New contracts are Champions League dividend

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It’s great news that Celtic have secured three first choice players, Charlie Mulgrew, Adam Matthews and James Forrest, on new long term contracts.  It allows the players to forget about long-term career issues and concentrate on team matters and the manager and scouts can worry about squad recruitment efforts in other areas.

This news is a direct consequence of Champions League group stage qualification.  Not only do Celtic have funds to increase wage budget, more importantly, aspirational football players, who want to reach the very top of the game, have a reason to be here.

The same is true of Fraser Forster’s England call up.  Scottish football has long been regarded along the lines of lower division football in England, but with Champions League football, the English national team have endorsed our football.  It will be easier to attract the next wave of recruits as a result.  One day Kris Commons [stand out Player of the Year candidate]can only hope his own national team will regard his productive displays in the same manner.

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  1. PeteC

     

     

    I have a good grasp on things and the End Times are within the next decade

     

     

    You do not know the day or the hour.

     

     

    Will you stop it now?

  2. tommytwiststommyturns

     

    00:07 on

     

    7 October, 2012

     

    St Stivs – good to see you punching above your considerable weight! ;-)

     

     

    CRC – shut it, Lofty!

     

     

    T4

     

     

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    i am comfortable with my weight thought. fat i may be, but the Bucket collection picture of my fattest moment is getting put up on my wall.

     

     

    my measure is allways fat sally, and i think i could bring a team out of the 4th tier quicker that the R41.

     

     

    hahahahhahhaha

     

     

    keep it lit.

  3. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Watched the Stirling Albion goal on SSN…….did anyone else notice the wee Stirling Albion fan jumping up in amongst the zombies ?…….LOL

  4. St Michael’s Bhoy

     

     

    Right.

     

     

    And if you were an exorcist, you would only be working on a case after a psychiatrist had given assurances that the person concerned was not suffering from any mental illness. That’s the first thing you would want to affirm.

     

     

    It happens. Oh yes. And there are answers. But most of the time, there is a scientific explanation, and, let’s hope, solution for the person suffering.

  5. Magnificentseven on

    petec

     

    00:09 on

     

    7 October, 2012

     

    Anyone who does feel they have demons can get rid of them Straight away by Calling out to Jesus Christ and using his Authority to banish them as they are Nothing compared to the Lord.

     

     

    Satan tried to tempt Yeshua with everything in this temporal World.

     

     

    Failed…..

     

     

     

    or you can just ignore them and get on with your life regardless

  6. PeteC

     

     

    Discuss it properly? When you’ve picked this stuff up from YouTube? Come on, man.

     

     

    What grounds do you have for saying the End Times will be in the next decade?

  7. Celtic_First

     

     

    Please post the proper context next time. ;) Theres not a lot of difference but just enough.

     

     

    “If you think my contributions regarding Theology are mince, who am I to argue, I tend to think I have a good grasp on things and the End Times are within the next decade now you are pushing me about Biblical stuff.”

     

     

    I’m already classed as an extremist and I don’t want to be marginalised further for the views I hold. ;))

  8. dangerously extreme viewpoints

     

     

    Extreme, yes. Well, maybe, depending on your starting point.

     

    Dangerous? You’d have to go some way to convince me that the exchange of opinion here is dangerous, or that posters and readers are endangered by the postings.

     

     

    Apart from that Wham! video philvis posted last week, took me a while to recover from that.

     

     

    It’s Paul’s site, and his rules, and mostly they centre on language. Cert PG.

     

     

    I’ve been baffled, outraged, stimulated, and educated by some of the posts on here – humanity is a broad church, and CQN contributors seem to come from nearly every pew. Long may it last.

     

     

    As for posters drifting away, this happens in all well-established sites, muchg as it does in our football team. No poster is bigger than the site. One of the posters I miss most is probably Edward Ursus, and I never really understood why he left (think I’d been on hol and not lurked for about a month), other than he’d been made to feel unwelcome by a group of posters – this, as we saw with the bould b’hoys last week, is shabby behaviour but hardly typical of the site.

     

     

    Leave it as it is, if you don’t want to engage, then don;t; if you don’t want to read a poster then scroll by; “deplore what is to be deplored, then find out the rest.”

  9. The Muslim Brotherhood are surrounding Israel and the Bible says that a confederacy of nations attacks Israel.

     

     

    How else can all the Secular states just 10 years be turned together in such a volastile fashion. Wake up man.

  10. PeteC

     

     

    What’s the difference? You tend to think you have a good grasp on things and the End Times are within the next decade. What’s the difference between this and the section I quoted?

     

     

    If you are keen, and I’m sure you are, do the thing properly. Don’t dabble. There are answers, but you have to devote time to them and work hard.

  11. Kilbowie Kelt

     

    20:23 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

    Never really believed that I would live to see such a day.

     

     

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    Tomorrow I will celebrate my 75th birthday at Celtic Park.

     

     

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    KK

     

     

    quite outstanding to find out your 75.

     

     

    wonderful full celtic supporting life, the real roller coaster.

     

     

    well done. and many future happy returns,

     

     

    looking forward to your 125th in the future,

     

     

    well, your no a zombie.

     

     

    keep it lit.

  12. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    The fact that the manager of Sevco lost today to the worst team in Britain who was away to his wedding and didnt know what was happening fills me with utter glee..

  13. Kilbowie Kelt

     

     

    Many happy returns, and may you have your happiest birthday so far tomorrow.

  14. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    petec

     

     

    00:09 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    Don’t say that……the zombies2 are depressed enough without you telling them End Times will ‘arrive’ before they get out of SFL3…..that is if they survive beyond Xmas……

     

     

    Indeed, End Times for them is the Glorious Twelfth’ this month……..LOL

  15. Magnificentseven on

    tarrant

     

     

    very well said,I have fallen out with a few people on here but I still think they have the right to express their opinion just as I have a right to tell them they are talking rubbish!!!

  16. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    tricoloured ribbon

     

     

    00:34 on 7 October, 2012

     

    The fact that the manager of Sevco lost today to the worst team in Britain who was away to his wedding and didnt know what was happening fills me with utter glee..

     

     

     

    And me….And me….And me ……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. Celtic_First

     

     

    I expected better from you regarding that comment but maybe I’m being unrealistic, I think you are one of the finest contributors to this blog.

     

     

    All niceties aside can you define an ordinary person? as it is important to understand things from both sides.

  18. I am sometimes uncertain as to whether some of the more bizarre posts we are getting are humour which is away over my head.

     

     

    I would certainly hope so.

     

     

    Otherwise we could be doing with a shrink.

     

     

    Good night & may your Gods be with you.

  19. but Stivs, some of our posters can’t be arsed with the poppy debate and want to debate religion – live and let live, scroll on, post a decent tune by way of distraction.

     

     

    Know wharra mean bud?

     

     

    http://youtu.be/Qv0MxfE8oec

  20. Celtic and Scottish football have come along way in the past 12 months.

     

    This time last year I’m sure Jelavic was about to declare the league was over.

     

    We were struggling and our managers job was supposedly on the line.

     

    12 months later we have just beat the Russian champions

     

    and they just lost to Stirling Albion the team at the bottom of Div 3.

     

    It’s a funny old world right enough.

     

    Night all.

     

    HH

  21. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Off to bed now, Fholks now……big day tomorrow in Paradise (Petec)

  22. Oh and apologies about the elderly comment Celtic_First you just come across as an old Sage type and I naturally assumed you were a lot older.

     

     

    RedHeifer.CSC ;))

  23. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Kilbowie Kelt,

     

    Just before ye turn in,75 mo chara.Just a cub.We breed them well in Clydebank.Enjoy son.

  24. petec.

     

     

    howya keepin bud, enjoyed your music links last night, you fair like your Euro house.

     

     

    I’ve been only sporadically on here the last couple of months, and I assume you’ve maintained your regular presence – has BABASONICOS71 been on? I know he had a fairly tough time a few months back, and he courageously and heartbreakingly posted here about it, but I haven’t seen him the few times I’ve been on since – any idea? Missing that man.

  25. Owen , your sis has agreed to look after me , thanks to you.

     

     

    I seem to remember we shared a couple of those Galway Hookers !

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Sanna

  26. tarrant

     

    00:40 on

     

    7 October, 2012

     

    but Stivs, some of our posters can’t be arsed with the poppy debate and want to debate religion

     

     

    raglan road luke kelly is quite brilliant.

     

     

    cheers.

     

     

    keep it lit