My initial reaction to a Sunday 12:00 kick off time is not positive. It’s out of routine, so there’s an inherent objection, but as I don’t have a long journey to Celtic Park it may end suit me better than a later kick off.
Fans who travel from great distances will have the inconvenience of an early rise, but some, who are dependent on public transport, will be prevented from attending, which is never a scenario to be treated lightly.
I see a bit of angst against James Forrest over his decision to reject a new Celtic contract and opt instead to leave the club when his contract expires next year, if not before. I don’t think we’ve seen the best of James. When he arrived in the team in the wake of Aiden McGeady’s departure he was on fire, but the intervening years have not been kind.
Injury has robbed him of a regular starting place, and a fair bit of form when he does get in the team. Sean Maloney was in a similar position a few years back. Injured for long periods, even when he was fit he was often a substitute. He needed to leave Celtic Park for a fresh start. Had he stayed, I don’t think he would have rediscovered his early peaks. Putting all emotive issues aside, James Forrest looks like a player in need of a fresh start.
He’s not alone, of course.
Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu took a shot across Uefa bows when he told the BBC he wants big (trans: rich) clubs who fail to qualify for the Champions League to be given wild card access. Make no mistake, this is a follow up to Karl-Heinz Rummenigge’s recent utterances on creating a closed-shop tournament.
Bartomeu also said he views the FA Premier League as the biggest threat to Barcelona, which is 100% true. When teams like Bayern Munich and Barcelona coordinate statements on structural change you know that profound moves are underway.
I’m all for change, Celtic have much to gain, but we need to organise quickly. Find similar allies – big clubs from Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and Portugal – and plan accordingly. Europe’s major clubs are each leaving hundreds of millions of TV money on the table each year because of the existing league and European tournament structures.
England has opened their eyes to what is possible. Change of some sort is inevitable now the ball is in play.
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Macjay,
Maybe, I learnt it from you.
I am in agreement with a lot of the points that people have already raised on here. No need to write it twice, as they weren’t been considered by you the first time.
timbhoy3 on 24th February 2016 10:28 am
Whats the matter with Gary Caldwell
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His giant heid.
The latest johnjamessite contribution won’t last long. He makes an observation about Richard Gough’s night-time proclivities that is bound to see JJ shut down.
“been” should be “being”
I disagree, we don’t have the nhs we deserve, we have one which is being slowly dismantled by this government since the “bottom line”, as you put it, for them appears to be profit and the health service is an area where revenues have yet to be maximised by the private sector.
Gary Caldwell scored more own goals than a Rangers penalty taker (ok, that’s a bit of a stretch).
Went to Copenhagen and Lisbon and he scored both openers……………..for them……… was at Tyncastle, we’re 1-0 up, DEEP in injury time that had been added onto injury time, the ball is going out for a harmless goal kick to us and I was screaming at the useless prick to not even BREATHE on the diet, he put his arm on him………..yup, penalty………………………. I don’t like him much.
Clogher Celt
Thanks for that
MACJAY1.
The absurdity of the situation is defined by the fact that were my US residing daughters to return to the UK and work for the NHS , their combined salaries would be less than the salary of my London residing lawyer son .Their working week would be significantly longer than his . Who does society need more ? a lawyer or a Doctor ?
The junior doctors have the support of most of the public for obvious reasoning.
For jeremy Hunt to suggest that they are being mislead by the BMA is frankly absurd.
If he thinks that over 98% of such highly intellegent people cannot make their own minds then is is really not fit to be in that position.
brainsurgeoncsc.
Macjay1,
You are so far off the mark with your views that you could be on another planet.
The only excuse I can make for you is that you are a beneficiary of an excellent Australian health service and cannot equate with the current conditions in the NHS and HSE.
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 24TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:25 PM
You talk money.
I talk duty and responsibility.
Doctors on strike?
The epitome of dereliction of duty.
thomthethim for Oscar OK on 24th February 2016 12:35 pm
Do you seriously approve of striking doctors ?
Operations postponed?
Patients and their loved ones left with further anxiety ?
Current conditions in the N.H.S………………That will be improved by striking doctors?
Phyllis Dietrichson on 24th February 2016 12:20 pm
The latest johnjamessite contribution won’t last long. He makes an observation about Richard Gough’s night-time proclivities that is bound to see JJ shut down
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What if it’s true?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 24th February 2016 12:41 pm
Ok. Let’s dial it back a bit. The DRs are being offered a contract they don’t agree with and they don’t want to accept. Negotiations have broken down to the point where the contract is being imposed on them.
If you were one of those DRs how would you register your unwillingness to accept this contract?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 24th February 2016 12:41 pm
Elective surgery ie non-emergency and non-life threatening postponed.
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 24TH FEBRUARY 2016 12:25 PM
MACJAY1.
The absurdity of the situation is defined by the fact that were my US residing daughters to return to the UK and work for the NHS , their combined salaries would be less than the salary of my London residing lawyer son .Their working week would be significantly longer than his .
Who does society need more ? a lawyer or a Doctor ?
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Every respect to your family’s achievements mate but the brightest brains should be lured into engineering.
Engineers design, build, make, innovate and create the wealth and jobs which pay the wages of lawyers and doctors………..yet engineers are the lowest paid of the professionals due to the age old ‘jobs for the boys’ school tie network.
My daughter is an Avionics Engineer yet gets paid a fraction of a doctor or lawyer……….that’s no right.
new article posted.
MACJAY1 .
Guff . Absolute guff .
The duty and the responsibility rests with the Government . A Government which places the minimizing of Government expenditure above maximizing the health and the life chances of the individual.. A Government happy to spout guff about dereliction of duty while systematically destroying one of the cornerstones of society. .
Gotta go —
Phyllis Dietrichson on 24th February 2016 12:20 pm
The latest johnjamessite contribution won’t last long. He makes an observation about Richard Gough’s night-time proclivities that is bound to see JJ shut down
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You mean this? Hardly anything that would see his site ‘bound to be shut down’. Far worse has been noted on here, and I’ve been told far worse back in the day by a person of officialdom who was close to those charged with containing Herr Gough’s ‘recreational activities’ –
From Jonjamessite:
‘No-one need read between the lines in regard to Richard Gough’s appointment. Mr Gough, whose desire for the company of young men of the night was not suppressed, was prepared to be the custodian of a season ticket escrow account to impose King by force on the board. When this was a spectacular failure, King turned up the heat in April 2014 by asking some salient questions, such as:’
Afternoon Timland from a spring like hun free mountain valley.
MacJay
You really don’t have a clue about what you think you know about re the NHS.
You are brainwashed by the tory lies.
Bottom lie is….Patients will NOT suffer because of any strike.
HH
philbhoy,
Its TRUE!!!