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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TONTINE TIM on 23RD MARCH 2018 12:39 PM
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 23RD MARCH 2018 11:30 AM
My old memory ain’t what it used to be :-(( Just checked about Roddy McKenzie and he was indeed capped by Norn Iron. I’ve lived under the mistaken belief for the last forty years that he played for the Republic
*as I have mentioned on here before I know Roddy very well, I know his wife better. He only got one cap for NI and that was due to the brilliance of Pat Jennings in the goalie role.
His mother came fae the black north while his da, brother of the Firhill Flyer, was born in Glasgow of a tuechter family. I always thought that he got his cap due tae his mother coming fae NI but it seems he was actually born in a wee town in Co. Down.
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Yes I always thought he was born in Scotland too. I noticed he was born in the north. Thanks for your response.
TNT
Absolute scum on a par with Sevco fuds
HH
Just to finish off on the £7.00 mugging by person or persons unknown for the delivery of the semi-final tickets…(Ma mammy always said that I’d lick the pattern aff the plate if I could!)….
I wrote to the SFA as follows…..(email address info@scottishfa.co.uk)
Hi there,
I have just purchased a ticket for the game between Celtic and Rangers on 15th of April and am being charged £7.00 for delivery.
How is this cost justified?
Why are uplifts from the clubs not possible?
Even if postage is required then the Royal Mail cost for registered delivery starts at only £1.75.
Who is this money going to?
Fans once again are being treated abysmally.
I look forward to your response.
Regards
Matt Stewart
That was last night about 18.00hrs.
At 08.07 today I received the following reply from a named rep.
Good morning Matt
Please take this up with your club.
The participating clubs are responsible for the management of their own ticket sale.
Unfortunately we are unable to assist.
Head of Supporters Centre
The Scottish FA
They also provided a named contact and a telephone number if I wished to respond.
Anyway I checked the Aberdeen site and found the same charge being levied by their agents.
I then checked the Agents’ sites and found that they have agreed not only the charge with the club, but also the percentage of that charge that will be passed to the club.
So the SFA in this case are clean.
At fault and screwing the fans with a mark-up that would shame a seller of bottled water are the Celtic, Aberdeen and I assume Motherwell and Rangers* (*delete as appropriate and insert whatever your pet name is for the Ibrox club).
Remember the cost of a Registered letter is £1.75!! So following the points made on exactly what we mean when we talk of Celtic ‘The Club’, I think it’s clear that as far as the board is concerned ‘The Club’ is the one that they batter you around the head with until you turn black and blue and then salve your pain by pointing out that it’s Our Lady blue!
Right off to remove the final traces of mustard from my breakfast plate.
Hail Hail
Matt
TAL: How you doing S? Toronto top still undefeated!!!! No kebab since Lisboa:)
BTW: Heaven knows no rage like love turned hate nor hell a fury like a woman scorned CCSHAKESPEARE?
The old nitro workers took a cloth soaked in nitroglycerin on holiday to keep topped up during non working periods pre 1974HASAW act!!!
John James.
The Sevco Burlesque
Burlesque: an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.
The Sevco Sitcom has been compared to Mrs Brown’s Boys (MBB) as they both are pretending to be an entity, or in the latter’s case a gender, that is not their own. I find MBB as funny as syphilis. I avoid both at all costs. However when it comes to the Sevco Sitcom no-one needs to can the laughter. Who could have predicted Armageddon would be so funny?
There is something distinctly Catholic about all things Rangers. A Holy Trinity if you will. There is Rangers The Father – RIFC Plc. There is Rangers The Son – TRFCL. And finally as we discovered from the architects and signatories of The Five Way Agreement, we have Rangers The Holy Ghost – The Metaphysical Entity that is RFC.
The latter was dreamed up by the SPFL’s pet walrus, Rod Mackenzie. It’s more of a poltergeist than a Holy Ghost if truth be told. Any attempt to deny its existence, continuation, and first sighting in 1873 is quickly condemned by the SMSM. There are those who point to its incorporation in 1899 and its exorcism, but the ethereal entity is as ubiquitous as ever.
State broadcaster BBC Scotland have made Continuation editorial policy. Should any TV/Radio/Print journalist broadcast or publish anything which flies in the face of Continuation, the facts if you will, then they will be subject to disciplinary proceedings and possible dismissal. Let me break this down for you:
BBC Editorial Policy, since 2012, is to lie about Rangers or face the sack.
Every time one pay’s one’s licence fee one is paying for the proliferation of a lie.
Since Dave King started playing NOAL and mouse with the City Watchdog, the sitcom became more of a tease. One knows that he is naked under the feathers and that he is about to catch a chill. One knows that King’s beleaguered board are trading whilst insolvent as they cannot pay their bills as they fall due. As I exclusively revealed on Monday – subsequently pawned off as his own by my plagiarist in chief – one or more creditors have raised a court order to freeze any cash held by Rangers The Son, or as I affectionately call them Rangers Lite, deposited in any bank.
Every financial institution in the UK knowns that The Rangers Football Club Limited are shysters.
As our ursine friends frantically move the feathers to avoid us stealing a glance at King’s front, or heaven forfend, his full-fronted glibness, King cannot wait to get off stage and bum a fag (which takes on a entirely different meaning chez Mark Dingwall) from his bent brief James Blair.
The Corrupt Consigliere was recently called upon to assess the impact of a share offer. King has until close of business one week from today, on the 30th March, to put up or forever shut up.
The official first cut-off date for a UEFA application is the 31st March but as this is a Saturday, Friday the 30th March is the date to circle on one’s calendar. Given that the ursine debt has not been converted into equity, RIFC will not be compliant. However if one reverts to my Trinity analogy keep one’s eye on Rangers The Son, the SFA member club, as this will be the focal point of any FFP compliance. TRFCL’s accounts are overdue. Will they be massaged to give the SFA their regular pretext to provide a green light?
Harold Wilson once opined that a week is a long time in politics. Apropos Rangers Lite I demur. The next week for the Sevco Project will be fast and loose. The feathers of the burlesque show will fall to the floor to reveal the full horror of King playing chicken with the Takeover Panel, Court of Session, Crown Prosecution Authority of South Africa and last but not least UEFA.
Does the Corrupt Consigliere receive air miles for all the business he brings to Anderson Strathern? If he did he could clock up more air travel than DCI Robertson and his pert assistant as they chased their tails around the globe. The Rolls of the Court of Session have thrown up this doozy:
Tuesday 1st May 2018
Procedure Roll (4 days)
A184/16 The Rangers Football Club Ltd v Charles Green & co
With good money at a premium, King and his bent brief have decided to piss some against a wall. What would the Patron Saint of Plagiarism do when faced with this news? Contact Charles Green directly or pawn off his response to me as his own? If you want this wrapped in a cryptic bow, with a soupçon of fake extrapolation to give the impression that he’s in the loop, you know where to go. I on the other hand reached out to Charles.
As much as I would like to publish his thoughts on the matter,he has asked me not to as I might compromise his defence. However I will provide the detail that when the TRFCL petition first reared its ugly head it included Mike Ashley, Sports Direct, Derek Lambias et al. One by one all the other co-accused in the petition have had the charges against them dropped and settlement agreed. TRFCL paid their costs.
So why do they continue to demonise Charles Green? Was his IPO not a great success? When the Rangers Mafia chased him out was there any debt? Was there cash in the bank? Did they have a NOMAD and an AIM listing? Did a slew of blue chip investment companies have the confidence to pony up on equity? Did he sell 40,000 season tickets in SFL II?
The answer is yes to all of the above. My personal thoughts on the matter are that any deal brokered with Ashley at that time was as good a deal as could have been achieved in the circumstances. A deal with Puma and Sports Direct, for what was to all intents and purposes a start-up company, was no mean feat.
King is pissing in the wind again. One week from now he might well be swinging in it.
The only BBC journalist to admit publicly on air RFC ceased to exist was Jim Spence & look what happened to him.
Matt
Disgusting behaviour by the clubs. Tantamount to theft.
At some point the supporters of all clubs have to boycott to put an end to this extortion racket.
MATT STEWART
Good post.
‘Handling’ and or ‘ticket’ charges for ‘neutral’ grounds are always a contentious issue for most clubs as you’ve pointed out, and not just Celtic.
Further research required into how much a Sevc is getting charged?
There was always the ole contention our tickets were dearer due to being at the singing and dancing end.
WeWillNotBeCheatedDifferently CSC
MATT STEWART on 23RD MARCH 2018 1:46 PM
“More than a club” right enough.
Money grabbing bar stewards more like.
However, you do have a choice.
Just say no to rip off prices?
Celticrollercoaster
Supporting
@walkwithshay
I would happily purchase owner. For Laura race night just let me no how to pay
Moussa just scored a Ronaldo style free kick for France U21s.
https://twitter.com/footbolvids/status/977189982606675969?s=21
David17
Griffiloesque
btw what happened to the 48 missing Davids
That’s a belter from Moussa:))
Top Bhoy
GENE on 23RD MARCH 2018 2:33 PM
Hehe ?
Tom Rogic = Andy Ritchie.
A footballer, pure and simple. Same as the guy you keep on the sidelines on a Sunday morning knowing he’s hungover through til Tuesday but he’ll come on when you’re struggling and change the game with natural guile.
Celtic know big Tom’s game, and he knows Celtic know.
Be a fool to go elsewhere. Hope the club can agree terms.
Moussa – yes, lurking Huns, £30 million easy. And that’s why…
https://twitter.com/footbolvids/status/977189982606675969?s=21
Newco Scotland?
The Peepil running our game?
From @peterdukes
Great scoop by @petergeoghegan and @AdamRamsay “A major shareholder in the company that created #CambridgeAnalytics Analytica is directly connected to a senior pro-#Brexit Northern Irish unionist… himself linked to some of Vladimir Putin’s associates” https://www.opendemocracy.net/David-Burnside-Putin-Russia-DUP-Brexit-Donaldson-Vincent-Tchenguiz
‘Let’s take £5m for Dembele….’
Some of the guff on here in January…….
‘Form is temporary class is permanent’
footballClichesRus CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
It’s a real slap in the dish seeing that clown back in the game up here:((
HEN1RIK @ 2 44 .
It’s interesting to see how long it’s taking for the HIgh Court to give the Information Commissioner the warrant necessary re searching Cambridge Analytica’s London HQ.. One is tempted to think that the UK Government is a bit worried about what might be found and is therefore allowing time for a bit of cleaning to be done before the visit.
If someone offers £5 million for Dembele I would drive him to the Airport myself …after biting their hand off
BADA BING
Some of the guff written on here about Moussa was bizarre.
Starting to think thehuns and mssm used Cambridge Analytics to influence them.
Moussa is a quality player and the mssm have tried desperately to reduce the sum we will receive when he departs.
From nictolhurst
You’ve heard of the #CambridgeAnalytics scandal, right?
&
You’ve heard of the secret dodgy #DUP financing #Brexit scandal, also?
Well, it looks like these two scandals are about to publicly collide…..
(h/t @PeterKGeoghegan)
https://www.opendemocracy.net/David-Burnside-Putin-Russia-DUP-Brexit-Donaldson-Vincent-Tchenguiz
Can I have my last man standing pick as Morton, in Turkey and having difficulty with emails, cheers
SOUTH OF TUNIS
This is Robert Mercer’s deal Cambridge Analytics is it not??
Starry
McLeish was paid through an EBT scheme whilst manager of Rainjurz.
McLeish ‘s players were paid through an EBT scheme at Rainjurz
The SFA in its entirety of office knew that McLeish’s players were paid through an EBT scheme.
Just another chapter in Scotland’s football shame and when raised you’ll be called ;
A Celtic Bigot
Welcome to Hamdump CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
The old man took me to see Scotland play East Germany I think it was Sourness’s debut it could well have been, the abuse he got for being Irish that night from the Barmy Tartan Army made it very clear to me even as pre teen yoof exactly what it was all about. I never went back until my last week in London where a big Scoddland fan and Bluenose took me to Wembley to see them play England as part of my leaving London nite oot:))
I never denied any Tim their right to support the national team but not for me, seeing McSheesh being there now proves that so far absolutely nothing has changed.
Jobs for the Blueboys then and jobs for the Blueboys now…
PL’s coup better keep moving:))
HH
Quel est le gardien de but, Tom?
Matt good work.
To add fuel.
Debenturea holders for Hampden. Bronze £38. Silver £50. .
Choices for Delivery of tickets –
Royal mail post. No charge.
Recorded delivery £6.
So why are cheaper tickets more expensive to deliver.
The club are at it.
Rampant profiteering for somebody.
SS- ridiculous rip off, how much have the club made from this scam in last couple of seasons, through games at Hamdump?
on rats had a white pet rat called Armageddon in an Edinburgh student flat, clever wee thing
wrote the questions for the Celtic board game in that flat !
Man untied as well
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFriday pint
hasta pronto
Mark CRC top quality podium:-)
enjoyed seeing Billy last night ,he is in good spirits moved ward now as in text last night:-)
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cheating Alex Mcleish will have the taxman hounding him soon,
great essay last night from James Forrest on the decrepit failure and entitlement trough between The SFA and their 2 ‘works ‘teams.
The SFA was Sir David the most loyal tax evader in the countries chatel,gelled together by a compliant mejjah who put the noble art of reporting in the U-bend,they were just waitin to be telts,not a shred of credibilty.
and to think there are Celts who are worried this kack is some form continuity.geeza break !
The more obscure and twisted they get the more the liquidation of their own club and resulting loss of goodwill bites in.
if it were any other country the ‘FA’ would be seeking gauruntees.
here entitlement has to be funded first.
the cheats cant operate without cheating.
things must ne close :-)
HH
Norway v Australia
Ajer starts, Rogic on bench. Jackson Irvine and Stefan Johansen also start for their respective nations.
And no internet charge either
St Stivs
good topic,ticket sales both and home and away ties,secondary ticket sales(geeza loan o yir season book) and the current pressure that is on secondary ticket outlet like Stube/ticketmaster who only appear to add to the original face value.
:-)
HH
BMCUWP, 23 march 11:50 , never seen anything as repulsive as silverfish, take it you haven’t seen any Huns then :))
Every seat taken at Hampden is a vote of confidence in the SFA, no matter how you cut it.
Hard to take for some, but that is what it is.