It’s difficult to analyse Celtic’s performance last night. For much of the game the players were clearly enjoying themselves and should have been rewarded with more goals, but Dunfermline were incredibly porous in central midfield. Ki and Commons were able to stage a passing master-class which was pleasing on the eye.
The fact that the deluge of goals didn’t come is not particularly concerning. Celtic don’t make a habit of profligacy in front of goals, making chances is more of a problem, so it would be a mistake to read too much into one game.
While Dunfermline were out of the contest for most of the evening they also retained two strikers, something we seldom see from SPL visitors at Celtic Park, so that fact that they were able to construct an attempt at goal five minutes from time was not surprising.
Celtic got what they needed from the game but Danny Lennon, who brings St Mirren to Celtic Park on Saturday, will also have seen enough to let him form a decent game-plan, especially if Celtic play a 4-4-2 with two wingers, as they finished the game yesterday.
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The BBC World Service is clearly not the BBC Billy Ray Cyrus Service.
Yet another bafflingly shameful decision by the tin-eared pinkoes.
When asked about the superhuman power of Mr Sone Aluko…..
Jeith Kackson snapped,
“It’s off the radar”.
Sly News……….
Jim (red) White (andblue)
“So Sone, how come you’re soooo good?”
weeminger: 25 November, 2011 at 08:52
“I suppose technically speaking not on the scale is still ‘off the scale’”
It’s all about semantics … or billshut, if you prefer!!
Vmhan♣ who Supports Neil Lennon says:
25 November, 2011 at 08:40
Morning Celts and a happy Friday to ye!
Good morning. Sunny and no wind in land.
It’s a jabba of a day out there.
Away to battle through the honking weather to do my civic duty at court. If selected as a jury member I will of course assess the evidence in an objective and level headed way.
Unless you are a Mr C Whyte. Then beware, you are going daaaaahn!!!
Hopefully next Wednesdays strike will see a few more bottoms on plastic seats for the Athletico game. Obviously a cleverly orchestrated manoeuvre to beat the 6pm kick off!
Margaret McGill says:
BABASONICOS71 says:
Imatim and so is Neil Lennon says:
25 November, 2011 at 02:58
Time for a united front.Play smart,get the job done then sort any divisions within.
I agree entirely with the sentiments expressed.
I am 100% convinced however that the real hope of the CELTIC PLC is that we at least win the SPL title, possibly a double and who knows a treble.
My fear however is that the joy that ensues within the Celtic support will be used as a distraction to give the hun our integral business partner a resuscitating Old Firm kiss of life.
Hail Hail
Awe_Naw –
As per usual, you give the Celtic board way too much credit.
We are constantly being told how inept they are, yet according to you, they are endowed with ingenuity and perspicacity beyond belief.
Can we have it both ways?
Or haven’t you thought of that?
My money’s on the latter.
SONE ALUKO last night clinched his dream move to Rangers after agreeing to pay Aberdeen almost £200,000 out of his own pocket over the next two and a half years.
The 22-year-old winger penned an initial six-month deal with the SPL champions yesterday and now hopes to use the rest of the season to trigger a further two-year contract.
But Aluko’s advisers then revealed how the Nigerian and his parents had to scramble together a lump sum of more than £50,000 to pay off his former Pittodrie bosses and stop them from blocking the move in a legal row over compensation they claim they are due.
As part of the astonishing agreement, Aluko – who knocked back an 11th-hour offer from Championship side Watford – has also agreed to stump up around a further £150,000 in monthly instalments straight out of his Rangers pay packet.
And speaking in a stunning exclusive interview with Record Sport last night, the youngster said: “The way I see it is what I have done here is invest in my own future.
“If this move works out the way I hope it will then I will go on to have a very good career and I’ll make the money back somewhere along the line.
“I did have other offers and I could have chosen a more comfortable way of doing things. I could have gone done a more normal route.
“But this is Rangers. It’s a huge club, on a huge stage and the chance may never have come around again.
“I wouldn’t have made these kind of sacrifices for just any club.
“However, this club will give me the chance to show what I can do.
“You could say that I have taken a gamble on myself here.
“But I know it’s a good gamble and even now, so soon after signing, I have a really good feeling about it. I already know that I have done the right thing.”
Aluko and his camp had considered mounting a legal challenge to fight former club Aberdeen’s claim that they were owed a bumper pay out for contributing to his development.
But the player feared any delay in the courtroom might scupper his chances of sealing a deal with Ally McCoist’s side.
It’s also understood that Watford were actually willing to meet Aberdeen’s cash demands in full.
However, Aluko turned the English side down flat and instead set about rasing the cash he needed to buy his way into Ibrox.
The unprecedented deal was then thrashed out late on Wednesday night before Aluko hopped into a car to complete a gruelling 600-mile round trip.
He drove to his Midlands home to pick up belongings then returned to Glasgow yesterday at lunchtime to undergo a medical and sign on the dotted line.
Last night his adviser Alan Love said: “Rangers have not parted with a coin.
“Sone and his family have put money up and, as the agents, we also put our commission into the pot. Morally, we could not do anything else.
“A proportion of the fee has been paid up front and the rest will come out of Sone’s wages and appearance money over the next two years. It tells you something about this boy’s dedication and desire to succeed.
“He has paid his ticket to go to Rangers. I can’t think of any other player in this day and age who would have made this kind of sacrifice. But it’s not about money – it’s all about his career.”
Aluko started his career with Birmingham before moving north to Pittodrie in a £50,000 deal in 2008.
The winger left in the summer when his contract expired but the Dons believed they were due a fee from his next team for helping to develop the player.
And the Pittodrie club yesterday said the terms agreed with Gers involved the “receipt of training compensation, potential contingent payments and a sell-on clause”.
Chief executive Duncan Fraser told the club’s website: “The club has been adamant that the principles under which an agreement could be reached involved the recognition of our right to training compensation and that we would only deal with another club directly.
“Once Rangers had decided that they would make a contract offer, we were then able to agree a mutually acceptable position.”
Will Chief executive Duncan Fraser be as principled when it comes to voting for a Newco Rangers to assume Rangers history and SPL position ? Sport record is almost certain that those principles will not be adhered to so strenuously .
Tom McLaughlin says:
25 November, 2011 at 09:12
That you dont know by now that nobody on here really cares what you think in your many guises is not lost on me but definitely on you.
Hail Hail
I just knew you couldn’t give a response without mentioning “many-disguises”.
You mean like last week when a poster questioned you and you assumed it was me, as in, nobody ever could criticise you, unless it is me in disuise.
Y-A-W-N
So Awe_Naw, what other disguises am I posting under?
Take your time.
Aluko must have written in some easy ‘get out’ clauses..I think he’ll do well and certainly got a lot of belief in himself.. £200k out of his own pocket is a lot for a 22 yr old who has yet to make any real money out of the game.
The Huns have done well…but a sign of their standing in the football market…
.. And yet our Business Supremo CEO can’t provide a team that can trump them?
Jog on Peter, let someone average in who will do the job… Because that’s all it needs.. Any CEO should be able to muster the resource to pump a team that can only acquire players via the Aluko route…
Tom McLaughlin says:
25 November, 2011 at 09:20
I cant be held responsible for you destroying your own credibility and often. I am not surprised that you find it tiresome. I though that incident last week was you seeking attention again. That´s why it was ignored by all except you.
Hail Hail
though=thought
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – I see this as a template for future money-spinning hunnish activities.
There are literally hunners of thousandaire bluenoses who would gladly pay tens of pounds to squeeze into an XXXL cyan shirt and represent Ra Bears.
Rangers 2012 could be composed largely of fans paying for the experience.
A smart businessman like Craig Whyte, with his extensive experience in dozens of companies, some of which still exist, could think up all sorts of added value packages to capture the hunnish pound.
How about:
* Recreating the famous 1972 trophy presentation by mocking up the Ibrox toilets to look like the Camp Nou toilets and charging for photies?
* Letting young bears sit on Davie Weir’s knee and hear stories about the war?
* Craig Whyte’s Business Successmanship Seminar: Why it isn’t a “pyramid scheme” if you use a rhombus. (thumbsup)
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd: 25 November, 2011 at 09:23
Sone Aluko was released by Aberdeen at the end of the season. He has been a free agent for almost six months.
So when you say “The Huns have done well” is this on the basis that Aluko and his family have made the compensation payment Rangers couldn’t afford?
Ceremony at Tom Maley’s grave Nov 26
Mote good works from Celtic Graves Society.
Media hypocrisy here incredible. Heard Jabba and Chico last night both agreeing that “big Terry’s” adrenalin contributed to his rant and violently agreeing that no action should be taken against him following his outburst.
I look forward to the same thoughtful comment being applied should Neil Lennon next have an outburst. Then it it will be shameful, disgraceful, etc, etc. In fact Neil’s Christian name will be forgotten; cue rants, etc,etc
So predictable and sad.
Re. the ‘World’s Best Song’ Top 10 link from the ole BBC, as posted by lostinbonnybridge at 06:37, numbers 2-9 are obviously anagrams but I still can’t figure out which one of them can be re-arranged into ‘Shaddap You Face’ by the legned Joe Dolce.
With the signing of the wonderful benevolent one, who is proof positive that a professional footballer will stop at nothing to play for the mighty Rainjurs, the Rangers Dodgers FC first team squad now consists of 25 players:
G
McGregor
Alexander
D
Broadfoot
Whittaker
Papac
Weir
Wallace
Bartley
Goian
Bocanegra
M
McCulloch
Naismith
Edu
Davis
Ness
Wylde
Kerkar
Ortiz
Bedoya
McKay
Fleck
Alouko
F
Lafferty
Jelavic
Healy
Those players have been signed for around £24.2m in transfer fees. The more important ones (McGregor, Whittaker, Naismith, Davis, Jelavic) are all on long, presumably lucrative, contracts. Whyte has stated their wage bill has risen on his watch.
The Celtic first team squad consists of 26 players if you count the new guy Lustig:
G
Zaliuska
Forster
D
M. Wilson
Mulgrew
Du-Ri
Izaguirre
Matthews
El Khaddouri
Blackman
Rustig
Loovens
Rogne
Majstorovic
K. Wilson
Wanyama
M
Brown
McCourt
Ki Sung-Yeong
Ledley
Kayal
Forrest
Commons
F
Stokes
Samaras
Hooper
Bangura
Those players have been signed for around £19.8m in transfer fees. The one on the highest wage (Brown) may not be here much longer. (We do have another 6 players of first team age and experience out on loan).
May those who lament the failure of Celtic to beat a financially moribund Rangers please remember that on the park, where it matters, we continue to be out-spent.
HH
TLK
Our Hero, James Forrest.
Brilliant clip courtesy of ‘Videobhoy’
http://tinyurl.com/6v7ojzn
Awe_Naw –
So another poster attacks you.
You accuse him of being me.
Arrogance beyond belief.
And you wonder why I reacted?
Tis always thus with the spoiled brat. Were you bullied at school?
I also noticed that several veteran CQNers objected to your blatant anti-Asian racist comments and told you were to take your posisonous beliefs, and your usual defence was to attack one of them and claim you “didn’t say that.”
You know, I’d have a modicum of respect for you if once, just once, you would hold up your hands and say, “I got that wrong.”
‘The track kept Ultravox’s “Vienna” off the number one singles spot in the United Kingdom’
-so despite the usual begrudging sniping cynicism from ole Johnny Clash ‘Shaddap your Face’ was not a complete waste of time and money.
Any chance we can go through a day without mentioning Jabba, Sneevins, Chico?
It’s us talking about them and listening to them that keep them in their position.
Does anyone know what happened re the CAS hearing with Sion?
Can’t see it reported anywhere, but thought it was yesterday.
Morning All from rain-swept Glasgow.
Philvis: I see you’re up with the lark today … (a quiet day in the City, I take it).
And, I might add, already firing on all cylinders with that cracking post @ 9:26.
I know you have been reluctant to tell us the secret of your podium-grabbing software solution, but surely there can be no harm in sharing with us the secret of your early morning vigour?
FF
Steinreignedsupreme says:
Yes … Exactly that. I happen to think he is a good player who will look better with better players. Huns have done well though in getting him at no cost no risk.
I’m not saying I’d want him at Celtic as I think we have better but I admire his self belief and willingness to back himself…
It just depresses me we still can’t match them despite our ‘CEO extrodinaire’..
What has our season been about so far? A much hoped for Hun collapse?
All we need to do is get our own house in order and we’d be romping this league…
DBBIA,
On the subject of ‘Vienna’, I’m imagining that with your Movember tache you’ll be a dead ringer for wee Midge in the classic atmospheric video for that No.2 smash.
Tom,
My Asian wife knows me better than any of you and my Pakistani friends which consist of many families who I know extremely well and from both sides of the Old Firm divide are far more reliable sources to what I testified too in my opinion than the ‘veteran CQNérs’
I honestly dont mind the perpetual bee in your bonnet you have about me and how you try so desperately to assassinate my character. I take it as a compliment but it ultimately I find it sad.
I know you love me. I know you hang on my every word. I know you retain every exchange I have on CQN
Which is a pity as I ignore you completely or at least I try to as I have never had any respect for you. I really would prefer if you found someone else to fulfil your need for attention.
Can we go back to that ?
Hail Hail
p.s
The Lizard King:
Thank you. This has to be the most overlooked fact in Scottish football. Rangers may be up a certain financial creek off the pitch but that has yet to filter through to their playing squad. It is a shocking reflection on the administration of Scottish football that they can pay guys like Lafferty, Jelavic and Davies the money they must be on and still have creditors hound them for money on the steps of the court.
And the “worst Rangers team ever” stuff we regularly hear is nonsense. The ugly ones last season outscored every one of Smith’s 9 in a row teams in terms of points and they outspent the rest of the league by even more back then. Let me be clear, the current uglies side are no world beaters and we should be a lot closer to them than we are right now. But that is just an example of how financially doped this league is right now.
Craiginho
Tom @ 9 47.
Sion / CAS —-
Sion turned up .
The proceedings were delayed due to a dispute re the language that the proceedings were to be conducted in and who was doing the translations.
Much time was devoted to the semantic interpretation of ” time ” ” football time ” chronological time ” etc.
The Court called a halt to the proceedings @ 9pm .
The Court is scheduled to reconvene sometime today .
Italian cyberspace is reporting that Sion have suggested that there might be something interesting about the presence of Rennes in a UEFA competition..
Warm and sunny –a lovely day -way down south.
Has anyone had any experience of having their bank account cleared out by fraudsters?
My wife and I have a joint account we use for mortgate, rates, car payments etc. We each have a standing order from our own accounts to put half of our wages into this account. When we went to look at it last night the online banking wouldn’t work so phoned the bank to see what the story was. They said they had blocked it due to a withdrawl that was made last week of £4k which cleared all the money in it and put us £2k ish overdrawn. When they asked us questions, the agreed that it was most likely fraud and agreed to refund the money within 72 hours. The problem is direct debits and standing orders that might be paid before the money is back might bounce.
Has anyone had any expeirence of anything similar and if so, were you able to get the money back. the most galling thing in this is that the bank allowed this withdrawl to go well overdrawn without even contacting us before hand to see if it was us who made the transaction.
Mort
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd: 25 November, 2011 at 09:53
We will win the league. I have no doubt about that and it’s not based on delusion or anything that happens off-the-pitch with the Huns.
Celtic have stuttered for much of the season, but this is down to several factors; having to continually rotate the defence because of injuries and suspensions, the absence of three key players in Izaguirre, Commons and Brown – who have all been performing very well under Neil Lennon, and the loss of form from others.
Despite this we are closing the gap at an impressive rate. Rangers have yet to drop any points on the road, and they will do before they come to Celtic Park. We are finally showing signs of consistency. It’s down to us. There is still over half of the season remaining.
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd says:
25 November, 2011 at 09:53
Has it occurred to you that one of the reason’s we’re not in a similar position to Rangers in having to get players to pay their own release fees is because of our CEO, because that’s nothing to do with the impending tax case and everything to do with how the club is run.
CultsBhoy –
You have a point mate.
I know next to nothing about Aluko, so cannot comment, which means I won’t come on here bad-mouthing the guy just because he has signed for the Huns. If he has paid a lot of money out of his own pocket to secure his dream move, then he is to be lauded rather than ridiculed.
Do we have to hate EVERYBODY who has anything to do with Rangers, even before he has kicked a ball? Are we, as football fans, not allowed to admire and respect players like Laudrup, Henderson and Baxter?
We ridicule players who turn their backs on an offer from Celtic and accuse them of being “in it for the money” – Ginola, Campbell, Bellamy etc – yet here we are mocking a guy for spending his own money to get the move he wants.
If and when he starts behaving “Laffertyesque” I will be first in line to put the boot in, but until then, give the lad a break and let’s show some class as a support.
To Tims,everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiVFrNScixQ
Gonnae?
Craiginho says:
25 November, 2011 at 10:02
Absolutely. And to spell it our rather, the squad Rangers have accumulated and which has won 3 titles has pitched them to the brink of financial Armageddon. Yet that team remains on the park.
There is till an interesting debate to be had about whether Celtic has bought players wisely. However, as a poster earlier stated comparing the Celtic and Man Utd squads from the game 5 seasons ago, there are huge benefits in having a settled squad with healthy but limited turn over. Our turn over has been unsustainable – 86 players in the last 4 seasons. Partly this is due to lack of success trying to compete with a financially doped opponent (change in managers etc). How do you compete successfully against someone who would literally rather kill themselves than risk having you win?
HH
TLK