It’s been six weeks since Celtic have had something to play for: 1 May, a five goal win over Dundee. Since then we wound down the remaining Premiership games before cranking up a fortnight ago at our new second home in Paisley, but it all comes into focus on Wednesday at Celtic Park, when we are expected to humble apparent Champions League whipping boys from Iceland.
People at Celtic have complained for years about having to play such important games in the middle of July, but I’ve never bought that argument. If we have to face Legia-type opposition later this month, we can’t have an early enough test. The challenge is known, it’s the responsibility of the club to be ready.
Stjarnan are likely to be the least resourced team we will face this summer, but if we get a comfortable win on Wednesday, these two games, as well as the friendlies against Eibar and Rennes, should provide ample opportunity to physically and tactically ready for the real test.
A few weeks back we discussed the game of brinksmanship involving Greece and it’s analogy in Scottish football, “Those sitting at the Syriza side of the table know they may be marching their citizens off the edge of a cliff”.
8 days ago Tsipras won his referendum mandate but quickly accepted that you can’t play poker if you don’t have any cards, never mind aces. I wondered if he hoped to ‘lose’ the referendum. I wonder if others hoped the SFA would find ‘against’ them a few months back. As we mentioned, it was “one of the classic failures of leadership – telling people what they want to hear in order to gain power, without any way of delivering on the promises made”.
If the Greeks had said ‘Yes’ Tsipras could have capitulated, blaming the will of the people. If the SFA said ‘not Fit and Proper’, others could have declined to invest, blaming Peter Lawwell and his ‘cronies’ at Hampden. I’m sure you could write the script yourself.
Populism’s easy, until you are given control, then it’s harder than granite. We’ll see the same lesson played out in Scottish football in the months to come. You need five aces in your hand to play poker with a billionaire, even then, don’t make assumptions.
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Hamilton Tim
That may well be so but if it can be presented that staff are happy with arrangements and actually are, you are on to plums.
I had not seen TD’S post but he represents a constituency of the support that are best not alienated and given the overiding need to have the support to act in unison on matters, it is important that the fights that are picked are ones that can be won and unite rather than divide the support.
On the OB trial will there be some report on events by FAC?
I’ve forgotten which song gave offense but on having read the words of one candidate song, the one honouring the Hunger Strikers I was non plussed at what was offensive.
A weakness in the OB is the lack of a songs list and criteria to measure offensiveness.
If the arbiters of what is offensive are ultimately a jury, where in Scotland would it be possible to find one whose sense of what is reasonable differs so significantly depending on their experience?
This Act will fall on a stake made up of its own absurdity.
No, Hebcelt, I was referring to ItaliaBhoys post. I thought that was obvious. No?
South Of Tunis
Italian media is always reliable
How did Odegaard do on Friday?
Claudio Ranieri appointed Leicester manager
Shame, thought that would have been Lennys best shot at getting an EPL job
I don’t know any other fans who can understand what it’s like to be a celtic fan at this time of the season – we’re not in the season but an awful lot of what we’re about is happenin – training, settling noobs in before we’ve kicked a ball, getting others in we think might be good next month, scoping out minnows- but love it it
Armageddon – bring it on
Paradise a work in progress
Ranieri gets the Leicester gig. What about the megabucks put on at the bookies for Martin O`Neil? He went from 6/1 to 1/4 and then betting was suspended, due to thousands being wagered. Some shenanigans going on methinks.
timaloy29.
Italian fitba media is far from reliable.
Odegaard ? Most of the Italian media have him going on loan to a club close to the city of Madrid .The guff in the Scottish media re Odegaard and Celtic came from an Italian click bait site which makes it up and then converts the clicks into cash.
Let’s remember that the current situation in Greece we have access to is the version of the MSM.
You can study all the published financials you want, but it’s only ever going to be a version the World Banking thugs want you to see.
Not so long ago, before the advent of the bampots, Tims were being duped by folk working for the very same paymasters: corporate media.
If we want to allude to similar comparisons to Sevco around the world, let’s start with this- we are all completely in the dark as to what really goes on. Public disinformation is designed that way.
The comparison I take comfort in, as with Sevco, is that the truth will out and we can finally wake up and stop listening to their lies, paranoia and war mongering , and live finally
as in the message from a simple man, “You shall love your neighbour as you love yourself”.
The Greeks would agree- just ask the punter on the Athens streets.
ItaliaBhoy @ 16:50 Tea splutteringly funny !!
MWD…………..
” clap trap royalisy (sic) nonsense”……..
Surely, that’s the SNP policy (page 1) vis a vis yon wee woman Betty fae London…………
Regards & Republican Hail Hail
TBM
TD67
That’s true , maybe the CT were nieve and should have known better when dealing with businessmen .
They shouldn’t really have to worry about being done over by our clubs board to be fair.. But that’s me being nieve Aswel .
I’m pretty sure that there are workers at parkhead who wouldn’t feel comfortable questioning their managers about a bonus.
proudbhoy,
No unions allowed
Proudbhoy
I’m pretty sure that there are workers at parkhead who wouldn’t feel comfortable questioning their managers about a bonus.
I’m sure there are workers all over the UK like this, not just at Celtic Park?
Even a players union?
Anyway I’ve looked at the weather for Wednesday, sunny all day and evening, I’m liking that. :)
I read a research paper over the weekend that revealed every working American is contributing an average of $2300 a year in taxes to fund the military-industrial complex.
Staggering.
I wonder what a similar figure would be for the UK?
looking back I think, just think, I may have been accused of “hunnish behaviour” I have no idea how to start on this course of action, but never mind I have better things to fret over.
Apropos heehaw
TRFC Ltd’s annual report to June 2014 contained a couple of sweeties. First is the stated need for £8M cash to backfill losses for the coming year.
Second, forward going concern projections were based on an assumption that season ticket sales would increase in volume and price, based on the further assumption that Sevco would achieve promotion to the Premiership in the season just completed.
Assorted other wee assumptions include an increasing contribution from Retail.
Bald facts are:
Income of £17M (if above assumptions stand up)
Fixed operating costs of £24M before player trading.
Fubarangers FC
Billybear of course I understood that just thought he could be talking about Sevconians no? H H Hebcelt
Auldheid
The easy solution would be to pay the LW and continue the bonus scheme. The last thing we would want would be alienate to any of the Celtic support but as you’ll know well, sometimes it’s impossible to convince anyone who is resistant to anything you propose.
Re the OBAF Act and today’s case.
I believe that certainly some of those involved are keen that their story is told so that is something that’ll happen in the future I expect.
The ‘offensive’ song was Roll of Honour. Again today the judge described it as sectarian when it’s clearl not. As far as I’m aware all cases have been decided by single judges without a jury so conviction will be dependent on the views of the sheriff alone.
Are both Wednesday and the Rennes games on the ST?
Raspberry
Aye mate.
HT cheers
Hippo birdie to oldtim67
Hamiltontim
Please excuse my ignorance but are defendants not entitled to a trial by jury?
HH
If the bonuses are discretionary then keep them whilst paying the living wage. Then when bonus time comes just say ¬ye urny gettin wan`
Way to go sc
skyisalandfill
Not that I’m aware of.
Called Celtic Park this morning about not receiving my new season card, spoke to the SLO JP Taylor, he told me some one would get back to me, I don’t know whether he meant today or tomorrow, I’ll wait and see what tomorrow brings as I doubt if any now will be calling me at this time of night, and Wednesday is getting very close,.
What a cracking race to complete the day at Wetherby…………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
hamiltontim
17:38 on 13 July, 2015
Don’t have time to read back, was there any ruling today over the seven?
Thank you once again sincerely over your tenacity in this “affair”.
billybear
17:41 on 13 July, 2015
If the bonuses are discretionary then keep them whilst paying the living wage. Then when bonus time comes just say ¬ye urny gettin wan`
Way to go sc
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Or we could follow the example your favoured old club set and just replace bonuses with an EBT scheme :-)
billybear
17:41 on 13 July, 2015
If the bonuses are discretionary then keep them whilst paying the living wage. Then when bonus time comes just say ¬ye urny gettin wan`
Way to go sc
That’s another club your thinking of.
Sdb
5 of the 7 received absolute discharges mate! So guilty but no criminal record.
Brilliant articles again by James Forrest today.The second one about the blonde slut who runs for a living,was especially good.When a redneck Zombie came on the comments,he got a full two barrels from the bold James.
Chapeau sir.
Attention Winning Captain
Whenever I open a link on my iPad to CQN Magazine articles, from either here or Facebook, I encounter an error on page which causes Facebook to close and Safari to close the tab and try to recover, and then loop.
I’m on IOS 8.3.
I haven’t tried on the laptop yet but I will do when I can and update you.
The easy solution would be to pay the LW and continue the bonus scheme. The last thing we would want would be alienate to any of the Celtic support but as you’ll know well, sometimes it’s impossible to convince anyone who is resistant to anything you propose.
That you would mean would be someone who doesn’t agree with what you say or do, says some thing opposite from what you think?
Last time I looked it was called an opinion .
hamiltontim
17:46 on 13 July,
Result! Thoughts go with all of them.
Thanks again.
Well that just caps a horrible Monday. Changed train at Partick. Wrong train announcement and I’m stuck on train tae Dalmuir.
One good thing though…wee dude standing on platform with his Hoops on.
I suppose my dinners in the dug :-(
Abellio??? Abellendio mair like:-)