Neil Lennon, his goalkeeper and defenders will not be too concerned at the loss of their first goal in domestic football yesterday since Noah was a boy. John Rankin’s pot-shot from 20-odd yards clipped the post on its way in but the Dundee United player scored from an area of the field that is usually vigorously monitored by Beram Kayal.
We’re going to miss that guy……
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Oglach. Intellect doesn’t come into it.
Nearly 4-3 there. Good save from Valdés, not for the first time tonight.
Personally… In Ma Opinion…
If Ah wur King..
Ah wid
Grab… Vardy.. Fur Us.
Ah wid
Grab… El.. whitever.. the Falkirk Guy…Fur Us.
A Coupla Million.. mebbe, only Wan and A Hauf.
Chicken Feed!
Face it, fellahs.. we are Low oan Strikers.
We Goat .. Gary and Stokes.. and.. that’s aboot it~
Sure, we hiv Two great Prospects.. in Keatings and Watt.
But..
The Ell Guy and Vardy.. are
Proven Campaigners…in Very Tough Environments…
and they are Baith Proven
GOAL-SCORERS!
We shouldna Mess aroon..
Grab these Two.. and Hang the Consequences..which..
Could Be a Pleasant Surprise or a Disappointment..
Howevahhhhhhh..,
We hiv hid Dissies.. afore.. Big Deal!
Ah hiv a feeling the Eethur of These Two…
Wid Be a Pleasant Surprise.
Kojo
Bruce. Legal. Moral. Separate arguments. Both the size of a cathedral.
Full-time. Barcelona 4-2 Betis.
Vmhan,just back in Derry from my wee weekend in Glasgow..turned out a great w/end..looking forward to the semi-final to get you off the ironbru..
I always felt Fergus was booed because sadly many of our fans believed the Daily Record and MSM’s campaign against him.
I remember too that day lots of “Drumcree” banners (it was right in the middle of that marching up Gervaghy road era), and I think there was a resentment that Fergus had clamped down on Republican expression.
Whatever the cause, it was a dreadful, cringeworthy moment. The only time in my life I have felt like walking out of Celtic Park of the actions of fellow fans.
James Forrest
I made a comment about the player from Rapid Vienna the other day. I’m pretty sure when Neil Lennon said he watched the Albanian he did not mean he was interested in the player.
I don’t believe Celtic would be interested in him. Why?
Let’s forget about his poor scoring ratio and he is not first choice for his team.
Players in that region (including Poland and Austria) finished round in November 2011. After winter break they are back to medicals , trainings and on away camps. This is process that must prepare players for play in early March.
Celtic have no time for special treatment for the player from my region. Can’t wait till the striker will be ready for play. I know almost nothing about Celtic buy from my region in January but guess the number of the buys in January is zero, unless the players were young and only prospects. Were these stories about Albanian to Celtic true? I very doubt it. The more them the stories, the more you know about the newspapers and their work.
Hitler, Saddam and Pol Pot……just badly advised.
Celtic_First says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:20
That’s as may be, but I think we’ll find out pretty soon that not only was it immoral, but that it was indeed illegal.
Badly advised makes very little difference. Perhaps Ronnie Biggs should have considered that defence instead of going on the run for 30 years.
Black (minis) yellow yesterday puts him out of Celtic game.
Celtic_First
Yep, absolutely – the phrase ‘Caught Red-Handed’ (no pun intended) immediately springs to mind whenever I think EBT’s though.
jc2 says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:16
Kevin Phillips
Alone Wolfe Tones Try this link,very basic though.
Awerabest PJ
http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/showthread.php?t=74608
Fergus McCann saved Celtic. No doubt about that whatsoever, and without Fergus, all the Celtic fans in the world couldn’t have saved the club.
In his last season, we signed Lubo, Vidar Riseth, Mark Viduka, Johan Mjallby. Can’t remember the transfer fees for all of them, but it must have amounted to at least £5m.
At the same time, the Hun were spending megabucks financing the Little Genital’s introduction to Scottish football. They bought Numan, Amato, van Bronkhurst, Kanchelskis, Charbonnier, Prodan, Hendry, Guivarc’h, McCann, Klos, Moore and Reyna for a combined total of about £36M. How scary is that? And that was just before the EBT era.
Just think about that. Fergus was running Celtic responsibly and sustainably, while that shower of cheats were spending stupendous amounts of other peoples’ money, that they could never hope to pay back, on buying success, and were just over a year from embarking on defrauding the taxpayer to buy more.
Does anyone think that Fergus should have matched them? Just think, we could be staring at oblivion along with the Hun.
Fergus McCann is The Man Who Saved Celtic, and it was a shameful day when he was booed by some Celtic fans as he unfurled our first league flag in ten years, that we would NEVER have won without him.
God Bless The Bunnet.
James Forrest –
We once bought a striker who couldn’t get a game for Feyenoor reservesd, and they were desperate to offload him and get him off the wage bill.
I think he was Swedish and his first name was Henrik.
* Feyenoord reserves.
Oglac – Fergus’ place in Celtic history is assured. But we should not simply try and airbrush out a horrendously managed last year. He was simply a businessman who understood the strength of feeling the support had for the club and who recognised how poorly the club had been managed.
He was rewarded with his money.
Dirtymac – the fact was we went from having a manager who won our first league in 10 years to him leaving the very next day and we went backwards in terms of playing squad that year – we all knew that at the start of that season.
Italiabhoy I can well understand your view but it certainly wasnt mine and certainly not the view of the vast majority of the support. It was nothing to do with the Daily Record – he let us down that last year. I dont care how unpopular that view is – thats what happenned.
Neganon2
Did Vim Jansen ever return to football management ?
I may be wrong but I dont think so.Did he have the appetite ?
Without Fergus leading the way where would our club have been ? I had issues at the time
with Fergus like many others, but to give abuse in public at Celtic Park was distasteful &
the huns loved it. Fergus was far from perfect.The financial mess of the huns apart from tax
dodging is due to throwing money at any problem.HH.
StMichaelsBhoy2 says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:27
Great post
The old board were a disgrace
The bunnet was the man we needed thank god he rescued us from a cesspit of a board
Tom, are you seriously comparing signing Vardy to signing Larsson? Larsson had a fall out with Feyenoord staff. He had already scored goals in Sweden for Helsingborg, for Sweden in World Cup and for Feyenoord. Vardy has scored goals for Fleetwood Mac or some team like that…. Jeez man get a grip
SffS
StMichaelsBhoy – many Celtic supporters hold that view and Fergus did put his money where his mouth is. I am not sure you have your facts right on those signings.
Its never an all or nothing scenario – i am not suggesting we should have matched their spending regardless – I’ve never advocated that. But we could have done better and built on our success – we could have afforded that. But we didnt.
Its all very familiar eh?
Lads I’ve never been to mini Huns ground, if any of you fine gentleman could get me a ticket it would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Coorslad glad ye enjoyed the weekend in Glasgows Green and White!
V
My dear,dear,deara,friend.. Italia Bhoy
Some..mebbe, TOO MINY.. Celtic Supporters. did.. show their
Displeasure.. By BOOING… Mr. Bunnett.. and ..If Ah may also point
oot… Probably, many of that Same Unhappy Group.. also”
Showed their Displeasure with..our WONDERFUL(In Kojo’s Opinion,that is)
Mr.Quinn.,..
Let me say This aboot That..
In Ma opinion… agin.,
Celtic Football Club, does Harbor , among it’s Supporters..
A Goodly Number of … not to pit ..Too Fine A Point oan it
Of…
NUMBSKULLS and Porridgeheids(The Latter wiz a Favourite “Put doon”,
from an old Scots Professor Ah hid at.. McGill)
Yep..
Sadly, too Many Celtic Supporters… fur Ma Liking
are Far too EASILY INFLUENCED by the Establishment Lackies
Who Woik fur the Communications and Newspaper Media
So.. Ye are Right,pal..
Howevahhhhhh…
Like Ma .. Revered and Sainted Mama.. used tae say.
“Some Mother’s Do Have them.”
Kojo
yer pal who likes ye aloater
StMichaelsBhoy2 says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:27
At the same time, the Hun were spending megabucks financing the Little Genital’s introduction to Scottish football. They bought Numan, Amato, van Bronkhurst, Kanchelskis, Charbonnier, Prodan, Hendry, Guivarc’h, McCann, Klos, Moore and Reyna for a combined total of about £36M. How scary is that? And that was just before the EBT era.
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This might be of interest to you (or perhaps not – it’s a link to an orc article on wiki) – note the number of record transfers in the 4 year period dating from us preventing a fake 10.
Also worth noting is that the orcs were recently stung for tax dating from that period.
One might wonder whether or not there are further skeletons lurking under that marble staircase.
In any case, spending is all relevant and very much (sustainably so) dependant on being based on a reasonable assumption of earnings to offset expenditure. The orcs turnover in 1998/99 barely covered either player transfers or wages, in solitude – altogether, the orcs costs that season was pretty much exactly double their turnover of £35m.
on ranger tax case, they were wrongly advised my arse, lots of clubs including ours got offered to use the tax dodge, but knew better and said no thanks
rangers knew but said yes because they were more interested in winning than fairness, thats the bottom line, but now no matter what happens they will have to live within their means
whyte has already said he would have to cut the wage bill by 7 million to sustain balanced books, thats a lot of cuts and THE BEST PLACE FOR SAVINGS COMES FROM FIRST TEAM SQUAD.
any player they bring in will be of less quality than the players that leave (we are a couple of years ahead in this respect, but we dont need to cut so deep) and dont have any tax case
throw the book at those cheats and please let a newco commence if they fold because glasgow rangers fc will be dead in my eyes and no matter what they say, they’ll know and we’ll laugh
Kojo says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:20
I disagree with your assesment on Vardy’s suitability for us and playing in a tough environment – I agree there are some good individual players in some teams and at the very top of the conference it can be tough sometimes (I have not seen Fleetwood) – however, I have seen the overall standard of player he is playing against in those leagues (Conference Premier and Conference South) to bang in that impressive strike ratio
they are not very good and he would struggle against the spl donkeys- at 5’10 he is not bringing height to the attack and cannot see what the attraction is at all
also, they play a different style of game here- there is more time on the ball and they allow front players to ‘hold up’ and seek to marshall them into blind alleys-totally different from the phalanx and hacking fest he would face here
tbh the boay would not know what hit him in our version of the senior game
just a view from the windy oul’ stands of hayes & basingstoke
HH
M
hen1rik
Due to Hearts policy of selling directly to Celtic supporters, they tend to be rarer than a handsome hun.
However, prior to the last game at Tynecastle there were plenty of tickets being sold outside the ground. You may wish to try that.
just saw the huns game.
if we had scored that goal it would have been declared offside.
how the most forward player is deemed to be “passive” not interfering with play , when he is in the sight of the goalkeeper, and flicks his leg out to make an instictive attempt at the ball is beyond me.
from the debate yesterday i thought it was borderline.
it wouldnt have been given for any other team.
Vardy for Celtic – down with that sort of thing. Hopefully this is all B/S and not the start of another willow transfer January. A Conference league player FFS.
SpendabitofmoneypleaseCSC
AngelGabrial – I dont know if jansen went on to manage anywhere else – perhaps someone on the blog can tell us?
It simply isnt correct to look at the huns and then say parsimony is the right policy. You are comparing apples and oranges.
You and many others said that the supported booed fergus because the daily record told us to. Thats tosh – we did it because in the end he let us down.
oglach ,dirtymac- Totally agree bhoys,but sounds like the mantra from Media House is being passed down now for the lapdogs to send out to the masses.
seven fishes- I don’t know a lot about Vardy but posted what my mate found out about him.HH.We really have to back NL now and get the striker HE wants and seal the deal here.,
Vardy would struggle to get a regular place in the 2nd team, take the million and put it toward the Diawara chappie, even from a financial perspective CFC can sell him at a decent profit in a few years.
Up for work at 5:30 night Celts.
Before I go …. Sammi has a new song which I heard yesterday.
To the tune of the Lambada.
Georgious Samaras Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Georgious Samaras Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh etc
Kojo my friend we have been here before havent we?
Just because someone doesnt hold your view does not mean the are a numbskull or porridghied – why thats the sort of tactics employed by our establishment lackies is it not?
NegAnon2 says:
15 January, 2012 at 22:08
Dear oh dear. You are living up to your blog name with that summary of Fergus’ time at Celtic. If there is a negative to be found you can find it. Hat’s off.
Fergus McCann stepped in and prevented Celtic Football Club from becoming history. He invested money, he led, he took the risk, he planned the road to recovery and we, as a support, marched hand in hand with him. Together, the support and Fegus, re-built a crumbling wreck.
His place in Celtic’s history is assured and deservedly so. His involvement was not just pivotal but critical. Everything that followed would not have followed with him. The support financed it but the support was always there, in the 80s, in the 90s, but the recovery would not have happened without Fergus McCann. His treatment by some when the flag unfurled that glorious sunny day was disappointing to put it midly. He deserved so much better from us a support. I hope he gets the invite to return one day.
Your summary understates his role in Celtic’s history. He is as important a figure in Celtic’s recent history than anyone.
How would you summarise Jock Stein’s contribution to Celtic? A poor last couple of seasons coupled with complacency in his second European Final? Aye he won 9 in a row and the European Cup, but he blew it in the latter years? Does your glass ever reach half full or is it always empty?
Fergus McCann built the modern day foundations for Celtic. Everything that has come since then has been built on those foundations.
Saint Stivs-What was the foul for?
Cabbage and b
Coodnae score against who ? Cliftonville?