Celtic’s pillage of Yorkshire’s young talent continued yesterday with the arrival of 20-year-old Dutch player Osaze Urhoghide from Sheffield Wednesday. Osaze is a central defender and arrives a few days after fellow Wednesday graduate, midfielder Liam Shaw.
Sheffield Wednesday are in turmoil. Their most recent published accounts, to June 2019, showed a trading loss of £17m on a turnover of £22.8m – horrendous, but an improvement on the previous year’s trading loss of £23.7m. They sold Hillsborough for £38m during season 2018-19, switched the accounts to a £19m profit, but they are now a club without a stadium-sized asset on the balance sheet.
Since then, a bad situation has gotten considerably worse. Despite being the biggest team in the Championship by some margin, the finished bottom of the table in May; at least one season of third tier football awaits.
In short, Osaze and Liam may read about Celtic’s supposed turmoil last season and kick into the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch:
“You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home Peter Lawwell would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.” I’m pretty sure that’s how I remember it.
Football is a zero sum game and where one giant club disintegrates, others see opportunity. Young players with talent and options will not stay.
Celtic were able to use the arbitrage permitted to them with not being bound by transfer rules between two FA member clubs. That money, perhaps in the region of £5m a piece for Shaw and Urhoghide, went on wage offers outbidding clubs from England. It’s a rerun of the Dembele deal from four years ago.
I have been saying for years the Championship is the most dysfunctional league in the world. It also causes Scottish Premiership clubs more trouble than any other. Where Wednesday have gone, others will follow. It is a morality tale in the making.
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Mick
Ireland has four provinces, Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught. The bar is implying that it (or St. Kilda) is the Fifth Province. It’s not. That would be Coatbridge. 🤣
Melbourne Mick @11.11
I hope Bye Bye does not indicate you are leaving.Stay,post and enjoy the company of others who make it worthwhile to engage in Celtic football club and other things that make life interesting…..as I said weeks ago life is too short.
STILL CELTIC
BHOYJOEBELFAST on 3RD JULY 2021 8:39 AM
Re Fifth Province.
The Fifth Province is not anywhere,here or there,north or south,east or west,it is a place within each of us.
Good morning to all,especially those deserving of it.
STILL CELTIC
…………………
Excellent answer.
What a fantastic site CQN is. Thanks to Corkcelt and Melbourne Mick for explaining the true meaning of the Fifth Province and Almore for further explanation about the Irish word for Province. Every day is an education on here.
With regard to Wycks (sp). I watched the play offs on TV. I’m fairly sure Sunderland were knocked out by Lincoln City. The striker I was impressed by was the guy they bought from Ross County who was banging them in up here, Ross Stewart. I thought a bigger Scottish team should have snapped him up. I would prefer him to the Sunderland striker.
MARTIM1980 on 3RD JULY 2021 11:04 AM
Well said 👏👏👏
Quite a noticeable change in tone in last 48 hours (not just here).
The bounce from Ange & Dom’s introduction was palpable …. and it was fantastic to see some older monikers back on the blog.
SMSM have now reverted to type.
For our part CT & GB have jointly publicised a boycott and a protest.
Hhmm.
Deniabhoy – belated response to you re Nisbet.
Cheers – I see your point. If he is indeed a target let’s get it done quick.
Still too rich for my blood though given opportunities elsewhere.
We keep hearing how Celtic can’t expect top dollar for our players.
Is this just mischief making?
Is this a global football issue?
If so, is there a protective bubble around Leith?
🤔
Pog
My political opinions were polar opposite from MacJay’s. We were brought up in the same area of Glasgow. Me in the poor part of Partick, John in the posh part. We attended the same primary school. Saint Paul’s Whiteinch.
On the occasions that I met John, I thoroughly enjoyed his wisdom and excellent company.
We both shared a love of our faith and Celtic.
Had a great day with John in Chandlers Clydebank a few weeks ago.
Also present were Auldheid, BMCUW, BRTH and CCB.
John was in great form, and looked a picture of health.
Still in shock at his passing.
May God rest his soul.
MacJay John McGowan RIP.
BHOYJOEBELFAST
On the contrary, no, I’ve had my flounce or months in the shadows.
It was your post ” life is too short ” that brought me back.
Now when I see a definite troll who’s intention is just to disrupt the
flow of the blog I think I’ll just log off, otherwise it’s engage and argue.
Completely pointless, so I’m pleased nobody took the troll on.
Anyhows, BIG JIMMY how’s my dancing ghirls doin down in ye olde
Shipbanke.
H.H. Mick
DELANEYS DUNKY
Beautiful post mhate.
H.H. Mick
TOSB
COATBRIDGE, what can I say, if ever there was a Celtic heaven
then bury me there, as long as it’s near the social club.
Well you never know????
H.H. Mick
Mick: just then:
Enjoy life and stay safe.Anyhow,I remember as a lad and kicking the ball about,a fellow Celt ( noel Brown) who ended up in Australia, calling me Willie Fernie,anyone on here enjoy a similar nickname.
STILL CELTIC
JHB on 3RD JULY 2021 10:56 AM
What is your opinion of BRITAIN a united BRITAIN invading AFRICAN countries and taking 12 to 14 mil slaves to THE AMERICAS.
BHOYJOE
I think back then nicknames were particular to how people perceived you
as a player.
I was called scud.
Don’t think it’s rocket science, but couldn’t work it out lol.
H.H. Mick
DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD JULY 2021 12:16 PM
May I ask what were you lot PLOTTING.
Here we go again.
Off oot!
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 3RD JULY 2021 11:53 AM
I have always been meaning to ask you what your moniker refers too.
I had a granny Sadie, I named my daughter after her as she was such a lovely person. HH
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Strange post, or have I read it wrong ?
H.H. Mick
Mick:
Would it it be safe to say your stay in the team was limited?
Time to head out,grand-daughter (11) to birthday party.
Favourite Uncle
My lips are sealed sir. 😊🍀👍💚
MELBOURNE MICK on 3RD JULY 2021 1:03 PM
MORON writes SNP CULT every time he posts so I would like to remind him of ” HIS” HISTORY.
MnM
Thank you.
Great to see you post again my friend.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 3RD JULY 2021 1:06 PM
Good for you it sounds JUICY.
BHOYJOE
Have a great day mhate, grand daughters wooft, thats what
life is all about.
And yes my game was explosive but extremely limited.
H.H. Mick
FU
The troll should be ignored, and starved of oxygen.
One of the main reasons I avoid CQN these days is because of JHB and Ernie Lynch.
Despicable pair.
FAV UNCLE
Yes I got it wrong.
H.H Mick
I am really excited about what Dom Mckay has planned for the match day experience.
I would expect fresh initiatives to include food, drink, entertainment and optimising the 3 hours prior to kick off.
Covid 19 has changed our thinking forever, this can be a golden opportunity.
HH.
Good to see Bolingoli back at Lennoxtown.
Hopefully the slate is wiped clean .
HH.
Lots of old names showing up now, and I loved talking to
them all.
Maybe now that we can see how trolls operate we can isolate them
with non communication, I know it’s difficult for some but it’s worth
it.
Anyhows GERRYFAETHEBRIG fancy a return?
I certainly liked yir patter.
And so many more, come on bhoys it’s a new day, it’s a new Ange dawn.
H.H. Mick
RIP Macjay.
I hope someone on here can let his family see the response from cqn to the sad news.🍀🙏
RIP Macjay
Thoughts with his family and friends
Just to let all you bhoys and ghirls know before I conk out, St Kilda
is the home of the Jock Stein Celtic Supporters club.
I’m so proud of that, even though we have our own club up the
peninsula in Mornington which as you all know my good pal Paddy
runs like an iron fist lol.
No doubt you all think they must be competing with all these money
laundering EPL clubs there and the t.v coverage they all get. NOT
Their fans want to join our club, sing our songs and have a great time
forget the hype from SKY, or any other piss pot t.v outlet Celtic without
a doubt is the biggest club in the world.
A Club Like No Other.
Goodnight.
H.H. Mick
ALMORE on 3RD JULY 2021 9:13 AM
MM: the Irish for ‘province’ is ‘cúige’ (from the number 5) because there were five provinces in ancient Ireland.
Almore
hi Al ,tell me is that were the term ‘culchi’ comes from.is that the term used by dubs of country folk? might be getting mixed up.but an amazing language.might be gettin me
jackeen and culchi mixed
hh
BHOYJOEBELFAST
I read your earlier post about your Willie Fernie nickname , there was a poster with that moniker on here who lived in Perth down under , I actually met up with him when my good lady and I were cruising in Australia, haven’t seen the guy post on here in a long while hope all is well with him
heh Melbourne Mick
mates daughter is a top paediatrician in melbourne.been out there a few years now.loves it
hooe your well Mick.great to see your contribution and that of oaddymacoz in the dear green place
hh
Before dashing to Ibrox on that fateful afternoon John Thomson is said to have written a letter to an American friend in which the final sentence read,
“Off now to meet Rangers – a death or glory affair”
VerySad CSC
An Tearmann
I beleive the term Culchie comes from a place (village) in Mayo called Kiltimagh..in Irish.. Coillte Magh .my spelling might be out but phonetically is was pronounced Culchiema..Cull Shee Ma..
Anyone else getting the red background
AN TEARMANN on 3RD JULY 2021 1:50 PM
ALMORE on 3RD JULY 2021 9:13 AM
MM: the Irish for ‘province’ is ‘cúige’ (from the number 5) because there were five provinces in ancient Ireland.
Almore
hi Al ,tell me is that were the term ‘culchi’ comes from.is that the term used by dubs of country folk? might be getting mixed up.but an amazing language.might be gettin me
jackeen and culchi mixed
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Good point, as a child I would visit relatives in Wicklow, and Dubliners I also knew would refer to the locals as ‘culchies’
Never got it, think there was a degree of patronising involved.