The bedrock Celtic built their record-breaking league win on last was the defence; we went months without conceding, serious chances for opponents were written up lustily. A large part of the summer shambles was the contrasting nature of our defensive play; Legia Warsaw scored six but they also missed a hatful.
While our results have improved in recent weeks it’s the defensive record which has shown the most marked up-lift. We’ve conceded only twice in seven games, a ricochet against Astra and that goal against Hamilton. By contrast, we kept only a solitary clean sheet in the seven games prior to this run.
On the surface, we looked shaky in defence for the latter parts of the game against Inverness on Saturday, but while there is still work to do, the defence can be encouraged that they are able to withstand sustained pressure – and that they can rely on their keeper, when necessary.
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Magners have been a great help to our campaign to build a fourth CQN school kitchen for Mary’s Meals in recent weeks, so I’m keen we support and encourage this initiative. £18,300 is a huge bonus for the Foundation, they will do great work with it.
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Totally agree IGC & well put. Why should we be fighting amongst ourselves with guys threatening to quit Celtic etc. Don’t burst a blood vessel with anger bust a gut with laughter.
Davidopoulos
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cheers …………braw
S o T
Led Zep?
A buncha plagiarists!
There are dozens of old bluesmen living in poverty who have had their choons *cough* borrowed by messrs Page, Plant et al without any acknowledgement!
HH!!
From Video Celts archive:
“Paul George made a scoring return to action yesterday as Celtic’s u-20 side beat Falkirk 1-0 at Lennoxtown.
The Irishman suffered a horror leg break in April following a challenge from Lewis McLeod of Rangers that brought his development to a halt.”
IGC
16:10 on 4 November, 2014
So here’s my tuppence worth on the Sevco/old club/new club stuff.
We will never change thems’ minds. It gets too sinister when the auld debate comes up so let’s leave it as “we know what you did in the summer of 2012″
I personally find it better to turn it from frustration and point scoring to humour. Just enjoy the laughter value of them going bust.
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Hear, hear! Anyone who has tried to explain the situation to a zombie will know that you just end up going round in circles…ever decreasing circles at that…and the circles aren’t always concentric…and non-concentric circles make baby Jesus cry. We need to content ourselves with being satisfied in our own knowledge.
They just don’t get it because their superhuman levels of denial will never allow them to get it.
If the last 2 years has proven anything, it’s that zombies are impervious to the Kubler-Ross model…
And every time a club is forced to apologise for telling the truth reenforces the myth of same club, an official statement without apology kills that argument stone dead and the grieving process can begin but as long as there is ambiguity there is deniability.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
They haven’t been able to take a tellin’ thus far, so why would they then take a tellin’ from some uppity tims?
I totally get what you are saying, but it won’t change the zombie mindset – they will never succumb to logic and reason.
david..,
I expect a statement from us would force the issue and both the SFA and spfl would both have to fall into line as a demand for an apology will be dismissed as feeding a lie, that would call the authorities integrity into question and they would not recover from that.
davidopolous
Zombie logic and reason?
Another oxymoron to rival ‘a handsome hun.’
HH!!
I sometimes think that some people hate sevco more than they love Celtic.
I see WGS gets on message with the current drive to make Sevco Seem like a big club, select a first division player who there are no plans to actually let near the first team and allow the SMSM to fall over themselves with resurrectionist joy. After the last weeks pash about cheating to allow the 3 first division clubs into the top league the wee man has certainly gone down in my reckoning.
I’m sitting here thinking that I might be one of those people myself. I’ll not be going to watch us playing them ever. So maybe a bit of pot and kettle on my part. I’m away to consider my position. No easy this being a Tim. Is it?
I believe that when Skip Spence had serious health problems Robert Plant helped him out financially.
Apart [naturally] from the Embrocation all good choons are plagiarised to a greater or lesser extent.
Its no coincidence that the defense has improved since Ambrose’s ommission and Lustig’s inclusion.
I would also say that despite the fact he ain’t playing very well (Charlie Mulgrew), his mere inclusion as an additional midfield number, has also improved the overall balance of the team significantly.
As for Commons….. What Commons…?
Sevco blatantly plagiarise the late unlamented Murray International Metals Works XI.
Not interested in explaining anything to Huns
Just want CFC to tell the truth and not fudge the issue or worse
JJ
Wise comments re WGS et al
Seems that telling the truth is incompatible with Scottish football and those who work in it ….ask Tommy Boyd
doctor whatfor
16:33 on 4 November, 2014
I sometimes think that some people hate sevco more than they love Celtic.
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It’s taken a while and there were times when it looked like Scottish football would always be dominated by Celtic, but Rangers are on the up.
Their plummeting nosedive into the Third Division would normally have finished any club, let alone one with their size and tradition. Instead, quite the opposite has occurred. They have gone about their business in a manner which represents all that is good about the club. Now on the horizon lie only more positive developments
Look at this trumpet.Junior reporter !!!.I am sure his desk is already being prepared at the Record.”They have gone about their business in a manner which represents all that is good about the club”.
Is he taking the proverbial.On drugs.Been living in a cave for 3 years?.
Really brought a smile to my face.
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Tallybhoy
16:32 on 4 November, 2014
davidopolous
Zombie logic and reason?
Another oxymoron to rival ‘a handsome hun.’
HH!!
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What did you call me? ;)
Thought the Ambrose included defence of last year was particularly good!
DBBIA
I note that you would not be killed in a rush of people who claim to have written any Robert Plant lyrics.
Even Tolkein would have disowned them.
Macew
might have been…. but can only judge a player on his form in the current season. And Ambrose has been gash
The Cocteau of,Old Fiirm is essential to the lazy,biased Scottishh media.It provides them with a Comfort Blanket which protects them from having to tell the truth
On no account even try to explain the situation to a Zombie
I’ve got friends who will give me a shoulder
In the event that I should happen to fall
And with time and his bride getting older
Got friends who will give me **** all
La la la la la la la la la la la
IGC – 13:50
Thanks for that i was always under the illusion that Du Wei went to Amarillo
Ruggygman,
No real argument there, he’s not alone in being gash as you put it , but can’t help feeling he could have had better support from some of his teammates, mainly young McGregor. Just the opinion of a self confessed Efe fan. H H.
Turkeybhoy
Less of the caveman pish please.
Having lived in one for 6 years to the day, I can with all honesty say not all cavemen are as thick as shit >}
Tho sometimes I do talk bollix.
HH
Look forward to having Ambrose restored to his best position of CB, where he’ll no doubt be fit and filling the Hoops.
Those of us who are conflicted by the official position on The Rangers in Scottish fitba are being opposed for taking a stand on what Rangers fans think and say.
I would say, respectfully, that you have misunderstood the argument.
I have no problems with whatever is believed by the fans of the Ibrox club. I do not try to persuade them otherwise as it would be wasted.
However, I do care about the official position of Scottish football on this matter and, I believe, so should you.
If the SFA and SPL can treat Ranger’s liquidation differently and more favourably than they treated the liquidation of other clubs, then we have an openly biased administrative body.
If the SFA and the SPL, now SPFL, can collude with the media in an official presentation of a liquidated club as having a continuous history, as they do on the SPFL website, then we have an openly biased administrative body.
If the SFA and SPL can conclude a secretive agreement which cannot be disclosed to the general football-following public, then we have a situation wherein corruption can flourish without being exposed to examination.
Whatever happened to “without fear and favour”? Whatever happened to honest and transparent governance? Whatever happened to an investigation into Campbell Ogilvie’s actions whilst at Rangers and his refusal to convey his knowledge of the wrongdoings there to the SFA investigators?
Our club could have gone after the football administrators who were breaking their own rules in all of the above. They could have formed common cause with other clubs who had lost titles and trophies during the DOS and EBT years. They could have conveyed publicly a sense of having suffered loss of income, titles and trophies due to illegal and proscribed practices. They could, even, have expressed a sense of bewilderment at the rulings as they unfolded and stated that justice does not appear to have been done.
If they did any of the above, they have failed to communicate it to the support at large. Various statements, seeming to welcome a Rangers team back, from a variety of club officials, players and shareholders, indeed, give the opposite impression that they are glad to be back to the good old days.
If you are expressing delight about re-entering a bent competition administered by a bent body, competing with a bent and unrepentant competitor, then you are allowing any bending of rules and regulations to be visited upon you.
That is why it matters to me. It needs to be a sport and not a scripted entertainment.
Tosb
Embra? Are you undercover or are you taking instruction in order to be baptised a Hibbee. Remember, you can only be baptised once.
Btw where were you earlier this afternoon when ich’ quiz was on? I made a right erse o’ it. Tailor made for you. You can remember every shy and corner from 1961 onwards.
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy wiki wizard. :-)
bournesouprecipe
17:11 on 4 November, 2014
Look forward to having Ambrose restored to his best position of CB, where he’ll no doubt be fit and filling the Hoops.
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And us filling our pants when he gets the ball…
That should, of course, be icg’s quiz.
sftb
There are 454 teams on the UEFA list of clubs with a co efficient, The closest I can get to
Sevco 5088 could be Randers FC from Denmark, who are rated 239th.
Hmmm CSC
Davidopoulos
Bum scare?
bournesouprecipe:
How many Clumpanies are on that UEFA list though?