You and I have been through a few close seasons together, so it’s no surprise we have this uncomfortable feeling as we look ahead to (hopefully) four hugely important Champions League qualifiers while contemplating how ring-rusty Celtic have looked preseason. These games really don’t matter, of course, they are there to allow us to experiment and build fitness for the real challenges ahead, but you would rather we were turning teams over 4-0 than being on the receiving end. Evidence, perhaps, that the experiments were leading somewhere.
Lots of coverage today of the fall-out from Friday’s meeting between the SFA and Sevco, some of it informed. Huge issues clearly still remain before they will be granted permission to join the SFA but they would not be helped by their prospective manager, Ally McCoist, walking away this week. Sevco have not sold many season tickets but if McCoist goes their chances of doing to will become increasingly scarce. Friday’s comment from McCoist sounded like a scene-setter for a resignation letter.
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Tricolour
Brechin were one who , certainly, said they would be voting for Div 1. Whether they did or not I don`t know.
BRT & H
Thank you.
Anyone.Any places left?
Fritzsong
Scot mc Donald was a 30 goal a season man he wasn’t 6 million u don’t need to be that expensive to score 30 in the spl
ElDiego.
Churches in Dumbarton? Naw only good wans like St Pats,St Peters and St Michaels…
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC
We should have identified the guys we wanted to move on at the end of last season,get their agents in,create a market and sell them.Wilson,Rasmussen etc.We then could have got guys in before pre-season IMO.
Fritzsong
Loovens left Celtic some weeks ago and now plays golf with incredible success.
Tricolour
So far the five are:
Stenhousemuir Dumbarton Hamilton QOS Airdrie Falkirk and Brechin
I would give up m8 :)
Jungle jim, think it might be full but email paul67 and he should be able to put you in touch with taggsy HH
BRTH
Brilliant, especially
Yet, in his book, he praises to the highest degree another Journalist, namely the late John Rafferty– who wrote, taught, and at one point helped train arguably Glasgow and Scotland’s greatest ever boxer— Jackie Patterson.
Good to see him recognised on cqn by someone other than myself.
Prestonpans,
Thats six mate and yes I am giving up.Thanks buddy.
EL D
That was Ernie Els.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000
thank you very much for that detailed response
was out for a quick cycle there
lovely sunset
just read thro it now
thanks again
i will check out the Ian Fraser articles
and yes
lookin back, i see that indeed that other reference was from one of your pieces (dated 24/04/12 on CU)
do you happen to know if any of the MSM have been investigating aforementioned senior banker (retired) ? hardly heard a peep
Hutchy
Thank you and good night all,
JJ
Bada,
Think it is safe to say we will be signing nobody unless we sell first.
midfield maestro,
Benny Lynch? No?
Ceaser67
Cheers Dave.. Should have spotted that.
midfield maestro
You still in the Algarve?
Tricoloured Ribbon on 23 July, 2012 at 22:11 said:
I was meaning John Rafferty. But nice to see Benny Lynch mentioned too.
!!Bada Bing!! on 23 July, 2012 at 21:56:
Totally agree with you…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Lennybhoy
Cheers again for Premier Sports link……
HH
EDB
Got home last night, 3&half weeks of bliss. Home to this lovely weather :-)
from 2009
with a mention of Gavin Masterton
http://www.ianfraser.org/a-little-bit-of-plains-speaking-from-lloyds-banking-group-would-be-in-order/
EDB
Thanks fir askin
GourockEmeraldBhoy on 23 July, 2012 at 22:15:
Your welcome mate, glad you got sorted.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
midmield maestro
Serves you right LOL.
BRTH
Interesting post from earlier re Hugh McIlvaney and the Big Man. Celtic supporters will go out of their way to go to pre-season friendlies, and have to pay to see them. Do not expect to win them all, but expect the team to be well prepared before taking on the likes of Ajax. Or even the Stuttgart Kickers come to that. Get fit first, play shorter indoor matches, (Falkirk have always been helpful in that regard) and then play a few games with only one, the last one, against opposition capable of winning.
Just checking there midfield maestro.Paterson lost 25 fights and Lynch 12.Maybe they wern’t as good as we thought!
Kittoch – Breaking Bad is the greatest show on TV.
I hear Craig Whyte has taken to driving around HMRC offices with an industrial magnet in his van. (thumbsup)
Top Corner
Dunno if the MSM are looking into said Banker– howver the whole HBOS/BOS life of the 90’s will surely come under scrutiny soon enough with the major players named and examined with the benefit of dare I say it hindsight and– honesty, transparancy and clarity?– ok maybe the last part was tongue in cheek.
Midfield Maestro
I was brought up to believe that Rafferty was a Demi God in journalistic terms.
Some time ago I wrote about the passing of the late John Quinn of the evening times, whose death prompted a post on the Celtic FC website such was John’s standing with the club.
To me, John was “Uncle John” and he and my dad would sit together at various amateur and professional boxing nights– with my ould man posing as a journo– and on occasion writing some copy for some journo pals.
However, both spoke of Rafferty in glowing terms.
Tricoloured Ribbon
Re Benny Lynch– The late John Burrowes- another great Glasgow journalist- describes the scene when Jackie Paterson won the world Flyweight title from Peter Kane at Hampden Park in the first round.
He says that as mayhem broke out at the end of the fight, a small dishevelled and down at heel man wearing a bunnet,and who was clearly not in the best of health, ran into the ring and lifted Paterson aloft before being swallowed by the crowd and heading off into the night.
Paterson would later describe that this was his abiding memory of Benny Lynch!
off to watch G&T on the “huddle online”
Has the demise of oldco got anything to do with the demise of the football phone in? I’ll miss big DJ spewing p!sh about his beloved gers on real radio.
Maybe he can get a game wi Newco instead?
Well… That was a bit of a stushie
There i am, eating lovely while fresh fish, on a lovely wee restaurant in a tiny spanish bay.
So im tucking in, and the waiter puts a side plate down. “por espinas” says he. Well, i obviously misheard, and thought it a bit strange, but – what the hell – i thought, when in Rome…
Well, all hell broke loose, the wife’s no speakin, and i hear the guardia civil r after me.
The fish was good though
Bada bing
identifying the players you want to leave is the easy bit,the hard bit is getting somebody to take them off you .rassmussan has been up for sale for 2 year and kelvin Wilson isn’t going to be on the top of any managers wish list,think we’ve done well trimming the sqaud m.wilson ,Cha ,dan ,lovvens,Juarez ,mc ginn ect prob about 60 k a week in wages there hopefully murphy,Wilson ,and ki will go to free up wages
Awe naw and others
Thanks for all your help and info about my wifes problem ( no she still is stuck with me ) We have resolved our problem and im allowed to go to game tomorrow night ha ha
Many thanks to all again
Tricolored Ribbon
A Lynch/Paterson examination and comparison would be an interesting one for another night. Paterson should have changed weight, but was as heavy a pound for pound hitter as ever there was.
Lynch was craftier– greater ring skills in outsmarting his foe.
And Rinty Monaghan just sang at the end of each fight win,lose or draw.
I ,however, am off for a pint up the hill!
Cheers
BRTH
John was my uncle, my mum’s brother, served the alter at his funeral in ’77, fills me with pride every time I talk of him.
I love CQN, but unfortunately I did not inherit the gene of writing, that is my brother( who is mod on another celtic site).
The media of today couldnae lace his boots.
Thanks for sharing your memories of him.
toibhoy67 on 23 July, 2012 at 21:53 said:
Fritzsong
Scot mc Donald was a 30 goal a season man he wasn’t 6 million u don’t need to be that expensive to score 30 in the spl
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We only need as the stats show a player who can convert 1 of the 4 shots on goal that our forwards on average get every game( with playing 3 up front ).
If only, please
Evening bhoys,
i asked earlier but thought i would try again,
has anyone had a holiday in the Kemer area of Turkey,
is there much to do in the way of trips etc
Jungle Jim on 23 July, 2012 at 21:51 said:
Tricolour
Brechin were one who , certainly, said they would be voting for Div 1. Whether they did or not I don`t know.
BRT & H
Thank you.
Anyone.Any places left?
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Brechin voted No to Div 1.
They were poorly misrepresented in the MSM (quelle surprise). What they had said was that a number of cast iron guarantees were required and then they would vote Yes. The cast iron guarantees they sought were of the type that simply could not be given.