Your grandad will tell you Jock Stein was master of the news the week before a big derby game. He would seed positive news stories about players or the club to make sure everyone had a spring in their step and to put pressure on opponents.
Graeme Murty is not the master of his own domain, so has few levers to pull in this respect, but he must have despaired when news broke that Newco were unable to retain a 21-year-old central defender they bought from Raith Rovers in January 2017.
Newco are dead in the water if they cannot retain recruits from Raith Rovers who have played a dozen league games for them this season. Dead. In. The. Water. They cannot buy the finished product, they cannot even compete for the French youth international talent Celtic seem partial to.
The only team development strategy available to them is to develop, retain and benefit from young domestic talent. And according to Murty, they cannot afford to offer competitive wages for David Bates.
They couldn’t even convince him to keep his contract business to himself for a few days until after his team face Celtic tomorrow. What a hopeless shower.
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Roy C, G64, VP et all – try and get over for the hoot.
Time was our enemy the last time, next one we do a wee bit of walking from town to the West, see the place better that way.
HH.
ROYCROPPIE,GORDON64
Book bed only. The breakfast in Harlem cannot be missed.
https://youtu.be/KNjfrzNI0q8
Quadrofenians
67
Sing Our Own Song
UB40
https://youtu.be/OiE1Ir0Gnxc
HH jamesgang
David Simon writer of ‘The Wire’ is currently producing a TV series on the Lincoln battalion of United States volunteers in the Spanish civil war. Hh
16 Roads/BMCUWP
Cheers Bhoys, really looking forward to it.
16roads
Looking forward to it J. Have always loved the Belfast vibe. Edgy but exciting. Thankfully it has changed a wee bit since my first visit in the 1970s.
HH
https://youtu.be/xwvpeYiQwss
Frank Wilson
Do I love you
KTF
Roy the Bhoy.
res…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuW7pD_fhg
67
16R Your good self and Gearoid were tremendous hosts when we visited your amazing city. Hh
i am very weary noo.
Think
16 ROADS
Time will be your enemy in June too,old bean. My Dad and I have got hunners of it,so yer warnt!!!
BMCUW
Do you have contact number for oor wee Bankie, Danny in Doire? Would love if he could make Belfast on 9th June. TCR are you lurking pal?
HH
https://youtu.be/8AXkfhqvO44
Jackie Wilson
Higher and Higher
PETEC
Class
Petec – It would be good to see you back once again as well mo chara.
An incredible sense of calmness about the place tonight.
Fine times to be a Celt indeed.
HH.
https://youtu.be/h2svmUcsKeg
The KInks
Days
Goodnight Bhoys.
YNWA
RC
GNGB Thanks for the tunes.
Only 14 n a hauf hours till we get to skelp dem stinkin huns.
HH
Shut UP
Just Rolling with My Sons Rudi Vata.
GLASGOW/BELFAST Celtic……
Celtic can do better.
The Dinosaurs urnae in the Bible because….. that Word wisnae there translated..
67 in Israel is gonnae be a hoot.
70 I mean apologies.
My team for tomorrow –
Gordon
Lustig
Boyata
Ajer
Tierney
Brown
Ntcham
Macgregor
Roberts
Rogic
Dembelee
Remember you read it here first :)
Compare the incoherent rambling nonsense spouted by the current POTUS with the speech made by Robert Kennedy following the death of Martin Luther King. Hh
DELANEYSDUNKY
Not sure his details are the same after his unfortunate incident a few years back.
Remind me tomorrow-you know what my memory is like!-and I will call and mail. He certainly hasn’t replied to the original invitation,but he’s not alone in that!
Still hoping Bhoylo83 and Big Aidy can make it. Remind me to give our middle-class young pup a reminder too,please.
Good lad…
Gordon64,
I’d urge you to Pray for him.
Believer
No worries Bobby M.
Plenty of time, if God spares us all.
Must give the boul TCR a call tomorrow, see what he’s at.
Apologies to all for complaining about the price of drink :
https://youtu.be/Kz1t7SS6zYg
HH.
The more middle class Celts the Better.
The Hour is late howevaaaaah.
Petec
Think Henrik
Think original political hip hop fae a London band.
https://youtu.be/GcHL8efKKPE
16 roads,
The Dark ones are so highly in tune with the Word. They know it Religiously.
Wheres the Vodka?
LOVE
CELTIC
16 ROADS
Price of drink? My nephew and I were on a tenner a round today-and that was cheap! I felt like someone was taking a moothfi for every one I took,but them’s that London.
Got off lightly.
And I introduced him to one fantastic Malaysian restaurant,and some off-piste pubs. Which ain’t bad going in Euston,he was somewhat surprised.
Nothing you’re not used to,of course. Slip down a side street,here’s a gem!!!
Garry, Winter in July
LOVE
Lets beat these dudes – they are not the Problem.
16roads
Ian and Noel were always gonnae smash it together. Give it all away.
DD @ 9:49pm
“”””””””””””””””
HH fella,hope yer keepin well.
Eh, the empty seats is to get the inactive PLC to execute their highly paid executive duties, which entail the custodial governance of Celtic FC.
That means, that when presented with overwhelming evidence, rubberstamped by Brittania’s Supreme Court, that the SFA and Rangers FC, cheated tens of thousands of Celtic supporters, for, lets say, since David Murray got the keys of ibrokes, imho, so presented with such compelling evidence, only for PLC billionaires to look the other way from it, and, for Celtic supporters to vote the PLC back into office again FFS ???
If you think that Desmond and his PLC puppets would sit it out until Celtic die, well it wouldnt reach those extremes, plus, the seats wouldnt be empty for long, as the PLC would fold, if, the proper pressure was applied. Apathy emptied 30,000 seats and, the PLC folded and brought Brendan here.
For example, AULDHEID could be doing with some hauners.
So, why dont, the Celtic Trust, CSA, and the Res:12 Rebels close ranks, issue a statement to the PLC that, season tickets will not be renewed until the C.O. findings are made public ?
Seats should never be empty at Celtic Park.
But, empty seats, 30,000 of them were emptied by apathy, brought about by the “honest” PLC’s diminishing the quality of the product on the pitch, and in the dugout.
Hopefully the PLC will action all of the mountains of evidence of cheating.
But if they dont and, Celtic supporters keep turning up and, keep turning the other cheek to be cheated some more, well, maybe to be cheated is what the Celtic supporter base of 2018, deserve.
The ghosts of the Parkheid Jungle are crying rivers of tears, seeing all those mountains of evidence of hun cheating, sitting there unactioned. I talk to a lot of Parkheid Jungle ghosts, every day, they are so, so, sad.
Anywye,…..keep well fella. HH
…….oot.
Lol only drink the vodka when nothing else left Petec – killed more Russians than Trotsky that stuff did.
It’s whiskey all the way.
Hail Hail legend.
Sorry Lazy YouTubing.
LOVE
New Klub ????
How come I canny sleep
Never remember this with Gretna
Who knows ?????
For me it’s still the the same cheating badtirsrs in fact we should even give them the option of ditching their debt & hatred
No hatred in this household but I really dislike any version of that mob
Weebawbabbity… Hail Hail
Get your bahookie back on here stiff that lurkin pish :-)
Bobby M – Horrific chief. They are slowly bleeding the working class people dry.
God bless the poor people, the pensioners etcetera, they have been priced out of even leaving the house for a few beers.
DD – Was Gerry Rafferty a Tim?
Not that it matters, pure genius regardless.
HH.
Pete
As soon as I saw those gorgeous huskie eyes, I got an early 90s flashback to a video and song I loved, but had forgotten about. Magical creatures huskies. Hard working, intelligent and loyal breed. I want one now.
Thank you Pete.
HH