Two years ago I had a memorable journey from one end of Poland to the other, mostly in silent prayer that our man from Poland would slow down, to check out a few footballers, including Wisla Krakow striker, Pawel Brozek, who obliged with a goal.
Pawel has played mostly as a lone striker, he can hold the ball up and bring others into the game. He’s not a particularly tricky player but he has good positional sense inside the box. His move to Trabzonspor last year hasn’t worked out well as he has played back up to scoring sensation, Burak Yilmaz, who is averaging better than a goal per game in the league this season. Brozek’s record at Wisla was comparable to Maciej Zurawski, who he replaced as top striker in the league.
The Polish CQN brigade told me Celtic should move for Pawel and his twin brother before Trabzonspor signed them. When news leaked that Pawel was a target to replace ex-Rangers player (too soon?) Nikica Jelavic our man in Poland suggested he would pick up a lot of points for Rangers in the SPL.
If he comes to Celtic on a six month loan both parties will have plenty of opportunity to figure out if there is long term fit. In the meantime, should Pawel arrive we have someone to put pressure on Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes and the Cheeky Chappie will have to consider his next move (again, too soon?).
On the subject of Jelavic…. Remember in August 2010 when we were told he “effectively went on strike” to engineer his escape from Rapid Vienna after the player declared he wasn’t able to face Aston Villa? I hear he’s unable to play against Hibs this afternoon.
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good evening cqn
heard woman on clyde saying a fortune teller had told her that it would be 4 in a row,was enjoying my Tennants L.Next they will be lighting candles after Mass,oh sorry its only they fenians that do that.
THE EXILED TIM says:
28 January, 2012 at 20:38
Evening TET
Noocasle = loyalist scum,therefore I concur with your good(hun free mountain) self.
Hail hail
Hoping to hear some good news on GCT soon ,please.
Are the young Celts on the verge of greatness?
Some of the young talent at Celtic must be among the best in Europe. I believe we have a number of world class performers;
Fraser Forster – One of the top two keepers in UK?
Issi – Best left back in UK?
Rogne – Has the potential of Vidic
Mulgrew – Young Rio Ferdinand?
James Forest – outstanding winger in UK?
Victor Wanayama – Outstanding defensive midfielder ?
Hooper – not in the class of the above, but very good.
Given we have the backbone of an outstanding team, do we have the drive and determination to compliment the above to become a force in Europe?
VP
done..
BT
Good mhan.
blantyretim says:
28 January, 2012 at 20:41
125 of the Queens pounds spent/hidden/cheated from the taxpayer to our 1 over 20 years. And we blame the board?
(oh and don’t mention the h*nest mistakes)
Your a hard man to please.
HH
TLK
BT
In all honesty, I don’t believe you, I think you know that we were cheated and you just won’t admit it :>)
Just have another wee drink and things will become clearer……
VP
Thank you kind sir.
Never liked them geordies, I have relatives from there and was taken to a few games when I was a kid, glad to say I never saw them winning.
TLK
I don’t only blame the board
I blame the players….
Looking forward to tomorrow because I’ve been out the country and my last game was at Dunfermline. Champing at the bit for a game of footie.
Tic 3-0
TeT
we have always been cheated but we shall/will overcome…
BlantyreTim….I’m afraid you are very wrong….if we had bought a left back etc they would still have won 3iar ……the MIB were instructed to ensure that, to save them going bust…….fortunately, but they haven’t succeeded….we exposed them last season, and they are now unable to help their ‘friends’
blantyretim says:
28 January, 2012 at 20:50
All things being equal the huns should not have been in touching
distance of us,but they were ,through all the dodgy decisions the
***** got ,our team made an arse of it ,that night,still does not
excuse all the help they got.
blantyretim says:
28 January, 2012 at 20:50
och don’t be so hard on our bhoys. Soon enough we’ll the extent of the glass ceiling they were up against. Food ready. off to watch Barca. Later
HH
TLK
I don’t mind being wrong when I am wrong but I honestly feel we lost it on our own.
sure we had the decisions go against us but in 2 of the last 3 seasons we blew it, away to Hibs and inverness…
BT
Previous games had been and gone but had they been ref’d fairly would the result at Inverness have been of such high importance.
At the end of the day it was because of what went before and due to the Huns being afforde 3/4/5 goal victories over teams they had previously struggled to score more than 1 goal against all season. Something strange about that too.
But hey ho. Inverness. Whatever!
MWD
MWD
I am so very sorry for having an opinion which differs from you…
Whatever…
Show Racism the Green Card from the Celtic Trust
Worth a read.
Steinreignedsupreme says:
28 January, 2012 at 19:29
i posted, possibly as long ago as 2003 or 2004, on pieandbovril that Myth was nothing but a chequebook manager and demonstrated how he and his ilk would ultimately be the demise of large football clubs.
Having opened my thread with the basic premise that he was a chequebook manager, I (ahem) subtly invited anyone to post a rebuttal.
Many (follow) followed, including not a small number from people who should otherwise have known better.
Remember, at this point, he’d had one very successful spell at Mordor and a rather forgettable (unless you’re a Toffee) spell at Everton.
Several arguments followed, but the main thrust of my point remained quite steadfast from it’s inception: that Smith only ever won any trophy (not even a title; any trophy) whenever his side was assembled for vastly superior sums of money than all of his competitors. I had people throwing Thom, di Canio, Cadette, PvH at me, genuinely oblivious of the fact that between the lot of them, they cost the same as the lager soaked roast avian purveyor come sleuth from Tyneside. This was, of course, long before the Champions League truly kicked off, money-wise, not that this would make much of a difference if you catch my drift (*cough* AEK, Chic Young, Basile Boli, pottymouth Myth).
The facts remain: Smith, in his first stint at Mordor was content to spend 40-50% of his side’s turnover on transfers in any given season as long as it was underwritten from extra-football revenues – he continued this modus operandi when he sneaked back in after the Slim’n’Trim Ally Moist debacle (note: managing them aside, Paul le Guen is actually a bit of a hero of mine – how disappointed was I that he went there, anyway, it turned out quite well in the end). He also gave notice of his departure at a time when it appeared to look like Celtic would be in the ascendency – would his cheques be as big as ours?
Paul le Guen brings another thing to the fore. What really happened there?
Not the obvious and quite clear backstabbing from boomerang Baz and co, but what was going on further up the chain and where did PLG fit in with all of this?
I suspect that the Steal magnate knew he, and by extension the orcs, were running on empty (read: other people’s money was running low – he’d been sussed) and a change of tack was required. In would come Sebo, Sionko et al in a series of cut-price moves that would almost be perfectly echoed little more than five years later. Had Murray seen the
graffitiwriting on the wall?I think he had. What he hadn’t foreseen, despite his obvious business credentials and all round infallibility © Daily Retard, was the reaction to simply not being the best. What to do in such a circumstance? Hold out, knowing that the long term interests of your business dictates that you stay your course, you hold fast, you do not risk your future for the here and now – is this how the scenario played out? Or did some rather happy circumstance, a player revolt if you will, occur at such a perfect opportunity as to allow the removal of someone who could actually have seen out such a downscaling? Surely not, that would be corporate suicide. David Murray, given his aforementioned business credentials, would clearly have stayed his course. Surely?
No!!!?? In much the same way that a gambling addict might not resist one more throw of the dice, Murray, ably assisted by a gleeful ensemble of puppets in the Scottish media, once more placed all of the taxpayers chips on red. Again.
And again.
And again.
And they won a title. And another. And another.
But alas, there is no underwriting to be had. No MIH, other than that run by Lloyds Banking Group trying their utmost to avert a tax disaster to what appears to be their entire business and not just a football club. And, just as Murray’s hand had been forced on the sale of the club, already seing that he might no longer sign the biggest cheques, the various troubles ahead would see one rat desert the ship. Again.
Oh for a man of genuinely outstanding business credentials, who did not view screwing the taxpayer as part of their business model and who actually had wealth, not so much off the radar, but quantifiable, such a man to back the myth with a bigger chequebook than his competitors – what price such a man?
Well, not a pound it would seem.
Paul le Guen’s Rangers epitaph: Five years ahead of his time.
Walter Smith’s Rangers epitaph: I’m all right Jack.
BT
See that game in Inverness, we were cheated in that game as well, wee Shaun was taken out twice if I recall, one a stonewall pen the other a red card, also Paddy was fouled in the box at the end another stone wall pen, there were many other blatent honest mistakes as well, a fair ref and we would have won the game, and with it the league.
How demoralising it must be for the players when we have to play to different rules to the other teams, we don’t have players who are at the top level [yet] even the likes of Inesta and Xavi would struggle when they are getting kicked about the park with no protection from the cheats with whistles and flags.
Two things occurred to me, as a result of all the news and stuff on here and elsewhere. I now firmly believe that if Rangers had won the league in Mobray’s part-season by more than ten points they may well have gone into administration–and I don’t think the SFA or the SPL would have done much about it.Walter Smith was ably assisted by cheating referees and linesmen, and backed up by the media. There was never any discussion about the filthy stuff that passed for football. They were lucky last year, and that was in spite of the likes of Willie Colum. Secondly, when the debate starts about Celtic complaining about decisions—generally they don’t. I just ask the Rangers men the question–” Is there any compilation on Utube or elsewhere of contentious decisions against Rangers?”. There isn’t, and I look forward to some Orc attempting it. Thanks to Neil lennon’s rescue after BTM they got home by 6 points. If Celtic had given him the job 3/4 weeks earlier God knows what the outcome would have been.
VP
Your eponymously named pub looked quiet without you as I sauntered past an hour ago. Don’t expect it to be like that tomorrow.
S
dirtymac 21.04
Like.
Excellent summary. Excellent.
We should have won the league last year, we had the title within our grasp. Unfortunately, we lost it partly because of an inexperienced management team and players.
However, what did happen was that the celtic fans came together behind Neil Lennon. The last game of the season (when we lost) will live ling in my memory. The love and support for Neil Lennon that day was something really special and reminded me why I love our club. We celebrated after that game as if we had won, whereas the huns rampaged as if they had lost.
We are different, we don’t need to win to celebrate.
Lubo.
BT
Do you feel like you are standing alone again in East terracing ?
For what it’s worth i agree with you.
Pat given the treatment today?
Perhaps a problem with the microphones………….and anyway it’s difficult to pick up these things from so high up in gantry, eh?
TeT
did the ref score the goals against us in Inverness?
shady
VP and G64 had a day pass to G72 and eneded up in the PV..
thats probably why G64 agrees with me…
shady says:
28 January, 2012 at 21:08
Hope your were not on your way to the Burgh bar or the quarry?
Been offline for a day and a half – are we in for this Polish Boy whom Rangers have expressed an interest in?
Always room for a GIRFUY signing in any transfer window one would suggest. If we want him and they want him then there can only be one winner. The club that can absolutely guarantee to pay your wages until your contract is up and the club who will be able to extend the deal should it suit both parties or maybe just the club that will still exist for the duration of your 6 month contract.
As I say GIRFUY Rangers. You fully deserve everything you get and most probably more.
Of course they can get it roon them too for those who prefer that version of the coloquialism……..
BlantyreTim
It is right to suggest the Celtic team needed to go out and win at Inverness, the way it did at Tynecastle a few days later. It’s well documented that the Bhoys may have let their discipline slip in the build-up to the game in the Highlands.
We were in a situation that meant any slip would cost us dearly.
The point others are making is that it should not have been the case that one slip should have cost us the title. To take just one example, Rangers had recently been to Tannadice and won with three penalties and three red cards against United. I invite you to search high and low in the annals of football history to see if you can find a precedent for the three red cards and three penalties.
It was, shall we say, very unusual.
In the other three seasons, including the season during which Tony Mowbray was in charge of Celtic, there are many, many more such examples.
SwanseaBhoy:
If your still lurking, great to hear from you, keep in touch…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Messi misses a sitter. No one can believe it.
Celtic_First says:
28 January, 2012 at 21:16
re Tannadump game – even more so considering one of the fouls was outside the penalty area and one of the ‘goal-scoring opportunity’ red-cards had two men covering.
VP
On my way home from the picture house with friends and kids.
Always makes me smile that the Linn o Dee disappeared. Perhaps a premonition of things to happen at their favourite club.
S
PS To repeat last night’s prediction. It is not a good sign for tomorrow that I am posting here.
BT
Being a stubborn Tim tonight are we :>))))
You know as well as the next man that referees set the tone of a game, players who are at our level are influenced by decisions that are made by the officials, they are not as strong mentally to handle bad decisions, top quality players take cheating in their stride, unfortunatly our players are way below world class and hence they are vunrable to referees as you well know.
This season they are still trying to assist the hun, but they are imploding all by themselfs thanks to the GEF.
BT
Good company today pal.
Enjoyed my afternoon in the PV.
Mr & Mrs VPs appearance brought a bit of class to proceedings.
What’s the score with Tom from the goldcoast,
Agree with you BT
Agree with you lubo
I think we lost the league because of the 6 points lost at home between 20th november and the 21st of December
We played 4 2 4 and it was horrific watching the likes of Inverness and Kilnarnock dominate the middle if the park
The MIB had nothing to do with that
However tactics and players like daryl murphy did
What changed that was the inclusion of kayel into the midfield
However the the lack of a striker( hooper was injured) was never sorted in my view
The striker situation is not new and should have been sorted by the CEO