I’m pleased to read Ronny Deila ask for patience with Nadir Ciftci, the player needs a bit of support right now. Had Nadir knocked a goal or two in against our Icelandic opponents, Stjarnan, he would have been in a different zone at the moment, but he missed a few chances – not uncommon among players newly arrived at a club, and has since found opportunities limited by a domestic suspension.
Dundee United started training after Celtic, so Nadir was behind the curve during those games against Stjarnan. Without a full 90 minutes in a month, he will still have ground to make up when we resume after the international break, but he’ll hopefully feel the benefit of the work he’s put in on the training field in recent weeks.
Remember the Jock Stein Charity Match, which takes place at East End Park, Dunfermline on Sunday, kick-off 2pm. There’s a host of former players are playing, including Tom Boyd, Chris Sutton, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Neil Lennon and Stiliyan Petrov, while several from the Hollywood set are also playing, including James McAvoy, Martin Compston and Gianni Capaldi.
Funds from the event go to the Celtic and Dunfermline Foundations. You can pay at the gate to mark the 30th anniversary of Jock’s passing. There’s going to be a lot of memories on that field.
Three years after football fans in Scotland became experts in insolvency law, we now have to become familiar with Serious Organised Crime (I had to look up what it was today). The Scottish Government suggest it involves “drugs, human trafficking and fraud”.
Fraud is one of the small number of crimes where a life imprisonment sentence can be imposed on someone convicted of the crime in Scotland (it carries a maximum of 10 years in England). Even if you were 100% innocent of all charges and the possibility of contamination from dubious characters, the sheer scale of the matters in hand would be an enormous worry.
My hunch is that conspiracies and criminal plans to subvert information are difficult to maintain under the weight of these charges.
I’ve been looking all morning but cannot find what I’m searching for. Does anyone know of an enterprise which operates in the shadow of a Serious Organised Crime investigation which has been able to raise money which didn’t come from the proceeds of Serious Organised Crime?
I’m sure the audit will be just fine.
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“No question Ronny’s blind spot for 4-2-3-1 is hampering us at a higher level”
Ellbhoy,
I’d guess more clubs than not play this system.
Flipping silly mistakes have cost us more than anything else ;)
HH
Apologies eyes closing, night all.
GEORDIE MUNRO on 3RD SEPTEMBER 2015 10:53 PM
“I am on a diet because she is a size 10″
Nbraw,
Does she struggle to get fancy shoes? :)
HH
hahahahahahaha awfy braw …
braw
no player close to browns wages 32k p/w.
malmo we have better players they have a better team,and we were outcoached.
Email sent …
CRC, Bundoran
Can I order Doc’s badge design – and the runner up too !
Will pass on the cuff links as they probably won’t work any better than your image links :-)
Great cause
EmbraMike
SFTB
Re: wages
I see 5 signings in and 2 loanees ( 1 in and out, Christie)
On the Out front
10 sold/free transfer
7 loaned out
1 released
Still not getting this biggest spend in 14 years.
HH
CRC
Night all.
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Hebcelt
If anyone believes that we spent £5.5m on a transfer fee, please get them to message me with their bank account number and PIN.
The fear I have is that we now have a forward line that is no better than Aberdeen’s and that Ronny has now got to earn his corn. He needs to develop a cohesive, sparkling, defensively sound, attacking and winning unit with a young side that on paper has so many questions against it, it resembles a higher maths exam.
He might not just need to be an excellent coach – jury still out on that but he is the right type of coach – but also a miracle worker.
Biggest individual spend on one player.
Since BBJ.
Night y’all.
good night all …..
Sean Murphy ………hahahahahahahahahahaha
braw
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES
“I think we have some players on wages near Broonie’s- I’d suspect Commons and Johansen at least with VVD, Bitton and Gordon in a bracket just below. How many do we need at near Broony’s level before we have made a difference to the set-up?”
A defender, midfielder & striker so three but in all honesty, I don’t believe we need to offer wages at the level of Scott Brown to attract a better or more experienced standard of player.
Ok, when I said struggle I really meant hammered.
The combination of inexperience & Ronny failing to protect them by continuing to play 4-2-3-1 is the perfect recipe for disaster.
Hopefully I am proved entirely wrong, but I can see the very real possibility of us being embarrassed, away to Ajax, away to Fenerbahce & also at home to Fenerbahce. Molde will obviously prove our best opportunity, but even against them I can see us losing 2 or 3 away from home.
2015 Summer Transfer Window activity
Players signed – 8 (inc 1 loan) – total spend £8m
Players out – 25 – total income £15.5m
Players transferred – 5
Players released – 5
Loans ended – 4
Players out on loan – 11
GEORDIE MUNRO
Many do it’s true but I suspect the successful clubs who play this way have the players that fit the system better. Just an opinion but I think we are lacking in so many departments, to be effective using this system at a higher level.
Night all!
Giggsy at 11:44
The fear I have is that we now have a forward line that is no better than Aberdeen’s and that Ronny has now got to earn his corn
Fortunately the stats do not bear out your position.
We are on a much faster scoring rate than last year, having scored 16 in our first 6 games.
Almost 3 a game. Not a bad scoring rate you would admit.
Aberdeen BTW have scored only 9.
We also outscored them easily last season by 27 goals.
HAMILTONTIM @ 10:38 PM,
“I appreciate in sport anything can happen but in my opinion we’ve not done enough to give us the best chance of getting through.”
A straight forward, articulate, nail~on~the~head post.
Hail Hail
“I’ve been looking all morning but cannot find what I’m searching for. Does anyone know of an enterprise which operates in the shadow of a Serious Organised Crime investigation which has been able to raise money which didn’t come from the proceeds of Serious Organised Crime? ”
Yes Paul.
Banks.
Gifted tax dollars by Govts. Especially circa 2008.
Mags and Paul
Money moves all day in Ireland despite the small effort of the judiciary
The same people who bet and lost all my tax are still living in 2 to 5 mill houses
The people who payed no tax have run away and Ireland don’t bug the Americans
Only Socialist countries distribute wealth
When were Scotland in this position?
Ciftci will score the winner vs Aberdeen or I will throw 50 bucks to any online charity the first ‘told you so’ claims
This site is now completely dysfunctional on an IPad. I have lost count of the “A problem occurred with this webpage, so it was reloaded” messages. The site is slow, freezes, it is impossible to scroll or navigate from page to page without being kicked out and it occurs when I try to log on.
Same issue with different browsers, an IMac, PC and phone.
No other page has this issue.
Anyone else experiencing this? I read it every day, but it is now so frustrating, I’m thinking of giving it the body swerve until the Aberdeen game.
INIQUITOUS IV
The reloading issue has been a problem on my iPad for a few months on various sites. Not so much now with CQN,but it was bad at the switchover.
It’s been suggested that disabling JavaScript helps. It certainly does on my iPhone.
When were you totally happy with the 1st 11?
1982/83
Bonner, Reid, McGrain, McAdam, Aitken, McLeod, McStay, BURNS, Nicholas, McGarvey
And Provan!
CONEYBHOY
Our team in 2001/02 was quite special…
Has any SMSM churnalist had the balls to admit, “if only we had done our job when this fiasco first started, long before anyone had even heard of Craig Whyte….”?
Cost about 300k but could attack, score and defend in Scotland
No tactics in Europe but great value fir money
Out of EC early in 82 and 83
We can do successful or fancy
I like fancy but over the years only 20,000 do
The rest are glory seekers and they post here
MEA CULPA
Not much chance of any of them headlining an article wi your moniker!
BMCUWP
and cost a rights issues and agreed dilution of massive shares
A one off
The dream team cost little and were fans
Reverie……..
CONEYBHOY
Aye,true enough. But that wisnae the question you asked!
To be fair,our teams in the Billy McNeill/Davie Hay days always gave us something to talk about in the pub afterwards.
Rare nowadays.
Ps
My grumpy dad never liked:-
McGarvey(headless chicken)
Nicholas (flash)
Provan(poser)
His latest is Forrest!
CONEYBHOY
Wi the first two,that was their respective strength!
Provan on his day was unplayable.
BMCUWP
You got me!
Correct, I put no limits on my question, sorry
I suppose I had an answer in mind
I was bored in 2003/4 Btw
Best goal ever!
3rd vs Sporting 83
Or
3rd vs St Mirren 86!!!!!
BGX on 3rd September 2015 12:35 pm
That was quite a funny comment BGX.
But i think you miss the point. There is a time when the pen (or the jaw) is mightier than the sword, but indeed their is a time for the sword too.
Surgery requires sharp implements and nerves of steel. It is often better to amputate than to let corruption spread.
BMCUWP
I know, but that is the auld boy
First game was 1-1 ar rugby park in 80
Frank first game, Lennox scored
Great day but we lost the league
My memory was a crap pitch but happy I waw a lion score!
Clashcity,
Great analysis of our playing formation. Still think we should have bought a striker, tho. In our lastgame Virgil moved up to assist the attack, he put in two knock on headers into the box. It caused all sorts of mayhem. Playing two forwards suits the players we have. Unfortunately our coach has looked at formations and has concluded that 4231 is the most difficult to defeat, which it is. However you have to have the players to play it. A striker who can both score and hold the ball up for the attacking midfielders. Do you see such a player on our books?
Ronnie plays 4231 with a pressing game. In Norway, he managed a mid table team. Histeam was hard to beat and his pressing game upset superior teams. At Celtic he is not managing a mid table team, he is at the top team by a country mile. There is no need to play a difficult to beat formation, nor to playa high pressing game. Opponents should be try this against us!
I think, sadly, we have a “textbook” manager who knows the theory but lacks the practice.
If we continue with his system we shall fail against moderate teams in Europe.
Don’t get me wrong…Ronnie has been good for Celtic, behind the scenes. He has modernised the club. Unfortunately, performance on the park falls short.
Rebus
CONEYBHOY
I took my kid sis to her first match in 82/83. She was about ten.
Stood her behind an exit in the middle of the Jungle as we whupped Thistle 5-0,I think.
Anyway,we whupped sumdy.
Point is,she got THE HOOOOOOPS right away,season-ticket holder since she came back up from London 14 years ago.
Doubt she’d be so enamoured if she saw us for the first time these days. Sad,really.
Mind,I could be wrong. LEFTCLICKTIC’s grandson Sean is a mad mental Celtic supporter already!
BMCUWP
Bobby, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll try that.
Iniquitous
BMCUWP
I love hearing about new enthusiasts.
Here is another classic
4-2 vs Huns inI. 83 or 3-0 vs the last time
Mine is the 3-0 cos it was the last
CONEYBHOY
That 4-2 game would have been just as memorable as the other one if Dundee gad done us a turn against Dundee Utd that day-as was rumoured at half-time!
Sadly,not to be.
But they made up for it three years later,so they’re forgiven!