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Leigh Griffiths in Dalglish footsteps with McLeish

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I don’t think I have ever known an international manager to admit that one of his players has blanked him and not returned phone calls, but Alex McLeish confirmed this is his status with Leigh Griffiths.  Leigh was dropped for Scotland’s last internationals.

McLeigh asked the player proves himself, but Leigh has nothing to prove at this level.  He is without doubt the most complete Scottish striker in the business right now.  It suits Celtic fine if he is allowed to rest during international breaks, as those times apart, he is likely to plan two games a week until the middle of December.

Celtic greats have sat on the Scotland substitutes bench, while lesser players are honoured, for the best part of a century.  This reached a depressing peak in 1976 when Scotland manager Willie Ormond dropped Celtic’s Kenny Dalglish to the bench for the Home International against Wales.  Had Kenny played, he would have matched the Scottish record for consecutive games played, then and forever held by former Rangers player, George Young, but a Celtic player was never going to be allowed that honour.

That was the only game in his entire Scotland tenure that Ormond did not use a substitute.  Dalglish was needed for the next game against England, where he scored in a Scotland win.  The matter is not acknowledged at the Hampden Museum.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Great Scottish Run appeal for the Celtic FC Foundation.  It was a great event and an honour to wear the Foundation badge.

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  4. GlassTwoThirdsFull on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 2nd October 2018 2:18 pm

     

    GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL

     

    Did Georgia exist then,I thought it was part of the USSR.

     

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    Yeah – this was the qualifiers for Euro2008. The USSR was broken up in the nineties.

  7. Malorbhoy on

    To all the CQN’rs who l know are going to Salzburg, see you Tomorrow, to those l don’t, hopefully meet up with a few on the way

  8. Auldheid on

    Paul67

     

     

    It’s all very well reminding Celtic supporters of the inherent bias in the SFA (who merely represent clubs) supported by the SMSM along with Sky, BBC and STV but what I’d rather hear is what Celtic’s policy for dealing with it and I’d like to hear it at the AGM.

     

     

    I would like to hear for example what Celtic have done with all the information provided under the Res12 banner with its direct links to the LNS sham, where incorrect and non disclosure produced results in favour of the party guilty of both.

     

     

    I would like to know if Celtic trust SFA governance with their justification for saying so.

     

     

    If they do not then say why and let suppprters decide what is in their and Celtic’s best interest.

     

     

    I’d like to know why for 5 years they have allowed the SFA to investigate themselves when it appears the SFA abrogated responsibility for their own JPP to CAS under the 5 Way Agreement.

     

     

    I’d like to know why Res12 was not passed given the above

     

     

    I’d like suppprters to be treated with respect for the crowd. The expertise and intellectual capacity of that crowd far outweighs that of the Celtic Board.

     

     

    In case anyone is wondering infinite patience is seeking an immediate result by the AGM.

  10. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Auldheid,

     

    looking to me like infinite patience has at last got the bums rush, about time too.

  11. jamesgang on

    When Auldheid has run out of patience, then we should all have run out of patience.

     

     

    BagpussCSC

  12. Dilligafbhoy on

    MALORBHOY on 2ND OCTOBER 2018 3:01 PM

     

    To all the CQN’rs who l know are going to Salzburg, see you Tomorrow, to those l don’t, hopefully meet up with a few on the way…

     

     

    Green with envy, enjoy your trip and hope we make it worth it. HH

  16. !!Bada Bing!! on

    PCS- They will come up with another solution, which also will show only 1 klub not inconvenienced……

  23. dessybhoy on

    Auldheid

     

    The AGM wil be next month, no doubt another mealy mouthed statement from the board will be given about waiting on information or something similar, despite the efforts of the Resolutioners to me the board do not want anything to do with this.

  24. ziggydoc1 on

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 2ND OCTOBER 2018 3:54 PM

     

    Why not Aberdeen v Sevco at Murrayfield? Neutral venue for both teams.

     

    _____________________

     

    Totally agree. Us playing Hearts at Hampden with the other game in Edinburgh only benefits one team and is the fairest solution. The fact that the team is us of course means it won’t happen.

     

    If one game is in Edinburgh, we should make sure it’s not ours.

  25. Auldheid on

    Canalamar

     

     

    I was never cut out to be a saint :) but the patience did get us to a point where it is no longer needed. The unexpected evidence emerging in May that the 2011 licence was granted on a falsehood and kept by further dishonesty is too strong for Celtic to stay silent on, even if only to say there are reasons that show that with that evidence everything was properly handled under the rules.

     

     

    The silence from SFA and Celtic since June has been unacceptable and for Celtic to arrive at the AGM within nothing to say is at best disrespectful to shareholders/supporters and not in Celtic’s best interests as a single member of the SFA with shareholders Celtic are answerable to.

     

     

    With 6 weeks to go before an AGM that traditionally takes place mid November there is plenty of time for SFA to respond to questions put at end of June by Res12 lawyer and for Celtic to consider any implications for them in answers provided or worse, refused and state their position accordingly at or before the AGM.

  26. Celtic Mac on

    auldheid

     

     

    Not quite sure that the SFA “abrogated” responsibility for their own JPP to the CSA. Now I could be wrong here, but my interpretation was that it was RIFC who insisted that the Complaint, raised by the SFA Compliance Officer, “must” be referred to the CAS. The SFA’s position was that the JPP was not “competent” (in a legal sense) to deal with the complaint at hand. Paul67 I believe also misinterpreted the SFA decision re the CSA. As for the 5WA, never seen it, do not know if it in any way refers to the CAS. Either way, I do not see any vehicle, or route for that matter, that sees that issue ever seeing the light of day anywhere in Switzerland. And you can take that to the bank.

  27. 50 shades of green on

    Didn’t hertz use Murrayfield as a home venue last season, mmmmmm.

     

     

    But at least the grub will be better, unless ofcourse you put sauce on yir chips.

     

     

     

    H.H

  30. Celtic please listen on

    Auldheid, Canamalar & the rest of the Res12 Bhoys thank you from the bottom of my Celtic loving heart. You chaps are true Celtic men, the shower that is our board cowardly old firmers the lot of them. An absolute disgrace should be hunted along with the ftsfa & spfl, more than a club ? Aye right !

  31. Celtic Mac on

    auldheid et al

     

     

    Should maybe qualify that, in the sense that I have never seen the final version of the 5WA.

  32. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Auldheid,

     

    As I said before, we needed the Plc to respond a lot sooner, looks like we are snookered to raise a censure resolution to demonstrate our lack of confidence in the Plc’s handling of Res12 and their failure to protect the shareholders interests.

  33. Auldheid on

    Desssyboy 4.29.

     

     

    There is nothing to wait for, so that won’t work.

     

     

    Regardless of the Board’s wishes, Res12 remains on the AGM agenda as an adjourned item and its now time it is passed or voted down.

     

     

    A case for passing it is well documented and can be put to signatories to Res12 privately where E mails are known and if necessary non signatories in plenty of time for them to decide the right thing to do and encourage Celtic to do the same.

  34. southside on

    Don’t understand why it’s the Celtic v hearts game being “suggested” to be moved to Murrayfield rather than “one” of the games.

  35. Auldheid on

    Canalamar

     

     

    Let’s hope that isn’t necessary for something that was meant to get SFA reform that one would have thought Celtic and the representative groups would have been after too.

  36. Kev on

    Stop playing by the PLC’s rule’s.

     

    It should be more than obvious by now that, courtesy, politeness and dignity etc, is not going to work when your dealing with, a complicit, kowtowing, Old Firm orientated, Celtic PLC board, and the SFA / SPFL.

     

    To cut through the endless mountains of red tape, play the direct game, empty Celtic Park, and make it clear to the Celtic PLC board that, the park will remain empty until, the PLC board change’s it’s ways’, or a new board of Celtic supporters will take control of the club, as DD’s shares will be worth hee haw with an empty park hanging over them, so, there will be no need to raise unquantifiable £££millions to, eventually, fulfil the promise that Fergus McCann renaged on, ie: leaving the Celtic supporters in control of their club. Do to Celtic FC, what Jeremy Corbyn is doing to the Labour party, drain the PLC tory swamp, and make it a, Celtic FC, owned, directed, and managed by Celtic supporters, for Celtic supporters.

     

    The trick is to convince the supporter base that, by emptying the stadium, and with holding season ticket money till change is effected, is not harming Celtic FC, but it ‘is’ harming those inside Celtic Park who hold the power levers, but, are driven by the retention of the Old Firm, and it’s Celtic supporters season ticket money that they use to enact this deceitful chicanery. That is wrong, no matter what way that you look at it, or try to dress it up.

     

    Good luck to the Resolution : 12 Rebel Gang CSC

     

    Thoughts and Prayers for MURDOCHAULDANDHAY.

     

    WEEBAWBABITTY, YNWA Amigo √

     

     

     

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  37. GlassTwoThirdsFull on

    So, the Strong Rangers Association gets involved and one of the games can be moved and it isn’t the one involving “Rangers”! Well well, who would have thought…….???

  38. bhoywithseethrougheyes on

    Southside, 5.07pm

     

     

    I hope we don’t remain silent whenever the fixture change is announced.

     

    They’ll change anything rather than inconvenience Stevie g.

  42. Auldheid on

    Celtic Mac.

     

     

    Yes it is unclear what the SFA position is on CAS, so abrogated may be too final but clarification is certainly needed and has been sought.

     

     

    Interesting thing about RIFC asking for CAS involvement is it came a few weeks after SFA were questioned about the exclusion of the granting period at end March 2011 from JPDT scrutiny on the basis according to RIFC that accusations were groundless.

     

     

    If that were so why play the CAS card.?

     

     

    There is a deeper question about what took place in the 8 months from September 2017 to May 2018 when the Compliance Officer, who resigned not long after making the non compliance charges, was looking into the evidence he either had or could rightly obtain, but that is for a other day.

     

     

    CAS was imo an attempt at kicking the can into the long grass and based on the knowns is the last place RIFC would want the facts established and ruled on. The SFA wouldnt want too much scrutiny either so I doubt it will happen.

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