining example of what the Celtic family can achieve.
I thank you all greatly for contributing to this worthwhile cause.
hamiltontim
Top of the morning to you all from a bright and blustery (but dry) Fife.
The speed with which Kyle Lafferty’s motor car vandalism problems—as with Alan McGregor’s—are attributed to Celtic supporters amuses me.
A few years ago the empty priest’s house in High Valleyfield, Fife was burned to the ground and almost before the smoke from the embers had stopped rising the police had issued a statement via the press saying that it was an electrical fault.
Similar happened with the RC parish church in Leslie, Fife where police immediately briefed the press about Marilyn Manson lyrics spray-painted on a wall nearby. The finger-pointing towards the Goths being responsible was done with disregard to a more obvious suspicious event in Fife that day, a major Orange walk.
In Scotland there is total denial by the establishment and it’s agencies of the possibility of anti-Irish racism or anti-RC sectarianism. It doesn’t happen here. But when the opposite possibility exists it is open season. Why wait for proof?
This latest Lafferty incident apparently happened a week ago so why the story now? Couldn’t be because of the bad news for Rangers new owner that the Stock Exchange are investigating him could it?
I sense the presence of a wee hunch-backed chap in this latest story.
Those gazebo goers are intent on ruining this blog.
Tom McL has guy roped you all in with his earlier question.
Voulez vouz couche avec moi dans la gazebo se soir, doll?
Big Nan 28 November, 2011 at 11:13
I sense the presence of a wee hunch-backed chap in this latest story.
Jimmy Bell?
Are there any Orange Goths?
Coming soon…Im a celebrity get me out of the Gazebo!
Interesting news on the huns not paying tax and N.I since May.
This will explain the large pay rises for Davis, Mc Gregor and Whittaker etc. and how they have bought more time along with the loan from Close having hawked the income from the broxy burger van
Interesting how RTC finished his article
I hope he does not mind me reproducing here
If we took the integrity of our national game seriously, the sport’s administrators would intervene when things got this extreme. However, this is Scotland and our game has been rotting from more than two decades of maladministration. The financial crisis in which Scottish football finds itself today is such that sporting integrity would not merit a second thought if it meant keeping the root of the problem alive. Only the most naive would believe that any meaningful punishment will ever be applied against Rangers’ myriad wrong-doings. However, the SFA/SPL need to concern themselves with the long-range problem of how many people will continue to pay to see a competition in which certain clubs are insulated from the consequences of their own actions.
Hail Hail
From the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15911862
Nearly 10,000 people have paraded in Mexico City dressed as zombies in what organisers claim is the biggest “zombie walk” ever held. Wearing ghoulish make-up and rags splattered with fake blood, the “undead” shambled and groaned through the heart of the capital.
The current Guinness world record is held by Asbury Park in the US, where 4,093 zombies marched in 2010.
Zombie walks have grown in popularity worldwide in recent years. The craze for dressing up as the “living dead” has been fuelled by movies, television, video games and literature. A group in Brisbane in Australia has also laid claim to the record after massing 8,000 zombies last month.
Cultural critics have variously suggested the phenomenon may be linked to economic austerity or a critique of consumerism.
But participants usually say they are doing it for fun.
Correspondents say the craze has particular resonance in Mexico, where the “Day of the Dead” is a national celebration and where brutal killings by drugs gangs dominate the news.
Elsewhere in Latin America, Lima in Peru, Santiago in Chile and Sao Paulo in Brazil have all staged zombie walks this year.
But these events are lightweight compared to Glasgow, Scotland where it is a regular site and the number of walks every year is in hundreds. Dubbed ‘orange’ walks the intimidatory effect, stench and general levels of aggression are somewhat different to the fun element seen elsewhere.
Regarde!!!….bloggers!!!!… Dr Philvis est entré dans le gazebo avec le périphérique de capture podium….
Big Nan says:
28 November, 2011 at 11:13
That’s interesting.
A few years back Fr Michael Lynch was found dead in his Ayrshire – I think – chapel house after a fire in the early hours of a Sunday morning. By 6.00 am the same morning there was an official announcement that there were no suspicious circumstances. Apparently the priest neither smoked nor drank.
Someone who should know told me that many fire deaths are poorly investigated owing to a lack of expertise on the part of investigators. The notorious Doyle murders initially fell into the ‘no suspicious circumstances’ category until, almost by chance, a very experienced fire officer was detailed to have ‘another look’.
A certain Kirk Clovenhoof has just tweeted: Can you cook a gazebo in the microwave?
Great result on Saturday although my poor boy was frozen.
Great to see Sammi in full flow, I wish he had the confidence to do that on a weekly basis.
On Sunday did anyone else think the game between Killie and thems wa splayed at about 5 mile an hour. Slow and ponderous didn’t begin to describe it. However great result.
Then terrible news about Gary Speed. Absolutely shocking. Seemed a genuinely nice bloke. Thoughts are obvioulsy with his loved ones.
Hope our Welsh contigent are being looked after.
Lastly Aw Naw
I do hope that the RST guy doesn’t mind you re-posting because you have just broken copy-right law……Honestly!
I hope if he complains he keeps it within the Celtic family.
I was upset by the news about Gary Speed yesterday.
Although it was a good weekend for us on the park, and consequently a bad weekend for TFOD, I could not bring myself to post anything. Hearing the emotion in the voices of the many people who knew him personally, including Gordon Strachan, was almost unbearable.
My thoughts and prayers are with his family.
Watched Sportscene last night for the first time in ages.
How ridiculous was that programme last night ?
Huns get a humping therefore it is not possible to get one of the blue foot soldiers into the studio on a Sunday night as they have all called off sick.
They get their money extremely easy dont they ?
So we get an introduction that shows Boruc getting beat 4 years ago by John “squiggler” Rankin. (we see it three times).
It is Rankins claim to fame … well it was until last night.
Studio has the SPL trophy up from with its red white and blue ribbons just to remind the down trodden tims who the champs still are ?
Huns of course are on first. No point in keeping a humping of the hun until the end like normally it is programmed. No get the pain out of the way.
John Squiggler Ranking speaks and is obsessed with windy conditions. John squiggler Ranking becomes John Swirly ranking. The boy is more than a wee bit dim but his wind obsession leaves only the most stupid not squirming in fits of laughter. Begging him from afar nay imploring him please no more east coast windy terms … my stomach muscles are aching. but no John Fudder Ranking keeps it up.
Celtic get 2 minutes at the end just enough to pack in 5 goals.
A TOTAL DISGRACE OF A PROGRAM. THE QUICKER PROFESSIONAL SCOTTISH FOOTBALL DIES THE BETTER.
A MEDIEVAL EMBARRASSMENT
Hail Hail
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