On Saturday morning I opined that Hearts were a busted flush. They’d shipped 10 goals in their previous four games, failing to win any (against Hamilton, St Johnstone, Inverness and Kilmarnock). They were certainly not a team I expected to see sitting second to us this morning.
All of a sudden there’s talk of the manager leaving and players look like they are fighting to impress.
You know how this is going to turn out? Hearts, who are chasing second in the league, are after Newcastle’s assistant. Newcastle’s owner isn’t likely to be hard to deal with. If Ian Cathro gets the job, you can expect to see Newcastle’s player surplus heading north in January. And unlike the five who left Newcastle for Glasgow two years ago, Cathro will know and select each one.
Which is good, as it might give us some competition in the second half of the season. As for those gambling the family aluminium that qualification for the Europa League next season will bring in a necessary £7m?
They may eventually conclude that having one of Europe’s richest men inside the tent is a whole lot better than making an enemy of him. Just a thought.
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BMCUW
Under Police Scotland’s instructions they can’t reduce our allocation, it’s either all of the Broomloan or nothing.
Aberdeen have asked for additional tickets on their last two visits to Parkhead.
I’ll write to the SPFL and ask them for next year’s fixture list, as I’m sure they will have a draft done up already.
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Aye, first two matches away to Barca and Bayern.
So what happens next season then…. if they finish this season …oh let’s say 25 points plus adrift of us ….(if they finish the season )
Then they sign more dross …is it worth 49 of your hard-earned £’s …
Or will there be a price review ?
I Suppose they might not turn up at Celtic park to support dross …so a wee bonus ..
Praecepta
I can inform you that An Tearman has been consuming beans all week. He is off the drink, but will leave his mark at your dinner I’m sure. Haha
The Huddle
No, you’re not.
TTR
Ok fair doos I’m still starry eyed at those pumps you wore at 5s the night! :-)
HAMILTONTIM
Thanks for the info,bud. Canny believe the Dandies brought more than 2500 fans. I think they had about a tenth of that last time I saw them.
Hamilton Tim I ll take it if it is still going though be closer to say I am retired than a student.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 1st December 2016 11:19 pm
Thanks for the info,bud. Canny believe the Dandies brought more than 2500 fans. I think they had about a tenth of that last time I saw them.
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To be fair to the sheep they’ve brought a decent crowd for a while now, and I’d imagine all are local so some journey
CABERFEIGH on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 11:21 PM
Hamilton Tim I ll take it if it is still going though be closer to say I am retired than a student.
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I’m off to bed shortly so if you email me at @hamiltontim88@yahoo.co.uk I’ll arrange with you tomorrow mate.
Big Peat
When I was a wean in Knightswood, I used to think that Morton was a team from Temple, because the Morton’s roll factory was there.
Canny beat a roll n square wi a wee cheeky tottie scone n brown sauce flung in.
Tim type breakfast. :)
DELANEYS DUNKY on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 11:27 PM
When I was a wean in Knightswood, I used to think that Morton was a team from Temple, because the Morton’s roll factory was there.
Canny beat a roll n square wi a wee cheeky tottie scone n brown sauce flung in.
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I was thinking more of a full scotch pie in a morton’s roll wae broon sauce.
I have managed to persuade one of my daughters to learn how to make real tottie scones.
It all makes a difference.
Test post having problems.
Big Peat
Roll n Scotch pie is never my choice for breakfast, but often my lunch, wi lashings of brown sauce. Scotch stodge tae fight the cauld.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 11:39 PM
Aye, it wouldnae be a plate to break my fast, but magic even at the wrong times.
Fixed……..
Celtic have 9 games to end of month.
Sevco had 6 including Hearts defeat.
Celtic have played 44 games at year end.
Most other SPFL teams around 30, cup run dependant etc.
Expect Brendan to use some of the younger lads this month.
Will be interesting to see where we are in 30 days time.
HH
Big Peat
I have found in the past that a roll n pie accompanied wi an Islay malt are perfectly compatible, the more drams I consume.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 11:48 PM
Now were talking.
But each to their own. I wouldnae go to that hallowed feast until my last hawf had been drunk. That’s just me.
But when I do eat and drink (and they say this is better than drink alone) I would opt for a lowland single malt or a nice blend.
As I get aulder, I appreciate more the contemplative aspects of tasting good whisky.
And smoking a pipe.
But each to their own.
The days of getting smashed in Bonkers before 6 o’clock on a Friday are long gone.
Big Peat
The pipe of peace, hand carved in Morocco, is one of my favourite and often used possessions.
Kaya time
Bubbly bong babble breaks Bhoys blog ;-)
Sat 09th Nov 1991
League
Celtic 2
Charlie Nicholas 14min
Gerry Creaney 64min
Aberdeen 1
Eoin Jess 11min
Celtic
01 Pat Bonner
02 Mark McNally
03 Chris Morris
(Gerry Creaney-42min)
04 Mike Galloway
05 Tony Mowbray-first game for Celtic
06 Gary Gillespie
07 Brian o Neil
08 Paul McStay
09 Tommy Coyne
10 Charlie Nicholas
(Tony Cascarino-76min)
11 John Collins
Aberdeen
01 Theo Snelders
02 Graham Watson
(Andy Roddie-82min)
03 David Winnie
04 Eoin Jess
(Willem Van Der Ark-73min)
05 Brian Irvine
06 Gregg Watson
07 Peter Van De Ven
08 Jim Bett
09 Scott Booth
10 Theo Ten Caat
11 Hans Gillhaus
Att-36,837
Ref-George B Smith
At-Celtic Park,Parkhead,Glasgow.
Three days previous
Wed 06th Nov 1991
Celtic failed to overturn a
5-1 first leg defeat away to Neuchatel Xamax
In UEFA Cup Second Round
Celtic won second leg 1-0 with a goal from
Joe Miller 51min
His first goal in Europe for celtic
and the efforts of Paul McStay
to rally the team
An early penalty miss by Charlie Nicholas
Didn’t help.
Agg score Celtic 2-5 Neuchatel Xamax
Third Round
Neuchatel Xamax 1-0 Real Madrid
Real Madrid 4-0 Neuchatel Xamax
Agg Real Madrid 4-1 Neuchatel Xamax .
DELANEYS DUNKY on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 12:01 AM
Just virginia for me.
Sitting in Vegas airport and you lot start talking about rolls n square-(((( that’s no nice:-)))
Lib-Dems unseat Goldsmith.
Interesting result.
CELTIC
CELTIC
CELTIC are now kings of a Tormented Land – LMFAO
CELTIC CELTIC……..
DOC 7.07pm
Just to be clear on this Doc, Lennybhoy didn’t say that he would be DRINKING coke ?
HH
Neil Cameron
The big interview: Graeme Souness on Rangers, Joey Barton and who his old club are light years behind Celtic
It is obvious the former manager, one of the top three most important figures in that club’s history, believes things would be different had he been able to get back into Ibrox before Charlies Green and subsequently the current chairman Dave King.
This would have been after the taxman came calling, EBT scandal, Souness was a recipient of one, and sale of the club by David Murray to Craig Whyte for a quid when a quick google search would have thrown up some doubts about the supposed billionaire who lived in Monaco.
That was then and this is now. Rangers is in better shape but things are not going as well as they could be. The team is bang-average at best, the manager seems lost and he is losing the supporters.
None of this has come as any sort of shock to Souness who made sure his strong feelings got across.
“I think it’s been predictable,” he said. “I think given where Rangers were shopping in the summer, Celtic were always going to be stronger. I don’t think the manager has had a lot to work with when you are buying players from Accrington Stanley.
“I’m buying players from top English clubs when I’m there, it’s a million miles away from the job I had to the one today. I’m buying the England captain and he’s buying a different level of player altogether.
“I don’t think there’s any surprises. Celtic bopping them at Parkhead early in the season, predictable. Rangers narrowly losing to them in the cup, predictable.
“Hopefully they can go one better on Hogmanay. Is it impossible? No. Is it likely? No. That’s reality for Rangers and their supporters. I don’t think the manager has been given any chance.
“They don’t have any money, that’s the bottom line. The lower leagues in England, if you are talking about the Championship, Rangers can’t afford players in that league. I’d suggest they’d struggle to pay what’s in League One. That’s where they are right now and that’s the handicap they have.”
It was always going to take years rather than months for Rangers to even get close to their friends from across Glasgow. It was John Brown, a Souness signing, who tellingly said his club would have to take a few dunts along the way.
Those dunts are starting to feel like Souness tackles and the great man himself can’t see anything improving any time soon.
“You can’t look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around,” he said.
“If there is no money put on the table and you are buying the same types of players, and that’s your market, then you won’t improve. There is no coach out there that could take that group and make them into Barcelona.”
He then added a comment which we have changed to “you can only urinate with the external male intromittent organ you’ve got.” Quite.
Rangers did this to themselves, of course. But even if everything hadn’t happened, English football’s financial muscle would have ensured that whoever was the manager, they weren’t going to be signing the best talent from the Premier League.
Souness said: “It saddens me. It might seem like a long time ago I was at Rangers. Thirty years ago may seem like that but it’s not a long time in the history of the game for a club who could outbid Manchester United and everyone else in England, pay the same wages as Arsenal to where they are today.
“It’s really unkind and not just to them. They’ve not managed to get into an English league for all the right reasons if you are a Norwich, Blackburn or Burnley.
“It’s just the way it has unfolded for them and I think our national game has suffered. Every team in Scotland has suffered. Is anyone shocked? I don’t think so, it’s just the way the game has evolved down here in England.”
This is all true but Rangers have hardly helped themselves by throwing money away. Mark Warburton defends his record in the transfer market but overall his signings haven’t been good enough.
“There’s no manager from Fergie down who gets them all right,” said Souness in the way of a defence. After all, he did play a man called Ali Dia for Southampton when he wasn’t actually a footballer.
“Unfortunately some have not worked out but that’s football. It can’t work for several different reasons. You got your judgment wrong, the player can’t deal with playing at a big club after taking them from a smaller club where they can pick and choose when to give it 100 per cent to a club where you have to be bang at it every game, as the sides you are playing against treat it as their biggest game of the season.”
Okay, but what about Joey Barton? Surely that was a risk not worth taking by any football club, never mind one for which every penny is a prisoner?
“Yeah, it was a gamble but I was reassured,” said Souness. “I worked with him at the Euros. He was knowledgeable about his football, had done his homework on Glasgow Rangers and never stopped asking me questions the club. He was determined to do well. I was taken aback.
“I was expecting to meet this wildcard but he wasn’t, he was sensible, knowledgeable and desperate to do well at Rangers. Without probably knowing it, he quickly realised how big a club Rangers are and it’s not happened for him.
“I don’t know the circumstances, what was said or how it was said, so I can’t comment. But these things happen, not all signings work out.
“I’m sure Barton will regret it hasn’t worked out. I’ll guarantee that. The manager will also look back. I look back on many an occasion and wish I’d done something differently. Maybe Mark thinks that, you’d have to ask him.”
Souness didn’t want to talk about Celtic. But he did say this; “What does 10 in a row matter?”
With all due respect to one of Scotland’s most iconic sporting heroes, it matters a great deal. As things stand, Celtic are four-and-a-half years away from achieving just that.
As Souness said himself, it’s difficult to see what Rangers can do about it. His era at Ibrox seems several lifetimes ago.
Sky Sports will show the biggest head to heads over the festive season, including Manchester City v Chelsea this Saturday and the Old Firm derby on New Year’s Eve.
I JUST CANT GET ENOUGH,
I had a quick look on Hun site this morn, here is just a snippet if what I read.
One Thread ” I would have 11 Joe Garners” !
Now given that Garner is just the latest expensive ( for them), cheating reptile in a long line of cheating reptiles that they have signed over the years, on reading this I was immediately lmao.
However , I was also reminded of the game against oldco in the 1990s at Celtic Park when they had 3 reptiles sent off, Hateley, Hurlock and Walters. I may be wrong but wasn’t that the game after The St Patrick’s Day Massacre, when we gubbed them twice in a week ?
Anyway, I remember after that game speaking to Alfie Conn over a beer, and suggesting to him that maybe the Huns messed up as after having those 3 sent off, what they should have did was to make sure a 4th reptile was also sent off, as I was reasonably sure that if that happens that a team go down to just 7 players, the ref MUST abandon the match ?
However, and Alfie agreed with me surely in that scenario the other team would then be awarded the match and the 2 points ( or Cup tie), with a 3-0 scoreline entered into the record books ? Therefore , there would be no point in a team making SURE a 4th player was sent off ?
But I then suggested that if the score was 7-0 to let’s say Celtic, and the Huns have 3 players sent off at that point in the match, then it would be in the Huns interest ( or any other team in same position), to ENSURE a 4th player is sent off, and the game to be abandoned by the ref ( under the rules ?), with Celtic being awarded the points obviously , with just a 3-0 scoreline recorded, which is obviously better for a teams goal difference than a 7-0 scoreline against you ?
That ” possible” loophole ( IF it is a loophole ), could be the difference in whether a team wins a League, or is saved from delegation , European place etc ?
The other ” possible ” loophole would be if when the Huns went down to 8 players as they did that day, let’s assume for a moment that they then use all their subs ( at that time it was only 2 subs allowed).
They then still have 8 players on the pitch, with having used their subs then one of their 8 remaining players is injured and has to go off, leaving them with only 7 players, then surely the ref again would have no option but to abandon the game in that scenario ?
Again IF so, a scoreline if ONLY 3-0 is recoreded which again is better than a 7-0 ?
Another possible loophole ? If Huns went down to 8 players and are 7-0 down, and have used all their subs, what’s to stop them cheating by having a player kidding on he’s injured ( rather than insuring that a 4th player was sent off ?), as again they would only have 7 players, and the ref would be forced to abandon the game ?
I only ask this as if the Huns DID have 11 Jie Garner’s on the pitch, then for how long ? LOL
HH
KITALBA on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 5:04 AM
Thanks for sharing.
THETIMREAPER on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 10:10 PM
Miss this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aR09dPj3M
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Oh , yes.
I feel as you do.
Meanwhile , I am sure Brendan knows exactly what he is doing and has kept Leigh in the loop.
BIGJIMMY
Hearts had four sent off at the bigotdome.
Referee continued the game.
CLASSIC CONTRADICTION ?
According to Hun site Wobbles Warbo has stated to the bears that ” they are hoping to sign a dynamic , experienced, goalscoring midfielder in January, that will. excite the fans” ?
He adds ” we don’t wish to name the player as this could alert other clubs” .
He then added, ” there are 3 or 4 other clubs looking at this player”
EH ?
Some on their site identified this contradiction and also pointed out that a few months ago Warbo was saying the exact opposite ” we will NOT talk about players from other clubs” ?????
Or words to that effect.
This chump is clearly on his last legs ( like his club), and sheer desperation is kicking in, and is losing the plot.
One maybe two more bad results, could see him go over the top IMO .
BIGJIMMY
The huns can’t afford to pay him off,can’t afford to pay another club for their manager,can’t afford to keep him in charge either.
Tough one for them,innit?
As has been said,you would need a heart of stone not to laugh…
BMCUWP,
Aye your right mate, as I couldn’t remember how many players a team has to go down to before the ref MUST abandon the game ?
However, irrespective of whether the abandonment rules apply if a team get 5 players sent off , the ” possible loophole” that I posted/ suggested above may still be relevant irrespective of what the actual numbers are ?
Cheers mate
HH
THETIMREAPER on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 10:10 PM
Early days for Leigh .
Loved it.
Leigh and Lenny.
What`s not to like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTs9vd4MS4s
BMCUWP,
They wouldn’t have to pay another club compensation for that superb football tactician Sleekit Coisty to get him back as manager/supremo/big boss/ head honcho/ football coach etc ?
Lol.
HH
BIG JIMMY:
Lol…I may not have included the word DRINKING but just for clarification…if I make it round, I will be drinking Coke…:)
Time to go for the fast Train…
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
A lot of talk about tickets and allocations etc….
I recall being in the Broomloan Stand on the 1st time it was opened for Cellic fans….
A legendary Blantyre Tim who went by the name of Kit H was able to get tickets were none were there to be got….if ye know what ah mean,…he got us ours for that day….and many more impossible days.
Anyway,…..
Nov 1980 the huns skelped us 0-3 and the huns had been allocated the, Copland Road stand, the entire Main stand, the entire enclosure but,….but, but,….get this….Celtic supporters were allocated ‘300’ tickets for the Cellic end of the enclosure, the 300 were lined up against a wire fence separating the enclosure from the Broomloan stand and had a line of police separating them from the lighter throwing, spitting huns in the enclosure section that was usually allocated to Cellic fans!!! 300 fans in a section with what ?….10,000 spitting huns and, the Main Stand huns up above!!!
Know what else ?….see how when the gates opened to let everybody leave the game 10-15 mins before the end, there must have been about another 3,000 Cellic supporters from ootside, poured into the Broomloan, just to see what it was like to see a Cellic end that was all-seated and covered and, there must have been 10,000 Cellic fans in the stadium at that time coz nobody left as – Jungle Defiance was the order of the day – the wans who came in in the last few mins said that the atmosphere from the Broomloan stand from ootside the park, you would have thought that it was Cellic who were winning 3-0.
Charlie Nicholas made his Old Firm debut that day and….he melted….nae Murdo = naebdy tae win the battles in the middle of the park….imho
Charlie made up for this in his next game vs the huns at Cellic Park in February 1981 when he scored a double against the bassas and, celebrated wildly in front of the magical Jungle….real Cellic days.
Also, during the night before the ibrokes game, there was a boxing contest between Scotland’s Jim Watt and, Irish-American Sean O’Grady.
Jim Watt won the fight and, the hun hordes kept chanting his name throughout the game.
Cellic fans replied with – “There’s only 1 Sean O’Grady.”
Sean O’Grady was presented to the Cellic fans the week before when he took a bow in front of the magical Jungle as he presented the prize to the Cellic pools winners.
There were rumors later that, Sean O’Grady wizny his real name…..maybe sumdy on here will know ?
Anyway,…..
Fergus Thatcher McCann and his disciples who are currently holding the reigns of the club will always ensure that there is an Old Firm.
Ye see,….it’s like this…..
The Old-Firm-Orientated-PLC….know fine well that there is no longer a magical Jungle full of ‘real’ rebels to answer to.
No, what they have these days are, Cellic season ticket holders who are easily gulled by a squirrel, who will sit at the back of the bus, peddling petitions to protest against an OBAF ACT that would not and, could not have come into being – without – the authentic rubber stamp of approval from the PLC at Cellic Park.
Aye,….ye couldny make it up.
The ghosts of the magical Jungle will pray for you.
….off-oot….