Friendly games are all about building match sharpness while hopefully avoiding injury. Celtic were given an excellent opportunity to shape up against Real Madrid last night but a suspected broken jaw to Dylan McGeouch who was knocked unconscious will set the player back several weeks.
Henrik Larsson spectacularly returned to action after a double jaw break after three weeks in 2003, scoring with a header within minutes although he walked off the field after his injury without additional complications. We wish Dylan a speedy recovery and hope to see him in Champions League action next month.
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Fortunes
I was hoping you wouldn`t ask:-)
“Oh,baby baby it`s a Wild World” springs to mind.
Not certain,tho`
whitedoghunch
02:34 on 13 August, 2012
>>>>>
I do beleve that kinda stupidity is called ‘post ironic’. Or else someone’s just never read the book!
canamalar,
Absolutely.
I expect “death to the infidel” will be a Daily Mail formed expression :)
While we’re on the subject of religion, my own personal belief is in the god Zinfandel, preferably white – not meaning to be racist against those of the Rosé persuasion.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 13 August, 2012 at 02:50 said
nah methinks the Vatican is delighted the banks got bailed oot!
miki67,
ma heart is pumpin purple pash :oD))))
macjay @ 02:58
Yeuch. Haven’t heard them do that one thankfully. Can see Sean Og O’Rourke being daft enough to try it though :))
Or am I just being prejudiced against it as the only version that springs to mind is Azwad late 80s???
All You Need Is Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZB-THUHyHY
FFM,
ah, that horny wineo hung like a horse plays the pan pipe, baccy or sumdae like that, strange you dont trust satanists :oD))))
Canamarl,
Purple pash??
Are they servin you methylated spirits at the Dolph then?? I’ll speak to them about that. White spirit is much cheaper…well the B&Q stuff. Tastes ok by the way. :)
mags,
last I read, the vatican tried to bail out britain interest free
C,
NEVER trust a satanist.
Am telling ye.
Didn’t know Paul Simon could play the guitar, trumpet and piano with his toes.
Bloody knew it. Art was the real talent in the band.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 13 August, 2012 at 03:10 said:
Could be. Britain hasnt been interested in much outside of Britain anyway so any Blind British Benedictine Benevolence would be Beneficial.
I dont, athiests tell us the baby jesus was just another baby, and thats just silly
BTW, see that flamin Vatican, forcing us to give it all our tax money with the threat of jail, so it can send in it’s military to invade oil rich countries.
If it had a heart, surely it’d be spending its millions on missionary work..?
canamalar
To be fair, most babies look and smell the same. But I believe that was used to some advantage by the Big Cheese :)
Mags,
Bene Bene.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 13 August, 2012 at 03:19 said:
Yup. I see what you are saying. I agree with you. Slight correction though. Missionary position not work!
FFM,
no seen many babies then eh :o)
you got dairy alergies :oD)))
Mags,
Missionary position is very hard work.
Canamalar,
All the exes keep insisting these mysteriously timed weans are no mines. I’ll only challenge this situation when one of them scores a debut hat trick against our derby rivals Partick.
:oD ya midden
So last week C.L. said anyone from Div3 wasn’t good enough for the Scotland squad?
And now? Welcome Ian Black,who is a thug,and plays in Div3. Is this the best Scotland can get?
Or will they do what needs to be done to get the huns through the turnstile?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-17078759
miki67
this is where he drank:
http://www.javierdelasmuelas.com/cas/dry/s-home/home
ordering a couple of cases of chateau Musar ’95
C,
For the benefit of any CSA (not THE CSA, but the other one), I was using poetic licence. Am still a virgin at 39.7 yrs old, and proud.
Miki67,
Canamalar made a good point earlier (probs a one off though).
Black gains financial value to Sevco, and for his own benefit, the promise of a future transfer career by joining Sevco. Not sure if it applies to Sevco, but if the SFA were to avoid random drug tests he could make himself look a bit faster to astute EA Sports FIFA 2013 Championship managers.
Watch these numbers whizz by,then ask yourself why all the bankster fraud? Well….someones gotta keep those numbers ripping away. I’d lije to see a similar accounting for Ukplc’s spending on war while stripping the disabled of life-saving benefits and privatising The NHS.
http://costofwar.com/
miki67,
Did you programme the blog on standby there??
whitedoghunch
Cancel that order.
I can get you 40 litres of aggressive white zinfandel from the fine vinaries of Latin Walmart for only 250 quid.
If you’re interested, order from Asda online, using any standard debit/credit card, then send me the difference. Muchos Gracias. :)
Ryan McGowan and his family are Celtic mad, he would love to play for the Bhoy’s, saw him grow up, never out of a Celtic strip……hail hail.
Gerry.
FFM, sold before the window closes :o)
night night n
hail hail
FFM
in the shiny suburbs of cambuslang we hoof 40 litres per head a week so’s
I’ll take that offer
whitedoghunch
Cool.
I’ll send you by bank details – bank transfers are fine with me, as I pay my taxes, even on gifts :))
C,
Looking forward to buying you a pint amigo. Been a difficult few weeks, this place has actually been a wee haven of respite.
Last time I was at the Dolph I tried to tap into the Canamalar tab and after blowing off the dust and cobwebs, they told me I’d need to pay 5,000,000 shillings and sixpence before using it.
So I went for one of their delicious free coffees instead :)
In the ozzy outback past 5days, missed a lot of tic chat
Stokes an rogne get injuryed aswel in Madrid game ? Long they out for. Gutted for Dylan.
What dates we play Helsingborg ? Home 1st ?
proudbhoy:
21st August away, 29th August at CP.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Surprisingly good article from Bill Leckie in The Sun….
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IF RANGERS don’t win the Third Division, there should be the steward’s enquiry to end them all.
But even if — or when — the inevitable happens, nothing will convince me they haven’t gone about it all the wrong way.
The wrong kind of signings. The wrong wage policy. The wrong attitude.
What was it that put them down the stank in the first place? David Murray’s my-tenner-to-your-fiver bulls**t, that’s what.
Yet now they’re as good as chucking a grand on top of the rest of the league’s two bob.
Sure, so Ian Black. Kevin Kyle, Fran Sandaza and Dean Shiels all have their own reasons for choosing big dough to play in a tiny pond. Each to their own.
What I don’t get, through, is why Rangers haven’t learned from bitter experience that bringing a bazooka to a fistfight isn’t necessarily the way to go.
Under Murray, they spent hundreds of millions on guys far, far better than they needed to top the domestic pile, but who didn’t have the application to justify their monster salaries by turning Ibrox into a European fortress.
And when the time came for each to leave again, what did Rangers make out of it?
Hee-haw. If they signed 50 big-hitters under the dark knight, maybe five had a residual transfer value.
Fifteen years ago, I was writing that this made no business sense and would all end in tears. Yet not only did they ignore all warnings back then, here they are now, emerging from the shame and shambles of liquidation and doing it all over again.
I don’t know what they’re paying Black, Kyle, Sandaza and Shiels. But I’ll bet my tenner to Charlie Green’s fiver that what they earn this season would easily finance the rest of the division for a YEAR.
And when the time comes for each in turn to leave again, what will Rangers make out of it? Our survey said: hee-haw.
For me, this was a time for Rangers to show financial restraint, not proving they can pee the highest. A time to blood the best of the youngsters they had left alongside — and this where they could really have impressed people — the best the SFL has to offer.
I’ll take a stab that the ones they’ve brought in are on £4,000 a week, plus they already had Goian, Bocanegra, McCulloch, Wallace and Alexander on far more than that.
But in the name of financial restraint — a public admission that they had learned from the stupidity of past regimes — surely this was their chance to give a chance to guys who would never otherwise have got to play for a club this famous. And to pay them money that, while beyond the dreams of your average journeyman, was still going to help balance the books?
Listen, I’m no financial wizard. But even I can work out that if you give a guy £1,500 a week instead of four grand, you’ll save £130,000 a year — and that if you multiply that by your first XI, it’ll put close on £4.5million extra in the kitty over three years.
Don’t tell me they couldn’t still walk the title with a team on “only” a grand-and-a-half a week either. They could easily have done what Livingston and Gretna did when they started out. cherry-picking players from a division above the one they were in.
Both of them identified guys who were talented and hard-working, but who for one reason or another had never won anything; David Bingham, Scott Crabbe and Barry Wilson at Livi; the likes of Stevie Tosh, Chris Innes and Davie Nicholls at Raydale Park.
Each of those guys made more than they had in the rest of their careers put together. But each also achieved more in a couple of years than they could have dreamed of.
Will Ian Black be able to say that? Hardly likely, when he finished last season winning the Scottish Cup and started this scrabbling about at Brechin in the Ramsdens.
You look round the lower leagues and see plenty who’d kill for a call from Ally McCoist. I see boys like Ryan Donnelly at Airdrie, Jonathan Tiffoney at Ayr, Jamie Longworth at Queen’s Park and know they’d be good enough. I see good pros like Jim McAlister, twiddling his thumbs until the day before the season starts and he finally gets a shout from Dundee.
And we’ve all seen the trouble Peterhead and Brechin have individually and collectively given those massive Ibrox earners.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe my vision of how Rangers should have done it is idealistic tosh.
But even if or when the squad DO click and start pumping everyone six and seven, I’d have to ask what they’ll have achieved.
Bloody hell, they — and Celtic — spent years complaining about how boring it was having no competition. And that was despite being able to enjoy Laudrup, Gascoigne, Larsson, Moravcik and their like.
So where’s the satisfaction in seeing millionaire internationalists trundling over joiners and teachers making £50 a week for kicking a ball as a hobby?
They were always going to be the team everyone else wanted to beat — and the one most neutrals want to see lose.
I just can’t help thinking they might have been admired more had they turned their new beginning into an opportunity for unknowns to become household names.
Rather than just another exercise in guys who lack ambition getting rich quick
Celtic_First on 12 August, 2012 at 22:49 said:
Australian wine. It’s like cough mixture without the half notes.
There, I’ve said it.
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Oz.wine export income disagrees.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 13 August, 2012 at 07:01 said:
Surprisingly good article from Bill Leckie in The Sun….
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Saw that, following on from Moira Gordon’s article in the S.o.S. it is as if an epidemic of journalism is breaking out.
Is Media House losing control of the laptop loyal?
Big Nan
An outbreak of turning on their former masters now they are no longer on the payroll more like. Cowards the lot of them. I don’t remember Leckie or others predicting doom and downfall 15 years ago. I do remember the lot of them salivating over a broken Celtic crest. Don’t be fooled.
HH
BIG NAN 0753
Thanks for the tips-just read it.
As you say,good stuff.
Hopefully it will catch on……
Good morning fellow Celts from wet Renfrewshire
Hope Dylan’s surgery goes without a hitch and he’s back playing very soon
Anyone have a link to Helsingborg’s most recent game?
HH