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.
Thank you.
The Sean book, 90 years of pure Celtic:
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Afternoon all…any gardeners oot there with know.how on cutting back (digging oot) bamboo? helpinganauldneighbourcsc.
GORDON J
And anyone else who was disgusted by the recent headline in The Sun about mental illness,and allegations of murder by those affected.
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/thesunnewspaper-correct-the-sensationalism-in-your-mental-illness-story-and-donate-the-profits-from-it?alert_id=mzMJlZWDfy_RnJNgXyxWn&utm_campaign=36699&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert
Adam should show Lasley his payslip.
Who’se the diddy in the claret jersey!
kitalba:
Yup very sad all round.
I have hopes that one day John might have the opportunity to manage the first team and maybe that will make up in part for the fact his playing career was so cruelly curtailed.
Mind you I’m a hopeless romantic, before his untimely death I always secretly hoped Tommy Burns would get a second chance as Celtic manager to win the titles he so richly deserved…
BBhoy
Re your Rome Trip if you get me your e-mail address or contact me somehow I can get you a copy of my wee daft story guide to Rome which may enhance your trip there…. it sort of tells you some history that some of the guidebooks leave out!
Also can I recommend that you also get The Battered Bunnet’s guide to shoe shops as I hear he is a doyenne of Italian foot covering!!!
DELANEYS DUNKY
I know,and they were,but none of the rest fitted the narrative!
BTW,you have some excellent places to visit relatives.
Cirencester is lovely,especially The Abbey,and Cheltenham is a great DAYOOOT.
BRTH
Are you Dr Robert Langdon?
Yorkbhoy- thanks for your assistance.
I enjoy Kevjungle’s contributions;I don’t agree with many of them but he brightens up the ole day with his unique take on Celtic.
There are only one or two who post on here [I expect they know who they are] that, if I could be bothered I would go out of my way to offend and KevJ’s certainly not one of them.
I still don’t understand the way Celtic management,all of them, are dealing with the assaults on the players. That’s what they are —assaults.Hooper was nearly put out of the game by Bougherra going for his Achilles,the same player got away with murder against Robbie Keane.Elbows definitely put Kayal out of the game deliberately,despite what NL said. Forrest’s career could have been ended by David Healy. Now we have another player out for months as a result of a tackle that resulted in a broken collarbone.What in the Name of God sort of tackle ends up in a broken collarbone? If it had happened in the street Lasley would have been arrested for GBH.
Greensideup:
I know he did, but I don’t think it was a foul. If you watch it again you can see his reaction to Scott Brown (if my memory serves).
Elbows was/is, to my mind, a wannabe thug, I can think of several more deserving of the title than he, who pulled on his teams colours and sought broken bone and blood with malice. And worse too, I can remember a pollution of referees who gave them encouragement.
Just saw the Myth on SSN.
Disnae look a happy or well man.
By the way, don’t forget “Punter” Black. He has been trying for ages to cripple, and that is not too strong a word–Celtic players. In the lower divisions his card was marked and he was one of the first to squeal.
BMCUW …
.. I could name few but not many… Not been there since early/mid 70’s.
Definitely at Boavista when KK scored circa 30 secs (bottle of the good stuff emptied).
Think the last one was fc Zwickau sachsenring (sic) not one to remember.
NEUSTADT-BRAW
Was doing a bitta that last week. Jings,the roots are everywhere!
Depends. If the area is not to be replanted,cut through the root and pour diesel over the area. Nothing grows for years after that.
Failing that,it’s a hard shift getting as much as possible.
Or you could wait 48 years for it to bloom. It becomes rat-infested then,and yer neighbours will sell up!
My choice is the first one,btw.
scottish leaf @ 14:32
Agreed re Tommy Burns and a title win, no-one would have deserved it more. What a special man.
bournesouprecipe
14:13 on 8 October, 2013
Who would win in a fight between the naysayers and the yaysayers?
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My money would be on the Naysayers.
Those of us who realise that the club is being well run & appreciate the guys who are responsble for our healthy situation, would tend to be of a more measured & thoughtful disposition than our more taciturn & negative neighbours. I would not expect us to be as aggressive or belligerent in physical combat.
On the other hand, if it came to a battle of wits……………..
:¬)))
DESERTBHOY
Roy Aitken missed classes for that game.
No punishment. Apart from having to travel to East Germany!
Baby P’s mother to be released on parole,disgusting.
Geordie Munro:
I’m not lying to you when I tell you I’ve watched that tackle way over a hundred times and I still don’t see a foul. I agree elbows play-acted, but I think he feared a card.
I’m not making any excuses for McCulloch, like I said, I think he is a wannabe thug, he’s just rank rotten at it. A wee bit like that diddy Boyd was at diving, just rank rotten.
I heard a caller on SSB one night about 3 years ago saying that maybe we should copy the German model of auditors coming in and having a look at clubs accounts every 3 months as a couple of clubs over there had been living beyond their means. BFDJ replies no you can’t have people in poking around your business. I thought to myself why not. I know now why. Lol I’d love to hear that call again.
NEUSTADT-BRAW… Just don’t give it a drink… dies off soon enuff.
BMCUW
My aunt and cousins have been down there 20years. Visit once or twice a year. Have watched some great Celtic victories in the Irish Oak, Cheltenham. Love the racecourse and the whole Cotswalds area. You are in a fine part of England.
scottishleaf :
Forgive me for being presumptive, but I get the feeling that, like me, you saw the birth, and life span, of the Lions. Well for me, in all my years of following Celtic, the only Celtic team that has give – me – so much pleasure in watching them, other than Jock Stein’s Lions, was every single team Tommy Burns ever put out on a field, and in this case, with me, romanticism is not part of the equation, nor the evaluation, and neither either the appreciation.
Big Nan
Signed the petition earlier
Re Elbows, he is a coward, watch him when he does someone, he goes down in agony, trainer/ Physio on, gets up pats the victim on the end or feigns concern and moves on. Cheating plastic hard man….
Kikinthenakas
Afternoon all.
A few thoughts for today:
Adam Matthews out for three months: gutted for the bhoy and feckin angry at that thug Lasley. Said it before and will say it again – CELTIC NEED AN ENFORCER ON THE PARK!
NOT somebody who deliberately goes out to injure a fellow professional – that is NOT the Celtic way – but a Bertie Auld, Jim Brogan or Davie Hay type. No shrinking violets there, but also bloody good players who all played in a EC final – twice in Bertie’s case.
John Kennedy:
Could have gone on to become one of the greatest Celtic CBs, and, if he were still playing and still at CFC would probably be club captain.
Comparing VVD to Kelvin Wilson (decent player ‘tho he was), is, a bit like comparing Billy McNeill (HAIL CESAR!) to Willie Garner – old fogeys, like me, will remember him! I was there the day he made his debut for us at home to St Mirren in 1981 – he scored a goal: for St Mirren! Played three games all season – goalscoring ratio of a goal every three games: for the opposition!
Rant over!
Going for a lie down!
HH!!
Feeling a bit sorry for rookie Sevco manager Ally McCoist these days.
As if he doesn’t have enough on his plate (sic) what with all the boardroom shenanigans and whatnot, now it seems that a man can’t build a breakwater/slipway in front of his Highland pile without the Admiral of the Fleet (or whatever he’s called) being all difficult about it.
Jeez, give the man a break!!
DELANEYS DUNKY
Indeed I am,bud.
But I have KINGDOM ISAMBARD BRUNEL to thank for that.
Swindon is an ok place to live,but come Saturday,train outa town.
Some excellent places for a wee jaunt and back.
It’s the latter bit which is the problem!
TALLYBHOY
How’s things,bud?
As far as I can see, the only type of tackle that generally gets negative comments from the managers is the sole of foot(or feet) to ankle/shin/knee area.
I think in some senses a lot of other bad tackles in a lot of cases can be put down to poor timing, conditions etc and no manager wants to be in the position of becoming a hypocrite by criticizing an opposition one week, and then having to defend his own player for a similar tackle the next week.
It’s like a gentleman’s agreement between all of them.
Kitalba,
Having watched the clip again I can see your point regarding the tackle as it looks like Elbows makes contact with the ball and into Kayal, although it doesn’t change my opinion of him as a coward
Here is the clip for those who want to view it, 20 sec before the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eYlfKgmQLI
Cheers
gsu
Neustadt- buy a panda [or two?]
BMCUW
Roy Aitken?
St Andrew’s Academy, Saltcoats?
Watch yer ankles – and shins!
If the bear had been on the park at the weekend, Lasley would have been carried off on a stretcher.
HH!!
Gutted that Matthews is out for the rest of the CL group games. He’s another that’s really stepped up his game of late. Against Milan he was immense. And he can do a job at left back – an area where we’re light. Boerrigter (sp?) has everything still to prove. Will he be ready for Ajax?
Could be one of those football coincidences… comes back to haunt his old club.
For purely selfish reasons this international break is perfectly placed. Off on a road/surf/camping trip over the weekend… So I’ll no miss a kick! (above the knee on one of our own no doubt)
tbdJ
Was there not a csc in Aberdeen called the yogi bear or something similar?
kitalba – you offered me a hand re: shares a couple of weeks ago. Just wanted to say thanks again, appreciated it. Also, just to let you know that I eventually managed under my own steam (then flounced a wee bit needlessley at KK).
When’s the AGM?????
HH
BGFC
thebhoydaveJAPAN
14:58 on 8 October, 2013
You might be right about Derk and his former team. He will also get more room in Europe than he currently does in the SPL.
HH
gsu
Kilbowie Kelt
I’d make sure the happy clappers were on the front page and mineshafters on the back page?
For those desperate to get on “the list”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V3SqxUomwk