Celtic were looking for a right back throughout the second half of last term, but in the early weeks of his tenure, Brendan considered Mikael Lustig and Saidy Janko sufficient for the season ahead. Mikael is four years into a successful Celtic career but his fitness issues are of a persistent nature. We’ve reached Peak Swede.
Saidy missed lot of last season, also through injury, but he showed potential in his early outing this term. Aspirations for the lad crystallised in Israel last week, but not in a good way. I’m not going to defend him, because he was unquestionably poor, but agreement only exists on his poor showing because he was prepared to receive the ball so often. Not everyone in black that night was as keen to get on the end of a pass.
That opened the door for Cristian Gamboa, 26, second choice right back for West Brom. We’re very keen, apparently. West Brom manager, Tony Pulis, is less in need of a full back whose key attribute is getting forward at speed. Horses for course, I suppose, West Brom face different challenges than Celtic.
Two rumours have circulated this week: Celtic are looking for a midfield player and James McCarthy’s position at Everton is less secure than it was a year ago. Whoever has been linking these two facts has overreached – or made them up. Celtic have no idea where this one came from but were clear, there’s nothing in it. Getting the right midfielder remains a task in hand, but usual caveats apply. There are no guarantees we’ll land all our targets this summer.
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DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 29TH AUGUST 2016 8:55 PM
Vfr, my apologies in not replying sooner to your post about Dalsetter pitches and the infamous Mitre mouldie footballs.
Your post certainly brought many painful memories to other posters and the damage the Mitre mouldmaster caused.
My brother played for St Laurence’s boys guild team. His pal in the team , got hit in the upper thigh by a mouldmaster one winter’s day. The Mitre name could be seen on his thigh , as if branded on, for a few hours after the game.
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Dallas, that’s you bombed oot! I was St Pius Boys Guild!! Same bhoys, different scheme! Having said that, Fr O’Callaghan from St Laurence’s was brilliant! Loved him!
MOONBEAMS WD
The 1979 4-2 game wasn’t on TV due to a BBC technicians strike. That’s why only grainy images exist.
I had to give up my ticket to take care of two American visitors! Got the result only when a guy in the boolin’ club in Tarbolton phoned home to get the score! Nae radio or nuthin’ that night!
Cue celebrations but I’ve never forgiven my cousin for that night!
EDB,
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t think I have ever seen a Celtic team who have consistently made use of throw-ins (or shies, as I still call them).
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Agreed.
Never heard of the new right back. Still thats not unusual from someone who did not know Big Yogi had left ICT until a couple of days ago. I tend just to concentrate on The Bhoys and in Brendan I trust.
AULDHEID on 30TH AUGUST 2016 12:33 PM
Thank you for the detailed and considered response.
Once again I salute your (in the plural) indefatigably.
There are too many ses to count in
ssssssssssssssssssssssshaken not sssssssssssssssssssstirred
Breaking news:
Senderos still hisnae signed!
KTF
NatKnow
Theme of the Traitor is for Real Tims everywhere. :-)))
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When I get home I’m going to dig out the book from one of my many unpacked boxes and read it again.
I’ll try to download In Patagonia on my Kindle, alond with Blood Meridian, Nobody Writes to the Colonel and the complete works of Mario Vargas Llosa… CQN is costing me a fortune today :)
See what happens when you make a smart-arse comment about reading back on the nightshift???
*along
Obvs.
A belter on Phils site in the comments column.
Alan,
I cant seem to find any team by the name of Sevco on the SPFL lists.
Yes,its a Typo Anal.
Sheer genius
Hi,
As luck would have it I am in Barcelona for a family holiday when we are playing there. I have tried buying tickets through Barcelona FC website with no luck so would appreciate any pointers.
Thanks
los_bhoy
LOS_BHOY on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:29 PM
Have you booked a hotel? If so you could ask them.
A GRAN bit two Orangemen on the legs during a row after barging her way to the front of a queue for a bucking bronco ride.
Drunken Nicola Saunderson, 38, pushed young children out of the way to get on the fairground attraction.
Saunderson got into a scuffle with two members of the Young Conquerors Orange Band who tried to stop her.
Robert Logan, defending, told Ayr Sheriff Court: “She was pulled to the ground and held there by both men – who were sitting on her.
“That is how she managed to bite their legs.”
The court heard she was highly intoxicated at the fun day in Drongan, Ayrshire, on August 3.
Saunderson, of New Cumnock, admitted assaulting the two men. She also admitted assaulting her ex Derek McCracken and his brother William in Cumnock on June 1.
And she admitted driving without insurance, failing to give a breath test and struggling with four police officers after being stopped in New Cumnock on May 22.
Mr Logan said: “When she is drunk, she gets involved in these situations and gets the worst of it.”
Sheriff Desmond Leslie said Saunderson had 16 previous convictions and jailed her for a total of seven months.
LOS_BHOY
Depending on the demand there are units everywhere in Barcelona that sell tickets. You might be lucky with them.
I would expect close to a sell out.
The Newco were allowed to be created under the secret five way agreement, which states the new club will take the penalties and sanctions of the now obsolete club. This should be pursued with vigour.
Is the ‘Senderos to sevco signing’ still ‘imminent’ as it was four days ago?
The van must be stuck in traffic!
HH!!
MORRISSEY THE 23RD:
Have they even paid the fine they were given?
I mean I’d love to hear their grounds for refusing to.
MORRISSEY THE 23RD on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:34 PM
‘The Newco were allowed to be created under the secret five way agreement, which states the new club will take the penalties and sanctions of the now obsolete club. This should be pursued with vigour.’
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The problem is that everyone who was associated with or aware of the five way agreement at the time is thereby compromised, so will do nothing to enforce it.
Senderos is in the post.
Taxi!
MWD
SoT,
Thanks again for your help.
Book list: Catch 22 Joseph Heller. That’s it.
ERNIE LYNCH:
And right there is the issue. We’ll never know who approved that deal now, who was “in the know.” That one is locked up tight, under one of those 10,000 year seals.
I keep hoping someone breaks ranks. Someone still might, but it’ll be a long time in the future.
Until then, we’ll never get the full story.
But the bits of it we do know don’t make very pleasant reading.
Given that we chose not to pursue Paul Pogba :) here is another defensive/central midfielder from France: , Tiemoue Bakayoko, worth more than the £4m mentioned in the article https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/1405098/manchester-united-and-southampton-in-hunt-for-monacos-tiemoue-bakayoko/ He’s on this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjwVs_RI5c.
This new club masquerading as the now defunct previous one claims the trophies that the previous club won by cheating mocks every football fan. The official removal of those honours is a requirement of justice and should be pursued.
What was that about over investing GLIB?
Senderos signs for Sevco
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:33 PM
‘A GRAN bit two Orangemen on the legs during a row after barging her way to the front of a queue for a bucking bronco ride.’
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It might be all these literary lists, but for some reason that opening line reminded me of this.
“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
I think it’s what is called an arresting opening.
Bournesouprecipe @1.33
When I was reading the first paragraph of your post I thought it was the set up for a joke.
Canny make it up :)
The terrible thing about it all is that I used to think we’d get those answers in the short term. We had to, right? Because what these people have done to our national sport is so alarming, so shocking, when you strip it all down and view it in context, that I thought it was a matter of time before someone, somewhere, told the whole sordid tale, just so that we could see changes.
Turnbull Hutton might have, but he’s gone now, sadly.
The men of integrity are few and far between.
Football in this country has no leaders, and I don’t think, in spite of the best efforts of a whole lot of people – the Res12 guys foremost amongst them – that there’s any genuine appetite for reform out there. Or it would have happened already. You only to look at Regan – still in his job. Doncaster – still in his. These guys would have been run out of town on a rail in any other corporate culture.
The second they went to the media and pronounced “the product” worthless … that’d have been that. Jotters. “Pack your pencils and beat it.” We’ll never know how much their behaviour in 2012 cost us in terms of sponsorship, TV rights, ticket sales etc … but they screwed everyone.
And they stayed in post.
That, right there, tells you how much appetite there is for a fight. For reforms that’ll do some good. That the most corrupt football administrators in Europe outside of UEFA itself are still in their roles, still drawing a salary, still telling us that the way our sport is run is actually none of our business.
The Five Way Agreement is the most toxic document in the history of Scottish sport, perhaps even in the history of sport on this island. Not only is it the documented proof of the Survival Lie, but it’s the paper that shows how rancid the Victim Myth really is.
In terms of consequences, they paid those in full.
In terms of punishment? Ha! That’s a joke.
They got away with everything.
Surprised no ones threw in ‘Fly Fishing’ by JR Hartley….
RealPageTurnerCSC
ERNIE LYNCH on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:46 PM
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:33 PM
‘A GRAN bit two Orangemen on the legs during a row after barging her way to the front of a queue for a bucking bronco ride.’
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It also reminds me of that Matt McGinn story
‘Where did you learn to ride a buckin bronco?’
‘Remember that time you had the whooping cough.’
I posted yesterday that I saw Gamboa play for Rosenborg against St Johnstone in the Europa league a few years ago.
I went home and googled him to discover that he was Costa Rican. He was the best player on the park by a mile. I was wondering how Rosenborg discovered him and why Celtic couldn’t find players like him.
Now he is here, I am delighted that Tony Pullis plays without this type of full back.
I think we have just found another in the Sinclair mode, i.e. unappreciated at where he was.
If his performance that night is typical of how he plays we are going to love him.
ERNIE LYNCH @ 1 46 .
Ah —–Earthly Powers.
A mighty fine novel from one of the great fakers .
INCHTURE BHOY AKA NEIL LENNON:
Excellent news. Glad someone’s watched him and can tell us what to expect.
Classic case, I think, of a player just not fitting into a manager’s style.
TURKEYBHOY on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:24 PM
Just read that reply about an hour ago, yep, a belter. :))
SOT
Anthony Burgess?
HH
James Forrest, hope that is exactly what it is.
He was outstanding that night.
I am sure that Stewart Cosgrove will remember him, it will be interesting to see if he mentions him on his show on Saturday
MORRISSEY THE 23RD…
Good to see yor handle again. HH