Neil Lennon’s comments that he will need to sell at Bolton Wanderers before making a bid for Kris Commons, or anyone else, are welcome. Celtic have four important games in the four weeks after this transfer window closes: home and away to Inter Milan, Aberdeen in the league, and a League Cup semi-final against newco Rangers. Commons will be vital for some, if not all of these games.
Inter will play on the front foot and Aberdeen have the players to take the game to us, as they did in the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park last season, but I expect newco to defend their 18 yard line in numbers, a bit like Ross County did last week, a scenario which will require someone with Commons’ craft.
Neil Warnock’s sacking at Crystal Palace was good news, as he wanted Commons, had money to spend and could offer the allure of top-flight football. Neil Lennon would be able to offer Commons familiarity, but with Bolton spending a total of £300k in the summer, their chances of being able to afford a bid for Commons that would raise Celtic’s interest are limited.
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Back to Basics
I am very happy generally in my personal life
But Celtics efforts on and off the pitch leave me a bit underwhelmed at the moment
But who knows what the next few months could bring…..
MARTYMAC
I think you are correct to think that few teams would want our deadwood.
Not do we.
It might cost a few bob,put offer to pay them,say,50% of their outstanding contract and tell them to GTF. Get their agent on the case for a new club.
After all,they contribute nothing and there must be the occasional club as daft as us.
jude
i would be more embarassed if he was saying we would win by 15points.
Turkeybhoy
12:56 on 4 January, 2015
This board,who I disagree with on so many issues,have negotiated my club through the worst of financial hardships.In a climate that clubs,so much more wealthier than mines,have found impossible to compete in without being burdened by insurmountable debt.For this reason alone,they have my gratitude.
You and your clique of “Wolfie Smith revolutionaries”would take our club down because of some purported slight to your Celticness,by not issuing some meaningless statement regarding the demise of the Huns.For not taking up a gauntlet that to be honest,is just a salve for your sense of outrage.The liquidated club,that no one seems to care about any longer is still calling the shots to you and your like.
Boards come and go,as do fans.The only constant is Celtic,who I have loved since I realised what unconditional love was all about.Nothing will deter my joy at following them.
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Have had disagreements with you on team matters a few times but that’s very well said, mate HH.
And this ‘The liquidated club,that no one seems to care about any longer is still calling the shots to you and your like’ is spot-on: knee-jerk retalition to deliberately provocative bollocks is something we nee dto rise above; Hun tactics looking for Hunnish responses.
depressing reading this morning…can’t wait until 5pm and we are third in the table….
Cowiebhoy yes I had missed that :)
Turkeybhoy I think it’s one thing to recognise there was an economic old firm which ensured that the clubs monopolised TV money etc etc. however distasteful that it in sport I recognise it. But it’s quiet another to say that celtic where happy to be cheated and participate in rigged games.
But perhaps you are right. But now that mask has slipped and you can’t go back. The genie is out of the bottle and won’t go in. So faced with the stark truth do we prop up it all up as the abused wife in the relationship??
Is that what you want?
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
13:44 on
4 January, 2015
I kinda cringed when I watched R D dance about the Dons pitch as if he’d won summitt., Now he’s telling us this might go to the wire. Im cringing with emmbarrassment now!!!
Were you ever on the stage?.Only asking because those of such a delicate nature usually were,or are.Oh the sheer pathos of this post has brought a tear to my “Drama Queen eyes.
Forsooth.
I’d like to address something that was angled at me and my opinion on the matter: SEVCO
Like many … probably most if not all of you… I too from a child growing up edured religious sectarian hatred towards me in Scotland.
A celtic top acted as a beacon for those intolerant idiots to spew their bile and occasional beating to me growing up in the 70s and 80s.
At work …. being acknowledged as the taig, fenian b or bead rattling b lasted till I became a boss.
Until my 30s I hated them for it….till I realised how consuming it had become.
I realised that you are not born with hatred… it’s taught…
I feel sorry for some …. and pity most….
And you know what ?….. they hate that….. it eats them up that that’s well…… How they are .
So……..
SEVCO…
Why would OUR board keep contesting the lie?… letting it consume them…
We pity them now…… and you know what?….. they hate our pity.
As their club plummeted to its death….
Their fans stood back and watched…. watched hoping that a Minty would suddenly open the imaginary cheque book again…. to sign a Laudrup…stevens…gascoigne …..
To bring back the glory days when looking down st them… despising those kafflics was justified in the arms of sport.
It never happened
Then came a Motherwell born billionaire ….and the fun really began.
They were liquidated… and died.
You know it…… I know it ….. world football knows it….. everyone knows it…. even the Sevconians know it….. but won’t admit it.
Why?
The most successful club in Scotland.
6 words that means so so so much in their lives……
6 words that could be contested by a Champions of Europe title….
Ah!!!! But we wan the cup winners cup?
The what?????? What’s that cup again? OH ITS DEFUNCT(like their club …but sssssshh)
Let me dissect that…. er… cup winners cup
The cup delivered in the changing room baths as their fans rioted.
How can you be cup winner cup winners….. when the famous Glasgow celtic won’t the cup that previous season with the title?
So it was the cup runners up playing for the winners cup.
You see a pattern here?
The SFA NEED the lie of the same club to happen…
If it didn’t …. well…. sevconians would turn their back on a shiny club with two diddy title’s…..
They need the drug of most successful club in Scotland to ram in timmys face…
BUT really are they….
We know the truth ….. every club in Scotland throws it now in their face.
We will easily overtake that self proclaimed title shortly…. with a Champions of Europe cherry on top ….. and it will kill them watching it ….
They are in a horrific state…..
Nobody knows who owns what…. the deeds!!!! A broon said.
Ashley gets £9·25 in every £10 spent on merchandise…
They will and forever more be fleeced …. this makes them even more uncompetative they already are…
And as you know… No European revenue results in massive losses…. unless
Unless you cut your cloth accordingly….
THAT CUT CLOTH WILL ensure SEVCO and its fans will always self destruct.
And imagine when we reach their title milestone for all its worth.
We own our own 1st class training facilities.
And Celtic park… the transformation in around the stadium was like a Phoenix rising….
Rising like the shadow of Stein holding that European cup the WE see at the entrance….
It’s a cold shadow for a Sevco fan…. always has been…. and always will be….
Pity them
This ” Celtic seething with Killie” stuff seems to come from the daily record.
Chances are It’s a load of Lillian Gish.
Hail Hail.
saint stivs,
Most of my Port family are now unfortunately at the top of Heggies Avenue. Your grandparents Mamie and Paddy ( I think) were mentioned frequently in my Nana and Granda’s house. I think Mamie and my Nana, Nellie English were probably good friends before your folks went stateside.
I was in the Port in July and went up to the cemetery to pay my respects and have a few words. My Granda, Davie was in many ways responsible for instilling Celtic into my life.
AR
TURKEYBHOY
Nae offence,bud. But lecturing me on a grasp of basic English would have been more relevant were it not for your errors in spelling,punctuation and grammar.
No such thing as a red pen in cyberspace,sadly. You’ll have to work it out for yourself.
Like the constipated mathematician and his pencil.
greenpinata
13:38 on 4 January, 2015
“It may be uncomfortable for our custodians to speak out, but speak out they must.”
I could not agree with you more …… there comes a time when the custodians of a Football Club have to confirm ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’, if they really are custodians….. the conspiracy to resurrect the zombies is now very obvious and 10+ years of criminal corruption is in danger of disappearing ‘under the carpet’ …….. A complete and utter disgrace, which will permanently damage the reputation of Scottish Football ….
Bankiebhoy
Prestadigitation
pauloantony. A good post fella which I enjoyed reading. H.H.
Thanks Joe…. I just feel that some are too focussed on them and hating our board for lack of some sort of action ???
Pity them …. it’s eats them up inside .
29 days 8 hours 57 minutes left, c’mon Celtic get the finger oot
Pauloantony while I understamd your viewpoint aren’t we supposed to be watching a sport? A fair competition. I don’t care about the Huns I care about celtic. But if celtic continue to allow its support to be subject to cheating and sectarianism then we need regime change.
Pauloantony
Very very good :-)
Still no happy with our squad/signing strategy though
Hail Hail
Bankiebhoy.
Kd lang!, very funny bud.
Turkey: If i was you i’d throw a lot more water in your Raki before gulping it down as quick.
Opinions are what the blogs all about btw.
This thing about the artifical pitch ,anything to put the boot into our club,but thats what we get when the club ,just sit back and give them a free hand,and thats what annoys me ,celtic dont want to upset the apple cart
the spirit of arthur lee
11:59 on 4 January, 2015!!Bada Bing!!He has forgot the pin numberLove
made me laugh old bhoy
Ronny Deila said he wouldn’t care if the league went to the wire as long as we win it. Some folk choose to read that he said the league will go to the wire.
I thought Aberdeen had already beaten Motherwell! Turns out the game hasn’t been played yet. Every Aberdeen game is worth 6 points for a win and 3 points for a draw.
Paulantony
I like that post
well said
Cowieboy….
Why buy a Ferrari to race against minis….
I’d like to develop young talent….
Ronny fits that Bill … the talent in our pipeline is of a very very very high standard .
From what i was told last night,the only way any new players are coming in,is if players go out.
antipodean red
13:53 on
4 January, 2015
saint stivs,
small world indeed fella. i think i know who davie and nellie are.
paddy was my granda wuddie’s brother, thats who lived in higholm, street.
paddy was a much loved great uncle, our trips to the football when he was home gave me a broader viewpoint on life in general, great man.
if your ever back again gies a shout and will buy you a beer.
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
13:44 on 4 January, 2015
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Showed abit of passion. Great to see if you ask me.
Love to see it in players or managers.. best ever was when o’neill put his arm round lenny at ibrox.
Ronnie enjoyed that win. . The msm didnt. Happy days
exslaemuirbhoy
Hope you’re no still saying that with 57 minutes left
new article posted.
PAULOANTONY
No getting through to you that there are a lot of Celtic supporters with genuine reasons for dissatisfaction?
I don’t have a problem with those who think that everything is the best in this best of all possible worlds-you should have to listen to my Dad when he starts on his ‘back in the day’-but it does not alter the fact that there are genuine reasons for concern.
Until that is understood,and acted upon,Celtic support will be divided.
Rangers went bust,their troops united.
Rangers went bust and we splintered.
It’s f…..g heartbreaking that they seem to be coming out of LIQUIDATION,let’s remember,more unified than us.
We have not built on a golden chance. Whoever was in charge of that failure to do so should be held responsible.
Pauloantony
That would be an absolute ideal strategy, which I would be 100% behind, have our own coming through
Now (not a but this time)
At a recent night in Greenock, Wullie McStay stated, we / as in Celtic, have nothing coming through our Youths, I certainly hope he wrong,
The context also needs explaining, in youths not being challenged at higher level with no reserve league etc, and some need to going out on loan to compete at higher level and gain experience
But
He is much closer to the set up than me, so can only listen to what he is saying
And that does alarm me
Hail Hail, and off Oot for a wee while :-)
PFayr:
What’s this I’ve been hearing?
The Boxer
They are F@$&@d and no unity will EVER change that
Sevco are the great fraud and lie in Scottish football ..it’s very difficult to avoid discussing them
I love watching them get stuffed ….beyond that they can GTF as far as I’m concerned
However my greatest concern is the governance of the game in Scotland …unfortunately Sevco are inextricably linked with this
Hahahahahahaha ….!!
https://twitter.com/jmoore68/status/551720533386350592
Pfayr
Enjoyed you and the guys company last night. Thats about a dozen cqn’rs I’ve met up with. I’ll catch yous at cqn corner soon and maybe get a pint after the game.
hh
….pfayr supports weeoscar
14:16 on 4 January, 2015
Absolutely spot on …..!!