Scoring minutes after making your debut doesn’t guarantee a great career at a club, but Scott Sinclair gave himself an excellent start with his winning goal at Tynecastle. Leigh Griffiths lead-up work was magnificent. The Hearts defence had no answer.
Scott’s transfer took weeks (and a lot of money) to complete but it was the player’s tenacity to come to Celtic which decided the matter. I hear Celtic met Aston Villa’s initial target price early in the negotiations, but Villa decided to hold their cards for a few weeks in an attempt to induce other bidders. Scott was clear from the off that there was only one place he was going, but while Villa sat tight, there was a worry that another club would come in with a seriously large wage offer. The deal happened when the player continued with the mantra, “I’m going to Celtic or nowhere”. This is a guy who really wants to play for Celtic.
Apart from Tony Watt’s excellent chance yesterday, which should have brought Hearts level, the home side didn’t have a chance worthy of the name. A policy of throwing yourself to the ground inside the box doesn’t count, so we can be happy with how our defence is performing with Kolo Toure in the team. There’s still a long way to go, but the direction of travel is clear. Watt and Conon Sammon will cause a lot of damage in the Premiership this season, but on the evidence so far, Celtic should outperform their 15 point winning margin last term.
So disappointed to hear Dave King’s £30m – £50m overinvestment isn’t going to happen until January. This guy has been so transparent. Honestly, they get what they deserve, there’s no helping or telling them. They backed a hostile takeover with a fantasy manifesto, while putting the thumbscrews on their club, to the extent it had to go cap in hand to its only source of funding, and hawk their commercial rights in the process.
As we’ve said here for years, the only people who can really damage a football club are its own supporters, in this case, with their inability to consider the consequences of the next action.
Running a football club is hard (serious understatement alert). You’re going to enjoy how Dave King finds this out.
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Give the penalty and just tell them you’re sorry later.
Scott Sinclair live on Sky Sports News HQ in 2 minutes.
DESERTBHOY on 8TH AUGUST 2016 3:45 PM
NATKNOW on 8TH AUGUST 2016 3:29 PM
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 3:15 PM
Why do you think I moved here, bud?! LOL! :-)
…certainly wasn’t to meet up in Malone’s for the Legia game….. like MON, i bear grudges!!
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Was I mean to meet you there mate?! Apologies if I failed!
Let me make it up to you by arranging another date!
Michael Vorm is only 6ft. If that isn’t tall enough to be a good centre back, is it tall enough to be a good goalie ;)
Please excuse not presenting the height in metric to 9 decimal places…
SunnyJim, if you think it’s bad now, it was worse in the old Tynecastle. In fact, most older stadiums had a far closer crowd than we have today. It’s not down to the layout of the stadium, it’s just the morons who behave that way who the cause the problem.
Other than one or two things – I thought the referee was OK yesterday (there, I’ve said it!!).
The Walker dive was a really good and convincing bit of cheating, and the lad obviously practices after training – from the ref’s angle, I can see how he gave the penalty.
Only one I had serious issue with was the assault on KT – at the very least, the challenge was out of control, so a red could easily have been given.
Other than that, mostly OK. Seven yellows for them was about right – he could have given them a couple of free kicks that he gave to us, and vice versa.
Biggest thing was the cheating from Walker – seen Celtic players in the past couple of years severely (and unjustifiable in some case) hung out to dry publicly in the written press and on TV, and subsequently punished by the SFA, for much lesser offences. We need to see similar punishment for Walker (not holding my breath).
HH
BGFC
PS – Wee BGFC thinks the ref was a nightmare – gave them everything, gave us nothing….
DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:01 PM
Michael Vorm is only 6ft. If that isn’t tall enough to be a good centre back, is it tall enough to be a good goalie ;)
Please excuse not presenting the height in metric to 9 decimal places…
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6ft= 182.880000000cm
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NatKnow
I think there’s rounding in there.
Would certainly be understandable, he’s barely played in 2 years! Chortle, chortle…
NATKNOW
My days of blind dates are over…. too many ugly goslings!
Here’s the diminutive shot stopper in action…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2in03rFP4
DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:07 PM
NatKnow
I think there’s rounding in there.
Would certainly be understandable, he’s barely played in 2 years! Chortle, chortle…
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On the subject of which…you undertaken any more culinary experiments recently??
Michel Vorn is 1.846778654346755766866766544334566666654567667655443332m tall ( approx.)
BSR…. that would be a winner!
DESERTBHOY on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:11 PM
NATKNOW
My days of blind dates are over…. too many ugly goslings!
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LOL!
Ayrshire’s the place for well-bred goslings. :-))
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 8TH AUGUST 2016 2:17 PM
Charlie Mulgrew would be like a new signing?
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Think BR was very cool on the idea when questioned.
…doing CM a favour by letting him train to see if he could get a deal further down the line …happy to help as he has been a good player for the club…etc.
Contrast with his response re: Jimmy – …PL and Jimmy’s agent will be sitting down shortly…Jimmy really enjoying it….wants to stay…etc.
Sounds like the end of the Celtic road for big, handsome Charlie.
HH
BGFC
This video is probably more impressive for the bijou blocker…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkYa0WeQkA
DONTBRATTBAKKINANGER on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:14 PM
Michel Vorn is 1.846778654346755766866766544334566666654567667655443332m tall ( approx.)
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Approx? You seem…uncertain…?
NatKnow
There’s one…not quite in the oven…but in the offing – a take on Swedish potato sausage. can’t say much about it, have to keep it a surprise for my 3 readers.
He’s not tall for a custodian; he’s not even particularly tall for a Latvian woman.
more goal scuppering from the nanoscopic netminder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIRyEtTOtQ
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 8TH AUGUST 2016 12:37 PM
Had Tony Watt scored with his big chance yesterday, we’d be talking about Kolo’s poor positioning, and how he allowed Watt to walk off him as the cross came over. Lustig would be getting pelters as well for watching it happen and doing nothing.
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Why is Craig Gordon closer to the front post for a cross from the right wing and desperately reversing ineffectually to try to get back to the back post .
Where he should have been in the first place.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:17 PM
NatKnow
There’s one…not quite in the oven…but in the offing – a take on Swedish potato sausage. can’t say much about it, have to keep it a surprise for my 3 readers.
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Potatoes? IN a sausage?? Effin’ lunacy!
You need to re-post the link…(pun almost not intended!)…
DBBIA,,,
Shirley you’re not making ladyboy implication?
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NatKnow
I will when I write the blog. Expect it this side of retrospective action against Jamie Walker…
BGFC
WeeBGFC is correct :-)
I do think he was conned into the penalty but still had a shocker and was choking to give it, Broony asked him to consult the linesman and Beaton didn’t even consider it, at least he admitted to BR he was wrong, it’s no like them (refs that is)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:24 PM
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I’ll be honest – I’d be happy we signed her rather than a new goalie…
“The prospect of Glasgow club Rangers liquidation is a disaster”
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DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:24 PM
NatKnow
I will when I write the blog. Expect it this side of retrospective action against Jamie Walker…
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Take yer time then..?! :-)
NatKnow
I ain’t no pressure cooker ;)
DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:28 PM
NatKnow
I ain’t no pressure cooker ;)
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Food puns again…?!
I’m not biting…
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What’s the matter? Gone off the boil?
So weekend scheduling that had der hun set up for the bestest start to the season ever unraveled miserably.
Shame that.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Yes I read it dear chap and in my opinion well surmised
I just get the impression Tony Mowbray out of all our managers who have failed seems to get it in the neck more than most when you could argue that he certainly was up against it more than most at a time the deck was stacked against him on and off the field.
There has hardly been an ounce of slack cut his way and his history has been written and stamped official before all the facts of the season of honest mistakes and the subsequent liquidation of oldco have come into the light
He was never the type of ghuy for the job of taking on the brothers and like you I believe in fact I more or less know the board hired him knowing full well what was happening across the river at the time.
Can’t stop watching the vine on Twitter of Barton being nutmegged by a gallus ginger.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 8TH AUGUST 2016 4:34 PM
NatKnow
What’s the matter? Gone off the boil?
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Aw come on!
Seriously though – I’ve no appetite for it…