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Greg Taylor’s departure in the summer is still lamented by some of us.  He was the perfect example of how to develop a player. He arrived from Kilmarnock at the same time as Boli Bolingoli, expected to be backup but quickly established himself as first choice, a position he held until departing six years later.

Had he stayed, he would have played more football for Celtic than he has at PAOK so far this season, but it was right for him to move on.

Marcelo Saracchi has been an eye opener for a few of us. South Americans have tended to take a while to settle here. If this Marcelo settling, he will push Kieran for the starting spot this season. 

Speak to people in the game, they still tell you the whole world is looking for left backs. It is a specialised job only 10% of the population can apply for. Marcelo will probably move on when his loan ends in the summer, but he has shown is the level to which we need to aspire.

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  1. Bada Bing @ 10:15 pm,

     

     

    GM for someone who swears blind they have no skin in the game – no dog in the fight he most certainly seems animated

     

     

    Me thinks the lady protests too much…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  2. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    “Embdae seen B78 and GM in the same room?”

     

     

    Yet more school playground stuff from someone who is quick to condemn and criticise people, yet comes across a someone you wouldn’t trust to run a lemonade stand.

     

     

    Here’s how I know B78 – I was raging after Beaton’s hatchet job on us at Tynecastle 2 seasons and was super keen to see the rematch at Celtic Park.

     

     

    Not having a season ticket I came on here asking about the likelihood of getting a ticket if I just rocked up at the ground looking for a spare. B78 came on to say he had a spare and P67 put us in touch.

     

     

    All he wanted in return was a donation to Scaniel’s donkey sanctuary.

     

     

    That’s the Celtic spirit, no?

     

     

    There’s yer dinner you bitter little man

  3. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    Oh, here’s Chairbhoy jumping in now.

     

     

    Birds of a feather and all that.

  4. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    It’s funny how these guys seem to appear in a cluster out of nowhere when they’ve been rumbled.

     

     

    To repeat:

     

     

    THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS GM on 9TH OCTOBER 2025 9:47 PM

     

     

    Oh dear….

     

     

    SAINT STIVS on 7TH OCTOBER 2025 5:14 PM

     

     

    “what about this line …………….

     

     

    When pressed on accountability for failings, the Club rejected the premise of the question

     

     

    but referred to internal reviews and the experience of long-serving Non-Executive Directors.

     

     

    so having non-execs in place unchallenged for 20 years is a good thing according to them.

     

     

    ffs.

     

     

    get them all out”.

     

     

    Compare and contrast what was actually minuted

     

     

    I’ll say no more, but don’t forget to like and subscribe 👍

     

     

    Review of Non-Executive Directors

     

     

    “PQ suggested that an external review of Non-Executive Directors on the Board is required.

     

     

    MN said he will take that suggestion to the Board”.

  5. GM…

     

     

    We were told you were the smartest guy in the room.

     

     

    So Bada Bing is a bitter little man?

     

     

    I sup’se your pal Burnley78 is supet- happy 6ft 4in legend.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  6. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    Night, night boys.

     

     

    Keep howling at the moon.

     

     

    I’m sure one day you’ll wake up to to find out they’ve all been sacked👍

  7. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM @ 11:12 pm,

     

     

    Good time to retreat…

     

     

    Smarter than I thought wee man.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  8. Saint Stivs on 9th October 2025 at 8:25 pm

     

    Tabloid News Story

     

    MGe raised serious concerns regarding the alleged leak to The Sun, and it was suggested this was a grave breach of trust and professionalism. The Club was asked to address this following the summer transfer window, which the Football Manager had commented on publicly. When asked why no formal investigation had been launched. MN noted that allegation was based on an unnamed source allegedly speaking to an unnamed source at the Club. There is a lot of speculation printed in the tabloid press. The matter had been discussed with the Board and with the Football Manager and the matter was closed. CMcK said all board members had been asked about the article, and there was no basis for further investigation. CMcK also mentioned that the newspaper source was a ‘senior figure’ which may not necessarily have been a board member. The Football Manager confirmed that the matter was closed in his next press conference. MN noted that the Board understands the importance of confidentiality. When asked why the Club had not taken legal action against the newspaper, MN confirmed that the Club would not take legal action in relation to speculation and said that the Club was “busy enough as it is”. CFC reps argued that this approach was dismissive of a concern of fans.

     

    ……..

     

     

    So it was Jekyll & Hyde Rodgers who did the deed?!

     

    BUT.

     

    There are no Gerry McNee’s around anymore to “Exclusively Reveal” the news to Timdom these days!

     

    SO.

     

    Timdoms heads have been empty since 2008.

     

    WHY?

     

    That is when Gerry [O’Finbar, McGrory, Stein] McNee retired.

     

    AND.

     

    Just look at all of the crime sprees that have gone without Gerry McNee and his faithful through & through ‘Mole/Whistleblowers’ account of stuff, that MSM fake pish won’t even report on.

     

    In 1989/90/91/92/93/94 build up to sacking the board 1994, I personally drowned out the Hun media by reading/watching/listening to, Not The View, Once a Tim, Gerry McNee columns, Radio Clyde before it went Orange, STV to see McNee/Cooney/Keevins/Traynor/Provan/McCarra.

     

    Then sleekit Fergus[bull in a china shop] McCann stabbed all of these well meaning, Celtic leaning, good guys in the back.

     

    AND.

     

    Since 1994, Celtic fans are not a single inch further forward in taking control of the club.

     

    Who’s fault is that?

     

    Gerry McNee’s for retiring?

     

    Or spoiled lazy knee jerk reactionary Celtic season ticket holders?

     

    The performances from fans during recent Glasgow street parties, celebrating winning the Spl one horse league, showed that fans have lost their giant pride in being a supporter of Glasgow Celtic, and the acute awareness that we are judged by a ‘different’ rule book.

     

    So we must keep our guard up at all times.

     

    Leaving piles of trash on the streets, like Huns have always done, is indicative of how small the club has become since it was led by MON, vs a £100 million+ Rangers team back then that was huge money for any Celtic manager to be facing, and they spent another £40 million in MON’s 1st season as well too.

     

    HH

     

    oot.

  9. All seating was never about safety.

     

    The government lied as they murdered 97 innocent Liverpool fans in 1989.

     

    Then in 2020 the descendants of the Thatcher government, AGAIN lied about vaccines being safe and effective.

     

    When did Celtic fans start trusting Tory governments, including the Snp/Tory/Austerity/Proxy/Grifters?

     

    Was it when snowflake universities became the in thing?

     

    Celtic fans working class identity died when the Labour party became warmongers under Tony Blair.

     

    Chasing hundreds of thousands of mainly Catholic voters to evil and Hun ugly Snp, who would later bring out laws to jail Celtic supporters.

     

    But mainly when Thatcherite all seating, all season ticket, removed the class from Celtic fans lexicons.

     

    A couple of years later Celtic fans were supporting the SFA’s national team.

     

    Mainly because Souness had made the Huns fans support England’s national team.

     

    This was the indicators needed that football fans were now lab rats in the eyes of ‘manipulative’ governments.

     

    What a time to be alive.

     

    HH

     

    oot.

  10. Oh Dear!

     

    From an Aberdeen FC supporter as well.

     

    @TheRustler83

     

    🏥 “Hospitals were EMPTY during the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ …. Professor Mark Woolhouse dropping truth bombs at the COVID Inquiry…” 💣💥💥💥

     

    https://x.com/TheRustler83/status/1976048679724212430#m

     

    Wonder why krankie didn’t mention this during her 2 years long, 2 hour “daily” live BBC Scotland fake gaslighting murder spree?

     

    HH

     

    oot.

  11. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Good morning CQN.

     

     

    Another grand day to be a tim.

     

     

    Work beckons this morning but hey ho.

     

     

    Briefest of scans of last night’s posts …

     

     

    … bit of playing the man was there?

     

     

    🤔

     

     

    A word of advice if I may?

     

     

    Don’t rise to it.

     

     

    One of the surest signs the poster playing you disagrees with your view but hasn’t got any other tools available to them to rebut politely or factually.

  12. spikeysauldman on

    silver city 1888

     

     

    are they feck.

     

    scotland are complete and utter dross – a fluke result

  13. Preliminary discussions between Rangers and Steven Gerrard have exceeded expectations and the former manager is en route to Scotland amid a strong mutual enthusiasm for his return to Ibrox. (TeamTalk)

     

     

    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

     

     

    How do you ‘exceed expectations’? At this stage did the Huns expect a no from him? Did they expect him to throw all the players under the bus? (again)

  14. Bada bang and chairbhoy CQN cyber hard men, sounds more like Laurel and Hardy. Which one is the big fella.

  15. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Taurangabhoy ….

     

     

    Love a reference to Laurel and Hardy.

     

     

    Brings back memories.

     

     

    For anyone interested, the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall (the world’s oldest) is still around on Argyle St.

     

     

    Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) made his professional debut there in 1906.

     

     

    You think CQN is a tough room?

     

     

    The famous quip about that venue was ….

     

     

    “The Glasgow Panopticon ….

     

     

    … where no turn is left unstoned !!!”

     

     

    🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

  16. Chairbhoy on 10th October 2025 9:42 am

     

    Taurangabhoy @ 9:33 am,

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Definitely not me, I’m only 6ft 2″

     

     

    Same here…

  17. Bada Bing @ 10:44 am,

     

     

    We are obviously being cyber bullied by the well~heeled giants then:)))

     

     

    Hail Hail

  18. Weebobbycollins on

    Well done to Maria Corina Machado on winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

     

    She is from an extremely wealthy, elite Venezuelan family, Machado Zuloaga…however, she has proved herself to be very brave, risking her life standing up to Nicolas Maduro’s wretched authoritarian government.

  19. Clunks

     

    Never been away, CQN was always part and parcel of my drinking routine, but I had to break the habit so along with the drink CQN was also a casualty, also being told that I was a mad con theorist didn’t help when I knew I was 100% right as has been proven.

     

    Still never touched a drop BTW, didn’t lose any weight tho, I honestly thot I would but hey ho tis the way it goes.

     

    HH

  20. GuyFawkesaforeverhero on

    The Exiled Tim on 10th October 2025 10:17AM

     

     

    Hola TET, email delinquency is an immutable law of creeping old age. It’s no bother to sort whatever’s on the go. Look for my email message later today.

  21. Burnley,GM,Celtic 40 Me.

     

    The Three MouthpieceoftheBoardketeers

     

    All for one,one for all.

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