The creative central midfield position is heavily congested at Celtic. Rom Togic and Stuart Armstrong are both enjoying landmark seasons, leaving Ryan Christie feeding off injury scraps. It’s not ideal for a player with over 100 top flight appearances under his belt.
Four months at Aberdeen would be ideal for the player’s development, and would perhaps arrest Aberdeen’s slide this season.
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Anyone ever had a close look at Break Even rules?
It’s a bit of a minefield and even when clubs are in breach a licence can be granted on certain conditions.
Until someone with a bit of an accountancy background sits down with the Accounts of TRFC and picks out what meets the UEFA definition of income and expenditure then applies the rules to it then whether a licence will be issued or not is guesswork.
I dont want to be a doubting Thomas here just pointing out we should not get ahead of ourselves.
In looking for who does the actual assessment (I had assumed it would be the SFA or UEFA) it looks like the pattern is the same for the rules in general which is self assessment and self certification. Aye you can see where I’m going here.
The process for issuing a licence for this year is currently underway with returns from clubs to be given to SFA by 31st March so at some point in April it will be know if the break even requirement is met according to what is submitted to the SFA and how they satisfy themselves that there is no breach.
A process that this year should be transparent to allay any fears of skullduggery.
fav uncle
I think we wore it pre Stein in a barren period, a modern version complete with the Shamrock would be a big seller.
Morning all
Start work at 11.30 today so surprised to wake up to a new article. Like Colonel Hall with Bilko my thoughts of Paul67 are ‘what is he up to?’
I also wonder what he knows re Ryan C and wonder also whether the lad has much of a future with us. Like Scott Allan and Liam Henderson he has never had a proper run in the team so it is hard to form an opinion though in the last year I have been more impressed with what I have seen of him than GMS or indeed Allan. But he has not battered at the door and demanded unclusion with his displays. I would like him to do well and if it takes a run in another team so be it – it did Calum McGregor no harm after all and a fellow called Beckham did okay after he got loaned out by Man U.
Anyway good luck to Ryan.
Have a good day
Jimbo67
Question, if in an ideal first team squad, there are two players vying for each position and that we currently have a fair bit more than that in midfield, wide and central, who would you keep and who would you try to move on?
On the assumption that Scott Sinclair, James Forrest, Tom Rogic, Scott Brown and Stuart Armstrong are going nowhere, that Eboue is good enough to challenge for a first team spot and that we have Roberts, GMS, McGregor, Henderson and Biton on the books as well as the guys out on loan (Ajer and Allan) – where does Christie fit in?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 24TH JANUARY 2017 9:56 AM
correct,put me down for one.if i ever own a horse that will be the colours.
AULDHEID
Its the lack of mention, or dubiety about qualifying that is prevalent.
The ‘eleven players assaulted’ at the Cup final was a knee jerk reaction tinged with
anger that the ‘Euro money’ went AWOL that day.
A bit like them the same club myth, it doesn’t get aired, and the sooner they qualify for
three Europa qualifiers the better, in a way.
There’s an accountant in Nyon thinks they are brand new.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 24TH JANUARY 2017 9:44 AM
Thanks maaaaaaate :-). You too!!!
If the source of loans do not need to be declared, as it sevco is not a plc, these loans can be from anywhere or anyone, no, including a sympathetic governing body.
LMCBHOY @ 9:42…
Re the 26 domestic unbeaten run.
We drew with Aberdeen 1-1 at Pittodrie on Christma Eve 1966 before losing the following week at Tannadice.
However, during that period (August to December 1966) we also beat Rangers (IL), Queens Park and Partick Thistle (all by 4-0) to win the Glasgow Cup (which is of course historically counted as one of our 6
trophies during that unforgettable season).
It could therefore be reasonably argued that the 1966/67 unbeaten run was 29 games. The team line up for each of those Glasgow Cup games was essentially our first choice eleven.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE and FAVOURITE UNCLE…
I think the last time we wore the Shamrock Strip was in the Scottish Cup quarter final tie at home v Kilmarnock in 1965 .
Agree that a modern version would be a big seller.
Good morning from a frosty North Staffs
Congested central mid – why are we interested in Bojan ?
Shame about the two dogs getting shot, lots grabbing the moral high ground on this one bit of a knee jerk reaction if you ask me.
First things first, anyone who has a dog must teach it discipline and obedience if your the master the dog will know that IF you’ve done your mastering dog skills, dogs are animals and have to be taught obedience right from being a pup, seems to me that wasent done in this case, and it’s not the farmer or the dog to blame here.
It’s the farmers property and being that we are nearing the lambing season I’m afraid I’m afraid he’s only looking after his business.
Putting a couple of Bullets Up they’r arse does seem a bit harsh imo, maybe a couple over they’r head would have been enough to scare them off? Maybe he did that? Who knows? Bottom line is the dogs shouldn’t have been there, harsh as I’m sure it sounds that’s what the law will say.
It’s a lesson for other dog owners, keep your dog on a leash at all times, unless of course it’s in a dog park, it could have been avoided, but it’s still sad.
TONYDONNELLY67 on 24TH JANUARY 2017 10:26 AM
Hi , Tony.
Happy New Year to you.
A judgement based on facts , not assumptions is always the way to go.
Mind you , a fellow Tim and his family have just lost family friends.
Not moral high ground , pal.
Just sympathy.
Talking of good strips, does anybody remember in the late 60’s when we had an away strip which was vertical candy stripes of green on a white shirt, gold socks too if memory serves me well. Great strip and happy days indeeed.
A wee bit worried about the St Johnstone game, bad feeling, hope I’m wrong.
KINGLuBO
JIMPAYNE
“Bilko’s Lucky Day” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Thanks for reminding me,I’ll look out my DVD set when I get home.
COWIEBHOY
Horrible news mate!
Take care.
2nd and 3rd in league and Scottish cup winners
get EUROPA league slot.
(Unfortunately Runners up don’t So no Cup Runners up cup anymore)
Previously Scottish cup winners entered 1 rd later(Hibs this year)
Bert Kassie site suggested that all enter at same stage
now. So guessing Hearts Sevco and Sheep doesn’t matter if they come 2nd 3rd or 4th
will all got in EUROPA at same stage either with 4 rounds to negotiate.
25 Scotland 17.300
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CL= (ch/Q2)
CW= (eu/Q1)
EL2= (eu/Q1)
EL3= (eu/Q1)
Kinglubo
No memory of that strip at all. I mind an all white strip with thin green hoops on the collar and cuffs and also plain green tops in my younger days of the late 60s but not that one. Sounds good though
Jimbo68
TONY
I could sympathise with the farmer if those two dogs had been worrying his sheep.
It sounds quite likely that he’s just a trigger-happy prick,hit first and justify later.
The law is likely to be on the side of Cowiebhoy as TWISTSNTURNS explained earlier. If Farmer Palmer is a mason,bets are off. Police in that area have a history of issuing gun-licences to unbalanced trigger-happy “brothers”
KINGLUBO
You can’t be worried we are going to take 6 off them?
Shoorly nut!
:-)
BMCUW
The teachers in question would not have had a clue about Celtic strips.
After attending St Brides and St Keneths in EK, I was still at primary school when my folks uprooted north to the Highlands, and it was the strip there that I was talking about.
Funny, I can remember after being in my new school for about three weeks ( I wasn’t enjoying it and initially adapted poorly to the school which to my “new town” eyes was like something out of the dark ages very old fashioned) coming home to ma Maw greeting that there wuz “Proddies” in ma school. Lol.
I think there was a school role of only about 80 pupils, and there were four or five of us used to get taxied, to the local chapel on a Thursday after lunch, for some religious instruction from Fr Keith instead of spending the afternoon in school.
Funnily enough although very few Kafflicks at the school, everybody supported Celtic.
Glory hunters I guess.
I carried some celebrity status as I had actually Seen Celtic.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 24TH JANUARY 2017 9:38 AM
Loved this bit of kit
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Our local priest (bit of a nutter and a big wind-up merchant) got permission rom Mr McGrory for my oldest brother’s 5-a-side team in Rothesay to use this strip. This would be circa 1962/3 I think. Every time they took to the pitch a near riot broke out and against the local farmers’ team a real riot took place. He loved every minute of wearing that strip and the commotion and emotion it caused. 5-a-side football used to attract huge crowds in the Pavillion during the winter as not much else to do in the winter on the island. Probably still my favourite Celtic strip. I thought of buying the Toffs version, but the shamrock isn’t quite right compared to the original (if memory serves me well).
Aff Oot for a walk.
Back in forty minutes or so, if I don’t get blown away.
HH
TD @ 10:26
Unbelieveable. I mentioned earlier about trigger-happy farmers and their pseudo concern about the lambing season. H & H did not deserve to end their days this way. The blame lies entirely on the thug who pulled the trigger multiple times. End of.
SCANIEL/GORDON
Thanks for that.
I believe the Celtic FC crest is a four leaf clover?, as opposed to the old Shamrock depicted on the strip.
Regardless its an all time favourite.
Clever move by Brendan if he sends Christie to Aberdeen on loan.
Hopefully he will do similar with other fringe squad players.
Why?
Because this is going to be one helluva frenzied close season.
Reading the article about the Scotland v England game coming in late June, less than two weeks after the Cup Final, which we will hopefully contest.
This is followed by the Euro qualifiers.
If Ryan and one or two more, have been out on loan, they will have had half a season of first team games behind them, therefore would be ready to step in for the early Euro rounds.
This will give our International players some respite.
After the qualifiers, there is still time in the transfer window to move on fringe players who will then be surplus to requirements.
BMCUWP @ 10.50
Still my favourite all time show. ‘It’s For The Birds’ or ‘Doberman the Crooner’ may be my favourite episodes but very few episodes are less than gems.
Jimbo67
Hunderbirds are Gone
In the highlands I think people with a jacobite history are more likely to be Tims.
TONYDONNELLY67 on 24TH JANUARY 2017 10:26 AM
Hi , Tony.
Happy New Year to you.
A judgement based on facts , not assumptions is always the way to go.
Mind you , a fellow Tim and his family have just lost family friends.
Not moral high ground , pal.
Just sympathy.
Not the immediate family of the dogs of course they are distraught, I’m talking about the others on here, I did say it was sad by the way, but! Lessons can be learned by other dog owners, you have parks to let dogs run about, it’s a shame this happened, but reality can be very harsh most times, it’s only my opinion, and no harm was meant only that lessons can be learned for the future for dogs and owners, it can only save other dogs if people learn from this, and that can’t be a bad thing.
Cowiebhoy
Just read your post mate, and replies.
Sorry to here about H&H. As usual a farmer has acted within the law as he perceives it but most likely outside the law (as is the case in most cases) if only the officers took the time to investigate and not just take the word of Giles the bastard that saw an opportunity to shoot a moving target for fun. Farmers in the main are a bunch of fecking reprobates. I’ve never met a poor one yet who doesn’t plead poverty and I had a few in my family while married to my x. All muppets at source. And they would all have happily taken the opportunity to shoot any dog on their land no matter the time of year. As you can guess I didn’t really get on with them. mass farming destructive twats the lot of them.
I have time for the small holding farmers who put a gut and shift in to make a living but not the knobs who consistently put the small holding farmers out of business and steal their wee bits of land at song in the process.
MWD
SCANIEL on 24TH JANUARY 2017 11:12 AM
TD @ 10:26
Unbelieveable. I mentioned earlier about trigger-happy farmers and their pseudo concern about the lambing season. H & H did not deserve to end their days this way. The blame lies entirely on the thug who pulled the trigger multiple times. End of.
I did say in my post it was harsh treatment for the dogs, police seem to think differently? And if you and if you’ve seen many of my posts on what I think of cops, then you’ll know I’m not siding with them, and never will, thing is they have the clout unfortunately, my sympathy for the owner and the rest of his family goes without saying, it’s very sad indeed.
SCANIEL on 24TH JANUARY 2017 11:12 AM
Whilst I would sympathise with anyone who has lost pet dogs in this way, and generally am reluctant to take the side of farmers, I think you’re being a bit unfair to TD67.
I doubt a farmer would have shot the dogs unless they were worrying livestock (which would cause them to abort, apart from anything else) which dogs will do instinctively if they are not being controlled. And I doubt the farmer would then have reported the matter to the police (which he appears to have done) if he had acted inappropriately.
As for the assumption that the dogs were shot multiple times, I think that’s unlikely. I’d suggest the farmer would have used a shotgun, not a rifle, and that might be where the idea of multiple shots has come from.
As for involving the RSPCA, assuming this happened in Scotland, it should be the SSPCA.
TONYDONNELLY67 on 24TH JANUARY 2017 11:34 AM
Can`t argue with that , mate.
BAMBOO
In my neck of the woods organised religion of any description plays a small part in people’s everyday lives. It is completely different from, and if I may say, better than, the spotlight that is shone on church and denominational matters in the central belt.
To the west and north, including the Islands, there are pockets of more…… eh….. staunch beliefs, along with pockets of devout Catholicism, but generally in the Highlands I think religion plays a lesser role in people’s lives. Tolerance of other faiths is the norm now……..
…….In my opinion
HH
Probably in a minority of one but….
I think the ‘reverse hibs’ shamrock strip is awful.
Although since one poster never saw us win when wearing that strip I’d just say my very first Scottish Cup game was the 1965 Q Final against Kilmarnock at Celtic Park when we beat the soon to be Champions 3-2!
HH
ERNIELYNCH
Dogs will only act instinctively if they are not trained. I doubt COWIEBHOY’s two wee pet spaniels would behave like that.
Just glad my wee sis has a dachshund. Need to be a good shot to hit that little bugger.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 24TH JANUARY 2017 12:07 PM
ERNIELYNCH
Dogs will only act instinctively if they are not trained. I doubt COWIEBHOY’s two wee pet spaniels would behave like that.
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Dogs will revert to their natural state fairly quickly in the right circumstances, particularly if there is more than one of them.
All they need to have been doing, to cause concern to the farmer, is chasing livestock. They don’t need to have been savaging it.
It’s very sad, and all too easy to side with the pet owner, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the farmer was at fault.
The lesson for dog owners is to make absolutely certain that your pets are kept under control.
Wonder what he means being compared to his father, WUT like being a DOB?
http://videocelts.com/2017/01/blogs/latest-news/dallas-in-charge-of-celtic-v-st-johnstone/