A week ago you and I discussed how Newco fans were more confident ahead of a Celtic game than they had ever been, while we, chastened by a lacklustre Celtic performance against them last month, thought we had a game on our hands at Hampden.
Five days after a very one-sided Scottish Cup semi-final and sentiment in both camps has shifted. Newco were awful on a level that it is hard to do justice on the page. Celtic were imperious in possession and attacked with a swagger.
Don’t let what happened a week ago cloud your judgement. I’ve been going to Ibrox for over 30 years, and many on here have been going twice as long, but no matter how poor old Rangers were in that time, we seldom had it easy. On my first visit there we scored four second half goals against a truly awful outfit, but 45 minutes into the game we were two down and struggling.
If you win at Ibrox, you have played well. Celtic will need to be unscrupulously faithful to their tactical system. Brendan will know how to prepare the players for this. They will need the concentration and energy to deliver the performance.
I have some worries for Pedro (apologies, but I’m not sure if he’s going to be around long enough to make it worthwhile learning how to spell his surname). His 10-second principle is a case in point.
In the interview Chris Davies gave to a few Celtic bloggers, including myself, he explained that when Celtic lose possession, the players are told to spend up to six seconds pressing directly for the ball. If they fail to win possession back in this period, they are to drop back into defensive positions.
They have been trained to do this since preseason. It’s risky, and you will note that they do it every week in domestic football, but the technique was used sparingly in the Champions League group stage. The risk of a Barcelona-type team passing through the press is dangerous, as when players are pressing, they are out of position.
This is how modern football is played, but Pedro should be cautious. You cannot reeducate players overnight. If you attempt to and fail, it’s the manager’s responsibility. In fact, this quote from Pedro is exactly what you should expect when you try to force a new system onto a team midseason:
“When we analysed the game in some moments of the game some players were acting in one direction, which was the right direction and other players were not doing the same thing at the same time.”
This was clearly not the outcome Pedro expected, but his explanation suggests he has a lot to learn about how to tactically change football teams.
What’s worse, instead of shielding his players by taking ownership of the blame, he put the players in the dock. It is no surprise that you can detect grumblings of discontent emanating from loyal Ibrox sources.
Taking about “in the dock”, Sir David Murray is currently in the witness box at Craig Whyte’s trial. Proceedings are enthralling, but we’ll catch up with that later. A point worth reiterating:
It is acceptable to report on what was said at court, but unacceptable to prejudice a witness or defendant with your view on that individual, or on evidence presented. So stick to what was said – that’s fascinating enough.
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VFR 800,
Castle Greyskull v Snake Mountain.
This has been a loooooooong debate.on here.
It seems either is appropriate.
However as the Huns took so much offence at Kirsty McCabe’s comparison. That’ll do nicely for me.
HH .
PS: The level of abuse that pregnant Kirsty took at the time was sick ,sad and totally outrageous.Typical Hun behaviour.
Does anybody know, is Jack Irvine on the list of witnesses still to be called up?
If so and he confirms DM was fully appraised of the Ticketus deal, KABOOM!!
Seriously….Could I just turn up at the Court and get a seat in public gallery ?
HH
Who’s Judith ?
is she single ?
HH
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 2m2 minutes ago
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Findlay “loyalty is admirable, but what had these men done to your football club, our football club”
Ends cross-examination
Encore! Encore! por cierto
BIG JIMMY
Aye! por cierto
GREENPINATA on 28TH APRIL 2017 2:38 PM
Castle Greyskull was the home of King Greyskull who was Prince Adam’s (He-Man) ancestor. Castle Greyskull is actually the centre of the universe and the home of the good guys!
eterniaCSC
KTF
Court Adjourns till Tuesday. por cierto
Findlay “loyalty is admirable, but what had these men done to your football club, our football club”
Ends cross-examination
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Strange final statement from Donald. Spends the day going through Murray then shifts the blame to Bain, Johnston and co and the last minute.
*At not and
Big Jimmy…you can turn up and enter public gallery- no problem!
I would imagine there will be quite a few people (and peepil) observing proceedings so, it may be a busy courtroom…
@jamesdoleman
Findlay “You left the club to a group of men who sat around waiting for the Sultan of Brunia to decide to buy a Scottish football club”
Hahahahaha belter :)
Have not been following events in court.
Has anyone yet asked how the brightest business man to darken the doors of any football club in the world, got taken to the cleaners by a penny ante shyster from Motherwell?
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What debt do we have ?
These Chumps are beyond mental help for their heids !
Apparently the Sultan of Brunei is raging at that comment.
Big Jimmy ….
Courts are open to the public, and anyone can attend to watch … but, there are a few usual exceptions – (i) (witnesses who will be called are usually required to wait outside the court until they are called – so their evidence is not changed by what other witnesses say, and (ii) often sexual assault cases, or cases involving children, where the Judge can close the court to the public – courts are open to the public, and anyone can go in and watch.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 28TH APRIL 2017 3:04 PM
Big Jimmy…you can turn up and enter public gallery- no problem!
I would imagine there will be quite a few people (and peepil) observing proceedings so, it may be a busy courtroom…
Cheers WeeBobby, I live near the COURT…..Think I’ll pop my head in on Tuesday, I’ll be spotted as a TIM RIGHT AWAY…..cos I’ll be the ONLY handsome man there !
HH
THETIMREAPER on 28TH APRIL 2017 2:57 PM
Strange final statement from Donald. Spends the day going through Murray then shifts the blame to Bain, Johnston and co and the last minute.
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With that he is establishing a narrative that Murray got the club into a mess then left it in the hands of people who didn’t have clue and made a bigger mess. His client came along and bought an already very messy, smelly thing.
Findlay doesn’t care about pinning blame on Murray in particular, he cares about diverting blame from his client.
Thanks for you updates today btw.
MIKE IN TORONTO,
Cheers mate, I hope they call me as a witness……..I’ll grass everyone of them.
It’s bank holiday this Monday, so I’ll wait til Tuesday, and take my Butterkist, Spearmint Chewing Gum, Macaroon Bars….and of course my Sovienier Special !
SNOOKER,
John Higgins has just been CHEATED in the 9th frame of his semi final by THE feckin REF, and the ” Video Marker”, he lost the frame.
JH is NOT a happy BHOY.
HH
Big Jimmy … just remember … this is not a football match …. so, if you go, and you dont like something the judge says, DO NOT shout ‘who is the Mason in the Black?’ …. there will be a whole lof them … it could confuse them.
Findlay about Paul Murray plan.
Hoping for Sultan of Broonie.
John Higgins DONE by The Ref and The Marker, who replaced the q ball in the wrong place and giving an advantage to his opponent boring, boring Hawkins ( who never said anything either, so he’s also a feckin cheat ) !
we Celtic Bhoys got cheated everywhere.
HH
Right about tomorrow…
I deliberately didn’t watch the semi final. I will watch tomorrow’s game. Deliberately? Perhaps.
I think that this is an important game for Celtic psychologically in terms of next season. If Celtic dish out a humping (or even a commanding win) then Sevco need to wait until next season for a “right of reply”. That means they will go into the first meeting next season dreading it, given that they are very likely to have a summer of upheaval.
This also applies to our remaining matches against Aberdeen and Hearts. Whitewashes this season against those two give Celtic a tremendous psychological edge for the first game next season…
Well, that and the fact that our team is light-years ahead of all of them…
:)
Big Jimmy
Also remember…..you are not allowed to take popcorn or tubs of ice cream to eat in court.
Oh, and you’re not allowed to pish yourself laughing either…………
MIKE IN TORONTO,
IF I did shout “Who’s the Mason in the Black”…..more than likely Judge Stacey would put her hand up first !
HH MATE.
Back to the DIY.
Yours,
DIYopoulos
” WHO’S THE MASON IN THE BLACK” ?
If I shouted that, there would be about 100 pairs of hands going up in unison…………..at that point I could start a wee singalong……..” Always look on the bright side of life…..everybody now”
Maybe it would kick start a Hun “Walk On” ?
HH
Her Ladyship did not take kindly to the jury doing the huddle .
MIT – I’m in the final run in to Lisbon so still training at full pelt. I’ve dropped a couple of weight divisions since I saw you last. I’m probably a middleweight noo:)
So no getting bevvied tonight for me but I might have one beer with my salad;)
slainte
tony – wake me up before you go go!!!!
https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/857960135590903810.
Good Brown is back
I see Steven Pressley suffered the same fate as Big Jock when he joined Celtic.
People he thought of as friends or acquaintances fell off the radar.
What is wrong with these people?
Regards the £1.7m that Whyte was supposed to have put aside for the repairs to Ibrox as instructed by the HSE. If he didn’t pay the wee tax case, did he follow through the repairs. If not did someone else? There is a real possibility the works remain outstanding.
Here’s a wee bit of useless trivia as we await the battle tomorrow, and battle it will be in the den of revulsion
Mrs. TT has a book here called “All Our Yesterdays” which is an account of the area served by the Lennox Herald and written by a former editor who I believe was a friend of EDB.
Among the many wee stories of the area there is an account of local football players who achieved some fame, especially Celtic ones.
One of those that I was unaware of until a couple of years ago was Alec Brady and that’s only through the wonderful Celtic Graves Society who in cooperation with their Everton counterparts sought out his last resting place.
Alec started his career with his local junior side Renton Thistle before moving south and played for numerous clubs including Newcastle West End, Sunderland, Burnley, back to Sunderland again before being convinced to join Everton by their captain Andrew Hannah, also from Alec’s hometown of Renton and a member of their famous World Cup winning side along with James Kelly and Neilly McCallum. In his second season with the Toffees they were crowned English League Champions.
The ambitious Celtic board were aware of Alec, who was described as “a wee barrel of a man” and were able to tempt him back to Glasgow in the early days of the club where he partnered Neilly McCallum on the wing. His stay at Celtic Park was brief and after just one season he returned to England and joined Sheffield Wednesday. Disappointing when you look at his record, Glasgow Cup, Charity Cup and Scottish Cup, their first ever major trophy, they also narrowly lost out in the League to Dumbarton, but the offers were in for the money down south and like other football mercenaries at the time (and now I hasten to add) he was chasing it down.
Alec Brady had the honour of winning the premier domestic Cup medals on both sides of the borders (the FA Cup & the Scottish Cup) to become one of the first to have done so, and this was at a time when they were regarded as the pinnacle of the football world. He eventually returned to Scotland to play with Clydebank in 1899 before returning to his hometown team, Renton where he ended his playing career.
After retiring from football he stayed in the Renton, where he lived with his family until his death in 1913 aged 43. He was buried in the parish graveyard of Millburn Church, Renton which was marked with a memorial headstone in April 2016 by The Celtic Graves Society and Everton Heritage Society.
He has many relatives still living in the village and surrounding area including Sister Elizabeth Brady SND former head teacher at St Michael’s Primary in Dumbarton. Some Brucehill and Castlehill weans would have been oblivious to who their headmistress was, as would have been their parents.
If it hadn’t been for the Everton Heritage Society and our own Celtic Graves one Alec Brady would have remained a virtual Celtic unknown. Although not a Celtic great he played an integral part in our amazing history as being part of the first of over 100 trophies won by the club.
……..If in the final analysis……..Victorian Dad totally, unambiguously and irrevocably , holes the Busted Flush below the water line, and we see the myth sunk………fatally and once and for all…I will buy a hat and eat it.
I don’t see that happening.
BANKIEBHOY1
I’ll send ye mine:))
As long as we can get at the SFA and pulpit down through this information that would be a good enough start for this Tim:))
KTF
Starry……….I’ll gladly take it buddy……..a Homburg an’ chips please…………..
;)
…I don’t have the mind to follow the legal niceties but as much as I enjoy ( like any Tim) to see and hear that pompous nugget closely questioned on the ludicrous nature of his vain fantasies and ponzi scheme shenanigans…….I can’t see the punch coming that will put him on the canvas finally and forever.
Hope I’m wrong tho’.
HH
BANKIEBHOY1
For that to happen we would need to reach into the black heart of Scottish society and it’s Establishment and like you I can’t see that happening. It would derail the gravy train of entitlement and bought titles.
But for the moment it is entertaining enough to see the muppets in the dock to actually see what complete and total sma’ totes they really are.
Awe mooth and nae troosers as ma Sinted Maw was known to say!!
At least we don’t need the buzzer on here anymore the peepul are well and truly tobered for the mo’ :))
HH