Remember the other day when I said that Celtic and East Kilbride could use New Douglas Park in Hamilton for the upcoming cup game, as Hamilton wouldn’t need it that day ?
Oh, how we laughed,
Well, someone might have.
It appears that they will be using it that day, 7 February, and it appears someone forgot to check with Hamilton before telling everyone the game would take place there.
Well done the SFA.
As usual, the SFA have denied all responsibility, claiming it was up to Hamilton and East Kilbride to sort it out, and immediately took all the phones off the hook.
With modern technology available to sort all of this out quickly, the SFA have written a letter to Hamilton demanding clarification, and as soon as someone has to nip out for fags or a pie, they will get it posted.
We need a statement, and one did appear on Hamiltons website;
“It has recently been reported that we will be hosting the William Hill Scottish Cup 5th round fixture between East Kilbride and Celtic on Sunday 7th February.
“We have a full programme of Academy, Youth and Community events already planned for that weekend and have no intention of altering our club programme and as a result will not be in a position to make New Douglas Park available to stage the tie.”
To be fair, its their ground, and although it may appear a little selfish of them to want to use it themselves, it is up to them.
East Kilbride boss Billy Ogilvie has his own thoughts on where it should take place…
“I said to the board preferably the game will be on astro. If it’s Airdrie’s ground or Kilmarnock I’m not bothered – but a 4G park would be best for us from a football perspective.
And if Celtic could maybe remove one player every fifteen minutes or so from the field of play, with the goalie going going first, that would help as well, presumably.
“However, I know the most important thing for the Board is that the venue is big enough to satisfy demand and that is crucial too because the whole town is now believing in us.
“East Kilbride has a population of 75,000 and there’s a real sense that the town is buying into us, they realise we’re for real now and we don’t want to see people turned away.
Look, let’s be realistic. They’re not all going to go to the game. some of them will be working, and others will find a stream.
“The biggest thing for me was seeing the demand to come to the tie last Wednesday – we could have sold K Park over four times that night. That was my first glimpse of how the town is reacting.
“As soon as we beat Stenhousemuir in the previous round was the moment when it started but you can really sense everyone getting behind us now.”
In truth, the game should be played at their ground. It’s what the Cup is all about. Jumpers for goalposts and all that.
Football is about memories, and occasions, and if East kilbride have got this far, and drawn a big name, they should be able to enjoy the occasion.
In East Kilbride.
They have submitted a lit of their preferred optins, so cannot be faulted for profesionalism, as opposed to the SFA, who are too busy scrambling for tickets to see their favourites in action against Kilmarnock, after the draw went awry and the wrong new club got the home game against Celtic.
6. Bernabau , Madrid
7. Nou Camp, Barcelona
8. Maracana, Rio
9.Wembley, London
10. Allainz Arena , Munich.
The SFA countered with their list;
1: Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
2: Auchenhowie Park, Lalaland
Mark Horner, top man at East Kilbride, has now had a taste of the SFA’s incompetence.
He said;
“I’m struggling to make sense of all this now.
“I can’t believe we’re this far down down the line and the venue is still up for debate. We actually sent an email to the SFA over the weekend asking them to reconsider the decision on the venue for the tie due to the demand for tickets.
“Our secretary Dave McKenna sent the email and we were waiting to hear back before pressing ahead with any plans for the tie. Thankfully we hadn’t started making plans after hearing this.
“I just assumed New Douglas Park was available. We didn’t think for one minute nobody at the SFA had contacted Hamilton Accies to ask if was okay.
“The SFA said they would help us massively because we are the new boys. They said they would help us from A to Z in every matter whether it was ticket printiing, security or segregation. Now we have to go back to the SFA and see what’s going on.”
Good luck with that.
Ljuban Crepulja has returned to Croatia , and it seems he didn’t buy a return ticket, which will please some people;
Instead, its back to looking at loans for players that we aren’t going to buy but will just piss everyone off when they go back to Manchester City, still don’t get a game and end up somewhere else on a massive wage we can’t afford but made sure he was worth.
Deila said, reading from the paper handed to him by Lawwell;
I wouldn’t rule out a loan deal because you never know what might happen, but it would be fair to say that we would hopefully be looking at it becoming a permanent move.”
Can someone just get into the office and wipe out all the contact numbers, emails and facebook friends connected to Manchester City ?
Please ?
Contact has apparently been made over the possible signing of Keiran Agard, currently with 22nd placed championship side Bristol city after someone noticed he’s scored three goals this season. Granted he did it in just six games, but Wikipedia, a sort of online Daily Record, ays he’s only scored once.
Presumably the scouts included the replays on the video they watched in the total.
Oh, and we’ve apparently sent someone to watch Christian Santos, a Venezuelan at NEC Nijmegan in the Netherlands.
HITC sport, who reported this, couldn’t even get his name right. It’s actually Christian Robert Santos Kwasnieski. And he recently-2014-had a severe knee injury.
So the remit given to scouts still appears to include players in the Dutch league with a piss poor medical history.
Yet with all this talk of players coming in, one wonders f they’ll get a crack at the first team. after all, the manager picks the starting eleven, and he appears to favour a certain type of player, which is not a bad thing;
“It is so important for me that we have players like Callum and Kieran in the team, for lots of reasons,”.
“They know the city, they know the culture, they know what it means to pull on the shirt and what they have to do to keep it. I always think that players who come from families who supported the club are willing to sweat blood for it – they give everything.
“But it is more than just that. I think it great for our academy players to look and see that it is possible to play here. You can come to Celtic and you can make it to the first-team – it is important to see the heroes every day. That is the message we want to put into the academy, that you can make it here.
“That is also why guys like Charlie [Mulgrew] and Scott [Brown] are so important too. Charlie came close, went away and came back and these guys are Mr Celtic now. Scott is working with some of our youth players in a coaching environment and keeping that strong Scottish spine is something we always want to do at this club.
“Of course, we will always look to do business in the transfer market because we want to be at top club. We see ourselves as a Champions League club and it is about building a team with a mixture of youth and experience that can take us to that level now.”
Thats the way forward, and not with loannees, has beens and players whose catchphrase is ” Shit, my legs gone again. “
In Dutch.
Elsewhere, another ex-Celt burned his bridges in the media. Paul Hartley, now manager of Dundee won’t be getting a gig on the BBC’s showpiece Sportscene programme any time soon after he criticised Pat Nevin, the Scottish football guru, when the short arsed pen twiddler commented on Hartleys side, labelling them “disorganised “;
“I didn’t see it at first but I was told about it and then I saw it for myself.
“That’s why he (Nevin) has never managed. What would he know about the shape of my team?
“He picks out three incidents in the game. I saw the players’ performance on Friday night, I saw the shape of the team – and some of the stuff he was speaking about was garbage. That sums that programme up.
“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about – and it’s the same every week.
“That’s why I don’t watch it, it’s why I wouldn’t have any of my players going on it – and I wouldn’t go on it myself. It’s the worst programme I’ve seen.
“Does it have any credibility? No, it’s got none. It’s not what it used to be like, away back in the 1980s when you wanted to sit up and watch Sportscene on a Saturday night.
“Now you don’t want to watch it. You just hear people talking about it.
“He (Nevin) wasn’t a defender, he has never coached or managed a team. He has probably never seen us play this season. He can have his say but he’s talking rubbish.
“I’ve told you straight the programme is terrible. No matter what anybody says, it’s garbage – and I’m not the only one who thinks that by the way.”
Reading between the lines here, it seems Hartley isn’t impressed, and to be fair, he has a point.
Even the microphone doesn’t want to be anywhere near Nevin when he starts talking..
And as for the studio audience…
He can’t go until he’s locked the place up.
The Ibrox Evening times says that Mark Warburton is still looking to do business this month…
MARK WARBURTON is still hopeful he will add ‘one or two’ players to his Rangers squad before the close of the January transfer window next week.
Chris Jack, the author, is still hopeful of writing something that will not cause gales of laughter from non Ibrox supporters.
I’ve just finished reading “Living On A Volcano “, a book about the ins and outs and ups and downs of football management. Warburton was interbviewed for the book, and comes across as a bloke who knows what he is doing. Or , at least, thinks he does, which is fine. Its called confidence.
However, he also appears to be someone who won’t suffer fools and needs honesty and transparency in his dealings with his board.
If I were a betting man, I’d be thinking , based entirely on what was in this book, that he will be at Fulham sooner or later.
With Susan Murphy dominating the caption competition it’s time for the rest of you to pull your socks up.
So heres todays…
Oh, by the way. Bonnie tylers Goalkeeping Legends dvd is not worth the money.
Its just totally clips of Joe Hart.
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Celtic have signed a player for 10 million pounds!
Does RD know his players ?
McGregor’s family have affiliations with the new club at Ibrokes ?
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Susan Murphy receives her prize from Ralph and nobody can believe the size of it…… the phone that is.
Footnote… She’s got bigger hands than Fraser Forster.
To be fair though Fraser has got bigger tits in front of him.
Good one.
McGrgor also sa recently he loves it at Celtic and wants to be there for the next 10 years.
Caption ” I didn’t realise there was another mouth as big as fat sallies”.
Missing the point mate.
He’s not steeped in Celtic like Tierney is.That’s what RD was alluding to.
He’s playing well.As long as their good enough for Celtic,like many greats in the past,then his background has nothing to do with it.
Am I right in thinking McGregor has been at Celtic since he was spotted as a boy?
Correct,Charlie.
RD,” Players whose families support the club”
A minor point,but this doesn’t apply to McGregor.
Cheers
100% true. His brother plays 5a sides in the 1996 rangers top. His father doesn’t go to watch him play. His mum is however and is regularly seen in the players lounge with the brother. Even tho he is a zombie
Cheers,mate.
Tell Charlie know it all.
I met his Dad on holiday.Let’s just say,I’m surprised his son still plays for Celtic.
Charlie Saiz thinks he’s superior and knows everything.
That is why I rarely post on this excellent site.
I much prefer Twitter now.He can have a balanced discussion.
Cheers
he loves a stat so its no surprise that he needs evidence on certain subjects to believe them… i know what i post is accurate but i cannot force others to believe… i like knowing exactly what is going on and only share this to let others know as we all love the club at want the same thing at the end of the day…
Holy sea,
How’s things Pedro?
I notice you were saying you didn’t post on here because of erm, Aye because.
Don’t let anyone put you off mate, Etims is excellent and generally good Craic.
One or two ego’s about but you know, shits cool.
Keep posting my friend!
The fact he signed for Celtic as a boy suggest to me that despite his families leanings they have in fact supported his choice to play for Celtic.
Seems to me some within our support are just happy to pick the Manager up for just about anything now to make a point?
I could be wrong but hey ho what does it matter anyway?
It’s a daft conversation on the Internet.
It changes nothing.
@Holy McGregor signed for Celtic as a boy this means his family must have supported him even moreso given the fact they follow follow a Club from Govan.
I love these little insights to the club. It’s great.
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Big hands realises what’s going on behind her back.
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Hollywood aghast as SFA declare the huns gained no sporting advantage by cheating their balls off.
Just dawned on me what has gone wrong with Nadir Ciftci at Celtic.
He’s been listening to Pat Nevins incite of the game at the Sportscene studios.
insight’ wow the grammar queens will be frothing at that one 😉
spelling queens, not grammar.tsk!
Drama-Grammar
Drama-Spelling
Disny quite have the same ring to it does it Elpedanto?
Caption heading:
This mobiles dispense your favourite refreshing mint … only two calories … the average IQ of an orc.
Insight!!
Cough cough
Wag reacts to awful news that her man is signing for sevco.
when the girls are told to watch the video of the tackle on James Forrest it’s not quite what they had in mind
Never watched that show in about 2 decades. Rat Nevin is morphing into that little creature from Lord of the Rings, with every passing day.
Awe Diddums?
Careful Shuggy you will have the Ayrshire Mafia on yer case if you dare mention the golden child 😛
I admit I laughed at that one
Anyone who has sat and listened to Ronny Deila speak about matters concerning Celtic would be acutely aware that his English although very good is does not always come over quite as clear as it should?
When I read a comment from him or here him speak I am always aware what is being said may or may not be what he actually means?
The comments regarding McGregor and Tierney would be an example of this and I think some may be being a little over critical of the wording?
I get what he he means he is using both players as a current example to those in the Youth Set up as examples of how being dedicated at Celtic can open doors to first team action regardless of age.
That’s a positive I see no valid reason for trying to turn it into a negative by being pedantic.
Hear?
Alternatively,
Anyone who has listened to Ronny Deila for more than a minute and not said ” Fuck sake ” deserves a medal.
A pedants dream panties will have been soaked… ;-0
Where?
“what he he means”
Ronnies nickname in the Lennoxtown shower room is he he I would have thought the golden child would have told you that when you picked up the Dove bg?
aye very good… ronnie doesnt hang about for a shower… cant wait to go for a pint…….
2 upfront,not before time,what most of us have been looking for!!!
DEILA OUT!
Wooooaahh that song is right! Morten Wieghorst is hung like a horse!
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The ladies are watching me on soccer a.m.
and have just heard me being asked who the least intelligent is on Etims Diary…
I’ll let you guess my answer….I’ll give you a clue…..
Miaoowwwww 🙂
The SFA are thicker than a talking cat, can these fannie’s not do anything right?
If anyone from the SFA is looking in, maybe that fud that I ranted at a few weeks ago, let me talk you through what to do next.
1) Phone Peter Lawwell and ask him if Celtic would be nice enough to host the game.
2) Phone East Kilbride and ask them if it was possible, would you be happy to play the game in Scotland’s biggest stadium, Celtic park.
3) Phone Ibrox ( Do they have a phone, have they paid the bill)? and ask them if the creditors have been paid.
Miaoowwwww
So Mc Gregor comes from a family of blue noses? Do I care? Not a jot. Actually no, I like it, the more that come from darkness into light the better. We had Mc Geouch come to the light, now Scott Allan, who might even play for Celtic one day.
Some are beyond help though, could you imagine the torn faced Ian Ferguson or Davie Dodds in the Hoops? Yikes.
Shame Mc Gregor’s brother hasn’t the money to buy a Rangers top post 1996. I guess they are historic artefacts now with Rangers being dead and all. It might be worth money on e bay. If he got as much as a pound he might be able to buy the new club with it. It was enough to buy the old one any way.
The solution to this whole venue issue is so obvious I don’t know why the fuss. It’s a policy the SFA have already put in place and so it’s just a case of them rolling out the existing policy:
The SFA have already made sure that all 2nd Rangers cup games are at Ibrox, so why not extend it to all teams – all games at Ibrox, all gate receipts to the Ibrox club, home goals count double for the Ibrox club’s trouble of putting the games on, all prize money to them too, everyone’s a winner (by everyone I mean 2nd Rangers, and so the SFA)
I have to confess I watched them for the first time last night since the hilarity filled game at Motherwell at the end of last season.
I’d not seen any thing of them play under Warbiola until last night, and thought I should check them out to see what sort of state they are in if they do come up.
Despite the bestest wishing of Chris Union Jack, Bungle et al, the Hearts team of last year were much more impressive in my opinion. This 2nd Rangers team were bang average, the wee lad Mc Kay/ Mc Kie Mc kee? was alright, the Waghorn one runs about a bit, but they were nothing special and apart from those two they were really really ordinary – Kenny Miller still turning out for them ffs. They might like to say they are coming, but imho it will take a fair few pound more from Dave King’s warchest before they would even be a top 6 team in the top league – Celtic Hearts and Aberdeen clearly ahead of them right now
elcormaco,
Excellent and enjoyable post, I have to mention the referee though, I thought he was excellent and the red card shown to the Orc, Halliday, put the cream on his performance.
Halliday was clearly inciting lol the Morton fans….
Cheers. Ha, yeah I forgot about the red card. It was ludicrous tbf (but very funny), but not the first time a player has been sent off for celebrating a goal – I remember Di Canio scoring against Hearts and getting sent off before the game kicked off again.
Remember big Jan up at inverness aswell geting a second yellow for celebrating
elcormaco,
Was he not trying to get the ball back out the net?
Only in a Paolo sort of way…
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Turns out the Oscars aren’t the biggest white supremacist gathering after all….
play the game on a public park. have people collecting any donations in buckets and give the whole lot to EK.BUT CELTIC HAS TO PLAY A RESERVE TEAM. That will get global coverage and put the sfa in the spotlight
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Even Hollywood fuckwits can’t believe the huns had a man sent off!
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Etims first timers react to some diary responses.
Caption……
“Weee can see you poppin out….weeee can see-ee you-ou poppin out!”
HH
Sue
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Lack of support revealed for Ashley and King!
HH
Sue
Brilliant!!
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Whit! Susan’s won it again!
Or..
What the fuck do you mean do I call them McCoist and Durant?
If I use a girls name do I get to be sexist??,,,,,just a whinge nothing else……Caption;Susan Murphy sees how easy it is to win on E-Tims…….all you have to do is use a girls name………
I know a
…fuck it, cancel reply 🙂
I was about to bite…..In fact that could be the caption…..
Monti and Charlie S about to bite!
HH
Sue
Or..
Awright doll, Frankie MacAvennie here, I’d love to take you in the transfer window, know whit ah mean?
OK no more from me.
Girl enters banter wae the bhoys and gets accused of being
a) Sexist b)Fella
Life’s too short and I’m not really equipped for the knife in the ribs stuff. I’ll stick to just reading from now on.
(mind you some great captions there. I was feeling the pressure)
HH
Sue
Illegitimi non carborundum!
Don’t listen to them Susan, just the usual bullshit bullying that goes on. I thoroughly enjoy a good chuckle at your captions.
Sue. I thought when you weren’t on earlier I might stand a chance. Always tomorrow then.
It was meant to be banter Susan,given some comments on here I thought it would come across as such……no offence nor discomfort intended.Slainte.
They were beaten fair and square. I’m avoiding gourock now after the other days comment and going round to dunoon by road
Awww Susan, man up ffs…. Oops
Lol
I think we are doing a good job of filling up the squad places with either established players or youngsters who have obvious potential.
We don’t need loaners unless we have the option to retain them.
The caption photo reminds me of an old courting line -“say Ah” !
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The refs sent off a hun !
HH
Kym Kardashian reacts after catching a glimpse of efe ambrose holding his… Ahem saxophone
Breaking news. Ronny deila has guided Celtic to the champions league group stages at the 14th time of asking.
🙂
🙂 🙁
Feel a bit sorry for ronny, his comments about young scots kids being the future and various things said about loan deals not being good for us points to either lawell , park or someone upstairs forcing these players on him. Starting to think there is some fifa style back handers goin on with man city! (Joke- celtic lawyers). Why on earth do we want an english kid from man city who is gonna go straight back down the road when we have our own kids like nesbitt. Sorry but were not here to put players in the shop window for other clubs. By the way wheres commons , is he injured or just not made the side lately
Caption- Charlie saiz manages 24 hours with using the words stats or pedant
Ahhh lol **without. Oh the irony!!!
Fail 😉
Caption : “That’s big, but it will still fit…. Look!”
Wee bit sensitive …possibly the biological cycle….but that is the winner
HH
SUE
Davie Dodds.The unacceptable face of Scottish football!!