I doubt even Leigh Griffiths’ dad thought he had this kind of form in him when he signed for Celtic in January last year. The then 23-year-old had ‘squad filler’ written all over him as he waited in line behind Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes. The arrival of John Guidetti and Stefan Scepovic a year ago could have limited Leigh’s chances further, but neither showed enough form to make the striker position their own.
Prospects looked bleak last season. Two starts before Christmas, Leigh spent time with the youths and looked to be heading out of the club in January, but with the manager’s mind increasingly made up on Guidetti and Scepovic, he got his chance. The transformation has been remarkable. His goals return compares to the best in the modern era, but it’s the type of goals he scores which has caught the attention most.
He’s fast, skilful, can out-jump central defenders and scores goals in big games. Should Celtic choose to play with Carlton Cole as a target man, Leigh will also be able to play to his left.
Whatever Ronny Deila achieves this season, the improvement in Leigh Griffiths will feature high up the list. Leigh’s attitude to self-improvement is also worth noting.
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What a dummy by A Hutton
Great news re Nir. He has come on really well under Ronny. If he continues to improve I would like us to retain him rather than sell him on.
For those who have been having a nightmare accessing CQN recently, hopefully the end is in sight.
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Greenpinata on 2nd November 2015 2:52 pm
My friends in Celtic,
Leigh Griffiths,s goal scoring form is what we have been crying out for. A striker that can score goals.
Even if he does nothing else than score goals what a bonus.
Gerd Muller is remembered as a great player for the amount of goals he scored, nothing else.
*an average left back who played against us in that position in the ’66 NA tour.
Jamsie Forrest’s latest…
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/eternal-sunshine-of-the-sevco-mind/?
• tonydonnelly67 on 2nd November 2015 5:35 pm
Everyone else has there own team bus, we need to get one and then Sack DD? Who posts that?lol.
*Some people have selective memories macaroni. That’s the same “absentee landlord” that bankrolled the Blessed MON.
Could Lawwell not have waited till next week?
Nir will definitely hit the ‘post new improved contract’ slump soon. They all do.
Hope it’s not Thursday.
Holy Moly!
WINNING CAPTAINS on2ND NOVEMBER 2015 9:18 PM
For those who have been having a nightmare accessing CQN recently, hopefully the end is in sight.
I had a frank conversation with the ad provider this morning and they have been trying to remove all the annoying crap once and for all.
I have been coming on and off the blog for the last hour or so with wifi off and using 4G and haven’t had any of the pop ups.
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well i have logged on several times tonight and havent had any porn, gambling or booze pop-ups
i cant be doing with such censorship :-)
Cowiebhoy the thing about the Bus Celtic use from Parks who is 1of the 3,bears.who loan money to Sevco just to keep them a float.if the shoe was in the other foot.you can bet they wouldn’t give us a dime
VP…
Johnjames on the same songbook…
Rangers International Football Club plc is regulated by the Companies Act of 2006. A Special Resolution is a resolution passed by 75% of the members present in person, or by proxy, and entitled to vote at a general meeting.Not less than 21 days notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as a special resolution must be given. What King’s concert party of 34% are seeking is the authority for allotment of equity securities by the directors without restriction.
At the EGM on 6th March, King, Murray and Gilligan were appointed with 85% of the votes cast. However 43% did not vote for King’s concert party. Those who abstained included Sandy Easdale and his Beaufort Nominees proxy. Should he vote against King at the forthcoming AGM, there is no possibility of King securing the authority he requires to dilute the voting rights of the currently shareholder. If successful King would have the authority to allocate more shares to the shyster board and to set aside an allocation to sell to Rangers First CIC.
At the emergency board meeting at Mar Hall last week, the pitch for more loans to George Taylor, in a telephone conference call, was underpinned by the result of the Rangers First CIC vote. The latter is supposed to be independent and at arms length from RIFC plc. I posit that this is not the case. Those appointed in executive positions will be pro King and his concert party.
At Hearts, the 8,000 members of their foundation pay £16,20 per month by direct debit, which yields £1,555,200 to the board. It will repay the loan provided by Anne Budge of £2.4m.
There are currently 20,000 direct debit contributors to the RST and Rangers First. Should they contribute a similar amount, they will yield £324,000 per month, £3.89m per annum.
There is an opportunity here for artifice, which will not be lost on someone as cunning and corrupt as King. We know that Douglas Park is out. He has made his contribution, reclaimed his bus concession, and will let his son oversee his soft loan. George Letham is out. He could only afford to buy just over 4% of the issued share capital at a cost of £685,000. His previous loan to the former board was at 15%. Mr Letham borrowed this amount and as he is a real Rangers man, unlike King who is a carpetbagger, he did not make a profit on the Letham Facility. He is not in a position to offer an interest free soft loan. King, as we all now know, is no longer a wealthy individual who could not afford to buy his shares. We therefore arrive at George Taylor. Let’s assume that he put up £1.5m.
Should the concert party achieve the 75% threshold, they could authorize a debt for equity swap, realizing 16.67m shares at 27p per share.They currently own 27.51m. If this occurred, the concert part would have 45% of the issued share capital and voting rights. Mike Ashley’s influence would drop to 7.36%.
As I see it, those who loaned £4.5m could engage in a deal with Rangers First CIC to purchase these 16.67m shares to repay the loans, with £3.89m repaid within a year. RST/RF currently have 4.07m shares, so when added to the 16.67m, this would provide them with 21% of the issued share capital.
The current board debtors have a choice should they gain the 75% majority required. They could choose repayment, issue 16.67m shares to Rangers First CIC and be debt free. They could later issue shares to themselves at a nominal sum to gain more control.
Without disapplication of preemption rights, they must first offer any additional issued share capital on a pro rata basis to the current stakeholders. If they all chose to take up their allocation, the concert party would remain at 34%.
Even though the shyster board could technically issue shares to themselves at less than the over the counter price of 23p-27p, established by JP Jenkins in its matched bargain service, any cash raised becomes an asset on the company’s balance sheet. This could be critical in avoiding going concern warnings by auditors.
If King were to step down and cede authority to Murray & Gilligan, I would have no objection to the board having access to this authority. However giving a career criminal, with a track record of fraudulent share manipulation this authority, would open Pandora’s box.
sipsini on 2nd November 2015 8:45 pm
VP…
Call me cynical but that same thought entered my head when I heard Nir had signed an extension, I suppose we have to cover all angles.
*me tae, but then I can recall Wullie Fernie being sold to pay for the floodlights. I think the Luftwaffe requested that.
Cowiebhoy the thing about the Bus Celtic use from Parks who is 1of the 3,bears.who loan money to Sevco just to keep them a float.if the shoe was in the other foot.you can bet they wouldn’t give us a dime
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and the guys that drive the parks buses for the team and the cscs that use them are major tims
Foghorn leghorn…
With you on that, fair brings a smile to my olde face, especially the burd on the plane ;)
Timbhoy3
Your statement twice in past 24hrs has been Aberdeen have their own bus, sorry but that’s not the case.
Do Celtic pay for the Parks bus for our 1st team ? Not sure, But I think they sponsor us to supply this ?
Now Celtic may be able to afford to buy one, but they then need to cost this, insure, employ drivers, service etc, so I would have thought Celtic will have done this costing and found it not a feasible option ? Should we be ditching, just because of Parks involvement with the Beasties ?
Not as simple as just ditching Parks, do you know of any Celtic Minded bus Co. Who would provide this service to the standard offered by Parks ? Sweeney’s ? McDaids ? No idea mhate
DD
Thanks for your concern, we are fine, the mess was unbelievable, there was a storm to beat the band, trees ripped up, floods, the pool overflowed cos the water cascading down the hill filled it, about 2″ of crap at the bottom to clean out, we were lucky as we are near the top of the hill, those below us not so, a fair few flooded out.
As for SS, saw him against Barca the other night, he missed a sitter at 0-0, might have made a difference, cos Barca were garbage, just a better class of garbage that Getefe, he was pish the rest of the game tho, made all the right moves but didn’t get too much service, where have I heard that before….
HH
tontine tim…
I actually had to show a Hun in work today on wiki that we didn’t have floodlights back then :)…it was a poopy argument.
FFS
Aberdeen never had a toaster 5 years ago
Oops… Poppy but you new that :)
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Well Done Leigh Griffiths for making Tunnock’s Tea Cakes and being a Hour-Master Popular again..
And Since it is Now November.. and I’m banned from Bigging Up my Top Goalscorer Bets in October since Sammi went from 16/1 to 1/3 on Scoring 12 in the First 10 Games..
Leigh to Sleigh the Other SPFL Golascorers @ 9/2 was Always a Guid Bet..
So Leigh stay Fit and Out of Trouble and Fit..for the Rest of the Season..So Nae Tea-Cakes and the Aforementioned ‘Hours’..
Only Kiddin..You can have a Couple..;-(
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Talking Abbot Crawing Top Goalscorer Bets..
I Watched WagHorn-Pen (11/2) for the Very First time Against Hibs on Sunday..Been telling My Rangurs Peeps all Season this Dude will Score Goals for Fun in the Championship..The Wigan Hulk..
Need to Admit Though l Was a bit Surprised to Find out He was Caucasian and Not a Christian Beteken Doppelganger..
If He Keeps Scoring Celtic should sign Him in January on a Pre-Contract..Ha..
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OK Peeps that’s the Red Cordial..Morphine and Chinky from Last night Kicked it..
Melbourne Cup here i Come..Yaldy..
Ps..First race at 10:40am is Always a Bad Idea..
Summa of CelticAndSevcoScoringSoccerStarsCSC
Without googling…
Who was the first footy club in scotland to have floodlights ?
TeT
Cant have the ole pool crest being covered up
Glad you are not too badly inconvenienced
TET
The Hibs
TET
Hibs
Yep, the hibees.
i seen a couple of posts about the melbourrne cup
is it on live in the uk or will i need to find a dodgy stream
attheraces arent showing it live
so the only only hope is racinguk
or a dodgy stream
insomniacCSC
Summa…
Tunnock teacakes on the banned list at ipox, along with green/white straws, eggs Benedict and peperami’s.
Oh, and oor Craigy bhoy.
So , we buy a bus at £100k+ , we then employ a driver, pay NI , and then leave it lying around unused for 6 days out of 7.
Whilst we are at it, why not by a used Boeing 737 at c £5m, for our occasional forays into Europe ?
I have no idea on the nature of our transactional relationship with suppliers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if companies in areas like transport provided the goods foc as ‘in kind sponsorship’.
Foghorn
Eurosport are showing the Melbourne cup
wits
cheers
Wits,
Is Australia trying to gain entry into to European union or somert?
First they get into eurovision, now euro sport are showing their horses?
What the world coming to?
HH
well thats a good point
a channel with nae (surely ‘neighhh’ – Ed) interest in horse racing is showing it but the proper channels arent?
but it is being shown at 9am on attheraces – if u dont know who won by then!
they’re going to take so long to die out changing into goodness knows what along the way, it’ll take years with all lads of distractions on the way, sometimes I think they’ll never go, stay in a constant state of dying out
*sorts of distractions*
I get the feeling that thon John James guy doesn’t like Dave King, just a hunch though….
Also see on twitter tonight that there’s a big news sports story going to break, some wag thinks the sons of struth guy is going to unfold all the t-shirts and change the price tags in Sports Direct, probably not far off the truth from that uncle Fester…
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Great newsx about Nir.
ps nothing quite like the smell of huns fighting omong themselves over a slice of the rotten carcass.
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