Time for Paddy, Emilio and Kelvin

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Tomorrow Celtic have a Scottish Cup tie away to Peterhead, currently second bottom of the Third Division.  Peterhead have recorded their only two home wins of the season in the last two weeks, so Celtic’s scouts will have seen them at their best, but the break from league action will allow Neil Lennon to rest players who have been carrying niggling injuries, including James Forrest, whose terrific form could be jeopardised by the stresses of carrying such a prominent responsibility for Celtic.

The game in Peterhead will also give fringe players an opportunity to shine.  I suspect Paddy McCourt is still carrying the can for hitting the post against St Johnstone in August, the day it all started to go wrong.  We’ve missed him.  Emilio Izaguirre and Kelvin Wilson would also benefit from 90 minutes football as the squad reassembles itself, although the game might come too soon for Kris Commons.

News that Beram Kayal’s injury is likely to keep him out of action for four months was sickening.  This is the third serious injury Beram has suffered since joining Celtic 18 months ago.  I read a bit about grade 3 eversion ankle sprains yesterday.  He’ll need the best treatment and recuperation in the days and months to come.

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  1. Stairheedrammy says:

     

    8 January, 2012 at 12:52

     

    Did McInaly really say his donkeys were instructed to put the boot in?

     

     

    Yes live on air

  2. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Good grief,I thought Healy was the best finisher in the game.

     

     

    I mean,it was a former international and EPL manager who said so!

     

     

    Two sitters,hoping for more.

     

     

    Come on the smokies…..

  3. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Ernie..

     

     

    Never met him, but if he said that, he is no better than your average hun.

     

     

    No matter his past.

     

     

    I give you walker, provan, nicolas, mcleod et al.

     

     

    Happy New Year, by the way.

  4. The Cup is the Pantomime run for scottish fitba.

     

     

    Jim’s comments are part of a tired old script.

     

     

    “Oh yes they are……….”

  5. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    THM,

     

    I’m looking forward to that too, I’m not trying to kill debate, but your argument that TET is doing the meejas job because he has doubts about the integrity of the plc does attempt to kill the debate.

     

    There is more than enough evidence to request an inquiry,

     

    The current EBT and the previous ‘small tax case’ are proof of dereliction of duty, the fact that both these cases are long running is all the city police need, this is fraud at the corporate level.

     

    Any action the plc have taken has been forced by supporter pressure.

     

    Hardly the actions of a concerned plc is it ?

  6. masty is neil lennon on

    Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:

     

     

    8 January, 2012 at 12:57

     

     

    you could not be further from the truth, maccy is a pal of mine, never heard the interview, nor will i even attempt to defend him, but i can assure you there is no bigger tim on this site, or any other for that mayyer.

  7. See that Whitedoghunch ,he bums up that

     

    la lanterna restaurant ,all the time.

     

    Went there last night ,Mrs vp no too happy

     

    to start with ,paper napkins a no no,bread on table

     

    a french stick oot of tesco’s but the coup de grace

     

    Mrs says “who do you see?”John Greig :O(

     

    fairly pit me of my din dins.

     

     

    WDH in future warn us if they let huns frequent

     

    the place.

  8. JJ

     

     

    I feel for you, never a good day when the hun are in town.

     

     

    THM

     

     

    Why is that good advice for me, the FTT has nothing to do with the hun furnishing the sfa with false information.

     

     

    They have been operating an EBT scheme that is a fact, they had to furnish the players with a side letter, that is another fact, even wee Dawell admitted he had seen said side letters, it’s how EBT’s work, they were getting paid from an outside agency, which is against the rules of the sfa and uefa.

     

     

    They commited a fraud, and received a euro licence on the back of this fraud, and our board must have know about this.

  9. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    masty….

     

     

     

    …..but if he said that, I stand by my statement.

  10. One of the best posts i’ve seen to RTC by John.

     

    Posted last night

     

     

    There is an interesting trend developing here. We are starting to be afraid of the ‘ghost’ of Rangers.

     

     

    If Rangers go bust and close down, Rangers will be extinct, dead, an ex-football club. It will have been punished by being killed off.

     

     

    Any new company will be just that, a new company starting in a very difficult market place.

     

     

    I don’t think it should have any special hurdles placed in its way but it definitely should not be given any favours. It should simply be treated in the same way as any other business.

     

     

    Doing anything other than that, either positive or negative, would, I think, only serve to give credence to the notion that Rangers lives on.

     

     

    To my mind, if anything should be stressed it should be that Rangers no longer exist. Any new club will have nothing to do with Rangers. It will have no history, no tradition, no fan base.

     

     

    If supporters of the dead Rangers choose to follow this new club that will be entirely up to them, but the rest of football and supporters of every other club should remind them, when necessary, that the club they USED to follow has gone.

     

     

    When viewed in this way, there really is no argument that would support a newco being admitted to the SPL or, for that matter, any other professional football league unless it could fully meet the stipulations of membership, including waiting in a queue to start at the bottom.

     

     

    to put it simply, if we all got together next week and formed Rangerstaxcase FC we should have exactly the same chance of league membership as any other club that may appear after Rangers have gone.

  11. masty is neil lennon on

    Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:

     

     

    8 January, 2012 at 13:04

     

     

    as i said never heard what he said, but knowing him as i do i would say it was just maccy saying what the LL wanted to hear,maybe wrong, stupid, but definately no hun i can assure you,

  12. Telly off.

     

     

    A coat of danish oil to be applied to antique (junk) blanket box bought by missus.

     

    (Never in the field of amateur furniture restoration will some danish oil be so evenly applied!

     

     

    Dammit.

  13. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Mac Nespie been playin football for 500 years is playing healy on by 3 yds and sticks his hand up trying to calim offside. FUDD!!!