There are limits to how far we can recruit from our domestic market and continue to prosper. Martin O’Neill preferred to sign players his teams had faced, which meant Hibs and St Johnstone being plundered, eventually leading to decline. Gordon Strachan enjoyed watching Hibs all his life; it showed in his Celtic signings.
Rumour has it when Jock Stein signed Willie Wallace from Hearts in 1966 his timing was determined by the need to deny a rival Wallace’ signature. Neil Lennon should find it easy to compete with the likes of Derby County, if he is motivated to do so.
Enjoy the fantastic clips of Willie Wallace below from the 1960s. You’ll have seen many before but the clip of him beating three Celtic defenders before scoring was new to me. It might have been the goal which convinced Jock to move.
Order Heart of a Lion below:
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Herself=yourself
AoW
Power to the people mate.
KTF
DBBIA. 0858
Wise move,mate. I would do the same. I’m too young to die,even going out wi a bang like that……
BOBBY
I hate to stereotype but unless God changes their hearts, they would never lower themselves to collect for others in the first place. God does change hearts though. ;) especially when they are prayed for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JUJYK5ALQ
BT- hope this weather lifting your spirit.
Usual lick-spittles defying the picket today. Main one is called Billy with 5 stars tattoed on his arm. Anyone tell me what it represents?
AoW
Ill phone my colleague and make sure he doesn’t phone the scabs…
ART OF WAR
Tell him he has been voted out of his union and will have to apply to the First Division union who won’t want him either!
Wee Civil Service union joke-I hope!
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The MSM are putting the boot in to Celtic as usual we are having a last ditch attempt to sign Russell,Balde is snubbing us for Crystal Palace our best players are all leaving us.Some things never change in this bigoted wee country we live in.H.H.
BT- haha excellent.
BMCW- he only joined the union so he could call himself ‘union bear’. Sad but TRUE.
Happy Birthday PEDROCARAVANECHIO67
ps midfield maestro says you’ve to get the rolls in !
pps yer big brother need Hunners & Hunners a baws fur the gowf:))
ART OF WAR
Sad indeed. He sounds like the typical intelligent hun.
Acts like one too-backstabbing bassa….
Tiny Tim ——–
OOOPLA !
Dick Advocaat / Jimmy Sanderson / Donald Findlay ..
Yes —– you are right / a major error on my part / I apologize to the blog for the bum steer . It can’t have been Jimmy Sanderson [ him being dead at the time ] .
Now have no idea who it was ..
Yet another lesson for me re the utter unreliability of my memory ..
@AgentScotland: St Johnstone will ask Alloa for permission to speak to Paul Hartley, permission will be granted
Any legal eagles about,I bought an 09 reg car 3 months ago and it has been back in the garage 4 times since then with the same engine management light fault,can I tell the I don’t want the car now?
@Paulmcc12: Why Was Charles Green’s Share Sale Not Mentioned in Rangers Prospectus? http://t.co/ofPEF6nvp2
After the Racing game a knight of the English football press criticised the Celts for their ‘unsportsmanlike’ play.
Jimmy ‘Solly’ Sanderson laid him out with a single punch.
Only a week until the CQN Open. What’s the chances of the current weather lasting?
South Of Tunis
09:42 on 7 June, 2013
Tiny Tim ——–
OOOPLA !
Dick Advocaat / Jimmy Sanderson / Donald Findlay ..
Yes —– you are right / a major error on my part / I apologize to the blog for the bum steer . It can’t have been Jimmy Sanderson [ him being dead at the time ] .
Now have no idea who it was ..
Yet another lesson for me re the utter unreliability of my memory ..
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Too many narcotics on your part methinks, me I’m totally guilty as well. If you are guilty, I’m twice,thrice and double dice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9bBO1lfu8
I’m amazed at the memory of the older Bhoys, especially my Dad.
Good Morning.
I listened to the Charlotte Tapes last night– albeit quickly and for me a couple of things stand out.
Remember that this conversation takes place in May– in fact none too long before Mr Whyte starts transferring six figure sums of money into the bank account of certain mammies, and not long before Charlie Green in on tape saying he needs £25k for FFW somewhat urgently.
That £25k is paid by Whyte’s cronie and pal……. Aiden ….. the man with the non bouncing cheque!
However what really struck me is that at precisely this time, by my recollection, Duff & Phelps were publicly lambasting Whyte– saying that his ticketus deal was all bollocks, that they would sue Collier Bristow as agents for Whyte, and generally leaking all sorts of info suggesting that Whyte was a basket case who had ruined Rangers.
Yet here they are having a nice wee cosy cuppa suggesting that Craigy call the lightweight bully Brian Kennedy about his shares, and saying that a Newco gets round the transfer embargo and all that jazz.
Whyte in turn reveals that he took a very short space of time to determine that Ally is not a football manager at all but a good man for a sound bite– more or less the same conclusion reached by Charles Green who you will reall had made plans to give Ally the bag!!
A good man for a sound bite.
A good man to have on board for the Gers fans to see and hear– just like Walter.
A good man to use to relieve the ordinary Ibrox customers of their money no matter what bull you feed them.
Meantime, the full mindset is revealed by the Salmond comment.
Even the professional administrators suffer from the delusional belief that if no one can square the Ibrox figures and understand the way how this business could actually be rescued and make a profit going forward ( meaning it lives within its means ), then they will just call in the Government!
There is nothing in the tapes to suggest that the Government will actually do sod all right enough, and Whyte readily acknowledges that whoever picks up this business for £5M or so will inevitably make a loss of £10M in the first year.
In all of what I listened to, in all that I have heard so far, there is one person in the conversation who, despite all else, recognises this business and the personnel involved for what it is and what they are– and that person is Craig Whyte!
He identifies the losses, identifies the management weaknesses, Identifies who has to be tolerated for the purposes of a sound byte and clearly trusts Duff and Phelps so much that he tapes the conversation!!
However, here is the real question:
If Whyte can identify inevitable losses of £10M per year ( at least ) within months of being in the Ibrox chair, why did it take a Nationally renowned business guru like David Murray the better part of twenty years to see the leak in the Ibrox boat?
Unless of course he saw that all along and could only keep the ship afloat by dodgy EBT like schemes, five yearly share floatations. excessive bank borrowings liberally given by a set of tame and out of control bankers, strange transfer dealings, creative accounting and ultimate Administrations and Insolvency ( always under consideration according to Whyte ) and a whole tapestry of interwoven croneyism and ignored conflicts of interest.
Or to put it another way:
We just don’t do paying our way!——– EVER.
However– always remember that in all of this, in all the administrative failures, iffy tax dealings and financial chicanery– there was no sporting advantage– intentional or otherwise…………. and I am a Leprechaun and I sit each day with a pot of gold underneath the end of a Rainbow!
Good morning from a fabulously sunny Nordrhein Westfalen, 21*C at the moment rising to 23*C later. Having breakfast outside on the patio whilst listening to the Smiths. Best I’ve felt for a couple of days, the oldest son came back from Holland 2 weeks ago suffering from boy flu he passed it onto the wife where it mutated into burd flu and she passed it onto me and it has mutated into that most awful of all afflictions Man flu.
I need to point out that we are forever going on about the gullibility of the huns/zombies but there are one or two on here that suffer from the same complaint. Year-in, year-out we have guys going on about all these transfer targets that we are supposedly after then they have a go at the Board for failing to get that target! Guys it is made up MSM p!sh!!!
Who had heard of Victor Wanyama, Garry Hooper, Beram Kayal, Fraser Forster, etc until they were actually unveiled at CP on the day they signed for the club? Half the time somebody mentions a player on here and the next day or so they are in the paper as a target.
As regards Mr Russell if Lenny wants him we just need to match Derby’s bid and Mr Russell will make the decision which team he wants to play for. For those guys who see Tony Watt as the answer to everything, I’m sorry, Tony is a fantastic raw talent but he has a long way to go yet before he becomes the finished article that’s why signing players like Johnny Russell may be beneficial. Anyhoos, all will be revealed on Monday when Mr Russell returns from holiday.
Happy Birthday Pedro. BT I hope you are feeling better!
The new CQN magazine is available on MagCloud now, looks great.
murdochauldandhay
Howzitgaun,bud?
Are you on the big outing next week?
BRTH – Great post.
Heart Of a Lion received, looking forward to reading over the weekend.
Thank you.
BRT&H
A leprechaun?
Wi cowboy boots?
That’ll never catch on….
Pope Francis @Pontifex
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
I like this pope…
Craig Whyte on Ally McCoist: “Crap manager but he’s good at playing to the media.”
Noooo!! Don’t let the cat out the bag Craigy Bhoy!
Euro Under 21 Championship.
Russia 0 ——-Spain 1.
Spain huffed and puffed against a stuffy Russian side . Took them 82 minutes to score the winner .
Germany 2 ——–Netherlands 3 .
Great game . Some great players on view . Really liked Wijnaldum and Germany’s Lewis Holtby looks to be a player..
Saw a refreshingly honest Psycho Pearce admitting to England’s technical deficiencies.. Good to hear him heaping praise on Lorenzo Insigne [ ” a wonderful player / 5 ft 4 , a classic No 10″ ] and Marco Verratti [ ” passed us to death / could be as great as Pirlo “].
Warm and sunny -way down south
ASonOfDan
10:11 on 7 June, 2013
Pope Francis @Pontifex
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
I like this pope…
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That reminds me of a great work colleague I had about 10 months ago, a guy who suffered from depression, I never delved deep into his spiritual beliefs, I wish I had now.
He gets his daughter at the weekend and he teaches her all the right things. The one thing that stood out in my mind was, if it was killed to be consumed, make sure you eat it all out of respect.
Hi Bobby afraid not,I would just destroy the dandelions :)
Would be great to go just for the craic alone though
ASonOfDan
10:11 on
7 June, 2013
Pope Francis @Pontifex
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
I like this pope…
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Just Maybe Fat Sally is a Catholic after all :-)
South Of Tunis
I have Insigne in My Ultimate Team club (Fifa 13) the height holds me back from utilising him ahead of Diamanti though.
HT
God forgive you for even thinking that.
KTF
HH
A glorious day here in the north of Glasgow sincerely hoping that it keeps up for the weekend!
Good to see SFTB at 5s last night, he’s not lost it I’ll give him that!
Pedro67
Happy Birthday my pint sized friend have a great day :-)))))
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY
I believe one or two of our esteemed members are indeed going along purely for the Craic,and to keep an eye on the jaikets!
MT
I heard he eats doughnuts but only ‘cos they’re ‘holy’ :-)))))
HAMILTON TIM
Brentford or Paul Weller?
The Bees or not The Bees,that is the question…..
(Apologies to all for that one)
Morning Bhoys,
Last day of voting for naming the bridge…
http://www.namethebridge.co.uk/
Best of luck to the CQN Golf Society for Sundays game :-)
HH