Surprised we got two in yesterday, as Manchester City under-grad, Jason Denayer, signed for a year-long loan last night. The 19-year-old has yet to play first team football so is likely to be considered as backup at Celtic, though reports are promising.
Not surprised that Legia Warsaw have lodged an appeal to Uefa to be re-instated into the Champions League, they have to try everything possible. It has not been confirmed what ground Legia have appealed on, however, at the weekend, Polish FA chief exec, Zbigniew Boniek, suggested an appeal would be made on two grounds:
That only one member of the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body was at the hearing to made the decision, and
That Legia were not given the chance to make a submission to the Body.
There are 10 members of the Disciplinary Body and rules state that decisions require the attendance of at least three, unless the case is “urgent”, when a decision can be taken by one member. To defend their process, Uefa need to insist that the circumstances were urgent, probably citing the Champions League play-off draw, which was due to take place two hours later.
While the Disciplinary Body allow submissions to be made prior to a hearing, Article 34 authorises the Body to undertake a hearing without submissions and “in the absence of one or all of the parties”.
In the unlikely event Legia won an appeal on procedural grounds, a subsequent hearing, perhaps with more Disciplinary Body members in attendance, would take place, and would inevitably reach the same conclusion.
Article 21, paragraph 2, of the Uefa Disciplinary Regulations state, “A match is declared forfeit if a player who has been suspended following a disciplinary decision participates in the match.” There is no ambiguity or lateral for the Disciplinary Body to exercise a different reprimand.
Legia’s appeals can carry on all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but Celtic will not be involved in any future issues. NK Maribor represent a vastly, vastly, greater risk to their Champions League aspirations.
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If we are making money then NA2’s question as to what we are saving for is valid. Particularly as we will surely be liable for taxes on any profit, better to reinvest whether it be in players or infrastructure?
Notanaccountanteither
Neg2,
Your arrogance towards iPaddy is only surpassed by your ignorance.
A wee bit of self awareness would perhaps serve you better.
Over and out.
macjay.
celtic supporters cant spend the money they put in cos its in the plc now.
i was in the co-op this morning , i bought two pints of milk for a pound,
i went too the till and tried to buy a daily record,
i said i allready put the money in by buying the milk.
the lassie at the till said
“what you talkin aboot you dafty, we are in the thatcher world, why didnt you vote for scargill ?”
your a tube,
Bobby Russell
Nice!
MacJay
Our political views may be polar opposite?
Our love for Celtic FC will keep us brothers. :)
Margaret Thatcher:
” The problem with socialism is that ,after a while,you run out of other people`s money.”
Whereas with Capitalism, other people’s money (and the taking of it) never runs out, come rain or shine
Kojo……no prob …..am right you are not………still laughing
Mulgrew another…….
Why would Ronny prefer pukki to Griff……..I mean Griff fitter faster hungrier….better goalscorer……….
It doesn’t make sense…………..
Four years ago my son was due to play an U14 match for Carnoustie Panmure v Dundee West. We turned up as normal for a 13.00 K.O. and watched the boys from both sides go through their pre match warm up. Five minutes before K.P. there was some chat between our management, their management and the referee. It was obvious something was not quite right.
My son’s team manager came over to our side and sheepishly explained he’d filled out the team lines incorrectly and that the game would not go ahead as planned.
What was the outcome? A match forfeit and a 3 – 0 result to Dundee West.
So, were we angry with Dundee West? Were we angry with DDYFA? Were we angry with the appointed referee?
No, we were angry with our own club manager who made a bollox of they match and cost the team three valuable league points. My son’s team missed promotion that season by two points because a dipshit manager failed in his duty to meet the rules of the Local SFA officiated competition.
The moral to this story is nothing to do with that event but that the rules are in place for all teams under UAFA, National and Local jurisdiction
Legia Waraw as a top professional tam have a whole backroom of staff in place to ensure compliance with the rules set down by the games governing bodies. They failed in their duty, They messed up, they should suffer the consequences.
Awe Naw, I get the sentiment in your earlier post regarding wishing Mr Z all the best and hoping LW win their appeal.
Sorry pal, they fecked up and showed utter ineptitude in doing so. They deserve nothing, Just like my son’s deserved nothing four years ago.
Legia Warsaw may have hammered us on the field over two legs but they’ve proven themselves to less than a professional football club.
Dagenham and Redbridge and Brentford drew 6-6 in the Capital One League Cup. 6-6!
Wonder if any of their defenders would fancy a move to Celtic? Nah, probably not, nobody wants to come here…. :)
Doc
Up until recently I would have agreed with you about long term strategy of the board etc
I would have regarded Neganon,Canalamar,Awe Na and many other (anti board) posters as Malcontents who just could appreciate the long term goals of the board
I thought Celtic was financially very well run while still being able to compete with the best in Europe
They last couple of years have seen us cut cut cut and the team is now hopeless, in European terms at least,and I fear is heading to a level where they will be on an equal footing with Dun Utd,Aberdeen etc,
I think the manager was a dreadful appointment,cheap option and basically was the straw that broke the camels back and turned me from a board lackey to a Malcontent.
Tomorrow is a huge game for Rony,I dont think he is up to it,
If Ronny says that wages are a problem then what are the likes of Austrian and Polish players on? Surely to god there are players out there that would improve our team who we could sign for between 3 and 4 million who would accept 15k per week?
We turned over £75 million last year and had cash in the bank of £4m before the Wanyama income. We have probably nailed a similar turnover this year if not more. If you only need to break even you don’t need to sell. Mind you I don’t disagree with the sales but I do disagree that we can’t find the talent.
James Forrest in his admirable frustration today made the point that we almost got put out by Karagandy last year. That is true but this was mostly down to tactics in my view. As others will expect from reading my posts I think Neil Lennon played far too open in that away game to Karagandy. It looked like he thought we could win it there. Maybe he thought winning the tie there would mean he would get to spend the Champions League kitty sooner who knows.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that we were good enough to beat Karagandy. We shouldn’t have struggled. Our squad were better than theirs but our tactics made us go their level. We had of course sold Hooper and Wanyama by this point but had not secured anyone else to play in those games. The side was weeker than it had been but was still strong enough to go through to the Champions League. We then compounded the tactical errors by playing far too open in most of those games. I still think we could have qualified as 3rd placed team if we had tightened up away from home against Ajax.
Of course we still managed to make an impact on the Champins League despite non of Pukki, Balde or Boerrigter showing any capability of making up for players that were sold. The recruitment of those players was nothing short of disgraceful. £5m plus wasted. Pukki was sold to us by Neil Lennon no less as a replacement for Gary Hooper. Mind you he did say that ‘we’ think Pukki could replace Hooper. His goal scoring record told us otherwise.
Moving on into January and we lose another mainstay of our better days in Europe in Joe Ledley. He was replaced by Johansen. This wee guy looks ok but he has suffered from a lack of assistance in midfield and as a result he resembles a burst pipe. We also signed Griffiths presumably as another attempted replacement for Hooper. That hasn’t worked either as Neil’s departure seems to have left Lee with no automatic starting berth.
Now we find ourselves in the position where no one seems to agree on how good or bad the current payers are with a new coach trying to implement total change from the word go. Of last years side versus this years we have lost Ledley, Samaras and now Forster, Brown and Forrest have also been injured. Johansen has so far proven not to be as good as Ledley, Samaras may be replaced by Tonev and the goalkeeping situation may be either Craig Gordon or someone new. Gordon may be as good as Forster but its a risk. A boy of 19 has come in from Man City and he will return there at the end of the season. Berget seems like he was available and no one knows if he is back up to Tonev, a number 10 to replace Commons or a striker. He has 6 months to show us.
We still have not replaced Wanyama with anything close to adequate and a striker remains as mythical as a unicorn.
Frustration is reaching boiling point with the support with the fiscal policy and introduction of a revolutionary manager. Players that the support can make a bond with are a few and far between. Loans compound this. The coaches tactics show no sign of change to pragmatism and prudence.
We have no choice but to see this all through to the middle of the season or perhaps the end.
I hope we have something to cheer and these dark clouds clear.
In any case,she was the choice of the good British people for about ten years or so whose opinions I value.
The alternative was Scargill,recently in court fighting the N.U.M. apparently.
Not the choice of the good Celtic supporting people who attend CP.
And not the choice of the regulars of the “shut-down-in-a-hurry-just-before-the-CWG-whilst-the-license-holder-was-out-of-town” Foggy Dew at the Barras
the glorious balance sheet
23:55 on
12 August, 2014
Dagenham and Redbridge and Brentford drew 6-6 in the Capital One League Cup. 6-6!
Wonder if any of their defenders would fancy a move to Celtic? Nah, probably not, nobody wants to come here…. :)
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maybe a few on loan ?
Hasn’t our new signing, Tonev, played for a Polish club?
Given the MSM agenda of getting Boruc, Dziekanowski etc. to brief against us, can we make sure we don’t allow him in front of the jackals any time soon?
Phyllis Dietrichson
He has a sore leg
The Glorious Balance Sheet..
at 23.2O
Thanks fur the Respectful Reply.. Which contained No wan… Personal Insult.
Pal..
It is .. As Unusual..as It is . Appreciated..
Ah take it that you Disagree..
wi Ma Premise..
that Fielding A Plalyer..such Kris Commons is a Luxury? that we Kin Do Very WELL.. withoot
Especially, in A C.L. Game.. when we are pitted agin…Top Class Competitors..
Sure Kris Scored Thirty Odd Goals ..’
Mainly..in the S.P.L ..last season..
but..the Key word ..is.. LAST.
This is the Noo.. That wuz,,, the When..
n.. Kojo ALWIz asks this ..Infernal.. but, in Ma Book. Necessary Question..
when Confronting a Player regarding that Player’s..
PRESENT SEASON PROSPECTS..n CURRENT worth tae the Team..
‘
“Whit Hiv ye Done Fur Me.. LATELY?”
n.. so far.. in the C.L. Games which Ah hiv watched..
Kris Commons..his Not Done.. very Much..
N.. Yes.. Kris is Anglin fur a New Contract..no question…
If he gets it..
Why… He wull Settle Doon tae a nice quiet an Solid .. Retirement..
He is Getting Oan.. n..
His Powers are Failing, by the Minute…
Yes.. Sure He Played oota His Skin.. fur Us.. In the S.P.L. … LAST season..
fur.. He wanted tae Hiv a Record with which.. He could Wheel n Deal.. when he wiz
Negotiating His New Contract..
Thirty Odd Goals.. is a Very Good Negotiating Tool…
He May think…
Anyway.. Ah widnae gie him a New Contract.. Ah wid Sell Him tae the Hightest Bidder ,it Wan shows Up… in any case..
A wid Let his Present Contract Expire.
This Nonsense… n Ah mean Genuine Nonsence.. which Ah Hear.. Trotted oot
Over n Over..
Regarding..
Mr.Peter’s .. I Million Pound Salary.
Pal..
If Peter is Receiving that Fair Amount..
From Us..
Then ye Kin Bet ye sweet Booty.. that .. That is the Going rate fur a C.E.O.of His
Standing..
One who Actually, is Doing a Fine Joab of Handling a Fitba’ Teams
Finances.
If ,Tomorrow.. Ye fired Mr. Peter..
Ye wid Still Hiv tae fill his Position?
Right?
n..Like Ah Said
It Wid Coast ye a Similar Financial Package that Mr. Peter is Receiving frum Us.. right Noo..
Like A Told
A Million Pounds per Annum..is the going rate..
Fur a Guy with the business Accumen Of Peter..
Sure,Ye could Get wan fur A Cheaper Salary
But..
Remember , the Hard n Fast Business Rule..
Financial Package which a C.E.O. Receives is ALSWAYS commensurate.. with
the Business Accumen which a C.E.O. Brings tae the Table
That is Jist How It Is..
So..
Hire fur Less.. Suffer the Consequences..
Look we hiv a good thing going.. at Parkheid..
We are Doing Fine Financially..
n
We are Running the Club on a Very Sound Finacial Footing..
Dae ye Really want tae Upset the Applecart..
By
Changing oor C.E.O.
fur
A Cheaper Version?
Dae Ah hiv tae remind Ye.
that .. in The Business of Hiring.. ( in Which, Ah happen tae Hiv …a Vast n Dearly earned.. Experience.)
An employer.. such as Celtic is..
‘
Only Gets Whit he Pays fur…
Cheap sounds Great.. But.. Cheap wull get Cheap..
Every time…
n the Cheaper ye get Yer New Employer..
the Mair Likely.. Ye wull get…
Gypped!
Hmmmmmmm
No Me..
Ah wull tell ye that Ah am Mair than Satisfied wi the Joab that Mr. Lawwell is Daeing..
Kojo
Stil,Laughin
St Stivs-
Yes – we could maybe stretch to a loan deal. But only if they`re already carrying an injury. Derk needs company for his regular long spells on the sidelines!
Gotta Fly… Sy
Seeya
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
WITS, I’m going to Perth tomorrow night.
I’m looking forward to it.
I’m not worried, I expect this to be a bumpy period.
Ronny is inexperienced at this level, but he has idea’s, he seems to have a vision.
Am I right?
Only time will tell, bold statements tonight make us nothing more than hostages to fortune.
I don’t know Ronny will succeed, but you don’t know he will fail.
Have concerns, fair, have Faith, fair.
Get behind his, give him time, he may prove me right.
Hope so.
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My Dear Cap’n BeefHeart…
Shame On Glasgow City Council….
Shame On Edinburgh….!
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Is cowardly Edinburgh fit for a global arts festival?
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The intolerant, middle class protestors I witnessed at the Edinburgh Festival who, while the authorities looked on, silenced Israeli artists purely because of their national origins shame Scotland’s great Enlightenment traditions, says Prof. Tom Gallagher
By Tom Gallagher
On 12 August 2014 08:45

A festival of hate?

Whatever claims Edinburgh possessed for being a hub of artistic freedom of expression have been tarnished by the silencing of a play called ‘The City’ staged by the Incubator Theatre of Jerusalem.
A murder mystery sung in rhyme, it ought to be far-removed from political controversy. But because the actors are from Israel and they refused to publicly distance themselves from their government, they were shouted down as they performed their play in mime in an open-air venue on 9 August.
This occurred in full view of the police and festival organizers. So did the protests on 30 July designed to prevent members of the audience getting to the indoor venue of the play. Within hours, the Edinburgh fringe axed the play.
The values of the Scottish Enlightenment which so impressed 18th century continental thinkers currently rest on a flimsy foundation in Edinburgh. After 67 years of its summer festival, there is a new cultural uniformity in which one ethnic group is singled out for opprobrium. It shows that a deeply illiberal heart beats in this supposedly progressive city.
Leading the anti-Israeli charge have been prominent cultural figures. It was Scotland’s ‘makar’ or national poet Liz Lochhead, along with the prominent novelist Alasdair Gray who demanded the cancellation of,‘The City’ unless the company publicly disowned the occupation of Gaza and the West bank.
In Edinburgh and other urban centres, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has a long track-record of disrupting musical and theatrical performances with artists from Israel with the intention of dissuading audiences from attending or having them cancelled.
On 30 July, I observed how numerous protesters were allowed by the police to control of nearly all the pedestrian access to the venue The stance of the police suggested that they felt it was pointless to go ahead with any production evoking such opposition
In 1947, the Edinburgh International Festival was founded to give a staid city that had been spared bombing by the Luftwaffe, a more cosmopolitan feel. By the 1960s Edinburgh, in the late summer, had acquired the air of a central European festival city.
In the next few decades, a brash rival, the Edinburgh Fringe started to eclipse it as an audience puller. Avant-garde theatre and musical productions, some a showcase for original talent, many not, characterised the Fringe. In the 21st century, it is a setting where radical orthodoxies over economic, political and environmental issues are often endorsed and re-affirmed.
Their attitude to the intolerant crowd gagging politically unaligned performers from an unfashionable country shows that high priests of these orthodoxies are unprepared to endure even the smallest inconvenience in order to uphold the most basic tenets of free speech.
The agitators are not alienated proletarians or déclassé misfits. Most of them are the same middle-class folk from whom the managers of the festival and the wider city spring.
If aged under 50, they may well be Edinburghers who have put aside the church-going and moderation of their parents or grand-parents by embracing atheism, a Green outlook as well as an emphatic commitment to the triumph of the cause of Palestine independence in lands that comprise mainly the state of Israel.
A few may even be of Jewish origin but many more will have a background in the Church of Scotland, the Presbyterian faith which is Scotland’s national church. This is ironic since the Church of Scotland was an ardent stronghold of pro-Zionist feeling until quite recently.
Much of the Scottish cultural community has been absorbed with the referendum on independence due on 18 September. Writers, with some exceptions, including J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame, support secession.
Some see themselves as prophets who have a duty to groom literate citizens for a post-British future. They are keen to uproot British cultural markers but they reject any parallel with counterparts in Europe between 1948 and 1945 who imposed stifling orthodoxies on new states.
A Dutch auction is now raging between the main referendum rivals, the ruling Scottish nationalists and the Labour Party to see who can put the most distance between themselves and Israel.
On 8 August, the Palestinian flag was flown over Glasgow’s city hall. Mayor Sadie Docherty said it was in solidarity with people who had been affected by the conflict in Gaza. But in the previous weeks minorities in Iraq had faced much worse violence at the hands of the Islamist militants of Isis.
It prompted the United States to launch air strikes also on 8 August to save the Yezidi.
Some asked whether it might have been more appropriate to hoist a flag of peace in Glasgow to show respect for all victims of conflict that were raging in the summer of 2014, in Iraq, Syria, the Central African Republic and Ukraine. It was caustically pointed out that life expectancy in Gaza at 74.6 was rather higher than in Glasgow where it stood at 72.6 and that presumably councillors had more urgent local matters to attend to.
Paul Morron, president of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council criticised the Scottish government’s call for an arms embargo on Israel made earlier.
‘This gesture is a complete hypocrisy. The Scottish government has repeatedly acknowledged the right of Israel to self-defence, but now want to deny them the means to do so.’
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s 30-year-old minister for external affairs, proceeded to grab front page headlines in Scotland’s biggest-selling Sunday newspaper by expressing outrage that a Scottish factory was manufacturing material for bombs used by the Israeli military.
If Scotland should choose independence, its foreign policy seems set to be guided by expediency and it is doubtful if the new state will add new depth to international relations.
Aspects of Israel’s military record and its position on controversial settlements in the West Bank are bound to be open to criticism. A few members of the theatre production to whom I talked, agreed. But they were amazed at the tolerance shown by the authorities towards protesters intent on silencing their show.
This was the case even on 9 August, when the actors assembled at an outdoor site near to the original venue of their axed show. They were going to give a silent performance. What followed was perhaps one of the most remarkable spectacles ever witnessed in the history of the Edinburgh Fringe.
The actors were quickly surrounded by clearly hostile people waving banners and chanting anti-Israeli slogans, at least one with a loud-hailer. Several of them even sat on the make-shift stage with the actors being compelled to step over them.
Liz Lochead, the main high-profile critic of the Israelis’ appearance in Edinburgh, has her own performing schedule there this month. It would reinforce the illiberal stance that she has legitimised if anyone disrupted her poetic readings. One suspects that any hecklers would be silenced and speedily ejected; arrests perhaps following.
Arik Eshet, the company’s spirited artistic director, afterwards expressed his astonishment at the police stance and about being left in the lurch by the festival bureaucrats .In an affluent, supremely middle-class city with academic, media, ecclesiastical and cultural elites, the only people who offered gestures of sympathy to him and his cast were other performers.
The fate of an Israeli theatre company, completely apolitical compared with many of the Edinburgh acts, show how phoney Edinburgh’s image as a Mecca for Western culture in fact is. Twice, Israeli actors were hounded by the mob and shunned by people in high places who had the chance to uphold a city’s good name, but simply flunked it.
Does the ‘Athens of the North’ with craven cultural bureaucrats, complicit police and mealy-mouthed politicians deserve to hold a world-ranking festival any more than Qatar merits being host of the 2022 World Cup? On its performance in the summer of 2014, I very much doubt it.
Tom Gallagher is the author of Divided Scotland: Ethnic Friction and Christian Crisis (Argyll Publications, 2013). Manchester University Press will publish his next book, Europe’s Path to Crisis: Disintegration Through Monetary Union, in September.
*ttp://www.thecommentator.com/article/5158/is_cowardly_edinburgh_fit_for_a_global_arts_festival
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PD
Legia are the traditional Polish military team. They seem to share traits with the Scottish military team.
Gdansk is Green & White ;)
Craigellachie10, my brother asked me the other day if I thought Celtic were saving up for the hun zombie incarnation coming to our league. A baffling question. Why would we put the brakes on our chances of Champions League money if that was the case?
Against what my heart tells me, my head is telling me that we’re saving up for something and what else can it be? It’s not the GCC land deal shite the hun keeps trotting out. I sincerely hope both myself and my brother are wrong. I cant speak for him, but I would never set foot inside Celtic Park again if that was the case. It was a difficult enough decision buying a SB this season without that. More difficult decisions for people like me lie ahead in the next couple of seasons.
I truly do not understand the failure to invest in the playing staff to facilitate CL qualification as that would be the easiest and most obvious cash cow to milk.
Celtic PLC baffle me and I wonder if they actually are doing the best job for the “business”, and I mean the business, not the club or the team………..or the support.
Danzig
Anyway 2 loan deals just not good enough.
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Where Is Pope Benedict….
When We Need Him………?
Instead…We Have ‘Toom-Tabard’ Francis….
More Interested In Kissing Juvenile Delinquents’ Feet….
Than Meeting The Pastoral Needs…
Of His FLOCK…!
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http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-can-bishops-organise-to-condemn.html?m=1
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If that’s all we get that is
The silence from Celtic is deafening. The downsizing continues as the assets are sold one by one.
The entire Team is now a project and we are now at our weakest in 3 seasons.
Lenny walked citing the situation as one of the reasons.
The club run by our £1M compensated CEO ( the only part not being downsized ) are not being truthful and transparent with the fans.
Failure against Maribor will be the logical outcome of the current CEO significantly weakening the Team. Ronny is a nice guy but a puppet in the hands of an interfering CEO who is the de facto Director of Football.
The decline is nothing to do with liquidation of Rangers and Sevco entering the SPL will not restore fortunes.
The situation is of our own making. We have sold our best players and replaced them buy cheap options / duds on the most part. Our CEO / Director of Football has managed to take us to the edge of the cliff with Maribor. His failure here and it will be his failure would no longer be acceptable.
I would expect him to behave like Salary and hang around for his payoff — no chance off him doing the honourable thing. He would be right in this respect and I would not have an issue with that.
Maribor is a situation Mr Lawwell has manufactured for himself.
Kojo-
So who in the existing team can score the necessary number of goals to make up for Commons departure from the team?
You say “Hire for less…..suffer the consequences” – in defence of Mr Lawwell`s salary. Does that principle hold true for the first team as well?
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Celtic PLC baffle me and I wonder if they actually are doing the best job for the “business”, and I mean the business, not the club or the team………..or the support.
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well said
St.Stivs
Smiled at your Thatcher quote earlier lol,
The one bout socialism running out of other peoples money.
Unlike Gideon who follows on from Darling Ally and just make it up
Its called Quantitative Easing!
Sounds like an economic bowel movement with the poor paying for their financial wizardry.
HH
You get the right pope for the time, bekt. 16th an academic and an intellectual was sent to us for the time we needed him.
Francis is the man just now,because we need him now….simple as…
And hat’s off to the brave people of Glasgow City Council for their show of solidarity with the people of Gaza with their flying of the flag above the city chambers.
It’s days like that that make me proud of my parents, my heritage, my city and my moral upbringing.
It makes me proud to be called a Glaswegian.
GCC, take a bow and spit in the face of bully boy fascism.
What is the Stars
23:56 on 12 August, 2014
Doc
Up until recently I would have agreed with you about long term strategy of the board etc
I would have regarded Neganon,Canalamar,Awe Na and many other (anti board) posters as Malcontents who just could appreciate the long term goals of the board
I thought Celtic was financially very well run while still being able to compete with the best in Europe
They last couple of years have seen us cut cut cut and the team is now hopeless, in European terms at least,and I fear is heading to a level where they will be on an equal footing with Dun Utd,Aberdeen etc,
I think the manager was a dreadful appointment,cheap option and basically was the straw that broke the camels back and turned me from a board lackey to a Malcontent.
Tomorrow is a huge game for Rony,I dont think he is up to it,
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We are nowhere near the standard of Dundee Utd or Aberdeen, although they may run us close in the odd one off game.
The footballing issue is how in the medium term Celtic need to be playing, as the game is moving on a pace in continental Europe?
Do we want to be a typical British style outfit , with a bunch of big guys, looking for free kicks, with the odd skilful player (say Kris Commons) who simply gets double-teamed and played out the game in Europe.
Throwing money at the last regimes way of playing (in Europe) would be in fact wasted, as our European opponents have clearly sussed out our game. We may occassionally have a good night and get a bit of good fortune (e.g Spartak, Barcelona ) , however our method of play at around Feb time in CL is doomed to failure as the big teams are fully into their play at that stage of the season.
We need a more effective team , playing at a pace where we can go toe to toe with the opposition at a decent European level.
We need to be able to do this and whether we win 5-0 tomorrow or draw is immaterial to the managers future , we are probably 18 months to 2 years away from getting close to where we need to be.
In my view, Neil could not take the team forward in a different direction and he did the right thing by moving on …….. still , a more boring scenario than Neil being lied-to, stitched-up by our Rangers loving board or whatever the moaners have dreamt up …..
HH
The Kano Foundation Bucket Collection 2014
Anyone who has volunteered to help should have received an email detailing the arrangements. if you haven’t drop me a line to sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com
Folks as you may remember , we set out an ambition/hope to try to minimise the amount we imposed on the fans while maximising the return . For that reason , we try to only reach out with the begging bowl a couple of times a year – well next Saturday is one of those times .
For the 2nd year in a row , we’ve obtained the collecting licence for the environs around Celtic Park for the flag raising day . As a result , we need to ask for help for volunteers to help with the collection next Saturday 16/8.
Because of the early kick-off, we need to ask for volunteers/helpers from 10:00 am .. If you can help ,either with the collection or with the counting afterwards [after the game obv], please drop a line to bucketcollection@thekanofoundation.com including your name , address , dob and whether you can do before the game or help with the count afterwards.
As an added incentive , you’ll get a kano t-shirt and free entry into the Kano Karaoke we are holding in Heera from 7pm after the game.
Anyone else is welcome to attend (7gbp entry fee).
For anyone attending the game , please bring along your loose change – we averaged 10p per fan last year – a repeat of that would be great .
Hail Hail
Sanna
Tictaewin
3 loans and a free signing, wi a wildcard signing before the Maribor game allowed. Praying it’s a goal scoring Centre like Chris Martin of Derby, no Coldplay. :)
DD
hows tricks mucker,you heading to the barge tomorrow for the game
ACGR, what’s best for the Business is a successful team on the park.
In the last 15 years we have won 8 leagues.
6 of those when we are supposedly downsizing(Neganon has been telling us so:-)
6 were when another team was cheating at every turn.
Not shabby.
Last 16 3 times, poor business, or good business?
We hit a bump and it’s all going to hell in a hand cart?
No it’s not.
Things are not perfect, they never are, nor will be.
But jeez, you would think we were starting the league campaign with a fifteen point deduction, or worse!
Anyhoos.
Singing D,
The Jew hating thugs are enemies of free speech.
Tom G takes no prisoners.