Neil Lennon, his goalkeeper and defenders will not be too concerned at the loss of their first goal in domestic football yesterday since Noah was a boy. John Rankin’s pot-shot from 20-odd yards clipped the post on its way in but the Dundee United player scored from an area of the field that is usually vigorously monitored by Beram Kayal.
We’re going to miss that guy……
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BarryB
I don’t know why we played him if he wasn’t well! Cha was there and should have played instead.
BarryBhoy says:
16 January, 2012 at 09:46
Thanks for the info, the Bhoy is a very good player as we all know.
On a brighter note: The Tax Case resumes today :)
JD
It looks like Neil Lennon has a point about Celtic having to play catch-up a lot more than Rangers.
Here is a list of domestic fixtures up until the split:
Saturday 21 January 2012
St Mirren v Celtic 12:30
Rangers v Aberdeen 15:00
Saturday 28 January 2012
Rangers v Hibernian 15:00
Sunday 29 January
Celtic v Falkirk 15:00 –League Cup semi-final at Hampden Park
Saturday 4 February 2012
Inverness CT or Dunfermline v Celtic 12:45 – Scottish Cup
Sunday 5 February 2012
Rangers v Dundee Utd 12:15 – Scottish Cup
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Hearts v Celtic 19:45
Saturday 11 February 2012
Dunfermline v Rangers 12:00
Celtic v Inverness CT 15:00
Saturday 18 February 2012
Rangers v Kilmarnock 15:00
Sunday 19 February 2012
Hibernian v Celtic 15:00
Saturday 25 February 2012
Celtic v Motherwell 15:00
Sunday 26 February 2012
Inverness CT v Rangers 12:45
Saturday 3 March 2012
Aberdeen v Celtic 12:00
Rangers v Hearts 15:00
The following fixtures are subject to change to accommodate live TV . . .
Saturday 17 March 2012
Celtic v Dunfermline 15:00 – This will be postponed to make way for the League Cup final on the Sunday, should Celtic overcome Falkirk
Dundee Utd v Rangers 15:00
Saturday 24 March 2012
Rangers v Celtic 15:00
Wednesday 27 March 2012
Celtic v Dunfermline – If Celtic are in League Cup Final
Saturday 31 March 2012
Celtic v St Johnstone 15:00
Motherwell v Rangers 15:00
Saturday 7 April 2012
Kilmarnock v Celtic 15:00
Rangers v St Mirren 15:00
Bang Bang Bang
Order!! Order!!
the Tax case resumes, Order.
Defendants Legal Team Ready?…..Ready
Deluded journalists Ready?……Ready
Tax Dodgers Ready?……. Eh sorry your Honour know one from Ratners is here!!!!!
Tax Dodgers..
Doesn’t the RTC resume on Wednesday 18 January?
Oh yeah, all right
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Tonight?
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Ole Hector and his team are in the Huddle this morning, apparently.
From OptaJoe on Facebook:
”93.3% – Leon Britton (93.3%) has completed a higher proportion of his passes than Xavi (93.0%) this season in league competition. Retention.
1 – Of all players to have made 1000 or more passes in 2011-12; Leon Britton has the best passing accuracy (93.3%) across the top five European Leagues. Magician.”
(Of course Swansea’s Leon Britton shouldn’t be confused with former Tory Chancellor, Leon Brittan.)
GordonJ
Or ex Celtic and gangly Thistle boss Gerry!
The Singing Detective says:
16 January, 2012 at 08:36
We were looking at him before were we not?
I wonder if, having looked at him, Neil decided that he’d be suspended for more than half of the season.
Would be a great, ever-present for the orcs then.
notparanoid_realisticCSC
bournesouprecipe says:
16 January, 2012 at 08:23
Family of cancer girl Vanessa Riddle overwhelmed as fund raised £80k in five days.
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Outstanding result so far,and I hope they raise every penny.
Too much to hope that someone on here wins the lottery and puts their 10% to good use? You never know…..
Anyway,I was gonna c&p the article on to an e-mail and send it to ALL at my work,and there are around 2000 recipients in my region.
But I decided not to bother. Waste of time.
GONNA WAIT TILL PAYDAY,THAT SHOULD DO IT………
Outside of our Euorpa League, the games where they have played first is 9-3 in their favour according to someone on twitter.
We are strong though at the minute and anomalies like this can, if used right. give our team greater confidence when we win against the odds.
Let’s not overplay it and Neil has already marked a few cards.
Árd Macha
Morning all…
For info, stocks of blood and platelets are extremely low at present.
An appeal went out on NI news last night.
Kids are actually being declined transfusions unless it is ‘essential’!!
I am going myself tonight or tommorrow night.
Wee Oscar is doing extremely well, he was out yesterday running around, playing on his bike full of beans.
Was great to see.
Fantastic news re Vanessa Riddle’s appeal!!! Hope the money is raised soon.
Knoxy
The Legend Johnny Doyle says:
16 January, 2012 at 09:20
Tell me about it, I’ve had both of my in-laws down for ten weeks and I still have three to go. The Lord is testing me.
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BlantyreKev..
Great Post..and Stats..See You Accountants..:O(
Yea l Know the Stats that’s That is Why l have been Praising Stokes..to a Lesser Extent Hooper..Sammi had great Assists as Striker funny Enough..For me He is a First Pick at the Moment for Experience and is a Team Player..I Know a Lot of People don’t Agree with that But Look at him against Der Orc..In Europe and Internationals..
btw What was Emilios Stats for POTY Last Year..It’s Not all About Stats..Did Paul Telfer not Nearly win it one Season..
Plus if Sammi Won it..And The Title of Course..THE HUNS WOULD HATE IT..They have Never Forgiven Him for Making Bazza FergusHun look like a Sh*tHouse..
Sammi for POTY Ye Ken it’s Makes Sense..
Summa ft SammiWillGetMeTheSack!!!!InTenYearsCSC
Singing detective
I agree player on question is a thug and realise you were joking
However, your comments do not reflect well on Paul67’s site or you
Normally you are spot on and feel you missed the beat there
I feel you might want to ask mod to remove post
HH
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Saturday 17 March 2012
Celtic v Dunfermline 15:00 – This will be postponed to make way for the League Cup final on the Sunday, should Celtic overcome Falkirk
Dundee Utd v Rangers 15:00
Kooool..A Crowd of Us are Going to Sydney for Paddy’s Day..
Cheers Tom you’ve Just made My Day..
BTW..Open Invite to Paddy’s Day..Me..You and Kit..The Three Muskatims..:O)..
Summa ft KoffiAnnanCSC
Knoxy2000 – great to hear the wee man is enjoying himself playing to the max – it’s the way it should be.
Morning all,
Heard on interesting discussion on Radio 5 this morning where the Education Secretary is trying to drum up support for a new Royal Yacht.
Said project to cost between £50-60 million.
Oh,the Irony…HMS Dignity…
saltires en sevilla says:
16 January, 2012 at 10:41
Singing detective
I agree player on question is a thug and realise you were joking
However, your comments do not reflect well on Paul67′s site or you
Normally you are spot on and feel you missed the beat there
I feel you might want to ask mod to remove post
HH
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I would rarely disagree with you,but in this case,I’ll make an exception.
Sometimes God or fate or referees aren’t doing their job.
If it takes a hardman to take him out,so be it,I will weep no crocodile tears.
He probably remembers the time he kicked Henrik useless,and the ref let him away with it.
Big Johann Mjallby didn’t,and he never came back for more.
I’d have the guy in a heartbeat for exactly the reason that THE SINGING DETECTIVE says.
Trust me,it doesn’t make me a bad person.
Just someone with a pathological hatred of bullies.
Kittoch-Up early,you pee the bed?
KNOXY2000
I hope for improvement or stabilisation,and I keep my fingers crossed,along with my toes and eyes,that the report you gave us the other night is the beginning of a new dawn for Oscar.
You and your better half wil no doubt be beside yourselves at the moment,as is to be expected,but the world is on your side.
I have not read back through the Blog, but I just want to develop on what Blantyre Kev says about statistics and Sammi. I think that most people would agree that Sammi had a poor season until the home Rennes game – which was the first time he was played on the left. He has also been played as a target man (still is, unfortunatley), getting more than his fair share of high balls. The way you are played and where you are played do distort the statistics. He is not a natural in the box goalscorer, nor a natural target man, but I would guess that more people are pleased with his performances in the last couple of months, since he has moved wide. He has his virtues, as BlantyreKev says.
kitalba says:
16 January, 2012 at 10:35
I could not think of a worse torture than you are suffering ;)
JD
Sammi?
Statistics?
Maybe we should get rid of the manager and replace him with a computer programme.
The #9 Enigma is very good at winning freekicks, esp when he’s playing out wide; he turns in such a way that he knows he’ll either beat the defender, or win the foul.
He is not a centre forward like J.Hartson or C.Sutton.
Is it just the papers that are trying to sell Gary Hooper?
From the quotes from the Saints manager (in the local Southampton press) he is interested. If we sell at circa £6m we better have a replacement lined up and if we have I hope it is Jordan Rhodes.
A lot of ifs buts and maybes in that story obviously.
For the record!!!!
I would like to see Gary stay.
Right guys, wee trivia question for you (pointless if it’s already appeared on here!!)
Four players have left Celtic, and went on to become European Cup winners – who are they??
HH
Giggs
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Courtesy.The Ugly Side..(Southampton)..
A Look At Saints Latest Target Gary Hooper
According to some reports Saints are about to table a six million pound bid for Gary Hooper from Celtic.
Hooper is a man who hasnt been on the radar much for Saints fans until recently, all the names mentioned in connection with joining the club have been the likes of Sharpe, Jutkiewicz and Maynard, but not a whisper about Hooper until a week or so ago, this is somewhat strange given that Hooper was signed for Scunthorpe by Nigel Adkins in 2008.
So how good is Hooper, well he joined Celtic in the summer of 2010 for a fee of £2.4 million after hitting 43 league goals in 78(4) appearances for Scunthorpe, including 20 of those in 39 appearances in the Championship in his final season at the club, so it cant be disputed that he is proven at this level, at Celtic he has had two good seasons so far with 32 league goals in 47(1) appearances.
Hooper will turn 24 in just over a weeks time so is the right sort of age with a good combination of youth and experience as you would expect, but he is small, 5ft 7 to be exact so the only question mark as to why we would sign him is that he is likely to be in the same vein as David Connolly, Tadanari Lee and indeed every other forward we have at the club bar Rickie Lambert, assuming the Lee signing goes ahead (Its certainly still not done and dusted yet for several reasons) we would be top heavy on partners for Lambert but not have a direct replacement for him should he have a spell out again. However despite being small, Hooper is physically strong and not only able to make speedy runs by playing on the shoulder of the last defender, but he is able to hold the ball up as well.
Certainly Hooper has scored for every club he has played for as he has progressed up through the leagues since his initial days at non league Grays, so apart from the inflated fee we will have to pay to get him, in many respects he could represent a better bet than some of the names we have been linked with.
The key to getting him though could be Nigel Adkins himself, he signed the player for Scunthorpe for £175 k from his parent club Southend, a little strange at the time as Hooper hadnt scored many or indeed played many games for the Essex club, but had spent a big chunk of his last six months at Roots Hall on loan to Hereford, but Adkins saw something in him and took him to his first real permanent home and turned him into a £2.4 million striker.
Hooper has played at St Mary’s before, he started the final game of the season in 2007 for Southend after being recalled from loan at Leyton Orient, playing 68 minutes before being substituted.
Summa
Apricale & BlantyreKev
Be careful what you wish for. If Gary Hooper is worth £35m, then Georgios is worth at least £50m.
People have had their fun berating Sammi, some even going so far as to put the loss of the league entirely on his shoulders (for the unforgivable crime of having his penalty saved). Now that he’s proved his worth, it’s understandable that some are nostalgic for a bit of Sammi-bashing.
After his injury at Berwick, he became an offstage figure following the introduction of Commons, and was wrongly dropped for the cup tie at Ibrox, only to come off the bench when Celtic were trailing. His ability to retain possession nullified Rangers’ extra man and played its part in the terrific passing move that led to Brown’s goal. But somehow, failure to convert a penalty (remind me again, how many players did the same thing last year?) takes precedence over 3 other games where we dropped a total of 8 points to league minnows.
Those who still ascribe to the asinine theory that he doesn’t ‘fit’ at Celtic would do well to reflect on this – after Sammi crushed the huns in January, besides the draw at Ibrox (viewed as a positive result at the time), the rest of Celtic’s dropped points came at the following venues: 2 points at Hamilton, a 0-2 defeat at Motherwell, and a 2-3 loss at Inverness.
8 points.
In those games, Mr £50m looked on from the bench.
Don’t make the same mistake again, Neil.
Kenny D
henrik
alan Mcinally?
playfusbal4dguilders
Got two of them my man, Kenny and Henrik..
HH
Giggs
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I HOPE THEY ARE NOT CROSSED IN A AGGRESSIVE MANOR..
Ally: Gers have a strong case
Rangers manager Ally McCoist admits he has his “fingers crossed” ahead of the start of the SPL club’s tax tribunal.
Last Updated: 15/01/12 at 15:47 Post Comment Scottish Premier League. Click here to bet.
McCoist: Has his fingers crossed
A first-tier tribunal is set to begin in Edinburgh on Monday over the club’s main dispute with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Rangers have been under investigation for payments made to staff in benefit trusts and the case could cost the club up to £49million.
Chairman Craig Whyte, who knowingly inherited the problem from previous majority shareholder Sir David Murray, has refused to rule out the possibility of the club going into administration and McCoist cannot hide his concern.
The Rangers manager told a number of Sunday newspapers: “The club feel they have a strong case, I would imagine HMRC feel they have a strong case.
“Craig has been informing me of the situation and, like every other Rangers supporter, I am sitting with my fingers crossed.
“Let’s make no mistake about it, we’d far rather it wasn’t there.
“I am not going to tell you everything is rosy, because it is not.”
The tribunal is scheduled to last three days but March is the likeliest time scale for an outcome.
“The most important thing from where I am sitting is resolution,” McCoist said. “We need a result so the club can move forward.”
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The Legend Johnny Doyle says:
16 January, 2012 at 11:28
Can nae be lambert he won it before he joined
Graham Souness