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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EXACTLY Celtic_First! I would also factor in whisky licensing and that a prequisite for gaining a scotch whisky manufacturing license is that ALL their scotch whisky related activities are kept within scotland. If the company doesnt like it, tough! some other company can get their license instead ;) the benefits are obvious so no point me listing them.
Bawsman are you going to the Juve game?
V
Guangdong Single Malt……mmmm :-)
Bawsman are you going to the Juve game?
Leaving lunchtime?
Doctor whatfor email sent to you, thanks Paul67.
Back to work CSC
V
Rangers oldco liquidators are pursuing a £25m claim against Craig Whyte’s former lawyers.
Insolvency firm BDO, which is overseeing the winding up of RFC 2012 PLC, formerly The Rangers Football Club PLC, is pursuing Collyer Bristow in a civil action raised at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
The action was originally pursued by administrator Duff and Phelps, which was called in to run the oldco on February 14, 2012. It claimed that former owner Mr Whyte and his lawyer Gary Withey, who worked for Collyer Bristow, had participated in the “deception” of board members in the ill-fated May 2011 takeover.
On Tuesday, BDO confirmed it was pressing ahead with the action, while it is also counter-claiming against Merchant Turnaround, a firm that Mr Whyte has a substantial shareholding in through his British Virgin Islands-based Liberty Capital Ltd.
The case will call later this year at the Chancery Division of the High Court in London and includes HM Revenue and Customs and the Trustees of the Jerome Group plc Pension Fund as claimants against Collyer Bristow.
Rangers went into administration with debts of up to £124m, including £18m unpaid PAYE and National Insurance taxes incurred during Mr Whyte’s nine-month reign at Ibrox. The Jerome Group is wholly owned by the Worthington Group PLC, which Mr Whyte also owns a stake in through Liberty Capital.
According to the Worthington Group’s annual accounts for 2012, it was in the process of loaning Rangers £3m when the oldco was plunged into administration. It claims that it is “confident that the £3m will be recovered, plus interest and costs”.
Collyer Bristow, Mr Withey and Mr Whyte have denied the accusations originally levelled by Duff and Phelps, now by BDO’s interim liquidators Malcolm Cohen and James Stephen.
SofaT
I Must Say….
I’m Really Missing Your Insightful Morning Posts…
“Breakfast Wi’ Ma Maghrebis”…
Where Your Pals Selected A Different Topic Every Day….
To Illustrate How The West Was So Decadent,Primitive…& Evil….
And Their Way Was The ONLY Way…
If We Were To Achieve Salvation…
As The Cursed Descendants Of Mere Apes And Pigs..
NotAlistairCookCSC…
tomtheleedstim – Yes.
And I’m not suggesting Ireland would be some sort of paradise without the Euro. They would be in much better shape though. Leaving the Euro is a necessary but not sufficient, precondition for them to fix their economy.
What I find astonishing is how meekly the Irish political and media class is accepting this state of affairs, where the best prospect for their children and grandchildren is emigration. Is this the same country that fought the British Empire? (thumbsup)
philvisreturns
13:14 on 8 January, 2013
‘Someone hidebound by conventional rationality might point to the widespread poverty, famine, misery, oppression and mass murder that tends to accompany Marxism applied in practice.’
‘Marxism applied in practice’.
You haven’t read any Marx, have you?
philvisreturns – A lot of what you have to say cannot be disputed.
One word though – Hopelessness.
That is a state of mind friend,and it is more often than not created by outside influences,be it government or whatever.
You look at those poor people in African…despite everything,they still have that wee glimmer of hope about them.
Britain’s poor today have no hope,or no prospects.
Philvis
Those guys are used to change. They can set their headquarters up wherever they like. You can live wherever you like and buy a flat in Paris if you want to, and if the authorities in Paris tell you there’s a new property tax regime, you have to pay. You can’t say: “I’m moving my flat in Paris to somewhere more tax-efficient, such as Wilmington, Delaware.”
Vmhan
13:34 on
8 January, 2013
I’m ashley shocked you asked that question, the answer to your next question is probably yes :-)
Big Swee @ 13.30
Got to say I agree with your every word.
(Does your use of the old micro-dot font suggest you learned to type at MI5?)
FF
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water.
13:20 on 8 January, 2013
‘ernie lynch – Holding a Scottish passport world mean that you are a citizen,with a British passport,you are a mere subject.’
Wow.
That’s me convinced.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire – I feel sorry for people who are not as fortunate as me and I think it will take more than charity to help them.
It does take more than charity. It takes a free market to generate sustainable rising living standards for the masses. Capitalism is literally the only reason you’re alive today instead of having starved to death in a mud hut made out of twigs and bits of cow poo.
And I don’t mean you in general, I mean you specifically. Despite being a low-information person with no obvious skills, you live better than the kings of the ancient world did.
Capitalism says you’re welcome.
Did you no run away from big bad bhoys who hammered all your stats the other day (thumbsup:o)
Eh?
So apparently someone disagreed with something I wrote, but I was working at the time so didn’t read it?
How embarrassed I must be.
(thumbsup)
Philvis
Ah, market correction, eh.
Quick question: Who lent the money? Who bought the bonds?
The Battered Bunnet 13:09 on 8 January, 2013
“Does no one here know that David Bowie has today released his first new song since 2006?”
There’s a good reason for that…
16 roads @ 13:10,
“Scotland produces more oil than Kuwait.”
Interesting statement.
Do you mean in terms of Crude Oil production alone?
Additionally be interested to know how or where you gathered the information that shows this to be the case.
I was under the impression that Kuwait generally produces per annum roughly double the crude oil that UK as a whole does.
As for proven reserves, we cannot even begin to compete there.
Genuinely interested to hear your thoughts.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Andrew67
13:12 on 8 January, 2013
‘Ernie
I wouldn’t like to gamble swapping the standard of life that I and my family have earned in our capitalist society for a Marxist one.’
Why?
Have you a moral objection to gambling?
philvisreturns
13:42 on 8 January, 2013
‘It takes a free market to generate sustainable rising living standards for the masses.’
Something which Adam Smith said wouldn’t happen.
He thought capitalism had reached the limits of its productive capacity during his lifetime.
That’s what happens when you assume that humanity just happens to have reached its final level of achievement during your own lifetime.
The Token Tim
13:43 on 8 January, 2013
16 roads @ 13:10,
“Scotland produces more oil than Kuwait.”
To be fair we need that oil to cook with.
philvisreturns
13:31 on
8 January, 2013
It’s no me that’s on the drugs if you are going to deny capitalism put us in the hole we’re are all in now. You have the audacity to blame the welfare state for the mess, Ha!
They try and deflect by saying Brown, Darling and Balls should have had a “heavier hand” rather than “light touch” on the city tiller. Pffft. The vast bulk of your city spiv/capitalist mateys should be in the slammer.
ernie lynch – I am somewhat disappointed by your response.
The Token Tim – Listen brother,i will be honest with you here – I read,or read that somewhere before,i can’t remember where.
I am not an intellect.
Anyway,put it like this – even if Scotland did only produce half the oil that Kuwait did – that is still a hell of a lot of oil.
Now i am imagining Kuwait,and i am seeing serious wealth – so i am thinking about Escosse,and i am thinking that every cant in Scotland should be driving about in Mercedes SLK’s.
Something isn’t right,that’s what i am saying.
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water. – Britain’s poor today have no hope,or no prospects.
Patronising balderdash.
Spare the “poor” your simpering, hand-wringing pity. They ain’t that poor, as I’ve demonstrated, and far from being hopeless, they are grown up human beings with the capacity to make their own choices. They are not the dumb oxen you seem to suggest they are. (thumbsup)
ernie lynch – You haven’t read any Marx, have you?
A bit, back in my university days, which I will freely admit are fast receding to the foggy margins of my memory. Also, I quite liked the beer and occasional funny cigarette back then, which doesn’t help recollection.
Howevah… I haven’t read any of David Icke’s books but I’m pretty sure shape-shifting aliens aren’t a thing.
I haven’t read Mein Kampf, but I know Naziism is a bad idea.
Ouch! Godwinned! (thumbsup)
Celtic_First – Those guys are used to change. They can set their headquarters up wherever they like. You can live wherever you like and buy a flat in Paris if you want to, and if the authorities in Paris tell you there’s a new property tax regime, you have to pay. You can’t say: “I’m moving my flat in Paris to somewhere more tax-efficient, such as Wilmington, Delaware.”
Whoosh! That was my point exploding in the upper ionosphere.
So, as part of the Single Market, we are legally obliged to let companies base their HQ anywhere in the EU they want to. That means if Luxembourg has a more favourable corporate tax regime than Scotland, guess where the whisky companies set up their HQ?
It doesn’t matter so much where they actually make the stuff, corporation tax is based on profits which are taxed where the HQ is.
My point is, the SNP’s assumption that they can simply grab whatever they want to fund their “indepenent” Scotland is wrong. Reality has a way of interrupting political plans. (thumbsup)
ernie lynch
You may find that we need that amount of oil in order to keep philvis’ fleet of cars on the road …
And his chauffeurs in employment.
FF
Bawsman – Capitalism is the reason you’re rich enough to afford a computer, once a luxury only the five richest kings of Europe could afford.
The reason we have an ongoing economic crisis is down to government spending too much. (thumbsup)
philvis,
we are exactly where we are because capitalism failed again
the third world is where it is because capitalism fails
Folly Folly – You may find that we need that amount of oil in order to keep philvis’ fleet of cars on the road …
Have we run out of whales? (thumbsup)
Where Ur Ye….Kojo ?
We’ve Goat Them Oan The Run……
philvisreturns 13:54 on 8 January, 2013
“Bawsman – Capitalism is the reason you’re rich enough to afford a computer”
You don’t have to be rich to own a computer. Enough of the Daily Mail routine.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire – we are exactly where we are because capitalism failed again
the third world is where it is because capitalism fails
I like you buddy, but you sort of remind me of that Kids In The Hall sketch where the guy keeps walking back into the same beating. The optimism is heart-warming, but the outcome is painful to watch.
I imagine you have spinach in your teeth. Do you have spinach in your teeth? (thumbsup)
ernie lynch
13:50 on 8 January, 2013
The Token Tim
13:43 on 8 January, 2013
16 roads @ 13:10,
“Scotland produces more oil than Kuwait.”
To be fair we need that oil to cook with.
Good old fashioned lard is cheaper and tastier. It would also allow us to flog the oil and spend the extra income on health care fot our poor, furred up arteries.
Steinreignedsupreme – You don’t have to be rich to own a computer. Enough of the Daily Mail routine.
You’re pulling my leg, right? (thumbsup)
Aw come on, philvis: ‘The reason we have an ongoing economic crisis is down to government spending too much.’
Where did these nasty governmentses get their precious money from … ?
FF
philvisreturns – It’s the lottery of life,circumstances,fate.
I mean if you are born into a slum,what real chance have you got in life? If your da is missing and your ma is an alcoholic,or a junkie – That’s isn’t your fault,that’s just the hand that you were dealt in life.
Same as a poor child born in Africa.
All that i consider myself is lucky,there but for the grace of God and all that there and all.
Do you understand what i mean now?
Philvis
Help me with this…
Ireland has a foreign debt crisis, yes? It owes tonnes of people all over the world tonnes of money.
For example, according to the World Bank/IMF data for 2011, Ireland owes UK Banks and UK Public Sector €104.5 Bn.
That’s a shed load, yes?
On the toss side, the UK owes Irish Banks and Public Sector €113.5 Bn.
Isn’t a little journal entry in order? Would sure make the numbers a little more manageable…
Re-posting as I am keen to understand what might potentially happen with the football in this country……but it seems everyone else is more interested in arguing over politics?! :-(
Can someone explain this new proposed 12-12-18 setup? I get that they play 22 games and then split with top 8 in one “league”, bottom 4 of first and top 4 of second playing in a second “league” etc.
However how does this actually work. Say Celtic have a 10 point cushion after the 22 games. Do they start on +10 when the split happens? Or does it go to zero (in which case injuries or a few poor games could spell unfair loss of the league).
Also, how would it work with the bottom 4 / top 4 combination? Do they all start on zero? Otherwise it would be a nightmare since the teams will have played against different competition with different point and goal difference totals.
What a mess – only in this stupid wee country (and Austria / Switzerland although they wised up apparently?!)
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water – I mean if you are born into a slum,what real chance have you got in life? If your da is missing and your ma is an alcoholic,or a junkie – That’s isn’t your fault,that’s just the hand that you were dealt in life.
Same as a poor child born in Africa.
You’re comparing people in Glasgow with the poor of Africa now?
Where’s my Captain Picard facepalm ASCII… (thumbsup)
philvisreturns
13:52 on
8 January, 2013
Naturally you’re right about the corporate HQ, but as somebody previously suggested the way round that is to grant licences based on volume of Scotch produced. This could be set at the level that matches what the company would have had to pay in Corp tax leaving them no incentive to move.