New Look Bhoys on the road
Yes, the troops will hit the road not long after signing, such is life.
Martin isn’t a change for the sake of change manager but what he will do is tell everyone on the bench they need to be better than their direct replacement. Well the window is shut and on paper we have assembled the strongest in decades, it now remains to be translated onto the pitch.
Under Brendan I often felt the final 11 were crucial, I believe Martin is the opposite in that he plays his best from the start. Then he calls the rest to come on. How we integrate this weeks 5 into the team is a good question but the substitute list will be looking a lot different than last weekend I predict. Looking pretty hefty.
I suspect Martin will start the usual suspects with the instruction to the subs to watch then beat their direct opponent. I do expect debuts in a few positions and I hope they are not “dig us out of a hole” debuts but rather a “show us what you got” debut and tomorrow should make good reading as we discuss exactly that.
Who do I want to see the most you ask? Personally,,,Van the Man but in saying that it would please me to the heavens if our bench has it in them to truly kill a game. I would settle for that all season long. It’s a squad game more than ever and we are stacked.
From Saint Mirren’s POV its a bad one,,,,under the lights on a Saturday night the Tims will arrive enmasse, out sing the home crowd, and more than likely outplay the hosts.
Oh dear, how sad.
The gambler in me would back Yang to score again as a partiing gift, he is kinda likeable isn’t he?
Some goals, some debuts, it should be a fun outing.
Up The Hoops!
By Mahe
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Rebus
Wishing you all the strength required to overcome your diagnosis.
EL,
you right it´s only one factor
The main factor the SFA have attempted to address with yesterdays announcement. U21 players getting game time. Scotland´s figure is 4.8% the lowest in Europe by far, Denmark the benchmark that the SFA is using is 16%
The SFA spend 2m on youth development compared to 750K by the Danish FA. The glaring problem is a clear pathway
I just don’t think an extra million quid in cash split amongst all SPFL clubs as has been announced will make any difference to eventual team selection.
Iniq, 1.52
As a long line of clubs have shown, there are countless coaches being paid fortunes to do a job you or I could do.
The Ipswich coaches/scouts obviously watched the impact Daizen was beginning to have with us ..and what’s the first thing they do after signing him? They ask him to do all the things his game doesn’t suit.
I’d wait till next summer and offer them a couple of million and get him back.
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Re Daizen.
It’s the same kinda thing as buying Kyogo then asking him to play with his back to goal .. he’s not built for that.
Is no one at Ipswich smart enough to know how to best utilise Daizen’s very obvious attributes? He’ll be utterly wasted with them. Shame, because he is just entering his prime years.
Yeah, I’d forgive him for looking for a bigger pay-day, better league, but I’d be serious about trying to get him back.
We could/would still get at least 5 years of speedy Gonzalez.
BAD,
I watched Ipswich last night and they look certain for relegation.
Agree they are playing Daizen out of position, more like a left back.
Maybe Ipswich don’t have as good translators as us😁
Was interesting that once Diazen was substituted Ipswich started playing down his (left) side.
It seems everything has to go through Enciso, who plays for himself.
I think he’s more likely to head back to Japan when Ipswich are relegated.
HH
I also watched the Ipswich game and focused on Maeda. I thought he had an OK game relative to the other Ipswich forwards. He did have at least two shots directly on target, admittedly they were weak. Encisco may have had more but never looked like scoring. The two lumbering strikers had less efforts on goal than Maeda.
Lack of a cutting edge is the Ipswich problem, not Maeda. In judging Maeda, we should remember his late season form compared to his early season effort. Time will tell.
I would not write the tractor boys off just yet. They contained a rampant Pool team after the first 10 minutes. Coventry look a more likely bet for the drop, despite winning the Championship last season.
Rebus
Shankland does his hamstring. 😀
Shocker by the Motherwell keeper. 1-0 huns.
Calton,
Think I read they had spent over £200m ..£200m!
The game’s fecked.
HH 🍀
VAR not working at Ibrox, so the huns get a penalty which their new superhero Kim misses.
MIT- Get me 2 tickets for Oasis at Celtic Park and all is 👍
Motherwell the better looking team without threatening the hun goal
Huns look a typical McInnes team ..boring as feck
The Huns and the Diets ( and their laptop loyal fans) have put so much pressure on Collum and VAR since May that they’re going to get every decision going for quite some time
I expect the exact same in the cup next week, a penalty ….and a sending off.
Ref just ignoring every foul the Huns commit
Bada
just 2? If i get 2 for you, id have to get tickets for everyone!
When Oasis were in town last time, there was a lottery for tickets. Im not a huge Oasis fan, but my pal is and his kid wanted to get tickets for his dad as a surprise. So, to help out, I put my name down, and got on the list, and got in. After waiting in the queue for hours, my number comes up, and just as I was about to buy them, we find out that my pal had gotten tickets for himself and his sons, so they didnt need me after all!
Only tickets left were about 500 each. But even in the few hours i had been waiting online,, people were already reselling them for 1500! So i could have grabbed them and just flipped them. But I hate scalpers, so didnt want to buy them and resell them, so ended up not getting any.
given the last tour was their big comeback, hopefully the demand and price wont be as crazy this time!
MiT,
£500!? For that I’d want handed the bass guitar and told, “You’re on in half an hour”
I saw them a cupla times in the 90s but I can assure you the tickets weren’t £500.
Used to love going to concerts but the prices have went haywire
HH 🍀
Kamikaze football from Motherwell.
Wonder how this New McInnes team will fare when they meet a team that at least competes This Motherwell are an apology of a football team …
Motherwell defence are shocking.
BAD
fortunately, most of the artists I see are on their way up, or down, so not often I am seeing bands at big stadiums for top ticket prices.
gointg to see this guy next week. Small club. 500 tickets. I think I paid 40. Should be fun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKVDSvhIRM8&list=RDUKVDSvhIRM8&start_radio=1&pp=ygUIRG9uIHdlc3SgBwE%3D
I saw these guys last year in the same venue. Great show. But next week they are playing in a 16,000 seat venue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4J-f5lkCLo&list=RD-4J-f5lkCLo&start_radio=1&pp=ygURdGhlZSBzYWNyZWQgc291bHOgBwE%3D
Motherwell are doing their best to gift the zombies another goal. But so far the zombies are unable to accept the gifts
Motherwell look determined to give the Huns a 2nd goal.
MIT,
The times I saw Oasis it was at festivals. I wouldn’t have went out my way to get tickets just to see them tbh.
Not been to a concert for a while now ..simply down to the prices.
Mike,
are there lots of good smaller venues in TO?
One of the things I loved about Montreal was the night life. Brilliant place for a lost weekend.
Aberdeen and Dundee United must be as bad as they’ve ever been
Motherwell’s performance has been laughable. Zero urgency, no pace, no desire. Happy to lose 1-0.
Motherwell do the usual, pointless stuff.
League is too small to blood young players. Nothing will change until everything changes and I’m not holding my breath. Watched the second half of our game mid week utterly boring. Will be the same stuff from St Mirren tonight. SPL permanently circling the plug hole but while there is a belief that TFOD can win we will all stay on the roundabout.
BAD
its certainly not as big as a place like New York, and a few good one have closed over the years, but there are still enough clubs left of various sizes to see most of the music that I like. Some famous historic venues like the ElMocambo, and Massey hall (holds about 3,000) are still kicking.
I love live music, and it is one of the treats I give myself, but I dont see nearly as many shows as I once did. And now tend to go to shows where I can sit down, like Koerner Hall, which is part of UoT’;s music school. 1,100 capacity. Kinda posh. Spectacular acoustics, and hosts a lot of jazz and classical shows. I think my rock and roll mosh pit days are ending!😆
MiT,
I’ve always been happier at a live music show, than I ever was at the disco 🤸🚶🏃
There’s a good chance of me putting my back out on the dancefloor now.
That’s one thing about Scotland though, there has always been lots of great music venues ..
Plus, it always helped being half a mile from the town centre, and places like the Barrowlands.
Best job I ever had was when I worked at the Barrowlands.
Every night I found money and enough drugs and fags for a year ..if that was your thing ..ahem 🤪
BAD
Increasingly, I am loving Toronto less and less. Too big. Too noisy. Paradoxically, it is the music I would miss the most.
funny enough, LiT just sent me a listing for a beautiful place on Lac Brome, just an hour south of Montreal. Five minutes away from his place. I have fallen back in love with Montreal, and if it were just me to consider, I would probably move there now.
But my mom has retired 2 hours west of Toronto, so am sort of tied here for a while as she will increasingly need more help I think.
Iheanacho off to a flying start in Turkey. Has scored in every games and now tops the scoring chart with 6 goals in his first 5 games.
On music venues , still go to the Glasgow favourites Clutha Scotia and Mcsorleys , still get some great wee bands there. And for something completely different (no pun intended) Avant Guarde
Rebus67 I wish you nothing but good things with whatever treatment they adopt for you. I’ve had that bastard twice, and they used some very successful treatments on me. Put it this way, I’d rather catch cancer (if i had to) nowadays than say 20 years ago.
One promising treatment was injecting a TB strain (tuberculosis) temporarily into my body, it makes your blood cells react to the foreign body and they rush down and start to fight and clean out the TB and anything else in the vicinity of said area, it’s a very clever treatment and possibly one to have a chat about with your doctor.
All the best. HH
Mike,
Being born there I’m probably a bit biased, but I loved everything about Montreal. How could you fail to love a city that built another world under the city. First night in Canada my cousins took me to a strip club, that probably also swayed me a little.
Fair play to you for looking out for your mum .. something I also done 👍
HH 🍀
Team
CELTIC: Sinisalo, Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Scales, McGregor, Baur, Nygren, Hassan, Duran, Yang.
Subs: Johnstone, Lotomba, Tounekti, Sørensen, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mheuka, van den Berg, Murray, Forrest
Perpetual CL disappointment fatigue could be responsible for diluting my enthusiasm, like an ice cube in my whiskey.
DD and his transfer trauma holding our massive club back again, when will it end ?
Hopefully witnessing some new and exciting talent in Feegy Park will help.
some dreadful games today …Forest Spurs was painful yo watch, but Villa were even worse… but at least they got a shot on target today! 1 shot in 3 games! Emery is one of the best coaches in the game, but he wont be there much longer un less he turns the ship around, and quickly.
may be unfair to sell half the team,and then blame the coach, but that’s the way it will go.
Just reading back and there was the bad news from Rebus. Bloody hell, that cancer gets about. Everyman and his dug knows someone who has it.
Youll be in my thoughts and prayers at the pineapple tomorrow,Rebus.
KTF in more than one way
Now in St CONVAL’S for the game👍
COYBIG
Cosy Corner Bhoy
Saint Convals got a bar in it ?
That’s me back to St Columbkilles early opening tomorrow .HH hic hic 🍀
Watched a bit of the City Coventry game as well(flipping between various games On TV with the zombies on the computers)
for a team most expect to be relegation fodder, Coventry played well.
what was interesting was how City tried to break down Coventry’s 2 banks of 4. City’s forwards weren’t running straight, but were making diagonal runs between the two lines of defence, meaning the could receive the ball while still moving forward, but not be offside. And made it harder for defenders to know which of them should pick up the runner.
clearly something City have worked out. Shows that there are ways to break down packed defences. MON and SM should be studying Man City’s movement.
St Mirren coach says they have a game plan in place. I admire that.it may or may not work.
I wish we had one in Austria.
INIQUITOUS IV,
Regarding your early post, I have my lawyer, MIT on the case.
He’s currently indisposed at present , Filming My Cousin Vinny 2” but rest assured, be afraid, be very afraid. !!!!!
I have sent him a Barnes Wallace cheque which will ensure you are doomed, Captain funny Latin number nane 😜😜😜
Ps
Gon the Hoops 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Donovan now under pressure after booking
Our set pieces have gotten worse. Is that possible?
I know Donovan has been heaped with praise recently but I think it’s more of fans wishes we produce a home grown talent.
I think he is defensively clueless.
Twice so far he has had zero clue where his man is.
Second time he was rightfully booked for a wild lunge attempting to recover.
It was the same midweek were we got away with it against a poor opponent.
As I type Donovan makes a good interception.
Fuxake.
Penalty to St Mirren for Scales handball
Scales stupid. Why bring your arms out from behind your back?
Knew this was gonna be a tough shift. We’ve only been stress tested twice and not handled it well either here or in Austria.