Auldheid did an article for us over the summer contesting the notion that this season’s Premiership race would be more closely contested than recent seasons’. Seven weeks in it looks prescient. It’s not only that we’re four points clear with a game in hand, it’s the manner of most of our victories which is the most telling.
We’ve scored six, five and four twice in six league games, rendering the lack of a league clean sheet an irrelevant detail. On that subject, having watched Coulibaly’s goal for Kilmarnock over again I don’t think there’s much blame to attach anywhere. As Brendan Rodgers said after the game, Dorus de Vries was as far of his line as he should have been when play was >40 yards from goal. It was a Black Swan strike.
It’s difficult to say if we’ve missed Leigh Griffiths or not. We passed up a barrel load of chances at Inverness, which he may have been able to do something about, but the squad is so strong at the moment it’s impossible to say if Leigh would have been able to augment what we got from Moussa. Great to have both fit and ready, though.
Some of the football on show on Saturday was sublime. The passing speed and accuracy gave us time and space to open up Kilmarnock. It will be a different task no Wednesday but we have to challenge ourselves at this level.
I watched the Aberdeen-Newco game yesterday. For all Aberdeen took the points this game supplied more evidence that they are well short of the form which saw them as genuine contenders for most of last season. A catalogue of unforced errors saw them concede possession and momentum throughout the game.
They will still probably win Best of the Rest title, thought, as Hearts don’t seem to be able to put a run of performances together, Motherwell are far from the team who finished second three years ago, and Newco don’t seem to be able to score or defend to any acceptable standard. Loved Souness suggesting they need to spend more money – a team already spending more than they earn! And to what end, catching St Johnstone? Ponder the facts behind your EBT, Graeme, then you might reassess what spending money chasing a football dream leads to.
As Auldheid suggested, these teams will take points off each other more than off Celtic. Records could be broken this season.
It’s in our DNA
74 Celtic fans have signed up to Sleep Out at Celtic Park on 12 November. Sleeping out in Glasgow in November is a non-trivial matter, but it’s being done to raise money to tackle the “torment of homelessness” for the winter ahead. Respect to all involved.
I’m not sleeping out but on Sunday I’m running the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon through Glasgow for the Foundation. The prospect feels non-trivial at the moment (though less onerous than sleeping out in November). Dozens of Celtic fans are also running for the Foundation.
The engagement right across the support to put something back in the tradition that started with Brother Walfrid in November 1887 is remarkable. We get it.
Not all of us can sleep out, or pound the streets for months in preparation, but if you can support any of these efforts please so. My MyDonate page is here. Thank you.
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Can’t see paddy Roberts not getting a start on Wednesday , man city sent him up here to learn . He won’t do that not playing . And what will man city think him sitting on the bench . Btw I would say he s not playing up to his usual standard at the moment
Fantasy pitch… good un :)
Tide is turning McCann has backed Barton
Breadheid’s sinkin :)
Good Evening.
I see Souness has been spouting off about how the Sevco board should spend more money on players. Here is my sneering response!
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/do-it-again/
And thanks to those of you who have voted for me in the first round of the Football Blogging Awards, which has now closed!
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/football-blogging-awards-voting-now-closed/
Sevco Media first two threads-
warburton-is-a-fraud-and-the-signs-have-been-there-since-the-first-hibs-game
And
Next Rangers (sic) Manager
The Huns are revolting
all this debate on clyde about the aberdeen free kick..
am i being stoopid or is it not simply that tackling from behind is the offence itself ?
is it not that straight-forward ?
Am all for the SMSM…..throwing squirrels…..like the bus…..the non free kick….and anything else that distracts the hordes….from Warbo…..the longer he’s there the better….;-))
#FAC the Polis
FTSFA
H.H.
Has Warburton been reported yet for abusing the referee after the game?
HH
Catman,
I love yer irony….;-))
#FAC the Polis
FTSFA
H.H.
CATMAN
Should that be in the referees report?
Could Mr Beaton afford to make himself even more unpopular with huns/hun organisations?
St Stivs, TET et al,
The tackle from behind is the offence, has been for years.
Getting a toe to the ball is irrelevant, he went through the Aberdeen player to get it.
Foul and yellow, then goal and much pointing and laughing.
Got a call from an Aberdeen supporting pal as she left the ground, it sounded raucous:-)
Floating, welcome. Glad your not.
Nice to see there are some posts on Hunmedia that are somewhat perceptive:-)
CATMAN on 26TH SEPTEMBER 2016 6:57 PM
Has Warburton been reported yet for abusing the referee after the game?
Think the ref has 48 hours to submit match report, may hear something tomorrow. Doubt it mind
All we are saying
Give warble a chance
All we are saying
Give warble a chance……
Doc
Yip, but it doesn’t suit their agenda, the smsm are doing a grand job so they are :-)
HH
I feel pretty much the same about Warbo as I did about Coisty.
Talented men who need as much time as possible to reek as much carnage, no, sorry, imbedded their footballing philosophy and ideals into a talented squad.
Wits
Many thanks D.
TET, spreading their misinformation prolongs their agony:-)
Someone famously said, “it’s the hope that kills them”
:-)
Catman,
Is it too early to ask who we’re targeting for Jan?….targeting….mind….not buying…..should give an insight to BR’s thinking ;-))
#FAC the Polis
FTSFA
H.H.
HT, reading your post, I’m in London, will try to get the secretary to print and scan it.
Having seen the controversial tackle, our complaint wouldn’t have been that it wasn’t a foul. It would have been that we don’t get those decisions when it’s the other way round.
In his tirade of insults Sutton told bfdj he missed the most obvious.
Derek your a thicko.
The Clyde quiz tonight
Gerry
In which city is this seasons champions league to be played ?
Bfdj
Spain
The Lurkintim
Keep an eye on the Nottingham Forest captain
HH
Floating
Haven’t really been keeping up with events as I don’t read the papers.
Interesting to see the backtracking.
Would love to know what, if anything, the fourth official said.
Don’t recall any comments about the josh meekings hand ball.
Agree on Neil Lennon. Least Warburton should get is a four game ban plus two suspended.
From Sevco Media, the poster’s getting abuse…..
Long may they defend breadheid. Gotta admit I like them gettin beat almost as much as us winning.
(Hard hat on)
“The warning signs have all been there: Warburton not spending more than 5 minutes on the opposition, everyone at the club saying it’s all about us, no plan B, do plan A better even though it’s clear we’ll get hammered by decent opposition that can defend and finish, Weir saying Warburton is more attacking than he’d like to be, the Brentford defender saying he was always left exposed. Kiernan being shite yet still playing. Celtic could have had 5 off us in the semifinal, but that was airbrushed from history after our win, they had like 22 shots or something!
I posted the above in July (although posted similar a year ago on FF) and was roundly hounded as a Celtic fan. Here we are in September and his inability to get our team to defend, and his stubbornness not to mix up tactics, means he’s an absolute fraud. It was fine gubbing part timers in the championship, but now we’re playing professional opposition, Warburton hasn’t got the answers, and I genuinely don’t see how he’s going to change. We’ve won 3 league games since the end of March. V Dumbarton, Dundee & Motherwell. All by a single goal.”
Must be a plant, too articulate:)
Rossiter and Windass aside, the signings this summer have been abysmal. No-one can say it’s because the board haven’t backed him, he’s spent more than anyone in the league outside Celtic yet we’re seventh.
Time for him to go, and I’d offer Aberdeen a blank cheque for McInnes.
Not ONE replay yet across media showing the tackle from the refs angle/normal halfway camera pov.
Every angle shown favours the Hun argument that he slightly played the ball.
He tackled from behind because he was caught wrong-side. Criminal defending in the 90th minute of a tight game.
The free-kick was awarded because he was tackling from the back in a last-ditch attempt to halt Hayes progress.
The free-kick was awarded because referees ACROSS THE WORLD are instructed to penalise tackles from behind which fell players regardless of ball-winning or not.
The free-kick was awarded because that is the NORMAL, EVERYDAY outcome of a last-ditch tackle from behind which fells the opposition player.
The free-kick is the EXPECTED award from any referee watching that tackle right in front of him.
Only when it’s the demented perma-ragin’ perma-cheatin’ deluded Zombies not getting their own way is a run-of-the-mill decision like that questioned.
Neil McCann, quit the sophistry ya wee rule-book-wavin’, girnin, sleekit, soul-traitor of a man.
‘Must be a plant, too articulate:) ‘
Should have been at the end as it’s from me :)
Floating
Agreed
I love to have a lurk on the dark side after one of their setbacks,
Sometimes I almost feel sorry for them
Hun Kapitan Lee Wallace tribute song now trending on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY
Doc
Cheers mate.
The tackle from behind (or in front, or beside) is not in itself illegal.
Any tackle can be a foul, penalised by a free kick to the opposition, if offences against an opponent are in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force.
……….. Careless, reckless or using excessive force. That’s it…. In the opinion of the referee.
Generally tackles from behind are considered fouls, but it’s entirely up to the referee. It is exclusively his decision to make.
Tackles from behind or to the side are generally given as fouls
Tackles from behind or to the side, when made by Sevco players, are generally not given as fouls.
You can therefore understand the poor wee deluded Sevconians’ spluttering bewilderment when a referee gets it right.
……or should that be, wrong?
Hi fellow Celtic Fans! ☺
I’ve just realised, and calculated to confirm, that ‘The Rangers’ really ARE ‘Going for 55’, and that they are bang on target, over-achieving in fact, to achieve this…”How so?” I hear you say?
Well, having played 7 games so far and conceded 11 goals, they are currently losing goals at the rate of 1.57 goals per game. If they can keep this up then assuming the same rate of loss this would see them concede another 58 goals, which added to their present 11 goals against could see them squander a massive 69 goals by season end! ☺ Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that they could improve slightly, I reckon that ‘The Rangers’ much-publicised Target of Going for 55 (Goals Against) this season is eminently achievable! ☺
I also think that now that this is understood, every other team in the SPFL will be only too eager to help them achieve their target! ☺
Do YOU think ‘The Rangers’ will achieve their target of Going for 55 (Goals Against) this Season?
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
GoingFor>105GoalsForCSC
Floating on 26th September 2016 6:52 pm
Sevco Media first two threads-
warburton-is-a-fraud-and-the-signs-have-been-there-since-the-first-hibs-game
*didn’t they win 6-2 in the petrofanny cup
When you walk
Through the storm
Just turn yer sky telly on
And watch sevco
On the park…..
At the end of the game
There’s two uh…ugly huns
And the sweet,silver sound
Of their hurt…..
HT, I’m home themorra so will do the business then
Sanna great news big fhella
Hail Hail
WELL IF YOU WANNA GO, K.A.N.O ., HAIL HAIL , RAIN , SLEET OR SNOW on 26TH SEPTEMBER 2016 6:13 PM
Paul67 , promised update . Just back from the bank where they confirmed the fantastic , magnificent , stupendous , total of £8760.10 .
Thank you to everyone who contributed , whether volunteer , promoter or donor .
We are pure dead chuffed about this as this virtually covers off next seasons SB’s from this one collection alone . Maybe we’ll take over all of 115 and have a Kano Korner ?
I know i thanked people on saturday night , but just to say , again , I am truly humbled by the support we get , event after event . I am no longer surprised by it , just humbled and just a tiny bit chuffed .
Hail Hail
Sanna
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Thats a great result and a testament to what our support can do.
It’s also a legacy that the family of Kano can look on with pride,
Well Done Sanna
Can’t understand some on here,they seem to be concerned about Sevco,Warburton, etc,all Celtic Supporters should be more concerned how our club ,is being run,put pressure on the Celtic Board to release plenty of Cash ,for Brendan to sign good players,in the next transfer window,so talk think Celtic,no more no less,
I will talk about whatever I want.
I revel in their misery.