Six weeks after testing positive for Covid while on international duty with France Under 21s, Odsonne Edouard made his first return to goal scoring form with two early strikes for the French youths against Switzerland last night. He is now clear as the Under 21s all-time top scorer.
This period has been a turbulent one for Celtic, who dropped five points in the league and suffered a humiliating home defeat to Sparta Prague. Odsonne has been used sparingly since returning to the team as a late substitute away to Lille and looked short of full fitness.
If we are to fix whatever ails Celtic, getting this man putting the ball in the net regularly again will be necessary.
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Garngadtocroy
Is that an NLC school or Glasgow?
Yep Hot Smoked, Routine is a big thing when you retire.
For me Important to get up reasonably early same time every morning & have a general plan in my head for the day.
It doesn’t matter a fig whether you keep to the plan or change your mind & do something completely different but still important to have one.
Golf, mid week Hotel Breaks & 3 or 4 Holidays a year used to be the norm.
Unfortunately all these now knocked on the head but hope springs eternal.
p.s. Whenever Celtic have a game , well that’s the centre of that day’s plan & everything else is worked around that.
Cork Celt
Routine very important as you say.
Been retired for a few years now. Golf 2/3 mornings a week and morning mass on other days.
Afternoons for house and garden stuff and shopping etc.
Bit of pubs, Celtic and short breaks and holidays and I couldn’t figure out how I found time to work.
Don’t know how I found
HS,
Agree, Ernie normally knows his stuff. I enjoy his posts although I reserve the right to inform him when he is wrong.
HH.
CORKCELT on 17TH NOVEMBER 2020 4:45 PM
Alex Ferusson’s advice is to put on shoes rather than slippers when you get up.
JVR / WINNING GEMMELL
you mentioned davie provan getting golfballed was that just as he crossed,it seems to catch Brians 3rd quickly?
hh
Just in from work and my wee Grandson who is 8 and loves playing football and going to the Celtic games called to say “Granda my football will be cancelled now but how have I to go to school”.
He got MOM on Saturday and is doing really well and loving his football. How do you explain the decision to keep schools open but shut the kids activities at night/weekends. Madness
The UK Government’s could not run a menage/menoge.
D :)
SPIKEYSAULDMAN on 17TH NOVEMBER 2020 2:47 PM
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Linda Bauld, Devi Sridhar, & Jason Leitch.
None of these people were elected by anyone, but our destiny appears to be in their hands. We simply don’t know how much personal prejudice comes into their thinking when advising the Government, For example, Sridhar I believe has previous for being anti-alcohol. Their jobs and the Ivory Towers from which they work will be safe no matter what. They are completely out of touch with ordinary people and the challenges they face from Covid restrictions.
RCQN – Retired Celtic Quick News the life of Riley some of you lot.👏😂🙏
Well done and good luck to you all, stay safe.
D :)
David 66
During lockdown here my grandsons football is cancelled – they’re gutted.
Hopefully they’ll be able to play after 2nd Dec
Ernie
Make sure you get dressed first 🤭
AN TEARMANN
at one of the corner kicks.
WG
My first thought when I get up isn’t “shoes or slippers”.
It is “I need to get to the cludgie before I pish myself”.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING
NLC school
My wife, who owns a hairdressers was actually in tears when listening to the wee munchkin on the radio today, when she announced that she would have to close for 3 weeks.
NL figures going down, so she moved it from level 3 to 4 , couldn’t make it up.
Garngad
Cheers. One of my mates is a retired teacher and got contacted last week saying NLC were looking for supply staff. He was wondering the Covid situation in the schools there.
Seems a ridiculous position for a head teacher to take to threaten students that choosing to self isolate might harm exam prospects in the event of a future cancellation.
Putting their attendance stats before safety of students and staff?
some weather.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/pa7
Gene – Here’s hoping.
D :)
I retired 9 year ago on All Saints Day, I had went in the day before for my annual performance appraisal and told my boss that all the tasks on the white board above his heid had been completed by August and although I wisnae actually twiddling my thumbs there was not much to do.
They had been after me tae leave for around 2 years but I dug in with the sense that I’ll leave when if want tae and no tae accommodate some female dug’s bonus.
So he confirmed that my job was being phased out but they could find me another one, not what I was hired for but still in management, although it may mean shifts, at my age eff that I thought, then he mentioned the magic words “or we could offer you a package”, I responded “or you could fire me”.
“If we could do that you would have been gone 2 year ago, we just have no reason and you would have lawyered up” he said.
Incidentally he was new tae the job and had called me in one day tae tell me, behind closed doors, my age and salary were going against me so I knew then it was time tae go, however as I said on my terms.
BTW I had been tae court and arbitration for them and never lost, so now the baws in my court and I said get me a package then. Shortly after an e-mail arrived, “see me at 5:30”, my response was “no chance, I’m not driving home in the dark on Halloween with all those kids running around”, we had just changed the clock that weekend.
So the next morning I’m back in the office at my usual time 7:00 and fired up my computer. Within half an hour I’m invited intae his office where one of the HR managers is sitting, a package is offered with the comment fae both of them “don’t sign it, go and see a lawyer”.
At hauf eight I’m driving up the road in the 2nd busiest highway in North America, big Rods on the radio singing “you’re in my heart” and I’m singing along with him.
Oh and 3 months later they sent me a letter indicating my bonus for the year before, couldnae have been that bad.
Then for the next year I literally didnae know what tae dae. Oh I applied for jobs but my resume has nae time lines on it so when I showed up with the platinum hair for interviews jaws were dropping.
I had a daughter who was an HR manager at the time and she warned me I probably would never work again, not because I wisnae qualified but I had become too expensive tae hire, strange as it me seem. While we’re on the subject my replacement was hauf my age and on hauf my salary.
This was confirmed when after the last interview I had a letter arrived 5 weeks later telling me that they had thought long and hard but unfortunately could not offer me the position, this was a lot different fae the ones that I would receive within a couple of days saying they had found someone more qualified.
It was a horrible experience and I was fit tae be tied, we had at the time a daughter teaching 1132 Miles/21 hours away and Mrs TT who due tae health reasons hasn’t worked for over 30 years couldnae handle me so she took off tae visit her, on and off for about 6 months that year.
As I’m Type 2 Diabetic I have tae curtail my bevvying but the shares in chardonnay rocketed as I sat around moping and then one day in the local paper I read the local minor soccer association were looking for coaches, wisnae much of a player, in fact average at best, but I has played, read and watched the game all my life so I volunteered.
The season lasts from May to September and involves 2 nights a week, one for practice and the other a game. However I took to it the way I did management where I modeled myself on Jock, Brian Clough and MON, real people managers.
In this multicultural environment everybody’s different; the person you would metaphorically hug is different from the one you would toe up the erse.
I also kept a spread sheet, the first thing if asked them is what foot the kicked with, no not in the Scottish vernacular, and what their preferred positions were. I then told them that not everybody could be Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi or Mo Salah; I loved it and still do.
I had also been a KoC member for over 30 years although other than paying my dues that was my only involvement even though I had been in 3 different Councils, so I transferred to my local one, again I took to it like a duck to water and I’m now 4th degree and Financial Secretary.
Up here in this small town the KoC is heavily involved in the community, food bank drives, even helping the Sally Ann in their annual kettle drive so we’re kept busy all year round.
We have 3 levels of government over here and when I was gainfully employed I would take a vacation day and work them, a bit of double dipping but it’s a long long day, I loved it and so continued in retirement.
We also had a census a couple of years back, applied for that and having worked in a federal facility with high level security clearance was offered a management position, loved that tae, even though it was only temporary, and the money.
So basically it’s all about keeping yourself busy which I do but not burning myself out, already been there, seen it, got the DVD, Tee Shirt etc.
Hard tae believe but I really like retirement now although I am fortunate tae have a couple of private pensions as if I had tae rely on Canada Pension or Old Age Security I would either starve tae death or be back in the Bonnie Banks.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING
If he is over 60 or over 18 Stone tell him to avoid !
Garngad
Will do.
Thanks.
Don’t think he was that keen anyway, but any info like that is helpful.
Retirees is it.
In my street, us and the couple across the road are the only people still working.
IEverybody else is retired.
My garden is the worst in the road compared to the competative lawn makers surrounding me. Wee fella across street, has a routine, all through the summer, every 3rd day he cut the grass ……….. at half 8, that included weekends, if they fell on his 3rd day.
When not doing that he is a power wash nut, everything gets it, cars, driveway, windows,
Next door got rendering down, that went on for over a week, another got a driveway down, 2 more got roofs on.across the back from me got an extension.
it is like living on a building site,
when i do retire i am moving away.
i am also surrounded by old colleagues who retired on final salary schemes from the good old days, they like to tell me how their rises are going, show their car upgrades, as soon as any restirctions came down they were away travelling.
they talk shite about fitba in awe.
if i ever get to power i am going to force retirees to move to their own resdiential caravans.
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Setting free the bears.- my view.
the commmendation came from
a wee hun inside the snp,
working in knuckle with trfc press desk to try and open and close promptly the tale.
knuckle tightened around Arfi’s perty scottish meeja wise
in sense they report occurrence as event/date time/early police report.names used as last resort if at al
compound timmy paranoia by playing with it.*
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*might be wrong the only variable changed here is – the snp working in conjunction with the cheating knuckle against Celtic
The sense of injustice when this anti Celticness arises in us is more deep rooted,jeez it might even go back to before Snp 😊,who was in power in Scotland then? well i would say roughly 1950 onwards was Labour and pre that we had a tory blight.
that history shapes how we feel,you are correct to point out the commendation is another example of Scottish bias towards its establishment club.
now your not goin to tell me,if the parties in power reversed here,there would not be a wee sleekit labour hun working in conjunction wi their brithers? …might have happened before😊
The inculcated bias and loathing of Celtic from its Scottish elite carries on and will be fought every second of every day by us.its ignorance has always been there.
Celtic hurt them by winning on the park
Celtic plc could hurt them by adapting res11 at agm.They wont.That would shine a light on now london,used to be Scottish banking that was a teat for Sir hunner of Pence 88-12 as well as the laundrymat since!
They should start flexing the muscle a £100m company generates and start speaking out as a club on what is going on.
Have you walked up Dum Goyne at end of campsies?
enjoy your time T
hh
Amybody have an update on the Scotland u21?
TT,
management styles.
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When I moved into people management it wasnt something I really wanted to do, I was happy enough learning, and was a group leader but i didnt want to go to the other side so to speak, however better ment than me cajolooed and co-erced and covered me, and pushed me on.
Our Functional leader, Alex, was the brother in law of Halloween cake face chairman of rangers, and i knew him well enough. He had left us a few years earlier.
I was doing a presentation at a Quality Scotland event, and Alex said “big john wants to see you, he is quite impressed that i took you from the forktruck to a manager (aye right)”, So he goes and get him and there is handshakes and back slaps all around the table, The company was mixed, 4 celtic minded executives but the other 8 were in deference to “big john” and all ibrox attenders, not pre souness, but when it became fashionable.
We bet them 6-2 in the week before the event, so we were merry enough.
Big John says
“Its wonderful you have made it in to management, Alex is proud of you, and if you look around the table you can follow in these great peoples footsteps, tell me Stivs, you have worked for many managers, that is the power of IBM, so tell me who do you base your management style on ……………….
well John that would be Martin O’Neill.
one of my proudest moments.
HI GHUYS, i retired a couple of years ago im in that magical number 67😎 anyway i posted this on sentinel celts,earlier, went into my local fish and chip shop in cheshire at lunchtime, usual routine facemask on then wait to be called in, i ordered fish and chips if you say gies a fish supper down here they get confused.😎anyway they cook the fish to order, so you have to wait, she takes your money while you wait as i waited a large truck of livestock, young pigs as it happens went past, oh look she says them pigs are going to be killed laughing,i
was sick to my stomach, how could you laugh at young animals going to be killed i walked out i nearly said have that fish supper on me i hope you choke on it but that would not have made any difference.sorry for the rant.H.H.
Timmy7
“I believe I am being objective here.”
If you were you would have answered the question anout the commendation instead of being sarky about “Proddies”.
Celtics problems won’t be solved until Neil Lennon sets us up in a better defensive structure when we play better teams .
He then needs to stop playing midgets as full backs .TT
vvvvv
SB- lost 1-0
Thanks BB. Bummer…
An Tearmann
I agree with a fair bit of that.
Labour ran Scotland at a time when The Lodges and overt discrimination had even greater presence. The natural home of the Lodge adherent in Scotland has always been the Conservative/ Progressive Party. I found that out early when I was i canvassing in Castlemilk as a 17 year old student. A wee hun answered the door of a house where they obviously had not much money themselves but they saw themselves as the working class ubermensch because of their association with the Queen and all of them were going to continue voting Tory..
In my short two spells as an actual Labour member, I never encountered any pro-lodge or Masonic sentiment. I am not saying it wasn’t there; it surely must have been- but it was never raised or supported in any open meeting. At the time of the referendum all the SNP fans suggested that the Lodges would get a rougher ride than they had under Labour majority government in Holyrood, which they quite freely smeared as being tied to the Order. Well, surely that delusion must have gone by now. The SNP
have not made a move on them and no bookie would take a bet on which would be first to go once an Independent Scotland had been established- separate schools or number of Orange Marches. Wonder which one you hear talked about in SNP circles as not beeing good enough for a modern Scotland?
Your speculation about some underling in the SNP being presumptious in getting the commendation message out has some holes in it.
Who was the underling with the approval to do this?
Why was there no immmediate clarification from Nicola et al to say this was not the view of the Government?
And curioser still, why was there no response when Neil Lennon formally stated he had been disappointed by the diffeence in treatment?
It’s very unusual for the SNP to be quiet if they think they have been mis-called as showing football favouritism. You’ll remember how quick she was with the sententious jibe about “the virus not discriminating between different shaped balls”, when she was answering the query about favouritism towards Rugby over football.
Though she absolved herself of the charge of discrimination, slipping it onto the virus (at whom the charge had never been leveled), she did , at least, attempt an answer.
But his time- nothing. No apology- no explanation.
But their commendation still stands on the record uncorrected, and our excoriation for Bolingoli stands on the record accompanied by an SFA fine and suspension, on top of the Government’s 2 game cancellation punishment, putting us behind the 8 ball in this league race.
D66
Complaining about schools again :)
Excellent touch of ole Rab C there St Stivs😀
Mostly all the jobs I was in were poorly paid ,so to pay the rent ,food on the table ,wasn’t much left to have a pension,What struck me was people who never had to put a lot off hours in ,and sitting on there archies ,had better pay and conditions ,and never had the chance of early retirement,aye retirement is great ,but not for a lot off people State Pension,,Talk about all being in together,well that went out the window a long time ago ,one thing about getting old ,has been worth it working your but off for what for a lot to get the cream and the others the milk.
Retirees I will give you retirees bhoy
AN TEARMANN on 17TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:33 AM
Apologies for the late reply. It is a bit confusing as it seems that there were two original episodes that have been chopped up to fit YT, so I’m not sure myself. This purports to be the final episode:
https://youtu.be/hUWiUAsTeRQ
All well with me in a wet and windy Philippines, thanks for asking.
HH