delboy Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 i shouldnt have put the word football in it, clearly there was a lack of it tonight, still i watched the mighty shelbourne get a plucky home draw against steau bucherest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 i shouldnt have put the word football in it' date=' clearly there was a lack of it tonight[/quote'] I heard one team played football. Maybe it just goes to show how good a man manager O'Neill was. In fact, his year out to look after his wife is the only way he could get out of his hopeless position with a squad that's green (too old to run so much or too young to know why they're running so much, same colour at the end) without incurring the everlasting wrath of fans of Celtic Football Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 well you know what old firm supporters are like, they demand and expect success! but looking at the new signings, its the usual mix of journeymen and rejects, depends what strachan can do with them (i mean MON did splendidly well with rejects such as sutton). but your right he inherited an ageing squad but this humiliating defeat will really demoralise morale i feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 well you know what old firm supporters are like' date=' they demand and expect success! but looking at the new signings, its the usual mix of journeymen and rejects, depends what strachan can do with them (i mean MON did splendidly well with rejects such as sutton). but your right he inherited an ageing squad but this humiliating defeat will really demoralise morale i feel.[/quote'] Morale which definitely needed a lift, considering last seasons end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 yeah well at celtic havent just nearly gone out of business, become a non league club and with less than a month to go till the new season still only have four professionals on the books! still a plucky 2-1 friendly defeat at sunny scunny tonight! considoring we were stuffed there in the league a couple of months ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundian Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 yeah well at celtic havent just nearly gone out of business' date=' become a non league club and with less than a month to go till the new season still only have four professionals on the books! still a plucky 2-1 friendly defeat at sunny scunny tonight! considoring we were stuffed there in the league a couple of months ago![/quote'] Sounds like four more professionals than you had last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 yeah well talk about having lots of dead wood in the squad, problem is loads of em were right prima donnas and they now play at the likes of those footballing giants southend united, leyton orient and grimsby town.still we got a manager rob newman, i often wondered what he did after the baddiel/newman split Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rass Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 on a vaugely related note, and FAR more important note than european football, i just read in an old News of the world, that Kilmarnock finally beat Ayr United to lift the Westsound Cup at the weekend, thats made my week! We loose to them every fucking year! Down with the Ayr scum! C'mon the Killie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Aiden Van Vossen' date=' Aiden Bo Anderson - either name is now applicable for the "hope of scottish football".As for Momo.... ouch. That was abysmal.[/quote']"the hope of Scottish Football" is a Republic of Ireland player - despite being born & bred in Glasgow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_1903 Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 HHAHAHAHAHAHA fucking yes...gordon strachan is aberdeen's best signing so far this season!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 HHAHAHAHAHAHA fucking yes...gordon strachan is aberdeen's best signing so far this season!!!eh?it'd probably benefit rangers more than aberdeen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 yeah celtic doing badly doesn't do aberdeen any more favours than any other team. rangers are hte only team who will really benefit. I wouldn't put that much of the blame on strachan anyway. It was clear they were going like this. O'Neill jumped from a sinking ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_1903 Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Yeah i know...just realy funny thats all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 "the hope of Scottish Football" is a Republic of Ireland player - despite being born & bred in Glasgow.Can you blame him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April Ethereal Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 yeah well at celtic havent just nearly gone out of business' date=' become a non league club and with less than a month to go till the new season still only have four professionals on the books! still a plucky 2-1 friendly defeat at sunny scunny tonight! considoring we were stuffed there in the league a couple of months ago![/quote']Thats four more professionals than we had playing for us last nite. Dear God! Havent been more embarassed over a game of football since Scotland lost 6-0 to Holland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Can you blame him?What, for deciding to turn his back on the country he and his parents were born and bred in and to play for the ROI just to prove he's a "true Celt?" I fully blame him. For being a prick.Cleary Scotland are a shite team, like you are implying, but if the manager picked the right team (of which I would say McGeady would be part of had he not decided to go green) Scotland could be a fast, counter attacking team that would be difficult to beat. And then maybe guys like McGeady would want to play for Scotland. But for as long as we have a mangaer that rates a 0 - 0 draw with Belarus as a "good result" (playing a 5 - 4 -1 system,) we will continue to be shite. And lose players like McGeady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 What' date=' for deciding to turn his back on the country he and his parents were born and bred in and to play for the ROI just to prove he's a "true Celt?" I fully blame him. For being a prick.Cleary Scotland are a shite team, like you are implying, but if the manager picked the right team (of which I would say McGeady would be part of had he not decided to go green) Scotland could be a fast, counter attacking team that would be difficult to beat. And then maybe guys like McGeady would want to play for Scotland. But for as long as we have a mangaer that rates a 0 - 0 draw with Belarus as a "good result" (playing a 5 - 4 -1 system,) we will continue to be shite. And lose players like McGeady.[/quote']I think one of his parents is Irish actually. And if he feels right playing for Ireland rather than Scotland then it's only fair he does. We can get some great Englishmen to fill the void anyway. It's nothing to do with proving he's a "true celt" (well done for not using fenian). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Can you blame him?Blame him for what? Pandering to the Celtic mindset that has turned them from a Scottish team with Irish roots into a Irish team based in Scotland? And, yeah, the Scottish National Team may be crap but Eire are hardly setting the world on fire either, are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Thought - Is McGeady just a "spongeing asylum seeker" then????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I think one of his parents is Irish actually. And if he feels right playing for Ireland rather than Scotland then it's only fair he does. We can get some great Englishmen to fill the void anyway. It's nothing to do with proving he's a "true celt" (well done for not using fenian).In that case I stand corrected (said the man in the orthapedic shoes) - I thought it was a grandparent of his that was Irish. I still feel that it's wrong to turn your back on your home country - after all he was born in Scotland and lived here all his life. I'm sorry, but I do feel that he is doing what many (if not all "true") Celtic fans would do and is playing for Ireland to create a "holy grail" of playing for ROI and Celtic. I'm nae that bothered, but last time Celtic played at Pittodrie I only saw Ireland flags in the away section giving me the impression the fans would like to be associated closer with Ireland than Scotland. When I was at Parkhead for the penultimate game of last season it was Ireland all the way - The huge shamrock crest everywhere, a gentleman playing Irish songs before the game, Ireland flags everywhere, a forthcoming testimonial game for McNamara against er, Ireland. The point is any young lad growing up supporting Celtic would love nothing more than the chance to play for Ireland too. McGeady is "fortunate" enough to be in this situation so he used his chance. Others would kill for that chance.Ah, you're talking about Mr. Quashie! Sad as it is to say, if some of the true Scotsmen played half as good as Nige did in Italy we would have salvaged something from that game. He played his heart out. But, true, he's about as Scottish as I am Nigerian and has no right to pull on a Scotland shirt. Just like Matteo, Elliot, Sullivan and Hutchison before him. "I'd rather have a team of Scottish failures than English winners!"And I wouldn't use the "F" word. Seriously, I keep out of all that nonsense. It's all about the fitba for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Thought - Is McGeady just a "spongeing asylum seeker" then?????Chortle!I honestly think the lad has just been brainwashed into the mindset of a "true Celt" - playing for Ireland and the Hoops cannot be topped. He'll be up there in a special Hall of Fame with Pat Bonner, Anton Rogan, Tony Cascarino, Liam Miller and Mick McCarthy (probably a few others) as players who have played for Celtic and Ireland. Oops, sorry, Republic of Ireland. If you play for Celtic and Northern Ireland you get booed to fuck by your own fans. Poor Neil. He thinks every fan from every team hates him and it's all religious bile. Don't worry Neil, we at Aberdeen boo you because you're a hacking, cheating, moaning faced nyaff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Chortle!I honestly think the lad has just been brainwashed into the mindset of a "true Celt" - playing for Ireland and the Hoops cannot be topped. He'll be up there in a special Hall of Fame with Pat Bonner' date=' Anton Rogan, Tony Cascarino, Liam Miller and Mick McCarthy (probably a few others) as players who have played for Celtic and Ireland. Oops, sorry, Republic of Ireland. If you play for Celtic and Northern Ireland you get booed to fuck by your own fans. Poor Neil. He thinks every fan from every team hates him and it's all religious bile. Don't worry Neil, we at Aberdeen boo you because you're a hacking, cheating, moaning faced nyaff![/quote']Only an extremely small minority of the Celtic support ever booed Lennon. Don't be ridiculous. And you showed yourself there are that many Celtic players who have played for Ireland and how many have played for Scotland?? You're totally exaggerating. And one thing you are forgetting is a lot of Celtic supporters are actually Irish hence why there are so many Tri-colours. Obviously if you took out all the Irish supporters there would still be some left but nowhere near as many. And you have no right to tell someone what they feel their national identity is. Just cos your born in a country that doesn't mean the country owns you. And you all say it's nothing to do with bigotry but i very much doubt you be so bothered if a Scots born person with a Danish/Dutch/Jamacian etc parent chose to play for that country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Thought - Is McGeady just a "spongeing asylum seeker" then?????Sorry to ruin your joke but he is Scots born and does actually work (some wouldn't consider football work i guess) for a living, so he isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotchief Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Just a quick note to everyone; some Celtic fans do not appreciate the word "fenian" to describe them' date=' and it is considered an offensive term, especially in the light of Irish history. In the interests of civil discussion, could everyone refrain from using that term to describe supporters and employees of Celtic Football Club, please?[/quote']sorry for using the "f" word i bet celtic will win at parkhead though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Only an extremely small minority of the Celtic support ever booed Lennon. Don't be ridiculous. And you showed yourself there are that many Celtic players who have played for Ireland and how many have played for Scotland?? You're totally exaggerating. And one thing you are forgetting is a lot of Celtic supporters are actually Irish hence why there are so many Tri-colours. Obviously if you took out all the Irish supporters there would still be some left but nowhere near as many. And you have no right to tell someone what they feel their national identity is. Just cos your born in a country that doesn't mean the country owns you. And you all say it's nothing to do with bigotry but i very much doubt you be so bothered if a Scots born person with a Danish/Dutch/Jamacian etc parent chose to play for that country.It's not ridiculous. Lennon got boos from his own fans (regardless of how many) because he played for Northern Ireland. That is ridiculousLoads of Celts have played for Scotland - McStay, Collins, McNamara, Nicholas, Douglas off the top of my head. Some great Celtic players have played for Celtic. Not the point, many others have turned their back on their own country to please the fans and to play for ROI and be a "true Celt."I have no right to tell someone what they feel their national identity is? I think the Scottish passport he owns probably takes care of that one. Look, don't try and kid me. Last season I was at Parkhead. I was here when Celtic came to Pittodrie. I know what goes on. I know what songs are sung. I know what flags are brandished. You're telling me the bulk of these guys are genuine Irish? I dinnae think so. Most are guys from Glasgow with dreams of being Irish and who get caught up in a religious war with Rangers. Celtic were even shouting their "specialist" songs at us least season (again). Brainwashed.I don't do bigotry. We (Aberdeen) don't do bigotry. Don't even mention the word. I feel it's an "issue" best left to the Old Firm. Anyways, there are far more important issues than the situation in Glasgow - TOMORROW. Bring on United..................................................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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