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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PictureThis Scotland
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Jun 11
Scotland v England at Hampden Park, 27th May 1972. Bobby Clark collects for Scotland. Att: 119,325.
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GG,
As Lennybhoy stated, LMS is at Round 7, games to be ‘played’ tomorrow. Going into Round 7 we still have 25 competitors fighting it out.
Rounds 8, 9 and 10 will feature remaining SPFL games, including the Virtual Scottish Cup Final, and weekly live games from the EPL.
Not sure if the biggest challenges in this particular LMS have been faced by the entrants or the organisers 😂😂
We were able to donate a large sum of money to the Strathcarron Hospice Just Giving account last week, and will shortly announce the details of prize fund for the winner of The competition – still chasing down some stragglers for payments.
As always, the generosity of all who took part ( and who continue to do so ) was genuinely humbling.
HH
St Stivs
Great picture of Cesar at Hampden
Enjoy thr quiz troops…HH
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CRC
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the men ,the woman,the boys and girls who followed Celtic through thick and thin,ups and downs,I think the family representation would be a good symbol.i have a special thought for those who followed Celtic post ww1 until Jock Stein s tenure.
HH
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On their way to Lisbon Four leaf clover
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That’s my bus! London No 1 CSC operating out of The OldFarmhouse Kentish Town. Put a picture on Twitter a fortnight ago of us on way home. That’s me on ground on right holding scarf. See als Bob, Black, Mick Grines and my mate John Derry who funnily enough was from Armagh
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CRC,
good luck on the quiz.
as usual i cant take part at this time on a friday night due to a groin strain
i falloff off a wagon every friday
jack before broon, shows yir medals ya wee knaff.
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Good evening folks
Welcome to the Friday nite fitba quiz with 5 rounds of all things Celtic,
Hopefully you have all disabled javascript, obviously temporarily for the duration of the quiz.
Everybody welcome to join in or just lurk. Remember you are permitted just one submission of answers per round.
If you want to get in touch, the correct email address is : walkwithshay@yahoo.com.
Round 1 follows
Test
Test
Round 1: If you know Your Celtic History
( 1 point for each question answered correctly. If you are the first person to answer a question correctly then you get a bonus point. Only your first guess will count)
1 Who did Celtic beat in the final to lift the Empire Exhibition Trophy
2 Which Albanian club did Celtic play against in Europe in 1979/80
3 Name any of the English clubs, Fraser Forster was on loan to before joining Celtic on loan?
4 True or False, Celtic won their first league championship in 1895/6?
5 Which Celtic player scored in the first minute of his only old firm appearance in April 1982?
6 Who scored the goals for Celtic in the 5-0 demolition of St Mirren at Love Street in 1986 allowing the Celts to lift the league title?
7 Tommy Burns made over 10 appearances for Scotland? Yes or No
quiz not test :-)
the man from across the bridge, hope your doing well DD
Fish long since devoured, JUve v AC Milan on the Tablet, CQN Quiz on the PC…..life’s still good!.
1. Arsenal
2. Tirana
3. Hull
4. False
5.
6. in no particular order, McClair (2), Johnston, McStay, Mcleod
7. No
Garry di you fancy yir chances buddy 🤔
CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING THE WALK WITH SHAY LEGACY FUND on 12TH JUNE 2020 9:01 PM
Round 1: If you know Your Celtic History
( 1 point for each question answered correctly. If you are the first person to answer a question correctly then you get a bonus point. Only your first guess will count)
1 Who did Celtic beat in the final to lift the Empire Exhibition Trophy
EVERTON
2 Which Albanian club did Celtic play against in Europe in 1979/80
PARTIZAN TIRANA
3 Name any of the English clubs, Fraser Forster was on loan to before joining Celtic on loan?
WEST HAM
4 True or False, Celtic won their first league championship in 1895/6?
FALSE
5 Which Celtic player scored in the first minute of his only old firm appearance in April 1982?
DANNY CRAINIE
6 Who scored the goals for Celtic in the 5-0 demolition of St Mirren at Love Street in 1986 allowing the Celts to lift the league title?
MCCLAIR 2, JOHNSTONE, MCSTAY, BURNS
7 Tommy Burns made over 10 appearances for Scotland? Yes or No
NO
1 Everton
2 Partisan Tirana
3 Norwich city
4 True
5 Danny Crainie
6 Yes
! Everton
2 Don’t know
3 Don’t know
4 False
5 Crainie
6 McClair 2 Judas 2 Paul cStay
7 No
This is tough
1.Hibs
2. Tramszor
3. Scunthorpe
4. True
5. Alan Sneddon
6. Le petit Merde . Maestro . Murdo . Tommy Burns & Brian McLair .
7. Yes
1. Everton
2. Tirana
3. Norwich
4. True
5.
6. Judas 2 Chocky 2 Maestro
7. No
Corkie . Many happy returns ;-))))
Rarely post but feel the need to point out that the format and overall manageability of the appearance site seems to have drastically changed from my perspective in the last couple of days. It seems the content could be the same but the presentation has become stark and I find it impossible to manoevre my way around it. I realise my absence will mean very little or nothing for the site but if others are seeing what I’m seeing it will have an impact on “attendance”. Are you seeing what I’m seeing ? I suspect not as I’m sure there would have been a reaction.
Everton
Partizan Tirana
West Ham
False
D Crainie
McClair 2,Judas,McStay,Burns
No
Baws up. Missed 6. Was at the game as well.
One of our greatest days.
Saint Stivs
Hola neebor across the watter.
FB
In it to win it. Bad start.
3 more mins
DD- I’m rooting for you buddy 😂🍀
CRC . Fitba quiz . Thumbs up
Answers to Round 1: If you know Your Celtic History
1 Everton
2 Partizan Tirani
3 Stockport Bristol Rovers Norwich
4 False, it was 1892/93
5 Danny Crainie
6 Paul McStay Brian McClair(2) Mo Johnston (2)
7 No, 8
MADREBMACS GRANDPA – The site looks the same as it always does for me. My access is fine most of the time but only because I’ve adopted the oft mentioned workarounds, something that shouldn’t really be necessary. No sign of anything changing soon. Might need to find a new Celtic site of choice. Unfortunately (understatement!)
Scores after round 1
12 JOBO BALDIE
10 SAINT STIVS
8 !!BADA BING!!
7 CORKCELT
7 EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT
5 DELANEYS DUNKY
3 ANGELGABRIEL
Round 2: Celtic in Europe: It was Sept 1987 and Celtic were on UEFA Cup duty and up against German opposition at Paradise
( 1 point for each question answered correctly. If you are the first person to answer a question correctly then you get a bonus point. Only your first guess will count)
1 Can you name Celtic’s opposition?
2 What was the score at Paradise?
3 Who was in goals for Celtic that night?
4 Who scored the first goal for Celtic that night?
5 What the score in the game in Germany (remembering to state the opposition score first)?
6 What ex-Celt played for the opposition that night in Paradise?
1. Cologne
2. 2-1
3. Pat Bonner
4. McLair
5. 3-0
6. Murdo Mcleod
Borussia Dortmund
2-1
McKnight
G Creaney
Borussia 2-0
Murdo MacLeod
Borrusia Dortmund
2-1
3 Don’t now
4 Walk
5 3-0
6 Mcleod
1 Borussia Dortmund
2 2-1 Celtic
3 Alan McNight
4 Derek Whyte
5 0-2 for BD
6 Murdo McLeod.
Thanks CRC, was at both games 😊👍