JFK-1

Quick thinking by Dodoo jumping over it at Forresters goal.

Motherwell should have been buried by now. Hope Garner can make a difference along with the return of Waghorn.

My memory of it is a shade hazy too but from what I can recall I don't think their early breakaways were quite as threatening as the Motherwell mob would like to think. An example of it would be the usual thing. The full backs were way forward around the final quarter when the ball was lost to their fast runner Johnson who went on a sprint which although impressive looking because he must have run 50 yards with nothing to stop him wasn't really that threatening in the end up. Sure he ran fast but it was so fast he had left any support he might have had behind him and our CB's though they may be questionable at times are still there and beginning to close him down so he shoots from over 20 yards out which is a difficult distance to beat any competent keeper from and it wasn't even on target. That's the kind of thing they're pointing to as having been unlucky not to take the lead when in reality you have to do a lot more than just run 50 yards fast to get a goal and with hindsight he never looked like getting one. Throw in all the much better chances that we fluffed and the stonewall penalty not given and the sending off of the goalie they got away with and they were barely in it. We're due to give someone a hiding and I hope it's them because they deserve it for their antics the last two times we played there and it would be something to shut up the yahoos who were frothing about them gubbing them 5-0 recently.

I strongly doubt a man like Mr Warburton would sign a player simply to make up a number. He has been saying almost since day one that isn't a path he would go down.

Maybe the sellick fans need to demand an investigation to see if this individual is a fit and proper person to be on the board of a Scottish football club.

UEFA need to really throw the book at this crowd in a meaningful way. Aside from their long and accumulating rap sheet it would appear pretty apparent that the club itself while not coming straight out and endorsing this continuing flouting of the rules says and does nothing to stymie it either. Fines apparently don't impress them so it clearly has to be taken to another level.

Maybe this could suggest that to be a possible scenario?

Changed days from the times we were struggling to fill a bench to trying to tinker with formations and puzzling over who would miss out and we're talking about quality missing out no matter how you shuffle it around.

Difficult to pick a first scorer when the team selection is so variable.

Joe Garner has joined Rangers from Preston on a three-year contract, according to Sky sources. Mark Warburton has completed a deal for the striker after missing out on former England centre-half Joleon Lescott earlier on Friday. Personal terms could not be agreed with Lescott, according to Aston Villa boss Roberto Di Matteo, but Garner becomes the Scottish club's 10th summer signing after ending his three-year spell at Preston. The 28-year-old scored 57 goals for North End and counts Carlisle, Nottingham Forest and Watford among his other former clubs. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11781/10543509/joe-garner-joins-rangers-on-three-year-deal-sky-sources

UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Celtic after some supporters displayed Palestine flags during their Champions League qualifier against Israeli side Hapoel Be'er Sheva. The Parkhead club have been punished eight times in five seasons by the European governing body for supporter misconduct and face further sanctions when the case is dealt with on September 22. A statement on UEFA's official website confirmed the "illicit banner" charges, which pertain to Article 16 (2) of the UEFA disciplinary regulations. Dozens of Palestine flags were displayed during Celtic's 5-2 first-leg win on Wednesday, many of them in the new safe standing section at Parkhead. Celtic were fined about £16,000 two years ago after a Palestine flag was displayed at a Champions League qualifier against KR Reykjavik. The UEFA rule in question forbids the use of "gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message that is not fit for a sports event, particularly messages that are of a political, ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature". Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers was non-committal when asked earlier in the day about possible UEFA sanctions. He said: "I leave that to the club. They have obviously, probably, had issues over a number of years with certain aspects of that. "But it is nothing for me. I am looking forward to the second leg and going to Israel. I have never been there. It is a beautiful country, good people. "I have worked with a number of Israeli players and they are always respectful so I am looking forward to the game." When asked about the possibility of partial closure of Celtic Park for a future European tie, the former Liverpool boss preferred to focus on the positive aspects of the Hoops support. He said: "I don't know. We have got great supporters at this club who are known worldwide and for us they are vitally important for us. "You saw the game the other night. It is genuinely a club where they make the team and give the team that 12th man. "We as a football club and a group of supporters have to ensure that that combination, the duet of supporters and players, that every game they play are together. "Whatever comes from that (UEFA case) will come outside of that but what I know is that these are incredible supporters that back the team and we want to do the club proud and them proud." http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11787/10543518/uefa-opens-disciplinary-proceedings-against-celtic-over-flags

Yeah that's fairly evident, there is no chance he will be going in anytime soon as I have seen the manager comment that he will be playing a minimum of two under 20 matches before he will get a sniff at the first team. That will be like watching the hulk bully those boys.

Talking about Crooks?

So what would the view be if thousands of Hapoel fans in Israel decide to barrack any visiting fans while waving the red hand of Ulster or any loyalist paraphernalia they can come up with in the away match? Is it acceptable if they hassle the sellick contingent as they enter the stadium while expressing a view that gassing isn't good enough for republican rats? Presumably they have the same democratic freedom to voice their opinion some in Scotland are so enamoured of? Would they be applauded for exercising it by Alison Johnstone, Patrick Harvie, John Finnie, Jackie Baillie, Mark Ruskell, James Dornan, Ivan McKee. Or is it only democratic freedom when it's a one way street?

Can sellick win the champions league or hibz win a national trophy before everyone who can remember their last is dead?

I see no reason to put such a vile image into my head. What have I ever done to you?

And what Israel actually got in 1948 was just 10% of the area originally proposed which was then gradually reduced to the 10% they got and which they agreed to due to Arab screams of protest and we're talking about Arabs far away from the actual location who don't border it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with any worries about any Palestinians, that wan't even raised at all until 1967 when after being defeated in the 5th of five wars they launched at Israel in just 19 years they decided to invent this nation of Palestine since it was becoming patently obvious that despite outnumbering the Israelis scores of times over and having vastly more money and vastly larger armies they were so incompetent that they were never going to beat this tiny nation with a relative handful of people on a battlefield. The entire thing is simply down to the fact that they can't stand Jews having a square foot of ground of their own anywhere. And for anyone who isn't aware of how tiny it actually is and we're talking just 8 miles across in places here is a map with the red arrow pointing at the tiny scrap of Israel in green amid a sea of Arab lands. You can also just see in that the tiny bite of the West bank pushing into Israel at it's narrowest point which is another thing they go insane about. A barely park sized patch of land less than a quarter the size of Glasgow that supposedly is valid excuse to go suicidally insane about for almost 70 years and counting.

Puzzling if they don't already see them as a leper within given that everybody knew this would attract the attention of UEFA yet again yet they went right ahead anyway. And for what? A middle Eastern conflict most of them know nothing about and probably couldn't even place on a map? What the hell does that have to do with some Irish pseudo Scottish football club?

I think it's difficult to read anything into the supposed performance of any individual player who was in a team that finished bottom of the league 17 points behind second bottom Norwich. That alone suggests to me it would have been irrelevant how he performed. What may be more relevant at this point is that an EPL team has registered an interest in him suggesting that their experienced manager who is managing a team that will likely be focusing on a defensive strategy thinks he can still do a job in that league. That being the case he can certainly do a job in our league.

I would agree with monitoring what they're saying despite it so regularly having a questionable basis in fact. It doesn't matter how inaccurate or bias what they're saying is, it's taken and forwarded as fact by the grunts who want to hear anything that might support their alternate reality. The alternate reality world will evolve as the season progresses. When it becomes patently obvious that there will be no struggle to be top 6 that one will be dropped as if it was never mentioned in the first place and substituted with something else equally as ludicrous. Just one among the many reasons I would love to see us win the league this year is wondering what style of alternate reality would be dreamed up to account for it.

Well since barely two to three thousand of the Motherwell contingent turned out for their own home match against us in the league cup I think we can be confident the sell out has nothing to do with them. They're likely to be as scarce as cups in the hibz trophy room.

Liam O'Irish apparently isn't bright enough to realise he's perfectly demonstrating exactly how stupid his own rant about a club in existence for only 4 years is. Keep it up Liam, I like it. And if you want don't turn up at the match. I hope none of you do. Make a stand or STFU.

That's simply something else that has the haters frothing like rabid dogs. At this early stage it doesn't mean an awful lot but the mere symbolism let's say is still enough to drive them into a frenzy.

He has been going through a frankly horrific ordeal there and professional or not as you say how could anyone motivate themselves under a barrage like the following headline from Aston Villa News? Yeah that will motivate him as they were no doubt abusing him every time he touched the ball.

Maybe he thinks they're hitting the ground running against higher level teams than we are because they played Hearts on the opening day and nicked a narrow win. You know, the same Hearts who demonstrated their high level by being beaten at home against high level Euro giants from Malta.