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Our PP, Fr Jaconelli, has just been into the school and said that as it is the feast of Corpus Christi tomorrow he is having a special benediction service at 5.30pm. Do you think he just doesn't know, or is at the wind up?
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I've got my rattle ready.
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Pob from the last thread. My understanding is that Celtic got a late allocation of tickets from the SFA. Think they are returns from Dunfermline.
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I am enjoying these dateline posts. A great read for someone born 8 years later. Well for anyone of course, but it really does just make it feel like I have lived it even more.
Thanks,
Duncan
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on my way to the bookies for a daft bet, 25/1 inter dont get a corner hope they dont id me ,not born for 2 months yet
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You know the closer we get to this game the more I feel we can win it :)
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Can anyone shed any light on the email I recived, it contents are as follows;
"Have a read of this, make of it what you will.
A secret meeting between The Scottish Executive, Glasgow City
Council, The Commonwealth Games Committee and corporate
Institutions took place in London's Claridges Hotel to discuss the expansion of Celtic Park to 80,000. Work to be completed in time for the games and to coincide with the opening of a new underground rail link. Planning permission will be a formality and new regulations will be put in place by the Scottish Executive to circumvent any legal challenge that may arise due to the fact that a section of the Main Stand is at this point listed. Celtic Football Club will not have to finance any of the expansion plans as funding will come from the public purse and corporate finance. It is understood that a leading Wall St investment broker will fund 60% of the whole project in exchange for the naming rights to Celtic Park, Celtic's current sponsors NIKE will also play a major role.
It is estimated that CFC will make over £150,000,000 on the Naming
Rights over 10 years, while increasing the number of season tickets
available from 53,000 to 69,000.
At present it is believed to be Goldmann Sachs and Delta Airlines
that are in competition for the naming rights
Dermot Desmond and Brian Quinn of Celtic are believed to have
instigated proceedings as far back as October 2006"
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Just reading those 11 names still brings a chill.
On the ticket nonsense, the root cause is the decision to split tickets "equally" between the two teams by the SFA. It was clear Dunfermline would not sell an allocation several times their average home gate. It was also clear that we would have a greater demand than an allocation less than the number of season ticket holders.
There needs to be a way to allocate tickets that favours football fans who put money into the game.
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It's all right for you lot - I'll be in b***** church! Think I'll become a Proddy! Just for a day...
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P67-another good'un;[the team stayed in Estoril,not Estirol.]
Maybe like me you're sleeping off the Superbock..
looking forward to finding a cafe,the best coffee in the world and a pasteis da nata for breakfast.
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Tam
It's wind-up nonsense, and has been doing the rounds for a bit now. Palpable tosh, I think it was called.
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Tam - the planning permission is already in place is it not? has been for years. Not sure about the timing, but it does kind of make sense - assuming the Commie Games come to Glasgow.
I dont agree with BJS saying that the the team who scores first will win. I'll take that bet!
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Same team as the Scottish Cup final ?
GL2 -
working fine my end
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Tam
I think Claridges is closed for re-furbishment at present.
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'cause I'm there all the time like
Gordonramsaycsc
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Gordon_J.
Your right about the names of the team,slips of the tongue like velvet,The only team that I can name without having to think about it first.
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New Hertha Berlin signing Jaroslav Drobny has revealed that he rejected the chance to join Celtic.
The Czech goalkeeper secured a move to Hertha from Bochum earlier this week, putting pen-to-paper on a three-year year deal.
He announced that he had also had offers from Greece, and has now claimed that Celtic were also keen.
"Celtic were interested, but the discussions with Dieter Hoeness were without problems, that is why I decided for Hertha," Drobny told CTK.
source - sky sports
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oldtim
You must be able to do this one without thinking as well.
Fallon Young and Gemmell
Clark McNeill and Kennedy
Jim Johnstone Murdoch Chalmers John Divers and John Hughes.
And of course sixty thousand Celtic fans.
To music.
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Thanks for shedding some light on that thought it might be a hoax, but you never know,for instance according to one fat radio broadcaster Scott Brown and Rangers was a done deal!
Cheers
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antsman,
The story regarding Drobny is only partially told on SSN.
The report I read this morning in the Daily Express stated that the player basically rejected a move to Celtic as he was told he would only be back-up to Artur and not the first choice.
Basically I think he'd have been a replacement to Marshall, but that just my opinion.
/Bishop B
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TamB80, I can tell you with complete certainty that someone is pulling your leg.
dontbratt, point taken thanks.
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in the beautiful city of lisbon
in the heat of the portugese sun
a team by the name of celtic
the trophy of europe they won
hail hail
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I am currently in the Middle East and hope to see the game on Saturday. Can anyone tell me if it's on, and if so, what channel. I am in Amman in Jordan. (if anyone is daft enough to be here too, then even better)
Bangkokbhoy
The Left Winger
I have no idea who Dane Bowers is and after checking wikipedia I don't think I want to...but funnily enough he went out with Jordan. I thought by the name of the smutty video you suggested, he might be of a different persuasion.
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andy,
Thanks.
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I dont know if anyone has saw it yet but Sky SPorts are running an interview with Willaim Gallard the UEFA spokesman.
He places the trouble caused last night firmly at the door of 'some Liverpool' fans. The interviewers keeps pushing him and tries to blame UEFA etc. He then asks if it is a British problem. Gallard says something like it happens more frequently when British teams are involved but a few years ago we had 3 times the amount of Celtic supporters in Seville without tickets than there was in Athens and there was no trouble as thye all stayed in teh center of town and watched the game and partied. Thats the ways fans should be he said.
Its nice to still be remembered...
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len
your probably right, its been twisted now tho on one site to imply ist a clear sign we want to sell boruc!
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http://members.boardhost.com/peoplesforum/msg/1180010850.html
heart breaking
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Saw that myself GL2, I don't know if this will work or not (technophobe alert!) but here is alink for the interview.
It goes on abit before we are mentioned.:
http://www.motiono.com/watch.m?o=NsMMceTU
You're right though mate that it is nice nice to be remembered, but I always feel, and I am sure the good citizens of Seville, Villareal, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Milan etc, etc, etc will testify to, once met, we are never forgotten!
Hail! Hail!
TTT
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Awe_naw thats got to be a wind up!!!!
TTTim I totally agree unless some of them had met TTTT who has been posted missing since he is thinking of 'taking the soup' tomorrow night and forgetting his beliefs.
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The Daily Telegraph[SIMBT]are serialising Lemon's autobiography-Lisbon is tomorrow but today it's about his history making appearance at Wembley in April'67.
Before the game Faither[the 36 year old debutant]admitted that he could do with'a wee sip'to steady his nerves-apparently this medicine was usually available in the dressing room at CP,to settle any prematch nerves.So Stevie Chalmers,who was in the squad but not playing,produced a half-bottle he'd purchased in London that morning for that very purpose.
And suitably refreshed,relaxed and fortified the Scots went out and produced the second greatest footballing performance of that Annus Mirabilis..
[Anyone remember what was historic about BL's performance that day?]
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William Gallard spoke well and honestly right after the fact.
TheTokenTim
Pasted and cut or whatever the term is for the link
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Thanks WhiteDog.
One of these days I'll either work out how to do that or I'll just ask you how to do it!
Cheers
TTT
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My dad just came in and told me (at 4 yrs old) and my 2 sisters (at 3 yrs old & 1 yr old) that our mother is getting out the hospital today with baby No.4 ( a brother) – what are we rabbits or what?
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So it's official UEFA policy that'everyone should have the mentality of Celtic Fans'..quite an accolade!
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I went to the show "On our way to Lisbon" last night.
Tremendous show ,a "must see"
jonnybhoy who isnt John
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I saw a lovely quote on the BBC from Gallard.
Michael Howard (yes that one, he's a Liverpool fan) was criticising UEFA's ticketing policy. Gallard said that he would never take any criticism from the man who invented the poll tax!
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25th MAY
Zurich fell in Switzerland,
They fell in Glasgow too,
Then the French went down three one each time,
And bid the cup Adieu.
The 'Slavs won at home but went down two one,
And the Czechs were sent their way,
And the Celts were bound for Lisbo town,
on the 25th May.
Twelve thousand loyal Celtic fans,
In bus and train and car,
Travelled eighteen hundred to see,
The greatest team by far.
they came to cheer on the boys in green,
And help them win the day,
And beat Inter Milan in Lisbon town,
On the 25th of May.
The game was only eight minutes gone,
When Inter Milan they scored,
If they tried from then to hard my Bhoys,
They could'nt have scored one more.
And when half-time came with the score the same,
The Celts did not dismay,
They would win the Cup in Lisbon town,
On the 25th of May.
A goal must come and come it did,
And Gemmell was our man,
Then Chalmers scored and the Celtic roar,
Was heard by gay Milan.
There's been battles won by our Celtic sons,
But they showed the world the way,
When they beat Milan in Lisbon town,
On the 25th of May.
So heres to Simpson, Clark and Craig,
To Johnstone and McNeil,
To Chalmers,Wallace and Lennox, Auld,
For they refused to yield.
And hears toMurdoch and Gemmell too,
To Stein who showed the way,
To the greatest team who showed the world,
On the 25th of May.
On the 25th of May.
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PS. a day early so forgive me.
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Excellent CQNers who can spare some money at present please consider going to
http://www.dec.org.uk
to help the humanitarian effort to relieve the extreme suffering in Darfur and Chad.
Hail!Hail!
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GL2
The night out i was on about was The Lisbon Lions Party on the Park.Myself and Tiny Tim are going.
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I'm just looking at that team.
Wee Buzzbomb is the outsider - he must live about 30 miles from Glasgow.
So the Inter players have beem slagging us off.....wait till the likes of wee Bertie gets them in that big tunnel......bet he does something to wind them up.
Come on the Celts.
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Marinello Last night when I thought about it thats what I guessed. That sentence does not even make sense to me.
Im not going but TTTT is wavering overing his socialist beliefs or a freebie... Im going that he takes a freebie... I would imagine it would be a great night. Are you staying through overnight for the final or are you heading back? Im going up to Glasgow early on Saturday morning if you fancy meeting for a beer beforehand. I can drop TinyTim an e-mail.
St-Gris so with your mam out of the hospital your dad would have been ok to go to the game or was he a part timer!!!! I cannae dae smileys
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Tully -
I bet it takes you nearly 40 years to reach Lisboa !
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Someone reported back from Lisbon that they have spotted a gonklike mascot......
......jaickit
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WG -
☺
Curly
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WG - 40 years... aye and by then they'll have something called euros and a man will take 15 of them from you for 3 lagery drinks
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GL2 - My socialist beliefs got kicked into touch a long time ago!
I'm freeloading bigstyle tomorrow night, but just found out that it's a black tie do.
I'll look like a penguin on steroids!
It'll make up for missing the final, which I'll be watching at my in-laws....groan.
Marinello - hope to see you and tinytim there.
Think we're in the Kerrydale Suite before the meal, but not sure.
TTTT
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some debate between friends.
Players that have left celtic and rangers to go on and win european/champions league medal.
took me ten minutes to spell league !
I have 4
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I knew it ya chancer!!!
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crerand,the 2 kings,van bronkurts
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mail me at omacass for a link to the game
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gattuso
Curly
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gl2 crerand ?
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whitedoghunch,
Crerand
Dalglish
Larsson
Gattuso
Gio
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Gordon_J
It was a late e-mail question yesterday that I fumbled about with.
Cerand- I never even considered- and I hate prawns.
Just to be a thorn.
What team did John Colrain make his First team debut against ?
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Paul67
Ah See da day, the michty Spurs,
who have justly earned a lotta slurs,
Wull mak a bid fur ur Super Naka,
an' we'll soon fun oou if its Guts we Lacka!
Fur is wull tak a lotta guts fur tae turn doon,
a bid o'wan HUNDRED HUNDRED THOOSAND POONDS!
An' whit we'd dae if it wiz up tae me,
We'd grab dat sum, wit' agiliteeee!
Fur as auld Kojo said tae me....
"I'ts no every day, a mug ye see!"
Fur in a year or two, oor Naka's time is over,
Noo, is da chance tae roll in da Clover!
An' dinna gie me awe yer wailin'!
Ye must take da dough, or ye'll be failin',
Tae use yer Heid an' No a'Saftee be!
Fur ye kin bet, in a Year or two.....
Oor Naka wull DEPART Fur FREE!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin',Awaggin'
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Kenny Burns - ex darnelist for Forest...
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Souness...
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I will take the easy option and say Pierre, winning the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord in 2002 I think it was...
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WG
I've been on a few buses like that (normally McKendrey's, Edinburgh)..
You got home email.
McGrain - you've got a lot to say for a bairn at nursery.....
In my class in Primary 2 Mrs Divers said we could draw pictures of Celtic if they win tomorrow night.
Tully.
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whitedoghunch,
John Colrain is a bit before my time - 50s I think?
michael_67
I don't recall Burns playing for Rangers? Did he play for the first team or was he there as a kid before heading south?
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michaeal
I've got
vsn brokitist
gattusso
my love
dugleish
crearand seems to have been confirmrned - unlike ed and me.
Rambo ?
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wdh have you got my hands on with your typing skills
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Collie
the spurs thing was a suprise to everybody.
Special K is
sling
SLANG
oprah
for GUNPOWDER.
Not pistol.
Calcium magkneesuim.
tired and bored
Bryan
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Tully - just you leave me alane or I'll do yer wee brother in and I predict I shall be the scourge of his playground experiences until he's 8 when under the watchful eye and tutelage of you and your P6 pals he will give me an awfy doing. Ah didny greet tho.
michael 67 - no Souness, this is good though
Aggie Moffat
Aggie'll do fur me.
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Rambo was at Celtic, Villa and Bayern Munich of Munchen but I don't think he ever won a European medal.
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Whitedoghunch
Ma brither in dugdom.....
Whadya think???....
Dae we tak da money?
Or diz dat idea... STINK?
Stoap hidin' behind o' dat ESOTORIC....
Cam oot an' gie us yer.. Rhe-to-Toric!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin',Awaggin'
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Gordon J - wikipedia again
Kenny Burns
Thinking about it, he had the look of the hun about him
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Good point. McGraininSpain. I sit corrected.
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At 24/05/07 12:10, Boltonbhoy said…
Our PP, Fr Jaconelli, has just been into the school and said that as it is the feast of Corpus Christi tomorrow he is having a special benediction service at 5.30pm. Do you think he just doesn't know, or is at the wind up?
*take it you were living in Cumbernauld at the time.
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GL2
STAYING OVERNIGHT AT THE ABODE HOTEL.GOING TO THE SUPPORTERS CLUB ON SATURDAY MORNING TO MEET MY BUS.NOT SURE WHERE TINY IS GOING FOR A DRINK AS HE IS MEETING UP WITH FRIENDS AND STAYING SATURDAY NIGHT AS WELL.
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Collie
Ten big ones would not leave me with much choice for our choice footballer. There is a right time and a right price for everyone, as you know. Wailing and gnashing would abound, and I admit, a little regret from me, but as you also know, it is far more important what you do with the money.
Would anyone suggest paying ten big ones for him today? You have your answer.
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If Spurs gave us £10m i'd drive Naka to White Hart Lane myself.
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A player that left Celtic, then later went on to win a European Cup medal.........BERTIE AULD !
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Paul67
Paul me lad, ye ur tae smart fur me,
It is no much fun when ye sae heartilee, agreeee!
Yer mind is much too filled wi' UN-COMMON SENSE!....
Ah'll need tae find someone who is rather dense......
An' then we'll hiv a chance tae get something going....
Fur da Blog, jist noo......
Wi' Put an' Tak, is no AFLOWIN'!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin',Awaggin'
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TTTT
Not sure what lounge we are in before meal tiny has all the details but sure we will see you.
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If we don't take £10m for Naka we run the risk of Spurs giving rangers £10m for charlie adam ;o)
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Maybe we should say to spurs,
Aye, we'll take you money and Robbie Keane.
Are spurs the only team interested in him?
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Coleslaw
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Collie
Do Celtic not make so much money from Nakamura (image rights/merchandising etc) that it would be folly to sell him?
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Ardoch
My auld friend,....
Whit's dis? Even wit' ye ...
OOR MINDS DAE BLEND!
It looks tae me ...ah'll ne'er find a dissenter,
Whit's da maitter, where ur awe ma tormenters?
Och! Ye guys are much to much to wit' it!
Ah'll need tae vacate tae anither site,
Where thur ur plenty o' ither fish, tae bite!
Ye guys are too much sophisticated!!....
Dese fish Ah' mention are awe sae back-ward and dated.
An' ah'll hiv ma fun........
AND LEAVE DEM NEEDED.... MEDICATED!
collie,
Tail's Awaggin', Awaggin'
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Hooptastic
Ye hiv a point, my wily lad,
Tae lose dat extra dough...
Wid be rather sad!
But, as Fargo says..... oh ah forget!...it's richt der oan da tip o' ma tongue!
Fur a minute der, my mind did hung!
Here's whit he said.......
"Grab da dough...get aff o' yer Tush!
A Boid in de Hand...
IS WORTH TWO, IN DA BUSH!"
collie.
Tail's Awaggin', Awaggin'
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Personally, I'd like to see Naka perform in the fitter, faster team.
It's not our place to advocate the selling of our top player, if we ,as a support, harbour any hopes of progressing.
As I don't think Kaka is available, we should strive at all costs to hold on to our most creative player.
Therefore Collie, on this occassion I suggest you cock your leg against another lamppost.
TTT- the cup final a-goin'
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Collie
I appreciate where you're coming from in a business sense and I find it hard to disagree with you. However aren't we simply sticking two fingers up to the good Japanese people who have taken to Celtic so passionately and doubtles have spent lots of dough on Celtic related merchandise?
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Raman Bhardwaj on Scotland Today was kind enough to remind the nation that today is the 35th anniversary of some non-event in Barcelona. The match was followed, he said, by a 'pitch invasion - some may call it a pitch invasion, others would call it a celebration.' Nah, it's still an invasion Raman. Check the facts with the Catalan polis.
As someone on here said of Clyde's sports department, you can't help but think that Scotland Today's sports department consists of someone reading the back page of the Daily Record.
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Mr Bhardwaj is a bluenose so it comes as no surprise.
He never ever wishes Celtic good luck when we have a champions league game that evening, but never misses a chance to wish his lot all the best.
Collie it's time you were put down.
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Tom Da Tim
Ah! A customer awaits, your pithy prose... an' answer.....rates!
Foist all o' yer advice ah canny take....
Fur here in Vegas.... it's at a HYDRANT,
where ma relief ah make!
De rest o' yer point is easy tae refute,
Fur in Mebbe in 2 years time....
Yer advice wull no look sae cute!
Fur Naka's gone fur NOWT!!!!!!... an' dat wull be nae be funny....
An' ye'll REGRET..
Ye didnae take da Money!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin', Awaggin'
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Collie,
I changed my car a few months ago for a much newer one. It's going great and I enjoy it's performance.
In two years time, it won't be as efficient or pristine and will be of lesser value if I sell it on.
In the meantime, I hope it continues to give me pleasure.
I'm sure I don't have to join up the dots in my analogy, my worthy tail-wagger.
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Floyd/Robyn post on Celticdelia
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Naka-maths
Goal v Man U + Rights in Japan + Entertainment at CP + increasing his value in one more season + Overall contribution to a winning side
= more than £10m.
Always assuming Spurs have actually tabled the £10m and it's not all talk.
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bloke109
naka-maths
subtract or should I say (SUBTRACT)
the fact that he can sign a pre-contract in January of 2008 and leave for bugger all in the summer of 2008 and there is also the possibility of injury.
summing up, balance sheets and life in general are about the ups and the downs.
p.s. not wishing to publicise a rival site too much but there is a nice article about Boruc on ETims
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Tom da Tim
Yer analogy is no at da races...
Ah wid love tae see baith ye an' yer guid lady's faces...
When tae yer wife, ye wid be nae HERO,
IF At trade in time, yer CAUR( NAKA!).. wid net ye....
ZERO!!!
Noo my freen......
DAT'S MA ANALOGEEEE!
Read it an' weep! FUR DAT IS DA WAY
Da FUTURE WID BE!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin', Awaggin'
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Aye, Collie, that's the rub. My normal practice is to keep the car until it no longer does it's stuff.
No point changing for changes sake and to cash in on Naka without replacing like for like would either just be changing for the sake of it or else buying an inferior, immature product and pocketing the change.
For an ambitious team, there should be players to whom normal rules don't apply. At the moment, Naka is our special one. I would argue even more so than Boruc.
Anyway, direrent strokes etc. I must go and trim my moustache and cut my toenails as the Road to Hampden starts at 6.00 a.m tomorrow morning around these parts.
TtT, a-snipping and a-paring.
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This is all speculation of course - rumour and conjecture, but looking at asset management from a Spurs' perspective then, why pay £10m now for someone they can sign for nothing in 6 months time and get in 12 months?
As likely make-weights on this fictitious bid, Tainio, Mido, Huddlestone, Jenas, Murphy, Ghaly. Keane?
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Bloke109,
Naka has 2 years still to go in his contract.
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bloke109
correct me if i'm wrong but did naka not sign for 3 years and then sign a 1 year extension, meaning he still has at least 2 years to go, ruling out your asset mngt theory.
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At 24/05/07 17:51, Ardoch
If Spurs gave us £10m i'd drive Naka to White Hart Lane myself.
One of the good 'one liners' on here that made me chuckle.
You buy the petrol and I'll provide the tetaki.
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TAE AWE....
Noo, ah am da same o'miny o' ye...
Naka is a treasure ...as oanywan can see!
But, listen tae me, der is a Bug under where ye sit oan yer saddle,
An' ye'll feel it so plainly, when da time comes, when Naka CAN MAK a A SKEEDADDLE!
The Times dey hiv changed!.....
Noo, ye must always be AHEAD o'DA GAME.....
Dey auld days ur GONE.... an' things ur nae longer da Same!
It's Money dat's noo da number wan number....
An' it'll dae us nae good tae sit here an' SLUMBER!
We'd awe like oor Cake, an' tae eat it, as well,
A life fur da ages.. idyllic an' swell!
But, because o' da
Rules, dat Rule Soccer today,
We kin nae longer expect oor Cake tae last, forever...
thur just isnae, nae way!
collie.
Tail's Awaggin, Awaggin'
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I was feeling frustrated and annoyed the smornin at my futile attempts to get a ticket via the online system Celtic has in place.
I tried to balance this by thinking well their is a limited amount of tickets and knowing nothing about IT i accepted the situation.
Now when i read Pob's post from the last thread at 11.07 am today i'm raging.
I bow to Pob's knowledge of IT. If Celtic CAN have a system that can handle 60,0000 applications in the first hour of tickets going on sale AND NO NEED FOR A QUEUE ma question is WHY DONT THEY.
Ma experience was to be tortured for over an hr in anticipation of moving up a virtual imperceptibly slow queue to be told my session had timened out.
Second attempt my time estimator just went back to the beginning again after appx 40 mins.
I felt as if i didnt count after ma experience today.
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and the one coming back is Maloney
but I can't figure how they knew
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collie,
I normally skirt by your posts, but the last one hit the nail on the head, if we were offered anything in the region of £10m for Naka, we should take that cash and invest it wisely(sp) in new talent
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oldtim
from the last thread-
I have no Rita videos. i sourced these from You Tube by typing her name and pressing search.
Here's the results page if you want to access some more. Enjoy!
Rita on You Tube
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I found Hugh Mcdonald's article on Inzaghi to be very funny and basically true.
Should we continue to indulge Kenny Miller and hope he turns out the same?
inzaghi article
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Is everybody oot celebrating our 2:1 win?
Champions of Europe, eh?
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Collie
We accepted £8millionish for Stan The Journey Man Petrov and we have only now, adequately replaced him with Scott Brown at a cost of £4.4 Million. Hopefully
We have bought Gravesen, Jarosik and Hartley with the money from the sale of Petrov and all have been spectacularly expensive flops. Please tell me why we should sell our best and most creative player who still has two years left on his contract?
Why are you so confident he can be replaced by a cheaper model? Are you honestly advocating selling Naka on the basis that his contract runs out in two years and he may not sign an extension that he hasn't even been offered? That doesn’t make sense!
Honestly, what exactly is the point in that? What good is money if you are devaluing the team?
When’s the “it makes sense to sell Boruc” post coming?
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gerry, block 105
Indeed that's true about the length of contract - pgtips introduced the Jan 08 thing and I responded. Wrongly.
I'm pretty much of the 'king is dead, long live the king' view but think it's a pretty cynical, bottom-line only approach to just see players as assets - you could run through our entire squad pretty much and say they're all for sale as we'd probably make a bit of a profit on each. Some players are worth more than a balance sheet figure - intangible value I believe the guys without the calculators would term it.
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10 million. Its alot of money - could go a long way in providing 2 blue chippers - if only spurs valued naka at 10.
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bloke109
I agree with your sentiments but that would be utopia, I don't think it is cynical to see the club make a tidy profit on the player, if and only if some other team were willing to make an offer in the region that was mentioned earlier. Not one of us would want to lose our best player(s) but better players have left in the past for a lot less value and we have got by.
Please do not misunderstand me, I am not advocating we do sell him.
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ticketyboo
It could also go some way towards replacing the money spent on Scott Brown.
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Terry O'Neill-
mail me
noel90@hotmail.co.uk
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Bloke109 @ 20.07
I know what you mean, if it was up to me I would tell Spurs Naka is not for sale at that price, (even tho I would be tempted) as we need him for the up and coming CL game/games and see what happens after that.
Unless WGS has already got a replacement lined up.
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Collie
I know you are just looking for a rise but I cannot resist
The reason we continue to renew our season-books is in the hope that the next season will be the one where the team plays sparkling football, wins the treble and gets to a European final
Naka is a proven big-match winner -- he has the skill and temperament to shine in Europe and is now integrated into the Celtic system
I would much prefer to be watching him play for the next 2 years than hearing about Celtic clearing off all their debts - that will happen anyway if we keep on succeeding on the pitch
VertWolf- a fan of football
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Vertwolf
Totally with you on that one.
Most are available at the right price but a small select group are not - and Naka falls into the latter.
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