Tom Rogic is well within his rights to take time to consider his next contract. He is thriving at Celtic, but with a year left on his current deal, the future is open. Front and centre of his mind, of all players’ minds, will be the dirty little subject. The money paid to lesser talents than Tom in England is incredible, Tom is well within his rights to ponder his position in the food chain.
Then there is his place in the Celtic squad. Brendan Rodgers is continually looking to improve the team. It doesn’t matter who you are, you cannot be sure of a place well into the future.
There are also reasons to consider why Celtic might be a good fit for him. He is not the archetypal English Premier League player, all physique and running. Tom is a throwback to not so long ago when craft on the ball got you into the team, not the ability to burst a lung for 90 minutes. All too often, he’s a 60 minute star.
Evidence is everywhere that he is a big game player and proven match winner, but he is not going to temp a title chasing team from England, instead it would be the bottom half battlers who are most likely to be interested in him. He’s not a natural fit. Better to stay with the champions.
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Donegal leading by 2 with 2 minutes to go. We need to win. A draw would see Mayo relegate Donegal.
he = the
Into 4 minutes of injury time- A 1 point lead now
Mayo equalise
Just in from a walk, and SeamusLarsson wanted to say hi to his pals, Frankie and Benny
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Donegal are relegated
The Rangers Intergalactic Football Club (2012) Accounts 2016/17 (Unaudited, Unbelievable)
Assets
Ibrox Park (approx value £10billion- including Super Casino, Luxury Hotel- no dogs, no fenians)
Alberto Morelos- £10million (China-only valuation)
Graeme Murty- Equivalent market value of Pep Guardiola, Ernesto Valverde and Joachim Löw
Wi-fi at Ibrox
Big Screens at Ibrox
Murray Park- Off the radar- proved by the production line of world class talent
Lucrative contract with Sports Direct- generating several pounds of income
Liabilities
Edmiston House (aka Close Brothers’ Edmiston House)
Albion Car Park (aka Close Brothers’ Albion Car Park)
Ibrox Park’s maintenance and repairs
Graeme Murty
Alberto Morelos
Lucrative contract for Sports Direct
Goodwill (lack thereof)
Misplaced sense of entitlement
Failure to acknowledge the Natural Order
Projected Accounting Position
Bloody brilliant. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Hi all,
I’m not really the nostalgic sort unless it gives a foundation for progress and lights a fuse for an explosion of youthful ambitions and dreams.
However, I was tidying up files and folders today when I came across this from October 3rd 2007…
Afternoon all,
Tonight the first lines in a new Celtic book will be written and that book will be finished in 2040 when the player is 40 years old.
Tonight my pal’s lad is 7 and this is his first ever Celtic match. He has lain awake all last night as his fitful restless imagination has turned somersaults, dreaming of holding his dad’s hand, walking up Kerrydale street, cheering as the players arrive, and then entering the stadium for the first time to take his place in a seat and remember to his final day his first sight of the holy ground, of Paradise, of Celtic Park.
He has dreamt as every single one of us has of the team being short and of him being the only one who has had the foresight to bring his boots; of coming on as the team are ‘backs to the wall’; of not only dramatically clearing a goal bound strike but of breaking forward like a gazelle to connect first time with a cross field pass and to see the oppositions net billow as the ball, from his foot, from his dream, from his soul lift the rigging up to heaven and 60,000 Tims rise as one and call his name.
But now the dream is over and as he enters the ground, he discovers for the first time that his dream of the noise, of the ambition, of the support, and the atmosphere didn’t even scratch the surface.
The teams appear, the champions league anthem rings out, and then the crowd of 60,000 become as one and an unstoppable will becomes a tornado of attack.
As he stands there dizzy with hope, eyes sparkling with laughter and twinkling with a love suddenly realised, he finds the happiness of a home-from-home and knows without a doubt that one day he will play on this apron of magic, he will make the dramatic save, and he will score the majestic winner.
Where else could he possibly want to play, what other team could he play with, and what other support, club, and history would he want to represent?
Win lose or draw, it’s in our hands to ensure that this dream comes true!
So everyone everywhere, let’s write those first few lines for that laddie, and in 33 years time let’s read the completed book and once more remember tonight and our contribution to ANOTHER ‘Lifetime in Paradise’.
Hail Hail
He’s 18 now and still has the same dreams. Mind you I’m 64 and so do I!
Nostalgia? Not at all….just hauling myself up an endless ladder that every generation climbs, and like those in the past shading my eyes as I stare into the sunlit future and then geein’ a hand to those coming next and passing on the task of even going higher, seeing further and achieving greater.
What a night that was for a seven year old (and a 57 years young eejit)!
Here’s a few wee memories of that night on October 3rd 2007 when Celtic scalped the then reigning European Champions and me and the next generation stood and stared at a dream and the knowledge that anything is possible. ANYTHING!!
http://alturl.com/e4m8s
Hail Hail
Matt
BURNLEY78
Thanks,I will look in tomorrow night.
BADA BING.
If your mate doesn’t want to be “the only tim in the village” I will be out watching the game even if it means going behind enemy lines.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 25TH MARCH 2018 4:26 PM
16 Roads
Putin’s Russia does not believe in Ms. Hall’s aphorism.
There is no difference between a left wing totalitarian regime and a right wing one when you are a dissident.
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Yes this is true to a certain extent.
President Putin isn’t the perfect leader, however he is far from the worst.
You look at that England place and the epidemic of vile child abuse that was not only allowed to take place, but was covered up as well, all in the name of political correctness.
Telford being the latest.
The odious state-run British Broadcasting Corporation practically ignoring these heinous crimes and the paedophile gangs responsible.
The sheer scale and horror of it really is unbelievable.
Sickening.
It wouldn’t be tolerated in Putin’s Russia.
As regards religion dying on its feet surveys are only as good as the question asked and of whom it is asked. What I will say having spent a not inconsiderable time in various parts of SE Asia over the last two years if Catholicism is dying there I hate to think how busy the Churches were before I attended them, jam packed every Sunday and that includes outside.
Me and Mrs PMTYH went to Palm Sunday Mass in Hong Kong last year and the Mass was chocca and as we left they were already queuing outside for the next Mass.
I know this doesn’t equate to the U.K. but I wouldn’t toll the death knell for Christianity just yet.
Pog
Religion dying on its feet ?
In relation to organised Christian Religion in Western Europe it is.
Fair play to the left wing Daily Mirror for exposing and uncovering the latest crimes against humanity in England.
Credit where credit is due and all that there and all.
……they look to thy shining.
WITS,
I know what is happening in parts of Europe I go to Mass every Sunday and see the age of the congregation. I also lived in Germany for 17 years, until July 2016, and can say that young people still attend Mass there. Shops don’t open on a Sunday in most of Germany and it is a family day. Something we have lost sight of in the U.K. – too many people with their heads buried in mobile phones and iPads ……..oh wait a minute :-(
Good Evening.
Something new (if you are interested…!)
“Money And Sporting Advantage” https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/money-and-sporting-advantage/
The first 5 minutes of the 5 o’ clock news on the BBC focused on Australia cheating in a cricket match.
Rangers have been found guilty of cheating over an eleven year period and I suspect the cheating started the day and hour that David Murray took over at rangers.
The BBC has completely ignored this scandal.
And David Murray is still a knight of the realm.
£100 million owed to hmrc.
come on westcraigs, it was all banter
Hello Seamus Larsson, this is Frankie and Benny here – we’ve been to New Brighton Beach today so we are both covered in sand. Big Packy is going mad as he has to bath us now tee hee. Love that photo of you Seamus woof woof to all CQNers.
seamus larsson in toronto, this is frankie and benny again, ive just asked big packy what is a hun, he said no swearing allowed on the blog.ktf.woof woof.
Pog 5.14pm
I question my religion every time I am at chapel, and if anybody told me it’s a lot of mince I would not disagree, as I have no proof, BUT I have saw first hand through both of my parents especially my mum who strong she was through her faith when she got the dreaded C…. anyhow I would never “preach” just let people have their faith in my lifetime my catholic upbringing has gave me a great grounding and one that hopefully I am passing into to MissGFTB, her mum actually gives us grief when we don’t go to mass :-)
GFTB
Live and let live is my motto.
Faith is part of the human experience. It serves its purpose and society as a whole benefits from the discipline it brings to people’s lives.
In the Republic of Southern Eire more people going shopping on Sunday than go to mass.
Worshipping at the Altar of consumerism. And some regard this as progress. Its not
WITS
Spot on…. but they won’t be turning to any shops when they look for any comfort when tradegy strikes :-)
By the way I hope tradegy never strikes any shopper
Anyhow, haven’t saw any of your “Brendan oot” posts for a few days :-)
GFTB,
That’s how it should be. If you don’t question things you will never grow mentally or spiritually. I don’t go to Mass because it is a requirement, I enjoy going. I try and go as many times during the week that I can. This does not make me a holy Joe or better than anyone else. It gives me strength. In fact most people who have met me will probably think I’m the last person that would attend Church on a regular basis – doesn’t make me a bad person though ;-)
Pog 6.33pm
Both my mum & dad always said “fit you better to go to chapel than Celtic Park” “you can go into Glasgow but you can’t go down the road to mass” obviously that was when I was a young daftie now just an older daftie but I try and let MissGFTB want to go instead of making her go :-) anyhow more importantly is our Leigh fit fir next week
2 page article by Oliver Holt in the MOS – interview with Brendan
WITS,
The Altar of Consumerism, therein lies a major problem. These people go out shopping because they feel something is missing in their lives and spend less time with their families. They used to say that the family that prays together stays together. What about the family that shops together, is there such a thing? Greeting weans being dragged round the shops wanting this and wanting that.
As you say this is not progress. It will eventually all end in tears.
What can you buy on a Sunday that you can’t buy any other day of the week? That’s where the Germans have got it right. I left Scotland when you could shop any day of the week until late most nights of the week. Did me or my wife miss that? No, we grew to realise that we preferred not being able to shop on a Sunday.
Right Sermon for the day over – need to go back to my ironing.
Pog
When I met you I said to myself…” he’s a holy Joe who probably goes to mass everyday and thinks he’s better than everyone else ”
Amazing what a good judge of character I am)))
GFTB,
Nothing would make me happier than seeing the return of the Griffalo. He is an immensely talented wee guy and massively underrated in my opinion as well as being daft as a brush (unlike Trigger’s broom). 1st name on the teamsheet for me.
It’s very similar here in Spain, everything is shut on a Sunday, most shops close at lunch time on a Saturday, the supermarkets don’t, but everything else does, no shops on a Sunday took a while to get used to, but am grateful for it now, the only people who I have heard complain are a few Spanish as they work all the week and find it hard to get to the shops, but they get by.
Pog
About 20 years ago while on a business trip to Erlangen I had to work in the hotel over the weekend to prepare some specifications. Decided I would go for a walk round town on Saturday afternoon – amazed to see that the shops were closed.
Shopping malls are the new cathedrals
WITS,
I’ve always considered you a good judge of character ;-)
Newsflash
Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine have just sunk the Shinano on TCM
CQN CSC
Advance warning – Big shops closed on Easter Sunday
Awe_Naw_No_ The_Ole_Saturday_Kaffliks_Debate
CQN CSC
Pog 6.54pm
Loved the Griff in the Broomloan road with the fans, one of the Bhoys who drinks in our pub was in the row behind the Griff and sending photos of the wee mhan before they hit twitter… love Bhoys like Griff & KT enjoying the Celtic as much as we do
BSR 7.02pm
It’s sunday :-)
Gene,
Some places in Germany the shops still close at 1pm on a Saturday and don’t reopen until Monday. It was more common when I arrived in 1999.