Stopping a shot on goal with your hand

in the box equals a penalty and red card surely? also using a mans neck as leverage to jump for a header equals a free kick surely?

aw well **** happens, another thing, will mcgeady get the same pelters lafferty got for gettin someone sent off?

 

it was a good, fair, uncontroversial game then? i missed all of it other than ther first 15 minutes as i had to go to the hospital to see if my uncle was dead yet.

 

ah **** it, as much as it hurt last night i'm over it already

 

and btw, what another master class by Wattie with the Hinkle comments

 

was it more competitive than the other OF games? no one was really scared of losing it.

 

It was a good game

The guy in my work has come in just there hungover as ****, telling me it proves Celtic are the better team He said he never seen McCullochs tackle on McGeady, so I describe it and say McGeady dived, then he starts saying he didn't

Utter moron

 

Surely McCulloch should be sent off as a matter of principle , just for being the Binman....though it looks like Lafferty might be the new Binman...

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Does Andreas Hinkle work with you? That would explain why he's so pish. He's clearly got his main vocation to worry about

 

Had to laff when 'faifo froo n froo' got sung.

 

Absolute morons eh?

 

To be fair to McGeady if he hadn't of jumped in the air then McCulloch would have went straight through him - doesn't mean to say he had the right to fall from the air

Anyway it isn't karma, it's no where near karma compared to the injustices in the last 3 old firm games. Without those injustices btw you might see the 'worst Celtic side' in 15 years right up Rangers arse, which goes to show how good Rangers have really been this season...

 

Nah its one of ra faiful Turn up for the big game, don't bother about the rest

 

There was still empty seats btw

 

To be fair, I thought it was probably a yellow card for intent.

I thought last night was the best, most open Old Firm game in a good while. Celtic are lacking a player like Davis who can control the game from the middle. I still think N'Guemo is ****e and Brown just doesn't have composure in the middle.

 

N'Guemo had some cracking passes last night, couple of dodgey ones as well and Fortune actually looked like a £3.8m player. A constant menace to the defence, not the quality of Keane but the attitude needed in Scotland to get stuck right in there and fight for every ball.

In the second half of the game that was the best I've seen Rangers play against Celtic this season. They had a bit of similar domination against us at Ibrox last time but that only happened after Brown was sent off. Ironically enough the only Old Firm game of the season that I went away thinking Rangers deserved to get something from it

 

i wouldnt disagree with much of that, other than a spell in dec/jan its not exactly been inspiring. i think this season is greatly down to walter smith getting the best out of what he's got rather than quality right across the rangers side and its a sad state of affairs when we're clutching for "we could've been a contender, we could've been as **** as you". i'd calm down the injustices a bit to unlucky though.

do you reckon that improved lennons chances of retaining the job any? i think its all down to whether or not the board will choose to invest in the team (again), if so i think they'll go for another more experienced manager, if they're just going to sell a couple and use cash freed up fromthe wages of loan players leaving (not counting keane in this) i think they'll keep lennon on.

i'm actually warming to him as a manager if only for his honesty (which was probably the same character traits that made me hate the guy as a player )

the ****

 

He's a tosser

 

I can't argue against 7 out of 7 in the league when Mowbray only managed 3 in a row with the same group of players - too bad we were so **** against Ross County.

There are a couple of issues, firstly has he even got his UEFA badges to bring the team into Europe? Secondly I think the board might now have a genuine excuse to put him in, with the 7 out of 7 league games he can claim to have proved himself.

I think that players who have had great managers in the past tend to become better managers themselves - this of course isn't true of all players but if you look at how good O'Neill became after playing under Clough, and similarly how well Lambert is now doing after being Celtic captain under O'Neill. Well you see what I'm getting at.

 

i know what you mean, if you look at the guys who played and worked with alec ferguson at aberdeen and have gone on to manage themselves. they were talking on the radio about some research some uni have done on teams all over the world and they decided that on average a new manager coming in would create a 5-6 game "lift". how much of an improvement are we seeing though? celtic played well in the other OF games but didnt get the results, you said yourself the 2nd half last night was the best rangers had played in an OF this season, i remember when lennon came in and was lauded for beating killie 3-1 when mowbray had beaten killie 3-0 a couple of wks before. if i was a celtic fan i just wouldnt want him to go on his arse as manager (feel the same about mccoist taking the job at rangers)

 

Walter Smith is an enigma to me, I remember watching Tommy Burns' free flowing Celtic absolutely maul Rangers and come away losing 1-0. We haven't played any better football under Lennon but we are winning games, something that Mowbray simply couldn't do and something that Walter Smith does extremely well.

I'm still undecided on Lennon, I want a bigger name, another O'Neill or the likes but I don't want to risk another season of ****ness on it. I get the feeling that Lennon will give us a no frills but solid competitive season next year if he gets the job which will be at least an improvement on this year.