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valentinesday 14:09:
Where is the stuff coming from re-Aiden?
I would not rule out a return of Aiden, he has a young family now, has made his money. His family will come first with him now, if a deal can be done I am pretty sure he would rather come home rather than play in the EPL. I wouldn’t say that about any player and cannot believe that I am posting something that a player would prefer the SPFL over the EPL but I believe it to be the case in this instance.
All this said I am not saying he will end up at the Hoops.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BMCUW
Charlie Mulgrew?
JOHN O’NEILL
Both guys bleed green and white and neither is wrong in their assessment.
IMO.
They articulate our failings better than I ever could.
There are plenty on here pointing out that we are woefully bereft up front.
The stats prove it.
Our goals scored by forward players are skewed somewhat by Sammi’s hat-trick v Killie.
Take that out,what have you got?
A forward line which would be unimpressive anywhere.
And at a club with our rich history of strikers,it deserves to be questioned.
I agree Bobby that they have raised some valid points from time to time. However their relentless negativity is unnecessary and tiresome.
DELANEYS DUNKY
Good point,but on a technicality,no.
As he was forced out before he had a chance with us.
Another signing-along with Fraser Forster-which I put down to Alan Thomson.
Bobby you cannot just ‘take out’ goals to help your argument. Sammie scored those goals.
CFC’s most difficult competition is the CL
With the exception of VVD …..none of this year’s signings have made a meaningful contribution in this competition ….which we are , potentially ,half way thro
It’s Nov and even in the league we’re struggling along with the what remains of last years squad ….again with the exception of VVD
IMO it’s no wonder that fans are fed up with the below par contributions made bring made by Pukki, Balde and Boerrigter
JOHN
I know,drives me nuts too.
I wish I could joooost tell them to shut the …. up,yer talking rubbish,etc.
But I rarely take on an argument I canny win.
Never walk naked into the negotiating chamber,as a much smarter fella than I once said.
Just a thought watching yesterday, JF had the beating of the left back but seemed to be pushed more inside when ML came on.
Lustig did get a few crosses in but weak ones.
When Derk was coming on I thought that he would go left and JF get wider on the right and we were to have a real go at them.
Instead Derk goes right and disappeared and JF came left and disappeared.
Just my observation as I was disappointed to see that happen.
Glad Chaz popped up at the end and we did not deserve to lose as every block inside their penalty area seemed to fall very kindly for them.
BMCUW
Ok, I’ll give you that one, on a technicallity.:))
My bhoy was playing at a fitba tournament in Turkey a couple of years ago with Queens Park 19’s and Aiden’s team were also there for some other tournament. As you would expect all the bhoys surrounded him and he was great with them. My bhoy assures me he said he would definitely be back playing with the Tic.
That would be fantastic IMO if it happened
Team for Wednesday?
Forster
Lustig, Efe, Virgil, Izzy
Kayal, Charlie, Joe
Jamesie, Commons
Sammy
On the striker debate
Interesting that NL called out that strikers need to be braver.
If one of our strikers was prepared to attack the ball in the box, it would be worth another 7/8 goals per season to the team .
JOHN O’NEILL
Of course I can.
That’s how statistics work.
If there is an anomaly which skews against the prevailing tendency,it is ignored.
John Oneil
Just about had enough of your inane drivel
It’s relentless nonsense
Leave me out of your BS please
BMCUW
A lot being said today, but my own take is that there were so many changes yesterday the team looked disjointed and out of sync. With more of the first team picks available on wed I am sure we will make a fist of it. Also, there were probably ajax scouts there yesterday thinking “we have nothing to worry about” hopefully. :)
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
DELANEYS DUNKY
We can discuss it in more detail next time yer in a wee toon in the Cotswolds if you like.
Bobby, Hooper is missed. No doubt. I know that the posters are devoted Celtic men. However a little more balance in their views would be welcome. Others will disagree. Fine. Regards to you.
Can anyone recommend a respectable Lee Harvey Oswald biography?
I wish you all a good afternoon.
WEEFRATHETIM
I reckon they have problems of their own. Beaten yesterday,as were AC.
You available to listen to me talking bullocks-sp-the morra lunchtime?
BMCUW
Would love to bud! My cousin is up for the Milan game. I’m targeting the Cheltenham Festival in March.
Lennybhoy……someone on here posted about Aiden
returning……..don’t know if there is anything in it or no,
might just be speculation………hope no.
JOHN
From The Telegraph.
By Nigel Richardson8:26PM GMT 01 Nov 2013181 Comments
This is how fate works. Hugh Aynesworth was a 32-year-old reporter with the Dallas Morning News when President John F Kennedy came to town on November 22 1963 – 50 years ago this month. That morning, feeling miffed that he wasn’t assigned to cover the story, Aynesworth finished his breakfast in the newspaper canteen – where, incidentally, a fellow diner was a well-known police groupie and Dallas low-life called Jack Ruby – and decided to stroll the four blocks to Dealey Plaza to see the presidential motorcade pass “because you don’t see a president every day, you know”.
When the first shot rang out, he thought it was a motorcycle backfiring – there were plenty of police motorcycles around that day. “But the second and third shots were very clearly the whine of rifle shots,” he remembers. In the few seconds it took to assassinate a president, an era was defined – and Aynesworth’s life became enmeshed in it forever, as he explains to me in an interview at his home in Dallas.
Hugh Aynesworth today
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For once, the phrase “eyewitness to history” is not overblown. Aynesworth is the only reporter who was present at all the key moments: the shooting of the president; the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald; and the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby. He seems to have spent the rest of his life in a love-hate relationship with that fact and now, at 82, he is facing his own stock-taking as Dallas prepares to commemorate a painful anniversary.
Back then, Aynesworth recalls, the city was a stronghold of “red-meat and wing-nut conservatism”; Kennedy, the modernising East Coast Democrat, was viscerally loathed and there was “bitter vitriol” in the air in the run-up to his visit. Locals are quick to point out that, half a century on, there are few people living there now who were around then, that the city that killed a president is a changed, cosmopolitan place (with a population that is more than 40 per cent Hispanic).
Dallas prefers to boast of its football team, the world-famous Dallas Cowboys, of its 160 museums and art galleries, and the 18 Fortune 500 companies (America’s richest corporations) that have chosen to call it home – even if there is inescapable irony in its current marketing slogan: “Big things happen here”.
Aynesworth has chosen not to attend the commemoration in Dealey Plaza on November 22 – a ticket-only event for 5,000 people that will take place in a security lock‑down – fearing that “something embarrassing” will happen (by which he means that a conspiracy nut will pull a stunt. “What would be the greatest thing for someone trying to sell a book? To get arrested by the Dallas police.”)
But he has finally made his peace with fate by writing a book of his own for a modest local imprint, entitled November 22, 1963: Witness to History. It concurs with the conclusion of the 1964 Warren Commission report that there was only one shooter, Oswald, and no plot involving the mob, Vice President Johnson, Fidel Castro, J Edgar Hoover or the man in the moon, and that Oswald and Ruby were complete strangers. If that’s an unpromising standpoint from a marketing point of view – a poll earlier this year found that 59 per cent of Americans still believe Oswald didn’t act alone – the book has two rare qualities in JFK assassination literature: authority and integrity.
The taxi driver who drove me out to Aynesworth’s discreetly affluent neighbourhood (George W Bush lives nearby) was from Togo, West Africa. He was 11 at the time of the Kennedy assassination and, like practically everyone in the world then alive and sentient, he remembers it well: the day off school that it procured, the sense of disbelief.
In the intervening years, Aynesworth has struggled not to be defined by this single event. But its enormity has defeated him. “I’ve done so many other things, covered so much,” he says of a distinguished career in investigative reporting across national newspapers, magazines and television (he has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times). “But I don’t know. [The Kennedy assassination] changed me because everybody, when they hear my name, they connect me to that story.”
“I think it changed him irrevocably,” says Paula, his wife, as she brings us iced teas in their front room and shoos away the cat. “It’s an odd thing, a very odd thing. Weird, that he was there in so many places.”
Or you could call it reporter’s luck. It took a few seconds, he says, for his instincts to kick in after the echoes of the shots faded and pandemonium broke out around him in Dealey Plaza. Then, realising there had been an assassination attempt, he requisitioned a novelty pencil from a little boy (giving the lad two quarters for it), found two utility bills in his pocket to write on, and he was in business.
Aynesworth was the first reporter to interview the most important witness of all, a pipe-fitter called Howard Brennan who was standing across Houston Street from him, facing the Texas School Book Depository, when the shots were fired at 12.30pm. “He had his hard hat with him. And he was scared to death. He said, ‘I saw him up there in the window! He’s right up there!’ ”
Brennan’s description of the suspect he had seen in the sixth-floor window of the Book Depository formed the basis of the APB (all points bulletin) broadcast on police radios 15 minutes later, and picked up by Patrolman JD Tippit in the Oak Cliff area of the city. Tippit approached a man who answered the description and the man – who was indeed Oswald – shot and killed him.
Aynesworth heard of Tippit’s murder on the radio of a police motorcycle parked outside the Book Depository and immediately suspected a connection with what had just happened in Dealey Plaza (“It was good reasoning for a change,” he says modestly). This hunch took him to the scene of the Tippit shooting, where he learnt from another overheard report, on an FBI man’s radio, that the suspect had entered the Texas Theater cinema a few blocks away.
Here it was, as a film called War is Hell flickered in the background, that Aynesworth came face to face with Lee Harvey Oswald. He saw Oswald pull his .38 on Officer Nick McDonald, who managed to get his hand in the firing mechanism to jam it, then Kennedy’s assassin was jumped on by five or six policemen. “They knocked him down and that’s when he got the cut on his face. But he fought pretty good for a little guy.”
The next time Aynesworth saw Oswald was two days later in the basement of City Hall (the Dallas Police HQ), where he was being moved to the county jail. “I was about as far as from here to the swimming pool” – he points through the window to the garden beyond. “No, not that far, 15 feet maybe. People were in front of me but I saw Ruby lunge forward, I heard the pop – one shot.”
Lee Harvey Oswald under arrest in Dallas (Everett Collection/REX)
That shot from Ruby’s Colt Cobra is the full stop on an extraordinary 48‑hour narrative with which Aynesworth is uniquely associated. But his story did not end there. Over the 50 years since, he has gone deep into the background to events, getting to know Oswald’s widow, Marina (with whom he is still in touch: the most surreal moment of our interview is when he plays back her Russian-accented voice on his telephone answering machine), the Ruby family and many witnesses, and running down “oh gosh, dozens and dozens of conspiracy theories”.
Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, with Hugh Aynesworth in 1963 (Tom Dillard)
Watching fruitcakes and frauds get rich peddling hokum to an eager world (he reserves special contempt for the Oliver Stone film JFK) has been tough for him.
“The only lucrative business from a reporting standpoint has been conspiracy,” he said. “For every book that tells the exact truth, or tries to, there are 25 conspiracy books.”
But he has always refused to make a killing from the killing. “Who do you think, given my background, would like to ‘solve’ the assassination more than me? God! All I can say is, there’s not one scintilla of evidence to the contrary [that both Oswald and Ruby acted alone].”
“He’s a beautifully humble man,” chips in Paula. “If he was a liar, he’d be so rich.”
Aynesworth’s conclusion should be the final word on the events of half a century ago, but he knows it never will be. “We all love a conspiracy. No one wants to believe two nobodies could change the course of world history. But they did”
BMCUW
Nay problem Boaby. You are always welcome bollox or not. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
hope no……..speculation wise.
DELANEYS DUNKY
I hope to make Gold Cup day. In the company of one of my favouritest CQNers,PEDROCARAVANECHIO67.
Hopefully that will be two on the day!
WEEFRATHETIM
The or not part isnae an option,bud’
BMCUW
God willing, I will be with a few Cheltenham Tims. Sounds good.
minceyheidman
14:35 on 3 November, 2013
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That was my reading of it too. I think wingers should, in the main, play on their correct side. However, I am right footed and when playing at school, Boys’ Guild and amateur level I started as a right winger but didn’t put in a great cross after beating the full back. I loved it when I was switched to the left and could cut inside onto my right foot and have a shot at goal. I scored quite a few too.
Afternoon, no really read back today, takes ages and I’m tired late shift. Anyway yesterdays game apart from being cold, caught out on the clothing front, i enjoyed it. It was competitive, i thought big Balde done ok, he was in the right places at the right time and could have had a goal or two.
Saying that, the team were one minute away from being booed of the park, that i have no doubt, some need to look at the big picture, where are we just now, exactly where some wish they were…!
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
GAA
Ulster Club Championship
Half time
KIlcoo (Down) 1 – 3 Crossmaglen (Armagh)0 – 3
Scotstown (Monaghan)0 – 5 Ballinderry (Derry)0 – 4
Glenswilly (Donegal) 1 – 5 St Gall’s Belfast 0 – 4
Roslea (Fermanagh)0 -7 Ballinagh (Cavan)0 – 4
We have little creativity in the side. I can understand why both Samaras and Commons were not risked yesterday. Sammi was a doubt in any case. We do not have strength in depth within the squad to compensate for either or both these players being absent.
For some time now I have been going along to CP to cheer on the Bhoys as I have done for many a year. UCL games apart I cannot tell you the last time I enjoyed watching the overall all play, what I am watching is in a word, boring.
On our Strikers, who are they, we do not have an out and out goal scorer. Sammi ain’t one, Pukki was not bought as a proven goal scorer, Balde is a work in progress, and Anthony is more of a foil for a striker but has chipped in with a few. Believe it or not I was not a big Hooper fan but I cannot fault his goal scoring ability.
Our defence is by and large okay and we are beginning to see at last a partnership in Efe and Virgil that is a good CH pairing.
Commons is the link man and without him we do not tick, without him we play too many square balls.
Whose fault it is that we are not playing attractive, attacking football, we could argue until sevco get back into the top league. Is it the personnel, tactics, or not securing the right target or a combination of them all!
We do not need to spend millions on signing the right players. How much did we spend on Naka, Lubo…How much did we spend on McClair, Henrik. How much did we spend on Pukki. The point I am making none of the players that effectively contributed i.e. Naka, Lubo etc. did not cost a lot but they did what they said they would on the tin, proven creative players, proven strikers. We sold our top goal scorer last season and bought Pukki, not a proven goal scorer.
Regardless whose fault it is we need a creative player, we need a goal scorer, players who have done it at the Clubs they are with.
When we sold Hooper, did who ever it was that decided to sign Pukki and Balde we would be replacing like for like! People like me who have not played the game or know much about scouting could tell you that.
I love Kris Commons but I had my doubts towards the end of last season if we could get a full season out of him.
We need a No. 10, we need a goal scorer. We have scored three goals in two games this season (Karagandy and Hearts) and scored five in one again Kilmarnock in the Cup. We have scored 23 league goals, an average of 2 per game.
We might well win the league by a country mile and I think we will but we are not being entertained in the league. We are being entertained in the UCL games but these are only 6 games.
Sorry for long post but I had to get it off my chest.
Bottom line, we deserve better and we do not necessarily need to spend millions to play and watch attractive football with more goal scoring opportunities and goals.
Amen.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Aiden will more than likely be at Everton at Christmas.
He wants to finish his time at Celtic though…not just guessing here.hh
Ok tin hat on.
At this stage of play wd you prefer Pukki or Daly? Baldie or Daly? or Pukki & Baldie or Daly? No swearing ok?
I know Judas Daly is playing in a bum league but he wdnt have cost us millions
Personally, I thought Aiden was very average first time round and he never lived up to the billing after his debut.
However, comapared to Derk he would probably seem like a God.
Bullocks,done by a favourite falling for an all-correct lucky 15.
That’s why I don’t normally touch favourites. Really does one’s napper when they get turned over.
Beer money for the morra though. Cheers!
Aiden is on 40k a week tax free. No chance of him coming back!!
Aiden is on 40k a week tax free. No chance of him coming back!!
Didn’t know Sevco had signed him…….
So the solution to finding a goalscorer is bring back Aiden
* jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
15:15 on 3 November, 2013
Aiden is on 40k a week tax free. No chance of him coming back!!
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He might not need the money then. His next move will be for personal ambition. Then we may see him back, although i don’t go for all that sentimental crap, you want to play for Celtic, treat us with respect and give us your best years.
HH