During the game on Saturday we had a conversation (it was that kind of game) about defenders in general, and left backs in particular, available for selection in the CQteN Dream Team (have played since July 2004). Consensus was that Izaguirre, van Dijk, Ambrose, Matthews and Lustig should feature high on the list.
The real concern was the lack of genuine competition for Emilio Izaguirre’s place over the decade. We have two excellent right backs, with Darnell Fisher showing lots of promise, but have had little genuine talent on the left. Mulgrew and McNamara (both used there occasionally), Naylor, Danny Fox, Braafheid, Mo Camara and Ulrik Laursen were at best fillers for the position.
Neil Lennon has talked for over a year about adding a new left back to the squad but I don’t think we’ve come close to signing someone for this position. The problem is not limited to Celtic, either, lots of clubs at the highest level (budget) have struggled.
I read during the week that Izzie has achieved more assists this season than any since he arrived four years ago. His form is good, so there is not a compelling need to recruit, but form and fitness are fickle. He is also one of the few from the squad who will spend the summer in Brazil, interrupting preseason preparations.
Izzie arrived after World Cup 2010, where he put in enough of a shift in two appearances to convince Celtic to move, without shaking the game to its core to the extent he was snapped up by an English or German club. If the groundwork has been done ahead of this summers’ tournament, I’d be happy to recruit another solid performing left back from a small Latin American country. I’d not be averse to shopping there for a striker either, instead of Europe, England’s lower tiers, or the Israeli league.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
“As I recall, I was sitting at the table when I got a shout from some friends to come to the bar where they had engaged in conversation with the owner of the restaurant – Luis – who was originally from Lisbon. At the bar, Luis introduced himself and quickly handed me an official postcard complete with a place for a stamp and a message although this particular card was blank and had never been sent.
The Picture on the card was the Estadio Nacional on the afternoon of 25th May 1967 at the precise moment when Stevie Chalmers turned the ball into the Inter Milan net for the winner. Luis had been in Lisbon that day and he had kept this postcard as a memento of the day and had held it for 15 years as his own wee homage not so much to Celtic as the Celtic fans.”
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HT
Mind you get yourself a tent for Embraemick garden as i am in the ensuite for the CL games
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
22:13 on 31 March, 2014
Mate told me yesterday about those on CM and other sights that had their thoughts on things mainly Johnnie Ds top being punted by McTears auctions.
Your post has genuinely made my night, though anyone suprised by the actions of celtic family members when they are needed has not been paying attention :))))
good night bud ohhhh and awwww yous aswell :)))
Ohhh nearly forgot Mountblow Tim, be proud my friend.
TBJ
Remember there is a very strong masonic membership in the ole US. Saying that, they are probably mostly kafflicks. Hahahaha GURUT :-)))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
SOAL
The en suite is the public lavvy on Lothian Rd. Suits you sir.
HT
You canny beat auld haunts
the spirit of arthur lee
22:22 on 31 March, 2014
HT
Mind you get yourself a tent for Embraemick garden as i am in the ensuite for the CL games
Question is how long it’ll be till there’s an impromptu en suite in the tent?!?!
;-)
Not to worry you Mike!!
HH jamesgang
Weefra
Their maybe getting the full $80,000 from the big fallooot the day, over some fighting fund :-)
‘Mr Mountblow’. (LeftClick will explain!)
Congrats Sir
Proud Mhan indeed!
HH jamesgang
Hamilton Tim, At times reading this blog, I get disillusioned by some Celtic Supporters. Then I read your post re Johnny Doyle and I know why I’m here and why I’ll always be here. Absolutely Brilliant.
And now a news Item in the spirit of………. well figure it out for yerselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8yNvBGtJw
cowiebhoy
That widnae pay super swallys monthly salary. Heeeeeeel meeeeeend theeeeeeem. Hehehe
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
BRTH
Hope you are well
I only post these clips to cheer this blog up when it needs it
Love
the exiled tim
22:03 on 31 March, 2014
From Mrs TET for her American followers.
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Just noticed tomorrow’s date :-)) she should try to sell them The Millenium Dome or Trafslgar Square while she’s at it.
Corkcelt
You stick around mo chara or else the trolls win!
BRTH
Brilliant but it must (surely) be a wind up!!??
Just logged in to catch up.
Better news about Wee Oscar. Prayers will continue.
King Lubo hang your head in shame, never though I would see a post like that on this site.
Now going to log off.
Eve all. Whats the wee Oscar latest??
SOAL
You are just a good humoured man who sees everything like this — your mind and the blog belong together………
And all of a sudden the mood of the blog lifts!!
Gaun the Rebels :-)
@CQN: Hear new investment in Sevco coming from US
The full story in 1 hour 20 minutes?
That Mr Ben has a lot to answer for.
Jude2005, as you asked :
O most holy apostle St Jude
Faithful servant and friend of Jesus
The church honours and invokes you universally
As patron of hopeless cases
Of things almost despaired of
Pray for Oscar Knox
Make use, I implore you
Of that particular privilege given to you
To bring visible and speedy help
Where help is almost despaired of
Come to Oscar Knox’s assistance in his great need
That he may recieve the consolation and help of heaven
In all his necessities, tribulations and sufferings
Particularly Oscar Knox
And that I may praise
God with you forever
I promise O blessed St Jude
To be ever mindful of this great favour
To always honour you as my special and powerful patron
And to gratefully encourage devotion to you.
A prayer for all tonight, to help our Wee Warrior and Hero
Celtic fans have never believed in Feng Shui, as the goalposts were constantly moved.
Quiz will be on at 9 this Friday. I’ll be in full control of my faculties this week.
TOSB
It’s no up yet, it will be in 20 mins tho, and they will swallow it hook line and sinker.
She has a link from her friend who works at Edinburgh Zoo, just to add a touch of authenticity.
HH
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
Miss me out mucker
Heading to the Manics gig
Looks like a full house for CL – and a full garden.
En suite ??? Better get the plumber and the glazier in for the all mod cons gazebo. Obviously the daily rate goes up ;-)
embramike
HT will square you up
SOAL
Thanks for the notice.Means I can make it a wee bit challenging :-)
TET
I forwarded that Haggi story earlier to my daughter no 1, who is Englandshire tomorrow on a training course (2nd part)
On her visit last month, she told her English colleagues all about the Haggi, showing them photies as available on the net
Now a wee follow up story :-)
Hail Hail to Mentalpause
BCW
Katanga
bournesouprecipe
22:39 on 31 March, 2014
@CQN: Hear new investment in Sevco coming from US
The full story in 1 hour 20 minutes?
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Are these the same Yanks that TET’s wife is targeting for investment to protect the haggi?
Hamiltontim
Try this lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wozTHxykDwQ
How did the 20s game go?
the exiled tim
22:42 on 31 March, 2014
TOSB
It’s no up yet, it will be in 20 mins tho, and they will swallow it hook line and sinker.
She has a link from her friend who works at Edinburgh Zoo, just to add a touch of authenticity.
HH
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Brill :-))
We won 2 nil jude
King Lubo
I read your post with some dismay I must confess. You see, it epitomises the reversal of thinking that we have all been unwittingly been party to in recent decades.
Doubtless there will be many posters who take deep and personal exception to the idea you articulated: That the cause of the death of 96 men, women and children at Hillsborough was caused by the actions of some large number of drunk, aggressive and otherwise utterly reckless football fans.
It was the dominant narrative of the time, conceived and executed by cowardly people at every level in the Police and embraced and disseminated by a Government of the day who could smell the political impact of ostracising an errant (to their mind) city.
It nearly worked, but for the tenacity of the bewildered, grief stricken families and those who supported them, who recognised the singularity of the incongruity being pedalled: It was all made up. It was a lie.
The reversal of thinking that I referred to earlier is this: That formerly, the role of the Police was to serve its Community.
Now, the behaviour of the Police is increasingly self serving, and we didn’t notice it happening. That’s what your post represents to me.
It is now quite clear that the role of the Police in the aftermath of the Hillsborough tragedy was focussed not upon due process – as they are mandated to uphold – but upon the (by then) developing axiom that the reputation of the Police, the body corporate, had primacy, more important to the Police even than human life itself.
This view is maintained by serving and retired officers despite the role of the Police as a collective unit on that day being widely considered as being causative in creating the tragedy in the first place.
We see now that this was not an isolated case. Today, the Police in the UK will not tolerate a dissenting voice from within, or increasingly, without. The Police more and more resemble a Corporation, bent upon increasing its influence and decreasing its accountability.
We can cite umpteen examples, from the Stephen Lawrence abhorrence to the absurd strategies that created the societal affront represented by the Mark Kennedy case and so many other examples of a growing corporation unable to separate its ambition from its purposes. Even today the rank and file hang onto the discredited threads of the Hillsborough lie.
Here in Scotland we have seen a reorganisation of the Police service to the national level such that it is now largely removed from the oversight of the local authorities who created it and who ostensibly govern it. It has outgrown its local environment, just like the ‘corporation’ that it increasingly apes.
And thus have we unwittingly witnessed the transition of community service into corporate influence, and with it we can see that the Police has lost the uniquely human ability to state the obvious, the necessary, the humane:
“We were wrong.”
Such a concession to plain truth it seems simply cannot be permitted, will not be tolerated, and now seems quite anathema to the Corporate culture of the Police. Good men and women, honest people – folk who held good values and who joined the Police primarily to uphold its social contract with the community – cannot rationalise or accept a contrary view, let alone one that requires them to recognise the fact and thereafter act upon the human impulse to say:
“Sorry. We were wrong. That should never have happened on our watch.”
In maintaining the invalid and discredited idea expressed in your post, you deny your own judgement, your own human experience. You have placed the Corporation before the Community.
You needn’t. You know that, don’t you? You can hold a different opinion, assert an alternative point of view. It’s allowed. Still.
You ought to try it sometime.
TBB
Cowiebhoy
Amen.
To everybody who likes a laugh
Good Night