Yesterday’s result at Ibrox gave some welcome encouragement but it would be wrong to read too much into it. Rangers still have the kind of lead that would have Celtic thoroughly confident of a league win and, lest we forget, St Johnstone collected all three points from Celtic Park already this season.
The win at Inverness was much more important. The Highlanders are bottom of the league but that is a false position. Two points separate Hibs, Dunfermline, Aberdeen and Inverness, while Kilmarnock, who shipped six goals to Inverness at home two weeks ago, are only a further two points away. Even with 10 men Inverness remained well organised yesterday, don’t be surprised if they move ahead of the four teams above them in the weeks to come.
The league is remarkably tight from fourth place St Johnstone to bottom Inverness, where fewer points separate the teams than split Celtic and Rangers. Don’t, therefore, be surprised if points are dropped in the most unlikely places.
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Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire says:
20 November, 2011 at 21:57
paid their taxes all their working lives and have more right than non tax payer’s to be here, why are they being abused is the question we should be asking.
“why are they being abused is the question we should be asking.”
And still the silence……….
Kojo says:
20 November, 2011 at 22:04
Cheers! :)
And goodnight
Rico
Ah well. No one will be able to accuse the new prime minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, of not being a football man.
He is a Celt, born in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. However, he has a season ticket for Real Madrid. Not only that, he says he supports Deportivo la Coruña and that, at the same time, he has a vested interest (shares) in Celta de Vigo and Pontevedra.
It’s kind of like a Glasgow politician having a season ticket for Chelsea while owning shares in Celtic, Rangers and Partick Thistle.
Make your mind up, man.
TET,
their time will pass….
hows the good life out there – is it below 20 yet?
Vmhan,your a Tracys mhan!!
Fanadpatriot,good spot,but the real Celtic pub is next door,Tracys…was in Fanad during the week,sun was shining on warden beach..wat a site..
My dear,dear,dear,dear,friend.. Enrico Dandolo
And….Cheers!…tae You .. too!
Kojo
yer pal..who likes ye,already
BlackpoolBhoy, im positive it’ll be fine mate, although I’m no longer a member of the club.
You should go onto the facebook page and make a request via Joe Martin the president.
Failing that I can pass on you’re request to Ton Che Dan and he’ll sort it.
Let me know if you have any problems.
Thanks for the heads up BT.
V
Mr Kojo, sir
yes indeed
was blessed enough to attend aforementioned fitba match
in the shadow of the Ochills and the Wallace Monument, no less
Joe made a wee vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnE_FNtzco&feature=player_embedded
i have more vids
when i can get this dang system up n runnin, ah’ll keep ye posted
regardin Omar
i could kick his rear end sometimes !
watched him last week as a sub messin about for 10mins afore the Lennoxtwon match
big chap woz blasting it 5-10m wide of the mark from 20-25yards
and not a soul in the goal !!
John says “when he puts his mind to it” !!
nota bene !!
he’s talented when he wants to be but he need look no further than Georgios for an example of how NOT to apply yersel – nice lad, ah’ll keep hecklin him on to a good game as best i can
but i can see why TW would be frustrated havin him as a partner
nonetheless, he’s comin into form, so i hope it continues !
he diz have a wild taste in music tho
check him out on twitter @OmarPatoBogle45
he, Rhys and Darnell seem friendly
am glad as they are all good lads !
woz a chance yesterday for the others to step-up due to
some of the regulars bein up at ICT with Neil etc
met a fine old fella called John Semple at the match
Charlie Tully was his kinda player, he says
good to meet these guys !
cheers Kojo
JQB
It is, dropping like a stone, down to mid teens and low teens at night, but the sun is out most days and feels warmer, have had the fire on for the last week or so, the young fella and his girl are young and fragile, and it’s not long since we need a quilt at night, winter will be here soon enough, seriously cold at night but a dry cold, much better imo than the damp cold in your part of the world. December is usually a good month, plenty of sunshine and very little rain, then comes our winter all of 2 months, the seasons are well difined, where as scotland I remember had two seasons, Spring and Winter.
Coorslad, Paedars for the free home made soup after the bloody Sunday marches and Traceys for the fitba :>)
V
You’ve been a member for years haven’t you? I’ll give Joe a text or something, I’m John Walkers nephew, maybe see you on the bus at some stage? Thanks for the info pal
Hail Hail
BlackpoolBhoy
I know there are a good few guys on here who enjoy a flutter….
Well bet365 currently have Hearts at 50-1 to finish bottom of the SPL. Considering they are 7 points off it just now, haven’t paid their first team, owner about to pull plug, that is almost free money.
Bet365 are also matching your initial deposit as long as it is over a tenner, so it literally could be free money.
Fill your boots.
The mini huns will finish top 6, the league is that pish, shames us that we drop so many points against some of these teams.
martybhoy59 says:
20 November, 2011 at 21:58
yes indeed
TB was not too happy
and CraigB in commentary said it was mibbe jist off
i would disagree
no matter
3pts in the bag
bring on the Pars !
will be a hard game, that one
mind games, type of thing
also, heard Steve Lomas on TalkSport last night 9 or 10pm
says he used to idolise Sandy Jardine etc
am assumin he too is a fan of der skinty !
maright o meringue ?
blantyretim says:
20 November, 2011 at 22:01
No shortage of work in the East End that is the area my missus covers as a WRO it never fails to amaze me the amount of our people who dont claim the benefits they are entitled to. It makes a massive difference
TET,
glad you’ve got the young’un and his girl… I find they keep the slow bits of my mind at bay… need to stop sayin “when I were a lad”. Is he a chip of the old block? Mine’s like his mother, thank god, though he has my thrawn streak
the_huddle – they wont be top 6 when all their senior players are either sold or have terminated their contracts due to a breach as no wages have been paid. Which they are entitled to do…..
RL
If they go bust will they still honour the bets, at least you wuold get your money back I think
nice headed goal comin up here from Robertson
Maybe not as good as Susan Boyle but this is impressive (not for kids i guess, but he’d love it)
http://youtu.be/S2SUaoVy_iU
could have saved a fortune there, tackling practise by the local team would have done it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15806553
Re. Chocolate team suggestions:
Referee is Lion Bar(steward)
Vmhan,free stew in Tracys most days..havn’t been in for weeks,absence makes the heart grow fonder!!
Their top earners are rubbish, they’d get rid of them in January then fill the team with U21 players, the rest of the league is poor so they’d still pick up wins. I’d take a top 6 finish bet now if anyone is wanting it
TET – they would need to be unable to fulfill their fixtures. Would be unlikely that would happen. Admin costs them 10 points. They have already staved off 2 winding up orders this season.
I am really surprised bet365 have those sort of odds considering the circumstances…..
Peadar O’Donnell
Now that’s where I can bore you all.
Peadar – And let’s be clear here – he was a member of the IRA – although he wanted a socialist militia more than anything else.
Peadar found himself interned in Donegal after the Civil War.
And no other than my Grandfather released him from that internment. Dennis McGhee from Upper Killult next to Falcarragh.
Although Dennis was young then – 15/16 maybe – he’d spent a couple of years joined to a flying coloumn but ended up wearing the new state uniform. Confusion and high blood ran and reigned.
So young was he that when Peadar wrote of his time in gaol, he used my Papa’s brother’s name Dan as the man he talked to through the prison window. And if memory serves (Been a while since I’ve read the book) he just says that ‘angels came down to release him and the gates flew open.’
But it was bould Dennis. Who shrugged off the free state uniform and took a ship to Glasgow. Ended up a fatality in a Blantyre pit.
No Dennis McGhee – no me.
I believe, when in Glasgow, he used to go and watch Glasgow Celtic.
Can’t think why a Donegal Catholic would want to?
But I’m glad he did.
U
up over goal
Just watched the highlights of the other SPL matches on the BBC site.
The highlights of the ibrox match showed 2 St. Johnstone fouls (and no Rangers ones). The first was an innocuous Fraser Wright hand ball (he was not booked) and the other was a Jody Morris trip (now he WAS booked though it is not clear whether or not it was for this run of the mill trip).
As I have now seen 2 of the 6 fouls that St. Johnstone committed, the other 4 unseen fouls must have been belters to result in 3 bookings. Wonder why the BBC kept them off the, otherwise dull highlights?
Rogue Leader
Will the Bookies pay out on Hearts being relegated if, like Rangers, they go bust and are demoted? Will they be considered as joint bottom or will Rangers be runner up in the Financially Corrupt Race-to-the-Poorhouse and Administration/Liquidation Relegation Stakes?
BTW- Very impressed with young Templeton in the highlights of Hearts’ defeat to United yesterday. He may actually be that rare thing, a player of genuine talent playing for another SPL club.
St.John.Doyle
enough in the West of the city to keep me going…
ernie lynch says:
20 November, 2011 at 21:52
There is plenty of circumstantial evidence that the club’s founders intended Celtic as a means of bringing together Irish and Scots. There is the name itself, which encompasses both Irish and Scots. There is Walfrid’s naming of a previous club as, “Columba,” which also unites Scots and Irish. That Wilson and McNee did not find two previous, “Celtics,” at that time while Campbell and Woods did, does not undermine the thesis.
Revisionism is a word I hear bandied about often on other sites, usually hurled around by Huns in reference to anything casting a positive light on Celtic. Revisionism is sometimes necessary, and always to be welcomed in historiography, because it enables a clearer picture of the past to emerge. It is often needed to counter the prevailing orthodoxy. In this case, your contention is the revisionism, because the prevailing orthodoxy is that the name Celtic was chosen as a means of appealing to both Scots and Irish.
Campbell and Woods don’t dispute that, they simply point out that most observers at the time considered Celtic to be an Irish or Catholic club – this is the view of Celtic held by outsiders, not the club itself. Even when Willie Maley describes Celtic as, “the great Glasgow Irish club,” it still doesn’t mean that the name was not chosen to appeal to Scots as well. Maley also said, “It’s not the creed nor his nationality that counts. It’s the man himself.” Strange words for someone who managed an exclusively Irish club.
From Campbell and Woods, page 14:
Tom Maley… paid him the finest tribute of all: ‘Through the organising genius… of Brother Walfrid the Celtic club was established. His men carried out his every wish and idea. They knew and trusted their leader, and in the knowledge that he, like them, wanted the club for the most laudable objects – charity, and as a recreation for his loved East Enders* – they persevered.’ (Weekly Mail and Record: 15th July 1916)
So there you have Tom Maley speaking a couple of months after the Easter Rising, yet making no mention of any Republican or nationalist objectives or beliefs contributing to the founding of the club.
Whether the name was chosen to appeal to both Irish and Scots or not, you still cannot justify singing rebel songs at Celtic Park on the basis that it is part of Celtic’s heritage. You have to stretch credibility beyond breaking point to think that.
*my italics.
blantyretim says:
20 November, 2011 at 22:30
Left you a message on FB about appeals and some info a friend of mine has dug up
Off to bed up early in morning
JQB
He’s more like his Ma than me, he does have my impatient streak about him but his mothers genes are predominant, my daughter would be more like me.
Smashing bhoy, works hard and asks for nothing, expects everything mind you, but that’s what kids do :>)
The wife finds it hard with a silly young lassie about the house who is as lazy as anything I have ever seen, and seriously thick as well,not a slight on the lassie, just the way it is, her parents should be in jail imo for how they have treated her and her brother and sister, sad family, she spends her waking hours making herself look pretty, she does do colouring in on ocassion and I am being serious, she is quite good at colouring in, anyways enough of my troubles.
Must be bed time soon.
Granada score 2 quick 2nd half goals to lead 2-1.
Linesman gets hit by missile from Granada fans and ref abandons the match.
sftb
late challenge there by the Jelly
no foul !
ball breaks
gets “recycled”
lands on the head of the Jelly inside the box
nearly a goal
meanwhile, St J dood fouled earlier is still hobblin
“its the wee ones they get”, as they say
TET,
thats a great mantra ‘”work hard, ask for nothing, expect everything”… might use that later amigo ;)
with the lassie… you and your wife “your hearts are like your mountains”.
off tae bed… g’night and stay warm
ulysses mcghee says:
20 November, 2011 at 22:28
great story
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. TopGuy
Thanks..as always… fur the Vids.. You are a Peach!
So..
Omar has a loat tae learn?.. well.. Ah kin live wi’ that..so long as he Learns.
He has the Physique that we need tae hiv in oor strike force…in the S.P.L.
But, collie keeps tellin me that Omar, is the real deal when it comes tae Using His Napper..
and says he kin sure win mair that his Share of Air Balls.
And that skill alone..is worth.. At least, a Dozen New Ayrshire Potatoes..
( Which Ah happen tae Luv..and Miss._)and a Coupla… ButterMulk Dainties( Ahmiss them an awe..dae they still mak ’em?)
We know the Tony, is the best All rounder.. Ah like the Lad a Loat..
Gosh.. Ah hope Lenny,gies him a Shot , afore this Season is Over..
As ye know..
A Am no a Big Fan of Stokesy.. and Ah am hivin Doots aboot.. Gary, as weel..
Heck..
Ah hope Lenny, signs a Coupla New Striker Prospects , in the Jan windae..
Pity aboot Bangura.. The Young Guy. didnae get much of a Chance..
Hope he gets well fast…and gets a chance tae let us see whit he has tae offer..
Nice Chatting.. Pally
Kojo
yer pal..who likes ye aloater
setting free the bears
Celtic 0-1 St Johnstone
St Johnstone committed 6 fouls in that game, and received 3 bookings.
PaddyG
if yer around, boss
pls keep in mind a wee prayer for a fellow Donegal Gallagher, named Danny,
a cousin of my cousin, and for his family too, of course
thanks Paddy
TC
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