I have watched a bit of the Championship on BBC Scotland recently. It’s seldom brilliant football but almost always entertaining. For most of the season I despaired at the prospect of Arbroath picking up the automatic promotion spot. The last thing we need is another tiny club with tiny resources lining their entire team along the 18-yard line.
This is unfair, of course. What this tiny team have achieved to get within a whisker of the topflight is remarkable. With Premiership TV money, they could emulate Ross County and previously Hamilton. They would bring little interest to the league, but seven figure payments go a long way when you carry low overheads.
The alternative is Kilmarnock, a side with vastly greater resources and a truly terrible artificial surface. Inverness and Partick will likely compete with the Premiership’s 11th club for the remaining topflight spot. Raith seem to have lost their way since the Goodwillie fiasco.
Clubs only survive in the lower leagues so long before whatever local appeal they had fades to an insignificant level. Dunfermline have a history, a decent sized local population, with an affluent business community, but the Leishman days are gone for good, never mind the Stein era. Ironically, it could be Raith, newly relevant in Kirkcaldy, who are more likely to bounce.
Former Celtic central defender, John Hughes, is currently managing Dunfermline. He led Falkirk to the topflight 19 years ago, then onto the top half of the table and a Scottish Cup Final. When he left for an ill-advised spell at Hibs, Falkirk never recovered. They have lost more than they’ve won in League One this season.
I’ll regret whoever goes down of Dundee or St Johnstone. Both are sold clubs with enough fans to do better. Despite the pitch, a Kilmarnock would be welcome. It makes for a healthier league.
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BRRB,
What pub are you in today? It’s a tremendous day for a beer garden
CELTIC MAC. Exactly. How much did old huns owe Police 10 years ago?
MJ, hello young fella. Orchard Park in Giffnock. Lovely but pricey. Capaldis are a nice family.
ERNIE LYNCH on 25TH MARCH 2022 2:32 PM
A cracker ( The joke, not the subject of it )! :-)))
bigrailroadblues on 25th March 2022 4:33 pm
I live very close to that but I was always under the impression it was a hun shop and as a result despite being here 17 years I’ve never been in :-)
Celtic’s integrity shredded by agreeing to retain the £49 oldfirm ticket prices in 2016, 4 years “after” Rangers supposedly died, in 2012.
But that executive level deceit was compounded when Celtic season-ticket-holders bought the mentioned tickets then the 7,000 of them sang….
“YOUR NOT RANGERS ANYMORE”
at ibrox in December 2016.
Talk about dim Timmy??
Or, lazy green huns, the other side of the bitter coin, or the green cheek of the OldFirm ass.
Trolls aren’t mugs, or traitors.
The old eejit, Michael Kelly, said on 4th of March 1994 after the McCann takeover….
“Celtic supporters will today be of a mind that there is a new way forward for the club. I personally think that when supporters, in the fullness of time, look back at the events of 4th of March 1994, then supporters will realise that this was the day that Glasgow Celtic, lost its soul.”
A bitter man?
Or a prophetic man?
Hmmmm.
Timmy7, definitely not a hun shop. Might have been before present owners and that’s going way back. I’ve got a house in the street beside kwik fit. Are near there,
bigrailroadblues
Don’t know offhand. But I do know this, whatever it is they’ll still owe it.
Are you near there? Ffs what happened there ?
CELTIC MAC. Should have added as if they shall ever pursue it. Appreciate your reply.
A wee bit further away, up the hill next to Hillpark secondary.
https://celtsarehere.com/robbie-keane-pulls-plug-on-ibrox-game/
JHB
You raised the issues and your pomposity needed ridiculing.
My views on historic child abuse are well known on here and my views on gender equality;ity in sport are well known too.
However, I will not dance to your tune or perform at your command.
I will post my views at my time of choosing. I have no desire to prolong low quality debate
https://bornceltic.com/2022/03/25/dan-orlowitz-recent-update-could-be-worrying-for-celtic-fans/
Timmy7 know your area very well. Used to have a paper round there about 1970. Eegads 🙄
Well it was good while it lasted.
Great headed goal by Slimani for Algeria, away to Cameroon.
This, from the Bard of Leitrim, is a long one and a dark one with some swearies, so don’t click unless you can cope and have 20 minutes to spare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6itbCUSmtG0
Pot Kettle Black
Watched Imelda May’s Voices of Ireland on Sky Arts- 2 episodes- very good
https://www.nowtv.com/watch/voices-of-ireland/iYEQYZHWrEf38wYMaVJbKs/seasons/1/episodes/1/A5EK4nmp9qb5ppDVoS991
BRRB,
Neighbours still tell tales of the legendary paper bhoy 😀👍
I use your street as a shortcut to and from fenwick Rd when I’m out cycling. Small world.
JHB @ 7:51 AM
“Peter’s legacy continues to grow even after his departure. We already know that various managers identified & signed all our top players over the last eighteen years, and PL did likewise for all the duds. So does that now mean that Ange is bound to fail?”
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How do you explain that Strachan had no idea who the Derry Pele was when he showed up at training? Pretty indicative that he had nothing to do with signing him.
Similarly, how do you explain Rodger’s reaction when he was questioned about the signing of Shved? “ Another winger? We have millions of wingers.” Anyone who believes Rodgers signed him is in cloud cuckoo land.
We ended up desperately signing last minute duds because the penny pinching cost cutting ex-bean counter for the National Coal Board applied the brakes after Seville, quailed at the cost of players his managers wanted, or stalled and nitpicked until the selling club, player or his agent gave up dealing with him. Piccini, Castagne and McGinn are but three examples. I am not saying that Lawwell did not sign some great players on deals good for Celtic, because he did. But this does not disguise the fact that his lack of European vision and ambition hamstrung Celtic since 2003.
BRRB
Just came along the Fenwick Rd,polis out checking i.d
Have you left seems to be the question asked.as a wee local says,he only goes there on pension day,
Enjoy always a sound pint in the o.p,letting in anyone noo right nuf 🤣🤣
HH
SFTB @ 4:57
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No my friend, you drop out simply because you have nothing to say – your ‘shoot from the hip jibe’ said it all.
Challenge my facts, or, my stance – that is what I would do if I disagreed. If your answer had better evidence and was more persuasive, it would be of genuine interest to me and others.
“drop-out “😀
BIGRAILROADBLUES
I knew Paul and the late Peter Capaldi when they owned the Dewdrop ( now sadly demolished ) on St. Vincent Street, just west of North Street. It was one of my haunts up to 1984, when I was deported.
Amazed the family still own the Orchard Park. Great people!
sceptical citizen
“Gonnae No Dae that” pls
Most of your stuff has been deleted from this afternoon
This is a Celtic Quick News not Politics Quick News
I appreciate it’s a blog and we cover a bunch of different subjects but…….
……….”Gonnae No Dae that” pls
It is going to be a hard decision deciding whether to watch Mane v Salah or neighbour rivals Ghana versus Nigeria in just over an hour.
INIQUITOUSIV on 25TH MARCH 2022 6:03
I am not saying that Lawwell did not sign some great players on deals good for Celtic, because he did.
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Cheers – I am not saying that PL was infallible, far from it. I say on balance that his input & influence was hugely positive.
I believe that Celtic, like many other clubs, had(have) a two-tier recruitment policy. On the one hand, first-team ready players(usually the more expensive ones), would be identified by the manager – others (future first-team prospects) would come in via recommendation by the wider scouting staff. Probably , as you mention, McCourt, Shved & recently Scales would fall into that category. All signings would need to be approved by the CEO, therefore PL was responsible for contracting(signing) the ‘wheat’ and the ‘chaff’
I think it highly unlikely that any CEO would scout, or, sign, players ‘off the cuff’
I have to say that “the penny pinching cost cutting ex-bean counter for the National Coal Board” has overseen the second-most successful football period in our history, made us the most successful sporting entity ever in Scotland, and ensured that we came out of Covid lockdown with our financial health intact.
That’s a good legacy to me – PL wasn’t God, but he was a true disciple of Celtic(still is)….imho HH
Astroturf and Fools and Horses.
Rodney claims to be an international tennis player is asked if he prefers astoturf or grass. I don’t know he answers , I’ve never smoked astroturf.
JHB is just a poor polemicist, and probably a hunterloper
Sissako having a bad day for Mali. An own goal and a red card. Down 0-1 at home to Tunisia with 10 minutes to go.
RON BACARDI on 25TH MARCH 2022 6:43 PM
JHB is just a poor polemicist, and probably a hunterloper.
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……and your evidence is?
“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error”
JHB is just a poor polemicist, and probably a hunterloper.
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……and your evidence is?
Your posts are the evidence…
JHB
Most of your postings
You really do see yourself as an intellectual Celtic man.
Great summation Paul. Celtic had some good games with Arbroath in the 70´s and importantly they play on grass!