Neil Lennon did us all a favour yesterday by dismissing rumours that he was targeting a striker from Vitoria Guimaraes as nonsense this early in the transfer window. The guidelines are set for your summer ahead. As well as being nonsense, though, it is also profitable news fodder; just think of the amount of advertising which has been wrapped around this story.
What does this teach us? I reckon that the least informed contributions left on the CQN comments page are about as reliable as what passes for mainstream ‘news’. There is a good possibility that even the player didn’t know Celtic’s position on him until it was reported yesterday.
Celtic will be trailing up to 30 players at any point in time, all of whom will have passed one level of scrutiny, but at least 20 of whom would never pass all levels, even if a deal was possible. When players are being scrutinised the position of the club will always be to show courteous interest in proceedings. You and I know what this really amounts to.
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Hamilton Tim
I agree with you re Kayal. I’m surprised Neil didn’t punt him. If a player did that to me as manager – Neil was about two resign after the game – then He would never play for me again.
!bada bing!
It was an unbelievable performance. He wasn’t interested in Celtic winning. It was a petulant performance and could have led to us having only 10 men and being 3 down for the second half. Thank God James Forrest and Stokesie took the game by the scruff of the neck. They were helped by Charlie Mulgrew who had a shocking first half. Charlie’ s defensive error for one of the Killie goals was simply a terrible mistake. He didn’t deliberately play badly like Kayal.
Thanks robinbhoy.
Don’t think my work are too happy but not much I can do as I’m still non weight bearing.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
It was all in the timing, one Guinness necked while the other was settling
;-)
Tokes- welcome to the world of Owen Coyle’s Gran.
SOUTHBHOY
Good good man!!!!!
Tap 50 ya dancer!!!
Videocelts
Charles Green agreed a deal to shift his Ibrox
shares in October last year- just days before
telling the Daily Record that he’d be staying
around to hear the Champions League theme
tune playing over Ibrox!
In a surprise statement to the AIM the club
announced that their former Chief Executive
agreed a deal with Laxey Partners Ltd on
October 19 to sell up his shareholding.
Green bought his shares for one penny ahead
of the December flotation that issued shares
at 70p each. Shares are currently trading at
around 50p with Green tied in to the club until
7 December 2013.
Just seven days after agreeing to sell his
shares the big ‘anded Yorkshireman told
James Traynor, then of the Daily Record:
“Playing in the Champions League is the
pinnacle and with the correct structures in
place there is every reason to believe Rangers
can return to that arena.
“We ‘ave plans to move this club forward and I
know we, with the fans, can make it great
again. That’s the objective now so I won’t be
leaving here in a hurry.
“I could say my initial job is all but done but
there’s a bigger challenge ahead now and I’m
not going until the Rangers fans hear that
music blaring out inside their own
stadium. That’s the night I will know we have
achieved something special.”
According to today’s statement: “The
Company announces that under an agreement
entered into by Charles Green, the former CEO
of the Company, with Laxey Partners Ltd
(“Laxey”) on 19 October 2012, Mr Green has
agreed to transfer 714,285 shares owned by
him to Laxey, once free to effect a transfer.
“Under the terms of the lock-in agreement
entered into by Mr Green with the Company on
7 December 2012, Mr Green is prevented from
transferring shares before 7 December 2013,
without the consent of Cenkos Securities plc
other than in limited circumstances such as to
connected persons, a family trust or in the
event of a takeover of the Company.”
State broadcaster BBC Scotland recently
claimed that Green had agreed to sell his
shares to the Easdale brothers from Greenock
but that looks unlikely with a deal in place
with Laxey.
BT there is hardly a pick on you- so little weight to bear
BT,
Just read more and seems you got a bit of a setback.
Easy for me to say I know mate, but chin up.
Could be worse, you could have me, SOAL and NAFOS visit ye!
:-)
Take care bud.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
13:38 on
5 June, 2013
Completely agree it was an act of petulance that was deliberately designed to get himself sent off.
Still struggle to grasp that I actually said that about a player in a Celtic jersey.
Kayal reminds me of Brown in many ways; he has derermination, fire, strength and incredible stamina, yet both of them struggle to consistently pass the ball 15 yards to a team mate.
The big difference is that Scott Brown has demonstrated leadership qualities that Beram can only dream of. Brown inspires others and that’s what has made him intrinsic in our success this year.
Paul
Lost count of the times you have tried to explain the transfer merrygo round to some people on here .
I mean only a fool would fall for the msm nonsense every window .
With that in mind get Russell signed now ffs :)
There’s been lots of talk about walter the traitor and his EBT. What about the pie whisperer, when do we expect hear about his tax dodge?
It would very difficult to believe such a brown brogued hun stalwart, and greatest ever current manager of sevco did not have his finger in that particular pie. Good grief, he’s famous for having fingers in pies after all.
petec
It was actually going before that up at Maestros with other dj’s, the guy who ran it then bought Lucifer’s (sic) in Jamaica Street and moved the Sub there, the original club before the Sub was called Beatbox where Harri was resident dj along with a young fresh faced Starry Plough!!
I have a wee archive down at my studio I’ll have a look but I don’t think there is anything that far back for the Sub, great club that always had quality spinners..
“Under the terms of the lock-in agreement entered into by Mr Green with the Company on 7 December 2012, Mr Green is prevented from transferring shares before 7 December 2013, without the consent of Cenkos Securities plc other than in limited circumstances such as to connected persons, a family trust or in the event of a takeover of the Company.”
Takeover? Would running out of cash trigger that?
Kayal shld have been punted after he scored his one and only goal for us.
Off to paint ma yatchs bum. Barnacles are everywhere.
H H
Bawsman and Auldheid from much earlier.
Neil Doncaster went on the record at the time of the LNS announcement saying the SPL Board would discuss a response at its next board meeting. We are still waiting. I know a CQNer who believes the SPL will need to come out with a strongly worded rebuttal of the LNS decision because to do otherwise would be to allow Sandy Bryson and LNS to make an absolute mockery of the rules the SPL has put in place and is supposed to uphold. He (the CQNer in question) says such a situation as this would have provoked an emergency committee meeting at any well run golf club in the country.
The only thing you will see about any of this on the SPL official website is Neil Doncaster’s well publicised blog on the subject of financial fair play, in which he utters the immortal line: “Any club that is spending more on players than they can afford is automatically gaining a sporting advantage over every other club it competes with.”
This is at odds with LNS. The blog entry is still there (I feared it would be removed) if, perhaps, a little hard to find for the casual visitor to the site. No subsequent blog entries have appeared.
It isn’t dated, but I can say with 100% certainty that it pre-dates the LNS announcement. I know because I wrote about it (the blog entry) on CQN before the LNS conclusions were made public (and if people had advance notice of those conclusions I can assure you I wasn’t among them).
When Stuart Cosgrove appeared on Radio Scotland with Neil Doncaster in the days following LNS, he (Cosgrove) picked up on this blog entry and congratulated Doncaster for it. He made the mistake of assuming it had been written after the LNS announcement and Neil Doncaster didn’t contradict him, but it was after the announcement.
I think this is significant because Neil Doncaster laid out clearly what his view is of what Rangers did: we know the club spent more money on players than it could afford because it went into liquidation as a result of its over-spending. And besides, LNS found that Rangers were guilty of paying its players in an irregular way, just that this brought them no advantage on the field of play.
This is the key. Mr Doncaster has said clearly that this equates to “automatically gaining a sporting advantage”. Mr Doncaster has had ample opportunity to re-think this or to remove the blog entry, but he has not done so. Fair play. Crucially, this is not his reaction to LNS. This is his view of financial fair play in general.
If he continues to stick by it, the SPL Board ought still to strip Rangers of titles it won while “automatically gaining a sporting advantage” by playing fast and loose with financial fair play. Mr Doncaster ought not to be allowed to pretend he did not say what he said. Lots of us have read the blog entry. Lots of us heard him on Radio Scotland that evening. We are not making this stuff up.
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PeteC..
Re; Sub Club..
In the Late 80’s l would go to The Wag Club on Friday Night then Fly up and Go to Sub Club on a Sat Night.. It was that Good..
Brought a Few up from London.. Impressed.. Good friend of Tony and Mick (Then)..
HAMILTON TIM
Neil Lennon was like Ronseal-did what he was bought for.
That was to read the play and break down the opposition.
Win the ball and pass it about five yards to a team-mate whose job was to do something with it.
Neil should try telling Beram Kayal to stick at what he is good at and be a Neil Lennon clone on the pitch.
IMO….
As for the Killie game,I’m prepared to overlook that-once! He was as good as most in the second half when we had the bit between our teeth.
Tbh,I just want the fella we thought we had,playing for us again….
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Oops..
The Guys that Ran Sunrise and Back to the Future in big Smoke..
The Year of Culture Year l think I was in Glasgow more than Big Smoke..
Summa
A favour. Im on mobile and not easy to copy/paste over a blog.
Can someone do that with my last two posts to kevjungle and petec please?
starry plough
You are a real dark horse, my friend. The dance music from there was ahead of its time and anything you can put up from back in the day would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
As was mooted on here many moons ago, Walturd’s ego will be his undoing, he should have walked away with his Cardigan intact a long time ago, the fact that he is now chairman shows his ego at work and the fact that he thinks he is bulletproof..
Here’s the news Walt, the graveyards are full of guys who thought they were bulletproof and the jails are full of guys who thought they were above the law..
If and when you get your Cardigan felt there will be no one laughing more than me..
BMCUW
Can’t agree I’m afraid I thought that he was as poor in the second half as he was in the first, only the petulance had gone by then. For me he did absolutely nothing to contribute to the final result that day.
Lenny had discipline as a player. Kayal, although still relatively young, has shown no evidence of such an attribute.
Summa of Sammi….
We must have shared a floor as I moved down to London in ’89 and still came up regularly to go to Celtic then hit the Sub, Wag on a Friday was good too before the Brain started, did you ever go to the Brain Club just round from the Wag?? There were some classic nights in there esp on a Sunday!!!
Foxy_1888
I’m bloody terrified of heights.
Vertigocsc
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
Was Kayal not subbed at half-time against Killie in the 3-3 game?
BT
Life a piece of sh#t when you look at it? Shure there a silver lining in there somewhere
recovery unfortunately takes its own time, but you’ll get there in the end.
.As annoying & frustrating as it seems now it can only improve chin up onwards & upwards.
HH
bobby murdoch
Good points about Neil and Beram Kayal .
Just feel that Neil had more experience than Beram and a more intelligent footballer .
His booking in the semi final after just coming on was ridiculous
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP, indeed.
Hamiltontim, keep your eye on the Galloping Major.
Southbhoy, aye.
borgo67, ha!
@paul67
As well as being nonsense, though, it is also profitable news fodder; just think of the amount of advertising which has been wrapped around this story.
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not to mention the “xxxxx snubs celtic” stories they can then run
Auldheid
I just read it. 2 weeks ago I got into a conversation at work with a couple of guys, I didn’t know what team they supported but it soon became apparent they were orcs, the brainwashed type, who were spouting all sorts of excrement, I told them to realise that they have to clear out the lot of the current chancers at their club and that Murray was the real culprit. They insisted it was Whyte.
They tried to claim all the usual hunguffery about not being found guilty etc despite being found guilty. It became very tedious, I mentioned that the UTT will find them guilty and they were wanting to bet, I said ok a tenner, the typical hun mentality a hundred. We shook hands on the tenner.
It is not about the Money as you are very aware.
Celtic First
I think the lack of SPL comment significant in that not just SPL rules would need rewritten.
Lns though treated the payments as regular and could not have done otherwise given FTT but deemed that not telling SFA about them did not convey any advantage on the basis SPL did not provide any evidence it had.
Ecobhoy on tsfm has provided excellent forensic coverage of LNS of late to explain how LNS could only go in the directon pointed.
Either the SPL abandoned the policy Doncaster published or assumed LNS had an open and shut case and did not need to prompt SPL counsel more.
Whatever – Doncaster’s views and the lack of an SPL response unpicking the minutiae of LNS ( playing the SFA game on their turf) is an indication that the SPL are waiting for the UTT (imo only although I know that the wait and see approach which arose on blogs after LNS has been seen by Celtic at least who presumably told other clubs the risks of too hasty an adoption of LNS.
If HMRC win at UTT I think an SFA clear out is inevitable as they have failed the leagues and the clubs in them including Rangers by incompetent unethical governance.
Introducing the Domino’s DomiCopter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on4DRTUvst0&feature=player_embedded#!
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Starry..
We must have.. I was Down with Jinkys Daughter if that rings any bells.. Love night at the Wag was Just.. Just.. Dave Dorrell ..
I got a Gold card for there and other Clubs but never missed a Friday for Years.. Went to brain couple of Times..
As l said I worked with the Sunrise Crew AKA Tony Colston Hater.. and Fruit Loop Adamski.. Ha Ha
Acche some Guid Memory’s ..
Might know Each other..
Summa
HAMILTON TIM
Hence the IMO!
Like I said,I just want the fella back playing the way we know he can.
And if anyone can teach to play the way Neil did-nothing flash,all for the team-it is Neil himself.
I hope he listens to him!
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY
I don’t recall that-but yer probably right!
petec
It was hard work sometimes breaking the new tunes as the Chicago sound was just so different, a lot of empty dancefloors in the beginning!! Now you go to the Co-op and here a house beat!!
Stay Free Mate..
Yeah, I’ve just checked and Kayal was substituted at half time.
Summa of Sammi….
13:53 on 5 June, 2013
Dedécations what you need, although I think he is going to AC. A few seasons ago we might have got a hold of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTqv_6XuU0