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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Re mr SofT’s post earlier
Is Didier Drogba gonna be modelling our new kit this afternoon
corkcelt
Yesterday in the midst of a full day of SNP / Independence / Sevco debates) you posted the following …
“I prefer to focus on Celtic and to live in the here & now. This calls for a couple of shrewd buys in this window and that is my main concern and not the ins and outs of Sevco.”
I posted …. “That was a very ‘Celticy’ post…. … are you a Tim?
…I was just glad to finally see someone bring the Blog back to its original charter by talking about Celtic
( this was supposed to be a reworking of the CQN tradition of unearthing the followers of darkness ( are you a Hun? ) who occasionally stray onto the blog and was not calling your credentials into question)
I had already logged off and missed your follow up question inquiring why I asked …
Sorry for any confusion
Also .. Happy Birthday
The Onlooker
HMRC a new possible shirt sponsor?
LB
Ok…
Drogba modelling the new strip in the newly named Pepsi Park….
I don’t think the problem is the number of “senior” Scottish clubs as much as the fact that all of them are spending at levels they cannot sustain in order to compete with, currently, one giant club but, formerly, two giant clubs.
There must be tens of thousands of football clubs if we include all amateur, kids and ladies football teams. They exist because somebody wants the separate identity of that team to continue. If they did not then they would merge their resources voluntarily with a nearby club or disband.
You cannot force a merger easily between proud clubs. ICT were only persuaded to do so, at some cost in initial loss of fans, because their was a long sought after prize of entry to senior league. I doubt Angus United will view the chance to be a weak team in the top tier as sufficient reward to forego their proud historic existence where they can individually float between the 2nd to 4th tiers.
Certainly, Motherwell, Hamilton & Airdrie are nowhere near rewarded for their pains by becoming a 2nd or 3rd force in Scottish top tier , since all of them have managed top tier existence in the recent past as separate units.
I see the least painful solution as being either to
a) Cut Celtic free meantime and look at Sevco leaving in 5 year’s time
b) Let both Celtic & Sevco leave, or
c) Dissolve all Senior Scottish clubs into some cross-border set up where top flight participation might require a minimum of 30k seated stadia, then they might consider amalgamation if the reward of access to a lucrative league is large enough.
I cannot see beyond a) and b) as being the likely solutions given the time scales involved in creating club mergers.
Have to rush now. Will catch any replies later.
b) Cut
….and Pepsi Park is an anagram of Krapp Pies
LiviBhoy
11:55 on
9 January, 2013
HMRC a new possible shirt sponsor?
LB
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What about The Catholic Weekly
corkcelt
11:50 on
9 January, 2013
I’m afraid I have to fully agree with you on that one …… LOL ………looks like they are starting to realise the oldco are zombies now, and they have a new club, which is not going to get any ‘special’ treatment after all……. The meeja will also be reeling, since they thought this was all being concocted / spun to gain preferencial treatment for this new club ….can’t think why, since they ARE a new club, and won’t be treated any differently from any other Club in Scottish Football ……rules are rules….
Ten Men Won The League
I was thinking the exact same thing when he said it.
Either Duffield and the presenters were too stupid to work out the math of it all or it was another desperate attempt from a once corrupt, now zombified club to try to dominate to their own benefit.
Come to think of it it was probably both of those.
HH
I would be in favour of a mega bucks deal to sponsor the ground. It’s money for nothing. It will always be Paradise to me.
LB
livibhoy
11:55 on 9 January, 2013
HMRC a new possible shirt sponsor?
I would need a sedative……!!!!!!……..having said that, they tend to receive money (from most), not give it……….
Regards league reconstruction – whilst thems won’t get any benefit this season or next, when they eventually do get to the championship they only have to finish top four for chance of promotion and based on their performances this year and the fact they are skint and can’t afford better standard players I think the sfa are playing the long game here to get thems back to the top table as quickly as possible.
David Beckham has received 11 offers from clubs around the world. What is the chances we are one of them? I’d still take him on a trial basis :D
HH
LiviBhoy
12:00 on
9 January, 2013
I would be in favour of a mega bucks deal to sponsor the ground. It’s money for nothing. It will always be Paradise to me.
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Que Bounty advert “a taste of Paradise”
I’m not a fan of the leaked new home top, ours is one of those kits that is best left as simple as possible.
I like this season’s top, I think it looks great without a sponsor.
I’d love today’s announcement to be a new sponsor for us I think our increased profile on the European stage has brought this opportunity
LiviBhoy
I’d go for HMRC sponsoring our shirt as long as it had a big mugshot of Hector on it. especially if we ever play Zombie FC
HH
Big G
Beckham is a no brainer. He would sell shirts world wide and put millions on any sponsorship deal. Still a useful player too.
I’m not sure his missus would come to Scotland but they would be able to live down South while Beckham got a wee bedsit in the east end midweek.
get him signed up with the cash he brought in he wouldn’t even need to play!
LB
Duffield should have said
” This is great news for Sevco as it means they don’t need to win SFL 3 this year.
They will go in to the new 18 team division regardless,
it therefore takes all the pressure off Ally in a season where he can not strengthen in January”
Of course Duffield turns it into a negative ” have we not been punished enough?”
The Onlooker
LiviBhoy
12:06 on 9 January, 2013
‘Big G
Beckham is a no brainer.’
I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.
Yep craig, thats true but the following year when they finish in the bottom 4, they will be back down in the limbo League again.
gordybhoy64
11:45 on 9 January, 2013
Tonyg, no chance any bookie would sponsor us and not sevco, way too much money involved
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I doubt there has ever been a Hun who’s placed a bet in a Paddy Power shop so they would lose nothing in a deal with us.
Just saying like! :)
HH
/Bishop B
I posted on here some time back that using the standings from the end of this season and a number of basic criteria, you can shoehorn sevco into SPL2 quite easily.
IIRC, the seating criteria to push them into tier 2 was as little as 2,500.
ernie lynch
He would fill the void left by Freddie Underpants.
Would Sevco fans boycott his aftershave?
LB
Corkcelt, the mibbery would be in full operation to ensure that would never happen
What about shirt sponsor “Go Compare” works on a number of levels
hoopedduke
I agree re the home top and sponsorless Hoops are reminiscent of the glory in the Jock Stein era.
Hail Hail
I hear our new sponsor is BDO:-)
Catamongstthepigeons CSC
With no PC scheduled for Ipox it looks like a lone sponsorship deal.
That is one thing to be glad of regardless of who the new sponsor is. I just hope it generates the sort of cash that a club like Celtic should be getting. We are a worldwide brand and should be getting the kind of money for a shirt sponsor that at least a mid table English Premier League club gets.
Hopeful for Guinness but will settle for an Asian sponsor who gives us lots of cash!
LB
victoria beckham buys single end in partick shocker
setting free the bears
11:56 on
9 January, 2013
lots of stuff I agree with
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I agree with that almost in it’s entirety; however I don’t think an Angus Utd would ever get to the top division, or if so, it would be once in a blue moon. Taking ‘their’ crowds, i.e. the home fans who go to games and discounting the away fans who make up a decent proportion of average gates, and adding them together, you still only get around 1,500 fans, i.e. less than Morton, Dunfermline, Partick, Falkirk, Raith, etc.
In the main, it would be stuck in the second tier.
Three of the four Angus teams have had very recent flirtations with that very tier. Why merge them?
Anyone with a green logo would not feel the effect of a sevco boycott so…
Paddy power
Asda
Subway
Waitrose
Lloyds (tee hee)
I hope though that we are in a new league in terms of global profile, largely due to the increased focus coming from our European exploits…
Gasprom have increased their profile in the west of Europe lately, I like the sound of emerites too…
These companies would care little about the ahem 500 million sevco fans worldwide not buying their products
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) _ I’ve seen Posh in the Smiddy a few times. She plays the bandit.
Lennon and mc…
I don’t think I’ll be happy until we have unbroken hoops, no number on the shirt and a massive number on the shorts
OldschoolCSC
Celtic will today formally dissolve the old-frim partnership with Rangers as they know longer exist. Celtic will also invite applications from SPL member clubs to join them in the newco “old-firm”. One lucky club will be part of this partnership and this will help bring Scottish football out of the armageddon it has faced since Rangers went bust.
On the back of this, Sky Sports have announced a massive TV deal welcoming old firm games back onto the small screen.
Scottish football is saved.
BBC understands that Motherwell are early favourites to join Celtic in the “old-firm”.
Mort
new article posted.
Mort,
We’ve already had the “new firm” of Aberdeen and Dundee Utd way back when. If there is to be an alliance to replace the now defunct “old firm” them shouldn’t it be the “new old firm”
Mort, I heard its going to be a joint Sponsorship deal with Celtic & Partick Thistle.
thehoopedduke
12:18 on 9 January, 2013
Anyone with a green logo would not feel the effect of a sevco boycott so…
Paddy power
Asda
Subway
Waitrose
Lloyds (tee hee)
I hope though that we are in a new league in terms of global profile, largely due to the increased focus coming from our European exploits…
Gasprom have increased their profile in the west of Europe lately, I like the sound of emerites too…
These companies would care little about the ahem 500 million sevco fans worldwide not buying their products
Would add Green Flag to that list.
Keep it flying high! ;o)
HH
/Bishop B