Yesterday’s win at Fir Park was huge for Celtic’s season but we should caution against talk of a corner being turned. The team possessed the resilience (and Irish magician) to come from behind and beat the team who were second in the league, but we have been here before.
The Motherwell goal will cause Neil Lennon particular concern. After losing a goal to an early corner kick against Rennes on Thursday, it seems impossible to believe that the team switched off at another corner kick, but only Beram Kayal was alert to the threat of Motherwell taking a short corner, and he was already covering a threat.
Organisational discipline is as important as having better players to the outcome of many football games.
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seanbhoy69 says:
7 November, 2011 at 18:48
I missed yer call m8 on clyde but i will download the podcast later.
They cringe when you Terry or Frank come on m8 but as i said yesterday it’s not a joke anymore with the refs in this country..
It ain’t paranoia its fact and we just need to look at Dougie gate Mr MCurry and also the ex head of referees Mr Hugh Dallas…
I would also say yes some of them are just plain pish refs but some are blatant and if people think it’s gonnae et any better then it ain’t..
Do you never notice if huns struggle at home they always seem to get a pen or maybe the para is ripping right oota me..
I ask anyone on here to say to their hun mates that there’s talk about foreign refs just watch the change in attitude..
Tonights new phrase is ” bordering on the illegal ” wonder how long it took to think that one up ?
Sad pathetic hun scum, every last one of them, they have no morals, they have no shame, and I pray to god they get what they deserve.
Bit of a ScotRail ScotFail yesterday, with a line problem resulting in trains to Motherwell cancelled. Thanks to the supporters bus that stopped on Rutherglen Main Street and picked me and 5/6 others to ensure we made it on time, but other bhoys were stuck on trains, some arriving late and others missing out.
I was told at Rutherglen that points has ‘seized’ due to overnight weather. These things can happen, but clearly we’re in for a magic time of it on the trains if points ‘seize’ at the first sign of a bit of chill.
Bloke 109, CQN Travel Watch.
Notthebus
Would still be hard to act as childish as you
Now that inbred Davie comes out with the Fascist Fascist stat.
Total moron
So according to clyde, lesser teams employing a “kill the chief” and kick them off the park tactic is perfectly ok???
No wonder our game is in the gutter!
Bloke……can you do the “Weather” an aw……….in the style of Big Judith?????
seanbhoy69 says:
7 November, 2011 at 19:37
Snake
They are certainly at something.
I suppose it means they don`t need to talk about HMRC or an alleged sectarian breach of the peace offence.
Spot on m8 i remember when we beat them 1-0 in the shame game and the next night on clyde the whole show was celtic fans calling in about the result and how we pumped them and the following night they dedicated the whole show to fat sally getting the job..
Good on Danny in Dennistoun
Keevins is a liar.
Anyone else affected by the power cut on the south side of Glasgow?
Snake Plissken says:
7 November, 2011 at 19:55
Good on Danny in Dennistoun
Keevins is a liar.
Dannys the man good laugh when he comes on…
What’s he saying to them m8..
Was it just me were keevins and spiers just been pleasuring each other for the last 2 hours? What the heck was all the giggling about?
I despair-Why do our fellow Celtic fans continue to call into these twisted phone-ins?
Tonight was worse than normal it just allows these so called pundits to
ridicule the point of view.
ridicule the way it is said.
be-little the collective group i.e. Celtic fans (fundamentalist as they say).
twist what is said.
give entertainment to majority of the listeners to have a laugh at Celtic’s expense
listen and agree with the “so called” voice of reasonable callers with contrary Celtic points (Them, Motherwell, Kilmarnock, St,Mirren etc)
to obviously have the last word and cut the call off.
Hopefully someday we can leave them to get on with their coven.
Danny from Dennistoun told Keevins
You said when the initial draw was made for the Europa league group (i.e before Celtic we brought back in) that if Celtic got into that group they wouldn’t get a single solitary point. Then you changed it two weeks later to they might get some points at home as Gordon Dalziel challenged you and tonight you are denying saying anything about points whatsoever.
He of course claimed no recollection of this at all.
He is either a liar or losing his memory very badly.
It is all on tape of course.
Gordon_J
Just heard about it – apparently a lot of Rutherglen affected.
The SNP prepare yerself for winter campaign is going well. First, the points frozen on the Argyll line yesterday, now a power failure. Two days of cold and we’re stuffed.
TET,
With no medical knowledge whatsoever, I think that I have diagnosed the cause…and cure for your hypertension.
Cause…. you listen to Scottish Radio.
Cure…… don’t listen to Scottish Radio.
That’ll be fifty guineas, please!
Joe-H196721 says:
7 November, 2011 at 20:02
I despair-Why do our fellow Celtic fans continue to call into these twisted phone-ins?
could not agree more…..why give them the chance, it`s like shooting fish in a barrel. I stopped listening about 3 years ago, feel better for it. By the sounds of it,we still have the same people phoning in and making us all look like paranoid dimwits. Just leave it to the other lot to lower the tone, they are better equipped.
are we being serious when we say “we have it on tape” ?
How are the 19s getting on?
If you’ve still got power… check out Channel 4 – “Go Greek for a Week”
Mental.
Power’s back.
According to the electricity company it was a high voltage line problem and would be back on by 10:45. Thankfully it didn’t take that long – a few hours with no heating or light didn’t sound like fun
Regarding the Jim White statement on Sky Sports News that Adam has been part of the “Old Firm” club since he left School…!!!
I rewound the Sky box to watch it again. Jim Whyte after reading the piece from a worded statement shook his head slightly afterwards?
Did he shake his head because he was surprised at the content of the report or knowing the flak he will get for the wording of the statement?
Questions:
Who is keeping Jim White in a Job for many a year…?
Is there a bigger Hun behind the scenes at Sky?
Who is this odious loathsome repugnant Bigot with no face?
Any ideas anyone?
TLJD
Seanbhoy69
heard your call tonight, considering Keevins attitude you did well to keep your temper in check and stay on your main point of poor refereing standards. I really don’t understand why keevins stays on this programme as he has no interest in debate and his attempts at being controversial are insulting to the listener and the caller.
Clyde have lost all sense of its orginal purpose regarding this phone in which is to promote topical debate on all things football, they are a West of Scotland based station therefore it follows that the discussion points surround the two main clubs. But don’t give up, at least you speak for (I suspect)the majority of our support and you refrain from unjust criticism which irks them even more.
Meet the team: Celtic Next Gen Series
Published on November 7th, 2011
Written by: Joe McHugh
The first team appearances of Marcus Fraser, Dylan McGeough and Paul George has given Celtic’s u-19 side a higher profile than they’ve enjoyed in previous seasons.
Despite winning back-to-back doubles the expanded first team squad has curtailed the development of playersin recent seasons with only James Forrest breaking into the first team squad.
Tonight’s Next Gen Series match with Manchester City should attract a large crowd to Celtic Park, for the benefit of those outwith the small band of regular watchers I’ll go through some details of the players likely to be wearing hoops tonight.
Goalkeeper Robbie Thomson missed out on the matches against Marseilles and Barcelona but played in the 4-2 win over Manchester City at Ewan Fields. Robbie was the first choice keeper last season up until March when he lost his place to Nick Feely. A vocal keeper with a decent record of penalty saves.
Mikey Miller: Overlooked for international honours but has slotted in quickly at right-back. Loves to push forward at any opportunity with the pace to track back.
Marcus Fraser: Made his first team debut against Rennes last week and barely put a foot wrong. Since the turn of the year his game has came on at a fantastic rate, hard to believe that he’s only 17, a real leader and organiser in defence.
Jackson Irvine: Has been switching between central defence and centre midfield this season. Broke into last season’s u-19 side after the winter break and hasn’t looked back. Still working hard on the defensive side of the game and loves to slalom his way up the park to help in attack.
Stuart Findlay: Stepped in for the injured Curtis Jones and has handled the step up from u-17 level with ease. A defender’s defender. Very sure in the tackle and like Fraser a good organiser, scored for Scotland u-17’s in the recent international against San Marino.
Joe Chalmers: A tall, pacy left-back that delivers a great cross as well as carrying a useful shot. A regular in last season’s u-17 defence alongside Miller and Fraser he has carried that understanding into the u-19 side.
In midfield Celtic have a wealth of talent to choose from with John Herron, Dylan McGeough, Callum McGregor, Filip Twardzik and Paul George dominating the match away to Manchester City. With Rhys Williamson, Patrik Twardzik and Darnell Fisher also pushing for places this is clearly the strongest area of the side.
Herron captained last season’s Glasgow Cup winning squad from centre midfield but has moved out to the right this term. Always a goal threat his four game scoring run was brought to a halt by some brutal tactics in the 5-1 win at Kilmarnock.
McGregor is the ‘old man’ of the team having scored his first u-19 goal at the end of the 2009/10 season. Originally playing on either wing he’s been converted into a central midfielder that likes to push forward.
Filip Twardzik is in his third season at this level and has been made some fleeting first team appearances at left back. The physical nature of the Scottish game has taken it’s toll on his development but he proved at home to Barcelona that he can play in any company. His brother Patrik scored a hat-trick scored a hat-trick in the 5-1 win at Kilmarnock after recovering from injury.
Dylan McGeough was thrown in to his Celtic debut away to Hearts and excelled in the toughest domestic fixture of the season. He’s equally confident picking the ball up from defenders as pushing forward to support the strikers.
George is on fire just now- against Aberdeen he was unplayable scoring a ‘McCourt’ style solo effort and setting up the other three. The Irish bhoy can play anywhere in midfield or in attack and possesses a burst of pace that few opponents can live with..
Unusually for Celtic both striking options are of the physical variety. Tony Watt and Omar Bogle played together for the first time against Aberdeen and both got on the scoresheet.
Watt is the top scorer this season and has scored in three consecututive games since returning to the team against Manchester City. Bogle came in for his debut away to Hearts and proved a handful to the home defence, his double against Aberdeen on Friday won’t have did his confidence any harm.
Tonight’s match kicks off at 7.45.
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V
ttt
Aye, you would be right.
Would a cheque suffice :>)
jmccormick says:
7 November, 2011 at 20:09
Joe-H196721 says:
7 November, 2011 at 20:02
I despair-Why do our fellow Celtic fans continue to call into these twisted phone-ins?
could not agree more…..why give them the chance, it`s like shooting fish in a barrel. I stopped listening about 3 years ago, feel better for it. By the sounds of it,we still have the same people phoning in and making us all look like paranoid dimwits. Just leave it to the other lot to lower the tone, they are better equipped.
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Paranoid dimwit, Sean 69
Wash your mouth out!
Living in England don’t listen to Clyde and certainly not worth listening via net.
Just as well we won the game or no doubt the paranoia claims would be coming out.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it but surely the point is why don’t Motherwell appear to
adopt these “tactics” against THEM?
Sure in the face of better more skilful opponents you adapt your tactics accordingly.
I am sure most agree that Rennes are a more technically skilled team than us -but did we
try and kick them off the park?
Well one booking in 2 games(Hooper for dissent I think)certainly suggests otherwise.
We did get in their faces and made it difficult for them but didn’t resort to the neanderthal
tactics of Murderwell.However you can’t really blame ‘Well as the REF in both last season’s
2-0 defeat and yesterday let them foul with impunity.
Here’s a Robert Fisk article about the Poppy from Saturday’s Independent (UK) –
“I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again.
Bright red they were, with that particularly silly green leaf out of the top – it was never part of the original Lady Haig appeal – and not one dared to appear on screen without it. Do these pathetic men and women know how they mock the dead? I trust that Jon Snow has maintained his dignity by not wearing it.
Now I’ve mentioned my Dad too many times in The Independent. He died almost 20 years ago so, after today, I think it’s time he was allowed to rest in peace, and that readers should in future be spared his sometimes bald wisdom. This is the last time he will make an appearance. But he had strong views about wearing the poppy. He was a soldier of the Great War, Battle of Arras 1918 – often called the Third Battle of the Somme – and the liberation of Cambrai, along with many troops from Canada. The Kaiser Wilhelm’s army had charitably set the whole place on fire and he was appalled by the scorched earth policy of the retreating Germans. But of course, year after year, he would go along to the local cenotaph in Birkenhead, and later in Maidstone, where I was born 28 years after the end of his Great War, and he always wore his huge black coat, his regimental tie – 12th Battalion, the King’s Liverpool Regiment – and his poppy.
In those days, it was – I recall this accurately, I think – a darker red, blood-red rather than BBC-red, larger than the sorrow-lite version I see on the BBC and without that ridiculous leaf. So my Dad would stand and I would be next to him in my Yardley Court School blazer at 10 years old and later, aged 16, in my Sutton Valence School blazer, with my very own Lady Haig poppy, its long black wire snaking through the material, sprouting from my lapel.
My Dad gave me lots of books about the Great War, so I knew about the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo before I went to school – and 47 years before I stood, amid real shellfire, in the real Sarajevo and put my feet on the very pavement footprints where Gavrilo Princip fired the fatal shots.
But as the years passed, old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had fought for a world that betrayed him, that 20,000 British dead on the first day of the Somme – which he mercifully avoided because his first regiment, the Cheshires, sent him to Dublin and Cork to deal with another 1916 “problem” – was a trashing of human life. In hospital and recovering from cancer, I asked him once why the Great War was fought. “All I can tell you, fellah,” he said, “was that it was a great waste.” And he swept his hand from left to right. Then he stopped wearing his poppy. I asked him why, and he said that he didn’t want to see “so many damn fools” wearing it – he was a provocative man and, sadly, I fell out with him in his old age. What he meant was that all kinds of people who had no idea of the suffering of the Great War – or the Second, for that matter – were now ostentatiously wearing a poppy for social or work-related reasons, to look patriotic and British when it suited them, to keep in with their friends and betters and employers. These people, he said to me once, had no idea what the trenches of France were like, what it felt like to have your friends die beside you and then to confront their brothers and wives and lovers and parents. At home, I still have a box of photographs of his mates, all of them killed in 1918.
So like my Dad, I stopped wearing the poppy on the week before Remembrance Day, 11 November, when on the 11th hour of the 11 month of 1918, the armistice ended the war called Great. I didn’t feel I deserved to wear it and I didn’t think it represented my thoughts. The original idea came, of course, from the Toronto military surgeon and poet John McCrae and was inspired by the death of his friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, killed on 3 May 1915. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row.” But it’s a propaganda poem, urging readers to “take up the quarrel with the foe”. Bill Fisk eventually understood this and turned against it. He was right.
I’ve had my share of wars, and often return to the ancient Western Front. Three years ago, I was honoured to be invited to give the annual Armistice Day Western Front memorial speech at the rebuilt Cloth Hall in Ypres. The ghost of my long-dead 2nd Lieutenant Dad was, of course, in the audience. I quoted all my favourite Great War writers, along with the last words of Nurse Edith Cavell, and received, shortly afterwards, a wonderful and eloquent letter from the daughter of that fine Great War soldier Edmund Blunden. (Read his Undertones of War, if you do nothing else in life.) But I didn’t wear a poppy. And I declined to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate. This was something of which I was not worthy. Instead, while they played the last post, I looked at the gravestones on the city walls.
As a young boy, I also went to Ypres with my Dad, stayed at the “Old Tom Hotel” (it is still there, on the same side of the square as the Cloth Hall) and met many other “old soldiers”, all now dead. I remember that they wanted to remember their dead comrades. But above all, they wanted an end to war. But now I see these pathetic creatures with their little sand-pit poppies – I notice that our masters in the House of Commons do the same – and I despise them. Heaven be thanked that the soldiers of the Great War cannot return today to discover how their sacrifice has been turned into a fashion appendage.”
notthebus – unorignal and stunningly stupid
I think the U19 game is live on Celtic TV for anyone who cares to log in
From the very little I heard of Snyde on the car radio, what a pathetic joke Spiers has become. We know what Keevins is, but to hear a once half-decent journalist turn himself into a pantomime villain just to court some controversy is quite pitiful.
I don’t do Twitter, but going by what’s posted on here, the son of the manse is doing the exact same thing online….a vain attempt to gain some relevance in a new media environment. Well, he has none in the old media having been forced out previously by Minty and his “performance” on the radio tonight.
May their demise be long and slow…..
TTTT
truth4767 says:
7 November, 2011 at 20:15
whoever you are, you do not speak for me. Refrain from quoting me or I`ll get my wee sister to sort you out. Truth,my arse.
THE EXILED TIM says:
7 November, 2011 at 20:14
ttt
Aye, you would be right.
Would a cheque suffice :>)
That’ll do nicely,senor.
Panda Hands says:
7 November, 2011 at 19:01
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celts under 19s 1-0 Man city Mcgeough
The Legend of Johnny Doyle @ 2011,
It has long mystified me why an otherwise professional outfit like Sky continue to employ Jim White.
He looks like he is being operated by an unseen hand.
He looks like he has just stumbled out of the pub.
He shouts when he should talk.
He speaks in the STV-Big-Book-of-Cliches (1987 edition).
He is a terrible broadcaster. On the other hand, they also employ an odd-looking little guy with a head too big for his body, called David Tanner – who makes White look like Walter Cronkite.
Very odd…
1-0 Celtic.
Great build up play and a great strike from McGeoch.
One-nil Celtic.