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Sad to see you go, Matt. Hopefully our paths with cross again, either on these here interwebs or one drunken night at Claddagh.
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Now I can only berate you on deadraibead? You ass.
YNWA Matt.
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Matt I would like to thank you for all the hard work and dedication you’ve shown the blog. As you well know, it is not easy for me to follow the bhoys all the time, but your blog was a trip home for me when I would read it. I wish you good luck in all your future endevors.
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Grand work, Matt. Great goals and all the best!
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Matt…
So I’m to blame for unleashing you on the public? I fully expect the CIA to be breaking down my door as I type.
Anyway….well done mo chara, I know it can be a tough shift writing every week how pish Lee Naylor is.
Will need to get back on Deadrailbead but time and jnr are now major factors.
You will forgive a plug.
If no-one is up to the task or their is a period of downtime click the user name or the link in this blog and join in.
Matt recommends me.
Celtic Cyber Timdom. Where everyone knows yer name.
YIC
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Best of luck Matt, you will be missed. Thanks for all the coverage.
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Good like Ginger Baws, now buy Gary Caldwell and Stephen McManus for hefty sums of money from us.
I think I wrote about Ginger Baws getting a raw deal from the fans at the end of his tenure. He needed to go, but three titles, three Cups, taking Celtic farther in the modern day champions league than anyone else, including St. Martin are accomplishments not to be sneezed at. As well, like you said, the guy is an absolute stitch. His humor was hidden often with the Scottish Media on his arse every second, but the Arse video shows the guy is a funny funny man.
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Good luck, not good like.
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I think a lot about the obvious differences in personalities between the Wee Man and Mowbray (does he even have a nickname yet?) and even Martin O’Neil. Strachan got a lot of stick for being so flippant and dismissive with the media. As a fan, I kinda enjoyed his wit. Mowbray has been so damned serious, as he probably should be, but I suppose the balance is somewhere in the middle.
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Not a good season so far for Rangers in Europe and to be honest I don’t see it getting much better for them tonight. The Scottish game is now so bad that we just don’t really have the quality to compete in Europe apparently even against minnows!
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lolz
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Let’s assume Rangers and Celtic continue a disappointing run and do not make it past the group stages in their respective european leagues. How does that bode for Scotland’s coefficient? I recall reading that Scotland was already on the bubble previous to the start of this year.
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I just don’t see Celtic or Rangers getting to the next stage of any of the competitions and to be honest they don’t deserve to
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Celtic need 2 wins, one against Vienna away, and one against Hapoel at home. Then they also need Hamburg to either lose both of their games, or get a draw in one but lose on away goals.
Chances don’t sound too good on this one. Especially since Hapoel has been stunning everyone in the group.
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Hail! Hail!
Have’nae read anything new here in a couple of days, so….
Awful performance today. Nawt more needs said. However, wilst perusing the KDS forum, I became infuriated at the seemingly infinite “Get ye, Mogga” and “Mogga’s signings made us worse” s**t. It is, quite simply, not true.
There are actual facts which dispell that notion:
1. Despite N’Guemo’s penchant for inconsistancy, he does complete a far larger percentage of his passes – of which more are attempted AND more are attempted forward for that matter – than Scott Brown & Barry Robson does, or Paul Hartley ever did.
Former Celtic Offsides Blogger, Matt and I performed a study just prior to his departure. We traced the first fifteen minutes of a match and posted the statistics on this blog. It wasn’t even close. Given the correct partner, i.e. Crosas, N’Guemo is an effective tackler who can pick out a pass and can move the ball wide quickly.2. Prior to Danny Fox’s injury, his offensive contribution, if not his all-around game, was far-and-away better than Lee Naylor. He has only had a couple of matches since returning and today, He had a hand in Heid’s goal and Skippy’s first. That bettered Naylor’s entire offensive contribution of last season.
3. Prior to MAF’s injury, an article linked to the SPL website, perhaps quoted on this blog, critiqued Mogga’s signings. It stated that in matches MAF started for Celtic, we scored 2.3 GPG – highest avg. in the league. McGeady had 2, Maloney had 2 and MAF, himself notched a brace – and was promptly injured. This was his first start since coming back from injury and we scored three.
Today, despite MAF’s inexplicable decision to shoot rather than lay-off to Skippy for the hat-trick, he spent 75 minutes with no service AND doubled AND alone – Samaras out wide and McCourt MIA – AND WE SCORED THREE!I suspect Mogga’s prefered line-up is:
Boruc
Hinkle
Caldwell
Loovens
Fox
McGeady
Crosas
N’Guemo
McCourt
MAF
?However, knocks, fatigue, match-fitness all preclude that line-up on occassion. I will contend, I’m perplexed by his manning decisions sometimes. For example:
1. The inclusion of Barry Robson, at any time, makes no sense. Celtic have shown over recent weeks, with the inclusion of a composed distributor in midfield, we do well. We have shown with a composed distributor on the pitch, N’Guemo does well. We have shown with a composed distributor the centerbacks cope (barely). If Crosas required rest, why not Zhi?
2. Why start McCourt wide-left, then set up the team forcing the play exclusively right? Barry Robson is so one-footed, the opposition plays that foot alone, gives him no time to get the required three touches for control. People claim this match passed Paddy by. No crap! McCourt got nothing.
Yet, when the midfield was screaming for Crosas(or Zhi), Mogga initially pushed McCourt inside, behind MAF – a striker not necessarily a goal threat; whom McCourt has rarely played with, if ever; AND a position McCourt has’nae played this season.We’ve seen what McCourt & McGeady can do on the field at the same time. However, they require a cultured CM to control possession, tempo and distribution. It requires a running CM to sweep behind the front and cover the gap on the touch line between Fox and McCourt. I happen to feel Zhi is an able replacement for Crosas, filling the same roll.
It was a miserable match, but we HAVE seen glimpses of what Mogga wants to do. And we possess at least one line-up that can execute it – all be it, the strikers don’t always finish.
I for one, think the signings, given the money available, have been very good. Also, I will give Mogga three transfer windows to get his team and an additional season to get results. He’s had exactly ONE transfer window and not yet 1/2 season.
By this time FEB, MAR, APR we will see very good football, even if it is only SPL level. We will have moved out all the spuds and clearly defined everyone’s roll.
Ryan M Liddell
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Scotland’s shame says it all.
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Is that them at their worst? They started to swing then they backed off? Those kids don’t seem that bad.. Have you seen River Plate’s Hinchada go against the Brazilian Police? I’d have to see something worse before calling them Scotlands shame, then again you ARE a Celtic fan.
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There are no easy games anymore in the league
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Other than the fact that reports seem to indicate that Rangers fans were enticed into the trouble in Romania there is no real defence for what happened in Romania or for Manchester but to brush all the Rangers fans with the same brush is unfair especially when there was not one single arrest in all the away games in Europe for Rangers apart from Romania and Manchester.
Both sets of the old firm unfortunately have their sections of support that bring shame on their cub like the Celtic fans at the weekend who booed and sang religious songs during the minutes silence at the weekend to commemorate the soldier who lost their lives in the World Wars. Scotland’s shame fits there too does it not?
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No surprise that it was rejected, there is no benefit to the English teams. They don’t need the competition for Euro spots and they don’t want the travelling. Th old firm would need to have two new billionaire buyers to compete in the league anyway, with their current owners they couldn’t come close to competing as neither team has the players or the funds to truly compete. Yes we would get more money if we moved down south but there are a lot of teams in the league that already get huge sums of cash and they are still bottom 10 clubs
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THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SAY SPORTS FANS ARE STUPID
THIS IS DISGUSTING AND SHAMEFULL! WHAT ARE THE TEAMS DOING ABOUT THIS? They are selfish ignorant premadana’s with big muscles and small penises!
I will never support professional sports in my life because it attracks the most ignorant group of inbread freaks. This is a disgrace!
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By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
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That powerhouse of Burnley. 6pt away from the relegation zone and -10 Goal Differential. You think with a great scorer like Fletcher they would be scoring so much more.
15 goals in 12 games for Burnley.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Nothing endures but change.
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