Celtic players will begin arriving back from international duty today and tomorrow ahead of a six week, 13 game, run that will go a long way to determining the success or otherwise of their season. Highest on my anxiety list is the condition of injured Cameron Carter-Vickers. Noises from the US national team were that his condition was not concerning. We should cope without him at home to Motherwell on Saturday, but he is one man you want fit and on the plane that departs for Germany on Tuesday.
My only other concern is with our perennial metronome, Callum McGregor. Callum is relied upon by domestic and international managers in equal measure. Memories of how we complained that Gordon Strachan overlooked the player seem foolish now. How Ange manages the player during the next six weeks is important. Get the job done early on Saturday then hook the captain.
A small encouragement, I know, but we still have to beat a Ukrainian team at Celtic Park next month, so the fact that some players we will face lost in Glasgow and drew in Poland to a Scotland side is a mental marker. Well done to Callum, Greg Taylor, Anthony Ralston, Steve Clarke and the rest of the international squad.
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Sky know Doncaster is a soft touch, and made their move,why renew a bad deal,on very similar terms, with 3 years left to run?
CELTIC MAC on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:25 PM
“The Bank Of England appears to be operating in an alternative reality.
Does not know what it is doing from one day to the next.”
What makes you say that?
Calum needs rested by Scotland.
I can fully understand the temptation to keep playing him.
He’s very consistent and reliable.
But he has played an incredible number of minutes.
He’ll break down eventually.
Time to give more game time Ryan Jack5h1t and the wee wonder boy with the bigoted mother.
celtic40me
Take a look at its decisions this week alone.
Policies and objectives abandoned overnight.
!!BADA BING!! @ 9:43 PM,
With regard Neil Doncaster’s interview today, disagreeing with Stuart Robertson, I just made this comment on SC…
It’s interesting that Neil Doncaster said they tested the market and Stuart Robertson said they didn’t.
Surely if you were in Neil Doncaster’s position it would be very easy to be transparent and highlight the processes you undertook to test the market.
The Neil Doncaster interview.
KJ: But you’ve been accused of not even testing the market to make sure this was the best possible deal. Is that true?
ND: That’s way wide of the mark and it belies the facts. When we had a meeting in this room with all cinch Premiership clubs present, the process we’ve undertaken was gone through in depth. Clearly we have been testing the market to establish what interest is out there. This was not the only deal. But it was the best deal by a mile.
Here’s what Stuart Robertson said earlier in the week, presumably having been at that “meeting”
“We didn’t market-test this deal. We have no idea what else is available in the market so we don’t know whether it’s the best deal or not.
“There’s an advisor the SPFL have used and he’s telling us all the reasons why he thinks it’s a good deal.
“We get market feedback that doesn’t really hang together with the other stuff we are being told.
Now having been involved in tendering process I find what SR said a lot more credible than what ND said.
If you didn’t go to tender how can you possibly say one deal is miles better than the others, what was the criteria?
And remember, this is not a new deal, this is an extension to the current deal – how can you possibly level bids in those circumstances!?
We now have a seven year contract with SKY, if you were extending the deal why not two to three years, see where this rapidly changing market is then
Why would you include SKY having the rights to all of the non televised SPFL games. It is crazy to give them the rights to all the top tier Scottish football games for in effect nothing, all the games for the next seven years.
Does that make any sense?
This article in August suggests that the SPFL were exclusively talking to SKY…
https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-premiership/spfl-consider-rival-tv-rights-24797504
But if Sky decide against taking up this option, then the SPFL will immediately seek discussions with other broadcasters with the aim of selling the rights.
That is at odds with what Neil Doncaster was intimating in the interview today.
Hail Hail
Depressing sound byte by Nick Watt on Newsnight quoting an unnamed Tory MP.
“The British central bank today intervened to protect the British economy from the British Government”
🤦🤦🤦🤦
Someone on here questioning the BOE !!!!!!.
Others believing the Hun side of the Sky deal,WTF !!!!!!!!!
CELTIC MAC on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:33 PM
“Take a look at its decisions this week alone.
Policies and objectives abandoned overnight.”
The decision they took today had nothing to do with policies and objectives, it was a short term, time-limited measure, specifically to protect pensions and the long dated gilts market. If they had failed to act as swiftly as they did the shock to pensions and the rest of the economy could have been catastrophic.
They’ve been landed with a whole load of unforeseen problems as a result of the markets reaction to the mini budget. What would you have them do, not react?
All we need now is the Liz Truss fan club posting.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:41 PM
That’s always been the case though, hasn’t it.
Mad Arse,
The only saving grace you might have had,is if,maybe you were witty.The “Half man / half Christmas dinner” Tumbleweed,soon snuffed that candle .
Unforeseen problems?
What planet are they and you living on?
Celtic40me
Yes, to some varying degree.
This though is without precedent.
Enquired earlier about their tactics leading up to this.
Not a criticism of the BoE.
What is clear from this disgraceful episode is that despicable shower are centralising power within an ever decreasing group.
Relationships with and historical respects towards other institutions we took for granted are being torn up.
Parliament, European Union, Law Courts, and now the Bank of England.
Beat it ! It’s oor ba’
Paranoid, insecure, ideological behaviour comparable with another shower who ended up running a government from a bunker.
Probably, in retrospect, a bit too much to expect, some on here, to accept that, given its’ policies, decisions, and objectives, right up to 11am this morning the Bank of England was and is very much part of the problem.
I’m not sure that Stewart Robertson would be my go to guy when I’m looking for an honest answer in a dispute between the hun and someone else.
C40 @ 10.55
By all accounts the BoE decided to unwind / sell its stock of Govt bonds / gilts that they collected when they were stuffing electronic money into the market all those years ago.
The decision was made in Aug this year.
That is in the aftermath of the CoViD19 meltdown of the Govt finances.
It was in the middle of an energy crisis with energy bills going through the roof.
It was in the middle of a land war on the European mainland that was getting messier by the day.
Govt borrowing was already on the up and the energy subsidies were going to be huge verging on gargantuan.
Consequently it was not the time to be selling dormant Govt debt back into the market.
I have no idea why this course of action was suddenly flavour of the month.
Why with the economy on its uppers — Tories and Brexit are destroying what little we had left — did the BoE suddenly want to sell its stock of dormant Gilts?
As for the Nats — it is even worse.
The UK has a currency and they don’t.
Plus MMT / Modern Monetary Theory has died after a short / sharp illness.
Tin foil hat on …
Did the BoE get wind of LT / KK’s mental unfunded tax cuts and try to poison the well before they got to it?
Or were they getting their own back on the Treasury after the Furlough intervention — too big in the grand scheme of things — caused them to get the blame for the inflation we are now suffering from. It wasn’t their fault but the Tories needed someone to blame and they were the easiest target.
However this is a secondary element to the story.
The main issue is LT / KK’s economic stupidity — huge unfunded tax cuts for the rich.
Then you have the pension industry getting “creative” with mezzanine finance / derivatives / swaps on top of their stock of boring gilts.
Gilt yields going up should have helped their funding arrangements for their pension liabilities — if they had kept it simple. But as usual with market failure they seem to have gotten greedy and added complexities that they did not fully understand so that when the real world went beyond their institutional memory / comfort zone it all came tumbling down.
It would appear that they did not imagine the Tories wrecking the economy / increasing yields and interest rates as quickly as they have managed over the past 3 months / 3 weeks / 3 days / 3 hours.
Moral of today’s shambles
The Tories must be finished as a serious political party — they gave us austerity and then made it worse with each and every new leader.
Free market economics fails on a regular basis — it has to be tightly controlled.
The BoE is not the superstar it thinks it is — see MK in 2007/08 for confirmation.
Good morning Celts – Grand day to be a Tim…
TURKEYBHOY @ 2022 10:53 PM & GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING @ 11:54 PM,
Well you may have issues with the “serious professional”, yet is Neil Doncaster a paragon of virtue!?
Your knee jerk reaction is confirmation bias, well that without the confirmation,as you have not presented a coherent point to justify your position, let alone a counter argument.
Neil Doncaster was the architect of the five way agreement, a secret agreement binding remnants of an unorthodox and potentially wrongful process into a Scottish football norm.
The idea that without openness and transparency he should be trusted on an unorthodox and secret TV agreement, that he has impelled on us as a Scottish football norm, does not sit well with me.
This TV deal has more holes than a swiss cheese.
Hail Hail
Fantasists and now we pay for the nightmare Brexit to come
https://www.ft.com/content/e6884fa0-5897-44e7-a990-354ac743571a
HH
Good morning all across the globe from a very dark and chilly Garngad
Some great posts yesterday about Delaneys Dunky.
Our attention starts to turn to Saturday and the real football.
Who is fit and who is not fit?
We need to start the game with our usual tempo/gusto, I think against St Midden we were to slow at times.
D :)
THE BUFFLER on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022 9:25 PM
, dont mean you Lionsroar, incase you get angry , 😂😂😂 al no sleep way worry .
Hello Kev, sorry have i not been paying you any attention, how remiss of me
It’s just so many faces, here is a suggestion for an apt moniker. Lon Chaney
https://youtu.be/jWI3eRf_tZg
Preview ahead of the rumble in the CQN jungle this Sat
MM approaches CQN corner
https://youtu.be/fOad90BvvjM
aff oot
As usual with Neil Doncaster, it’s what he doesn’t say that’s the problem, por cierto
The bore , have a good day bud
SCULLYBHOY:
If looking in,today OK for book(s) hand over? Sorry for very short notice.
My friends in Celtic,
Interesting reading about Doncaster ( The town not Neil )
So technically it’s part of Scotland. The town was colonised by Scotland in the 12th century ( 1136 ) and officially transferred to Scotland in the first treaty of Durham and never given back.
Note the date , its long before the union of the crowns in 1603.
So good luck to Doncaster City in their bid to compete in the Scottish Cup. It could be the perfect answer for any repatriation claim 😆
Could we establish a youth or feeder set up there.
HH to all and COYBIG on Saturday
PS : Show solidarity, but plan for the train strike. Eg no trains to Dalmarnock.
Does Ange have a press conference today if so I expect him to give an injury update on our international casualties.
Don’t know why so many are concerned about the state of the economy – in Liz we Truss 😨
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Beautiful morning in Glasgow.
And only a few days until Celtic take the field once again
🌞
Celtic Mac- thanks for reply last night ,i don’t understand renewing a bad deal,which still has the best part of 3 years to run,i suspect Sky know Doncaster is an amateur, and took advantage. HH
Bada
I agree the timing seems strange
MODERATOR1888 on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2022 3:53 PM
What happened to the “poster” who posted far right incitement to racial hatred against muslims the other day?
Did you report the incitement to racial hatred against muslims to the police or prevent?
Or did you just ignore it.
Why is your moderation useless at keeping the far right of the blog?
I expect to be either ignored or blocked for this comment.
What i don’t expect is a professional or polite response.
What i would love to see, is an explanation in to what the F#ck is going on on CQN.
MadMitch and ErnieLynch quick news is tedious
SCULLYBHOY
I hope your ok and all went well for you yesterday
LT has been spotted out swimming this morning.
Doing lengths in a large river in North Africa.
She is in denial .. .
Coat / where did I leave my coat ?!?
MM @ ages ago
Apples n Pears debate if you bring in a country ten times the size.
Celtic winning the SPL year in year out, doesn’t come easily and the celebrations prove it. Chicanery, loaded dice and plain sight cheating all have to be faced off, especially now it seems ten years after Rainjurz.
Sevco have been given full control of the Scottish Football media the editorial is consistently borderline if not full fat fanzine, regardless of which quay in the Clyde you work from. It wasn’t always like that it’s a brand new strain of bent bias.
Celtic are a cause, because figuratively, we play in from the wrong side of town at the risk of repeating myself there is no market for TV companies to pay gazillions or viewers to watch Ross County . Celtic cannot whilst playing in Scotland secure exclusive image rights, we’re tied to Hampden and Sky, it’s their baw.
DrB @ 10.12
That was just for you.
I wonder what CP would make of the past few days?
WOW He know everything about everything
AND He is a comedian
CP? Charlie Parker?