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Matt O’Riley had recently turned 21 when he joined Celtic from MK Dons in January 2022.  He was an immediate success, before form shaded a tad, in particular when Ange Postecoglou varied midfield combinations.

This season he has started all five competitive games, with performances eclipsing anything seen before.  He is still young with plenty of improvement potential, so it’s no surprise Celtic have opened talks to extend his contract beyond its current 2026 date.

With Callum McGregor, Daizen Maeda and Kyogo all in receipt of recent contract renewals, and negotiations underway with Matt and Reo Hatate, it’s clear the club have decided wage levels needed to rise to head-off disruption.

All good and well but there’s one noticeable absence from these names.  Concerns about his fitness will exist until we hear the club have offered a new deal to the big guy.

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  1. corkcelt on

    Thanks SFTB & Bada,

     

    Bournesoup your wee intervention made me laugh, but I am known as having a very weird sense of humour.

     

     

    Fair dues to anyone who comes on and admits they got a call wrong, I will admit pregame I would have gladly taken a draw, but 10 minutes into the game, I sat up and said F*** this, we have our mojo back.

  3. Chairbhoy on

    CORKCELT @ 4:33 PM,

     

     

    “I have absolutely no doubt, I know how to win. I know what it takes to win these games and I’ll show the players.”

     

     

    – Brendan Rodgers (Friday 1st Sept 2023)

     

     

    Hail Hail

  4. bigrailroadblues on

    Good afternoon all from the Laurieston Bar. Boiling hot on Bridge Street. And nary a hun to be seen. They must be looking for Melbourne Mick. 🤔

  5. Chairbhoy on

    QUADBHOY @ 4:18 PM,

     

     

    WESTCRAIGS

     

     

    Yes, Brendan was always having digs at Scottish officials in his own inimitable way…

     

     

    …By STEPHEN HALLIDAY

     

     

    Published 21st Jan 2019, 22:30 BST

     

     

    “It has to be VAR – 100 percent,” said Rodgers. “If you can’t do both, and have full-time refs as well, then you would have to do VAR.

     

     

    “I say that because at least then, at every ground, you would get the decision right. For example, with us at the weekend, with Scott Sinclair’s goal. They could easily go back on that and see it was a good goal.

     

     

    “The sending-off of the 
St Mirren player was baffling. It was so disappointing for him. You could see the reaction of the Alloa lad, he thought the free-kick was given against him. These are the things that don’t help, when one of the up-and-coming top referees [Don Robertson] is making that kind of mistake. Of course it’s a worry, but it’s a challenge to us all to help them get better.

     

     

    “The meeting last week was very productive, even if it didn’t work for us at the weekend, mind. It is ongoing. Hopefully going forward it can improve. We need to help the referees, they need to help themselves as well. It is not just about help, you need to make good decisions consistently. I think the ones that have been highlighted are decisions that should be correct – you shouldn’t be getting them wrong. We have to help them and make sure that the mentoring programme and the learning is taking place.

     

     

    “You don’t have a big pool of referees here. You have a small pool of refs and their average age is less than what others would be in terms of experience so somehow we have to try to help them.

     

     

    “It is no different to football teams or individual players. You have got to demand quality. I’ve said before that I was surprised referees weren’t full-time but they are not. It is as simple as that. Humans will always make mistakes but now, with the focus on them, it is how can we help and that is key. We are seeing and we will see decisions that may baffle you but we have to keep trying to find a way to help improve the level. If you can get the two things through – full-time refs and VAR – then great. But through choice, if you couldn’t, and finances allowed only one, then for me you have to go with VAR all day long.

     

     

    https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/celtic/latest-celtic-news/brendan-rodgers-scottish-football-must-bring-in-var-1422535

     

     

    Also Celtic must be reporting and complaining about this and escalating it, I’m with you Quadbhoy, we got a proper Refereeing/VAR display at Ibrox because of this.

     

     

    Which other country would you see the holders of a Cup Competition cheated out of the next seasons competition in the early rounds!?

     

     

    Hail Hail

  11. bournesouprecipe on

    BIGRAILROADBLUES

     

     

    I’m going to stop posting it now. I was reading about Alfredo’s abortive move to Fenerbache and his “ agressive attitude “ Allegedly, he told them he was younger than he really is, so it’s

     

     

    What happened to the Morelos years?

  13. Hrvatski Jim on

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 7TH SEPTEMBER 2023 2:48 PM

     

    Hvratski Jim,

     

     

    I was just wondering about John Cairney this morning. I grew up hearing stories of him, as he was in the same class as my Auntie Maggie, and my Dad played with his big brother in Williamson Street.

     

     

    If you want to know how it was to grow up in Parkhead in the 20s and 30s read his poem: Ode to a tenement.

     

     

    May he rest in peace.

     

     

    ____

     

    I had though about him also recently as I remembered his contribution to the Lisbon 50th anniversary programme when he, in his recontour style, told us about banishing his wife from the house in London and watching the game with his cats on the sofa and the poor cats hitting the ceiling when the winning goal went in (I’m sure that no cats were actually injured).

     

     

    I found a poem “Nostalgia for a Tenement” which is wonderful.

     

     

    If you like nostalgia about growing up in Glasgow, I thoroughly recommend this book, Someone Put a Road on Our Cave, written by my friend Joe Graham about growing up in Easterhouse and moving to Milton. It is very humorous and imaginative and an introspective about the insecurities that we all had as children (before we all developed adult insecurities).

     

     

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOMEONE-PUT-ROAD-OUR-CAVE/dp/1973412799

     

     

    It can be downloaded very cheaply to a Kindle or the paperback version is only £7.46. Great read, I promise you.

  18. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Don’t think we’ll see El Feo Gordo back in Europe again.

     

     

    He spent seven years in Europe.

     

     

    He’s had 9 minutes of international game time in 3 years.

     

     

    He’s earned enough from Sevco to be comfortable.

     

     

    My uninformed guess ?

     

     

    He’ll plod along at various south American teams for the next four years before taking a last gig in Colombia and then retiring.

     

     

    Another example of the Sevco delusion.

     

     

    Decent (but no more) footballer projected as world class … with a fantasy value placed on his head.

     

     

    The outcome was £0.

     

     

    Gone and already forgotten.

     

     

    The fantasists have moved on, gorging on new forms of footballing mediocrity.

  19. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Greenpinata

     

     

    “However, why is anyone surprised. It is a logical step following Lez, ulez, non inclusive cycle lanes, 15 minute cities like Oxford, Restricted zones. Etc, etc.”

     

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    I am totally opposed to these proposals – another snobbish restriction for football fans only- but I fail to see any connection between UlEZ and cycling which are green initiatives. If Environmental considerations were the driver, they would be restricting the travel undertaken. This just makes it unnecessarily rule bound but it doesn’t ban the practice. For those reasons, I cannot see it garnering any support. It is a solution in search of a problem.

     

     

    As for the 15 minute city, that’s a futuristic aspiration that has little chance of being successfully applied. Think about it for 2 seconds and it stops being frightening. It’s another manufactured internet scare like Killer Robots.

  21. Gene on

    Mrs Gene (Jackie) was admitted to hospital this morning with a suspected heart attack – (woke at 3am with chest pains) – been on a monitor all day , looks like angina – will probably have an angiogram tomorrow.

     

    She feels fine.

     

     

    Can I ask to add her to your prayers 🙏

  25. corkcelt on

    Gene, Certainly you have my prayers, very best wishes to Jackie.

     

     

    As you will be told by cleverer people than me, Angina is very manageable but having said that ye would of course have preferred not to have to deal with it.

     

     

    My old Dad got his first attack in his forties, lived to his late eighties & Angina didn’t kill him, & things have improved since then,

  26. Cloud9 on

    Mr Lawwell – welcome to your new post with the ECA.

     

     

    You have been given this prestigious position because you have been an utter failure with Glasgow Celtic for the best part of this century……according to 0.25% of your club’s fan fan-base.🤪

  27. garygillespieshamstring on

    Gene, I will keep Jackie in my prayers.

     

    For what it is worth, my mother had angina for twenty years and managed it with tablets and a spray. Lived into her 80s.

     

     

    I

  32. Tom McLaughlin on

    I see not one person GOT my comment to Paul67 about proof reading.

     

     

    Clue — It had nothing to do with spelling or grammar.

  37. petec on

    Gene on 7th September 2023 6:35 pm

     

     

    Mrs Gene (Jackie) was admitted to hospital this morning with a suspected heart attack – (woke at 3am with chest pains) – been on a monitor all day , looks like angina – will probably have an angiogram tomorrow.

     

     

    She feels fine.

     

     

    Can I ask to add her to your prayers 🙏

     

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    You both have been through the wringer. God Bless you both at this difficult time.

     

     

    Hopefully Jackie makes a speedy recovery.

  41. Celtic Mac on

    gene

     

     

    Best wishes to Jackie on her ongoing recovery. And beyond.

     

    You’re one of the good guys on here….

     

    Think the Exiled Tim is the ither one…

  42. petec on

    bigrailroadblues on 7th September 2023 7:53 pm

     

     

    Pete

     

     

    You coming down to the Shipbank tomorrow? Be nice to see you again.

     

     

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

     

     

    It is Aidans 23rd Birthday the morra and we are playing Pool @ Reardons frae 16:00 onward, so I don’t think I’ll be there. What time is the kick off?

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