Celtic curiously stretched in central defence

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Neil Lennon has been fluid with his team formations in recent weeks.  As a result, three central defenders, Efe Ambrose, Kelvin Wilson and Charlie Mulgew could each be regarded as first choice picks, although Ambrose and Mulgrew have also been deployed in midfield.  Ambrose has featured in all nine games since the beginning of December, while Wilson has featured in eight and Mulgrew in seven.

Add to the picture the fact that fourth-choice central defender, Thomas Rogne, has appeared in eight of those nine games, missing only the replay against Arbroath, and our central defenders look curiously stretched.  Much has been made of the proximity of Efe Ambrose potential involvement in the African Cup of Nations to Celtic’s Champions League tie with Juventus, but the numbers suggest a vacancy exists beyond this tie, hence the recruitment of Rami Gershon, who will join on a six month trial, pending a work permit, with a permanent transfer agreed in principle, pending performance between now and May.

Gershon, 24, has kicked around Standard Liege for three years without making a discernible impact, but he is an experienced international who fits the profile of a non-critical recruit, competing as fourth of fifth choice central defender.  His six-month objective will be to secure Thomas Rogne’s place in next season’s squad.  The try-before-you-buy strategy we discussed earlier this week will ensure Neil Lennon has a player keen to impress whenever he gets an opportunity. Sound squad management.

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  1. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    Left and right in this country are misnomers… Becoming more like Democrat and Republican every day. You couldn’t put a fag paper between them.

     

     

    Because there’s no real integrity or idealism in either of them. Frame the politics to mass opinion, instead of holding to honestly held views.

     

     

    Labour? They’re no longer worth the name

     

     

    Gobshites

     

     

    EruditionCSC

  2. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    gene’s a bhoys name

     

     

    20:49 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    LOL

  3. He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice,

     

    he’s going to find out who’s naughty or nice,

     

    For Jabba is coming to town.

  4. Uly

     

     

    Lord Mackay got into a hell of a trouble with The Wee Free’s of which he was an attender for going to another law lord’s funeral in the chapel ..( think it was Wheatley)

  5. Lol, Jabba seems to think that Sauron’s XI are being cheated in some way (meaningless season, etc).

     

     

    Perhaps we should create a full pyramid structure, based on this year’s end of season placements, but with each division containing 10 teams:

     

    – top 10 from SPL (Premiership)

     

    – bottom 2; top 8 from SPL/Div1 (Championship)

     

    – bottom 2; top 8 from div1/div2 (Football League)

     

     

    Then we could have regional ‘striver’ divisions for the following clubs with specific criteria for admittance to the Football League (say, like, erm, 3 years of audited accounts):

     

    – 2 from div2, 10 from div3 plus East of Scotland and Highland Leagues.

     

     

    I’m not sure which division the Deadybears would be in though (for another two years).

     

    ::innocent whistle::

  6. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    what is the stars

     

     

    20:45 on

     

    8 January, 2013

     

     

    We’d have to learn to feel comfortable in hospital ….LOL

  7. Gene's a Bhoys name on

    Not all is harmony in Engerland

     

     

    I believe they still burn an effigy of the Pope in Lewes in Sussex on Nov 5th

  8. SmashingMilkBottles on

    Jude 2005

     

     

    Bobby Russell happens to be a fully paid up member of the Champagne Express Supporters club of which I’m secretary/ driver / ticket collector / timetable info man / snacks etc….

     

    Other fully paid up founder members include Emusanorphan , Matt-E and Inside Write. We have had some guest visitors ( Namely CRC & Gordon64). Three members of the CESC also happen to be brothers with Russell as a surname. So if Bobby is a hun, then by twisted logic, so am I.

     

     

    So in summary, square go at 4 O’clock……

  9. Saint Stivs

     

     

    20:40 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    what a line from traynor,

     

     

    doesnt he know she is charlie greens burd –

     

     

    “It would be easier trying to iron out the lines on the face of the old broad, Madge, in Benidorm”

     

     

     

    ########

     

     

     

    You kind of get the feeling that he hasn’t quite found the right tone with that article.

     

     

    Its just more of the same hack journalism he’s got away with for years.

     

     

    I’d like to know what role, if any, Media House have nowadays.

     

     

    Surely Green isn’t leaving it to Jabba to get the message over?

  10. Dead and Loving it on

    ….PFayr

     

     

    He did, I think that ended Mackay’s association with that easy going bunch

  11. Jabba on June 13 wrote: “ No matter how Charles Green attempts to dress it up, a newco equals a new club. When the CVA was thrown out Rangers as we know them died.

     

    “They were closed and a newco must start from scratch although their fans will insist the history will be boxed up with the strips and balls and carried into the future with

     

    the new club.”

     

     

    F****** lol!!!!!!!!

  12. Gene’s a Bhoys name

     

     

    21:00 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    ‘Not all is harmony in Engerland

     

     

    I believe they still burn an effigy of the Pope in Lewes in Sussex on Nov 5th’

     

     

     

    Is that the best the SNP can come up with?

     

     

    Pathetic.

  13. If Jabba is waiting on a response, someone should tell him the BIG clubs are on holiday…

  14. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    ….pfayr

     

     

    20:56 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    I remember that, pathetic …….l

  15. Gene’s a Bhoys name

     

     

     

    21:00 on

     

     

    8 January, 2013

     

    Not all is harmony in Engerland

     

    I believe they still burn an effigy of the Pope in Lewes in Sussex on Nov 5th

     

     

     

    ———–

     

     

    They do indeed.

  16. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    hamiltontim

     

     

    21:02 on

     

    8 January, 2013

     

     

     

    Hahahahahahaha

  17. Can someone who dons the white one piece and plastic bag on the shoes tell me, how did The Rangers’ website reflect on the passing of Hugh Adam? Presumably it wasn’t a vehicle for some Murray tenure revisionism a la Herald?

  18. Gene's a Bhoys name on

    ernie

     

    where did that come from – I was just pointing out a fact -in relation to the post on Stonehouse

     

    I have lived in Engerland for over 40 years and would not give the SNP the time of day even if I lived in Scotland

  19. What a busy life i`ve had………so many births too, my poor mum

     

     

    Bobby Russell (footballer) (born 1957), Scottish footballer

     

    Bobby Russell (songwriter) (1914–1970), American songwriter, wrote “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”

     

    Bobby Russell CQNer and all round good ghuy which means he`s no a hun

     

    Bobby Russell (British politician) (born 1946), British Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester

     

    Bobby Russell (Canadian politician), former leader of the Liberal Party of Alberta and municipal councillor in St. Albert, Alberta

     

    Robert Russell Canadian labour organizer and politician

     

    Robert Russell (MP for Bristol), see Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)

     

    Robert Russell (MP for Coventry), MP for Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)

     

    [Bobby Russell (ice hockey) (born 1955), retired Canadian professional ice hockey player

     

    Robbie Russell (rugby union) (born 1976), Scottish rugby player

     

    Robbie Russell (soccer) (born 1979), American soccer player

     

    Robert Russell (English actor) English film and television actor in Witchfinder General

     

    Robert Russell American screenwriter

     

    Bobby Russell (entertainer) host of beauty pageants during the 1940s and 1950s

     

    Bobby Russell American songwriter, wrote “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”

     

    Robert Russell English-born Australian surgeon

     

    RobertRussell U.S. federal judge

     

    Robert Russell (architect)London born architect and surveyor active in Australia

     

    Robert Russell (born 1946), Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

     

    Robert Russell, U.S. judge

     

    Robert Russell British civil servant

     

    Robert Russell (born 1981), American writer, editor, and publisher

     

    Bob Russell (The West Wing), fictional character played by Gary Cole on the television serial The West Wing

     

     

    There are more of me here than there are Kojo`s, and that takes some doing….

  20. JimmyQuinnsBits on

    Gene,

     

     

    Indeed they do; and there is no dought that “england” has been the source of many contemporary ills.

     

     

    But, slice it a bit finer. Who was “england” over those times, but a pyramid of sycophants to the chief slug. Aristocrats, we really should put them down. People have been executed for less.

     

     

    I lived in England for many years, and – on average – you couldn’t meet a better people

  21. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    asonofdan

     

     

    20:59 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    link to jabbas rant..?

  22. BobbyRussell

     

     

     

    21:07 on

     

     

    8 January, 2013

     

    What a busy life i`ve had………so many births too, my poor mum

     

    Bobby Russell (footballer) (born 1957), Scottish footballer

     

     

    Bobby Russell (songwriter) (1914–1970), American songwriter, wrote “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”

     

     

    Bobby Russell CQNer and all round good ghuy which means he`s no a hun

     

     

    Bobby Russell (British politician) (born 1946), British Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester

     

     

    Bobby Russell (Canadian politician), former leader of the Liberal Party of Alberta and municipal councillor in St. Albert, Alberta

     

     

    Robert Russell Canadian labour organizer and politician

     

     

    Robert Russell (MP for Bristol), see Bristol (UK Parliament constituency)

     

     

    Robert Russell (MP for Coventry), MP for Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)

     

     

    [Bobby Russell (ice hockey) (born 1955), retired Canadian professional ice hockey player

     

     

    Robbie Russell (rugby union) (born 1976), Scottish rugby player

     

     

    Robbie Russell (soccer) (born 1979), American soccer player

     

     

    Robert Russell (English actor) English film and television actor in Witchfinder General

     

     

    Robert Russell American screenwriter

     

     

    Bobby Russell (entertainer) host of beauty pageants during the 1940s and 1950s

     

     

    Bobby Russell American songwriter, wrote “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”

     

     

    Robert Russell English-born Australian surgeon

     

     

    RobertRussell U.S. federal judge

     

     

    Robert Russell (architect)London born architect and surveyor active in Australia

     

     

    Robert Russell (born 1946), Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

     

     

    Robert Russell, U.S. judge

     

     

    Robert Russell British civil servant

     

     

    Robert Russell (born 1981), American writer, editor, and publisher

     

     

    Bob Russell (The West Wing), fictional character played by Gary Cole on the television serial The West Wing

     

     

     

    ——-

     

     

    They’re aw huns anaw ;-)

  23. Dead and Loving it on

    Think the best response from PL is to tell us what the board at Celtic think about the proposals and if asked about jabba , just state that he has not read it, then move on

  24. The best reaction from Celtic is no reaction. Don’t give them the oxygen of publicity that they so desperately crave. They are an irrelevance to us and that fact is why they are hurting so bad.

     

     

    Let them eat static Peter.

  25. Does the Jabba statement mean the zombies will forever refuse tickets against us?

     

     

    I hope and pray that is the case…

  26. Gene’s a Bhoys name

     

     

    21:07 on 8 January, 2013

     

     

    Apologies.

     

     

    Regarding the Lewes thing, saw this comment on, of all things a Millwall supporters website

     

     

     

     

    ‘I’ve heard the burn the Catholics chants and seen the burn the Catholics placards.

     

     

    There wouldn’t be this Bonfire Night thing if we hadn’t burnt 13 of their lot for real about 300 years ago.

     

     

    I always wacth from outside St Pancras Catholic Church and cheer when the effigy of Guy Fawkes comes by. This I follow with a Monk Chant so they all know I’m Millwall and keep their distance.

     

     

    Great night but full of prostestant student type nobs and Brighton fans who couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.

     

     

    Catholics rule Lewes as we have all the money the other mob are in the cheap houses’

     

     

    Read more: http://www.millwall.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=91758#ixzz2HQA4YwaF

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