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.
Definition of poor IT planning: datacentres who host their Status page at their own datacentre. “We’re down, but you can’t read this, because we’re down.”
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kitalba
15:37 on 7 January, 2014
Good point, well made….apart from the last part ….. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Edinburgh Airport closed due to security threat.
Auldheid:
Do you think the five way agreement actually went through without Celtic’s knowledge?
JOE FILIPPIS HAIRCUT
Did you and TONY DONNELLY have the same English teacher?
Auldheid
I was thinking about the 5 way agreement when I posted that, I know they weren’t complicit in the hun getting a licence for the CL.
But I do believe they were in the hun getting a licence to play football, which they shouldn’t have obtained.
HH
Oldtim, how you doing old friend , I recently asked Paul to give you my email address , which I believe he passed onto you , if you contact me on it , I will arrange with you for my payment .
Bobby Murdoch C U W Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit fella.If that is all you can contribute im sorry for you. H.H.
So it seems tonydonnelly67 has had a knock back from Jeanette Findlay and just has’nt got over it.
JFH
Res 12 was nothing to do with the 5 way agreement, it was only about the CL licence.
If the board are keeping something from the people who proposed the Res, they will know soon enough, and I trust them to inform the support.
HH
Good wee twitter exchange on the Sir Craig Whyte thread:
@TonySharkie
no surprise there unfortunately I just wish he would get jail time for what he has done to my club.
@stickuk
I thought he did it to the company ? #sevco
RE Sammi- Not forgetting we would be losing the sexiest man in british, nay, world football. 8 glorious years he’s given us when he could have been on the catwalk, making women moist.
kitalba
15:41 on 7 January, 2014
I think it could have, since it was an agreement, a scandalous / corrupt agreement, between sevco and the sfa……with no compulsion to advise other Clubs..?
e=mc2 skiving at work
15:48 on 7 January, 2014
Give us a shout when you’ve achieved the full shilling……hahahahahahaha
The Exiled Tim F t D5 Getting entry to the lower leagues before other teams and getting a European licence are all part and parcel of the same cheating.I would like to know what part our Club played in accepting what was happening? or did the challenge it ? If not why not ?H.H.
The Honest Mistake:
I agree mate, Celtic as a team have bailed out our lack of an orthodox striker, that is Celtic for you, but mate, that very same Celtic, with an orthodox striker… what might have happened?
Don’t even attempt to answer that, only an absolute fool would even attempt to answer that, but I’m sure there are one or two hubiriced up mentalists that’ll give it a go.
Pity they can’t get a win on the fixed odds though.
sftb@14.26
thanks for taking the time to put together a well reasoned response
I particularly like the thought that us mineshafters were actually more optimistic (or maybe ambitious)
In my wee opinion I think resolution 12 is a good thing.I feel the more information gathered and put together will give Celtic a solid case which could be pursued under company law.
This I feel is what the SFA fear most.
The SFA may think their swivel eyed approach to their own governing rules may be accepted but alas in company law they can not ignore the Celtic shareholders.
Celtic by following the correct path by having dialogue with shareholders are building a case, whilst ensuring minority rights of shareholders and their grieviances are heard and pursued.In the airiated and formal climate of (Celtics)corporate governance this takes time.The FACT the resolution is still ongoing is highly signifigant.
These power outages are an outrage!
If it’s not that it’s a polar vortex!
We’re doomed a tell youse!
HH!!
I am not that up at all on the 5 way agreement and all that stuff but I fail to see how the SFA , an incorporated body representing its members ( of whom Celtic PLC were/are probably the most significant in terms of revenue and profile), could enter into an agreement of such profound significance without the knowledge and consent , express or implicit ,of Celtic.
67Heaven:
5 way agreement ?
I’m pretty sure the SPL were part of that agreement. I’m also pretty sure that at the time of the agreement Celtic PLC were part of the SPL; now I’d hate to think what would happen to the SPL if they ever misrepresented Celtic PLC. (Vomit)
Joe Filippis Haircut 5:51 on 7 January, 2014
The Exiled Tim F t D5 Getting entry to the lower leagues before other teams and getting a European licence are all part and parcel of the same cheating.I would like to know what part our Club played in accepting what was happening? or did the challenge it ? If not why not ?H.H.
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I doubt that Celtic as an individual member/club could not do anything to stop all of that without being portrayed as trying to have the huns closed down
http://news.stv.tv/west-central/259433-christopher-hay-cleared-over-offensive-post-celtics-about-neil-lennon/
Kitalba…15.37…
Excellent post, wise, unambiguous and without taint of pro-board or anti-board bias!
joe filippis haircut
15:44 on 7 January, 2014
Bobby Murdoch C U W Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit fella.If that is all you can contribute im sorry for you. H.H.
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Thanks,mate.
I’ve waited all my life for someone to say that to me!
Sammi finds himself in a difficult situation. I feel he is a genuinely loyal person and is torn between moving now for a cut price fee, thereby giving Celtic something in return, waiting until Summer and leaving for free but having to spend a difficult few months seeing out his contract with limited playing time (which is risky with the World Cup looming), or signing a new contract.
Given he hasn’t signed yet, I suspect the 3rd option is the least likely.
I don’t think Sammi is in Lenny’s long term plan, despite him saying he is now at his peak, so his game time for the latter half of the season is going to be limited. Sammi will know that he needs games now and he needs to keep himself in shape for Greece’s World Cup challenge, so seeing out his contract is a risk to Sammi.
Given that he has not signed, what is the best option for Celtic? The most they can get for him now, providing they can generate some competition for him in the market, is probably $3m. Do they take this money now, knowing that they can’t buy much in the market for $3m, or do they feel that having Sammi in the squad for the second half of the season is worth $3m? Given that we don’t need him for the second half of the season, I suspect Celtic would prefer to off-load now.
So, my money would be on a transfer now.
Chip shop worker Hay, from Kirkintilloch posted “I seriously do wish that someone would kill that ugly ginger c***, I should’ve planned my parcel bombs better, next time it’ll work #w*****”.
and yet our board want to close down the GB because of a bobby sands picture
this is what is wrong with Scotland nowadays
never mind the attack at swinecastle etc
the link from etims (by doc) is superb too
tell alex Thomson to have a read too
E=MC2
A long time away,fella,but what a return!
And with a page podium too-we are not worthy….
I’ve been gagging for a beer on occasion but never quite this badly…
http://news.stv.tv/tayside/259407-andrew-davidson-tried-to-have-sex-with-drinks-trolley-on-board-train/
Ron Bacardi. I understand what you are saying but as Kitalba said earlier Celtic could if they had wished assuming it was the case challenged it on the basis that rules were being broken.They did not require to make it a head on attack on the Rangers but a genuine wish to see the rules being upheld. H.H.
Would a last minute bid persuade Jermain Defoe that CL football is a better option than Toronto.
Yes I know wages etc, but could the prospect of a testimonial help entice this “proven” striker, that at 31 years old he can still play at a higher grade than the MFL.
HH.
MONAGHAN 1900
Ffs,sometimes I truly despair.
Open season on some wee ginger-heided Fenian b…..d as usual.
Assaulted in full few of the world,and this put down in posterity,no offence applicable.
Ffs,as I said earlier.
Greenpinta. Defoe in my opinion would be a great signing and score for fun in Scotland.H.H.
Ron Bacardi:
Without being nasty, without being bigoted, without being sectarian, I’ll tell you what I tell every hun I ever speak to, the best thing for Scottish Football (Celtic aside) the best thing for Rangers, the best thing for Scottish Society, for the courts, the hospitals, and most importantly – the children on Scotland yet to be conceived – regardless of religion – would have been if the powers that be did their job, applied the rules, enforced the rules, and Rangers would have started again in the juniors. Had that been done, then a few people in years yet to come, to my mind, will live to grow a beard.
The fact that it did not happen, lots of excuse can be offered, lots of body swerving can be done and done and done, but for me, just for me, we missed the best opportunity to dilute the bigotry to an irrelevance that might not come around again in the next three, or four, or five, or six, or seven generations.
Bottom line… we shat it to face it all down. Not just Celtic, all of Scotland… we shat it.
Can any of you legal types confirm that if ole Craigie has been given leave to appeal for a second time (against the Ticketus verdict) then he must have substantial new evidence which is likely to strengthen his case somewhat?
Thanks.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
16:12 on
7 January, 2014
First of all might I say that anyone can be witty – it takes brains to be sarcastic!
Sheriff sitting alone can virtually do what he likes. How he could acquit there…..I’m afraid there’s only one answer.
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
14:18 on 7 January, 2014
Maybe if we had better players around to support him the opposition would have to leave more space for Sammy to do his thing.
Doc……………. Excellent!
TBM
tomtheleedstim
16:19 on
7 January, 2014
You can usually only appeal on a point of law. Unlikely to be any new evidence. Likely to be arguing that the judge in the lower court applied the law wrongly.