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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ShrewsWeb
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20 yr old @celticfc striker Bahrudin Atajic is set to sign on loan until the end of the season
Honest. Agree mate we have dead wood we want to move out
Bhoys and Ghirls,
Contrary to some previous opinions, I like the transfer speculation.
The very fact that people want to speak about us on a national stage is welcoming. Deep down we all know our transfer limitations, but its when broadcasters don’t feel the need to speak about us then I will worry.
HH, Always in Celtic.
Did BFDJ get his first cap at sixteen,my aul fella says that he could have been the most capped ever,but he pulled out of dozens off squads through injury but still played for thems
The next game
HH
Well have we signed Messi yet?
This is what I was talking about earlier, the slagging mob are out in full, any given chance and they come away with this tripe, rest assured he thinks this is clever, I have my own opinion on what he thinks, and it’s not wishing Celtic well not when you make a Hun like post like this.
kitalba
12:07 on 24 January, 2014
Son to Father…
“Dad, are Celtic ever goint to sign another striker?”
Father to son…
“Well apparently they’re after that Griffiths geezer”
Son to father…
“What like is he any better than those other ‘strikers’ we forked out millions on from Hibs and fudded it?”
Father to Son…
“Somebody has to run back and forth behind the goal in a Celtic Strip and get paid ten grand a week and wave to the fans and never play and eventually just disappear and the people they – the ten grand a week dud – is waving at, are struggling to buy tins of soup to donate to the starving of Glasgow… surely you can understand that?”
SydneyTim:
Hibs don’t play against teams with eleven men, a referee and two linesmen, and the Scottish media behind the ball.
Tallybhoy
I was a 19 year old ” autistic” bampot studying Mathematical Physics. Spending all my money on choons , spliff and clothes..
My mother had long abandoned trying to sort me out. A pre primary school me used to freak my parents out by staring at things like black and white chequered lino and announcing ” there are 416 squares on the floor “
If Paul doesn’t extract the digit, some poor bhoy or ghirl is going to get post #1690…
Kit. Good evening sir. How are you. ?Rain tonite here for. 1st time in a long time
If we can’t spend big. Then bring in the best of scottish.
Son to Father…
“What is a green hun?”
Father to son…
“Well that is a hard one bhoy, sometimes it is really hard to tell the difference between a hun and a green hun, but know this son, a green hun is ten times more venomous”.
Son to Father…
“But how can you tell the difference?”
Father to son…
“Well, that is easier than you might believe”.
SydneyTim:
I’m good mate, regards to your family and Michael’s too.
Regards Celtic… it would be nice if we bought a striker before we have to contest the CL qualifiers.
Useless piece of information……..
Tomorrow night is Lottery draw number 1888.
What are your 6 Celtic related numbers?!
FAO fellow aul hauns –
a Celtic-Rangers XI was due to play Moscow Dinamo at Hampden on 03/12/1965. This match was postponed on account of the weather and the fixture pencilled in for Celtic Park the following night….
…… what happened next ?
WonderinG
eddieinkirkmichael @12.18 hrs.
Well have we signed Messi yet?
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He’s too wee, don’t need another squad player
HH.
South of Tunis
So you had a 16 by 26 kitchen.
That’s nearly a golden ratio.
So Atajic is the latest to move out and into the shop window. Hope he does well and gets himself a good move in the summer, and a couple of hundred thousand for us. Same goes for Watt, Irvine and McGregor.
wg- Rangers stole the money?
TGM @taragmag 2m
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Kit. You to sir. I can remember your wee bhoys in Brisbane
Bet they are bigger than you now
Ps striker. It’s no going to happen
We can’t afford it
Talking of first Cup Finals, mine was the 1965 final against Dunfermline. A pivotal game in Celtic’s modern history and Mr Stein’s first trophy with us. I had never been to Hampden prior to that match. My late father and I climbed the mountainous stairs which led up to the Celtic terracing and when we got to the top of the second tier I looked down on the immense bowl which was, at that time, the second largest stadium in the world. I’ve never forgotten the sense of awe I felt at that moment.
We were about to watch the first instalment in MrStein’s glorious reign but we didn’t know it.
That aside, my favourite final was the 4-0 match against the dead team in 1969.
A majestic, stunning performance.
south of tunis
Thank feck it wisnae that terrazzo flooring or you would still be there the noo
HH
Son to father…
“Dad I’ll give my pocket money to Celtic towards buying a striker.”
Father to son…
“You and one hundred thousand kids like you; and Celtic know that.”
SydneyTim:
My wee boys are big now.
A striker… what a shambles we are in.
Kit unfortunately that pocket money ( eg vic money) will be put to balance sheet to display at AGM
Linolium (as we used to call lino) with a pattern? You must have been well off.
Bet it was fitted to the size of the room too.
Kit. I watched a YouTube video of frank mcgarvey the other night
I saw his debut and idolised him
He was payed peanuts compared to pukki, Balde , stokes , Sammi
But he scored goals and goals and goals
First Cup Final?
Mine was the 67 Aberdeen game, two Wispy goals settled that.
A month before Lisbon, the Lions were stretching their limbs.
Wispy: see what 30 000 notes could get you back then !
My first Celtic v The HUN game was that 1969 SCF. I was 13
My first SCF was the 1967 final against The Dons, the Celtic team that day was the Lisbon Lions
Great times
new article posted.
weet weet weet .
Terrazzo would have been a doddle..
Just had a sevcovian refuse a lighter as it had the saltire on it, says he doesn’t believe in all that Scottish sh**, its the union jack for him. So he gets matches instead,they are the Scottish bluebell box, he goes mad, all i could do was laugh.
He was wearing that black and red scarf ,didn’t know it was still on the go.
sixtaeseven…
Snap!
SydneyTim:
I quite like Pukki, and Stokes, and Sammi, and big Balde too; none of them are strikers ‘in the mould’ though.
I never though much of Frank McGarvey as a striker.
Winning Captains
You know how you were saying that the older guys would have a better chance of winning the Whiskey as the game went back a while, well I was wondering if I could do a sevco on this as my old man probably went to some of those older games? ;)
Kit
Good Morning.
In answering your questions:
1. No — Mandela saw the SA Government and the political system as the enemy and the opposition — but for a long time within his own independence movement he argued against the use of violence until he was converted to an alternative view.
Are the Green Brigade part of the Celtic support or do they see the rest of the Celtic support as the enemy or the opposition?
It should not be that way in my opinion.
2. Michael Collins was sent to negotiate ultimately and having received a mandate to negotiate came away with what he thought was at least a good interim deal. Obviously, loads of others didn’t like the deal that was struck and we all know what happened from there.
The point is who do the Green Brigade speak and act on behalf of as I know many fans were far from happy with that banner being shown on that night — many of the same people believe that the banner was clever and had a point but brought the club into disrepute under a bad law brought in by an imperfect organisation — namely UEFA.
However, they feel that the Green Brigade played fast and loose with the reputation of their club– and that they had no say in that stance. As a result they do not believe that the Green Brigade represented their interests– and if you like they have withdrawn whatever mandate the GB might have had.
I have said before that I consider The Green Brigade and Celtic PLC to be two of the worst card players you will ever find facing one another at the one card table.
Had they the good sense to act in consort rather than react against one another with friction then the voice of the Green Brigade would still be heard and would have been far louder than it ever in fact was — and it could have been a great voice for the good. Now it is virtually silent– and that ain’t smart politics.
Even when they may not have agreed on matters, there could still have been a way of tolerating one another’s point of view on certain matters with a view to finding common ground on things like standing areas and so on. In particular, as one poster said on here last night, there is a difference between being clever and being smart — I am firmly of the view that The Green Brigade needed to be far smarter — and I am even more of the view that Celtic PLC needed the Green Brigade to be far smarter and that it was in the Green Brigade’s interest for the board to be far smarter as well.
The only winners in a game with two really bad card players is whoever else is at the table and the bank. In this instance the Police, the Government with its stupid bill and ridiculous act triumph — not because they are clever or right but because their opponents are two ends of the one donkey heading in different directions at the same time.
3. Mother Theresa — absolutely no doubt she did great work — absolutely great work. However, she would not listen to any arguments about the use of certain drugs, advances in medicine and stands accused of causing unnecessary suffering for some by not allowing or going with the advances in medicine that were available over a period of years. She did not believe in pain relief for example.
Fair enough, her beliefs are her beliefs — but did she become matriarchal and domineering? Should she have listened to others and perhaps taken their opinions on board? Many believe that she should and that by not listening others under her care suffered unnecessary. There is no doubting her good and holy intentions– but was she always right in how she went about fulfilling those intentions?
As for the food kitchens and that ethos which you talk about?
The existence of food kitchens are a disgrace — a blot on our landscape and a blight on our social conscience as a society.
However, that Celtic ethos you talk of existed among the fans more than it ever existed in those who run the club. Shortly after Walfrid’s vision was realised, the money for the penny dinners was abandoned other than on a token basis and the families who controlled Celtic Football and Athletic Club Ltd did so to line their own pockets. Oh there were acts of largesse and charity — but the purpose of the club had changed dramatically and while these people did not receive £1m or whatever, in percentage terms and in ethos terms they took and took and took with Walfrid’s vision completely hijacked. They ran the club for their own financial benefit — not for the benefit of fans like your father or mine etc.
Many of the original committee men resigned from Celtic when they saw the professional football club emerging — remember that for Walfrid the football was secondary to the fund raising and creating the ability to put food on the table — it was a means to an end with the added advantage that it would distract many from other pastimes and perhaps even other religions or influences.
But once the club became a pure football club — and that position brought many advantages in footballing terms — was it really a club which still shared Walfrid’s vision?
I don’t think it was as it decided to pay big wages to players and make no mistake those running the show earned a right few quid.
Today, we have a greater chance and a greater way of being more like the club that Walfrid formed. WE — the fans—- are forever raising money for the best of causes and for people. The PLC? Well — it plays a lesser role in all of that kind of thing. Sure it has set up the foundation, gives some money to the foundation, and supports the foundation in tapping into OUR vision of the football club and its charity work.
If we were really following Walfrid’s footsteps we would be clamouring for any potential £5M to go towards ending the foodbanks either through donation or in funding some radical movement that would bring about change. I don’t think that the Marist would have been up for paying that kind of money or its 1888 equivalent plus wages on or to a footballer — after all the entire first team on that first day were all 24 hour loan signings and those who paid to watch did so without knowing who in God’s name was going to take to the field for this new club!
All they knew, was that someone would turn up, wear the Green and White strip, give of their best and as a result the poor would benefit.
That is nothing like the Celtic team or support of today.
Kit. Each to your own But load up a frank mcgarvey video on you tube and watch him
Good nights sir
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