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2 in a row? Wooft.
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Moi?
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Non!!!
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4-5-1 due to the heat Paul, with Capone to start? Treated like an away European fixture perhaps.
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From previous
Bloke 109
Mc Kenzie is about the same size as Darcheville at TFOD, who looks to be twice the size of Hartson!
C'mon the HOOPS!
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Paul.....not sure if you saw my post towards the end of the last thread, but if so, is this an issue that was discussed by the Slavic FA's?
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Any feedback on how this US trip is being handled by the commercial side of the Club?
Previous trips to the US have been missed opportunities according to some of the posts that have appeared here from excellentCQNers of America.
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Hopefully the new BBC deal will mean an end to the amateur hour that is Scotsport.
No Gordon Smith on their coverage either will be an added bonus.
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Hi Paul
You are a man of integrity and have my full respect for all you have done with CQN. I wish you all success with CQN.
I assume you want the Collie issue from the last post just to go away. I'll make it easier for you - I'll take another few months away from CQN. I'll miss CQN more than CQN will miss me.
It isn't enthusiasts like me who should feel uncomfortable here - you have the power to root out the cancer.
All the best to you and the other CQNers - I'll miss you.
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Check out Hugh Sproat of the Mothers, now thats TACHE!
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Hope the bhoys do well in the US tonight. Another opportunity to enhance our reputation in that massive market.
I've had the pleasure of watching quite a few hoops games in the US over the years, mostly in New York's famous The Parlour. While many fans are Scots/ Irish ex-pats there have always been a comsiderable number of Americans who are coming to love the game. Whether soccer can ever make it to the big time in such a crowded market (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR etc) is debatable, but I think we can enhance our global name and games like this will certainly help.
It will also be interesting to see how young Jospeh performs against us. I have heard that we retain an interest in signing him.
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PVSDP stick around and don't take the huff, mate. I'm half black and I welcome these debates from time to time as people sometimes need to know when they are out of order unintentionally or not. I had a book till I moved to spain a few years back and I heard stuff from our support and didn't get much back up when I challenged it.
Speaking of Spain - this is the land of taches but the new generation don't seem to be taking up the mantle. Can't think of one Spanish player with one. Anybody?
There is the wee guy with one on Futbol Int on catalan telly though...
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Pvsdb
Hang about mate you’re putting Paul in an awkward position.
Paul has already taken what he believes to be the appropriate actions.
It is up to Collie to do likewise. Whichever way he chooses to go.
But don’t throw the toys out of the pram just yet .
Give Collie his chance to respond, after all he did take a few hits and as you know from your own experiences, it is not particularly nice.
As far as I see, Paul is trying to stay above it and give broad licence to debate, to those of us on here who wish to do so.
Lets wait and see.
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LoveJoy's a legend - thanks for that 'Tache' compilation. As well as the terracing, lack of diving headers & heavy pitches - i really miss seeing players with taches.
Bring back the Tache!
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VS
A tache AND a Mullet!
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lovejoys
On that page, George Reilly and Paul Atkinson were mixed up by Panini - Paul Atkinson may not have 'a Sproat' but salute him for services to tache two years in a row. I suspect the beast influenced many of those taches. Rab Kilgour of St Johnstone looks like one of those photos from barbers in the 70s and those Scottish players with cloudy skies behind them always scared me a bit.
On top of taches, the first names of your modern footballers are a bit too formal - James and Steven and David not Jimmy and Steve and Davy. Andrew Cole indeed. There are a couple of Clives on that page - you don't get many Clives to the pound in the EPL - a Jeremy, a Hector even less. And the 70s gaves us Drews.
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for the panini enthusiasts out there
have a look at this site,
if features all the teams from the 1984 and 1985 panini albums, including some absolute brammers.
panini football 84 & 85
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Here's a famous 'tache from a Spaniard... Famous Spaniard's Moustache
Pity he coul;dn't kick a ball to save his life. Now that WOULD have been surreal!
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Kitalba
The friend you had a drink with and who's returning here to get married isn't the one and only Pig and Whistle RFC social convener?
If so I am going to his wedding.
Corona indeed.
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pvsdb - you drama queen... :)
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"Don't take the huff" "Don't throw the toys out of the pram". We're dealing with racism here guys - no excuses.
I'll hang about for a while in the hope of an unconditional apology from Collie. Has he the integrity? Otherwise, I'm better off out of here- life's too short fot that sort of dross.
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lets get back onto the celtic debate.
i mean, he wont retract his statement. he had his chance already and didnt.
paul has already done so (well done, sir)
its also not the first time hes posted a racist remark on here, is it?
take him or leave him thats your choice. i know mine.
paul, (or anyone) do you know if we are still looking for a
top predator? i personally think we should be.
also on the bbc spl package.
stv legals are looking into their contract at the moment as they are not best pleased with the spl over this.i will post more when i hear more.
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At 19/07/07 12:47, pvsdb
Don't bother leaving mate, it will be the same old same old when you come back.
The dug is racist. Every 3 months we have the same nonsense going on from that mongrel and we will again. And again and again.
Persistent inflammatory contributions hoping for a reaction and some sort of acceptability and understanding. Scrolling by is not the solution, hounding it out of town when it spews its manure is what is required, but you will never change its ways.
I can't believe anyone who has read this site for a year or more could give it the benefit of the doubt. I don't consider the coterie as Celticminded, just constant BS.
Hope we can get a good result tonight for our US fans after last years fiasco.
2-1 to the Bhoys!!
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pvsdb - well, thank goodness there are people like yourself always looking for the opportunity to throw a strop over "racism".
I can't believe people read Collie's impenetrable prose never mind take any of it seriously.
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So a lot of you agree he's racist and that he regularly posts stuff to provoke a reaction. Why, Paul, do you allow it?
Phil, what is your point exactly?
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"Phil, what is your point exactly?"
That you seem to like attention.
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pvsdb
I am a relatively new poster to CQN and have quickly learned to scroll past any of his posts.
If more football minded people do this and ignore his posts , he may well soon get fed up and leave.
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pvsdb
Like you, I have gone into self-imposed exile because of the holier-than-thou attitude of the poster(s) you refer to, but checking in occasionally to see what's going on.
For what it's worth, I believe that poster to have posted the phrase intending it just as his/her/it's explanation was, but the other, more offensive meaning was not lost on him/her/it. After all, has he/she/it not had previous for the same thing in the past?
I'm sure he/she/it is enjoying the attention his comment intended. This is, of course, just my opinion!
Stick around my friend. You are more valued than he/she/it is...
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Thanks Mike for yr support but why do so many of us have to put up with his manure?
Its up to collie and Paul to do the right thing. I'm not attacking Paul, I just can't see why he tolerates these constant controversies without a demand for an apology and a promise of acceptable behaviour.
CQN is Celtic site and should be dedicated to Celtic chat. Thats all I want.
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And now to football...
Isn't it a bit worrying that Thomas Graveson is looking more and more like he is going to be content to sit on £45k a week for the next 2 years, when it's patently obvious that Gordon Strachan is not going to use him again.
I read today that Bryan Robson has given up on signing TG as he is waiting on Celtic to pay up the remainder of his contracted wages.
Now I might be getting some of this wrong on the minor details, I'm sure more enlightened posters can correct me on those, but do some players have no scruples? Is the money more important than his self-esteem? TG is in danger of losing any support he may have had from Celtic fans if he sticks to that standpoint!!!
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If Collie isn't banned, then I shall join pvsdb on a self enforced permanent absence from CQN.
Celtic websies must have standards.
Kind regards
jquinn67
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pvsdb...
The more people entertain those particular posters, the more they will stay around and feed on the oxygen supplied by it.
It's not up to Paul to ban certain individuals, although I'm not even sure he can. Where would he start? Where would he end? I think all he CAN do is delete posts, and if he went down that route, he could find himself deleting posts all day, when he is already a very busy man.
IMO he went down the right road by deleting the offending post and admonishing the poster as soon as he became aware of it.
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PVSDB - We're trying to have a debate here about bringing back the Tash.
Put some effort into that. You've made your point about the offender, You've made your point about the offender again & then you've made your point finally about the offender again. Everyone agrees with you, why continue?
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pvsdb
I'm with you on the coterie debate, however there are too many regular posters here who, i think, give kojo et al deference because they think his is, or is close to some one famous and they like to wallow in some sort of reflected cyber glory, sad sooks that they are
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miketw10,John, PVSDB
The best way to treat posters like this is to completely ignore there posts , they will hopefully get fed up as I beleive they are very much attention seekers..
I usually just scroll down past there posts and read/respond to football topics about celtic..
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VargasShampoo :- Can I enter with the Tash my father wore?
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BSCP
So do I
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miketw10
Good man so lets draw a line and not mention them again as you and I and many others know that they enjoy all this infamy.
Football stuff...
I would keep Balde until a decent replacement was bought , as TFOD are building a Smithesque bully team and we need guys like Balde to match them.
Also IMHO
Pressley and McManus are too slow and just SPL average stoppers..
O'Dea and Kennedy are at least a season away from being the finished article
Caldwell...no comment
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BSCP
I agree, to an extent, so are we all going to ignore the poster in question, in the future, regardless of how attention seeking his posts are?
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back to fitba...
I think if we play Kennedy and McManus together for a period of time, then they will develop into a great centre half partnership for the bhoys.
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John
I do and the other two posters I know personally also ignore his and his merry bands posts...
It is an entirely individual decision to make.
Its Celtic and football that matter to me on this site...
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O'Neill in '84 Notts County team
http://www.craigcullen.co.uk/asp/club84.asp?club=NottsCounty
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John
Fitba
Its good to disagree on something..especially football..
Not a fan of either think long term one of O'Dea and/or Kennedy , with an other will be a good partnership...
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taxi4caldwell ,
I find your username derogatory.
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miketw10
I believe TG is on around 30k basic, still a fair whack.
I don't mind him staying as he still can make a decent contribution now he has some better players around him.....as long he stays in the opposition half as he has proved to be such a liability when in ours:)
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Glen, your scenario might cause problems for some, but it is only one scenario. Don’t get too hung up on details at the moment. If something like this can be pushed through there will be a solution to accommodate.
Psv, your carefully worded “he’s racist”….”Paul, why do you allow it?” is unfair on me, I did delete the comment remember. I have taken a considerable amount of personal abuse on here without once asking my attackers to leave the blog. I force no one to read or contribute, and I have never blocked an IP address, no matter how aggressive that source has become to me. I do impose rules and when the rules are broken I delete the comment, which I do a couple of times a week, mostly for minor offences.
As such, Celtic Quick News reflects magnificently on the Celtic support for the standards on display.
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just seen the most fantastic tache at Victoria Station. Very 'Harry Enfield' scousers esque
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Well said Paul! As one who has had a pop at some of the things you have said in the past I would concur that you treat the site as an open forum and in an environment that fosters open (but courteous) debate. Even if you do point blank ignore some valid points ;-)
Hopefully, this tedious, tedious matter can be put to bed now.
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BSCP/John
I feel a bit 'uneasy' about being part of a plot to ostracise certain individuals. I'd rather just do something like that of my own volition.
I know that might sound weird, but I wouldn't want to be branded as being a member of a 'lynch-mob'. I'd rather it was left to each person's own conscience.
That poster has his/her/it's own agenda to follow, just as you, I, and everyone else does.
Live and let live is how I see life, and an apology is all that should be necessary, although I can't see that happening! One can't, after all, apologise for something if one doesn't think they've done anything wrong... can they?
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I think the attention seeking of certain individuals on this site is quite shameful. They say something to provoke a reaction and then we find there is no truth in them. Do we get an apology? No, we get more of the same nonsense and people lap it up every time.
As a result of this I will not be back on this site until John and Pvsdb enforce their ‘self imposed’ ban.
I cannot even scroll past their posts, as that very action confirms the lies they have spread and the hurt they have caused.
Shame on you gentlemen.
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This blog is becoming a bit 'tache-ist
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pastyface
Harry Enfield wannabees, check out Clive Whitehead & Romeo Zondervan of West Brom!
Caaaaaaaaaaalm Down!
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A bit in the paper over the weekend on the male/female prizewinners at Wimbledon. The winners receive the same amount, and one article pointed out that Federer won 52 games in total, Williams 17.
I asked my 8 year-old how many games she thought Federer won on his way to becoming champion this year. 'Them all, dad' was the reply.
JFK and Mick for me at CB. Mick sports a 'didnae-shave-beard' from time to time, but there can be no place for a tache-only skipper.
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sdstim
I hear what you're saying, but my point is that it doesn't look at all like GS is going to play him (Graveson) again, or surely he would have brought him on at some point during one of the friendlies.
The fact that he has flown out to the States with them is confusing me no end!!!!
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danny
Not at all, they're all Tachetastic!
Just what the game misses today :o)
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Theragswerepublicansdisdain
Your comment alone is reason for me to stay on the site.
Enjoy your exile.
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Here's what the MSL is saying about the game:
http://mlsnet.com
Too bad wee Davie Beckham is missing the game with a sore ankle.
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miketw10
I thought this was dead and buried , I will do what I always do and scroll past their posts , its up to each individual to decided what they want to do , I see no point in banning anyone.
I will say no more on this matter
SDSTim\miketdw10
I like to think TG could do a job as it sometimes takes players a season to settle , lets give him at least until january to prove his worth...
Although WGS may already have decided..
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Now equal prize money at Wimbledon: that is pc nonsense gone too far.
Let's get back to centre halfs.
I would sell Bobo, say thank you and goodbye to Pressley, start with McManus/ Kennedy and have O'Dea and Caldwell in reserve.
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lovejoy
I suppose footballers reflect society at large where there are few 'taches these days.
Goatees are more common, I see Benitez has one now. Many goateed players ?
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BSCP...
Agreed... on both points!
On another point, the centre half one, I see Elvis not only harbours hopes of extending his contract, but of being skipper too... Pressley charts Celtic captaincy
Lights blue touch paper and stands well back
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miketw10
GS has indeed taken Grave out to the US, but he only got a him a one-way ticket:)
He's planning to send TG ahead of the rest to Newcastle....Oklahoma
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Sorry to disappoint you John, I am just as happy being a hypocrite as you.
I think reactions like today's say more about the person who is reacting than the person who was aggravating.
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danny
Goatees everywhere else, then over at snake mountain theres only goats ;o)
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danny
Indeed, and very, very few (any?)shaven-headed players in those Panini pages. Did Duffield not have a goatee for a bit, but as a pundit?
Anyone read 'That's me in the corner' by Andrew Collins, about his life as a music journo etc? Pretty good.
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miketw10
I certainly hope he does not get it..no harm to the guy , just dont think he is good enough for us.
I personally would not know who to give it to..
no stand out certs...maybe Boruc to help keep him and the fact that he is almost guarenteed a game.
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The baldest I remember from the Panini days was Armstrong of Middlesborugh.
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BillyStarksCurlyPerm
That's always generally been my view on TG, that he would improve in his 2nd season and have said as much more than once......but seeing another headless chicken performance in our 1st pre-season game still has me shaking my head.
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Bloke109
Does THIS count? ;o)
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It's also hard to see where TG will get a game ahead of Brown, Donati, Hartley, Sno, Jarosik, etc...
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sdstim
I know , I was using "its because hes palying beside a dead legged Lennon" excuse to my mates last season.But after the pre-season game I had not a leg to stand on...
I think he would be better in a five man midfield..but we cant just change style for him..
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I very much doubt TG will ever play a competitive game for Celtic again.
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danny
YUP!
He was follicly challenged!
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danny, top work, i remember him.
and lovejoys, how could I forget the comb-overs! uWE sEELER OF Germany, Noel Brotherston who played for NI was up there too, Johnny Metgod of Forest etc. Wilfred van Moer of Belgium in Europa 80 - but he was about 50. Archie Gemmell I spose, Eamonn Bannon lost it up top too.
In that book I posted about, Andrew Collins mentions Barry Venison as a tv celebrity of his time. Now I know with his mullet it's the other end of the follicular scale, but anybody know what happened to him, tv wise?
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eh.. bobos contract. What age is he and when does it expire. I love the big man but he hasn't seemed fit/comitted for a long long time. Will anybody take him on?
Fans here in spain really rate him from what they've seen and he's always quoted.
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Here's a whole team of 'tache-wearers' Click Here 8O)
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Bloke109
Barry Venison
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Let's not forget Mick Mills
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miketw10
Mr Mills
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Paul, well done.
Re VAT and all that....one of the causes of 'confusion' is that agents sometimes work for more than one party in a transaction. This is mental. I mean, completely nuts.
FIFA say you can't do this. People do, and are quite open about it. Inland Revenue seem to use FIFA's logic to disallow VAT claims where clubs pay agents who are also working for the player. IR's logic is, you can't be employing the agent when the agent works for the player, so we are disallowing the VAT claim.
I really do think that UEFA could create a 'Transfer Center' and require every transaction to go through this center.
Chelsea are reported to have paid AGENTS 16 million pounds over 3 years!!! When there is no transparency, when you can act for more than one party, and when the numbers are huge....then you have fertile ground for corruption.
The amount of money going out of the game should be of real concern. While few people outside of Leeds seem to have much sympathy for that club....does anyone remember the Harry Kewell transfer? Leeds ended up getting very little of that fee.
The clubs are allowing this to happen. They compete off the park as they do on the park. They enter into crazy deals aimed at short term solutions to promotion, relegation or CL qualification problems.
A central clearing house that allowed only club staff to participate in transactions between clubs, that required representatives to have clear contracts with one, and only one party.....and who publicised details of deals once they were signed....that would be a solution.
In North America, contract details are commonly published. Doing this, and including the agents' cut would bring a spotlight on the vultures that are feeding off our game.
OK. That's me done....:)
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mike
SNAP!
I win
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lovejoys
Thanks for that - helps charities and lives in California - and I was hoping for some scandal or other...
A balding boss of course would be wee Dick, but as I know someone called him 'egg-nog' for Advocaat, that's probably a wee bit too close to another debate on here.
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Lovejoy...
Ha! Just beat ya! 80P
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Weeron,
I agree totally that transfers fees, and all fees, payments, etc., involved should be made public.
The big difference in U.S. sport is that there is no transfer fee. Players are either traded (swapped), become free agents (Bosmans) or are released to join a new team. CLub to club payments just don't exist so there is no cut there for the agent, who works exclusively for the player.
Will we ever abolish transfer fees in football?? A big question and one with enormous ramifications for the game world wide. I can see a day when a challenge will come to the current system, perhaps under restraint of trade.
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Denver weather forecast is for temps in low 70s with a 40% chance of precipitation.
So although it won't be too hot it will be humid.
It will be a good opportunity for us to have a good look at Shalrie Joseph as he is in the starting XI.
'GG anticipating
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Paul....You're right cross that brigde if we come to it. I have heard that some members of FIFA (and maybe some of UEFA now we have Platini) believe regional leagues are the future, the world over if we are to keep football competetive at club level.
One thing I'd be keen on, which could go someway to solving the afforementioned problem would be a regional Division 2. Assuming an Atlantic League would have clubs such as Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV, Anderlecht etc (I'm speaking historically, not current form) I am convinced even a second tier of Antwerp, Gothenburg, Aalborg, Willem II, AZ Alkmaar, Boavista etc would still be far more of a step up for the likes of Hearts and Aberdeen in terms of finance and quality than playing St Mirren, Gretna and Inverness.
On another note, if Leeds go out of business (couldnt happen to nicer guys!) whats the possibility of taking their place in the English pyramid similar to what happened with MK Dons. We move Leeds to Celtic Park, change the shirts to Hoops and change the name to Celtic FC. Our SPL place could go to our u21's......pie in the sky but I'd be for it.
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I lived near Ipswich in the early 70s and went to a fair few games for three seasons or so. Mick Mills was one player I could just never take to, though.
Several years later I was with a bunch of friends for a weekend in Manchester and we went to a Man U - Southampton game. Mr Mills was playing right back for the Saints that day and we decided to abuse him, just for something to do. At one point he took a throw in just in front of us and gave a bemused look as if to ask what the hell we were up to. Oh, how we laughed.
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OK, one more thing.....
Edward, I love the fact that you feel comfortable on this board, and would never want to cause you any discomfort. So I hope this doesn't....
You mentioned the gersforum quite often. In fact, after you talked about it some months ago, I went in undercover. Don't tell them....:)
Anyway, as you say, there are some thoughtful posts on there, However, they do have a thing about one of Scotland's greatest managers. This doesn't fit with the rule you posted. No abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, obscene or ilegal content.
Given the (deserved) beating that our canine 'friend' took on here, I really don't see that the standards there are equivalent to the ones that Paul sets here.
I needed to get that off my chest, not to have a go at you, but because I find their campaign to be among the worst things the supporters of that club have ever done.
I'll say no more on that subject. I should warn you all though, that I am at home today, and if it rains, it will be a long day for you all.....:)
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Noel,
I remember you making a comment a wee while ago about us having our first bus run.
Didn't have a clue what that meant,but everything has become clear today.
If I know waht you meanttoday is like the way into Butlins,Ayr,on a sunny Sunday in the Glasgow Fair.
Or don't I have a clue what you were referring to.
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Hey Paul,
rather me than you.
Carry on my friend.
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Teddy @ 14:06
You left the door wide open for this fine piece of poetry. I'll only paste the chorus as it's a wee bit long.
It was stolen but it's traceable, though it paid the debts off fine,
It was nicked by Souness and the Mint, and was spent on lamb and wine.
My club it nicked a massive wodge, it nicked £8 million whole,
And on the sixteenth the rozzers found the Cash my Chairman Stole.
'GG who received a few verses.
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Bring on the rain!!!
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Has somebody taken he blog away and replced it with the twilight zone?
Paul,excuse me,but you and a few others seem to be getting sucked into this.
Even the songs debate would be better.
Give it a rest.
And that is saying something,coming from me.
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Somebody appears to have taken a few letters away from my posts too.
Vey weird.
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TuttiFrutti, weeron, thank you.
Glen, there would be rich pickings in Yorkshire, but I would not like the man the barricades.
Kano, ciao, all the rain seems to be 12,000 miles away from you.
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I think the main objective tonight is to be competitive.
After the last couple of visits to USA questions were asked by organisers about how seriously we took these games.
They accepted that we were there partly for conditioning work, but, mainly for the exposure and money.
If we look as though we are going through the motions for a third time we will find reduced terms next time.
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At least tonight we are playing a 'select' rather than a real team which should even things up a bit.
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Ye want a bet son?
60mm in the last two days,is,by anybodies language,wet.
Then again,in the middle of winter,and it rains a lot,the temp is min of 9 or 10 and the max is 17-22.
But then again,the level of rain is nothing,when it comes to the level of nonsense.
And it happened withoot me.
Fancy that?
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I am no hypocrite and wont stand racism...
Are you sure you want to send 'Celtic Quick News - Celtic news - not lazy journalism' to the Recycle Bin?
Yes No
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pics on SNS are showing Scott Brown with the beginnings of a masterful tache
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snspix
ID: #260734
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Let those without sin......
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Thanks Paul for your comments at 14.30 and I'm genuinely sorry that you feel I have been unfair on you. I feel certain extreme behaviour deserves an apology with the sanction of exclusion - you take the view that it is better to cut the offensive item and await an improvement in behaviour. We disagree. But that's ok.
I promise no more from me on this subject. Unless provoked!
All the best!
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Gordon_J,
don't take this the wrong way,but do you own several handkerchiefs,a couple of pinstripe suits,and a bowler hat?
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Posted on old post due to senility!
Well done Paul for the action against Collie. I, like many others, just scroll past his postings and had done so re. this one but on reading the comments went back to read it. Absolutely not what,I would hope, the majority of Celtic fans would want to be associated with. I think Ritchie Donovan summed it up perfectly.
Collie, I hope your tail's been neutered.
On another subject this American insight into our history and present team is worth a read (like the Boruc comparison).
AMERICAN VIEW
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WeeRon ;- I agree that some of the content leaves a bit to be desired and I don't try to defend that in any way. I wasn't holding it up as an example of all being good, I just found it strange that so often on here someone will say of a post, leave that to the huns or that suits the other side better than us. Like the Scots and the Irish, Rangers and Celtic fans are a lot more alike than many care to admit.
GG :- LMAO
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On the Tache Memory lane jaunt - The funniest thing i have ever seen in Football was involving moustachiod St Mirren midfielder 'Tony Fitzpatrick' He was running with the ball in the now defunct Tennents Sixes when the astroturf carpet came away from under him. Next thing you know Fitzpatrick is lying on the deck with a bust nose & his brush mouser is all claret.
Edward - do you own footage of the infamous Alex Miller comedy cramp hop. think it was a Rangers v Aberdeen cup final in the late 70's. It was also a v humourous football moment
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The view is there is an Astro-turf pitch laid and marked with floodlights. One grass pitch down and payable, the other three grass pitches are built and the grass is starting to grow. The main building needs some work as do the approach roads, but we will be in soon, then the view fae the windae will be wonderful.
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What's the best pre season friendly you've ever seen?
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Pulleeezzzeee all you shocked and stunned CQN'rs, Get a life will you?
Collie's fairly innocuous and only mildly potentially racist expression hardly deserves the head in the hands, gnashing of teeth and much worse we have heard over the past 24 hours.
To all of you righteous posters out there how many of you actually had heard the word Nig nog( hush ma mouth!!)before or at best since you were very young.How many of you knew what it meant. How many even noticed it.Many of you hear much worse at work, at school for those mortally wounded by the Mutt's utterance, and of course at that dear old green place Celtic park on a Saturday.
I don't see you all rushing into print then or shouting aloud at the game for the perpetrators to desist or you'll tell a steward.
Paul has made his decision( wee bit high handed I thought and a bit late) and that should have been enough to satisfy those offended by Collie's dastardly( see what I did there)outpouring.
Collie, if you read this, perhaps a small token of regret for any unintentional offence caused and a willing attempt to avoid any such wordsmith misinterpretations in the forseeable future or at least till next week when all will be forgoten and some other poor Chink, Paki, MIB, Pape, Fenian, DOB etc will be getting laldy for whatever offends the blogger of the moment.
I sincerely hope no one will leave the site especially 'the dug'.
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Celticlover,
Just read that article you posted. Their explination of the scotish mix of football and religion is infuriatingly over simplistic. And phrases like "for Protestans, Rangers are the only bet". Hardly a insightful view from them really. And I agree with you on the Boruc compariosn. I very much doubt a man who has sucsesfuly kept the likes of Rooney, Ronaldo, Kaka, Saha, and Boyd (spot the odd one out) for considerable periods of time, is inferior to a MLS keeper, even if he is their "All star". And with regards to the stadium, I fail to see how comparing a 26K seater stadium to the second bigest club owned stadium in the UK represetns an advantage to anyone.
Thanks for posting this. I love having soemthing to whhinge about
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Previous visits to the USA have seen Celtic teams fail to generate either passion or panache, perhaps with one notable exception three years ago in the city of brotherly love.
Tonight however, I hope the trips to Switzerland and the South have enabled the team to gain match fitness and work out the short close season rustiness.
The midfield, from my brief views, seems to be in fine flow and form. They will be opposed by a collection of players who are well into their season and are obviously in peak form, otherwise they would not have been chosen to represent the best of MLS. This will prove a stern test for Brown and Donati and a good 45 minutes from both will augur well for the season ahead. Shalrie Joseph will be eager to retain Celtic’s interest in him and will relish the physical contact and contest with Brown.
The strikers have found the net, even the goal shy Miller, and I look forward to our midfielders pushing forward to create openings and supplement the
