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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paulandtony – I couldnt disagree more. We should not allow Traynor or anyone at Sevco to bully us. They are talking mince and it is time they were called out on it.
It seems the SFA will allow Sevco to say whatever it likes – if we intervene they wont have a choice but to react.
Sevco are trying to rewrite history – its our duty to stop them. But will our Board do anything – nope – after all they dont care who attacks Celtic fans.
west csc
“shouldnt all education be nondenominational with no religion ethos in state schools
have religious classes after school
would stop reinforcing catholic/protestant prejudices
have private religious schools by all means where people have to pay to send their kids to them”
This is a “when did you stop beating your wife” type of query.
The question carries an implicit connection between teaching about religion and inculcation of prejudice. Why should teaching religion after 4pm result in less prejudiced attitudes than teaching between 9 am and 4 pm?
It is the imparting of bigoted attitudes that leads to intolerance and discrimination, not the teaching of religion. Otherwise all those who have ever been taught about religion would be automatically prejudiced. Since, I assume that you have been exposed to religious teachings, is it safe to assume that you consider yourself prejudiced?
Celtic_First
Much appreciated and our best wishes to you and all the _First ladies for 2013.
SwanseaBhoy
West csc.
There isn’t a problem in england with catholic schools.
My kids attend the largest catholic school in Scotland and i would
estimate 1 in 5 kids that attend are non catholic!!!
west csc,
it wasnt that long ago religous education and english were the only two manditory subjects, I’m not sure if thats changed.
But the religous schools is only a problem in scotland, why is that do you think
Is the best way to address sectarianism to give in to sectarian demands, cause thats what it looks like from here
St John Doyle , with you on both posts.
Generally speaking the Glaswegian man is easy going ; the real deep rooted bigotry is not in Glasgow. Its in Ayrshire, renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Lothians. The Glasgow guys have generally speaking got on with each others of the years due to the large catholic population in Glasgow, inter marriage, humour etc once you leave Glasgow it’s a different ball game.
Spot on about SNP destroying stats on attacks on Catholics and Salmonds Offensive Behaviour Bill to mask anti Catholic prejudices.
At the end of the day it will come down to economics and numbers and they will not fly. In the world we live in where even US has avoided one fiscal cliff with another one round the corner there is more security in the UK economically. Even here in Berlin , German starts to get a little nervous about Q1. Davos at end of January will give some further insight on 2013. Scotland as newco or new state could not pick a worse time to go it alone.
Also we should never forget Salmond was a junior manager in RBS or BOS. He runs the sweetie shop in Edinburgh where he is surrounded by mediocrity at best ( bumped into a couple in Brussels ). Even if the numbers made sense you would not put a clown in charge of a newco with a GDP of £150bn. We would be zombies in no times….mot just financially!!
west csc
I take it you are from Ireland, and going by what you posted you are not from the north, if that is indeed the case, by defenition you must be from the ROI.
Now I may well be way off the mark and you are not from Ireland, afore I answer you, please enlighten me.
HH
Not long in and only read back a few pages. Just checked the BBC news-site and Lenny’s photo is on the restructuring story. Guess the message is that this is a bad idea.
Haven’t read traynors statement and don’t intend to. Judgin by the comments it was a better OG than alexanders.
Off to bed.
HH
westcsc
my children and grandchildren all attended the same catholic
school with excellent results and as far as i can see no hang
ups or prejudices
i should say that the school now has various denominations
attending although still an catholic school
this must be a good thing
so as far as i am concerned if its not broke, dont fix it
In any FAIR League reconstruction, the criteria for Clubs coming up to the higher league would include a concession which would give any Club not meeting the criterea a season to do so …….be VERY careful SFA ….any attempt to fastrack this new, mediocre, Club would be extremely ill-advised…..
Ernie @ 20.09,
Quite straightforward.
Marx adopted the labour theory of value from Ricardo: a theory of value is meant to explain prices, but the labour theory of value doesn’t do this as prices don’t depend on the amount of labour incorporated in products. Therefore ecomomic analyses which are truly Marxist are built on sand. How many times have Marxists (or “Marxists”) predicted the downfall of capitalism? It’s not going to happen more than once.
BTW you don’t answer any of my other points.
west csc
Hahahhahah
Wits
Of course separation from british rule was the right thing
My point was Freedom; what now?
Ireland was sucked dry
Gombeen men, hoors, and charlatans
lionroars67
22:35 on 8 January, 2013
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Not playing blame game but the Council cant be blamed for something they do not control
I have said before no Political Party has the bottle to deal with the OO they are all too scared. The SNP have the overall majority now ask them why they will not tackle their brothers in the OO, remember the OO campaigned publicly for the SNP in the 2011 election.
Wee Alex has good friends the OO, Rupert Murdoch, David Murray, Donald Trump ( until they fell out over wind farms) and Souter from stagecoach. Backed by The Sun newspaper.
yes exiled tim i am from the republic
GlassTwoThirdsFull
22:34 on
8 January, 2013
So let’s get this right. Last year Traynor said clubs were wrong to listen to the wishes of their supporters. Now he’s saying clubs are wrong to NOT listen to the wishes of their supporters. Make up your mind Jim or you might look a bit stupid.
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w-i-l-l c-o-n-t-i-n-u-e t-o
Canamalar
You do have a point about religious schools only being a problem in Scotland,I would say religious schools are only a problem where some sort of conflict exists between 2 religions.
So people will trot out the arguments that if all children were educated together it would help end division.Some of the people who use this argument are well meaning and of course in an ideal world I would like to see no divides between any people.
Catholic run schools were the norm in Republic of Ireland but are coming under pressure from an increasingly secular and liberal society which has become very disillusioned with Catholic Churches abuse of its position of power and privilege which it held from the foundation of the state until recently.
By contrast in the USA Catholic schools (many of them privately funded) are much sought after by parents trying to give their kids an advantage in life
West csc is at it or thick …either way ignore
He’s looking for a sound bite …
lucky cody
22:40 on 8 January, 2013
I take it you don’t come from Glasgow….LOL
And politicians will do ANYTHING to win / retain the vote of the majority ……..now, please remind me …….???????
Glasstwothirdsfull
On your query about Stan Petrov, I read an article last week in Irish Indo about Stan coming in to gee up the team before the FA Cup game at the weekend . Said he was in remission but still requires chemo. Apparently winding up Given about remembering how to be a keeper after so long out the team. Good news and hope it continues.
Hail hail
west csc
Did you go to state school in the Republic ? if the answer is yes, where was the school ?
Jimmy Quinns Bits
Firstly Ireland has not been sucked dry and never will be
Secondly if it was to be sucked dry better it be done by our own than a foreign colonial power.
What Now
Simple,the country will recover despite what the Telegraph and the Express would have one beleive
Its a great place to live,one of the best in Europe
BTW did anyone see Patrick Harvey of the Greens (the one who’s against Catholic Schools) on TV today trying to play down anti-Catholic bigotry in Scotland?
Night all………have we bought Drogba yet, just to get one over on Juve…?
exiled tim, galway
Jabba has every reason to be upset at those pesky illiterate intraweb bampots.
After all, we did kill his football club.
West CSC
You are getting some grilling tonight
Have you been called a hun yet
What are you inside leg measurements
When was your last confession
What name did you take for your confirmation
Dont rock the boat,Celtic soul brother or you shall be named as an evil one and cast out
St.John.Doyle
22:46 on
8 January, 2013
I have said before no Political Party has the bottle to deal with the OO they are all too scared.
So no difference what ever the party in power
There is no evidence to suggest that Scotland will become more discriminatory/violent towards Catholics if Scotland becomes independent
The debate deserves to be lifted above that level of tabloid scaremongering playing the religious card
Neganon…..
The rangers fans interest and money is starting to wane in the lowest tier of Scottish football….
World record attendances only serves the stimulate the fans for so long before boredom sets in.
But getting a reaction from our support ….
A reaction from the celtic board…
Or even better ! A reaction from Oor Neil is like a shot of idrenalin .
The SFA won’t do anything ..
Traynor and chuckles has thrown a fishing line, hook and sinker in … And are waiting for us , Neil , or our board to bite so they can land us and feed us to the baying zombies !
No reaction from us or our board constitutes a big GIRFUY and we don’t care one bit to them …
They are nothing but a sparkly new football club..
AN IRRELEVANCE
Do rise to it …. Laugh at it
St John Doyle
Did any of the so called right wing Parties, Socialists, who cathlolics mainly voted for, after the 2nd world war, stand up and cry out about the blatant sectarian policy that was in full view to all and sundry? por cierto
is ‘rankers not my fav team…’ about tonite?
any ideas where he/she may have gone?
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
22:49 on
8 January, 2013
lucky cody
22:40 on 8 January, 2013
I take it you don’t come from Glasgow….LOL
And politicians will do ANYTHING to win / retain the vote of the majority ……..now, please remind me …….???????
I attended a FAC meeting in Denniston east end of Glasgow, i must have imagined the large group of the local OO which infiltrated that meeting………… maybe they were Chelsea fans…..had good Glasgow accents though
west csc
I suppose the clue is in your nom de blog, I lived close to Gort for a short time many years ago.
Anyways, I really can’t expand on these posts, they sort of are smarter than me, and a tad quicker.
stevebhoy
22:37 on
8 January, 2013
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setting free the bears
22:37 on
8 January, 2013
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canamalar
22:40 on
8 January, 2013
If they don’t answer your questions, you may refer to PFayr’s post @ 22.48.
HH
Now that fast – tracking the tribute act has been ruled out (I know). Will we now see the previously enthusiastic scribblers start to change tact on reconstruction.
After all, we know how spiteful they can be when things don’t go their way.
If Jabba & the zombies love the bottom tier of Scottish football
so much, whats not too like about another year down there ?
Coneybhoy,
Thanks. Let’s hope he keeps up the recovery.
saltires en sevilla
Quite a few new posters the past while, they come on stir the pot and do a runner.
Could be some and the same a few of them, who knows, who cares in fact, fun all the same watching them squirm.
HH
yes i was told to change my name as celtic fans cannot write the word rangers and reading it upsets them,
very medieval i thought
seems there is a very cosy concensus on this blog and anyone that looks at things differently is liable to be turned on