Celtic continued their bright start to the season with a 2-0 win on the lush ( you don;t know what lush means do you ?-Ed ) carpet of Rugby Park.
Despite the hunger and fitness of the home team, who looked rather sprightly and enthusiastic
the Celts took all the glory, if such a thing can be found in Ayrshire.
Goals from James Forrest and Calum MacGregor were testament to the fact that the side is capable of grinding out three points when they have to, and the players would have been pleased to get that one out of the way.
Manager Brendan Rodgers started with no less than five Academy players, and with three others in the Kilmarnock side, maybe a wee doff of one’s cap is due to those doing the work down there.
As the manager said;
“I’m absolutely delighted with the integration of our young players – how they are playing, how they are working and how they are fitting into our ideas,”
“Look at the youth in the team. Anthony Ralston is 18, but you would think he is 28 with the maturity of his performance, how he plays, how tactically aware he is and technically he is also very strong.
“Young Calvin, I’m delighted for him. I’m saw the fruits of him last year really. As a player from deeper, he can go and push on and be quick and aggressive. He’s really developing into a first-class young player. That was nice for his experience to get a start in the league and to play to that level.
“Kris Ajer is showing his qualities. He is improving all the time and is still only 19. So you have those three, along with Kieran and young Beni getting a start in the league and working all cohesively with the senior players, who have been brilliant in my time here. It was a real team effort and I’m very pleased.”
The spirit and team ethic is paying dividends, and whilst it might be a couple of years before we regain the mantle of European champions , the foundations are being put in place.
I said that to a former Celtic manager the other day, and its remarkable how many times one man can say “oh , for fucks sake ” in just a few moments.
Well, thats why he’s a former manager.
No faith, you see.
Mind you, the players he had weren’t up to much, there was no money available for replacements, and when a new owner came in he would find little post it notes on his desk attached to a road map.
The win puts Celtic back at the top of the league, with a one goal advantage over second placed St. Johnstone, who visit Celtic Park next week.
Elsewhere, Aberdeen’s new striker Stevie May scored twice to keep their one hundred per cent record intact, but Hibernian did a Hibernian by falling apart to surprise package Hamilton Academical at Easter Road, with the visitors recording a 3-1 win.
The new “rangers ” improved on last week by holding Hearts to a goalless draw, and manager Pedro Caixinha claimed that finally his players are getting respect from other clubs.
“Of course I know this football club is about winning games,”
“And we know that the boys we have down there in the dressing room are winners. So we keep working in that direction.
“We know we are going to face more opponents like this, respecting us, so that is one point. When I arrived at Ibrox last season I understood that other teams were not respecting us, and today I feel that respect from the way the teams approach the game. That is one step ahead.
“We are winners and they are winners and we know that only with hard work and working together we are going to get the results.
Yeah, thats what it is.
Respect.
Respect which is also forthcoming from the support…
Though there were one or two who may not have the same faith..
The former accountant at the old club having his say there, and he wasn’t alone..
Then a more wistful plea for help…
A sugar daddy.
Anyone know anyone who is clever enough to have earned millions of pounds and stupid enough to chuck it down a great big black hole ?
Someone willling to integrate with the “We Are The People ” menatality ?
Someone with a healthy dislike of all things non white, non Protestant and nonsensical ?
But above all, an ability to stand in front of an aufience and tell them that everything is going to be alright when clearly it isn’t ?
Look, he’s even got the hands and the colour scheme.
However, they are now but an amusing sideshow in the game. And there’s little prospect of that changing anytime soon.
How they must long for the heady days of Mark “Magic Hat” Warburton..
Meanwhile, the transfer window has been rattling, with players trying to get through it in both directions…
Incoming …
Patrick Roberts. Probably. Still work to be done despite what you’ve heard, and its not going to help matters if Manchester city think we are desperate to sign him. But I’m sure I mentioned that last week as well.
A central defender…but which one ?
There’s a few being mentioned, but with all the media talk surrounding Rivaldo coetzee, the South African lad, you can pretty much guarantee it won’t be him.
My money would still be on the one we mentioned last week, the one the Herald picked up on.
But we’ve already told you about him, so there’s no point in repeating ourselves
(You can’t remember who he is, can you?-Ed )
( No, And I can’t remember which day I said it either -Ralph )
( Fucking idiot -Ed )
Celtic do not tell the papers anything, which is presumably why they make things up.
Shocking.
Fancy making things up to get attention.
On the way out could be Erik Sviatchenko, who is apparently returning to Denmark.
Danish paper BT reports Copenhagen are getting closer to sign Celtic defender Erik Sviatchenko.
And if Burnley have their way Jozo Simunovic will be away as well. They are reportedly putting together a ten million pound package for the lad.
Burnley.
Makes Kilmarnock look like Las Vegas.
There’ll be other stories linking other players, but probably not until the after the Astana game. We’re 5-0 up in that one, and there’s no point in trying to unsettle anyone.
Only4togo on twitter overheard the manager talking to Alex Ferguson the other day..
“When you went to Celtic the gap was this big, and now look at it.. ”
and here’s another gap you might want to think about..
Difference in scale btwn the EPL deal and SPFL deal mean that for every 22p Sky subscription fees paid back to SPFL – £19.78 is paid to EPL
Thats why i don;t have Sky, and why you shouldn’t either.
It gives their clubs the money to try to pull our team apart.
Yesterdays caption competition…
I won.
Teenager hides cars after Celtic supporters don’t give him his ten bob.
Today, we’d like a little more effort please..
Love the graphics and love the content Ralphy, the tramadol a ding dong must be good for mental ability.
Pedro talks unending PISH,
success for the mankies his biggest wish,
how can he serve up a tasty dish,
praying on his mat with a crucifix fish.
Better banter fae the Etims bard
Those Sunday blues hangovers can be quite hard
The pounding heid and the brewers drooth
Gandhis flip flop for a tongue in yer mooth
I thought you were harsh on several players
Another win answered the Celtic fans prayers
Three more clean sheets and we reach fifty five
Take the piss oot the Orcs up Edmiston Drive
It’s Jelly and Ice cream for pudding today
The 26inch waste long since away
Cheer up Mikey the Celts are on fire
It’s sashes to ashes on the funeral pyre
Treble on the table draped in green ribbon
Ibrox is a shambles as the Celtic head for seven
HAHAHA, Now that Diddly did cheer me up. Excellente.
Shoulda spell checked it as SteveJobs has had his say again via the medium of IPad 😉
Keep smiling bud the burds will come home to roost…
As long as my wee swallow is one of them, then that would be the icing on the cake.!
😉
Och hoots,just bring back silly ally and give us all a good laugh. Scottish football needs much more than tiresome propaganda… It needs good teams to play first class football. Like Glasgow celtic and Aberdeen.
FFS one post cornetto and its gone to the freezer.
🙂
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Check out these 2 pricks! They haven’t realised their clubs deid, beat it
Young Davie Weir on the left showing his legendary sense of direction in his early years.
Can’t be Weir. He’s no got a throat in his grip.
ah” wise man carries a parachute everywhere
Caption: zonti & beered look for a new forum.
Una,
You have made your point regarding your inablity to see when a few posters are having a bit of light hearted fun, i’m sure you gathered minimal support for this.
In order to move on and have a more mature comments section, you could refrain from trolling Weered and myself, or do you crave the attention?
” Zonti? Beered?
I’ve tried to be polite here, if i see you continuing to refer to me in a disrespectful way, expect that service to be returned….with interest.
Weered,
Yes, quite right, needy is the better choice of words in this case.
What a hypocritical statement about being a troll, if my memory is correct u started this by asking me what was happening in hollyoaks in reply to a post that didn’t mention u or your pal .This was the first post i put on here in months, ur pal then followed ur lead by being sarcastic, so for me and most of the people on here would agree the troll award goes to zonti & beered.
Una,
Why take that so seriously though?
If you knew me you would laugh it off, it’s just simple nonsense.
Im happily married, i love my man and he loves me back. I don’t have an agenda i just strive for equal rights btw if no women existed neither would Celtic.
Apparently we all start off as female in the early stages of development.
Hence why men have nipples.
Possible Interesting interlude.
“what was happening in hollyoaks”
missed that
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
strive for equal rights btw
zero hours contracts are equal for all.
zero hours contracts are absolutely disgraceful, however if all you are worried about is equality then they are utopia
I couldn’t give two fucks if your happily married or not, don’t fucking ever call me a pervert again!
It was prevert zonti prevert spell it does it spell pervert moron. No thought so lower ur tone to me ya cnutter.
Una,
There you go again, calling people “Morons”?
You not got any ironing to do?
Hahaha nice one una watch Mongti spit the dummy he gives it out but can’t take it when it’s given back.
Bob,
” Mongti ” oh dear?
And so it begins…
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https://giphy.com/search/eating-popcorn
Caption: ya couple of fannys!
Junior masons meeting. I have my shorts on so I am first dibs on the goat.
Is the ex-manager’s name Macarooni? Got to say,I agree with some of William Orange 61s comments.I know a song about him,it goes like this(severely removed by Weered)……
P.S.Well done with the caption,I told you we had to stop puggy somehow,although you did make the fix a bit bleedin obvious….
P.P.S.Bojan???
Rob oh Rob
Are you sleeping on the job?
My captions are sublime
And winning is just fine.
Your humour I am on tae
But I’m no so sure o’ Monti.
Toff 1: Torquil how can we stop these smelly ruffians from ruining the empire and interfering with our God-given right to rule?
Toff 2: Don’t fret Smedley minor, pater owns a newspaper called The Sun. The oiks believe every word. Pretty soon they will have rejected independence and be out of Europe. Hallo hurray!
Gawn yersell the Puggy! 😉
Caption:Young Peter shows young Res 12 guys his utmost respect……..
Caption.
I don’t like the look of yours wee man
Where’s the statement,
what’s happening about title stripping,
The EBT years,
How I shat on David Murray, by Donald Trump Findlay.
Who’s our new signings,
Where are these new signings,
Where has Liam Henderson gone,
We need to know, for openness, honesty and transparency.
Good diary. Nice Sunday boost. Happy days indeed. Enjoy.
Caption : early photo at Celtic academy as Celtic announce their ‘open to all’ policy.
The good days indeed. I should have a couple of pieces coming soon and forgot to be humble… These are times I don’t think we found have imagined when we were signing Willie Falconer Et al and rangers are on their way to 9iar.
Let’s keep loving these times and not take them for granted
another game and another james forrest goal, another reason to sell him?
cough
Bgbhoy,
I thought James’s hair looked nice yesterday 🙂
Ya couple of fannies.
Looking back to those Pedro years,
the culmination of all his fears,
the noisy cocophony of the supporters jeers,
we all know, its going to end, in endless tears.
He canny help it, his pigs-ears,
it could’ve been worse, they could have been, reindeers,
look beyond the smears and sneers,
This could be the end of his fitbas. careers.
when we beat them 5-1 in the next game there will be a polish Porsche heading south, and not in a slow way
Portuguese
Own goal fae Boyata?
5-1 seems to be the fingerprint. who scores the one for me is irrelevant.
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Farquhar and Findlays upgrade to the main stand goes down like a lead balloon in the Standing Section
Caption: David Cameron to Rees-Mogg: “These lowly Scottish urchins may mock us toffs right now, but they still vote for us to run their ‘country’ for them!”
We don’t need to sign anybody right now. Stikers: Roberts/Forrest/Hayes
Centre halves: Ajer/Bitton/Lustig
We have all we need at hand. Yeah, Mike, where the hell is Liam Henderson?
Can anyone tell me what our total wage bill is at the moment? Just curious. I think we should pay more to keep our best players at Celtic.
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A few crumbs keeps them amused
The team played that pricks team off the park yesterday. Thought Miller and Rogic were different class. As usual the journos prattle on about lack of scoring by Celtic. BR wants to dominate and knows that goals will come.
Ayer and Ralston also look like regulars in the future.
Again the whining about Celtic qualifying for the UCL and the he cash it will bring, soon it will be make them play without a goalkeeper, mind you probably would not make a great deal of difference
So that’s what you get when your in the “EBT” scheme! Nuggets.
Caption: A young Campbell Ogilvie & Andrew Dickson get VIP passes to the opening of the newly invented, shredding machine.
Caption:
Time is fleeting.
It`s just a jump to the left.And then a step to the right.
I`ve no control Weered,none at all. 🙂
You can have jam on it.
Hurrah, Hurrah, there’s a price to pay to the Eton rifles,
Hurrah, Hurrah I’d prefer the plague to the Eton rifles.
Mike chust sublime. What a catalyst you turned out to be
Caption: “Haw Horace, ye want to see the amount of superglue I slapped on to that bollard top”
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Ned 2 – Haw Farquar how did they find out yer uncle Mountbaton had dandruff?
Findlay -Ignore them Sebastian
Sebastian – I don’t know how did they know my dear uncle Mountbaton had dandruff?
Ned 2 – They found his Head and Shoulders on the beach
Louis Mountbatten had a boat,I can feel a song coming on(nope,no chance–ed)……
Mountbatten ‘
For the pedantic section 😉
Eee aye eee aye oh
Caption: On the left,our great grandchildren,on the right(shower)theirs!…..
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/concerning-packing/
I’ve talked a lot about “packing” in the articles this season. Here is the piece to explain what it is all about. HH
Caption “Pedro’s successor Jacob Rees Mog arrived at the gates of Ibrox.” Dammit Devoy45 did you have to jump in there?
Henderson was on the bench yesterday hoped he would get game time, 6 Academy players in the squad, a buying club only, I don’t think so. Please everyone stop mocking Pedro, I had this problem with you lot over Ally whom I thought was brilliant and Oedro brings the same class, guile and charisma to Sevco, long may he do so.
McKays pass to O Hollaran took out 6 players in the St.Johnstone v Partick game yesterday, he then scored the only goal.
Just saying like. That was well packed.
I’ll tell you this there’s somethin innit
Wereds sporting a new string simmet
A heidband made oot of an old black brimmer
Buckfast n square slice fur his dinner
Trying it on wae Jamesie Cotters Ella
Belfasts finest..it’s Rab C deValera
KTand PR meet up for another year on top of the league of gentlemen
On the caption … that we lad on the end looks well up for a square go.
He’s like “Am gonny shuv that cane right up your shitebox Rupert”
caption : Urquhart, every time I lift this lid thing one of these we bastards pops out
Caption: ” Watch yer suitcase mister “
Am gonny put the Boyata debate to bed once and for all…
For me he has to be in the Managers plans on return from injury for the following reason alone:
As an attacking force he is unsurpassed at Celtic.
Forget Dembele and Griffiths Kris Boyd is the SPLs top scorer of all time.
Boyd has scored 1 goal against Celtic in his entire career.
Boyata has scored 3 times as many as that in the Celtic net in less than a quarter of the time.
The defence rests m’lud 😉
we need a goalie
I agree Fred we should target a keeper with experience on the up age and talent wise.
The French lad at Dijon would be ideal.
It would be £3m well spent.
I would go with that idea…Gordon gives me the fear, way more than Boyata does.
Nurse…..oh Nurse Ratched……
So is a Rottweiler an attacking force, Boyata is mince I prefer Ajer,
I think a lot of our players are gonny be under scrutiny from the EPL
no McGregor, or Boyata, but especially K.T. Sumanovic and Dembelle especially and possibly Armstrong.
I would be surprised if any of them wants to leave though, cos they are enjoying themselves so much with Brendan.
I was always a big fan of MON, I realise that the league was harder then but but but, Brendan hasn’t spent a huge sum on transfers has he but mibbee he is paying out big bonuses, whatever it is if anything, I cannot remember anytime except Big Jocks time that the supporters were enjoying the fitba. mair.
Times mibbee changing but what a time we are having, from development to the first team, mahn its great. The prosecution rests its case!!
Thanks to you bhoy, Tommy Burns oor twist and turns, we share a luv for the Tic. because of your genius at spotting players with your background embedded in the history of our great club, when folks look back at this period, they will ask “who was the catalyst for this time in our history, this golden time” and they will remember you Tommy Bhoy.
The ginger mahn with the pleasant smile whose pure goodness shone out of every pore, that goodness was founded in your luv for Celtic a pure gut honest feeling that valued the way that we played with style and panache always the gentle man loved by everyone, not one person had a bad word to say about you and that is your legacy, the club we are today. RIP Tommy.
My tribute to Tommy is gone, just like the wonderful person that he was.
Caption: On their way to the “Beano” auditions, an air of tension could clearly be felt between Lord Snooty and the Bash Street Kids.
https://youtu.be/YBRu_CjC20Y
Ah, Gordon our goal keeper. He is a good shot stopper but sometimes he makes me nervous or as Brando would say, “noivus”. Why? He sometimes comes out and risks a red card for his shenanigans. He is good at passing the ball out of goal but he has this bad habit of often booting the ball only out far enough to come right back at him with the opposition forwards/wingers and it will cost us dear one day against better opposition. If a goalie chooses to goal kick rather than pass, then I want to see the ball booted well into our attacking half. Then, if we don’t win the wall, it is no big threat back there. There is no shame in a good long goal kick from time to time. Griff and Sinclair aren’t tall but they can still control the ball in a dangerous area and Dembele is able to win the ball in the air. In other words, if you kick it, kick it far.
I have mentioned this previously on here regarding the wee defensive wobble we seem to have late on in games (particularly games with a tight scoreline).
Most of the time it will spread from a poor clearance from Gordon then spread through the entire back line as a ball that they have been caressing without a second thought suddenly becomes a hot potato?
It’s like the jitters set in and we go into panic mode.
A good keeper will keep a defence calm a keeper with the potential to have the odd rick will have the opposite affect.
He’s been great on the whole but I et nervous when he’s forced to come out and clear at times.
Take the header pass outside the box last week.
Agree with Devoy sometimes you just have to put yer laces through it and clear it over the halfway line.
With our pace in attack a quick counter is always an option.
He almost had an assist a couple of weeks ago doing this as Griffiths broke the offside trap and was unlucky not to score.
Sorry, “ball” not “wall”!
Caption: These dapper young chaps arrive for day one of obnoxious training at Eton, clothes freshy ironed by Una.
Nets cast oot into uncharted waters MV Monti looks to haul in a nice catch …