"Don’t anybody start talking about morals, because we don’t have any in football" - the rolling Scottish football thread, season 2014/15

More like 2, maybe 3, gifts from the ref by the sound of it. That's the first home league game I've missed in over three seasons, thankfully.

"It'll be even stevens over 38 games"? Fuck off Ronny, utter shite.

More like 2, maybe 3, gifts from the ref by the sound of it.

Just one soft penalty imo. Not making a similarly bad mistake at the other end was in Celtic's favour but looked the right call to me (and I also think Izzy was fouled 2 seconds before it).

A high straight leg studs up tackle on McGregor was ignored in the first half too so, you know, it all evens out over 90 minutes :)

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2565&newsCategoryID=1&newsID=13600

Alleged Party in Breach: Derk Boerrigter (Celtic FC)
Match: St Johnstone v Celtic, SPFL Premiership, 13th August 2014.
Disciplinary Rule(s) allegedly breached:
Rule 201: Causing a match official to make an incorrect decision by committing an act of simulation.
Fixed suspension offer: Two matches
Principle Hearing Date: Thursday 21st August 2014. Mr Boerrigter has until Monday at 3pm to respond to the fixed suspension offer.

I thought Lawell was supposed to have everyone in his pocket?

wtf @ 2 match ban for an alleged yellow card offence

That's just bonkers. Ref doesn't do his job right and our player cops a two-match ban for it? Jesus.

Talking of bonkers, Legia can go take a running jump an' all.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) registered today
at 17:30 a statement of appeal filed by the Polish club
Legia Warszawa against the decision of the UEFA
Appeals Body confirming the result 3-0 (forfeit) in favour
of Celtic FC against Legia in the second leg of the third
qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.
UEFA considered that Legia had fielded an ineligible
player (Bartosz Bereszynski) during the match.

Legia requests urgent provisional measures from CAS
allowing the Polish club to participate in the play-offs of
the Champions League (20 & 26 August 2014). More
generally, the club requests that the UEFA decision be
set aside and that all sanctions against the club and
the player Bereszynski be annulled.

The CAS has immediately initiated an arbitration
procedure and the Respondents UEFA and Celtic FC
have been invited to file written observations. A
decision on request for provisional measures is likely to
be issued on Monday 18 August around 18:00 (Swiss
time).

Let go. You fucked it up. You can't rewrite the rule book and disrupt the entire season just because you cant accept a clear rule with a clear punishment. Also, wtf do Celtic's thoughts have to do with it?

Ambrose to join Celtic for Maribor tie after some confusion about whether or not he had served his ban.

No chance of anything going wrong there.

I read that yesterday and assumed UEFA were just trolling us. I'd be leaving him at home to be on the safe side. Both in terms of the rules and in terms of our defence. Boom boom.

Ok performance last night - created several clear chances and should have taken two goals back with us. However, it looks like we learned nothing from the Legia games in terms of protecting our own goal and picking our times to attack. We're 1-0 up away in Europe and our opponents decide to sit back and play counter-attacking football and we just go and enable it! If they want to sit in their own half at 1-0 down watching our centre hoffs roll it to each other then let them!

hallo stranger! http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/new-ricoh-arena-boss-life-6749312

Ahahahahahahahahaha.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/crystal-palace-next-manager-latest-palace-consider-ally-mccoist--exclusive-9686808.html

jesus god no please. i have a tenner on us winning the first division and i feel like that's largely contingent on sally's continued presence.

ah as if they'd actually make a competent choice with his replacement

May I suggest Barry Ferguson?

otm

Fucking left backs fuck fuck fuck

Aye, that. I just called my parents and told them I wasn't coming to visit them next week because I'm boycotting Inverness. I fucking hate them anyway (ICT, not my parents), and this really didn't help. Seriously, Dylan McGeouch? Seriously? Deila out again.

Oh, and Teemu Pukki can fuck off an' all.

Fucking shambles again.

;_;

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

can I ask yous to continue your sluggish start to the season past the third round of the diddy cup? kthx

Oh, probably.

I have a lucid and coherent argument about where it's all going wrong but I'm on my phone and can't be arsed. So basically, stop fucking downsizing, start learning from mistakes, stop selling everything half-decent and replacing them with cheap/on-loan pish, and get Lawwell tae fuck.

Derek Adams out at Ross County. I sense Terry Butcher heading back up the A9.

Worrying prospect of County looking competent before Christmas. Though with Butcher or (D) Lennon in the frame...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28995560?SThisEM

?!

I know! How bizarre is that?

it's like championship manager from ten years ago

in other news... uh... craig gordon looks ok...

I like Craig Gordon. Not so sure about the ten diddies standing in front of him.

Ya there wasn't much nice i could say about the bits i watched

Oh FFS. Deila out.

In fact everyone that isn't Craig Gordon out.

I'm pretty happy with today's result, though I think we could have won. But a point against Celtic is always good.

I'm expecting Dundee to have a pretty good season - Top 6 seems more likely than 11th or 12th. I expect the "derby" in a couple of weeks will be tough.

Just saw Brian Graham's goal from yesterday, very nicely taken. I'm not used to seeing us score from headers.

I think they could have won as well. We were fucking abject, but that's what happens when you sell all your best players and replace them with shiter ones (or don't replace them at all). I will give Deila time to see if he gets to bring anyone in tomorrow (or manages to shift any of the dead wood), but I'm not banking on it. I don't believe he has it in him to get the current lot playing whatever way he wants (and I'm fucked if I know what that way is, because I'm not seeing anything that looks like a plan thus far).

Celtic solve our striking crisis by papping most our strikers away out on loan and then failing to secure one who has already been for a medical and got his work permit. Top work, chaps.

(I don't particularly like Pukki or Balde but surely crap strikers are just about better than no strikers, no?)

No Pukki >>> Pukki

It's a tough call. I mean, I don't particularly like Balde, McGeouch, never even seen yr Icelandic kid, still mystified at punting Watt. But not replacing them is madness.

Craig Beattie has signed for Ayr Utd. Missed a striker there...

you're getting John Guidetti on loan apparently

A striker! Now, could we not have done that *before* we got papped out of the Champions League?

hard to fathom why an owner who threatened to walk away from Hull less than 12 months ago is throwing this much money at them now

oops sorry

Scepovic deal back on, apparently. I'm sure he'll be popular, having chucked it earlier until Getafe backed out. He should just kid on he was trolling Lawwell to get folk back onside.

Pukki out, Balde out, Guidetti in, Scepovic in, Virgil still here. No idea what I was moaning about, tbh. Except the lack of a left back, but twas ever thus.

*waits for first game back after international break*

Keeping Van Dijk's been a good effort, especially if it wasn't achieved by locking him in a cupboard all day.

Wasn't expecting Saints to do anything today, and even if there were more signings to come they'll be freedom of contract anyway so no hurry. Reasonably happy with the squad, though there's been a lot of disquiet over the summer about how the club have communicated. May was never staying, we appear to have got the best deal we could in the circumstances. Goodwillie would have been a risky punt, but may have paid off. Hopefully Brian Graham will get his confidence back - scored about as many as May in his last season at Raith. We'll always struggle to get a goal-scorer on our budget. We got most of the key players from last season (and Gary McDonald) signed up early, which I think was forgotten at times. Will miss wee Nige, though.

Today's BBC Scottish Gossip reporting via the Herald that Pukki's glad to be away from Celtic as SPFL football is "too weak" for him. That'll be why he was a roaring success and punted out on loan, then.

Top of the Premiership table looks a bit weird.

Bottom of the Championship table looks familiar.