Having disposed of Raith Rovers last night, Celtic have two huge away games, against top of the table Motherwell before a trip to Moscow for a Champions League match against Spartak in six days.
Tonight Spartak play just a few miles from the Ukraine border and have a journey of close to 1000 miles on Saturday. It is little wonder they, like Celtic, are looking for ways to improve their injury record.
Celtic will travel to Moscow only a few hours after Spartak leave the city of Perm to journey home. On Tuesday we will be the fresher team. Could this be the game we break our duck away from home in the Champions League? If we get it right on the park it will be.
I didn’t read the (incredible) statement by Charles Green until late last night, when I caught it via the excellent analysis by Paul McConville on his Random Thoughts blog. Mr Green, Paul concludes, is “Either… stupid, which he is not, or he has decided to continue to appeal to his core support”.
There is a third alternative. Last season we watched Craig Whyte, then Duff and Phelps, embark on a series of unfathomable actions. Neither party was stupid, nor were their actions necessarily guided by anything as a coordinated appeal; they were simply being buffeted along by circumstances. No one was in control, had the experience necessary or was party to a deliverable Grand Plan, resulting in a series of random utterances.
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sycophantic
notthebus, 21:34 not for me to say. I can only say that things will be on their way.
Vmhan, 21:37, all the tax and big stuff can distract from the detail, the stuff of life.
Jungle Jim
21:41 on
26 September, 2012
I have just watched the Hun game and read a few comments on here. The comments were as I expected. I tried to watch Them with an open mind and what I saw was a Sevco, no, a Rangers team much more up for it than Motherwell. I didn`t see Motherwell lying down as per insructions frm their manager. No, I saw a team which seemed to think it was superior and failed to put in the necessary effort. Motherwell were more classy than their Division Three opponents but they did not fight as hard. If Motherwell try harder against us on Saturday, it is because they know they have to.I detest the Ibrox Club and the sychophantic coverage they receive in Scotland but I will still keep an honest eye on what I see on the pitch.
JJ
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With the exception of Motherwell’s number 9, I agree; I genuinely think he did his damndest to give the ball away or get players to play it to places he had no intention of going to.
JJ
How can a team be classy.but not trying hard enough?
bazzabhoy, 21:42
It will be viral. Oh yes
O.G.Rafferty
21:44 on
26 September, 2012
bazzabhoy, 21:42
It will be viral. Oh yes
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Omg, oh nose, they really are zombies. RUUUUNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!111ONE!!!!
The stuff of life?
Is that the life of a new club and how short its going to be?
Should we prepare for-
Third Lanorc?
ten men won the league
I think the taxman maybe coming over the hill again.
At least 40,000 there tonight. Looks like about 11,000 £0.00 tickets given out and used.
What i saw of Murderwell tonight i have to say if we do not hump them this saturday we need a good kick up the ar”e
Ian McCall answers to himself and his employer I suppose, but his players tonight surrendered their self respect, and were effectively bitch-slapped as a result. Humiliated. I;m sure we’ll get the ‘reaction’ on saturday, but those players just diminished the value of their careers.
Pitiful fools.
Green has got to be White with a mask on.
‘Third Lanorc’ ….very good had a wee chuckle at that
B-)
am I alone in hating the to*”ers on grand designs who think they have it hard building something for 750000 spondulics and agonising over the upcycling of their tea chests
bring on the mullet
the exiled tim
I’m afraid you will probably right, but it will be worth watching putting them down, 7-1 anyone
O G Rafferty
You’ve mentioned “cross” three times. xxx
cryptic?
I would just like to congratulate sevco 5088 on their giant killing win this evening. Now everyone repeat after me in a David Francie stylee.
“oh they’ll be dancing in the streets of sevconia tonight”
bhoylo
It would be good if it became relevant ;)
I expect every one of the punters on here to have cleaned up on the easiest money of the season, just double it up on us getting them away in the next round.
O.G.Rafferty 21:29:
Your source is not questioned mate. My earlier post I asked if anything to do with the real number of season tickets they have sold?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Sandaza away to the southern! Obviously Ross Hall no been paid!!!!
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
“How can a team be classy.but not trying hard enough?”
I actually said ” more classy” which is not quite the same. A team can control and pass the ball in a superior manner to their opponents (which I believe Motherwell did) therefore be deemed ” more classy” . Their opponents, however, seemed to want it more and the result was there for all to see.
Dirtymac
If Higdon was their No 9 then I agree with you.He is usually a right handful; he wasn`t tonight.
JJ
canamalar
Aye, looking like it.
It will be a full house, top whack for tickets, and it will be a sell out.
SmashingMilkBottles, 21:52
No, literally that. You thought they were cross now…
Oops, forget the last seven words :>)
Many thanks to my contractors at work today who after hearing our efforts at the weekend donated £50.
Thanks lads for helping a great cause. :)
JJ
But we know thats really sugarin’ shite,McCalls a cheat,his record proves it.
HH
If we draw them in the LC a Wanyama Elbows Ambrose sandwich would be nice.
Just my opinion for what it’s worth , I hope we never have to play that mob or their mutant offspring ever again . If we draw them in any cup competition I will be boycotting that game . Whether its home or away , not going to legitimise cheats by giving them my hard earned cash .
Jungle Jim
21:58 on
26 September, 2012
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
“How can a team be classy.but not trying hard enough?”
I actually said ” more classy” which is not quite the same. A team can control and pass the ball in a superior manner to their opponents (which I believe Motherwell did) therefore be deemed ” more classy” . Their opponents, however, seemed to want it more and the result was there for all to see.
Dirtymac
If Higdon was their No 9 then I agree with you.He is usually a right handful; he wasn`t tonight.
JJ
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After I typed, I went to see who it was and yes, it was indeed Higdon.
Looks like chuckie’s vist to Toronto has paif off, this is from today’s Toronto Star
Scarborough teen debuts with Glasgow Rangers
Published on Tuesday September 25, 2012
Scarborough’s Fraser Aird, left, battles Montrose’s David Gray during his debut with Glasgow Rangers on Sunday.
Daniel Girard
Sports Reporter
From age 3, Fraser Aird was a devotee, regularly trekking to the Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club in Scarborough to watch the side on satellite TV.
United with an Ibrox Stadium full of supporters in full throat, he cheered the lads in the iconic royal blue jerseys on to another win. That is the enduring image of countless weekend mornings with family and friends.
This past Sunday, as more than 50 club members crowded around the TV, Aird was among them. Not in the room this time, but on the satellite broadcast, making his debut with Rangers at the tender age of 17.
“I never thought I’d get my chance to actually play for the first team this year, to be honest,” Aird, a Scarborough native, said from Glasgow, home since February 2011 when he signed a professional contract with the club.
“It was something else. I’ve dreamed of it since I was a wee boy, walking onto Ibrox in front of 45,000 fans, family watching back home in Toronto.
“It was unbelievable. Undescribable.”
Back home, the sentiments were similar.
“I still can’t believe it, honestly,” said Bill Aird, 61, Fraser’s dad, who before immigrating to Canada in 1987 spent a half-dozen years attending every Rangers game, home and away, including European competitions.
Bill Aird, a transportation engineer with the City of Toronto, admits “I didn’t sleep at all on Saturday night” knowing Fraser, the youngest of his two boys, was one of 20 players on the first-team roster for Sunday. About 30 minutes before kickoff, Fraser texted his dad to say he was one of the 16 who would suit up. He began the match against Montrose FC on the bench.
But that was certainly no guarantee he would debut. Fraser, a regular with the reserve, said he’d been on the first-team bench — and stayed there — as a substitute for a mid-week game. He’d set up three goals in 60 minutes of a reserve match to earn a promotion to the big side.
This time, Aird appeared, coming on in the 55th minute with Rangers up 2-1.
“When he actually went on, everyone in the club stood up and applauded,” Bill Aird recalled, admitting he was close to tears as he watched. “That made me feel good. It was quite an exciting time.
“It was a dream come true, that’s the best way to describe it. It’s a culmination of all his hard work and the hard work of everyone in Canada to help get him there.”
Rangers, winners of a record 54 Scottish titles, are playing in the third division this season, part of the fallout of a financial and political mess at the club, and in Scotland’s football system, that came to a head back in June.
That demotion has certainly created opportunities for Fraser and other youngsters to move up the club depth chart. But they still must take advantage, something the 5-foot-9, 145-pound winger did on Sunday.
Aird’s cross from the left wing was nearly headed home moments after he came on. He was through on a breakaway but the referee mistakenly whistled the ball dead for a foul to Rangers when advantage should have been played. Finally, he helped set up the 82nd-minute goal making it 4-1.
“Looked very confident and direct on his debut, hopefully we see more of him in the coming weeks,” was the assessment of Aird’s performance on http://www.rangersmedia.co.uk, an online forum for supporters of the club.
“He certainly didn’t look out of place for the time he was on,” said Sanford Carabin, Aird’s agent and U14 and U15 coach with the Markham Lightning. “He wasn’t nervous. He took guys on, which is what he was in there to do.”
When Aird was back in Toronto in the summer, Carabin said they discussed some goals, believing if the youngster could get from the reserve team to the Rangers bench by next February or March he’d be doing well. Now, the agent said, “my gut feeling” is that if Aird can get into a couple more matches, he might stay for the rest of the season, which is just six games old.
“It’s more than just a good news story for Fraser,” Carabin said. “It’s got bigger ramifications. He’s a good role model. He shows what’s possible.”
Aird, who played a handful of matches for Scotland’s U17 side but insists he’s still not closed the door on suiting up for Canada at the senior level, continued training with Rangers’ first team this week. He vows to enjoy his time there but is well aware there are no guarantees he’ll play again.
“Everyone has always said hard work will pay off,” Aird said. “I can honestly say I worked my socks off and took my chance quite well.
“That’s all I could really ask of myself.”
Evening all.
Floods have affected our trains so today has been long and tiring.
On the way home, a very strange thing happened and I hope the knowledgeable people of CQN will help me understand it better.
Today is Yom Kippur, a solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
A lad sat opposite me but I took little notice until he got up to check his bike was all right. When he sat back down, I couldn’t help but notice his cap. It had the word ‘Subhumans’, with the two letters S written in the way of the Schutzstaffel.
I decided just to get up and sit somewhere else. It was about 8.30 and the train was quiet. But I had to say something so I just pointed at the hat and told him it was offensive.
He seemed genuinely taken aback, told me the Subhumans were a band renowned for being anti-Nazi and that it was ironic. I didn’t know anything about this band, he said he didn’t know anything about the Schutzstaffel. But I don’t think I can believe that. Otherwise, why the comment about it being ironic?
When I sat at the other end of the carriage, he followed me and told me he couldn’t stand the thought of having offended me or anyone else, but insisted he’d only had the hat for a few weeks and hadn’t known anything about the strangely written letters. He told me he was 23.
I hate confrontation like this, but you can’t be expected to see SS in public and say nothing. Not at any time, but on Yom Kippur especially.
So, music people. How are people like me supposed to know that stuff is ironic?
canamalar
Remember that cave I told you about that went for 6k, well another one went for 2k, my mate bought it.
That would be 1500 in your money.
FourGreenFields
22:01 on
26 September, 2012
Fully agree
“McCalls a cheat,his record proves it.”
Maybe……but I am not convinced.
O. G. Rafferty.
It’s obviously a video of one of the sevcovians. Doing or saying something they shouldn’t.
It’s not Green crossing himself is it? Only joking.
“Ally” Lamont…..
….Brown Brogue Correspondent……..
Does anyone have a link to what o.g.rafferty is on about.
The more ammo the better.hh
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