Uncommon penalties and chaotic weeks of back-biting

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Kris Commons looked like he had put a lot of practice into taking penalties yesterday.  The ball was firmly hit and found the corner of the net, a feat which is far from impossible but which has been beyond various Celtic players for the last few years.  We have little a little over a month before we could face a penalty kick competition against Juventus.  Penalty kick practice should be on the menu every day between now and then, for the entire squad.

I’m delighted Lukasz Zaluska has had an extended run in the team.  No player will be at his best if he is seldom tested and never in important games.  Lukasz carried his share of the blame for last weekend’s Hampden defeat but not every keeper can pull off a Nigel Spink.  Good to have Fraser back for Inverness.

If you read on a Celtic site that The Rangers chief executive and chairman are “at loggerheads” after “a chaotic week of back-biting” or that there is a prospect they will “frighten the life out of those institutional investors who ploughed £17million into the coffers little more than a month ago”, you would be forgiven for discounting the claim as a case of wishful thinking.

When it comes from the Daily Record and recent colleague of the club’s newly installed head of media you can be sure there is a little more to it than that.

You would think with all the positive feedback Green and Murray would have received form the SPL Commission they would be flush with joys.  I sincerely hope, for their sake, that Phil’s Bridge over Troubled Waters ditty was more wishful thinking than another leak from the media team.  That would be embarrassing.  “Squelch.”
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  1. CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on

    Clink

     

     

    It takes more than natural ability to make the grade at any level of football… Witness the many less talented players who appear every week….

     

     

    Paddy for whatever reason never attained fitness or application levels to allow his talent to be fully released in the Hoops.

     

    Unless you know of other reasons why Lenny doesn’t pick him?

  2. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Tend to agree that his best position could be midfield. To me he has all the necessary attributes. He’s now at a crucial age and if he can avoid serious injury and keeps applying himself, I think can be a really top, top player – hopefully with Celtic.

  3. Clash

     

     

    How about Efe and Victor in central midfied?

     

     

    Both skilled and composed, playing with their head up.

  4. Cheers Bhoy Jinky

     

     

    South Glasgow got a good dusting of snow there but its stopped now, hammering down it was and lookin for a duvet day. Ach well never mind.

  5. Stan Collymore ‏@StanCollymore

     

    Getting personal abuse from Rangers fans for telling a story of Gazza’s time there. Nothing more, nothing less. Talk about mob mentality!

     

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    They are not endearing themselfs are they, nothing new there then, if brains were chocolate they couldn’t fill a smartie.

  6. Jude

     

     

    Not very often… Prefer the other chippy on the main st… Plus once i drive into that mental shoppers lane i end up in ruglen and that aint healthy

  7. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    It’s good night from corkcelt and it’s also goodnight from SadiesBhoy. No cheeky comments now. Hopefully be back tomorrow. Enjoyed the Blog today.

  8. CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on

    Too many soft central belters on CQN

     

     

    The frozen north of Aberdeen has been deep in snow for weeks!

  9. The Boy Jinky

     

     

     

    23:49 on 4 February, 2013

     

     

     

    Cowiebhoy

     

     

    Ja i do indeed..im impressed that you got the initials correct mein herr.

     

     

    When we eventually catch up (in March – as you are off for 3 weeks from Friday), I can give you a fuller picture.

     

     

    Enjoy Goa

     

    Hail Hail

  10. Rascar,

     

    Who would you have in central defence ?

     

    My view is that Kelvin Wilson is at his best , when he is more of a sweeper than an out and out centre back , and from the various options , in short term Efe and Kelvin seems most effective.

  11. I think this fitness argument stems from when Paddy first arrived at the club.

     

    The step up from the regime at Derry to that at Lennoxtown came as a bit of a shock to him and he admitted himself that he struggled for quite a while.

     

    That however is history and doesn’t apply now.

     

    Maybe the reason why this notion has prevailed is that he is injured alot and rarely starts games so we seldom see him getting the full 90 minutes

  12. Cowiebhoy

     

     

    I always enjoy goa… But heres the thing… I hire a honda scooter… This will be my 5th holiday that i have done so. The roads and tracks are mental and on the law of averages im due to get totalled by a tata truck…

     

     

    I used to work for tata… So i might be as well saying tata for noo :(

     

     

    Not sure my next home game as its the saints of mirren the weekend i get back but god willing i will be in my seat in march

  13. Cults

     

     

    I bet it’s colder here at night than it is in Aberdeen, I would also bet it’s much warmer here during the day as well.

     

     

    I was up the back of 7 this morning it had got up to minus 6, can’t find the minus thing, and got up to + 20 this afternoon, no snow tho, might get a wee flurry, and can’t see any rain for a month or two either, all the while getting hotter by the day.

  14. Weeminger

     

     

    Mind … Paddys from derry.. Got death threats and bullets….ffs dont be lurking round his gaffe

  15. We get lots of people who don’t know how to drive in snow here, the trouble up there is you got to spray the sheep different colours so you can find them in the snow.

     

     

    HH

  16. Jude

     

     

    You think you been where… The chippy or ruggie…. When i end up in the glen it feels like im heading to hampden and i lose my appetite and the will to live

     

     

    And … I never kiss a sheep… Not on the lips anyhoo….

  17. Clash

     

     

    I have a big problem with the creative side of the team.

     

     

    I want Chaz at left back so he can ping crosses in.

     

     

    I want Broon out right, so he’s not trying to be the playmaker.

     

     

    Vic has to be middle, and I would play Paddy or Kris beside him.

     

     

    So I suppose that means Kris.

     

     

    Centre back… Wilson and Rogne

  18. Read an article today on Peter Odemwingie, he is currently on £15,000 a week at WBA.

     

    An average wage for a 3rd division SFL club.

  19. CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on

    Exiled

     

     

    Least you get the heat…we’ve had a fair bit of -3 and seldom above 2

  20. Rascar Capac

     

    Charlie can’t play left back, he gets ripped inside and outside.

     

    Left Mid or Centre half yes, LB no way.

  21. deniabhoy : 21:11 on 4 February, 2013

     

    Europe-wide match fixing controlled by one gang in Singapore.

     

    OG hints at a major problem for Sevco from Singapore-based investors.

     

    2+2=5 or something in it?

     

    >>>>

     

    I speculated on this earlier today, on a purely empirical basis i.e. assertion based on observation. Also, the look on Chawll’s coupon looks decidedly ‘a whiter shade of pale’.

     

    NoFireWithoutSmoke CSC

  22. Stan Collymore ‏@StanCollymore

     

    Whoever started bizzare rumour that I besmirched RFC, well done you’ve managed to get racist/threatening/idiots who ‘support’ RFC mobilised.

  23. Cultsbhoy

     

     

    Do you reckon big peter might be hanging around the gates of lennoxtown then

     

     

    Great for celtic…. The shop would make a fortune out of selling the letters on the back of the shirts