ShaggysBeard
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35 minutes ago, Poet of the Macabre said:
You must be joking? I thought it was absolutely painful to watch every time he tried it and had no idea why someone so ill-suited to the role should be asked to complete it.
Durnan is a bit tattie, who should be used to header balls, clear balls and clatter c***s. Everything else should be given to someone else.
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More than once on Saturday he started off an attacking move. I'm as surprised as you.
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Suffering a lot of individual errors. Harsh to blame the manager for them. I thought there was a real lack of confidence on display yesterday.
Few positives in the first half, but not much. Surprisingly I thought Durnan played well in the first half, he's very good at talking the ball into midfield. It's a shame his general defending is shambolic.
I'd like to see us go back to 4 at the back and have two extremely dangerous wings with the proven Williamson/Higginbotham partnership on right and the Longridge brothers on the left doubling up on attacks. I think that side would cause problem after problem for teams on either side.
I'd give the first team a wee kick up the arse and send them down to Boreham on the megabus instead of the young lads.
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Just dawned on me when watching that Hearts win over Rangers with Muirhead's double that he'll have been coached by Crawford at Hearts and MK Dons as well Johnston at Kilmarnock.
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17 minutes ago, P475 said:
Gers fans at work remember him well.
The bile they are spewing about him is very pleasing indeed. He was worth signing just for that alone.
What's the background to this?
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1 minute ago, Savage Henry said:
Is he the guy who bounced around between Hearts and Dundee United and whatnot? He definitely had something about him, although occasionally looked like he had never kicked a ball before in his life. Very decent signing for a Championship team if it's the same Muirhead as I'm thinking of, if somewhat polarising.
That's the guy.
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A very typical Allan Johnston signing, loads of games at a good level for his age and he has managed him before.
The last player he paid money for sits on the bench every week, wonder how the team will shape up now. Hopefully it gives Hippolyte a wee kick up the arse anyway.
To have made moves to Dundee Utd, Hearts and down south by the age of 21 there must be ability and unfulfilled potential there.
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On 27/08/2018 at 13:28, Flybhoy said:
Fatima Whitbread signs for Rangers in 1990.
Why is he signing a ball? Odd signing photo release.
Looks like Souness is a fan getting Terry Hurlock to sign some merchandise for him.
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I learned about this the other day, surprised it's not more known.
Mohammed Salim (Celtic, 1936). The first player from India to play for a European club side.
As seen in the bottom images, he played barefoot.
Never speaking English, he came over on a boat with his brother who could speak English. His brother managed to persuade Willie Maley to give Mohammed a trial despite the fact that he insisted on playing barefoot. He impressed and played in two friendlies barefoot. He was given a competitive debut against Hamilton Academical when he scored in a 5-1 win.
After a 7-1 win over Galston in August 1936 he was dubbed the Indian Juggler.
Couple of reports from that match.....
"Ten twinkling toes of Salim, Celtic FC's player from India hypnotised the crowd at Parkhead last night in an Alliance game with Galston. He balances the ball on his big toe, lets it run down the scale to his little toe, twirls it, hops on one foot around the defender, then flicks the ball to the center who has only to send it into goal. Three of Celtic's seven goals last night came from his moves. Was asked to take a penalty, he refused. Said he was shy. Salim does not speak English, his brother translates for him. Brother Hasheem thinks Salim is wonderful – so did the crowd last night."
"Abdul Salim, Celtic's Indian International trialist, tickled the crowd at Celtic Park on Friday with his magnificent ball manipulation. In his bare feet he was a conspicuous figure but this was further emphasised by his dark skin against the white and green of the Celtic strip. His play was top class. Every ball he touched went exactly to the place he wanted it to. Not one inch was it out. His crosses into goal were simply shrieking to be nodded into the net. I wouldn't like to have calculated the score had McGrorybeen playing ..... [Danny] Dawson missed a penalty kick which Salim, despite the invitation of Alex Millar, refused to take."
He became homesick and was determined to return to India. Celtic offered him a charity game promising him 5% of the total gate in return of staying at Celtic. Mohammed refused and asked for the proceeds, £1,800, an incredible sum at the time to be donated to local orphans. And he was off back home to Calcutta.
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Seen this on youtube earlier.
Segment from the news on Kenny Dalglish's move from Celtic to Liverpool.
Interesting to think of Dalglish as Kevin Keegan's replacement. Obviously Liverpool fans would consider Kenny Dalglish coming into Liverpool as one of the most important events of the of the last 50 years. Kevin Keegan went on to win the Ballon D'Or in both the following two years after this, makes you wonder what could have happened had Keegan stayed and the opinion on Dalglish from Liverpool fans when Keegan is effectively the best player in Europe whilst in Hamburg.
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I'm going to be attending the Livingston Colts v Forfar replay tomorrow night in the Challenge Cup.
Mainly because it's local and free, but also because it's a Tuesday night and the wife usually subjects me to River City.
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6 minutes ago, dee_62 said:
If we scrape past Livi colts - an away trip to the West Coast of Ireland. (not even near an airport, so travelling down on the day could be problematic). Hopefully JW sticks our untried youngsters and injured players in for the rematch v Livi. Bugger that for a trip!
Sligo isn't too far away from Knock Airport and you can fly into Knock from Edinburgh,
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13 minutes ago, Slacker said:
Sligo Rovers vs Livingston U21s or Forfar Athletic
Potentially now asking clubs from different associations to provide run outs for our top division's young boys. The brass neck of it.
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Farcical. Sounds like Falkirk have been drawn at home to an ice hockey team.
I'm pleased that Allan Johnston has been open about treating this cup as an opportunity to play young boys and first teamers in need of game time. I'd prefer not to get knocked out by an English 5th tier side though. A good away trip for some I'm sure, though I'll give it a pass.
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1 hour ago, Antiochas III said:
You're against loan signings then?
And pretty much every country in Europe the same size of us (and many smaller) system.
Loan signings are completely different. That's getting players that would be at colts into first teams playing with and against senior players. Ridiculous to lump them in the same argument.
If your second point is referring to how top club's have second teams in lower, but still senior, leagues such as Spain. Then it doesn't sit easy with me either. I'm not in tune with Spanish football culture though.
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12 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:14 minutes ago, ShaggysBeard said:They are.
I didn't say otherwise.You mentioned trips to Wales and Northern Ireland and pointless midweek trips. There are no pointless midweek trips to Wales and Northern Ireland.
Na, I'm no sure they'd get away with that. I just called it pointless trips for Wales and Northern Ireland.
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I'm against the use of lower level football clubs, all good clubs in their own right, to toughen up colt teams. It's disrespectful.
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10 hours ago, andylivi1 said:
There was about 250 at Livi tonight before it got abandoned.
Game to get replayed next Tuesday and is free entry.
Is it free only if you attended last night? Or just a free gate?
I'm local and a right mean tight fisted type.
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Always good to see a second string go somewhere like Inverness and pick up a win and put pressure on the guys playing regular in the league.
Still, I hate this cup. A mid-week trip to Inverness, who is benefitting from this? Soon it'll be pointless trips for clubs to Wales and Northern Ireland when really they just want to concentrate on the league. Most of the clubs in the competition are part time, there will be a lot of guys having to take time off their full time jobs for these long midweek trips as well. Get it binned.
ICT done me for decent coupon win last night as well, raging.
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A good win at Tannadice and a 100% group stage in the league cup means a potential bumper attendance next weekend.
It's a shame it's not a visiting team that have travelling fans.
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20 minutes ago, Ylf said:
Wife saying your packing the beef?!!Ken. Rich coming from her tae.
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The wife is in one of her passive aggressive moods and I came home to this.
She is lucky we have kids, otherwise this would be a getting patched offence.
I'll update if it's decent on the off chance anyone cares, I'll find out where she got it.
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Reminds me of the Limmy's Show sketch about Danone
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15 minutes ago, DeeBairn said:
I can't decide if that's the work of an utter fucking monster who should be reported to the police, or just utter genius.
Depends if he butters the roll or not.
Chubbychops?
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12 minutes ago, smpar said:
Unless Stephens have started using some hipsterish dairy-free cheese in their glorious macaroni pies then no, we don’t.That'll be that then.
I'm always annoyed at the lack of mince and onion bridies at East End Park, it's far superior to the steak bridie.
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Andy Robertson: Scotland Captain
in Tartan Army Ramblings
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To have the Scotland captain with a backstory as his serves as an incredible example to all the young guys in the country playing lower level and reserve football. A great appointment.