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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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  3. mike in toronto on

    HT

     

     

    How are you, mate? Hope your summer is going well.

     

     

    I’m having a good day. I just finished my case this afternoon, and found out that my case for Monday has been adjourned … so I dont have to work this weekend!

     

     

    The lovely doc (my doc, not CQN’s doc ….although I am sure he is lovely, too) is cooking dinner tonight! This does not happen often, so I am going to enjoy it!

     

     

    I am not a fan of Tories… but you have to give Ms. May some credit … she almost got the warring Labour/SNP/SF factions united …. even if only in their hatred of her! That is no mean feat.

  5. mike in toronto on

    Big Packy …. nah … used to be a striker, and a left footer. Do I look like a right winger?

  8. starry plough on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX

     

     

    It’s looks a very decent summary of events, I read the 16 things we learned and there you have it, the men who “murdered” Rangers.

     

     

    Will read the rest tomorrow, too late tonight now after last nights nightshift:))

     

     

    Gettingauld CSC

  9. big packy on

    mike in toronto just checking i dont like theresa may appologies if i misunderstood you hail hail.

  10. the_huddle on

    Sweden beat France 2-1 93 min goal mistake by Lorias and goal from the half way line

     

     

    Not the wining goal but Zlatan :O)

     

     

    commentators around the world – zlatan ibrahimovic amazing goal against england – 2012

     

    https://youtu.be/mDf9GWrCXvs

  13. Auldheid on

    mike in toronto on 9th June 2017 7:30 pm

     

     

     

    Auldhid …. didn’t Celtic just announce 50,000 season tickets sold this week …. I think Celtic’s attitude will be – as long as fans are prepared to keep paying, they wont rock the boat.

     

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    In which case everyone should be grateful to those who do care enough about fairness that rather than deal with Res12 Celtic went about putting an entertaining team on the park. :)

     

     

    However should there be slippage and that mob cheat there way back into a competitive position, what then?

     

     

    But you are correct if no one cares about getting SFA reform why should folk like myself bother?

     

     

    Personally I’m satisfied that I now know that Rangers did lie to get the licence and the SFA and UEFA when it became clear something was amiss agreed to cover it up, hence Celtic’s reluctance to ask UEFA to investigate something that UEFA already had the answers to. Corrupt all the way up.

     

     

    I’ll still watch and cheer Celtic on but it will not cost me anything so that I’ll not get annoyed at anything that favours The Rangers when it shouldn’t and I’ll not be paying to be cheated.

     

     

    I’ve found a great pub to watch in.

  14. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    AULDHEID on 9TH JUNE 2017 9:55 PM

     

     

    Thanks for your efforts.

     

    You deserve better.

  18. big packy on

    mike in toronto love it while im on i know your a lawyer i moved to england forty years ago because iam a catholic in a protestant country right 1969 just left school want to be engineer go to hamilton college passed exam got interview gartcosh strip mill next to me was a guy called alex balfour he even said to me you will get this job ihave no qualifications went into the interview the blokes name was william jardine he said that school you went to our lady and st josephs glenboig is subsiding because of the coalmine bedlay colliery nearby i said yes okay i will let you know 3 weeks later a letter fom said mr jardine sorry to inform you you have been unsecsfull this time was it because i went to that school.

  19. Auldheid on

    Setting Free The Bears

     

     

    BBC report the truth shocker.

     

     

    This made me smile

     

     

     

    Johnston told the BBC: “Oh yeah I feel misled because these guys knew, the bank and the Murray executives, their accountants, their lawyers, they knew why we were asking [for the assurance].

     

     

    ==========> “The answer came back with what I would call technical evasion.

     

     

    A bit like Johnson’s statement in Rangers 2011 Interim Accounts.

  20. thetimreaper on

    It wasn’t necessarily a bad decision to call a general election. The decision to leave the EU was conclusive however nobody has a mandate on what the terms of the exit should be. As there is no mandate those awkward folks in the House of Lords who wanted to remain were going to play around with May’s agenda and cause havoc with her two year deadline. What May wanted from this election was a mandate for a hard brexit. Labour were in an absolute mess so the timing was good. What followed was one of the worst campaigns in history both on a political and personal level from May’s side. Corbyn was underestimated but May gave him momentum by hiding away, her arrogance with an awful manifesto and displaying poor judgement with u-turns and such like. Many voters also rejected the MSM agenda which pushed too hard against Corbyn.

  21. dessybhoy on

    Ah

     

    That sounds as if you are now giving up just to be sure are you giving res 12 up due to a refusal of celtic uefa and the Scottish football association to deal with this.

  22. mike in toronto on

    auldheid … we all have to do what we are comfortable with … and live with that ….

     

     

    I would hope/expect that, regardless of the outcome, you must have derived a great deal of satisfaction from the work that you guys have put in … in my business, sometimes the balls dont fall your way, and you have to be content to know that you fought a good fight for a good cause … I hope you guys feel that way …

     

     

    and, of course, being Celtic fans… there is a a bit of a romantic in all of us… so, there will always be a bit of me that will hold out hope that the Board will wake up and do the right thing… the fans deserve it .. the four of you more than the rest of us.

     

     

    HH

  23. Hamiltontim on

    TTR

     

     

    I do think with the benefit of hindsight you should revise that opening sentence mate.

     

     

    Ps you going on holiday this summer?

  25. Auldheid on

    macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 9th June 2017 9:58 pm

     

     

     

    AULDHEID on 9TH JUNE 2017 9:55 PM

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Thanks for your efforts.

     

     

     

     

    You deserve better.

     

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    Thank but we ALL deserve better.

     

     

    We had the piss ripped out of us from 2000 , as a club we had to spend big money to compete in the early years under MoN, then when the debt caused us to reverse, we got the piss ripped again when that mob, under the SFA’s governance, embarked on further unsustainable spending using tax payers money and dividing the Celtic support.

     

     

    I’d want some assurances that measures have been put in place to avoid a repeat before spending a penny but not enough seem to care as long as we are winning.

     

     

    The same folk and the same thinking are still in place at Ibrox and clearly get some protection, but as long as we are winning we rip the piss instead. Long may it continue.

  26. Auldheid on

    mike in toronto on 9th June 2017 10:23 pm

     

     

    At the core I think self respect comes into it and to honour that a stand has to be made..

     

     

    Perhaps the Board as Celtic supporters rather than Board members will finally act out of self respect.

     

     

    Until they do they have lost mine.

  27. Almore on

    Some people don’t like politics being discussed on this bhlog but I find it very educational.

     

     

    The result of the Uk election is important for Ireland, not just because of the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and the large number of Irish people living on the UK. Economically, culturally and socially there are lots of important links between us.

     

     

    The DUP are a disgusting political party, a throwback to three centuries ago. Their support for the Tory party is hardly surprising but I can’t see any long term good coming out of it.

     

     

    Fair play to Jeremy Corbyn for persevering, despite the hostility within his own party and the MSM.

     

     

    Off to mo leaba now. Next best news for me will be Paddy Roberts signing for us.

     

     

    Oíche mhaith

  30. thetimreaper on

    HAMILTONTIM on 9TH JUNE 2017 10:28 PM

     

     

    The first sentence was chosen carefully :)

     

     

    Got a few bit and pieces planned, why?

  31. thetimreaper on

    Cannot believe May is still in no10. As if losing a majority wasn’t bad enough, she promised ‘strong and stable’ Government. What has transpired is anything but. She will be laughed out of Brexit negotiations as her credibility is shot to bits. Her own party hate her and are lining up to thrown her to the wolves. She stood on the steps of Downing Street today and called the DUP ‘friends and allies’. WTF? Has she no shame? At least Cameron fell on his sword. The lengths these people do to cling onto power. Just go FFS.

  33. succulentlambstinks on

    Loved this site. The adverts are a pain in my ass. But the redirections to you’ve won this and won that is the last straw. All good things comes to an end. Ruins my experience so I end up closing safari. As I said…pain in my ass.

  34. Melbourne Mick on

    Hello again all you young rebels.

     

     

    It’s National Celtic Festival weekend at Port Arlington on

     

    the Bellarine peninsula here in Oz, for anybody interested

     

    you can listen to the enchanting sounds of the pipes, the

     

    beat of the bodran or even pop into a poetry recital all

     

    followed by a creamy pint of Guinness.

     

    Alternatively.

     

    You can wait till next Sunday which is our big Celtic day and

     

    you can listen to the enchanting sound of PADDYMACOZ

     

    singing the… Glasgow cat..listen to the beat of the BOTOB

     

    and listen to a recital of the usual pash from the likes of

     

    my good self all followed by plenty of pints of Guinness.

     

    But why not attend both? after all we’re all part of the

     

    biggest and bestest family in the world.

     

    The Celtic family…Wha’s like us.

  36. Barney67 on

    I notice not many of us are arsed about the Scotland England game the morra. Now I live in England and they don’t seem that bothered either.

     

    In pub tonight, a friend of a friend Hun, says, I hope we f*** you tomorrow. He’s a Scot. Lived here for years. Apparently all the Scotland team is full of fenians.

     

    Prick.

  37. An Tearmann on

    Quonno

     

    Fitt and macguire gave way to intro of thatcherism

     

     

    Quonno

     

    Aw I thought it was the snp who done that according to laboury socialisty type unionists on here

     

    Both are cobblers

     

     

    Lab after their precarious ‘pact’ with the libs failed were already on a timer.chicago school economic policies were introduced by Denis Healey so the IMF would bail the country out.implementation of these structural adjustment progs ensured wide ranging public expenditure cuts and industrial unrest (where was your garbage stacked?).

     

    Tis awkward I know introducing the concept of memory to the labour party 75-79 but in many shameful ways they out thatchered thatcher herself.

     

    HH

  38. Barney67 on

    TEARMANN

     

     

    I’m 54 the 70s were shit, power cuts, shit schools, no money. Maybe that was just us. Long story.

  41. Park Road 67 on

    AULDHEID

     

    Keep the Faith mhate , it’s ghuys like me that need you to keep it lit !!!

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