The point was made several times below yesterday’s article that Ronny Deila needs a full strength team on the park tomorrow, as well as an impressive performance and result, which is hard to argue with.
The possibility that Scott Brown could return, as well as potential debuts for Aleks Tonev, Wakaso Mubarak, Stefan Scepovic and John Guidetti gives the manager an embarrassment of riches. Enormous changes are needed, but their introduction needs to be measured. Aberdeen will arrive having beaten us home and away last season; their Cup win at Celtic Park [a successful ground all round for them recently]was particularly impressive.
The Scottish media were clearly briefed that Mike Ashley was set to dump ownership of Newcastle United to take control of the dump in Govan, which was reported in good faith, but unfortunately for those hoping the Sports Direct owner would buy into the Rangers International share issue will be disappointed. This morning a statement from Ashley read, “I will not be participating in the Open Offer which closes at 11am today, Friday September 12, 2014”.
I’m sure the Easdales and our man Philip Nash have another buyer swooping to the rescue. Maybe our other pal Imran!
In a busy morning at Newco they settled with former director Imran Ahmed, who had claimed £625k in monies owed and costs. You may consider Ahmed has a brass-plated neck to squeeze the pips from the club he co-founded two years ago, but when so many others in the management team have been superbly compensated, there was little chance he would hold his hands up and leave without consideration.
Hopefully the Scottish media will allow him to retire to Charlotte Square and put the matter behind him, before any embarrassing insolvency event, as is the way around these parts.
Many thanks for the magnificent response to the Magners’ competition, which has now closed. Special thanks to those of you who helped Mary’s Meals at this difficult time for aid agencies in Africa.
I have the photos from the second and third school kitchens you financed for Mary’s Meals in Malawi. The mood on the blog has been so…. challenging in recent times I wasn’t sure how to introduce anything off-message, but we’ll profile them soon.
There is also a survey coming up next week. I’ve been working with a (proper) academic from our community who suggested we should record exactly who we, the Celtic support, are, in 2014. Planning to run from Monday, so look out for it.
The draw for tomorrow’s tickets will be made shortly so check your inbox.
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Never realised the bulgarians did double barreled names
Aleksander Tonev-Nofit
:-)
Hope I get proved wrong
HH
petec,
Keep it simple
Name your link then copy and paste the link below your title
By the time you’ve put in all them parameters and quotations you’ll be knackered
Petec @1325
Ahhhhh.
Petec and peteg. Two of my favourite petes :)
Rev Dr Ian Paisley
A bogus Doctorate from an American TV evangelist.
A bogus Reverend only recognised in the ‘church’ he started himself.
Politician – in the political party he started himself cos no one else would take him in.
moonbeams wd. – Woman for Independence
Who is she, and why isn’t she making me a sandwich? (thumbsup)
Wtf
jockey jumped of the horse 10 yards from the line in 1st at Doncaster
Apparently there will be a minute’s foghorn as a mark of respect at the OO’s march tomorrow
Seems appropriate.
Philvis, welcome back (and welcome back to me anaw)
An Tearmann. When Tonev arrived he was injured and is still getting trouble in his groin I wonder if we are paying his wages even though he is not fit or if that is down to Aston Villa ? h.h.
Well , he fell
Philvis..,
Peacock lives for about 15 years in the wild but can live for up to 40 years in captivity.
Anything else you might want to know about them you’ll find here
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/1950s/1951/12/peacock
gary67:
Interesting that you put johansen at the centre of a midfield three. I think he has been a weak link this season. It seems he’s Ronny’s wee pet: he gets to stay on the pitch while kayal is usually substituted. Kayal is no world beater that’s for sure, however, he’s more of a natural central midfielder than Johansen IMO and so is Bitton. Aberdeen usually battle hard for the middle of the park and I am really not sure johansen is up to it.
Also I’d like to see deila resist the temptation to fling on all the new signings and, instead, introduce them gradually into the team over the next weeks. I am still hoping Deila will come good… But he is showing some worrying Mowbray-like tendencies.
One more point: many on here have criticised izzy’s performances so far this season, with some justification. But…again just my opinion… I am thinking he’s the least suited of the “legacy” players to Ronny’s preferred system: he’s had no space to run into out on the left in the games that Berget has played (or rather stood) in front of him. Hopefully izzy can adapt quickly to the new system and/or Ronny can sort out the left hand side so that we again see the best of emilio. The above may also apply to Matthews on the right. Maybe lustig and mulgrew are our best options at full-back if we’re sticking with 4-3-3?
So, what about
Gordon
Lustig denayer VVD mulgrew
Brown kayal/Bitton johansen
Wakaso scepovic mcgregor
Apologies to everyone for the football-related post.
HH
cadizzy – thanks :)
I wonder if the Reverend Doctor has met St. Peter, the first Pope, yet. Could be an awkward conversation. (thumbsup)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
13:42 on 12 September, 2014
petec,
Keep it simple
Name your link then copy and paste the link below your title
By the time you’ve put in all them parameters and quotations you’ll be knackered
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Never thought about it that way, it may even get more hits on the petec jj nonsense, incorporating it into a sentence just kills the impact. Ahm afraid to say.
jfh,
I’d imagine AV’s insurance will be dealing with that
Philvis
not an awkward conversation for the doc at all. As he so often said
“we will not be intimidated by those papist idolators”. I reckon that he would include the first pope in that.
I hope poor ole Mason Boyne is bearing up
canamalar – 40 years?
My feathery nemesis could still be waiting for round 2 then. Good… good…
That recipe should come in handy. Hopefully he isn’t perusing a similar guide on “How To Serve Man”. (thumbsup)
Wouldn’t have Johansen or Biton anywhere near the first team, loan them out
cadizzy
Welcome back, indeed.
JJ
PS What happened with the Sevco Share Offer?
PPS Not sure if I am fit enough to travel tomorrow but going over to get my Bus Tickets just in case I make a good, overnight recovery.
Cadizzy
I thought you where talking about our recently retired doc at first.
on that thought meds required.8)
eddie in kirkmichael
“Any chance giving us that weren’t aware of his bigotry an insight mate?
No problem at all, eddie!
Mind you! The description of the Yes campaign as “more passionate, braver, handsomer, younger and better informed” might have to lose the last of those virtues that they attributed to themselves in their recent outbreak of self-praise.
I am hoping against hope that next weeks vote will be a No as I fear for many more months of friction as the terms are fought over if the decision is Yes. Anyone who believes there will not be a swell of antagonism from remaining UK voters is fooling themselves and I foresee enormous pressure being brought to bear on politicians to resist Mr Salmond’s bluster. As for this blog I only hope Ronny can give us all something else to talk about.
quonno@12:27
“….PFayr said…
Harvie is a bigot …”
You, quonno, replied….
“As they say. Takes one to know one.”
For a man who has banged on insulting a fair proportion of Celtic fans and their forefathers before them, that have and had nothing to do with the Scottish Independence movement since 1934, you lack a lot of irony.
You “know” a lot about the special relationship between No voting and the OO, UKIP and the BNP. It has been the constant theme of your insulting and counter-productive posts. You and the crew who joined in with you on this theme have hardened my attitudes towards the Yes side, because very few have taken the trouble to dissociate themselves from that line of attack but they still hide behind (Whit?? The brave people of the Yes campaign??) the line of “it’s not about the individuals” when you are attacked for the people that you are in bed with.
I will exempt the decent posters on the Yes side, who have not reverted to that line of attack though they have not condemned the nastiness of their bed-fellows who used it, but for you and your crew, I will state….
You are in bed with :-
Patrick Harvie- who wants to close RC Schools in Scotland
Brian Souter- Fund-raiser for the “Keep Section 28 clause” and who underwrites Christians for Independence (who support some dubious positions)
Bill Walker- Serial Wife and partner beater
Kenny McAskill- Hear no evil- just praise the atmosphere
Christine Graham- we need legislation to even the score
Jim McColl- putative saviour of Sevco and tax exile in Monaco
Alex Salmond- Who made statements of support in 2012 just before a 5 way agreement was hatched- just saying- no smoke without fire n’at. And the man who called the summit that led to the OBaF Act
Quite a bunch of unsavoury characters you and your lot have been sleeping and marching with, eh?
Canman
don’t mind biton, with broonie back we now have a bit of dig in the middle,
Mind that time Tommy Johnson scored the winner in the title winning match of O’Neill’s first season?
If I recall correctly it took him 47 touches to bring the ball under control. He was probably offside at the time as well.
Philvis..,
I reckon he’d be a tough old bird by now, take some Kentucky and tell him it’s one of his young
Philvis,
I’ve now got you in my head, rolling about with aforementioned peacock, in a Peter Griffin and chicken stylee:)
JJ, how ye feeling now neebs?
Geordie Munro
13:43 on 12 September, 2014
Petec @1325
Ahhhhh.
Petec and peteg. Two of my favourite petes :)
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Flattery will get ye nae where with me, at all, at awe.
But I love yer support, the elusive link creator text will be displayed soon enough….
and then we will have lots of mad petec’s.
Is the link creator a secret society? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4
Ashley wont sell NU til next season at the earliest and roast stories about him buying Sevco
setting free the bears – Had a look at the photos on the Wummin For Independence website.
I now agree that male Yes campaigners are brave. (thumbsup)
arranmore
13:43 on 12 September, 2014
Rev Dr Ian Paisley
A bogus Doctorate from an American TV evangelist.
A bogus Reverend only recognised in the ‘church’ he started himself.
Politician – in the political party he started himself cos no one else would take him in.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Kinda like the Rev Pastor Glass if my memory serves me right?
A mate once described Paisley to me as an anti-Catholic nutcase which seemed accurate at the time.
I suppose he did make some sort of personal journey which took him into Government with his former foes (despite his assurances that he would never sit down with them) and he should be given credit for that. I didn’t like him or what he represented though. Very much yesterday’s man.
I hope his obituaries are accurate and not some kind of fawning re-writing of history. He wasn’t De Klerk.
In more important news, congratulations to Yorkshire CCC on their magnificent championship victory today. God’s own country, champions for the 32nd time!!
David
mini bt first birthday 7/4/2001. Pay per view on sky sports..
Philvis
As I said to HT in person last night. i am not an educator or is it er or is it ar of our children so I don’t have a prblem with my spelling or grammer. If others do than that is an issue for them. Wateer of my back.
MWD says AYE
what the hell do we care
13:47 on 12 September, 2014
Mulgrew is injured. May need an op and be out for a month.
Johansen has been very hot & cold but he was a DM at Stromgodset and was signed based on his performances in that position. Now that Brown’s back give Stefan a run at DM. Kayal is back up for Brown, couldn’t be trusted at DM. IMO of course
Always remember big paisleys phrases . he was itchin for the cameras to give him some attention…..he remarked on the troubles saying the problem was…..2 thirds of the people in NI don’t know what the other half are doing.
RD67
quoting the Daily Mail to slant anyones character is just idiotic. Surely if you are going to slate someone you would locate a reliable source of information to do so with.
But then you are a bendy banana. So i expect no more of you.
MWD says AYE
This in my opinion is what we should be aiming for – pulling together not apart.
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Auldheid
Don’t you think that in the event of a Yes vote, we, as in the people of Scotland, would be pulling together like never before?
Do the people of London pull together for us?!
HH
RD67 = TD67 obviously ya…