Anthony Stokes is in the best form of his Celtic career at the moment, arguably the best form of his life if you overlook his stunning cameo at Falkirk. It’s hard to know if this is related to no longer being in the shadow of a more favoured son, or if Anthony has just got his ‘stuff’ together, but his intervention was absolutely crucial in our only Champions League win so far. He had all the wisdom necessary to bate an opponent into a clumsy foul.
The psychology of a three year contract, worth more money, before performance bonuses, than the player will be able to spend is not always a good thing for a footballer, but the competition for a starting berth up front for Celtic is acute. On the back of his winning goal on Sunday Amido Balde has been talking about his ambitions to secure a regular place, Teemu Pukki is guaranteed nothing while Georgios Samaras has been used regularly as a striker. Anthony will remain under pressure to perform.
All of this competition will come into sharp focus in Amsterdam next week. Celtic will come under pressure for most of the game, but this is something they are comfortable with. We will need someone to exploit the openings Ajax will leave in their defence. Put your money on Anthony for the George McCluskey role.
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Reagan ,Ogilvie and Co still throwing bones to the huns.ICT v Ross County for example at Poundland?
Joe Filippis Haircut
Joe, we have the means….financial power
Just don’t buy in to the bigot pound…
HH
!!Bada Bing!!
14:49 on
30 October, 2013
Reagan ,Ogilvie and Co still throwing bones to the huns
Does and Co include PL?
‘We’ll give you the final if we can play the semis at poundland’
I agree that the boycott of the Cesspit would be a great way to give a GIRFUY to that mob and the SFA., but as hosts are they not guaranteed a certain amount by the SFA?
Regardless a boycott is probably the best case scenario guarantee or no guarantee
HH
gsu
The Ramsdens Sovvy Ring Cup Final is in April,i’m sure Celtic Park will be having work done at this time to welcome Her Majesty….:)
I hope that the fans of all teams who get to the semi’s decide not to take up their allocations.
HH
K33- that was my first thought mate.
Big Anton Rogan
Crying had scored to equalise the Nicholas goal and they subbed him with about two minutes to go. The Dutchman took an age to reach the tunnel as he was milking the adulation… Johann … Johann … Johann. This meant he got a first class view of George’s winner.
Who is this rangers that is being discussed here? I have heard rumours that such a club once existed and was renowned for its cheating and its followers who were bigoted beyond belief. I believe they were also renowned for doing unspeakable things with goats that involved the use of brown brogue wellingtons, I can’t go on the images are too disturbing……….
Don’t take tickets and put on a beamback at Celtic Park :)
Get it intae yur heed, that the ranjurs ur deed…….!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just get there first
The solidarity of Celtic supporters is legendary, im quite sure we could show our contempt by refusing to fund corrupt organisations(which I believe is against the law), and there’s a few to choose from:)
As I say…im not funding corruption in any way….because its breaking the law to do so.
Rangers are deid….
HH
The Green man
They won’t listen to our words.
So don’t give them our cash.
Would make a huge statement if we refused to buy tickets for the semi final, should we get there.
Delaney’s Dunky
That is some memory that you have got.
I’m intrigued.
What made you remember me?
TT
Bada Bing
With Broadwood unavailable, moves are afoot to move this year’s Ramsden final to either Wembley or the Santiago Bernabeau.
There is also a worldwide bidding war underway for live TV rights.
Delaneys Dunky
Hit them where it hurts….starve them of our funds….that be a good start.
HH
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain 2m
“. . .a team in Rangers colours . . .” Well done to the Beeb.
#Liquidation
#NotTheSameClub
#NewCoNewClub
LOL
HH
/Bishop B
Tinytim
I was a 16 year old schoolbhoy who did not drink (at that time). I remember picking up some lost bhoys in the car park, the one from Fife stuck in my head, as I settled in Kirkcaldy a couple of years later.
gherrybhoy57
14:25 on 30 October, 2013
I clicked onto an RM link posted earlier. The hatred and bile spewing from the zombies is truly disgusting.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Did you have a read at ” The prevalence of Irish Republican sectarianism” thread?
I would lift the link but even I found it unbelievable.
Based on the way the money is divided for the semi finals I’m not sure a bhoycott would do much good as the zombies will get rental money regardless of how many fans turn up. All the gate receipts and TV money etc. for the semi finals is divided by the participating teams once the SFA have taken their cut
Excerpt from the rules
The receipts from the Semi-Final matches in the Competition shall be pooled and shall be deemed to include monies received from all admission charges to the matches, radio and television fees, and any sums in respect of advertising within the stadium specially for the occasion.
The Association shall retain 10% of the balance, after payment of the expenses of the two matches and the clubs’ guarantees.
The remainder, after payment of the rental for the use of a ground or grounds, the scale of which shall be determined by the Board, shall be divided, equally, among the four clubs.
Link to the rules http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/SFAPublications/SFAHandbook/12%20CupCompRules.pdf
It’s the same for the final except it’s divided by 2 teams not 4
I imagine the rental cost of 2 x semi -finals is similar to the rental cost of the final
Sevco doing pay at the gate this weekend for Airdrie Cup game after only shifting a couple of thousand tickets. The journey lol!
Scottishleaf
It’s standard for the venue owner to take a slice of the gate. 20% is common.
The ’82 game in Amsterdam. As Cruyff was going off, he told his team mates to beware of the Celtic sub who had not long been on the park. They didn’t watch George Mac closely enough. This info was in a newspaper report of the game the next day. Aye, ole Johan knew a player when he saw one.
Just 24 hours after reporting Anthony Stokes
had signed a three-year deal, chief executive
Peter Lawwell is looking to tie down another
two key members of Neil Lennon’s squad.
Fellow-striker Samaras, who scored his 50th
league goal against Partick Thistle at the
weekend, and former Cardiff midfielder
Ledley are out of contract at the end of the
season.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, Lawwell said:
“We’re talking to the representatives of both
players. We’ll be doing that over the next few
weeks.
“It’s the first meeting we’ll have with
Georgios’ representatives. We’ve been talking
regularly to Joe’s and hopefully we’ll get
something tied up before the end of
December.
“Before the window opens, that’s our
objective, to have things clear before then.
“Ideally you’d like it done by then. Hopefully
they stay and hopefully they commit
themselves to Celtic.
“But if not, you need to make arrangements
and that will be the right time to get clarity
there.”
TBB
That’s in the earlier rounds of the competition – it doesn’t apply for the Semi Final and finals, the participating clubs share the gate receipts and TV money etc. after the SFA have taken their 10%
So if we had a round 4 game v Hibs at Celtic Park
We would take 20% of the gross – which is used to pay match expenses, referee etc. and then the other 80% would be divided equally.
The Semi-Finals and Finals are played at neutral venues (usually Hampden) and the SFA pay a rental fee to the venue owner. The SFA pay this from their 10% cut of the gross earnings
So basically even if no fans turn up to either semi-final the zombies will still be paid the same amount of money as they are renting the ground
Now if they made the semi-final – stop laughing, this is serious – then they would get a a quarter share of the pot.
I want to watch Celtic wherever and whenever I can, however, im not prepared to be subjected to vile hatred and state sponsored bigotry, and honest mistakes at every turn.
So, I think personally, I just wont put up with it any more.
I much prefer to see the bhoys in the champions league, rather than the cesspit of scoddish fitba.
I reserve the right to condemn corruption by not buying into it financially.
Rangers are deid, Sevco are a basket case…that’ll do meanwhile:)
HH
Talking about Amsterdam, how many CQN’rs are going?
Malorbhoy (who is going)
Sipsini
I only read a few posts, and didn’t want to read more. Filth like that rots one’s brain and mine has been damaged enough. Their hatred will be their undoing.
Their grandchildren will be Celtic fans. That will be our revenge for what has gone before.
Phil’s latest offering. :)
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/a-newspaper-fit-for-a-king/#more-4115
HH
/Bishop B
TinyTim
Paddy was a year below me at school, of course us Prestwick Bhoys were bussed in to the secondary school.
Is ayebrokes safe, I thought there were issues with the safety license ?
• TheRetroCeltic
13:04 on 30 October, 2013
The need for a goal scorer has never been more obvious. Hooper most certainly has not been replaced & won’t be in January. Stokes is the cheap Lawwell option !
HH TRC totally agree with you!
I can’t understand the big furore over Stokes signing a new contract. he has played two good games maybe the CL qualifier and a SPL game. hard to beleive but K.boyd has scored more goals than him this season! I do hope he does well and makes his claim. But personally I think we need a front man who is there to bang them in! I also hope Balde gets more time on the field. We shall See HH
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
15:32 on 30 October, 2013
Is ayebrokes safe, I thought there were issues with the safety license ?
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Asbestos perhaps?
Also hearing it’s starting to crumble too, so getting very dangerous!
HH
/Bishop B
Downtrodden Sevcomedians’ pursuit of truth and justice:
“We, unfortunately, have been made all too aware of the sea of Irish Republican hatred in Scottish culture . We are saddenigly confronted on an almost daily basis by supporters of a football club which seems to be nothing more than a front for prejudice and hatred. Their former chairman, Lord/Baron Reid-that well known champion of the so-called disenfranchised , even used official club AGMs to pander to this element, making blatantly sectarian and inflammatory remarks. The press, as is their modus operandi, ignored this moral sin coming from Parkhead.
We are sick of this hatred and the Republican anthems of anti-British racism. Again, the press remain silent.
Last week, as the supporters of that club indulged in an unholy trinity of terroristic racism, sectarianism and antisemitism…..
Ultimately, my own suspicions that this culture of bigoted hatred would tie in with the rise of dissident Republican terror appear to be well proven. The scale, nature and gravity of the police action confirm that there is a growing culture of terroristic Irish Republicanism in Scotland.
Still the press seem totally oblivious to the link, never giving air to criticism of their favourite club. Such wilful ignorance is akin to tacit compliance toward a backward, prejudiced and dangerously violent culture.
One can only fear for the future unless sudden and drastic action is taken.”
——
“Superb piece of writing OP. Absolutely superb.” [‘saddenigly’ is a personal favourite’]
——
“Compliments from yourself on writing are most welcome. It’d be like Laudrup complimenting my wing play”
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” Well said
As a wise man said to me at the weekend hundreds of years ago the Covenanters fought, lost their life’s, love ones, everything they had in order to prevent this type of thing from happening and eventually won
Now slowly but surely we are slipping back into it and this time it’s the Scottish Government, the SNP, the taig left wing media, politicians, Glasgow City council, the footballing authorities, the schooling, The Irish power sharing agreement, Tony Blair, John Reid, George Galloway etc you name it – everyone’s in on it”
——
“I’ll say it till I’m blue in the face – the Famine song is a legitimate question.
If you openly support Irish republicanism (and they do) then go back to Ireland if you cannot or will not embrace our culture.”
——
“I always remember how the question was misrepresented as a statement or command. It was stated that you can’t tell people to go home, when that was never said In law, what was actually said is relevant, not some distortion of it. Anyone can tell that anything that begins ” why don’t you…” is unambiguously a question [Aye, like ‘Why don’t you take a flying **** to yourself’ – just asking]. To pretend otherwise is counter to truth, honesty, meaning and logic.
However, decades of “go home ya h*!s”, complete with insulting sectarian epithet-something notably absent from TFIO -pass without comment.
Of course, this comparison is dismissed as whataboutery, which is a sinister tactic used by deceitful and unscrupulous “journalists” to stifle debate and dissent. Heaven forfend that the old principles in law and morality of universality and eqallity apply.”
——
“It’s certainly a dishonest tactic to take a perfectly reasonable response to celtic fan’s anti-British behaviour and hold it aloft as being inflammatory, while completely ignoring the context of that response. Furthermore – unless I’m mistaken – it was also widely reported in the media that the song ‘mocked the potato famine,’ I don’t recall any such sentiments being expressed in the entirety of the lyrics; am I in error?”
Cant help thinking…ipox is ripe for demolition and retail overhaul, hence the spivs
HH
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
15:32 on 30 October, 2013
Is ayebrokes safe, I thought there were issues with the safety license ?
That will probably ensure they get one .
Pity won,t meet you at the AGM will be up early for the Resolution debate
Date of Super Bowl XLVIII being moved to avoid clash with Final of Ramsden’s.
‘It’s a no brainer’ said an NFL spokesman’ they were going to blow us away.
Wet Wet Wet doing their halftime show?
That was just too much shock and awe.’