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PF Ayr
Good to see you back
HH
We have no right to complain about the media nor the cheating that will be forced upon us.
You all signed up for this.
Red 12 is dead. The board helped ensure it died. The board were party to the 5 way agreement. The board welcome the return of the old firm.
Those who bought season books were backing the return of the old firm and allowing the board to continue to betray us.
We can’t complain.
Incidentally the Scottish media is simply a part of the institutionally racist society that is Scotland. It is simply a reflection of it.
NEGANON
People bought season tickets so that they can support Celtic. No other reason whatsoever
FOXY on 24TH JULY 2016 1:13 AM
THE_HUDDLE on 24TH JULY 2016 1:05
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Unfortunately for our fellow socialists south of the border Little Englander killed the UK with the Brexit vote.
Bye bye UK, Hello EU
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Firstly apologies for the political post, but you do know that only 41.6% of eligible voters in Scotland voted to remain in the EU. Not exactly the huge mandate speaking for The Scottish people as Nicola Sturgeon claims.
Also in the interest of democracy:- who speak for the third of SNP voters who voted Brexit.? I would imagine that at least a couple of their elected representatives would be aligned to this View.
The very simple answer is we simply don’t know. Dissenters are not allowed. Free thinking and expression is not allowed, the views of the party machine are paramount .
Would you call that democracy? In Scotland we are going down a very dangerous path with no credible opposition to speak of.
Again apologies for the political response.
HH.
Kevin Nolan? Where did that one come from? He is player manager at Orient or somewhere like that.
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JmcC,
He’s a free agent J.
I bought mines and my boys’ to support the team. I am not a supporter of the board but like Celtic and Celtic Park.
Bournesouprecipe reflecting quietly on Spanish Women, bow legged and otherwise
Bobby Murdoch. I don’t think ignorance is an excuse.
We had an opportunity to tackle these issues. The board betrayed us. And we still support their bonuses.
NEGANON
If there is something about a product,shop,company,etc,that you don’t like,you can boycott it. Alternatives are available.
That simple option isn’t available if you are a Celtic supporter. It is self-harming.
Auld Tam. I agree re Cowan; a talentless bigoted ignorant fanny who somehow wangled jobs at Shortbread, The Daily Ranger and then The Scum, and whose vocabulary appears to be restricted to trite phrases like “Ats bruwyint”.
He keeps talking about his Celtic supporting mates, usually before putting the boot in.
Last night he went further than usual and prevented the reporter at Celtic Park from giving updates on the scoreline, apparently because he, Cowan, doesn’t approve of such “friendlies”. The fact that it was a glamour tie against the Champions of England and that many of the listeners would have wanted to know how the match was progressing was irrelevant to this envious Murderwell fan.
Remember, this was the same eejit who was taken to task by Graham Spiers after he claimed that “Rangers fans (sic) saved thur club”, to which an incredulous Spiers retorted that the club was actually liquidated.
I once had the misfortune of being at a business function where Cowan was the guest speaker.
The words dire and pish spring to mind, and he spent much of the time reading from a badly composed, grammatically incorrect handwritten letter (sent to him allegedly from a Celtic supporter) highlighting the spelling and grammar mistakes.
Not only was the gig completely devoid of humour, but it was mostly a sleekit attack on Celtic fans despite the function being non football related. This gives an insight into where Cowan is coming from.
He was actually booed off the stage at the end.
Cosgrove is usually more balanced but suffers from wee man syndrome when it comes to St Johnstone; a chip on each shoulder.
Perhaps some of us recognise that we all want the best for our club and team despite the many imperfections apparent. Much opinion presented as fact without any supporting evidence.
Enjoyed the match yesterday even though I thought we were struggling a bit in the first half, but in spite of reservations when the wholesale changes were made, we seemed to improve and were well in the game. Particularly pleased that O’Connell played the full match and demonstrated that there is potential there.
HH
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Agree re Tam Cowan. He’s testimony that you don’t need talent… You just need enormous self confidence and belief and in fairness ambition.
He should be held up as an example to kids that literally anyone can succeed.
Cosgrove on the other hand is an intelligent, accomplished guy but is certainly made to look better than he is by his numpty sidekick.
Cowan was after dinner speaker at a football gig I attended. The consensus view was that he was about the worst any of us had seen…
My friends in Celtic,
I was sceptical of the standing area, but from what I have seen by attending and by watching on TV it seems to be a great success and enhances the atmosphere. Of course it is early days but all is good.
In fact I would give the Bhoys & Ghirls ” man” of the match. Surely their effort and enthusiastic support must rub onto our players. Ihave been critical of the inhabitants of section 111 in the past, but praise where praise is due.
For many of us Celtic is an emotional attachment ” from the cradle to the grave” . We cannot simply switch off because we dislike the current custodians.
HH.
I take it that the logic of the 41.6% argument is that all the eligible voters that didn’t vote wished to leave the EU. Fantastic powers of deduction.
Who ever the guy is who drinks in The Cosy Bar,who came into The Brazen Head asking for me?
Sorry I missed you.
Good lunchtime ftriends
Here’s a very interesting analysis of Brendan’s taxtics in last week’s Wolfsberg game to pore over while having your sausage, or whatever,,, ;-)
https://boxtoboxcentreback.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/celtic-2-1-wolfsburg/
Taxtics? Formed from 2 words that the Govanites aren’t fodn of ;-)
Hail hail from my last day in a hot hot Marmaris. Hoops top on welcomes fellow bhoys in conversations, apparently some Huns have arrived too. On hunscelper look oot nooow..
Oh good grief, fond……
Back to lurkin!
JOBO BALDIE
Basque???
A principal of a small middle school had a problem with a few of the older girls starting to use lipstick.
When applying it in the bathroom they would press their lips to the mirror and leave lip prints.
Before it got out of hand he thought he’d better do something.
He spoke to all the girls that wore lipstick and asked them to meet him in the ladies room at 2pm.
When they arrived they found the principal and the school caretaker waiting for them.
The principal explained that it was becoming a problem for the caretaker to clean the mirror every night. He said he felt the ladies would better understand the problem if they saw how hard it was to clean.
The caretaker then demonstrated. He took a bedraggled brush on a long handle out of a box. He dipped the brush in the nearest toilet, moved to the mirror and proceeded to remove the lipstick.
Task completed.
HH
Greenpinata
That’s true … If you are born a Celtic supporter you die a Celtic supporter.
I love football – I coach and watch a lot of youth football, attend Junior Highland and SPFL games – I have the occasional jaunt to watch EPL and of course what I see on TV. I’ve had plenty of chances to divert my affections to another club… Sometimes I wish I could but .. Celtic claimed the heart and that’s a blessing … And sometimes a curse.
Anthony Stokes had been living on borrowed time for so long that the phone call that finally ended his Celtic career ought not to have arrived as a shock.
Yet before the Dubliner could digest the news that his six-year association with the club he loves had ended, he felt a sickening sensation that dulled the elation he had felt at helping Hibernian lift the Scottish Cup on the final day of his loan spell a few days earlier.
‘I was gutted, I really was,’ said Stokes. ‘That’s football. You move on because it’s business. But it was more personal for me than them.’
Anthony Stokes celebrates after scoring for Hibernian in the Scottish Cup final against Rangers in May
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Anthony Stokes celebrates after scoring for Hibernian in the Scottish Cup final against Rangers in May
Stokes says he does not know if it was new manager Brendan Rodgers or chief executive Peter Lawwell who made the final decision not to take up the club’s option of a further year on his contract, but having drifted so far out of the picture that a six-month stint in Scottish football’s second tier seemed the best use of his time, he knew change was inevitable.
Blackburn Rovers are now the beneficiaries of Stokes’s striking skills and he sits down for a chat with Sportsmail at Ewood Park at the conclusion of a lively signing session for supporters on Thursday evening.
He has joined the Championship club on the back of a stunning end to last season when his two goals and man-of-the-match performance dismantled the Rangers defence and brought Hibernian the Scottish Cup after a 114-year wait.
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Assured of legendary status at Easter Road for all time, it is at Parkhead that Stokes’ own fondest memories remain preserved.
‘I had a great time at Celtic, six really enjoyable years,’ he said. ‘The way it finished — that wasn’t the way I wanted to leave the club.
‘They had an option on me for a year. I’m not surprised but you might have thought they would have activated that and sold me.
‘But for me this was the best scenario — I didn’t want to go back there and not play. I’d rather just go. The last year was hard enough.
‘I’m happy with my contribution. I won plenty of medals and really enjoyed my time. To come from Dublin and play for the team I’d supported all my life was a dream come true but it’s done now.’
Signed from Hibs for around £1million in 2010, Stokes went on to score 76 goals for Celtic, the last of which came as long ago as December 2014 in a 4-1 victory over St Mirren.
By that stage, Neil Lennon, the manager who had signed him and helped him through some dicey off-field moments, had departed to be succeeded by Ronny Deila.
Stokes, pictured celebrating against Dundee United in 2013, managed a total of 76 goals for Celtic
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Stokes, pictured celebrating against Dundee United in 2013, managed a total of 76 goals for Celtic
Successive Premiership titles mean the Norwegian cannot definitively be described as a failure, but the team’s repeated ineptitude in Europe coupled with the deterioration in productivity of several key players offer plenty evidence for the prosecution.
Removed from his favoured striking position to a role wide on the left, Stokes suffered more than most, as his declining goal tally would suggest.
‘I played probably 90 per cent of the games in his first season but I was playing on the left,’ he said. ‘I always enjoyed playing with Emilio Izaguirre, who is one of the most underrated players at Celtic, but I just felt that when we were playing certain teams we should have been playing two up front — I really did.
‘We were winning games but not convincingly. I said what I felt and it was common knowledge at the time — I thought it would have been better if he played with two strikers.
‘If you’re going into a European game and you want to play one up front, fine, or if it’s a big game and you want to be slightly different.
‘But you need to be dynamic and be able to change it from week to week. Not do the same things over and over. I felt it was getting to the stage that teams were working us out. We were going to go wide and then we were going to put it in the box.
‘It’s not like we had a big target man who was really aggressive in the air. Griff (Leigh Griffiths) has come on an awful lot with his heading over the last year, but there’s another thing.
‘If it wasn’t for Griffiths and his finishing, I think that league would have been a lot tighter last season.’
Having performed competently on the left during Deila’s first year, he found himself frozen out completely after a league win at Dundee United last August.
With the manager having stockpiled attacking midfielders and Griffiths thriving in the lone-striker role, there was simply no place for the Irishman in a rigid 4-2-3-1 formation.
While Griffiths has seemed well suited to operating as a lone wolf, Stokes has always looked best in a partnership, never more so than when he dovetailed with Gary Hooper under Lennon.
The pair would routinely combine to beat up domestic opposition and Stokes admitted he has never enjoyed his football so much as when he was partnering the Englishman.
‘That’s the best partnership I’ve had,’ he said. ‘Hoops had everything. He could hold up the ball, link with you and he provided assists. Not as many as I gave him, mind you!
‘I knew where he would be in the box. We didn’t have to call anything out. He knew I would always be there behind him. We would always get on an angle for each other on the pitch.’
While Hooper was Lennon’s main man for the big Champions League nights, it took Stokes longer to gain the manager’s trust on European occasions.
Yet if the pair’s relationship ever appeared strained — Lennon publicly criticised Stokes for damaging the club’s reputation by attending a memorial tribute to Alan Ryan, a notorious member of the Real IRA, and also voiced concerns over his application to rehab following injury — Stokes always felt the Northern Irishman was in his corner.
‘I always felt like I got on with him,’ he said. ‘I never felt like there was a period when that changed. It probably took him a while to get to trust me in games. For the first year or two, I always found that after 60 or 70 minutes I would be the one taken off.
‘It’s a natural thing. Once you work with a manager for so long, you gain their trust and find yourself involved in the big games. I got that in the last couple of years with him.
‘I felt I had a good relationship with him. The club was always very good to me and very supportive, especially Lenny as manager.’
Pf ayr
Explain how our custodians support the mainstream media ?
Some brilliant videos on Twitter this morning of an Irish dude busking the rebels… More power to him
In Coatbridge apparentlly
STAIRHEEDRAMMY @ 10:36 AM,
Joseph Wallace Cunningham: born 20/12/1902, at 17 Balgray Row, Glasgow. Lived at 77 Whiflett St. Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Does anybody know if he was related to George Cunningham (His Father Perhaps).
I remember seeing Joseph Cunningham mentioned on here before and it was stated he lived in Coatdyke, same Street as George.
Only curious as George Was my Dad’s best pal.
Hail Hail
https://twitter.com/alexbsknv/status/756990583890214916
Glad to see kolo getting into the swing of things right away :))
PF Ayr-welcome back,how’s the horses treating you?
Seems Scott Sinclair will cost £3 million plus a potential £1.5 million in add ons …..
AULD TAM,
Leicester get two points,Celtic one.Winners outright get the normal 3 points.
Leicester got an extra point for winning the penalties.The actual game was drawn.
Serge Gnarby from Arsenal mentioned,not sure what position he plays…….
NegAnon2 on 24th July 2016 10:41 am
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Uh-oh, it’s another shiny sunny Sunday morn down in miseryville.
!BADA BING!
Not so much a name as a bad hand at scrabble…
From Twitter
Colm McGuigan
Colm McGuigan @ColmMcGuigan
Fee for Scott Sinclair is 3m up front. 1.5m in add ons. Personal terms agreed. Announced Monday.
Always a pleasure to hear some new,informative views from Neganon.
The Board,PL,heated driveways,back of the bus,bonuses,racist Scotland.
The biggest bore ever to hit these pages.Same old,same old every post.
Anyone read a comment from him about the game?.
Thought not.
Sorry bada
Never seen yer post bro