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Madden semi-final ref, what were the odds?

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What were the odds of Bobby Madden being appointed referee for our Scottish Cup semi-final against Newco?  Fairly short, I would imagine.  All we want from Bobby is a fair crack of the whip.  When a Newco player lunges with both feet off the ground at Patrick Roberts, we don’t expect him to be distracted by checking his watch.  When Leigh Griffiths is taken down, waist high, inside the box, before his opponent can get near the ball, we expect a penalty.

Such expectations were not on the coupon previously but are not too much to ask.

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  2. Delaneys Dunky on

    Petec

     

     

    Spookily The Prodigy were at Benicassim last year. The blew Spain to bits. The Day is my Enemy. Foxes

  3. YogiHughes on

    Roy Croppie,

     

     

    Slight correction, if you don’t mind. “Grace” was written after the great Luke Kelly died.

     

     

    HH

  7. Delaneys Dunky on

    RC

     

     

    I am just catching up with James. Two dynamite tracks from one of my favourite live bands. Magic S Thank you.

  8. ernie lynch on

    Delaneys Dunky on 6th April 2018 11:44 pm

     

     

    OK.

     

     

    So no poisoning occurred and everything is all just made up.

     

     

    Does that include the involvement of the OPCW and the ensuing court case?

     

     

    https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sshd-v-skripal-and-another-20180322.pdf

     

     

    All just a charade to temporarily deflect attention from Brexit?

     

     

    You think that’s more credible than the Russians trying to do to Skripal what they had done to Litvinyenko?

  9. Jobo Baldie on

    Saint Stivs at 11.31 –

     

     

    agreed, quite simply THE BEST 10 minute clip of anything at all on the ole WWW !!!

  14. petec on

    Delaneys Dunky,

     

     

    The olde Prodigy said “turn the sound up” at the first outdoor Rezerection all dayer, they headlined it.

     

     

    The Government were clamping down on the rave scene, illegal parties in the fields etc.

     

     

    Anyway. The Prodigy is doing ok.

     

     

    Allow it

  25. Delaneys Dunky on

    Ernie

     

     

    Evil Putin had Skripal in jail for 5 years. Why did he not get one of his men to plunge him then?

     

    Skripal was still working for Putin whilst living in Salisbury. Good info to the Kremlin fae Salisbury, GCHQ found out.

  31. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Roy C

     

     

    Good to have you back, loved your post about always getting drawn back to Cqn :-)

     

     

    I chuck it every Monday but it’s too good to let go, hope you had a magic birthday 24th March same as ma wee maw who now resides up in St Joseph’s …. blame that Lymbhoy character who reminded me :-)

     

     

    A bit late to the Bain or Gordon party ?

     

     

    Craig Gordon every day in life … although would sign Scott Bain in a minute for future days in life

  33. danso_1888 on

    the problem with the brits is they think james bond is real and so they make fantasatic stories up and people like ernie will swallow it, YEAH BRITS DONT LIE dear oh dear

  35. ernie lynch on

    Delaneys Dunky on 7th April 2018 12:09 am

     

     

    ‘Skripal was still working for Putin whilst living in Salisbury. Good info to the Kremlin fae Salisbury, GCHQ found out.’

     

     

    ###

     

     

     

    Yes I’m sure he would have been able to supply the Russians with top notch info.

     

     

    And, don’t forget, he’d joined the local railway social club, so God only knows what intelligence he was going to gather there.

     

     

    No wonder the British state had to do something.

     

     

    Though a minute ago you said there hadn’t been any poisoning and it was all made up.

     

     

    I suppose in that case Skripal must be in on it too.

     

     

    Is he? Is he part of the charade?

     

     

    Seems unlikely if he’s working for the Russians.

     

     

    Are you sure you’ve thought this through properly?

  36. roy croppie on

    Gerry

     

     

    you’re one of the reasons I come back mhate; god bless your mum. St Joseph’s as you know is a very special place…it’s becoming a Celtic home game-In the Coatbridge end-for me when I visit now.

     

     

    HH

  37. Tontine Tim on

    MAHE THE MADMAN on 6TH APRIL 2018 10:25 PM

     

     

    Tontine Tim or anyone indeed I dont know if you saw but in compiling the quiz i discovered to my shock that we went out in the first round of the Scottish cup in 67-68. It was to dunfermline.

     

     

    Can anyone explain what happened that night? Still hungover from the big cup win?

     

     

    *I was at that game, it was a Saturday and I was working in Ruby Street at the time and walked up tae the game. It was a very sunny and bright January day and the park looked resplendent so no excuses about weather etc.

     

     

    We were missing John Clark and Jim Craig but Luggy’s replacement Brogie seemed tae put us in front in the first half but it was controversially disallowed by davidshun, who else. If what I believe in is true then hell must be full of Scottish refs and linesmen.

     

     

    The Pars took the lead but not I must admit against the run of play and then when we were chasing the game Davie Cattenach made an erse of a pass back for them to get their second, Catt took the blame for this loss and I cannae remember him playing too many games after that which was a shame as he was a tough wee player and a wholehearted Celt who was captain of the famed Quality Street Gang.

     

     

    It was a shock but Dunfermline we still a very good side with ex-Celt Bent Martin in goal, future Celt Tom Callaghan and his brother Willie as well as future Hibbee Alex Edwards in their side. Big Jock was magnanimous in defeat, it may have been he had a soft spot for the Pars as they were the first club to give him his start in management or else they were from a mining fraternity, or mibbees both.

     

     

    We had dropped a point at home tae deidco about 4 weeks earlier and Jock had told the players that if they wanted to retain their title they had to win every game until the end of the season, this they did scoring for fun, 106 goals total, except this game.

     

     

    After that we went on an amazing run as I said scoring for fun but only won the League by 2 points although our GD was 23 more than deidco. Our 63 points from 68 was a Scottish record.

     

     

    We were out of the SC and EC so we now had to concentrate on the League although we did win the GC beating the Bully Wee 8-0 in the Final on the same night that the huns would drop a point at Cappielow, enroute tae the Final we were given a bye as the huns refused tae play us citing they were too busy, they were, same as us, already out of the SC and Europe, too feart was the real answer.

     

     

    The Pars would win the cup that year beating the perpetual losers the calvinists, who had knocked deidco out, in the final on the same day the sheep won at hades giving us the title. Big Jock walked out of hampden that day with his hands in the air and a big grin on his face, he also had a go at the sfa for playing the Final the same day as league fixtures something that never happened in england, never happened again.

     

     

    3 days later we were at East End park to play the Pars in the game that was postponed due tae the Final, the crowd was a record 27,000 that night although it was estimated there were 30,000 + in stadium, up on the floodlights, the roofs of the enclosures etc

     

     

    It was also estimated 50,000 Tims travelled to Dunfermline with police saying that up to 25,000 Celtic fans were locked out and missed game, also the game was delayed twice, first time due tae the fans on the roof and the second when a barrier collapsed and fans spilled onto the park, in saying that there was no trouble whatsoever with both sets of fans being in good spirit.

     

     

    Although we were now tied on points with the huns our far superior goal difference meant we would have to lose 23-0 for them to win it. It was beautiful site that night watching both Celtic minded captains leading their respective sides out, Roy Barry carrying the SC.

     

     

    2 Buzz Bomb goals gave us the odd goal victory with Bobby scoring 20 goals in our last 12 league games. Big Jock and Pars manager George Farm were beaming that night.

  38. weebawbabitty on

    Morning, DD , reading back , Hope you meet your rose mate, because you deserve it ,BP , was up in your old town glenboig Coatbridge doing a job last week, the big shop is still open ,hope you and franky and benny are good . KevJ, my amigo brilliant tribute to butch Wilkins , but don’t know why you bother mate , as within minutes you get a snide reply . In my humble opinion if that wasn’t from yourself it would have lots of good post insert Clique name, 0-2.champions sun

  40. petec on

    roy croppie on 7th April 2018 12:17 am,

     

     

    Hey RC, with all the Drink I’m a rattling Bhoy.

     

     

    I’m sure Brendan is ahead of the SFA getting this Double Treble.

     

     

    The SFA are lined up Hardcore to stop Celtic.

  42. ernie lynch on

    danso_1888 on 7th April 2018 12:17 am

     

     

    There’s people who accept at face value everything they are told.

     

     

    And there’s those who reject at face value everything they are told.

     

     

    What they share is an inability, or unwillingness, to engage their critical faculties, and think things through for themselves.

     

     

    The difference between them is that the second group think they’re smart.

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