steelboy

and the scottish cup as well please i don't know about not selling though. if this is the last chance to get a fee for murphy, randolph, hutchinson or hateley then i think we have to cash in. we need to look long term. i've also got a feeling that the club will be keen to get cheaper player in during the summer. all of our regular starters are probably earning as much as we can ever afford to pay them, i think we'll be looking for signings that provide a bit more value eg. hateley in his first season. it would be disapointing if we have to cut our budget more than planned due to the rangers situation. if have to take 300k-500k out or playing budget it would be a hefty blow.

i think this is a good idea. having a few under 20 players in the squad should raise the standard of the games which will be good for everyone involved and cut down on the amount of boys who are kept on to make up the numbers even although they have zero chance of making the first team. look at our squad, we have no need for a regular reserve side. organising friendlies when we need them is better than being tied into regular fixtures with the associated costs of travelling and organising a suitable ground for home games. it should work out well for us as next season everyone at the club will be either in the u19/20 side or the first team.

we need to bear in mind he was up against austin mccann on saturday.

hookers in the dam or possible opponents?

no chance, what are the performances that prove this? the rangers team that got to the uefa cup final and won the league the following season and the strachan sides that got to the last 16 of the champions league and gave a good account of themselves were much better sides. they have been poor in europe and both old firm games so far and they have hardly been putting the diddies to the sword despite the huge financial advantage they have and pretty much every club downsizing. there is not a player in their team of the quality of mcgeady or petrov never mind larsson or moravick.

how did 28,000 celtic fans manage to stand for the 90? we were embarassing that day.

goals conceded has a direct effect on results while goals score by one player doesn't. if a defence is keeping clean sheets or conceding one (which is par) then they are contributing to positive results. one guy scoring 1 in 3 or 4 isn't guaranteed to be doing that. higdon's scored in 10 matches and not scored in 20. you have to consider what he is contributing the 2/3s of the the time he's not scoring. for me he misses too many chances, gives away too many fouls, doesn't have much movement in the box and is poor in general play outside the box. in any game he's only as good as his team mates are playing, he's never going to add anything when we're not playing well or push us over the top in a game like the one at celtic park last week. looking back you wonder what mcdonald, porter, jutkiewicz or clarky would score in this team with this level of opposition or what the likes of o'connor, vernon, sandaza or daly would get. we've failed to score in 10 out 29 spl games this season. why is that?

they have zero creativity in their team. they are gash. they've conceded 5 in 10 since reynolds came into the team including playing both sides of the old firm. teams with mark reynolds in defence don't lose many goals in the spl. defences he has played in have only conceded more than one goal 5 times in his last 30 scottish games.

is it the managers that vote for it? if lennon doesn't get it the toys will be well and truly out the pram. he was greeting yesterday about not getting credit after another dull as dishwater performance. how many times have celtic turned on the style this season? they win by attrition.

i was very impressed with what andrew wilson, jim mcmahon and derek weir had to say at the society meeting i attended. they definitely came across as the kind of people you'd want running the club. whatever happens stadium wise i'm sure it'll be some way down the road, the main thing just now is to get the society up and running so the decision will be in our own hands.

i'd go for the team that beat hibs. law struggled in midfield in that game but dunfermline don't have a player like osbourne so this should be more suited to him. i don't see us scoring less than 3, their defence is brutal.

there's loads of stuff dirt poor kids from thailand could be doing with before a trip to glasgow to watch a football game. raising money for them is admirable but they are pretty much planning to spunk it up the wall on passports, visas, flights and hotels for the sake of a photo opportunity to make celtic look good. going to thailand when i was 26 was a culture shock for me and i'd been to europe and america loads of times before. what are a load of thai kids from a shithole province going to make of a 12 hour journey, jet lag, strange food, shite weather and a foreign country?

bringing a load of thai orphans to scotland to watch a football game is one of the worst ideas ever on so many levels. only celtic could dream this up.

that would be good but i don't think that's how it works. looking at this year's tournaments fc vaslui of romania were in the non champions CL round 3 and dropped into the europa play off leg where they were unseeded.

hutchy

we defended well for 99% of the match and passed the ball wel. we were never going to score. hutchy was superb, the four midfielders worked their arses off and made life pretty easy for the back four and humphrey played well when he came on. clancy looks the part at some points but he has a horrible habit of fucking up. missing that header for their goal was criminal. celtic are the best team in the league but they aren't a good side for the money. they're solid at the back and good athletes but they don't scare you when they have the ball the way o'neill's teams did. individually they are extremely average.

it would have been better mixed with cotton eye joe.

if he keeps the good performances coming then i'll admit i was wrong. however one swallow doesn't make a summer and playing well last night doesn't change his performances earier on in the season. he's benefitting from us being less reliant on using him as an outball and teams playing deeper because of ojamaa's pace. fair play bumping this thread up just now but i could have bumped it up after his poor performances against morton, st mirren and united recently or after he missed an empty net again on saturday. let's come back to this when the good performances outweight the stinkers.

because that's what they were saying at the office. when i signed up they said they had been asking for log ins (presumably from flow) for people signing up and that they would send them out as soon as possible.

it will have to be page. i'd put craigan back in for saturday, clancy is a bombscare. he got very lucky against st johnstone and st mirren when their poor finishing saved him. two goals on him tonight.

hutchy got booked after their third goal. clancy kicked it all off and randolph was probably the most aggresive but the ref seemed to pick big shuan out for convenience, it was easier to book him than run back to randy or give clancy a red.

me too.

that's hutchy and clancy missing the same match. i think it will be the aberdeen spl game. if las or jenno get booked at parkhead they'll miss it as well.

it's surely a piss take now? if the guy is serious he needs some kind of asbo.

twitter said 100 tickets left last night. possibly only singles left?