I’ve been meaning to speak to you about this for a while; thought I would wait until the new season, see if anything changed, maybe we could avoid having the chat.
There are different ways of watching football games. There’s the way we watch World Cup games, as unpartisan observers, which is completely different to the way we watch Celtic games. If I’m watching a game in the English lower leagues with a one-time Celtic target, I’ll watch him closely, usually paying scant regard to anyone else. The same is true if I’m watching the likes of Wigan with Sean Maloney.
When I watch a game before writing a match report I often get a different perspective. The game flows in the normal manner but I then have to look at my notes and compose a report. It’s the notes that are often unexpected, they tell a story of incidents, not of what is essentially a pursuit which flows for 90 minutes. For Celtic, the incidents overwhelmingly, often as much as 80% of the time, involve one player.
He’s not the quickest, the most industrious, or the strongest, but Kris Commons makes things happen at a level no one else at Celtic comes close to. The evidence screams out at me every time I check my notes.
I’m sure Celtic will recognise this with a new contract but there’s reason to worry about this now. What if he’s injured, what if opponents figure out they better stop supply to him, what if his form shades, as it did two years ago?
I like the look of the squad. Lustig, Matthews, Izaguirre, Ambrose, Brown, Mulgrew, Johansen, Forrest, Biton, Stokes, Griffiths, Forster and van Dijk offer consistent standards of performance, most look comfortable in Champions League football, but the dependence on one creative talent feels like an unnecessary vulnerability.
As I said, football is not an incident-dependent sport, like golf, it is a flowing pursuit which requires industry, concentration and strategy, without which, the creatives would end up playing lower league football. But to win games, you need someone to invoke six of seven incidents more cunning than Tiger Woods at a cocktail bar*.
*Kris Commons behaviour at cocktail bars is impeccable, he is capable of on-field cunning only.
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parkheadcumsalford
Do you have a non fruit based smartphone?
HH
Good morning from a sunny and going up to 30 deg. Marbella, suited and booted for a wedding at 4 pm today, collar and tie too, I’ll give the tie the time off the ceremony I think and then it’s offski ;)
Good Morning CQN
DD
Neighbour from down the hill
Have a great time in Benidorm love the place
Daughter carries the baton through Duntocher to-morrow first thing in the morning
Will have time to go and see her then a mad dash to airport to catch flight to Florida
Will be watching return leg on Tuesday in the Lucky Leprechaun Orlando
I have been there a few times but never on a match day
Looking forward to that with some of the local lads
Got loads of old Match day programmes for them
Keep the faith
Hail Hail
MT
goldstar10 @ 8.22
Nice feature on the lad in the scotsman this morning.
HH jamesgang
TD
You telling us in a quiet, roundabout way that you’re the kissogram for this gig?!?!
Mind you can/should keep your CQN speedos ON!
FullMontyCSC
HH jamesgang
lymmbhoy,
Thanks for the reply; so, I’ve been out for a wee while. I don’t think I have any kind of smart phone. My mobile is a Samsung Galaxy Fame, if that’s any help.
so=sorry.
Thai Tims @thaitims · 3h
Well done to all involved
Today we received an amazing donation of £7,400. A huge thanks to the Blantyre Boys Club & friends of Reamonn Gormley pic.twitter.com/Mi80gOM2XI
https://twitter.com/thaitims/status/489644959918604289/photo/1
MT
My neighbour fae up the hill.
Thank you bud.
You must be very proud of your daughter. Quite an honour!
Have a ball in Orlando.
Bon voyage.
HH
I know that a lot of folk were somewhat, underwhelmed by the Celtic
the other night but, I can feel that this season is going to be along the
same lines as the Wim season.
I know that there will be no huns to negotiate in the same way that Wim
had to deal with, the mibbery backed huns as well also being, backed by
the bank that liked to say yes, Wim was written off after the domestic defeats
away to Hibs and, at home to Dunfermline. I don’t know a lot about Ronny yet
but, I do know that Johnny Collins is one cute guy. Watch this space…..
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/scottish-government-ban-all-sectarian-marches-in-scotland
Sign on the dotted line !
‘To hear these options again please press…………………….arrrggh
GTF CSC
murdochbhoy
06:44 on
17 July, 201
There have been some very very odd pieces of legislation whipped through Parliament recently.
The DRIP legislation is a disgrace ( Paul Lewis of the BBC who has a very interesting personal blog on all sorts of issues has been highlighting it ).
Further, there has been a very strange and sudden decision to quietly pass legislation to ensure that all papers, correspondence and information concerning currently living members of the British Monarchy shall not be made available for public scrutiny for 75 years — exactly the same period of time the papers regarding the Guildford four will be kept “hidden” for reasons one can only speculate about.
Further, there is a suggestion that the legislation surrounding the application of the European Convention of Human Rights should be introduced in this parliament.
The purpose of the proposed amendment to the law is that the ultimate application of the convention and its effect should be determined by Parliament rather then the European Court.
Given that there are serious questions to be asked about the use of Parliamentary position by legal officers in the past, and that independent judicial inquiries in the past have found that the DPP, The Attorney General’s office and other people connected to parliament have suppressed evidence and mislead the British courts in the past, I would argue that the last body on earth who should get the final say on anyone’s human rights is the British Parliament.
Such a proposal also makes a mockery of the whole idea of the convention which was designed to ensure and regulate human rights and bind all governments to sign up to a single code. If one Government is allowed to self arbitrate on when the convention will and will not apply to its actions — what was the point?
TD67
I take it your troops have been drying oot all week in preparation for the big day?
Edinburgh trades fortnight is over and the kids are bored already.
http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/142481-celtic-at-murrayfield/
LB
“I like the look of the squad. Lustig, Matthews, Izaguirre, Ambrose, Brown, Mulgrew, Johansen, Forrest, Biton, Stokes, Griffiths, Forster and van Dijk offer consistent standards of performance, most look comfortable in Champions League football…”
Paul- gotta take issue with that rosy assessment. Ambrose, Johansen, Forrest, Biton, Stokes and Griffiths all have not demonstrated comfort at CL level. By comfort I mean consistent quality performances. Forrest- odd flash of quality, but generally poor, Johansen and Biton- might ultimately do ok but haven’t demonstrated anything just yet. Efe- too scary, Stokes and Griffiths- not CL quality. Well below Hooper standard
Paul
Do like this item, well done. My bias is obvious but you are smack on the money re a creative, thinking midfielder. Lubo springs to mind, but how many Lubos do we come across in one lifetime I wonder. I would hope that somewhere in our youth system there are a couple of creative players surely and if not, why not.
I am aware of Marc Crosas and all his perceived weaknesses but I rated the guy and he really got Celtic.
KINGLuBO
Brogan, I have just read youe excellent piece on the miscarriages of Justice.
It shows you how much the Establishment’s self-preservation and we can’t be questioned attitude was prevalent.
Thank you for all the research and writing about what ordinary people are up against when trying to obtain proper justice not justice Establishment style.
I’m sure our own polis head honchos and some members of the Scottish government won’t be reading it somehow .
T1 16 SWE -3 KARLSSON, Robert -3
T1 13 USA -3 KOEPKA, Brooks -3
T1 7 ESP -3 GARCIA, Sergio -3
T4 14 AUS -2 LEISHMAN, Marc -2
T4 13 USA -2 MARTIN, Ben -2
T4 13 ITA -2 MOLINARI, Edoardo -2
T4 11 RSA -2 GRACE, Branden -2
T4 10 USA -2 MOORE, Ryan -2
T4 7 USA -2 FOWLER, Rickie -2
T4 4 KOR -2 CHOI, KJ -2
T4 4 USA -2 SPIETH, Jordan -2
T12 14 USA -1 COMPTON, Erik -1
T12 12 ENG -1 CHESTERS, Ashley (A) -1
T12 11 USA -1 CURTIS, Ben -1
T12 10 ITA -1 MOLINARI, Francesco -1
T12 9 ITA -1 MANASSERO, Matteo -1
T12 9 FIN -1 ILONEN, Mikko -1
T12 9 DEN -1 BJORN, Thomas -1
T12 7 USA -1 FURYK, Jim -1
T12 4 NIR -1 MCILROY, Rory -1
T12 4 JPN -1 MATSUYAMA, Hideki -1
T12 3 USA -1 JOHNSON, Dustin -1
T12 2 RSA -1 OOSTHUIZEN, Louis -1
goodbye Johnny …..
http://youtu.be/zGEUFq7jYGI
http://youtu.be/wQPlU5q1CBI
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
10:22 on 17 July, 2014
My fear is that they – or their security lackeys – do read it. And CQN? Who knows?
And I’m far from the paranoid type.
HH jamesgang
Rickie Bobby(Fowler) for me in the open
Cant do any worse than my recent world cup bets.
parkheadcumsalford
Sorry was out at my 2 bhoys training.
Possibly could be your phone.
Here’s the spec
TECHNOLOGY
GSM:
850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
UMTS:
900, 2100 MHz
Data:
HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s, HSUPA 5.76 Mbit/s, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS
Positioning:
GPS, A-GPS, Glonass
Navigation:
Yes
HH
KINGLUBO
Crosas could not have laced Lubos boots. Never bought into the hype about him and he is not the type of player Ronny Deila is looking for. In fact, Deila was bemoaning the number of sideways passes in the first half against Reykjavik the other night – sideways passes is about all that Crosas is good for.
HH
https://www.eticketing.co.uk/celtic/details/event.aspx?itemref=6655
Looks like Murrayfield is set to be a sell out.
LB
BRT&H
Stunning article,mate.
It always amazes me that the perpetrators of such cover-ups have,over the years,left behind evidence which comes back to haunt them.
Arrogance,stupidity,mixture of both? I dunno.
I look forward to reading about Oscar ‘Slater’
Morning all.
BMCUW
Oscar Slater indeed.
What about Patrick Connolly Meehan?
Or Paddy to his pals.
Say hi to yer dad.
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
Will do,mate.
As soon as he pokes his head from under my Mum’s thumb.
Saturday may have gone a bit too well!
Livibhoy,
I think that is only the bottom tier and will be including all tickets issued.
That said….fair crowd if awbdy turns up.
Jamesgang- thanks for the heads up, jeez he’s 37 now, makes me feel really old!
LiviBhoy
Only my opinion, I think they are selling tickets in the area that the tv cameras cover first.. Then, if demand is there, they will release other areas of the stadium por cierto
Yes the smoke and mirror statement released by Cameron about “terrorists” was to distract attention from the 75yr royal family rule. There has been suggestions that some members of this institution have been party to child abuse and, of course, this cannot be public knowledge por cierto.
My cynical side ( is there another one?) senses exploitational marketing.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28336823
Great player,Sandy Jardine.
He and Kenny did an advertising double act.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
10:46 on
17 July, 2014
BRT&H
Stunning article,mate.
It always amazes me that the perpetrators of such cover-ups have,over the years,left behind evidence which comes back to haunt them.
Arrogance,stupidity,mixture of both? I dunno.
No it’s because the Truth NEVER changes por cierto.
For seem reason this blog seems to have it in for Scottish golfer Mark Warren.
I vaguely remember it may be due to his avowed hunnish sympathies
However nobody seems to bother with the South Korean player who is the final player to tee off today, despite the fact that he appears to be quite open about his allegiances
He tees off at 16:06
His name is AN, BYEONG-HUN
Strange Times
The Onlooker
Wastedwalk CSC
Por Cierto
As far as I was aware the game wasn’t on live TV.
LB
Por Cierto
UEFA Champions League
Tue, July 22 2014
Kick-off 19:45
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
This is a Season Ticket match. Season Ticket holders will automatically be sent a ticket for this match.
Tickets are now on general sale. Adults tickets are priced £20, concessions £10 and Under 13 £5
Tickets can be purchased online, by calling 0871 226 1888* or by visiting the Celtic Ticket Office.
Tickets are also available from the following outlets in Edinburgh:-
SRU Ticket Office, BT Murrayfield Stadium. Booking fees apply.
The Hub, Castlehill, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE
Tickets can be purchased from the following Celtic retail outlets:-
Argyle Street
Sauchiehall Street
Coatbridge
East Kilbride
Clydebank
Tickets can be bought at all the Celtic shops except the one nearest Edinburgh – Livingston.
Crazy stuff.
LB