Of all the supporter-related offenses Uefa are disciplining football clubs on at the moment the use of lasers annoys me most (with the appropriate caveat for health and safety matters).
Racism, health and safety violations, violence flares are all appropriate reasons to sanction a club but it’s always bothered me that Uefa seem to let the continental fashion for shining powerful lasers into the faces of opposing players and managers was not tackled appropriately.
I was, therefore, pleased to hear Uefa disciplined Olympiacos for, among a rich litany of offenses, their fans pointing a laser at Anderlecht players during their recent Champions League game. The Greek club have been ordered to close the more colourful part of their stadium for their last 16 game against Manchester United.
It will surprise few of us that despite the Greeks being sanctioned for using lasers, Milan have gone unpunished, despite their fans pointing lasers at Celtic players during our recent drubbing.
These games are supervised and televised from multiple angles. If the use of lasers attracts a punishment, and it should, the rules must apply without fear or favour.
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setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
Do you honestly trust our scouts to make the right choice .Their past record on strikers has been abysmal.Gary Hooper.You know the saying”If you give a monkey a typewriter long enough,etc”.One out of around a dozen.Excuse me if I dont share your confidence.
Bamboo,
I’m with you. And I’d add pukki into the equation too.
Yeah sure barca won’t be chipping our door in January for either but they have been written off by some far too early imo.
When you look at that 30 sec. you tube of the welcome at Ibrokes for the board, you would honestly say to yourself, ohhhhhhh, gonny be trouble there, that is one angry mob there I wouldent like to be in there shoes, and then you sit back an say, yi know wut? They are going to do nothing, not a thing, toss daft money at them AGAIN, I hear some saying I feel sorry for the fans, why? Two years of torture, and I love it, and I hope it goes on for the next ten year, they are up to there knees in something else now a days, and it’s not tanners for every fiver we spend, he’ll slap it inti them.
SFTB,
So yer still hoping Murphy will be a success :o)
BRTH,
I agreed with that until last season, IMO he’s waiting for a transfer to england and hoping they are not as hard, Sean Maloney took much more punishment and earned his passage, JF has been treated with kid gloves and has expectations beyond anything he has earned.
the exiled tim-free the dam 5
16:47 on 19 December, 2013
MickTT
I said that the board would have sanctioned it as soon as I heard he did it, no way he would have done it without their say so, he doesn’t have the balls.
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No doubt that’s how they played it..
HH
Turkybhoy,
The ‘dozen or so’ others you could name were simply not as good as Hooper. It was always gonna be a tall order to displace him as number one striker.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
I see quite a lot of his games here.If not ,extended highlights.His movement is fantastic.He is not just a penalty box striker.He is a lot more skilfull than given credit for on here.A few of his goals have been great solo efforts.Think his record against Ajax is 5 goals in 4 games.Playing the way we did at Hearts and Well,he would score for fun.Then again,as you said,”What do I know”
Chipping = chapping
TD,
I agree with that, and I’m enjoying it, shockeroony
This time of year is a time of giving; so after watching that youtube clip of the sevco agm, I want to thank them for giving me a right good laugh…I’d forgotten how funny they were!
thegiftthatkeepsongivingCSC
Hooper aside, have we signed a striker in the last 10 years who was prolific at the club we signed them from?
Especially at this time of year, I feel it would be only right to extend the hand of friendship across the river to our fellow football fans in their hour of need…………..
Aye right, feck that!!!!!
Bma
Geordie Munro
17:24 on
19 December, 2013
Turkybhoy,
The ‘dozen or so’ others you could name were simply not as good as Hooper. It was always gonna be a tall order to displace him as number one striker.
They were duds!!!!!.Most were not in contention with Hooper.
Bamboo-posted similar the other day,unfair to judge a player until he gets game time.
canamalar
FF,ML,EA,VvD,EI,
JF,SB,BK,Cm,JL,KC,GS,
AS,TP,AB,
These I`ve got but DB is stumping me?
JJ (WHO?)
canamalar
Another 6 months or so and we’ll have definitive proof on JF at Celtic, not withstanding Prestwick Juries wanting to visit Sharia Law on him.
I know some horses run better after gelding. Wonder if it works with footballers?
Wont argue any more on the striker thing.Waste of time.You want another cheap option,or another John Park dud,I am sure you will be satisfied in January.
Micktt
If he had done that without the boards nod, he would be out on his erse in Paisly Rd. West right now as we speak, they need him, he knows it, he is a very big player here in this big change over there, but I will say this, it will all end in tears for him, and I hope he gets what’s coming to him in spades, I have wiped better of the sole of my shoe than that little armpit of a man.
HT,
Probably most would fit that bill :o)
Non scoring strikers generally live up to their expectation, maybe you want to rephrase that question :oD))
HT
Zurawski and JVOH
JJ
DB is Derk Boerigter- remember him ???
HT-Zurawski maybe ? but a point worth thinking about mate.HH
So another wee half penny drop in SP and it will have taken RFC less than a year to have a market cap smaller than what they raised in the IPO. Quality.
JJ,
Dirk Bo
Bamboo
Totally agree. Start Amido in our next ten games, and I would bet that he would average close to a goal a game, if Mik, Emilio and Nir were feeding him.
HT,
No sure. Chris Killen? ;p
I dont give a monkeys what they do before us….
BMCUW
Sashes to ashes……
Ncl @1732
Was she no in ’10’?
I shall go into the FollowFollow carnage and report back later on developments around the Govan Blue Sox…
THE EXILED TIM-Free the Dam 5
17:18 on
19 December, 2013
Turkeybhoy
In the past couple of seasons…..
Murphy 1m ish
Bangura 1.25m ish
Miku Loan
Lassad Free
Pukki 2m ?
Balde 1.25m ?
A fair few bob in wages, and only a handfull of goals between them.
If we had pushed the boat out and spent on a Proven striker, or even got one on a free, and paid him a decent wedge, who knows !!!!
HH
TET,if you add in two signing on fees the spend could be arounf £7 million.Wages of arounf £40-50,000 per week.For what?.Nothing.
Never mind JP is on the case.
geordie munro,
Risdexlia cools ole
SFTB (That`s you!) and canamalar
Thanks. I forgive myself for that one 0:-)
JJ
Info.,required,who is the blogger on here,that has a company that deals with car parts etc.
Anyone knows ? How would you contact him.?
Sandman
Please do, I’ve got the super glue at the ready as I’ve found restitching my sides doesn’t last long with that lot around..
HH
I forgive you too
Tet and Turkeybhoy.
When you lose a few bets, say 4 bets of 20 quid at 40 to one do you change strategy and put on one bet of 80 quid at 10 to one?
Paul67
Good to have you back, sir.
Is your thinking here to fire a shot across UEFA’s bows, should they be readying themselves to spring a laser fine on us, for the Milan game?
By the by, would our most recent 5-year fine coefficient elevate us to a pot 2 seed position in any UEFA Champions’ Fines League Group Stage?
roy croppie
17:39 on
19 December, 2013
Sandman
Please do, I’ve got the super glue at the ready as I’ve found restitching my sides doesn’t last long with that lot around..
HH
That goes for me as well.
Cheers.
Hooper, JVOH and Zarawski all scored goals for us and were also prolific prior to us signing them.
Seems pretty simple to me.