I was initially surprised to hear we’re tracking a Jack-of-all-trades defensive midfielder-cum-central defender. Neil Lennon’s clear preference in central defence is Efe Ambrose and Virgil van Dijk, both of whom have been in excellent form this season, but he has backup in the form of Charlie Mulgrew, or even Mikael Lustig, who has played there before.
Defensive midfield, along with striker, is one of the key positions Celtic should be looking to strengthen; so a dedicated specialist would seem the better option, but our last outstanding specialist in that area arrived with exactly the same CV. I remember the disputes here when Neil Lennon talked about Victor Wanyama being able to play centre half. He could, but he didn’t.
It’s more important that we do our recon well than utilise everything in a player’s locker. Buying from England is usually expensive, but at least if affords you the opportunity to solicit plenty of reliable opinion on a player.
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minx1888 praying for Wee Oscar
23:01 on
minx, he’s already admitted he’s never heard her speak.
That says it all really.
S&M
Hiya honey I’ve missed ye x
Acgr
Do you have a shovel in your hands ;)
minx1888 praying for wee oscar
23:21 on 23 January, 2014
TD67 – See my post of 2301 just in case you missed it!
Yes I saw that, let me put the ball back in your court, and show me some thing nice she has said about the board and PL, YOU PROB. BE A WHILE LOOKING.
HT
How did you manage to read saddo masochists post with all those spelling errors
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
Dewars White Label is really nice too. I was drinking that in Greece last year.
Come to think of it once you can savour the peaty ones there’s no bad whisky!
ACGR
I’ll need to try an Ardbeg. Always good to get a recommendation
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
22:23 on
23 January, 2014
martybhoy59
22:02 on 23 January, 2014
We can disagree without falling out ;-)
Strangely, the only criticism of the GB’s banner that I’ve seen has been on here or Twitter. Every individual around me at the game and every Tim I’ve spoken to since thought it to be an intelligent and poignant attempt to highlight the hypocrisy of the OBFA.
You could say that the GB deliberately misled the board OR you could say that the GB were clever in their interpretation of the agreed dialogue.
Personally, I don’t think it matters. The GB were right to highlight continual harassment and my biggest gripe is that the board haven’t backed Celtic supporters in their attempt to do so. In fact they’ve done the opposite.
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If you mean the banner for which UEFA fined Celtic a good few thousand quid then how would you feel if you had a barbecue in Square Sausage Land where round sausages, whilst acceptable in other areas, were not allowed in gardens for barbecue purposes?
For some strange reason, round sausages, whilst acceptable in any other environment were against the law of Square Sausage Land and so outlawed.
All of your guests know this and agree that whilst the law is an ass they will only bring square sausages. But a couple of guests, for political round sausage reasons because they have been part of their long tradition, decide to bring round sausages and not just any sausages but Mark & Spencers finest round.
The round sausage police or FOCU S as they are know locally decide to pay a call and on seeing the round sausages on the barbecue grill arrest you and you are fined £40k plus.
The thing about the banner for which Celtic were fined is that Celtic did not pay that fine, you did and I did, all paying supporters paid a share.
Back in your garden you would feel more than a little indignant at your reputation for holding excellent square sausage barbecues being damaged, but you would be more than fizzing at the fine that your wayward guests had inflicted on you. I imagine if your other guests had to chip in to pay the fine they to would be smoking if not blazing mad.
Therein lies the problem around all of this. No group should take unilateral decisions that have an impact on the rest of the group, particularly financial but also reputational. This is were the GB imo made a huge error of judgement, which I can put down to the foolishness of youth, but if they are to grow out of that foolishness they have to experience and go through the consequences.
Nothing trains and develops and individual like a bad experience.
(No sausages, round or square (or even links for that matter) were hurt in the making of this analogy.)
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Sausages are the Bhoys. ;)
Ha ha, dimtim’s stalker arrives on time to wish him the happiest of birthdays.
This is shaping up to be a great night.
tbj praying for oscar knox
23:30 on 23 January, 2014
HT
How did you manage to read saddo masochists post with all those spelling errors
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Teaching has it’s benefits :-)
HT – glad to hear you had a great day, mate.
I have to disagree with you about the GB tifo before the Milan game. It may have been a good point about the OBFB, but the message was always going to be lost as soon as a picture of Bobby Sands was displayed.
Most of the guys around me in 408, who are not regulars/lurkers on here, were hacked off with the GB for doing that before a CL game. And that was before we found out about yet another UEFA fine! What’s the running total at the moment, that has been paid for by Celtic fans, mostly through season card money?
IMO the GB lost a lot of support that night, before the events at Fir Park.
Incidentally, I agree that the club should now make it known in the MSM that none of the fans arrested after Fir Park were GB members. I would then hope to see a new dialogue established between the various fans groups and the club, with the SLO as mediator.
T4
TD67
You said the other day you answered all questions that were directed at you.
Just in case you missed it, here is mine again
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tonydonnelly67
Serious question to you, no agenda, just wanting to know what you think.
As far as I am aware, Celtic are open to all, politics, religion, colour, creed or whatever.
Question is….why are those who you disagree with not welcome when the ethos of the club says different ?
HH
That wee Labour lass just shot herself in the foot!!
nakasammi, mail me at acgr@hotmail.com
Are you at the CQ10 or the next hootenanny? I fear a whisky frenzy should we ever meet.
HH bruv
a ceiler gonof rust
23:06 on 23 January, 2014
tonydonnelly67, Doc has one ticket left for his table at the CQ10 gig. Why don’t you come along and meet Jeanette F, you can ask her if she thinks she’s worth the money you think she makes.
Why should I go there and make your night?
I’m sure you could all enjoy yourself without me telling her to shut up, and trying to explain to her its a dinner and dance, and I’m not interested in her using Celtic as a rung on the ladder to success.
That tory tart missed out the trillionaire tax dodgers!!!
ACGR – hope you’re not getting all excited in your Celtic Onesie, you’ll put lumps in it…! :-)
T4
At the risk of being told I have skelves on my arse or that I am a total tosser can I point something out which everyone and anyone is free to disagree with.
Jeanette Findlay, Peter Lawell and any other Tom, Dick, Harry or Shirley who sits on the board or is a secretary of a supporters club or whatever — they are all Celtic fans!
They may come from opposing philosophies, they will hold different positions, feel they have different responsibilities, have conflicting priorities, are answerable to different people or perhaps none at all, have different attributes and failings, be under different pressures … whatever.
Personally, I cannot understand a “them” and “us” mentality — there is only “us” when following or even administering Celtic.
There are plenty of things I would do differently to PL and I would have a differenet advocacy style to JF — and no doubt they would say the same about me.
I know there are those who don’t like Jeanette’s style or even her politics, but I have always found her to be pleasant, forthright, sometimes funny, and down to earth — she has also been known to listen which astonishes some.
I find her good company although I don’t know her that well.
For the record I think Eddie Toner is a gem.
I have only met Peter Lawell once– perhaps twice if you include a brief chat in passing — and I do not envy him his job — no matter what the salary.
Like Jeanette, I found him straightforward, and easy to agree and disagree with in equal measure. He has a job to do and does it his way– which I don’t always agree with.
Someone else who sits on the Celtic administration side of things has said to me that they find Jeanette — and other members of the Celtic Trust — a joy to deal with. They don’t always agree but there appears to be no personal ill feeling and considerable respect.
feelings will run high re the act and Celtic’s take on the act — personally I think the club has taken a wrong turn with the act and the Police– but it is a turn that is understandable given the reliance the club place on certain club employees who are just not best equipped to challenge or adapt to certain attitudes and policies which have been adopted by the authorities.
I say again, the one thing I totally disagreed with Fergus McCann on was the decision to go down the PLC route — That decision could still yet turn out to be a disaster for Celtic Football Club — but in the interim the board are not the worst yet fall short of being the best.
What we need both within and outwith the walls of power at Celtic park is good old fashioned Savvy — Savvy in dealing with fans, Savvy in dealing with the authorities and most of all Savvy in dealing with that strangest of things ……. people — and that includes one another by the way.
tommytwiststommyturns
23:32 on
23 January, 2014
I said earlier to “agree to disagree” with HT on this subject but you have captured the issue in one post!
tonydonnelly67
23:29 on 23 January, 2014
minx1888 praying for wee oscar
23:21 on 23 January, 2014
TD67 – See my post of 2301 just in case you missed it!
Yes I saw that, let me put the ball back in your court, and show me some thing nice she has said about the board and PL, YOU PROB. BE A WHILE LOOKING.
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All she wants is a seat on the board, all she does is slag the Celtic (the board) it’s not happening, someone should put this person down and talk to her, and let her know how the club are doing, we are doing that well she or anyone else is not needed, do they really need that match attention?
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Being a Ghirl I was always rubbish at ball games! You keep the ball and answer my question when and where have you heard her speak?
saint stivs
23:08 on 23 January, 2014
Td67.
I’ve read recently on the blog you were wonderful host to other cqn,ERS. Respect for that.
I just be myself, nice to be nice, as my old granny used to say, Doesent cost you a penny, in here I have my opinions like others, some don’t like it and rip into me, used to bother me, Doesent now, as long as I wake up in the morning, I’m ok ;)) and hope everyone else does too.
Auldheid
Good points but I’ll assume that you’ll appreciate that I’m more of a black pudding bhoy :-)
I fully understand that sausages will feel aggrieved that they’ve had to pay this fine. My point is that I believe it’s worth paying; principles are at steak :-)
Auldheid
You sure know how to make a bhoy feel hungry
Wow. The teachers pets are picking on me.! If you dont put your money in the tin here you cannot comment. Tell you what why dont you start a chant of stand uo for the GB if you can be bothered turning up on wednesday and see how it goes
Auldhied – you’re bang(er) out of order!
You know how much the overseas bhoys miss their rolls n skwerr! :-)
T4
Compounded now by HT I’m off to the fridge
naka
Yes tasted Dewars last week. My son in law won at golf and he hates whisky bless!!! <:0)
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Due to inexcusable dithering I am on the reserve list for tickets.
Always a pleasure to converse with a fellow whisky enthusiast. There’s not enough of us around!
I’m sure we’ll get the chance to enjoy a dram or two.
HH
weefrathetim
23:24 on 23 January, 2014
TD
Ffs I posted this yesterday before you even passed comment on it. Please don’t flatter yourself on being a target for me. Don’t know you, have appreciated your posts at times, but to deliberately down you???? You have a much bigger impression of yourself than most on here. Have a lie down kiddo, you really need it. KTF
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
And this is what I mean, it’s a Celtic blog, to get carried away with what I post is daft, it’s just my opinion, I’m not here to impress anyone, my god, you don’t even know me.
When we arrived at the stadium in Seville under an hour before kick off we phoned one of our mates who was working inside the stadium suited and booted. He was complaining about the heat and commented that the players might find it hard going as he had just been told the temperature at pitch level in the shade was 35 degrees C.
When we got in to the park there was no water left for sale in our section. After the game ended we waited in the bus park for over an hour waiting for lost souls and gasping for a beer but any rehydration would have been fine, when a hooped figure in the distance carrying large bottles of water caught my eye. When I marched over and asked where to go to get the water he said no chance mate these were some of the last the shop had and the queue was massive. When I offered to buy one to share round the guys on the coach he said forget it you’re having a laugh if you think I am taking money off you big man. Just take one he said and buy me a beer next time you see me. Probably sums up the spirit of Seville. Never saw him again to buy him the beer but the water hit the spot with the bhoys.
HH GMB
Celtic Park had a great atmosphere on Saturday. It is a much better atmosphere when the four stands get involved in the singing rather than leaving it to one wee section.
Is it just coincidence that some mouthpieces have been mobilised this weekend just in case majority started to forget about the wee section.
All Celtic fans are equal done are more important than the other. There are many wee sections in Celtic Park it’s only when we come together as one that we are so special.
If you know your and appreciate your history from 1888 (not 2006).
martybhoy59
23:42 on 23 January, 2014
Compounded now by HT I’m off to the fridge
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Eh??? :-)
TD67, why would you being there make my night?
You not being there will a lot of peoples night, and I don’t mean that in an offensive way. I’ve yet to meet a poster from the blog I didn’t have a laugh with, many who I’ve had spats with here.
I don’t think Jeanette will miss you either.
xxx
smoke and mirrors
23:42 on 23 January, 2014
Wow. The teachers pets are picking on me.! If you dont put your money in the tin here you cannot comment. Tell you what why dont you start a chant of stand uo for the GB if you can be bothered turning up on wednesday and see how it goes
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We’ve got Hibs at Easter Rd on Sunday sweetie x
Looks like the great TD67 is ignoring some questions that he said he wouldn’t do.
Again TD, please answer the question, you are after all a Celtic man are you not ?
TD67
You said the other day you answered all questions that were directed at you.
Just in case you missed it, here is mine again
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tonydonnelly67
Serious question to you, no agenda, just wanting to know what you think.
As far as I am aware, Celtic are open to all, politics, religion, colour, creed or whatever.
Question is….why are those who you disagree with not welcome when the ethos of the club says different ?
HH
HT – pay for your own principles….oot yer birthday money! ;-)
Prestonpans – HH mate.
Right, bed time.
T4
Got some ice out of the freezer last week and forgot to close the door. The ice tray was kinda wattery But was good and solid the next morn.
BRTH, you are of course right to point out that we are all Celtic fans.
I have, like you met Lawwell once and Findlay several times and have no axe to grind with either, but where I have become increasingly disenchanted with the board is in their craven refusal to support our fans when they are subjected to OB/Police/Steward/MSM mistreatment.
We are sitting ducks, aunt Sallys for our enemies because of this failure.
I can think of no other club in the country that acts in this way.
tonydonnelly67
23:39 on
23 January, 2014
Good lad.
It`s painful to see Tim bullies at work.
That`s what huns do.Right?
Another illusion damaged.