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Celtic were like a train today….
A lot of passengers on board.
HH
Top result… Lots hefty knocks tho.. Our team are getting booted every time we play..
Kojo
Greetings my fellow Amido lover.
Chuffed tae bits for oor Portugesy match winner. :))
Brilliant goal from the big man.He likes these.Thistle very good today.So much for the league collapsing.We still have to buy a “Real striker”in January.We do not have the cutting edge required.Great build up,lacking the finale.VVD is imperious.Efe needs a wee boot up the jacksie.Just to keep him on song.Broony,what a grafter.Great to see Ledley,Kayal,getting back.
PHILBHOY
Leave PF AYR alone.
Poor fella is still smarting from being outed last week-and not before time(!)-as a hun.
Good win for Celtic despite the continued unconvincing spearhead of Pukki and Stokes.
Never really any danger of dropping points despite losing a goal, and an inspired substitution in Balde’s freshness, paid off. Would be interesting to know if Pukki puts the ball in the net in training, as he continues to flatter and deceive, whilst taking up the right positions to score.
McGeouch did well, although Ledley, Brown and Kayal toiled in midfield in the absence of Mulgrew, and new talisman James Forrest.
A solid back four for Celtic, and somebody will pick up the pieces to take the points.
M.O.M Van Dijk
BMCUW
I’m sure he’s a decent ghuy!
His updates seemed to be all moans and negatives.
After a tough Champions League victory in midweek i am delighted we won today.
Hope you are well!
Good individual goal from Amido
proved to be the winner.
Bhoy still looks very raw.
Teemu on the other hand looks a bit of an enigma.
Looks the more mature player but wants a bit too much time at the critical moments.
Needs to sharpen up: acouple of goals will do his confidence a world of good.
People gettin knickers in twist bout injuries. Its a mans game. Izzy has knock to head an sammi wee cut on leg. If we played Milan tomorrow in decider both wud play so why the Eff is Neil gettin criticised here. Too many championship managers on here who don’t have a clue bout football. The knee jerk reactions on here ridiculous but every wk the same folk on here go daft during games. Joke
PHILBHOY
He’s only negative because he wants the best for us.
I’m surprisingly well after yesterday’s wee sesh in Babe City.
None of the lads were on parade in the morning though. Can’t think why not!
Life treating you a bit better these days,I hope?
Why are the ribbons on thr cup naw green and white?
Did you see when Pukki went off, he jumped on a treadmill to ensure that he covered the most ground over the 90 mins :-)
He really needs another goal to build up his confidence.
Good goal for big Balde, he might just become a favourite on CQN :-)
HH
CRC
BMCUW
Much better thanks!
Back on the bevvy so no need to change my doctor!!
Take care!
Fact of the day………side’s that finish Glasgow derbies
with 10 men tend to win.
Pukki and Balde continue to make me look silly.
Pukki is a better player IMO of course. Both his chances he did the right thing, the keeper saved them. Happens.
Balde looks like the footballing equivalent of a red setter. And yet he has something, he scores like that too often for it to be lucky.
I’m still comfortable with having Pukki as first choice. After all, I thought he was better than stokes today.
Philbhoy
No why ??
PHILBHOY
No need even to see a doctor if yer back on the bevvy.
Just as long as you can see the bar man,you’ll be fine!
Big Virgil gets better every game. A real class act. Liked the look of a few Jags players. A few zombies in the home end methinks! Booing players with obvious injuries-scum!
What’s not to like (P GD Pts)
1 Celtic 10 13 26
2 Aberdeen 11 6 20
3 ICT 10 6 19
Philbhoy
Sammi had a free header two yards from goal…he didn’t have to jump for the ball
Is that anything other than dreadful defending ?
Sunderland v Newcastle. Watching the game on telly, it’s hard to understand why the clash
of jerseys is allowed, especially as i am colour blind. I find that weird when you consider how often we have to change from the hoops when there appears to be no clash at all.
I know I’m a clapper and clappers probably annoy shafters as much as shafters annoy clappers, but following Celtic brings joy & happiness into my life.
I see buds complaining after this game again, for goodness sakes we had a huge game last Tuesday. Conditions were poor today, this was a Cup Final for Thistle and we won.
After 10 games last year we had 20 points and 19 goals scored this year we have 26 points and 22 goals scored. If that doesn’t make ye happy why do ye bother.
HappyClappers Abú.
Funny game football.
We played better in the first half with the unbalanced team set up led by Stokes & Pukki but we played worse in the 2nd half when we had a recognisable centre forward on but still scored the winner.
NL-Izzy has concussion Sammi getting stitches in a knee wound,Forrest Mulgrew Derk should be fit for Saturday
SFTB
The first half performance was good ….finishing poor
I thought , with the exception of Amido’s goal,the second half was very poor
I am becoming a little concerned about our managers lack of interest in playing any of the young players
Is it possible he doesn’t think they are good enough ?
The left fullback for Thistle Taylor-Sinclair was outstanding and Higgenbotham caused a few problems as well. Taylor- Sinclair would be worth a look as an option for Izzy.
PF AYR
I think Neil prefers to have his first eleven on the park,no experiments for him.
Difficult to blame him when you see the abuse he gets for changing the side on the few occasions that he does.
Not a vintage performance, but after a tough midweek CL game I’ll happily accept the three points.
Another two injuries, and one of them was not Mikael Lustig!
Amido? Just give him the ball 40 yards from goal and let him run – he will score!
The one incident which, for me, summed up what is wrong with Scottish fitba’ was the (non-existent) off-side decision against Broonie, and the (stonewall) penalty not given by Gollum who had a clear view. Even Walker said it was a stonewaller!
HH!!
Like Corkcelt I am always happy when Celtic win.
I look for reasons (excuses?) for a poor performance.
Rain, wind, sun, wet park, injury, poor refereeing, wrong strips, etc
I have a whole arsenal of excuses.
Today’s is playing in a tricky rain storm with the sun in our eyes.
PFayr ..
I agree on the young players. Lustig is supposed to be carrying an injury and will be playing World Cup qualifiers next month. Why not rest him and play Fisher, who is easily good enough to play in the SPL. And how long does Atajic have to wait?
… Izzy took a sore one to the cheekbone from a knee, then got it knocked in celebs for Balge goal.
Hope it’s not a fracture.
Happy as a money laundering man with a seat on the
Sevco board……….CL week, difficult condition’s, 3
point’s, sure we picked up some injuries but that’s
fitba,besides no midweek game and that should
give the player’s some recovery time.
Borini…screamer
Facts from Tom English. I hope he has good security
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TO VENTURE an opinion on the Dave King saga is to take a trip down memory lane to when Charles Green was in his pomp at Ibrox, blasting out his bombast to the delight of so many Rangers supporters.
Back then, if your message was questioning of Green then you got it in the neck on social media from the faithful. Challenging the Yorkshireman on his stewardship of the club – his daft and groundless boasts among other things – resulted in volleys of flak and accusations of hating Rangers. In Scotland, the messenger doesn’t just get shot, he gets hanged, drawn, quartered – and then shot.
Some Rangers folk don’t want to hear about King’s past history in South Africa. They don’t want to acknowledge that their would-be saviour was convicted of non-compliance by the tax authorities.
The word “convicted” appears in the official document that sets out the biggest tax case in South African history. King pleaded guilty to not paying massive amounts of tax. These are not opinions, these are facts. King was once branded a “glib and shameless liar” in a court in his adopted land. That, also, is a fact. The only reason he is not in jail is because he had the financial wherewithal to accept his guilt and then settle the whole business for somewhere in the region of £45 million. Anybody denying this is being wilfully ignorant.
Any journalist mentioning this stuff is branded an obsessive Rangers-hater by some among the club’s support, but what else is there to do? Are we to ignore King’s history? Are we turn a blind eye to some of the remarkable commentary from tax court judges in South Africa that painted King as a stranger to the truth in his epic battle with the revenue services?
All of this must be thrown into the pot when assessing King’s suitability for a place on the Rangers board. Some Rangers fans wish to interpret the analysis of King as a witch-hunt. No. It’s a merited debate. Given some of the chancers who have darkened the Ibrox door in the recent past then it is a debate that Rangers people should welcome instead of trying to silence.
There is nothing at all stopping King from investing in Rangers in the same way as Dermot Desmond does at Celtic. Desmond has power but no responsibility at Parkhead. That’s Peter Lawwell’s domain. As difficult as it may be to stomach, the role Desmond plays at Celtic is the role King really ought to be playing at Rangers, if the Easdale boys allow it, which they may not. Controlling everything from a distance. He wouldn’t need approval from AIM London Stock Exchange or the SFA or anybody else, bar the bus tycoons.
King is many things, rich and enigmatic being two of the characteristics of the man who arrived into Glasgow on Friday with the intention of preparing the ground for a return to Rangers. He has had six meetings – or will have had six by the time he departs for Johannesburg. On Friday he stated that he was supremely confident that there is, and will be, no impediment to his return to Rangers. He said that there would be no issues as regards his conviction on 41 counts of non-compliance in his tax affairs.
“I wouldn’t be here otherwise,” he said on Friday when asked if he thought he would be allowed by the authorities to take a seat on the Rangers board. “I’ve checked this fully with the relevant people.”
The relevant people? Who are the relevant people? It’s fair to say that King’s comments were interpreted as him having received the green light from the SFA and AIM. Relevant people must have included the football authorities, right? They’re pretty damn relevant to all of this. Without the say-so of the SFA, King cannot take a place on the Rangers board. Stewart Regan went on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday to refute the assertion that the SFA had given King any reassurance about anything.
He was pretty clear-cut in his view. Not only had nobody from King’s team been in touch seeking clarification, nobody from Rangers had been either. There has been no contact. Of his six meetings, none was with the SFA.
“I’ve checked this fully with the relevant people.” Apart from one of the two bodies that can actually stymie your grand plan, that is.
The SFA remains adamant that King has spoken to nobody about any of this since June 2012 and back then it was purely a conversation about procedures and protocols. There was no commitment given to him. No reassurance. Not even a hint, says the SFA, that he might pass a test, if it ever came to it. He might, of course. But Hampden is categoric about this. No guarantee has been given to King. So what is all this about having “checked this fully with the relevant people”?
Who has he checked it with?
Yesterday King sought to clarify what he meant. No, no, he said. He wasn’t referring to the SFA on Friday, he was referring to the AIM exchange. Make of that what you will, but people are entitled to say that King wasn’t exactly being clear when he said that he had spoken to the people who mattered.
Certainly, Regan took King to mean that the SFA had given him the green light because on Friday evening he picked up the phone and spoke to Brian Stockbridge about it. Stockbridge said he didn’t know what King was on about. Regan further reiterated that no reassurance has ever been given.
King has a long road to travel before he warrants some of the premature headlines that are being written about him. Sometimes you get the feeling that some observers have got his name the wrong around. Instead of Dave King it could be King Dave given some of the eulogies.
He has to do a deal with the Easdale boys, which will be a feat in itself. If that happens, and he wants to become chairman, he has to get the approval of AIM and the SFA. He will have to explain about his conviction in South Africa and how that could possibly square with fit and proper rules. He’s a formidable operator, King. And he’ll need to be.
PF Ayr
“Strange thing is Pukki is showing the type of goal scoring form for us as he has shown for club and country over the last few seasons ”
Pukki scored 4 goals in 10 internationals in 2012 and 2 in 7 so far in 2013. That is a good rate of scoring for Finland.
With his club form you have a point but it was still 5 in 19 during 2011/12 and 3 in 17 during 2012/13.
Wee Emilio is an absolute legend.
I like how Lenny managed to play 3 of his new signings in the Big Glasgow Derby
How he slotted Dylan into the right mid berth …
The future of our club and it’s traditions is in sound hands
GBNFL
PFayr, Don’t disagree with that but after Tuesday’s efforts the bhoys were bound to get leggy as the game progressed. We were also denied a stone wall penalty early in 2nd half, a goal there would have put different complexion on 2nd half. I do agree about playing younger players, I would have wanted Fisher to start for Lustig and Dylan for Kayal but we are winning games this year that we would have lost or drawn last year, so you have to say Lenny is doing something right.s