Yesterday we discussed how Brendan, like Jock Stein before him, liked to control the news agenda in the week of a big domestic game. Within hours Craig Gordon’s new contract, which was agreed some time ago, was announced.
This is genuine good news all round. The keeper has a new multi-year deal to look forward to. His manager has just out a substantial amount of confidence in him, in the shape of money. Brendan doesn’t need to worry about his others unsettling his goalkeeper.
Events like this impact on the dressing room too, in the opposite way to when a striker cannot get his contract extended beyond June. Newco’s refusal to give Kenny Miller a new contract is totally understandable, but it will demotivate the player, and possibly others.
Miller’s agent moved for a new deal after the winter break, but the former Celtic striker has scored only six goals in 27 league games this season, two of those came when he had fresh legs in August. Moussa Dembele scored as many in one and half games last month. The stats don’t justify investing in a player who will be 38 this year, so I doubt that news management route will be open to Newco this week.
Still, I’m sure they’ll announce the appointment that director of football they have been briefing everyone about for weeks. Failure to land him after being so open wouldn’t just be embarrassing, it would cast doubts on the board’s competency.
Lisbon Canvas Raffle Alert
In honour of Billy McNeill, who last week we learned is suffering from Alzheimers, Celtic artist Barry McGonigle (@BarryMcGonigle) has made this magnificent creation available for raffle in aid of Alzheimer Scotland. Works like this are seldom open to raffle, instead they can reach over £1000 at auction, but it is such a magnificent piece, that we would like as many ordinary fans as possible to have a chance of winning. Bertie Auld signed the canvas.
A few points:
The raffle is open for five days only – FIVE days! So you stand an excellent chance of winning.
We ask for a minimum donation of £5.
You can enter through this MyDonate page, with the money going straight to Alzheimer Scotland.
Please make sure I have contact details from you (email me at celticquicknews@gmail.com with the word “Canvas” in the subject, just in case) to make sure I can get in touch if you win.
I can deliver in central Scotland, at Celtic Park, or by collection in Lanarkshire.
It looks great online but trust me, the impact when you stand in front of it is substantial. What a great present or keepsake for someone.
Good luck!
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Can u believe some currant has penned a song about Murrrttty using Christina Aguilera s tune Dirrtty. If they sing it on Sunday the whole stadium will erupt with laughter.
BARNEY67 on 8TH MARCH 2017 2:47 PM
Can u believe some currant has penned a song about Murrrttty using Christina Aguilera s tune Dirrtty. If they sing it on Sunday the whole stadium will erupt with laughter.
Thought the hun hordes had another tune for Garner……?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 8TH MARCH 2017 1:32 PM
50SHADESOFGREEN
You know the best bit about your comment?
It could be word-for-word stolen from FF.
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Ha ha you could be 100% on the money there Bobby.
I would like to think that even that mob couldn’t be so stupid, but I know better.
H.H
Bada Bing, thought I heard them sing something about him but couldn’t make it out.
BARNEY67 on 8TH MARCH 2017 2:47 PM
Can u believe some currant has penned a song about Murrrttty using Christina Aguilera s tune Dirrtty. If they sing it on Sunday the whole stadium will erupt with laughter.
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Now that would be hilarious,
Starting to look forward to Sunday and our 11 players with one brain silencing 7,000 huns with no brain.
H.H
http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/murtys-delight-at-bhoys-clash-4249205
Send this to any huns you know, they will start singing a different song very quickly…
JUNGLE VIP
TICKLE ME THAT ONE
blog broken……?
This from The Clumpany`s latest ( 12:46), although written humorously, is a pefects synopsis of the reality re Sevco & the MSSM:
“We utter a huge amount of empty rhetoric, get blanket coverage in the papers and on the TV and radio, but don’t actually do anything. ”
JJ
Bada,
Could you elaborate on your Martin Canning comment ( 1:11 ), please?
JJ
Ladies day…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ5WPXxNzPU
EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT on 8TH MARCH 2017 8:52 AM
A wee quote from an article on, summarising where we are exactly making reference to the ‘Mars Bar’ game when someone allegedly threw a mars bar at the Directors’ Box in the aftermath of a 4 – 2 defeat against those-who-were-cheating-even-then (though we didn’t know about it at the time).
*I believe it was our own directors the mars bars were aimed at. Like the penalty shoot out of last year, unknown tae us this result was the catalyst for a day 2 months later when the statement “The Rebels Have Won” was made. Although we only won 4 more games the rest of the season as the great Sam Cooke would say “A Change is a Coming”.
HOT SMOKED on 8TH MARCH 2017 3:37 PM
Bada,
Could you elaborate on your Martin Canning comment ( 1:11 ), please?
MC was on Radio Scotland at lunchtime .saying he has spoken to MIBs boss Fleming,re 3 decisions on Saturday at Poundland
From a friend of Canning’s, “he had a meeting scheduled with Fleming for previous poor decisions and brought up the Re-arrangers decisions while he was there”
BB
Thanks.
Penalty = no retrospective action will be taken;
Garner`s assault= action already taken ( yellow card)
Canon Foderingham ……hmmm?
JJ
Hebcelt,
Saw your post this morning, regarding transport to and from EDB’s funeral tomorrow. Not sure if you have sorted something out but I could get you back to the airport if you have managed to arrange transport over.
Won’t be attending the funeral but stay locally so no problem picking you up.
You can get my email from Paul if you need to get in touch,
Cheers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38907804
Absolutely nothing on Canning complaining about Beaton on Saturday,no surprise, why can they not report anything honestly when it concerns that mob? Totally different from the radio piece.
HOT SMOKED on 8TH MARCH 2017 3:47 PM
BB
Thanks.
Penalty = no retrospective action will be taken;
Garner`s assault= action already taken ( yellow card)
Canon Foderingham ……hmmm?
It was interesting yesterday,when the FA said the punishment Tyrone Mings received for stamping on Zlatan was inadequate to the punishment he got,will never catch on up here……unless……….
weebobbycollins
that is beautiful
I got a random call about joining the Celtic pools at work today, I held off giving my bank details but after getting verification from the pools office I went ahead with the direct debit.
Funnily enough the last time I joined the Celtic pools it was through an agent in Barr & Strouds. His name was Albert Young and he commentated for the blind at Parkhead.
I won £280 the first week I joined, being a young pup at the time it was a great feeling, I gave my Ma a ton and blew the rest. :)))
Charlie Gallagher took the most important corner kick in Celtic’s history 50 years ago this evening…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=33311
Macew @351 thanks very much for your kind offer, think I’m ok but will get in touch if Plan A fails. Hail Hail Hebcelt
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL on 8TH MARCH 2017 2:25 PM
So now Sevco have to tell the next DOF guy that he is second choice.
GTTF, the basic premise of a Director of Football (or Fantasy where Poundland is concerned) is that the DoF will be there for the duration, establishing the whole football ‘edifice’, including the appointment of the coaching staff. The Dof MUST come first if there is to be any way the system is going to work, especially in the long term. Clubs that go down that route have a long term, stable, development plan and the coach(es) fit into that plan. Where you have a basket case of a club, there is no long term plan and therefore no need for a Dof.
IF, and it is a big ‘if’, they do appoint a Director of Fantasy, even if he knows he’s second choice, they either have to wait till he comes in, looks at the Club in depth (best of luck with that one), look at the books and the budget (stop it now, this is serious!), work out and agree a long term plan with the Directors, then and only then go looking for the personnel to fit in with the football plan devised. Or, they hand the DoF a coach/manager already in place and the Dof and his grand scheme is f*cked right at the start!
Clubs all over the world use this football structure, but the stable figure is the Dof – he MUST come first or else the grand plan crumbles very quickly. And that would be a shame, eh?
TONTINE TIM @ 3.41
Yes you’re right,the offending chocolate bar was (allegedly) hurled towards our own Directors. The miserable bassa who copped it probably ate it, to save a few pence!
Any news on the next hun fud?
Football undead director.
Winning Captains..seeing since youre around….
Firstly I appreciate what you did for Tommy.
Secondly, you and paul67 need to talk about installing SSL certificates for CQN to prevent cleartext credentials. Its quite cheap.
For the past few days my ISP/Firefox have been sending me these alerts:
“Firefox will display a grey lock icon with a red strike-through in the address bar, when a login page you’re viewing does not have a secure connection. This is to inform you that if you enter your password it could be stolen by eavesdroppers and attackers.”
It could end badly soon for many as I am sure CQN is a much loathed site in certain areas :)
EmeraldBee 4:18
I can’t make up my mind if they are serious about a DOF or if it is just a stalling tactic to get the Celtic game out of the way before a McLeish type comes in.
It’s strange that they went so public on Wilson being their top target without having any idea of whether or not he would take it.
Also strange (as you say) that they seem to be going for a manager BEFORE the DOF. Again this makes me suspicious about the whole thing.
I agree that a DOF can work (as in many English and European clubs) but it depends on the personnel involved.
If they do go down this route it will be interesting to see how the MSM spin it, after they were so negative about the set-up at Hearts.
A Director of Football?
Ha.
ST Bait.
You are a loss making business with no line of credit and you want to employ two people to manage the football instead of one?
No wonder you are a loss making business with no line of credit.
Wilson was a smokescreen,it was Bummer Broon they wanted all along…..
#pleasemakeithappen
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL
Mcleish as the Director of Fantasy? Endless fun from that fud.
I agree with you, I don’t think they ever had a ‘plan’ as such, just a knee-jerk reaction, something to keep the hordes believing that something, anything is about to happen – and it is, on Sunday, but not in a good way, I think/hope.
Hail Hail
Mags I’ve also had “insecure connection” icon displayed occasionally the past couple of days. i use Bitdefender and so far no probs. H H Hebcelt
It’s a what came 1st. A manager or a director of football. And surely one must influence the hiring of the other?
Ladies day…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hQCZD7FRL90
Anyone struggling with pop ups or security I can recommend the Opera browser, it has its own adblocker.
Swally breaks his silence…
McCoist, the former striker and assistant manager who was also Rangers boss between 2011 and 2014, believes “massive investment” is the key.
He said: “I am not against a director of football but it is absolute garbage if anyone thinks that a director of football is going to solve Rangers’ problems right now.
“It is nonsense. I have never heard so much nonsense in all my life.
Barney67
adblocker is not going to encrypt your CQN password. It just stops the annoying pop up junk. The CQN server(s) needs to run on https/SSL and not plain http.
CQN Breaking News
Word reaches us that a CIA wiretap has revealed that negotiations between King and new fantasy manager have stalled.
King’s offer of a Gazillion Rand bonus should Newco win the Scottish Cup, has been withdrawn as Pedro has stated he has a prior engagement in Lisbon on May 25th.
https://twitter.com/ScotlandSky/status/839519578090659840
Swally further endears himself to ra peepul by using the ‘L’ word…
THETIMREAPER
The return of Super Sally to add to the fun and using the L word and laughing at Rankers plans and in derby week..
SuperSuperSuper:))))