My inbox today was full of angst at the latest series of ‘favourites’ for the manager’s job. There are upwards of 20 journalists working on this story right now, each of whom need to push the story on every day.
No information? Tough, write something. Not found a single person Peter Lawwell has spoken to? Hard lines, get Ownie’s neighbour’s granny on again, she’ll be good for a word.
Who’s fault is this? The journos are just doing a job, the media have space to fill – and it will be filled with any type of speculation. We all know the rules so why take the bait?
By the time the news of Neil’s resignation leaked out on Thursday Celtic’s moves were already underway. Potential candidates jockeyed for position in the limelight for a couple of days, and for most cases they were disappointed the call didn’t arrive. Even Henrik was talking about returning to Celtic at one point, only to reaffirm his commitment to his current employers a couple of days later.
Agents will also be busy offering their clients, Celtic will respond respectfully, but just because an agent opens a one-sided dialogue doesn’t mean meaningful dialogue is taking place. Celtic will also speak to applicants out of courtesy. If a former player or prominent candidate asks to be considered, you can expect Celtic to meet them, whether they have a genuine interest or not.
>90% of this activity will be fruitless. Some of it will seep out into the public domain but it is vastly more likely that those wanting to raise their profile make the newspapers, as opposed to those Celtic have approached.
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Very depressing events with the European Election results. No surprise that UKIP had a good night, when you remember BNP won two seats the last time around, but the lurch to the far right in becoming a major concern.
More worrying is the result in France where the odious Front National, not as cuddly as UKIP are portrayed, were the big winners. An extremely serious development.
Steinreignedsupreme
09:00 on
27 May, 2014
How can a democratic result be described as an extremely serious development?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
I would say this is pretty serious. This is what they want:
– scrap paid maternity leave
– scrap paid holiday entitlement
– cut education spending
– increase military spending
– decriminalise marital rape
– withdraw from the Human Rights Act
– cancel all current house building projects
– abandon banking regulations – risking another banking crisis
– stop all renewable energy projects
– halt climate change action
– promote fracking
– privatise the NHS
– abolish the Scottish Parliament
That is just for starters.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
I give you Germany 1933 and the UK in 1979.
Democratic elections can definitely be serious developments!
HH jamesgang
macjay1 for Neil Lennon 09:03 on 27 May, 2014
It’s an extremely serious development because of what the Front National stand for. They are openly racist, anti semitic, Islamophobic and want to repatriate anyone they don’t like.
Snake Plissken
09:06 on
27 May, 2014
People are entitled to vote in favour of all of the above.
In spite of the fact that you disagree with same.
That`s their democratic right ,irrespective of the fact that you, and perhaps I ,would disagree with their preference.
News just in:
Craig Levein has fallen-out with Hearts new supremo Anne Budge
who has assumed, Fergus McCann type ‘tyrant’ behavior so,
Mr Levein will leave Hearts and join his old managerial partner
Peter houston at Celtic Park with immediate effect.
Nahhh, only kidding but, don’t rule it out – CSC
The Bateman blog article is def worth a read. Yes or No in September our future history (sic) is about to take a very different path. Uncertain times head.
Now back to the manager’s post…. Tomas Tuchel. Interesting bloke in terms of footballing thinking for the 21st century. That would move us precisely 4 centuries ahead of the existentially challenged 1690 United.
I like that thought….
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
09:07 on
27 May, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
I give you Germany 1933 and the UK in 1979.
Democratic elections can definitely be serious developments!
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Perhaps we should do Cuba,where Cubans have not had a vote since 1959.
Or pre-Mandela apartheid South Africa.
People are entitled to be fascists of the left or right,whether you agree or disagree.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
I didn’t say they weren’t entitled to, anyone can vote for whatever they want but it is serious. Dangerous as well.
I think some of those things are alarming and reckon you do too.
marspapa
08:18 on 27 May, 2014
Thunder Road
Leave the talking rubbish to me ;))
Btw i thought Broto was a guid yin !!
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I’d say Seville could have been a better outcome for us if:
1.Broto could have played.
2. MO’N had parked the bus, like he did at the orcdome
after the UCSF.
All in my humble opinion of course.
Hail Hail
How come you guys are not complaining about this democratic result?
Is it because you happen to support it?
Large sniff of hypocrisy.
corkcelt
07:43 on
27 May, 2014
Official Number of Votes cast for the major parties in Ireland, Sinn Fein 483,113 Fianna Fail 389,907, Fine Gael 384,468, Sinn Fein biggest party in Ireland. Went into election with 54 Local Representatives in the South with a handful of seats left to be filled they now have 155. No European Seats coming in now 3 in South plus 1 in North. On a country wide basis now 4 out of 14. However don’t sing any songs praising them, you could get yourself arrested.
Macjay mhate
Racists, bigots, misogynists, thieves, cheats and liars all have the right to vote! And in some cases members of the electorate display one, more or all of these characteristics!
The good thing that is democracy should never be used to trump or overshadow the dangers that these ways of thinking hold.
Aff oot on this subject. Starting to feel like a politics theory class at the old yoonee!
HH jamesgang
fieldofdrams
00:40 on
27 May, 2014
Just read back a bit and thought I saw somebody saying ‘I’d rather have Efe than Virgil any day’.
Am I hallucinating?
Naw but I think ye OALD Ryecatcher is on something
Snake Plissken
09:19 on
27 May, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
I didn’t say they weren’t entitled to, anyone can vote for whatever they want but it is serious. Dangerous as well.
I think some of those things are alarming and reckon you do too.
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I`d rather have my enemy out in the open instead of having to flush them out.
It`s the reds or brownshirts with a hidden agenda under the bed that I worry about.
MACJAY
I think you are at it,old bean. With respect,of course.
The above comments about election victories by blatantly fascist,racist Right-wing parties are legitimate points to be made.
We like to think that we live in a fair and moderate environment. It is clearly a worry that so many people seen fit to vote for parties which are hell-bent on its destruction.
Mainstream parties can call it a protest vote if they like,but unless they learn why that protest took place,it will happen again.
It’s a wake-up call for complacent politicians everywhere.
Football question for a change.
Tim Sherwood for the Celtic job?
Snake Plissken
08:44 on 27 May, 2014
How many UKIP MPS do you think there will be after the next election?
jamesgang
09:22 on
27 May, 2014
Don`t disagree at all.
The democratic election in Algeria some years back produced a result unwanted by the incumbent govt.
The military took over.
Result? The start of Islamist militarism in that country.
Which has since spread.
Michael Davitt – your to blame for
all this political p#sh!
Off oot.
Macjay
Since you’ve moved off political theory onto history I’ll buy one more time. But I agree with BMCUW that you’re on the wind up (surely!?!)
Brown shirts didn’t have an under the bed agenda. They were a bunch of boozed up right wing thugs who went around beating the cr8p out of political opponents and others who looked and thought differently to them.
They pioneered a strong we ar ra peepul ideology and blamed the recent demise of their glorious empire on plots and stabs in the back by the authorities and religions they chose to hate.
Germany 1930s. Europe today. Scotland in the marching season. What’s to be concerned about. Discuss!
Aff oot. Again!
HH jamesgang
Did UKIP have westminster parties talking about immigration ?
Complacent politicians……………………
In case you missed this: ‘progressive’ Labour competing with UKIP http://youtu.be/BAH5XPxN0tU
BMCUW
Tim Sherwood?
Now you’re the one on the wind up!
;-)
HH jamesgang
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
09:27 on
27 May, 2014
MACJAY
I think you are at it,old bean. With respect,of course.
The above comments about election victories by blatantly fascist,racist Right-wing parties are legitimate points to be made.
We like to think that we live in a fair and moderate environment. It is clearly a worry that so many people seen fit to vote for parties which are hell-bent on its destruction.
Mainstream parties can call it a protest vote if they like,but unless they learn why that protest took place,it will happen again.
It’s a wake-up call for complacent politicians everywhere.
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At it?
Moi?
Not in the slightest.
You`re last sentence explains exactly how this result is validated and should be valued.
jamesgang
09:34 on
27 May, 2014
One point.
The brownshirt reference was an attempt to say whether you`re loony right or loony left,I want to know of your existence and the threat you pose.
That way we can deal with you.
Patmcg1888 , has your email been hacked. Otherwise , give me a call – not got your moby .
Sanna
ernie lynch
No idea.
What is certain is that now they have had European success they will appear on more TV, their agenda will get more column inches and people will be more aware of them and their messages. The cult of celebrity is alive and well.
Now you would think this would put people off but it hasn’t and didn’t.
The three main UK parties are changing their tact and chasing them and trying to appeal to their old voters who switched to UKIP and it is clear that this wasn’t simply the more extreme members of the traditional tory vote who went their way.
Labour also lost this Euro-election badly because they didn’t hoover up the lost Lib Dem vote and when you can’t even get that as supposedly the only large left of centre party remaining then I foresee trouble.
Wait and see Miliband offer a referendum within the next few months and by then he will just look like Johnny come lately. I cannot see Miliband being elected by the English Electorate for that reason and others. The people in Scotland will return a majority Labour vote if you had a Plasticine man with a red rosette (and some folk think that is what he is) but our collective vote is so minuscule that we are closing our eyes and hoping for the best. Do you feel lucky because I don’t.
You think that the Tories might be damaged by UKIP. I don’t. Many of their voters will come back home for the big vote and Labour will be faced with chasing a collapsing Lib Dem vote and who knows which way they’ll swing. The Lib Dem vote in the South east might even switch to the Tories over Miliband.
It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Whether UKIP get enough seats to for a coalition or not remains to be seen but after this week it cannot be ruled out and even if this week was just a protest vote the three (or rather two remaining) main parties in the UK are dancing more and more to that tune aided and abetted by a media who made the EU elections almost solely about immigration when there are and were other issues out there which never got a look in.
Can you remember anything else that was spoken about because I certainly don’t.
This might explain the success of UKIP north and South of the border. I was laughed at yesterday for saying so but I am not the only one who thinks so and let me also say that a lot of people in England are saying the same regarding the amount of coverage UKIP and Farage received in the run up to that election.
Why would next year and every week from now until then be any different?
Under First past the post I cannot see UKIP making any gains in Scotland especially once people actually listen to the guy that has been elected but I can see it in England because the message plays stronger down there than up here and that was reflected in the numbers.
I cannot give an exact number but I can guarantee that the BBC and the rest are only making plans for Nigel because Nigel just needs that helping hand.
Macjay
Take your point mhate.
May I assume that when you go on to say “you`re loony right or loony left,I want to know of your existence and the threat you pose.
That way we can deal with you.”
……that I shouldn’t view it as a personal threat and do a Nelson M and go into hiding?!?! ;-)
Or does the macjay knock at the door await me?
I will confess I am a loony but only in a simpleton kinda fashion.
FatherDougalCSC
HH jamesgang
lionroars67
Christ he’s even talking about Eastern Europeans.
Out of interest why is never restrict Western European immigration? Why always the East?
They are even using the same language.
What a future.
SANNABHOY
I wondered that myself!
Just mailed him to ask the same question.
Guys,
I too have had an e-mail purporting to come from Paddybhoy1888 which seeks a loan of money to help an ill relative.
Watch out for this and don’t open any attachments or links.
Also, speculating on how it has arrived ( it has an address similar to Pat’s real e-mail address but not identical, someone has perhaps had their computer hacked and passwords invaded etc.
Just be on the look out for anything else strange or suspicious supposedly from a fellow CQN’er.
BRTH
“Pop up……..(with odd regularity)…and seize the opportunity whenever things are……up in the air….
say something doughty ‘ n’ feisty straight away to catch the attention…..Aye!
Follow it up with reference to a guid game from the recent past. But all is not as it seems……………
(Lionise a particular player who divides the support ( half way there!)
Demonise the suits with a perspective irrationally detached from reasonable reality.
Be dismissive of other opinion and play on legitimate worries that all fans may have.
( get the picture?). Never back-up claims with anything that bears scrutiny. Appear to disappear…….
Repeat ad-nauseam…..”
For those not interested hang onto this handy cypher.
I’m bored. CSC
To all the posters advocating the Tuchel fella as manager.
The comments suggest that he has his teams play at a high tempo.
If he was to get the job then most of our first team squad would have to ship up or ship out, as over recent years tempo is something which has been largely absent from our game, especially at home.
Possession does not equal tempo.
Billy Stark…?
jamesgang
09:52 on
27 May, 2014
May I assume that when you go on to say “you`re loony right or loony left,I want to know of your existence and the threat you pose.
That way we can deal with you.”
……that I shouldn’t view it as a personal threat and do a Nelson M and go into hiding?!?! ;-)
Or does the macjay knock at the door await me?
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“That way we can deal with you “………..
……………..Democratically.
Unless,of course,I have a majority,in which case “de`il tak the hindmost”,as they say.
:-)
squire danaher
Completely agree. While we played some decent stuff last year and occasionally some great stuff, at times we can be pretty laboured in moving the ball and ourselves at pace about field.
We can get away with that at home but def not in Europe. I would love to see that change. We need to if celtic (and scotland in the wider sense) are going to make an impact.
HH jamesgang
Macjay
I is got my eyes on yooo!
;-)
Snake Plissken
09:51 on 27 May, 2014
The turnout was 33% (it was the same north and south of the border, maybe we’re not that different).
The EU elections are a chance to use a protest vote.
UKIP will be lucky to get 1 MP at the next election.
UKIP could of course be killed stone dead by a referendum.
I imagine a referendum is Farage’s worst nightmare.
He’d be in the situation Salmond now finds himself. Knowing he’s going to lose and will be left with nothing.