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 For a start, any notions of getting upper body work done are no longer valid.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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Getting ahead of myself SoRRY PAUL67
Forward to May Celtic going for treble against ??? Accies
Deidco option cheer us to treble and 4th European spot(maybe FFP)
or Accies
I think ill bring option up in car pool tomorrow
If it wisnae Advent, I’d hiv a wee single malt after tonight.
The good news just keeps coming.
GG-your a bad man:-)))))
Marrakesh Express 11:25
Yeah I remember that. Before the 5-1 game. Joe Miller said he wouldn’t have one of their players in a combined team and they tried to make out he was being biased!
HT
Tynecastle – 3-0 in a blizzard. Presley was the most tortured footballer ever that night, Henrik took him apart.
P.S. I have no time for this “Warburton is a nice guy” rubbish that is bandied about. He is a petulant bully who rambles meaninglessly about respect and disrespect. Maybe if he phoned me by mistake and we had a chat I would think differently! As this is unlikely to happen I must judge him by his public actions.
He is a sanctimonious git.
Any links from follow follow always welcome on nights like tonight
Seeing Warburton’s worried almost greeting face tonight I thought, aww….
Until I remembered, it’s allright for him; he can always get a job back in “The City”.
SB- not making any excuses for the vermin, he is in the wrong movie, and a Patsy for King ,due to the Level 5 propaganda.
If Aberdeen dont come out and have a real go at this mob,they dont deserve a top 3 place.Anyone watching that tonight,should know exactly how to beat them.
Hun Media in a state I have never witnessed before.Utter sweary bedlam.Everybody copping it.Warbs,Tavs,Holty,Crooksy,Bazza,TLhey have all been desperate to see Crooksy play.FFs,how bad was he?.
Their new heroes are now the thug Garner,and Dodoo.Uber Hun Halliday getting slaughtered.
God help any Hun player who looks in on this very sweary site.
Hilarious.
The best quotes on Hun Media are”Whats happened to us,we were looking great last year”.
They are not on the same planet,are they?.Stupid and gullible.
A very bad mix,in a very bad world,full of very bad men.
As they are finding out.
Sheep not won at Poundland on 42 games….
*in
BB
That was all before Poundland became Poundland though…
From a Twitter user, John James Longmuir
We did not liquidate for this
I’m surprised he has the thumbs to use a keyboard.
I would hardly know the difference between river banks and Gordon Banks, but I would know enough to steer clear of a toxic, criminal ridden operation like Sevco.
So, what was Warbs’ motive for turning up there?
Best Tweet I saw today was :-
Happy Christmas- Warbs is Over.
!!BADA BING!! on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 12:03 AM
Sheep not won at Poundland on 42 games….
Bada,they will never have a better chance.
Anyone know if the Hun v Sports Direct case goes ahead tomorrow.
TURKEYBHOY
James Doleman seems to be saying postponed now until March, no reason given
TTJ- Fingers crossed….HH
!!BADA BING!! on 30TH NOVEMBER 2016 11:15 PM
Warburton is a Mowbray, decent guy
*careful, mrs eat the breid is fae the black north and a spawn of theirs played for them.
BB
I have a feeling a draw, but if I was putting a bet on it would be a high number of yellow cards and at least one red
HH
TTJ,
Thanks mate.
Ah well, on Saturday, Hearts in Dingwall and the Dons in Ibrox.
I was watching Delany’s Dunky’s favourite last Saturday having a good game against Hamilton……and I’ll be there, (DV), this Saturday chèering him on again against the next best team to Celtic in this league.
Don’t get me wrong….I’m a self-confessed Dons supporter / sympathiser ….. but the Hertz seem to have a strength….you know what I mean…as a team the last 2 seasons.
Motherweĺl on Friday evening…..will the juggernaught (sp?) continue?
Sun 01st Jan 2006
league
hearts 2
Edgaras Jankauskas 06min
Steven Pressley 08min
Celtic 3
Stephen Pearson 55min
Stephen McManus 87-90mins
hearts
01 Craig Gordon
02 Robbie Neilson
03 Panagiotis Fyssas-sent off 76min
04 Steven Pressley
06 Andy Webster
08 Rudi Skacel
09 Edgaras Jankauskas
(Michel Pospisil-88min)
10 Paul Hartley
18 Deividas Cesnauskis
(Lee Wallace-77min)
26 Calum Elliot
28 Julien Brellier
Subs not used
Steve Banks
Neil MacFarlane
Jamie McAllister
Stephen Simmons
Christophe Berra
Celtic
01 Artur Boruc
02 Paul Telfer
06 Bobo Balde
08 Alan Thompson
(Aiden McGeady-63min)
10 John Hartson
18 Neil Lennon
19 Stilian Petrov
(Stephen Pearson-50min)
25 Shunsuke Nakamura
29 Shaun Maloney
33 Ross Wallace
44 Stephen McManus
Subs not used
David Marshall
Mo Camara
Adam Virgo
Du Wei
Paul Lawson
Att-17,358
ref- Iain Brines
At-Tynecastle Stadium
Edinburgh
Celtic go 7pts ahead of Hearts.
Remind me.
What is Sevco’s record this season now against last season’s SPL’s top 6?
What has made this season such a hoot has been the expectations of the deluded. Expectations created because a mole popped up just as Tom Rogic took his penalty in the shoot out last season. I didnt appreciate it at the time but that mole has helped make this season so comical. Perhaps he was descended from the mole that brought down a certain white charger….
AM
something like 1 Win (Motherwell) 3 Draws (Ross County twice and St Johnstone) and 3 defeats (Celtic, Aberdeen and Hearts)
Evening/morning all. Just heading hame from work and got invited to the bar, news coming through that the Thems were 2-0 down. Near broke my heart. Fu*k them. Oh,and I predict that before 2016 is out, the Rotten Mob will be in the bottom six. And they will stay there.
To end St Andrew’s Day on a high note:
SPFL highlights from Tynecastle.
https://youtu.be/GM-ZmW71UHI
Even Thoms Hun couldn’t help them.
December could be a long month for Sevco apologists.
Particularly their friends in the media, some of whom predicted they would win the title.
Will they be embarrassed when their favourite failures stumble and drop more points.
The UEFA Licence for the Europa will be their least concern as they struggle to remain in the top 6.
After the dropped points at Tynecastle who wants to predict their points total from the Festive season.
Well Festive for us.
Aberdeen home followed by Hearts at home, Accies away, ICT home, St Johnstone away.
Not an easy program before they face us.
15 points up for grabs.
My guess is that they will take less than 10 points and will be in complete disarray when we visit to put a final stake in their heart.
With the winter break their fans will get used to not going to games and attendances and match day revenues will plummet further and faster than Joey Barton’s popularity on Follow Follow.
So there will be no need for the UEFA license.
Can you tell I’m smiling.
Broadly. :-)))
Hearts coulda shouda scored six. The huns are pish.
THIRDS63
Friday night,
Dundee United v Hibernian Scottish Championship19:45BT Sport 2 / BT Sport 2 HD
Jimmynotpaul
3-0
http://www.celticfc.net/news/11710
Good report
Hope your well,
Frankmarker re hertz 3-2 after being 2-0 down.
I watched that game slightly hungover
in a kinlochrannoch hotel.big mc scores winner and I jump up punching air.was only tim watchin in a place full of jambo fans.hehe
HH
The 3-2 Hearts game… we were 2-0 down when a Hearts player was clean through on goal and Boruc made a brilliant save…
Frankmarker-12:45.i got my Boxing Day New Year’s Day mixed up,but it definitely was a good night,that a do remember:-))))
Good morning freinds from a dry, mild, breezy and no-very-Decemberishy East Kilbride.
Word of The Day (The gap is getting bigger)
Eloign /ɪˈlɔɪn/
verb
1. (transitive) ( archaic) to remove (oneself, one’s property, etc) to a distant place
Derived Forms
eloigner, eloiner, noun
eloignment, eloinment, noun
Word Origin
C16: from Anglo-French esloigner to go far away; related to Latin longē (adv) far
KTF
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 1ST DECEMBER 2016 7:22 AM
Love yer wording.
Mair punters words please.
Gonnae ?
MACJAY, I do try to make it relevant to current affairs!
KTF