"You've no right to be angry with John Collins". SPFL, season 2015/2016

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/09/12/2B39997D00000578-3191136-image-a-17_1439119672805.jpg

he's ready

expressing my delight at finally having a new thread LIVE and DIRECT from a bustling McDiarmid Park!

It's not raining. There is that.

I like the new yellow match ball. A bright and positive addition to this seasons SPFL.

got to say im not really very excited about the spfl this season. other than the fact that i'll actually get to go to a game for the first time since the 2011/12 season when i come hame for a wee visit next month #yas really hoping for champions league qualification from celtic. get that, and don't get humbled in the group stage, and i'll be very content with the season.

anticipating the title-race - and i don't think it's wrong to use that term, aberdeen spent most of last season within striking distance, although they were ultimately comfortably bested - being much less close this year. deila's been around for a wee bit now, and should be able to set-up a team to grind out the results, rack up the points.

it's nice (i think) to have hearts back in the top-flight.

yeah, st johnstone v ross county is on, i'd forgotten, enjoy the game Michael. Would be watching the Dundee derby if i could.

It's an easy game to forget - looks like a lot of our support may have done so! It's a pleasant enough evening to be outdooors and I'm just hoping for something better than Saturday's efforts.

I'm feeling a little fatigued with it too, did deliberate over renewing my season ticket but went for it.

Good to have a Dundee Derby so early.

I thought Aberdeen put a good effort in last season, the 17 point gap maybe implies otherwise. Ultimately fell short in the games where it counted - on the other hand, that's where Celtic proved their mettle.

celts trolling gers by going after scot allan. although they really are in dire need of defensive cover and a striker rather than another midfielder.

Allan began his career in Scotland with Dundee United,

Global scouting network in action.

Can't help feeling that all this gloating about Allan

1) reinforces same club same history old firm rivalry shite and
2) masks that we're selling our best players for millions and buying Scottish Championship level players for (relative) buttons.

New thread over here: "You've no right to be angry with John Collins". SPFL, season 2015/2016

lol, I am an idiot.

I should probably delete that, but I think I'll just leave it as a testament to the shambolic nature of everything to do with Scottish football.

Anyway, I had no idea who Scott Allan was until last week. Is he actually any good?

is that Lex Baillie on my blurry Celtic TV stream?

Scott Allan - no idea. Won the championship poty, fwiw.

Jozo Šimunović
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Jozo Šimunović (born 4 August 1994) is a Croatian footballer currently playing for Celtic. Jozo or Provo as he is known to his friends recently joined the IRA when he first heard the rebel songs on his iPod on his flight over to Glasgow. He was heard singing in first class "they stood beside their leader the gallant Bobby Sands MP" he was then escorted from the plane when he kicked up fcuk because they had ran out of Magners "which is a good Provo drink"

Ryan Christie. Just what we need, another wee midfieldy guy.

Rumours the dons are close to signing stevie may. They're building quite the squad.

Nelson's comments on Collum amused me, unsurprised that they haven't provoked the furore they would if he was the manager of a certain other club.

I like Stevie May, good SPFL striker. Not too surprised it didn't work out down south for him.

Celtic's transfer window has been fairly hilarious in its ineptitude but I'm sort of not against the amassing of scottish prospects, just wish it was joined with buying some established players to fit key positions (defence, goalscorer).

LEFT BACK. WE NEED A LEFT BACK.

(and not a "can also play at left back" left back. An actual left back)

I've heard Robbie Neilson say before about practising for the eventuality of playing with ten men (against Sevco, I believe). Can't understand why the referees aren't closing ranks round Collum and going on strike. Isn't their integrity being questioned?

Stevie May's going to Preston, I think.

Hibs in for Islam Feruz? lol, good luck with that.

May to Preston done. Glad he's sticking at it in the Championship, though wish he'd stayed another season at Saints. His goals combined with last season's defence would have been great.

celtic weakened, Aberdeen strengthened this transfer window. the title race is on! (not really)

Can't understand why the referees aren't closing ranks round Collum and going on strike. Isn't their integrity being questioned?

Ranks closing, strikes not yet on cards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34123366

"The Scottish Senior Football Referees Association (SSFRA) is compelled to express its disappointment at the ongoing trend of personal and unjust criticism towards our most senior match officials."

Remember one of the refs being criticised personally is Son of Dallas - who allegedly apparently ahem ahem not-saying-it's-true only ever reached the senior level because his dad was ahem cough "improving" his assessments when he was reffing at numpty level.

The first time I was aware of Son of Dallas was on this board - I believe Scotstvo saw him refereeing Pollok and was not terribly complimentary about him.

Any other transfers of note? I know Ryan Christie's straight back up the A9 again.

We've signed an 18 year old midfielder for the rest of the season who was previously at Stirling Albion.

In fairness most of our development side is now out on loan.

Looks like there will be a meltdown if Danny Swanson isn't signed, given that he's now been released by Coventry.

I don't understand Killie loaning out a young goalie to Derby County.

We sold VVD and sent O'Connell out on loan, which I think leaves us with a centre hoff pairing of any two from Jozo Simunovic (if we have actually signed him), Efe Ambrose (bomb scare) and Dedryk Boyata (see Efe Ambrose).

Oh, and I suppose Charlie Mulgrew is as good an option there as anywhere else (as good = as bad, logic fans).

I think our current centre forward options are:
- Leigh Griffiths

Ach, be plenty exercise for Craig Gordon with that lot in front of him. And for my drinking arm.

Still, we've got tons of midfielders, eh?

*cries*

Simunovic is definitely in, btw. Um, yay? (I still haven't read a single positive thing about him)

I took a quick look for Simunovic videos - found multiple copies of the same o.g.

Ronnie going for a more midfield-centric version of the classic 4-6-0?

Aye, we're a sore Leigh Griffiths away from that very line-up. Though I'm not convinced we have four actual defenders any more.

Carlton Cole

Hats off to Livi for the best stadium name in Scotland.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/fail/223912/thanks-to-modern-football-livingston-will-have-to-play-home-games-at-the-tony-macaroni-arena.html

Rangers not quite ready to join the big boys yet, innit

It's not the result i was expecting when I was insistent to my stepdad that I didn't want to watch it on the tv...but did anyway.

For the record, i'm disappointed in McLean for thar miss and the whole team for yet again failing to keep a first clean sheet of the season. Especially against lower league opposition.

Ross County could have a great season if they continue to play well the whole way through, rather than the usul half.

Ross County are third in the table for the calendar year so far.

I think we can safely say the wheels have come off the Aberdeen wagon.

fuck that pitch & fuck that ref

dunno how you sell your game when it's played on an ice rink and controlled by a clown

Mixu's no happy :D

https://twitter.com/alancormack/status/658368372212678656

"What's the point in fuckin training?"

FFS DEILA OUT

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It's taken 15 months and umpteen shambolic Euro ties but some people are starting to catch up.

Ronny Deila is a fucking joke of a manager. He consistently picks the wrong team and/or the wrong tactics and can't motivate his players or keep them fit. What aspects of football management is he getting right?

He might well win a treble this season. I'd still sack him. I think anyone with two years of Champ Manager under their belt could win a treble in this country with that budget/squad.

That was a fucking shambles last night.

I really wanted to like Ronny Deila. He seemed like a good guy with a ton of good ideas. He had a wee period when he looked like he was going to turn it round. But naw, he's crap.

He's certainly doing his bit to raise the profile of Norwegian clubs in the rest of Europe.

The problem with sacking Ronny D is who goes next? One of the advantages he had is that, while everyone got to go "who the fuck is this?", he was unknown enough that no one could say he was shite from the off - they had to have him prove it. Name any realistic managerial candidate and 75% of Celtic supporters will point out why he's shite. It doesn't matter anyway, cos no one decent in their right mind would come. Meanwhile, the ghost of Rangers, declared skint the other day, and with their former selves finally officially cheats, look like they're gonna squirm into the top division, and then who knows what? People have been saying since the last lot went bankrupt that it would happen to the new ones, but it's easy to see them just trundling on, somehow. I wouldn't be surprised if, despite all the well-blogged financial turmoil, they end up winning the league against an under-prepared and ill-managed Celtic in the next few years. Then everything's back to how it should be.

I saw one clown elsewhere on the internet suggest Kris Commons ;_;

nu-gers financials are in a mess as well, don't think they'll threaten celtic in the immediate future, possibly never gain.

so continued dominance of the spfl and embarrassment in european qualifiers/europa league group stages in perpetuity for celtic

and ronny deila is obviously not up to much. his youth and scandinavianness seemed to lull people into a false sense of him being progressive and perhaps a change in philosophy and approach was just taking some time to set in. but it seems like his fitness methods are ill-conceived rather than an improvement, and his team selection is woeful and tactical nous minimal.

no point in punting though, we will not get anyone significantly better

Did see a usually sensible Celtic supporting pal on Twitter trot out the old "we need some competition".

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvljjccqL8

Rangers' recruitment session, earlier today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvljjccqL8

Was trying to find that tweet about Barton supporting Celtic (not too hard, right enough). Pretty sure he also weighed in on the side of them being dead at one point as well.

Season's barely over and the Gers are bringin' in the lolz, one way or another.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/478753917816569856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Lets try this again. On the plus side the little man has a another kit to add to his growing collection #hailhail

Hahaha. Did he not pull a Schteve, how you say, McLaren type accent thing when he was playing in France? I hope he turns into Rab McGlinchey within a fortnight.

this shake up of the league cup is daft no?

the plampfion's league

God yeah, following the draw on Twitter was hilarious. Even the SPFL gave up half way through.

Stubbs out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36426717

Lennon in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36477421

Need a new thread to post FUCK SAKE NOT AGAIN in.

Efe Ambrose better not be on dis ting: Scottish football 2016/17

Rodgers out: SPFL 15/16

Err 16/17.

There is no defeat in a competitive European game to compare to this in the history of Scottish teams in Europe eh?

lol

shall we reflect upon that slovak graphic design firm

at least they were champions of a nation with an almost identical population to Scotland :/

Celtic supporters haven't been so upset about something that happened in Gibraltar since Operation Flavius.

I was maintaining earlier on Facebook that the Artmedia result was worse, and I'll stand by that - that was a proper fucking gubbing. This was getting-beat-off-Morton-in-the-cup bad. I may revise this statement after the home leg.

Also, this has the potential to ruin my Joey-Barton-mocking thread title ideas. Get your ideas in and we'll get a new thread up so I can consign this one to the dustbin.

Aye, Artmedia we were just completely destroyed, and it ended up being a deficit too great to overcome, so, aye, pending the return leg this isn't as bad.

I was a wee bit of a Rodgers naysayer when I heard he'd been appointed, but I kept my cynicism in check because I didn't want to mar anyone's positivity - because god knows we need some - but god damn it the team selection, formation, and substitutions tonight were garbage.

The fact that Nir Bitton appeared to have turned into some sort of Stefan Johansen didn't help. So utterly inept. I'm kind of hoping Rodgers gets to say "right, that's how pish we are, can I have some money now please", but I'm not sure he'll do wise things with it.

Oh, and some Hibs fans have helpfully pointed out to me on Facebook that they got scudded 7-0 off Malmo, which is probably worse than letting one stupid goal in against a bunch of part-timers. I'll let you decide if it's still worse than failing to score against said part-timers in the great pantheon of terrible recent Scottish adventures in Europe.

This is like when Billy the Fish and Fulchester United lost to Sudbury Lane Paperboys. Rodgers needs an Arbroath v. Bon Accord scoreline in the second leg.

YAAAAAASSSS!

(kinda)

was actually shiting it about this game, ha.

3-0 is still too precarious for this shitebag though, need 5-0 to be confident.

We actually look not-shit on a decent pitch with a big crowd against what is ostensibly a pub team. Yay.

(also no Nir Bitton is a huge improvement)

xpost lol the guys on Celtic TV were on about the disaster that an away goal for Imps would be

Roberts good to watch vs ostensible pub team. Forrest looking like he couldn't get in a pub team.

Off to Kazakhfuckinstan again if we win this.

Lolz galore as I just called my dad who's not been watching/listening/following

"What's the score?"
"3-0"
"For God's sake. Has Rodgers gone yet?"
"No, Dad, 3-0 to us"

http://i.imgur.com/AkxKHJj.jpg

IZZY! FUCK!

Doubling up the left backs - Brendan knows what it takes to manage Celtic.

we're shite again btw

Though Izzy was away anyway?

apparently not

all those tears for nothing ;_;

this second half is fucking shocking

Briefest bright new dawn ever

lol sorry about the coefficient everyone

I'll be putting on an English accent today, and possibly for the rest of the season.

How did I miss that Massimo Donati had signed for Hamilton? This is like when Jorge Cadete rocked up at Partick Thistle.

Was following Hibs and Hearts via Flashscore in the pub last night with a Hearts fan at the next table pretending to ignore me as I kept relaying updates to Neil really loudly.

And a wee bit of sad news for everyone, like me, who used to get all their football via the radio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-36856082

Right, we have a new season. We need a new thread. Title suggestions plz

“We were told the SFA shuts at 5pm on a Friday"

I'll second that.

haha yes

someone start that thread already

no me but

fuck im using my old login again

Done.

“We were told the SFA shuts at 5pm on a Friday" - Scottish Football 2016/17