Of course, it happened in our ’67 anniversary season. Celtic were drawn away to Albion Rovers in the Scottish Cup, as the Rovers dumped Queen of the South out of the competition last night. The tiny Lanarkshire club (arguably the smallest in Scotland) don’t have an illustrious history, but Jock Stein played more games for them than any other team. In Coatbridge, that counts.
I’m sure it makes sense for Kieran Tierney to have a shoulder operation while he’s out with an ankle injury but it’s very unwelcome news that the player needed the work. Despite upbeat reports I’m sceptical the op will not further delay his return. For a start, any notions of getting upper body work done are no longer valid.
Uniquely in European football, Celtic’s season is skewed to the start, not to when the prizes are given out at the end, which have become a meritocratic formality. With no European football after Christmas this season, the remainder of the campaign will be about getting ready for July and August, when the really important stuff takes place.
Kieran will miss three Champions League group stage games in total, last Sunday’s cup final and some atmospheric games to come; this will be the source of some regret to the teenager. In compensation he can look forward to picking up a league winner’s medal at the end of the season, and hopefully being in top condition for the qualifiers.
To be fair to Robbie Neilson, even when he was a success at Hearts he wasn’t overwhelmingly appreciated. This season it looks like the party’s over, so I understand why he would take a job at MK Dons which, on the face of it, looks like a dangerous step.
Dons are two points above relegation (to the fourth tier), without a league win in two months. The club has serious structural issues which any new manager would find difficult to compensate for with little more than a few fresh tactical notions. But at least Neilson can’t be blamed for relegation, should it happen.
He’s next year’s Jackie McNamara.
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Hearts Fans never my favourite bunch but hats off to them
“Walking away is the Rangers way”
Whatever version of Rangers they love a walk and don’t like paying their bills :-)
Back to the jungle (celebrity not Kev’s)
GREENBINGLEYINOSLO
Stop mucking about and say what you mean. Go for it!
Another defeat for Sevco by the best of the rest on Saturday would add to this evening`s happiness.
Goodnight all.
J J
Sevco players arguing among themselves throughout.
Top to bottom the whole Sevco thing is grubby and dysfunctional.
It’s also incredibly funny.
The refs must be raging – they are playing an absolute blinder for them and their team mates on the blue jerseys are firing blanks.
Roon thum
Coisty coming back totally explains his decision not to vote on Res 11 – can’t afford to get on the wrong side of Mike Ashley when Glibby chucks it.
Lampard to Sevco. It’s on.
Just caught the last ten minutes of the Diet Hun v Sevco, I love watching Sevco, very entertaining stuff.
How Craig must have hurt as he blew the final whistle, when he realised there was nothing he could have done:-)
Joy to the world.
They can’t score against half decent defences, their defence is poor.
They need a new coach and a new team
Aberdeen and hearts next for the newco?
Ouch
Poor quality game but……I enjoyed it!
Ok
I’ll spell it out
Sevco goals – For 19–16 Against
Right Roon Thum!!! Dobs
Quote of the night on Vip chat”I shouldnt laugh to much at the huns,I wis shite as well when I wis four”
HH
Sevco still have a plus goal difference (just). Not sure about 55 points, but they’ll definitely be struggling to get 55 goals this season. 19 from 15 games.
HT -9:30pm,hear hear :-)
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With all their money problems I wonder if Sevco will be tempted to sell Craig Thomson in January.
Green Bingley
Good stuff, I would put ditto against all of that apart from working in Edinburgh for 20 years.
My lhads favourite away game ever was the New Years Day humping of them. That includes a beach ball Sunday in the mix. I can tell more stories about that great start to the year.
Enjoy
Hearts weren’t great but they have three or four good players who clearly make them better than most others in the SPL.
I think they’ll improve as the season goes on. Hard to call between them and the sheep for 2nd but I’d put my money on hearts as runners up, Aberdeen 3rd.
‘GG – heeheehee
1916 heeheehee
I thought they were supposed to be better without Barton?
Well, I met love by the Gasyard wall
Some posters on here predicting we will have a 20 point lead over Sevco by Christmas/ end of December. Well we’re 8 ahead with 3 games in hand which IF we win (and I say it advisedly) will give us a 17 point lead. I’m sure they’ll drop 3 or 4 against the Dons and Hertz in their next two games and we could do them a mischief on Hogmanay. A 20 point gap is beginning to look like a conservative estimate.
GreenBingley
I’m with you. I loathe Hearts as much as the monkeys.
No Sutton ?
Did I actually just hear one of the pundits saying that the reason why Hearts weren’t given a penalty might have been because of the way the player fell down…. :0
Waffling Warbo.
…and now Warburton saying that the offside goal is a bad decision because of the time it took the linesman to flag it…
This is priceless stuff
Warbo might find the ‘City’ easier to understand.
Having world class breakfasts makes atrocious footballers
That’s the first time I’ve watched Sevco since we pumped them.
Truly awful and their best man on the park was Craig HUN Thomson.
Stone wall penalty even Butcher says Mr Thomson must be feeling sorry for Sevco, eh naw Terry, Thomson is just a hun with a whistle.
How bad is that wee prick Halliday?
SOZ
No mention of getting the decision right then :-)
HH
The hun ref. syndrome.
The difference today is the fact that, for the first time , we have a commentator prepared to point out the errors.
Chris Sutton.
Chris is not prepared to state the fact that the vast majority of his mistakes favour Rangers.
That`s understandable. More than his job`s worth.
He does , however , suggest everything but.
GFTB-I don’t like hearts one bit, will always remember beating them in the centenary yr in the semi at hamdump:-)))))
Lhads, let’s not get too excited. The Scottish Football Referees Association have a war chest ready to put in place for the January window.
McCurry, Dallas, Dougal and the likes are ready to swing into action. The telephone lines in Lanarkshire are here humming as we speak.
GIRUT
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‘GG on 30TH NOVEMBER 2016 9:49 PM
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With all their money problems I wonder if Sevco will be tempted to sell Craig Thomson in January.
Hahahahaha
Ha
Ha
Michael Stewart a breath of fresh air the way he rips into Warburton.
Michael Stewart fairly dismantled Warbiola’s summing up of the match