Business complete after Griffiths

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With Leigh Griffiths set to sign in the next few moments our business for the January transfer window is complete.  As well as Leigh, we added 20-year-old Icelandic striker Holmbert Fridjobsson, and 23-year-old Norwegian left-midfielder, Stefan Johansen.

I expect Johansen and Griffiths to be holding down a starting place no later than next month.  Johansen’s case will be made all the more straightforward if Joe Ledley accepts an offer from Crystal Palace, although he may choose to wait until the summer before leaving.

We’ll be wondering why we signed Mo Bangura years from now, he patently didn’t look a player at Celtic.

Neil Lennon has a fixer-upper with Leigh, a player he has taken a number of references for and believes he can turn into a productive Celtic player.   The player’s personal history is something he has to put behind him now.  I’ve read many comments on this subject over the last few days, with some empathy, but it’s just as well Twitter wasn’t around in the 60s, 70s or 80s.  Some of our heroes from past eras have been more than a tad off-colour in my earshot.

Time for Leigh to get onto the field and do what he does best.
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  1. The Token Tim:

     

     

    Passion is emotive, we both have heaps of passion and like others we are not shy of our emotions. Sometime, given licence, emotions can get hot, and when they do, even the best of mates can exchange words that would have been better left in the shadow of silence. However, the test of mates is do they carry a grudge or not.

     

     

    I don’t and I don’t think you’re the sort of person who would either.

     

     

    One last song, best enjoyed loud.

     

     

     

    Blinded by rainbows

  2. LEIGH GRIFFITHS last night vowed to prove Neil Lennon was right to sign him for Celtic.

     

    And he begged his critics: Judge me on my future NOT my past.

     

     

    Griff, 23, agreed a four-year deal to join the Hoops from Wolves for £1million. And the ex-Hibs ace hopes to make headlines for all the right reasons having courted controversy throughout his career.

     

     

    Griffiths — who WON’T make his debut against St Mirren tomorrow because of a paperwork issue — said: “Everybody has a past. I just want people to concentrate on what I do playing for Celtic and forget about everything else.

     

     

    “I want to be judged on what I do on the pitch and in training.

     

     

    “If you speak to any of the people who have played with me or been around me, they will tell you I’m not a bad lad.

     

     

    “Yes, I have been daft in the past but when I come to training I do my work and I get on with things and then I go home — and that is what you want to be doing.”

     

     

    Griffiths has already been told what’s expected of him on and off the pitch at Celtic by new boss Lennon.

     

     

    The striker added: “I spoke with the manager earlier and it was a good chat we had.

     

     

    “He told me what is expected of me as a Celtic player, saying you can’t do anything wrong or people will pick up on it.

     

     

    “For me, it’s just about keeping my head down and working hard and trying to prove wrong the people who say I’m not good enough.

     

     

    “I also want to prove the manager is right for signing me.

     

     

    “He’s been very positive about me in the press already this week and I just want to get out there, score goals and repay him.

     

     

    “I want to show everybody why he brought me to the club.”

     

     

    Lennon raved about Griffiths earlier this week when Celts were negotiating with Wolves.

     

     

    Griffiths added: “I had a few text messages with the link to the story and telling me to go and look what the manager was saying about me.

     

     

    “I was absolutely buzzing to hear what he had to say. I spoke to him before I signed and he was very pleased that I had signed.

     

     

    “He has not been in the management game long but since he has, he has won trophies.

     

     

    “He has won over a lot people who didn’t think he was ready to be a manager.

     

     

    “Now he has been touted for some big jobs but he has stuck it out and he wants to win more things and hopefully I will help him to do that.”

  3. JOE LEDLEY quit Celtic for Premier League Crystal Palace last night in a dramatic last-gasp transfer window deal.

     

    The Welsh midfielder joined up at Selhurst Park for a reputed £700,000 after the Hoops had decided he shouldn’t be allowed to run down his contract and quit in the summer for nothing.

     

     

    But it was a close-run thing as Ledley REFUSED the Eagles’ first offer — before agreeing a three-and-a-half year deal with Palace chairman Steve Parish with just minutes to spare.

     

     

    And flop striker Mo Bangura also exited Parkhead with gaffer Neil Lennon admitting full responsibility for the £2.2million dud who has been FREED after just two-and-a-half years.

     

     

    Hoops legend Henrik Larsson recommended the striker who joined from AIK Stockholm in 2011.

     

     

    But boss Lennon yesterday finally gave up on the Sierra Leone international who failed to score in 16 appearances.

     

     

    Bangura last played for Celtic in August 2012 and had been loaned out to AIK and fellow Swedes Elfsborg.

     

     

    Ironically he featured AGAINST his Hoops team-mates in the Champions League qualifiers last summer — and it pained Lennon to jettison the 24-year-old who had 18 months left of his contract.

     

     

    And he said: “It didn’t work out so he’s been given a free. It’s a sore one because he had the potential to do well here.

     

     

    “He looked a really good player in Sweden. But we couldn’t get the best out of him for one reason or another.

     

     

    “It’s very disappointing for both parties.

     

     

    “We paid out a fair amount of money on Mo and we have had very little back on it.

     

     

    “When deals go well we get praised for it. When they don’t go well you expect a bit of criticism — but it’s no fault of Henrik’s.”

  4. IT reached the final few hours of Deadline Day.

     

    But Leigh Griffiths has revealed he had been counting down for weeks pining for his dream move to Celtic.

     

     

    Scotland strike star Griffiths completed his £1million switch from Wolves at 7.30pm before being paraded at Parkhead.

     

     

    It was the end of a long day for the 23-year-old former Hibs hitman.

     

     

    Griff arrived for contract talks at breakfast time, then met Hoops boss Neil Lennon for a Lennoxtown lunch ahead of a teatime medical.

     

     

    It was only when the ink was dry on his four-year contract that Griffiths was able to relax.

     

     

    He beamed: “To come to the biggest club in Scotland is the biggest honour you can get.

     

     

    “I was lucky enough to play for my boyhood heroes Hibs, but you can’t turn down the chance to play for Celtic in the Champions League.

     

     

    “Unfortunately, two bids were rejected, but I’m just glad it’s done now.

     

     

    “As soon as I heard Celtic were interested my heart was set on it, because you want to play at the very highest level you can.

     

     

    “There’s nothing like Celtic in the Champions League.

     

     

    “I wasn’t playing down at Wolves, so I wasn’t happy. But I’m leaving a good club in Wolves and joining an even bigger club in Celtic.

     

     

    “I’m just glad it’s done. Until the first bid goes in, you are never sure if it is going to happen. It was all talk until then but as soon as Celtic made the first bid, I wanted it to go through.

     

     

    “It has just been a long time coming.

     

     

    “Ever since I heard Celtic were interested there was only one place I wanted to play, and I’m just glad the move is done now.

     

     

    “In the middle of December my agent gave me a phone and said Celtic could be interested in January, and I have just been counting down the days since then.

     

     

    “It has taken to the last day, but I’m just glad it’s been done now and I can’t wait to get started.

     

     

    “We’re Scottish champions to begin with, and this is a massive club with a huge fan-base and a fantastic stadium. I have watched the Champions League nights on the TV and there is no better place to play. This is where I want to be.

     

     

    “I was just really keen. I know what it takes to become a Celtic player.

     

     

    “I had a great season last year at Hibs, and then I went back down the road and started scoring goals as well.”

     

     

    Griffiths struck 28 times for a poor Hibs outfit last season, and sees no reason why he can’t be as prolific with the champions — vowing to thrive in the Old Firm environment.

     

     

    Griff added: “It’s a massive deal, but I have no doubt I can handle that and take the pressure that comes with it.

     

     

    “There was a lot of pressure in my last year at Hibs to fill the boots of Garry O’Connor, and I took that in my stride.

     

     

    “Hopefully I can do the same at Celtic. I want to bring goals, that´s what I am all about and what I love doing.

     

     

    “I did it last season for Hibs and have done it for Wolves, and now it´s my time to shine in the Hoops and hopefully I can do it.

     

     

    “I am just thankful to get my chance here, and hopefully I can prove I am a good signing and start scoring goals for fun.

     

     

    “My message to the Celtic fans is I’m looking forward to playing, scoring goals and winning things here.” Celts are desperate for a Champions League striker to replace Gary Hooper and Griffiths insists that can be him.

     

     

    He said: “In time, I could be the striker to score goals in the Champions League.

     

     

    “Working with the coaching staff here will improve me.

     

     

    “Neil Lennon says he doesn’t want to take anything away from me, he just wants me to get better as a player. Hopefully when we play in the Champions League in six months’ time, then I can be that guy.

     

     

    “The Champions League is massive. It’s the biggest club competition in the world and that is where you want to play.

     

     

    “I’ve been fortunate to have been at Celtic Park for a couple of big European nights, and there’s nothing like it.

     

     

    “To be running out there will be incredible.”

     

     

    Griff successfully completed his medical to become Celtic´s third signing of the January transfer window, following Holmbert Fridjonsson and Stefan Johansen.

     

     

    He added: “I trained yesterday and have been involved with Wolves games up to now and have done all my fitness tests.

     

     

    “I have been here as an away player, but it will be nothing like running out as a home player, and I can’t wait.

     

     

    “My aim is now to get to training, to work hard and to break into the team and to stay there. We have got an unbeaten run to maintain and a big Scottish Cup tie against Aberdeen and we want to progress in that.

     

     

    “Hopefully we can go on and win the league and then the Double.”

     

     

    Griffiths will wear the No 28 jersey, explaining: “That was my number when I first joined Hibs. Hopefully I can continue my goals from there.”

  5. ANTHONY STOKES last night told new team-mate Leigh Griffiths he’s joining a phenomenal club.

     

    But the Irish hitman warned his new partner and headline news-maker that playing for Celtic will also change his life.

     

     

    Stokes of course, knows fine well what it’s like to be a front page story.

     

     

    And he’ll be quick to advise Griffiths to take more care than ever.

     

     

    Stokes said: “Even compared to when I was down south at Sunderland, the spotlight on you here is more intense.

     

     

    “But I’d say that is simply part and parcel of playing for a big club.

     

     

    “It can take time to settle into it, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.

     

     

    “Celtic is a phenomenal club competing for titles every year and then there is Europe on the back of that.

     

     

    “You have everything that a footballer desires.

     

     

    “It’s not for me to speak to anyone. Obviously the spotlight is going to be on him — but it’s just time to focus on the football.

     

     

    “Do well on the pitch and keep your head down off it.

     

     

    “From what I’ve seen of Leigh for Hibs on highlights and clips, he scores goals and that’s what you are paid to do as a striker.

     

     

    “He’s a good finisher and will improve the squad.

     

     

    “Leigh knows the game up here with two spells at Hibs and, hopefully, he will come into the squad and make a contribution.

     

     

    “Our bread and butter is the league to get into Europe.

     

     

    “If you are bringing players in of his quality who have a scoring record in Scotland, it’s a no-brainer.

     

     

    “I understand when people say the foreign names tend to sway people — but we have a good mix.

     

     

    “Boys like Kris Commons have come up here from England and just been phenomenal.

     

     

    “But then we also have the likes of Emilio Izaguirre, and Victor Wanyama when he was here.

     

     

    “It has been a mix of foreign and home-grown players.”

     

     

    Stokes, 25, is playing well without scoring.

     

     

    He’s found the net only twice since last October and added: “This has been a strange season.

     

     

    “There have been three or four weeks when I was not playing well or scoring. But in the last three or four games, I feel as though I’ve been performing reasonably well.

     

     

    “I want to try and improve on my goal tally.

     

     

    “But if you look at the Motherwell match a couple of weeks ago, I was heavily involved in our first two goals.

     

     

    “But I’d say as long as I am contributing to the team — and we are winning games, then I’m happy.

     

     

    “Of course I’d be happier if I was scoring more goals because people forget about performances at the end of the season and how well you have played.

     

     

    “As a striker, they just look at you not scoring goals and say that you haven’t done your job.”

     

     

    Celtic have still to lose in the Premiership after 23 games and have won 12-in-a-row in the league.

     

     

    Keeper Fraser Forster has also rattled off a stunning 11 successive league and cup clean sheets, covering more than 17 hours of action.

     

     

    So to say the Hoops are in good form would be a slight understatement.

     

     

    Stokes said: “We are flying at the minute, playing good football.

     

     

    “We had a couple of weeks around Christmas where we were just hanging on in some games.

     

     

    “But it just shows you now how important it was not to drop points.

     

     

    “The football was always going to come.

     

     

    “At the minute we are flying and Kris Commons has played a massive part in all of that.

     

     

    “But so have the boys at the back and Fraser Forster.

     

     

    “Some games he has just one save to make — but he’s been unbelievable.”

  6. Victory to tap into more Rogic magic

     

     

     

    Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat is confident his team will become a potent outfit once they find some consistency and give Tom Rogic more chances to shine.

     

     

    Victory put consecutive 5-0 losses behind them in a fighting 1-1 draw with Perth Glory at nib Stadium on Friday night.

     

     

    Muscat’s men dominated the first half, but were forced to defend grimly for the rest of the match before escaping with a vital point away from home.

     

     

    Rogic, on loan from Celtic until the end of May, impressed in his first start for Victory.

     

     

    The 21-year-old hit the crossbar with a long-range effort and also created a glut of opportunities for his teammates before being subbed off in the 74th minute.

     

     

    Rogic’s deft touch and poise under pressure was clear to see, and Muscat believes the star midfielder will become even more potent once the rest of the team starts clicking.

     

     

    “You can clearly see he’s got immense talent,” Muscat said.

     

     

    “I’ve got no doubt Tom will get better. What we’re striving for is to find some consistency in our performances.

     

     

    “It’s not an excuse, but we’ve found it hard to find consistency within our squad with players going, operations, and four boys going away with the (Australian) Under-22s.

     

     

    “Tom’s getting to understand what his teammates are doing, and his teammates are getting to understand what he’s doing.

     

     

    “It’s a team game. The more opportunities we give him on the ball and in and around the box, the more opportunities we’re going to have.”

     

     

    Muscat is unsure whether Rogic will be able to play a full match in next Saturday’s clash with Central Coast at Bluetongue Stadium.

     

     

    Centre-back Adrian Leijer will return from suspension in a game vital to Victory’s top-four hopes.

     

     

    Glory are sweating on the fitness of international marquee William Gallas after the 36-year-old appeared to injure his left calf late in the match.

     

     

    Gallas limped off the field in the 84th minute after falling awkwardly while challenging for a header.

     

     

    The former Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham defender missed seven weeks earlier in the season after tearing his other calf, but Glory are hopeful his latest injury is nothing more than a knock.

     

     

    Former Mariner Rostyn Griffiths is likely to overcome minor knee injury in time to take his place in next week’s clash with Melbourne Heart.

     

     

    Glory’s Lithuanian international Darvydas Sernas will be pushing for a starting berth after his stunning second-half goal against the Victory, while winger Sidnei is set to return from illness.

  7. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Kit 5.06

     

     

     

    I`ll gie ye Boccherini

     

     

    ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9AuqR1iAY

  8. Glenn Gibbons: Lee McCulloch fooling nobody

     

     

    Lee McCulloch, at Murray Park yesterday, doesnt see much difference between League 1 and the Premiership.

     

     

     

    Surviving members of the Berwick Rangers squad of 1967 may have spent at least part of the last few days bitterly regretting having been shackled during that memorable year to tenth place in the Second Division of the old Scottish Football League, instead of being allowed to maraud through Europe.

     

     

    Unleashed on the continent, there is a strong possibility that the England-based Scots, led by the late Jock Wallace, would have captured the Cup Winners Cup in Nuremberg to set beside the Champions Cup lifted by Celtic in Lisbon just six days earlier.

     

     

    That, at least, is the conclusion that would be reached by anyone applying Lee McCulloch’s curious idea of what constitutes the correlation of form in order to reinforce an argument. In the world according to the current Rangers captain, the significance of Berwick’s famous 1-0 triumph over the Ibrox side in the first round of the 1967 Scottish Cup should be regarded as persuasive evidence of the high probability that they would also have been the superiors of Bayern Munich.

     

     

    The celebrated West Germans, fans of a certain vintage will recall, beat Rangers by the same score in the Cup Winners Cup final at the Nurnbergerstadion; Berwick, however, achieved their victory through Sammy Reid’s goal during the regulation 90 minutes, while it took Bayern until the 19th minute of extra time to produce the decisive strike by midfielder Franz Roth.

     

     

    By simple extension, therefore, we arrive at the logical outcome: Reid and his team-mates would have sorted out West German opponents who included in their ranks such pushovers as Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller and Sepp Maier. It is an example of the kind of bizarre notion with which – coincidentally in the same year – self-deluding supporters north of the border proclaimed Scotland world champions, by reason of their Wembley victory over England, who had actually won the title the previous summer.

     

     

    It would be a matter of utter indifference to those who championed the cause of Scottish pre-eminence that, like Berwick and Europe, the national team – then in the charge of newly-appointed manager Bobby Brown – had not even qualified for the World Cup. Nor would there be any reduction in the level of bravado by the subsequent realisation that the England win, a qualifier for the 1968 European championship, would not even be enough to allow Brown’s team to top their group and reach the finals. Another 25 years would elapse before the Scots would make their first appearance at the European jamboree, in Sweden in 1992.

     

     

    In the present day, McCulloch used this circuitous thought process to support his claim that there is, in terms of ability and overall strength, little or nothing to choose between those teams who inhabit the lower divisions of the SPFL and those who operate in the upper echelons of the Premiership.

     

     

    As persuaders, he cited Championship team Morton’s Scottish League Cup victory over Celtic in September and the elimination of Motherwell from the Scottish Cup by Albion Rovers, from the lowest tier in the game, two months later. These were, he insisted, unshakable proof of the closeness of the various levels.

     

     

    It is, of course, a preposterous proposition (which McCulloch himself would almost certainly acknowledge if pressed), but any ridiculing of the veteran defender should be tempered by the realisation that the piece in which he made the comparisons appeared on the official Rangers website.

     

     

    Since football clubs’ own communications media are, by definition, propaganda sheets, anyone with half a brain would realise that any article that promotes the organisation’s best interests should either remain unread or hung on a nail on the wall of the nearest convenience.

     

     

    And, naturally, the attempts to cultivate optimism and heighten the feelgood factor tend to intensify the closer the season draws to the onset of that most crucial event of all, the renewal of season tickets.

     

     

    As a renowned Rangers man with a deep emotional attachment to his club – as well as commanding more respect from the supporters than any other player on the books – McCulloch would be a natural and willing accomplice to any promotional gambit that could assist in the rehabilitation of a seriously damaged institution. But it would be something of a shock to discover that he hadn’t privately reserved the right to hope that some malign providence does not in the near future arrange the kind of Scottish Cup draw that would give his argument a serious test.

     

     

    Moyes: Who didn’t see it coming?

     

     

    The most mystifying aspect of Manchester United’s diminished powers under new manager David Moyes is that it should be considered even mildly surprising. Anyone who has paid attention to Sir Alex Ferguson’s work over the past 30 years – most specifically his personal involvement in the recruitment and handling of star players – would realise that most of those at Old Trafford over the decades have signed and played for Ferguson as much as they have for Manchester United.

     

     

    In addition, on his decision to retire – in no small part precipitated by the death of his sister-in-law, Bridget Robertson, his wife Cathy’s deeply-loved best friend – could he be expected to acquire a raft of new players in time for Moyes’s arrival? The new man himself declared his independence by immediately replacing the entire coaching staff and would surely have wanted control over potential imports on the playing side.

     

     

    Nobody apart from Ferguson, Moyes and perhaps two or three select others at Old Trafford is privy to the business which preceded the changing of the guard, making the apportioning of blame pure speculation. And even a superficial knowledge of the history of the game should be enough to identify the statistical certainty that such transfers of supreme power are almost inevitably accompanied by a certain decline.

  9. Si senor derdego forte lorez inaro emno lorez emartrux si wotsinem coos an dux Try and type that with predictive text phew!!! Translate the above please. Hail Hail

  10. Well today we learned as the transfer window shuts that sevco are intentionally crashing the bus. Meticulous planning to insure that Administration happens before the season ends. Ten new players recruited to slay part timers and clubs who only spend they’re own money and build up a lead then ditch the ones surplus to requirements. All in the rules of sport and rubber stamped by the SFA. Penalties awarded to the govan team by referees without even a claim to insure the safe passage through the leagues. As soon as they reached a big enough gap we had to stomach press releases warning sevco that they will get the harsher penalty to justify the same club nonsense.

     

     

    Graham Wallace is on record saying administration will not happen but why do i keep hearing in my mind a Geordie voice (Jimmy Nail) HE’s LYING.

     

     

    When they pull this off which they most certainly will, it will equal for me the worst crimes of the old club and our game will take another significant step to destruction. However over in sevco land they will be able to boast of a genuine world record, League winners and promotion whilst in administration.

     

     

    Could this finally be the straw that breaks the camels back and that season ticket holders from clubs all across Scotland demand that these clowns ruining our game are removed before the purchase of season tickets? Please let it be, cause im finding it harder justifying time and money to support a corrupt game

  11. 06:18 on 1 February, 2014

     

    Si senor derdego forte lorez inaro emno lorez emartrux si wotsinem coos an dux With apologies I know the quiz was last night but can anyone tell me what the above phrase says. HINT it’s not a foreign language. HailHail

  12. travellerbhoy,

     

     

    i was watchin episodes of fawlty towers last nite

     

     

    therefore i am fully qualified to say that the phrase ‘si senor’ is a foreign language phrase

     

     

    and since manuel is from barcelona, i can exclusively reveal that foreign language to be spanish

     

     

    FawltyTittiesCSC

  13. hoopy-do. Well your technically right. Never thought that. But the rest isn’t. Spanish that is. Well clever clogs solve the rest. Dogsbreakfastcfc. Hail Hail

  14. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Sid

     

     

    Think you’re correct re Hun admin

     

     

    They will have very few debts so CVA won’t be a problem

     

     

    They’ll be able to hatchet the contracts of players they are paying too much to..,Cribari,Black etc

     

     

    Unless the whole thing is a set up to force the sale and lease back of the heritage….which could be the swan song of Green et al …the final piss take as they stroll off with all the dafties money

  15. Mountblow tim supporting wee oscar on

    Good morning CQN

     

     

    Welcome to paradise Leigh Griffiths

     

    Looking forward to seeing you play in the HOOPS

     

     

    Goodbye and good luck Joe Ledley

     

     

    Keep the Faith

     

     

    Hail Hail

  16. Good morning friends from snow covered and lightly breezy East Kilbride although the skies are now fairly clear. Any similar reports from the Strathclyde Park area would be appreciated as I contemplate my weekly 5K ParkRun.

     

     

    Went to bed last night believing that the Jow Ledley deal hadn’t gone through in time but I see I was wrong. Good luck Joe but tinged with the disappointing realisation that you’ve opted for money over medals, being likely to be a Championship player next season.

  17. mountblow tim supporting wee oscar. Second that mhate. I think Leigh griffiths will be a fantastic signing for us. Everybody seems to have no doubt that he will score goals in the league. I think if he can settle he’ll score in Europe ala Scott macdonald.but I think he’s a better player

  18. Sorry meant I think he’s a better player and with the right coaching and if he can screw the nut he can be fantastic. Is joe away. No sure. He gave me one of the best days in my life when he scored that goal. If he is best o luck joe. You’ll never play for another team like this. Hail Hail

  19. Travellerbhoy,

     

     

    I suggested earlier that Leigh would finish top goalscorer for us this season, the doubters will soon be hushed once he starts banging them in, will be interesting to see if he elbows Commons of penalties as well. I think it may come true, worth a tenner at the bookies.

  20. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Robert

     

     

    You should expect a decent price for that

     

     

    As you say KC gets the pens and won’t give that up as I think he’ll be going for top scorer in the league

     

     

    Interesting to see if Lenny starts him in Sunday

     

     

    No reason why not none of our strikers are scoring regularly at present

  21. Just in to say…

     

     

    I was never Joe Ledley’s biggest fan – far from it.

     

    Still, I wish him the best of luck in his new chapter in his career and,

     

    I hope when he’s at Palace, he has a word in the ear of Barry Bannan

     

    and, sells the Sellic to him.

     

     

    I see that Sammi is still here. Maybe / hopefully he has yet another CL campaign of magic in his locker, although…to be fair to him in this seasons CL…there were times in

     

    some of the games were, youd think that Sammi was playing against the opposition on his own !!!

     

     

    Leigh Griffifths – I wanted him signed last season and was put into a CQN strait-jaikit for saying so !!!

     

     

    LG will surprise a few fholk of that I’m sure(can feel it in my bones).

     

     

    The ‘bored’ were quite right not to be lavish in the transfer window cos, when are all these players who have been purchased in the previous windows going to be fitted into the team ?

     

     

    I think the treatment of Amido Balde has grounds for Neil and his management team to be kicked in the stones by their immediate superiors. Or, are my long held suspicions about Celtic PLC being a ‘rudderless ship’ actually true ? Hmmm

     

     

    Balde, Pukki, Derk and the new ghuys have to be given ‘decent’ runs in the team, as well as young Henderson and Biton.

     

     

    Oh, and I’m not a football manager or tactician – not like some on here believe ‘they’ are but, I have a hunch that….Adam Matthews could become a brilliant midfielder. Only saying.

     

     

    Anyway – Joost in so, away to read back(If I don’t fall asleep).

     

     

    Hail Hail – Take Care Tims – Off oot.

  22. Good God

     

     

    Andy Gray and Richard Keys……

     

     

    Horrible horrible horrible creepy nasty despicable men.

  23. PFayr –

     

     

    I understand that to be eligible for Sunday and signings had to be registered by 5.00pm yesterday, which Leigh wasn’t. So it’ll no doubt be the half time windfall draw for him this weekend.

     

     

    Anyway, c’mon with your coupon pick… ;-)

  24. robert88. I’d love that to happen mhate. My only worry is the settling in period. He’s never played for a team like us. I’ve no doubt he’ll score goals. No chance taking penalties fae Kris. When did he last miss. Hail Hail

  25. That’s true enough, they’ll have to flip a coin on it!

     

     

    Thing is we aren’t up against it in any way so any player coming in should be full of confidence and relaxed when entering the team, I expect him to hit the ground running.

     

     

    on another note this is the best time for Neil to be bring the youngster from Fram and more of the youth. Fisher for example seems to be working well, id love to see more of the youth involved! As nice as these records are, the youth should be used.

  26. robert88. Thanks mhate leaves us with some great memories but never really set the heather alight. Hail Hail

  27. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    ‘gg

     

     

    04:26 on 1 February, 2014

     

     

    Hail Hail……..good post