We’re in trouble now.
John Collins, who pointed out the obvious differences between teams that are in the champions League and teams that aren’t, and silky midfielder come tactical and motivational expert Lee McCulloch, who guided new club Second Rangers to a first division play off place last season, reckons those comments could come back and bite collins on the bottom;
“Hopefully it will fire up the players a bit more but it won’t affect the coaching staff.
“He’s entitled to his opinion. It’s maybe naive from someone of his experience but the less said now the better.”
McCulloch, disappointed his Ibrox side couldn’t make the leap to the big time, moved to Kilmarnock for presumably one last crack at the big time-and let’s be honest, they are among the favourites to be in the play offs again, is looking forward to tonights rugby Park clash with Celtic.
Or as the hoops call it, three points. He continued;
“I was tempted to play last week but I rolled my ankle on the surface and that set me back. I don’t know when I’ll be available again but I’d have loved to play against Celtic. How could you not want to?
“Our squad is relatively thin and I knew that, with a few injuries, I might be called on to play. But it’s all down to the manager.
“I sit next to him in the office but if he tells me he wants me to play I’m not going to say ‘no’ unless I feel a young player would maybe benefit more.”
The squad is relatively thin ?
Bloody hell. what do the fat guys look like ?
Kilmarnock sit at the bottom of the table, having lost both their games, scored no goals, and conceded six goals. Celtic sit at the top, having won both and not conceded any while scoring twice in each of their games.
Tricky one when you are doing your accumulator.
Deila will probably rotate the squad again, and give as many players as he can a lttle game time. Whilst he has probably got his strongest team in his head already, there will be many times when he won’t be able to field it, so it’s important to keep the others ready to step in. and of course, that keeps the regulars on their toes as well.
Something else you might want to add to your bet is a first goalscorer punt. Leigh Griffiths will start , as Nadir ciftci is still suspended, and the striker is philosphical about his future at Celtic. And determined to see off all challengers for the forward role.
‘Every game I play I want to score goals and if I score goals it’s going to be difficult for the manager to leave me out. I go into every game looking to score goals, whether it’s league, cup, Champions League or whatever.
‘If I’m playing I’m delighted but if not I’m on the bench and I’m raring to come on. You have always got to be on your toes, especially at a big club like Celtic. But whenever the manager needs me I am ready to go.
‘Last season I wasn’t in squads but this season I am starting in games. Obviously the main target is to start European games but it’s the manager’s decision and if he wants to start with Nadir, that’s fine by me.’
‘It’s always different, you are playing against top players in the Champions League,’ the 24-year-old said.
‘No disrespect to the SPFL but it’s a step up in class.
‘Especially when we play away from home, teams are going to attack us more. As a striker, especially playing that lone striker role, you need to hold the ball up, and your link-up play and touch have got to be on point, or else teams will punish you and you are out of Europe as quickly as you went in.
Well, that’ll give the media something else to harp on about for a bit.
Murdo MacLoed, for instance, nicknamed “whino” as a player, ( Are you sure-Ed ? ) has been, er , whining.
Murdo MacLeod warns ‘disrespectful’ John Collins:
If Celtic crash in Europe it’s 100 per cent their own fault
“Collins comments are disrespectful. If Celtic crash in Europe its 100 per cent their own fault.
“Celtic can’t snap up players and then complain about competitiveness.
“I know where John’s coming from – when Rangers are in the Premiership there’s a bigger challenge for the title and without Rangers you can argue theres less of a challenge. However, Aberdeen put up a good fight last year and it’s disrespectful to talk down about the quality of the league like that. He should not be saying that the quality is not there.
“If you’ve got the best players, the most money and the biggest fan base in the league and you can pretty much add any player you want its not the same for other managers who might have to let a player go and release a wage before they can bring someone new in. Celtic should be mindful of that.
“At Celtic’s level they should not be talking about the quality of the league impacting on them in Europe. It’s been like that since Celtic started in European competition from day one. They know who their opposition for the season are.
Hang on, do i detect a little “we need a strong Rangers 2 puff there ? Why would an ex-Celt want to mention them in a story which has nothing to do with them ?
Rangers legend Walter Smith and former Celtic star Murdo MacLeod officially launched Level5PR in January 2015.
Level5PR is a media relations and sports management company created by former Daily Record Associate Editor James Traynor and Stephen Kerr, former journalist/producer at Radio Clyde and press officer at Rangers Football Club.
Based in state-of-the-art offices at 26 Blythswood Square in Glasgow’s City Centre, Level5PR is a dynamic business offering a wide range of services including media relations, sports management, brand creation and enhancement, social media awareness, speech writing, staging and managing corporate events and filming promotional dvd’s.
Level5PR is a management company with a wider reach than most because we will be guiding and mentoring emerging and established sportsmen and women to provide them with greater opportunities as their careers develop.
Level5PR will nurture and maximise our clients’ potential at all times and promote their interests in written, broadcast and digital media.
Oh right. Level 5.
The media relations company behind Ibrox publicity. Who surprisingly let this one through yesterday…
‘We never practised set-pieces’:
Brentford star slates Rangers boss Mark Warburton for failings at old
club
It appears that Mark “Guardiola ” Warburton, once of Brentford, Bayern and Barcelona ( Are you sure -Ed ? )
has come under fire from one of his former players at Brentford.
Warburton has got off to a flying start at Ibrox, but Bees defender Harlee Dean has taken a dig at his gung-ho tactics and reckons his failure to work on set-pieces last season may have even cost the London club Premier League promotion.
Dean, who has played over 150 times for Brentford, said: “If you look at individual centre-halves in the league I don’t think there are many better than what we have here. But last year we didn’t look like that. We got left two v one and two v two.
“We know we’ve got people around us now and I hope we keep a lot more clean sheets and make ourselves look a lot better. We’re focusing on set-pieces. If we can add to the 10 goals from centre-half combined then we’ve done well.
“We’ve just repeated set-pieces and free-kicks and knowing where you’ve got to be. Last year we didn’t have one session on set-pieces and it showed on the pitch. That was Warbs’ way. Perhaps that’s where we fell short.”
Oh dear. The mask is slipping. I wonder if John James, the RSL spokesman and thorn in the side of this weeks board at ibrox is onto something when he asks ….
Has Chris Graham stepped into the Level 5 breach until such time as their high six figure invoice is paid?
Well, that should help them with their public image.
But enough of them.
Did you see the news ? Everyone’s going doo lally after wee Harper Beckham was pictured with a dummy. surely it’s not her fault who her daddy is ?
Transfer news ? Rumours. ?
John Walters ?
Surely not. Well, thats the word down here. Which isn’t very encouraging.
Virgil van Dijk, Southampton ?
Well, it’s where we normally send our players when we need to put some money in the bank. The price is now £10m , and “sources ” claim the deal will be done very soon. Like it was last week, when saints wanted him for the opening game of their season.
This has prompted specualtion that Celtic are back in for Brandon michel, of club Brugge, who also has a big Champins League qualifier ahead of him, against Manchester United.
So, yeah, the Belgians will be selling him this week.
Meanwhile, the Northern Ireland Prison service has come on a bit. They no longer advertise the removal of prisoners heads as a necessary part of the job.
And there might be a few journalists editing their articles with a little more care after this shocking story from Azerbaijan…
A journalist in Azerbaijan who criticised a popular footballer has died after an attack by supporters.
Rasim Aliyev had said on Facebook that Javid Huseynov should be banned from European football for allegedly making a rude gesture at a Cypriot journalist.
The reporter asked why he had waved a Turkish flag at a Cypriot team’s fans.
Mr Aliyev was then beaten up after being lured to a meeting by somebody who said they were a relative of the player, local media report.
He later died from internal bleeding.
and for bare faced cheek….
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Wolverhampton based Free Radio presumably know someone at New Balance who can reccommend a decent brand to them.
On of our guys at the Lennon CSC bought his top before the Ross County game, and it was knackered before he got home.
Willie Fernie was the dapper chap in yesterdays Diary.
The Celtic View is fifty years old this week.
Every now and again, I look at this image, my favourite ever front page.
Because it began the process that lead to the club we have today. What’sit all about ?
That made me just think of that Channel 4 programme, The Boy With Giant Hands, which is exactly what I used to think I was until reality set in when I finally got a girlfriend.
Cambuslang.
Talking about Southhampton. Does anyone know if Foster is still injured?
Aye, he is.
Cheers. Didnt their form slump when he got injured?
Last year they got off to a flier, Wanyama got injured, they bombed, Victor came back and they finished the season well.
Forster also helped.
The old board, man, how off the ball and out of touch were those guys?
Why does murdo talk about Rangers in an article that’s nothing to do with them ? Pot calling the kettle black. You never stop going on about them in this column when they clearly aren’t in the same league as us and consequently nothing to do with us either .
Was there not something in the story about Dempsey owning the land ??
Was the land not toxic into the bargain?
If we put together a list of all the Celtic players mentioned in transfer gossip – especially before crucial matches in European campaigns – we’d have nobody decent left.
The passion shown on big Virgil’s face when Boyata scored at CP and then when we got through against Carrierbag, suggests to me that – whilst it’s almost inevitable he’ll go once somebody makes Celtic an offer they can’t refuse (+/-12M possibly including a dead nags heid?)- he still fancies one last shot at Champions League football with The Hoops, before being dragged away to the 2nd tie of the Premiership.
Southampton – with Koeman in charge (btw one of the few Dutch managers I actually like & respect!) do seem favourites, but I don’t think it’s a done deal at all. In fact, IF – instead of emphasising the negative – you put a positive spin on things, you could argue a case that the fact that with Southampton having taken QPR centre-back Stephen Caulker on loan as cover for the injured Gardos, this might suggest Koeman already knows that IF Celtic make it to the CL group stages, there’s a change Virgil will stay longer and they’ll have to cough up even more to tempt him away.
Also, If Celtic do make it to the CL group stages, Virgil knows this is the perfect stage to enhance his reputation even further and perhaps tempt an even bigger club to bid for him. Either way, I think that – in addition to the 15M or whatever getting through against Malmo would mean – I reckon you can add a couple more million to Celtic’s bargaining power in getting even more for Virgil than the current bids suggested.
So, if we can win through against Malmo it’s a win-win-win situation in more ways than 1 🙂
The front page is all about Cambuslangland, when the board thought we were all mugs and a new stadium outside glasgow was magically going to appear out of thin air and thin dimes
“Cambuslang….is a reality”
I remember this new stadium story quite well, I nearly fell off my chair when it broke out, aye right, I also remember the iPox super casino and hotel story that broke out, £500 million, if I mind correctly, only for moonbeams to get extra EBT,s from the BOS, why was that never investigated, who authorised it from the bank, as they should be jailed for misuse of taxpayers and the companies money….oh wait…the establishment and the BB club spring to mind……
Who remembers moonbeams super casino and hotel at the piggery? £500 million worth when complete…..aye did ya!!!
Who remembers moonbeams super casino and hotel at the piggery??? Aye did ya!!!
Is it not robroyston?
it says Cambuslang in the photo.
Robroystion was the land owned by Scottish Legal (Sl Homes) which I think Brian “The rebels have won” Dempsey was involved with. Its all hooses now.
Who’s Nick of Nick’s Golden Boots, that readers can win along with the maestro’s jersey?
I have no idea and it’s gonna drive me insane all day. Answers on the back of a postcard or sealed envelope.
Murdo has made his bed with Level 5 for 30 pieces of silver and it shows.
How dare Collins tell the self-evident!
He was simply re-stating what everyone has already said before,
apart from the descriptive “too slow and not clever enough”,
which perhaps could have been left off – as its far too accurate.
Speaking of which….I was surprised that Elbows and Boyd got employment with a top team.
With their size and build I knew they would go with a team with vertical stripes (very slimming they say),
but I thought they would join the Buddies to hurt their efforts; but there is already a guy there to sabotage the Saints.
Instead they joined the Ayrshire loyals – I wonder how that will go in a playoff situation?
Hopefully Griff bags a hat-trick tonight, and Commons a brace (2 goals, not a neck brace).
Baws tae the Moderator!!
Cambuslang and the old gent in the picture for a well known local from down the road I think the organisation that looked after him was pie in the sky car in the community project. He was completely delusional, his cousin Michael still is.
Stadivarious. David Smith. Tom Grant. Michael Kelly, Gerry McSherry. Terry Cassidy. Nomura. The Celtic View. Chris White.
Your board took one helluva beating.
Never read the article. Print too wee. Ha.
Travellinbhoy
I could lend you my glasses.
H H
Murdo is the token tim for the majority of the MSM and the Billy Boys Club, Tom Boyd who has a greater awareness of the game is never considered.
However any article written in the {Scottish Media} not mentioning the great and glorious Sevco means the journo risks his career.
In the last few weeks every article from the media has been negative about Celtic, remember Stjarnan’s threat, now we dread Malmo, I don@t think so.
Sales of Warburtons bread in Ayrshire appear to be struggling, even more discounted in Tesco.
the article about Cambusland does not even compare to the hovering pitch and Casino in the southside
john collins really ought not have put it so bluntly,if at all.i know it,you know it,the dogs in the street know it but collins shouldn’t be rubbing their noses in it.i fear all he has done is give inferior players a ’cause’,they will be like coiled springs now when they play us.they CANNOT increase their skill level overnight but by jove they will increase their desire and their effort will be obscene.watch out for even more industrial tackles,going unpunished by compliant officials.dear,dear.
Off topic-
I’m taking a mountain bike to top of Ben Nevis on Saturday with the intention of clcling down and raising funds for DiabetesUK. If you’d like to support me
https://www.justgiving.com/Colin-McGeechan/
So, the whole league is angry at us for calling them “cloggers, muggers, druggers and thieves.” My quote. I guess it is worse for Collins to state the obvious than to engage in financial doping, Masonic refereeing, tax evasion, illegal trading (while insolvent) and letting 45,000 sing fascist and racist songs.
I’m never sure if making angry people angrier is a good idea, but elbows and cripping tackles aside, people don’t usually perform well when too angry— so let it rip.
Tonight?
Lustig/Boyata/Van Dijk/Izzy
Bitton/Rogic
Commons/Johansen/Mackay-Steven
Griffiths
Would like to see Janko come on, maybe at left back?
4-0 to the Bhoys. Killie will anger themselves out and gather several yellow cards trying to get the ball from us.
I do think Deila and Collins do too much talking at times. They should do subtle mind games like Big Jock did.That will also tie MSM in knots.
Yet another comment in the etims black hole
Half Fool
It’s called Cal Cut Ta – oooohhhh!!
H H
Thanks Arthur. Try the veal etc.
Hi Son
Have you ever woken up cock-a-hoop. Murdo MacLeod thought he had until he realised he was just a bigger dick than normal. How sleazy does a story have to be before everybody in the Scottish media stops wanting to suck it. I saw MacLeod’s article last night and could not believe how many times he contradicted himself in an effort to get on side with the rest of the “whited sepulchres”. MacLoud, for he is an empty vessel making far too much sound, claims Celtic take the best players then complain there is no proper opposition in domestic football. He actually agrees with this theory, which he must having invented himself aided by the rest of the warped Scottish media’s and windbag “expert” ex footballers. So, having “put down” the quality of domestic opposition, something John Collins did not do in spite of all the accusations, he then decimates a whole league by saying that if a single player goes to Sevco every other team in that league might as well shut up shop, implying the rest of the teams are shit and can offer no challenge whatsoever. He completely misconstrues John Collins’ comparison between Scottish teams, and he did not exclude Celtic in this comparison, and those in European competitions. Even a fool would agree with Collins not only today but in years gone by. Results in Europe throughout the Scottish participants prove how poor we are in that arena and the Scottish coefficient is embarrassing even with Celtic’s almost lone contribution. So, here we have John Collins stating the teams Celtic play against in Europe are better quality than domestically. If only he had said something new and not so obvious. One could go on and on but will only be criticised by those who see these comments which drag in an unwanted Sevco as nothing to do with Celtic. Well, I believe they have everything to do with us. We are an integral part of Scottish football and these morons simply do everything to degrade the Scottish game and Celtic in particular – note their boisterous support for all our teams in Europe so far. Aye, here’s to that ever happening. And then in the midst of that to bring in a club that is so far removed from the topic under discussion as not to be even a vague notion and promote that club as the potential redeemer from the evil being perpetrated, is simply imbecilic. But to be fair to Mac Loud, he often played the part of the bull in a china shop.
Now, to level criticism at the Diary for being over-attentive to Sevco is to misrepresent what “my da” is trying to do. The Diary has three aims. The first is to piss on as many topics as it can in order to raise some steam for discussion – and Sevco topics seem to achieve this quite admirably. The second is to piss off as many as it can to keep the temperature of interest at boiling point – and it has the kettle whistling constantly on the south side as well as on some closer to home. But, most of all, it takes the piss, out of itself first and foremost, the media, the football authorities and all the idiots and crooks who promote all that is not working in our game whether at club, national or international level – and Sevco is essential material in all of this. So, why to I applaud that from the highest heavens? Simply because there is not a man big enough, strong enough or that can survive doing it in the public domain. That is why we need, yes need, the diary and all similar productions. It provides us with words to use in protest and it gives us the incentive to actually do something about the abuse all around us. In between, it gives us some of the best laughs on the internet and, without the farce that is Sevco and all that surrounds it, that would be reduced by 99%.
I feel as if I have been bitten by a snake looking at that puky picture of Kelly. How did we ever get to that. Thank God and a wee man from Canada we got out of it – another reason why Sevco makes us howl. Mind you, the Celtic View was and still is not far behind. Someone needs to explain that the rest of us use toilet paper. Ach, fucking old age. It can make you grumpy sometimes.
I reckon 7-0 tonight. Come on, someone needs to get the ball rolling for this season. The Diary has been very hesitant up till now.
Finally, Ralph, how come that Ed guy can make his comments without using the comments box and is never monitored? Is he ye’r real da?
H H
Hormonal changes may be affecting my memory, but I am sure that when the architectural drawings for the Cambuslang never-never-land were examined, the alleged London Architects were contacted and they said…… “Sorry Guv, nuffin t’do wiff us me old cocker’…. or words to that effect.
I can’t ever remember a satisfactory explanation of this ‘printing error’ being given….. the error being the Architects name…not my pathetic attempt at stereotypical phonetic London impersonation.
Sue
susan
You sound like you need a drink. Or maybe the fumes from Cambuslang are getting to you 🙂
H H
Anyone know of a pub or even better aCSC inYork which will have the game on tonight (Stoke is a bit far).
Possibly O’Neill’s on Ouse Bridge
Thanks mate, I’ll have a look in there.
Yesterday I harped on about how the Daily Reeker continually tries to piss on our parade, pouncing on any chance to do a negative story about Celtic and wring every drop out of it before scurrying off looking for another one. And today Keech Jackson produces another “exclusive” that Virgil will be off even if we qualify for the Champions. That’s what the headline boldly states as a FACT….then you read the “exclusive” and you find that Koeman is “confident” that he can get VVD……nothing more substantial than that. No factual statement from Celtic, the manager or the player, just an “exclusive” he got on the wall of a toilet cubicle in some dingy pub. Another attempt to distract us on the eve of a league game and as we build up momentum to a crucial Champions League qualifier. These creepy cockroaches that disguise themselves as the Free Press turn my stomach with their obviously biased treatment of our club.
We know that VVD will go, but it’ll be on the club’s terms and timetable not on Keech Jackson’s or the Daily Reeker’s. When VVD goes you can be sure Keech & Co will turn their attention to Griffiths or Johansen or anybody we have who is performing well, with the sole aim of upsetting us.
To put Collin’s statement into perspective, am I disrespectful if I say Real Madrid have a better standard of player than Elche or Granada? No! I’m just stating the bloody obvious as was John Collins.
They are waiting with saliva dripping off their lips hoping that Malmo beat us. Hell they’ve probably got the story written, only needing to type in the score. We’ll get absolutely zero credit from them for seeing off Malmo, nor for keeping Scottish Football’s profile high, nor for the 250,000 pound bonus for each of the other Scottish Premiership teams. But we will get the added pleasure of knowing that we will have given Keech & Co one hell of a shit day. HH
Hopefully we can get it right UP them!! ala stopping their EBT fuelled dash for 10-fakes-in-a-row. I will always remember the look on Jim Shites face 🙂
7-0 pensioner Bhoy ? You havin a laugh ?
Charlie
In keeping with the Diary, I am going for 7 every week. Ralph had a go last season but he proved he is useless at predicting. I am an expert and a far bigger nutter 🙂
The 0 is out the window now anyway.
H H
I remember last week everyone saying Malmo would be the best draw as they’re having a poor season, well I note they beat the league leaders at the weekend and are only four points off the top. What’s more after watching this tonight, I am not confident off getting past them, defence abysmal, forwards extremely wasteful and Malmo will have far better and stronger players than Killie!!
controversial, questioning the standard of footballers we’ve just faced?
We should have won comfortably tonight. I just can’t take to Efe in our defence – I still can’t believe we knocked back a decent bid for him last season – I reckon he was to blame for the 1st goal and Izzy’s inability to defend was highlighted once again tonight.
We need to get shot of Efe – he’s a bombscare and we need a left back that knows how to defend – maybe Mulgrew will be played there against Malmo – we can’t afford the same slackness against Malmo or we’ll be out..
Come on, we can’t blame the result on Efe or Izzy. Killie were there for the taking and were their own worst enemy, in terms of defensive mistakes. We lack firepower up front due to the formation, in my opinion.
Under Deila we aren’t an efficient team, we are incapable of ‘punching above our weight’, we don’t win games when we are 2nd best on the day. Instead we constantly underachieve, are happy with one or two when we should be taking five or six. We seen it all last season and now we’re seeing more of the same. I don’t get why folk find results like this surprising.
Please please please buy a proper striker. This is turning into a farce. Every game we create dozens of chances but only score two goals at the most. Why settle for an English first division reject?
Well, obviously the team that plays Malmo will be different from the one we put on the park tonight, injuries permitting. Maybe I’m being the eternal optimist, but you can take something positive from every negative experience…we know where we have to tighten up and we know that we MUST put away the chances that we are creating. We also know that Griffiths is a guaranteed goal, so lets put Ciftci and him up front together from the start against Malmo…two different types of attacker for them to deal with. The service to these two has to be better though, and if it is, Malmo will have their hands full handling them and that should give opportunities for Johanson, Bitton etc.
I’d have them all doing extra shooting practice from now to Wednesday. If we can score a couple and keep a clean sheet I believe we’ll score over there as well. HH.
P.S. Pensionerbhoy, you stop your flirting with Susan….she’s really a big tattooed Irish dock worker called Mick!!! lol
harpers a barrel harpers a barrel ei ….
shocking.
They all stroll around like it’s a sunday afternoon up the park.
Commons and Griffiths are the only two with any imagination or sense of urgency.
Does Forrest know you’re allowed to pass?
GMS…..WTF.
Someone should inform the midfield that you are allowed to move when you haven’t got the ball