I’ve been to a few non-Celtic games over the years and always found is striking the different reaction mid-table teams have to a defeat compared to how we react. There is simply not the expectation that every game has to be won. For most of the last 40-odd years Celtic have been nip-and-tuck with a direct opponent at the top of the league, so a single defeat can have a significant bearing on league title prospects.
Even when we were not involved in a close league race, the desire to win by an astonishing number of points provided an edge, whereas, back in the 90s, the chasm between Celtic and the top was made increasingly unbearable by each passing defeat.
This season is different. We’ve dropped 10 points in 10 games but substantial evidence exists that the team is making solid progress, a fact not disputed by the support, even as they left Celtic Park on Saturday. For most, the distress of defeat has tempered.
We’re two points ahead of three teams at the top of the league, with a game in hand, which makes this the most competitive SPL ever. The gap between second and second last is just six points, St Mirren who sit second bottom, would be level on points with joint-second St Johnstone had they won the game between these two earlier this month.
All this honest competition has resulted in a rise in average attendances for most clubs during “Armageddon”. It’s too easy to poke fun at the miscalculations of the SPL and SFA chief executives who believed the game needed a fatally flawed giant in the top flight. Instead, what it needed was genuine competition, which we have, to a degree.
Hibs, Aberdeen and St Johnstone are all two points from the top of the table while Inverness and Killie are only one win below them. Can you imagine how good a league this would be without the last remaining over-sized behemoth?
The SPL didn’t need Rangers, in fact, it is a better, more competitive league without them. The same goes for Celtic. We are not good for the league and do nothing for Aberdeen, United, Hibs or clubs who want nothing but a sporting chance in the game. Many of these clubs seem to have Stockholm Syndrome; locked into the belief that they need to be with their tormentors.
If I was writing a blog about any of these clubs I’d tell Celtic to go find themselves some fantasy football league and let the rest of the country get back to a proper sporting endeavour. They have nothing to lose but their loser labels.
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I was hoping to have a read of the record yesterday.
Took the family to the airport, and normally read it then put it back, but yesterday there was no record.
I asked the bloke in the shop why, he said that they stopped geting it in as they always had coppies left.
Seems their sales are taking a pounding on the costas as well :>)
Aye, Kj, you’ve tellt me. Thanks.
corkcelt
Their “Ladies” are tanned and exotic….ours are just tanned
Starting from now i am in full on “ignore the attention seeker” mode!!!
I suggest the rest of you follow suit!!
HH
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles
or maybe the Styx
ibleedgreenandwhite1
10:37 on 30 October, 2012
Starting from now i am in full on “ignore the attention seeker” mode!!!
I suggest the rest of you follow suit!!
HH
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Ah, I see the Grandmaster of the CQN-Clique has spoken :o)
Nobody likes me – I think I’ll go and eat worms CSC
Greenjedi said
” He should have went and signed the best players from division 1 & 2 who have experience in the lower leagues,”
You must be a joiner;)
mea culpa
1 million goals per minute? Another Sevco record, surely?
JJ
If HailHailPlc is around,
Jimmy McGrory lived in the same close as us (my family) in the Garngad. Maybe even the same house as my parents moved in after the McGrory family left. Anyone beat that for a vicarious achievement? 0:-)
JJ
Anyone else had the urge to climb a ladder and push the letter r closer to the letter n on the Silverburn Shopping Centre sign?
All newspapers are struggling, not just the tawdry Sevcophantic ones.
If only there were a really big story they could get their teeth into …
The message, not the medium, is key. There is a great gap being left in UK media for genuine reporting of genuine local issues, I would argue that this includes football. Journalists have to find a new way of making a living from covering things well, of putting the things that matter on record, of making sure corporations and city halls don’t get to impose big decisions on the people without someone facing up to them, making sure no pertinent, intelligent question is left unasked and no incomplete answer is left unquestioned.
Local newspapers used to do this.
starry plough
Yes —— Terry Callier RIP.
Travelled to Glasgow to see him at the Fruitmarket . Great . Surprisingly small audience . .
I dug out these and gave them a twirl –
7 “—– Look at me now
LP —— The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier.
LP ——- What Color is Love ..
Every home should have them . !
Terry Callier RIP
The post above which mentioned that Charles Green is desperate is bang on. As the poster points out CG is courting The Cardigan – who was/is vehemently opposed to his take over – “Green should now make way for real Rangers men” (July 2012). I also saw him on SSN last night saying that Zombie supporters could have a fans’ representative on the board if they buy shares.
He is already noted for saying whatever the fans want to hear at any given moment even if it means contradicting himself but it would seem that he is indeed panicking about the likely outcome of the share issue.
Interesting debate yesterday regarding falling numbers and whether or not season ticket holders are attending games or whether they have moved to a better seat than the one for which they hold a ticket.
I’m going to the game tonight and hoping for a good performance. I have to say that I am finding it increasingly difficult to motivate myself to attend games even though I bought a ST this season after a two year period without one. Mid-week games in particular seem to present a particular challenge unless it’s a very big game. I didn’t attend the Raith R. game in the last round though I had a ticket. I find that after m/w games I’m very tired next day. I don’t know if it’s because Scottish football is supposed to be in a slump. If all the negative publicity from the msm has taken its toll on me or I’m just fed up with the shenanigans regarding their failure to report accurately what is happening re. oldco/newco/sevco/deadco and the Scottish establishments lack of willingness to effectively deal justly with them and terminate them as they deserve.
Celtic_First
10:48 on 30 October, 2012
‘There is a great gap being left in UK media for genuine reporting of genuine local issues, I would argue that this includes football. Journalists have to find a new way of making a living from covering things’
That won’t happen so long as the rich and powerful can, directly or indirectly, blackmail, bribe and intimidate editors and journalists into doing their bidding.
Ernie
Spot on
I posted yesterday that the sad thing is we have 27/7 news outlets who you would think would be thirsting for real news but seem content to loop the same stories every 15 minutes or so.
Lazy journalism
itsabouttim
10:34 on
30 October, 2012
mucho appreciation mate,
i got all my family trying as well so i live in hope.
i’ll also be at the game tonight and hoping for better than Saturday.
jimmybhoycampbell
Ernie
Who needs editors?
Why shouldn’t citizen journalism be carried out by journalists?
Talented, trained people who have the ability to crystallise and communicate difficult documents and ideas to wide audiences exist in all communities. They can set up their own Huffington Post any time they like. You don’t even need a graphic designer to help you. You just write into a template. All they lack is access. At the moment, it’s still hard for them to be taken seriously enough by corporate PR people and, especially, the representatives at local level of the democratic process.
Never mind the whereabouts of the Kings Evil crusties- whatever happened to the Ticketus money ?.
The number of people receiving [allegedly] SEVCO hospitality is amazing
Waiting for Hector has felt like waiting for Godot —– but soon come ..
The tax dodging will be one thing but I very much hope there will be material relating to where Minty got all that money and where it went to .
Buzz Buzz .
Minty’s Laundrette CSC — Way down south Low 20s — nice !
South Of Tunis
I haven’t got look at me now, What Colour is Love is a very beautiful record, I saw him back in London, I guess ’97 when he was recording with Beth Orton, he had a magic about him alright, Gilles Peterson brought him to my attention I had never heard of him before he started dropping his tracks, a beautiful soul has left us indeed..
Celtic_First
That’s the staggering thing about the MSM decision making in all of this. This is the biggest story to hit Scotland in my lifetime.
The amount of interest in this story is staggering.
If one newspaper were to investigate and report this story as they all should have, they’d make an absolute fortune.
Even some of the Sevconians, the ones with more than one neurone that is, would buy a copy.
Stupid, stupid MSM.
Stupid, stupid huns.
Oops, repeating myself there!
Does anybody know what the outcome was with the young guy who got drunk & got himself arrested in Barcelona ?
His aunt was appealing for help on the site.
Hopefully it sorted itself out.
Hope Efe scores again tonight – looking forward to his celebration!
HH!!
Jimmy McGrory married a Green (Greens Playhouse) I used to go there, thats as close as I get
Celtic_First
11:00 on 30 October, 2012
Proper investigative journalism is very expensive and highly speculative (ie you can work away for weeks on a story for it to come to nothing).
I just can’t see a business model that will work.
This is about the best we can hope for.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/who-we-are/
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
Mea Culpa
You are correct, and in this instance you can see that Ernie is also correct. The MSM have been corrupted by Minty and the Handshakes and by corporate bean-counters for whom demographic won the day.
Ernie
It doesn’t have to be expensive, not at local level. The business model would need to be cheap. It would be a one-man or one-woman band. Money would need to come from advertising. You would need to know to say no to any advertisers who wanted to compromise your integrity.
What’s going on unchallenged in City Hall can be challenged but for it to have any impact, the challenge needs to come from people who know what they are doing. If it turns into a crusty old fogey having a rant (no harm to them), it serves no real purpose.
Larky Celt
A tad tenuous but,even so, you are currently in second place 0:-)
I used to deliver milk to Billy McNiell’s next door neighbour
fourgreenfields
10:13 on 30 October, 2012
proudbhoy
Watched the Sligo v Shamrock Rovers game on Saturday ,he looked a good player .
Knew he was leaving but didnt know it was Portadown he was joining.
Very good player at that level in the eircom league. Irish league is alot worse so i expect him to score even more provided he is giving the service.
Stevie Chalmers lives in Troon – I have a house there and when I am back I often see him out for a stroll!
HH!!
Good to see fanzone in place in glasgow..hopefully huns stay away.
Read aswel theres good concert taking place after game , the wakes are playing for anyone who likes them. Great live band
also delivered milk in Big Jock’s street
In other news,as a Christmas stocking filler for Sevco fans, John Brown has released a double A side single (remember them?) of his version of past hits….starting with his version of an old Tony Christie double….”Is this the way to Armageddon?” and in tribute to McCoists recent rant…”He’ll be avenue its Allys Way”
He’s looking for suggestions of other songs, enough to fill an LP. (Remember them as well?)
Thanks to bournesouprecipe for sendin’ me classic Wishbone Ash featuring the Turner/Powell/Turner/Upton line -up.
A bass solo! A drum solo!
THe next time the MSM bang on about internet bampottery I shall prefer to dwell on bsr’s internet FlyingVFraternity.
When ‘Caesar’ retired in 1975 he spent the summer in Troon with his family.
At that time my parents had a café there and they would come in often!
A gentleman with absolutely no airs and graces!
Hail Caesar!!
HH!!
All the stuff from sevco, like “no one will take our titles away” and “we will fight tooth and nail to keep our titles” etc. Is this feasible? Can they really object to titles being taken away, and refuse to comply? Do they simply not change their record books or something? How is this going to be enforced, and who is going to police it? If they have cheated surely the damage is not limited to just a football trophy. What about the damage to other teams, I would say they would be the real victims.
I see rangerstaxcase is ripping the DR a new one on Twitter. lol!