SPL Discussion Thread

[Poor Student]

Motherwell are guaranteed the UEFA Cup spot after Celtic's win today, so they have nothing left to play for. Still, stranger things have happened...

A Motherwell team containing Scott McDonald downed Celtic in 2005 for no other reason than that you try to win every game you play. He scored a late double and he's a big Celtic fan. I'm hoping all the teams will do their professional duty.

By the way, Celtic were denied a blatant penalty for a player holding Caldwell with both arms and Scott McDonald had what seems a perfectly good goal ruled out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9iAl8MoHdg . If Rangers win this on goal difference those decisions will have been crucial.

[jebus]

I was at the game today and I have to say Nakamura and Robson ran the show for Celtic. That said they never came out of 2nd gear and if it comes down to goal difference not making the most of their chances could come back to haunt them. McDonald's offside goal was on as well

[Torn-Ado]

Incompetence would be expected to even itself out over time, PS; for what it's worth I think you're being generous in the extreme to McCurry. His record over the years of gifting duff decisions to Rangers is more than coincidental. When manager of Aberdeen Ebbe Skovdahl complained twice about McCurry performances in games versus our "friends" and now Levein has cause to do the same. His appointment to matches involving RFC and, indeed, his continued presence on the SPL list both stink to high heaven.

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Completely true. The 3-0 old firm win for Rangers in October was riddled with some of the most outrageous referee decisions I have ever witnessed. The guy clearly has a pro Rangers agenda. Craig Levein was fully justified in his comments about McCurry.

[seanog2001]

Seen the charade at the weekend terrible refeering but what cant you expect from a rangers ref at ibrox rangers feel they are 'owed' by the SPL for getting to the cup final i cant remember it even been mentioned when we got to sevilla, we need a team to step up and do us a favour aberdeen look the best bet at the moment but who knows maybe st mirren can pull off a shock at love st :D:D:D

[EAFC_rdfl]

Seen the charade at the weekend terrible refeering but what cant you expect from a rangers ref at ibrox rangers feel they are 'owed' by the SPL for getting to the cup final i cant remember it even been mentioned when we got to sevilla, we need a team to step up and do us a favour aberdeen look the best bet at the moment but who knows maybe st mirren can pull off a shock at love st :D:D:D

wouldn't be the 1st time st mirren did us a big favour to win the league. 1986
Celtic snatched the championship by edging out Heart of Midlothian on the last day of the campaign. The margin was on goal difference, as Celtic beat St Mirren 5-0 at Love Street and Hearts fell to two late goals from Dundee at Dens Park.
slightly different circumstances but still!!we can only hope!

[Junior]

Motherwell at Fir Park will be tricky. St Mirren at Love Street should be an easyish win and then its down to the last game at Pittodrie. Aberdeen have a severe dislike for Rangers, its a shame they still arent fighting for third spot. Dropping 2 points is realistic out of those 9 available.

Celtic will have a tough enough game against Dundee Utd at Tannadice.

If Rangers do drop 2 points and Celtic win it would come down to Goal Difference. The game at Love Street could be very important.........

[old git]

Completely true. The 3-0 old firm win for Rangers in October was riddled with some of the most outrageous referee decisions I have ever witnessed. The guy clearly has a pro Rangers agenda. Craig Levein was fully justified in his comments about McCurry.

mc curry has admited he should have awarded penalty & disallowed goal should have been given against rangers v dundee utd " after watching rerun of incidents on t.v. i was unsighted for penalty & linesman made final call on offside goal goal " ::mad: 2 big decisions which could have a huge part to play in who wins the league ... must admit at least he had the b*lls to come out and admit mistakes not to many refs own up to making mistakes :eek:

[Stuttgart88]

McCurry also said "nice goal Nacho" to Novo, according to SKY!

Anyway, Celtic got the benefit of a wrong decision against Motherwell (corner instead of a goal kick, Samaras scored from it) and Scott McDonald's offside goal in the 3-2 OF win, allowed as onside by linesman Murphy!

Scottish football, don't you just love it?

Rangers' form has been poor for a few weeks now and I reckon they could easily drop points, especially if their heads are down after Wednesday.

Did I ever say I've always liked Dick Advocaat and Fernando Ricksen? Great guys.

[old git]

McCurry also said "nice goal Nacho" to Novo, according to SKY!

Anyway, Celtic got the benefit of a wrong decision against Motherwell (corner instead of a goal kick, Samaras scored from it) and Scott McDonald's offside goal in the 3-2 OF win, allowed as onside by linesman Murphy!

Scottish football, don't you just love it?

Rangers' form has been poor for a few weeks now and I reckon they could easily drop points, especially if their heads are down after Wednesday.

Did I ever say I've always liked Dick Advocaat and Fernando Ricksen? Great guys.

ah fernando ricksen the only player i hoped got hurt everytime he got tackled something about him just got under my skin :ball:

[Junior]

Anyway, Celtic got the benefit of a wrong decision against Motherwell (corner instead of a goal kick, Samaras scored from it)

As did Motherwell in the last minute - they just didnt score from their corner!

More pertinent is probably Aberdeens incorrectly disallowed goal at Celtic Park which denied them a point and gifted us 2.

My god, the thought of cheering Fernando scoring a winning goal tonight is perverse to say the least but Ill hit the roof with joy if he does it!!!!!!!!

On Scott Mcdonalds goal in the 3-2 win. Ive watched that since on the TV and though the pundits seemed to be in no doubt that it was offside - I just cant see how they were so sure. I couldnt see clear daylight (though I think theyve changed the terminology now for that, something to do with "the bit of your body you score with" being offside or something???) Setanta dont do the superimposed lines that Sky have, as yet - They need an Andy Gray............. To me it just looked very tight.

[bellavistaman]

100,000 rangers fans in manchester today, fair play

[Torn-Ado]

100,000 rangers fans in manchester today, fair play

In all fairness, its not exactly a million miles away.

[old git]

100,000 rangers fans in manchester today, fair play

100,000 huns in manchester ... hopefully 100,000 disapointed after tonights match.. would not really be very far to travell scotland to manchester so not a big surprise on numbers .. :D

[EAFC_rdfl]

heres hoping for a gruelling 120 minutes for them followed by heart break in sudden death penaltys! sure to be plenty of them locked up for the night after that!!

[old git]

heres hoping for a gruelling 120 minutes for them followed by heart break in sudden death penaltys! sure to be plenty of them locked up for the night after that!!

are you talking about players or fans getting locked up the night :D:D

[EAFC_rdfl]

Well I meant fans but if bazza got a few months i'd be delighted :D:p
on bbc, theres already been 5 arrested of the streets and a few are 'worse for wears' !! scotlands shame at it again

[seanog2001]

Well I meant fans but if bazza got a few months i'd be delighted :D:p
on bbc, theres already been 5 arrested of the streets and a few are 'worse for wears' !! scotlands shame at it again


typical Huns cant go anywhere without causing trouble it will NEVER top Sevilla 2003.



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[Plastic Paddy]

heres hoping for a gruelling 120 minutes for them followed by heart break in sudden death penaltys!

Well, I wish them the best of luck for tonight and, like you, hope they come second.

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[Marked Man]

100 000 dejected huns.

Is it bad that that makes my day?

[Pike B]

100 000 dejected huns.

Is it bad that that makes my day?
Not remotley. I'm with you pal. Nice one Zenit...

[Dublin12]

Rangers are muck to watch and got their comeuppance, totally outplayed by a much superior footballing team who were a joy to watch against such rubbish ,Zenit's support was amazing aswell, glad they won.

[old git]

Rangers are muck to watch and got their comeuppance, totally outplayed by a much superior footballing team who were a joy to watch against such rubbish ,Zenit's support was amazing aswell, glad they won.

totally agree zenit were a joy to watch always trying to play footbal as for rangers went out to ruin game and hope for penalties delighted they got beat,, watched match of utv talk about sh*T biased comentry for rangers . :ball::ball:

[FarBeag]

Outclassed by a superior team.:D Lets hope another seperior team win the SPL now.

[sligoman]

Disappointed for Rangers, but then when you play like that, can't really complain when you lose. At least they'll still get the treble!

[deecay]

No winner tonight,two far right teams.Great to see that Gers fans disgraced themselves for the world to see

[Éire Óg]

No need to fight with opposition fans when ya'v got your own!
One said: "This is absolutely ridiculous - there's Rangers fans throwing balls and cans at each other because the game's not on!":D

28 Sec in!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjF5Wcdbf4

[ifk101]

Rangers were beaten at their own game. Anytime Zenit lost the ball they dropped deep and put 10 men behind the ball a la Rangers. But when Zenit won the ball they were twice as fast as Rangers to get the counter attack in motion.

[Pauro 76]

After what happened in Manchester last night, whats the odds on Rangers making it to the UEFA Cup 2010 in Lansdowne? Or is it 2011?

[gustavo]

Outclassed by a superior team.:D Lets hope another seperior team win the SPL now.

If they are superior they will win it , if not they won't

[geysir]

:D

Motherwell 1 Rangers I
anybody watch that?

No such thing as a dead rubber in Scotland for teams other than Rangers and Celtic.

[Marked Man]

So what's the tiebreaker if they turn out to be level on points and gd? Goals scored, or how they did against each other?

[Poor Student]

:D

Motherwell 1 Rangers I
anybody watch that?

No such thing as a dead rubber in Scotland for teams other than Rangers and Celtic.

There's still a few permutations left in this title race. If Rangers lose to St. Mirren on Monday then Celtic will be all but officially crowned champions. However in the more likely event that Rangers win it will leave Celtic and Rangers trying to outscore each other on the last day. It's been thoroughly enjoyable watching Rangers disintigrate, let's hope it continues.:ball:

[Poor Student]

So what's the tiebreaker if they turn out to be level on points and gd? Goals scored, or how they did against each other?

Goals scored. In the event that GD did match it would probably mean Rangers had outscored Celtic. Currently the GD is +50 for Rangers and +57 for Celtic. If Celtic win on Sunday that will move them to 58+ meaning Rangers have to add at least 8 to their goal difference in two games. Pity Scott McDondald's perfect goal was ruled out last week.

[FarBeag]

lol lol lol ... com on the hoops .. nice one motherwell . thankyou

[Plastic Paddy]

It's been thoroughly enjoyable watching Rangers disintigrate, let's hope it continues.:ball:

Oh PS, words of pure poetry. Love it. :D

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[FarBeag]

If they are superior they will win it , if not they won't


Oh.Thank you for pointing this out. Very useful.;)

[Plastic Paddy]

Oh.Thank you for pointing this out. Very useful.;)

Gus was just being diplomatic, no doubt. He should however take note of the old Chinese proverb: man who sits on fence has balls squashed. :D

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[EAFC_rdfl]

with two away games left, against st mirren and aberdeen I can't see the manky mob getting more than 4 points, fingers crossed! that would leave celtic only needing a point from thursdays game. on recent form there is no fear of rangers pulling back the 7 goal advantage celtic have.
looking back to before the 2 old firm games, even the most optimistic celtic fan wouldn't have pictured this end to the season

[Junior]

looking back to before the 2 old firm games, even the most optimistic celtic fan wouldn't have pictured this end to the season

The season was dead and buried at that point as far as I was concerned. Having been at Rugby Park in 2003 and Fir Park in 2005, losing the title on the last day of each season, Im pleased to tell everyone Ill be watching this one on tv - so celtic should be ok!!!!!!

[celticV3]

looking back to before the 2 old firm games, even the most optimistic celtic fan wouldn't have pictured this end to the season
well hate to correct you but i believed that with all the extra games the huns had and with us having two home old firm games left that this would be how the season ended. believe it or not im more nervous and worried now than then but after 2 years ago i think i have reason to be a little cautious:D anyway stick your money on McGeady to score, it would be fitting if he was to score as he is overdue and would be the icing on the cake for his great season

[Slaney]

I don't know about the other Celtic fans but I will have a nappy on for thursday's match.

[OwlsFan]

I assume the games are on TV tonight. Setanta ?

[EAFC_rdfl]

yip both games on setanta, setanta ireland for celtic match and i think setanta2 for rangers

[Calcio Jack]

Ex Rovers player Noel Hunt to score the goal that wins the league for Rangers.... that would be as good as it gets for me.

[HarpoJoyce]

Ex Rovers player Noel Hunt to score the goal that wins the league for Rangers.... that would be as good as it gets for me.

I with you Calcio Jack, 500%. Sean Dillon, Willo Flood, Jim O'brien, Jion Daly and Noel Hunt.
http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=17

Any result that ensures the Dundee United players are etched firmly inside of the brains of a large part of the football community in Ireland will help the attendance of the UCD v. Dundee Utd. friendly on Bastille Day, 14 July 2008.

[rambler14]

How is Jim O'Brien allowed play? He's on loan from Celtic isn't he?

[Stevo Da Gull]

FFS hibs, come on lads. I know that they're inter-toto bound one way or the other but to beat Motherwell would be great.

[FarBeag]

Aberdeen are one up.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Hibs 2 down.

Dundee Utd and Aberdeen playing very well.

[FarBeag]

Thats it surely. The Hoops are champions.:D