After so much slow build-up play this season, and so many misplaced passes, the sight of Roberts, Christie, Allan and Griffiths pinging the ball around the field was a revelation. I know the game was won before the three substitutes grabbed hold of things, and that there are vastly more challenging scenarios than Inverness at home, but the new blood have asked a big question of the incumbent three attacking midfielders.
The comfort on the ball the three substitutes brought was also contagious, Lustig looked less like a panicked fawn as he confidently back-heeled the ball into space.
The balance in the team has shifted damagingly in favour of players who can run, or perhaps jump, but who are unconvincing with the ball at their feet. So much so, Craig Gordon clears the ball up the field, instead of playing-in Bitton or a central defender, more than we’ve seen from a Celtic keeper in decades.
Christie, Roberts and Allan will not change this overnight (the latter’s misplaced pass against Ajax was costly), but they are doing enough to justify some faith in their selection. New Douglas Park should be an ideal opportunity to strut their stuff.
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WEEMINGER
Told,mate. By someone close who knew my thoughts on Joe Ledley.
I also recall meeting his Dad a few times. First time in Cardiff,Dempseys,with West Wales Celt,the others in Glasgow.
Joe got Celtic. He had no intention of leaving. Being pushed is a different question.
TBJ,
I’d like to see him quote the rags of the questioner, from the day of liquidation, especially if the hack in question actually wrote the piece :)
Something along the lines of
“Your words no mine Mr blah, liquidation sees the end of the club and 140 years history …,”
Simply repeat their own article back to them and ask them if that was/is the legal standing of their legal depart ment of the time, and what’s changed ?
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 22ND FEBRUARY 2016 2:20 PM
Apologies, I meant liason officer
John Paul Taylor
THOMTHETHIM 222
PL wouldn’t do that. As I understand it,it ranks as restraint of trade,and the player is entitled to leave for free.
To be honest, I hadn’t heard these stories about Joe Ledley.
Though I’d be interested to know why.
ROBERT88
Especially for you,cue for a song-no,not that one!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RqE4MeSQe2w
Robert88,
Think outside the box son, if you want something more positive, try and start a positive discussion, it’s no that hard.
Or you can continue to greet like a spoiled brat about what other people are talking about because they are not dancing to your tune.
I rated Joe Ledley highly and I was gutted when he left. I didn’t begrudge him his move though. Even if he did want to leave, I would not have begrudged him his move.
Equally, I don’t begrudge Forrest his move, but then I’m not exactly gutted at the prospect of him leaving. I don’t think he’s contributed as much as he should have over the years. Injuries didn’t help. Neither did his level of application.
Has been scores 100th goal while in lower leagues.
Sixth story on BBC football website. Pathetic.
Updates straight from BBC sport Scotland.
Ignore the commercial rags. Their agenda us clear and they will answer to market forces. Whether we like it or not they are entitled to lie all they like to sell papers.
BBC is a different case – licence fee money being used for lord has had type efforts. Every celt should complain to London HQ until this stops.
Hail hail
TIMALOY29
Previous mention of a confidentiality clause is a clue.
Lord haw haw
Thomthetim
Personally I would’ve told JF and his advisors last summer to find another club and got a fee in for him. So to that end I would not have left him to rot.
In the current circumstances though, i would be surprised and frankly disappointed in RD if Forrest ever starts again for Celtic. So to that end I would leave him to rot.
He’s the one who thinks he can do better. I think he will be disappointed.
Bobby M,
Of course he wouldn’t, but that was Cultsbhoys answer to the JF situation.
How can you take opinions like that seriously.
It would appear that his personal dislike of the Celtic board has clouded his judgement again.
He is not alone in that, unfortunately.
Robert88, deleted. Yellow card.
TINYTIM.@ 2.06.
ICT.?
I spent the half time break Googling the ICT team..I was curious to learn who they had played for before they signed for ICT .I found myself wishing I hadn’t.
TBJ-I think Hartley will avoid the issue,but will say Harkins is entitled to his opinion. HH
Just popped out there for some provisions and passed local pub with a group of lads having a beer in the Costa sun.
I’m conscious they are clocking my grey shirt with Celtic badge so I’m wondering uh oh.
Next thing it’s Hail Hail whilst quick to point out the token hun (sic) in their company. The pub near The Green Un was a clue I suppose.
Every day is a green day.
near = name
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 22nd February 2016 2:26 pm
Ok. On the face of it that sounds poor. However, he didn’t have to go did he? At the very least he could have continued to the end of his contract. Or was he also threatened with exclusion from the team?
I’m sure he did get us, but I also wonder occasionally with players if they love the club enough to stay even when offered what they consider a low wage, that the vast majority of us will never see. (that’s not directed at JL specifically, just a general musing)
when does Forrest’s contract actually end? I believe its Jan next year. Not sure why we did not match it to a season end. Guess we can still get a small fee for him in the summer when he will be free to sign a pre-contract. He is now facing potentially 9 months sitting on his….. Would not be surprised of he ended up at an Aberdeen
Canalamar
Yup the weather but we can change our season to miss the worst.
Culture is a product of our thinking. That can be changed unless of course we like the culture our thinking creates.
The Government’s attitude to football. Change the above changes that too.
Not in my life time, well not this one.
well it didn’t take long…
Dundee midfielder Gary Harkins has insisted he was only joking when he called Rangers “just a new club.”
Harkins and his teammates face Dumbarton at Dens Park tomorrow in a William Hill Scottish Cup replay, with the prize for the winners being a trip to Ibrox to take on the Light Blues in the quarter-finals.
Dipping his toe into extremely dangerous waters, the Dark Blues player claimed after his side’s 0-0 draw in the league at Kilmarnock on Saturday that it would be a novelty to be going to play the Glasgow giants.
Harkins said: “They’re just a new club.
“I’ve not played them before, so I’m looking forward to that.
“It should be good.
“It will be a tough game against Dumbarton, they made it hard for us down there and it wasn’t the best of days, but there is a chance to go to Ibrox for a quarter-final so we will be right up for it.”
However, Harkins has subsequently claimed, in a message on his Twitter account, that he was just having a laugh.
He posted that it was: “Just a wee joke took too far.”
Dundee Courier
BMCUW.
Thanks for your kind offer – but – mentioned it to the woman from Padova over lunch and got a – Grazie – there’s no need , that handsome young man in that Hi fi store in Catania said he will get it for me..
Mmm – the handsome young man in question gave me the rubber ear when I asked him about a replacement stylus for my deck..
“I love Celtic, it’s the only team I’ve ever wanted to play for. I’d love to end my career here”
“How does £5k/week + performance bonuses sound?”
“I’ll see out my contract thanks”
Its definitely similar to that film ‘The Dawn of the Dead’
The good guys battling the zombie mob.
Hun Journos reaching for the heights of absurdity and beyond.
They are like spitting image puppets.
How they get away with the bile is astounding.
Grown men peddling this kind of utter s**** in this day and age.
Warped mental cases who hate everything.
The stupidity is mind boggling.
Wooft…wait till next season…..The Covenanters return.
Fire and Brimstone:)
HH
Duff and Phelps done nuhhin wrang.right!…..Bobby Ewing turns the shower on!
http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1343723-charges-dropped-against-former-rangers-administrators-in-fraud-case/
HH
‘The case against challs of the metaphysical,craig whyte,withey and Imran Ahmed(and maybe his maw) continues
HH
Auldheid,
The culture won’t change until the institutionalised sectarian racism is recognised and dealt with.
TGM,
Small fry compared to the propaganda war currently hitting your BBC screens.
In fact a microcosm of the exact same thing, tell a lie long enough and consistently enough and it will become accepted truth.
Especially to an audience too lazy to check alternative sources.
Canamalar
You said it there bud.
Thats the whole jist of it.
HH
So the charges get dropped against a couple of fraudsters, they will whittle it down to our hero and chuck.
The whole shebang is as bent as a nine bob note.
Canamalar@2.55
I agree totally
Well put.
HH
Winning Captains
On the same club issue it was pointed out on Twitter today that Duff and Phelps in their role as administrators wrote that in the application the CLUB put forward in March 2012 for a UEFA licence the CLUB was refused on because of insolvency, tax overdue and payments to other clubs overdue.
This is 2012 when the SFA could no longer help RFC over licensing hurdles that had become too high and too many since 2011.
The key point is that Art12 of FFP defines a licence applicant as either a club or a company operating a club.
The Duff and Phelps statement confirms what was long accepted until June 2012 that both the SFA and UEFA not to mention the world at large vowed RFC as a football club and nothing but a football club from the years of their existence.
If TRFC ever qualify for a UEFA licence again and meet the conditions for granting it will have to be TRIFC that applies to reflect the new claimed status as the company operating the club.
At some point UEFA will want assurances from the SFA that they actually understand UEFA FFP and what UEFA is being told by TRFC or TRIFC backed by the SFA is the truth.
Once bitten etc.
Joseph Goebbels
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
For the State read SMSM
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 22ND FEBRUARY 2016 12:13 PM
BMCUW @12.05 .
The drive belt on Mrs S of T’s Rega Planar deck will need replacing soon .
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Bought my Rega Planar 2 around the end of the 80’s (I think!) and still going strong. Haven’t had to replace the belt yet but been through one or two needles. Relatively recently I had to purchase a phono stage as I’d bought a new amp. This had the advantage of having a digital out which can be connected to a PC for recording purposes. Only two things I have recorded using it :
1. A Chet Atkins LP for a little old lady in Australia whose had lost her original recording which her husband (R.I.P.) had given her about 50 years ago.
2. A unique disc supplied by BMCUW of Pope Paul & The Romans singing “Why Won’t Rangers Sign A Catholic?”
:-)
It’s always sad & frustrating when someone with very obvious talent fails to reach their potential. Unfortunately James falls into that category, I was and to some extent still am a big fan, however just like many before him the Club is bigger than any player, so its Bye Bye James best of luck with your new Club but you will never play for a better Club than Celtic. Seems he has a year left on contract,I presume that means Dec 1916 so hopefully we get a few bob for him next transfer window.
TET
I’m not that surprised and as long as the charges against CW DG and CG remain there are still still questions to be answered in court relevant to Res12.
The worry is that what will come out will put more pressure on the PF to reconsider the other charges.
However the upside of that is what has stopped the English media reporting what they got from CF will have gone and it’s open day on the SFA and SPL.
I am sure we should all be aware by now that we will get nothing from the media in this country. A long time ago I decided not to buy papers anymore and saved hundreds per year in doing so. But yesterday evening I was at my sister’s for a meal and as I waited I picked up a Sunday paper…not sure which. I was amazed to see that an article on young Allan was inferring that perhaps since he has been given so little game time, he will be regretting that he signed for us. The article did not go as far as mentioning the new team on the southside, but it does not take a great deal of intelligence to work out what idea the article was trying to plant in people’s minds. I guess it will never change.
Incidentally can any Greenockian tell us what team Gary Harkins supports. I was told year’s ago that it was not Celtic.