There can hardly be a better venue for Celtic to visit after a poor result than Tynecastle. The focus, which was so badly missing last weekend, is always evident there. As a consequence, we have a remarkably good record at what, on paper, should be one of the more difficult grounds to visit.
We should also see a tactical tightening. The empty acres behind the Celtic defence which Motherwell were able to exploit will surely be better defended tomorrow.
The postponement of the Hamilton game earlier this month, together with the loss last week, has given the league table a more competitive look. Last season this scenario was too much for Aberdeen, who stumbled at Dundee. It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the Highlanders this afternoon.
Delighted to read this morning that the Celtic FC Foundation are helping Mary’s Meals in Kenya, as well as War Child, on the back of the stunning success of their Christmas appeal.
What a club!
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Peace and goodwill to all mhen!
C’mon now!
HH!!
BMCUW
“That was an incredibly cheap shot. I thought you were better than that.”
What?? Suggesting that you may have had a sore head was “an incredibly cheap shot”? Really??
I would have thought that taking your reaction to my post, which was to accuse it of being agenda driven and, bizarrely , of having the fault of arguing my own point of view, would have been a cheaper shot?
Can I remind you that the accusation of being agenda driven (whit’s the agenda BTW?) was the first firing shot of a personal nature. You cannot give yourself the leeway and then be surprised and offended if someone responds in kind.
I say the same to yourself, Bobby, just deal with the point- that’s all it is.
I’m gonna log off now- I have no desire to deal with anyone else’s sensitivities- even if they are not hangover related.
P.S. I do suffer after drinking and there was plenty taken yesterday- I still did not seek to insult anyone in the first post I made
Goodnight Timland.
BMCWP and SFTB……both of you bring much
tae this dafties blog so ffs agree tae disagree
and move on.
Away tae enjoy the festive period,God bless.
A belated merry christmas to all. I hope posters and their families had a great day.
Good result for us today at Pittodrie. From what I gather the Shug Dallas disciple today, made two further wrong penalty calls added to those he made at Falkirk last week . I think two or three red cards he has dished out this season, have been rescinded . Unbelievable this buffoon has got so far. the Shugster has a ltto answer for in the alleged developement of our ref. Although not officially in charge , he seems to still hold an unhealthy amount of influens.
Following on from Paul’s lead on Thursday and our supoort’s contribution to good causes, Paul Larkin’s book and documentary ,the Asterix Years, as raised £21,900 for charity. Paul’s investigations into Murray and the Edinburgh establishment has had a double bonus, the malevolent effect Murray has and good causes benefitted from Paul’s work.
Gearoid has been posting on here a number of times about missing out on Liam Boyce . He has now scored 16 or 17 goals this season. His fitness and all round play seems to have improved. I wonder if he may caught our notice as a possible back up for Leigh.
Two of our former bhoys and bhoys fan getting Ross County’s goals today.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 26th December 2015 5:12 pm – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/tynecastle-perfect-venue-for-stumbling-celtic/comment-page-3/#comments
I don’t contribute very much to the blog anymore but I really don’t want to be drawn into a long drawn out argument with you on here. Indulging your foibles does not come that high on my list…………..
We may have met before in the Columba Club in Blantyre and I am more than happy to to discuss with you the issue of retaining possession etc., re when I am back in January…………
For now though pal, it would be less than civil of me to think that you really are so far up your own arse that your eyesight is obscured.
So I wont.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
WITS – Vautour was a certainty beaten today, simple as that.
No dis-respect to anybody, but Ruby needs to consider retirement.
How many more errors of judgment?
Mick Kinane was susceptible to the odd mistake – Mick knew when to call it a day though.
I backed Cue Card on course at the betting away pitch – so I’m not complaining, however if I’d bet the Mullins horse I’d be livid I would.
Walsh out.
HH.
SFTB
I still did not seek to insult anyone in the first post I made
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You did. I called you on it.
Be big enough to admit it,you insult and patronise everyone you reply to
It’s not the first time you’ve mentioned my alcohol intake,btw. It was mentioned a propos of nothing a few days ago.
As I suggested earlier,you were once better than that. And fwiw I hold a driving job so your insinuations are as bogus as much else that you post.
My family read this site. I will not have my rep traduced,nor the suggestion that I am a criminal,on here nor elsewhere.
Douvan and Faugheen win easily funny enough.
Why?
Time to step aside – pilots there like Jack Kennedy and Donagh Meyler ready to step up.
Beat all the trebles again, same as Cheltenham last year on Annie Power.
HH.
Evening everyone and Merry Christmas.
Through an unexpected turn of events I find myself going to Edinburgh tomorrow, I realise that it’s ridiculously short notice but if anyone has any advice on trying to obtain a ticket or a suggestion for a friendly pup in Edinburgh that might be showing the game, it would be much appreciated.
Getting a lot of messages from the Manchester area regarding floods.
Anyone on here close to there to put my mind at ease?
A wee read if your bored on Boxing Day (St Stephens day, my confirmation name) I’m watching boxing.
The Flat Earth Society?
by sitonfence
When a good friend of this site, Ninjaman, was invited to contribute an article to The Scottish Football Monitor, his decision to do so received widespread criticism. Bill McMurdo argued that his colleague at the RSL was correct in his decision. I concur with both that our message and our opposition to the current regime should be pitched to a wider audience. Ninjaman’s decision prompted me to have a look at this site. I have since listened to a number of very informative podcasts. The SFM mission statement is to be a forum for all Scottish clubs, including Rangers.
I’m not sure about how the SFM came into existence. I invite others to apprise me of their genesis. I may be misinformed but I get the impression that the co-founders contributed to the Orwell prize winning site, The Rangers Tax Case, which lifted the lid on tax malfeasance by the former board at Rangers. This board included Dave King and Paul Murray. Despite being complicit in this deception and malfeasance, both King and Murray were passed as ‘fit and proper’ to take up positions at RIFC. This has led many to conclude that a cabal at the SFA, namely Campbell Ogilvie and Stewart Regan, aided and abetted by Ralph Topping and Neil Doncaster, colluded with Rangers to either assist in this malfeasance, or to engage in a cover up.
The most compromised of these four individuals was Campbell Ogilvie. The SFM allege that Mr Ogilvie engaged in the signing of contractual arrangements that both breached SFA rules and were subsequently ruled by HMRC to be illegal. The SFM have documentary evidence which proves that Mr Ogilvie engaged in this activity on the 3rd Septemer 1999. The SFM also have sight of the side-letters provided to Ronald De Boer, Craig Moore and Tore Andre Flo. These letters are available for inspection at their site.
One of the questions posited by the SFM, which has much wider implications, is how an individual as compromised as Mr Ogilvie was allowed to play a pivotal role in the purview and the conclusions of the LNS commission. When the LNS commission was established on 5th March 2012, the SPL (Doncaster and Topping) engaged Mr Smith’s team to investigate the registration and payment of players who had been employed by Rangers Football Club plc. The LNS commission was initially charged with a timeline from 1st July 1998 to the 5th March 2012. However this was subsequently changed to effectively limit the LNS investigation to review EBT from the 23rd November 2000. The predecessor of EBT, the Discounted Option Scheme, was excluded from consideration.
The burden of providing information in regard to RFC plc was primarily the the responsibility of their administrators,Duff and Phelps. When ‘Auldheid’ commented on my previous article, he referred to documentary evidence that he had seen linking four of those indicted to face criminal charges. There are seven individuals listed to attend at Edinburgh’s High Court on the resumption of the preliminary hearing on the 5th January. Six of the seven are bailed to attend. Mr Ahmad is the only exclusion. If Auldheid has documentary evidence in regard to four individuals, would it be fair to conclude that there is a possibility that Duff & Phelps might not have discloses all the information that they had on file to Harper Macleod?
If this is the case, and I stress that I have not seen this documentary evidence and its provenance, we can but speculate as to their rationale for avoiding full disclosure. I have invited Auldheid to allow me to have sight of this information, but why would he choose to do so? I would be surprised if the SFM does not have access to this information. However they cannot publish anything that could be construed as contempt of court in regard to the seven listed to attend at Edinburgh’s High Court. Nor would I do so, but I would like to have sight of these documents and its provenance. This site is known to the SFM. They refer to one of my articles, and the comments by Bill McMurdo, in a post on the 18th December: http://www.sfm.scot/two-wrongs-and-a-right/ I note their censure of my ‘casual invective’ in regard to the judiciary, which is apparently not fitting of the higher standards of the SFM. Well pardon me all over the place. I evidently have a higher opinion of the SFM than they have of me.
The effective change of dates, and the alleged non disclosure of documents, was of benefit to Mr Ogilvie, who at the time of the LNS commission was President of the SFA. There are allegations that Mr Ogilvie and his colleagues at the SFA, colluded with Duff & Phelps, so as to exclude Mr Ogilvie’s engagement in an illegal tax avoidance enterprise from the ‘independent’ scrutiny of the LNS commission.
As the recipient of a £95,000 EBT golden parachute from Rangers in 2005, Mr Ogilvie should have been at ‘arm’s length’ to the LNS commission. Mr Ogilvie’s colleague, the SFA’s chief executive Stewart Regan, appointed himself on a three-man panel which oversaw the the ‘independent’ commission. Mr Regan had good reason to exercise his influence on the LNS commission. Not only was his president compromised, one of his executives whose remit included ensuring that all players were properly registered, had permitted players from 1999 to 2011 to be ‘imperfectly registered.’
Regan, who would have been a member of the team had anyone chosen to appeal the recommendations of this report and any penalties imposed by the SPL/SPFL, should have played no part in the supervisory panel. The LNS Commission appears to have been set up to preclude the possibility of anyone at the SFA or the SPL/SPFL being accused of gross incompetence or collusion with Rangers Football Club plc. In my considered opinion, the actions of Mr Ogilvie, Mr Regan and Mr Bryson, will be alluded to in evidence which will be presented in the forthcoming criminal trial. They should be concerned, as should be others who leaked the Charlotte Fakes material to embarrass and undermine the former RIFC regime. I may write more on this at a later date.
The SFM have published other key documents that were not disclosed to Harper Macleod and consequently played no part in the considerations of the LNS commission. These include a letter from HMRC to Michael McGill, the finance director of Murray International Holdings Ltd, dated 23 February 2011. This letter has a heading: The Rangers Football Club PLC (RFC) – Discount Option Scheme/ Value Shift Scheme (DOS). This letter refers to a meeting that occurred on the 10 February 2011 between HMRC and a delegation led by Mr McGill. The letter states that at this meeting, Mr McGill gave assurances that he would revert to HMRC by the end of February as to whether Sir David Murray was willing to voluntarily settle the tax due in regard to his operation of the DOS scheme, which ran from 1999-2004. The letter referred to another letter sent by HMRC to Mr McGill on 26 November 2010. In this letter, HMRC inquired as to whether they wished to settle as the precedent of Aberdeen Asset Management, which had engaged in an identical scheme, had been determined to be illegal. HMRC proposed that MIH settle the matter in regard to the RFC operation of DOS by May 2012. On 6th May 2012, SDM sold his equity to Craig Whyte and washed his hands of the matter.
SDM, being the wily individual we know him to be, would have included a clause in the sale agreement in which Craig Whyte wouls assume all responsibility for any actions of SDM’s board. The £2.8m settlement was not paid by Craig Whyte’s regime, nor was the 50% penalty imposed which led to demands for £4.2m and bailiffs issuing demands for payment at Ibrox in July, 2012. It was inordinately foolish of Craig Whyte to accept this responsibility. This responsibility also included the deliberate submission by RFC plc of an erroneous P35. Was Craig Whyte aware of what he had signed up to in the bill of sale document. Was he duped by SDM?
Michael McGill was unable to provide a response to HMRC’s inquiries by the end of February. He was awaiting the advice Andrew Thornhill QC of Pump Court Tax Chambers in London. In Mr Thornhill’s letter of 3rd March, he states that given the way the scheme was operated, arguing a case in its defence would be an uphill task. He stated that HMRC’s possession of two side letters demonstrates a true intention of putting cash in the hands of the players as part of their remuneration package. Mr Thornhill specified that it did not help that these side letters were denied (on two occasions) or not revealed ( one one occasion) by the Club. Mr Thornhill strongly recommended, in this state of affairs. that MIH sought a settlement with HMRC.
The LNS considerations were compromised by information that was withheld. The eligibility of Rangers to participate in UEFA tournaments in 2011 is also subject to question. Rangers did not disclose the existence of DOS side letters to the SFA. They did not disclose the strong recommendations of Mr Thornhill to settle. They clearly were in default of social taxes, yet despite this the SFA allowed them to participate. Stewart Regan drafted a letter to in an attempt to exonerate the SFA from their abrogation of their responsibilities. In this letter, Regan stated that Craig Whyte was using the issue of the outstanding DOS tax due, and penalty, as a bargaining chip with HMRC when the reality of the matter was that Craig Whyte did not pay any PAYE tax, National Insurance tax (of the players and the tax due by the Club) or VAT on the Ticketus arrangement. The latter resulted in bailiffs attending Ibrox in August 2011.
The SFM have written letters to Harper MacLeod, with copies sent to those entrusted with Scottish Football governance. Harper MacLeod have responded to refute the allegations that by not presenting information on the Discounted Option Scheme, the conclusions of the LNS commission were fatally flawed.
The SFM are unshakable in their strongly held convictions. Are they ‘flat earth’ conspiracy theorists or a voice of truth? Their published documentary evidence supports the latter perspective.
Peace and goodwill does not last to long on here
FFS
Boxing Day right enough
Love
Some very sensitive souls on here.
LENNONSPASSION
What,you reckon it’s awright for someone to call another poster an alky?
Aye. I’m sensitive on that suggestion.
I’d be similarly sensitive if he accused me of anything which he knew to be untrue.
KOLNCELT…. suggestion for a friendly pup in Edinburgh that might be showing the game…
Is that code for a hooker! :)
Anyone else hear of tomorrow’s game being in doubt?
Jobo
Thanks for that information about Tynecastle tomorrow mate.
BMCUWP,
Come on ir’s Christmas. I have made a 1000 jokes today about peoples alcohol inrake.
SFTB is a fine man. The accusations made against him are entirely unfair.
Stop being so sensitive bhoys.
Nobody jousts with SFTB more than me.
A nicer person you could not hope to meet in the flesh and a looker too.
HH
Kolncelt
The Roseburn near the stadium should have plenty Tims who don’t get tickets.
The Lumineers – Falling aka Drama Queen
https://youtu.be/b07gcIuKUYk
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
You can’t tar all Alky’s with the same brush some of them are nice people.
My post wasn’t just about you stop being so sensitive :-))
Aiden Mcgeady won’t be back for Celtic.if he did he would like a few in the team.be another whipping Bhoy when results go against us.personally I don’t want him back.been with us done on, and that’s that.
HAMILTONTIM, thanks for the info, I shall seek that one out.
SIPSINI :-) , I did see the typo but my first thought was ” why no edit function”
Your train of thought is obviously elsewhere this evening.
But having said that, if I can’t find the PUB suggested by HAMILTONTIM, I will need something to pass the time ;-)
Things going pear-shaped for Man Ure and LVG.
…and Charlie Adam.
HH!!
So let me get this right, our rubbish team and rubbish manager are top of the league with2 games in hand over Jose McInnes’s high flying sheep, even though Radio Shortbread hint that he has already won manager of the year for this season. How rubbish are the rest of the Scottish teams if we are still ahead. CMon the hoops.
Kolncelt…
A good come back, like most, we only have one train of thought. :))
Have a grand day. HH
STAIRHEEDRAMMY on 26TH DECEMBER 2015 6:34 PM
So let me get this right, our rubbish team and rubbish manager are top of the league with2 games in hand over Jose McInnes’s high flying sheep, even though Radio Shortbread hint that he has already won manager of the year for this season. How rubbish are the rest of the Scottish teams if we are still ahead. CMon the hoops.
Shaun the Sheep has better chance of winning league.
SIPSINI on 26TH DECEMBER 2015 6:45 PM
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AWE NAW
Unfair?
Crap. He’s called us out on many an occasion.
Put up,shut up,not a problem,bud. But not on this one.
That accusation from someone who has never met me is a disgrace.
BMCUWP
Your choice mate. You are wrong though..
I remember you along with MWD maligning my name while sticking up for a hunfiltrator that you both had begriended that day and demanding tbat my tandards be higher..
There was no descrepancy about it.
So if you on’t mind me saying. Your full of shite. Practice what you preach.
HH
Begriended is accurate
Awe naw…
If I ever have a pint with yourself and your young bro I’ll bring along a few pair of specks.:))
AWE NAW
I have to contradict you on that,mate. Not once have I given you a hard time on here,apart from a guid laugh when we played pedantry together about seven years ago.
Yer wrong,bud. Unusual. But still the same,wrong.
Everton win it right at the end, harsh the Newcastle keeper who’s played well
Sipsini
Dont bring Doc uless ypur bringing St. Francis with you.
HH
Ha ha Newcastle get it up ye!
BMCUEP
No you stated that you expected better from me. MWD too.
I moving on from this mate.
HH
AWE NAW
When?
A lot of pals falling oot over nothing……….fekn erses the lot of yeez.
Have a nice day.