It will not have escaped your attention that Scott Bain is the only senior goalkeeper under contract at Celtic. Fraser Forster is floating around while we wait and see if we can afford to meet Southampton’s terms (assume nothing here), while Craig Gordon rejected a “vastly reduced” offer to stay.
I know how important Fraser was last season, so if at all possible, I would have him back, but as a general position, I would be reluctant to pay comparable rates to anyone not in the ‘absolutely critical’ category. Football clubs everywhere cannot afford the contracts they paid last year. Like Celtic, many have to pay expensive long-term deals, but there can scarcely be a club in the world that would not be happy to offload players to generate enough cash to keep them in grass seed.
With so much trauma in the market, the clubs who shed expensive contracts and take advantage of newfound value from places they could not afford to buy from a year ago, will make the biggest gains this year.
The challenge for Celtic is to find a keeper who can mount a genuine challenge as first choice on the “vastly reduced” offer we made to Craig. The same is true for other positions we are looking to fill. Having missed Champions League football for two seasons, we have to be frank and admit that despite closing in on a fourth consecutive treble and nine-in-a-row, there are better players across Europe than some in our squad. 2020 will be the year of the trader, let’s roll the dice!
I’m not against reconstruction on principle, but like everyone else in the country, the first thing I think of is, “What’s in it for my club?” A 14 team top flight has two fewer games against bottom 6 (or 8) clubs. These games do nothing for Celtic beyond cluttering up our calendar, so I’m happy with that.
Since Hearts have moved on from both the football-competency and arrogant-belligerence approaches to avoiding relegation, their latest proposal, for a 14-10-10-10 setup hit the “What’s in it for me?” question. For most clubs the answer is nothing, beyond putting your name to a motion that helps a club that participated in an outrageous charade against the league in recent months. Aesop could have told the tale of Hearts actions this year.
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ernie @ 12:39 pm
You might, of course , be correct but the article below suggests it might not be a simple as ` It’s learned behaviour. It is not innate.`
https://www.medicaldaily.com/racism-innate-human-brain-makes-unconscious-decisions-based-ethnicity-240970
Paul67
Au contraire re FF
Jonny Hayes Jozo Sumunovic, and Mo Elyounoussi were non critical, but I don’t think FF is floating around waiting to see if we can afford to keep him, otherwise with all games over, so was the loan period, and he’d be in Southampton not Lennoxtown.
Fraser Forster is absolutely critical, and the ‘Number One’ number one priority IMO
HWG TIAR
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coneybhoy
That was brilliant :-))))
POR CIERTO on 11TH JUNE 2020 11:52 PM
GREENPINATA on 11TH JUNE 2020 8:39 PM
David 66, “I have no doubt many contacted Covid 19 in February or before.
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The last week in November I fell ill with a fever, I spent 5 days in bed, I went back to work a week later.
A further week on my left leg became inflamed and painful, I eventually went to the doctors who sent me straight to the southern.
I was taken right away and got blood thinning injections in my stomach.
I was scanned and diagnosed with a blood clot.
10 days later I took my son to the southern as he was struggling for breath, he was put on oxygen straight away and was kept in for 6 days with suspected pneumonia.
3 weeks later my dad was taken to the southern with pneumonia.
He’s 83 and we were told it didn’t look good, my da insisted he didn’t want resuscitation if the worse happened.
After 3 weeks we got my dad home, he still can’t leave the house but looking well now.
So I have no doubt the virus was with us back then.
PS… Blood clots is common with people contracting the virus.
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/425519864766086250/
apols crazy link
A US Female Olympic Boxer failed a Drug Test but was cleared of any violation when it was determined that the sample had been transmitted to her during sex with her Boyfriend.
Her name believe it or not is Virginia Fuchs.
Hail Hail
Stay Safe
SIPSINI on 12TH JUNE 2020 12:59 PM
Can I ask where you live por cierto?
Man’s ability to hate his fellow man is ……….
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GENE on 12TH JUNE 2020 1:50 PM
Man’s ability to hate his fellow man is ……….
Is taught at an early age por cierto.
POR CIERTO on 12TH JUNE 2020 1:41 PM
Castlemilk.
POR CIERTO
I think my hatred of bitter huns came at an early age when i got
a boot in the haw maws from one coming out of a pub in KP.
But despite my pain and discomfort i learned to feel for my fellow
man and his need to be superior WATP.
Especially when i heard he wouldn’t be able to kick a young bhoy
ever again after the Celtic family had a quiet word with him lol.
H.H . Mick
HS,
As a first port of call, just Google some info. I researched it years ago along with Glasgow.
https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/scotlands-slave-trade-and-montroses-key-role-1479125
Cheers and HH.
Can I just say it’s bizarre to be on CQN and have an advertisement for DUGOUT in the corner? It includes a montage of Rangers/Sevco goals-against Glasgow Celtic.
Ads on CQN are bad enough without a rerun of bad memories!
Fawlty Towers was a comedy which made fun of Racists. Basil was an idiot and figure of fun as was the major.. Alf Garnet was also aimed at making fun of Racists like Alf. Warren Mitchell was the opposite of Alf
Monty Python made fun of lots of people. There was a running gags about Welshmen, Englishmen and the French among every other group.
Ricard Prior was a black man whose stand up act involved Racism. We never thought he was a racist
Context is important
An the wee dug that shit in the graveyard every day for months.
It’s statue should get pulled in aw.
greenpinata
“So by your theory all racists all equal, but some are more equal than others.”
I was not aware of having referenced any theory and I don’t support the equation you give.
I do not see any binary division between racists and non-racists because I don’t believe there are many non-racists. I have certainly had racist, sexist and sectarian thoughts and expressed some of them for all to hear.
I do believe some people are not as good as other people. Don’t you?
ernie lynch
“No they don’t.
It’s learned behaviour. It is not innate.”
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I should have excluded neonates from my statement.
What I mean to convey is that few cultures hav failed to develop racist, sectarian or misogynist thinking among their populations and I have not met many people who can genuinely claim that they are free of it. That does not mean that, because we are all a little but racist, that we cannot condemn those who are a lot racist.
Sipsini – for goodness sake you and your family have been through the mill mate.
Hope you are all well now. 🍀🙏🍀
God bless
D. :)
Sipsini
that is a horrible situation for you all and i agree it could not be a coincidence that a family were all affected.
Hope all 3 of you are well
RON BACARDI on 9TH JUNE 2020 5:09 PM
SCANIEL
‘neil mcginley mullaghduff’
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Apologies for missing your post. Wife’s birthday this week and must have missed it but found it this morning whilst scrolling back.
Yes, that’s a branch of the same family, but not my ghuy, and as you’re from Clydebank ( your post re. John Brown’s Shipyard) you’ll probably know the family. I’m pretty sure it is the family that ran the Donegal Express from Clydebank every weekend. I only met Con McGinley once, in the Queens Park Bar, on a Friday night just after he retired. I was introduced to him by my friend Neil (his nephew) and in an attempt to ingratiate myself to him I added “ a god Irish name” after mentioning my surname. “A bad Irish name, oh indeed a bad Irish name”, he exclaimed firmly putting me in my place. Thankfully, after a few pints of the black stuff, he told me he was only kidding.
I did make it to Mallaghduff once with Neil, but that’s another story and one I would have difficulty in recalling.
Thanks for all the info.
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P.S. Remember when birthdays only lasted one day. Mrs S’s birthday was Thursday, but because middle daughter is a nurse and working on Thursday we had a pretend family birthday on Wednesday, her day off, and now on Friday we are having a birthday weekend.
didn’thappeninmydaycsc
Good Irish name, of course…..but god works too.
Connaire12 .
A statue of a fan outside the stadium ?
Auldheid , without a shadow of a doubt.
And he should have one outside of Hampden as well .
Fred C- Gets my vote
PCS- Just got a text from the Club, ST phone line back on Monday
TIMALOY29
Well said! The DUGOUT ad is persistent, re-emerges after being closed or Xed out, and is really annoying. It is both at the top of the page and bottom right hand corner. It is resistant to three Adblockers that have eliminated all other ads. Is it present because the site has been hacked, or is it sanctioned by Paul? Sadly, I am almost out of patience with CQN.
IniquitousIV
Only escape is to disable java
I’ve had no adverts since , only problem is you continuously have to sign in again
Just use chrome for all other internet
I use iPhone
INIQUITOUSIV on 12TH JUNE 2020 4:35 PM
Well said! The DUGOUT ad is persistent, re-emerges after being closed or Xed out, and is really annoying. It is both at the top of the page and bottom right hand corner. It is resistant to three Adblockers that have eliminated all other ads. Is it present because the site has been hacked, or is it sanctioned by Paul? Sadly, I am almost out of patience with CQN.
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I don’t have an issue with CQN having some. Though it can be hard to navigate this site sometimes.
But ads showing goals against Celtic for our biggest rivals are unfortunate to say the least!
Thanks SIPSINI, I’m in the East End. Glad to hear you all recovered and hope your Dad gets back to near his best, take care por cierto.
Further to my earlier post re statues , I realise that proposing Auldheid alone overlooks the significant contribution of the other resolutioneers .
So , my new proposal is a sculpture with all of the resolutioneers represented .
Maybe in the style of Rodin ?
Auldheid , would you mind posing in the scuddy ?
Oh and we’d need to do a background check.
No point in erecting a statue to Auldheid then finding out in ten years time that he was a member of the Hitler youth .
BADA BING,
Thanks for the info.
BIG WAVY, I Suppose we have opinions on football players,I’m Going against your selection off player’s you don’t rate ,In Fraser Fosters case he like Gordon are good stoppers,but slow in getting down and there distribution is not up to the mark,as Shved and Bayo there are good players there ,but at the minute there are better players in the same positions,so I would keep,as for Benyu I don’t think he is a bad football player,but he isn’t good enough to play for a big Club like Celtic,and I’ve came to the conclusion especially under Lennon if your face doesn’t fit,well your days at playing for Celtic are numbered.
FRED COLON on 12TH JUNE 2020 5:00 PM
Oh and we’d need to do a background check.
No point in erecting a statue to Auldheid then finding out in ten years time that he was a member of the Hitler youth .
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Or the scouts for that matter .
Fergus McCann is next in line for a statue in my view
The Pyramids in Egypt were built by slaves. Some say they should be flattened as a way of acknowledging wrongs of the past. Then again some say a club other than Celtic will one day win a trophy in Scotland. Who to believe – its a dilemma.