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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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  3. TheLurkinTim on

    My first double post…i’s a sign a tell ya…of what? Your guess is as good as mine ;-)(

     

     

    H.H.

  4. David66 on

    Good morning cqn from a lovely morning in the Garngad

     

     

    Bring on the Zombies.

     

     

    Much to do. Laters

     

     

    D :)

  7. Tom McLaughlin on

    Ernie Lynch displaying the actions and words of a troll.

     

     

    “That isn’t name calling. It’s an accurate description.”

     

     

    Aye very good wee man.

  9. corkcelt on

    The Lurkin Tim, are you trying to start World War 111, suggesting Big Jimmy move over to Sentinel Celts.

     

    The reason he got banned here is that he is allergic to Big Packy.

     

     

    Big Packy posts profusely on Sentinel Celts and has his own group of aficionados on there,

     

    It would be carnage if Big Jimmy moved in,

     

     

    It would be some craic OK, I must admit but I think best option now would be maybe Big Jimmy make a wee alteration to his name and resume posting here.

     

     

    Life is too short to bear grudges & keep feuds going, a wee change by Big Jimmy & Paul/Mod to turn a convenient Blind Eye & we all enjoy last few weeks of Season & hopefully one of our sweetest Title wins,

  10. TheLurkinTim on

    Corkie…to be honest I was just gonna sit back and enjoy the, er, show so to speak. And mibbe chip in and stir where appropriate lol

     

     

    Yer such a spoil sport…ffs…these International breaks leave me with too much time on my mind. Wiz worth a try ;-))

     

     

    BoredCSC

     

     

    H.H.

  11. TheLurkinTim on

    Addendumunfortunately…guilty as charged

     

     

    Not sure Big Jimmy is open to changing his moniker unfortunately, though I’d suggest Big Bad Jimmy and we can abbreviate it to BBJ ;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  12. scullybhoy on

    Tom McLaughlin on 26th March 2022 8:58 am

     

     

    Ernie Lynch displaying the actions and words of a troll.

     

     

    “That isn’t name calling. It’s an accurate description.”

     

     

    Aye very good wee man.

     

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

     

     

    The definition of prejudice is believing that an opinion is a fact.

  13. Burnley78 on

    8 more sleeps till we hopefully create more great Ibrox memories !

     

     

    My 3 for today are :

     

     

    The 2-1 Charlie Nic New Year game. I could only get a ticket for the Copeland rd and so had to watch from there. Wee Paul scored early and then Charlie. I made my way round to the Celtic enclosure with 15 minutes to go and got in as the gates had opened so I could celebrate with our own.

     

     

    The 3-2 red card red card game when 10 men extinguished their hope again. Brendan genius and Ed did the biz for us. 4-0 in the cup 2 weeks later saw normal service resumed.

     

     

    The 2-1 Centrnary season when we really did begin to believe. The Huns had Souness Butcher Woods and many more on their ranks. Paul McStay and Andy Walker goals saw us home in a performance where fans and team aligned. It was the first ever game I took my, now wife, to.

     

     

    Hopefully we have more great Ibrox memories come 2pm next Sunday.

  15. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    I’m an Irish unionist, i believe there should be 32 counties under the tricolour, does that make me a unionist, darn tootin it does.

  19. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    To think WITS, you’d have been ok if the Russian’s had invaded on the grounds of WMD and found them bio/chem labs spnsored by the Pentagon but it was ok for the UK and yanks to do that to Iraq and no find them eh, murdering upwards of 200,000 civilians, and your heart is pumping purple pish for the foreigners innit.

     

    Or Yougoslavia, tell me about that fraud?

     

    More civilians murdered in less than a week in both adventures than the Ukraine suffered after a month of Russian aggression.

     

    You swallow everything the MSM tells you except when its comes to Scottish football, very discerning eh, for a bright mhan your no very smart, try looking beyond you semi-trusted sources.

  23. JHB on

    CORKCELT @ 9:51

     

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    Life is too short to bear grudges & keep feuds going.

     

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    I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment – it is true and the best of advice.

     

     

    I am ambivalent on the BJ issue, I have read only the smallest fraction of his many contributions – latterly none at all, and I don’t know the history. I hate to see anyone barred for giving an honest opinion, framed under the guidelines of the blog. I would imagine that a pre-condition to reinstating anyone to any forum would be that they undertake not to repeat that for which they were excluded – maybe a way forward?

  24. nottaclue1 on

    Job, don’t want to get involved in one of the many squabbles but…

     

    Did you not post something regarding big Jimmy getting banned only last week ?

     

     

    As I remember it was less than ambivalent.!

  26. JHB on

    NOTTACLUE1 @ 12:35

     

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    The answer to that question/statement is no. Maybe you’re just hoping it was true.

  27. JHB on

    NOTTACLUE1 on 26TH MARCH 2022 12:49 PM

     

    Sorry, jhb

     

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    Didn’t see the above – apology readily accepted.

  30. bankiebhoy1 on

    Celtic Quick News……………….

     

     

    Beware cheap imitators and imitations.

     

     

    HH.

  33. An Tearmann on

    MARSPAPA on 26TH MARCH 2022 1:09 PM

     

    Aw naw, gonnae no.

     

     

    Aw cannae help it once a start greetin 🤣🤣🤣

     

     

    Some were so bad lol

     

     

    https://youtu.be/7W3xSDhxL_Q

     

     

    Wee Neil Reid,whatever happened? 🤣🤣🤣

     

     

    HH

  38. 18 yard man on

    AN TEARMANN on 26TH MARCH 2022 12:09 PM

     

     

    To all missing unionists and cult members

     

     

    https://youtu.be/-1X1THe0u7c

     

     

    Sydney nobody’s child

     

     

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    AT…this sparked a wee memory of this version from the late 60s/early 70s…

     

     

    As I was slowly passing by Ibrox Park one day,

     

    I stopped there for a moment just to watch the Rangers play.

     

    Alone a man was standing and when I asked him why,

     

    he turned to me with tear filled eyes and he began to cry…

     

    “We’ve no got a side, we’ve no got side.

     

    Just like the Thistle, we’re on the slide.

     

    No Jimmy Johnstone and no Harry Hood,

     

    no Bobby Murdoch, we’re no f@#$ing good”

     

    🙂

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