Best wishes to Neil Lennon is his new role as Hibernian manager. Without wanting to be impolite about Alan Stubbs, Hibs have traded-up in getting a manager of international repute and experience at the highest level of the game.
Neil is a talented coach who got unlikely results across his Celtic career. He’ll bring Hibs up next season and establish a platform to rebuild the club.
Best wishes too to fellow Irishman Anthony Stokes, who left the club yesterday six years after joining from Hibs. The best of Anthony was there for all to see at the Scottish Cup final. He’s still only 27 and, should he find the appetite, he should still have a few good years in the game. His Celtic ‘thing’ finished years ago.
Celtic legend, Charlie Gallagher, will be signing copies of his autobiography at Waterstons, East Kilbride, this Saturday (11th) from 2pm, and 2pm the following Saturday (18th) at Waterstones, Braehead. Get along to see him!
Good luck to all involved in the Green Brigade Anti-discrimination tournament at James McGrory Park on Saturday. If you’re not in East Kilbride, get along.
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Mike, Why on earth would you deprive yourself of the pleasure of watching Celtic play because of the present custodians. I never even think of the Board, I’m just always thinking of the men in the Green & White Hoops.
The team on the field and the heroes of the past.
When the games come round, put on the jersey, stick on the music, crack open a beer (all if work permits of course) but whatever you do watch & enjoy the games.
You are a sensible man so you know it makes sense.
A young lad named John Thomson,
From the west of Fife he came,
To play for Glasgow Celtic,
And to build himself a name.
On the fifth day of September,
‘gainst the Rangers club he played,
From defeat he saved the Celtic,
Ah but what a price he paid.
The ball rolled from the centre,
Young John ran out and dived,
The ball rolled by; young John lay still,
For his club this hero died.
I took a trip to Parkhead,
To the dear old Paradise,
And as the players came out,
Sure the tears fell from my eyes.
For a famous face was missing,
From the green and white brigade,
And they told me Johnny Thomson,
His last game he had played.
Farewell my darling Johnny,
Prince of players we must part,
No more we’ll stand and cheer you,
On the slopes of Celtic Park.
Now the fans they all are silent,
As they travel near and far,
No more they’ll cheer John Thomson,
Our bright and shining star.
So come all you Glasgow Celtic,
Stand up and play the game,
For between your posts there stands a ghost,
Johnny Thomson is his name.
Mike it’s a horrible situation. Corkcelt can evoke memories but knowing the game is rigged means I simply can’t continue with it. It’s a farce.
Just had a quick look online at the stadium plan and the amount of fully sold out areas is astonishing. Not sure if Celtic have stated how many Season Tickets have been sold but looks like it must be north of 50,000. With the new standing area in place, a top class Manager and hopefully a few class signings to follow, I genuinely cannot remember feeling so excited about a new season for a very long time.
Neganon
Really sympathise with your situation regarding your daughter and your principled stance.
I’ve been taking my bhoy home and away since he was 6 (now 15) and the memories we have shared will live with us forever.
Same as the memories I have of my da taking me when I was wee (beating the huns 4-2 at the zoo on my first visit….always getting brought a tricolour on cup final day…..car breaking down on way to Tynecastle one day etc etc).
In the past both myself and bhoy (he was 8 at the time) had season card confiscated for absolutely nothing and I had/have real issues with those running the club who were doing their best to demonise and ban a section of the support.
At this time people asked why I still bothered with the hassle etc…..my view was that I was there before whatever bams where in the boardroom and would be there after they were gone.
The board like to tell us they are custodians….but it us (the Celtic support) who are the real custodians. Whether it’s guys who run blogs/forums/podcasts/csc’s/the Gb/the Kano Foundation/the Celtic Graves Society/Res 12 guys and our average supporter.
I just find it a shame that they are keeping you and your ghirl from Celtic Park.
I really hope we all get what we are looking for with regards to Res 12 and that when Sevco visit Celtic Park for the first time we make it clear that this is their first visit. And also if Hmrc are vindicated in Btc , the club are not found wanting.
This should be PL’S chance to write his own chapter in Celtics history the way Robert Kelly and Fergus McCann did.
Anyway Hail Hail
Celtic Board would never ever back a bent game, to what end? If they dominate they make money with or without sevco so why would they make a pact or be complicit. There must be something they know we don’t. The hun pound isn’t that strong.
I have renewed and got my Leicester ticket today. You are only doing their job for them by boycotting the club.
Think about it.
One horse race (champs league and title money) or bent game (hun money that gets spent on doing up CP after they wreck it) where would we gain the most money?
The club know something maybe legal who knows but there is a reason they have stayed quiet.
they like us know we don’t have many allies in scotland.
Hail Hail!!!!
KLV
Neg You continue to discourage people from watching & supporting Celtic but I’ll continue to do the opposite. Yes I will evoke memories because memories are important, Tommy Burns said when you pull on the jersey, you are playing for a people and a cause.
That is what Celtic means to me and to many many thousands throughout the world, so neither shitebag custodians, the SFA or Masonic Referees will ever stop me from watching & supporting Celtic.
CORKCELT on 9TH JUNE 2016 9:02 PM
Well said.
HH
CORKCELT on 9TH JUNE 2016 8:42 PM
A young lad named John Thomson,
From the west of Fife he came,
*it’s the Wellsley Fife he came.
Neganon
Fully appreciate your dilemma since I’ve been there ….l have renewed but will never again enter ANYstadium infested by the hate-filled, bigoted, hooligan hordes who now go under the banner ‘sevco’
The Huddle/CorkCelt/Neganon (sorry, about the typo…)
It would be strange to get up on the weekends, and not watch the bhoys (and I say ‘would’ instead of ‘will’ because there is still a part of me that holds out hope that Celtic will finally step up and do the right thing).
As better than I have said, Celtic isn’t just a football team, it is a cause. And part of that cause is doing what is right, and standing up for what is right.
But, increasingly, Celtic is damned by its silence on the problems…
And if I feel the Celtic aren’t standing up and doing what is right… then, much of my the joy I associated with watching Celtic, and my reason for following them, will be diminished.
You wonder how much of Celtic anyone one of us would have seen over the years if our parents, or indeed, we, had all been as principled about our owners
Not much I’d guess
Was at an Easter ’16 Commemoration at the week-end and attended a reception afterwards which included a Ballad Session. I have a huge interest in Ballads and heard a very rare one sung, I hadn’t heard it for decades, written by Thomas Davis, it commemorates what were known as The Wild Geese, Anyhow in case anyone anywhere shares a similar interest, I thought I’d share it here
THE mess-tent is full, and the glasses are set,
And the gallant Count Thomond is president yet;
The vet’ran arose, like an uplifted lance,
Crying—“Comrades, a health to the monarch of France!”
With bumpers and cheers they have done as he bade 5
For King Louis is loved by the Irish Brigade.
“A health to King James,” and they bent as they quaffed,
“Here’s to George the Elector,” and fiercely they laughed,
“Good luck to the girls we wooed long ago,
Where Shannon, and Barrow, and Blackwater flow;” 10
“God prosper Old Ireland,”—you’d think them afraid,
So pale grew the chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
“But surely, that light cannot be from our lamp
And that noise—are they all getting drunk in the camp?”
“Hurrah! boys, the morning of battle is come, 15
And the generale’s beating on many a drum.”
So they rush from the revel to join the parade:
For the van is the right of the Irish Brigade.
They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery and true,
And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; 20
And they, who survived, fought and drank as of yore,
But the land of their heart’s hope they never saw more;
For in far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade,
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
The Wolfe Tones – The Irish Brigade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7UgyXlBVXQ
KEVINLASVEGAS on 9TH JUNE 2016 8:57 PM
Celtic Board would never ever back a bent game, to what end?
Masonic influence on the Celtic Board,or blackmail for me.
Tontine Tim, I just copied and pasted it, but I have heard both versions sung, I agree Wellsley sounds more authentic.
Clydesider
Loretta Lynch would be a great shout.at least to get a copy
HH
The Wolfe Tones – The Jackets Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1f3w8AGfg
Thanks James 1955 but to be honest I don’t like that Wolfe Tones version. To hear a good Balladeer sing that Ballad to a much slower tempo is awesome.
James referring to The Irish Brigade.
corkcelt on 9th June 2016 9:26 pm
Thanks James 1955 but to be honest I don’t like that Wolfe Tones version. To hear a good Balladeer sing that Ballad to a much slower tempo is awesome.
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On ye go then………
No disrespect James, I really do appreciate the link, but it is a sad song & The Tones kinda jazzed it up in that version. As they say one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
corkcelt on 9th June 2016 9:32 pm
No disrespect James, I really do appreciate the link, but it is a sad song & The Tones kinda jazzed it up in that version. As they say one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
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Aye, not the greatest of singers is he.
I was flicking through newsnow and came across this artical from the Herald, can’t get in as they want money, but this at the start of the artical intrigued me.
“Neil McGuinness was Celtic’s first team scout with responsibility for European and domestic players for nearly six years. He is the man credited with discovering Virgil Van Dijk and Stefan Johansen. ”
I thought that John Park was behind these signings !!!
If he wasn’t…WTF is he still doing at the club ?
No James, that sounded like Derek Warfield from the original Wolfe Tones, He is a poor singer, I have heard him singing solo in impromptu pub sessions and you wouldn’t distinguish him from any pub singer.
Tommy Byrne is the only real singer in the Tones, in his prime one of the best I ever heard. Would love to hear him sing The Irish Brigade, his version of The Snowy Breasted Pearl is one of my favourites. When I have a few in me, I am prone to inflicting my version of it on the tortured ears of my fellow drinkers.
Breaking news:
Celtic send Kazim-Richards to Brazil in retribution for Rafael Scheidt.
corkcelt on 9th June 2016 9:44 pm
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THE EXILED TIM on 9th June 2016 9:42 pm
I was flicking through newsnow and came across this artical from the Herald, can’t get in as they want money, but this at the start of the artical intrigued me.
“Neil McGuinness was Celtic’s first team scout with responsibility for European and domestic players for nearly six years. He is the man credited with discovering Virgil Van Dijk and Stefan Johansen. ”
I thought that John Park was behind these signings !!!
If he wasn’t…WTF is he still doing at the club ?
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Maybe you’ve found the culprit for for Boerrigter, Cole, Richards and the rest – Neil McGuinness
Bonsoir. À confirmer. La publicité que j’ai envoyé au quotidien qui s’appelle The Guardian’ était en anglais.
The_Huddle
It says he was, so I doubt that he would be responsible for this years duds.
I hope to god Brendan has his own scouts, but the panel at Lpool disny sit well with me, others still having too much say. :-(
HH
Next step-
Run an ad in the Belfast telegraph using Ulstir Skaatz
TET
Here’s a link to Neil McGuinness article:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/celtic/14546520.Five_players_Brendan_Rodgers_should_spend___15_million_on__according_to_Celtic_s_former_scout/
winning captains on 9th June 2016 9:48 pm
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Theres going to be an ad in the Guardian in French ??
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 9th June 2016 9:52 pm
Next step-
Run an ad in the Belfast telegraph using Ulstir Skaatz
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As has been mentioned before, if the point of advert is to reach the largest audience then the Metro would be ideal. If not them then the Sun (i know I know) the Record (again I know) or the Mirror.
There is also, as mentioned previously, internet advertisers. Get those pop ups going, everyone loves them.
P
Cheers.
Any idea why he is no longer at the club and when he left ?
HH
Winning Captains
Comme un commentaire précédent a suggéré , qu’en est-il sonder le Standard de Londres ?
HH.
TET
No idea – assumed he was part of the scouting network. Consultancy basis?
Two gone already, Brendan moving fast. Fisher, Mulgrew & Findlay out of contract on 30th of June, will all 3 join the exodus.
the wild geese – the flight of the earls
always thought that was the historical reference point