Kris Boyd doesn't miss!

Twowordsbaz said:
KARMA has a way of catching up with people.

Leigh Griffiths is about to find that out the hard way at Dens Park.

He was laughing when he tied that Celtic scarf to one of the goalposts at Ibrox a few seasons back.

Grinning from ear to ear during an Old Firm game the day he waved his Irish tricolour from the Broomloan Road Stand.

When he wiped his nose on a Rangers corner flag he thought he was being clever.

Well, let’s see how smart he is when Rangers supporters tell him what they think of him.

Griffiths is about to get bombarded with 90 minutes of relentless abuse and if he’s got a brain in that head of his he better be prepared to take it.

Listen, I’m not going to go into the reasons why supporters all over the country are going to give him a hard time this season. Frankly, I want nothing to do with it.

But what I will say is that Griffiths only has himself to blame — and the sooner he realises that the better.

Will he, though? Is he capable of accepting responsibility for anything in life? I’m not sure he is.

It seems to me that every time something happens to him he thinks it’s someone else’s fault.

He wasn’t to blame for how things worked out for him at Celtic, was he? No, that was all Neil Lennon’s fault apparently.

Honestly, I can’t remember reading anything as ridiculous as when Griffiths spoke about Lennon recently and claimed his ex-boss was just trying to stay relevant by talking about him. Really?

Are we talking about the same high-profile Neil Lennon who has been one of the most talked about personalities in Scottish football in the last 20 years?

Griffiths can’t surely be serious when he says Lennon needs him to stay relevant.

But that sums him up, doesn’t it? Rather than owning his mistakes and taking responsibility for them, his default position is to go on the attack.

If only he was as threatening on the park.

Because when you strip everything back with Griffiths, he’s not the player his fan club will have you believe.

Is he a good finisher? Sure, I’ll give him that. But in the last three seasons do you know how many league goals he’s scored? Let me tell you because I looked it up. It’s 17.

Two goals in season 2018/19, nine goals in season 19/20 and six goals in season 20/21.

I’m sorry, but that’s not the statistics of a top-level goalscorer.

This is someone with natural talent, sure.

But that’s not enough if you are to be considered a top player.

Yet his cheerleaders are forever making excuses for him, constantly telling anyone who’ll listen that Griffiths would prove everyone wrong.

That he just needed to get fit and he’d be back.

Griffiths ended up saying it himself but it was total and utter nonsense, every single word of it.

Griffiths is yet to score for Dundee

Griffiths has had more than enough time and opportunity to get himself in shape and he’s only thrown it back in people’s faces.

The scoring records in Scottish football should have been OBLITERATED by him in the last five years. Instead he put the tools away and it seems like he couldn’t care less.

Why Celtic gave him a new contract in the summer, I’ll never know. For the life of me, I’ll never be able to work that one out.

Even their supporters must have been scratching their heads.

Those fans slaughtered me for criticising Griffiths and more or less saying it takes more than just ability to play at a top club.

But while my wording could have been better I think I’ve been proved right. When he scored at Rugby Park one day he looked up at me and made a shooshing gesture, but I stand by every word. He’s not exactly silenced me since, has he?

Now he’s at Dundee I wonder if his manager James McPake is beginning to wonder if it was a good idea bringing him to the club.

They’re pals from their days together at Livingston so I can understand why McPake was prepared to give Griffiths the benefit of any doubt.


But since he signed, Dundee have yet to score a goal.

Listen, I’ve been there. I got abuse every single time I stepped on to a football park and had to take it. It’s part of the deal.

Okay, the shouts weren’t anything like the abuse Griffiths is getting but he’s 31 now and should be experienced enough to know how to switch off from it.

I just look at him and see someone who is more or less finished. Truth be told, he’s the way I was when I was at Kilmarnock and hung up my boots a couple of months before my 36th birthday.

I didn’t have the same drive to stay in shape so I realised it was time to hang up the boots.

As a striker you stand the best chance of playing every week, because it’s a specialist position. But you need to deliver.

Griffiths just hasn’t looked like delivering for a long time now. His decline is there for all to see with his scoring record miles off where it should be.

During the warm-up before the Dundee derby at Tannadice last weekend we were in the gantry preparing for kick-off when a ball flew past.

We were nowhere near the goals so it was obvious someone was deliberately trying to hit us.

I didn’t see who was responsible — but my money would be on Griffiths.

Why? Because he missed.
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17 goals in 3 years ffs Alfredo has scored more in a Month
 
ICA_86 said:
We know how this goes, I’m expecting Dundee to play at about 300% above any game they’ve played this season against us.
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It really shouldn't matter. I've never understood this gripe we have with smaller teams upping their game against us. It's always been that way and it's the same the world over. Players in smaller teams will be much more motivated when playing against Barca, Real, Juve, Bayern, PSG, Man U etc etc than against teams of a similar standard. It's completely natural. Fact is, we should be able to at least match any team on effort and in Scotland, then destroy them on talent. It's why the players at the top clubs get paid the big bucks. If any team beats us because they're more motivated, or tried harder, then that's just wrong and totally unacceptable.
 
Tailwind said:
Only skim read it, but read like it was written by a celtic fan pretending to be Boyd.

Would Scott McDonald or Hartson or Sutton have to give praise to ex Rangers managers (none of whom carry the baggage of Lennon) before rightly getting ripped into a proven paedo like Griffiths (again the sort of person who wouldn’t have lasted at Ibrox). Weird article that does at least spread some dim, dim, dim, half light on Paedo Griffiths. At least nowhere near as disgraceful as Rae or Halliday, but a weird article for Boyd to have his name attached to. Clearly written by a Celtic apologist. Forget which paper Boyd allows his name attached to. The sun?
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Might be an idea to take a bit more time and read it again.
 
Craigie said:
Might be an idea to take a bit more time and read it again.
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Yep. Will read it again in the morning.

On the one hand it’s amazing a National paper has published such an article. On the other, my first impression was it’s been heavily redacted by someone of a paedo loving persuasion. Will read again fresh in the morning though.
 
Tormusk1872 said:
I don’t like tempting fate with all this “ he’s never scored for Dundee” talk.
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Same. I watched the Dundee derby and Griffiths had a couple of good chances. One header was just wide of the post and another half volley forced a good save from the keeper.

I'd hate for the wee prick to score against us.
 
He of course must be a loathsome individual hated/detested for Boyd to come out like that (yes we as fans know he is) but for Kris to slaughter him like that is stunning

I guess Kris legally can't mention the nonce stuff but by god he totally goes through him ,would like to be a fly on the wall when they pass each other tomorrow.
 
Reads like something Sutton would write about a Rangers player. A good rant for the pub but should not be published in a paper and Boyd certainly shouldn't be paid for putting his name to it (don't believe for a second this is his own work)
Possibly the funniest part is where he says he lost the desire to stay in shape at 36.
His body was a temple up till then I'm sure
 
Outstanding read.

I am slightly worried the paedo will have the game of his life tomorrow though. This is a game I would have loved Katic to play. He would have broke him in 2
 
basiltherat said:
Reads like something Sutton would write about a Rangers player. A good rant for the pub but should not be published in a paper and Boyd certainly shouldn't be paid for putting his name to it (don't believe for a second this is his own work)
Possibly the funniest part is where he says he lost the desire to stay in shape at 36.
His body was a temple up till then I'm sure
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I think it was a typo and it was 26....
 
He won't play tomorrow. McPake could well end up losing his job by 5 if he does. Griffiths can't help himself and will ultimately do something stupid.
 
During the warm-up before the Dundee derby at Tannadice last weekend we were in the gantry preparing for kick-off when a ball flew past. We were nowhere near the goals so it was obvious someone was deliberately trying to hit us. I didn’t see who was responsible — but my money would be on Griffiths. Why? Because he missed.


Old bigot McNee used that same story about Gazza in his Sunday Mail column at least once a month for years.
 
If McPake has any sense, he would tell him to stay well away from Dens Park tomorrow - this guy DOES have mental issues.

I am not saying we, as fans, should show sympathy. His club should have a duty of care though.

If what Boyd says about Tannadice is true - that is every bit as deranged as what he did with the flare.

He needs protected from himself.
 
Tailwind said:
Only skim read it, but read like it was written by a celtic fan pretending to be Boyd.

Would Scott McDonald or Hartson or Sutton have to give praise to ex Rangers managers (none of whom carry the baggage of Lennon) before rightly getting ripped into a proven paedo like Griffiths (again the sort of person who wouldn’t have lasted at Ibrox). Weird article that does at least spread some dim, dim, dim, half light on Paedo Griffiths. At least nowhere near as disgraceful as Rae or Halliday, but a weird article for Boyd to have his name attached to. Clearly written by a Celtic apologist. Forget which paper Boyd allows his name attached to. The sun?
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How wrong can one bear be?
You are sooooo far off thd mark.
 
Tailwind said:
Only skim read it, but read like it was written by a celtic fan pretending to be Boyd.

Would Scott McDonald or Hartson or Sutton have to give praise to ex Rangers managers (none of whom carry the baggage of Lennon) before rightly getting ripped into a proven paedo like Griffiths (again the sort of person who wouldn’t have lasted at Ibrox). Weird article that does at least spread some dim, dim, dim, half light on Paedo Griffiths. At least nowhere near as disgraceful as Rae or Halliday, but a weird article for Boyd to have his name attached to. Clearly written by a Celtic apologist. Forget which paper Boyd allows his name attached to. The sun?
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Didn’t read it properly but posted the longest rant on the tread?

O. K..
 
Twowordsbaz said:
KARMA has a way of catching up with people.

Leigh Griffiths is about to find that out the hard way at Dens Park.

He was laughing when he tied that Celtic scarf to one of the goalposts at Ibrox a few seasons back.

Grinning from ear to ear during an Old Firm game the day he waved his Irish tricolour from the Broomloan Road Stand.

When he wiped his nose on a Rangers corner flag he thought he was being clever.

Well, let’s see how smart he is when Rangers supporters tell him what they think of him.

Griffiths is about to get bombarded with 90 minutes of relentless abuse and if he’s got a brain in that head of his he better be prepared to take it.

Listen, I’m not going to go into the reasons why supporters all over the country are going to give him a hard time this season. Frankly, I want nothing to do with it.

But what I will say is that Griffiths only has himself to blame — and the sooner he realises that the better.

Will he, though? Is he capable of accepting responsibility for anything in life? I’m not sure he is.

It seems to me that every time something happens to him he thinks it’s someone else’s fault.

He wasn’t to blame for how things worked out for him at Celtic, was he? No, that was all Neil Lennon’s fault apparently.

Honestly, I can’t remember reading anything as ridiculous as when Griffiths spoke about Lennon recently and claimed his ex-boss was just trying to stay relevant by talking about him. Really?

Are we talking about the same high-profile Neil Lennon who has been one of the most talked about personalities in Scottish football in the last 20 years?

Griffiths can’t surely be serious when he says Lennon needs him to stay relevant.

But that sums him up, doesn’t it? Rather than owning his mistakes and taking responsibility for them, his default position is to go on the attack.

If only he was as threatening on the park.

Because when you strip everything back with Griffiths, he’s not the player his fan club will have you believe.

Is he a good finisher? Sure, I’ll give him that. But in the last three seasons do you know how many league goals he’s scored? Let me tell you because I looked it up. It’s 17.

Two goals in season 2018/19, nine goals in season 19/20 and six goals in season 20/21.

I’m sorry, but that’s not the statistics of a top-level goalscorer.

This is someone with natural talent, sure.

But that’s not enough if you are to be considered a top player.

Yet his cheerleaders are forever making excuses for him, constantly telling anyone who’ll listen that Griffiths would prove everyone wrong.

That he just needed to get fit and he’d be back.

Griffiths ended up saying it himself but it was total and utter nonsense, every single word of it.

Griffiths is yet to score for Dundee

Griffiths has had more than enough time and opportunity to get himself in shape and he’s only thrown it back in people’s faces.

The scoring records in Scottish football should have been OBLITERATED by him in the last five years. Instead he put the tools away and it seems like he couldn’t care less.

Why Celtic gave him a new contract in the summer, I’ll never know. For the life of me, I’ll never be able to work that one out.

Even their supporters must have been scratching their heads.

Those fans slaughtered me for criticising Griffiths and more or less saying it takes more than just ability to play at a top club.

But while my wording could have been better I think I’ve been proved right. When he scored at Rugby Park one day he looked up at me and made a shooshing gesture, but I stand by every word. He’s not exactly silenced me since, has he?

Now he’s at Dundee I wonder if his manager James McPake is beginning to wonder if it was a good idea bringing him to the club.

They’re pals from their days together at Livingston so I can understand why McPake was prepared to give Griffiths the benefit of any doubt.


But since he signed, Dundee have yet to score a goal.

Listen, I’ve been there. I got abuse every single time I stepped on to a football park and had to take it. It’s part of the deal.

Okay, the shouts weren’t anything like the abuse Griffiths is getting but he’s 31 now and should be experienced enough to know how to switch off from it.

I just look at him and see someone who is more or less finished. Truth be told, he’s the way I was when I was at Kilmarnock and hung up my boots a couple of months before my 36th birthday.

I didn’t have the same drive to stay in shape so I realised it was time to hang up the boots.

As a striker you stand the best chance of playing every week, because it’s a specialist position. But you need to deliver.

Griffiths just hasn’t looked like delivering for a long time now. His decline is there for all to see with his scoring record miles off where it should be.

During the warm-up before the Dundee derby at Tannadice last weekend we were in the gantry preparing for kick-off when a ball flew past.

We were nowhere near the goals so it was obvious someone was deliberately trying to hit us.

I didn’t see who was responsible — but my money would be on Griffiths.

Why? Because he missed.
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WowB-DB-)B-DB-)B-D

Talk about laying the Smackdown. That was a brilliant read and 100% the truth:shh:
 
Tailwind said:
Yep. Will read it again in the morning.

On the one hand it’s amazing a National paper has published such an article. On the other, my first impression was it’s been heavily redacted by someone of a paedo loving persuasion. Will read again fresh in the morning though.
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You should def read again mate
 
Beauty and the Beast

FAFoKY5WYAEjSM2
 
That is wonderful

"Well, let’s see how smart he is when Rangers supporters tell him what they think of him.

Griffiths is about to get bombarded with 90 minutes of relentless abuse and if he’s got a brain in that head of his he better be prepared to take it"

B-D B-D B-D
 
Big D said:
It really shouldn't matter. I've never understood this gripe we have with smaller teams upping their game against us. It's always been that way and it's the same the world over. Players in smaller teams will be much more motivated when playing against Barca, Real, Juve, Bayern, PSG, Man U etc etc than against teams of a similar standard. It's completely natural. Fact is, we should be able to at least match any team on effort and in Scotland, then destroy them on talent. It's why the players at the top clubs get paid the big bucks. If any team beats us because they're more motivated, or tried harder, then that's just wrong and totally unacceptable.
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I’m the same. Can you imagine someone moaning to Jock Wallace that it’s not fair because teams are trying harder against is?

We are Scotland’s premier team. It’s not up to them, it’s up to us.
 
How long until he plays the mental health card. As someone with extreme anxiety and depression, it sickens me when people who act like scumbags play the mental health card. Like it exonerates you of all the bad things you've done. It doesn't and it shouldn't. If it's once I can understand why, sometimes people just reach their breaking point.

Griffiths on the other hand has done far too much over the years, to simply excuse it has he's having a hard time and we need to treat him with kid gloves. There is a history of vile behaviour that stretches too long.
 
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