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17 hours ago, Prso's headband said:
Perfect scenario is we go into the next break a couple of points ahead and at least joint top with Hearts.
Couple of points means they can’t really sack him, not that they’ll afford to anyway.
6-9 point gap by Christmas and hopefully they throw all these cash reserves at him in January only for him to get the bullet in March.
I don't think they'll sack him regardless of what happens this season. Both parties were hoping/expecting a big club to come in for Rodgers in the summer, resulting in compensation, and it hasn't happened. Now that Rodgers is either working his ticket or is actually so delusional he thinks he can win a public fight with his board, the chances of that ideal scenario for the tims is pretty much dead.
I think Rodgers would be reluctant to resign and walk away from the severance he'd be due if sacked, especially if he's not got another job lined up. But if we win the league this year under Steven Gerrard? He'll walk. He's not it in him to stick around and try to wrestle the title back in those circumstances; crumbles under pressure, and always will.
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1 minute ago, KeyserSoze said:
“ Lying down” in my opinion is deliberate
Christ sake. Of course teams gave it a go They are just shite. Simple as that not good enough to make any kind of challenge.
When was the last time a team out with the OF won the league.
Add to that, since 1985 there have been a handful of teams that had the chance to do so. (Discounting Aberdeen in 1991, as they were still a competitive top team then, though the slide back to where they belong had began.) Hearts in 1998 and 2006; Aberdeen in 2016. These teams fall away due to not believing they can see it through as much as it is because they're not good enough. That can tie into the point being made that some teams are mentally beaten before a ball is kicked.
I think it's telling that Aberdeen could only beat celtic when they lay down. Combine it with McInnes and his team bottling their 'challenge' in 2016, and his subsequent comments over the years and it's obvious he's never believed they can challenge. As much as they shouldn't be able to on a regular basis, since 1985 there have been unexpected champions in England, Germany, France and Spain - yet in Scotland it doesn't, and won't, happen. Even when we've been mince and celtic are complacent.
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7 hours ago, cushynumber said:
success for TLB is finishing above us. he proved that last year when his team threw away the chance to do so and he nearly quit and slagged his entire team because of it..
Its the same as Mcinnes telling Pedro it was his job to beat celtic. It was actually McInnes as well, but he seemed oblivious to that
I don't think that's the case, to be honest. Lennon went tonto because he genuinely wanted his team to finish second in the league and thought fourth was nowhere near good enough - pipping us to third place would have been an added bonus, but he was vocal in thinking they could have finished runners up. In the press conference today he said that Hibs and Hearts should be looking to challenge, but over the course of the season it's probably too much for them, but I still think he actually wants to win it and, failing that, finish as strongly as possible. He'll lose the rag again if Hibs finish fourth this season, and if they were second and just a few points off first - which they won't be - he'll be fuming they didn't win the league. He's an odious wee cunt, but he wants to win. Most managers would have been delighted at finishing fourth in the top flight after Hibs had been in the second tier for three seasons, especially with some of the results they got against ourselves, Hearts and the tims.
McInnes doesn't have that drive as a manager. His Aberdeen side needed celtic to lie down to them to get a win last year; Hearts, Hibs and Killie have all taken points off celtic and pushed them harder than the sheep, as their managers hate losing. McInnes knows that, deep down, Aberdeen are tin pot and he just has to finish above us to be seen as successful; couldn't cope with it the one season Aberdeen actually had a chance to win the league. I'm not convinced that Levein, Lennon or Clarke would have bottled that during Deila's second season with celtic.
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4 hours ago, STEPPS BOY said:
Fantastic if these 3 stay fit. What a squad we would have..
Macgregor, Fod, McCrorie
Tav, Flanagan, Worrel, Goldson, Katic, Macauley, Barisic, Wallace.
Candeias,Grezda, Kent, Coulibaly, Haliday, McCrorie,Jack,Rossiter, Dorrans, Ejaria, Middleton, Arfield.
Morelos, Lafferty, Sadiq.
Very, very strong.
Strikers look a bit light, but I expect we'll bring another in during the January window - with Sadiq possibly leaving - and Dallas and Mebude will make a few appearances off the bench later in the season. (I think both of those two and Rudden look like they could make the grade, but realistically if one of the three does then it'll be a success for the academy.)
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1 hour ago, ronniescu said:
They refused to give him any more money, after spunking a fortune on half a dozen duds. He did the same at Liverpool.
Aye. It's similar to Advocaat in the summer of 2001 - he's been told he's had enough backing and it's up to him to make it work. That many of his regular starters were at the club before him, despite him having five transfer windows, speaks volumes about his recruitment. celtic fans blame their chief scout, but it was the same at Liverpool.
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1 minute ago, Blueshoff said:
Lafferty came back so there's always a hope we will re-sign Kane Hemmings
In all seriousness, I've followed his career after leaving us and happy to see him have a decent career. If we'd signed him two years back after he'd been banging the goals in for Dundee, I'd actually have thought it a decent signing.
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2 minutes ago, NamibianBear said:
I agree with you. Luckily I was out before the 2nd Iraq war. I was referring to the first Gulf War in my post. We were also stationed in N.I. and I was there for the peace talks from around 1995 till 1998. The people of N.I. always seemed friendly to us and appreciated us more than people did in the mainland. Of course, by people I mean the normal people in Northern Ireland, not the fucking scumbag animals that pretend they are on some find of freedom fighting mission by killing mothers and kids.
i think more should be done to support our Armed Forces as well as our veterans, especially those that need help. Maybe its a mindset in the people that has to change?
It does, but our government are more interested in appealing to other sections of society. Personally, I was opposed to the Iraq war and going into Afghanistan, and the way we followed the USA into these conflicts until Obama pushed to invade Syria, but I still respect the soldiers themselves.
I think charities like Erskine are great, but governments have taken advantage of people being charitable and it has allowed them to avoid providing the care veterans deserve. Charities should provide additional support, but the onus should be on the government. It's sad that this isn't a bigger talking point in society, but we live in a UK where "Islamaphobia" is a talking point, so not surprising.
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4 minutes ago, Blue Avenger said:
Wallace is rightly third place behind Halliday.
Aye, I think he probably is. I won't be surprised if he leaves in January, but so far Gerrard seems to be getting more out of the players he inherited, so he'll have Wallace involved or as an option right up until he does leave.
For all the similarities between Gerrard and Souness, that seems to be one difference. Would have been understandable if he'd got rid of Wallace in the summer, but he's instead got him back around the first team and ensured he'll at least leave in a more dignified fashion. (Hopefully Wallace remembers that when Keith Jackson comes calling.)
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2 hours ago, G.E.C. said:
Longer Lawell stays the more chance 10IRA won’t happen imho.
He’s more or less gifted us the chance to stop them. Failed to back Lennon, left them with that tit Delia who failed to get them into the CL twice and refused to back Rodgers and you can see how bad they are now.
Lawell must stay.
We should be aiming to stop eight in a row, never mind conceding that they'll reach nine. (And I don't think it's unrealistic at all that we'll win the league this year.)
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1 hour ago, NamibianBear said:As a UK Veteran, I am still entitled to military discounts across the USA. I am not entitled to many (there is a smaller scheme but its like 10% of Sky subscriptions and stuff like that) in the UK.
It's nice to be appreciated. Too many people in the UK could not care less about the very men and women sent out to protect them and their way of life.
I have a US Marine (also a vet) buddy that I met during Desert Storm (Op Granby for us Brits) and he gets appreciated everywhere he goes yet we get very little.
Part of the blame for that rests with the way Blair handled invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and subsequent revelations from his own cabinet about it. Unfortunately the soldiers seem to be bear the brunt of it rather than politicians ever having to face consequences for their actions. If it was Tony Blair's son bring carved up on the street in broad daylight rather than Lee Rigby, I suspect the reaction to it would have been much different from the political class.
Even with that, we've went to a strange direction in the UK where the Irish republican propaganda and their versions of the troubles are largely accepted as truth, and our soldiers portrayed as butchers. Huge disservice done not only to the soldiers and the loyalists that lived through the troubles, but to the civilians murdered by the IRA whose families will never get justice. (Including Catholics who dared to do such heinous acts such as be civil to British soldiers.)
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18 minutes ago, StaunchLondonGer said:
it'll be his beads that'll be rattling as he tries to seek divine intervention to stop his inevitable meltdown... ?
Stevie G stopping him winning a league title might actually ruin him forever.
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45 minutes ago, cushynumber said:
I thought it was slightly expensive - and extremely badly marketed. Charge £99 a package tops and you have ducked under the magic 3 digits and people perceive it to be less expensive. I felt over that and it was ripping it a bit.
This booking fee thing also seems antiquated in this day and age.
I'm honestly surprised the club didn't go with this. I get that £6 difference equates to a few hundred grand, but there'd be far less anger over prices had they went from that, and the club would still have brought in millions.
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1 minute ago, ChampionsAgain said:
Personally if Wallace could get back to best I’d prefer him to Flanagan - I feel we play too narrow when Flanagan/Kent play on the left.
Flanagan isn't a natural left back so I don't disagree, but I just don't see Wallace being more than a bit part player before leaving at the end of the season.
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6 minutes ago, Drumloyal said:
Dapo Mebude always seems to feature prominently in @Elfideldo match reports.
Seems a top prospect, hope to see him knocking on the first team door at some time in the near future.
I think he and Zak Rudden are both fortunate in us not having a string of good strikers in the first team, with neither Morelos or Lafferty likely to be around in a few years for different reasons. Not saying both will make it, but they'll get chances at some point and hopefully they make the most of them.
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5 minutes ago, Rfc52 said:
That Was the other coloured boy
Atakayi?
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1 hour ago, Prso's headband said:I don’t want him to go either. It would come far too early.
FWIW I don’t think Lennon will go back there, he left for the same reason not getting money to spend etc.
I’d hate for him to go the now and they get someone in and regroup at the next break. I’d be quite happy for them to pick up 7 points in their next 9 and for us to get maximum. Not enough to sack him and we’re ahead by a couple of points.
However if St Johnstone beat them midweek that’ll be it.
Lennon won't go there, which I'm happy with. As much as he likes his teams to play nice football, he's more interested in winning; got stick from tims when he was their gaffer for "not playing the celtic way." He's aware they're not going to heavily invest in the playing squad - as the wage bill is massive - and knows the fans expect ten in a row, so woe betide the manager who doesn't deliver.
As funny as his hissy fit over finishing fourth was, it does show he wants to do as well as he can. McInnes considers finishing behind celtic and/or above us a success, which is why he bottled the chance to win the league in 2015/16. Lennon knows Hibs won't win the league, but he'll still be setting them the target of challenging for it regardless. (Which is good for us too, incidentally - if teams like Hibs and Hearts aren't content to just be graced by celtic's presence, it puts then under more pressure.)
Can say the same about Steve Clarke at Killie too. The media slag Gerrard or Lafferty for aiming to win the league, but praised Clarke for it. Surely that should be the goal for teams like Hearts, Hibs, Killie and Aberdeen at the start of the season? Challenge for as long as possible. Interesting that celtic have dropped points to teams like Hearts, Hibs and Killie since they appointed gaffers who hate losing, yet the sheep could only get a win when celtic lay down.
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Just now, cushynumber said:
What do you do when the loan from Roma doesnt score but the 17-year-old thats signed with the club bags a hatrick?
Mebude is a special talent, I think. One of the players that has a real chance of making the grade. Given our lack of strikers, I expect we'll see him make a few sub appearances later this season.
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42 minutes ago, ChampionsAgain said:
3 of them will play a big part if they can get to full fitness. Wallace and Rossister would be like new signings.
Highly doubt Wallace is going to play a big part. At best he'd be second choice left back, though I still think he'll find himself third choice.
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What about Mo Edu? I liked him, but know others weren't so keen, but there was that goal against the tims. Could make the same case for Bert Konterman, to be honest - largely mince, but that belter against celtic lives on.
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7 minutes ago, DrLaudrup said:
Cult heroes would be guys that are not amazing but did some important stuff for us....so Hateley wouldnt be one as he is a legend. Sebo was just poor.
In my time guys like Graeme Roberts, Terry Hurlock, Scott Nisbet, Erik Bo Anderson come to mind. There haven't been many candidates in recent years. Bougherra maybe?
Big Ugo for that goal at Parkhead? I know we won nothing that year and he left soon after, but at the time winning there was massive for us. I think it was a turning point of restoring some pride and belief in the team.
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22 minutes ago, hammer time said:
That game was played at Ibrox ??
So it was. I was 9 at the time, but for some reason I've confused it with the later game where we won 1-0 with Laudrup scoring. Thought the fixtures were the other way about. ?
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Credible European result on Thursday night and a home game folk are looking forward to today? This won't do. Let's look for a reason to bitch about the board instead!
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1 hour ago, Edmiston Drive said:
You nut job, eff all tae dae with our rancid board they have a coast what they buy the tops for so this Hummel move is all profit for them
youneed tae get your head out the sand
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