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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MELBOURNE MICK on 12TH JUNE 2020 2:20 PM
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………
Mines was after i made my 1st holy communion my pals (proddy dogs eat the frogs) although none of us knew what was what at that age..gave me a right kickin’ and started calling me a fenian bastard.
revenge came swiftly as i laid wait on them one at a time before school …the plan was (as my ol man told me) was to get them when they were still groggy in the morn. I kicked the shit outta them…revenge was a dish best served cold!!!
Timbhoy2- you criticized a post of mine last week re McKenna, I posted an apology to all,you have been on a few times since,never recieved an acknowledgement, ignorant?
PS
can’t deny, even to this day i regretted that action…we did all make up eventually and i was never called a fenian bastard again. Well they didn’t at least
Fred
Doubt if we’ll get a funnier comment for the rest of the day😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏
Rock Tree Bhoy
I posted as much this morning that Cleopatra’s needle should be pulled down.
Of course the Egyptians are Africans.
It seems “Save the Hearts” is in full swing.
We all agree that a game at Tynecastle is a worthy fixture.
Howevva, since the league is judged on merit and points gained, they thoroughly deserve to be relegated.
Unless we want to introduce a franchise style competition like the NFL.
Does anyone think Budge or indeed anyone would be lobbying so hard if Hamilton, Livingston or Ross County we’re firmly fixed to the foot of the table?
Statues
Mr McGrory
Mr Maley
Fergus
John Keane.
and the peoples champion the other mr maley from the calton
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/from-the-calton-to-catalonia-17610442
If a picture ever showed hard faced defiance , with those clenched fists, and is that a sneer, this is it, front row, furthest right (ironic).
https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article17699999.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_James-Maley-comrades-captured-February-1937-machine-gun-company.jpg
I’ve been a stranger for a wee while so can someone update me on the stage of the LMS?
Thanks in advance
‘GG on 12TH JUNE 2020 6:05 PM
Tomorrow is Week 7
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
A14 team top league would be better, much prefer playing teams an equal amount of times over the course of a season. Also reduces games for the top which is a good thing.
Surely it benefits the teams most likely to be fighting relegation (even if you have 2 automatic delegations and a relgation play off spot), given those teams will have more chance of coming back up.
There is generally no losers and plenty of winners. It would be short sighted in the extreme for clubs like hamiltin, ross county and st Mirren to vote against such a plan.
Teams like hibs, aberdeen, motherwell, dundee united etc. lose next to nothing, get to mix the league up a bit and also increase the likelihood of more derbies.
So we will see a vote against no doubt
HH
I kind of forgot Mr James Maley’s incredible story.
I get spine tingling sensation everytime I do read it. it is worth the effort for those who havnt before
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Supporters+-+James+Maley.
If he was born in 1908 , a barrow hawkers walk away from celtic park, he must have seen some of the greats as a young bhoy , I wonder what his first game was ?
a face in the crowd, 1963 cup final, behind the kid in the duffle coat.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Supporters+-+James+Maley
the fella to the left could be fergus celtic da.
So, Penny Lane sign and Robert the Bruce statue vandalised?
Great stuff. That’ll show them murdering US cops.
I imagine the graffiti artists have just been biding their time.
Halfwits!
BADA BING Don’t take the huff ,I’m just as good a Celtic Supporter as your good self,but sometimes we have differences which is good ,because if we all agreed on everything then it would be boring anyway accept my apologies for not getting back to you,Take care stay safe.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD @ 11:32 AM
Alf Garnett would probably be banned now but he was created to ridicule the racist attitudes of the day.
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Your post reminded me of something Johnny Speight said in an interview years back.
It struck me then and has stayed with me.
When asked where he got the inspiration to create the character of Alf Garnett
He replied …
“I didn’t create him. I grassed him”.
Timbhoy2- thanks for your reply,we move on,HH
Why was the Robert the Bruce statue vandalised? Why Penny Lane?
Timbhoy2
Big Fraser was immense last season. If he had that cross catching sorted he’d be the world’s best. Getting him signed up with Eddie at Number 7 in a new Adidas Hoops top is what we are waiting for.
Play 2 up front next season – Eddie and Griff with Klimala (who needs games) back up. Bayo just looks clumsy and bambi-like to me. Don’t see a player there.
Good Evening fholks
Yes there were times I’m sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall and did it my way
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried
I’ve had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing…..
The last ever Friday footie quiz on the CQN blog starts at 9pm tonight….
Hope to see you then
HH
CRC
PCS
James Penny was a slave trader/ owner in Liverpool. Bet Paul McCartney didn’t know that.
Remember “Mind Your Language” from the late 70s? A whole class full of racial stereotypes including the sexiest French au pair that you could imagine. I had a huge schoolboy crush for Francoise Pascal.
Scaniel- didn’t know that, as I posted yesterday, this is a history lesson for me
DB- she was a babe……..hope you can still say babe….😵
Bada – you Francophile 🌰🌰🌰🌰
hi Scaniel
interesting your bankie chat.i recall those reunion weekends.ramelton and clydebank return I got the bus over getting on at Eastwood toll. I recall an Antony McGinley doing return for £10.a weekend on tare lol
hope all is goin good down your way
hh
I
BADA-my wife is under babe in my phone 😉
It’s still allowed 😉
FB
Your wife is under Babe in my phone too. 🤭
FAIRHILL BHOY on 12TH JUNE 2020 7:44 PM
I’ll haud yir coat :O)
CRC.
Very sorry to hear your ending the Friday night Quiz, All good things come to an end I suppose, sorry also that I am most unlikely to be around tonight, I might attempt to answer a question on my phone just for the sake of it but I am as slow as a tortoise on a lap top so God help me trying to respond on a phone.
Anyway would just like to thank you sincerely for all the time & effort you have put in, to provide such great entertainment.
An Tearman at 7:42
Yep, That’s the McGinleys. Pick you up and drop you off. More like a taxi than a bus.
All fine down here. D&G had/has the lowest mainland infection rate for quite some time now. I was actually allowed out this week for something other than hay and straw ….champagne.
GENE-yip I know,you’re mrs told me not long ago while she was making me breakfast 😉
FB
touche – off out – enjoy the quiz Bhoys
Why was the Robert the Bruce statue vandalised?
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i think it was because he sat and watched a spider struggle and fail to spin a web, and then keep trying and failing to spin the web
the spider was black in colour so his failure to help in the spiders struggle clearly has racial undertones
hence the statue gets it
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Corkcelt
Thank you for your kind words. I am hoping to move it onto a more user friendly and interactive platform in the coming weeks. So watch this space
HH
CRC
I’m hoping and expecting that our prudence in the last few weeks in not renewing contracts and offering lesser terms to Gordon is evidence of our determination to get value for money. Hopefully the real money outlays are being focused on the must not lose players like Eddie and Forster.
I want to see Moi remain and a replacement for Jozo. Let’s focus our resources into making theses things happen.
If our third choice keeper isn’t happy then he leaves with the thanks and best wishes of all the support.
VP-a good pair of very fast pair of trainers would be better 😂
remember that day henke ran out with a skinhead , nae locks , jaw dropping.
this image is nearly the same. 10 years younger, he can play till he is 50, and 23 in a row
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaTaYv0WkAAcq1P?format=jpg&name=small
A few pairs in there😂but only need the one 🤔
Thanks to those who made suggestions about a fan statue, I guess it would be difficult to put all our choices on one plinth, What about a father/mother and young ones representing the Celtic family through all of our story? I think supporters should be recognised for their contribution to the club since its inception.