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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Paul McStay had that mysterious quality all great players have. They seem to float in a bubble. Always time on the ball due to a deadly first touch.
Always time to pass unerringly as they have a picture of the game in their head.
No one gets to them in a tackle unlwss late because of theiir awareness of space.
Always always plenty of unruffled time on the ball.
Sir Paul..
Yep.. Master McStay Wiz… SO… Different, fae Master Collins..
In As Much As…
Master McStay, Hid .. Loyalty… in Abbondanza..
whilst…
Master Collins.. Hid.. “SMARTS”..in.. Superfluity!
Which is Bettah?
“Smarts” ..or.. Loyalty?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm…
Of course,ye know damn well..
Which Wan.. Ah wid .. Prefer..
Every Day of the Week..and Twice oan Sunday!
Fur..
Loyalty, and Ten Cents… will only buy ye a Dime’s Woith..of.. well.. ANYTHING!
Kojo
Still, Laughin’.
Gotta Go
See You.. Guys!
Just seen Matt Le Tissier on tv. Another great player.
Civil unrest in Lanarkshire tonight…
Chris Lawlor @ChrisLawlor
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Scotsfanpat,
It is a Jesuit ‘tradition’ to always offer the last Sunday mass in cities where they have a presence
Ghentlemen , I have been in Wales for the past week and could not get Internet access but when I did , I saw that “dettoandthebacklash ” had a spare ticket for away Helsingborg game. If you still have it I would really appreciate it if I could have it. I have lurked on here for a few years and posted a few times , but don’t know everyone’s names or how to contact them. I am not a Hun and have 2 ST and have supported the Celtic for 50 years ( well 45 of them ). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Gordon J
Which tribunal did Nimmo-Smith sit on ..?
Carloway sat on the tribunal that imposed the transfer ban ….. Or am I hopelessly lost in all this
Clashcitybhoy
Didn’t know that.
Cheers.
SPF
hoopy burthday to me !!!!
new bobby lennox book……….check
new celtic dress watch………..check
bottle of morgans spice………..check
usb turntable with old bowie vinyl..check
and cqn on the puter………………………………….ah bliss ghod bless my weans they know how to keep their auld da happy
Estorilbhoy
The band formerly known as Penny Arcade ;-)
My tastes in music vary greatly.
Frank Zappa even had John Lennon enthralled.
HH
PFayr,
I thoughy Nimmo Smith did the original tribunal and Carloway the appeal?
Mind you these men in wigs all look the same to me …
PF ayr
The SFA asked him back in February to chair an enquiry into Huns FC. Paul McConville earlier this week wrote an article for The Scottish Football Monitor which you probably know replaced RTC asking what happened to The Nimmo Report. Worth a read b.t.w.
Gordon J
The original tribunal was chaired by Gary Allan QC
hendrix67 & MHARK67
HOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY
Enjoy your evenings HAIL HAIL
Gordon_J
You’re being wigist.
EDB
I think you’re correct I know Nimmo -Smith did something….wasn’t the tribunal that imposed the transfer ban tho
If Gordon_J is being wigist where does that leave Curly? a.k.a. Ulryc:o)
PF ayr correct. But that Paul McC article is worth a read.
PFAyr,
Apologies. I think Nimmo Smith did the original report that branded Craig Whyte as not a fit and proper person and outlined that there was a case to answer for Rangers (ia) bringing the game into disrepute. That then led the SFA to set up the Tribunal.
Wigist? I said they all looked the same – is that discriminatory?
Mind you ol’ Templar Smith looks very different froma judge.
I once had a “bit of a spat” with Graeme Spiers after he insulted Frank Zappa in an uninformed and narrow-viewed fashion in the Scotland on Sunday. As a result Zappa’s UK record company telephoned me to congratulate me and then furnished me with an array of rarities.
The SPL have announced the
members of the independent
commission that will deliver a
judgement on dual contracts at
Rangers. With Ally McCoist going public to get the names of an SFA commission made
known, despite Rangers officials
knowing the names of the individuals, the SPL have led the way in terms of accountability.
While Charles Green refuses to tell Sevco fans the names of his investors and backers the SPL have announced that their panel will be chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith alongside Mr Charles Flint
QC and Mr Nicholas Stewart QC.
The commission will inquire into alleged EBT payments and arrangements made by Rangers in relation to players during the period from 2000 until 2011.
There is no precedent for such an inquiry but in normal circumstances any club fielding a player that hasn’t been properly registered would have the result overturned to a 3-0 defeat. Lord Nimmo Smith chaired the SFA panel that hit Rangers with a 12 month
transfer embargo that the Ibrox club took to the Court of Session to overturn. The proper punishment would have seen the club either expelled or
suspended from the SFA with Lord Nimmo Smith deciding against taking such drastic action. Having been over-ruled previously it’s unlikely that Nimmo Smith will come up
with any sanction other than laid down by the SPL rules.
Dublin Noelbhoy
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Are ye sure yer no a hun? Seem kinda nervous to me.
HH
To much fitba talk here
Pussy riot 2 years quiet right
controversy for controversy sake
Amnesty Petition – Free Pussy Riot!
Two years for singing a protest song? Disgraceful
Bass bhoy
Will you marry me ? ;-)
HH
MHARK67
Happy buffday ya eejit still celebrating birthdays at your age………………
……………..I’ll let you off with it ,seeing as your a Bowie fan.
Pussy riot should have go the maximum 3 years. Doing that crap on an altar when decent people were trying to observe their faith and pray.
ElDiegoBhoy
regarding John Collins transfer to Monaco, I think it was the other way round. He signed for Monaco as a free agent post-Bosman move to an “EU” club. Hard cheese Celtic said all in the Scottish media.
But, Fergus the Great argued afterwards that since the Principality of Monaco is not in the EU, the Bosman ruling did not apply to their football club. He asked for £3 million as I recall but failed to convince UEFA or the courts.
I hear that while he was in Monaco to argue with the AS folks, Fergus met a young billionaire called Craig Whyte and between them they hatched a cunning plan…
John Collins, what is the best way to put it, “Looked after himself” in his last 6 months with Celtic. Anyway, although he was good, his free kicks/penalties inflated his goal tally vs McStay.
Cue mayhem on FF:
“I don’t care how learned or esteemed any of these gentlemen are, if any of them are rc i would class them as being biased against Rangers. This country is truly warped.
—————
Paco,
If you’re mother is a Scottish born RC then she is definitely in a tiny minuscule proportion of them that support us. I am afraid that my 50 years in this country have taught me that Scottish Catholics are the most corrupt, devious and bitter specimens to inhabit this earth. I would not trust a single one of them to be impartial when it comes to us and I therefore agree 100% with the assumption of willie w.
—————
The day before we break another world record and receive positive world wide attention the forces of darkness appear as if from nowhere
Coincidence?
I don’t ****ing think so!
————–
Charles Flint QC
2012
Appointed to the UEFA Club Financial Control Body Adjudicatory Chamber
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/aboutuefa/o…d=1836831.html
Adjudicatory Chamber
José Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues (POR), Chairman of the CFCB
Christiaan Timmermans (NED), Vice-chairman of the CFCB
Louis Peila (SUI), Vice-chairman of the CFCB
Charles Flint (ENG), Member
Adam Giersz (POL), Member
Investigatory Chamber
Jean-Luc Dehaene (BEL), Chief Investigator and Chairman of the Investigatory Chamber
Jacobo Beltrán (ESP), Member
Egon Franck (GER), Member
Umberto Lago (ITA), Member
Petros Mavroidis (GRE), Member
Brian Quinn (SCO), Member <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<!!!
Konstantin Sonin (RUS), Member
Yves Wehrli (FRA), Member
Another stitch up with a Celtic man's sticky fingers in the pie
——————–
Was Nimmo Smith not a life long Celtic fan, was this not highlighted when he chaired the other panel, I'm sure somebody said he might have had shares in Celtic!!!!!
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This is so bent, they're hardly even trying to conceal it."
Uberparanoia.
bass bhoy
Did you respond to Spiers via the SoS letters page?
wonkyradar
18:03 on 17 August, 2012
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Yup.
Watched the two of them in tandem many a day as the MSM insisted they couldn’t play together and the Maestro wasn’t international class…
The same MSM who told us assuredly that Henrik was also barely international class and would struggle badly outside the SPL. Those sages…
It was the rest of the players in those days around the dynamic duo who were the problem. Couldn’t catch up with the steps ahead McStay and Collins operated in during games.
If only McStay and Collins had the likes of Larsson and Moravcik around them. A dream.
John Collins V Paul McStay.
Painting by numbers V Sistine Chapel
mhark67 happy birthday to both of us.
Leftclicktic, cheers
Monaghan
By their own reasoning it must be impossible for a Tim to get any form justice in this country “…..eejits
Btw …think those two QCs must be English …don’t know them nor can I find them listed in the faculty
hendrix67/Mhark67, you two twins?
Palacio67 , you have rumbled me. I think it’s called desperation , not knowing if my socialising in Helsingborg will be severely interrupted by my having to go scrounging for tickets.