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PMSL, is that your best, what a no mark.

You are confusing me with someone who gives a fuck what you think.

What I want to know is where is our clubs statement, and McCoist's.

Make of it what you will, and the "new found" backbone of our management team. The Celtic manager, Neil Lennon, has said that he and the Rangers assistant manager, Ally McCoist, have settled their differences following their touchline dispute at Celtic Park on Wednesday. Lennon reacted angrily to something McCoist said as the pair shook hands following Celtic's 1-0 Scottish Cup victory, in which three Rangers players were sent off. Lennon said he had spoken to McCoist after the incident and that they had moved on from their disagreement. Speaking on the official Celtic website, Lennon said: "There was an incident on the touchline at the final whistle between myself and Ally McCoist, and obviously it's one that has attracted a lot of attention. We've both got a lot of experience of this fixture and know that sometimes, in the heat of the moment, things can be said and words exchanged. It is a passionate game and both of us want our team to win. However, we were still able to sit down after the game and, as far as we are concerned, the matter is closed." http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=news&cd=2&ved=0CC0QqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ffootball%2F2011%2Fmar%2F03%2Fceltic-neil-lennon-ally-mccoist-rangers&ei=RLlvTcavKIak8QO6v6GvCA&usg=AFQjCNFDRAQkrFWYqKO2BPcoOp3QKgEtjw

I would start with three up, drop Weir for Bartley and play Ness. I would like to see the intent for next season being shown now, hopefully on the way to this seasons title, but all of that is pointless without the discipline to carry it off.

Plenty of threads about last night,but not many about the game itself and how we advance in a positive sense from it. It won't take care of itself, leadership will have to come from somewhere, both on and off the park.

Celtic coach Alan Thompson: Rangers striker El Hadji Diouf provoked all the trouble Mar 3 2011 CELTIC coach Alan Thompson last night blamed Ibrox star El Hadji Diouf for sparking Old Firm mayhem. Thompson claimed Diouf lit the fuse on an explosive Scottish Cup tie that saw 13 yellows dished out and three Rangers players sent off as Celtic ran out 1-0 winners thanks to a Mark Wilson goal. Celtic boss Neil Lennon had a furious bust-up with Gers No.2 Ally McCoist on the final whistle and had to be hauled apart by their backroom staff. It’s alleged McCoist told Lennon as they shook hands: “Why don’t you stay away from our players?” in a reference to the manager’s earlier spat with Diouf on the touchline. McCoist and Lennon had also clashed in the first half of the fifth-round replay after the dismissal of Steven Whittaker for two yellow card offences. That left Rangers with 10 men and they were reduced to nine in injury time when Madjid Bougherra picked up his second caution. Diouf then lost the plot after Calum Murray blew for time and launched a verbal assault on the ref who flashed a second yellow just as Lennon and McCoist went nose to nose. Hoops coach Johan Mjallby also had to be pulled away from Diouf as he made his way up the tunnel at half-time. Thompson claimed his team were innocents and the on-loan Blackburn star started it all off when he aimed a dunt at Celtic physio Tim Williamson. He said: “Our physio went on the pitch as Whittaker was being sent off and Diouf threw a shoulder on him, which was dismissed. “However, Neil saw it and it has all gone on from there. “Diouf came over and said something to someone on the bench and we asked him to calm down. “Did our bench show discipline? I’d say yes. “I didn’t see what happened with Johan at half-time, as for Neil and Ally at the end something has been said that wasn’t taken in the right way. “TV cameras show what went on but Neil has done nothing untoward.” Asked if Rangers had lost their discipline, Thompson added: “I don’t want to talk about Rangers too much but any team that has three red cards in one game I’m sure will be looked at, yeah. “Rangers have players who play on the edge. “Overall, we’re delighted with our performance football and discipline wise. Ally and Neil may have had words and it went on a little bit from there but there is a lot at stake. It’s understandable to a certain extent. “We got three yellow cards out of everything that went on. We asked players to be disciplined and they were.” The SFA will this morning launch an enquiry into the scenes that shamed the Scottish game with the probe being launched on the same day Lennon goes before the beaks to appeal his six-match touchline ban. Thompson was asked if Lennon was absent from the media conference after the match so he could gather his thoughts. The coach said: “Yes. He’s downstairs having a chat with Dermot Desmond and Peter Lawwell.” Rangers boss Walter Smith tried to explain the McCoist-Lennon bust-up, saying: “Ally was annoyed Neil was being aggressive towards a Rangers player. “There was an incident involving Neil and Diouf and then another moment in the tunnel at half-time.”

What is our management going to do to arrest this trait of the taigs getting the upper hand in our games, stats say the taigs had 67% of possession again last night. They scored once with all their possession and a flukey one at that, however if you continually cede possession flukes as anything else are always a possibility. If the management can't change it or improve our situation in the remaining two games, what does that say for future developments.

Excuses are excuses however you dress it up, it was a goal look at the result, we got a league to win now, last night is history.

So, I can heidie the baw, and if the opposition look to be in a scoring position from said heidie, I have a nice wee card up my sleeve feign injury, straws clutching at. :chopometer:

Stop the game when someone heidies the baw, heard everything now, straws and clutching. :chopometer:

Maybe that's the difference, I care about getting turned over by the taigs anytime, every game against them is a must win for me.

Notwithstanding that we lost to a flukey goal last night, against a selik team who are far from world beaters, it would appear that the rookie was better prepared and had his team better prepared than the old fox and not for the first time. Unless there is a radical change in the mindset of our management and better discipline instilled into the team, it could be a bumpy final period to the season. Referees and any other excuse anyone wants to throw in are just that excuses, the seasons outcome is in our own hands, running about and putting in needless challenges in sterile areas is playing into refs hands, asking for trouble. The chips are well and truly down, we are about to see what our present and future management team has in the locker, let's hope it isn't empty. Perhaps a good dose of discipline on the field would be a good beginning, like I said it is still in our own hands, we need the title not excuses.

Away an shoot yourself in the cock wi' your arse. :chopometer:

Rangers manager Walter Smith revealed McCoist had been unhappy with what he regarded as confrontational behaviour from Lennon towards Diouf during the match. The controversial Senegalese striker had picked up his first booking in the first-half after squaring up to Lennon on the touchline. "These things happen," said Smith. "I'm always reasonably quick up the tunnel, so I didn't see what happened. But the problem there was quite simple. Alistair was quite annoyed that Neil was being aggressive towards one of the Rangers players. That annoyed him more than anything else." Asked if he would still attend the traditional post-match meeting of the rival managers, Smith added: "I always go for a drink with the opposition management team after a game. It might be an interesting cup of tea this time, right enough. I'll referee." In the immediate aftermath of his final assignment as Rangers manager at Celtic Park, Smith defended his team's conduct and claimed referee Murray was wrong to send off both Whittaker and Bougherra. He accused the official of being influenced by the home support. "I felt Steven Whittaker's first yellow card was a soft one," said Smith. "I wouldn't argue with the second one, but he is unfortunate to have got the first one. Madjid Bougherra's first one was a yellow card, but the second one was clearly not. He slid in and clearly got the ball. The Celtic player's momentum made it look worse than it was. "I think the referee got carried away by the crowd's reaction on both occasions. It was a competitive cup tie but there were challenges I didn't think were worth yellow cards. As I say, I couldn't complain about Bougherra's first caution or Whittaker's second, but I felt they were both unlucky to be sent off. I'm not sure we committed that many more fouls than Celtic. There was nothing that left anyone seriously injured but there were yellow cards handed out throughout the game. It makes the reflection of the game worse than it actually was." Smith made no defence of Diouf's red card, earned when he berated Murray after the final whistle, but did claim there was an element of provocation involved. "He is an easy target and lets himself get wound up," said Smith. "There was a lot of frustration at the end of the game. He gets a bit het-up, that's the way he is." The teams will meet for the sixth time this season in the Co-operative Insurance Cup final at Hampden on 20 March and have one more SPL fixture to play at Ibrox. Smith, who joked that he agreed with a call from senior police officer Les Gray earlier this week to ban Old Firm games, admitted that the number of times the teams face each other increases the tension. "Playing each other seven times a season doesn't help, but there has to be a balance there from everyone in terms of what is a level of competitiveness and what isn't. It certainly gives you plenty to write about, so I don't think you should complain too greatly. I have been involved for a long time in these games now. How many Rangers-Celtic matches have been like this? It is worse if you don't compete. We didn't compete at all in the last game here and got battered. "From our point of view, it was a better performance than the last time here. At least we made a tackle in this game, we never made one the last time. So there was a slight improvement there. "We were disappointed to lose a goal as early as we did in the second half. It settled Celtic. We had one or two flurries going forward, but there were not many clear-cut opportunities for either side."