One man’s cloud

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Adam Matthews has been on top form this season, his pace and partnership with Mikael Lustig have been unfailing for Celtic, so Neil Lennon will clearly feel robbed at a top players injury-enforced absence for three months.

It could be worse.

An injury to Forster, Ambrose, van Dijk or Izaguirre would be difficult to accommodate but we are not short of right side-midfield options.  James Forrest is now back from injury and although Derk Boerrigter joined as a left-sided player, he has already featured on the right for Celtic.  If Boerrigter plays on the left Samaras, Commons and Stokes can all feature on the right.

One man’s cloud is another’s silver lining, just ask Beram Kayal, who kept Victor Wanyama on the bench until he was injured in December 2011.  Victor got the run in the team he needed and never looked back.

Signing van Dijk was a response to an unexpected transfer request/not in the right frame of mind to pull a jersey on statement from Kelvin Wilson, but the major planned summer activity was to inject pace into the team for Champions League games, specifically through Boerrigter and Pukki.  For various reasons we’re not there yet, maybe Ajax at home later this month will change that.

Blown away by the 1254125 donations, which have flooded in since Friday. Each donor, from those who donated £5 to the several who gave £125 (like it!) are a credit to the spirit of those whose footsteps you walk in.  Promise to stop pestering with a link to the page.  Soon.

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  1. TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox on

    Frie

     

     

    Is south nitshill the scheme on top of the hill… opposite the nia roo

  2. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Jobo Baldie

     

    07:04 on

     

    9 October, 2013

     

     

    :-)

     

    I was thinking of John Lennon`s plea.

     

    As in ” Help “.

  3. tbj

     

     

    Not sure what “nie roo” means, but South Nitshill was up the top of a hill. Oh, just got it: Neilston Road – doh!

  4. Morning,

     

     

    you can’t sit on the board of directors and tell people:

     

    ‘We can’t afford to do this.’ Walter Smith

     

     

    They knew what they were doing making him chairman. lol!

  5. West Wales Celt on

    Setting:

     

    More power to your keyboard.

     

    This blog would be in danger of becoming the voice of the Woodrow Wyatt cliche were it not for the likes of your good self…

  6. Morning bhoys and ghirls. Just popped in to say hi to everyone and winning captains :)

     

     

    Ching! Ching, Cheerio!

  7. TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox on

    Frie

     

    The ” nia roo” is the pub on the road from nitshill train station to darnley… I lived in darnley for a year .. 1981 .

     

     

    Used to get the bus to penilee … it went up the hill into what I thought was south nitshill .

  8. tbj

     

     

    Sorry, not pub time for me then! I lived in Busby and used to visit my Uncle in South Nitshill frequently

     

    You are almost certainly correct as the memory is a bit hazy after 44 years. HH

  9. Morning all, cloudy but still mild in the Chilterns…

     

     

    ASonOfDan @ 07:38,

     

     

    “you can’t sit on the board of directors and tell people ‘We can’t afford to do this.’ Walter Smith

     

     

    They knew what they were doing making him chairman. lol!”

     

     

    Quite, what was his job again…

     

     

    Liked this one also…

     

     

    “I knew they would make a loss but I wasn’t quite sure just exactly what it would be so that was quite a surprise when it came out to be such a large figure,” said Smith……

     

     

    The accounts were till June, he stepped down In August.

     

     

    BTW Who are they? The cats mother…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  10. Morning all. Dark, very wet, wild, windy and freezing down here.

     

     

    Are things coming to a head once again down Govan way. Their ole erstwhile saviour, the Gardigan, has raised his head again. Shurely not good news? Indeed, apart from spin from Jack Irvine’s cohorts, can there be good news emanating from that cess pit?

  11. 16 roads - Wee Oscar the Celtic warrior. on

    That prophet Muhammad fella seemed to be a thoroughly decent chap.

     

     

    I now understand why Islam is sometimes known as the religion of peace.

     

     

    Have a nice day.

  12. Morning all from a dreich,overcast gay Paris.

     

     

    “Rankers 1872 are deed – a cold fact.”

     

     

    Ah, I feel better now.

  13. Friesdorfer –

     

     

    I broke my collarbone (clavicle) in 1983 after I crashed my motorbike in North London. You’re right. It was very painful indeed.

     

     

    Interestingly, I recently had a bone scan. Afterwards, the doctor asked me if I had ever damaged my shoulder. I told him about breaking my collarbone 30 years ago. Apparently it showed up as a white shadow on the scan which denoted bone tissue that was younger than the surrounding bones.

     

     

    You can’t hide anything these days eh?

     

     

    :-)

  14. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    Good Morning All,

     

     

    I have a meeting today with our own Blantyre Kev which got me to thinking that I cannot see him on Winning Captain’s list.

     

     

    Come to think of it, unless I am mistaken I do not see Taggsybhoy there either, nor Johnnybhoy ( legendary carpet man, golf results announcer and relation of the great Patsy Gallagher ).

     

     

    And……. is Paddybhoy88 on there …… purveyor of T shirts, Golf player extraordinaire and relative of the utterly unfantasic and well known dimwit Brogan Rogan something or other???

  15. Tom McLaughlin

     

    08:16 on

     

    9 October, 2013

     

    Friesdorfer –

     

     

    I broke my collarbone (clavicle) in 1983 after I crashed my motorbike in North London. You’re right. It was very painful indeed.

     

     

    Interestingly, I recently had a bone scan. Afterwards, the doctor asked me if I had ever damaged my shoulder. I told him about breaking my collarbone 30 years ago. Apparently it showed up as a white shadow on the scan which denoted bone tissue that was younger than the surrounding bones.

     

     

    You can’t hide anything these days eh?

     

    ………………………………………………………………………

     

     

    broke mine in a car crash 1997, absolute agony!!

     

     

    bone was never set properly and resembles an X. Really knackered the golf swing!!

     

     

    HH

  16. Nuclear Bovril and a Half Munched Pie - Support Wee Oscar on

    winning captains 22:14 on 8 October, 2013

     

    Lots of old friends from here not showing this year. Haste ye back.

     

     

     

    Please add me to the list and Hail Hail to one and all.

     

     

    Wow, that cardie interview has gotta be a spoof no? There are a couple of paragraphs that perfectly encapsulate the mindset of the zombies.

     

     

    And hey, Deadbeats! You need spreadsheets not bedsheets!

  17. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    New speedway world champ on the ole TV the day. He looks about 12.

     

     

    He broke his collar bone, got it fixed, went racing again, broke it again and got back on the bike to win the title.

     

     

    Speedway is clearly, like N/H racing, one of the few sports left for real men.

  18. Walter Smith offers the new club financial advice lets hope they follow follow

     

     

    And if these players are signed while the club continues to lose money?

     

     

    Smith added: “There is no common business sense at a club such as Rangers.

     

     

    “Yes, money is being lost. But what can you do?

     

     

    “You can’t sit on the board of directors at Ibrox and tell the Rangers fans, ‘We can’t afford to do this.’ You have to go out and find the money to do it.

     

     

    “If you get into the Champions League you make a profit. Celtic have shown that. So Rangers have to use their money to create a situation where they put a challenge in to Celtic.

     

     

    “That’s the gamble you take. It’s not a sensible gamble but that’s what you have to do.

     

     

    “The financial bit of Rangers Football Club and common sense don’t go together.

     

     

     

    This is the man who the SMSM revere ? financial lunacy hope he returns soon as Chairman

     

     

    Sad to hear of the passing of the big man may he RIP

  19. Phyllis Dietrichson on

    BRTH – how could you forget about me, having waxed so lyrically about my forum name when I first appeared her?

  20. By Hugh Keevins | 9 Oct 2013 00:01

     

     

     

    RANGERS fans may think they have been taken to the limits of their endurance since the club went into administration on February 14, 2012.

     

     

    But Walter Smith has bad news for them.

     

     

    The only man in Rangers’ history to manage the club and then become chairman believes the suffering of the past 20 months isn’t the end of the fans’ discomfort.

     

    ———————————–

     

     

    LIES

     

    KEEVINS

     

    LIES

     

    RANKERS 2012

     

    ARE A NEW CLUB

     

    STOP TELLING LIES

     

    TO SELL PAPERS

     

    SICK OF IT

     

    U ARE A LIAR

  21. Looks like aul Myth is sending out the bad news, Rangers 2012 current creditors take note- former Chairman says they are a financial omnishambles, time to call in the debt or serve a winding up order.

     

    (Serves you right mind you for giving them credit in the first place)

  22. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    Phylis

     

     

    As you may well be aware, I am afflicted by senility, a short attention span and an inability to retain any important information indefinitely so………..what were we talking about again?

     

     

    Winning Captains…… PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON……………………..