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

So you're 1-0 up and struggling to hold the ball. The only place it's sticking is with Kris Commons, your goal scorer and playmaker who keeps winning free kicks.

Do you
a) sub Commons off
b) do something else

Phew!

Entertaining game - lucky win. Craig Gordon and the Neil Lennon fat club making all the difference.

I couldn't remember Evander Sno's name today and I ended up searching ILX for "clown shoes".

He's still only 27!

Some clown in the pub tonight was moaning about how Ronny Deila had no Scottish players he could rely on like Strachan did. I was sitting going *cough* Craig Gordon *cough* *cough* Scott Brown *cough* ahem *cough* like, er, Kenny Miller *cough* until his death stares withered me down. His trump card to his mates was his point about Strachan signing Scottish guys like Aiden McGeady. I thought I was going to hack my lungs out by that stage. He also claimed "van Hesselink" was a Mowbray experiment that didn't work like Jarosik.

I fucking LOVE Craig Gordon, btw.

<3

so happy for gordon

http://f.cl.ly/items/1O3y380d2Z3Y3G382B0w/Unknown.jpg

Ref books Accies player for foul in the box but doesn't give a penalty. What in the actual fuck?

I just found out that Dundee are sponsored by a drum & bass label

https://www.facebook.com/HANGAR.RECORDS1

John Guidetti feat. Virgil van Dijk

http://youtu.be/G_eTe6muArI

Good performance today. That's at least twice this season we've looked like a team.

Deila out.

When Stefan Johansen is turning in an MOTM performance, you know Ross County are shite.

Nice to see Stokesy's hair transplant worked.

Piss poor again tonight. One man team and that man is a fucking goalkeeper.

FFS DEILA OUT

― ailsa, Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me on twitter earlier: "Can we just give Craig Gordon his POTY trophy now and just pretend the rest of it isn't happening?"

Deila (plus his entire team of useless fuckers that aren't Craig Gordon) out. I still kind of want to like him, but then he does things like think that Callum McGregor is a footballer.

Oh FFS. Deila out.

― ailsa, Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In fact everyone that isn't Craig Gordon out.

― ailsa, Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think we should have a thread called Deila Out containing nothing but posts bumping it once or twice a week.

Omg that goal

https://vine.co/v/OhYVII925eE

(Fucking travesty that we got anything out of that though, hibs deserved the win by miles)

That was quite good. Celtic, on the other hand, are not quite good. Not even close to passable.

quite good against ten men tbf

Why the Deila hate? Celtic are going well in Europe and nobody's seriously going to challenge them in the league

Playing really badly and relying on your keeper to somehow get points in Europe after being knocked out of the Champions League twice != going well.

We're almost a third of the way through the season and we're three points behind newly promoted Hamilton.

Our win percentage last season was over 80% in the league. It's at 60% now and a couple of those were lucky. I know no-one else is realistically going to win the league, that doesn't mean Deila is doing a good job. He's doing about as badly as possible given Celtic's resources vs the rest of the league.

Not having a serious challenger doesn't mean the manager's doing well - David Murray, Craig Whyte and Vladimir Romanov deserve more credit for that than Ronny Deila.

^ this. We are horrible to watch. Directionless and no sign of any cohesion or potential.

...aaaand tune in to BBC1 to watch us get humped.

Would rather have had them last season with may, mclean and a functioning defence.

Wasn't as bad as it could have been but incredibly frustrating as it was a winnable game. First half was one of the better performances I've seen recently. Make of that what you will.

I'm in better shape than Lee Croft just now.

We need to sign John Guidetti up before anyone else notices him.

srsly

no kidding

Yep. This is the first game in forever I haven't bothered trying to find a stream for or cancelled other plans for in order to watch. Perhaps I should try this more often.

quite good against ten men tbf
― butt slam mechanics (onimo), Sunday, 26 October 2014 16:01 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I've worked out Deila's vision and strategy.

Stuart McCall has jacked it at Motherwell.

i know it's been a shit start to the season for them but I'm really surprised

Yeah, me too. Like Butcher at ICT, I thought he'd be there for life if he wanted it. Surprised he would leave voluntarily, presumably with no job offer if he's not performing so well. My first thought was "off to Ibrox?" but not sure I can see it.

I thought the same thing! But yeah I reckon (/hope) there's no chance they'll pay sally off.

Guess this must be making sure he doesn't harm his reputation by staying too long. Didn't he turn down a job in the english championship recently?

Smiling at league cup draw passing entirely w/o comment in here vs the froth it met on sportsound btw

Ach, I always worry when we draw a lower-league club, we're shite in cups. Hopefully Deila will have developed his masterplan by then (hint for Deila: you're unlikely to get to utilise the "play better against ten men" scenario in this one).

McCoist's weapons-grade trolling here is awes, btw:

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/latest/ally-mccoist-calls-for-calm-over-old-firm-frenzy-1-3591805

The manager added that thoughts then turned immediately to tomorrow night’s rearranged Championship clash against Cowdenbeath at Central Park. “We were in the dressing room listening to the draw on the radio,” he said. “And unlike the Celtic dressing room there was no hollering when it was made.

“What there was was a quiet nod of the head from some. That will do for me. I said, ‘great lads, that’s the draw and that’s who we are getting but we’ve got Cowdenbeath on Tuesday’. They all nodded in agreement.

Uh-huh, that happened.

Aw, man, not Hearts AGAIN :-)

(genuinely had the fear we were going to get Sevco)

Not feart of playing them, just of exploding journalists and even more ramping up of internet twattery.

hahaha ffs!

Huge lol at that mccoist quote. It makes the ibrox home dressing room sound like that painting of the dogs in top hats playing poker.

haha, true. And apparently (I can't corroborate this, but have read it a couple of places) McCoist wasn't even in the dressing room but was in the corridor being interviewed for the radio when the draw was made. It is hilarious how he tries to portray himself as dignity personified.

http://i4.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article920293.ece/alternates/s615/ally-mccoist-296278416.jpg

Also lolling at Boydichenko making out like his mob know more about playing derbies than our guys do, which I guess Brown, Mulgrew, Izaguirre, Commons, Stokes, Kayal, Zaluska and Matthews (not to mention Collins, Kennedy & McGrain out of our coaching staff) might find a bit mystifying. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-ace-kris-boyd-insists-4556273

hah, smh at boyd's guid scoatish laddies routine

Calum Baird going the extra mile to describe the tedium and torture of a goalless Morton vs Airdrie cup tie.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/sport/football/morton-0-airdieonians-0-yin-to-be-missed-managers-philosophical-at-journey-into-the-v.25756605

An article about Hamilton in the NY Times!

that's a really nice piece - had no idea about the addiction support stuff. Also lol at that match report.

https://twitter.com/mikedunn/status/529938954175655937/photo/1

That's really interesting about Hamilton, I too had no idea about the addiction stuff. Amazing that it takes the NYT to open your eyes to what's going on in your own neck of the woods.

yeah seriously. best scottish football journalism since c4news.

Finally!

As It Stands Table
Pos.	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	12	17	26

Terrible stuff for the most part yet again today but fair play to them for sticking at it.

Aberdeen fans seem to think they're at a pantomime. Boo! Yay! Boo! Boo! He's behind you!

Despaired when our answer was replacing Forrest with McGregor, and when we went down to ten, but FINALLY we showed a bit of fight when up against it. More of that sort of thing please (not necessarily the "going a goal down/man down" thing, more the gutsy thing). Brilliant to see the players and the manager with the fans at the end, a glimpse of some sort of positive mentality, which has been massively lacking all season. Corner hopefully turned (just in time for the international break, when it'll all dissipate again).

RIP Arthur Montford

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30220020

:-(

When did Willie Collum convert?

Took an executive decision to avoid game in favour of mate's kid's first bday. Just sneaked off to check the score and feeling vindicated.