I know squad numbers are limited but I’m disappointed Eoghan O’Connell has not been retained. In his performances early last season he displayed the attributes of a modern-day footballing central defender. He has a future in the game and will do well wherever he goes next.
The perennial dilemma of youth development is that while teams want to improve performances NOW, they also need to leave space for worthy development squad candidates to grow into. Kieran Tierney got there, but the truth is, Celtic had been trying to sign a left back for year but were unable find anyone of the necessary standard. If we did, Kieran, Eoghan, would never have had the chance.
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Good morning CQN from a dry and sunny East Devon, been off the blog for a couple of days due to the political over kill.
Political Overkill Quick News.
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/right-back-where-we-left-off/
Celtic By Numbers season review part 3. The full backs so Tierney and Lustig feature prominently.
HH
hi bhoys good morning from a partly sunny new brighton day off today do i take the dogs to the beach or go to the pub any suggestions welcome.
1. AULDHEID on 11TH JUNE 2017 9:07 PM
One of my jobs before retrial was a Capacity Builder.
Many problems go unaddressed because the capacity to do so simply does not exist.
On my travels I came across the Scottish Football Supporters Association who have the value that unlike Supportes Direct, they are independent of the SFA and have a manifesto for better even handed governance and, as will be evident in the next few weeks have plans for taking that manifesto forward.
The latest blog on SFM
https://www.sfm.scot/time-to-make-things-happen/
gives anyone interested in SFA reconstruction an indication that such a capacity is in the process of being built and I urge CQN posters to join the SFSA so that they learn of those plans and can take part in their execution.
The game is Scotland is bent. It is bent because no one polices it honestly.
Here is an opportunity to make change happen as opposed to discussing the many reasons that it doesn’t.
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Good Morning, Auldheid.
Does this mean that Resolution 12 has run its course?
hi bhoys clerical error meant to say good morning from west cheshire the beach is in new brighton.
HH Big Packy @ 0816
Take the dugs tae the pub via the beach!! Solved!
TC 45
Buenos Dias de Calnegre much mucho calor por cierto
Auldheid
Joined yesterday por cierto
Por cierto it’s free to join the SFSA.
the celt 45 thanks probably will. must be a dog friendly pub somewhere. hail hail.
BIG PACKY
Try the wetherspoons across from Morrisons
as it has outside seating so dog should be ok there
blantyre tim much obliged mate will do hail hail.
Big Packy,
No brainier, take the hound to the pub. Think of the many benefits; including , you can break wind all day if you want and nobody will blame you.
HH.
One week until the Champions League first and second round qualifiers are drawn!
By the by…the UCL Final for 2017/18 will be played in Kiev which is bloomin’ disgrace. Celtic should refuse to make it to the final in protest…
CLOGHER CELT on 11TH JUNE 2017 11:57 PM
‘The Scottish people have demonstrated a rejection of Tory policies over a number of years.’
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Not quite.
A proportion of ‘The Scottish people’ who formerly voted Tory switched to voting SNP.
They were mostly located in rural Scotland. Farmers, fisherman, small business owners, etc.
They saw the SNP as the best way of countering the Labour dominated central belt.
Do you remember Alex Salmond saying ‘WE didn’t mind the economic side’ of Thatcherism.
Well the ‘WE’ he was talking about were the type of people who were voting for him up there in Banff and Buchan.
Those people have now gone back to voting Tory.
There’s lots of them, and there always were.
The myth of a Tory free Scotland, was always that, a myth.
SFTB,
I don’t have time to address all of your points but it is a depressing picture you paint.
You seem to make a habit of cherry picking points you’d like to make and avoiding the uncomfortable truth.
I also note that you have resorted to the highlighter pen to emphasise your point to the blog:))
History will judge I suppose if the No Vote was a lost opportunity. I am also not convinced the financial self interest and fear was a prime motivator in the decision for many.
I guess many also fell for the old Westminster trick of ‘Divide and Conquer’ too.
I suppose it boils down to;
1) Was a vote to remain in the UK a Unionist position?
**Yes or No**
Much like the Plc and Sevco. An opportunity of a lifetime presents itself. Do you take it or not?
Or spend the remainder of your life regretting missing an open goal?
Lets see how things develop with the DUP, Brexit, British Colonial Wars, the nationalists in the Six Counties, Food Banks, Zero Hour Contracts, the poor, the vulnerable etc etc.
I suppose you get what you vote for.
youreapwhatyousowcsc
Macjay,
Arlene in Downing Street is also the democratic will of the British electorate.
I hope that you are well.
Till Later
GREENPINATA
The dog might!
CLOGHERCELT
I doubt that the DUP in Downing St is the settled will of the British electorate,but it’s what we’ve ended up with.
May warned us of a Coalition of Chaos;instead we have a Coalition of (insert alliterative term of choice)
She’s rapidly running out of soundbites,and most of her advisors have been sacked. Bearing in mind she was already bereft of ideas,she doesn’t have much left. Including any experienced trade negotiators,which may also present a little problem for her in some important talks a week from now.
It’s like boiling a frog really…
Ernie,
Sorry I am running late.
The issue is that the Scottish electorate’s opinion is always superseded by the English vote, leading to situations like Brexit and the DUP/Tory alliance.
After independence the Scottish electorate would have had the power, left,right or centre.
The SNP would have to stand or fall with the Scottish electorate based upon performance and their Manifesto. Folk seem to think it would have been a one party state. Maybe the media conned folk?
Here’s the SNP Economic Manifesto for you to mull over while I’m oot ;)
https://www.snp.org/economy
Macjay,
Arlene in Downing Street is also the democratic will of the British electorate.
I hope that you are well.
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Sorry.
Don`t follow that at all.
It appears to be Theresa`s will to enter into negotiations with her.
But that`s all.
The current situation just underlines the undemocratic influence of fringe parties.
First and second past the post in UK would represent the views of an overwhelming percentage of those who voted .
In rude good health , thank you for your good wishes.
BMCUWPs,
On a happier note Clogher Jnr’s mate is sitting on a plane next to Brendan Rodgers flying from Glasgow to Magaluf at the moment.
He has his Leaving Cert Maths Paper 2 this morning.
HH
Macjay,
Good to see you question the validity of the UK Electoral system and thereby it’s inherent undemocratic nature.
HH and Bye
CLOGHER CELT on 12TH JUNE 2017 9:24 AM
If it had been a yes vote an independent Scotland would right now be living with the economic consequences of a 9.5% budget deficit.
It would be horrific.
That’s the reality.
It’s all history now though. The SNP have hit the buffers. The internal infighting has started. I thought it would happen in the immediate aftermath of the referendum but they managed to hold the line, until now.
A resurgent Labour Party, their Tory inclined longstanding core support returning to the Tories, internal party disputes and their appalling performance on devolved issues leave the SNP in a difficult place.
And it’s only a matter of time before the payroll and patronage support start to drift way too.
CLOGHERCELT
Best of luck to E for today,and tell him to pass on a message to BR via his pal please.
Don’t bring any donkeys back from Spain,leave that to the huns!!!!!
“Wishful thinking on your part.
There is no shambles of Brexit.
Brexit is the stated will of the British people.
As is the recent election result.”
The fact that it was the stated will, or more precisely, the majority vote which was made by people with varying motivations, not all of whom wanted to actually leave, is not incompatible with it being a shambles.
The shambes happened because the Tories could not reconcile internal party politics. The only party seeking a Referendum Vote was UKIP. The majority of Tories did not want one. They were harrased and forced into one by a combination of a persistent band of right wing nutters- The Rees-Mogg faction (who may or may not have played succesful gigs at the Burn’s Howff) and the leadership machinations of Boris Johnson (who didn’t actually give a flying one about whether we Brexited or stayed but thought supporting Leave would fast track him to leadership and PM).
The 2nd part of the shambles was the complacency of the Stay campaign and voters who thought Farage was sufficiently repugnant and false (an Etonian man of the people with the personality of a golf club bore) to garantee a Stay outcome.
The 3rd part was the quality of the Leave rhetoric- Vote leave and you will get immigration under control and get £350m returning to the NHS (an organisation most of its campaign leaders had pledged to abolish and privatise).
The 4th part was the aftermath where the two Tory Leave leaders stabbed each other in the back and left the Brexit job to a Centrist Tory who did not command much trust from her own Brexit wing and, as it turns, much respect for the country and its voters.
And the 5th part of the shambles was to call an unnecessary election to “strenghtne our negotiating position” (which consists of shouting Brexit means Brexit ever more loudly). And then she got precisely the opposite- a weakened position. She wanted to look Thatcher-like but the only Thatcher-like thing about Theresa May was her tendency to sack underlings after she had personally made a blunder.
And the remaining part of the shambles is the fact that the 27 country coalition of EU countries has quickly and efficiently prepared their guidelines for the impending negotiations as a clock ticks down. In contrast, one country, UK, has produced a negotiating dossier that just says Brexit means Brexit and expects to be able to start from there. We still have seen no position paper on Brexit from our country on which we can determine any of our recent votes.
I may not have evidenced, to your satisfaction, how much of a shambles this was. But I know that you will struggle to convince even yourself that this looks anything like a plan or a strategy.
What do you actually think the stated will of the British people is now? I think it remains along the lines of – “Tell the foreigners to feck off- we can feck up our own governance without your help”.
Back to work now
Clogher Celt
“I suppose it boils down to;
1) Was a vote to remain in the UK a Unionist position? ”
No time to deal with all of it, your own cherrypicking included.
However, if you had read my response- you would have read my view that any vote (Yes or No, Leave or Stay) was a vote for a Union – just a different form of Union. Therefore, the jibe belongs to all sides- you must own it too.
Of course, if you believe that the Scots are inherently superior to the peoples whose union they are leaving, or that the merits of a new border line trumps all other lost benefits and makes austerity a price worth paying, you may have a point.
But that is the bottom line of Nationalism everywhere- my nation group is better than your nation group – so we want to separate ourselves and run our own group.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 12TH JUNE 2017 1:07 AM
5.
The Unionist groupings your countrymen face in the North of the Island are nothing like the “Unionists” that you jibed about in order to hit back at ernie lynch. And my father, brother and friends who made these choices are insulted when anyone, yourself included, use that insult as an interchangeable term for UK supporters in NI and those in Scotland or Wales.
That was my main point and one you, largely skirted round.
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I would accept that Unionists like the DUP and Unionists such as you, your father, brother and friends should not be treated as being alike. You are, I imagine, descendents of immigrants as opposed to descendents of planters/settlers/coloniser; you are also unlikely to share the same religious persuasion. The belief you do have in common however, is that the UK should be maintained. In that, I fully respect your views.
Likewise with Ernie Lynch, though his blog name conjuring up the recurring image of Che Guevara wrapped in a Butcher’s Apron still haunts me.
HH
Ernie,
small point – Salmond was standing as SNP Candidate for Gordon Constituency, which contains a sizeable chunk of the Northern part of Aberdeen City, Many of those who voted Tory ( happy to say I’m not one of them ) will have been anything but farming folk, and there’s precious few fishermen left up here any more.
Setting free the bears.
Aw you.your breaching yir paragraph limits on politics.lol lee sum furra new signings -:-)
Strawbscsc
BATEEN BHOY on 12TH JUNE 2017 9:50 AM
Whatever their occupation, they were traditionally Tory voters.
The SNP core seats (ie the ones they’ve held for the longest time) were almost all previously held by the Tories.
Celtic raised a £ million at Grosvenor do last week.just mentioned on talk radio.missed this emdi any word?
Good news
HH
CHILL ULTRA on 12TH JUNE 2017 9:48 AM
‘The belief you do have in common however, is that the UK should be maintained.’
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I regard a union between two or more countries as a positive and progressive thing so long as it is voluntary, and that neither country is coerced or oppressed.
Scotland isn’t coerced or oppressed within the UK. (though it seems a lot of folk here would like to thing it was/is)
Ireland was.
The idea that because Ireland wanted to leave the Union Scotland should too just doesn’t stand up to even cursory scrutiny.
SFTB,
Sadly, your position is farcical.
“(Yes or No, Leave or Stay) was a vote for a Union”:)))
Thanks for the concession of your support for the Union with Westminster. It’s a position that I could never hold but each to his own.
Ernie,
You are sounding more desperate Ernie.
Offski
CLOGHER CELT on 12TH JUNE 2017 10:08 AM
You are sounding more desperate Ernie.
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Well yeah, obviously. A revitalised and resurgent Labour Party and the SNP and their independence bandwagon in a downward spiral and I’m sounding desperate.
We signed embdy yet?
When’s the next game?
Moussa staying?
Paddy coming back?
Embdy want to start a fitba blog?
Ernie,
Not true, Salmond had a large majority at the last election, and the Tories polled a paltry 6000+ votes. Salmond took the seat from the LibDems, who had held the seat previously through Sir Malcolm Bruce, who had been incumbent – and a very popular MP – for a number of years before that. The Tories had never returned an MP for Gordon constituency before now in 34 years since it’s creation in 1983.
The Tory vote jumped from around 6800 to 21,800 at this election. The Libdem vote collapsed, as did the SNP vote, to a smaller extent.
BATEEN BHOY on 12TH JUNE 2017 10:21 AM
I’m actually referring to Banff and Buchan which was Salmond’s seat from 1987 to 2010, and was then held by Whiteford for the SNP when it was lost to the Tories.
Prior to Salmond winning it in 1887 it was held by the Tories.
Farmers, fishermen and small business owners. Used to vote Tory, then voted Snp. Now gone back to voting Tory.
They didn’t mind the economic side of Thatcher. Salmond was right about that.
ERNIE LYNCH on 12TH JUNE 2017 10:06 AM
CHILL ULTRA on 12TH JUNE 2017 9:48 AM
‘The belief you do have in common however, is that the UK should be maintained.’
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I regard a union between two or more countries as a positive and progressive thing so long as it is voluntary, and that neither country is coerced or oppressed.
Scotland isn’t coerced or oppressed within the UK. (though it seems a lot of folk here would like to thing it was/is)
Ireland was.
The idea that because Ireland wanted to leave the Union Scotland should too just doesn’t stand up to even cursory scrutiny.
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Ernie. There are so many aspects to that one sentence, philisophical and factual, that are wrong, that it would be pointless to address every one of them.
As I’ve already said , I respect your right to be a Unionist. I think we should leave it at that.
And thanks, Ernie, for replying to my post. I’d guess that rules you out of the ‘Ignore the Troll’ prize, Res12 Tshirt signed personally by Canamalar
HH