Whatever maligned Celtic during the recent dark days when they dropped points to Hamilton and Dundee has cleared up. Hearts made the very best of a chance in the opening minutes on Saturday but the response was swift and conclusive.
Patrick Roberts deservedly picked up the accolades for his goals but the contribution of Tom Rogic should not go unrecorded. In creating the second goal he demonstrated ball-winning skills and creativity, a priceless package for a midfield player. Let’s hope he’s over his head knock for tomorrow night.
Mention should also go to Stefan Johansen, who played the deep-lying midfield role until Rogic went off, when he moved into the advanced position. His blind flick onto Roberts at the third goal was sublime.
The most pertinent comment I heard on Saturday was “It’s good to have the goalkeeper making saves again”. Craig Gordon appears to have his confidence back, perhaps as a consequence of the defence performing better.
For most of the second half Celtic defended more deeply than we’ve seen throughout the league campaign. With a two goal advantage, Griffiths and Johansen were asked to run into space, while the rest of the midfield became compact. As a consequence, Hearts had plenty of the ball, and created a few half chances, but they never carved Celtic open.
Had we been that compact during the European qualifiers our season could have been different.
There’s a process I go through when we sign a new foreign player: do I add his name to the spellcheck or not? I decided long ago I wasn’t prepared to pollute my dictionary with the names of transient players. Derk Boerrigter’s name still appears with wavy lines below in my word processor three years after his arrival.
His name will go down in Celtic annuls alongside Rafael Scheidt. We spent millions on them, they both went down with innocuous injury moments after starting for Celtic and that was pretty much that. In his opening 30 minutes for Celtic, Derk produced evidence that there was a football player hiding inside his psyche, but he soon found the rigors of the professional game too challenging.
He leaves Scotland with millions in his bank account and with a lot of frustrated people at Lennoxtown.
Did you read during the week that the Association of Irish Celtic Supporters’ Clubs raised €500 for the Foundation’s Ability Counts Ireland Project? The Ability Counts Project offers children with Downs opportunities to develop motor skills and team-working through football and dance. This is one small frontline of all the fundraising, badges, buckets, zip wires and dinners Celtic fans participate in.
It’s an important part of the relationship thousands of us have as Celtic supporters.
Consider getting involved. The Foundation is holding a H.E.L.P. Pilgrimage on Bank Holiday Monday, 30 May. Participants will walk the 17 miles between St Mary’s, Calton, Barrowfield, the Jimmy Johnstone statue and gardens at Viewpark and back to Celtic Park.
A 17 mile walk is no small feat, but most feet are capable of it, so get involved here.
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HAPPY HOOOOOPY 30th to
PHIL AND CHRISTINE!!!!!
He’s one lucky fella,oul’ PHILBHOY…
KEVJ
Bloody right,mate.
Martin O’Neill gave us our pride back.
We were miles behind the huns in every respect,he arrived,bingo!
And,btw,his net spend in his first season was similar to that of John Barnes in his.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 5th April 2016 7:47 am
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Hail Hail Bobby.
Yer right, MO’N made us walk tall.
Know what else ?
I don’t think the Lion’s would have beat MO’N’s Treble-Hunskelpers!
Tin hat on – CSC
KEVJ
Aw,come on,canny have that.
The Lions were all well into their fifties and more by then…
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 5TH APRIL 2016 7:36 AM
Mad Scientist or Milk Snatcher ?
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I know.
Not unexpected.
:-(
PHIL AND CHRISTINE
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Congratulation’s to you both.
Hope yerselve’s and Olivia and the rest of all
who are close have a grand ole time.
You’ll Never Walk Alone….in the Jungle.
Hail Hail
BMCW
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Aye :)
Whatever….
Still hiding under the table – CSC
KevJ
Like us all you contribute a fair amount of guff
Agathe or Jinky
McNeill or Mjallby
Stein or MON
Philbhoy all the very best to you and the family
A great post in one of JJ articles
Dave King is indeed small beer when it comes to the world of international finance. No one of repute would touch this felon with the proverbial. Except, of course, his sidekicks, Paul Murray and Richard Gough.
But no one of stature, quality, class and integrity.
SDM thought that Christmas has come early when King ‘gifted’ him £20m. Who was this man? Where did this come from? Well, SDM didn’t care. He grabbed the gift and in return gave King a blazer, tie and two soft seats in the Directors box. One for King. The other for King’s mum. Really. I am not making it up.
Did the club benefit and is there an audit trail to demonstrate precisely HOW the club benefitted? No, of course there isn’t.
You mention ENIC. This investment vehicle is run, as you know, by a serious financial player, Joe Lewis. The ENIC Group put £40m into Rangers in 1996 in return for a 20.2% stake in the club. This was a rare error of judgement on the part of the shrewd Lewis. He had fallen for SDM’s lies and spin about playing at the top levels of English football.
A couple of Board seats came with the stake in the club.
It didn’t work out. Lewis put a couple of top quality guys on the Board in an attempt to enhance their £40m stake. The ENIC guys could scarcely believe SDM’s fiscal carnage and disregard for corporate governance.
By 2001, they wanted out. Their stake in the club had collapsed. The ENIC Board members resigned from the Ibrox Board in an atmosphere of acrimony and bitterness.
These ENIC professionals realised that SDM was no more than a gambler who talked a good game. His favourite line was……”I own Glasgow Rangers. What a f#####g calling card that is”. They saw him as a chancer who was one dimensional. And that dimension was his knowledge of driving a horse and cart through accounting legislation.
I became aware that Lewis wanted to sell in early 2004. The shares had been available for three years. No one wanted them on the basis of…….”if Joe Lewis wants out, don’t touch them”. There was NO interest.
But Joe, who by now despised SDM, started calling up his network of chums. He would offer the 20.2% stake, plus two Board seats, for virtually nothing! The two Board seats would frighten SDM into a panic buy back because the last thing he wanted was transparency.
A colleague expressed modest interest to ENIC. This was relayed to SDM who bought back the shares in a panic. He bought them in the summer of 2004 for £8.9m. ENIC lost £30m plus loose change.
Between the criminal King and the normally astute Lewis, this lost ‘investment’ represents a colossal amount of funds which have simply disappeared.
The lessons from SDM’s disastrous stewardship have not been heeded.
Rangers represents a small turnover business which has no consideration for corporate governance, prudence nor standards of excellence.
Lest we forget! Or dare to damn with faint praise.
PREMIERSHIP TABLE
POS TEAM PLD GD PTS
1 Rangers 36 70 90
2 Celtic 36 52 69
3 Hearts 36 7 54
4 Motherwell 36 -14 52
5 St Johnstone 36 -8 42
6 Hibernian 36 -12 41
7 Dundee 36 -19 41
8 Dundee United 36 -23 39
9 Kilmarnock 36 -14 37
10 Aberdeen 36 -39 33
Updated 21/05/2000 at 17:00
Not even a contest. Humiliating and embarrassing. What was needed to turn that horror into a 15 point winning margin in one season?
A motivator?
A money manager?
No, a Miracle Worker.
And somehow we found one.
Chucked in a treble for good measure, despite being up against financially-doped cheats.
Stuff all the grudging revisionism.
Kevjungle
Are you Hugh Keevans ?
MON did well against an outrageously unsustainable Rangers at that time.
Despite 55,000+ average crowds, the Larsson factor, close rivalry domestically and a chance at europe each year the business was losing huge amounts and on 2 occasions had to go back to the fans / shareholders for funds. The actual football was not pretty then either.
The current strategy has merit but is not being well executed or backed or more importantly communicated.
Our custodians have not seized any initiative to move us from our playing Environment.
Until that is addressed it is impossible to consider the excesses of the MON era will return.
We are also in unknown territory with no major competitor domestivally so no fan interest.
How about Milk Snatcher or Homicidal Bitch
Barca v athletico on BTSP free tonight
Virgin 548
HH
BEATBHOY
Well put,bud.
Cue for a song!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0
The antidote for anyone who felt ill looking at that league table.
One year on.
POS TEAM PLD GD PTS
1 Celtic 38 61 97
2 Rangers 38 40 82
3 Hibernian 38 22 66
4 Kilmarnock 38 -9 54
5 Hearts 38 6 52
6 Dundee 38 2 47
7 Aberdeen 38 -7 45
8 Motherwell 38 -14 43
BURNLEY78
“The current strategy has merit but is not being well executed or backed or more importantly communicated.”
That,old bean,is our problem in a nutshell.
Y not67 on 5th April 2016 8:03 am
SDM thought that Christmas has come early when King ‘gifted’ him £20m.
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Craig Whyte. No?
Or was he a stalking horse for King?
Mungolian Bhoy
Do you think we are too soft on Efe (the player with no surname……maybe he should get into management!)whereas we refer to the rest of the team using their surnames?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 5TH APRIL 2016 8:12 AM
BURNLEY78
“The current strategy has merit but is not being well executed or backed or more importantly communicated.”
That,old bean,is our problem in a nutshell.
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“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
With any luck we have the big Resolution stick.
MACJAY
King was one of a number of “wealthy investors” into Murrayland around the turn of the century.
Rumour has it that his money came back somewhat reduced,but significantly cleaner. King says that is not the case,and like others he lost the lot when they went nipples north.
Whyte also lost the lot,but his investment was only a quid. About the price of a half-pint of Guinness in Swindon,so I’m offski.
MACJAY
Vive le resolution!!!!!!!
Macjay
Craighy bhoy was a patsy, HMRC should hire him, he must have studied liquidation law while at Dalziel High …. He reminds me of Leonardo Di Caprio in the film “catch me if you can”
· BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN SUPPORTS OSCAR KNOX, MACKENZIE FURNISS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO FIGHTS NEUROBLASTOMA on 3RD APRIL 2016 10:40 AM
Sorry for delay.
BRTH, you say, “Kill Ultra
I understand why you signed up to the resolution, but the actual words of the resolution were to have the Celtic board take the entire situation to UEFA/CFCB and initially it looked as if what would happen would be exactly as you had anticipated — namely that there would have been a right good barney in the Kerrydale with the board saying they had taken this up with the SFA etc and shareholders yelling at them telling them they had not done enough, that Rangers had cheated and so on and so forth.”
You don’t give reasons for AGM Resolution 12 adjournments, 2014 and 2015. The circumstances in these years differ from 2013, and from each other.
BRTH, you say, “….to have the Celtic board take the entire situation to UEFA/CFCB”
It didn’t happen. As for ‘a right good barney’, I’m sure the board would have been quite happy had that occurred. The plc positively welcomes internecine strife; it provides the divide-and-rule distraction it needs to pursue its Old Firm business reconstruction.
BRTH, you say: “Since then, the board have started to have other meetings where they explain policy, business decisions and all that sort of stuff but they are select in who they invite to such meetings. They write to the CSA, CST and others and get them in. Personally I think there is a better way to do that but hey that is just my personal opinion.”
Surely the fact that you have a direct line to club secretary, Michael Nicholson is preferable.
BRTH, you say, “Any debate on the board pursuing a financial policy which involves gearing towards the benefits of playing a Rangers team in future is a separate issue to Res 12 …”
A separate issue? Really? The two issues are inextricably linked, and you know it.
BRTH. I’m pressed for time, so apologies for not elaborating on my concerns about accountability, financial probity, etc., in the ongoing pursuit of Res 12 (okay, I know you prefer to be known it as such). I’ll try and post later about this.
GFTB
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Naebdy talks as much guff as me on here.
But, ye know what ?
I’m big enough to admit it.
Hmmmmmm….
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Burnley78
Well, we’ve all got our own views on MO’N.
Mine are – sacred memories, warts and all.
Know what else ?
See if….Celtic were being ‘controlled’ by a, DD who was a Celtic supporter-Tim when MO’N was in charge, Seville or, the likes of it would have been top of the list to be achieved each season after that.
Be cute – get into the CL group stages, get the money pot but….crucially….finish 3rd in the group, go into EL and, aim to win it!
Then, and only then….could Celtic begin to look at the ko-stages of the CL….once we’d achieved that ‘stock’ of being, Euro trophy winners in the colour TV era.
DD should have been out after Seville claiming that, Uefa have seen for themselve’s the ‘marvel’ that is the Celtic support….we want, the top level of the game to now see, just how ‘Gigantic’ that support will make the club look in the eyes of the CL aristocracy.
If, I had been a billionaire in control of Celtic – I’d want my era to be ‘immortalized’ by the Celtic support of generations to come when they’ll go all dewy eyed when the recall – The KevJungle Golden Celtic Era.
And why the feck not ?
HH
KevJ
There are plenty more, myself definitely included
I hope the Hamburg legend does well with the Well but I will stick by Ronny just now, he is building a team, and has a better away record in Europe than St Martin (canny do the smiley face thing)
Just sent a text to 5live. They spent all morning talking about tax avoidance then they have a piece on how good it will be to have sevco back.
KEVJ
Did you miss the punchline in my Lions comment,ya torn-faced toerag(!)
Tell you what,you’ll have to up your game,bud. There’s a fair few after your title for guff-talking,no names due to self incrimination…
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 5TH APRIL 2016 8:23 AM
MACJAY
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 5TH APRIL 2016 8:26 AM
Macjay
Thanks , lads.
Hard to follow the twists and turns.
Probably, that`s the intention.
Resolution ? Sounds like a sound policy.
BORGO67
Good spot,bud.
Here’s a suggestion for their next topic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 5th April 2016 7:55 am KEVJ
Aw,come on,canny have that.
The Lions were all well into their fifties and more by then…
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KEVJUNGLE on 5th April 2016 8:35 am GFTB
Naebdy talks as much guff as me on here.
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Kev J & GFTB
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At least we know we talk guff at times.
Many others talk absolute guff, but they don’t know it.
Anyway :- COYBIG .
Guffcliquecsc.
Borgo67,
Well, Radio 4 at least mentioned that the deid team went into administration and then liquidation before being admitted in to the 4th tier of Scottish football.
Gerryfaethebrig
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Yer clutching at straws at best – and being, cheap-hunlike in yer slurs of MO’N and Mark McGhee.
Yer a SSB listener….I don’t know if ye listened to it when – Hugh Keevins and, Peter McGuire used to ‘discuss’ the possibility of – Mark McGhee being Celtic manager after, WGS ?
Well, HK and PM used to set BFSDJ up with – Hugh Keevins…”Mark McGhee is a contender for the Celtic job.”
Peter McGuire…”He would certainly add a bit of dig and, all round steel to the squad. What do you think Derek?”
BFSDJ(in his helium voice) – “It’s a goal for Peterhead!”
Ye see….BFSDJ knows that Big McGhee would pull the drawers aff the huns to the extent that it would be similar to the Stein days when, the rioting huns used to invade the pitch to get the game stopped!
THAT’s…..when ye know ye’ve got them!
HH
Greenpinta
Spot on
I try and not take anything on here too serious when it comes to our team, I enjoy other Celtic fans views on our team……it also helps that I know my own opinions are flawed
Kill Ultra
“I’m sorry if I haven’t stated my case very well. I’m not remotely interested in knowing identities of donors, and, of course, I respect their right to anonymity. I believe strongly, however, that any initiative organised on behalf of a large group of people, and where money is involved, should have proper fiscal accountability. Is it not a legal requirement in Scotland?”
How do you propose to do that without
a) You or some other party who contributed to the Resolution getting to know (whether you are interested or not) the details of the other subscribers, who did not sign up to have their anonymity revealed? or
b) Cause unnecessary professional expense for the Resolutionists to satisfy what is only a suspicion (of collusion with the Board and corruption by the Resolutionists?) without any proffered evidence?
In short, what do you want precisely? How will anonymity be preserved? What will be the profesional costs to the Resolutionists to satisfy your curiosity?
Parkheadcumsalford
Looks like I will be switching to radio4 .
The mullet on now telling us how much we missed them.
Bobby
I mentioned irony in my text to them but no way will they read it out although they just mentioned liquidation
KevJ
Irony at its best….. You’re Gerry McNee & Shug Keevins cheerleader…..
I enjoy SSB, hopefully I am intelligent enough (just) to realise it caters for its audience, do I treat it serious, as much as I treat punters posting on a blog, again, myself included
Greenpinata
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It’s all about opinions fella.
And, it’s better than talking aboot the – long road for a shoart cut res : 12…imho:)
Was Mr Stein competing v’s a Rangers team that cost upwards of £100 million ?
Mr Stein spent £22,000 on Willie Wallace and, won the Big Cup and the other 4 in one season.
Now, that was what ye call magic.
Would big Billy have been able to handle Henrik / Sutton ?
Would Jinky have ripped the p#sh oot of Alan Thompson ?
Would Bertie have bossed Neil ?
Would Stan have kept the reigns on Bobby ?
Would the Buzz-bob have got past Agathe ?
Would the Jungle have been the deciding factor ?
HH
buzz-bob = buzz-bomb
Bobby Lennox – CSC