We are already at the stage of the season when a return of Christopher Jullien or James Forrest would have little impact on the outcome. It will take a scheduling miracle for the Scottish Cup to reach its latter stages before club football ends to allow players to join international squads ahead of the Euros, so the news that Chris is likely to be in recuperation until the start of next season is no real hardship.
The return of James will be a welcome sight but it is hard to see any big picture relevance, no matter how brilliant he plays. Celtic players get little time to allow limbs to rest and recuperate, this is one such period.
Sunday night in Dingwall is the very last place in Scotland’s tourist trail, apart from the Celtic squad, who will arrive looking for their sixth successive win this month.
Ross County have not played in two weeks since defeat to Dundee United, a period that has seen Hamilton collect 5 points to put the Highlanders bottom of the table. History records that they were the team who stopped Celtic’s run of 12 consecutive domestic trophies, when they eliminated us from the League Cup during the disastrous month of November. We owe them one.
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!!BADA BING!! on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:14 PM
You’d be going off your head if that was us.
AN TEARMANN
Took the Lairdsloch every year when the school holidays started. Tickets from Burns and Laird on Robertson Street. Left Broomielaw at 5.00pm and arrived in Derry about 6.30am. Saw family in Derry then a lift out to Letterkenny and the bus to Glenvar.
On the way back we sometimes stopped at Clydebank/Dalmuir, or Merkland Street, to drop off the cattle.
Both directions were overnight trips and first on got the best seats. The purser, Joe Proctor, was a family friend and that helped tremendously.
in the last few years we’ve sold a striker to Lyon, and defenders to arsenal and bayer Leverkusen for a total of 57m quid having paid a grand total of less than a million pounds for them
Before anyone points out that Tierney came through the ranks, Brentford dont have an academy, Tierney would have been somewhere else with their model
We do very well with player treading and still manager to do well enough with the trophies
A T
Should have added that this was back in the 50s and early 60s
Top fee paid to the Huns who operate in the same league and the same market as us during the same time period?
20TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:29 PM
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:14 PM
You’d be going off your head if that was us.
A well run Club, with an outstanding scouting record……no….
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:41 PM
With an empty trophy cabinet
Top finish in the top flight?
Top finish in the fa cup?
How long have they had a good scouting record?
Did they ever sign “the best defender in the world” for less than 3m quid?
CELTIC40ME- getting a wee bit pedantic, they are not on the same scale, but they are a very well run ‘small ‘ club.I could say they got more money for what they paid for Benrahma,Watkins, Maupay,than we got for van Dijk, if you want to look at mark up.
I actually (sad Saturday night) went to the trouble of looking up Toney’s stats. I think, if wiki is correct (also sad) he had scored 43 in 174 appearances prior to Peterborough. Not exactly brilliant, plus Newcastle dumped him. I don’t think it was proof that he was worth a huge fee in terms of Scottish football. How many big EPL teams wanted him (A rising fee of up to 10 Million is cheap in their world). Just a general comment.
HH
!!Bada Bing!! on 20th February 2021 10:11 pm
CELTIC40ME- getting a wee bit pedantic, they are not on the same scale, but they are a very well run ‘small ‘ club.I could say they got more money for what they paid for Benrahma,Watkins, Maupay,than we got for van Dijk, if you want to look at mark up.
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Dont want to disagree with your good self, but do other countries tend to look down on Scottish football. If Van Dijk had been with Brentford, they could have asked for a lot more than Celtic could – maybe?
HH
You can say that Gerrard’s experience of management is thin, but, and it’s a big but, he has an excellent coach at his side, and the other big but, is that Gerrard has an enormous amount of experience of European football. Playing in lots of meaningful games under managers who knew their stuff, some of that experience, looks to have been used to great effect going by their displays in the EPL over the last few seasons, por cierto.
!!BADA BING!! on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 10:11 PM
CELTIC40ME- getting a wee bit pedantic,
There’s nothing pedantic about pointing out that success on the pitch for Brentford means being in a position to showcase talent. For us it means winning leagues and cups
They can buy and sell without any of the pressures of actually having to win things, or having fans at the ground protesting after you get out out of a cup for the first time in years.
They’ve done well spotting players who they can sell to lower league clubs in the past few years. We’ve scoutedplayers who’ve ended up at Spurs, Liverpool and Athletico Madrid over an extended period
Brentford’s scout in France is a Scot from Fife..
His father is a CQN’R.
He like all his family are massive Celtic fans.
TT
SCULLYBHOY- absolutely agreed, we have been mugged too often for players,Wanyama, Van Dijk, Tierney, Dembele,Armstrong, you are buying the player,not the league he’s playing in,these guys had CL/EL experience, that comparable others didn’t, and should count for something. HH
All adults offered vaccine before the end of July- Blojo
I don’t think you win much with players who end up at Brighton and Aston Villa
I’m with you Bada, Brentford are a well run forward thinking club.
According to the below report they’ve raised £150m in transfers over the last 5 seasons and still perform well for a team with an average gate of 9.5k.
I also take into account their sister club Midtjylland and how they have outperformed clubs many times bigger.
Their owner isn’t daft and I’d love some of the forward thinking they show.
https://talksport.com/football/fa-cup/659667/brentford-data-revolution-england-smartest-club-championship-leicester-fa-cup/
Mahe- thanks for info, brilliant team to watch last season, they messed up on the last league game for automatic promotion last season, going well again in a very competitive league. HH
MH not Mahe….predictive text…
Have we actually signed Liam Shaw on a pre contract ?
“Thomas Frank lost eight of his first ten games as Brentford head coach. We didn’t panic and now things are going a lot better.”
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Dear Lord…………..
I couldnae agree more with BSR @ 3:52..
Neil is a Genius.
1 thing he lacks is ruthlessness. I dinnae like it but its Scooby Dooby Doo. His kind nature has been taken advantage of IMO.
!!Bada Bing!! on 20th February 2021 10:36 pm
SCULLYBHOY- absolutely agreed, we have been mugged too often for players,Wanyama, Van Dijk, Tierney, Dembele,Armstrong, you are buying the player,not the league he’s playing in,these guys had CL/EL experience, that comparable others didn’t, and should count for something. HH
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Spot on mate! The best (worst) example is King Kenny, can’t remember the details now, but someone said something about Liverpool signing Kenny and (D Law?) said, they will soon forget about Keegan – something to that effect. Consider that Keegan went for £500,000 and in 1979 a certain David Mills (remember him – don’t think so- went for £516,000 and Steve Daley went for £1,450,000 (how many of you could give 3 facts about him?). Oh well, poor Cellic – stuck in a sh@@e league.
HH
Night Bhoys HH
Where did the Maupay/insert name/insert name money go?
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BTW just looked up this character Maupay and noted that he has scored 17 goals in 59 appearances for Brighton -worth the £20 MILLION?
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SCULLYBHOY on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 10:56 PM
Spot on mate! The best (worst) example is King Kenny, can’t remember the details now, but someone said something about Liverpool signing Kenny and (D Law?) said, they will soon forget about Keegan – something to that effect.
*What I’ve been led tae believe is that Jock took the humph with Kenny for not going on a far east tour and called his pal Bob Paisley up asking him if he was interested. Kenny was never put up for sale.
AN TEARMANN on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 3:40 PM
Stivs/Connaire
That was the famous Derry boat that left the Broomielaw for Shantallow in Derry.
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did the boat, or any other boats leave from the port and greenock, any memories of this ?
this is what satarted the hoose discussion, mother in law saying she was on the boat from the port, and the coos got offloaded around newark castle , any ideas ?
During the late 1950’s ,early 1960’s the Burns & Laird steamer I think it was the Irish Coast went overnight from the Broomielaw to Dublin. It called in at Greenock both coming going to pick passengers.
Hail Hail.
TONTINE TIM
I heard a rumour that Kenny had a couple of bad business deals and that was one of the reasons (not the only one) for his move $ like i say “rumours”
SARGASSOSEA on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 9:37 PM
AN TEARMANN
Took the Lairdsloch every year when the school holidays started. Tickets from Burns and Laird on Robertson Street. Left Broomielaw at 5.00pm and arrived in Derry about 6.30am. Saw family in Derry then a lift out to Letterkenny and the bus to Glenvar.
On the way back we sometimes stopped at Clydebank/Dalmuir, or Merkland Street, to drop off the cattle.
Both directions were overnight trips and first on got the best seats. The purser, Joe Proctor, was a family friend and that helped tremendously.
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Thanks for the reply mate
we done the same journey with stopping off in bogside with cousins in bogside then same path out to Termon and have a freedom to roam you just didnt get in the city.
i had an aunt who had a spare room for one just of the boat,her husband was a wee foreman so would try and help with work.a lot in the 40s and 50s passed through.a lot of weddings inthe gorbals..all in days of no phone or internet.
hope life is good with you.good to see an old name on posting
:-)
hh
Tontine Tim on 20th February 2021 11:31 pm
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Good night – too many beer – I blame Covid – 19.
HH
STPATRICKSBHOY on 20TH FEBRUARY 2021 11:46 PM
cheers for reply.i just recall a rough old journey.the boat was often the subject of conversation in our house
hh
Good morning cqn from a wet and windy Garngad
Fascinating read back about ferry/boats dropping people/cattle off on the way or back from Ireland. Absolutely fascinating.
From the discussion the years look around about early 60’s as I say fascinating reading. Cheers guys.
Right onto Dingwall COYBIG
What about a 7.30 kick off on a Sunday night? Hunbeilavable
How to ruin football, if that’s the case 7.30pm do it on Saturday where most people can enjoy the game without work in the morning and I said most people I do realise some folk work Saturday nights or Sunday’s.
D :)