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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My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detective
SALMOND, should Change his Name ..tae that o’ anither Member o
the Piscatorial..Species.
but.. HE… wullnae..
So..
AH… Wull.
tae..
HADDIE.
Noo.. that’s awe that Ah hiv tae say aboot Him ..in the Matter o..
This Silly.. Effort ..oan his Part..
tae.
Create an Independent Scotland.
Whit a Cockamamie Idea!
Nevah.. Happen..
Kojo
Yer pal..who likes ye aloater.
Still, Laughin.
Philvis – Since you can only make Scotch in Scotland. How about making production licence applicants have a Scottish Company number. Any multinationals could do it through a subsidiary but that would still need to be based in Scotland.
Would that frustrate the single market?
Andrew67
14:24 on 8 January, 2013
‘I am certain that I and my family have a better standard of living within our capitalist society ,
I am living the Capitalist dream , right here , right now, and it work’s for me and mine.’
########
Somewhat uncharacteristically you are selling yourself short.
I’m sure that someone of your undoubted talents, skill and energy would rise to the top and be as rich as Croesus under any economic system.
wycombebhoy
14:25 on 8 January, 2013
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy if on facebook you’re adding old fellas you had in your school teams, feel free to add me gerry moran :-)
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Thanks Gerry.
If I could get rid of the Hundred Barca photos that appeared mysteriously, I’d then have room for the St. Bridget’s and St. Francis of Assisi Bhoys!
Hail! Hail!
Emerald Bee/Bada Bing,
I wondered the same myself, but Im sure they explained at the draw for the Last 16 of the CL that Wembley once more has the Final because 2013 is the 150th Anniversary of the FA.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
wycombebhoy
Gerry. just saw your second post. I’m about to try that now.
Cheers.
Buffalo Bills Bhoy
It remains to be seen how things will work out, but the consensus on here and elsewhere yeaterday was that the top 8 will keepo their accrued points, the bottom 8 likewise, but the middle 8 – those scrapping for a place in the following season’s ‘top 12’ will start from scratch – nul points.
This means that teams that just miss out on a top 8 place are penalised, while those who bomb in the first 22 games get a fresh start. Ditto those coming up from below – the best performers get no more advantage or credit for their early season success than the 4th placed team.
Non ideal seemed to be the general reaction.
Because teams in the lower league of 12 might potentially qualify for the top league, it has been suggested that the SPL’s quality criteria will be implemented on all 24 clubs in the set up. These include stadium size and configuration, undersoil heating and the likes.
This seems unlikely in my view, as there isn’t the money in the game to help the likes of Dumbarton or Ayr Utd extend stadiums and so on. More likely there will be a secondary, lesser, set of crietria for lower 12 teams, with the bar on joining the top 12 remaining as is.
Means some of the middle 8 teams will potentially be excluded from promotion to the top 12 on quality grounds, as Falkirk were some years ago, which in turn means that, competitively, the middle 8 section is even less valid.
For example, a middle 8 section that included Ayr, Dumbarton, Queen of the South and Cowdenbeath would ensure that the 4 teams who dropped down from the top 12 could not be relegated, thus creating a set of 14 rounds of meaningless fixtures.
All great stuff.
bubblegum
14:29 on 8 January, 2013
‘The sooner you and your ilk have nothing to do with my country the better!’
If Scotland leaves the UK you’ll find there are many more Tories in Scotland than you had imagined.
Even splash on itv is better than the chat today
Oh dear oh dear
http://sport.stv.tv/football/208896-revealed-the-new-broken-hoops-celtic-home-kit-for-the-201314-season/
If it’s the kit I have seen it’s a shocker!
LB
As if things weren’t bad enough it’s looking like Pakistan and India might kick-off over Kashmir again. Great.
Gerry
Did as you advised and hoping no more photos of Barca will appear. Any idea of how I can get rid of the ones I already have?
For the record I’m siding with India. I don’t think it’s Led Zeppelin’s best song either.
Philvis, if Diageo were unable to comply with the detail of their new whisky license their famous whisky brands would be worthless… now the detail of the license would include such things as HQ location, as well as operational and marketing activities. Thats the great thing about having a truely unique global product, i.e Scotch Whisky. Now the key is to ensure that the license details encourage the industry rather than hinder, as well as ensure containment within scotland. Therefore everyone is a winner. well, assuming any new government in an independant scotland actually implements this!
now thaere was a question raised in the pub
which current Celtic top will not chash with the juve top
ooops bugger just created in income stream :o)
Tories = landed gentry, aristocracy, wannabees.
Labour = I Can’t Believe They’re Not Tories
LibDems = Tory Poodles
Ukip = Rabid Tories
That’s how it is down here in Ingurland. From an outsider’s perspective I see The SNP trying to do good things in Scotland.
However, the economic mess that exists, the fake austerity that’s been created, the shock doctrine being applied on the sly in Europe : all this is going to render preconceptions redundant as neo-mediaevalism takes hold. All the cuts announced 2.5 yrs. ago have barely begun to bite and already real hardship is the lot for many.
Sociopaths and psychopaths are running the whole corrupt mess now. They care nothing except enriching themselves and their cronies, and they do not care if people die in the process.
So, optimistically,citizens’ innate sense of right and wrong will prevail and wholesale change will take place to supplant failed Captalism. Otherwise, the future is a rocky road.
Ernie, you may be correct. What makes you think so?
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy There should be a ‘hidden’ box with an arrow on the right hand side(as you look at the screen) of the thin line marking each individual post/picture. You highlight the hidden box by moving the cursor over it, it will then have a drop down menu with ‘hide’ an option..click ‘hide’ and keep your fingers crossed.
Have you seen the Celtic first team strip for next year. Hoops with six horizontal thin white stripes .
Hope it is a joke not the real thing.
buffalo bills bhoy14:00 on 8 January, 2013
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?! :-(
>>>>>
As we twiddle our thumbs, the spl and the sfl are meeting today to discuss how to completely wreck Scottish football in order to enact change only because MoneyLaunderers F.C. are needing a hand.
I wonder what utter dreck they will blatt forth publically by the end of play today?
TTT-Wembley is handy enough…:))
About the only thing England offers the Irish nowadays are the absurdly lenient bankrupcy laws.
Hope that jersey revealed now,will result in it getting binned through protests..
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detective..
Only Two Other Things.. that Ah know of…
which are.. Soiten… Besides.. Death and Taxes..
Ur .. these..
A Slice o’ Toast, that ye hiv Just Buttered..
If it Slips oota Yer Fingers..
Wull ALWAYS… Fall oan the Flair.. oan the Buttered SIDE
..n.. A MUSLIM EUROPE.
Yep.. A Muslim Europe.. The Law of Sharia, wull Reign.
You’ll .. No see it.. but..
But, Yer Grand-Children ,wull..
Population Demographics..
Tell the Tale..
The Muslim Population ,in Europe..and .. the U,K. as weel..
Is Growing like Topsy , wid hiv Done..if she had Found the Wee Boattle. that. Alice did… when she fell Doon … that Cock-Eyed Rabbit Hole.
And the Christian Population o’ Europe..and the U.K.
Is
SHRINKING.
Like Alice ,did. Efter, she drank fae that Ither.. wee Boattle of Stuff..
that she Also. found Doon.. that .. Confounded. Rabbit Hole.
Kojo.
Yer pal.. who likes ye mair and Mairer.
Still, Laughin’
Ernie, I think our rather unique history and current status will dictate that we eventually follow a firm progressive socialism line.
bbg
Bada Bing,
London hotel rooms already booked for 24th-26th May
:-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy Oops the instructions I just gave where for getting rid of stuff on your ‘home’ page not your profile page ? On your profile page its very similar.. on the right hand side..hidden box..highlight by cursor but click on remove.. phew I feel tired now..ha.
wycombebhoy
14:50 on 8 January, 2013
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy There should be a ‘hidden’ box with an arrow on the right hand side(as you look at the screen) of the thin line marking each individual post/picture. You highlight the hidden box by moving the cursor over it, it will then have a drop down menu with ‘hide’ an option..click ‘hide’ and keep your fingers crossed.
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Thanks again Gerry. I’ll now give it a try. Fingers crossed.
My Dear Kojo….
I Previously Supported Salmond And The SNP….
From Way Back…..
Although I Thought Independence….
Was Hardly Worthwhile….
After Missing Out On Gaining It….
In The 1980s……
But Two Things Have Contributed To My Complete Loss Of Faith In Salmond And His Party…..
The ‘Football Hate-Speech’ Legislation…
Which Is Just The Thin End Of A Very Big Wedge….
To Restrain And Limit Our Free Speech…
At The Behest Of A Sinister Alien Transnational Organisation….
Of Which The Scotland Has No Membership…..
A Second Reason Was My Impression Gained From Watching This Political Documentary On Al-Beeb A Couple Of Years Back….
“Portillo On Salmond”….
*(Portillo Was Defense Secy In Maggie Thatcher’s Administration….But Is Now A Political Commentator)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&client=mv-google&v=yCPkiR4E93U
(Parts I-4 of This Documentary Available Further Down The Page)
Watching This ,I Came To Realise That Salmond Was Throwing The Catholic/Irish Community Under A Bus…..
And Instead Embracing Another Immigrant Community….
That Tends To Vote As A Bloc…..
And Is Exceedingly Keen….
On Utilising The Postal Vote…
And To Think…Through The Eighties And Nineties….
A Slightly Higher Percentage Of Catholics And Protestants….
Were Polled As Favouring The SNP….
Sickened Hardly Describes It…
Still(You Know Me)….Laughin’….
Ernie, Ernie, Ernie…… *Bangs head against desk again*
“If Scotland leaves the UK you’ll find there are many more Tories in Scotland than you had imagined.”
Stephen Hendry, Michelle Mone and your good self will all toddle down the road, so going by my maths the net outcome of independence would be Tories (-1), New Labour (-1), Revolutionary Marxists (-1). What’s not to like?
bubblegum
14:47 on 8 January, 2013
‘Ernie, you may be correct. What makes you think so?’
Because I’m old enough to remember the decline of the Tory vote and the rise of the Nat vote.
The watershed seemed to be when the Nats had their ‘It’s Scotland’s Oil’ campaign.
I can see why the thoughts that slogan provoked would appeal to a Tory.
It’s no coincidence that the Nats gained ground as the Tories lost it.
They haven’t gone away.
not kept a close interest in things recently, but my own inkling is I want to be Scottish and not British.
Politics and all, as long as its a democracy whats to fear.
I read that SF want to have a Border Poll.
I cant see how as a believer in a United Ireland, Nationalist and all that I can fell any different about the place were I live.
Right now, I really dont see what benefit for me or family in being part of a UK, thats ruled by Tory toffs.
Thats it, simple as it is, for me.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0102/1224328326595.html
JohnnyClash
14:59 on 8 January, 2013
Where did all the Tory voters go?
There used to be lots and lots of them.
There weren’t so many Nat voters then though.
Where did the Tory voters go?
In Perth and Kinross or Banff and Buchan and places like that. Places that used to be solid Tory seats. They’re solid Nat seats now.
Where did all the Tory voters go?
When will they revert to voting Tory?
bubblegum
14:54 on 8 January, 2013
‘Ernie, I think our rather unique history and current status will dictate that we eventually follow a firm progressive socialism line’
”Any notion that an independent Scotland would be a left wing country is delusional nonsense.”
Jim Mather SNP MSP.
googybhoy ♥ celtic
14:51 on
8 January, 2013
I’ve always wondered why the Board doesn’t involve some Supporter Club Secretaries etc at the design / approval stages of new strips…….
where did all the tories go,
long time ago,
where did all the tories go,
long time ago,
why would Secretaries be better at designing / approving new strips.
whats wrong with bus convenors ?
Ernie,
“Where did all the Tory voters go?”
Option A – They got bored of their country estates and moved to places like Glasgow Govan or Inner City Dundee.
Option B – They died.
You decide!