The annual raft of idle speculation unsettling Celtic’s playing and managerial resources is well underway. One newspaper headline today proclaimed, “Celtic boss wants Canaries to approach him”, based on Neil Lennon when talking about moving to England saying, “There has been no offer, there has been no concrete phone call or anything like that, so I haven’t really had a decision to make on it”. Countless others have followed in a similar theme.
Neil Lennon has not really hidden the fact that he would like to manage in the FA Premier League one day, but none of the journos with pages to fill have any notion on his thoughts of dropping a division in England. In the real world, Neil is showing no reticence in pursuing team development plans for next season. We’ll be involved in Champions League football two months from tomorrow, the manager is busy on the matters in hand.
Best wishes to John Brown for his inspired attempts to take down Newco Rangers. More power to you, John, I hope you have any many lemmings lined up as possible. Some months ago the plotters had a notion that they would starve Newco shareholders into handing over the club for zilch, or £1 less than Rangers were sold to a liquidation expert for. It remains possible that Sevco will starve, but notions that there will be an outcome for the plotters which is more desirable than an existence under the current crew are fading by the day.
Don’t forget, we’ve Tommy Gemmell, live on the blog, on Friday between 13:00 and 16:00. He’ll be here to chat and answer your questions.
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bada
The football will be better on ITV 4 but if commentary is your bag, then Alba wins hands down.
JJ
Turkeybhoy
Sorry for the delay but I was washing down the skirting boards to ready them for painting. A hen-pecked husband’s work is never done.
Anyways:-
“We will spend £4-5 million on 3 duffers,rather than buy one of quality.”
Only if you assume that Finbogasson was ever going for only £5m (and if so, why did No-One buy him at that price?). Spurs bid £10m for a dud Soldado, Cardiff payed £9m for a Danish dud, Norwich bought Van Wolfswinkel for £9m and he scored wan goal.
Of course our scouts could be completely rubbish to explain the failure to recommend and sign but you’ld have to believe that all clubs employ rubbish scouts because he wasn’t bought last summer, nor in the Jan window, by anyone.
Burghbhoy, there’s no many of our exmanagers moved to top epl clubs in recent years.
Do we have to successfully complete THREE qualifying rounds to gain entry to the group stages?
JJ
SFTBs
To be honest if I were an undecided and saw that video from earlier it would make me a firm YES.
The chance to get rid of Simon Cowell and his ilk from my TV screens would be a major motivating factor and then I remembered, I get his mug on Slovak TV as well. YES THEY SHOW THAT BLOODY X Factor here as well (US Version though).
Katie Hopkins never allowed on my screen ever again regardless of a vote either way could swing me to vote NO. And if they told me I could never see Doctor Who ever again I might have something to think about (but that is what the internet is for).
So the big question now is…….
Sftb, sugar soap or good ole fashioned washing up liquid?
JJ,
Aye neebs. 2nd round 3rd round and playoff round.
burghbhoy
I wish.
But, if our Top Scorer, who we wanted to keep, can be tempted away, then we could lose our manager easily to a West Brom, West Ham, Newcastle, Fulham or, even, Norwich.
Neil will get paid more and will get less hassle. he won’t get more glory but, maybe, as a young manager, he fancies his chances of doing well and using the likes of Norwich as a springboard to better things.
JJ
Yes – same as last year. We will find out on 23rd June who we play in Q2. then we have Q3 (these home games are scheduled for Murrayfield) and finally the ‘Play Off’ round
Geordie Munro: “Burghbhoy, there’s no many of our exmanagers moved to top epl clubs in recent years.”
Or players, for that matter. Larsson was probably the last one to move to a team with Euro credentials …
SFTB
I admire your tenacity in trying to encourage posters to see that some things are not as simple as they seem .
JJ
Jungle Jim
17:49 on
14 May, 2014
Do we have to successfully complete THREE qualifying rounds to gain entry to the group stages?
JJ
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Yep, first two rounds a doddle then heart attacks all round in the August play-off;)
I’d take Karagandy again if thats even possible:)
HH
Geordie
It was an all purpose cleaner added to water.
Kim&Aggie csc
Snake P
Unfortunately, if we have to rely on STV to make and create programmes, it will be wall to wall Taggart which, apart from Brond, was the only successful or acclaimed show they have produced in 70 years.
BBC Scotland, at least, have a successful Comedy Unit but little else.
Thankfully, TV is global and we can already choose what to watch and what to avoid. Voting Yes will give no more or less freedom to do so.
JJ
The only thing that’s as simple as it seems is me.
Geordie and Embramike
Thank you.
I suppose the upside is that should we successfully complete the six games, we will be more ready for the SPFL beginning than our rivals. Cue early fixtures against other SPFL teams who will also have played qualifiers!
JJ
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
17:52 on
14 May, 2014
burghbhoy
I wish.
But, if our Top Scorer, who we wanted to keep, can be tempted away, then we could lose our manager easily to a West Brom, West Ham, Newcastle, Fulham or, even, Norwich.
Neil will get paid more and will get less hassle. he won’t get more glory but, maybe, as a young manager, he fancies his chances of doing well and using the likes of Norwich as a springboard to better things.
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SFTB- I hear what you say but the average shelf life down there seems to be less than 9 months or less-if he was to go and say things didnt work out well in terms of results for him and indeed any new manager[for a variety of reasons] it could be over by xmas for him and then what ?-labelled EPL failure?-then again you will reply it could work out very well for him-{i think I am now are into if my aunty had thingmyjigs kinda debate here:)
Though I do feel the odds are stacked against the new incoming managers at lower level clubs whose owners seem to press the panic button very early indeed HH
SFTB
I can maybe just maybe understand Hooper’s decision to go to Norwich…..more money, in the EPL, he’s English and wanted to improve his chances of a cap ( in his opinion)
But Lenny….. He’s one of us, a supporter, Norwich ain’t even in the top flight. If that’s the extent of his ambition then he’s selling himself short and disrespecting my club .
I don’t think he would do that to us but he would seriously damage his reputation with me if he did
Jungle Jim
17:49
Do we have to successfully complete THREE qualifying rounds to gain entry to the group stages?
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Yes, that’s the case. We go in at the second qualifying round and it’ll be that way for a few years unless we win it sometime.
National co-efficients peg Scotland at 25th place now and we have to reach 14th-16th to enter at the third qualifying round and only have to play two ties to reach the group stage.
Trad88
Swedish champions are available in 2nd round. Not exactly a dawdle but we canny draw the swede champs 3 years in a row shoorly.
Sftb,
Snob;)
SFTB
Simplicity is a great attribute in debate.
JJ
PS I was tempted to say that in a very complex fashion 0:-)
Talking about CL qualifying, it looks very lokely that Debrecen will win the Hungarian League (3 pts clear with much better GD and 2 games to go).
That would push Dinamo Tbilisi (Geo) into ‘unseeded’ teams and the highest ranked of our possible opponents.
Unseeded teams coef.
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Dinamo Tbilisi Geo 6.975 .
Malmö FF Swe 6.265
KR Reykjavik Isl 5.350
Strømsgodset IF Nor 4.855
The New Saints Wal 4.850
St. Patrick’s Athletic Irl 4.775
Skënderbeu Korçë Alb 4.600
Levadia Tallinn * Est 4.575
Rabotnicki Skopje Mac 4.550
Valletta FC Mlt 4.466
Zrinjski Mostar Bos 4.000
Cliftonville Nir 3.225
HB Torshavn * Far 3.175
Zalgiris Vilnius Lit 3.050
CH Lux 2.225 – 4.975
FC Santa Coloma * And 2.166
CH Mon 1.200 – 2.450
Geordie Munro
18:00 on
14 May, 2014
Trad88
Swedish champions are available in 2nd round. Not exactly a dawdle but we canny draw the swede champs 3 years in a row shoorly.
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Aye, was just joking…kind of;)
Elfsborg last year was not plain sailing.
HH
Burghboy
Neil’s reputation was riding high last year and has been dented a little this year. He is loved here and, if he stays, will be supported BUT….
I cannot criticise him if he takes himself away from the hassle and venom he faced down up here. He owes us nothing now as he has repaid us both in his own suffering and our club’s success under his guidance.
I hope he stays but I’d understand if he left. The short shelf life risks are well rewarded and most “failed” managers get two or three chances with clubs. Anyway, just as Motorbike riders are all aware of the horrendous accident stats, they cope by believing it will happen to someone else. Similarly, a confident manager always believes he will be the exception to the short shelf life rule.
kingsnake- a tough one, Jeffries and the mob who played a benefit game for the huns, or Jimmy Nicholl and Donald Findlay…….
Trad88
Aye the elfs wereny easy.
A bit easier than the score suggested imo though.
Bobby Murdoch Jr, Thank you for the Sammy Video it was excellent, so sad the club is letting the big ghuy go.
Bada
When put like that……
May 14th 2008 – Rangers FC broke the world record for the largest ever ‘small minority’ of fans. http://t.co/LLwIU8TrSK
ernie lynch at 14.07 (some of us have to work)
Wasn’t making a point Ernie, was asking a question.
Dont worry about responding with a cheeky comment rather than an answer or an opinion,
dont want you treating me differently to anyone else..
My friends in Celtic,
Ins and outs at Parkhead remains to be seen.
Regardless : Where are our players coming through our youth system? Since 2007 we have had first class facilities. Have we had a return on our investment?
IMO investment in first class facilities should equate to at least some first team players, not occasional glimpsing appearances.
To outline what we are competing against, Cardiff received 62 million for last season. In a nutshell that is why we are struggling to compete in financial terms, we can never match this. Until we hopefully join the club we need to bring our own players through. If England can take 18 year olds to Rio then surely we can play them in the SPL.
Maybe a sightseeing trip to Southampton would be money well spent.
HH, always in Celtic.
PS : People saying the English don’t need or want us in their league are the same people advocating a monetary union when the same criteria applies.
Both can be negotiated.
These Owen Coyle rumours scare the f*** outa me if Lenny does decide to leave!
macjay1 for Neil Lennon @ 14.17
thanks for the feedback, personally I would be confident of being found not guilty if hauled up on a charge of racism for using the word refugee, confidence would be based purely on the dictionary definition of that word.
According to talk sport earlier, the most watched epl game stateside last season was non other than Cardiff v Swansea.
Rock Tree Bhoy and macjay
Of course, using the word refugee is not racist. It’s in the Collins Dictionary and they have never been charged with that offence.
Of course intent and context might make a non-racist word, racist.
Anyone else read this.
From that master of words and wit, Bill McMurdo’s blog.
Wullie WontHe says:
May 14, 2014 at 5:20 pm
From Scottish Loyalists
A complaint has been lodged with White Star Coaches of Glasgow regarding the conduct of one of their drivers on Sunday at Bridgeton Cross as the bus was driving through on route to Parkhead.
The driver of the bus in question was waving around a celtic top about & shouting out the bus orange bastards, Following a call to the company we have been informed this is not the first time the driver has acted in this manner however the company is refusing to take any action and have denied receiving any other complaints regarding this incident which is untrue.
Awww, diddums! poor huns!
HH
McDowellcelt god bless wee oscar
18:20 on
14 May, 2014
These Owen Coyle rumours scare the f*** outa me if Lenny does decide to leave!
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Join the club.
HH
SFTB
I guess you have a point regards the hassle Neil gets , the threats and intimidation. As a family man I could understand it that was his main motivation in moving.
But moving to a championship side or low ranking EPL team would really stick in ma craw!!
I guess I will just never understand why anyone would want to leave our beloved hoops
SFTB
Do you know what he has been charged with? Also understand that the song in question has been sung regularly at Tynecastle for years without the officials taking any notice. That would also help LG’s defence..