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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GOLD COAST TOM
I’m glad Saturday turned into a celebration of Gerry’s life,though sorry,of course,that the event took place at all.
I hope you don’t have to return for quite some considerable time.
DJYNWA67
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Seems a lot of people are and have been hellbent on using the first part to ride roughshod over the other.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/one-year-on-police-scotland-a-work-in-progress-1-3359888
How Roseanna Cunningham and Kenny MacAskill can continue to defend the OB legislation and deny an early review defies any logic
Statistics and policing which are unreliable and untrustworthy are not a basis for a civilised society relying on its Police to safeguard the community, even if they are the lowest of the low, football fans!…………………………kill the bill
Graeme Pearson speaks for many
The government has a role to play. Kenny MacAskill is quick to take credit for things going well, but when there are problems he says he doesn’t want to comment on “operational issues”.
Well, we don’t want him to comment on operational issues, what we want him to do is deliver. Another issue is that in the past year there have been a number of times when the way statistics have been dealt with by Police Scotland have undermined confidence and accountability.
They need to clean up their act in that regard on stop and search, but even on the statistical reporting of crime, there are indications this is being driven by performance management.
There was also a great deal of resistance in the police itself.
This is a watershed moment. There is a crisis of confidence right across the UK between the police service and the public they serve.
We need to get this right over the next few years if we are to continue enjoying the relationship that has existed in the past. We need to hold on to the principle that police officers are civilians in uniform who carry out a vital role on our behalf.
• Graeme Pearson MSP is Labour justice spokesman and former director-general of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.
DjYNWA67
07:14 on
1 April, 2014
That`s just a dog whistle for white racists and European anti-immigration rednecks.
Not sure that it was wise to post it.
http://www.celticnewsnow.com/news/impressive-celtic-win-under-20-derby/92298?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EmailDaily
Congrats to the young Hoops on last nights result hope they now can go on and lift the title, lots of personnel changes within the squad this past season with players on loan and some with unfortunate injuries, Chris McCart and his team are doing a good job at Lennoxtown Celtic and Scottish football are getting the benefits from a very professional operation
GCT
Prayers still with you pal. You’re going him proud.
HH jamesgang
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
07:22 on
1 April, 2014
DJYNWA67
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Seems a lot of people are and have been hellbent on using the first part to ride roughshod over the other.
You summed it up perfectly well in one sentence.
Everyone wants to believe that their God or their method of worship is superior to the next believer. Ofcourse, this is something that has been ingrained in the minds of the ignorant, whether it be through an extremist Religious cult leader, mass media propaganda or by other means. Nevertheless, its a sad state of affairs that 21st century society finds itself in & it so bad that I don’t believe the wounds can be healed for another 1000 years.
Tam the bam
Spot on mate
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
07:29 on
1 April, 2014
DjYNWA67
07:14 on
1 April, 2014
That`s just a dog whistle for white racists and European anti-immigration rednecks.
Not sure that it was wise to post it.
When is the truth ever the wise choice?
TBB: 23:52;
A tremendous post, chapeau…
This referendum is not my business so I wouldn’t dream of commenting on the big question.
I’ve thought for a while now about the ‘wiggle room’ for a (mainstream) left revival.
Is there anyone advocating:
Gradual renationalisation of the utilities and rail? (the tired old adage that private companies are more efficient is totally exposed by experience)
Curbing the use of zero/low hour contracts in companies with large profits or numbers of employees?
Making trade union membership a positive right in our retail and service sectors?
A bit of Keynesian demand management to free people from the insecuities of private rented housing – facilitate a major house building programme with a minimum of 50% social housing with no ‘right o buy’?
A serious iniative to curb tax evsion and avoidance (albeit a hard sell eith the huns)
Challenging the ‘brain drain’ argument head on – if very wealthy / bright / specialist people want to stay in this country they need to be prepared to contribute fairly, we‘ll manage without those who won’t and they are welcome to sacrifice their roots and nnections with us for greater wealth if that is their preference… etc…
Anyone advocating along these lines in Scotland?
Apologies for phone typos…
DjYNWA67
07:43 on
1 April, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
07:29 on
1 April, 2014
DjYNWA67
07:14 on
1 April, 2014
That`s just a dog whistle for white racists and European anti-immigration rednecks.
Not sure that it was wise to post it.
When is the truth ever the wise choice?
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What truth are you referring to? What you posted?
WEST WALES CELT
The renationalisation programme would get my vote every time,as would the rest of your suggestions.
In fairness,right-to-buy has been rescinded in Scotland,but social housing programmes are still lagging well behind requirements.
As for the zero-hours contracts,the first I had ever heard of them was by Tesco. Boycotted them ever since. I doubt they miss me,and I sure don’t miss them.
If you fancy moving nearer your spiritual home,I think you should take a stab at running the country while yer there!
MacLeish in Sevco can win the Scottish Cup Shocker
Nearly had me there Eck until I realised the date
It has to be an April Fool ….surely :-))
Btw….he has just said it on ss1
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
07:56 on
1 April, 2014
WEST WALES CELT
If you fancy moving nearer your spiritual home,I think you should take a stab at running the country while yer there!
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Vote with yer feet,lads.
And we`re all off to Crimea in the green,in the green………………………..
:-)
WWC
The efficiency of private companies is often judged by the profits they make
Often at the expense of the consumer
Nationalisation , if done properly can , can produce good service at reasonable price …….it must be done on a sustainable business model
MACJAY
There are examples of privatisation working,and of it not working.
Utilities and the railways fall into the latter,IMO.
Frankly,I reckon that if you lived here you would agree.
An article by James Forest…some of it is quite interesting
This has been one Hell of a month to be camped on Planet No.
Have you been enjoying it, friends on the Yes side? I know I have. Some of it has been, frankly, surreal. Some of it has been a shade or two even beyond that.
This campaign has had highlights aplenty, from moments of low farce to those of high comedy. Some events have been barmy combinations of both.
Take the latest celebrity endorsement for example; no sooner had we finally stopped laughing at John Barrowman (and for all the wrong reasons) earlier in the year, but we were rolling in the aisles this month at Kermit the Frog’s plea to the Scot’s to keep the UK together. He did this, apparently, in an interview with The Big Issue, even as he was mistaking Britain and England as being one in the same.
With friends like these ….
From frogs we progressed all the way to the moles at the weekend, when we had a cabinet minister briefing that “of course Scotland will get its currency union”, as if this was ever in any doubt. This is widely regarded as the moment the public face of Better Together ran slam into its private one, and some of the “dark arts” were revealed for what they are. Campaign tactics, you say?
Isn’t that what Alex Salmond and Yes has been saying all along?
Well, of course. A lot of people never believed it, but there’s a difference between knowing that ice is slippery and getting to watch a guy on crutches trying to walk across it and ending up a pin wheeling, flailing, embarrassing mess. Which is what happened to Better Together this weekend.
How damaging will this revelation be? Well, it makes their campaign look as if it’s either based on lies or being run on the hoof … and neither of those things is good. But the seasoned campaign watchers, who spend their time focussed on that stuff, knew those things anyway. If this idea takes root in the public consciousness though … well, that can’t really be spun as something good, can it?
It’s brought about a change in tactics, or so we’re being told. The onus is now on putting forward the “positive case for the union.” You get the impression than when all the London parties are spending all their time trying to tell Middle England that the future is cutting, relentless cutting, that finding a positive for Scotland is going to be hard to do. We’ll soon see how they manage it.
The crisis brought the most hilarious (and troubling) article of the campaign yet though, from Alex Massie in The Spectator, of all places, where his fury at this act of sabotage was so intense that he took temporary leave of his common sense and suggested that the mole be found, lined up against the wall and shot.
(I’m not joking. He advocated the murder of a cabinet minister for leaking information. Good job we don’t take that stuff seriously around here and get the cops onto it, isn’t it? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
This outpouring of fury is not exactly a rare thing in this campaign, not when Labour MP Ian Davidson wants to “bayonet the wounded” and wants his own treacherous constituents fired from their jobs if the vote goes the wrong way.
He’s not alone there. The Secretary of State for Scotland actually spent the weekend combing through commercial contracts to see if he could remove them from the Govan shipyards should the vote not go the way he wants.
Yet, we are supposed to be the extremists? You actually couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. During this campaign, I’ve already been called a “hate filled, rug chewing nutter”, by a Labour Councillor who lists his employers as Better Together, and who went out of his way to label not just myself but all supporters of independence in the same way.
The hatred some of them feel for their own countrymen and for the notion of their nation going it alone is tragic.
We’ve had Jim Murphy describe it in terms of a national disaster … and he was supposed to be making a positive case!
We’ve had Johann Lamont making a fool of herself and everyone else in the Labour ranks talking to Gordon Brewer, in one of the most brutal dismantling’s of a politician I have ever seen in my life, followed by an appalling low-order speech that ought to have had every Labour Party member hiding under the bed.
We had the sheer hilarity of Ed Miliband and his “Scottish connection” – that his dad was once stationed in Fife, and Miliband went there the day before (I mean, are you for real?) – itself coming hot on the heels of Cameron’s “great, great uncle” who might have fought and died under the Saltire. Maybe.
But it’s those celebrities you’ve really got to love. Those really make me giggle uncontrollably.
I read constant references – even from people on our side – to Bowie’s intervention in this debate, as if he did actually make one. Let’s not forget what really happened here.
He was invited to attend an event held in front of a group of millionaires, to win one of those awards they hand out in mutual back slapping, and declined to attend. He sent a supermodel mate, and notorious party girl, to collect it for him, and whilst doing so she made a throwaway appeal which, for all we know, was nothing more than an entreaty to a friend in the crowd not to leave early.
An ageing celebrity “engaging” with the independence debate by appealing to Scotland, through a third party, from 5000 miles away, with four words. Greeted, on Twitter and in the press, like Christ had returned for his long awaited encore, with a fifteen minute segment for the world at half time at The Superbowl. Better Together need all the good news they can get, I guess … but it’s embarrassing when you’re relying on that kind of thing to give your side a lift.
None of it has stopped me listening to Bowie as I work, and it won’t stop me from enjoying the occasional bout of craziness from Eddie Izzard, but I don’t take these people seriously. It’s hard to do that when they reveal their ignorance and their contempt for the political process every time they open their mouths. Kermit the Frog? Seriously? When Labour tried (and failed) to get the endorsement of Peppa Pig during the 2010 election campaign I thought I’d heard it all. Their disappointment when Peppa was not available for an endorsement meeting was all the reason the campaign organisers needed to start sacking press officers long before Gillian Duffy wandered onto the scene.
The chattering classes in the media are awake, at last, to something that social media followers in Scotland have been aware of for quite some time. Better Together is in bother. Their message is all over the place. Their game plan is a shambles. They have made the age old mistake of mixing up strategy with tactics, shooting for one day news stories and recycling them until one melds into the next. They appear not to understand that this reached saturation point weeks ago and the public now assumes every statement they make is a lie, or something they’ve heard before.
The media has twigged to something else too; If this comes down to the ground game, we’re going to win it in a landslide. Whilst Better Together trots out celebrity “endorsements” like the aforementioned, appeals which might change one mind in 1,000,000 if that person has been listening to The Spiders From Mars with a bottle of Jack Daniels on the morning before he casts his vote, people up and down this country are working tirelessly to get the only endorsements that matter … those of the voters who will decide this thing.
Kevin McKenna paid tribute to the bloggers at the weekend too, and the role they continue to play, and he’s identified that as one of the great equalisers in the campaign. So it’s proving. The whole of the media might be lined up on the No side, but it’s already been years since many of us have taken our lead from what the “straight press” has to say.
McKenna has, rightly, said the bloggers and the “citizen journalists” are the future of the industry, but the future might be a lot closer than he thinks.
They say the CIA didn’t know the Berlin Wall was coming down until chunks started hitting them on the head, and it doesn’t surprise me that it’s those in the wee Westminster media bubble who are the last people to catch on to what’s really going on in the streets.
When the Rev and Wings, and all the other sites, are assembling readerships that will soon be challenging the dailies in terms of numbers – and, more significantly for now, they are forced to quote these sites over and over again in their analysis, helping them build the momentum that will roll over the current press like a tank – then you can see the writing is definitely on the wall.
Everything I’ve seen, and heard, and read tells me that only one side is putting in the shift necessary to win this thing. We’ve got the boots on the ground. We have our own formidable media strategy, because we’ve constructed our own media machine (and how they hate it … as a Cybernat and Internet Bampot both, it makes me smile).
We’ve got the Big Mo … and more … the even Bigger Mo, the Money, is yet to be utilised … and we can outspend them all to Hell.
Lastly, it seems, to me, that although we’ve fought one Hell of a campaign so far, there’s a lot still left in the tank. Nicola is ready to roll out the Constitutional Framework, for one thing, and that will gain us a lot of traction. I get the impression that with the financial advantage about to come fully into play we can move up another gear or two as required.
Better Together are hopelessly trying to roll backwards, to get some forward momentum.
Yes, that’s what I call being in big bother
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bhoys3
22:18 on 31 March, 2014
Billy Bhoy 05 Info comes from a report by Lord Warner who was an advisor to Tony Blair
Ta bhoy3
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
What truth are you referring to? What you posted?
The truth in general.
You don’t have to look beyond the horizon to see where the truth is unacceptable.
One look at the fiasco on the Southside of Glasgow should give you a reasonable enough insight into whats wrong with the world we live in.
You know aswell I that in 10 years from now when the Zombies are back at the top table, picking up where the dead club left off, cheating & kicking their way to a string of titles – not to mention the honest mistakes – that they will be recorded as a club with a 160 year UNBROKEN history.
That’s the way it’s gonna be, regardless of what you or I believe. Does that make it so?
Morning all. Drab (as, it seems, ever) down here at the moment. There doesn’t look like any change on the horizon, any horizon.
I do agree,although I don`t live there.
My memories are of the huge unsustainable loss makers of the `70s.
All losses bailed out by taxpayers.
Unquestionably,some industries ,imho,should be owned by the state.Those which provide basic services.
Eg.Power,water,most medical services.Perhaps rail.
BILLY BHOY 05
As I’ve said before,the No campaign are making a pig’s ear of this campaign.
With hindsight,it would have been better to have stayed quiet on every topic rather than lose ground with every soundbite and press release.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar 07:59 on 1 April, 2014
MacLeish in Sevco can win the Scottish Cup Shocker
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He should be saving up his money to pay back those he stole from instead of commenting on third rate clubs. What an utter tool the ginger nugget is, and I mean no disrespect to gingers (whom I’m extremely fond of, especially thon wee smasher whatshername????)
McLeish is a stain on Glasgow and should be treated as such.
West Wales Celt
07:44 on
1 April, 2014
That is the hope for many of us that an independent Scotland that it will bring a more socially just society, that some of our important national assets will be for the benefit of its citizens and the country’s bank finances or at the very least those private companies who milk the public for vast profits under proper accountability and scrutinisation, as for advocates of your political manifesto in Scotland they are still there re building after a one mans huge ego nearly destroyed them
Predictions for Nigel and UKIP to win the upcoming Euro elections by commanding vast numbers of the working mans votes is astonishing, the policy by the MSM of dumbing down politics has worked remarkably well to a frightening degree making the independance case a no brainer
DjYNWA67
08:19 on
1 April, 2014
The truth in general
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Completely agree with that.
Truth is beauty.
There are exceptions.When the truth can be harmful or counterproductive.
Some things are better left unsaid.
Back to the point.What you posted was largely an opinion piece.Now in the public domain.
I expressed my opinion about that.You disagree.No problem.
Interesting header above re U20 game last night
Posted as CFC defeat Sevco …as it should be
Link to the official site ….ref Rangers…..hmmmmm
Macjay 8.21 directed at
Bobby 8.09
Apols
Multi tasking…..fork and glass.
Bmcuw
A lovely Scots word the you used best describes us when we are spoken down to or treated like idiots.
Thrawn!
Ginger kitten alert. Small boys and faint of heat scroll on by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEdC0c3YI4
That’s the one………………………..nice!!
ACGR loves gingers, except that prik mclosh of the deid heid fame. Shameless thief.
From George Foulkes
http://www.holyrood.com/2014/03/labours-pains/
Morning dj.
Your post about your friend was rabble rousing nonsense. There is no reason why non Muslims and Muslims cannot live side by side. They are already doing so in many places.
The problem is with the Islamist fascists. Given the amount of Muslims who they kill, we may say that they are the true ‘Islamaphobes’.
Your post is well meaning but mistaken.
Watch Adolf Hitler….Very funny
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7-1O_8Wdc
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:29 on
1 April, 2014
DjYNWA67
08:19 on
1 April, 2014
The truth in general
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Completely agree with that.
Truth is beauty.
There are exceptions.When the truth can be harmful or counterproductive.
Some things are better left unsaid.
Back to the point.What you posted was largely an opinion piece.Now in the public domain.
I expressed my opinion about that.You disagree.No problem.
Just want you to clarify this for me….
You believe that we gotta shout from the roof tops about about falsehoods regarding football but, when it comes to very serious matters regarding the theft of lands & their riches including the United States, Australia, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Ireland, Scotland, Egypt, Mali, Somalia, South Africa & the millions of indigenous lives that have perished as a result of those land grabs you feel we should stay silent because it might upset some extremist’s who are uneducated regarding these matters?
& thats just a handful of the nations that have been conquered in the past 200 years to line the pockets of a couple of hundred families that have absolutely no regard for human life.
Anther 100 years silence at this rate & entire nations will be reduced to nothing more than human slave camps.
Don’t take the above in any way as some sort of an attack on you for your outlook on things, as you got an opinion shared by 85% of the western population.
You may feel i’m mad with my ramblings, & I don’t mind that but I feel, as do many others, that awareness has to be raised of the global genocide that continues throughout the world today all in the name of democracy.
As for the original post, I completely understand the point of view of the guy that wrote it & if you don’t take his anti-western stance personally, you will too. After all, its not you or I that raped his homeland of its riches, enslaved his family in the coalmines or yelled “GO HOME N*****” when he rose above the oppression to better himself but, rather those that claim to have our best needs at hand.
Hail hail!
MACJAY 0833
Nae bother,bud. I got that. For once we can agree,sadly it is about something which is unlikely to happen-ain’t life a bitch!
Hope you’re enjoying your meal. I’m just about to sit down to a pint of breakfast.
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RIP Frankie Knuckles..
Summa
Interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tw610qHGyM8
John O’Neil
09:03 on
1 April, 2014
Morning dj.
Your post about your friend was rabble rousing nonsense. There is no reason why non Muslims and Muslims cannot live side by side. They are already doing so in many places.
The problem is with the Islamist fascists. Given the amount of Muslims who they kill, we may say that they are the true ‘Islamaphobes’.
Your post is well meaning but mistaken.
GM John
Your wrong man. If he were a typical extremist on a mission, he wouldn’t have given me the time of day, & that conversation went began 2-3 hours before he made that post. Regarding your comment about Muslims killing Muslims; don’t Christians kill Christians? World war 1, World war 2 springs to mind but, how about a little closer to home. Coming from Belfast, I know quite a bit about Christian on Christian murder.