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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does anyone have problems in getting thier seat on the website ?
i dont mean relocations
i mean new sb holders , and site registration of client number
Help required, head not where it usually is, outside things taking there toll, for some reason I have lost both Clyde and shortbread and my ISP blocker is not working, embdy got any links to them from outwith the UK would be much appreciated.
I know I should listen, but I actually enjoy their pain.
As Boerittger was given a ban for diving in Perth I assume the precedent has been set and Walker will get a similar punishment. Did the MIB really admit later he made a mistake in awarding the Penalty?
And did the Jambo admit there was no contact and he went down?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I know what happened to Sinclair is unacceptable, but the one that still kinda brings a wee smile to my face is when WGS was playing for the sheep at Celtic Park and a fan ran on from the Jungle and stookied him!
What used to happen in the “good old days” was quite a bit worse!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/fans-fighting-players-10-most-5517109
Scroll down for the picture.
OG Rafferty
:-)
O.G. Rafferty …. I had to go and read the article to see if that is actually what it said. it did! LOL
Walker quoted as saying
“I felt the contact so I went down.”
Words to that effect.
Really does tell it’s own story, even as he tries to con the media about conning the referee.
MIKE IN TORONTO, 7:01
Life imitating art imitating life…
or maybe just some idiot and ugly Hun, in Chris Morris/Brass Eye style, speaking his brains
If they want to speak about a player who has been in decline for four years, there’s a guy whose name rhymes with Lee Hollis…….
Lennybhoy
BR said on sky that the ref admitted he got it wrong, by the way Craig Gordon got booked so these mistakes have consequences…..
Slug Keevins now doing an Andy Walker, the Hearts cheat was making the ref decide…..easy way out
What he meant to say was, I felt the con trick so I went down.
He goes down more easily than George Michael.
THE EXILED TIM on 8TH AUGUST 2016 6:50 PM
Help required, head not where it usually is, outside things taking there toll, for some reason I have lost both Clyde and shortbread and my ISP blocker is not working, embdy got any links to them from outwith the UK would be much appreciated.
I know I should listen, but I actually enjoy their pain.
****
It’s your Guardian Angel protecting your sanity and allowing you to enjoy where we are, without their infiltrating bile.
From white_italy Twitter.
Did sevco use a trade mark owned by Celtic to use as collateral in the £10m loan facility provided by Sports Direct? https://t.co/ltwg1H6S9p
PJGreenandwhite
they definitely did I’ve seen the paperwork.
Chrisshields10
@hen1rik @CelticFCSLO @celticfc @CQN @CQNMagazine @white_italy Just clicked.Using”name” of company In liquidation l # RangersGate as it were
15 years ago tonight I was in my seat at the Amsterdam ArenaA
https://streamable.com/8lle
This video is gonna put in a lot of leg work this season.
Enjoy it, cherish it, nurture it….
https://t.co/AdkYRwjXSt
Thomthethim
I love listening to SSB, it’s a thing of beauty, they are slowly but surely trying to now make it a comedy show, Jim Delahunt was good, Gerry McCullough toys with them, Keevins would take money from anybody and big DJ is comedy gold, especially when he is being serious…..
In my defence……those damned dishes don’t do themselves :-)
Thom
You are prob right mi amigo.
Just noticed you mailed me, I will get back to you later, busy opening another Etsy shop, having probs finding the right name for it.
HH
Gary67
15 blinking years !
Didier Agathe was magic that night
I think Brendan might bring us better nights than MON (just saying)
article in paper which says that Allan Stubbs says Scottish players not fit enough due to eating too much junk food. interesting.
Thomthethim-download Tunein Radio app,free HH
From @gjust67
its part owned by us and the old Rangers not the new one
how could SD even get hold of it for use on the loan?
can’t see how they could without Celtic permission
The OF title means more to Oldco than to us, so, if we own it as they are liquidated, mothball it for ever never to be spoken by us ever again
DAVIDOPOULOS at 7.22 – brilliant!
Was Brendan asked if there were more players coming on board
Oh, and another thing – pardon me: good evening, friends – The Official Site announced the signing of Scott Sinclair at 10:11. He scored his first Celtic goal at approximately 15:51, less than 6 hours after signing.
A New World Record? (brilliant album, by the way)
eloCSC
Young sevcodger in work told me a couple of sales girls got abuse in the superstore on Saturday from an angry Clive Dunn who practically blamed them for the shirt deal, and having the cheek to try and sell them to the suckers.
The young guy was clueless when I suggested they’re as well buying them anyway as big Mike gets paid out for unsold strips. They really don’t have a scooby whats going on over there .
The CQN gestapo now have Craig Gordon firmly in their sights.
How pathetic and blinkered can some people be?
Same young sevcodger’s response to the bad news I gave him …’it’s about time somebody took Ashley out’. ‘I’m pretty sure he’d married son ‘ I replied. He left in a rage.
ST STIVS, no
Darnell Fisher Rotherham on loan
Not one for inside info, nor do I have any track record on rumours, but word reaches me that Lee Wallace is a grass.
Pass it on.
Mat
Who are this gestapo you type of ?
Craighy Ghordon No.1 in this household……not sure of your age but from Artur Boruc till now we have had pretty great goalies, and CG is here for the duration, Cqn is pretty insignificant so don’t get your nickers in a twist….. It’s all good
By the way being blinkered when typing isn’t the best
Hial Hial
MATS NILLOC
Gestapo?
We need a keeper. Baily has a broken ankle and out for a couple of months. If we can get a keeper as good as, or better than, Gordon then surley that’s a good thing?
If Gordon gets injured, and he has a history of injury, would you be happy going into CL or EL with Fasan as keeper?
BADA BING!! on 8TH AUGUST 2016 8:29 PM
Darnell Fisher Rotherham on loan
Ewen Murray saying its permanent. Although I believe you before the guardian’s golf correspondent. ;-)
Good Evening.
Here is a brand new piece. An ‘alternative’ match report on the Sevco v Hamilton game. WARNING: it absolutely rips the p*ss out of the BBC.
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/sevco-v-hamilton-what-really-happened/
And just for completeness, here is this morning’s offering, which comments on some epic shark-jumping by you-know-who…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/the-pish-tsunami/
Evening Can I ask that fans take the time to fill out the consultation document which is the first step in a year long process to scrap the odious Offensive Behaviour At Football Act This can be found online at repealed the bill sponsored by James Kelly
This does take a while to complete but it is a very important first step
If anyone needs any future information or help please contact me
You know this thing about crop circles? Well, today I was cutting the grass and I saw Lee Wallace’s face appear…stranger than fiction…