It’s safe to say that Willie Collum’s work to raise the standards of Scottish refereeing goes on. On Saturday, after Reo Hatate was barged to the ground inside the Ross County box, Alistair Johnston was penalised for a similar (but less significant) event, which resulted in County’s penalty and goal.
It was a mercy that Alistair was not red carded for the incident, although the apparent failure to follow the Rules of the Game indicates that the VAR and referee were aware they were on shaky ground with the penalty award.
Celtic’s late penalty, when Yang was tackled above the knee by County’s James Brown, who made no contact with the ball, was of the stone wall variety, yet was missed by the referee and took two minutes of video analysis before a consensus was reached. Again, a red card could have been shown, but by this stage the referee must have been wanting to drift away quietly.
The appointment of external consultants across the city to advise the board what they should be doing is quite a thing. The Newco board know what to do, just as you and I know: run the club on a sustainable basis. All other improvements (the manager, recruitment, etc.) are merely window dressing.
Why spend on external consultants to be told what you already know? Running on a sustainable basis when you habitually run at a loss will mean painful budget cuts. My guess is that the Newco board do not have the stomach to tell their fans what’s in store, and would prefer an independent report to lay it out, with a measure of what consequences lie in store if they don’t. It looks weak.
Can we also agree that it was probably a good thing that Newco beat St Johnstone yesterday? More points dropped would surely have seen Clement sacked, which would release some of the tension around the club. All that tension will do nothing to soften the message, when the consultants’ report drops.
As for a supporters’ association and ultras group campaigning to get their manager sacked, have you ever seen anything as stupid and destructive? Demanding a manager is sacked is now a normal part of the ‘Rangers supporting experience’. It certainly happens oftener than trophy wins.
There is a learning opportunity for us in this. We will inevitably lose trophies and maybe a league in the future. The team will go through peaks and troughs and we will have poor managers, but demanding blood like this is toxic. You become a basket case that no manager with any proper choices would touch. We had a dose of this the night Ross County knocked us out of the League Cup in 2020. Mob rule makes it almost impossible to attract talent.
Football fans need to be able to accept losing with dignity. If they cannot do this, they should find another pastime.
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Woooft!
Morning from a still snow covered Kentucky.
Big ten days ahead across 3 comps.
HH!
TEXASTIM with the early start!
C’mon the Hoops.
Indeed, Paul!
Good afternoon all from the Brazen Head. A dreich day in old Glasgow Town, but the Celtic always brighten my days. 👍
Aipple – alarm went off – logged in and refreshed the screen – couldn’t resist that big round zero.
Random coincidence unlikely to be repeated.
I hope you’re enjoying the cold weather as much as I. Deep freeze forecast next Monday/Tuesday 🥶
Happy Birthday to favourite Uncle.79 eh 👏👏👏
HH
Happy hooooooopy birthday to favourite uncle.
The ref was very poor on Saturday, as was VAR. A very blatant push on McCowan went unpunished and allowed County to mount a few minutes of pressure on us, all stemming from a referee with apparent sight problems.
As for the Huns, they’re in dire shape. Clement will be gone by next season, season ticket renewals will see to that.
My only hope is that they’re knocked out of the Cup before he walks. I suspect they’ll be given a run of home draws to see them safely to Hampden…
External reviews are a good way of kicking cans down the road and playing for more time.
We did the same thing with the Strachan review, albeit, in true Celtic fashion, our external review was carried out by someone much closer to home.
I will always hold the view that if a management team needs to employ “consultants” to tell them how to run their business then said management team should be removed.
13th of January and we huvnae signed anybody. Calumny and infamy!
On the Yang penalty thought the ref had a poor angle ending up directly behind the players so he couldn’t see if Brown had played the ball at any point , for me didn’t matter if he played the ball he took the man out first anyway.
HH
Afternoon all.
BRRB
Say HOW to the Big Chief in the Brazen for me.🤠
BIG JIMMY
65in TV !
That’s a portable😁
Bill Leckie made me laugh with last sentence in paragraph:
“As for the question every cynic in the land — that is, everyone in the land — is asking, the one about whether they’d empty the guy in a heartbeat if they had the money?
Sorry, but Stewart’s answer left two words hanging in the air like a bad smell: Aye, right.
“Us? Make decisions based on finance? Perish the thought! Heaven forfend! We have good revenues, RECORD revenues, so this isn’t a financially-driven decision, no, no and thrice no!”
I’m paraphrasing here. But the gist is the guy he doth protest too much on this one, given that those “record revenues” also come with a £17.1million loss and that they’re making more from the pie stalls than they do in transfer revenue.”
BelmontBrian
Big Chief was serving behind the bar at the Ross County game. I think 🤔.
I thought the Johnson “penalty “should not have stood ,as the move had 3 men offside prior to the cross.
At the game it was hard to be certain but slow motion on TV cover confirmed it.
It was announced it was being checked but did not stand,so clearly the rules must be different to my understanding.
AN DÚN on 13TH JANUARY 2025 12:37 PM
“We did the same thing with the Strachan review, albeit, in true Celtic fashion, our external review was carried out by someone much closer to home.”
We didn’t do the same thing. WGS came in to review the youth and womens footballing departments structures, with a particular focus on the academy. There was no kicking the can down the road.
WGS is closer to home, he’s also knows better than anyone what it takes for domestic and European progress. He also has experience of working at an administrative level in football. He’s pretty uniquely qualified. And he’s a big Celtic man.
Hard to find fault with the whole thing, but then agsin
EXCATHEDRA44 on 13TH JANUARY 2025 12:57 PM
It was announced it was being checked but did not stand,so clearly the rules must be different to my understanding.
Or those interpreting them have a different agenda …….
I. agree ,there seemed to be more than one player offside.
excathedra44
Thats the way I saw it at the time and indeed mentioned it on here before the penalty was either awarded or taken. We talked last week about crossfield diagonal passes and it was a good one, even better when you have three players in front of our defence. Dont think it even got a mention on the live coverage or indeed on Sportscene later. Could be wrang on that count but we’re both right on the offside.
I remember Willie Collum and the Parcel of Brogues , back in the days of the ole Burnsssssss Howfffff
My worthless opinion is that any consultant will quickly work out that the problem lies with the culture at Ibrox, although you’d need a good understanding of Scottish football and society to get to how deep a problem it is for them.
You can make as many plans as you want, but to paraphrase Mike Tyson, a large part of the work is how you manage to carry them out while getting punched in the face repeatedly, by your own fans.
You need rhino thick skin, and an unshakable belief that what you are doing is the right thing.
While the referee and VAR were both poor on a number of decisions I thought the post match analysis from Kris Boyd and Neil McCann was first class. It’s good to know that if you are a Sky subscriber or BBC licence payer you get a former player/coaches’ forensic type analysis which us mere punters are simply not capable of providing, aye right!
As I said after the game on Saturday they are stealing money!
Think it’s fair to say that from the referee’s perspective the challenge on Yang was Out Of Sight
Whilst James Brown’s own reaction to Yang was;
“Get Up…get on up”
tillyoufeelbetterCSC
HAPPY HOOPY BIRTHDAY to……
FAVOURITE UNCLE.
Have a GREAT Day Mate.
HH.
celtic mac
belter :)
Glendaly/Celticmac
Appreciate reply and confirmation I was not seeing things.
I took a TV photo showing ball leaving the foot of player making pass, at that point 3 men clearly off,not marginal,so Mr Greg Aitken VAR expert, was clearly conflicted :)
Thanks for all the good wishes BHOYS. Just waiting for grand kids to help me blow out the candles. HAIL HAIL DANNYBHOY.
BelmontBrian on 13th January 2025 12:45 pm
Afternoon all.
BRRB
Say HOW to the Big Chief in the Brazen for me.🤠
BIG JIMMY
65in TV !
That’s a portable😁
………………
Aye right……..At least I will be allowed to play with my 65 Incher…..Your Missus doesn’t allow you the chance to play with your 75 incher ?
NO POINT in BRAGGING about something that you are NOT even allowed to touch !
LOL.
HH Mate.
P.S. My next TV will be a 80 Incher….IF such a size exists ? I will also play with that every day.
LOL
Celtic Mac on 13th January 2025 1:29 pm
Think it’s fair to say that from the referee’s perspective the challenge on Yang was Out Of Sight
Whilst James Brown’s own reaction to Yang was;
“Get Up…get on up”
tillyoufeelbetterCSC
…………..
Very good Mate.
LOL.
HH.
TEXASTIM
Pretty much on or below freezing here for next 10 days.
-15 overnight. So not just the Huns experiencing it! Got my flights booked. March 10th to 19th.
Happy birthday FavouriteUncle.
Whatever happened to The Strachan Review ?
help needed.
does anyone have contact for drambowie celt ?
if aye can you reach out and ask him is he ok.
i lost his number, and having seen him posting for some while.
ta much.
she’s turnt the weans against is.
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Bet you none those hun ultras wear school uniform but they all dress the same for ibrox.
Mmmm.
Vale Bhoy
Primary school uniform? 🤣
after tomorrow night there are only 15 league games to play, here we go for four in a row.
There has been a regular poster missing for a few weeks,Tom Mc Laughlin.Anyone know why?