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  1. David66 on

    Guys so many nice words, my idea of posting about my younger Brother was not of pity but more of sadness and pride, but mainly pride that he was my brother. For all of our Human faults and (Thomas had plenty as do I) he showed great strength in the way that he faced the last week, telling me not to cry when I was sitting at his bedside, ffs. Wow.

     

    He also showed forgiveness as we had a wee falling out over the last year, and it was mainly my fault, and when I apologised and said I understand if he felt bad of me, his words were “feck off and don’t be daft, you are my brother and I love you” what strength he had in his hours of need.

     

     

    So again although I am sad, Thomas did it his way and by and large he enjoyed himself.

     

     

    I can see some of you saying awe ffs Davie shut up, but I am so proud of Thomas.

     

     

    So again Thank you all

     

    Your kind words and thoughts are very much appreciated, and valued and I think that is what makes this blog such a wonderful place.???

     

     

    HH

     

     

    D. :)

  2. David66 on

    Maybe that didn’t come out right I didn’t mean pity, as you have all been so kind, sorry if I caused offence.

     

     

    D. :)

  3. Tontine Tim on

    Sorry to hear about your brother David, tough times ahead but lots of memories tae. We all make wrong choices at times in our lives, some of us by the Grace of God get away with it. RIP Thomas.

  4. GFTB on

    David66 5.08pm

     

     

    Am pretty sure there is no pity only good thoughts to you and your family, if posting gives you one tiny bit of comfort then all the better … so keep posting your thoughts mate ?

  9. Hot Smoked on

    After that excellent article about the elitist nature of the CL from a Wolves perspective, I find myself really rooting for the Wanderers today. At 2-0 up, I felt comfortable. Less so now !

     

    JJ

  10. the_huddle on

    Hot Smoked on 7th April 2019 6:14 pm

     

     

    After that excellent article about the elitist nature of the CL from a Wolves perspective, I find myself really rooting for the Wanderers today. At 2-0 up, I felt comfortable. Less so now !

     

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    The plucky underdog who just spent £30mill on a player :O)

     

     

    Would’ve prefered Wolves in the final as they might’ve gave Man City a game

  11. Hot Smoked on

    The Huddle

     

     

    ` The plucky underdog who just spent £30mill on a player :O)`

     

     

    I hear what you are saying but I am able to activate my cognitive dissonance at the drop of a hat :-))

     

     

    JJ

  12. Ron Bacardi on

    In the worst case scenario of the huns winning all of their last games including ours we need 5 points from the other 4 games to win the league. Does Lenny have it to get the players to deliver this?

  13. Tontine Tim on

    HOT SMOKED on 7TH APRIL 2019 6:14 PM

     

     

    After that excellent article about the elitist nature of the CL from a Wolves perspective, I find myself really rooting for the Wanderers today.

     

     

    *As I posted yesterday I’ve always had a soft spot for Wolves, however, I’ve got a guilt complex about Watford.

     

     

    When they reached the final in 84 I was torn as I’ve liked the Toffees since the wee barra played for them, however at that time they had 2 bluenose strikers, in fact I would call one a hun.

     

     

    Meanwhile the Hornets had allegedly 2 Tim strikers, well I know big George the brickie was one. The other supposed tae be great Celtic supporter seemingly walked out of negotiations 5 times when we were trying tae sign him.

     

     

    Now I’m fully aware of our historic biscuit tin mentality and how it has been said that Tommy Coyne actually told Big Billy that he was getting more money at Dundee to what he was offering him for Billy to then say but you get the chance tae wear the Hoops.

     

     

    However, this wee midden as it turned out was all about him as it would show 5 years later.

     

     

    So hopefully the Hornets make up for 84 in 6 week’s time.

  14. big packy 1 on

    TONTINE TIM, I was so enraged when I read in the evening citizen, that colin stein was going to rangers, for a record transfer fee all those years ago..hh.

  15. Hot Smoked on

    Tontime Tim

     

    I find it intereting/amusing how we (football fans) like some teams more than others and often for no obvious reason !

     

    Incidentally, Scott Brown is currently 5th in the Texas Open.

     

     

    JJ

  16. GFTB on

    Ron B 6.49pm

     

     

    Neil has not been beaten since he took over so am pretty sure he will achieve the points tally required .. although worst case scenario he could just pump Stevie Gees Sevco as I think with Hibs & Celtic this season he has Mr Gerrard in his hip pocket :-)

     

     

    And if you think the Huns will win their last 5 games … good luck with that

  19. Hot Smoked on

    RonB @ 6:49

     

    `Does Lenny have it to get the players to deliver this?`

     

     

    Skybet are offering odds of 1/1000 that he does.

     

     

    JJ

  20. Hot Smoked on

    Right. Time for Sportscene ( BBC 2, Channel 9 ) to see how Ollie missed that one near the end !

     

    Cheerio for now,

     

    JJ

  21. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    TONTINE TIM on 7TH APRIL 2019 6:50 PM

     

     

    OK TONTO you got me this time.who who who and who.

  22. Tontine Tim on

    BHOYJOEBELFAST on 6TH APRIL 2019 10:07 PM

     

     

    Tontine@8.51 Also Adam Blacklaw goalkeeper Aberdeen born went to Burnley,played in FA cup final v spurs who had Bill Brown as keeper.

     

     

    *Adam Blacklaw was also a very good goalie who had replaced england national keeper Colin McDonald in goal after he broke his leg in a League International at Dalymount Park.

     

     

    This was a very good Burnley side which won the championship by one point over Wolves stopping them becoming the first ever side to win the League 3 years in a row as well as being the first side to do the double in the 20th century, Spurs would do that the following season.

     

     

    It would contain John Connelly who would later move to manure and was in the 1966 and 70 outlander WC squads, the legendary black north star Jimmy McIlroy rated the Clarets greatest player ever, a stand is named after him, and Bobby Seith who at the end of that season would move to Dundee where he won a league medal and helped them to the semis of the Big Cup where they lost to eventual winners AC Milan at Wembley, I bunked school tae watch that game.

     

     

    Like a lot of his successful goalie contemporaries he was only capped a couple of times and that was in friendlies. At that particular time the selectors at Park Gardens preferred home based Scots over anglos unless like Denis Law they were exceptionally good.

     

     

    The first Scotland goalie that I can recall was the iconic Tommy Younger of the legendary Hibbees Famous Five team, who had an unbroken sequence over 3 years, after winning 2 titles at Easter Road he was allowed tae leave for Liverpool pre Shankly so they wurnae a top team at the time.

     

     

    He eventually came back up the road first as player manager at Falkirk and then a director with Hibs before becoming the sfa president.

     

     

    His last game for his country was a 2-3 loss tae Paraguay; we had no idea who they were, in another disastrous WC.

     

     

    His replacement for the final game of that tourney against high flying France, which included Raymond Kopa and Marrakesh born Just Fontaine, was Bill Brown then of Dundee who he had won an LC with. He was the sub goalie tae big Tommy for a remarkable 25 games. He was outstanding that day saving Scotland fae a hiding.

     

     

    Dundee needing money for new floodlights, hmmm read this before about a club close to our hearts, sold him to Spurs where he played in their double-winning side as well as their cup winning team the following season when they beat Burnley including big Adam in the final.

     

     

    He also played in the Lavvy Cup final where they thumped our old “friends” atletico madrid 5-1 being the first UK based side to win a European trophy, BTW enroute they gubbed the huns 8-4 on aggregate in the first round.

     

     

    Memories of that encounter for me was their support being interviewed when alighting the train in London, one of whom was wee “Donald Where’s Yer Troosers” who when asked what he was doing in London replied “down tae see the gers of course”, as soon as the strains of “come in, come in” at the start of the White Heather Club came on the tele after that I was dispatched tae switch it off.

     

     

    Bill was an excellent goalie for club and country and only missed out due tae injury, one of those was the 9-3 game, his backup Lawrie Leslie formerly of Hibs, who had replaced Tommy Younger there, and Airdrie pulled out never playing for Scotland again hmmmmm, he would move tae West Ham that summer, as did 7 past niven so the luckless Frank was crucified between 2 thieves.

     

     

    Things at White Hart Lane started tae go wrong for Bill after they signed an up and coming goalie fae Watford, Newry born Pat Jennings.

     

     

    Bill threw his toys out of the pram saying he had no intention of playing in the reserves. A year or so later he left for Northampton Town but that didnae last long and he took off for Canada to play for the now defunct Toronto Falcons in a league unsanctioned by FIFA, as such he was banned and gave up the game.

     

     

    Scotland still stuck by him even though he was out of the Spurs first team and he played in a 1-0 WC game against Italy at hunden. However, it was stated he was injured for the 2nd game, the disastrous return in Naples. with Jock in charge after former deidco captain ian mccoll had walked out of the team in the midst of a WC campaign, hmmm a bit of a common occurrence with that mob, big Adam was called in for his final cap.

     

     

    By this time Adam was now close to 30 and Burnley were now on the slide so he moved tae neighbours Blackburn, he was replaced in the national side by Killie’s Bobby Ferguson, 8 years his junior, who had practically won the templars the League single handily at swinecastle in the last game of the season; the day Big Billy’s bumper won us the SC.

     

     

    Bobby would then move tae the Hammers for at the time a world record fee for a goalkeeper where he would star eventually gaining a testimonial, yet he would never play for his country again, in fact he was replaced by a player 15 years his senior who after winning 2 FA Cups in his early 20s couldnae get a game for his country lol.

     

     

    Whit is it the say about the sfa, “couldnae run a ménage”.

  23. GFTB on

    Hot Smoked 7.02pm

     

     

    Broony will get hauled up by the SFA for moonlighting as a golfer … :-)

     

     

    It’s as stupid as the charge they are using just now

  24. Tontine Tim on

    FAVOURITE UNCLE on 7TH APRIL 2019 7:13 PM

     

     

    TONTINE TIM on 7TH APRIL 2019 6:50 PM

     

     

    OK TONTO you got me this time.who who who and who.

     

     

    *George the brickie is big George Reilly and the other wee midden is just that, he left us for Nantes.

  25. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    TONTINE TIM on 7TH APRIL 2019 7:50 PM

     

    ta for that .and i gotted ronnie simpson.

  26. Hot Smoked on

    According to Sportscene, whilst telling us that Sevco have cut Celtic` s lead to eleven points ( accurate but not a fair reflection of the real situation) they then tell us that they (Sevco) have moved eight points clear of Kilmarnock and Aberdeen…..who both won. Is this a new ruling to rein in Celtic`s obvious supriority ? Give Sevco four points for a win?

     

     

    JJ

  29. MadMitch on

    Not sure where we are with the search for a new manager.

     

     

    Seasoned PL watchers have a scenario sketched out and it will be cashflow friendly if nothing else.

     

     

    Then there is the Irish Raj angle that may spring a surprise if he comes off the golf course sometime soon.

     

     

    Consequently not sure what is going to happen next?

     

    Have we learned anything in the past 25 / 19 / 14 / 5 years?

     

     

    My thoughts are that our financial position means we cannot buy our way to the next level — player wise — but we can spend our way to success by investing in the coaching set up.

     

     

    Consequently the coaching budget for 2019/20 should be £5mill or thereabouts to make sure we can bring someone in who is a Grade A++ name with a track record of developing players and playing styles — Think better than BR without the couple of chasms that have hurt over the past 3 seasons.

     

     

    We have moved on.

     

    We have learned — BR was another data point.

     

    Consequently we should look for higher standards than we had in 2016.

     

     

    Loads of work to get through before the start of the new season.

     

     

    Huge changes will be needed to the squad and huge improvements to the focus and intensity of our performances in certain circumstances.

     

     

    Once we have the coaching issue sorted we can move on the CEO — new one desperately required so that we can deliver against a much needed growth agenda.

  30. GFTB on

    Madmitch9.16pm

     

     

    “We” are nothing to do with the search for our next manger so not sure why you use “we” not that it matters but I think (sorry sipsini :-) MM you are as much of a Celtic fan as my sevconian wife … but keep doing what you are doing :-)

     

     

    But at least one post without the acronyms is NTB (no too bad)

  31. Hunderbirds are Gone on

    Celtic’s majority shareholder and the Celtic Board will appoint Lenny as the full time manager in the summer. To think they will do anything different is not likely based on all past behaviours. Follow the (lack of) money.

     

    They know that the fact that we are about to embark on the season of the second nine will ensure that all season tickets are sold. Lenny is in situ, he was unemployed, so no fee has to be paid to secure his services.

     

    He might even be just the guy for the job. Whether he is, or isn’t, is not relevant to his appointment though. He will be our next permanent manager.

     

    ?⚽️

  32. GFTB on

    Hunderbirds 9.52pm

     

     

    I hope you are correct

     

     

    I think (sorry sipsini :-) that Neil is a far better manager than first time around plus at least we can trust him and he actually wants to be there :-)

  33. MadMitch on

    GFTB @ 9.29

     

     

    There, there, now …

     

    We = the CFC collective / the fans, the club, the hinger’s on.

     

     

    Thanks for the pep talk — regarding my football allegiances I have nothing to offer you but my GC autograph, my Basle / ECQF programme and my memories of the 1970 LC game against Clyde when RS led out the LLs for the last time.

  34. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    GFTB

     

     

    Hard as it may be to swallow, the vast, vast majority of the posters with negative views are genuine Celtic fans.

     

     

    It’s a terrible slur to label someone as a Sevcoite, so it should be reserved for much worse offences than anything MadMitch said.

     

     

    I know you get some jibes thrown at you too but we all have to be careful in tackling the argument and not the man.

     

     

    I know we have had some infiltrators in our time but we cannot be paranoid about everyone.

  35. GFTB on

    Madmitch 10.06pm

     

     

    Good to see the GC, ECQF, LC, RS & LL have returned … apologies for the poor pep talk but again I don’t think you are much interested in our team and mostly post when there is s negative to be found … again just my opinion and it means heehaw but as per usual you drop feed a negative

     

     

    One question

     

     

    Do you think the Huns liquidated ?

     

     

    Yes or No

  36. !!Bada Bing!! on

    The team look as if they know Neil won’t be manager next season…..Davie Moyes will be the next manager, not who i want BTW,but he’s available and keeps the Club profile high down south IMO

  37. david17 on

    HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE on 7TH APRIL 2019 9:52 PM

     

    Celtic’s majority shareholder and the Celtic Board will appoint Lenny as the full time manager in the summer. To think they will do anything different is not likely based on all past behaviours. Follow the (lack of) money.

     

     

    They know that the fact that we are about to embark on the season of the second nine will ensure that all season tickets are sold. Lenny is in situ, he was unemployed, so no fee has to be paid to secure his services.

     

     

    He might even be just the guy for the job. Whether he is, or isn’t, is not relevant to his a

     

     

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    I agree with you 100%. We should always follow the money when it comes to the PLC. Barring a disastrous end to the season NL will be appointed full time Manager. There is no other outstanding candidate and i think the Board will have decided another BR profile Manager is not worth the hassle.

     

     

    Lets face it, even if we do the treble this season, next season and hopefully the season after will be all about the League, nothing else will matter. NL has a decent enough League record to fall back on. What i will say is next season i do expect a challenge in the League and it will be a war for which we must prepare.

     

     

    Looking at Sunday, if McIness outfoxes NL and goes on to lift the Cup he will have proved himself imo as the best Manager in the Country. Of course DM is not Celtic minded so would not be accepted or considered as the man to lead the charge towards 9 and 10. The big challenge for NL is to go and prove himself at a venue where he has fallen short in the past.

  38. GFTB on

    SFTB 10.28pm

     

     

    I know many Celtic fans with the same negative views … it’s actuality quite common… on here it’s about opinions and I think MM isn’t a Celtic fan … I could be incorrect it’s not unusual for me to be incorrect :-)

  40. GFTB on

    Bada

     

     

    1.57pm

     

     

    You were guessing Neil has been instructed to get rid of two players

     

     

    10.37pm

     

     

    Now you know Davie Moyes is the new manger

     

     

    Hope you are just posting nonsense like the rest of us :-)

  41. the_huddle on

    !!Bada Bing!! on 7th April 2019 10:31 pm

     

     

    The team look as if they know Neil won’t be manager next season…..Davie Moyes will be the next manager, not who i want BTW,but he’s available and keeps the Club profile high down south IMO

     

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    Appointing Moyes would make people down south laugh at us

  42. GFTB on

    “Lets face it, even if we do the treble this season”

     

     

    That is s statement I would never think would come from a Celtic fan … in these terrific times some supporters might never be happy a possible treble treble …

     

     

    Fellow Celtic fans good night n god bless… David66 take care mate a few difficult days ahead take care

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