Slightly annoyed at being moved from the Upper North tonight but after experiences of League Cup games at this time of the season against Partick, Falkirk and Morton, it’s probably no bad thing that atmosphere is concentrated up close and personal to the field. Celtic Park can be an intimidating theatre, but League Cup nights need some crowd management to make it so.
Remember, it’s a 19:15 kick off, so don’t pitch up midway through the second half!
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squire danaher –
Ever heard of Shy Tories?
Hush, hush, eye to eye.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e2016765f51126970b-500wi (thumbsup)
Philvis
On this Phones4U debacle:
Oh, come on!
On the ol’ disengenuity scale (and with all due respect) you’re surely positing at the ‘talking mince’ end.
What sort of self-respecting ‘business man’ buys a company (for £200m), then uses that ‘asset’ to ‘borrow’ another £205m (perhaps to pay off the loan they took for the initial purchase), swiftly transfers that debt to the same company (ipso fact saddling it with huge debt), then just a swiftly pays himself a dividend of £223m?
Does this sound like ethical business: folks just doing what everyone else in business is doing … ?
FF
timaloy29
Like I said previously. Emotions are running high.
LB
Bawsman
the Red Coats (you call them Labour) have been, are doing and will do a fine job of scapegoating themselves. No help required from us YES voters.
They have betrayed the founding principles of the party since 1997. There is but the colour of a tie, the thinnest piece of paper between Conservative policies and those of the Red Coats (you call them Labour) in todays political climate.
MWD said AYE
philvisreturns 15:19 on 24 September, 2014
He certainly looks the part.
folly folly –
What sort of self-respecting ‘business man’ buys a company (for £200m), then uses that ‘asset’ to ‘borrow’ another £205m (perhaps to pay off the loan they took for the initial purchase), swiftly transfers that debt to the same company (ipso fact saddling it with huge debt), then just a swiftly pays himself a dividend of £223m?
Seems legit.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/06/article-0-19B2C89800000578-404_306x423.jpg (thumbsup)
ger57
“If we set up as a 4-3-3, the front 3 need to press high up the park, with the mid 3 in close order”
I am not too in thrall to rigidity in any formation. Teams do not maintain 4:4:2, 3:5:2 or 4:3:3 or any variant of it throughout any football match otherwise you’ld never see a forward tracking back or a defender joining the attack.
4:3:3 as a flexible system is not anymore attack minded than 4:6:0. It is the way the system is deployed that counts not the number of attackers you formally designate. The reason that RD and Roger Schmidt & Pep Guardiola etc; favour a 4:3:3 is that it gives you a broader front 3 to do that pressuring because 2 men is not enough to hassle a back 4 or 5. once possession is lost, however, they should not and do not retain 3 men unoccupied up front waiting for the ball to be returned to their area.
Formations are flexible and change when you are in possession or out of possession.
We tend to fight last year’s battles in tactics, that is why there is so much talk of having a larger grouping in midfield. Aberdeen did outnumber us and win as a result of that last year. However, it has been much less of a problem this year. Aberdeen did not swamp us in midfield this time and neither did Motherwell. Our most common weakness under Ronny, apart from the early season shambles with basic organisation, has been the predictable one of losing possession when you have 6 or 7 players upfield ahead of the ball carrier. That is how we lost the Motherwell goal. It was predicted that we would lose goals this way this season and that we would ship more than we did last year. Unfortunately, the promised returns at the other end (Dundee United excepted) have not been as plentiful as predicted. Maybe with a more settled and familiar selection, it will but these understandings take time to develop and patience may run out before the effect is noticeable or noticed.
Every game is now a nervous one for Celtic. The LC tie with Hearts should not be more important than the two matches that follow it for Celtic but, because of our recent cup failures, it is being seen with more importance than it should be.
I feel sorry for the young manager but the more experienced heads in the club should be taking some of this pressure off his shoulders by insisting he will be given time. By my count, tonight is only his 3rd game with the new squad in place
Livibhoy,
re Kevin Twaddle.
he was a regular in a bookies in Motherwell for a while.
I personally sqaw him blow over 2 grand on 2 separate occasions…..and was told that it was far from an infrequent happening!
Doesnt surprise me that he couldnt concentrate on the pitch due to his coupon.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Philvis
Q.E.D. … !
ernie lynch
15:01 on 24 September, 2014
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey
14:56 on 24 September, 2014
‘Infantile name calling -the stuff of genuine intellectual politics and constructive argument.’
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OOR TOMMY now refers to Westminster as WESTMONSTER.
Brilliant so he is.
Ernie,
I might be wrong here but I have read the blog over the past couple of months in relation to the independence referendum, the base of much of your argument has been to chide, belittle, name call and denigrate anyone with a different opinion from yourself, you have specifically called other posters stupid, their opinions nonsense and you have consistently ignored posters questions of you while posing questions of others to deflect from your own shortcomings. It is ironic in the extreme that you would post anything accusing anyone of name calling.
AR
Livibhoy
That sort of sums up the modern footballer. Sad though it may be they are self centered and selfish young men who worry more about their image and their tattoos more than the club they play for.
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I wonder – and hope this doesn’t – apply to any of the CQN 5s ghuys?
I am however seeing a worrying increase in the number at CQN corner who arrive with their Louis Vuitton wash bags tucked ostentatiously under the waxed oxsters!
PS. As someone who just loves fitba I found that book depressing and illuminating in equal measure.
Was surprised that BMCUW didn’t try for a Las Vegas hootenanny on the back of it!
HH jamesgang
3 hours and 45 minutes until KO. I confidently predict a Tim win.
JJ
PS I would have added a scoreline but always remember what Big Jock is reputed to have said about those who do!
LiviBhoy
15:18 on
24 September, 2014
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It wasn’t scaremongering to ask questions of SNP.
He couldn’t convince even his own constituents he had answers.
No point in re-running the referendum arguements LB, he couldn’t convince the majority of the people.
The SNP are a Tory Party dressed in tartan, they have lost the support of their grassroots due to them going left to win the Weegie vote.
Ed Milliband made a great speach yesterday.
Jamesgang
That was a Dolce Gabbana walking stick I had with me at CQN corner on Sunday. I thought it added piquancy to the Green Flash trainers.
JJ
Bawsman
Are you saying the SNP sold their soul to sup with the devil.
HH.
bawsman – Ed Milliband made a great speach yesterday.
I loved his dance moves in that Fatboy Slim video:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/01/ed-miliband-460-dan.jpg (thumbsup)
Greenpinta
Hatred. Such a strong word.
I consider hatred, the establishments will to increase and keep masses of the population in poverty, forcing our poor to attend food banks, austerity, pilliging of private pension funds, pilliging of public finances to finance death to kill innocents abroad for the sake of oil and the firearms indusrty, backing Israeli war crimes against innocent thousands of Palastinians, invasions of countries.
That is hatred.
The Vow of deciept was broken within 4 hours of the referendum by David Cameron. it was then enforced by Ed Miliband that the Vow of deceit is not workable. It is now all about what is best for England over The Vow of deciept. But yeah forget all that.
The Red Coats (you call them Labour) did the Tories bidding. I hope they pay by being wiped out in Scotland. That is not hate. It is political revenge for their deciept and their lies. At least we know what to expect from a Tory. But for a Red Coat (a Labour man or woman to you) to enact and deliver for the Tories. Na. Wipe them out!!!
It is not as if we are going to kill them. they will just lose the ability to rip us off via over egging their piliging of public fiancnces to pay for their gardener’s, breakfasts, irn bru crates etc.
There is nothing more I would like to see than Jim Murphy in a position were he had to go through the indignity of having to use a foodbank. He is my elected member (being the operative word) of WM criminality. I might even vote Tory to get rid of him. At least they are honest in their view of how badly the poor should be treated.
MWD said AYE
Obama making a speech to the huns just now….
I too feel that Labour will not win the next election.
Westminster politics will return to concentrate on Westminster. I don’t think the Labour Curia will really believe that a lot of Labour voters will drift to the SNP.
The Tories are not above a pre-election alliance with UKIP, and Boris is waiting in the wings; he is electable (that’s without the “d” at the beginning). I expect some movement on these points if necessary. The Conservatives are ruthless if necessary; that’s politics.
I think that Labour’s best chance is a completely independent Scottish Labour Party. It would support the Labour Party in say the same way that the DUP in NI support the Tories, so a big overlap but areas of independent thought. Then it wouldn’t have to appeal to Daily Mail readers. This will not happen.
My friends in Celtic,
To reiterate what the article states:This is more than just another league cup tie tonight.
Take care round Queen St Station and GS.
HH
JJ
You my dear Sir are piquancy personified!
And you’re correct.
Home win tonight!
HH jamesgang
Bawsman
He. I assume you mean Alex Salmond? Again the old nae sayers acannot get by the fact that this was not an Alex Salmond NAT issue.
You guys trully are all a wee bit blinkereed by your ignorance!
to gain 45% of the vote in spite of the corporate & media scaremongering was an achievement in itself. If teh debate and vote was to be held in a truly democratic fashion without the corporate, media and political scaremongering of our pensioners and electorate you would be sitting were I am except on the polar oppostie side of the debate in non acceptance of what would be a truly democratic result.
MWD said AYE
Jungle Jim
15:36 on
24 September, 2014
Jamesgang
That was a Dolce Gabbana walking stick I had with me at CQN corner on Sunday. I thought it added piquancy to the Green Flash trainers.
JJ
:-))))))))
HH
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Bawsman
Genuine question.
As someone who thinks that whichever stance one takes on the independence issue should not interfere with their Labour ideals.
Was Labours position formulated from Central Office.
Or was it as a result of surveys of Scottish activists.
Thanks
HH
Bawsman
15:33 on 24 September, 2014
LiviBhoy
15:18 on
24 September, 2014
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It wasn’t scaremongering to ask questions of SNP.
He couldn’t convince even his own constituents he had answers.
No point in re-running the referendum arguements LB, he couldn’t convince the majority of the people.
The SNP are a Tory Party dressed in tartan, they have lost the support of their grassroots due to them going left to win the Weegie vote.
Ed Milliband made a great speach yesterday.
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Ed Milliband made a great speech yesterday? Maybe he did, but it is just a pity they didn’t show it on the news, as the one they did show was awful. In trying to be trendy and look off the cuff, (by not reading his notes) he looked incompetent and off the cuff.
And the tartan tories nonsense has been a misued myth for over 40 years. The labour party has moved so far to the right there is not a fag paper between them and the tories. It all comes down to which tory party will win the genreal election next year. Those with blue ties or the ones with red ties. And which will be more willing to sell its soul to UKIP.
Dena
Has to be said that glam is expected – nae demanded – of you when you grace us with your gracefulness.
PS sorry about my non hugging bam of a son. Doesn’t hug anyone apart from his daddy. Not even his granny!
HH jamesgang
squire danhaer @ 14:44,
yep that tallies pretty much exactly with what i have been told re. Harvie.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
The Token Tim
He talks openely about it in his book. very candid and sad story to be fair. What he did with his wee girl was shameful. She sat on the doorstep whilst he spent hours in the bookies. Very sad.
Jamesgang
I’m sure it doesn;t apply.
Bawsman
Last comment from me on it and we will agree to disagree if need be. It would appear that all parties will go into bed with each other to suit their own gains then?
If that is the case why would you not want an independent country and a proper Labour party? I can;t understand anyone voting to keep a weapon of mass destruction on their shores. That was a major factor in voting yes for me.
Appreciate your comments because I said earlier I am swaying to the SNP but right now I am undecided. Like so many in this country Labour need to win me back. Miliband is hopeless though.
LB
Ed Miliband says he’s snogged “hunners” of girls and their chests feel like ‘bags of sand’:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02541/ed-miliband_2541427b.jpg (thumbsup)
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. The Vow – Critically Rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
If you want to vote the Conservative and Unionist party then that is your democratic right.
Voting the Conservative and Unionist Party to get rid of Jim Murphy is akin to ” Cutting off your nose to spite your face”.
HH to you
greenpinata – remember when Rab C Nesbitt voted Tory because he felt sorry for him?
I met a Tory parliamentary candidate in Coatbridge once and that man had some courage. (thumbsup)
Labour can talk a good talk ,and that sums up them ,lame ducks everyone of them. had a old guy on at the conference this morning talked well about social injustices when he was a young man, and still nothing has changed much, no we need a new socialist party to tell the tories were to get off, sadly that wont happen with this labour party.
It used to be said that a donkey wearing a red rosette would get elected in Glasgow.
Right now, if a donkey were to stand for election, I would probably vote for it.
A real donkey…not Ed Miliband…
philvisreturns 15:53 on 24 September, 2014
“I met a Tory parliamentary candidate in Coatbridge once and that man had some courage. ”
Knowing he was going to lose his deposit?
Maybe he had more money than sense.
jamesgang
15:46 on
24 September, 2014
Dena
Has to be said that glam is expected – nae demanded – of you when you grace us with your gracefulness.
PS sorry about my non hugging bam of a son. Doesn’t hug anyone apart from his daddy. Not even his granny!
HH jamesgang
He’s a heartbreaker in the making
HH
davidopoulos
If you said ‘I make this vow with these guys I really don’t like or trust that we really like you and won’t take you for a ride’ – well not even a donkey would fall for that!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Greenpinta
if I have the choice of two only which I have. I don’t see a difference apart from the fact that one is honest in their disgust for the working man and the other pretends he is on their side.
So if I have the choice of the only the 2 I’ll plum for teh honest cretin I think over the dishonest cretin pretending to like me.
MWD said AYE