A week into preseason Celtic play their first 90 minutes of the campaign tomorrow afternoon away to Linz in Austria. It will be great to see the team play (CelticTV) but tomorrow is all about getting the legs moving without injury. Thereafter expectations will ramp up quickly.
‘News’ that Nadir Ciftci has been told he can find a new club will have shocked you, I know. You and I had many opportunities to watch Nadir at Dundee United, while Ronny Deila considered his purchase. The player’s languid interpretation of the game made him a surprising signing at the time.
Maybe Ronny knows something we don’t? Was the hope. He didn’t. It was a rank bad signing, one of several strikers acquired during Ronny’s tenure who didn’t look like Celtic players on paper and looked even less equipped in hoops.
Ronny, of course, did try to sign Moussa Dembele in January 2016, so it would be wrong to conclude he had a blind spot for strikers, but you will struggle to name some who ‘passed through Parkhead’s gates’ in recent seasons.
I only caught up with Dave King’s ramblings yesterday evening. He fancies Newco to reach 10-in-a-row before Celtic do so. They stand a far better chance if we leave Scottish football. Remember when Charles Green promised Newco would never compete in the Scottish Premier League, knowing fine well the league were committed to an imminent rebrand? Not laughing so much now, are you?
Celtic are always looking at this, always working on one or other strategy.
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CHAIRBHOY
I think Ciftci had scored ONE goal before signing for Dundee Utd.
We obviously signed the pre-united one.
I see Sevco’s £6m man has been sent to train with the kids and is on the way out of the club. I’m sure there will now be a 0 knocked off that valuation.
When it comes to transfers they’re not very clever are they? If you want to get rid of someone, and he has a transfer value, you keep him involved during pre season and give the pretence that you still may want him whilst trying to punt him. Keep the value up.
He would be a good signing for Aberdeen or Hearts.
Paul, I get the feeling that a lot of fans especially over here are getting towards the end of their tether re the status quo on treatment/defence of them and communication too them by the club… that industry standard “we apologise for the inconvenience but due to leaves on the track” press release re the Belfast tickets was just another slap in the face on this whole sham.
I think this site is at a bit of a crossroads too – I was really looking forward to the Q&A report with the club rep and yet the first one was essentially a series of “we are aware of the issue but cant get into that right now answers” hold the front page, eh. Understand the attempt but perhaps a topic they agreed to answer…
Or perhaps you say to them – you want me to promote your viewpoint, and the good things celtic does (foundation etc) then you need to be able to take your medicine and answer the difficult questions otherwise we say to our readers that you are refusing to answer them
The questions on this topic are
Did you raise the potential linfield tie with uefa before the draw? if not, why not
If it was linfields job have you confirmed that they did?
If a home club cant provide safe access to away fans on a tie should they not forfeit the tie?
Did you make any attempt to arrange safe tickets/travel for local fans? or did you just say “screw them” we throw them a full price exhibition in Dublin every year what do they want – specific examples have been provided re safe travel routes from andytown/falls rd – were they examined? why were they ruled out?
again if the psni said no (1) why wasn’t all this communicated (2) why didn’t linfield auto loose the tie?
We are once again left feeling taken for granted…. how many times do they have to be warned that their communications with supporters sux and dealing with authorities sux
Celtic are always looking at this, always working on one or other strategy.
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P67
On the face of it its been a monumental waste of time so far, unfortunately.
Maybe its time for a different approach.
Why don’t you drip feed what you know out to get the ball rolling and the debate going ;)
HH
GO TELL THE SPARTIM on 27TH JUNE 2017 1:27 PM
So qualification isnt a gamble, apparently?
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They are cup games. You don’t go into these games relying on chaps who have been there for 2 weeks.
The current squad have achieved great things so it would be counterproductive to get rid of them in favor of new signings.
I’d maybe agree with you if we had sold some key players but we haven’t.
Good to see footie back on the blog – not bothered about any new signings for now – get SA contract sorted first.
Linfield are the equivalent of a mid-table scottish championship team
Why we worry about the invincibles against that mob?
Anybody deleted yet?
Can we keep a count for this thread?
I refuse to join a clique that would have me as a member.
Seems like having post deleted is now a badge of honour – good manners cost nothing
Timaloy29
Absolutely we will put them to the sword over 2 legs. Don’t mention artmedia :)
In other news,regarding my deletion yesterday.
Here is the article I referred to. It uses language in its title which should not be used,IMO,by any Celtic supporter,and certainly should not be given prominence on a site such as this.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/celtics-orange-squash-2-games-in-22-hours/
Aye. It’s still there,shamefully.
I pointed out how distasteful-at best-the wording was,and suggested it be moderated with appropriate punishment.
Maybe I worded it wrongly,though worse things are frequently said.
As the post was personally deleted by PAUL67,rather than a moderator,I conclude the following.
That the article was posted by a moderator,who for once showed some common decency and instead of deleting it himself,asked the boss to do it.
PAUL67 saw fit to delete it,and I accept that.
What I find so difficult to understand is why that same poster is refusing to reply to the concerns of MARGARET McGILL re the Tommy Gemmell interview.
Cat got your tongue,WINNINGCAPTAINS?
Same cat that seems to have stopped you posting updates on this site’s huge increase in numbers since you took over?
Same cat that refuses to answer any correspondence from CELTFISH,your business partner at the set-up of CQN BOOKS/MAGAZINE?
FYI,Tony stays not far from Swindon,and the stories he could tell.
And has.
Curl your hair,it would.
Aye,WC,yer moniker has the correct initials. You’ve pushed this site down a toilet with your money-grabbing,and damned near ruined a decent man. With your business record,I wonder how many more there are.
Annan for the colts http://www.celticfc.net/news/12835
Bobby and Emerald Bee , thanks for your replies to my post about Fraser Wishart.
The SPFA are another part of one of the ongoing problems in Scottish football, not publicly challenging any of the two clubs that played out of Ibrox for their dishonesty and fans behaviour.
Stating the obvious, all those involved in the running Scottish football clubs will never show any desire and gumption to take on the Sfa and the League in getting the problems caused by the Ibrox clubs , rectified.
Bobby, the Jinky star t shirt whether with the silver or green star, is a stoatir. Celtic’s merchandising crew are missing out on a big earner for the club with not coming out with imaginitive t shirts like some of our fans websites and boca 10 do.
As an aside, I’m disappointed Boca 10 have a WATP t shirt as well as others with British flags on them to sell to the sevs.
BMCUW @ 1:29 PM,
Well, that I didn’t know.
He seemed to me to have a physicality and made a nuisance of himself against us more than once, an attribute that could do well on occasions in the SPL.
Yet it looks like he made a startling return to previous form when he signed by the sounds of it.
In Ronny’s defence, we should remember we had high hopes (thou personally not a great fan) of signing Guidette.
Hail Hail
BELFASTBHOYO
There are more questions than answers,certainly on here.
Question the running of the club,question the reaction to huns cheating for decades,question the ineptitude of the SFA or their institutional leanings to one team.
Question our players being treated differently by the refs,our fans by the police.
Etcetera,etcetera,etcetera. As Yul Brynner put it.
Just don’t expect answers on here.
Whatever happens with Armstrong he won’t be going before the CL qualifying has finished. Put the deal on the table, then finish the qualifiers. If he doesn’t sign it, punt him. End of story.
HT.
Love yer passion and enthusiasm mate.
HH.
Bobby, but the site cant continue its success if it doesn’t
unless it essentially wants to be the celtic equivalent of ukip – “we were created to raise financial awareness in the fans and highlight the res12 issues” and we did that
we are very quick to constantly highlight deficiencies on the other side
but in order to keep integrity you need ..well integrity and to have open and frank relationship with the club
GENE on 27TH JUNE 2017 1:45 PM
Timaloy29
Absolutely we will put them to the sword over 2 legs. Don’t mention artmedia :)
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Well of course Artemedia happened. But this isn’t a new coach and a new group of players being thrown together.
Brendan has been with this lot all season and they will be primed to pump Linfield
Bada Bing @ 12.26…possibly Traynor’s words but uttered by a crooked fool, lacking in anything that resembles a personality…if he had said the same thing but with a smile on his face, his tongue firmly in his cheek and a twinkle in his eye (naw, scrub the last wan), he might have gotten away with it and at the same time sown the seed amongst the the neanderthals…
BELFASTBHOYO
I could not agree more,and few if any regular posters over the years would disagree.
I love this site for the people who are on it,the friendships made,the occasional snippet of information,but sometimes it’s like reading Pravda.
A shift back to the founding ethos would be just the ticket. We can laugh all we like at the SMSM spouting nonsense from Ibrox,but…
Does this site really do much different nowadays from Celtic Park?
BMCUW
Gaun yersel’!
Get them telt!
HH!!
BMCUWP
Powerful stuff!
Keep posting like it is!
Timaloy
the point is that we never, it seems and may change, add quality from a position of strength, they will never risk it. Linfield (if they qualify) dont worry me in the slightest, it is our own complacency (happens year on year to be a fluke) in the transfer window that worries me.
just reading back before I head off to battle …. a few comments…..
BelfastBhoy@ 1:30 … a good post … thoughtful but without much of the hand-wringing found in many of the posts of a similar bent (e.g., most of mine!)
Barney@1:41 … does that post not make you part of the CQN (Groucho) Marx-ist clique … apparently, along with Moseley
on that note, really? … Mosley was never a socialist… a careerist/opportunist who finally showed his true colours …. an all ’round bad man.
Philboy @ 1;38 …. maybe to raise a bit of money for charity, we could start a pool … we pick which post gets banned first each day … 1 pound a shot … my choice is BMCUWP@1:45 … although the W word may test my George Carlin/CQN theory
dont worry BMCUWP … if I win, I’ll spllit half my winnings with you! :)
MIKE IN TORONTO
Agree with your choice of the next deletion.
However, it can’t be deleted without a reply.
Or they could take it offline. :-(
Paul67 et al
“…. if we leave Scottish football.”
Well we can rule out Ireland in that scenario…
Too dangerous!
MIKE IN TORONTO
The Moderators would have been on overtime if they’d been at the dayoot on Saturday.
Men talking like men.
What’s not to like?
Philbhoy
unlike on here where some men talk like a**es
BMCUP,
Strong stuff.
I think that there is a case to answer, re allegations surrounding the Tommy Gemmell question.
I can’t comment on the other point, as I have no personal knowledge of the two people involved.
However, over the years, I have come to respect your own integrity, whilst not always agreeing with you.
I am fully in agreement with you on the deterioration of the blog.
I have been on here since the first couple of months of it’s existence and over the years there has been a gradual decline in the standard of posters and posts.
Too many people are determined to push the limits of the few rules that exist and use the blog to push personal agendas.
This just provokes a response from some who disagree with them and ,as a result, the blog spirals down to the gutter.
Trolling then ensues.
There is no pleasure on the blog now and it can’t be blamed on the close season.
If pushed, I would put it down to basic bad manners, ignorance and an overwhelming desire to appear relevant and be noticed.
I suspect that Paul 67 has very little input to the blog and has more or less handed over editorial control to a tabloid mentality.
I don’t think that I will hang around much longer.
School run- off to collect my granddaughter – be nice to one another – remember we are all Celts
MOSLEY.?
His second wedding took place at Goebbels house.Guest of Honour was the psychopathic house painter from Vienna .
SOUTHOFTUNIS
Aye,heid honcho in The National Socialist Party
Hence,Mosley was a Socialist,simple innit?
THOMTHETHIM
The problem is it takes pricks to burst a ballon.
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK
I hope you do hang around!
I come on the Blog for Celtic news as I don’t buy newspapers so a wee lifeline.
You should come along to the next Hoot or Stag Do, fantastic occasions.
Oh and HAMILTONTIM has set a high bar for the ole stag doos!
Keep posting mate.
Fair play to the Celtic Trust & The Green Brigade.
There now is hope.
Go raibh maith agat.
It would be good if the Celtic Supporters Associations called for the bizarre decision to be reversed.
KTF.