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Some people are never happy, others? .. expectations are too high.
2022/23 and football has changed forever
Money is key
Money hinders our club
You only need to look at Jota ..enough said!
I for one am happy to be part of the Champions league.. Best we can hope for is 3rd place such is the gulf.
You only need to look at some of the teams in last couple of years who finished LAST
look at the record fees paid by such clubs?
AC Milan-Leonardo Bonucci €42m
Wolfsburg-Julian Draxler €43m
Athletico Madrid-João Félix €127m
Marseille-Vitinha €32m
Inter Milan-Lukaku €74m
Rennes- Amine Gouiri €28m
Even look at some who didn’t make past the qualifiers last 2-3 Seasons
PSV- Noa Lang €13m
Monaco-James Rodríguez €45m
Fenerbache €14m
Benfica-Enzo Fernández-€44m
Just enjoy the ride folks, domestic football is our bread and butter
Ps .. I think a few big name signings while materialise once players accept a EPL ain’t forthcoming
Good morning CQN
Miserable weather.
Tomorrow’s outlook looks better.
(the weather that is)
Football outlook is reasonably fine (from my perspective)
A game back at Celtic Park tomorrow then the phony war and all the associated BS we are subjected to each summer ends this weekend.
Bring it on.
I take it we still get 21 games on our season tickets ? No friendlies at Celtic park ( Jamesie’s testimonial apart),Kilmarnock away in the league cup leaves only a possible home quarter final,if we beat Kilmarnock..Can easily get to both domestic cup finals without playing a home tie so I wonder what will happen if that’s the case anther shop voucher?
Good morning from another rain lashed Garngad.
Work beckons.
D :(
Good morning all from Govanhill.
THE HAND OF GOD
It won’t be Celtic’s fault if we don’t get a home cup draw to give ST holders an extra free game. Do you really want the club to arrange a meaningless mid-season friendly just to satisfy the fickle few who feel cheated? It’s the stuff of nonsense.
We might get 20 home league games. We may only get 18. Ideally we get 19 home and 19 away. I for one won’t be crying at the end of a season because I didn’t get 21 games on my season ticket.
Hearing of the sad loss of David Potter.
A great and understated Scottish sports historian, writer, contributor, umpire and a great Celtic man.
His Celtic and Cricket contributions will live on. RIP
Burnley
Used to read his articles on ‘keep the faith’
RIP David
Some lovely tributes to David Potter on Celtic star. Really lovely but only half the story,
RIP David. Gentleman and scholar. Big loss to us all.
KLV
Japan women giving a masterclass for Brendan.3-0 up at HT,against tournament favorites
Terrific performance..,Spain.Playing 5-3-1,with their wee female Kyogo at CF,scoring 2,so similar to him ,its uncanny.Hitting Spain with pace up front,smothering them when they attack.
Just looked in to discover the sad news about David Potter.
The term “club historian” is perhaps used too liberally in the internet age?
Mr Potter (who I never met) was the real deal.
RIP Club Historian. 🙏
I haven’t sensed any drop off on support for Celtic here in Ireland past 30 years. If anything, it has increased with Sky Sports and CL exposure.
Definitely more so than the 1980’s when I was a child and we couldn’t get to see any games on TV.
EPL is still top dog just as the old English first division was in the 80’s. That won’t change yet although Saudi money will see less domestic games in next 10 years across European leagues and the creation of an expanded FIFA world club competition to overtake the Champions League.
All IMO of course.
MESSAGE FROM JOBO BALDIE
*** PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2023-24 *
NEW COMPETITION STARTING ON SATURDAY 5 AUGUST**
It’s been a long 9 weeks for me with only a handful of emails to scroll through, no 5-bar gates to compile and no spreadsheets to update. But thankfully that all comes to an end this coming weekend when Celtic’s competitive season gets underway.
Firstly, thanks to those of you who have emailed me since the Scottish Cup Final encouraging me to continue this wee venture for season 2023-24. Even though last season’s competition did run out of steam a wee bit towards the end, hopefully the voting public will come back fully refreshed and raring to go.
I did contemplate doing a detailed review of last season’s results but simply never quite found the time. However, here are a few wee headlines just to give a flavour of what developed –
Although Reo Hatate ended the season as our clear winner he ‘only’ received 3 Player Of The Month awards (September, October and February) with the other months featuring 7 different players – Jota, O’Riley, McGregor, Mooy, Carter-Vickers, Johnston and Starfelt.
We only had one player who was on the park in all 53 competitive games, yet he only finished in 9th place overall. Matt O’Riley secured 38 points overall – 28 prior to the world cup (23 games) and just 10 after it (from 30 games). The next highest appearances came from Hart and Kyogo (51 each), Maeda (50) and Abada (48).
Our magnificent goals scored tally of 147 saw 5 of our team reach double figures – Kyogo 34, Jota 15, Abada 13, Maeda 11 and Hatate 10.
There were a couple of obvious ‘player trading’ comparisons. Juranovic picked up 13 points from his 19 games, Johnston secured 35 from 21. Giakoumakis featured in 29 games and received 13 points, Oh got almost as many – 11 from his 22 games. Early signs suggest the replacements are better than the players we lost.
Some Champions League observations – Jenz (now gone) played in all 6 games whilst Ralston (still here) didn’t get a single minute on the park.
HOW THE COMPETITION WORKS
I’ll now explain what the POTY thing is all about and how it all works,
It’s quite simply an exercise to determine the Player Of The Year based on Real Time Voting. No waiting until the season end and forgetting what happened 8 months earlier. But rather a game by game voting system where players earn points whenever they are one of our top 5 performers in any given game.
I toyed with the idea of introducing a different points system but I’m keen to (a) not overly complicate it and (b) make sure it’s still fairly easy for me to collate all of the results – last season I received around 3,500 emails! So, I’ve decided to just keep things exactly the way they were last season.
The competition depends entirely on your regular participation, dear readers. After each game, anyone and everyone sends me an email with the names of the three players who you think performed best, in your opinion. No justification or explanations are necessary, just 3 names. The 3 players that you nominate all receive one vote. Remember, you don’t put the 3 players in order – all 3 get the very same 1 vote reward. I then go through each and every email, tally up the total votes from everyone who takes part for that particular match and put them into order. The player who gets the highest total votes gets the Man Of The Match award and earns 5 POINTS. The runner up will get 4, next gets 3, then 2, then 1.
Your 3 nominations must be for 3 different Celtic players. And please remember that there are likely to be games where we play very poorly – it’s perfectly acceptable for you to then vote for your 3 least bad players! Much better to do that than to take the huff and not vote at all! After all, somebody has to get MOTM for every game regardless of the result.
Of course, you don’t need to worry about the fine detail. All you have to do is nominate 3 players and I take care of the rest.
And how do you vote? Simply by sending me an email to SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM . Again, you don’t have to explain your thinking or make specific detailed comments. When folk do that, I do feel guilty about not always sending a personal reply but I’m generally racing against the clock with a lot to get through. All I need is an email from you, short and sweet along the lines of “Hi, for the Ross County game my 3 picks are Auld, Chalmers and Lennox”. And neither do you have to vote after every single game – just the ones that you actually take in with enough interest to form your opinions. I mean, do you think I actually know whether voters even saw the game?? Your votes remain confidential – unless you decide to mention on the blog or elsewhere who you went for. But there will be no leaks from me, I promise!
For each game, the voting opens straight after the final whistle and remains open usually until 10.00pm the following evening. I’ll do my best to then tally up the votes and post the results on here usually before 10.30pm.
There’s no signing up process, no joining fee and neither do you have to vote on every game. Just participate as often as you can. Also, there’s absolute zero cost involved although, equally there are no prizes on offer!
Absolutely anyone is welcome to join in, whether you post on here, post elsewhere or just lurk. And please, please feel free to encourage friends, family etc to join in too, whether regularly or just after certain games. So, if you’re watching a lunchtime away game in November in a bar in Tenerife, get those around the table to nominate their own 3 players and send an email on their behalf! Remember, everyone’s opinion is equally valid, and everyone’s votes carry the very same weight. If anyone wants to mention or promote this on any other sites, group chats, etc I’m absolutely fine with that – copy and paste till your heart’s content! The game by game results will always be posted on Sentinel Celts and almost always (when I can access the site!) on CQN but, again, I’ve no problem if they are then copied elsewhere.
This is really just a wee bit of fun to maybe give us another topic to discuss as the weeks go on. And I think that it gives a much fairer, real-time assessment of how players are performing rather than just looking back at the year end. As the competition develops, I expect to notice certain trends – maybe players that didn’t catch the eye early season then developing into regular vote winners and vice versa.
So the competition will cover every competitive first team game during season 2023-24 starting with our Flag Day visit from Ross County and hopefully ending after our appearance in a European Final! It’s OK to dream.
Finally, if anyone has any other thoughts, ideas or just wants to check their email works please feel free to contact me at SENCELPOTY@GMAIL.COM . You might get an ‘automatic reply’, but I’ll try and send a more personal one over the coming days. Something else that I’ve been meaning to reassure folk on for a while surrounds your own email security. When you email me your votes I NEVER pass your email details on to anyone else. Also, I tend to delete ALL emails every 3 or 4 weeks so in terms of data protection etc I’m confident there’s nothing for anyone to be concerned about.
Thanks for reading this far.
Jobo Baldie
I seem to recall that Jobo is a fan of Gilbert O’Sullivan, who is gracing Motherwell concert hall with his presence later this year.
Wonder if he’ll play his smash-hit Sevco song, A Loan Again (Naturally).
Japan 4,Spain,0.Total masterclass by Japan,hitting on the break.
5-4-1 tactics,brilliant,using the pace up front.Spain smothered,hardly saw them having a1 on 1 whole game.
Shows it can be done if you take your chances.Something Celtic40Me has been on about.
Good morning Tom….you have made a lot of assumptions from a question I wasn’t moaning I was asking and you obviously assum £737 is a meaningless about per season, it is to me and many others a big commitment. Don’t want to assume you were accusing me of moaning but seems that way
Forgive my spelling I’m working outside
TURKEYBHOY…..
Ive just watched the Japanese wummin destroy Spain wummin 4 – 0. Japan were superb.
I put a few quid on Japan to WIN this World Cup last week at odds of 16/1.
After todays display, Japan are now only 8/1 with my main Bookie.
I may put another bet on Japan to win this World Cup at 8/1…..especially considering that Japans next opponents are Norway who are 66/1 to win the Cup.
HH mate.
R.I.P. David Potter.
I always enjoyed his writings.
YNWA David.
Chairbhoy at 9.20am – thanks for doing that. It’s always a bit hit and miss for me trying to access CQN and obviously it was ‘hit’ for me just now! But thanks for copying that over from Sentinel Celts. HH
Ive just placed a further Bet on Japans wummin to win the World Cup at odds of 8/1 ( BET365).
Despite being hammered by Japan today, SPAIN are still 2nd favourites at odds of 9/2…..a bit weird ?
VIVA NIPPON.
LOL
HH
Big Jimmy,
Yes,playing like that,they will give anyone problems.4 shots,4 goals.Defence like a wall.
16\1,,a great price.
Big Jimmy,
Spanish team full of CL winners,Barca,Real,and top English based teams.They have been,best in the world on form past year.All the more astonishing what Japan did today.
Big Jimmy
Japan were strong todsy butbthat side of the draw is really loaded with the top teams.
USA, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Japan, Norway are all in that half of the draw. All decent sides.
Only Engerland and maybe France / Germany, of any real pedigree in the other half. It seems whatever Japan do they will have 4 tough games to win.
Norway, USA then Sweden is their likely route to the final where they would likely play Engerland. Not impossible but it maybe explains the odds at 8/1.
I really do hope you win though. I thought they were really impressive. Worth noting though Spain now have an easier last 16 tie as a result v Switzerland.
Big Jimmy.
Sorry 16/1 reflecting the challenge.
Re Spains odds is due to ease of draw as a result of today and avoiding Norway USA and possibly Sweden.
Big Jimmy
Apologies the Japanese will play Norway then likely USA or Sweden and then likely either Holland or Spain in the semi.
Not an easy route for any team.
At 16/1 it’s sounds a great bet. Good luck.
Back to Basics – Glass Half Full on 31st July 2023 9:08 am
Just looked in to discover the sad news about David Potter.
The term “club historian” is perhaps used too liberally in the internet age?
Mr Potter (who I never met) was the real deal.
RIP Club Historian. 🙏
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Was in Dublin all weekend, which was great, despite the dive for the penalty (which the Wolves fans near me agreed was very soft).
Can I just echo the sentiments above.
RIP David and sincerest condolences to your family for their loss.
Deeply saddened to hear of David Potters passing. When Celtic historians are mentioned, his name was always the first. Thank you for your writings and rest in eternal peace.
Scullybhoy
Hope you had a good weekend in Dublin seeing Celtic,a fair few of my friends made it from the 4 corners of the emerald Isle:-)
HH
Bhoy From The Boyne on 31st July 2023 9:18 am
I haven’t sensed any drop off on support for Celtic here in Ireland past 30 years. If anything, it has increased with Sky Sports and CL exposure.
Definitely more so than the 1980’s when I was a child and we couldn’t get to see any games on TV.
EPL is still top dog just as the old English first division was in the 80’s. That won’t change yet although Saudi money will see less domestic games in next 10 years across European leagues and the creation of an expanded FIFA world club competition to overtake the Champions League.
All IMO of course.
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Sorry to disagree with you, but I feel that Celtic are mostly ignored by the MSM in Ireland. On Sunday morning I looked through the Sunday Independent (horrible paper, I know, but it was free in the Hotel breakfast area) and it didn’t even mention the fact that Celtic had been in town. Whilst 28,000 was a good, healthy crowd, I would suggest that Celtic are now people’s second team.
Again, that is only my humble opinion.
HH
An Tearmann on 31st July 2023 11:36 am
Cheers. We travelled down on the Friday and stayed until the Sunday (sadly couldn’t get a ticket for the All Ireland). Expensive hotels, The Ivy Garden and then onto the Gibson, but just such a lovely city and seeing the Celts into the bargain.
I hope you are well.
HH
TURKEYBHOY
What height was the Japanese left back?
Asking for a friend
GTCSC
new article posted.
Season ticket conditions this year state clearly that season ticket is valid for 19 league games only.
I believe SPFL rules state that Celtic and a club playing out of Ibrox ( my words, they call them something else) are both guaranteed 19 home games a season.
Is Paul on holiday or has he an exclusive to drop in the afternoon