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Directors’ Box auction prize.
Courtesy of Celtic sponsor and all round good guys, Intelligent Car Leasing, we have an outstanding auction prize, as the centrepiece of our summer good causes. For the Kilmarnock game at Celtic Park, on 24 September 2016, you can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
And a match programme.
There are experiences in life which money can’t buy. This one is now available for you to bid for on ebay until Friday lunchtime. Two of you, directors’ box, Champagne reception, 5 course meal, free bar, get in there – and tell your pals about it.
Monies raised will go towards our fifth (yes fifth) school kitchen for Mary’s Meals, and our other good causes in connection with Friday’s CQN Golf Day.
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GARY67 on 28TH JULY 2016 8:05 AM
Petulance is never a good sign in a young striker. Hope Dembele doesnt turn out like Tony Watt. Bless em both, BR has already had a word so lets see.
Saw this story on twitter, SMSM really regurgitate any ole level 5 triggers broom pash
http://videocelts.com/2016/07/blogs/latest-news/sevco-fans-pile-their-cash-in-on-van-persie-deal/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Gullible Sevco fans are putting their cash on ROBIN VAN PERSIE joining Mark Warburton’s Sevco revolution!
With no transfer fees paid out during the close season Dave King retains full control of his transfer war-chest.
Van Persie is expected to be on the move from Fenerbahce after an unhappy season in Turkish football after agreeing an incredible £240,000/week deal after leaving Manchester United.
when is it we enter this League Cup farce of a tourney?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmBZXnvaog
HH
There was an incident late in the game that to me, just epitomised James Forrest’s Celtic career.
He received the ball on the left, just inside the Astana half, and moved forward at pace. Two defenders approached him and, without breaking stride, he jinked past them and was in lots of space. Leigh Griffiths was moving towards the 18 yard line with 2 defenders retreating either side of him. The defender to his left moved wide, away from Leigh, leaving him acres of space in the box. A simple pass from James would have left him one-on-one with the keeper.
Instead, Jamesie mysteriously passed the ball to the left of the defender who had given Leigh the space, and the chance was lost.
How typical of him to do the difficult task brilliantly by leaving his two challengers for dead, then making the wrong decision and ruining a great chance for the striker.
His decision-making and final ball are both shocking. Sadly, I think he lacks a football brain and that is a massive problem for any player, because you can’t coach it into him.
Well done celtic -can’t quite believe we’ve gone from the semi final to Lincoln Imps to last night but we have. Brilliant ! Wonder what he’ll do in CP-PR Jf mcg full attack ?
Auld Tam on 28th July 2016 8:33 am
Very true, and the question is how long do we accomodate nearly men who have peaked.
Another incident he was on the left touchline and receives the ball, tries to play a first time pass back to Tierney(?) and puts the ball straight out of play. Frustrating doesn’t begin to sum it up.
Carelessness costs you at any level of the game.
HH
The Van Persie rumour really is a desperate attempt to maintain relevance in the press. Attention seeking morons.
Still absolutely delighted with yesterday’s result. Performance was not great (actually pretty painful at times) but all that matters is the away goal. Hopefully another week of training and the inclusion of Kolo Toure will add more solidity to the team.
Astana were, as reported, very direct and a threat from set pieces but they were also, as reported, shaky at the back. Pitch was woeful…as reported.
I am reportedly looking forward to the second leg.
Patrick Roberts has shown more in 6 months than Forrest has in 6 years. Roberts made the goal yesterday by showing desire and courage to get the ball off a guy twice his size. This is something we have never seen from James Forrest. Roberts is on another planet and should be the first name on the team sheet. We are lucky to have such a player. As for Forrest, as someone aptly put on Twitter last night, can we carry out some plastic surgery and send him back to Man City as wee Paddy. It’s worth a try.
Sometimes I forget that James Forrest is now 25. If he still hasn’t learned the “football intelligence” part of the game yet then…
Auld Tam
“Instead, Jamesie mysteriously passed the ball to the left of the defender who had given Leigh the space, and the chance was lost. ”
Disingeneous and opaque opinion.
As well as highlighting one of the few things that went wrong in James’s contribution (even when he plays well he can’t catch a break), there is nothing mysterious about the breakdown in play between James and Leigh and it is not all down to James.
James used his acceleration to burst past two defenders and into space. He was then moving at speed but, despite this speed, he looked up and spotted Leigh’s run which (mysteriously??) was in the precise direction to which James passed the ball. Unfortunately, a split second before the pass was released, Leigh broke his run and came off his inside run at the defender. A clever move by Leigh but not spotted in time by James.
It was a “ten a penny” mis-reading of a team-mates intention. Happens all the time and happened on 20 to 30 occasions last night with players who are not scapegoats and who are not being highlighted.
And I don’t blame Leigh for the breakdown either. His intention was to give James an easier pass to make but James made the difficult pass and he made it well but Leigh was no longer chasing into that space.
James had a good game last night. He had a good first half and a comfortable second half against Red Imps. He gets little credit for good work and I am not surprised he and his agent may be seeking pastures new. He is beyond redemption in the eyes of many fans, often for habits that have not been seen in his play for 3 years or more (e.g. throwing up of hands- not tracking back). Unfortunately, Brendan, like most football managers, appears to rate him as he is picking him (unless you subscribe to the view that Brendan is PL’s puppet and it is some bizarre master stroke to put a “dud non-trier” into a shop window which should merely expose his inadequacies, according to some.
We apply different standards to our scapegoats.
Last night a central defender had an all round good game but made one glaring error that cost a goal and could have cost us the game. However, that central defender was not Efe, so praise is, rightly heading his way this morning.
Imagine if it had been Efe’s error or James’s?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 28TH JULY 2016 9:04 AM
I’m not going to comment on yesterday’s game as I haven’t seen the full thing.
However I’ve probably seen the vast majority of JF’s games for Celtic and I think it’s fair to say his decision making has been problematic, and it’s not improved at all.
At Celtic level he’s probably no more than an impact sub. He’d probably be better being a main man at Aberdeen or similar.
Tim Reaper
Paddy Roberts is a £13m player before he came to us. As a young Englishman who plays well, he will be worth a lot more if and when he makes his next transfer, if he continues this rate of progress. He is looking like he could develop into the real deal.
Because of that, he will never be ours permanently. Only if he fails to develop and plays badly, do we have a chance to keep him. Catch 22.
Therefore, to compare James and find him inadequate because he is not as good as Paddy Roberts is as pointless as wanting rid of Leigh Griffiths because he is not scoring as much or as well as Cristiano Ronaldo.
James Forrest could be our player and the manager rates him.
Paddy, we will enjoy while we have him- and remember, lots of Celtic fans did not want Paddy as we were “developing him for another club” (still true) and he was “depriving a young Celt” who could be our player of a first team slot.
weeminger
You make a fairer point. General queries over James’s form or more precisely, his injury-affected form, are legitimate and anyone who makes a judgement overall on that is fully entitled to arrive at a different opinion than mine.
My point was on highlighting a small error and breakdown in communication between TWO players as being down to James. I thought Auld Tam’s point, citing last night’s game, was fundamentally unfair on James and highlighted one of the few “errors” made and ignored all the good contributions made. That is why I contrasted it with the treatment of Eoghan- who did make the glaring error of the game but earned praise, rightly, for his performance outside that error.
I wish we were as fair with all our contributors.
BTW They’d love to get him at Aberdeen and we’d be clamouring to buy him back when we see how effective he would be against our defence
I have to go now- will catch replies later.
Having watched Van Persie go through the motions with Fenerbache last year at Celtic park, he didn’t try a leg. I wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole.
THETIMREAPER on 28TH JULY 2016 9:23 AM
At least we have a barge pole. The Rangers don’t.
Hi Bhoys apart from the ticket office phone number is there another number,for enquiries. I want to know if I am still on the home cup ticket scheme. I would be much obliged thanks
I rate James Forrest very highly and hope he remains a Celtic player.
There are deep rooted reasons why humans need scapegoats so, unfortunately, James and Efe will continue to suffer because of this and Patrick and Eoghan will benefit from it.
JJ
SFTB
Forrest has put in some of the most gutless performances I have ever seen in a Celtic jersey. His performance in the 0-0 draw with Dundee in March was an absolute disgrace. Roberts not only has ability he has desire and bottle, two of the main reasons Forrest has failed to progress. The James Forrest ship has long sailed. I’m concerned that he may bother his backside to earn a new deal this year only to go back to the same old, same old when the ink is dry.
Neil Diamond – Hits Medley 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgO3s0-pOFA
HH
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WEEMINGER on 28TH JULY 2016 9:24 AM
What we call a barge pole they call a fishing rod.
Timbhoy3- you should still be on it,I think you need to put it in writing that you want to come off HTCS
BASILFAWLTY on 27TH JULY 2016 6:19 PM
“Followed this feed for 10 years. Had the need today to follow the the game on holiday. Despite all the good stuff in the past, I think we’re now struggling. Too many folks thinks there ‘all that’ after getting any attention and even those I once would have thought a vioice of reason are now now starting to sound like idiots. Editorials ok. Rest need to sound their own voice, if they have one, elsewhere, because most sound like miserable fannies.”
*****
Qué?
Cher & Neil Diamond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTshCYc8LMQ
HH
beatbhoy
I think he was just having a bad day.
TIMBHOY3 – 0141 230 1967 will get you through quicker.
James Forrest is an impact sub at best, nothing more nothing less, has one good game in ten, going back further than 3 years. He has regressed since his promising first year with the first team.
Foxy
Are you on commission with youtube
Twitter with perspective on RVP trash
The Van Persie story reeks of the type of market manipulation that would get a stockbroker locked up. Bookies should be arrested for this.
Brendan F1rst Retweeted keith jackson
The only way he’ll earn that kind of money at Ibrox is if he’s a roofer.Brendan F1rst added,
keith jackson @tedermeatballs
Guys, this RVP thing. You know he’s on £5m a year, yeah? That’s £100k a week.
Morning Bhoys Van Persie is reputed to be on £240000 a week in Turkey so the Tribute act are just bumping there gums. H.H.
Wish my wages went up as quickly as RvP’s
HH
TIMBHOY3 on 28TH JULY 2016 9:25 AM
Hi Bhoys apart from the ticket office phone number is there another number,for enquiries. I want to know if I am still on the home cup ticket scheme. I would be much obliged thanks.
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Check your bank account TIMBHOY, money was taken out yesterday for next weeks home game,that should tell you if you are still on it.
RVP wont get as many win bonus payments, plus only a ten month contract, yip hes on his way.
21/05/2016
Furious Rangers have criticised what they claim has been an alleged lack of official condemnation of Hibernian fans following Saturday’s pitch invasion at Hampden
The Club would like to commend Rangers fans for the restraint they showed under severe provocation. And they claimed the ‘tiny minority’ of Rangers fans involved in Saturday’s near-riot at Hampden had only gone on the pitch in a bid to defend their own players and staff from physical assault.
According to twitter today David Martin head of Security of Triggers broom FC is writing to those Sevco fans who have been charged with criminal offences on the day of the Scottish cup final informing them from they are now banned from ibrox, in addition if they have already purchased a season ticket this season they will not be refunded
That’s harsh for Sevco fans who the Club/company described as defenders of the players :-)))))
Davidopolous
My day was made when I made it home to watch a recording of the game having managed to avoid the result somehow, a la Likely Lads.
It began to get worse following the early goal and a right dodgy spell, but ended well, as you know, thanks to us finally taking ruthless advantage of a defensive error, rather than the other way round for a change.
Well done PR and LG.
They like to play on the break apparently.
However, they’re out if they don’t score, so let’s not give them what they want next week.
Morningside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTMjpLvMJjA
HH
The Supreme Court decision on the Named Person Act again shows up the SNP as an incompetent bunch of ‘one issue’ zealots.
They fail on everything they touch – NHS, POLICE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, ECONOMY, MINIMUM ALCOHOL PRICING, OB FOOTBALL ACT, MEGRAHI, and now this ‘dog’s breakfast’
Every celtic fan I know , wants celtic to clearly be he best . In my opinion we now have a very good manager , and hopefully he will see the deficiencies present in the team at the moment . Although last nights result was good , IMHO we badly need quality in defence and midfield . I think some of the team who played last night could be improved upon , it’s early in the window and time to offload some of the dead wood we have in abundance .