With Logan Bailly out injured, Celtic are down to two keepers, Craig Gordon (33) and Leo Fasan (22). That’s insufficient for the months ahead, which will see the club play eight European games, the visit of our perennial league rivals, Aberdeen later this month, as well as seeing the League Cup come to a conclusion.
So the reasoning behind Dorus de Vries (35) pitching up for a medial at Ross Hall this morning is clear. What remains to be seen, is whether Brendan Rodgers reckons the Dutchman, whom he won promotion with at Swansea, is a safer pair of hands than Craig Gordon.
de Vries won Notting Forest supporters’ Player of the Year last season, a significant accolade for a keeper, so Stevie Woods can look forward to working with a genuine contender for first choice.
As we witnessed even against an outclassed Motherwell on Wednesday, defending corner kicks remains a problem for Celtic, which will again cost us dearly in Europe if the issue is not resolved. How Dorus matches up in this area may well determine who gets the nod.
A word on Darnell Fisher. He has the talent to perform more than adequately for Alan Stubbs at Rotherham, but he was judged not to have sufficient enthusiasm for getting back to do his day job, after venturing forward to assist attacks, which finished him at Celtic.
In this respect he didn’t fit the Ronny model, but the next generation of young full backs have come through having learned a lesson.
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SunnyJim…yes , I’ve got a cake ready for him with 67 candles (67? he must be a tim)…
But, considering I don’t know him and he doesn’t know me, I don’t expect him to turn up, so, I’ll just have to eat it myself, candles and all…
Amore;
Sorry about the delay in replying.
O’Briens bar is in Roches street, Limerick. Right in the city centre. Thomond Park is an Irish mile away, but a pleasant walk, over the Shannon.
The Limerickmen ballad group will be there tonight and tomorrow night.
Neustadt-Braw…how are you this evening sir?…hope it’s not as wet and windy where you are…
Phil’s up …
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/all-part-of-the-grand-plan/
Was reading some posts about Skibereen.
Should you find yourself there, take a look at the Famine Museum. It has some amazing artifacts and tons of information on this man made disaster.
About a mile from the museum on the road west out of town, adjacent to the river, is the local graveyard.
There is a famine plot in it, roughly a third the size of a football pitch.
Buried here are the remains of almost 12,000 men,women and children.
It is one of the most poignant places in Ireland. Go there in the evening and feel the sorrow in your very bones.
Hun on radio suggesting we are going down the same road as them re the finances…
the sums don’t add up…
I blame the weather…
Amore;
Sorry sbout the delay in replying. O’Briens is right in the city centre. Thomond Park is an Irish mile away, but a pleasant walk, over the Shannon.
The Limerickmen ballad group will be there tonight and tomorrow night.
The sums don’t add up.
Last year t/o £56m.
Let’s say we do same in cups and Europa.
+ 10000 new season books £4m
+ hospitality sold out £4m
+ 5000 average game attendance x £20 x £20 games £2m
+ the new sponsorship deals worth £4m more per season
+ international cup games £5m
+ transfer sell ons £2m so far.
£21m up.
He is right. We won’t see out October.
Champions league maybe £20m
+
Evening to your good self….its been grey but it is clearing nicely…..
It is Kirmes time here in Hessen….and all over ….great excuse for the whole village to get drunk at one time ….a braw idea….the one I live in has even got sponsors….so free beer on the last Sunday…..Germans can organize piss ups….and in such a way that Granny’s and kids are the centre…braw folks….
Good few know the Celtic….and I am working on the rest…hahaha
Have a pleasant evening where ever you are …
Braw..
SAINT STIVS SAYS SACK THE BOARD
Imagine a sticky suggesting the sums don’t add up, they haven’t even got the shirts on their hump backs:))
Sunnyjim
Lol no not the bachelors song, israels nuclear facility.it was omitted in your analysis.
HH
Hahahahahahahahahajahahahahah
Hahahahahahahahahajahahahahah
Hun on claiming he can count.
NATKNOW
I think collusion is exactly what they would have to prove.
Cue some smarter lawyer type coming along to piss on my chips…even though I’m having potato salad…
A wee roach slime bet on the Dundee pehs….. Mc cay seventy and quarter gills …..hoopy days …
Put a shine on Oor Wullie’s bucket fat bobs all roond !!!!!
Brrrrrrr its freezing ……time for anither …”blankety”
Smiley VIZ thing ….
Braw .
MIKE IN TORONTO
Been out all afternoon and early evening (CP Daylight Saving timings) and so apologise for late response. Absolutely no need to explain/ apologise for not signing off on previous (yesterday’s) post.
As my faulty memory remembers it, the Bunnet used internal SFA mechanisms to pursue Farry the Liar but not sure.
I was under the impression that a member club is prohibited by SFA rules from suing it. More’s the pity. Since a few Judicial Reviews would unearth SFA chicanery methinks. I, too, wish that our Board would be more proactive in defending our interests so our views are not too far apart. HH and Good Mid Afternoon (Toronto DT).
Neustadt-Braw…
the village that gets drunk together gets….er….very drunk…
together…chevere!
Re the hard of thinking zombies on Celtic expenditure. If Celtic qualify for CL then they will have highest revenue year ever. Ergo, gamble on quality additions is in Celtic’s best interests. Maintaining that next season with same/similar squad expenditure as this year would mean that the gap between Celtic and the rest would never, ever, be bridged and would put Celtic back “on the map”.
That’s what every single one us has been asking for for years. The majority of has griped about lack of ambition (me included).
Now we have played our hand to get where we need to be.
And there are individuals wanting to wave a flag?
St Stivs
You fourgoat about the Vatican & State Aid funds secreted in from the tunnels from GCU and the Pope. That’s an extra ‘as much as we need’.
MWD
GCU = GCC
An Tearmann
Yep got that. From my last post.
“Or are ye just fishun?”
“New Clear CSC”
:o)
An awful lot missing in my scribbles.
Don’t start me off or I’ll break the blog again.
The New Clear Amby Gwuiti CSC
Embtamile
Last nights game whivh be’er won 4-2
Any idea of temprature?
Could it be heat was factor on way they play? They end strongly
Mmmmmm
Hafiz Saeed….leader of so called blah blah ..
Off Hisheed…leader of so called…blah blah blah …
Strange wee world …
Braw .
Evening all … just caught up ..
BOURNESOUPRECIPE The great maggot escape 87 …
If I may…
The wife and I had a 3 days booked at Thoresby hall a warners hotel for grown ups only in Nottingham. Lovely place for relaxing , splendid room four poster and all . There is a large estate lake in the grounds which you are allowed to fish . Rods were packed and on the first day I purchased a pint of maggots from a local tackle shop , to be used the next day.
Well the thing was were do you keep maggots when there is no fridge available ? In the bath 4inches of cold water ,lid on the bait box . Problem solved . Time For evening meal dearest lets go, lovely grub and a few beers later, time for sleep. Well 1ish in the morning need to go to the loo……
Yep they were everywhere…… hundreds and hundreds of mixed maggots
Wriggling their way to freedom . I done the best I could ( not easy after a few jars ) needless to say a lot less than a pint of maggots got drowned that fishing session .
All I can say is I hope the next few guests in that room liked flies it must have been hoaching with them when the maggots /castors hatched arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg. I hate flies.
Roach slime ……..I’ll raise you …….bream slime
Sorry for the long rambling non football post
Lol. Sunnyjim
Nowt ambigious at all.
Oh look theres a nuclear facility.
How did that happen?
Ok ok its not there.
Sssh der der
HH
BHOYLO83 on 12TH AUGUST 2016 11:47 AM
I love Tom Rogic
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Proud of ye kid…coming out on the blog,hh :O)
Aye the wizard of oz……will bury the magic hat ….
Braw .
MadraRua: Near Arthur’s Quay?
Enjoy your evenin Celts.if your in limerick your among your own, have a great night.dreich out tonight
Have a good night
HH
An Tearmann
Don’t ask don’t tell apparently.
22 miles from Turner Stadium
Believe it or not trivia…
There’s wee town between there and Beer Sheva called “Nevatim”
I kid you not. Nevatim.
Vanunu CSC
Almore, walk up frm Arthurs quay to O’Connell street. Roches st runs down onto it
App 5 minutes from the quay to the bar.
MATS NILLOC on 12TH AUGUST 2016 3:48 PM
Reading JOHNJAMES blog, he posits why SDM’s involvement keeps getting airbrushed out of the debacle.
The SMSM know that if SDM is ever put under the microscope, the whole Newco crap, criminal tax evasion and stripping of honours willl be front and centre.
The ‘lamb-eating’ mafia will do their utmost to keep Murray out of harm’s way.
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Once you watch, Celtic The Asterix Years you will well understand how and why murray is being protected.
Educate yourself, take 30 mins out your life and watch it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2qtsPng5U
Well worth it. I learned that we were in a better financial position than the huns when BOS tried to liquidate us. Coincidentally just before rankers were financially doped. Co-incidence?
AN TEARMANN on 12TH AUGUST 2016 8:24 PM
Last nights game whivh be’er won 4-2
Any idea of temperature?
Around 26/27 C in Haifa best I can find. Will be about 10 degrees cooler in Glasgow on Wednesday and forecast at low/mid 20s during game in 2nd leg.
Clunks
I knew most of the stuff that was on the Asterisk Years, but the bit about being in good financial health was a new one on me.
We were blessed right enough that we didn’t go down, they bastards have a lot to answer for.
HH
MadraRua: GRMA
Evening bhoys, my lhad has just taken off from Heathrow, heading to Hanoi, so I will be an anxious Dad until tea time tomorrow when he gets there via Kuala Lumpur.
My point is , will he have somewhere in Hanoi or anywhere in Vietnam where he can catch up with the Hoop? Any info appreciated.
HH
THE EXILED TIM on 12TH AUGUST 2016 8:59 PM
Running from memory here,
Let me run the vid and I will bookmark the spot!
The action came to light at the Court of Session where Mr Ashley’s legal team succeeded in a bid to get Rangers to disclose documents to them.
The action came to light……is this a free mason wondrous bonfire thing…..
Fecking tossers….still blue on blue ….hoopy days …..Dundee at four to wan……hoopy hoopy days …
Braw
Total arse hole of a ticket collector on Glasgow to motherwell train, black brother wearing hoops tried to pay with card which was declined, the bam proceeds to call cops etc, I gave the guy my spare ticket which the c**t sneared at and rejected he was loving it big time, on top of that the guy in the hoops was feeding his 6 month old baby
Mrs even said he was a bigoted dirty orange B