Couldn’t agree more. I wanted rid of him in any case, but his recent antics should hasten his departure. We must surely have an idea of a couple of centre backs we could bring in within the next few weeks. In fact it would be criminal if we don’t. I will go as far as to say, if we don’t sort the defence out we are touch and go for the title. We have it within our means to turn recent negatives into positives and go on and have another good season, or we do nothing and wait for the worst to happen.
Rangers above Celtic despite yet again playing most of the game with 10 men! I saw Kent & Ejaria started, how did they do Rangers fans? Cracking Hearts goal...
A bloody good player this guy and has been kicked around by United with loans and what not, on his day he can be the bees-knees and I hope he does blood well at Aberdeen, I will be keeping an eye out for him like I did when he got a first team game with United and his loan deals at Brighton, Derby, Sheffield United and now at the Dons, he's only f****** 22 years old and I hope he does well up in the sheep land. ________________________________________________________ James Wilson: Man Utd striker joins Aberdeen on a season-long loan James Wilson: Man Utd striker joins Aberdeen on season-long loan
The compliance officer has highlighted two incidents from Saturday at Tynecastle to be looked at. In a game where Hearts put the boot and the elbow in all day and Lafferty and Naismith put digs into players facing away from them and on the ground the people that run our game have chosen to look at Scott Brown and Naismith. Naismiths is a red all day and the linesman is standing yards away watching him do it, Brown raises his arm (there is no elbow) as he's being challenged by the little sh*tbag Naismith who has just elbowed Brown previously and goes onto kick one of our players on the deck, the same as he done the last time we were there, ironically to Brown. In a game littered with elbows and late 'challenges' it's astonishing the Brown incident has been highlighted. . . . we play Rangers very soon.
Brown does back into Naismith aggressively but that's all it is, should have probably been a yellow Tbf, at no point does an elbow strike Naismith. There were many incidents in the game that the ref allowed Hearts to rough Celtic up, now a dont actually mind a physical game and we need to be able to match them but the sly digs from Naismith and Lafferty are petulant and each one of those two had more than a couple of such incidents that at least warranted a yellow. The main kick out the compliance officer is looking at should be brought under cowerdly conduct if that's even a rule, then the laughing and shouting over an injured player when he was down was shocking sportsmanship and that alone should carry a ban imo.
I take it the fact that Hayes attempts to shoulder barge Naismith from behind and take him out, (he wasnt even interested in the ball) is irrelevant in your one sided assessments? Hayes injured himself trying to hit Naismith, it looked bad him shouting over the player but i can understand why he was angry.
What has that got to do with the kick out on him from the back when he's lying on the ground? Believe me that challenge was nothing in the context of the game and hardly a big talking point.
Kicking out is wrong 100% It shouldn't happen! Neither should cowardly attacks from behind on players, Both were equally guilty of nasty actions, My point is you only see one side when it involves Celtic.
In the last couple of seasons in Scotland there has been a clear shift in the standard of refereeing and lack of protection to players. We have seen some disgraceful stuff go unpunished and I personally think think they have been instructed to let a lot more go. As we are by far the best team, we have been on the receiving end of most of it though I accept it's not exclusive to us. This and last season though we have also seen a bullying campaign by Rangers paying dividends and putting extra pressure on officials. They have had red cards overturned for punches, kicks and headbutts yet try to claim they are being victimised. This means that the refs, even if they are trying to do their jobs impartially (debatable anyway) are then being belittled by some faceless clowns who reverse their decisions. We are going to see some players getting seriously injured and the performance of that ref at our game on Saturday was shocking as yet again they have come out with a deliberate gameplan to hurt or injure or players. Which yet again, was allowed to go largely unpunished.
No action to be taken against Naismith for kicking someone whilst on the ground had just been confirmed. Thats a double for him now as he also got away with an even worse one when we last played them there.
If that's your point then it confirms to me that you have actually missed the point. No one was talking about the Hayes challenge (which was pretty run of the mill) because the topic of conversation was the two challenges put to the panel by the compliance officer, that was the Naismith kick and the Brown arm.
Dont agree with you Butch. The referees have clear instructions to regain their control of the game no matter who initiated what to whom: Retaliation is a Red Card offence= End of story. [Yours truly is not specifically a supporter of Celtic but of football in Scotland]
He has done what would be expected so far Tbf so it must be a fall out at boardroom level. And I think Hopkin tried to work his ticket after his achievement of getting them up and it hasn't worked out for him.
Aberdeen goal at the end of the half. No deserved tbh and Lewis has kept them in the game. Shocking goalkeeping by Bogdan.
