Neil Lennon seemed hurt by the performance yesterday. “Some of [the players]look like their minds are elsewhere at other clubs.
“I don’t know if they have been tapped up, I don’t know where they are mentally, but you can tell by their body language they are not with us at the minute and I’ll have to sort that out.”
“I have pulled them out of places that no-one had heard of and put them in the shop window.
“And I want payback now. That is simply not good enough.”
Those of you of a certain age might have thought that sounded a bit like:
“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new.”
Of course, that girl from the Human League retorted:
“I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true. But even then I knew I’d find a much better place, either with or without you.”
As Human League declared in verse, talent will find its level, but only if it performs. It doesn’t matter where they came from, players who cannot excel in the SPL will drift into relative obscurity on leaving Celtic. There has been no exception to this rule.
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An old family friend celebrates her birthday tomorrow.
Isa Kareem will be 99.
HH!!
Isa Kareem 99 not out Enjoy
Burghbhoy
My hero ,apart from a certain FANADPATRIOT,was James Connelly,a great Hibernian supporter,I have always had a great respect for our cousins from the east.
Tallybhoy
you a conehead? :o)
ThisIsTheOne
My memory of the wee footbridge you are talking about is reaching the footbridge on way to game and having to put our jackets above our heads as hibs supporters launched bottles and bricks down on top of us .
HH
Fanapatriot
Me too. Have known some real fine Hibbies , some have lost their way a bit though.Always counted them as cousins.
James Connelly, certainly Edinburghs finest son.
Isa
Happy birthday
The last time I went to Easter Road on a supporters bus, when we got back after the game several of the windows had been put in.
Bloody raining as well!
HH!!
Sorry to be pedantic here but it’s James Connolly.
HH!!
Tallybhoy
Apologies
greenyin
No I just LOVE Ice Cream – old Isa does as well!
Especially a 99!
HH!!
Last time i was in easter rd we lost 4-3, big mcgugan hsd a mare (whats new?) was there the previous wednesday for a league cup game. We drew 4-4 and lost on pens. Think pierce o’leary missed the crucial one
FourGreenFields
21:04 on
10 March, 2013
Yeh, my memories of Easter Road in the 80’s and 90’s were hardly of some ‘love-in’ between us and the hibs fans
HH.
Fourgreenfields
As much as I respect our cousins from the east,the only ground I suffered an injury was Easter Road,I ended up with six stitches after a brick was thrown over the cemetary wall,but that could have happen in any ground in Scotland in the 80s.Thats life.
Burghbhoy
No worries!
Connelly/Connolly – can be quite confusing!
HH!!
I don’t think yesterdays team lacked effort.I didn’t think the team at Motherwell lacked effort.
They lacked the quality required to win these matches.
I didn’t see a lack of effort.I saw a lack of skill ,physical presence,pace,and technical ability.
TT
tractorbhoy
I remember those three games at ibrox. 2-0, 3-0 3-2
Magic
Tallybhoy
when i was a lad, a conehead was a teller of tall tales, a spoofer. partial to some ice cream myself :o)
Greenyinfurrafenian
Was at the O’Leary game.
They fished the baw from his penalty out Leith docks.
Probably the worst penalty I’ve seen!
Mind winning a League cup penalty shoot out at Tynecastle but!!
Neil is probably right that players have their minds elsewhere.
Then why keep picking them?
Hooper has been terrible for weeks now so why still automatic choice?
I think Efe has become the new scapegoat.He has flaws but is not the only one making glaring errors.
Charlie Mulgrew is guilty also.Izzy likewise and FF has looked a shadow of himself.
Coach blaming everyone but himself does not help.
He should take a long hard look at his choices,formations and poorly implemented sysem for a start.
We are wildly inconsistent and still to reliant on individual brilliance rather than a potent system.
Someone mentioned Vigurs brilliance yesterday but with the amount of space he had to work in an average pub footballer would have shone.
He is a young coach but unless he takes an intospective look we are in danger of stagnating or going backwards.
Tallybhoy
Of course you are correct,my fault,I will put it down to jet lag,I came back from Dubia today,plus the drink.James Connolly is my hero..
There are some right part timers on this bus.(;-)
TT
Memories of 1st game. it was 28th May 1888 against the Huns and we won 5-2. Neilly McCallum scored the first goal but i missed it as I was away for a Colin Nish as I had necked a few porters on the horse and cart on the way to the game.
I know you’re thinking I should be deid but it was only the company that ran me that died.
If Fanny Craddock had married Ed Balls father then she would have been Fanny Balls.
HH!!
Tiny Tim
I think we have easily as much skill,physical presence,pace and technical ability as every team in spl.
I still think we suffer from poorly implemented strategies and systems due to inexperienced coaches.
If Fanny Craddock had married Walter Smith then she would have been a Fanny
Memories of Easter road was the ski slope of a park which Peter Grant once scored what great times.I went to all the games between 1987 to 2006 I think you miss the old grounds the fans seemed happier back then.
burghbhoy
went thru to tynecastle the week before title win agsinst dundee ’88. was bedlam. was in hearts end next to segregation fence at 18yard line. the gate was thrown open and hundreds of bhoys made a dash to get in the celtic end (gorgie rd) jambos tryin to trip us with the usual sectarian bile thrown in too. last time at that stadium. it was at that time i gave up following celtic away
If Tuesday Weld had married Frederic March’s grandson she would have become Tuesday March the 3rd.
Does Isa Kreem share her birthday with J. Lee?
Greenyinfurrafenian
Yep, those Jambos appear to have taken a dislike to us!
No half as much as the dislike I have of them but!
Scum who booed the minutes silence for the Pope.
A reprehensible breed.
Scottish fitba’ stadiums in the 60s and 70s were mostly dumps and death-traps.
Fantastic atmosphere ‘tho – hemmed in like sardines, but when you are a ‘daft bhoy’ it was all part of the experience.
Happy days!
HH!!
saw guys getting the jail at tynecastle for jiving during American pie. Lateral movement not tolerated even then. We had it tough.
polis with cameras; sheer luxury.
If Fanny Craddock married chuckles…or is it just the light in here?
Burghbhoy/Prestonpans
Don’t remember much about the game and as my old man grudged giving money to any club apart from Celtic I doubt we would have purchased a programme.
The fact it might have been free would probably not have mattered a jot!!
Marra.
I was there anaw.
Jim Chapman Annan manager. We won because we were the better team out there end of!! Good Bhoy btw!!
garygillespieshamstring
21:32 on
10 March, 2013
I remember that day at Tynecastle. One of the funniest experiences following Celtic until plod ruined it.
I lost a watch at the old Celtic End at CP in the 1980s.
Never got it back!
I remember there was a cop standing just a few feet away – I think it was him!
HH!!