The frustration at the news Derk Boerrigter is injured, again, and will miss another important Champions League game, is enormous. Derk was a big part of our summer signing strategy but he came with a caveat concerning his propensity to suffer injury.
We have seen only flashes of him since he joined from Ajax in the summer. His opportunities to exploit his undoubted speed in SPFL games will be limited by opponents tendency to defend deep, denying him space to run into, making Champions League games all the more important to his season.
Our other pace player, James Forrest, will surely come into sharp focus for the visit of Ajax on Tuesday.
I see Alasdair Johnston is expressing concern that Our Hero is still pulling the strings at Ibrox! I never thought of that!
Let’s see…. He is a director of Sevco 5088 Ltd, the firm which had an irrevocable right to buy the assets of liquidated Rangers, he issued a pre-action letter to exercise those rights, there was in independent ‘inquiry’ which completely failed to investigate control of Sevco 5088 Ltd, then he went quiet. Why are we always a day behind the news?
Does that mean he got bored and went away, or is he conducting his business in private? I am sure it’s the latter but Craig Whyte is the least of Johnston’s concerns when it comes to who is able to pull strings at Ibrox. All the action is offstage.
Speaking about what is happening offstage, whenever Rangers International’s advisers confirm how the company can appoint sufficient executives to be compliant with AIM requirements, they will need a new chief executive.
Going by recent (and not so recent) trends they will need someone with their snout constantly in the trough, with impeccable Rangers credentials, with their snout constantly in the trough, who is currently available for work, with their snout constantly in the trough, who has previously worked in the game and with their snout constantly in the trough.
If only they could find another genuine fan who would be prepared to do whatever necessary in return for a remarkable contract. Can’t think of anyone.
Wait a minute………
Thanks to everyone who participated in Show Your Hand yesterday.
Sean Fallon: Celtic’s Iron Man:
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When I think of Thommo, I think of a trip that nearly wasn’t. Arrived in Dublin Airport Ryanair Desk with my nephew to discover I had left my Passport at home, 2 and a half hours drive away. Turned away from desk suddenly I remembered a few weeks previous Mrs. corkcelt going on about a legal requirement to keep your driving licence on you when driving. Rushed from Terminal back to car park opened glove box with trembling hands but God Bless Mrs. corkcelt she had put the driving licence in. Rushed back, made the flight, arrived making my way out of the Barrowlands twas a lunchtime kick off, I spotted a few guys nipping in early doors into the Drover Pub, we followed them in, got a pint to be followed by about a dozen polis on a raid. The Bassas held us there for ages eventually let us go about 10 mins before kick off. Ran the rest of the way to Paradise climbed to almost the last row in section 419 (I think) in the North Stand and panting & puffing watched as the game seemed to pass me by. As Old Firm games go, I remember it as being a bit flat and lacking in atmosphere and I was wondering was all my travails worth it. Then with the clock ticking furiously towards the last few minutes and a drab scoreless draw on the cards the ball fell to Thommo on the edge of the box. Hit it I screamed, Thommo did hit it and everything I had gone through was a hundred times worthwhile. If I live to be a hundred I will forever treasure Thommo for that goal.
Top of the morning to you all from a fair autumnal Fife.
Only twelve days left for signing the Scottish Parliament petition calling on freemasons in the judiciary to register membership and jurors to declare any similar membership of fraternal bodies or bodies which have constitutions or aims that are biased against any particular sect, religion or race.
2,287 have from 34 countries have already signed here:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
RobinBhoy, you mean PF isnay a hun? …………………..FFS I’ve met him a few times and I didnay know that:-)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
Aye two weeks in Taiwan means i miss the Ajax game on top of the Barcellona game hopefully see it on the iPad, one week home then two weeks in USA…………….
Need a holiday and a decent cup of tea would be nice!
Sevco – – boardroom meeting this morning
Thanks to the moonhowlers last night.
I have downloaded four green fields sung by Kathleen Largey. My dad had it on vynal years ago..
Haunting….
ROBINBHOY
Yer in Taiwan,land of the 60″ TV screen. And reduced to watching the game on a 10″ piece of plastic?
Sure your pilot didnae take a wrong turn and land you in Pyongyang?
Next time,mate,keep him sweet and have a whip-round ….
Broonie being banned for three games is not a surprise to me in that Celtic have never been treated fairly by UEFA, think Rapid Vienna.
Would not have happened if it had been the other way around Neymad having a fly kick at Broonie for sure!
doc is supporting oscar and mckenzie.
22:57 on 17 October, 2013
my granda fae tullow
22:53 on 17 October, 2013
Welcome to Bedlam mhate.
Someone will soon ask you that question, I don’t like it, so won’t.
Look forward to the banter, debate.
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thomthethim for oscar ok
23:15 on 17 October, 2013
ma granda,
Ya naughty wee scamp, you.
Upsetting the wee rascals.
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johann murdoch
23:28 on 17 October, 2013
Ma granda
Welcome brilliant!!!
Are u a Hun ?
Well it had to be asked ,,:))
Hh you mad mentalist- I once bought 6 copies of the Celtic view and placed them one by one over each of the daily papers stack at a well known supermarket – stood back at the wee special offers bit and watched the bears one by one havin apoplexy at the sight ..in fact you have inspired me to do it again – hh
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sipsini
23:37 on 17 October, 2013
my granda fae tullow.
Had a good laugh at your post, something I would do.
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sannabhoy
23:38 on 17 October, 2013
my granda fae tullow ,
Welcome ! you a hun ? cos i know a few who are round where u live !
nice to see you on at last . mrs granda won’t be best pleased.
HH
Sanna
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Cheers folk thanks for the welcome to this glorious blog – 100% Proud Tim !!
Sannabho,y I can certainly imagine which Huns you refer to, even their auld dog had mastered that orange walk, sometimes I couldn’t make out if it was the Hun himself or the dug!! tell ye a breed of their own indeed!!!
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
09:33 on 18 October, 2013
Thanks to the moonhowlers last night.
I have downloaded four green fields sung by Kathleen Largey. My dad had it on vynal years ago..
Haunting….
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I posted it last night after hearing it by that singer for the first time on Desert Island Tims but the effect is better if you listen to Billy No’Well’s German guest Mark Lang talking in the lead up to that request.
He is very emotional and obviously loves Ireland and Celtic as much as Germany.
Here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/billynowell/desert_island_tims_with_mick_lang
Tallybhoy,
Always tough to lose a parent, my Dad (RIP Hughie) gone nearly twelve years but never forgotten
God Bless you Dad may he rest in peace.
Good that the blog brought some comfort at this difficult time for your family.
RobinBhoy
Thanks nan.
Bookmarked for later..
The Ajax game – all tickets are sold.
I mean, theres irony…. and then theres this….
Bilel Mohsni: my teenage career choices were being a footballer…or a petty criminal
Lindsay Herron
Friday 18 October 2013
BILEL MOHSNI faced two distinct choices as he grew up in a tough Paris suburb: fall into a life of crime and drugs or chase the dream of becoming a professional footballer.
Bilel Mohsni has scored four times this season, including this effort against Stenhousemuir
Bilel Mohsni has scored four times this season, including this effort against Stenhousemuir
The streets of Les Ulis, around 20 miles south of the Champs Elysees, were full of temptation and danger. However, thanks to his own strength and the strictness of his father , the Rangers centre-back was able to stay on the straight and narrow and follow in some famous footsteps.
Thierry Henry was brought up in Les Ulis, while Manchester United’s Patrice Evra also hails from the new town. Now Mohsni has become a cult hero of the Rangers supporters after three years with Southend United. However, he has revealed that had he not made it as a footballer he would likely be working in a care centre in his home town trying to help the youth of today stay away from the darker aspects of life.
“You had two options when I was growing up,” the 26-year-old said. “You could be a gangster or you could play football. I didn’t smoke or take drugs or have alcohol but it was all close by. It would have been easy to get into trouble or fall into drugs because you just needed to walk a few metres and you could find it but I managed to stay away from that.
“It was always my dream to be a footballer and I have achieved this dream. If I didn’t make it I would have been working with children. When I was playing in France I also worked at a centre where we looked after children from all ages. We would care for them and teach them good habits to try to stop them from falling into bad ways.”
Mohsni is French by birth but he feels Tunisian, too. “I am both,” he explained. “I was born in France and I lived there until I was 22, but my family is Tunisian and the culture is very important so I feel French when I am in France and I feel Tunisian when I am in Tunisia. I try to go to Tunisia about two weeks each year to see my cousins and my aunts and uncles. My father was born in Tunisia and up until recently he ran a restaurant in our home town.”
Father Habib was always looking out for Bilel and refused to allow his son to go to watch his beloved Paris Saint-Germain when they were beaten on penalties by Rangers in 2001 in the UEFA Cup in what proved to be Dick Advocaat’s last significant act as manager. “My father thought it was too dangerous,” Moshni recalled. “The fans at Paris were like Celtic and Rangers fans. There were two factions and they didn’t like each other. In fact they hated each other. My dad was afraid because we didn’t know what was going to happen. You could be walking between these two groups and suddenly they would start fighting, It’s better now but my dad thought it was too dangerous then.”
Mohsni was largely successful with Southend after being recruited by Paul Sturrock in 2010, but had a difference of opinion with Sturrock’s successor Phil Brown. Now, having impressed during a trial period, he is proving to be an astute signing as Rangers have recorded eight consecutive SPFL League 1 wins. They seek a ninth at Brechin City tomorrow afternoon. “Football is in the mind more than it is in your feet,” Mohsni said. “If you have problems in your private life then you can’t play at your highest level. When I came here I had a clear mind and moved on. The atmosphere at Rangers is great. There is pressure to win but the focus is so good.
“It was complicated at Southend in my last season because of politics but now I feel completely free. The manager has given me his confidence and the players have let me play so it is perfect for me. I think Ally McCoist and Paul Sturrock are similar and I feel I can work better with managers like them. I want to fight for managers like that. When you feel tired you still give 100%.”
Mohsni, who has scored four times this season, believes that Rangers can remain undefeated in League 1 and he also wants to clinch a new contract, having signed until the summer of 2015. He said: “I think we can play the whole season without losing a league game because we have a lot of good players for this league. I would love to get another contract because my goal is to get back to the top with Rangers. I have to keep going, I have to keep playing well and do my best in these two years and hopefully they will give me another contract.”
My grandpa ,
excellent couple of first posts – will try the cqn page one at the next retail outlet i visit.
Keep posting and welcome.
Warning – it plays havoc with your domestic life .
Sanna
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
09:47 on 18 October, 2013
Thanks nan.
Bookmarked for later..
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It is the last song but worth listening to it all just to get it into context.
Mick Lang, German Celtic supporter, gets it. He knows what we are about!
HH and respect to Mick Lang
Easter Rd – – back in the day
Ole Lindsay Herron ghod loves a tryer, son of Allan – or was it William.
Driving through tomorrow anyone know where a good place to park would be ?
Any help would be great cheers HH
Barry Ferguson: Rangers fans’ loyalty will be tested to limit when they see Craig Mather walk away with £300,000
IBROX legend Barry says the fans’ love for the club is being abused and it is only a matter of time before they stop handing over their hard-earned cash to support their team.
WHAT does it mean to be a Rangers fan?
It’s a difficult question to answer but it’s one I’ve been asking myself a lot lately as my old new club gets battered from pillar to post.
Every week it seems there’s another scandal or story on the front pages. On Wednesday we were told Craig Mather had done the right thing for the club by resigning from his position.
But on Thursday I pick up my Daily Record and discover that, in actual fact, the guy walked out the door with a £300,000 pay-off in his pocket. That’s not bad, eh? Lets hope he is man enough to declare it as taxable income but I wont be holding my breath
But is it the right thing for Rangers? Do these people think we’re all daft? And, you know what, maybe that’s the problem. What does it mean to be a Rangers fan? Maybe being daft is a part of it. And by that I mean Rangers daft. I am Rangers daft
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not having a go at the club’s supporters for the mess that has been made of the club over the last two years.
Why would I have a go at them when they are the ones who have kept the club alive? They are heroes in my book for the way they have stuck with the club through the darkest days of its history. If It was not for them instead of being a millionaire I would be a nothing.
This has been one long nightmare for them but they have toughed it out, travelling everywhere from Brechin to Berwick all because of the love they have for their team.
The problem is, it’s this loyalty which is making men such as Mather and the rest of these guys rich. And the more it’s abused in this way, the more the Rangers fans will have to ask themselves the same difficult questions. At what point is enough, enough?
How much longer will they hand over their cash when the only people profiting from it are the chancers who are dragging the club through the mud every other day? Their club. For the last three years we’ve all been played for mugs. Especially the gaffer and Ally. They have unfortunately been the biggest mugs in this whole farce but I dont attach any blame to them at all. They were only doing as they were told and thought it was the right thing to do at the time. Nobody can blame them
I still buy my season tickets because I want my boys to grow up the same way as I did. No offence to Blackpool but I don’t want them coming down the road to watch my games in England. I want them watching Rangers.
I want them to take the train into Glasgow, catch the underground over to Ibrox every other Saturday. The same journey that I made at their age. But now I’m asking myself whether or not I should renew those season tickets next year if the people in charge of the club can’t be trusted.
And let’s get it straight, I don’t trust a single word that comes out of that boardroom any more.
On Monday night, I was driving my wee girl to her running club when Paul Murray was giving an interview to the BBC. I swear to God, I almost crashed the car when I heard what he was saying.
It came as a shock to the system to find out Mather and Brian Stockbridge had offered him a seat on the board last week – but only if he backed out of taking them to the Court of Session. Am I the only one who heard alarm bells and violent images and voices of rage going off inside my head? Or did everybody hear it ?
These guys have done nothing but slaughter Paul Murray and slag him off in public for months.
They made it clear they didn’t want him anywhere near the club. And yet here they were, asking him to become a director so long as he dropped his case and promised to occasionally change his suit?
They were trying to buy his silence with a blazer and that tells me two things; one that they have something they are desperate to hide and secondly they could go a long way in Scottish football.
I can’t be the only one who was astonished to hear how well versed they are in the machinations of Scottish football already. I’m sure Rangers fans all over the country are now even more convinced that the quicker men such as Paul, Jim McColl and Dave King and Jim Traynor get inside the club the better.
To tell you the truth, I’m actually scared stiff about what they might discover but it needs to come out. The Rangers fans deserve the truth. We deserve better.
And it was the supporters who were the biggest winners when Paul dragged the club into court because, at long last, they might finally get their club back. And get to the bottom of what has been going on these last three years.
Mather has gone now even though he has been telling everyone about what a great job he had been doing. By the way, if he was telling the truth why would he quit? Oh aye, I forgot. He was doing it for Rangers. Of course he was.
Last week they were saying there would only be a million quid left in the club account by April. Not any more there won’t. Here I go again, I’m getting myself worked up and angry like I always do. Sometimes it so strong that I let a little bit of urine dribble out but no wonder. Like every Rangers fan in the history of the club, I just feel helpless and stupid.
The quicker this is sorted out – the quicker guys such as Paul Murray and King get to rifle through the books and pockets of the fans to find out how bad the situation is.
I would love for Paul and his guys to join the board immediately so they can start their work ahead of the agm and get it out in the open. Who knows their might be enough funds left for me to finish my career at Rangers.
That’s the only way shareholders and fans will know the facts before they vote for who they want in charge. I believe there will be plenty of skeletons in that closet and I’m sure that Paul Murray is the guy who will find them. He always reminded me of Harry Gallagahan in the Magnum Force movies. A looker and a charmer with the ladies but deep down inside a loner who once worked for Deutsche Bank, His credentials are impeccable.
I don’t know Paul, even though he was on the board when I was a player. I’m sure I passed him in the corridor a few times but I wouldn’t have known him if had he come up and smacked me in the mouth. I was always scared of his Magnum 45 that he carried but never believed it to be real. Today I just dont know ?
And that’s the way it should be at a club like Rangers. Directors shouldn’t be plastered all over the papers every day.
Paul won’t like having such a high profile now. Like I say, he was there for years and I wouldn’t have been able to recognise him if it was not for the gun in his pocket.
Now we all know who he is because he’s fighting so hard to save the club.
And I’d like to thank him for that.
I look forward to the days when guys such as him are back in control and it becomes about the players on the pitch again.
When supporters care more about Coisty and his team than who is coming in and out of the boardroom.
After all, isn’t that and giving it to Celtic tight what being a Gers fan is meant to be all about?
hun skelper
as long as you dont park in our usual spot then there will be no trouble and we can keep the lawyers out of it :-)
Vanguard Huns set the record straight on the armed forces’ day state-sponsored bigot-fest:
“[T]here are very few clubs as multi-denominational as Rangers at present…
Our club offered our support an opportunity to say thank you, and celebrate our brave servicemen and women. Our armed forces are multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-denominational and as such we support them all…
What was seen at Ibrox on the 28th of September was a show of appreciation for our armed forces regardless of race, creed, colour or religion and a way of saying thank you to every one of those brave people…
We should be proud, every one of us.”
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Monaghan1900
10:18 on 18 October, 2013
Vanguard Huns set the record straight on the armed forces’ day state-sponsored bigot-fest:
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So anyone can shed their blood for our country but we at Ibrox only wish to (and sing of) wading in one particular kind. Fenian. Irish RC.
Fair interpretation of the apologistic VH piece?
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Seen this on TSFM last night after the wee flurry of alleged Charlotte docs.
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Press stories today claim Mather has walked away with £300K.
But the document released tonight which is allegedly Mather’s contract shows quite clearly that if he is sacked by the company then he gets a 12 months pay-off.
But if he decides to walk then he only gets 3 months viz £75k.
So what did he get and if it was £300K what were the grounds for sacking him?
Awe naw-that will be Ferguson with the £2 mil EBT.All these bleating huns who bled their club dry,yet don’t have the moral fibre to pay back their “loans”.Dignity indeed.
” regardless of race creed colour or religion”, except that we want to Keep Ulster Protestant.
Stupid stupid huns.
Messi is back for Barca this weekend.
hoopy-do
10:18 on 18 October, 2013
Cheers for that as usefull as a chocolate fire place but cheers anyway lol HH
leftclicktic-I believe Sally and backroom staff have the same deal,sack them and you pay them a full years’ salary.
Big Nan
10:31 on
18 October, 2013
Green Lantern (((((0)))))
10:37 on
18 October, 2013
Yip, and apparently no prosecutions to follow. Plan is to proceed as before next year. They are, after all, The Huns.
hun skelper 10:07:
E-mail me and I will send you details, just heading out just now, taking my Mum shopping to occupy her, it’s 14 years today since our Dad moved on to a better place.
lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
!!Bada Bing!!
Who sacked him?????????????
Stockbridge …Doubt it
Easdale ………..
or is King in place already and that is why Mather was in SA?
Questions questions questions Till later all
wont be long now till the Hoops are back on the park.
Ghuys:
I probably will have a spare for tomorrow, face value. If anybody is interested they can pick it up either in Coatbridge in the morning, no later than 10:15 or at the game.
Anybody interested e-mail me lennybhoycfc@gmail.com or if you have my mobile number text me.
First come first served.
If and when a new thread goes up can somebody repost this.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Monaghan1900 @ 10:18
A strange message from the Vanguard Huns given they stole the poppy money and millions in taxes that could have benefitted these brave service men and women.
The irony of their bigot bonanza is completely lost on them and the brave army chaps who participated.
I suppose the chance to get a deid hun scarf round their necks and sing a few songs about Bobby Sands was sufficient inducement for the brave servicemen to forgive the theft of beneficial funds.
Awe_naw..,
One of you best to date :oD)))
starry plough forza oscar
03:16 on 18 October, 2013
Looks like I`m going to be a moonhowler logging in fae Japan!! Whoddathunkit! Hope yous are all well in the Celtic World, I am out of the loop, no internet where I am staying but Japan is a trip that`s for sure,!!
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Enjoy the trip Starry
HH
CRC
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts
10:34 on
18 October, 2013
What they did regarding the releasing of sensitive stock market information was possibly criminal and likely to be gross misconduct.
The Nominees probably demanded his removal to prevent the AIM coming down on them like a ton of bricks.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo, so wee barry the feg man finally tells us what we knew all along. Huns are indeed stupid.
That dribble of pish he admits to letting out is probably at the thought of having to pay back his EBT millions one day.
What a complete tool of a man.