I know you are as delighted as I am for Callum McGregor. He has matured into a very talented central midfield player. One of our most composed on the ball, his first touch creates space and opens up play.
His 11th minute goal pure gallus, to use the local vernacular. Moussa Dembele did well with his first touch and lay-off into the hole, or to be more precise, the midfield chasm. McGregor sold the Newco defence a ticket to the movies for the afternoon, rolling the ball with the inside of his football, like a carpet bowl, past the cinema contemplating Fotheringham in goal.
Long before this, Celtic imposed their will on the game. As we broke forward, television pictures showed possession stats for the match until that point; Celtic had 85% of the ball. It didn’t stop then, either. Celtic continued to pass and move, dragging hapless shadows in their wake.
I’m going to be flippant about a non-flippant subject, for a moment.
“Right, Leigh, you’re on. Get your trackie off, go to the toilet. We’re out of milk, and you know what Broonie’s like if he doesn’t get his halftime tea, so you better nip to the shop on Aitkenhead Road before you put your top on. And Leigh, bring your lanyard to get back in. Then you can replace Moussa, he’s pulled his hamstring.”
It took Leigh Griffiths 3:17 mins to appear in the technical area after Moussa gave the substitution sign to the bench. I don’t know what was going on, but is an unacceptable delay.
We had possession a few times after Leigh pitched up, but it was a further 3:38 before the ball went out of play, and we were able to compete with 11 men again. Running aimlessly infield with a man waiting to join play offers considerably less utility than knocking it long into touch.
By the time Dembele retired after 26 minutes Newco were punch drunk. Allowing them to play against 10 men for 7:05 mins gave them a breather. They were able to pass the ball for the first time in the match, recharge batteries and get forward. They were unable to do anything with that possession, but Celtic had spent 7 minutes chasing and were not quite as dominant thereafter.
Halliday’s scissor-kick on Patrick Roberts after 3 mins would have resulted in a red card on many other occasions. Scott Brown must consider his suspension appeal stands an excellent chance, if this is the bar.
That wasn’t the end of the treatment dished out to Patrick. Beerman was cautioned for another challenge would could have resulted in more severe action, but the Newco player followed this with a cynical trip on Roberts two minutes later. It should have been a second yellow. Roberts had their number and there was nothing within the rules they could do about it.
The penalty, early in the second half, was a battle between Celtic’s pacey striker, Leigh Griffiths, and Newco’s pacey defender, Tavernier. The latter was schooled by the former. Why Tavernier lunged in so carelessly inside the box will be one of the items on their new manager’s “What’s going on?” list. Griffiths is a huge resource to have on the bench waiting for his chance. He’ll be counting the minutes until Saturday comes.
We were so much on top the temptation to showboat looked irresistible. Lustig, Boyata and Simunovic all ran out of position with the ball when straightforward options were available. As a consequence of this, and similar endeavours, play was more balanced in the final 20 minutes.
When you are so far ahead, there is a temptation to take an extra touch, but that extra touch undermined the system. The Celtic team is not filled with supermen, instead they have a hugely effective system. Stick to the system and we’ll look like supermen, go off piste and it will all get a bit indulgent looking. When we were at our Fabulous Best, we did the simple things very accurately and very quickly until the final third, where we were quicker still, and even more accurate. While we practiced this plan, we were unplayable.
Both teams should improve for the rematch in five days’ time. Newco, surely, cannot be any worse, but Celtic can make more of their dominance.
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BMCUWP
Am still jealous that you and that Cosy Corner Bhoy can talk rubbish about the hoops :-)
Am not really jealous I think it’s magic :-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLUi1kgrBXo3u_XG76FYz0Id6VqSNzpQlr&v=c2SEhNwIIYs
Mason boyne
SFTB,
Hi T, just read your post about your brother.
May he rest in peace and may you find some solace in the support of others.
Hope to see you soon.
EC67
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLUi1kgrBXo3u_XG76FYz0Id6VqSNzpQlr¶ms=OAFIAVgC&v=U_jNE32FDZ8&mode=NORMAL
And another.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLUi1kgrBXo3u_XG76FYz0Id6VqSNzpQlr¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=HAVYZLUxaEw&mode=NORMAL
Paul Simons agent meets the orange band
Watchning Sundays game again.
Pedro the Celtic supporters communication to the second rangers players seems to have been you guys don’t need to keep the ball inside the white lines.
And how they didn’t have someone sent off. Hun believable.
GFTB,
Yep, it’s a special song. Made all the more special that the GB started singing it in the year of the Centenary of the Easter Rising.
St Stiv’s, That’s the character BMCUWP’s was talking about earlier. Mr Boyne might be a bit disappointed if he visited the Boyne today.
Mea Culpa,
I See His Blood Upon The Rose
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.
I see his face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but his voice-and carven by his power
Rocks are his written words.
All pathways by his feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.
Joseph Mary Plunkett
Executed, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 4th May 1916.
Aye, that’s why I posted it, still funny.
Dessybhoy
On what came out at court in respect of wtc this from SFM gives a bit more meaning to it.
” So what have we learned so far.? There was a H&S Liability that was not addressed. Ally had negotiated a bumper pay out if he didn’t become manager. And rangers knew they owed £2.8 mill to the inland revenue in Jan 2011.”
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“January 2011 is before 31 March 2011, which was the date the SFA awarded Rangers a European licence. So when DID this bill crystallise”
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” Today is the beginning of the lifting of the lid of confidentiality that has protected the SFA so far.
A liability no matter when it is accepted does not become an overdue payable if it meets certain conditions to excuse it as such and confidentiality has enabled the SFA to avoid explaining the circumstances in which any conditions for excusing the liability were met.
The SFA might still be able to prove that in respect of the liability accepted in Jan/Feb/March 2011 no overdue payable as UEFA define one existed at 31st March 2011, at 30th June 2011 or at 30th September 2011 so I caution against jumping fences too early.
Remember the Bryson factor.
However regardless of what comes out tomorrow or later, I doubt anything will be said or done by SFA until the trial is over by which time all the right questions will have become clear.
As BRTH says watch the Tweets to see what is being discussed but recognise that detail can lost in translation, and that is where the devil lies.
Setting free the bears
I would like to pass on my condolences to you and your family in the passing away of your brother Danny.You will have a lot of things occupying your mind as you lay your brother to rest but it will ease as fond memories,smiles and inspirations come to the fore.God bless you all T and may your brother Danny rest in peace.
HH
SETTING FREE THE BEARS
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Sorry for yer loss fella.
RIP Danny
Thoughts and Prayers
for all who are close.
Thoughts and Prayers for all
Supporters of Glasgow Celtic.
……….off-oot.
Somebody was mentioning fish eateries in north west, the crannog in oban was suggested for best langostines in scotland,
The Applecross inn and The Forge at Inverie(scotlands remotest pub) does excellent food.all catches within 3 km of each hostelry, and if you get a lock in polis are miles away :-)
Enjoy
HH
GRATEFUL THANKS to all who answered my query re grub in Oban. I’ve forwarded the info to my sister.
As she’s in the company of three Aussies-her husband and some in-laws…
HAPPY ANZAC DAY!!!!
HH
Good morning friends from a pretty cold but dry, calm and mostly clear skied East Kilbride.
Good morning CQN from a cold, sunny and still dry East Devon. Brrrrrr!!!!
Speedy recovery to one of my musical heroes
Sir Elton John .
Hobo
I sent you a request to check my gifs score I should be on 18
Hello again all you young rebels.
Finally made it home from the rebel peninsula, took a bit longer than
usual but probably because we took the tourist pub guide route or
as the princess said ” Mick how is it every time you need to pee we
are just approaching a pub?
” Honeypie it’s taken years of practise and you’ve just noticed :-))
What a fantastic night with the Mornington bhoys and we had some of
the old Melbourne No1 club in attendance to meet up with their old
pal PADDYMACOZ who gave them a rendition of… I’m a cat a Glasgow
cat.. not a song i’m familiar with but first time i’ve heard it and very
funny, there are new vids up on the SOCIAL CELTS MORNINGTON
FACEBOOK page if you would like to see how the Oz tims celebrate a
win over the stickies lots of dancing and songs from the wonderful
Richie McKay.
H.H Mick
Condolences to SETTING FREE THE BEARS and PARK ROAD on their
recent sad losses.
*** GOALS FOR SHAY 2 – AN APOLOGY! ***
Apologies are in order. I sent out the week 5 results last night but somehow missed the Round 5 scores (and a couple o fjokers) for around 10 competitors. My apologies. Amended results will come out tonight.
Anyone fancy taking over for 2017-18 as I’m now making too many mistakes!
Apologies again.
Jobo
SFTB
You always write well. You wrote best for your brother.
RIP Danny
Radio Shortbread
Leading item on the sports ‘news’
‘Brendan Rogers may have to leave Celtic…….’ says Pat Bonnar.
Pass them a straw. For the dual purpose of soup taking and clutching at……
Good to see Newcastle promoted again. No liking for them at all but hopefully gives Ashley a renewed focus on making huge monies in the inflated league and reduces the threat of him doing anything constructive at sevco
Low likelihood but big impact
HH jamesgang
The humility of the Celtic support never ceases to amaze.
One often thinks back to those dark days of the 90’s, when the faithful weathered what seemed to be a never-ending storm, and seen it though without complaining.
Humble in defeat, gracious in victory… Always.
Venceremos.
HH.
Often it was not forgotten, it was never taught to garner.
Lest we forget too.
An Irishman’s Diary on the 10th (Irish) Division and Salonika
War in the mountains: Ronan McGreevy
The Irishmen who arrived in the Greek port of Thessalonica and then marched in appalling weather into a land of steep ravines, mountains and minarets must have wondered to themselves, “what on earth are we doing here?”
Thousands of Irishmen fought and died in modern-day Macedonia, yet the Salonika campaign, as it is known, is almost entirely forgotten.
It only exists in Irish popular memory through the bawdy ballad of the same name. Typically, the song is not about Salonika at all, but about separation women, the ones left behind while their men were away at the front.
Less than 18 months after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Irishmen found themselves defending the very country accused of the atrocity.
No country suffered more in the first World War than Serbia. The trigger the Bosnian-Serb Gavrilo Princip pulled on the archduke and his wife would eventually lead to the death of 16 per cent, or one in six, of all Serbs.
The country was facing annihilation in the autumn of 1915 when a combined force of Austrian and Germans invaded from the north. Seeking its share of the spoils, Bulgaria joined the Central Powers in October 1915 and invaded Serbia. Alarmed by the escalating situation which threatened his own country, the Greek prime minister requested help from the Allies.
The French committed a division and turned to the British for help. The British were reluctant to commit to any more misadventures in the Mediterranean area after the Gallipoli debacle.
Salonika
Nevertheless, the British sent the 10th (Irish) Division, a division which had been spent as a fighting force with 90 per cent casualties in Gallipoli, killed, wounded or sick. Its commander, Maj Gen Bryan Mahon, had a toxic relationship with his own superior, Gen Sir Ian Hamilton. The British were winding down the Gallipoli campaign. The 10th (Irish) Division, which was close at hand, would suffice for the Salonika operation.
Thus did Irishmen in British uniforms find themselves fighting alongside the French on behalf of the Serbians against the Bulgarians in the mountains of Macedonia.
The 10th was the first division to be raised in Ireland after war broke out in August 1914. These were the most enthusiastic volunteers. They signed up to fight the Germans in France or Belgium. Most of them had never left Ireland before. Macedonia must have seemed as remote as the moon.
Many of the men who served in the Salonika campaign were from my hometown of Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim. “No matter where you go you meet the mountains and they are higher than Sheemore,” James Doherty wrote home to his mother. Sheemore, “that fairy hill where wild flowers grow”, dominates the topography of my part of south Leitrim.
James Doherty signed up in late 1914 with the 6th battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
The men arrived in Salonika in the late autumn of 1915 wearing just their summer clothes. Before a shot was fired more than a thousand men from the division were treated for frostbite. Summer brought its own hazards.
“It’s very hard to sleep at night for our dugouts are swarmed with mosquitoes and they can sting too, worse by far than the ‘clag’ (midges) at home in summer time,” Doherty wrote home to his mother. “You’d also want to be on your guard for snakes”.
The 10th (Irish) Division’s biggest engagement of the Salonika campaign came 100 years ago this week at the Battle of Kosturino in Macedonia, close to the borders of Bulgaria and Greece.
The 10th had been sent to guard the only mountain pass across the Varder valley. The division was posted on the right flank of the French who in turn were trying to protect the retreating Serbian army which was fleeing from the Austrian attack.
The battle culminated in an all-out assault in the mountains by the Bulgarians who attacked, bayonets fixed, through the mist. Two brigades of Bulgarians fell on the 5th Connaught Rangers.
December 7th, 1915, was the worst day of the war for the Connaught Rangers. Some 138 men were killed in mostly hand-to-hand fighting. A further 130 were taken prisoner.
Among the Connaught Rangers killed that day was Pte Michael McGee from my home town, one of three Leitrim men who died at the Battle of Kosturino. His name is on the Doiran memorial in northern Greece with that of 117 other Connaught Rangers. The telegrams came to homes in the west of Ireland with bad news from a place most of us would still struggle to locate on a map.
His friend Paddy Moran, who had signed up with him, survived the battle. He was known in later life by his nickname “Bulgaria”. The 10th (Irish) Division suffered 1,500 casualties, including 300 dead at the Battle of Kosturino.
The terrain where the Irishmen fought is so steep that a tour party from the Connaught Rangers Association this autumn had to be taken up the mountains in a tractor. Yet Irishmen 100 years ago had to traverse these mountains in summer clothing and full pack in the depths of winter.
The 10th (Irish) Division managed to fight their way back across the border into Greece. The division spent a further two years in Salonika. The front settled down. Salonika became, as the Germans described it, “the biggest prison camp in the world”. In the 1920s three crosses were commissioned to remember the Irish dead of the first World War.
In Macedonia near Lake Dojran there is a Celtic cross. Its inscription reads: “Do cum gloire Dé and Onóra na hÉireann. In memory of those of the Xth Irish Division who fell on Gallipoli and in defence of Serbia and of all Irishmen who gave their lives in the Great War RIP”.
SFTB:
My condolences.
Park Road:
My condolences.
Just seen a pic of wee Billy Gilmour in the Celtic end on Sunday, might be too much for some of the hun hordes….:)
Bada ‘ouch’ Bing
Goooood Morning CQN :-)
Lovely bright morning here in Stirling
From our weekend game and the Dedryck discussion – Craig Gordon needs to stop the passing of the ball into the corner and putting our team under pressure, as he did 2 or 3 times with Dedryck.
Bada, don’t tell me he’s already ? WC put up a few weeks ago he had been talking to the Bhoys, and potential for him joining us
Hail Hail
“BADABING”
That won’t go down well with the orcs lol !!
!!BADA BING!! on 25TH APRIL 2017 7:57 AM
Just seen a pic of wee Billy Gilmour in the Celtic end on Sunday, might be too much for some of the hun hordes….:)
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Is it on the interweb?
Morning
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/celtic-2-the-rangers-0-by-numbers/
HH
The Pogues – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
https://youtu.be/cZqN1glz4JY
MWD
SFTB
Sorry to hear of your loss, my thoughts with you and your family obviously at this very sad time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/celticlisboa/status/856549301916512256
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-MwvtaXsAETI1x.jpg:large
SFTB
So sorry to hear about your loss ….. may Danny rest in peace…
TD
While you’re about, I wasn’t about when news of your Mum’s passing was posted. I’m truly sorry. I know what a huge role she played in your life.
HH jamesgang