It’s good to be back. A power outage at our datacentre on Saturday caused servers to crash and subsequent database problems. Our thanks to Andrew in Belfast for his invaluable help, again…
Trying hard to ignore speculation of various players coming our way, plenty of time for that later in the month, although I will add a note of caution. The fact that a journalist gets confirmation from Neil Lennon that he is able to sign a £6m player does not constitute a promise to do so. It’s little more than bait, for those who still read such sources.
I’ve heard nothing but good things over the years about Georgios Samaras. He is a player who flourishes on confidence, and support, and does so most often at the highest level. In Europe he is Celtic’s out-ball, a player capable of bringing others into the game, turning defence into attack. It is at this rarefied atmosphere that his goal-scoring has also been most effective. Ironically his style is less effective in the SPFL, where Celtic spend far less time 80 yards from goal.
A considerable reason for the low return in the Champions League this season was that everyone knew how reliant we’d become on Georgios. He was heavily marked; by the time the ball got to his feet, three opponents triangulated around him.
It’s no surprise he has offers from Spain, and no doubt elsewhere, to consider. If he leaves I hope his lasting memories will be cheers of support, not his harsher experiences.
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Kitalba.
I’ve seen it many times for specific strikers.
Doubt anybody would say we need to spend more than 5 million on a striker, any striker.
tonydonnelly67
14:32 on 7 January, 2014
Bmcw
Never said you did, read my post slower,. I said it could be that you agree with Auldheid, it was a question, not an accusation.
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As that is obviously a reply to my 1422 post,I can only apologise for not deciphering your post and putting all your words in the correct order.
Kitalba.
Also, the lack of a Gary hooper has improved goal scoring stats.
The rest of the team have bailed management out.
Bmcw
So is there a place where I can run by my posts to you and hamiltontim, to make sure that you agree with them, and it is ok to post them? Or are you trying the bully tactics, because they don’t work with me?
Round & round we go, in ever decreasing circles….
Or as Old Omar maybe said…..
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
It seems to me that we the Celtic support have no idea about any dialogue between Celtic and the SFA regarding the Rangers getting entry to the lower leagues before any other club.Now it just so happens that over the longer term it would suit the club financialy to turn a blind eye knowing in the future a weaker the Rangers would eventualy get promoted to the SPL which would in financial terms be good for Celtic.Now again in my opinion there was nothing wrong in putting resolution 12 forward to seek clarification from the club as what the truth of Celtics involvement or non- involvement in the 5 way agreement was.Where it has fallen apart in my opinion was that those taking the motion forward at the meeting agreed to side line the resolution in favour of having further meetings on the matter which may or may not take place.They then came back from the meeting saying they had been told things that made them feel side lining the motion was the correct thing to do but they couldnt tell us what that information was but there would be further meetings.Now I do not know any of the individuals who took the motion to the AGM so I trust they acted in good faith.However,it is my opinion they should have let the board side line resolution 12 and came back to the support and informed them of that and looked for a new way to get the information unfortunately they took in my opinion the wrong option in entering a secret agreement with the board and if you say it is not that what do you think it is ? Tony Donnely is one of the few people trying to find out but to many bloggers stick together and say the resolution will eventualy get a clear cut answer like Tony I think you are kidding each other.H.H.
Anyway, I’m outa here, lurking Huns, GIRUY.
tony…….
I wouldn’t like to be your blood pressure.
Calm down………………..
Naw yer no or thank goodness?
Perhaps it is time for Samaras to move on. He can be infuriating but will certainly go with our sincere thanks and best wishes. I’ll never forget his demolition job on the huns in that New Year game at Ibrox that we went into as massive underdogs with a patched up team. He was magnificent.
Siesta time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Been doing a wee bit of catching up on here today and one word keeps coming to mind.
Fud.
Hamiltontim:
To the shame of those with pre-meditated prejudices….
(and for those wannabe writers… I know what pre-meditated means, I also know what prejudice means) I wrote what I wrote with disgust. Where are your retractions if you hold to any belief of the concept of justice.
Actually, after a moment of consideration – have Celtic PLC retracted?
kitalba
14:56 on 7 January, 2014
Interesting question…….and have you noticed that the whole subject seems to have been dropped…….still hoping the GB can be allowed back into the fold, and can behave themselves… :)
It’s like a wean with a toy, the toy is meant for age 12 and above, the wean is only 4
after a while the wean gets fed up and eats the box
Sandman
Good post on big Georgios.
I’ve been saying for weeks now it could be worth offering a decent contract to the big man as his performances for Greece have been very good. Their group opponents are Japan, the Ivory Coast and Colombia, not exactly top drawer. Any good performance on this stage will be noted and make him worth more than his wages if he wanted a move.
He might not be as effective in the domestic games but he is vastly experienced in Europe. How much would we have to pay to get a replacement or for a guy who Barcelona put 3 men on!
Joe Filippis Haircut:
Resolution 12 had nothing to do with the five way agreement.
sammi was excellant in europe last season. along with big vic and frazer he took us through to the next level.
the big man gets celtic.. as did shaun maloney, aiden mcgeady and probably more than anyone Niall mcginn… sadly thats not enough or we would have a strike force of hamiltontim and corkcelt. fine celts from what iv read but wouldnt do the job on the pitch
sammi with the rest wasnt great in europe this year, but its his poor performances week in week out in the SPL that suggest to me the 15/30k a week needed to keep him would be better spent elsewhere.
our line up has become boring and our play predictable at times. we need a clear out of players. zaluska, jamsey,sammi, derk, bangura should all be let go in my eyes.
mulgrew no where near midfield, back up centre half.
scott brown no where near centre mid, right side midfielder is where he is best.
youth players need to be given proper chance.. fringe players the same or else sold for whatever we can get for them .
dontpatmadug-i see where you’re coming from…..
AULDHEID 1437
Wow,thanks! Taken me a while,but I got there….
Chances are though that I only repeated something you had said earlier!
Btw,if you nip round to TETCAVE you might see a lovely FLEG wi my moniker and a great dayoooooot plastered all over it by AGCR.
Worth the trip…..
JFH
Res 12 has put the board in a position they maybes didn’t want to be, maybes not, only they know.
What it will do, is show the support one way or another, if the board have been complicit with the sfa, whatever transpires, the support will find out one way or another.
If the sfa have issued a licence on the say so of the huns, they, the sfa are fecked, maybe the club are grateful for Res 12. I am of the opinion that they would have shot it down had they not wanted it aired, they didn’t, that gives me hope.
HH
Kitalba
No. I think they knew they could not stop it and had they publically opposed it would have been portrayed as spiteful and vengeful given it consigned Rangers to the SFL.
I think they made the right move saying nothing on a matter on which the rest of Scottish football had made their intentions clear.
Resolution 12.
A summary to date (medtim interpretation)
1.A number of genuine Celtic supporters we of the view that the awarding of a UEFA licence to rfc in 2011 was highly questionable and may well have resulted in an unfair loss to Celtic Football Club,it’s board,it’s shareholders and it’s fans.
2.So much so,they organised a resolution to have the matter discussed at the Celtic AGM.Well done to them
3.Initially,Celtic’s stance was to oppose the resolution.However,when presented with the detail of the resolution considered it worthy of further investigation in conjunction with those who took it forward. Congratulations to the board for doing this.
4.The board,while willing to take the concerns forward to the SFA,asked that the requisitioners treat the matter with sensitivity and confidence.A wise move and well done to the board for this and to the guys from here who agreed to maintain those confidences requested of them by the board.
5.Some time has elapsed since initial meetings and an update on next steps has been published.Again,well done to the board (who presumably ok’d this) and to the guys for keeping us in the loop.
So,what do we have here?
Celtic’s Board working in conjunction with informed,committed Celtic fans to jointly take forward a matter of mutual concern.
Celtic board working WITH Celtic fans.Terrific.
Have I got any of the pertinent facts wrong here?
If not,one is entitled to wonder what manner of Celtic fan would find this all so objectionable
67Heaven:
Celtic issued 128 precautionary suspensions and broke up the Green Brigade.
For why?
And you ask me if I’ve noticed if it’s all gone quiet?
Mate why don’t you ask me about auld firm tv or the auld firm global circus or how we wouldn’t pay the huns up front for their tickets or a host of other sort of embarrassing questions like Perth/Inverness and no flags nor banners…. what a joke.
TET
Re your 2nd para on complicity. Definitely not.
“Errza Sevco shares, 3 furra pound” (and ye’ll get 4p change!)
Meltdown is coming soon!
Hail Hail
!!Bada Bing!!
15:20 on
7 January, 2014
:)
Auldheid:
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KITALBA
In my case,Grace of Go or otherwise,it was a toss of a coin!
But I do get the point you are making.
IMO,Celtic should have stated that civil disorder had nothing to do with them.
However,very time a Celtic supporter was seriously assaulted or worse,had the huns been refused a parachute it would have been painted as the club’s fault.
Because they had been warned.
Would you have that on your conscience? Nor me.
But I’ll put my neck on the line and say that that is very close to what happened.
Auldheid:
What a shameful excuse for an excuse.
I never stood against the nazis’ because I never thought it would do any good.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Do you honestly believe that less Celtic Supporters are going to be hurt, or killed in the future because Celtic PLC never stood against the 5 way agreement sham.
I don’t know the answer to that, I really don’t, but again I quote you… for evil to prosper….
weeminger
14:30 on
7 January, 2014
Based on the current RFC market cap of £21.8M we could just about buy them with last year’s CL money.
Now, that is actually very funny. :-)
Question is though – what would we do with them once we’d bought them? It’d be like acquiring some kind of shameful relic – a shrunken head from the far flung reaches of the Empire. I mean – would you actually put it out on display these days? Perhaps, after all, you would – as a reminder and lesson to all future generations who would scratch their heads and ask “How could a civilised society ever have allowed such a thing?”. Concluding, “Thank goodness for progress!”.
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The Exiled Tim FTD5. Im not sure your right that we will find out or exactly and how long that will take and the longer it takes the board to give a clear answer the more dubious it all seems. Why could the board not give a clear answer on resolution 12 do you know ? Do any of the people who put forward resolution 12 at the AGM know ? To me they either agreed to turn a blind eye to the Rangers entering the lower leagues or they were give faite acompli. Something does not sit well in the whole subject I dont know the answer but in my opinion resolution 12 was a good chance to find out wasted. H.H.
JUDE 2005
Yes,forgetting to mention a booking.
I posted just before some Aussie git broke the blog,that it was surely the equivalent of yellow-carding a player twice,but keeping the red in the pocket.
Incompetence.
At best.
And why was he riffing them anyway?
It’s usually a junket for UEFA-standard refs,not a wee autograph hunter.
oldtim67
13:40 on 7 January, 2014
Four GreenFields.
No rush and know problems, I’ll see you somewhere before March 14th.
I only have you down for one ticket, is that correct?.
2 tickets mate , booked them via BT .
Hope that doesn’t cause a problem and sorry for the late reply , busy at work .
Auldheid:
And please, never forget with me, it’s not about the huns, it’s about the rules….
The rules for all.
Celtic should not have spoken out against the huns, they should have moved heavan and earth in support of the rules.
I cannot say it often enough, It is what the huns were allowed to get away with that bothers me, not that they actually tried to get away with it. I don’t hate the huns, they are human just like me.
KITALBA 1454
One of those rare laugh-out-loud,beer across the screen comments.