Every Celtic fan will be delighted Fraser Forster was included in the England World Cup squad. Fraser joined Celtic on loan four years ago, becoming a permanent member of staff in 2012. His transformation over that period has been remarkable, which is no fluke.
He is the most dedicated footballer at the club. First in each morning, around 2.5 hours before official start time, he’s also last out of Lennoxtown almost every day. He is possibly the most complete 365-day-a-year athlete we’ve ever had. This is a player who has set high personal achievement goals and has allowed no distractions to get in his way.
Enormous credit also has to go to the man who has guided him through his meteoric rise in recent seasons, goalkeeper coach Stevie Woods. Without the focus, technical development and remedial work Stevie has added to Fraser’s development we would not have nearly as effective a goalkeeper between the sticks.
It is never good to see anyone lose their job but surely the decision for Hearts to sack Gary Locke was one of the easiest to come out of Anne Budge’s 120 minute review (which was more productive than one 120 day review). Hearts early and late season form, where they comfortably recorded victories against most of their peer group, told a tale of what happened for six months of the season, when the team failed to show up.
Locke had the resources to keep his team in the league this season but found every excuse available to ensure they finished bottom.
I’m less sure Danny Lennon deserved to be hooked. The gap between St Mirren’s 8th placed finish with 39 points and Hibs on 35 points is narrow, but when he needed to dig deep, Lennon was not found wanting. St Mirren might not be so fortunate with their next guy.
Tommy Gemmell
We are going to have the one and only Tommy Gemmell on the blog on Friday afternoon between 13:00 and 16:00. He’ll be available to take your questions and talk about life, football and anything else you care to bring up. Tune in.
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Tiny Tim
and your evidence for those assumptions is?
MWD says aye
BRTH
“Fourth —- I am not at all sure about Celtic Football Club encouraging complete and total strangers to publicly get their balls lodged in the boot of a small car from distance.”
If you saw the efforts from the lads on Sunday, then their balls are more than safe from the clutches of some boot…
Oooyahh!!! CSC
Syd Negakev
And those benefits are going to rise under a UK government just when exactly?
MWD
Tinytim
Is our future forever more living in fear of the malign influence of the Orange Order?
We will stay the way we are governed by a right wing government supported by a right wing Orange Order. Brilliant solution….Aye right!
Impromptu Pythagoras is it?
And here was me lookin’ for the ole Penrose tiling to feature in the Celtic Way.
MWD
Well, they’re probably not but why should they after independence?
Where’s all the money coming from?
Ernie
NO
The Battered Bunnet
I agree with your half time “entertainment” comments.
We should have something that is more befitting our status as a champions league club.
Perhaps a crossbar challenge with a £1M prize?
can’t believe that hasn’t been thought of ………
Scared of the Orange Order. A feckin irrelevence bully organisation that needs stood up to. oh and they are desperate for Independence i hear. desperate!
Where are your balls?
MWD says Aye No saying another word on it for fear of boring the [pants of teh fotty folk but by god there is some trash talk
Syd Negakev
Where is all the money coming from to do what?
MWD says Aye
A ‘what school did you go to’ debate I see.
Who cares!
HH!!
Billy Bhoy 05
I hope you are not thinking that because our season finished yesterday, the blog will welcome a stream of “Vote Yes” postings, especially when misinformation is included.
Despite your polling prognostications, the more informed bookies have Labour at 7/4 to have a majority of seats, the Tories are 11/4 (hardly the favourites you say), and UKIP are 100/1. Currently, the betting favours a hung parliament but, what happens then will determine a lot.
A minority Labour government
A continuation of the ConDem alliance
An unlikley Tory/UKIP coalition
or a Labour/Dem coalition.
As for a putative SNP government banning foodbanks and zero hours contracts etc; you’ld be as well banning poverty and diarrhoea too for all your powers to make these go away.
I am not voting Yes and I had no hesitation in responding a few days ago to leftclicktick’s introduction of the Denis Curran video. I have no idea if Denis wants to Vote Yes, No or abstain in the future referendum so I cannot co-opt him to my side of the argument as readily as you did.
I do not automatically oppose everything an orangeman believes. Some of them strongly hold to the view that today is the 13th May and I am not inclined to oppose them on that point. Mind you, they may not get the year right. However, the Orange Order are going to Vote No, so you should Vote Yes is a juvenile argument. It has the equivalent logical clarity of me saying the wife beater, Bill Walker will vote Yes, therefore you should not Vote No or your wives and partners will get beaten up.
In summary, try and keep a balance between football posts and the, frankly, counter-productive level of SNP posting you are producing, and I promise not to bring pro-No vote boring stuff onto the site.
Sandman
Personally wouldn’t give Sammi a 3 year deal on 20k a week.
Didn’t do much for me in champs lge last year.
And only started something like 10 SPL games.
Thindimebhoy
13:58 on 13 May, 2014
I’ve always though the condition of the pitch at CP was maybe something to do with the free draining nature of the subsoil due to it being an infilled brick pit.
And I assume it’s technically possible to built a heavy structure on made up ground. Well I don’t assume, I know, but I assume the appropriate techniques were used.
TET,
I would take a pinch of salt to any remarks Neil makes in the media re his players.
I think that he wishes to change the team’s style next season, by adding the pace that has been lacking.
I also think that this is why he has brought in Johannsen and Griffiths and is not too sure about Snodgrass.
If I am correct, then that would place Ledley and Sammi in the surplus to requirements box, except as back up.
In other words, he was happy enough to see them go.
As I have said, ad nauseum, Stokes, Commons, Ledley, Mulgrew and Sammi, slowed the play down.
All good players in their own right, but too many to play together.
That was the reason for our turgid league performances.
Defenders having a smoke while waiting for Celtic to get up the park.
Braveheart will be on the telly everyday in an independent Scotland.
Syd Negakev
Was driving outside Fort Augustus a few summers ago with my brother in law from Singapore it was his first time in Scotland and we passed a road sign which said
Free Church
He asked do we have to pay for them here :)
BTW
Can the bugger who stole the gaxebo promptly return it to its rightful place. Me and poor ole Goldstar had to stand out in the open on Sunday.
This won’t do. Certainly not.
ERNIE LYNCH
Waste of time having a pop at BILLYBHOY05.
I don’t think he reads your posts now.
For me,it’s a good topic. For others,maybe not so much.
*gaxebo is a Spanish brand of prefrabricated, free standing, roofed, open sided gazebo.
mncelt
14:24 on 13 May, 2014
‘Tommy Gemmell? What did he ever do for Celtic ? :)’
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Well he allowed Bob Kelly to quash rumours that Celtic had a adopted a Catholics only signing policy.
ernie lynch
Yes our pitch very rarely gets water logged. I know some of the site is built on old mine workings a civil engineer I worked with told me so but he never mentioned it was ever going to sink…!
I expect Fergus would never have built our big hoose on sand
Peter the pointer, Jamie Dolan and Gerry Creaney all went to the same council school as I did, St Pat’s in Coatbridge.
Gerry’s sister Phyllis was a superb player.
I am Astounded of Forehead!
Feardies now scared of the Wee Free’s and The Orange Order rather than look into the fact that the UK governement is just about to ramp up it’s austerity plans, backed by all the main parties after the next general election. 100,00 visiting food banks now, just wait till the election is over. I am likely never to be one of those who requires their assistance but no one should ever require their assistance.
Stay with the nation that afforded us over a Trillion pounds of bank debt while paying top notch bonus’s to those who created this disaster.
Now tyou hit me with your feartie politics using Orange Order, The Wee Free’s and I hit you back with my feartie politics highlighting what we have been told and has been backed up by politicians is going to hit us in next few years.
You want the positives of independence then FFS get of your ass’s and actually go look. the facts and figures are there for all to see.
Attend the many seminars (if you can get in). Look on the Business Scotland Web Site. Even read the White paper.
How many have actually even read it through front to back. Yes it is boring but there was no way in hell i was making a decision without reading it through.
If you are intelligent. At least take the time to look at both sides. You may come out with a different view to me but at least then it will be informed.
Orange Order and Wee Free’s. i do despair.
MWD
MWD says YES
The Amsterdam arena is built on sand/reclaimed land that’s why they have too grow/ replace sections of grass regularly.
HH
William Wallace was actually Australian
An ole gaxebo
Ole.
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan.
14:37 on 13 May, 2014
I think it was your half witted pal Billy Boy who introduced the OO as a reason to vote nat.
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan.
14:37 on
13 May, 2014
MWD says YES
So does Quantum !!
Thindimebhoy 14:36 on 13 May, 2014
I think all the mines were filled in when Cardowan Pit closed, which was about eight years before Celtic Park was redeveloped.
According to The Bewildered, the section under Celtic Park was filled in with gold obtained from the Vatican by Glasgow City Council.
ernie lynch
“Well he allowed Bob Kelly to quash rumours that Celtic had a adopted a Catholics only signing policy.”
Tommy Gemmell signed for us in 1961, the same year that Bertie Peacock (an Orangeman, I am told, so we should have opposed his playing for Celtic) and the non RC- Bertie Auld left. Big Tam was not the only non-RC to join us nor was he the only one still on the books when the two Berties left. When do you feel the Catholics only policy was ever open to valid justification as an attack?
thindimebhoy
13:58 on 13 May, 2014
THE EXILED TIM
12:04 on 13 May, 2014
If you want a laugh read this.
Their desperation is hilarious.
http://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/celtic-park-built-on-made-ground-comprising-ash-rubble-sand-slag-gravel-even-timber-ranging-from-27ft-16ft-thick-in-places/
Be scared Timmy >}
HH
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At least the shite at Celtic Park is below ground!!
HH
McBhoy
14:39 on 13 May, 2014
‘William Wallace was actually Australian’
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That’s only the half of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHA1ufmLZQY
MWD/bb
No need for me to post a response I could never explain my views aswell as SFTB at 14.30.
Which are exactly in line with mine on this issue,I just can’t express it aswell as he does.
So please have a read a his post.
As for being afraid.
Yes I’m afraid the lunatics will take over the asylum .(:-)
TT
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan
We need to leave the union its not working anymore imo
The balance of wealth will continue to tip towards the south of England and especially London and we cant stop it
Sell your house in London buy a castle in Scotland is the norm now not the exception
on the subject of schools Peter Houston went to St. Gregory’s Secondary in Cranhill
Looking forward to the next footballtaxhavens article on Holland falling into the ole Zuiderzee. :-)
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
14:42 on 13 May, 2014
‘When do you feel the Catholics only policy was ever open to valid justification as an attack?’
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I don’t. But there were rumours and Bob Kelly did make a statement that the rumours were nonsense and in fact we had just signed a young boy who wasn’t a Catholic for whom he had great hopes, or words to that effect.
I think it’s a brilliant harbinger of what was to come.