It’s great news that Celtic have secured three first choice players, Charlie Mulgrew, Adam Matthews and James Forrest, on new long term contracts. It allows the players to forget about long-term career issues and concentrate on team matters and the manager and scouts can worry about squad recruitment efforts in other areas.
This news is a direct consequence of Champions League group stage qualification. Not only do Celtic have funds to increase wage budget, more importantly, aspirational football players, who want to reach the very top of the game, have a reason to be here.
The same is true of Fraser Forster’s England call up. Scottish football has long been regarded along the lines of lower division football in England, but with Champions League football, the English national team have endorsed our football. It will be easier to attract the next wave of recruits as a result. One day Kris Commons [stand out Player of the Year candidate]can only hope his own national team will regard his productive displays in the same manner.
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And if talking about attendances is just a bit too Hunny.
Jim Spence@bbcjimspence
With just 4 points between 1st and 8th placed Hibs and Inverness is this shaping up to be the best SPL season ever. ?
Morning folks
I think we will see Joe Ledley get game time today and that we will see some Tony Watt/Miku/Lassad run outs later in the game possibly.
thomthethim
As Corporal Jones used to say… They don’t like it up ’em.
Rumours on News Now (Celtic) – various sources – that Manyoo are lining up a £10,000,000 for Big Vic. Long term contract for the big man methinks. Over to you Mr Lawell. Get it done!!!!!
Ahhh – the sun is shining, the huns are still entertaining us, I got my Glastonbury tickets, Celtic are doing fab and I am off to see them soon and I’ve got an Ultravox gig to go to tonight.
Happy days…..
thomthethim
After a bit of thought it hit me that both statements are true. We will be one of the teams whose domestic crowd has fallen and by so much that it would wipe out the gains of every other team in the League. So all you part timers out there come to a game. I would hope for a big crowd today but I can’t see it being a sell out.
silver city,
The Sunday fixtures and early kick offs have an effect on our attendances.
A large percentage of our support travel from great distances and it is not always viable ,time and money wise to attend regularly.
Add in the recession and you have your reasons why not as many are going.
Philbhoy. If your on…
Polis with speed camera waiting outside your scheme….
Take care.
Paddy T
Goram is a shit stain – nothing more, nothing less.
Kilbowie Kelt
Happy Birthday.
Bet of the day, Mikael Lustig anytime scorer 8/1.
Oldtim calling someone auld yin is comedy gold!
Many happy returns KK, hope we get a good result against the Minis to add to your celebrations.
HH
TTTT
rothbhoy
The same sources said Man Utd were lining up bids for yada yada yada
The Live Updates article will be up at 12:15, could someone leave a note here?
Thanks.
Help please
In work arguing with hun,
Can anyone give me the size of stirling albions park in comparison to lbrokes
bournesouprecipe
11:04 on
7 October, 2012
rothbhoy
The same sources said Man Utd were lining up bids for yada yada yada
Yada yada yada,,,,sounds about right to me :)
HH
Silver City
I had a look at attendances comparing the first 4 home gates for each of the 10 with last years ( I took out all Celtic, Zombies and derby games, which means some only have 3 games ).
The following is the outcome:
2011/12 2012/13
Aberdeen 33.9K 43.5K
D/Utd 19.3K 20.7K
Hibs 35.3K 39.3K
Hearts 39.6K 36.9K
ICT 11.0K 10.5K
M/well 14.2K 13.0K
St Johnstone 10.8K 13.0K
St Mirren 13.9K 13.4K
Kilmarnock 18.4K 20.7K
All figures based on BBC records.
So their you have an overall increase of just under 7% compared to last year.
As the great Jim Royal would say ” Armageddon my Hin-end”
Funniest and most breathtaking comment regarding Sevco yesterday came from Gordon Dalziel.
He was becoming increasingly iritated as the match wore on and it was still 1 nil to Stirlin Albion (as he called them). His imagery of what Ally McCoist should be telling his team wore darker undertones each time he spoke about it.
Then with about 6 mins left he said ‘Ally should take a baseball bat in to that dressing room’… then within the same breath realised this may be a tad forceful and said ‘ or a hairdryer or something’ .
Please don’t sack Ally MCoist
Cos if you sack Ally McCoist
We’ll have nothing to laugh about.
Then at one point Dalziel was extolling the virtues of the Souness appraoch and how he told his expensively assembled superstars to win the battle then win the game. He recounted Sounesses first match in charge were he told his players they had to put their stamp on the game first then play the football. Delahunt quickly recalled that Souness assaulted George McCluskey leaving him with a gaping wound in his shin. I think Mr Dalziel the Motherwell supporter would advocate such an approach in the 3rd division.
Sorry about that, the spacing appears to have disappeared.
gordybhoy64
110×74 Stirling Heroes
115×75 Sevco
(yds)
Sevco have been known to narrow it for tricky Ramsden Cup ties:))
ibleed
And it was Arsenal that were buying Victor before the last window closed yada yada yada.
We got it with Izzaguirre before he’d kicked a ball for Celtic, and Kayal has been linked eslewhere to suit their agenda.
One more good game and it’ll somebody, anybody, please let it happen “preparing a bid for Efe Ambrose”
Goram? My old mate fom Kerry used to say “you can’t educate pork”! Very apt.
Think I’ll need my shades up in 408 today. The future’s bright….
T4
tractorbhoy
You must embrace the world of dots.
Too many journey men and weans at the Huns
They will win at ibrox ..big pitch, home advantage etc …they will continue to struggle away from home
The huns keep saying that everybody kicking them when they’re down but from where I’m standing it looks like they’ve already doused themselves in petrol and lit the match.
Hh
Mullet – Cos if you sack McCoist, My pants won’t be so moist….
No?
T4
Off out to the game on a lovely sunny day.
My thanks for all the good wishes I have received.
It should teach me to not let the Devil’s Buttermilk loosen my silly tongue.
:¬))))
oldtim/Che – gone for Spirit Quartz in the L’Abbaye and Masterstroke in the Arc.
Tally Ho
T4
Mullet and co
The laugh is Souness got sent off for that (while sleekit McMoist actually threw a punch in the resulting melee in the days before compliance officers) showing of how to win the game and Hibs went on to win the match 2-1.
These guys are tactical geniuses.
Anyone wonder why Dalziel isn’t a manager any more?
Roy croppie
Thanks for that,guess the huns 12 yards shorter claim is wrong then
Wow,great article from Tom English,not sure if he was even reporting on Scottish Football when the incident occurred .
Mullet and Co
i could be wrong but i swear at one point on Snyde yesterday DLLLLL the Motherwell fan( dont laugh lol ) was constantly saying ” we” when referring to Sevco,,,,oops someone’s mask has slipped me thinks lol lol,,
HH
Off to Paradise in the splendid sunshine, surrounded by speckled Southside Glaswegian greenery, and hidden subjugated Sevconians.
Mon the Retro Kits CSC
As I mentioned yesterday, had it been us in the 3rd division, yesterday’s result would have been all over the BBC, site probably on the main news page.
If you were an English fan and went on the football page for a 5 minute run thru the news, you wouldn’t notice that the huns lost.
However, the shame of it would force us to redouble our efforts, with them they just go further into denial.
sipsini
No offence was taken, I took your posts the way they were intended.
If my posts did not reflect this it was unintentional.
Just back from shops and I would swear the air I was breathing
was fresher and sweeter than ever.
Come on the TIC
Hail Hail
Gordon Dalziel…..every reason why SSB should be avoided …fool and a Hun with it
He wouldn’t get media work in any other country but this
The Sevco result did not affect my mood at all yesterday.
It really is hard to care. I have no interest in Third Division football and never will do.
Morning all. Lovely day for a game, going by North Ayrshire. trouble is I can never manage to Parkhead on a Sunday before about 2.30. So, can’t make it. Won’t say any more as I’ve ranted about this more than once.
Let’s show the SPL what we can really do and score that longed for 5-0 victory.
Enjoyed English’s article but I doubt if anything will change until we are rid of the Ogilvies, who control the game in Scotland. Here’s hoping they end up in the gile for their corruption.