It all looked too easy. There was a collective holding of breath when Stephen Welsh was replaced midway through the second half but Celtic’s movement exploited a St Mirren team who bossed them in Glasgow less than two weeks earlier.
Tom Rogic started proceedings with a throwback to some of his classic performances. His close control and ability to shift from right to left in an instant created space inside the St Mirren box despite the defence packing around him.
Scott Brown continued to look rejuvenated, as did Ryan Christie, who came on for Albian Ajeti and confused defenders with his perpetual motion.
St Mirren are a solid side, one of the form teams in Scotland. After last night, we were left wondering what could have been?
Let’s hope Stephen Welsh makes it for Perth on Sunday. I suspect a solid back four has a lot to do with the run of three consecutive wins, with 10 for and 1 against. Stephen may never be Baresi, but his inclusion in the line-up for these three games arrested a persistent problem.
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HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 1:13 AM
Good post.
AIPPLE on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 1:44 AM
Thanks for the article, it took me long enough to read and it’ll take me even longer to understand it :-)
For anyone looking for something to watch a new documentary by Adam Curtis (Hypernormalization, Bitter Lake) is on BBC iPlayer called ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’.
Good morning cqn from a still freezing and snow filled Garngad
So Maddens off on a jolly, I hope our custodians are ready to put it out there that it’s not safe for him to go there, will he have to self isolate, is it essential travel, why can we not get foreign Referees for us v zombies?
I find this incredible when people are losing their lives that a Referee can travel hundreds of miles to referee a game and our governing body sanction it.
What’s the point in restrictions on us plebs?
Big Jimmy get yer coat we are off to Greece to take part in the Beer drinking world championships after all its essential to us and we are elite drinkers.
D :)
Bet he is down to Referee our game on return putting the health and safety of our players/staff at risk.🤬🤬🤬
D :)
AN TEARMANN on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 12:27 AM
!!BADA BING!! on 11TH FEBRUARY 2021 10:01 PM
Seemingly the Nightingale Hospital in London, at the Excel Arena,makes it’s Saudi owners,£3 million a week in rental.
If i recall correctly….
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/05/excel-owner-scraps-all-fees-for-nhs-to-use-nightingale-field-hospital
fekkin freezin good morning
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 1:13 AM
Well said Sir and God bless your wife and daughter.hh
DAVID66 at 8.19am…
Big Jimmy get yer coat we are off to Greece to take part in the Beer drinking world championships after all its essential to us and we are elite drinkers.
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Your right…I knew that I must be ” Elite” at something ?
The last time I was in ” Greece”…that wee Burd Olivia Newton John stalked me for months…I had to get Her “Tagged” by The Polis.
LOL
VOGUEPUNTER on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 8:50 AM
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 1:13 AM
Well said Sir and God bless your wife and daughter.hh
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What VOGUEPUNTER said.
HH.
Good news on Stephen Welsh. Lucky bhoy
Maybe not fit fir Sunday?? But at least it isn’t a long term injury.
I know we made a bad decision with Duffy snd the organisation of the defence has been non existent at times but we have also had terrible luck with injury to Julien and been unable to play the preferred back 4.
I would add that if we had recruited better at the back we wouldn’t be relying on a young player not being injured. But we are, so I’m delighted he has escaped serious injury and hope he gets the remainder of the games to see if he can make himself the main man.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDlEMZ-DT0
When I became aware of the Alistair McCoist Centre in EK, I just assumed it was coincidental that some worthy happened to share the name of a very much unworthy.
How did the people of EK respond to such a sly, immoral person having the Centre named in his ` honour`?
RT
Yes it is and very surprising considering the twisting of his foot and ankle.
hairlikespaghetti on 12th February 2021 1:13 am
Excellent post mate.
I despair with Neil – backing sevco in disciplinary complaints – where do you start.
Hairlike- Excellent post sir.👏👏👏
God bless your wife and daughter and the many thousands of hard working, caring souls who look after us all.🙏
D. :)
Hairlikespaghetti,
I have had the vaccine and was very pleased so to have.
I feel the most important part of your post is where you refer to the effect of some views on the less well informed members of society.
My main reason for this post, though, is to point out that I feel Burnley 78`s point is quite a bit different from the conspiracy theory guys. I think B78 was simply saying that he felt that vaccines might be fine but they had not been satisfactorily tested.
I can see that that might be construed as fear mongering anyway and that such views can be held but should not shared but it is still a far cry rom some of the wilder theories.
When I became aware of the Alistair McCoist Centre in EK, I just assumed it was coincidental that some worthy happened to share the name of a very much unworthy.
How did the people of EK respond to such a sly, immoral person having the Centre named in his ` honour`?
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especially when it got built on the site of St Andrew’s High school after it merged with another school in the town
St Andrew’s was school he wouldn’t have went to even if he had lived up that end of EK – if you know what i mean!!
Gene
What has Lenny been saying?
HOT SMOKED on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:10 AM
When I became aware of the Alistair McCoist Centre in EK, I just assumed it was coincidental that some worthy happened to share the name of a very much unworthy.
How did the people of EK respond to such a sly, immoral person having the Centre named in his ` honour`?
HOT SMOKED, first of all we weren’t asked, secondly it was opened way back in 2010 (before his deep-seated sleakitness was the public knowledge it is now). I was glad of it yesterday, mind, when I was up getting jabbed.
Fourstone- the info I posted on the Nightingale was from a foreman I know who was on the refurb, I still doubt that they are doing it for a handshake, the money squandered and corruptly used in this pandemic, is jailing stuff,thanks for your reply.
HLS @ 1.13
Thanks for posting that — heavy dose of reality in amongst the froth of the self centred / self indulgent.
My only issue is how does society respond to CoViD19?
Do we improve / enhance civic society in a progressive / collectivist manner?
Or do we retreat into hyper individualism based on looking after ourself and those that look like us?
CoViD19 has held up a mirror to humanity and for all too many the reflection is horrible.
10 years of ShamCam / ConDemNation austerity have brought the UK to breaking point at every level.
Beyound irony that with CoViD19 BoJo is living off the fat put in by TB / GB.
And a useless / fat / privately educated waster is benefiting.
Beyond irony.
Hot smoked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56027117
FSC @ 8.29
I blame the schools for the lack of geographical knowledge.
A bit like blaming Begium for Hitler …
Great how some snider stories will just not go away.
just repeat it evey 3 months and someone will believe you.
Emeraldbee and Gene
Thanks for the responses.
!!BADA BING!! on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:32 AM
Fourstone- the info I posted on the Nightingale was from a foreman I know who was on the refurb, I still doubt that they are doing it for a handshake, the money squandered and corruptly used in this pandemic, is jailing stuff,thanks for your reply.
Aye the corruption from westmonster is staggering but still they get away with it without challenge. I have a daughter who lives in Japan and they cannot quite believe what they read about the UK the corruption and the death rate ie UK 60m with over 100,000 deaths…Japan 126m 6000 deaths.
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI @ 1:13 AM,
Excellent post, you must be so proud of your family.
Your daughter’s sacrifice is immense.
During this pandemic it has largely been forgotten that there are folk who; through conditions, illness, congenital issues, cognitive impairments, cognitive differences, physical and mental disability and a whole host of other issues are having to deal with a very challenging and confusing situation for them.
Many in this situation have a limited or restricted quality of life and the little they have come used to has been, in most cases, severely impacted.
While the people who care and support them are at even greater risk, have an even tougher time in an already challenging role and need to deal with the inevitable increase in expressive and challenging behaviour that measures put in place to protect the vulnerable inevitably cause.
When I read people moaning about how their pleasant and privelleged lives have been inconvenienced and their “human” and “civil” rights have been unfairly impacted by the pandemic it makes me shudder.
The lack of humanity and selfishness of the “I’m all right Jack’s” in this nation of ours, while not surprising, it is so very disconsolate.
Hail Haik
The Neil Lennon quotes – if accurate – you just shake your head on an almost daily basis.
Seems fully immersed in the ‘we are two cheeks of the same arse’ view of Scottish football in which he has dragged us back into being the underdog in a dog-fight with Pretendy Rangers.
Not what I’d hope for – on or off the park – from a Celtic Manager.
HH
BGFC
BB @ 9.32
CoViD19 / Global pandemic — things need to happen fast.
Mistakes will be made / money wasted — but speed trumps accuracy.
You can nickel and dime the response but what elese can you do when the excess death rate is up at 50% and rising?
The main thing is not to forget and to ask questions when the mistakes are egregious and the profiteering is shameless.
Any review of the pandemic response in the UK / Scotland will tells us how poorly prepared we were and highlight the shocking bresponse to the challenges it through.
We are the land of the Nike debacle / the lockdown deniers / the care home catastrophe / the herd instinct strategy / the self isolation response / the track and trace failure / the flu viewpoint no matter the facts / the porous borders.
All these issues and more need to be investigated
FSC @ 9.47
Your credibility lasted until “Westmonster”.
Physician — heal thyself.
BIG GEORGES FAN CLUB – HAIL, HAIL, WEE OSCAR on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:49 AM
I agree. Very disappointing and even if CQN does not represent the wider support re Sevco, I feel the Manager should educate rather than reinforce.
Cheerio for now.
FSC @ 9.47
Interesting numbers from Japan.
They have had the same number of CoViD19 fatalities as Scotland.
Japan — population = 126mill.
Scotland — population = 5.4mill.
Not looking good is it?
HAIRLIKESPAGHETTI on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 1:13 AM
‘ Also, nobody should be denied NHS care due to lifestyle, such as smoking related illnesses, obesity etc.’
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There is though a material difference between health issues caused by long established and deeply ingrained lifestyle choices, possibly involving aspects of addiction, and becoming seriously ill from Covid having obstinately refused to have a vaccine.
And whilst treatment might not be refused in those circumstances it is nonetheless valid to ask the refuseniks to justify their sense of entitlement.
MADMITCH on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:55 AM
FSC @ 9.47
Interesting numbers from Japan.
They have had the same number of CoViD19 fatalities as Scotland.
Japan — population = 126mill.
Scotland — population = 5.4mill.
Not looking good is it?
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There can be no argument whatsoever that the political response to this – UK and Scotland – has been incompetent, half-hearted and has ultimitely cost people their lives.
Scotland, you can argue, has maybe done marginally better than England – in the same way that the width of a fag-paper perched atop Mount Everest makes it marginally bigger.
The numbers – in this case – don’t lie.
HH
BGFC
In ither news…………….
What does it take for the scoddish meeja to reference our Club first,….. over that of the horrible mob?
Aye.
Shameful sleekitry defined.
FOURSTONECOPPI on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:47 AM
!!BADA BING!! on 12TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:32 AM
‘Aye the corruption from westmonster is staggering but still they get away with it without challenge.’
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Unlike Holyrood eh?
Ernie @ 9.57
There is no material difference. Smokers are behaving irresponsibly and obstinately and are also endangering others. But perhaps you don’t believe in universal health care?
Sectarianism, child abuse and any other story that has a negative headline involving both clubs?
Hail Hail
Stay Safe