I read Kenny Shiels’ comments that Newco’s Barrie McKay was better than James Forrest and Patrick Roberts, making me curious about McKay’s contract. The midfielder’s deal expires in 18 months, but when announcing his contract signing, Newco were unusually frank about their newco status:
“The winger has played a total of 78 times for Rangers, after making his first start in July 2012 against Brechin City at the age of 17.”
Before going onto explain in the same article that “The pacey winger made his Rangers debut against St Johnstone in the Light Blues’ last game of the 2011/12 season.”
If you count, that’s two debuts. For two Rangers.
McKay was clearly Newco’s best player against Celtic, causing problems from the first minute until their challenge ran out of steam. Tying him into a long-term contract will be a priority (or selling him will be).
Yesterday I noted how Kiernan yelled abuse towards Tavernier at Scott Sinclair’s goal at Ibrox, but as this still shows, the entire Newco defence have questions to answer.
There are five defender goal-side of Stuart Armstrong (not counting one on the wing). As the world was about to find out, Sinclair was unattended, but look at the space Moussa Dembele is in! The two central defenders, who will soon claim to be covering him, are five yards away from him. The defensive line isn’t so much a line as a horseshoe.
This is what Moussa scores so many goals against that lot, he doesn’t get this kind of space against any other opponent.
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Got the heidphones on….And as the sayin goes…….
Frankie is a proverbial enigma.
H.H.
Caught the end of the Jinky documentary tonight on Alba…..note to myself I’ve got to watch the whole progamme next time they show it. What a great family he had behind him. As they said, the fans loved him.
I would like to say to them…..the whole of Scotland loved him.
Drambowiecelt,
“Frankie and Jimmy”
I’ve heard the did a double act in days gone by.
I’d have paid to see that….or eat in their restaraunt.
Alasdair…..if oor Frankie was aroon…….You coudnae aford tae see him
The greatest soul voice to come oot of Alba…..
H.H.
I remember introducing myself on this site in June 2008.
I said in my first few posts that although I was not a “Celtic supporter”….I don’t go your games….but, from the highlands, the only “big” team I could support was the Scotland international team. And as a wee boy in the Highlands, brought up to be a highlander….fiercely proud of our heritage…the one player that translated our feelings on a pitch…was the one and only Jimmy Johnstone.
Drambowiecelt,
I love Frankie’s voice …and maybe you can tell me whether this is myth or truth…
That Otis Redding’s mum said, “He sounds just like Otis.”
??
@Alasdair…Don’t know ..but big rod relayed a story ….
Where she said “the blackest voice she ever heard”
When ye hear him wae the full bhoona brass section…
you can hear where young Paul Young got his soul…
H.H.
Interesting what the Ross County chairman said today about Scottish football..
You have a break between ” city” teams and “community” teams.
He didn’t say this, but 2 of our “city” teams are in the 2nd tier.
Sorry, but that can only be the situation because of poor corporate management on their behalf.
Corporate management.
Or still recovering from the unstubstainable Murray-led arms race?
Al Mac, are you sure she didny say “sounds like Ohits”?
He,s a whiney wee bitch anaw……….:_)
Drambowiecelt,
As a man said to me once….the owner of the filling station in Achiltiebuie…as we were droning at the bar….”It’s what MOVES you boy what counts”.
Here’s to Boysie Sinclair.
ACGR
Bon Noite…..as they say in Angola, and Portugal….and in a wee place called…..
Estadio Nacional….
Did I get that right?
Who put the ball in Caley’ s net?
ACGR….Whits your qualifications for iss job?
H.H
OHITS Redding
Was always a shiyt chanter when I knew him
..but he could always get a record of his granny to stand in.sung by one of our old friends.
As we would get ready to drink ourselves into oblivion on the dumps of a shanty town beach in west africa..where the remnants of past wars and poverty were all around us…..OHITS would say, “LISTEN to this…”
And he’d put on the juke box..
Luke Kelly singing
The Town I Loved so well
Saltires in Seville
” A board that will be forever remembered as complicit in ……….. the total sell-out of everything Celtic should stand for! ”
The point about Celtic’s values and ethics has been made in Res 12 discussions and abandoning both is not the kind of legacy I’d want to leave behind.
No true Celt would and 2017 will be a testing time in that respect.
I’m persistently optimistic :)
Auldheid,
For me, nothing will beat Ross County beating Inverness Caley on Hogmanay.
But power to your elbow in exposing the cheats of 20 years standing.
Yours in the Hielans,
Al
@Auldheid…I thought Unliquidated was the 2017 byword…
And now you blow it out the water…………
i give you..persistently optimistic…..
H.H
PS
How do you spell, “unsustainable”?
@AL…….EBT
H.H
AULDHEID on 4TH JANUARY 2017 2:54 AM
Saltires in Seville
” A board that will be forever remembered as complicit in ……….. the total sell-out of everything Celtic should stand for! ”
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Remembered as such by whom ?
Remembered as such by how many ?
Aighe bha boys
Tha me doll donn leppè,
I really wish I could spell and speak Gaelic.
By the way, I read that Vangard Bears pish article tonight …about cùltural bla bla.
It listed destroyed cultures ….but forgot to mention the one closest to where they are. The Gaelic lànguage of their own country. Where the belting of children for speaking their owm language had been hapening since the late 1700s and right up to the 1950s. Both protestant and catholic kids suffered this in the remaining strongholds of this language.
Xxseholes.
Drambowiecelt,
you’re a genius!
@AL…..Nah Bowie was a genius……..
Sayin that …I play after the glodrush all the time……
Whits your fav album Al?
H.H
Drambowie,
We’ll speak agin …but I’m not from a record collection background…no sure what I mean us your question has stumped me.
Music àppreciation…but so ..I don’t have a record collection…just like what Ì hear. Had taken a break there to listen to à Few traditional tunes.
Luke Kelly, Shane McGowan, Trail West, Robert Burns….Don’t have any records….Ishbel MacÀskiĺ, Rolling Stones, Stiff Little Fingers….
.
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 4TH JANUARY 2017 4:20 AM
How `bout this yin ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCf2G-HeVH0
The first Galic I ever heard.
Or ” ever I heard. “
Circa £3m for Kouassi Eboue an uncapped (full) 19 year old with less than 20 senior games under his belt….
Very, very, brave call by BR if the reports are accurate in detail and Kouassi Eboue does come to Celtic.
@at Al they only come out at night……
H.H.
MacJay,
She has a nice voice…if you shut your eyes to the video….but this is the stuff which thankfully the kids are shutting off to. OK in an old folk’s home where that’s what they want to hear…but we’re back to the real stuff here.
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 4TH JANUARY 2017 4:46 AM
Real stuff.
Give me an example.
KITALBA on 4TH JANUARY 2017 4:33 AM
The whole deal , whether this comes to fruition or not , spells out ” ambition. “
My boy thinks they’re ruffasfuc ..but seriously, buy Trail West’s latest LP for the best in young Scottish Music…
and old….
Tiree band.
Macjay,
I’m lying feet up in the cabin with only a phone to communictate sp …..but youtube Trail West….even better buy their 2nd LP ..They have their own version of the old song “South Australia” on it…although I will always prefer the Pogues version.. haha
ALASDAIR MACLEAN on 4TH JANUARY 2017 4:54 AM
O.K
Just Youtubed Trail West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTU1YRYdhcI
Clancy`s.
No bad .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeKimjRIn0
MACJAY1:
I’m not sure we define ‘ambition’ the same way. To me it is ambitious to hang on to our best players in the interests of the football club as opposed punting them at the first sign of an acceptable profit in the interests of the PLC.
“Glory before dividends” is my motto mate.
KITALBA on 4TH JANUARY 2017 5:11 AM
Agreed.
Eddie and I were distraught at the loss of big Virgil.
However , I get the distinct impression that some signing agreements contain a clause which guarantees the right of the player to ” move on ” if certain conditions are met.
Perhaps that`s the only way young ambitious footballers can be persuaded to sign for a club in what some consider to be the ” backwater ” of Scottish football.
However , I seriously find it hard to believe that Brendan would have agreed to manage a ” selling ” club.
He has too much class for that.
( Big Jock put Bob Kelly and the Board in its place when he told them that he wouldn`t be telling them beforehand the makeup of the starting eleven )
Remains to be seen, but at the moment I couldn`t be happier with the state of the Celtic Nation.