This season, Gary Hooper has looked well below form of last term; his touch, movement and goals record don’t match up, but he came off the bench on Thursday to score a truly excellent goal. Controlling a difficult ball in the centre circle, with defenders in close attendance, he picked out Giorgios Samaras before sprinting past his markers and finishing.
The winner against Motherwell was less spectacular but required sharp movement and spatial awareness.
Footballers cannot always play through bad form, sometimes they need a break, even for an hour on the bench, to get a different perspective on how they and the team play.
Despite his return to form I would retain the same 4-2-3-1 formation against Inverness next time out.
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“Alan Thompson warns Neil Lennon that Well victory doesn’t get him off the hook”
*yes, – I really did see this headlined*
If Phil is right and our club has been a party to this dirty deal then the only club to suffer from RFC’s decades of cheating and tax avoidance will be Celtic. My love of the club would be dealt a mortal blow. All we want is a league set up which is fair and treats all member clubs equally on and off the field, otherwise we might as well watch wrestling.
Oglach
I’m not a very happy Celtic fan, can’t remember the last time I met one! However I’m supportive of much of the clubs strategy, and remain so.
I believe it is logically sound, so bad results and mood swings aren’t going to effect this view. I take the view that if you consider something, arrive at the most rationale conclusion then you run with it. Others will panic and demand something different (this, by the way, is comparable to the debate of kick and rush football or lenient SPL ref’s) but what’s so great about the Celtic board is that they are resilient.
What’s sad about that is that the crushing financial reality of Scottish football means they have no choice. Sadder still is that so many Celtic fans want to blame our board for the impossible predicament they face. As I’ve said before we should be grateful for the cooler heads making decisions for us.
We can still challenge them and demand, but, we should be careful to show respect… and most important of all, we should always be careful to enter any argument as well prepared as those you wish to argue with – I’m not convinved that we, the fans, are.
oglach says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:40
i’ll take you up on that. phil’s article is wrong, its dangerous and irresponsible and is a long way from being in celtic’s best interests.
there’ll be plenty of people who are going to believe it regardless of the outcome. he’s shafted the board.
“Time on the bench gave hooper space” – is clearly a euphemism for “…gave hooper the rocket…. he needed”.
He was starting to believe his own hype and became lazy (not defending from the front and a pet hate of mine not getting himself back onside quick enough).
He saw the work rate put in by Sammy and then realised what had happened. A player not as good was getting on in front of him.
Give me 11 players that will give 100% over 11 better players that only give 90% – honesty is what I ask for from my team.
If Phil’s latest blog entry comes to pass then I will seriously consider not going back – and that breaks my heart because I want to take my 2 year old boy to the football with his Papa – but would I be honest to myself if I did?
*affect*
James Forrest is Lennon says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:36
You are now irrelevant James.
Considering all you have done is come on here today and shout others down telling them they know nothing and that their opinions are irrelevant you have a blue cheek stating the above.
Didn’t even bother reading the rest of your rant after that.
James Forrest is now a CQN Skip on by poster for me.
MWD thinks he will now save 30 mins minimum + a good few brain cells each day.
kick-off last night – u19s
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2010 Never Again
A thought.
As things stand presently it takes a 11 votes to allow for anything to be changed within the SPL. So if there are 2 dissenters nothing will change. Yes?
So…if the huns go out of the SPL what happens to the power of veto currently enjoyed by Celtic and the huns if this is the case?
Are Celtic worrying about what will happen if they lose that power of veto they currently have when they and the huns vote as one?
What if the rest of the SPL decided to vote for a greater distribution of coin to themselves.
There may be more than meets the eye in all of this…..and please don’t suggest I am supporting any deal to keep the huns away from what they are due, because I’m not.
It’s just something I think that may be worth discussing and Phil possibly may have pre-empted this.
Bournesouprecipe -there’ something fishy about that ole piece of headline hunguffery.
James
If Samaras scored that pen in the midden we still had to go to inverness and swinecastle,the league would not have been over,furthermore,to overlook other decisions prior to the run in justifies the referees committee being bombproof.
James Forrest
One more thing.
Go get yourself a season book and actually take up watching Celtic live – in the flesh.
Might calm you down.
MWD
If as Phil has tweeted the Celtic board do vote in favour of the Bad Guys we should maybe wait and see what – if anything – they have been able to engineer – something to our benefit.
The board are in a difficult place I suppose. They could vote against Rangers full in the knowledge that their vote is really meaningless. Would that be pandering to the fans then?
If they vote with Rangers the consequences for Celtic are dire. Isn’t that ironic.
I don’t want to get too excited or agitated at this stage. Maybe we should just wait and see. But if the unimaginable happens I know what my course of action would be. And it fills me with a terrible saddness.
Maybe Phil is wrong. He’s been fairly quiet lately and had tweeted recently that his “work was done.” His recent exposure about money owed to Davis’ agent was pulled and he was left with egg on his face. Lets hope he’s wrong here too.
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BontyBhoy
Prepare to pop your cherry :-)
I am that happy Celtic supporter. Especially after last night’s extravaganza against Man City. Brilliant football, great atmosphere, and a top result. Both teams were excellent.
Hail hail
Estadio
I recently received a surprise parcel from a mate who lives in Oakland , California .
It contained a 7 ” single by a new San Francisco based punk rock combo called —-
The Old Firm Casuals .
It is appropriately awful . Attached publicity material told me that one of The Old Firm Casuals is also a member of something called – Rancid..
The sender of the parcel is a PTFC supporter. He regularly accuses me of supporting something called The Old Firm . I have never been totally convinced that he is wrong to do so.
The Celtic board must be looking at the consequences of Rangers losing the tax case. If Rangers Newco start in the bottom division we will lose out. There will be no Glasgow Derby cash. Plenty people buy the season ticket to guarantee tickets to those two games. Next season why bother? When the tv contracts are renewed, there will be a fall in their value. The same goes for sponsorship. These are all ones that are obvious. How much worse it could get had to be pointed out by contributors to RTC. Without Rangers we can not veto the other clubs in the SPL. They could return us to the days when home team had to split the gate with the visiting team. If they were so minded they could make life so much harder for us. If Celtic can’t rely on the money from having Rangers in the League, more will have to come from us. It’s all very well saying we don’t want Rangers coming back but what are you prepared to spend to replace the lost income?
Moonbeams WD. \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. C’mon the hoops. says:
I’m perfectly calm. It’s your toys that have been launched right out the pram.
Incase you missed it, I don’t care much about the popularity contest here. So you won’t read me, and will skip my posts. To you, I’m an irrelevence.
Well, if this is the price of disagreeing with you I’m happy to pay it. Mate.
celtic40me says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:44
The version I was led to believe that it was suggested by a company in the US who then later withdrew the proposal after Celtic fans alerted them to the potential for trouble, particularly given Rangers fans recently being the victims of “heavy handed policing” in Machester, Pampolona, Barcelona, Romania and Villiareal.
Given that we decided to enter yet another joint sponsorship deal with them around this time I was under the impression that we were in talks with the organisers and Rangers.
If it fell through because of safety concerns it would be very convenient for the board to pull out and report that they had turned the offer down.
You obviously have greater inside information though so I bow to your superior knowledge.
Estadio says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:54
Ye beat me to it :)
‘Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991. Founded by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both of whom previously played in the ska punk band Operation Ivy, Rancid is credited—along with Green Day and The Offspring—for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s.’
Good grief!
Dispose of it immediately, preferably in a vat of strong acid.
IF Celtic have done a deal to bail out the tax dodgers I will never set foot in ‘Paradise’ again. Breaks my heart even thinking it, as I have always followed my club, I even had a season ticket for the year at Hampden.
Looks like it is no longer my club or the club my father and his father supported.
A new Blantyre Celtic anyone?
A very sad Hail! Hail!
I was fixing a friends computer the other day when I opened the dvd/cd drive and found a Sheryl Crow album.
The questions are (not knowing anything about these new fangled kids and pop stuff)….
1. Is she any good?
2. Is it a guilty secret?
3. Should I return it or blackmail her?
4. Could it have been the root cause of the the computer acting like a drug crazed loon?
Hail hail
Estadio
Had the misfortune to listen to Clyde last night. Possibly their most twisted show ever. After that I have vowed never to listen again because what was clear to me was that a policy decision had to be have been taken to
1) Support Richmond so much
2) Take the pxss out of Celtic supporters
3) label us again as paranoid idiots
4) Avoid, as far as possible, calls on any other matter…I can’t believe only Celtic fans had a view over the weekends’ action.
5) Insult callers WHILE they were actually on the phone…presumably hoping one would tell then to GTF on air
We need to make a point of NOT calling this programme , play them at their own stupid game, and more importantly deny them audience figures to inflate their listening numbers and advertising rates.
The club could help by withdrawing all advertisements on the station and at Celtic Park.
Spiers clearly working hard to avoid a second yellow and losing what credibility he had at an enormous rate.
Keevins…….enough said…what a pathetic specimen
…and then wash your ears out with some Patsy Cline.
Or a bit of prog., eg My Oole Morning Jacket.
Some very strong feelings on the Phil Mac article today.
I hope the Board are reading them.
Well done to the Young Celts last night.
I am no fan of our board, far, far from it. I believe, & have said so on many occasions in the past when I was a more frequent poster than i have been for a while, that they are in fact almost totally hopeless, & have made wrong decision after wrong decision on strategy & appointments going back now for many years, with hindsight probably from 2002 onwards (notwithstanding Seville).
However, if they are even seriously contemplating supporting the resurrection after a slap on the wrists of Re-a-Rangers, then they are not just hopeless, but out of their collective minds. The support will not stand for it, & far from being the death knell of Rangers, the tax case would end up destroying our club, given the depth of feeling on this. I’d never go back, & nor would most, i suspect.
I hope Phil is either being fed a line, or deliberately acting, possibly in concert with other interests, to flush out an unequivocal position on the part of us fans, which will help make sure that the board know exactly what the consequences wil be if they help our friends from govan.
Silver City Neil Lennon says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:56
It’s easy to get your hands on a ticket for the Glasgow Derby at Parkhead. All you need is friend/acquiantance who has a season ticket. It’s been this way for a least a few years.
I believe 40,000 people buy season tickets because they want to support their club financially and want to go to every/most home games. If continuing to do that means effectively paying off Rangers debt while they were cheating us to titles then many many thousand will not return,
Re Phil Mc G’s article.
I have been watching Celtic since I was 8, I have had the same seat (before and after Hampden) in the South Stand for 28 seasons, I took part in two share issues.
However, this one is binary for me, if Celtic back a Rangers Pheonix club into the SPL, I will never set foot in Celtic park again.
Estadio – in very small doses.
She’s not as good as you think she’s going to be.
Investigate Elizabeth Cook instead, if that’s the itch you want to scratch.
South of Tunis,
Oh no, don’t tell me burberry bhoy DBBIA (and his reformed CelticSoccerCrew) has joined forces with the tax-evading InterCityFirm in a bit to wreak havoc around the San Francisco Bay area. Jeez!
You know if Phil’s incorrect on this, and I think he is, then he’s been a bit wide of the mark a couple of times recently. He’s been a cyber attacked already, and he’s not well loved in journo-land. Any chance he’s been fed a line if so it achieves two benefits – discredits him and raises anti-board sentiment amongst the fans and splits them.
If he’s run this without being 100% sure of the situation then he’s not really doing anybody any favours except increasing the hits to his site. Which is pure tabloid tactics. No more, no less.
An interesting scenario is opening up here. Lets be honest the SPL without the Hun is not credible and huge revenue losses would ensue. Of course from a purely visceral pov then any Tim would want to see them riding the oblivion train. However from a commercial standpoint it could be financial suicide for us if they go out the game even for a 3 year spell. The scenario is different if we can join a new league but if we remain in the SPL,(the most likely outcome) there could be grave consequences for us too- sans huns.
The alarm snooze button was invented by Jeff Snooze.
He was always late.
wiki
The Honest Cover-up says:
8 November, 2011 at 13:57
the board are duty bound to consider anything like that that makes money for the company. the invitation was turned down which is all that matters surely?
the old firm board is a myth.
hamiltontim
I only beat you to the post (one fingered lightening I’m known as), not to the glazed smile of euphoric Celtic supporting.
So when did anyone ever really support the board and think that we were the apple of the padded seats’ eyes.
Now I suppose there might be a case for a question to be asked if Lenny chucked it, but even then …..naw I’ll still have my weekly or whatever fix of the myth, the legend and the dream.
Somehow I can’t picture myself doing anything else.
Hail hail
Estadio
The Internet eh? Serious business going by JF and Moonbeams duel! Pipe down at the back!
Paul67 et al
Actually that should just be addressed to Paul67. Was’nt it just last week you were advocating that both Hooper and Stokes both start against Rennes? To be fair to you Celtic’s third and winning goal against the Bretons was scored, by Hooper when Stokes was also on the pitch. Both Stokes and Hoops have scored in three of our last four matches, some terrific strikes too, let’s hope they can keep that going, I think they can. Neither have been called up for International football so another couple of weeks getting over any knocks will not do them any harm at all. If either or both of these guys score consistently we can kick on.
Scottish football is dying. It is staring into an abyss. Supporting one club over the others is akin to jumping.
If this comes to pass then I say “good riddance”.