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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My first celtic strip was the all green one. Then I got hoops with the green and white hopped socks.
Always fancied getting the shamrock strip when I was wee but didn’t know anyone who had it.
Now you can buy it but I am too old to wear celtic tops.
Mrs. Ggh has spoken on that topic on a number of occasions.
Up onto my soapbox…..
Our primary change strip should incorporate RED and GREEN…..to reflect the colours of the first badge on the first strip.
I will of course keep banging on about this until it happens :-D
HH
There is a great picture of Jinky when he was about 16 with the Shamrock strip on.I think the one he had on belonged to Big Yogi !!!!!!.Around 14 sizes too big for him.Looks like,as my auld Ma would say,like a “Poor Orphan”.
What rule book?
BOTH clubs are in the dock following the chaos of the Scottish Cup Final pitch invasion but the SFA charges only relate to damage caused to Hampden.
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THE SFA’S rulebook has been made to look a laughing stock after Hibs and Rangers were put in the dock – for smashing up advertising boards.
Compliance officer Tony McGlennan has finally issued his notice of complaint following the scenes of violence and chaos that marred the Scottish Cup final in May.
Astonishingly, the clubs are being jointly cited only for the damage caused to LED screens and advertising hoardings around the perimeter of the pitch, estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Wanted: Cops hunt more suspects following Rangers v Hibs Cup Final riot at Hampden
The Easter Road club have also been rapped because their fans ripped up sections of the turf and damaged goal posts as they celebrated their first win in the tournament in 114 years.
GettyThe Hampden Park pitch as well as advertising hoardings, right, were damaged
Incredibly, Hibs will face no action from the football authorities for the misbehaviour of their fans, who attacked Rangers players on the pitch after the game.
They will face no punishment for the fact thousands of their supporters invaded the pitch, initially in celebration at their side’s 3-2 victory, before hundreds ran to goad Rangers fans.
The Ibrox club will face no censure for the response of their fans, hundreds of whom came over the wall to confront their rivals, with fights breaking out on the pitch.
Rangers will also escape a rap after their fans sang banned anthem the Billy Boys in defiance as the Hibs fans approached their end of the ground.
Rangers refused to comment, while Hibs have been approached but have so far not responded.
GettyThe Hampden pitch was damaged during the invasion
The SFA have also been approached, but were unavailable. One source said: “There is nothing in the SFA’s articles of association that allows them to deal with offensive behaviour. It’s really quite bizarre.”
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Girl, 15, arrested as police swoop on five suspects in connection with Scottish Cup Final violence
McGlennan has cited Hibs and Rangers for allegedly breaching Rule 28 of the Scottish Cup competition stating that damage was sustained to Hampden as “a consequence of misbehaviour by supporters of your club.”
For Hibs, it adds that: “In the course of this misbehaviour by your supporters damage was sustained to the stadium, as follows:
1) To the surface of the pitch, portions of which were removed; and/or
2) To a set of goal posts which were broken and had netting removed; and/or
3) To parts of the LED advertising system situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of both the East Stand, and/or the North Stand; and/or
4) To advertising hoardings situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of the East Stand.”
GettyHibs fans damaged the goalposts at Hampden ParkHibs fans damaged the goalposts at Hampden Park
Rangers fans did not cause damage to the pitch or goalposts, McGlennan has ruled but, like Hibs, they are still being held responsible for damage to the advertising system and hoardings at their end of Hampden.
Both clubs have until Tuesday, September 6 to provide a written response to the alleged breaches. The case against Hibs will be heard on October 4 while Rangers’ case will be discussed 24 hours later.
TURKEYBHOY
I remember that picture well, he looks like a Wee boy who ran oot to play football wi his daddy’s jersey on, :)
Turkey bhoy
I can remember seeing that picture. Never saw first team wear the strip. Did see photograph of the first team wearing it posing with the league cup before a home match after the 7-1 game.
Didn’t travel to many away games in 60s. My da took me to see reserves a lot and I did see them wear it.
Dave King 2014. Must be gonna spend it all in Jan eh?
‘If we want it to be a seamless process to make sure we not only win next year but have a squad that can begin to compete, then I think Ally needs a minimum of £5m in wages and then a very big chunk the following year to compete with Celtic.’
TD67 @ 9.14
As someone once said — if you some people enough rope bad things will happen.
The SFA have just proved that in spades.
Mickey Mouse wouldn’t put his name to a statement like that.
Rank dysfunctional amateurs — beyond a laughing stock.
Garry
Never to old to wear the hoops :)
Doc on 31st August 2016 8:56 am
If you read back last night you will see that it wasn’t your finest hour on the blog, uncomfortable reading after a good night on the blog, but each to their own….
bognorbhoy on 31st August 2016 9:06 am
The album list :
Started 3 times and scrubbed it 3 times decided to go for one’s that I play all the time no matter what mood or time of day.
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I was in a very similar position so I looked at the pile of albums sitting beside the turntable (I know, I should put them away) and worked out that I play those than any others; then sorted into the top 10.
Others in the pile were Bob Marley and the Wailers Live; Hats (Blue Nile); Ziggy Stardust, Heroes and Station to Station (Bowie); Highway 61, Desire and Street Legal (Dylan); The Division Bell and Endless River (Floyd), Jake Bugg and Shangri La (Jake Bugg).
KTF
I did see them playing in it, and it was the first team I’m sure, I was young mind you, and didn’t go to many away games could be wrong?
I asked a question, and poked a little, when I didn’t get a reply, if that sickens you, watch out for that delicate constitution.
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Doc. You were the leader of the pack, yet don’t even have the good grace to offer an unconditional apology to PapaJoe55. Your post is completely absent of contrition, and ends with a typically dim-witted sarcastic remark.
Tony
I say that as well but my style guru disagrees :)
Reading this morning that as part of the Champions league shake up kick off times will be changed for the 2018/19 tournament with kick offs being as early as 18:00 and some as late as 22:00. It will be a reverse 1/2 day for the next morning we’ll need by the time you get home from those games…
It’s a great dayyyy for the shamrock :)
http://www.celticmemorabilia.co.uk/crest.htm
TonyDonnelly67 –
You remember correctly. I saw the first-team wear the Shamrock strip at Celtic Park v Kilmarnock, on at least one occasion.
Don’t feed the troll, Bhoys
Top ten albums,in no order.
Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
Let it Bleed-The Rolling Stones
XO-Elliott Smith
Innervisions-Stevie Wonder
Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
Oh,Inverted World-The Shins
Cold Fact-Rodriguez
Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan
Boy-U2
The Doors-The Doors
I’ve picked them above the others-so many I could list-because of the impact they had on me when I first heard them. And that they still sound bloody terrific!
Weeminger
“it’s only a name”
Yeah, it doesn’t matter, it’s not as if keeping the same name helps in any way whatsoever with the survival/continuity myth, does it?
And I suppose the 1986 Insolvency Act is totally irrelevant too, especially the section on prohibited names.
“A prohibited name is a name by which the liquidated company was known at any time in the 12 months immediately before the liquidation: whether this is it’s registered name at Companies House or its trading name, or ANY NAME SO SIMILAR ( my caps) to its registered or trading name as to suggest an association with the liquidated company ”
So, Sevco it is then, as it’s the only name they’ve had which doesn’t breach the Act.
Surely our club is not condoning law-breaking?
“its”, not “it’s”, line 2.
Kill Ultra
You have made repeated attacks on some very well respected and long standing posters on here. One is BRTH. You state that you have evidence on your laptop which will make us all re-think things re Res12.
Your position is that BRTH is a plant for CelticPLC who was put into Res12 to make sure it failed.
You claim to be a Celtic supporter. If you are and you have such evidence on your computer what is your intention regarding this material and why would a Celtic supporter not share this with his fellow supporters?
You said you did not contribute to the various newspaper initiatives which I organised and crowd funded on here. If you have this evidence you could have saved us all a great deal of time and money by revealing it.
You clearly care about this issue. You have written about it on here often and also pursued Auldheid earlier this month over on Scottish Football Monitor before the host there brought the conversation to an end.
If you have evidence why not reveal it? You have attacked a poster of very high standing on here repeatedly. If you are right why not tell us?
If you want to email the evidence to me to review, my email is david@cqnpublishing.co.uk
If you don’t want to do this or if you don;t want to post the evidence on here, as you have been asked to do by the Res12 guys, then what do you hope to achieve?
I think you should tell us?
Hibs should be punished more severely than the new club. In fairness to Newco they are less familiar with rules given they have only been on the go for a short while….
Kill ultra
May I ask what path/action you could take to let papajoe enjoy the blog again.
Ta.
Papajoe
Google donegal ancestry/geneology they have a good page built parish by parish.
!;-)
Hh
Re the change of strip discussion from earlier…
The first time I recall Celtic changing their strip in an away game was at Hampden v Queens Park in the quarter final of the Scottish Cup in 1965. I think that may well have been the first time we wore that particular strip (no number on the back).
We also wore a white top and black shorts in the 1926 Scottish Cup final v St Mirren.
I know we did not play in the shamrock strip in the 7-1 game, however the team was photographed displaying the trophy in that strip. As next year is the 60th anniversary of that record -breaking victory it may be an idea for the “designers” at New Balance to consider a modern version.
Having seen bits of the Killie gsme on Friday night there is no doubt in my mind how the rest of the country view Sevco….
Definitely a new entity….the old Rangers were generally despised, but this new team are getting it to a whole new level…
Cheats, frauds and liars – and no-one, no team is in any doubt.
Doc –
Just been reading back. You were acting like a bully and an absolute pain in the arse. But you probably thought you were being the blog hero.
Oh wid God the gift tae gie us
Tae see irselves as ithers see us
That change of strip v Queens Park was of course the all green outfit .
Albums
Alchemy – Dire Straits
Born in USA and Born to run-The Boss
Eagles 1976 Album
Harvest – Neil Young
Sweet Baby James- James Taylor
That’s the way love is – Marvin Gaye
Best of both worlds – Robert Palmer
Candida – Tony Orlando & Dawn
Reach out – Four Tops
Ain’t That good news – Sam Cooke
As we all know friends music is a very personal thing :-))). Oh my candida we can make it together
Prepare your F5 keys. Today could be an absolute peach.
Morning Bhoys I remember being at rugby park for wee Jinkys debut it was a teeming wet night and the strips of that era were heavy and got heavier the wetter they got wee Jimmys strip stretched to the point the cuffs on the sleeve were down at his knees and the strip drowned him.I did not realise that night I was watching a future great for Celtic and Scotland. H.H.
KU @ standard office hours / the budget doesn’t stretch to OT
Very specific and pointed questions …
Lack of engagement with no attempt at dialogue.
One club golfer with no apparent empathy for the community you are trying to preach to.
Throwing pebbles into the pond with a view to create divisions?
Now what is the working definition of “AstroTurf”?
How did the Czarist Russian secret police operate — does Level 5 have that book?
Do you own a van, do you write up the minutes, do you have short hair and use the name Dave?
Finally interesting blog name choice.
CELTICSEPHIROTH on 31ST AUGUST 2016 9:55 AM
Prepare your F5 keys. Today could be an absolute peach.
Anything to get us excited about?
Well will anyone else join Celtic today and will anyone else leave ? It may well be a long day until 11pm but third place in our CL group may well hinge on what happens today.Some are saying there will be no more signings others are saying there will be more signings.I just dont know the midfielder I was told had talks with us 2 weeks ago has not materialised so im in the dark about what will or will not happen today. H.H.
Amidst all the childishness on here (a lot of it emanating from people who clearly have more time on their hands than the gainfully employed should; I wonder if that means they ARE at work?) I see a major musical discussion going on about best bands and albums.
I’ve inflicted my tastes on my Facebook friends enough times! I have no qualms about doing it here!
Best album ever? Easy one.
69 Love Songs, by The Magnetic Fields.
Shame on you Philistines for not having mentioned it already!
Artistic, brilliant, beautiful, occasionally hilarious, written in full by Stephen Merritt, one of the coolest song-writers of the 20th century. (He’s a moaning faced git when doing interviews; it’s really something to see and hear!)
Too many good songs from it to choose a favourite (there are 69 of them haha) but Epitaph for My Heart, Papa Was A Rodeo, Asleep & Dreaming, Busby Berkley Dreams, I Don’t Believe In The Sun and a few others are absolutely top drawer and nearly perfect. Acoustic Guitar is absolutely perfect, from the song itself to the lyrics which a lot of you budding song writers will understand perfectly.
The first song I heard from this album was a tune called All My Little Words, which is a superb wee piece of work, but the one that hooked me was I Don’t Want To Get Over You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEhNHIzJec&list=RDVlLvT_R5X7w&index=13
A lot of people think that’s a depressing song. The live version is very morose. But it’s clear he never intended it to be a weepy … after all, he gave it such a catchy tune :)
Expat
Ins and outs. And yes, could be a very exciting end to the window for supporters.
Usual caveats but I’m hopeful enough to say that much.
I’ll keep you posted if I hear more.
AULD TAM
I was second guessing my self there thanks.
KU et al,
I have no idea who you are. I didn’t invite unsolicited e mails from PJ55 giving vague accounts of you. I did not ask for further e mails describing you and PJ55 as Trolls/Level 5ers/Jabba etc.
I have no involvement in Res 12, never asked to be.
If PapaJoe55 is legitimate it’s a shame that no-one involved in this had the decency to intervene and prevent him from unnecessary anxiety.
I intend deleting the dublin2016 address today. All the best.