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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Ritchie – New Orleans ??
Lost me there, but I will be back in Chicago in June, likely sharing a Guinness with Mike Boyd, Vice President of the North American CSC Federation and lynchpin of the Chicago CSC in Hudsons, when this blog will probably be discussed.
HT, MWD, Salford, Geordie –
I hear your points, but I was honoured to attend CQteN and share in I what this forum has become. We raise thousands for charity, publish excellent books and articles on matter Celtic and have grown a sizeable fairly erudite congregation.
So I find it sad that posts that have no place on here are tolerated. I have seen very few yellow and red cards issues for content, but I fear that some will see this as a licence to continue to pollute the blog with attention seeking, inconsequential detritus.
If I want to know more about politics there are forums for that purpose. This is a football forum, a Celtic forum.
Malc – glad there are like minded folk out there.
TOSB – HH
Embramike,
As I said, I’m not against a wee bit diversity.
If politics were banned 100% what would be next? Horse tips? Pc help?
What I’d like banned is when the same posters say the exact same stuff post after post day after day.
5 post repetition limit?? :-)
In 100% agreement with those who think its time to call an end to the endless Scots nationalist drivel being regurgitated on a daily basis on this site. We get it OK, you are going to vote yes for a divorce. No amount of posting financial nonsense or revisionist history regarding ‘freedom’ or independence will sway those determined to vote No just as no amount of counter arguments will sway those determined to vote Yes. And yes I am guilty of posting politically based opinions in response to the incessant Nat B/S but find the whole thing so utterly bloody tedious now -s o no more B/S from moi. If I want to debate the English divorce there are more suitable forums to do so.
HT
Naw….we could be delayed!!
Friday is fine – I’ll wait til then.
Me ‘n GtP (MattE) & One game a Season (31003) will be heading up.
CESC sesh guaranteed…
Wee suggestion for HAMILTON TIM for Tannadice,cos you cannae be too careful up there.
http://www.allyouneedtoparty.co.uk/party-themes-supplies-c836/halloween-party-supplies-c950/halloween-costume-accessories-c976/jason-hockey-mask-p18269?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=jason-hockey-mask-ayp1713&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&gclid=CLzT3tOIv70CFYbMtAodkWMAXQ#19135
embramike
I have spent years on here reading about and discussing all forms of Irish politics, British politics, World Politics, books, square saussage & steak pie recipes etc… This year is a very important year for Scottish politics no matter which way you are leaning. Not only will it effect us all individually but it will effect everything relating to almost everything after the date of the referendum. I can’t imagine CQN being free of political discussion over the coming months on this subject. In fact I’d be surprised if it were not discussed into oblivion with opinions from all 1967 corners of the world.
The general worldly CQN view of Irish, British & World politics is in the main supported by the majority of posters on here, the few fascists excepted. I assume that is why those political discussions are accepted without question in the main. Maybe it is only Scottish politics that annoys, is distasteful, inconsequential, extreme or is it maybe hust the politics surriounding the YES campaign?
MWD he says YES ;-)
;-)
MWD
frank ryan’s whiskey
11:19 on 1 April, 2014
Made your political point there but glad to hear it will be your last.
I tend to pass by posts on the independence question now for two reasons I have no vote and I know how I would vote if I were in Scotland.
I would agree that from what I have seen in here people are entrenched on one camp or the other.
Smashie
I’ll get back to you as soon as I find out on Friday.
Bon voyage!
BMCUW
And spoil the view for an adoring public???
I think not Bobby Bhoy :-)
Geordie
Horse tips, PC help, condolences, social chit chat etc. do not piss off the majority of posters but add to the rich fabric of the site.
FRW
Nor is it specifically “Scots nationalist drivel ” (strictly your point of view obviously) but all political polemic not at all related to the raison d’etre of this site.
Celtic Park
embramike
i gotta disagree with you on political discussions on here, you’re right it’s a football blog but it’s also a blog about Celtic Supporters lives and what’s happening in them as can be seen from a wide variety of posts. Fortunately or unfortunately Politics plays a big part in these lives. We come from the full spectrum of political views but we should never forget we are One in Celtic.
Billy Bhoy
you forgot to mention Lord Warner was ably assisted by two Tory MP’s with his book and his research was funded by a Private Health Co.
P.S, he is also N.E.Chairman of UK Health Gateway which promises to open the door to overseas business’s selling to the NHS.
SaynothistimeCSC
HH
3’sy just told me that wee rascals screwed his hoose last night and shat in his pot o’ mince….
“It’s no’ that Smashie” he cried “ah hid tae throw hauf ae it oot!”
SmashingMilkBottles
11:33 on
1 April, 2014
3′sy just told me that wee rascals screwed his hoose last night and shat in his pot o’ mince….
“It’s no’ that Smashie” he cried “ah hid tae throw hauf ae it oot!”
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Which half?
HT
3’sy talks shit…
go figure…
MWD
I hear you, but there are days I just switch the blog off because I find the “I’m right, you’re wrong” playground politics a waste of time and precious life. I then read other, much inferior blogs / sites for my football fix.
Don’t get me wrong, I too have a political opinion but wouldn’t bore others with it unless there were glasses of alcoholic beverage involved.
Perhaps at 10 years old, the blog has grown up and is mature enough to support 2 threads, Football for mainstream, and Politics for those who are interested.
HAMILTON TIM
Good answer!
And put like that,I should probably get one myself….
embramike
but when you through in
square sausage
steak pie
poppy
bloody sunday
books
horses
etc
etc
you’d need to go all KDS
;-)
MWD
The debate about political debate brings us back, once again, to the age old tension between Feuerbach’s and Hegel’s stances on materialism ;is it absolute or dialectic? I sum it up as the tension between ‘ Ur they deid yet?’ And ‘Ur they still deid?’
Sum days am glad am too bizzy te cum oan here.
So a um.
For all the good and bad posted on this blog it has allowed me to meet up with great Tims, to go to games with, to play golf with and to go drinking with.
I laugh with them, cry with them.
I love them.
And to be friends with.
Weel, maist oh thum.
philbhoy 11.53
Typical Feuerbachist that ye are. :-)
HH
hello…….hello…………………
mayanman
To a point, but diatribes about Muslims, war atrocities, social class etc. etc. are not politically relevant to this site, in my humble opinion.
Political discussion is integral to life I agree, and particularly this year in Scotland, but on here if you disagree with certain opinions – and that is all they are, some are subjected to pompous ridicule, scorn and invective.
Not the Celtic family way of behaving – again in my humble opinion.
o switch to driving on the right if independence given green light
Current road signage system would also be scrapped under scheme nationalists say helps show country is ‘part of Europe’
Bruce Roberts Tuesday 1 April 2014 00.01 BST
Scottish nationalist leaders will attempt this week to give the trailing yes campaign a boost by revealing a series of measures aimed at showing what an independent country would look like.
Seeking to capitalise on the arguments this week about “bullying” England and keeping the pound, they will unveil an ambitious scheme to scrap the current –English inspired –road signage system. M for motorway will be replaced with a new S –for Scotland and the A trunk roads will become N roads –for Nationalist in honour of the new country. Blue will be the predominant backing colour.
The scale of the scheme is enormous: Scotland has 2,174 miles of road, including the 273-mile long A9 stretching from Edinburgh to John O’Groats –known as the “spine of Scotland”.
It is estimated that 58,000 signs will have to be replaced –scrapping the famous road sign font known as “Transport” with a new Celtic-tinged typeface, Proclaimer. And it could be that they may take the opportunity to renumber all of Scotland’s roads, beginning at one.
Independence strategists are believed to have sought advice on the plan from the Stirling University professor of transport semiotics, Lana Gocaireachd. “It’s exciting, it gives us a clear difference from the English and is a tangible manifestation of a new, vibrant and independent national,” said one official close to the scheme. “A more conscious uncoupling, perhaps.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he revealed that if the proposals were seen to swing the needle towards the yes camp then the next stage would be revealed: switch driving on the left of the road to the right –from the first day of independence in 2017.
Road names will change to reflect independence, with M (motorway) becoming S (Scotland) and A roads becoming N roads (nationalist). Photograph: Stephen Finn/Alamy
To ease the transition, Scottish transport planners, under strict conditions of secrecy, have begun drawing up plans for a series of spiral interchanges at the major border transport nodes. These will transition drivers to the correct side of the road –whether travelling south–north or north-south –and avoid cross-border crashes –”a PR disaster worse than horsemeat in haggis”, according to one planner.
The campaigners take their inspiration from what Sweden –a much larger country than Scotland –was able to do in a single weekend in September 1967. Adopting the Swedish model, Scotland would need all signs ready, an intensive information campaign, and temporary speed restrictions. Backers say it would be more than symbolic –it would let Paris, Berlin and Brussels know that Scotland was serious about an EU role.
“It sends out an explicit signal: we are part of Europe,” said one of the brains behind the scheme. “The little Englanders who want out of Europe are the only ones driving on the left-hand side. We’ve been the smaller relative dominated and having to copy their ridiculous ways for too long. No more. Just think, this will be an indignity for little England –isolated in Europe and pootling along in the slow lane on the left,” he added.
They are concerned, however, that opponents of the move to the right might mobilise under the emotive slogan: “Proud to be left.” Some fear that when the plans go public, the charismatic MP George Galloway would not be prepared to stand on the sidelines but would launch his own appeal: “Stay left, hard left.”
It is understood that another proposal involving traffic light sequencing has been rejected. Instead of red, amber, green, it would have become red, amber, blue. But there was a fear that this would be adopted south of the border by the Conservatives and so lose any distinctiveness.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/01/scotland-driving-on-right-independence-road-scheme
HH
embramike supporting wee Oscar and Res 12
11:42 on
1 April, 2014
Do what I do. Thats good advice too!
Hail hail!
It’s April 1st. It’s 12 noon. Is it safe to post now?
Embramike
How’s things and how was your trip to Dublin. I was just catching up with the blog there and MWD had me calling PL all sorts :-) I think he caught a few out there.
HH
Mick
Frank Ryan
I don’t think I’ve seen much if any SNP drivel… independence, ad you well know, has got little to do with SNP drivel.
Maybe you should become The Monitor and you can ban everything that’s not directly rated to Celtic. Your political drivel as a starter for 10. And the really entertaining and informative info we got yesterday on Italy and a wee touch of opera. Cuba, Russia, IT, black puddings. Etc etc.
The point was made earlier if it was entirely on Celtic you would soon run out of things to discuss, whereas the present diversity of views and opinions encourage us to return to Celtic refresshed
Missed out the word Independence
Aw naw
Munch munch
Aye Awe Naw
Another good April Fool from the guardian. ;-)
MWD
Embramike
When you see Mike in Chicago give my best wishes please and tell him I was asking for him, I’m thinking if it’s early June your in Chicago he will be in New Orleans for the convention, any way if you run into him please wish him all the best, great big guy, and a hard working Tim for our overseas supporters, may god bless them all.
Awe naw :-)))
3Mick3 – busy morning as you might have read ! Dublin fine and Guinnessy but rubbish WiFi reception for the St Mirren tweets in Murray’s ! Be in touch
DjYNWA67IgnoresTheWhiners – check !
Standing aside now to make way for the podium chasers –
F5 at the ready ghuys !!
Boooooooo!
Rubbish, rubbish, and more rubbish!
DD – Get a fleet of Philadelphia lawyers and
get them into the ring to take on the hun/establishment
and get the – David Murray ‘financial-doping’ era wiped out!
Until you do that – apathy will rule. ok.
Roll-on the tumbleweed era.
Celtic FC = Hun-establishment punchbags.
Goodbye.
philbhoy
11:58 on 1 April, 2014
hello…….hello…………………
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hail……….hail………………………. Ya Hun :-))