Today promises to be one of those days where we’ll have a lot to talk about.
Apart from the second game of the season, over at Rugby Park against Kilmarnock, there’s the draw for the first European qualifier at around 11am.
Thats why I’ve got up early this morning to put this nonsense together. That and a bloody great border collie jumping on my head because she wanted to go out.
Kilmarnock lost the opening game of their campaign to Hibernian last week, so they’ll be looking to get something from the game, and have caused a few problems for Celtic in previous meetings, though today I’d be surprised if the biggest issue wasn’t the traffic in and out of the town.
Most pundits expect Ross county and Hamilton to be the cannon fodder this season, but Kilmarnock have been a little bit conservative themselves in their approach, and sooner or later that desire to hang on to Premier status will backfire, and this season could be the one.
Against Celtic, they tend to start the game by sprinting back to the eighteen yard line and staying there until its time to go home, but the difference this season, as shown in the opener against Hamilton, is that Celtic are a little more varied in their approach to goal now, and an awful lot quicker in getting there.
As a result, today should see another big score as opposed to the tedious war of attrition that tends to be what would loosely be called a football match in Ayrshire.
The word on the street is that Vassilis Barkas will make his debut, and apparently he’s been quite impressive in training, showing he can catch, punch and parry the ball depending on what he thinks is suitable.
There’s no word on whether or not he’ll be allowed to go off on any mazy runs ….he can play outfield as well….in the style of Ramon Quiroga…look him up…..but again, it’s another option of Kilmarnock manage to pack the defence and kill the game.
Jeremie Frimpong and Greg Taylor will form the outer layer of wingers, occasionally wandering back to their own half to check if Barkas needs a drink or a sandwich, and Mo Elyanoussi and James Forrest will be the Inner Wingers.
Kris Ajer hasn’t gone to Milan yet so he’ll partner Chris Jullien at the back, although both will form the third wave of attackers for most of the game, dropping back only in the unlikely event of Kilmarnock having enough interest in meeting the new Celtic goalkeeper.
Second wave of forwards will be Scott Brown and Calum Macgregor , with Ryan Christie and Oddsone Edoaurd in the front line.
We may see Patrick Klimali at some point again, as the striker has scored a goal in every eight minutes of play this season.
In fact, if he starts the game, that means he will find the net eleven times on his own.
Thats how statistics and analytics work, right ?
On Twitter yesterday, we came under criticism from some quarters for a throwaway remark in the podcast that left some people quite peturbed.
A reference was made that those who study analytics and data are all “virgins ” which rankled with some listeners, but there’s no pleasing some people, as Jesus said in Monty Pythons Life of Brian.
Which does lead us to the real issue here….
Speaking of Patrcik Klimali, there are hopes that he could be the real deal on the field, and suspicions grew that he might also be the right kind of guy off it….
As opposed to Leigh Griffiths, who is just “off it ”
With there every possibility of the season being stopped at some point each and every game becomes a cup final for Celtic. Every game has to be won, and won convincingly, especially when you take into account the novel and refreshing interpretation that Scottish referees have of the Laws of the Game.
I’d like to think another four or five goal victory is on the cards, and on balance, that should be the least we target.
With Hibernian winning convincingly at Livingston yesterday…scoring four against a club who only lost eight goals at home throughout the whole of last season, there can be no room for complacency, and Dundee United have adapted quickly as well, winning at Fir Park to add to their point against St Johnstone in their opener.
James McPake is doing a grand job at Tannadice….at least according to Sky sports, who continue to do as far away from a grand job as possible when it comes to Scottish football….
There’s also plucky newcomers “rangers “, who will be desperate for their first senior trophy, and who won’t have to worry about their fans getting the stadium closed, as they’re not allowed in yet anyway, and have been forced to find other ways to hate catholics.
It could be a good season, and maybe this is they year when other clubs raise their standards of expectation…
One particularly pleasing aspect of Scottish football was on display around the country yesterday…..
Kemar Roofe makes Rangers vow as he tells Steven Gerrard he’s ready to go
He’s only been here a week….how bad are things over there ?
The campaign to sell Oddsone Edoaurd took a bizarre twist today as well, as having exhausted a list of mid ranking Englsih sides about to make a bid, Hugh Keevins, who now has a column in the Sunday Mail as well as his Radio Clyde show to give us the benefit of his wisdom, came out with this…
Celtic, meanwhile, are supposed to be poised to receive a £40million bid for Odsonne Edouard.
What would Fergus have done under those same
circumstances?
He would have had Edouard sent up to his office. He would have informed the player of his new postcode so that his family could visit.
And he would have asked Odsonne to close the door behind him on the way out.
Hugh , in fairness, perhaps has difficulty these days in recalling events and personalities from yesteryear, and that is to be expected as he enters the autumn years of his life.
Mind you, he was full of shite back then as well….
With Celtic only paying £150,000 for Moravcik, he got that bit wrong as well. although, to be fair, it’s what the club told everyone to avoid being seen as penny pinching.
Keevins has replaced Gordon Waddell at the Mail, who are undergoing a cost and quality cutting exercise, and if this is an example of how they intend to continue, it’s fair to say that they probably won’t continue for very long.
Waddell may not have been easy to agree with at times, but he always put forward a decent argument, which is kind of what it’s all about.
Keevins, however, has usually forgotten what he was on about by the time he gets to the conclusion.
Yesterday, we had this….
caption:
School children in Aberdeen prepare for a visit by their local football heroes.
Today…
Gimme a Brandon barker please barber
Caption .. Perry como who the f is that …something for the weekend sir
Caption two …
A young Joe Hart gets asked if he’s going anywhere nice for his holidays …
Might pop up to Glasgow he replied
and Sweeney Todd replies “are ye, aye?”
Caption………..
Ryan Kent and Scot Arfield getting their weekly delousing.
CAPTION
“What will it be sir? Peaky Blinders or Keiran Tierney they’re similar…”
Naw, I want the Brandon Barker…aka the new Bobby Charltonlook.
PS
Laffed out loud when I saw it during the game….by it I mean the hair although it could be the player .
Of course I can give you the buffalo haircut but you won’t pull it off unless you put on another 4 stone.
Caption: Can have a Killy cut, 10 at the back and zero up top.
Caption
Bought wan of those Castore Oil shirts last week, it was chibbed!
Hugh Kevin’s a legend in his own lifetime. Should be retired.
Anyways anything the Daily Wanker or the Sunday Wanker print is full of cr%p.
Look at yesterday’s papers the Buffalo offer at 16.5 mil rejected by the blueroom, how stupid are the journos that no one checks there source, just bums up Sevco and downgrades Celtic. The children in yesterday’s caption probably training to be copywriters and preparing for the daily dose of SH%T.
Round at shop this morning, notice the bundles of papers are decreasing by the week, a bit like the future of Sevco.
The cr%p plastic pitch has been a leveller in zombieland, interesting to see if it will slow the team down.
1-3. EDDIE AND MO to score
Caption:
Can you make me look like that sevco player? What’s-his-name,The Penguin.
caption photograhic proof time travel is possible ……for a virus
Caption : “You didn’t get this from me, but check out that lying b@@@@@d Lawwell’s emails about……”
Btw. Could the Aberdeen players have caught the virus via Condidine’s ‘contact’ with Arfield?
July 2014…
Callum McGregor scored a debut goal to get Celtic boss Ronny Deila’s reign off to a winning start in the Champions League qualifier against KR Reykjavik.
The Scottish champions dominated but had to wait until the last few minutes before 21-year-old midfielder McGregor netted on his first start for the club.
Caption,
Contrary to popular belief, the Daleks were not always the personification of evil they appeared.
In earlier, happier times they were noted for their fastitidous cleanliness and abilty to grow tomatoes.
One year, after gorging themselves on a particularly heavy crop, they suffered a catastrophic change to their DNA and a slight cough. Thereafter,renamed the Daleks after a short lived classical quartet of the time, they developed a sudden desire to rule all worlds and create the definitive passata. Bored by walking, they took to wheeled contraptions which are believed to be the inspiration for the Sinclair C5. Davros, their self appointed leader, seen here in the background, is often referred to by his creations as the Creator. He said he should be leader because he was originally the head of the Kaled Scientific Elite on the planet Skaro, but some say he just went to Grimsby for two weeks.
Half four Weered.
Willo Flood waits his turn as Anthony Stokes gets his new hair(cut)
hawf four
When the little hand hits 4 and the big hand hits 6,that
s you. (when the Suns up)yer very welcome weered
Caption – Before becoming a footballer, Anthony Stokes was the youngest member of Ned Kelly’s gang…
The government are liars.
The entire mainstream media are paid shills for the liars in government.
Covid 1984 is a hoax.
PCR tests for what and how?
Follow the money. Who’s going to get rich from the rushed vaccines.
Future generations will have zero freedom because of our cowardice.
Tracked and traced.
Complete surveillance society
Cashless
Every penny spent traceable.
Temperature checks everywhere
Forced quarantines
Socially distanced, muzzled, slaves.
No more small business, the billionaires aren’t doing too badly.
All for a virus with an infection fatality rate of?
Poverty, drug abuse, suicide going through the roof.
Extreme food poverty massively increased in developing countries.
What a selfish, gullible, obedient bunch the celtic fans turned out to be. I really regret the time and money I spent the last 30 years because I really thought celtic fans were different.
Not gullible sheep.
I now wish I had followed the rest of the dumded down masses in Ireland and plucked an English team out of my arse and became an armchair EPL fan boy.
Bye then.
heh heh
To be fair, the money that has suddenly become available , and of course the money the tories are giving out to their supporters and friends seems crazy when for the last 8-10 years foodbanks all over the uk have become commonplace.
But you dont win votes by helping out the poorest ,thats why the SNP have done the square root of FA about foodbanks and malnutrition in kids in Scotland.
Your making a mistake there . An anti SNP post is not an anti Celtic post.
And if you follow follow the SNP without any question , maybe your closer to sevco thinking than you want to be…
My kid gets free school meals for the first 3 years of primary. Your tiresome anti SNP rants would be much more powerful if you had a basic grasp of some facts and if they were posted on a political forum. But that’s not your gig is it?
What has free school meals got to do with robbing 124000 kids of their future.
heres a fact. your a clown.
“The SNP would have Scotland leave one Union that has served to improve the lives of Working Class people for Centuries”
Your precious Union hasn’t improved the lives of working class people ever never mind centuries. Any improvements have been fought for and won by unions and other groups that the leaders of your Union would have labelled enemies and jailed and killed them in their struggles.
The Neo-Liberalism that you rail against has been the economic model of your Union for 40+ years with no possibility of end in sight. At least in the EU, Germany, France etc this is tempered with social aid that your masters don’t offer and instead relentless cruelty.
I’ve no doubt that the Working Class in an independent Scotland would have to fight for their rights, which will not be simply given. It was ever thus.
I’ve more confidence in that struggle happening and being won than in your Brittas Empire.
Quality post, fella, I wouldn’t say you’re paranoid at all but bang on the money.
You’re wasting your time trying to explain it to these half wits though.
Sure, that clown Ralph doesn’t even know how to spell Klimala, despite writing it every second day since January, he seems to think it ends in an I, and his lame brained readership are ten times worse again.
Apart fae the legend that is Portpower.
He knows only too well what’s going on and keeps dropping cryptic digs into Ralphie et al’s kidneys and they’re too daft to notice.
Aye, it’s a hoax alright, mate, and it won’t be long before they’re herding us into separate camps from our families and it’ll only be then will Ralph & Co realise what a disgrace to humanity they really are.
Keep posting, even if only tae get right on this lot’s tits.
Cheers.
116123. Keep safe.
Did you pay for the tin foil hat by cash or by card?
Tell Ralph he’s a wanker, wid ye, Frank?
He’s no talking tae me.
Yawn…
Bitcoin
FC Reykjavik
Icelandic Football UK
The Icelandic season has been suspended due to a Covid spike, KR will need a dispensation from the authorities for clearance.
I tipped Celts 3-0.
Get to the bookies now. 🙂
pretty sure they are a part time team,, we should put 5 past them easy.
Another Quality clusterfuck from sturgeon and her acolytes.This particular brown noser being John Swinney.
After the SQA discriminating against kids from poorer backgrounds or areas and being backed to the hilt by swinney and sturgeon it has now been revealed that any appeals made by students will not be confirmed until may 2021 !!!
124000 students have had their results downgraded.
Another nail in the coffin of the Tartan Tories.
Another post disappears……..no improvement here
In your opinion.
Another Quality clusterfuck from sturgeon and her acolytes. This particular brown noser being John Swinney.
After the SQA discriminating against kids from poorer backgrounds or areas and being backed to the hilt by swinney and sturgeon it has now been revealed that any appeals made by students will not be confirmed until may 2021 !!!
124000 students have had their results downgraded.
Another nail in the coffin of the Tartan Tories.
?
When did it become acceptable for an education secretary to damage the prospects of poorer students in favour of more affluent students.
Over 124000 kids have had their results downgraded.
And Swinney had the brass neck to congratulate the SQA.
Then announes that student appeals might not be resolved until May 2021 , or to put it another way , when people have forgotten about the issue.
Another brown noser trying to get up sturgeons ass.
Another nail in the SNP coffin.
Unfit for purpose.
Then of course you forget to mention that there is already record pass marks this year among poorer and more affluent students!!
Of course if all the lower grades were changed to pass marks you’d be the first one on here saying there must be a Holyrood election next year with the pass marks so high!!
Can read you like a book!!
So you see no problem here.
Its acceptable to punish students for a schools previous poor attainment record ??
Especially when most of the schools in this bracket are in poorer areas.
Stinks to high heaven
Or as usual are you running away from the point being made.
Not one person has ever responded to an anti SNP post on here with a reasoned argument.
they mostly consist of either person abuse or denial of any issue.
Just like the sevco supporters they deride.
I see you went for the personal abuse/name calling.
predictable.
Half time, back to the dire football of the past. The Killie playing their usual way, someone should think laterally, as for Muir enough said!
I would usually be raging at the performance but that pitch is woeful, you can see players holding back from going into tackles. What irked me more was dawdling about passing the ball back and fore in the one minute of stoppage time, surely they knew that there was only one minute and would have tried to get a bloody shot off!!
Would Celtic players realise that the season has started get some urgency ffs. Diabolical first half.
And Jimmybee, an even more diabolical second half! No positives to take from this at all. What’s up bhoys?
Jimmy, Devoy just about sums it up. Poor 1st half and dire 2nd.
But Muir is the ONLY one who played a blinder.
Make no mistake, The Masons (aka The Lanarkshire Refereees) have put down a marker, they’ve got their favourites 2 points above us and they wont hold back, regardless of what’s said by anyone. Anyone EXCEPT The Bastard Lawwell who ‘staunchly’ refuses to ‘support’ our club.
THERE’S THE TRUE CULPRIT; could’ve changed all of this but it suited his bean-counter’s brain to accept the Masons, protect the hun ‘s scummy supporters whilst shopping ours to the PS? An absolute Bastard whose day will come……
Him apart, a performance that disgraced The Hoops today; ref cheats and we all fall over. WE NEED A HARD MAN BOTH ON AND OFF THE PITCH.
HH
FC not PLC and Fukk Lawwell to hell, if such a fantasy even existed except in the small mids of flat-earth believers.
Usual scrappy game at Rugby Park at half time which is well named because the only football on show is a pass backwards or a Garry Own.
Very poor from middle to front nobody prepared to go the extra yard to try and turn the game we were terrible.
A ***wonderful display from Burke and Huir. ***Completely avoidable by an honest Lawwell
Funny, I thought The Celtic were supposed to be PLAYING today. I must’ve watched the wrong game.
Of course, us Supporters will continue to be milked by Lawwell although this one has nearly had enough, so JUST FUKKIN THINK ABOUT THIS: Lawwell, ‘rangers’ hero and supporter (in the manner that industrial beams, e.g. RSJs support buildings). Lawwell, could’ve wiped them out but chose the infamous 6-way agreement, with PTL being totally in agreement but scared to admit it, so it pretends, like the new huns, that everything’s Hunky Dory?,
Lawwell, stands against our supporters and shops some of them to the ‘law’, the ‘law’ being a euphemism for just another set of huns.
Lawwell does nothing to stop the clear bias from the Lanarkshire Referees Bastards, but then he’s almost certainly a mason, just like them.
Aye, you can push too long and too far; Lawwell, YOU BASTARD, I’ve had more than enough of you.
If ye cannea spell resignation, I’ll accept quit, either way, your time’s up at CP………and I AM NOT ALONE here. Just GTF, go to one of your filthy ‘temples’ and NEVER set foot on the hallowed ground of Paradise once more, you utter Bastard, by inclination certainly and by birth probably.
HH
FC not PLC
PS I’m too fukkin annoyed to be eloquent here, but you Lawwellists should be called out for what you really are; Loyalists, a la UFF, UVF et cetera, fucking scum to a man. Get to fukk out of MY FC Club, and don’t come FN back.
Rant not over…….there’s a whole lot more to me than FN ranting, and boiling blood is often a warning sign……..to scum like Lawwell. GTF (no smilies were assaulted or murdered in this reasonable highlight of our CEO) Lawwell, TicToc goes the clock……enjoy your dinner, ya fat, ugly, scumbag bastard.
lennon picked a team full of fairies and went one up front, we saw that working last season not. No use shouting at the wrong tw@t.
We are blaming the players too much here, with so much quality on the bench Lennys tactics were really poor.
I’ll take a draw and no injuries to first team players on that excuse for a pitch. Not ideal but we move on.
Are you discussing Boris’ PMQ performance?
Jullien is as powerful, and as useless, as a multi-used tea bag and Ajer would make a good clothes line stretcher. Ellianthepussy should be shipped back to Southampton asap.
As for the pitch: surely the fact that Kilmarnock are totally skint should hit that excuse on the head.
We don’t get any back ..
Oh, just BTW from my earlier comment from which I’m still fukkin beelin (a comment that’s likely lost like many others) how many of you saw the linesman close by at the ‘penalty’ decision point his flag straight towards the 6 yard line, a goal kick. Aye, an’ Muir the Huir over-ruled it as, like all the other refs in Scotland are filthy free-masonic, DOBs (just like Fred C actually, or more recently the aka hisbozza. (You know whom I mean)
Wotta prick! But not a fukkin patch on PTL. Days numbered, TicToc……….
HH
FC not PLC
as clear cut a penalty as you will ever see. only a greeting faced retard would think otherwise. GIRFUY ya ugly wee pr1ck. 2 shots on target the whole game. shambolic. got what we deserved so stop moaning and get back on yer plastic shagging doll.
here cut and paste this, always here to help
“mods mods mabozza called me a retard, mods mods”
Hmmm…discussion? Doesn’t it (the site) encourage comment with the word “discussion”?
Now Sam Cooke and Ben E King heard so much of THAT word, they thought it was used, sneakily by honkies, as disgusting. Either or, when push comes to shove, I support my coloured brothers; I WILL not be encouraged nor enforced to call men of dignity and colour, black, as they clearly are fucking not. “When the night is long…………(what a beautiful song)………….stand by me.”
Of zero interest to most/anyone on here, I kinda learned that Ben E King song, and it’s a classic.
I also learned another of my wee diamond’s favourites, REM’s “Everybody Hurts”.
Celtic’s performance today was fucking abysmal. Muir’s was as expected. Where was the spark?
Where was the Lubo today. FUUUCCCCKKKKKKK, I thought I’d got over it.
I’ll NEVER get over scum, hun bastards cheating us until I go out with ill intent; nor shall I EVER excuse my team’s capitulation to a minor fraud. THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE TEN. If you’re not up for that then rev up and get tae fuck…….and cups are secondary and Euro tertiary, THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE TEN.
HH
FC not PLC
Highly articulate outburst there tic toc. Dark alleyway and avoidance and you would be my next line if it wasn’t for this one
The guile of a rogic missing big time. Still they played well and deserved their point. Tough season ahead and no surprise at the result given the history of the fixture