Home games against St Johnstone, Hearts and Aberdeen after facing Albion Rovers in Airdrie isn’t the most taxing period for a Celtic defender, but it would be churlish not to recognise Dedryck Boyata’s form.
The Belgian central defender has been assured and confident. His pace halted a sprightly Hearts attack and an ability to elevate his considerable bulk into the air produced the only goals against St Johnstone and Aberdeen. Without him our attempt on the world record for consecutive league wins may be over.
Is he the genuine article? Maybe. What we can say for sure is that he’s not the bomb-scare he was the previous two years.
It should be no surprise we missed so many chances last night, we were without four of this season’s top five goal-scorers – surely some kind of record?
Great for those who stepped forward when needed, Dedryck in particular, but I’ll be pleased to Leigh, or Moussa, or Tom, or Stuart back for St Johnstone on Sunday.
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CELTIC CELTIC.
CELTIC CELTIC
This old Town is full of Rangers Jibber Jabber.
Make olde Petec less a fool and say you were a fool.
here say ye?
Sincy has been unplayable the last few games,Thankfully.
He ticks like a timebomb.
Magical.
LTJ Bukem1995.CSC
He is running the opposition Ragged, Donald.
Mystical Magical.
Troosers.CSC
Lets go
All these New Protestors – Do they go to Church on Saturday/Sunday?
Aye Aye
Ra.
Christ shed his Blood For Everyone.
I Know Nothing.
The Pyramid Theology transfer is in Full Effect.
Everyone is Deceived.
Peter Denied The Lord 3 Times.
CELTIC is so Good.
Enjoy watching this Excellent Celtic Team.
Broonie is going out the team, his passing was dire last night first half. He gave Everything for the CL games. I like writing Broonie off. This next Season he will be played sparely.
Good morning CQN from a cold,damp but clear East Devon.
Never watch Der Hun, unless we are involved, don’t want to soil my TV.
Hail! Hail!
Cold and wet here in darkest Lanarkshire, at least it’s Friday. The lhad is back up this weekend for a mates housewarming party.
Really wants to see the Hoops on Sunday, any spare tickets will find a good home.
The Dad taxi is on standby for the whole weekend.
Have a good one all the Celtic family.
HH
Word of The Day (Inspired by any the HBOS fraud)
rapacious /rəˈpeɪʃəs/
adjective
1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2. practising pillage or rapine
3. inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate:
4. (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
Derived Forms
rapaciously, adverb
rapacity (rəˈpæsɪtɪ), rapaciousness, noun
Word Origin
C17: from Latin rapāx grasping, from rapere to seize
KTF
Jmccormick
Someone posted phone number yesterday morning I think re St J selling tickets to Celtic fans
Can’t remember where
Tramadol csc
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday to you all. Following a night of very heavy rain and blustery winds it’s currently dry and fairly calm but under a blanket of think dark foreboding clouds. In ole EK.
I wonder how long JJ’s latest article will last?
I’m pretty sure 4-4-2 did a dissection a few years back of Kennedy’s destruction of Stockport County. Mibbe The Guardian.
I’ll let you know if I find it.
BMCUW
Kennedy /Stockport .
Bog standard smoke and mirrors populism .. Bait the desperate with bullshit and once they’re hooked fleece them..
Morning all
As Ambrose heads towards the Celtic exit door, whether the loan move to Blackburn happens or not, he does not seem to feature in Rodgers’ plans. I take a look at his Celtic performance data.
The thorny issue of defensive errors gets some consideration! http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/ineffable/
A companion piece on the Bhoy Boyata will follow in a day or two.
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Is that a genuine t-shirt at the bottom of the JJ article?
…..it’s a seller!!!!
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 7:39 AM
of the Sabine women.
JJ’s article is now watered down a bit (re: McCann family).
Was way over the top.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 8:05 AM
I wonder how long JJ’s latest article will last?
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He’s already revised it. Still going with the ‘abducted by paedos’ line, so he would probably have been safe from litigation from that quarter anyway.
SIXTAESEVEN – 65 TROPHIES IN MY LIFETIME:
He was out of order with his comments about the McCanns and he knows it. t times, I find it hard to distinguish the difference between what he writes and what is written in the Daily Record.
Good moaning.
I’m at the airport heading off to my stag do. If I never return to CQN…avenge me…
Morning all from a wet and windswept NW Italian coast.
Warbiola’s post-match interviews are comedy gold. The incoherent ramblings of a man totally out of his depth who looks as if he is about to self-combust. Like a cockney version of ‘Chewin the fat.’
Long may it continue.
HH!!
DAVIDOPOULOS
If you never return to your intended,send us a postcard(!)
Hope you have a smashing time,bud. And I wish you a happy and fruitful life with thon lassie wi the white stick and the guide dug
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I’ll be sure to send a postcard under my new identity: Davidovic
Listen, that guide dog has impeccable taste….
Morning All.
I couldn’t make the game on Wednesday but received a general feeling for the game through these pages and elsewhere. Accordingly, it was interesting to listen to Radio Shortbread last night where I learned that the main thing that one commentator learned was the trusting relationship which exists between Derek McInness and his players!
Apparently, it was fascinating to see what Aberdeen did in reaction to us changing shape and going to a back free. McInnes is a near genius apparently.
Interesting posts during the night re the Quayside trial and sentences and the overall view of HBOS related chicanery.
When the Quayside guys were first charged their alleged fraudulent activity amounted to £35M of naughtiness.
Now they are convicted of circa £250m of chicanery.
Aye well you can add on a few more tens of millions to that total for a fact, and if you think that these are the only guys at HBOS who were treated to hookers and holidays then you are in cloud cuckoo land.
Mark Dobson and his crew appeared on the horizon of a business I was advising in the naughties and was told unceremoniously to go and perform a function that is physically impossible.
But the same bank and finance strategy was followed by others far removed from Reading and the Home Counties.
By the way some of the reports re Minty’s wealth (past and current) are grossly inaccurate.
Remember this is a man who employs accountants who sign off numerical fiction dressed as an audit and PR people who positively interpret the accounting nonesense.
You can make a silk purse out of a sows ear!
Sorry Back three and nonsense — should type slower and use less phonetic dictation!!!
Brian Kennedy — now there is an interesting one.
Apparently, he was on a ladder one day and he dropped ten pence from his pocket — it hit him on the head before reaching the ground!
BRTH
I take it the trust the Aberdeen players’ trust in McInness didn’t extend as far as trusting him with their significant others.
garygillespieshamstring on 3rd February 2017 9:27 am
You might very well think that, I coculdn’t possibly comment!
Was it you who was asking about my dad the other day?
NYE BEVANS’ REBEL SOLDIER on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 8:31 AM
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Is that a genuine t-shirt at the bottom of the JJ article?
…..it’s a seller!!!!
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Doubtful,but yer right-it should be,and it would sell like hot-cakes!
Nice wee touch wi the lamb on the masthead…
If it’s not copyright,there’s money there for an enterprising charity.
I have used this analogy before, and I think it still holds true, so I will frame it again, and expand slightly.
Rangers are, at the moment, a 16th century mansion that has been left to rot in it’s grounds. Aberdeen are a 3 bed town house that has been lived in by a little old woman for 40 years. Both houses, at absolute peak condition, are incomparable. One is a huge country pile, with grounds, heritage and history and the other is a perfectly serviceable if somewhat twee little house that performs it’s function perfectly but will never be someone’s dream home.
Aberdeen have a stable foundation to build on. They have a functional squad of players who know their business and anything they spend on ‘improvements’ is just that, an improvement. They have been functioning unbroken by travesty for decades. Rangers’ house does not have a roof on it at the minute and after years of neglect, is in a state of disrepair.
If you gave Aberdeen £10k for ‘home improvements’ they would be able to buy the luxuries, a flat screen tv, a new kitchen, a new set of furniture. If you gave Rangers 10 times that amount, it would go a small way towards making the building waterproof again.
The talk of our budget dwarfing others is, frankly, a nonsense. It only stacks up as a meaningful point when you have an equal starting position. Aberdeen do not need to spend cash on simply keeping their stadium open, on reinstating full departments that have been ripped out and shredded, on buying entire new squads. They already have an established squad that can compete as top 2-3 in the country without needing several players in several positions.
Last season saw us rebuild the entire squad. Not a couple of players, not quite a few, a full new squad. Still hamstrung, although with a championship winning side in place, we brought in 11 players on a shoestring this summer and have added 3 players in January, 2 of which are loans and one a direct replacement for a departing player. For various reasons, some of which have to be laid at the managers feet for sure, the summer was not a good one in terms of recruitment. With it being such a bad summer, we are still sitting in the exact position we all expected, better than many expected and we are still on course for hitting our targets.
While we are busy renovating this mansion, we will come across problems. Those problems will be heightened and intensified because of the budget we are trying to do the work with. When a crumbled old wall falls over it will feel like the end of the world but if we are honest, we have given the charge-hand the absolute bear minimum to work with, so problems should be expected and not some cause for shock and alarm. When that wall does fall over, it is oh so easy to wet the pants, demand a change of leadership and scream at the bad job being done. When people take a step back and look at the full picture, the panoramic view of our house, it is abundantly clear that the job has just begun and that we have already taken huge strides towards restoring it.
BRTH
“Remember this is a man who employs accountants who sign off numerical fiction dressed as an audit and PR people who positively interpret the accounting nonesense.”
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Or misrepresent the status of a tax liability enabling SFA to be able to grant a UEFA licence?
Roll on June/July when with court proceedings over certain matters can no longer be adjourned.
Are Aberdeen not building a brand new house (stadium)?
Brian Kennedy.
JFGI re him and Stockport County. In chronological order-and fair play to Oliver Holt for literally being years ahead-so that it gets worse the more you read.
I could almost wish him on them,esp wi Souness in tow…
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/football-opinion/brian-kennedy-sale-sharks-killing-3369157
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/mar/29/stockport-county-paying-price-chaos
https://footballpink.net/2015/11/08/the-fall-of-stockport-county-a-cautionary-tale/
The fascinating thing about the managers the other night was the ranting shouting and physical Lee Evans type antics of the bearded unfaithful track suited tango man
Compared to the cool well dressed good Shepard whistling his flock around the park then gentle whispers in their ears remaining calm and controlled.