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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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  1. Drambowiecelt on

    @David66 ..Hi ..glad i caught you mate…..I’m typing away at CQN ..and the wee one says .

     

    Granda you talkin tae Big Jimmy….Me..erm naw hen … other friends…

     

    Oh where’s Big Jimmy? …oh he’s busy just noo….Oh ok give him my x

     

    I will hen.. I will. Weans eh???

     

     

     

     

    H.H

  2. drew1967 on

    DAVID66 how ye doin mate.do you remember playing Redheugh B.C the year we tried to retain the

     

    Ayr International Tournament with Possil Y.M .Gascoine played for them as a youth.I can still remember the game, they pumped us, and had a cheeky wee bastard in midfield who ran the game.he spent the whole game trying get everybody fighting with each other.Gascoine is the same age as us and i’d put money on it was him.

     

     

    Hail Hail Brother

  3. sceptical citizen on

    AN TEARMANN

     

    •••••••••••••••••••

     

    So going by your, eh, answers, you didn’t identify exactly how many refugees that you “personally” have taken in so it was none, zero, zilch, refugees that you have taken in??

     

    Would that be correct??

     

    How many has grandstanding, Krankie, taken in??

     

    Or is it you who has been taken in by the lie packed, Krankie owned, cowed, and bullied, Scottish anti-Celtic media’s gushing tears of bull fakery??

     

    There’s always tomorrow eh.

  4. An Tearmann on

    David66

     

     

    It saddens me to see him the way he is.As a human he is damaged and probably needs support for his chaos.For to long that chaos associated with him and the meeja carcas pecking that goes on now with the annual gazza tabloid headline tail.in a way it says more of us

     

    It’s sad to watch and sometimes read…..again bout some act committed,aye he is an arsehole,and a lot are still writing bout him sadly,

     

     

    Hope your good,just the whole circus about him I loathe

     

     

    HH

  5. JHB on

    Just to clear – I have done a fair bit of research into the profile and administration of the womens’ game and have amassed a substantial amount of information. It is not my intention to publish any of this meantime as things are constantly evolving.

     

     

    However the following e-mail exchange with names redacted will give an insight into the intentions of those at the top of the womens’ game. This followed the news that Scottish Womens’ Clubs will join the SPFL next season.

     

     

    (Sent by me)Good day,

     

     

    With the latest news, will there now be a concerted push for parity with the men’s game, in respect of wages & an equal share of SPFL sponsorship funds? If so, what do you think the timescale may be to achieve complete ‘equality’.

     

     

    Kind regards

     

     

    (Reply)Hi ……

     

     

    Thanks for your email.

     

     

    It is difficult to put an exact timescale on achieving equality. However SWF will continue to work with senior clubs, the Scottish FA and SPFL to achieving equality within football for all.

     

     

    Scottish Women’s Football

     

    Hampden Park. Glasgow G42 9DF

     

    ——-

     

    This is where we are at – no fixed timetable, but nonetheless, a firm resolve to achieve equality.

     

     

    This is happening – the only question is how it is resolved. Pretending that it will go away is delusion.

  9. Drambowiecelt on

    @JHB ..equality started today with Celts ghirls winning 4 nil at paradise…

     

    First home game for the team ..

     

     

     

     

     

     

    H.H

  10. 18 yard man on

    “It is difficult to put an exact timescale on achieving equality.”

     

     

    Definitely not imminent then…

  12. fieldofdrams on

    The atmosphere at Celtic Park today was just weird, I think womens football has a long way to go. But Celtic’s number 8 was terrific. The Green Brigade were frankly a noisy pain in the arse today at CP, not only that but gave the ‘old songbook’ a comprehensive airing. Piss poor effort by them. What do they think they are adding to the whole experience?

  14. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    JHB @ 8.48

     

     

    So!

     

     

    Not one single point answered then?

     

     

    As I suspected from your “anyone who thinks differently isn’t thinking straight” insult, you were looking for acclamation more than debate.

     

     

    P.S.

     

     

    The P.S. was put in so that you couldn’t twist it as I had non-progressive views on the subject. So instead you chose to do it down as a “look at me” statement.

     

     

    How’s it going with the “I never insult, just debate reasonably” self-praise?

  15. Drambowiecelt on

    @field.. A bit harsh mate…Was there with my grandson and granddaughter….and they loved it..

     

    The ghirls at the end were fantastic…check they’re reaction to the Green Brigade bhoys at the end .

     

    And there is your answer?? The toons? so what ..At least they turned up.

     

    and the next generation of Celts marches forward..

     

     

     

     

    H.H

  16. An Tearmann on

    Sceptical racist

     

     

    Ah OK I have to have a room full of refugees to highlight the stupidity and ignorance of Brexit racism

     

     

    🤣🤣

     

     

    I think that replied to your racist proposition that you need to have accepted a refugee before being able to speak.how very stupid and racist in its conception.

     

    Haha and the morale high ground tone as you think it’s zero quite brilliantly stupid.now anything from ibrox noise haha

     

     

    “Wee krankie” – ah takes me back I remember when jhb used to type like that,laughin here at the simplistic shallowness of brexit racism on show,but we do not those pesky unionists never ever ever say a word about Wee Eton bojo funny that or orange order infiltration to both Labour and Tory unionist parties.

     

     

    Noo scepticalracist you take a wee drink of water,

     

     

    That racist anti Catholic meeja that hushes up Wee stories Wee nikla and is anti celtic,is all owned offshore,most meeja is registered in London,its unionist

     

     

    You know the same meeja who knew/got invited/still didn’t print stories bout the Westminster covid party scene,that meeja? Well shtoom on the party scene but that’s the same unionist supporting anti Celtic media wholly owned and funded from London,

     

     

    There is always hope a dim racist will see the light.dont think that’ll be tomorrow tho

     

     

    HH

  18. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    jHB

     

     

    “Just to clear – I have done a fair bit of research into the profile and administration of the womens’ game and have amassed a substantial amount of information. It is not my intention to publish any of this meantime as things are constantly evolving.”

     

     

    Is that like the substantial research you announced you were doing on the failures of Celtic over the last decade, that you announced you were doing (and did not return to comment upon) when you arrived on this sacred Blog just over a year ago?

     

     

    Substantial research eh? One innocuous e-mail – not even an original.

     

     

    You are a phoney and have been since day one, when you were complaining that Paul did not want to approve your registration to CQN .

  20. Weebobbycollins on

    “Just to clear – I have done a fair bit of research into the profile and administration of the womens’ game and have amassed a substantial amount of information. It is not my intention to publish any of this meantime as things are constantly evolving.”

     

     

    Piffle and balderdashCSC

  22. An Tearmann on

    DRAMBOWIECELT on 26TH MARCH 2022 9:47 PM

     

    @At An T..aye he his an arsehole???wtf ????

     

     

    Hi DC,

     

    I am not excusing anything he does.i am maybe looking on it from a mental health aspects of family and those impacted by that chaos he was/is going thro,just being human mate,I hope he is alright.

     

     

    HH

  23. JVR on

    Good interview and footage on YouTube on Footy adventure website with St Roch’s chairman and temporary manager , Andy Cameron .

     

     

    It explains the history of the Candy and the indirect links they have had in our successes we have had since we signed Jimmy McGrory.

     

     

    Sorry I can’t upload the link.

  24. bankiebhoy1 on

    While it might cause an extended hiatus at times on The Dear Green Place, having identified the pointless agenda point-scorer guff monkeys – might it not be better to avoid the Lonely Heart exchanges and simply ignore thum.

     

     

    They aint here for the betterment of Celtic Quick News imo.

     

     

    Oxygen. Deprive.

  27. Drambowiecelt on

    @At my apologies if i read your comment wrong..was it directed At Big J?

     

    or Kev j ?..

     

     

     

     

     

     

    H.H

  30. fieldofdrams on

    Drambowiecelt at 10.11, fair enough, and we enjoyed the game and the day as well. I thought it was a great initiative from Celtic. I just wish I could attend a game without having my eardrums beaten up by the GB drums, and just move on from some of the songs that just…I’m struggling to see their relevance now. I got it in the old days, but (thankfully) many things have changed. Try explaining to a ten year old lass in simple terms when she asks Papa, what player is this song about? And you explain, and she asks how is that a Celtic song? And you say well, once – not long ago…and she says yes but now?

     

     

    I know it’s an uncomfortable subject for many of us, me included. I just don’t get the modern relevance. At some point we have to live in the present. And I fear that if we persist with small time attitudes (just how I perceive them) we’ll never truly live in the big time. I think that’s my major worry.

     

     

    Thanks for your response though; as I say, we enjoyed the day, the occasion and the game. It was good; but it could have been great.

  31. GFTB on

    AT 10.46pm

     

     

    JNP or JVR

     

     

    That’s a decent heads or tails …

     

     

    two of the very best :-)

     

     

    Thankfully no AOW to add to all these acronyms

     

     

    ATB

     

     

    GFTB

  33. JVR on

    An Tearmann, thank you.

     

     

    Hopefully posters who like football and clubs who help their local community get a chance to watch it.

  35. sceptical citizen on

    The S*n

     

    Scottish Premiership

     

    Football Scottish Premiership

     

    POOR SHOW Pitch invasion at end of Rangers Legends match forces steward to TACKLE fan to the ground

     

    Ryan Rowe

     

    18:38, 26 Mar 2022Updated: 18:38, 26 Mar 2022

     

    A FAN had to be tackled to the ground as Rangers supporters invaded the pitch at full-time of the Legends match to celebrate the club’s 150th anniversary.

     

    A team of Light Blues heroes took on a World XI that included the likes of Luis Figo, Kaka and Robert Pires.

  36. An Tearmann on

    JVR

     

     

    I am going to give that a listen,the Roch are great and well active in community.might get a couple of beanies of them.

     

     

    GFTB 😁

     

     

    HH

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