When Dedryck Boyata leaves in the summer there will be a wide variance of views on the player’s time at Celtic, his performances against Newco in particular have not always been up to standard. His nervous display at Hampden three years ago contributed to a poor Scottish Cup performance, but few have achieved as significant a performance improvement as Dedryck.
Whatever the personal issues which kept him out of the Belgium squad last week, it is great news that he is back at Lennoxtown and ready for action.
Kieran Tierney’s continued absence from training is more of a concern, although I’m sure Neil Lennon will not repeat the same mistake as Brendan Rodgers at Ibrox, and move Callum McGregor out of his midfield berth to fill in for Kieran at left back. Jonny Hayes did well against Dundee and would get the nod, if necessary.
While results have been impeccable since the turn of the year, December’s Ibrox performance was a wakeup call. Having control of central mid will make all the difference. That will require Callum McGregor and at least one other with similar ability to move the ball quickly.
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An Tearmann on 27th March 2019 6:28 pm
https://www.katzsdelicatessen.com/
http://pariscafenyc.com/
https://www.siferry.com/
https://www.tenement.org/
who plagerised who ?
Staten Island Ferry or SI Ferry the blogger
Ernie, the tenement story is brilliant. ta for sharing.
cant help but compare what was considered squalor in new york compared to the calton at the same time 1869.
https://www.tenement.org/tour/irish-outsiders/
BIGBHOY i was at game in germany lasy year. picked up kiosk card in stadium (top up). No need to worry about getting change, money changing hands at tills etc… Service was so much quicker cause workers only focus was preparing and delivering orders.
If you have season ticket or go to games regularly just need to top up once or twice a season and your sorted.
60,000 people all paying by card and/ or cash at games is way to slow. There are easy enough solution out there.
Dont see why celtic cannot introduce soft drinks machine with self service (individual or multiple service (refill every 40 minute).
Small details tend to make The biggest difference
Hh
Dont see why celtic cannot introduce soft drinks machine with self service (individual or multiple service (refill every 40 minute).
cos the coke addicts will wreck the place ?
-)))
AT- look at ‘Attraction Ticket ‘ sites,you can but a ticket for 4 sites’ Empire State,Rockefeller Centre etc,and a 2 day hop on hop off bus ticket ,really good saving.HH
Hotel might be a vanity project, if catering was improved, could possibly equal income from a hotel,which would probably be a partnership anyway,Radisson Green……
Ernie
The Deli looks more me than the posh food our expert WDH mentioned, did note its cash only so need to remember that $$
Saint Stivs on 27th March 2019 8:16 pm
When I visited the guide was an archetypal NYC Jewish grandmother (one son was a surgeon, the other an attorney).
She told us the only other similar museum in the world was in Glasgow, which she had visited, and which for some reason she thought was a typical example of a Glasgow slum. I didn’t have the heart to correct her.
https://www.newyorkpass.com/?aid=208&utm_medium=search&utm_source=googleNYP&utm_adcampaigngroup=NYP&matchtype=e&utm_term=new%20york%20attraction%20tickets&utm_creative=321364931266&addisttype=g&KPID=go_cmp-918206384_adg-51729838688_ad-321364931266_kwd-2530906372_dev-m_ext-_prd-&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq-6Q_ZOj4QIV9jLTCh31eg8mEAAYAiAAEgLrrvD_BwE
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BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 27TH MARCH 2019 8:27 PM
Ernie
The Deli looks more me than the posh food our expert WDH mentioned, did note its cash only so need to remember that $$
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corned beef and pastrami looks less appetizing than the celtic park pizza slice
Stephbhoy
These sound like good ideas. I did same at Amsterdam arena. A prepaid card
What about prices? Greggs with High street prices charge £1.00 and Celtic £2.40 for tea McDonalds medium coke £1.11 and Celtic £2.60. Quality is also poor
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on 27th March 2019 8:27 pm
Katz’s has been going since 1888. It’s an institution.
Never a dull moment there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bplugAyxjBw
St Stivs
Yeh but open the link, I’ll not be eating them
OR sitting in that seat Ernie
ERNIE LYNCH on 27TH MARCH 2019 8:06 PM
I visited the Tenement house museum in 2010. Absolutely fascinating.
EXCATH @ 6.24
?
BT,
Not having that
A simple place using
An extraordinary fish
Nose to tail, No waste.
In the hands of a master chef
Delicately, simply with love and perfection
night arbeit bis morgen
sleeping trials
Fav. Uncle: How about we celebrate the Treble Treble by building a fans’ café beside the Superstore?
WDH
I’m a heathan as you know,
RANGERS fan group Club 1872 have failed to overturn a 11am cut-off time for away fans to be inside Celtic Park on Sunday.
Gers supporters who have briefs for the Old Firm game have been warned they must be at the turnstiles an hour before kick-off – or miss the start of the match.
CM @ 7.41 and before
Isn’t London Road closed for all TFOD2.1 games?
My limited understanding is that they have the lower half of Springfield Road as there main access point and they then cross over in front of the indoor arena towards the SE corner?
Not sure if this long standing plan — if I have got it right — was to be changed as there were only going to be 800 of them.
SAINT STIVS so once again we all suffer cause of the few ?
BIGBHOY quicker service and better food tends to go hand in hand. The prices at celtic park are in line with other such events although a drop in prices would be nice.
!!BADA BING!! A hotet, bar, cafe, museum and superstore done well would bring in significant income, it would be put to good use and celtic would benefit greatly.
A indoor fanzone would also bring in good income too.
All of the above would make celtic park a far more people/ fan friendly place to be during match days and non match days.
None of the above are vanity projects. To keep up with the times and to compete with other activity people and families can do on any given day is actually important If you want to see a tomorrow.
I would argue it would be awful to watch massive growth in sports and football tourism and business travel and not get in on the act.
All of these things cost money so balancing the needs of the team and capital investment can be tricky. I would argue we spend the best part of 10 million a season on footballers that offer little to the team with little return. Compete waste of money.
HH
Stephbhoy- i posted the hotel is possibly a vanity project, not the others you listed HH
£36
Hello again all you young rebels.
How are you all ? not read back yet, but hopefully you are all good.
I had a wee trip into the city yesterday which normally takes about
1 hr by train but, no trains on, Melbourne is currently spending
billions on upgrading train services, motorways, tunnels etc, so the
journey took 3 hrs.
Needed an eye procedure done in the hospital there next to St Patricks
cathedral which interestingly had lots of green and white ribbons
attached to the railings all round the building.
Must have been left there from the Paddy’s day celebration, any way it
was a lovely thing for me to see before going under the surgeons knife 8-))
I was in and out very quickly and most of my time was spent answering
questions about Scotland and Ireland, probably my casual with the Celtic
name emblazoned across it gave it away, and i had a laugh when an old lady
who’s family name was Hoy told me her wish was to climb the Old Man of Hoy
in Auld Caledonia before she popped her clogs he he.
So good to live in a Country that loves and respects the Scots and Irish.
Hope i haven’t bored the blog with my pash, maybe i’m still a bit under the
anaesthetic but it has been a bit quiet lately.
Think that will change when our bhoys put the stickies back in their box at
the weekend, can’t wait.
H.H Mick
I’VEHADTOCHANGEMYMIND on 27TH MARCH 2019 9:35 PM
£36
To watch a game in that midden? Do you think they have a licence to show Sky games?
Glad your procedure went well Mick
KTF
Good luck Mick HH
Hi MM
I hope all went well with the procedure and you are now home safe with the princess. Anyway when the game finishes 6 – 0 to the good ghuys this week just remember you’re not seeing double your seeing a REBEL TREBLE in full flow.
KEEP THE FAITH
Melbourne Mick: hope your procedure went well.
Hope you also get your Celtic shop in your local shopping centre too?
CHAIRBHOY @ 1:46 PM
Well, let’s start by clarifying a few things…
Firstly the China Crisis story, I did ask you to comment on what’d you’d heard and that I’d understand if you felt you couldn’t – that remains my view. Perhaps you could time frame it though, by letting us know when you believe it happened and when you first heard it.
I was not present obviously and I heard it 3rd hand so I can only speak for the timing of my hearing about it. The BBC published the story in September 2018 so it was in the public domain then but, in their version, complete with BR quotes, the narrative is that BR rejected the big bucks offer. At that time I had no reason to doubt the accuracy of what BR said in the BBC article.
I heard a different version from a friend a few months after this, who told me that his insider (not PL) had heard that BR had the offer and wanted to go but was “talked” out of it and that DD and PL felt betrayed by his wanting to leave an already well paid job for money alone. Still, I didn’t think it was newsworthy for the blog nor did I pay much attention to its veracity ( I hear lots of rumours, most are made up wish or partial versions of what really happened) because, obviously, BR had not gone. I was reminded of this story by the same friend a few weeks before BR actually left. At that time it seemed more plausible, but I could not give it full credence, because we had had a long period of internal rancour and lots of people were reporting on internal strife.
Even when BR left, I still did not reveal what I had heard of this story. I merely restricted myself to saying that I had heard a different story from the prevailing narrative on all our blogs, which was that PL was pushing a reluctant BR out of the door. It was at that point that the story I had been told started to make some sense.
I asked myself why leave at this time? Celtic had had a successful post-Dubai sequence of domestic results, we were in a good but not secure position in the league, and we had 3 SC ties, hopefully, to negotiate. There was no obvious undercurrent of tension still simmering and almost all of the narrative suggested BR was on course to leave in the summer. There would then be massive disappointment if he went then but nowhere near the rancour he faced from the fans when he had enough of Scottish football when the Europa challenge ended.
There was no concerted effort to re-hash the China story to spin it on anyone’s behalf. In my case, I merely posed the question to you as to whether you would change your view if you knew this had happened.
The rancour directed at BR was there immediately he left because our fans were disappointed by the timing of his departure, the club he left for, and the perceived imbalance between his professed love for the club and his actions. The China story did not spark this rancour. The China story did not even add to the rancour. The China Story makes no impact on the views most Celts have towards BR. Nor did Paul’s blogs or e-Tims or anyone’s views.
Crucially, for your reading of events that this was some orchestrated PL -inspired spin to blacken BR’s name and standing with the support, with the coincidental aim of bolstering PL’s tarnished reputation, the facts don’t fit. Neither myself nor the CQNr who posted on the same day were interested in tarnishing BR’s reputation. In fact, my view is remarkably similar to your own i.e. BR was a good manager when he was here and I wished he had stayed. The only difference knowing of the China story made to me was that I was less heartbroken and betrayed than the majority were- and I repeat- the majority were unaware of the China story nor have they changed their minds on being told or reminded of it.
Secondly no individual was accused of malice from me, perhaps the way it was presented. What I meant was the briefing (think I said crusade) against Brendan Rodgers from early drip feed/innuendo, through ill based allegations, to Fraudgers was malicious.
On the same day on CQN that I posed my question to you, another CQN poster confirmed that he too had heard this story and, like me, had not bothered to put the rumour into print until after BR had gone. It was this poster, that I thought you were referring to when you said “The China Crisis yarn was put our there by a blogger with access to the inner sanctum.”
That quote above (blogger with access), looks to me like an accusation against an individual. It now seems I may be wrong about thinking you were referring to the CQN poster but since you left , and have still left the blogger un-named, I cannot be sure. If you were referring to him or e-Tims or Paul67 then you are really overestimating the element of malicious rancour in the editorials on here. The accusation that e-Tims bought the PL Kool-Aid is just risible and not worthy of anyone.
You are also framing your response about the veracity of the China offer with words like briefing, crusade, drip-feed, innuendo, subtle and ominous.
In fact, I have no interest in tarnishing BR’s rep but I do believe he was willing to leave us, and I believe MON wanted to go too, and that his relationship with PL had less to do with it than is commonly believed. But that is my belief, not my knowledge. It is based on best fit of the sequence of events. I can assure you that the Insider whose views I heard at 3rd hand, has no rancour towards any of the people involved. He shared his story with a few people, I believe, to let us know not to expect a long term stay by Brendan, nothing more and nothing less.
If he, or I, was seriously intending to damage BR and to back PL, we would have put the story out when we heard it. We would have battered the story on all Celtic sites and we would have been bothered by the continuing success of the prevailing narrative that survived to this February, i.e. PL and unambitious Celtic pushed BR out of the door.
Unfortunately, for your view that PL mounted a spin campaign- none of those things happened.
Culminating in some bampots singing about the IRA killing him and the burglary of his house when his family were at home. Now, I sure these folk have nothing to do with Celtic but all in all it didn’t show the Celtic family in a great light.
This is fairly desperate. Do you really think that the bampots, and they were Celtic fans singing, were influenced by PL or the China story? They sang those vile songs because, at that time they hated BR for leaving; no blog or CEO made them hate, it was discussion with fellow fans and feeling comfortable in expressing that hate in the company of fellow Celts that made that happen. We saw a lot of it on CQN and other blogs too. You will be trying to prosecute a hard brief if you continue to assert that all those individual CQN posters did so because PL told them to, or Paul 67 told them to, or a concerted conspiracy of insider bloggers made them feel this way.
I believe people should own their own emotions. If leaders were so influential, Brexit would not have happened
Now the China Crisis is a made up story, how do I know? Because there are half a dozen different versions and they are materially different, therefore they can’t all be right can they? Someone must have made some of it up. If there is one that is somewhat accurate and I have no idea which one that might be, it has been spun with such vigour as to make the whole thing sound implausible. So for me the fact that these “yarns” came to light when there was an anti-BR campaign going on is no coincidence, they have no credence.
Forgive me, you do not KNOW the story is untrue because there are several versions. 20 people can witness the same true event and still produce 20 varying accounts of what they saw. Someone may well have made some of it up, some may have mis-remembered and some may have embellished or omitted points but a central coherence remains. And the “yarns” were known to many of us before BR left- they were not put out by me or by the other CQN poster or by my friends who had heard them earlier than me, with any spirit of rancour. You will have to call me and them liars if you disbelieve that.
There was a job offer.
The job offer was turned down (BR claims, in Sept. 2018, he turned it down to stay with Celtic but I am sceptical on that)
I do not know anymore than you do as to how much “persuasion” it took to turn it down but I believe, and so do you in your segment, that he told Celtic he wanted to go. You put a generous interpretation on this, saying he was using it for leverage in a power struggle; I differ in feeling that he genuinely wanted to go then and that a lot of the fractiousness stemmed from that.
We may not ever know the full or exact truth when competing versions exist but the one thing I know is that BR left and he could have stayed if he wanted to. It is a story not dissimilar to John McGinn’s. He could have come to Celtic but chose not to. I do not blame McGinn or Rodgers for increasing their wealth but I do believe it shows you can put a price on loyalty to Celtic.
MELBOURNE MICK.best wishes mate,,hh,
Thank you ghuys, big shout out to BIGYINMILAN who advised me to
get an old football injury from the Glesga Green about 45 years ago checked out.
BLANTRYE TIM
Fantastic to see you posting again, how’s the auld man is his knees
creaking like mine now?
TONYROME
Talking about seeing double, lets hope it’s double figures on Sunday.
BADA BING
Have you come across any of those Oz visitors i keep sending to your
pub?
ALMORE
Some great suggestions from CQN regarding investment by our board.
Got to speculate to accumulate.
Hope your cafe is priority 1.
Then my wee Shoppe in Melbourne 8-))
H.H Mick
SFTB- You’re an outstanding contributor on here,people may agree or disagree with your posts, but they are always informative, constructive, and stimulate further debate, more power to you HH
Mick- not spoke to any visitors from your neck of the woods over here mate,possibly someone else mate,as someone who has never lived more than 10 miles from CP in my life, its always good hearing from bhoys all over the world, about our Club and support..HH
Bada @9:47
Knowing Sky they probably gave it to them free?
MELBOURNEMICK
Hi Mick hope everything went ok for you , like you i’m looking forward to a hunskelping on Sunday !! Take care HH !