I suspect we have not seen the best of Daryl Murphy, who has proven to be a solid Championship and fleeting Premier League player in England but has been unable to retain a place in the SPL, but his hamstring injury, suffered after the long flight to Pennsylvania, will be a blow on two levels for Celtic. They are denied a squad player for the crucial Champions League play-off round against Helsingborgs and are likely to unable to loan him out, easing more pressure from payroll.
Daryl was singled out for credit (here) for the way he changed the shape of Celtic in our opening league game of the season against Aberdeen. He would have been useful to Neil Lennon this coming week.
News that Helsingborgs have lost their top striker is welcome but is not quite ‘like signing a new player’ for Celtic. Let’s hope they haven’t lost their Kenny Miller only to find their Jordan Rhodes.
There can seldom have been more financially important games to the club than the Helsingborgs tie. Celtic accounts are usually released mid-August (16th last year) but I don’t anticipate any rush to publish this year. Last season’s accounts could well see the largest loss in our history as the club chased their first league win in four years (insert standard lecture on financial responsibility program, avoid urge to run legacy Sir David Murray malware).
I expect the figures to show Celtic are operating with a Champions League budget (and that’s without evading tax). Football finance lessons are clear, if you have a Champions League budget you need Champions League income. Time for this team to step up to the challenge. Get along and pack the place out on the 29th.
No regrets this time.
Bed early tonight if you are off to Dingwall in the morning. I hope we see a few of the young lads.
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TSD,
Seriously… why the fishing with pathetic bait? Do you get points for every wee bite on your plastic worm, or do you have a point to make?
Gordon
Ha! Enjoy Cyprus! Is that North Cyprus? Do you need to land in Turkey? Nearly went there last New Year if it is.
Going up on Friday. Might have spare room & ticket. Thought you might have joined me & bros for a wee jaunt. Will try & contact you via vogue for a beer soon. Good night amigo!
Someone should start a campaign for the return of the old CQN.
ST,
yer right, we’ve got too many players, its no good enough, you being the specil one can wtite a letter to the club and put them right. 5 players is plenty for the diddys we’ll meet in europe.
All your favs can play all the positions, and if one of them players has a shit game or get injured, the weekest link, move them on.
The bit is, who the copulation do you think you are, fair enough if your contributing to our entertainment socialisation.
Evening all,
Hope you are all well.
I am trying to establish whether I have been in a deep mineshaft dream for 9 months.
Did I miss anything?
I was worried about this Billionaire guy from Monacwell.
I hope we fought for second place.
Dublinbhoy
liked your DOB link. Met him years ago in Embra, seemed like a decent down-to-earth lad, and his shows were great. My ma lives near Bray and remembers his gran’s funeral; she was an IRA member or gun-hider during the War of Independence.
Mrs Browns Boys – funny or shite?
Philvis,
How can you possibly find someone with his main agenda being the exposure of the truth to the minions as obnoxious and creepy? A deeper look surely reveals the “victims” of his work to be the ones best fitted to that description.
You spent too much time at those young tory conventions amigo ;)
philvis..,
its about you team of sea cucumbers trying to keep the focus on Assange, rather than the criminals and autrocities he his network exposed.
But if we want to keep capitalism alive, we must fall into line.
Assange is a traitor to capitalism, innit
FFM,
I have no view on his character, but with allegations as serious as this, in my opinion he should go to Sweden and take the trial. The fear seems to be that this will be a back door to extradition to the U.S.; if that’s the case you fight that battle then.
I think he knows this, and I think he knows that public opinion would weigh in if that were to occur, which makes me wonder why he doesn’t call the bluff.
Mr SFTB….
Left to my own devices,in a small,mixed form Primary School…I took advantage of the Class Library,reading all the Noddy Books Series…and the very next book on the shelf ??
None other than Winston Churchill’s “History Of The English Speaking People,For Children”.
I was transfixed…my first BIG BOOK too..
Serendipity…or Divinely Inspired Fate ?
Set My Moral Compass…Grew Up Straight And True….And You Know The Rest….
(By The Way,I Would Have Seen Him Hang…As I Have Said Previously On This Blog)
Nite…Make Sure The Bugs Don’t Bite….
And Be Sure To Check For Dear Ol’ Joe McCarthy..Hiding Under Your Bed…
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – How can you possibly find someone with his main agenda being the exposure of the truth to the minions as obnoxious and creepy?
Purely on a personal level, observing the man speak.
His mannerisms put the old Philvis hackles up in the same way that people who come to my door trying to sell religion or double glazing do.
You spent too much time at those young tory conventions amigo ;)
Alas, I am too wild and ultramontane for David Cameron’s plastic tories. (thumbsup)
assange is being sacrificed by the British state because – probably- the government needs some fighter jet deal – its a disgrace in my book – the TRUTH will out
philvis, so glad to see you’re a fan of the mighty Spike The Entertainer. ‘Tramp the dirt down’ not a favourite?.
I loved this song for the same reasons Olivers Army is great; he was never a simplistic writer and this song caught the pain and human torment of the individuals that fought on both sides; like most of his writing, his characters operate in the same shades of grey that most of us live in.
http://youtu.be/KEqDjz4jCaQ
anyone for Dressage? how is it an Olympic sport? so many questions remain unanswered :)
philvis..,
like you, I’m strugging to understand CQNs reluctance to comment on the Assange stuff, then I look at the britiish telly and all the atrocities are happening in moscow and syria. Obviously both thgose locations are greater threats to our freedom than the british govt sending reporters and publishers to cuba for a bit of surfing
EMUS
Thanks for thinking of me pal.
Sounds like a great trip to ICT.
I’ll be thinking of you when i’m getting blootered in Cyprus
watching the the famous green and white hoops.
HH
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire – You give me far too much credit.
In what way am I trying to keep attention on Assange?
While I don’t like the guy, I don’t want to see him jailed. Also, I’ve never been asked for an opinion about him before you did. I’m just a backroom boy, merely a functionary. My opinions have little effect on things outside my own narrow sphere of influence.
In what sense is he a threat to capitalism?
While I’m not sure that his activities have been a great boon to liberal democracy, I don’t fear they’ll stop willing buyers and sellers voluntarily making mutually beneficial exchanges in a free market.
Innit? (thumbsup)
JimmyQuinnsBits
You make fair points. My “but” to them is that the current Swedish govt is hideously right wing, and it has ruined the achievements it’s predecessor spent 20 years on, within 2 years. If the man is guilty, I’d be very surprised. He’s no idiot. His only hope of survival at the moment is Ecuador it would seem. As long as he lives, he is a threat to the very existence of the establishment (as they see it). Holding the trial in Ecuador would be the sensible move to make imo, but there won’t be many of them keen on that.
Thankfully, there are many more of his ilk ready to take his work further.
philvis @ 01:01
Fair enough. Can’t debate your personal feelings on the man :)
Are you William Hague??:))
Much as I’m a begrudger with regards to those harlots who translate the law to us gibbering loons, the law is the only protection we have; unless we want to be subject to the whim of a slavering aristocrat who waves at planes.
Course it can be bent, manipulated, and threatened into silence… for a while. This case is too high profile. He needs to go and answer the charges.
Re Julian Assange
It doesn’t matter if he’s creepy or charismatic.
It does matter if he’s guilty of assaulting those women.
Is he being fitted up? Is the Swedish judicial system subject to US pressure? Is there a campaign to silence him and undermine the work his organization has done? Ah dae ken. I suspect the answer to all those questions is yes, but my suspicions don’t hold much legal weight. But any alleged victims in Sweden are entitled to the same weight of justice as he is.
If it was, say, Nick Griffin, ask yourself would you be making the same calls for different treatment, based on his previous contribution to society?
tarrant – ‘Tramp the dirt down’ not a favourite?.
Not for me, but I’m willing to forgive talented artists their eccentricities.
I like Morrissey a loater too, but he’s never going to convert me to vegetarianism. (thumbsup)
20m for champions league group stage qualification .. Does that include ticket sales for home games or that on top ?
Really nervous about these 2 games because with us not signing anyone I fear of we lose we Defo will sign no1 and lose 1 or 2 players putting us back year or 2.
If we win I’m not overly confident Lawell will release much funds therefor could be looking at a long group stage.
I understand being careful but surely we could have bought either a ch or striker after beating Helsinki . Then if beat Helsingborg get the other in.
We should be too strong for Helsingborg but with not much firepower Im bit more concerned .
I shot the Sheriff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qLYy6hiFQ
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – Are you William Hague??:))
No, I have a fine head of hair, and don’t regard 14 pints a day as something to boast about.
Also, I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a baseball cap. (thumbsup)
tarrant – If the full might of the British government and the US government were brought to bear to try to jail Nick Griffin for revealing information they’d rather you didn’t know about, I’d be sympathetic to him too. (thumsup)
Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude (that’s us folks) and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
JimmyQuinnsBits
I understand your point about justice.
But do you think he would get a fair trial in the USA?
Are they still sending 16 yr old boys to the chair in Texas? Young George sent 220 people to their death during his not too long time as governor there.
What about the campaign to keep the aspergers boy here who the FBI wanted extradited for hacking into their computers….were you keen to see him sent over there for trial? Seriously.
Like Scotland, in terms of true justice, it’s a legal backwater.
P.S….Bring back the link creator.
TSD
You would have hanged Churchill???
I’m guessing you intended to convey you would have hanged Mandela.
Would you have hanged Pastor Niemoller?? Von Stauffenberg?? George Washington?? Ghandi?? Aung Sang Sui Kyi?? Syrian Rebels?? Ian Smith??
TSD
BTW
Joe McCarthy would often be found prone beneath the bed. Tis the perils of being a jakey, I’m afraid.
SydneyTim
00:36 on
18 August, 2012
We are the only squad in SPL not to have improved
+++++
You simply can’t help yourself, but at least try to do so without posting bare faced lies, thank you.
philvis…,
lies and deciet are the only possible way capitalism can ever work, we both know that, its a big game of poker, innit.
Well, at its height, it was all about freedom, then it was about freedom of speech, innit. Meanwhile, there was me calling you all fascists and then what happend, Assange exposed the basic mechanics behind your philosophy, and it turns out me was right. Capitalism is fascism innit
Philvis,
“tarrant – If the full might of the British government and the US government were brought to bear to try to jail Nick Griffin for revealing information they’d rather you didn’t know about, I’d be sympathetic to him too. (thumsup) ”
You’ve gone way up in my estimations for making the same point I was about to make. Fair play. An objective point.
zimmerman
01:17 on
18 August, 2012
well… thats me tellt ;)
I can only take sublime wisdom in wee doses anyway… like espressos
FFM,
no, I don’t think he’d get a fair trial in the US, and I don’t think he should be extradited there, but he should stand trial in Sweden
philvis,
“tarrant – If the full might of the British government and the US government were brought to bear to try to jail Nick Griffin for revealing information they’d rather you didn’t know about, I’d be sympathetic to him too. (thumsup)”
Good for you. I would love to see such fair and open mindedness from all of those who support Julian Assange because he is in their natural constituency.
“I don’t support what you say but I support – to the death – your right to say it.”
Overquoted to the point that people forget what it actually means.
George Washington,..maybe.
The great money trick – Robert Tressell.
‘Money is the cause of poverty because it is the device by which those who are too lazy to work are enabled to rob the workers of the fruits of their labour.’
‘Prove it,’ said Crass.
Owen slowly folded up the piece of newspaper he had been reading and put it into his pocket.
‘All right,’ he replied. ‘I’ll show you how the Great Money Trick is worked.’
Owen opened his dinner basket and took from it two slices of bread but as these were not sufficient, he requested that anyone who had some bread left would give it to him. They gave him several pieces, which he placed in a heap on a clean piece of paper, and, having borrowed the pocket knives they used to cut and eat their dinners with from Easton, Harlow and Philpot, he addressed them as follows:
‘These pieces of bread represent the raw materials which exist naturally in and on the earth for the use of mankind; they were not made by any human being, but were created by the Great Spirit for the benefit and sustenance of all, the same as were the air and the light of the sun.’
… ‘Now,’ continued Owen, ‘I am a capitalist; or, rather, I represent the landlord and capitalist class. That is to say, all these raw materials belong to me. It does not matter for our present argument how I obtained possession of them, or whether I have any real right to them; the only thing that matters now is the admitted fact that all the raw materials which are necessary for the production of the necessaries of life are now the property of the Landlord and Capitalist class. I am that class: all these raw materials belong to me.’
… ‘Now you three represent the Working Class: you have nothing – and for my part, although I have all these raw materials, they are of no use to me – what I need is – the things that can be made out of these raw materials by Work: but as I am too lazy to work myself, I have invented the Money Trick to make you work for me. But first I must explain that I possess something else beside the raw materials. These three knives represent – all the machinery of production; the factories, tools, railways, and so forth, without which the necessaries of life cannot be produced in abundance. And these three coins’ – taking three halfpennies from his pocket – ‘represent my Money Capital.’
‘But before we go any further,’ said Owen, interrupting himself, ‘it is most important that you remember that I am not supposed to be merely “a” capitalist. I represent the whole Capitalist Class. You are not supposed to be just three workers – you represent the whole Working Class.’
… Owen proceeded to cut up one of the slices of bread into a number of little square blocks.
‘These represent the things which are produced by labour, aided by machinery, from the raw materials. We will suppose that three of these blocks represent – a week’s work. We will suppose that a week’s work is worth – one pound: and we will suppose that each of these ha’pennies is a sovereign. …
‘Now this is the way the trick works -’
… Owen now addressed himself to the working classes as represented by Philpot, Harlow and Easton.
‘You say that you are all in need of employment, and as I am the kind-hearted capitalist class I am going to invest all my money in various industries, so as to give you Plenty of Work. I shall pay each of you one pound per week, and a week’s work is – you must each produce three of these square blocks. For doing this work you will each receive your wages; the money will be your own, to do as you like with, and the things you produce will of course be mine, to do as I like with. You will each take one of these machines and as soon as you have done a week’s work, you shall have your money.’
The Working Classes accordingly set to work, and the Capitalist class sat down and watched them. As soon as they had finished, they passed the nine little blocks to Owen, who placed them on a piece of paper by his side and paid the workers their wages.
‘These blocks represent the necessaries of life. You can’t live without some of these things, but as they belong to me, you will have to buy them from me: my price for these blocks is – one pound each.’
As the working classes were in need of the necessaries of life and as they could not eat, drink or wear the useless money, they were compelled to agree to the kind Capitalist’s terms. They each bought back and at once consumed one-third of the produce of their labour. The capitalist class also devoured two of the square blocks, and so the net result of the week’s work was that the kind capitalist had consumed two pounds worth of the things produced by the labour of the others, and reckoning the squares at their market value of one pound each, he had more than doubled his capital, for he still possessed the three pounds in money and in addition four pounds worth of goods. As for the working classes, Philpot, Harlow and Easton, having each consumed the pound’s worth of necessaries they had bought with their wages, they were again in precisely the same condition as when they started work – they had nothing.
This process was repeated several times: for each week’s work the producers were paid their wages. They kept on working and spending all their earnings. The kind-hearted capitalist consumed twice as much as any one of them and his pile of wealth continually increased. In a little while – reckoning the little squares at their market value of one pound each – he was worth about one hundred pounds, and the working classes were still in the same condition as when they began, and were still tearing into their work as if their lives depended upon it.
After a while the rest of the crowd began to laugh, and their merriment increased when the kind-hearted capitalist, just after having sold a pound’s worth of necessaries to each of his workers, suddenly took their tools – the Machinery of Production – the knives away from them, and informed them that as owing to Over Production all his store-houses were glutted with the necessaries of life, he had decided to close down the works.
‘Well, and what the bloody ‘ell are we to do now?’ demanded Philpot.
‘That’s not my business,’ replied the kind-hearted capitalist. ‘I’ve paid you your wages, and provided you with Plenty of Work for a long time past. I have no more work for you to do at present. Come round again in a few months’ time and I’ll see what I can do for you.’
‘But what about the necessaries of life?’ demanded Harlow. ‘We must have something to eat.’
‘Of course you must,’ replied the capitalist, affably; ‘and I shall be very pleased to sell you some.’
‘But we ain’t got no bloody money!’
‘Well, you can’t expect me to give you my goods for nothing! You didn’t work for me for nothing, you know. I paid you for your work and you should have saved something: you should have been thrifty like me. Look how I have got on by being thrifty!’
The unemployed looked blankly at each other, but the rest of the crowd only laughed; and then the three unemployed began to abuse the kind-hearted Capitalist, demanding that he should give them some of the necessaries of life that he had piled up in his warehouses, or to be allowed to work and produce some more for their own needs; and even threatened to take some of the things by force if he did not comply with their demands. But the kind-hearted Capitalist told them not to be insolent, and spoke to them about honesty, and said if they were not careful he would have their faces battered in for them by the police, or if necessary he would call out the military and have them shot down like dogs, the same as he had done before at Featherstone and Belfast.
zimmerman
Your teaching wasn’t proportioned to my imperfect reason.
Does not compute. Away to watch Corrie reruns.
a ref: insert hdos malfunction