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I didn't know that....you learn something everyday....Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
I think Celtic and Hearts will both win this weekend-Rangers will get at least a draw...Stu I agree-I couldn't give a flying pixie where Inverness airport is!
We have the bizarre situation this week that Hibs will be taking a European hangover into a game against a rested Celtic!
I thought Celtic signed an Arsenal player on loan, Alladiere?, where is he?
He had Arsenal or Celtic cancel his loan and now he's at West Ham.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
It was mutual. He just came in at a bad time. It looked last season that the injury had fecked Maloney and he was going to be a write off as a useful player but this season he has look rejuvenated and been playing well. Add to this Chris Sutton, Hartson and the arrival of Zurawski plus Beattie continuing his progress and there was just no room for him. Strachan wasn't disappointed in him or anything. If anything the disappointment was Aliadiare for not getting a decent chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
I like long journeys. I think everyone who's into travelling likes it. It turns me off when something is closer than an hour driving. Nothing's as nice as staring out of the car/bus/train window and seeing the landscapes change, while your mp3 player plays your beloved tunes.
Do the very northern tows like Durness, Thurso or John O'Groets (yes, it is a town: http://www.incallander.co.uk/images/nmapn.jpg) have any teams in the main Scottish pyramid? Or do they play in local leagues?
Interesting BTW is that the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands all have their own FAs, unofficial (=non FIFA affiliated) national sides and leagues. When it comes to national teams the Shetlands are quite active (and won the last Island Games in soccer) while the Orkneys and Hebrides didn't play for quite a while, but the three archipelagos all have leagues up and running.
Bizarre, as Hebrides and Orkneys could in fact enrole their teams in the Scottish leagues (except for the Outer Hebrides and the Shetland Islands the isles are not too far off-mainland). The island of Skye probably plays in the regular Scottish league pyramid.
Richie Foran's scored twice (so far) for Motherwell today, they're playing Falkirk.
There is no Scottish pyramid Gerrit, just the Highland League, East of Scotland and South of Scotland leagues and some strange entity known as "junior" football (non-SFA affiliated clubs) below the SFL. You can Google yourself for more information.
On another note, isn't this thread just a bit too nicey-nicey? That's why I've never posted here until now. Like watching paint dry...
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As if you don't know what the alternative is? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Hearts win again today, Skacel again scores. He's scored every game this season and is in line to break Negri and Viduka's record for games with consecutive goals from a season's start. A 3-0 Rangers win at home against Kilmarnock too. Big pressure on Celtic away to Hibs tomorrow. Hearts take on Rangers next week at Tynecastle. That match will say a lot about both team's title chances.
Ah c'mon PS, I'm only teasing. :) You're doing a grand job.
There's no pressure on Celtic this afternoon. We (yes, that's "we") should put three past them without reply. Next week's marmalade derby will be the one to watch alright.
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Before anyone starts, I said "should". We should have been three up after twenty minutes. Profligate finishing (by Hartson in particular) meant that Hibs found a way back into the game. Still, the three points were won.
I await next weekend's Tynecastle face-off with just a wee bit more than passing interest. :)
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Too much listening to Rico, I think. :D :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
What were your reasons for thinking this???Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
How many reasons do you want? I'll give you five to start.
Celtic have better players, more tactical options and greater strength in depth, plus we hadn't had only three days to recover from a UEFA Cup tie... :o And that's before the injuries to Smith and Brown were factored in.
We should have scored four in the first half-an-hour; the fact that Hartson didn't seem interested was the let-off that a better team would have exploited. And how Ivan Sproule stayed on the pitch is beyond me, but I digress.
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Facts when you made your prediction. Both clubs were joint 2nd in the league. Last time we played we stuffed celtic 3-1 in glasgow. A couple of weeks ago we hammerd rangers at ibrox 3-0 just a week after celtic got easily beaten there. So your pre match prediction was way off. Sproule stayed on pitch because it was hand bags, telfer was just as much to blame. Thankfully telfer is nothing like petrov though, or it would've looked like he was shot and rolled 50 yards around the ground :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
If you think my pre-match prediction was way off, you obviously weren't watching the game.
You use the word "facts" and then pepper your response with opinion. "Stuffed"? Hardly. Two late goals in a hitherto tight game do not constitute a stuffing. I won't comment on your victory at Mordor (but will state that our defeat wasn't as "easy" as you suggest), as that might place me in the invidious position of having to defend Rangers; something I just can't bring myself to do. :D
On the question of your pocket rocket, I was thinking more of Sproule's squaring up to Balde some thirty seconds after receiving his booking, but never mind. A decent referee (are there any in Scotland?) would have sent him from the field, no question, if only to save him from himself. To Balde's immense credit, he didn't react at all. Not even so much as a stray elbow in the mush at the next opportunity.
Good luck in Dneprpetrovsk, by the way. You were most unlucky not to win last Thursday.
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Tell me about it. Traceled over for it, amazing atmosphere. Roll on a nice trip to Ukraine next week. At least Dnipro will have to come out and play at homeQuote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Telfer was partly to blame but certainly not equally. Telfer tacked Sproule from behind. Wasn't a bad tackle and didn't even bring a freekick. Sproule than chases after Telfer to get revenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
Lovely last night:
>Celtic through (dopn't care how-we are through)
>Hibs through (always nice to see)
>Lamberts Bhoys do the Job against Hearts......I hope their season goes downhill from here :D :D
Hearts vs Rangers this weekend i don't care who wins-hate 'em both and can't wait to see Hearts come crashing down.....first their cup dreams then their league dreams :D
I have to say I want HJearts to win. I don't like Rangers, never did.
But the again, I'm not a Celtic fan either.
a nil nil draw will do me. With the odd injury & red card thrown in for good measure!! Is that unsporting? ah well......................
Good win for the jambo's - thoroughly deserved 1-0 victory. 4 first half subs through injury (2 rangers & 2 hearts). A few pen decisions not given 1 for each side. 8 wins out of 8. Play Celtic at Celtic Park in 2 weeks time, their first away game versus Celtic or Rangers. Rangers travel to Milan, even if by some miracle they can manage a result, the fixture congestion will surely affect what appears to be a fairly weak squad. Hearts remain 5 points clear of celtic on 25 points.
Celtic beat ICT in a fairly scrappy affair. Poor finishing on Celtics part. Beattie scored a brace after we went 1-0 down, though he could (and should) have had a hatrick in the first half. Second spot on 19 points
A good 3-1 away victory for Hibs at Motherwell keeping them in 3rd spot. thirs spot on 16 points.
Killie 4th on 14 points and Rangers fifth on 13 points. Is there a risk Rangers won't make the split????? :-)
CIS qtr final draw see Celtic host Rangers whilst Hibs will surely fancy their chances of a semi final spot.
Celtic v Rangers
Dunfermline Athletic v Hibernian
Livingston v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Motherwell v Aberdeen
Finally it didn't take our own Graham Barrett long to join the long queue of paranoid fenians in scottish fitba albeit not from a Glasgow stance!!!
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GRAHAM Barrett is convinced that the bias of Scottish officials towards the game's bigger clubs denied Livingston their first league victory under the stewardship of Paul Lambert at Pittodrie on Saturday.
http://sport.scotsman.com/football.cfm?id=1993812005
Hearts striker Roman Bednar faces an anxious wait to discover the extent of the damage to his knee.
Bednar helped Hearts maintain their 100% league record when he netted the only goal of the game against Rangers on Saturday.
But joy quickly turned to agony when he limped out of the action with suspected lateral ligament damage.
Scottish Premier League leaders Hearts are enjoying their best start to a league campaign for over 90 years but Czech star Bednar fears he could be forced to miss out on weeks of action.
Good win for Celtic today, 5-0 against Livingston at Almonvale. Rangers won 5-1 today too against Dunfermline at Ibrox. Apparently not as convincing a win as the scoreline suggested. Noel Hunt grabbed Dunfermline's solitary goal.
Well always have thought Noel Hunt to be a good player. One of nature's gentelmen as well. But then he's from Waterford... isn't that right Partizan?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
He's someone who the Rangers fans quickly took a dislike to. He's a player who brings good character to the pitch and a very hard worker. Was disappointed to see him leave to head to Scotland. He's never quite set the place alight over there often not finding it so easy to tie down a starting role.Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
Like it or not, the fact that he's Irish is the main reason for their dislike of him. It has nothing to do with his "good character" or hard work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
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Well I think it's not only his nationality it is probably to do with what foot he digs with as well, that has him out of favour in the orange corner.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Now now gents don't stray down that path.
Hearts finally failed to win a game today. They snatched a 2-2 draw with ten men. An unusual hattrick by captain Pressley for Hearts. One O.G. and two goals in the other end.:p
The validity of Hearts' challenge for the title will be tested in a fortnight when they play Celtic in Glasgow. Celtic have been quietly gathering steam since their awful start to the season. If they can beat Hearts they'll go level on points.
Well said Steve ladQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
CTID lets not resurface that. That kind of talk is contrary to the rules of this thread and forum.
What the part about people turning their back on their local teams?
I believe they( i.e the ones down here) should burn their passports and go to the Brit Embassy and get one for where their real allegiance lies ! :D
Celtic scout out Clarke
05/10/2005 - 10:16:59
Celtic have appointed Ray Clarke as their new head of international scouting.
The former Tottenham, Ajax and Bruges player joins the Hoops from Newcastle where was chief scout.
Clarke will be involved in restructuring the club’s entire operation throughout Britain, Europe and beyond in a role which have overall responsibility for all professional scouting.
He previously worked with Celtic manager Gordon Strachan at Coventry and Southampton.
Strachan said: “It is a big job to reconstruct the club’s scouting operation, but Ray will be more than capable of doing this.
“His experience and footballing contacts throughout the world will ensure he will be a great asset to Celtic both in the present and the future.”
Interview with Nakamura on fifa.com - http://www.fifa.com/en/news/intervie...ticleid=110314
Celtic draw with Hearts 1-1 and Rangers draw with Dundee United 0-0.
------------P---W--D--L--F---A--Pts
Hearts------10--8--2--0--24--7---26
Celtic------10---7--2--1--25--10--23
Hibernian---10---6--1--3--19--12---19
Rangers-----10--5--2--3--18--10---17
Rangers falling behind already:eek:
Are we finally, after years of boredom, going to have a new champion instead of always one of the same old two Glaswegian clubs?
I am starting to really believe in it. Hearts impressed so far, but we didn't know if they could keep it up when facing the Old Firm. Now we know they can: they played both Rangers and Celtic and none of them was able to beat them. I start to really believe the Old Firm will be challenged for real for the first time in ages...
Not that I am a Hearts fan (Inverness for me!) but it would be so nice to see another team winning the championship and stop the boring two-teams-show.
What do you make of the story that Martin O Neill is on a retainer of £1/2m
for the purposes of consultancy? I can't imagine Gordon to be on the phone to him every night.
Basically MON earned Celtic so much success that the club don't want to leave him with no income while he's looking after his wife. Strachan said that's how it works in football and both Coventry and Soton "helped him out" for at least a year after he left them.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
You can't be serious Eirebhoy?? I'm not sure if you're taking the p!ss because you're normally on the ball. They are not "helping him" out because he has no income, he earned £1m a year at Celtic for the last 2 seasons. He obviously had that negotiated in his last contract or negotiated a consultancy deal when he left.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Southampton and Coventry wouldn't have helped out Strachan either just for the sake of it, more likely that they continued to pay the remainder of his contract instead of paying him off in one lump sum.
The Reality is that MON was on a Rolling 12 month contract. He will have negotiated a settlement package for himself and celtic to part company. Celtic will be paying some part (if not all) of that 12 month contract. I think Eirebhoy is not completely wrong, in that the value agreed will in some part be reflective on MON's success and the reasons for his resignation.