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So many lessons played out against St Johnstone

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There was much to love in yesterday’s win at St Johnstone, so many lessons played out, it was a clear opportunity to learn a bit about the game.

On Tuesday last week, before Leigh Griffiths had kicked a competitive ball this season, I wrote, “Leigh is one of the most natural goal scorers we have seen at Celtic this century.  He has natural pace, confidence and an attitude that will not easily be subverted”, and that his campaign “could start as early as Thursday, if we need a goal late in the game.”

In July, after he was left at home while the squad travelled to France, I wrote, “My money is on him scoring the goal that seals the 10.”  He is that good a striker you can hang yourself out there and know he will perform.

The header was a dream; watch how he arced his back before thundering the ball inches inside the post.  It was an exceptional finish, from an exceptional goal scorer.  If you think he is the only player in the squad with baggage, you were not watching carefully enough yesterday, but he has the talent that could be the difference between first and second in the league, and he wants to be here.

I don’t think I have seen a player play on after being scythed in two, as Patryk Klimala was yesterday.  Mark him up as another with talent, who wants to be here.  Tom Rogic did his part too, but how consequential was Scott Brown’s arrival?

Without Brown on the field, Kristopher Ajer would not have been advanced enough to do a jink on the edge of the St Johnstone area, making space for Hatem Elhamed’s cross.  Nor would Shane Duffy be as high up the field to play a short pass to Klimala on the edge of the area.

After the game, Neil Lennon spoke about those throwing stats at his captain, you can see he’s been affected.  Suggestions that the manager does not see what tens of thousands of fans see is ludicrous. Stats are a great tool, but they need to be interpreted correctly; some of the best defenders hardly ever touch the ball or tackle, but they can still control a game, while some captains impose a gameplan.  Neither attribute shows up well on the stats.

Maybe see you later.

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  1. corkcelt on

    LazyDynamite, The Huns main Shareholders Parks etc would have put a few million of their own dosh into the Club as a Loan, to keep the lights on.

     

    No mega sales means the Club is not in a position to repay the Loans.

     

    To keep the Club solvent & keep the books right, the rich backers, take extra shares instead if getting their cash back.

     

    So the rich backers are now not as rich as they were, instead of 8 million cash they have millions more of Sevco Shares,

     

    What that also means is that anyone including this fan share buying scheme have the value of their investment heavily diluted.

     

    I’m not sure how much longer Parks & Co are going to continue to subsidise them.

  2. dessybhoy on

    The lender would need to agree to a loan to equity swap, why though, for worthless shares, are banks lending to them again, is it an instituition or a single investor burning his own money.

     

    If its a bank or investment manager I would pulling my money out of the said bank and leaving the instituition doing this deal pronto.

  5. corkcelt on

    Dessybhoy, I obviously don’t know but my first thoughts would be Douglas Parks, George Letham & George Taylor would be the pricks who gave them the Loans.

  9. Majestic Hartson on

    Dessybhoy,

     

     

    Reading the other comments, does it not suggest that an investor(s) put in their own money?

     

     

    If so surely a bank can’t say anything about it

  12. mncelt on

    OldTim67 – I suspect Ryan was thinking that running half the width of the park to catch Leigh was not too attractive a proposition in the 90th minute. He was wisely using the time to stroll back to half way and catch a breath.

     

     

    It was fun seeing the joy on Broony’s face when Griff scored. The old bhoy’s enthusiasm never wanes.

  13. Gene on

    Majestic

     

    They will probably already have had the money and spent it.

     

     

    Lazy D

     

    Not iffy at all – it’s what companies do – it’s like a share issue but where they’ve already had the money.

  16. Jobo Baldie on

    Lazydynamite –

     

    it’s probably just a little bit more complicated than this but here goes.

     

    Let’s say 4 guys have a clumpany that has issued 10M shares; Mr A and Mr B own 4M each, Mr C and Mr D own 1M each. So, Mr A and Mr B control the clumpany (with 80% of the shares)

     

    The clumpany needs money but the owners want to stay in control so don’t want to sell loads more shares. So, instead, they get loans from folk, say £5M.

     

    The money gets spent and the clumpany then realise they have to repay the loans at some point but don’t really have the cash to do that.

     

    So, instead, they go to the guy(s) that provided the £5M and say “instead of paying you back your £5M, how about instead we give you £5M worth of shares in the clumpany – to do that, they then issue new shares, lets say 2 million new shares.

     

    The first 4 guys still own the same amount of shares, but we now also have Mr E (who provided the loan) owning 2M – and there’s a total of 12M shares now issued.

     

    So, Mr A and Mr B who previously each owned 40% of the clumpany, after the new share issue they own 33% each. So they still control the clumpany (with their combined 66%)

     

    But when they issued the new shares this did not bring in any additional funding to help the clumpany – all it does is remove the possibility that they would have had to repay the loan of £5M. So the debt (the loan) has been converted to equity (the shares)

     

    Of course I could be talking rubbish but that’s my own understanding… ;-)

     

    The fee for this advice? Och, just email me your votes if you haven’t already done so CQNPOTY@GMAIL.COM

  18. Greenpinata on

    MAJESTIC HARTSON on 5TH OCTOBER 2020 6:14 PM

     

     

    I have not seen one post about driving Eddie to the airport.

     

     

    I have seen many posts stating that we want him to be the player we know he can be.

     

     

    HH.

  19. lazydynamite on

    We need to be careful then…if we win the league again by 13pts or so they might just convert the points into shares and pretend it never happened!…lol

  22. fairhill bhoy on

    So from now on every Celtic goal scored players must run around eyes bulging fist pumping with everyone 😉

     

    Or they could be professional,do a wee fist pump,get back in position and then help stop st j from nearly equalising in stoppage time 🤷‍♀️

  23. lazydynamite on

    JOBO BALDIE on 5TH OCTOBER 2020 7:52 PM

     

    thanks

     

     

    And thanks everybody for genuinely giving me some insight into the sevco houskeeping…which seems incredible to me.

  25. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Ho ho ho.

     

     

    Multiple choice question for thickos and Sevcoites.

     

     

    (The accompanying Venn diagram would look like a circle with a shadow)

     

     

    You have £1872 available.

     

     

    Do you invest in …..

     

     

    a. Zimbabwean Dollars

     

     

    b. Venezuelan Bolivars

     

     

    c. A prospectus from that nice Mr Ponzi

     

     

    d. Buildings sold by Victor Lustig

     

     

    e. Sevco shares

     

     

    Or do you just not bother thinking about it and KLF your dosh?

     

     

    😆😆😆😆😆😆

  26. Ron Bacardi on

    For understated goal scoring celebrations I think Luigi Riva of Cagliari was the best. Maybe raise his arms then trot back to his half for restart. Nothing extravagent.

  27. Greenpinata on

    FAIRHILL BHOY on 5TH OCTOBER 2020 7:55 PM

     

    So from now on every Celtic goal scored players must run around eyes bulging fist pumping with everyone 😉

     

    —————,

     

     

    Woop, woop, let’s hear it for goggly eyed green monsters. 😀

  29. Saint Stivs on

    any buddy know anybuddy

     

     

    ———————————–

     

     

    Paul B Lyons. Retweeted

     

    Mike Scott

     

    @MickPuck

     

    ·

     

    Oct 4

     

    Spring 1990. Grand challenge match. WATERBOYS vs SAWDOCTORS, Spiddal, Co Galway.

     

    They fielded several professionals + Joe Wall of @TheStunningBand

     

    . We had Gearoid & Enda from Spiddal, Ken The Friendly Maori & @IrishTimes snapper Cyril Byrne.

     

    Our capt was @stevewickham

     

    Result 2-2

     

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ejep02DXgAAPJsd?format=jpg&name=4096×4096

     

     

     

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ejep2TbWAAEgwS3?format=jpg&name=medium

  31. Majestic Hartson on

    Greenpinata,

     

     

    I was using artistic license darhling!…

     

     

    There has been a couple of “if he keeps playing this way I wouldn’t be too bothered if he left” type posts.

     

     

    Get him up front with another centre forward and he’ll win us the league 🤞🏼

  33. dessybhoy on

    Of course people can do what they want with their own money, that doesnt bother me in the slightest.

  34. big wavy on

    Expecting @CelticFC to announce Diego Laxalt loan from @acmilan shortly

     

     

    @Kheredine2018

  35. weebobbycollins on

    So, from now on, every time we score we’ll be checking to see who is and who is not celebrating with whom…eh?

  36. Stephbhoy67 on

    So it looks like we might get a proper attacking leftwingback. What a difference that would make. 2 attacking wingbacks when playing a 352 is essential to celtic. Will make a hell of a difference to the balance of the team when other teams cant simply force our leftback/ wingback infield.

     

     

    Eduard should only ever be partnered with a true number 9 who goes beyond the backline Ajeti, griff or polish paddy not christie or Ely who dont stretch defences as they want ball to feet all the time. Ps no criticism just observation about shape and use of personnel.

     

     

    HH

  37. weebobbycollins on

    And…

     

    Wee Chico fae the beeb is no very good at pronouncing foreign names. That’s why Diego Laxalt came out as Robert Snodgrass yesterday…

     

    He really must do better!

  40. garygillespieshamstring on

    Any news on the left back yet?

     

    If not, does anyone know of a plan B?

     

     

    Getting jittery csc

  41. RC on

    Motherwell director Andrew Wilson has been charged by the Scottish FA over a series of tweets that criticised referee Bobby Madden.

  42. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    BIG WAVY on 5TH OCTOBER 2020 8:39 PM

     

    Expecting @CelticFC to announce Diego Laxalt loan from @acmilan shortly

     

     

     

     

     

     

    @Kheredine2018

     

     

    I have been waiting all day. Hope it happens if not I think i have joined all the disillusioned huns in getting conned like a mug.

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