Anthony Stokes started the season with a flurry, scoring four goals in the first three league games of the season, but he managed just another three goals before the arrival of Leigh Griffiths two weeks ago. He has since scored against Aberdeen in the Cup as well as Sunday’s hat-trick against St Johnstone.
Three goals in 28 appearances is a desolate return for a Celtic striker, especially during a season where the team have been so dominant, and would have contributed to Neil Lennon insisting a striker, capable of scoring regularly in the league, was recruited in January. Managers often talk about needing competition for places, so it’s natural that we should extrapolate from the arrival of Griffiths. While we may see both strikers play together between now and the end of the season I’m not convinced the manager will have this pairing in his mind for next season.
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Morning Doc
I’m a well trained CQN-er so it should already be nestling in your inbox Sir!
HH jamesgang
gorbalstam
08:03 on
19 February, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
01:54 on 19 February, 2014
So Germany’s a an example of ‘rampant’ capitalism. Is this the Germany where workers are often represented at board meetings, or the Germany that has a welfare system as generous as anywhere in the western world? Hardly rampant. It seems to me that Germany’s relative economic success is based on it’s higher levels of co-operation (as oppossed to all out coercion) between government, business and unions.
Spot on,pal.
Generous welfare?
YES.
From capitalist profits.Dirty word to the socialist fraternity.
No ideological confrontational garbage of the red Clydeside Jimmy Reid faction,the Arthur Scargill donkey who led the lions into the abyss and especially the London print unions who opened the door to the dirty digger ,Murdoch,whose putrid influence continues to sully the decent world.
Has anybody learned?
Perhaps you have.
Higher levels of cooperation.
Hallelujah.
Not confrontation.
The class war is over except for those who live in the past.
hen1rik
08:33 on
19 February, 2014
Hen1rik,
When Neil was asked the question
Sorry got my son on my knee..
When Neil was asked the question ” Do you see your future at Celtic’ Neil leaned forward and scratched his leg whilst answering.
Looks like he’s for the off then. Can any body language experts confirm? ;)
Good morning bhoys and ghirls,
So Edward Snowden overwhelmingly elected as the rector of Glasgow university in an online poll.
hmmmmmmmmm.
Glasgow University : One of our Scottish elite centres of learning.
IMO; Obviously very clever students but lacking common sense. Again in my opinion gives some weight to TD’s argument about Uni types.
Anyway I’m getting ready to watch the Ladies Curling at 10.00 hrs. I don’t know how I can live with myself, looked up the time in my wife’s Daily Record.
HH.
PS : have no axe to grind, my daughter ( First in the family ) attends Uni although she didn’t achieve the required grades for Glasgow.
Jamesgang, thanks.
IstabulCelt, you too Squire.
doccqten@gmail.com
Hen1rik
Told you all before Lawrence is an ex- Cowiebhoy :-)
Hail Hail
Istanbulcelt Oscar’s Green & White Army
08:45 on
19 February, 2014
Sorry got my son on my knee..
When Neil was asked the question ” Do you see your future at Celtic’ Neil leaned forward and scratched his leg whilst answering.
Looks like he’s for the off then. Can any body language experts confirm? ;)
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On the other hand Lenny says about the Celtic job :
“Just getting my teeth into it.”
He doesn`t do deception.
I sincerely hope.
Funny
https://www.facebook.com/martin.dillon.5832/posts/10151992476080888
Edward Snowden is a hero in my eyes. Whistle-blowers who are brave enough to expose the wrong-doings of governments and corperations should be encouraged and given support.
Well done Glasgow uni.
Greenpinata
08:46 on
19 February, 2014
What percentage of the Glasgow Uni. student body voted?
Betcha the result was a reflection of the agitator minority.
Most students in my day couldn`t give a monkey`s.
Mind you,that wasn`t yesterday.:-)
Congrats to your daughter.
Further education? To die for.
Is there a pretty wi phil macs blog?.
Big sean.
Pretty=problem.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:39 on
19 February, 2014
So not rampant capitalism then? Glad you agree.
sean what does that mean? Hail Hail Hebcelt
OK got it Hail Hail Hebcelt
bamboo
08:57 on
19 February, 2014
Snowden protected by the fascist Putin.
Hero?
OR
Naive whistleblower?
Bitter, bitter, people.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTiWpzr_WP4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbTiWpzr_WP4
gorbalstam
09:07 on
19 February, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:39 on
19 February, 2014
So not rampant capitalism then? Glad you agree.
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That`s the sum total of your response?
O.K.
great photos of leigh griffiths four kids all wearing the hoops at the game on saturday.daily roger putting a negative spin on it by using words like brood.the way i see it the guy loves and sees all his kids and pays for their upkeep and they look happy n healthy so no problem from me.imagine taking four nippers to a game,more racket than the green brigade.
gorbalstam
09:07 on
19 February, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:39 on
19 February, 2014
So not rampant capitalism then? Glad you agree.
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That`s the sum total of your response?
You`re comfortable with that?
O.K.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:17 on
19 February, 2014
Do Celtic supporters have nothing to do with Celtic F.C.?
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In this instance no. The promotion of the song and the ongoing campaign regarding the offensive behavior act has absolutely nothing to do with Celtic FC / Celtic PLC . As we know Celtic FC have done little to defend a section of their support in this matter. Some have even alleged the Celtic FC board have been enthusiastic supporters of the law
macjay,Cuba broke?
What did the revolution ever do for Cubans?
Average life expectancy? 1956. (UNICEF)2012
Baptista=57years, Castro=79.7
USA=69.7 years USA=79.9
Might be explained by,
Infant mortality rate Baptista=36/1000 Castro=5/1000
Free education up to and including University.
Free medical care
!00% maternity care in a hospital
World leader in doctor/patient ratio
World leader in Dentist/patient ratio
Eradication of German Measles,Rubella,Dysentry etc.
Availabilty of utilities,water/electricity etc….Baptista=7% Castro=97.3%
85% of Houses built since 1959 of which 75% are privately owned
A guaranteed job for anyone wanting to work
Benefit of 60% of your previous wage when out of work
% of GDP:- CUBA USA UK
Health 11% 8% 8%
Education 14% 5% 6%
Militay 3% 5% 3%
This is after after the World`s leaders in Capitalism has had a 50 year blockade and embargo on trade for Cuba!
What is the USA afraid of?
Your previous comments on CUBA informed us of the old Murdoch Press “Boat People”escapes to Florida?
Population of CUBA? BAPTISTA=7Million CASTRO=11.2Million
Your Myopic Idealism can be helped.
Just saying like
CheLynchGuevaraCSC.
Macjay:
Did you ever read this:
By Emma Green The Atlantic (though more notable journalists and Media outlets covered it too)
Pope Francis is once again shaking things up in the Catholic Church. On Tuesday, he issued his first “apostolic exhortation,” declaring a new enemy for the Catholic Church: modern capitalism. “Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” he wrote. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
He couldn’t be much clearer. The pope has taken a firm political stance against right-leaning, pro-free market economic policies, and his condemnation appears to be largely pointed at Europe and the United States. His explicit reference to “trickle-down” economic policies—the hallmark of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and their political successors—is just the beginning: Throughout 224 pages on the future of the Church, he condemns income inequality, “the culture of prosperity,” and “a financial system which rules rather than serves.”
Taken in the context of the last half-century of Roman Catholicism, this is a radical move. Fifty years ago, around the time of the Second Vatican Council, Church leaders quietly declared a very different economic enemy: communism. But Pope Francis’s communitarian, populist message shows just how far the Church has shifted in five decades—and how thoroughly capitalism has displaced communism as a monolithic political philosophy.
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In 1962, as the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome, Europe was deeply divided. In his book What Happened at Vatican II, Jesuit historian John O’Malley set the scene:
The Iron Curtain had fallen. For Catholicism this meant, among other things, that even the simplest communication with bishops and the faithful in Eastern Europe was difficult and fraught with dangers. The arrest and trial of the primate of Hungary, Cardinal József Mindszenty, in 1948, opened the public’s eyes to the brutal attitude of the Communist regime toward the Church. The even more brutal suppression of the revolution there by Russian troops in 1956 was just one more confirmation that no reconciliation was possible between “the free world” and “the Soviet bloc.”
Thirteen years earlier, at the end of World War II, the Holy Office had officially excommunicated communists from the Catholic Church and declared the ideology at odds with fundamental tenets of the faith. But in the lead-up to the Council, it wasn’t clear whether the broader body of Church leaders would make a similar statement. Several bishops from communist countries weren’t able to travel to Rome because their visas were denied. Although certain bishops, particularly those from the Eastern bloc, pushed for a sweeping statement against communism, the Council never formally considered a proposal to make a statement.
Before he died in 1963, the pope who convened the Council, John XXIII, did issue an encyclical, Pacem in Terris, which addressed the issue of “universal peace.” While he didn’t condemn communism, he did endorse democracy. “The fact that authority comes from God does not mean that men have no power to choose those who are to rule the State, or to decide upon the type of government they want,” he wrote. “Hence the above teaching is consonant with any genuinely democratic form of government.”
The following year, John’s successor, Pope Paul VI, made a much clearer statement against communism in his encyclical Ecclesiam Suam. “We are driven to repudiate such ideologies as deny God and oppress the Church,” he wrote. “These ideologies are often identified with economic, social and political regimes; atheistic communism is a glaring instance of this.”
Albeit in somewhat passive terms, the Church had made its political and economic position clear: It rejected communism, and specifically its suppression of religion, in favor of the West and democracy—which were tied tightly to free-market economic principles. Many years later, the Polish Pope John Paul II was given credit for helping to undermine communist rule in his country, where Catholic churches provided a space for anti-communist artists and thinkers to hold discussions and distribute anti-regime writings.
In light of this long-standing tension between the Church and communism, Pope Francis’s aggressively anti-capitalist posture seems all the more remarkable. The bishop of Rome hasn’t just condemned what he sees as a failed free-market—he’a condemned the ethic and ideology that underlie free-market economies. “The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase,” Francis writes. “In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.”
This is more than just a lecture about ethics; it’s a statement about who should control financial markets. At least right now, Francis says, the global economy needs more government control—an argument that would have been unthinkable for the pope just 50 years ago. He writes:
It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education and healthcare.
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few… Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules.
“A new tyranny,” indeed. Clearly, communism does not strike Francis as a significant ideological threat anymore, which is even more significant given his Argentine background. Even though leftist dictators have had an outsized influence on the politics and economics of Latin America in the last half-century, the pope seems to see a greater threat in the politics and economics of a different region: The United States and Europe.
In terms of “Church strategy,” so to speak, this target seems particularly significant. Over the past decade, Roman Catholic leaders in the United States have struggled with crisis after crisis, including numerous accusations of child abuse. In Europe, Catholic communities are seeing decreased church attendance and interest in pursuing the priesthood, especially following recent revelations in Ireland about cruelty toward children in Church-run schools and orphanages.
But Church affiliation has been growing farther south in Latin America and Africa. Significantly, these are regions with developing economies that have been hit especially hard by the global financial crises of the past half-decade. Perhaps this trend was part of the pope’s motivation. The places where the body of the Church is growing most quickly are also where most the world’s poorest people live—people who are victims of free-market capitalism, Francis says.
The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person! We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.
The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.
In part, Francis may be channeling widespread frustration among his flock. Youth unemployment is at 40 percent in Italy and 56 percent in Spain—two of Europe’s most Catholic countries. Although Greece is not a predominantly Roman Catholic country, it continues to be a symbol of broader unrest over European economic policies like austerity. Francis’s harsh words seem to capture this spirit of protest against the dominant economic order.
But they also indicate something important about the shift away from U.S. and European-style capitalism in geopolitics. The pope’s statements mark a bold ideological realignment for the Church, which has historically been physically, spiritually, and ideologically centered in Rome. In pitting the Church against the free-market, the pope has added significant heft and legitimacy to progressive, pro-government groups on the left. If it wasn’t already clear, the pronouncements confirm that the Church’s 20th-century specters are fading, at least in the Vatican. The pope has officially declared a new enemy.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
09:17 on
19 February, 2014
Well Macjay, now that you’ve agreed that you’re first statement was nonsense, would there be any point in taking heed of anything else you said?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon.
Many thanks for your previous response.
Your question @ 09.10 hrs.
That indeed is the question, the students must surely have asked themselves. Or did they ??
Although this is a symbolic gesture by the students who IMO are misguided I cannot see what practical benefit this will bring them over the next three years.
HH.
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey:
I sure you’ve heard of the ‘old-firm’ six point plan.
Around that time the Police were threating to arrest football players on the field. I wonder how many honest mistakes they would have made had they not been stopped by ‘sense’….
The post of rector at Glasgow University has a chequered history. Snow den is merely the latest addition to the list who may be considered by some to be “off-the-wall”
Some,in fact,have been off their trolleys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rector_of_the_University_of_Glasgow#List_of_Rectors
Looking over the list,I wonder who was rector when MACJAY was there,and whether in fact he even bothered to vote. I know I didn’t.
when and why did this site start becoming a political site is it coz the referendums looming and everyones a politician.used to get a laugh on here,not anymore.maybe the huns demise isnt enough for some.with the size of the crowds at parkhead you would think it was us that was in the gutter.
jamesgang
John Kennedy was an amazing talent.
He had more than that though.
There was a moment in a game….i think it was against Hibs away, at about the halfway line.
The game was a typical away battle with the home crowd getting more excitable with every challenge they put in on us and any attempt to try to play were being denied cos they were “getting into us”.
I think it may have been Craig Beattie that was getting a hard time and as he was “eased” off the ball by a Hibs player and before the Hibs fans had even got the chance to roar their satisfaction at another challenge being won by them John Kennedy had already came from nowhere and absolutely flattened the Hibs player, man, baw…..eveything challenge that said mess with him and you mess with me!
Sometimes football matches are won with great goals but sometimes battles have to be won 1st and its winners and leaders that tend to do that.
I may have forgot the finer points of that moment like who and where we were actually playing but i never forgot what John did because it had winner and leader written all over it.
first of the gang to die
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I don’t mind the political debate now and again. It’s the fact that many seem to be mortally insulted by a flippant line in a post.
Especially when these folk are trying to pass themselves off as well read intellectuals.
latest from the official sevco website…
“RANGERS have been awarded the maximum six-star status by the SFA in their 2013/14 Club Academy Scotland audit”
Wow – who would have thunk it – its not as if they have any sway with the SFA now is it..
Man City were well beaten last night even with all of the millions they have spent. Barce are still a great side and play exactly the same passing style that has served then well for years. City kept them at bay for a while but a goal was always coming.
https://www.facebook.com/marissa.donnelly.10/posts/624164934319071
first of the gang to die @ 09.37 hrs.
One of the reasons why this site became more politicalised was when the Scottish Government introduced politics in the form of the OB act to criminalise supporters.
HH.
The English media never learn.
Manchester City, yada, yada. Quadruple, ect, ect. The last tie Barcelona wanted to meet, yawn.
Two hours later and they are all dipping into The Bumper Book of Excuses.
Rock Tree Bhoy
09.46
Yes, I noticed that curious article. The scouting network was given a special mention in recognition.
Sevco don’t have a team in the Under19’s league.
No doubt the maximum grant awarded will be properly directed by those astute businessmen operating out of Murray Park.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, well done to Celtic’s Under20’s for reaching the top of their league last night. Hope you stay there now.
I wonder when the SPFL web-site will get around to updating the table.