We’ve seen a few difficult games against Hamilton Accies in recent years, including what proved to be a costly draw after being denied a late winner at New Douglas Park, but we’ve never met them in this form.
Hamilton have the longest unbeaten run in Scotland. They lost their opening league game of the season, at home to Inverness, but have won seven and drawn two of their subsequent nine games. Their 0-4 win away to Motherwell last week was a display of sharp, organised football – and remember, Motherwell took at point at Celtic Park the previous weekend.
Alex Neil will have no intentions of leaving pointless tomorrow. This is the game he and his players will have been waiting for since the fixtures were announced four months ago. Their four SPLF away games: wins at St Mirren, Partick and Motherwell, and a draw at Tannadice, has been preparation for Celtic Park.
If Celtic have a Europa League hangover, Accies will boss them. Forget the lowly status of the club, respect is needed if we are the get the desired result and performance required.
I’m running the Great Scottish Run in aid of Celtic Foundation tomorrow morning, which presents a, erm, personal hygiene challenge for the game. It’ll be a full can of deodorant day. If you have a £1 or two for the fundraising, you can help here.
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dushanbie@BT
Nope, the mrs disnie have them. I live in hope it will have eased in the morning, hopefully. :-)))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
gordon64
If you fancy doing something in line with our ethos and founding traditions, we’re collecting signatures tomorrow before the game if you can make it.
Outside the Celtic Superstore at 11:30 big fella.
the glorious balance sheet
20:19 on 4 October, 2014
Absolutely sick with the Zombies obsession with trying to rewrite and deny history.
Their club was liquidated. This is fact as duly recorded by Companies House.
There is nothing in that Livingston match programme article that is inaccurate.
The Zombies have no shame; leading a witch hunt against a programme contributor who committed the crime of writing an article that spoke to the inconvenient truth. No doubt platoons of Zombies are already trying to identify the person that wrote the programme article and death threats etc will follow.
Somebody should tell the brain dead roaster Andrew Dickson that the new club content is not horrendous, it is the simple truth. It is time the SFA stepped in and put the Zombies straight on this point, the intimidation, rabble rousing and coercion designed to force people to accept a lie cannot go on.
It makes a mockery of our sport.
Post of the day sir.
G64
Roy C mentioned Sturgeon, my post was in response to that mate.
BT- Hope you get home asap.HH
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nPiBai66M&list=AL94UKMTqg-9D9joAlBwDcwar_kpYG8b0Y
G64-all ok in the Vogue big chap?
Hamiltontim
A number of friends and relatives of mine have joined the SNP since the referendum…not for me and the Bill is only one issue I have with them but I understand their frustration. I’m pleading with them to use their membership to lobby to scrap this ridiculous legislation. I suspect a few SNP MSP’s may not be comfortable around their new members.
HH
HT
Respect amigo.
Would like to assist but i would be worse
than a man short
HH
Weefra & BT
You will both be in my prayers at st brides tomorrow
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
I raise you the Watson Twins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CryzGIMDuSA
def away to bed this time csc
Harry Chapin W.O.L.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0fH0dRUow
TBJ
Cheers for that, hopefully see you tomorrow. :-)
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Bada
A bit of bother on Thursday night
in Ruglen.
I’m finished with the place.
BT is letting me join the KOSC.
Want a membership form ?
HH
patmcgrathtakesapenalty
The guardian did something on him in the week, I posted it on here, not a single aknowledgement to the post.
A good read as you say.
HH
Roy C
Completely agree with all of that S. I get that through frustration folk are flocking to the SNP but like you it’s not for me.
My hope is that those joining will fight the enemy within.
G64
Ya big woose :-)
Yogiy, don’t blame me,I voted Yes at 21:23,
Rangers ‘fans’ stopping the police from arresting one of their own, very concerning.
Click Here.
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That is shocking Yogiy. No fans in this Country(except them) would be allowed to get away with that.
Hail Hail.
louden wainwright
http://youtu.be/zTlAwcsRZD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r2vGa-yLiso
The Verve
Sonnet
HH
BADA BING
In evidence to the BBC Trust, BBC Scotland stated:
“A football club, once incorporated, is indistinguishable in Scots law from its corporate identity.
If the club was separate, it would need its own constitution, committee members, trustees etc.
Rangers Football Club does not have that, as it is incorporated ”
Last word, as far as I’m concerned.
Interpol – Evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqfiHfDmOnw
TET
I’d do it another time and not at 11pm on a Saturday night but I’d challenge anyone who could claim that any GB display, apart from one, has not been in line with our founding traditions.
Anyways, how’s the cave auld yin :-)
HT
Luv u bud but please don’t make light
of serious sectarian abuse.
Talk to you about it soon.
HH
will oldham
http://youtu.be/GHFldNEkwSc
The Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1acEVmnVhI
HT
No bother mi amigo, and again I agree with you 100%.
Sometimes I wish I were young again >}
La cueva is the best thing I have ever done in my puff.
HH
Good evening friends.
october holiday finally booked. Fly out next Saturday for 5 nights in Calpe, just north of Benidorm. Is Deniabhoy still about?
G64
My friend, you’ve lost me. I know all about ‘serious sectarian abuse’ as my scars will testify :-)
I can assure you I wasnt, and wouldn’t, make light of it.
Divine Comedy – National Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NVPOedkEk
http://youtu.be/AOT7OwcbK-k
goodnight all
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Jobo
I see you will be taking the rain to Calpe with you next week, at least it will be warm enough >}
Enjoy.
HH
Most balanced and informed post referendum article I have read so far….IN THE final weeks of the Scottish referendum campaign, it became a cliché to say that the political tremors emitted by a No vote would be almost as violent as those from a Yes vote. This was an exaggeration. If Yes had prevailed, it would probably have been the end of David Cameron’s leadership. Sterling would have plunged. A 307-year-old union would have crumpled. Britain’s global swagger—such as it is—would have been at an end.
But in some respects the cliché was accurate. The No victory, by a margin of about 55% to 45%, will now resonate noisily, and not just in Scotland.
As the sighs of relief subside (give it a couple more hours) the recriminations will begin. The referendum race was never expected to get as close as it did in its final weeks: two months ago, the No side had a better than 20-point lead in the polls. For that, there is much blame to go around. The prime minister agreed to a referendum question that benefited the nationalists; Alistair Darling ran an uninspiring “No” campaign; Labour lost touch with its working-class Scottish base; businesses were to slow to warn against independence.
Others reckon that a No vote has been won at far too high a price. On September 8th Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, told Scots that they would be rewarded with “a modern form of Scottish Home Rule” if they stayed in the union. New powers for Edinburgh would be rushed through Parliament, he pledged, adding that a draft bill would be published by Burns Night (January 25th). The Barnett Formula, which ensures Scotland dollops of public money, would endure. The leaders of all three big political parties backed Mr Brown’s offer, but not all MPs do. Several Conservatives have called for a stingier spending settlement and questioned the case for drastic further devolution.
Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party leader, will also be pilloried for his handling of the Yes campaign. In its early months, when Mr Salmond’s Scottish National Party ran it, the Yes cause lacked energy or strategy. Only when various left-wing groups rallied did it gather the momentum that made it such a formidable force in the final months of the campaign. Even then, early failures, such as the lack of a clear stance on vital issues like currency, bedeviled the campaign. Non-SNP figures in the Yes movement are already planning a full-throated denunciation of SNP leaders, specifically Mr Salmond. Nicola Sturgeon, his deputy, is known to share some of their gripes. The first minister will retort that the campaign extracted great concessions from London. Still, in the febrile, emotionally shattered atmosphere of the Yes campaign, a leadership challenge or even the emergence of a rival nationalist party are possible.
And what will the nationalists do next? Perhaps they will be patient and pragmatic, support the transfer of further powers to Scotland and bide their time. Another Conservative government after the 2015 general election, followed by a referendum on Britain’s EU membership, might give them another chance to push for secession quickly. But, equally, they might prove truculent, insisting (as they did in the final days of the campaign) that a shadowy scare campaign dissuaded Scots who want independence from voting for it. In which case, calls for a new referendum will come quickly.
Meanwhile the unionist parties will attempt to crack on with the promised devolution without upsetting English MPs, who will have to ratify a further transfer of powers. David Cameron confirmed this much in his reaction to the referendum result outside 10 Downing Street this morning. Lord Smith of Kelvin, a Scottish grandee, will lead this process, he announced, adding that there would be an agreement on the new powers in November, followed by draft legislation in January (in keeping with the timetable proposed by Mr Brown).
This will likely put Scotland on the road to autonomy akin to that enjoyed by an American state. In a unitary political system like Britain’s, it will cause mighty constitutional problems, which will have to be worked out—almost certainly amid a good deal of shouting.
The first objection raised to further Scottish devolution will be an old one, but given new energy. Why, English MPs ask, can Scottish MPs vote on huge swathes of legislation (education, health and the like) that only affect the English—or sometimes the English, Welsh and Northern Irish? This “West Lothian question”, as it was long ago dubbed, already irks Conservative MPs. In his comments this morning Mr Cameron said he wanted to see it resolved. Some in his party have called for an English parliament or for English-only votes in the House of Commons—either of which would tend to give them the whip hand, since the Tories are far stronger in England than they are in Scotland.
Neither would be at all easy to set up. England is far too dominant in the United Kingdom to have its own legislature: the first minister of an English parliament would be as powerful—more so in some ways—than the prime minister of Britain. And the Westminster model is predicated on equality of status for MPs. Still, Mr Cameron and the other main party leaders will probably have to introduce an English dimension into the legislature. A cabinet committee led by William Hague, who as Conservative leader in 2001 committed his party to English-only votes without many people noticing, will consider this in the coming months. The most feasible option, suggested by a commission last year, would be to send some legislation through English committees for amendment before a final vote of the whole house.
The second response to Britain’s growing constitutional imbalance will be calls—which are already mounting—for greater devolution within England. If Scotland, with some 5m residents, controls education, welfare and tax rates, why should regions and conurbations with similar populations be run from London? The Electoral Reform Society and others have called for a constitutional convention to discuss such matters. This initiative, though wonkish, has political support from prominent local politicians (in Manchester, for example) and from Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, who has promised to be “on the picket lines” pushing for stronger local government. A flurry of recent reports from think-tanks has furnished such figures with blueprints for such a decentralisation.
So the United Kingdom will stay united. But it will also be looser and constitutionally messier than in the past. “No Thanks does not mean no change”, Better Together campaigners assured Scots over the final weeks of the campaign. How right they were.
HT
Sorry amigo.
When you cant walk on the street with a Celtic scarf
for fear of being abused and assaulted
I’ve had my fill with Ruglen.
Time to move on and it’s the KOSC for me.
HH
Some images of Glasgow and the great voice of Paul Buchanan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtVmQIxh6tQ
After today’s show in Livingston, the new West Lothian question is: Are the old Rangers still dead?
Answers on a postcard to Andrew Dickson c/o Zombieland Ibrokes-
YESYABAMCSC
Night Bhoys
HH
THE EXILED TIM at 23:18 on 4 October, 2014
Not going till the 11th so I have absolutely no faith in any such long term weather FORECASTS.
As you know, I simply REPORT the weather ;-)
Interesting strip Newcastle have!