Mad Dog

Just reading that Riku Danzaki has been banned from playing football in Australia for seven years for receiving bribes.

Similarly - as an online fan - whenever I watch games at Livi, I don't understand why they leave their main (?) stand almost completely empty. I looks really crap for the TV cameras, why not at least pretend to the world that they've got a decent crowd in by moving a section over there?

Just for context, Bodø Glimt are allegedly after £7m for Kasper Høgh - 25 y.o., good goal-scoring record in Norway and in the Champions League - so I think that Maswanhise is below that valuation. If we can get roughly the same fee as we received for Miller, I think that would be acceptable

Called it.

Two goals for Tony Watt at the weekend.

Correct, quote lifted from the BBC:

He signed on loan as a left wingback two Januarys ago and played one game for us before getting injured, I think?

That's Adam Montgomery injured and returning to his club again. Feel bad for him, he looked a decent player.

Yeah, but reading stuff like this starts to give me the fear.

Yes, that is correct, only two teams in a season. I think that O'Neill's comments were quite classy, but we can't be expected to wait a couple of weeks to see if Welsh can come back.

https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2026/01/12/stephen-welsh-returns-to-celtic/

Can we bring Olly Whyte into the squad to see how he does? Not sure how these partnership loans work.

Which begs the question, is it really him that has struggled to find a club? He will have been on a better wage in England, so fairly comfortably well off now if he was sensible with his income. He could drop his wage demands to, say, £5k a week if he wanted to or if his agent allowed him to.

Was thinking the same thing, bizarre to think that a right-footed player can't play anywhere in the back two or three. Celtic's loss, he'll do a great job wherever he goes.

He was only there out of courtesy. Don't forget Mark McGhee, though.

Yeah, we don't need that behaviour in our team. Not saying that I agree with it, but head-to-head like that should be a red card for Freckleton, though.

So Gogic can flatten Maswanhise from the kickoff and that is okay. Yet our counterattack a few minutes earlier was stopped because of a similar offence by Said. Not sure if I like this ref.

I get what you're saying, but he's only four hours and one time zone away. Also, he only played one full game over there

Good shout, Tex.

Bit late, but you can watch all games on channel 4.

I've watched a few games now and been a wee bit disappointed in the standards on display. I normally look forward to this tournament but it's been poor so far.

The Swedish season has finished, so perhaps JBA might have an idea of a goalscorer from there who wouldn't cost anything.

You're right about Ward, he is looking a lot more solid these days. Having said that, it is obvious to me that our defence are not leaking many opportunities to the other team, so Ward hasn't actually had much to do. I can recall two good saves in the past month and a lot of him with the ball at his feet but not much else!

Cedric Kipré put Ipswich 1-0 up first half.

Can SK speak any French, though?