Sentiment and Sinclair, scrapping for second, Neil and Hibs

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I don’t cling to sentiment when it comes to footballers on high wages, so when Scott Sinclair was unable to get into the first team I would happily have released him.  We seldom see a player rediscover his form and goal touch as demonstrably as he has in recent months.

You may have noticed the way Scott coached Timo Weah during Saturday’s game against Hamilton.  He is thriving on the responsibility and the confidence it instils.  Playing the wings is a hard shift.  You hear more ‘feedback’ from the crowd there than from other areas of the field.  I know some of our very best wingers in recent times have carried this extra burden.

Delighted that the three clubs scrapping for second place below us managed to take points off each other in a week Celtic won twice.  Well done to Aberdeen, Newco and Kilmarnock for sticking with it.  If there was a clear challenger their task would be easier.

It is a source of some regret that Project Hibs is on the skids right now and Neil Lennon is set to lose his job.  Hibs and Neil seemed a perfect match.  His results at the club against Celtic, Newco and Hearts were unprecedented in the modern era.  Football progress is seldom linear and this year was destined to be one of realignment, something Neil and the club should have acknowledged.

They could do worse than appointing boyhood Hibs fan, Gordon Strachan, as manager, but whoever gets the job will be a step down from Neil.  They are likely to remain a Premiership team for the foreseeable future – they will not appoint the likes of Terry Butcher again – but mid-table mediocrity beckons.

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  1. BSR………..

     

     

    “dithering “….must feature somewhere, but usually attributed to the mounting frustration of an anonymous insider close to the alleged deal……..who by implication must surely be on the verge of crawling on hands and knees over to the Edmiston Facade where business, presumably, would be concluded smartly in a dignified and respectable manner………….

  2. Canamalar

     

     

    Enough were deliberately murdered to make it worth its position in our memory.

     

     

    No-one can know for sure.

     

     

    The figure of 6 million is a best-guesstimate; if actual figures were possible and it was ONLY 4.5m or as much as 7m, it should not make a blind bit of difference to anyone.

  3. and the next contestant is……

     

     

    CELTIC could add Borussia Dortmund star Jeremy Toljan to their squad, according to reports.

     

     

    The Hoops are said to be exploring a deal for the Dortmund right-back with the transfer window closing on Thursday.

  4. traditionalist88 on

    MSM getting panned again?! Why do some Celtic fans insist on giving them any relevance at all by reading their drivel and posting it on here?!

     

     

    HH

  5. Alasdair MacLean on

    !!BADA BING!!,

     

     

    Cheers! Aye, a right good win.

     

    All eyes on Ayr tonight when they play their game in hand down there against, would you believe – Inverness.

     

     

    The draw specialists of the league … which would suit us fine.

     

    As someone said on Saturday,

     

    “Caley couldn’t get 3 points if they bought a triangle.”

  6. Trad- there’s no link to give hits,start a rumour yourself, where do you get alleged transfer names from?

  7. Just popped in and am popping out again just as quick. Last night was a bad bad night for CQN. I hope the Moderator just wakes up & deletes the lot before too many read it.

  8. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    SFTB,

     

    17 Million people were murdered in the holocaust, 10 million Russians 7 million of which were civilians, and your answer is exactly my point, most people think the number is 6 million because they only hear about the Jewish victims, 25% of the European Romany population were murdered, no one likes or cares about the russians or gypsys apparently.

  9. Alasdair MacLean on

    BOURNESOUPRECIPE on29TH JANUARY 2019 9:06 AM

     

    ” Why are Celtic struggling to sign a Right Back? “…………… by the Daily Ranger

     

    Cue the internet CSC

     

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    BSR,

     

    I know.

     

    If I wanted to read that sort of stuff…. I’d just log onto CQN.

     

    :)

  10. …….just a skim back as I imbibe my morning skinny cappu……..

     

     

    The imaginary terracin’ karacter, dreamt up in some poorly composed, undergraduate level skreenplay wears thin again, and the joko is on CQN,…

     

    ……. again…….

     

     

    Made-up guff, from the one-trick phony……… left unchallenged, sleekitly erodes the qualities this Dear Green Place is rightly famous for.

     

     

    Whatever Yer wan is he’s deffo a CQN hater…….Musta been turned doon furra story in the Sunday Poost (1978)

  11. Alasdair MacLean on

    !!BADA BING!!,

     

     

    Thanks for the heads-up.

     

    Wouldn’t have thought that looking out at the Moray Forth micro-climate.

     

    A dusting of snow last night, but a bright dry frosty day – temperature hovering around 0.

  12. traditionalist88 on

    So if you question the club on transfers you are taking your lead from the MSM, LOL

     

     

    DeflectionCSC

  13. traditionalist88 on

    !!BADA BING!! on 29TH JANUARY 2019 9:08 AM

     

    Trad- there’s no link to give hits,start a rumour yourself, where do you get alleged transfer names from?

     

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    I wasn’t referring to transfer rumours, not got time for that!

     

     

    HH

  14. traditionalist88 on

    ‘Andy Murray has revealed he now has a “metal hip” after undergoing surgery following 18 months of being in pain. ‘

  15. Trad- apologies if post was not for me,FYI you can read about the alleged interest in Dortmund RB on this very page….HH

  16. traditionalist88 on

    !!BADA BING!! on 29TH JANUARY 2019 9:28 AM

     

     

    Not you, those who slate the MSM on a regular basis as a means of shifting the focus on these pages yet clearly still take the time to scan their output!

     

     

    The RB from Dortmund is an interesting one, I thought Gumny was the chosen one but maybe we’ll find out before too long… hopefully…

     

     

    HH

  17. South Of Tunis on

    Also victims of the Master race –

     

     

    German ” Socialists ”

     

    “Socialists” in Occupied countries .

     

    Jehovah Witnesses .

     

    Homosexuals .

     

    People with a ” mental illness ”

     

    Polish “intellectuals ”

     

    Polish ” Civic leaders ”

     

    Serb civilians

     

    People with disabilities

     

    Swingjugend

     

    Children and adults with a genetically caused illness

  18. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    SOUTH OF TUNIS on 29TH JANUARY 2019 9:41 AM

     

     

    Also victims of the Master race –

     

     

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    Which one?

     

    Soviet , German or Italian ?

  19. the viking bhoys.

     

     

    https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article13919947.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Up-Helly-Aa-Viking-Festival.jpg

     

     

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    Celtic fan creates green and white Up Helly Aa Viking ship but Rangers mad brother will burn it

     

     

    John Nicolson’s Hoops-themed galley will go up in flames at this year’s festival on Shetland – and his brother David can’t wait.

     

     

    The Celtic-inspired Viking ship will be set alright at the famous Shetland festival

     

     

    Pictures ahead of Tuesday’s procession show the galley boat painted in the distinctive green and white hoops of Celtic Football Club .

     

     

     

    Up Helly Aa takes place in Lerwick in January each year, when people dressed as Vikings march through the streets of the town to recreate its ancient Viking past.

     

     

    The procession is led by the Guizer Jarl, or chief guizer, and culminates in a replica longboat being set alight.

     

     

     

    Volunteers are responsible for the building of the galley boat, with its colours traditionally chosen by the Guizer Jarl, the role held this year by John Nicolson.

     

     

    His brother David Nicolson, himself a former Guizer Jarl, said: “It’s his galley and those are the colours he’s gone with.

     

     

     

    “Safe to say he’s a Celtic supporter through and through.

     

     

     

    “I’m a Rangers supporter, so I’ll take great delight in seeing it burn.”

     

     

    Shetland and neighbouring Orkney were ruled by the Norse for about 500 years until they became part of Scotland in 1468.

  20. South Of Tunis on

    MACJAY

     

     

    All of those ——— That Master Race thing appears to have no national boundaries

  21. One statistic I read recently was that of Soviet males born in the year 1922, only 3% survived the war.

  22. I’m going to make a prediction here – Trump is practically bullet proof, however if he attempts to move against the Federal Reserve – such action shall ultimately lead to his downfall.

     

     

    Si Ferry Kelvin Wilson interview is very good indeed and recommended.

     

     

    HH. ?

  23. Here’s what a Holocaust survivor had to say about Merkel.

     

     

     

     

    ‘The only thing I know which has struck everybody is that Mrs Merkel, who is a wonderful lady, made this unbelievably generous gesture to open the frontiers, and letting in thousands of people which the Germans can’t really deal with.

     

     

    And I think it brought out the worst in the Germans again. In the recent election a party got in ‘Alternative for Germany’, one could use the word ‘fascist’.

     

     

     

    We’re really talking about the thousands of year old virus called antisemitism that was only waiting to come out somewhere.’

     

     

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0c1ngrx/the-last-survivors

  24. Greenpinata on 29th January 2019 8:06 am

     

    ENOUGH on 29TH JANUARY 2019 7:41 AM

     

     

     

    ‘Unfortunately holocaust denial is becoming increasingly prominent with the far left. It is no longer the exclusive territory of the far right.’

     

     

     

    *********

     

     

     

    Do you have an example of anyone on the far left denying the Holocaust?

     

     

     

     

    *******

     

     

    Shocking new stastics show 25% of the US are in denial. This can be attributal to education and the teachers of education .

     

     

     

    Again do you have a link to these ‘new statistics’? There ‘s been press reports recently of a survey saying that 1 in 20 in the UK ‘denied the Holocaust took place’. But what the figures seem to show is that a lot of people either didn’t know about the Holocaust or were shaky on the detail. That’s an entirely different thing to saying they denied it happened.

     

     

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/one-in-20-britons-does-not-believe-holocaust-happened

  25. 50 shades of green on

    Anyone else think the zombies will try to get ra morras game with Cowden postponed until next week thereby getting their trip to sheepville put back ….until the injured are back fit????