"The monkeys start to squeal, lie and create conspiracy plots" - Scottish Football 2012/13

hah that's brilliant!

following scottish football from the west coast of north america is a right pain in the cunt. went to where the local csc watch the game the other day for the benfica game, at 11.45am, and they were, despite there being a north american channel showing the game, watching a shitey stream off the internet. ultra-shitey. cycled hame at half time and got a much better stream going within 2 minutes on my girlfriend's shitey laptop. now tomorrow they will be showing the game, and actually off the telly i think, but at 7am after ive had a few ales the night i just can't be fucked.

obviously i'll always keep up with the scores and the news about the team, but i really don't feel like a supporter if i can't go to parkhead or watch the games in the pub with my pals :c

Where are you now? I still remain somewhat staggered by the fact you can find a wee band of folk watching Celtic anywhere in the world. I shall be partaking of the 8 hour time difference on holiday next week, fecking 4.45am kick-off :(

live in vancouver now.there were about 20 for a midweek game in the middle of the day.

Nice! That's a decent turnout. My overseas experiences have been rammed-to-the-gills pub in Orlando for a game against Rangers, about 30 in a pub in Naples, Florida for the last 16 game against Milan, Irish bars in Paris and Gothenburg (where I met a bloke who knew my dad!) and various bars in the Costa del Sol where you'll always find an expat or three. We get everywhere!

i have a friend who is an archaeologist, he was on a month-long dig in the Indonesian jungle and he still managed to find 2 local Celtic fans w/ satellite tv to watch matches with!

Aw look at the poor abandoned fitbaw thread :(

SPL looking v competitive at the moment - Hibs go top with another good win, three points separating 2nd and 8th! Looks like anyone other than maybe Ross Co and Dundee can beat anyone else. Celtic can go top if they beat Hearts tomorrow and make it look a wee bit more like the one horse races it's supposed to be.

Partick Thistle finally lose a game! To Morton! Five wins in a row for the Ton.

Did anything else happen today? :P

we fucked the scum 4-0 away!

i am so pleased that my team, morton, the team that i support, are doing well.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u292/hailfknhail/celtic-champions.gif

Greetings from Las Vegas, where I have just found out the Sevco score :-)

lol @ merdeyeux

Spent most of the second half with my head in my hands, but another 3pts for the real Saints. What a difference a few weeks makes.

merdeyeux - has Peaso got himself injured yet again? not seen him on the teamsheet the couple of times I've looked this season.

Algerian Goalkeeper - how's Stevie May looked so far? Hoping he'll stay with us long term, but worried that he won't.

Nervy at times today and did our best to help Hearts back into the game. Pass marks for Ambrose, Izaguirre, Lustig, Commons and Ledley. Everyone else seemed to be having an off day or a day off. Hearts were wasteful with a couple of decent chances and one total sitter, it might have been a very different game.

Referee Craig Thompson was on some kind of strong hallucinogenic drug and was watching a game that wasn't happening. I can think of no other explanation for his decisions.

Is Jamie MacDonald ok? I couldn't really see what happened from the other end of the stadium but he barely moved after the collision.

Jim been on his travels?

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/sport/football/corinthians-sorry-as-fans-get-shirty-with-celtic-fan-1-2565265

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/comments-suspended-on-football-articles-1374220

The comments on there were the worst but it's really sad its come to this. No doubt one teams supporters will blame the other.

Must have been a nightmare moderating those comments.

Fuck reading a Daily Record comments page, it's bad enough reading their articles.

And now we take our turn in 2nd. Best start to the season since 71/72 (under Ormond), with apparently 14 fit senior outfield players. Armageddon?

Mad that we're quarter of the way through the season and three points separate two thirds of the league.

Celtic's busy midweek calendar might delay the one horse race aspect a bit further, though they're a game in hand from making it a proper gap.

A wee run for Dundee United and it'll be Celtic, ten others, Dundee. I suppose that was always going to happen but it's good that the ten are so closely matched.

This thread is dead :(

Hib got Hearts in the cup!
Levein got sacked gardening leaved!
Celtic still limping in one horse trace!

Meanwhile: Armageddon II: Hector Goes East
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20241385

Hearts have been issued with a winding-up order by the Court of Session in Edinburgh after failing to pay a tax bill on time.
The matter is unrelated to a £1.75m tax bill Hearts are currently contesting.
This latest order is understood to be for unpaid PAYE and VAT and BBC Scotland has learned the sum due is a substantial six-figure amount.

Levein got sacked gardening leaved!

Also, I guess Gogs is going to get the gig? Dunno how a man who sees himself as a track-suited training ground coach fancies a national job but I suppose £400k a year for 6-8 games is tempting for anyone.

I did mention him a while back as a possible in some thread or other - not on this one as this is my first post here??!!?

Was it on the "craig levein fuck off" thread?

Sounds like we're utterly fucked:

This isn't a bluff, this isn't scaremongering, this is reality [...] Without your help now, we could be entering the final days of the club's existence. There are limited options for the Board of Directors to take to avoid the catastrophic consequences that a funding shortfall would mean for the club.

Who'd have thought the Romanov thing would all end in tears eh..

Cannae stand Gogs but I was enthusiastic about Levein and Burley so I'm clearly an awful judge of these things. I, for one, welcome our new smartarsed ginger overlords.

I hear new clubs starting off in division 3 are all the rage these days.

Traynor was getting amazingly indignant at players being loaned to Kaunas to trim wage bill (Lithuanian PAYE being lower than equivalent in UK) on the radio a couple of weeks ago. He still never seemed to grasp it was vastly different to EBTs and undisclosed second contracts, the useless fud that he is.

by the by, this is a nice wee article by Cosgrove. Trumpet-blowing, aye, but still some valid points. http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/why-the-beast-of-armageddon-failed-to-show/

Sounds like we're utterly fucked:

I thought it looked bad enough that they had a cash shortfall in the month they had the Liverpool games. After losing that tie that was clearly going to be their biggest month of the season and they couldn't afford to pay the players.

They Really need an arse on every seat for the upcoming home fixtures.

(avoids making churlish point about Hearts reducing Celtic's away allocation)

Hearts have already taken the money off Celtic for a game they might not be able to fulfil :-(

xp cheers for that Cosgrove thing ailsa - good piece.

Guardian fella Ewan Murray made a similar point on twitter, Onimo - that it was weird/ironic that we'd end up so rooked in this of all years given cup success, liverpool tie, templeton money etc.

Have we had the customary Rudyard Kiplingesque monkey aphorisms from Vlad yet..?

Last I heard from Vlad was a couple of weeks back when he accused Celtic and Rangers of bribing refs.

lol

What an eventful day for Scottish football. Sounds like Edinburgh may soon be a 1-club town.

Celtic get St Mirren, Caley Thistle get Hearts (if they still exist come semi-final time).

Any venues or dates yet? I assume we're at Hampden. Might make sense to hold ICT vs Hertzco at Pittodrie.

ICT vs The Hearts at Easter Road, we're at Hampden.

Sorry, 26th & 27th January

Makes more sense to have it at Easter Road, means The Hearts can walk to it rather than waste money on petrol.

Should have gone to Pittodrie really - it's as close to equidistant as possible and it's a decent size.

26/27th January means enough of the transfer window is gone that Hearts won't have a decent player left, unless Vlad throws some money at the taxman.

"Remind me. How much does Rangers FC (deadco) owe Heart of Midlothian FC?"

Good point from Mr/Mrs Rangerstaxcase on Twitter. Hearts face a winding up order for less than the money Rangers owe them.

That was pretty much the first thing my Hearts-supporting stepdad mentioned.

Nothing surprising from Steve Brown on Sportsound tonight, as much as I've enjoyed our recent relative success I expect some brutal belt tightening at McDiarmid in the near future as a preventative measure if nothing else. Worth remembering we survived 7 years in the First division recently. Unfortunately we don't really have a youth program to speak of, probably as a result of that.

WDILL watching football - I'm halfway between the section 441 and 442 entrances, black jacket, green white and gold scarf. I've managed to find a few people I know scattered around the stadium.

http://tag.huggity.com/fanpic/049-2012-celtic/app/index.php

hmmm, Celtic have hired a GAA coach for youth development :/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/northern-ireland/20254492

"Donegal's All-Ireland winning Gaelic Football manager Jim McGuinness is to take up a role with Celtic as a performance consultant.
A statement from Celtic on Friday confirmed speculation that McGuinness would be joining the club to help with the development of young players."

Spotted you. My old seat still behind a pillar, I see :)

This is a fantastic way to scratch your head and waste your time. I got 33, missed a couple of blindingly obvious ones:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ThomDubya/first-spl-goalscorers-by-nationality

I started doing earlier today that then chucked it because I couldn't be arsed working out how to spell.

I spent ages trying variations on Johansen/Johannson/Johanssen before realising there was probably someone else Finnish before him. Forgot fecking Brattbakk, which is ridiculous when you realise I remembered the existence of Thomas Flogel and Hicham Zerouali.

Can't really expect to win games with only one player awake - and he doesn't get on till half time. St Johnstone defended really well. Celtic possibly spent so long without the ball on Wednesday they've forgotten how to use it again.

Hasselbaink's a lively wee pain in the arse. Lomas never seems to play him and Tade at the same time against us, which I think would be more effective.

Well done to the supporters today on a respectful 90 minute's silence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/14/scotland-football-success-scott-murray

That's great.

^^^good read

I was going to start a "come anticipate Billy Stark's 90 minutes in charge" thread but I couldn't be arsed.

Quality shite goal for Rhodes puts us 1-0 up vs Luxembourg. Positive line-up with Rhodes, Shinnie, Miller* and Naismith all sharing forward positions.

*I suppose when you fly from Canada for the game when a dozen others called off you guarantee yourself a start. Hopefully another goal before half-time will see Griffiths replacing him at the break.

Not a lot of caps of this bench, maybe an all-time low?
Samson, Webster, Barr, Davidson, Kelly, Griffiths, Bell.

Brave new dawn.

Floodgates open. Rhodes again for 2-0.

On the march wi' Billy's army