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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1.Rab Douglas
2. Dennis Connaghin
3. ?
4. Peter Latchford
5.Roy Baines
CRC
FFS. That question really hurt my brain. Hate working out anagrams when I am stoned.
Much preferred the old round 4, head to head…. ;-)
3 more mins…
DD .
I wish I was stoned .
1. rab Douglas
2. dennis connagan
3. gordan marshall
4.
5. roy baines
Jobo
Celtic dingbats for the final round :-)
HH
CRC
Jobo
You sounded like my dad there. That was his catchphrase 😊👍
Thanks for the happy memory.😊
Scores after round 4
30 JOBO BALDIE
30 !!BADA BING!!
22 DELANEYS DUNKY
22 EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT
19 SETTING FREE THE BEARS
16 ANGELGABRIEL
14 CORKCELT
10 SAINT STIVS
Internet dingbats, if you don’t mind!
Round 5: wHoops am I?
(Up to you when you want to guess, but you have 1 guess only. 5 additional pts to the first person to guess correctly)
1 Born in 1956, I signed for Celtic in 1987 10pts
Quite emotional here in advance of the final ever CQN Quiz question…………
CRC can you check scores…
Billy Stark
I have to guess early- Is it Davie Provan
Round 5: wHoops am I?
(Up to you when you want to guess, but you have 1 guess only. 5 additional pts to the first person to guess correctly)
1 Born in 1956, I signed for Celtic in 1987
2 I scored on my competitive debut for Celtic 7pts
AG
Has its concentration properties for anagrams the MJ. Just seems such an effort though. 😜
Billy Stark
Bada_ I will check them at the end…..
Did not mean to put Davie Provan- never mind!
Billy Stark
CRC ta
Round 5: wHoops am I?
(Up to you when you want to guess, but you have 1 guess only. 5 additional pts to the first person to guess correctly)
1 Born in 1956, I signed for Celtic in 1987
2 I scored on my competitive debut for Celtic
3 I nearly signed for Rangers ( deceased) as a youngster, but was talked out of it by an ex-Rangers player turned manager 5pts
I was beaten to the answer anyway.
Billy Stark
Ah shit Bada ye beat me by a minute. Thought I could bow out with a bit of glory.
Billy Stark
Round 5: wHoops am I?
(Up to you when you want to guess, but you have 1 guess only. 5 additional pts to the first person to guess correctly)
1 Born in 1956, I signed for Celtic in 1987
2 I scored on my competitive debut for Celtic
3 I nearly signed for Rangers ( deceased) as a youngster, but was talked out of it by an ex-Rangers player turned manager
4 A midfielder, I left Celtic in 1990 signing for Kilmarnock 2pts
Oh My Days!!!!!
Billy Stark
Ah, Just see Jobo was there before us all. Ah well.
CRC What were the answers for the anagrams? Or did I miss them somehow? Did soooooooooo badly I would like to know. Ta
Answer is Billy Stark
2 mins for a score check
Answers to Round 4: Celtic Anagrams: Name the Celtic Goalkeepers
1 Robert Douglas
2 Denis Connaghan
3 Gordon Marshall
4 Peter Latchford
5 Roy Baines
Bada-reckon score for round 4 was correct at 5pts for you.
HH
CRC
We renamed our Supporter bus The Billy Stark Temple, when the big man signed for us. Great player, great guy, and aTim till he dies now. Love a convert. Local lad done good.
We have a winner……
45 JOBO BALDIE
37 !!BADA BING!!
27 DELANEYS DUNKY
27 EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT
21 CORKCELT
19 SETTING FREE THE BEARS
18 ANGELGABRIEL
10 SAINT STIVS
Congrats Jobo and thanks to everyone that took part
Stay safe and I will be in touch over the next few weeks with a new format/platform for the quiz
HH
CRC
….plus he had a short spell managing EKFC ;-)