When you’re shopping in a sellers’ market, agility is the only way to survive. You need contacts, sufficient coverage to trawl outlying corners of the bazar, and enough experience to ensure you don’t get burned.
If you’re trying to buy Champions League-calibre players for £100k you’re shopping in a serious sellers’ market but there is good strategy behind the deal Celtic have struck with Icelandic club, Fram, for the signature of 20-year-old striker, Holmbert Aron Fridjonsson.
Holmbert may or may not be the next Ibrahimavic, experience suggests you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs in this game to find the one you’re looking for, but if Celtic are to bring a player to Glasgow who is capable of hitting the top, we’ll have to get him before the hundred-or-so other clubs floating around the wealthy leagues of Europe, which means we shop early.
We can afford to sign a few at £100k in an effort to fill just one place in the team. The argument could also be made that our more expensive players have only a marginally higher success rate than those signed for six figures or less.
Thanks for the big response to the launch of the second edition of the CQN Annual [which is now shipping]yesterday, as well as CQN Magazine, and the ‘10’ event, which the occupants of the comments section are being given a head start on.
If you are on or near South Uist tomorrow make sure you take in the Hebridean cultural event of the year, when Alex O’Henley has a book signing of his biography of Celtic great, Malky MacDonald at the Dark Island Hotel from 1-2pm, before a Q&A at the Polochar Inn, from 7-8:30pm.
Not only does the book chart the life and achievements of a pre-war Celtic great, it does so in two languages (English when read one way, flip the other way for Gaelic). It’s a great work, available from the Islands Book Trust.
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Doc
Aye, man Cty are a decent example, it’s all a load of bollix, we support who we support come what may, that is the the way it is.
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fanad
Who do we leave out, that is the $64k dollar question, have been privillaged to see some of the best the world has to offer, in person and on the box, and, imo, I have never seen anyone who is better than Messi, Ronaldo is pushing him close this season, Pele was Pele, Diego was a nutter, even Bobby Moore was a player, no a patch on Bobby Murdoch imo, but it’s like arseholes and opinions, we all have one >}
The Italians were quality, the Inter team we beat in Lisbon just thought they had to teun up, sort of like our team just thought they had to turn up against feyenoord, tis a funny game so it is, see if it was easy, we would all be squillionairs predicting the results every week.
HH
Portobello getting it right on This Week regarding poppies.
Riva, Riverra, Ra Ra Ra………..
Sleep well Timland.
Up early doors.
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
Good luck, all, with the Resolution.
And – good luck Celtic !!
Down with secrecy – always tell the truth – it is the best policy.
HH
BGFC
Reply from the Dutch Embassy 18 Celtic fans were arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam on Wednesday 6 November, following disturbances ahead of the Champions League football game between Celtic and Ajax. 12 were later released after paying fines of up to 500 euros for public disorder. The remaining six appeared in court, charged with acts of violence against police officers in a public area. They will be brought to trial before a judge on 21 November. Four of the six have been released pending the trial. The remaining two will remain in custody until that date. Some video footage and photographic material of the disturbances has been provided to the Public Prosecution Service, which they are now examining. The Dutch police are also conducting an internal review of the incident.
Sorry for posting so late its the weekend here
good night Timland
Big Nan,
Finally got around to watching your petition, excellently presented and I would imagine it is a more pressure filled environment than it appears on screen. Full praise for raising this issue and for having very good responses to all and any attempts to mock you or dodge the issues. I liked your points about the USA as here in Western Australia you can also have a car registration plate with the Masonic insignia on it, don’t know if it gets you any favours when caught speeding! They also have bumper stickers with 2B1ASK1 emblazoned on many a rear bumper.
Having said that, I have a good friend who is a past RWM of the WA grand lodge and he is an absolute gentleman and having worked with him for a couple of years I would say that he is possibly the most highly principled person that I have come across, he seems quite out of place in such an organisation.
AR
Sipsini,
On your earlier post about Barr & Strouds, you mentioned Albert the pools guy, could that be young Albert who was the treasurer on the Clydebank & District CSC bus and who debt suspended me in season 1979-80 or there abouts for missing the last three games of the previous season, a Celtic man to the core by the way.
AR
Big Nan
Fair play to ye, sir.
Lion’s den and all that.
Total hats off.
antipodean red,
Ye, that’s Albert, he lived and breathed celtic.
I won the celtic pools in his last week before he retired £282 if memory serves me right.
He kept me as a young tim right on a few occasions in b&s lodge. HH
Morrisey,
If your looking in, Johnny the tim will use my vote tomorrow.
Catch you in the Phoenix.
Big Nan
Well played in a) Getting this far with your petition and b) the way you handled yourself in what seemed a very tense/intimidating meeting.
A Big HH to ye
natknow – supporting wee oscar
Got to be post of the night………
I worked with a lassie that had one of those lamps for SAD. She used to sit it on the desk next to me and switch it on through the day. After a week my face looked like a bar of nugget. And she was still miserable.
Toast an coffee projected through the nostrils cleaned up and no damage to the iPad!!
…. Oh and fingers crossed for resolution 12 at AGM….
Aff oot to watch some golf at the Euro tour finale…….
….and the living wage!
From The Scottish Sun ( I know….sorry.)
@ScottishSun: Good morning from your No.1 Scottish Sun. Here is today’s front page #scotpapers http://t.co/T01gFZASkI
HH
Daily Record back page
http://twitter.com/Daily_Record/status/401137623999062016/photo/1
HH
Enjoy the AGM today BHOYS, I’m told history is being made so pay attention, am I allowed to say that ? :o)
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
As long as no “lateral movement” is involved!!!
HH
Lymmbhoy,
I think the press clippings might just be the icing on the cake :o)
Something rotten in the state of Scotland is creating a stink and there’s no a strong enough air freshner to disguise it :o) nor can they contain it anymore.
Wonder how Jack is going to deal with this :oD))))
Sipsini,
Apologies if I missed some of your posts but you mention the B&S lodge! Its a long time since that company has been that way inclined (and it was a huge issue pre the 90’s). It was still a real issue when I joined in 1990 ( and many were surprised I did, as an ex Mungo bhoy with no BB company on my cv) but it has moved way past that, from the days that Pilkingtons bought it, and it is now French owned and part of an international group. I still have many friends there from both sides. Many senior managers are and have been openly big Celtic fans in the last 20 years or so…and even the shop floor has been revolutionised. Any rabid idiot would soon be isolated now. If anyone has issues getting on now in B&S its not down to religion but ability. A lot of that change was down to economics, change of ownership and a few “gallant pioneers” who, before I joined, had to suffer but soldiered on through the worst of times and allowed guys like me to be able to have a career in a good firm.
cheers
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
Thankfully there is still copious amounts of jelly and ice cream available here in Sydney :-)
Think this time JI will even struggle with this one…..maybe he could call on Big Nan…. A man who knows how to cope under pressure …… Oh wait what was the petition about again ;-)))
HH
CANAMALAR
Congratulations to you for getting it this far.
It has never been about beating the board,just about transparency of governance. Oh,and maybe why the board settled for “Sod it,Timmy,nowt to see here” when they “questioned” the SFA
Thanks also to AULDHEID and BRT&H for their assistance in putting it together,and to MORRISSEY THE 23RD for pushing it.
Finally to LEFTCLICKTIC and the anonymous lurker who helped gather the signatures one cauld Saturday.
A brilliant team performance!
Top of the morning to you all from a still-dark Fife.
A new day dawns with promise of change in the way the Celtic support show their feelings. In the past protests outside and inside the stadium have been vocal and our only way of expressing fan discontent, now the age of internet activist using shareholdings as a tool is on us.
Canamalar, Morrisey the 23rd and Auldheid have decided to test their arguments by Resolution tabled at the AGM.
They will not be breaking entirely new ground as the Celtic Trust regularly do this and this time is no different and they are pressing for a living wage for Celtic employees, the usual fan on the board etc., all admirable aims, but a group of individual fans pooling their voting resources and challenging the board in a radical manner about SFA regulation (or lack of) is certainly new.
The Canamalar resolution might in turn lead to revolution! If the major shareholders use their block vote to supress the fans resolutions I can see the next move being for a group of fans to take their concerns of SFA mismanagement damaging their investment to the law courts.
We live in interesting times. Good luck to Canamalar & Co.
With regard to my petition I will be replying to all comments/questions on an ongoing basis.
H.H.
yarranabbe bhoy
06:15 on 15 November, 2013,
I’m glad to hear that the “Thales” I think it is called now, has no religious issues anymore.
I left in 1990 due to their old ways. You my friend joined when the realisation of nepotism and bigotry was bringing it to it’s knees and something had to be done.
I here there is practically no in house manufacturing anymore and the workforce is considerably smaller.
Sounds like a nice environment to work in now :-) HH
BIG NAN
I’ve not had time to watch you in action yet-it’s on a browser just waiting though!
My Dad says your performance was magnificent.
And he’s hard to please!
Me,I’ll congratulate you later when I’ve seen it.
Can hardly wait,but don’t want to ruin it by not having the time to do it justice.
Doc says Vive La Resolution……….Thanks for the compliment I had to hold my argument as I was arguing for you guys, all 3,000+ and Jackson Carlaw (what is it with these two surname people?) did have trouble looking directly at me and I am not sure if any of them were comfortable. The tension was palpable. H.H.
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antipodean red……Thanks for the kind words and like you I have known some highly principled and decent Masons. Problem is for every one like this there are 10 chancers who use the Craft and damage others in the process. C. Martin McGibbon probably regrets inviting me for coffee and chats since his “Toot if you’re a Mason” comments are getting a far bigger audience than he or I expected! I knew an old Mason who regularly did a short rural run pissed as a fart and just as regularly got stopped and waved on by freemasons in the Fife force. He dined out on this fact and boasted to anyone who would listen about his Masonic influence, until one night his regular rummy run was interrupted by a straight cop who did him properly. Banned for drunk driving Old Andrew cursed the force that had let him away with murder for years.
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Pigalle……………………Thanks for the kind words. Lion’s den? Not so sure about that perhaps donkeys’ den! H.H.
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Lymmbhoy…………Thanks for the compliment but we haven’t got far yet and yes t’was intimidating but I had the benefit of previous experience of this when a fair Justice Committee had membership changes which saw friends of fairness replaced by freemasonic members culminating in Jim Wallace’s intervention. H.H. to you as well.
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Morning cqn
I note with interest that Scotsman Graham Wallace will be appointed as chief exec at The Rangers in midweek. Former Man City finance director. Presided over record losses, ( which he stated ” would not be repeated”. Also done some digging this morning and noticed that there was some concern over the accounts being overdue, and some ” exceptional items” in the accounts which were unexplained.
He worked for IMG as well.
Since leaving Man City he has apparently been working as a ” consultant”. Nobody quite sure where. Apparently he has been waiting on the next ” big job” and says this is it.
I get a feeling ” our Graham” as Cilla would call him is gonna fit right in. It ain’t no surprise surprise that this guy is considered the man for the job. :-).
Mind you, he’ll probably be ousted very, very soon.
I’m not really one for writing rousing speeches but if our Graham needs help with one, which will need to be designed to pass off bad news but keep the gullible currants on board, I’ve had a wee go.
” fellow bears, as a lifelong Rangers supporter and billionaire I would like to say what an honour it is to stand here today as chief executive of this magnificent club with its fantastic unbroken history. Aye ready, WATP, follow follow and no surrender. As for the news we are going into administration again, I would just to say the big hoose will reopen and FTP”.
That should help.
Neustadt Braw
A particularly wonderful example of the brilliant construction (or is it contortion) of the german language – fair brought a tear to ma ‘ee. As you Angus types say – bra’ (from an expat Weegie in Panmurefield next to the Bell Tree who still doesn’t know if this is The Ferry or Monifieth after 6 years here)!
HH and ausgezeichnet
Morning cqn.
Wee fra. Hope you are on the mend.
I know the coalman you speak of also do garden sheds etc.
Good tims..
Oldtim
Make sure to pack your meds..
Morning,
Says it all really. lol!
Celtic Underground @celticrumours
Today is #ticagm day. Dead easy. You pick a
date for the AGM and then you invite
shareholders to it and then you have the
AGM. No fuss.
Cowiebhoy
22:54 on
14 November, 2013
** Message from Laura on behalf of HCPT group 77 **
Well done Laura and all who supported her.Keep us all in your prayers when you get to Lourdes.
Our Lady of Lourdes pray for us.
Hail Hail.
** Message from Laura on behalf of HCPT group 77 **
A massive thanks from the bottom of my heart, a fantastic £1078 has been donated from all you very generous CQN’ers and a few lurkers too.
I am overwhelmed by the amount of support and encouragement that has been sent and all the well wishes for HCPT 77 trip to Lourdes.
You will be kept in the loop with what we are up throughout the Pilgrimage.
A child has been fully funded for this trip on behalf of CQN – what an achievement and an inspiration. Wow!
God Bless and Hail Hail
Laura :-)
Winners of the Draw,
1st Prize, team 59 : Partick Thistle, Setting Free the Bears
2nd Prize, team 15 : Colchester, Miss Doc
3rd Prize, team 79 : Huddersfield, TomtheLeedsTim
Reading back I see oldco player Bobby Shearer coming in for some stick.
School holidays summer 1970 I was helping my da at work out Lanarkshire somewhere. Anyway the car broke down in a muddy country road on the way home. Couldnt get it going and we stood wondering what to do, this guy pulls up to help. It was Shearer. He actually lay under the car and sorted the problem for us. As he’s standing there covered in filth my old man and uncle thank him kindly but also add ‘ Bobby we’re all good Celtic people too’…he replied..’What does that matter, glad to have helped, and all the best for European Cup next season guys, you were brilliant in Lisbon but beat my coupon in Milan’.
HH
Sipsini
you may well be right about the reasons for change but it has turned out alright. Maybe you were a “gallant pioneer”? Sadly, to survive, they outsourced much of what I enjoyed working on; optics, the tube welding, the foundry, the general machining, but much of that went to local firms. The Thales of now, opposite the Southern General, you wouldn’t recognise but is world class in systems and assembly, and a credit to all those still working there….and a few who left. HH
…and well done to big Nan for his gallant efforts…too much use of that word “gallant” these days!
Just wondering, is Ally taking the big wage being used as a hoarder of cash, to come to the fore next time round. It seems strange he continues to take such a large sum and isn’t really being pressed upon it.
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Good morning from a dull dreich and veryEK looking stockholm. Today looks like early outbreaks of Stella with showers of Rioja in places.
yarranabbe bhoy…………Thanks for your tribute don’t know about gallant? Def (of a man) charmingly attentive and chivalrous to women. My wife Nan might not agree with your description! H.H.