It was quite a fascinating weekend in the Scottish Premiership. Celtic started the action by labouring before taking the lead and moving into cruise control against Ross County. St Mirren bookended the action by scoring a 95th minute winner at Easter Road. Motherwell rode their luck to earn a point at Dundee, St Johnstone continued to concern their fans by going down 0-2 to Hearts, while Aberdeen failed to make a single attempt on target in a 0-0 at Livingston. Oh, and Kilmarnock failed to read the script by beating Newco.
The excitement Kyogo generated two years ago, on his first league start for Celtic, against Dundee, was palpable. He scored a hattrick, causing us all to hope we had signed the real deal. Two years on and the evidence is overwhelming. His performance on Saturday was just as impressive.
Twice he dropped deep to create a chasm of space behind that he filled with two inch-perfect passes. David Turnbull should have scored with the first, Matt O’Riley made no mistake with the second. His goal was not an easy strike; placing a bouncing ball from 12 yards with enough control to keep it on target, but still managing to beat the keeper. Turnbull’s head-flick and Liel Abada’s early cross both contributed to an excellent move. He is without doubt in the top two Celtic players of this century.
Maik Nawrocki showed enough to indicate why we spent so much money bringing him to Glasgow. His first involvement was a choice to concede a corner within 15 seconds of the start. It’s what we would expect in a Champions League encounter, less so against County, but the player was right to take no chances.
For two years I have lamented the infrequency our central defenders break the lines and carry the ball forward – as Kris Ajer did. Maik took one opportunity to do this, hopefully we’ll see it again.
We are a few weeks shy of two years since Carl Starfelt and Cameron Carter-Vickers teamed up in central defence. In that time, they have not lost a single game over 90 minutes to Scottish opposition. Carl took the more difficult left-sided role, despite being right footed. If, as likely, he moves on this week, he leaves a big jersey to fill.
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THELURKINTIM @ 8:14 PM,
Are you saying you still don’t get my point? You seem lost.
It hasn’t anything to do with MalcolmX or as far as I understand it, anything he was associated with.
The point I was trying to make is some are very quick to highlight Anti Catholic bigotry and Anti Irish prejudice, where they see it, and oppose the Racism they don’t agree with.
Yet are very free dishing it out when it suits them, like the example I gave.
Hail Hail
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B78@8:12pm
Sounds like Scotland.
Now a name change…Gene Sarazen born Eugenio Saracini.
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Praising the Lord in his first team????????????????
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 Universidad Católica 6 (0)
Chairbhoy….it aint about me….why don’t you call out Stivs a racist, as you believe, rather than beat about the bush
Am not free….and who are them?
Liverpool have had a third bid rejected for Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia.
The latest offer for the 19-year-old Belgian is believed to have been about £46m including add-ons, with Southampton reportedly wanting £50m.
Lavia was an unused substitute when Southampton started their Championship campaign with a 2-1 win against Sheffield Wednesday on Friday.
He joined Saints from Manchester City last summer for £10.5m.
Lavia made 34 appearances in all competitions for Southampton in 2022-23 but was unable to help them avoid relegation from the Premier League to the Championship.
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THELURKINTIM @ 8:41 PM,
It seems to me you knew the point I was making from the outset and are just obfuscation, which was my point
Any anti Catholic bigotry you’d get straight away
Any anti Irish prejudice you’d get straight away
The prejudice and bigotry that’s acceptable to many on this site you get awfully confused don’t you!?
Hail Hail
How did Southampton get relegated, when all their players are worth £25 million plus….
SCULLYBHOY on 7TH AUGUST 2023 8:45 PM
I understand your confusion !!
How can a 19 year old be considered worth 46 million but not worth 50 million?
I know it is just `paper talk so I am really having a pop at the gullibillies who believe that kind of stuff .
PS …..and I am NOT referring to you :-)))
Cheerio for now.
CHAIRBHOY on 7TH AUGUST 2023 8:57 PM
read back.
some of the posts are still there.
if i ask the question – why is Ian Wright the biggest chear leader for england, and the answer is because he feels english more than anything else,
then fine.
i dont get it.
if you can point me where it is racist, go ahead.
i can put up the same arguments against rice, grealish and co.
ehat do you identify as ? would you play for england ?
Chairbhoy…so am both smart and stupid 😂…but it’s not about me….again…I ask you to direct yer ire to yer honest target
H.H.
Stivs
I pointed out many times it was not intended to be so
After tom and gene (i think) commented
It very much made it look like it
Whether it was intentionally racist or not
Can I make that any clearer??
Point me to the posts I missed and I will apply the doom hammer to them xx
Tontine Tim 8.04
That’s the very one TontineTim.one of the best series I watched on the iplayer and had me searching out other genres like bluegrass and hillbilly music.the poverty a lot of artists came out of was chronic.
Ol Bob was a big fan of the clancy brothers,he had some impact as his songs and lyrics still resonate today.
If you can post it sometime the poem/verse bout the last orange walk down your old bit? I forgot to save :-)))
Am sure it was you
HH
Mod1888…you’ve just admitted that you jumped the gun based on your interpretation…but that’s not yer job….thanks for yer honesty
H.H.
Hate to see Hatate go- m’or calmac odin DT won’t get us through a season
SAINT STIVS @ 9:02 PM,
You are a very decent guy, I believe you have lived and worked in England.
Many Black people in England, especially those born in England, identify as English, they are proud to be English.
At work during lockdown we had to sign a form everyday to say we had registered our covid test with details like Address, DoB, Ethnicity.
A black girl whose parents are Vincentian (who I know well) got upset because the way the questions were asked she couldn’t identify as British
She got very upset and made sure the forms were changed.
Until the colour of a person’s skin is of no more significance, than the colour of his eyes….
Hail Hail
THELURKINTIM on 7TH AUGUST 2023 9:18 PM · EDIT
Mod1888…you’ve just admitted that you jumped the gun based on your interpretation…but that’s not yer job….thanks for yer honesty
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No I admitted I never thought it was racist at first read
After tom and gene commented
It made it sound very much so
Whether intentional or not
Please read back
I thought I made this clear (again)
May the 3 walkers lost on The Aonach Eagoch(anok eagok)Glencoe on Saturday rest in peace.🙏
Mainland Britain’s harshest ridge.
HH
THELURKINTIM @ 9:04 PM,
There are no targets
If folk want to be racist that’s up to them
If folk want to be prejudice that’s up to them
If folk want to be bigots that’s up to them, fine
Does it upset me if people sing up to their knees in Fenian blood, no, that’s their issue not mine, heard it since I was a kid.
But I don’t refer to people as “huns”, that’s my decision, you understand?
Yet on here we have acceptable prejudice and unacceptable prejudice, why?
Hail Hail
Hail Hail
Emdy looking for something to watch…Earth on BBC with Chris Packam…he’s no Attenborough but well worth it
We’ve wanted a defensive midfielder for ages, but the only thing we ever got was Soro.
Maybe I was advised correctly to never try and justify deletions
As there is always someone (and there is always someone) that will try to pull it apart
You want me to go back to that?
And not explain?
i wouldnt tick a box that called me british,
SAINT STIVS @ 9:29 PM,
That’s absolutely fine, you don’t identify as British.
They forms are a joke, she could have identified as black British or declined to fill the form out.
But she just wanted to identify as British, she’s English.
Hail Hail
Chairbhoy…now that’s an acceptable question
No-one is perfect
Do our fundamental beliefs betray an innate prejudice
Are we the a product of upbringing
Am not a Sociologist…no…fuck the huns ;-))
H.H.
Mod1888 feel free to delete my 9.36 post…not because I swore but the grammar is shocking lol
TLT
lol
No xx
@TLT9.27 Been glued to watching that series …Superb..
The history of Mother Earth ..Mindblowin….
I think Packham is brill with his descriptions…..Bringing the past to life….
H.H
Not seeing anything anywhere about Hatate going. Yet it’s all I’ve read on forums.
Brendan dropped him for his attitude would be my guess, the guy is my favourite player but he’s not looked happy for months, pre treble.
I would trust Brendan with this.
Reo is excellent but he’s inconsistent and has been for months.
Daydreamer.csc
KLV
THELURKINTIM @ 9:36 PM ,
Of course we do, maybe as I was brought up a Catholic in Airdrie but moved to an English town that has changed to a multi ethnic town it gives me different insight.
Yet my prejudices still arise, it’s a matter of understanding them and identitifying them hopefully before you blurt it out…
Live and let live…
Hail Hail
AN TEARMANN on 7TH AUGUST 2023 9:16 PM
Tontine Tim 8.04
If you can post it sometime the poem/verse bout the last orange walk down your old bit? I forgot to save :-))) Am sure it was you
*Gladly as I saved it for one of Mrs TT’s family who had mentioned the other version not knowing a family member had written this one:
“Twas on the 12th of July to old Dumbarton town came 50,000 orangemen loyal to king and crown
They assembled in the High Street, raised their banners high singing “up to our knees in Fenian blood surrender or you’ll die”
They marched along the High Street as far as Denny’s gate, but the Fenian blood had risen as it did in ‘98
And when the reached the Vennel they got an awful shock as standing their undaunted were the Catholics of the Rock
We kicked them up the High Street as far as Artisan oh we smashed their ribs and faces like the smashing o’ the van
And when they were defeated, it was then made a of noise, they demanded police protections as a guard against the bhoys
And when they reached the station glad to journey home, I can truly say they rued the day they cursed the Pope in Rome.”
AT/TT
Ken Burns doc. on Country Music is still available on BBCi Player but it is not so easy to find.
May have to link it/navigate BBC4, where it was originally broadcast. Is there though.
I suspect there is a good chance that St. Stivs forefathers suffered greatly at the hands of the English, like most Celtic fans.
OK, We accept it’s 2023 no one is advocating attacking anyone or holding grudges against Individuals.
The fact that many of us, myself included dislike England and any and every team that represents that Country is perfectly understandable and neither I or St. Stivs or anyone else here need to account to anyone for our feelings,
CORKCELT @ 10:02 PM,
True
neither I or St. Stivs, Ian Wright nor anyone else here need to account to anyone for our feelings,
Hail Hail
Celtic have made an offer in the region of £3M for IF Elfsborg centre-back Gustaf Lagerbielke. The 23 year old Sweden international saw his agent meet with the club on Sunday in order to iron out a deal.
Gustaf Lagerbielke is 1.91 Metres