Season Diary 11

Entry #11: 29th October 2008

Surely we have a chance tonight, surely we do, we do dont we? Celtic in the Co-op quarter final tonight and i am hopeful. Not confident, hopeful.

Lets look at the evidence, Celtic got skelpt last week in Manchester and their reasons were that they had none of their big strikers, Samaras, Vennegoor and Killen. Well Samaras has tortured us at Rugby Park on his two appearances here so glad he is out and Vinegar has scored against us ans i always liked Killen as a player when at Hibs, always wanted us to try get him on loan. Anyway, that leaves "fatbhoy" Scott MacDonald and Cillian Sheridan, Sheridan no-one knows shit about but MacDonald really shouldnt strike any fear into us, i mean at the end of the day he is still the wee Australian guy who did fuck all at Ruggers when he was a Motherwell player, is he not? Plus he is "fat".

Actually who knows what team wee gord will put out agaisnt us and for that matter what team we will see in blue and white. I have my ticket, main stand, and hopefully we'll win. as i probably mentioned celtic are only getting one behind tghe goals stand and ticket prices have been reduced so the idea is thta us Killie fans will get out and behind our team, by looks of things this might not be the case but i still hope.

Saturday there we were robbed against Falkirk at home, i say robbed, we were pants poor but still probably deserved a point, cant remember Falkir making a clear cut chance apart from their two goals, a statement which seems strange but when you look at their goals which came form a horible Combe mistake and the dodgiest penalty ever (at least this week, Killie seem to have the monopoly on terrible penalty decision against us this season) them apart they created nothing. our goal, the first of the season for Donovan Simmonds was a good one but as it was in injury time it was too little too late. Would like to see the big man get a wee run in the team incidentally.

i say it was too little too late, it really shouldnt have been, there should have been at least another three or four minutes injury time but our referee deemed only three minutes were all we were getting. The referee in question is Mr Mike McCurry, remember him, he was our referee when Celtic were last down here, funnily enough on the day the national newspapers ran stories about him, this was covered in an earlier post so i will simply describe his ineptiude in this match. He was completely conned for the penalty, Barrett falls infront of our man Hamill but stages it in such a manner that as he is halfway down and stopped, Hammill can nudge him on the arse to seal the deal. Never a penalty, its baltant cheating. As much as i think McCurry is hopeless i feel slightly sorry for referees in general, their job is made that much harder due to the incessant cheating of the players on the aprk, from stealing five yards with a throw in or taking ocrners outside that wee marking, whats the point? But making the most of defenders to win penalties takes the biscuit. Its no wonder they get things wrong because they have to have eyes on the back of their heads to keep an eye on teh cheating players! STOP IT! Play the game right ya shower of dicks! All that said McCurry is an experienced ref and should have seen the challenge for what it was, a dive and gave a by kick. Something McCurry can take full blame of however is the injury time played. Most of it came from the sending off where Stevie Lovell kicks out at Hammill (he features a lot in this game) then thumps his face into the ground. The mellee that ensued took roughly three and a half minutes to clear up then the linesman shouts him over for a chat, another minute or two, but the board comes up on 89mins with 3 minutes injury time on it, what the fuck? Fairs fair, we the fans are the most important and we pay to see whole games so its time stuff like that is sorted out.

All in all a bad day at the office, i went back to work after the match knowing that the Killiefc.com POTY was being held in there and Combe was coming to pick up his trophy for his displays last year, well i was foaming at the mouth when he boobed for the first goal so it was refreshing to hear him put his hands up and accept responsibility for his part in the goal when he made a speech after recieving his award. Good bloke. Sad matter of the POTY awards ceremony was the lack of people at it, both website users and club representatives. From the club only Combe himself turned up, kudos to him however the cynic in me says he would have made it if he hadnt won it. It is really surprising that a club which constantly asks its fans to support them adn get behind the players doesnt support us the fans in return. Surely it would have been a good idea to get the players out amongst the fans to speak to them and strike up some bonds. Players like Danny Invincible and Willie Gibson who take pelters from groups of fans could have got a positve turn in reaction had they bothered to come. Its sad but it seems that our players think they are better than the fans who support them, they will learn that this isnt true and its a short career and the adulation and people whoa re keen to talk to them will dwindle as the years go on. We are crying out for some sort of PR person who would see these things for what they are, positive ways of creating a positive fanbase and not jsut a waste of fifteen or twenty minutes of pampered players time. The website users were thin in their numbers too, for a variety of reasons i am sure, poor show i would say considering soem have thousands of posts in their time on that site so it obviously is a integral aprt of their lives, but dont want to support it when the time comes to come from behind their online persona and avator.

Nothing much happened in the week preceeding the Falkirk match, we cant play an italian trialist in our games so we sent him to Dundee where i think he couldnt play either, great, and it now looks like he wont be signing. i have been informed that he is good in the fountian of all football knowledge that is Football Manager so we might actually be missing out here. To bring this segment full circle, i considered applying for the vacant Dundee job, it only required a CV and covering letter i think, but didnt because i havent played FM in about a year! It would be good if some eccentric chairman of some nohoper non league Englsih team decided to give a FM geek a go, in fact that would make a terrific British comedy idea, i think i will put together a wee treatment!

Motherwell game the week before, won one nil, a late winner from Bryson the highlight of a dull game. Nothing much else to report except that i am becoming increasingly despondant about my hopes of landing a coupon this season. so Bryson's goal was the highlight of my weekend that weekend. (provided you dont count Holly Willoughby, who i say it as Why-loaby and think i am great and dead cool but my girl says it Willow-booby which is actually far better, Holly is the highlight of my weekend most weekends these days)

Talking of coupons, let me tell you of my new gambling venture. I start with my £2 seed money, doubled because the girl has decided to join me on the adventure, so my £4 now will be put on a single bet, if it wins then i half the money and keep one half safe and gamble the other. doenst make sense? i have started it so it should come clear with this.

on the saturday of the Falkirk game i put my £4 on Exeter at 6/4 they duly won 1-0 so i have now a tenner in my kitty, by i, i mean we by the way, we (the girl and me) have a tenner. On the Sunday i halfed the tenner, kept one half and stuck the other on AC Millan at 5/6 away at Atalanta, another 1-0 win saw us collect £9.17, add that to the fiver i kept and we have £14.17. last night i put £7 (half of our kitty) on MK Dons at 5/4 and they returned £15.75 after winnig 2-1. So far so good, i will be putting on £11.50 tonight on a team i havent picked yet and i will report back on results. I should let you know also that as this grows obvioulst my stakes grow (provided i keep winning) I for one am looking forward to the high stakes game, Natalie isnt so keen!

Back to the game tonight. Fingers crossed were in the pot for the Semi final draw tomorrow and i can write positive stuff on here. i must remember to blog more often cos these pan 10days entries are time consuming and sore on the back.