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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. An Tearmann on

    Sceptical racist.

     

     

    Ta for compounding your ignorance,it’s OK to be a victim of the information age.

     

    You fit the trilogy of confusion

     

    -a wee racist brexiteer

     

    – a follower of galloway

     

    – a silent supporter of blojo who knows zero bout media ownership.

     

     

    You maybe should see jk Rowling herself for a response,its not a wee picture mind you,

  2. sceptical citizen on

    150 years of age and the huns still can’t behave!!

     

     

    P.S. I’ve not heard anybody from Celtic PLC contradict the 150 years malarky.

     

    So does that mean that the huns actually ‘are’ 150 years old??

     

    It gets very confusing supporting a club that nobody is in charge of apart from retaining oldfirm ticket prices when the huns climbed the leagues again in 2016. And when Celtic supporters went along with the oldfirm ticket prices in 2016, it was as though the internet bampots were merely just visiting time travellers, passing through from, 2012 to 2016, and on their way again on new travels??

     

    Very strange.

  3. sceptical citizen on

    AN TEARMANN on 26TH MARCH 2022 11:37 PM

     

    Sceptical racist.

     

    ••••••••••••••••••

     

    Get a good long kip 👶 and you’ll feel like a refreshed Tim again. 👍

  4. GFTB on

    Why let it bother you ?

     

     

    The Huns cheat … it’s what they do

     

     

    48k+ at Ibrox today, facing Kaka, Figo, Makeke & co

     

     

    The Huns fawning over the tax evaders who destroyed the original entity ,…. Enjoy Celtic…. in this century alone we’ve had Martin, Gordon, Tony, Neil, Ronny, Brendan, Neil & Ange … we’ve had an amazing couple of decades .. let the Huns enjoy their “150” years history and proclaim guys like Gascogne & Novo …. let them 55 this and 55 that … it’s as relevant as me saying I win the lottery tonight … I got 2 numbers … so I sort of won ….

     

     

    Nobody will change anyones mind on a blog … but one thing we can do is enjoy … Celtic 🍀

  7. An Tearmann on

    Sceptical racist

     

     

    ‘Dried out’ handling your ignorance and racism easily with a cup of tea.

     

     

    Tims don’t need refreshed they have welcomed refugees since day 1.They are of refugees.

     

     

    You posted support of those racists who would not welcome them.yeh I see why your confused tim and it’s nowt to do wi 49 or 52

     

     

    150? Hahahaha who gives a flying? A hun with a narrative.its hardly suprising Celtic confuse the hun.

     

     

    Be it 49 52 or whatever you don’t go, some your favourite rant sums ye up- a telly watching eunuch,

     

     

    Keep posting bout the rancid hun.its how most unionist brains work wrong repeat wrong repeat.

  8. sceptical citizen on

    Celtic without integrity is just another club from the corrupt swamp.

     

    No stand alone from corruption.

     

    No balls to face down the woke, Ch4, shouty, trumpet, Alex Thompson, and his feet stamping demands for an interview with, Lawwell, who’s bottling out of the interview about, Celtic boys club abuse, made Celtic fc look, dodgy, grubby, dark, shady, corrupt, GUILTY.

     

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN7PGTuXsAYqaA5?format=jpg&name=small

  9. JVR on

    Gerry at 11.02 , 😂😂.

     

     

     

    St Stivs, nice to see you on . Don’t give up posting please.

  10. An Tearmann on

    Celtic vs integrity att 21,000.

     

     

    Woke – is that anti brexit Woke?

     

    Anti vax Woke

     

    Now tuped over to followers of Putin are Woke

     

     

    Did it stop Alex reporting on C4 news on cbc? Nope.

     

    Ps I fully back PL in telling him to gtf with his request

     

     

    When your a salivating hun wanting info on cbc you would feel grubby,feel dodgy,dark and shady as a masonic given as a base for hunnery,you as a hopeful hun would like it to be corrupt to even up mintys jobby that huns like you have been trying to put back in the arse since and as we all know in the vermin hun Court of selective history they have Celtic guilty.

     

    Stuck in a moment you can’t get out of.

  11. sceptical citizen on

    An Tearmann

     

    ••••••••••••••••

     

    By unquestioningly, financially backing a PLC board, who didn’t show up to an interview on mainstream media about, CBCA scandal, and let that NON appearance make it look as though, Celtic fc, are as guilty as SIN about this horrible issue, your ok with that disgusting slime, are you??

     

    Are you really??

     

    By doing nothing but, turn the other cheek, ALL THE TIME, you and, 53,000 others just like you, allowing the disgusting child abuse stench being allowed to linger throughout the entire club, filling our many enemies guns for them, then when other teams supporters smear Celtic about this issue, then if you do damn all, except throw more money at these disgusting, PLC characters, if you, and 53,000 who are just like you, don’t get rid of the PLC for this disgusting issue alone, then what does that say about you, and the 53,000 just like you?? Backing a PLC who wouldn’t lay a glove on Ibrox, about the NON stripping of 20+ stolen trophies, NON payback of a single dime from the £150+ million, HMRC heist, all of which was used to cheat Celtic’s paying customers, the PLC trashing of Res12, the PLC’s sleekitly agreeing to the 5WA, the PLC’s sleekitly agreeing to the retaining of the ‘same price’ for oldfirm tickets in 2016, 4 years AFTER RFC had died in 2012, PLC saying “SAME CLUB” without moving their lips, All of that, and so much more, YOU, and 53,000 others just like you, have sucked the oldfirm lies, same club, 150 years, 55 titles, etc, etc, all because you don’t know how to get rid of an Irish Tory board, of, oldfirm, and nothing but the oldfirm, parasitical colonisation, of Glasgow Celtic, neither you, nor the 53,000 just like you, has the balls to rid Celtic of, child abuse condoning PLC board.

     

    What does that say about Tims in 2022??

  12. GFTB on

    AT

     

     

    The person(s) you are responding too have no interest in Celtic, take no joy from Celtic, and only purpose is to take joy from anything Celtic …. On a Celtic blog it is 100% attention seeking … a kid on ego who has probably never enjoyed a Celtic win in their(s) lives .. only one objective “look at me” am so much more intelligent than all of you … sad but true

     

     

    Keep it Celtic … all trolls or unhappy Celts or Huns really don’t like posting about Celtic … keep it Celtic 🍀

  14. GFTB on

    On that note …

     

     

    This time next week Ange is about 11hrs away (clocks going forward included) from naming a team to win at Ibrox … my team

     

     

    Hart

     

    Josip, CCV, Starfelt, Greg

     

    Callum, Rogic, Reo

     

    Jota, Giamakous. Abada

     

     

    With Kyogo & co ready to pounce

     

     

    A very different starting 11 from our narrow defeat there earlier in the season … if Rogic not 100% fit O’Riley a very able replacement

  16. An Tearmann on

    Sceptical racist

     

     

    Mincing your hurting hun head

     

    Poor poor hun conflation to the confused victim

     

    Poor wee hun, no getting to talk of child sexual abuse

     

    Freak.

     

    It is in courts,and a rancid racist hun can’t understand

     

    Poor wee racist hun is just confused,

     

    Such a voracious appetite for the mainstream meeja and so little knowledge of how It only highlights your unionist and hun racism

     

    You need Celtic,they don’t need you

     

     

    49,59 you don’t go hahaha, and repeating yir ignorance brilliant.

     

    Remember everything from 1988 til minty done a toally with liquidation was hun(like you) owned.

     

    No one else involved in their self harm.

     

     

    Tims in 2022 say your a confused mess of a hun.

  20. An Tearmann on

    Setting free the bears

     

     

    Seamus O’Rourke.quality,thanks for that 👍

     

     

    Night Celts

     

     

    Mind check your clocks are forward in UK

     

     

    HH

  21. What is the Starz on

    Why do people bother arguing with these mentally unbalanced nuts

     

    Anti vaxers

     

    Covid deniers

     

    Putin apologiists/ enablers

  27. sceptical citizen on

    AN TEARMANN on 27TH MARCH 2022 2:20 AM

     

    Sceptical racist

     

    •••••••••••••••••

     

    As I said earlier get a good kip. 👶

     

    When you awake you’ll realise that Celtic PLC, use you, not me.

     

    You get called CBCA names, I don’t, neither did the Jungle rebels.

     

    You back the the PLC who prop up the OldFirm, I don’t.

     

    You vote for Krankie, I don’t.

     

    Krankie makes £5 billion disappear along with RFC money worries at the same time??

     

    You did that, not me.

     

    You vote for the abuse of, women, and children, I don’t.

     

    You finance a Celtic fc that can’t cut it in Euro div3, I don’t.

     

    You financially rewarded a Celtic PLC who oversaw the collapse of the 10 in a row season, if NFL wasn’t working, why didn’t the PLC manage the situation and replace NFL??

     

    Eye.

     

    You rewarded the sacrifice of the 10 season, by the PLC, so that RFC would get the CL £40 million bounty by getting into CL group stage last August, RFC failed to qualify for CL group stage last August, so, from a PLC, pro OldFirm view, how do RFC get their hands on the CL £40 million??

     

    Do Celtic PLC pull another, Dominic McKay stunt, “personal problems, etc,” then before you blink twice2, DM is in a new high profile job weeks later?? lol.

     

    Thing is, Dominic McKay, isn’t here to be the stunt man this time.

     

    So who’ll be the new stunt man??

     

    Ange has developed “personal problems, etc” big John Kennedy takes over from Ange, blows another2 league, why do you think Ange has been recently, bigging up, his backroom staff??

     

    Or, has Krankie’s disappearing £5 BILLION spilled a couple of hundred £millions off of the shoogly wagon as it passed Ibrox park, the other week??

     

    Why do you think NO media have been asking questions about the missing £5 BILLION??

     

    Surely the media in a normal country would be demanding that, Krankie is sacked, if not jailed, for such abysmal malpractice, yeah, let’s call it that??

     

    And you voted for these, Celtic hating, creeps, crooks, etc, you did this, I didn’t.

     

    RFC still need £40 million CL Money, if they don’t need it now, then how can that be??

     

    Timmy financially backs a pro OldFirm PLC board.

     

    Timmy votes for Krankies anti-Celtic party et al.

     

    Timmy is no longer a Jungle rebel who sacked a previous board.

     

    Timmy is now seen as easy meat, you, An Tearmann, constitute today’s Timmy, with bells, were there used to be, steel balls.

     

    I don’t vote for folk who don’t have, ethics, integrity, backbone, and, unflinching, principle’s.

     

    You, An Tearmann, vote for, corruption, child abuse, women abuse, anti-Celtic abuse, anti-Catholic hatred, anti-Irish hatred, anti-WorkingClass hatred, pro-beastiality, anti-TheLawsOfGod, anti-ScientificFACTs, and many, many, more.

     

    I am not indelibly stained by, blindly, wilfully, lazily, deceitfully, indifferently, slyly, conceitedly, financing, the ,SAME CLUB LIE, OldFirm corruption, bigotry, leading to the murdering of, innocent Celtic fans.

     

    You do all of that 👆 An Tearmann, you and 53,000 others.

     

    I sleep like a baby 👶 👍

     

    An Tearmann either has a conscience, or he fits into the horror movie above?? 👆

     

    Nite Nite.

  29. Turkeybhoy on

    Just how long are you going to let that Virus,Kev J,corrupt this blog Paul.

     

    The Anti Covid ,Anti Ukraine \Pro Putin,guff.The continual slagging off of the support.The daily pasting of Internet tripe,and now,the insidious, creeping in of the “Abuse”topic,which will only get more mentions,as he now knows,its open season for him.Moderator,just what are you doing?Spending your time combing through the posts for swear words,while this goes on under your watch.

     

    Paul,do you er read back as you used to?Seems not.

     

     

    An Tearman,don’t give that Virus the Oxygen it needs.

  30. David66 on

    Good morning all from another lovely morning in the Garngad

     

     

    Off to watch the grandson shortly followed by a day in the garden. Lovely.

     

     

    To all mums past and present we love you and thanks.

     

     

    D :)

  32. Gene on

    Good morning from a sunny East Kilbride – happy Mother’s Day.

     

    Had a quick read back – disappointing but not unexpected

  36. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Hun scum Bell had 1690 on the subs board yesterday, Tom Boyd was hauled up by the SFA for comments about a referee, what about this mob?

  38. tonyrome on

    bigrailroadblues on 27th March 2022 8:16 am

     

     

    Good morning all from Govanhill. A lovely sunny Mother’s day.

     

     

    ——————————————————————————————

     

     

    I see your wee mum is a Govan lass. So was my mum she was born 1932 passed a few years back.

     

     

    If you see her today ask her if she knew Betty Lee daughter of John the Govan bookie.

     

     

    Enjoy your travels J

     

     

    KEEP THE FAITH

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