There’s something healthy when the arrival of a new striker, who has yet to trouble the net, has raised the game of an incumbent. If you talk to footballers they’ll tell you they need to be challenged. Even most greats hit a comfort zone, where they know they are cherished by manager and fans alike, so that knot in the stomach about where the next contract is coming from never materialises.
Gary Hooper missed this at Celtic. He was the apple of Neil Lennon’s eye, and clearly top striker at Celtic, but a few seasons in his appetite for the same old challenge seemed to wane. I’m assured by those who shared a dressing room with Henrik Larsson, this was one area which set the Swede aside. The accolades meant nothing to him, he wanted every trophy, every record, which perhaps indicates why he captured the Champions League in his mid-30s.
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I’m always in my comfort zone eating a Burtons Striker Bar.
MWD said AYE
Gerryfaethebrig
If you go to the oul country, don’t stay too long as you’ll get homesick. Think it was Christy Moore who wrote
Oh, oh oh oh
I wish I was back in Gartsherrie !
Lexington Place looks a good bet at Ayr on Fair Monday.
Shuggy Jr has money on the young Irish amateur,Paul Dunne at 300/1.
Looks like a playoff.
HH
ron bacardi
I shared a room with my brother…the sensible one of us.
He actually taped the room halfway including our snooker table because I was a clatty git when young.
Darts used to get thrown at me as I wouldn’t abide to his rules.
The final straw was when he came home and I was in his bed with a lassie, I could tell you more but it’ll keep for later;)
Ps..he’s a director with BT now ;)
I nicknamed my ex and her son ‘chip & pin’
Whenever i saw the 2 of them looking at me at the same time it always seemed to mean 1 thing.
jamesgang…
If your bhoy ends up the size of yourself, I reckon you will need three jobs to cope.
Yon old Byrd said weather changing
Eh?
Still cold and wet, where is the change?
Big Shuggy
It’s free Gartsherrie !
Although you know and I know I am a Summerleebhoy at heart
Am on Speith, that young man has it all, Rory who ? Jordan is a golfer, loved the fact he didn’t go to the Scottish Open last weekend, why just follow the “done thing”
Gerryfaethebrig There could be trouble at easter ceremony next year My mother has been threatening to turn up and punch Enda Kenny ( our prime minister or tea shop as we call him over here) as she reckons he has no right to be there
Sips
Never mind otto the fish…..ruaridh the Tim!
Can’t wait to see what the wee mhan ends up like. A vvd build? Or a lustig or a bitton? Or a Craig Gordon.
HH jamesgang
Sipsini, My brother used to come and watch me playing for Glasgow Uni Arts Faculty football team, all of us Celtic supporters. He got sent off from the sidelines for foul and abusive language when we were playing the teachers college at St Peters Bearsden
Dear Deirdre
My oldest back from sheepsville Uni and his wee brother
are eating me out of house and home.
A year ago youngest was 5ft3 now > 6ft
(only 16)
He used to joke although he was a scrawny wee runt
that he would be Alpha male in the house.
How we laughed as im 6ft3 and 17st
Im begining to worry he might be there soon
not weight wise very athletic bhoy but height
wise.
: > (
Gerryfraethebrig
There would be no Easter Rising if it wasn’t for guys like John Bulmer Hobson, a Belfast Quaker who organised the running of guns to land in Howth and Wicklow. The Asgard that landed with 900 guns from Hamburg was pivotal for the 1916 Rising. The crew of the Asgard, owned and sailed by Erskine Childers were all English including 2 women, except there
here were only two Irish ( fishermen) on board from Gola Island, Donegal.
All through Irish history it was the educated Protestants that fought for Irish Freedom.
Cathach
A bitton, lanky with broad shoulders, my Ghirl is away tomorrow to Kavos, worry, worry, worry.
Oh well, they need to spread their wings:(
How the celts play yday ? Was on the gargle after watching doire take a hammering :-(
Good result for the minors
Sipsini
Shocked at your revelations !
Gerry, you should trace your family tree and see where your forebears came from.
I visited my granda recently.
A village called Mayo Bridge near Newry.
He is 120, and was a bit down.
His carer told me it was natural, as he had just buried his Da .
Same balance, same technique, same build it’s uncanny how much he’s like his old man.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0yo1t6c4zg8
Sign him up Peter
HH!
Your Mother is OK by me WITS, where did you go wrong.
cathach
19:30 on 19 July, 2015
Nothing is a religion thing with me, my good lady is a Protestant and probably the best person I have ever met (apart face my mum) our young daughter goes to a catholic school because that is the way I want her to be taught, she will learn a million things more in the home, religion should be each to their own and never put on others, I question mine everyday but hopefully will always rely on it, for comfort if nothing else !
Corkie
Now now
Like me she has no time for the blueshirts
Gerryfaethebrig
You are right about religion, it should be a personal thing for people to be guided by in their life if they so wish.
Nothing else
Sips
I guess the fact your daughter will be stunning like her Da will only increase your concern!
HH jamesgang
bigshuggy,
How are things going? I’m 3/4 of the way through another nightshift here in the NW of Western Australia, had a wee Celtic night out with Kevin about 10 days ago, tried to keep up with him on the Guinness and lost, drinks that stuff like lolly water.
AR
ron bacardi…
It’s not until you get older that you appreciate that those darts were meant in friendship;)
Oh well, seen as I’m on, another wee story, all true.
I worked with a bloke when I was in my early twenties, what stories he would come out with…
His words… When in the RAF as a fitter maintaining early jet fighters.
Just before the wing commander took off, jj heard a rattle, he waved down the plane and advised the wing commander to let him check the left engine.
Right enough, after getting harnessed and dropped into the engine he found a screw that was loose, he saved that mans life!
As a reward, the wing comander took him up on a dual jet and let him fly it, true story…believe me there is a lot more;)
cathach
Very good point but the establishment always used the sectarian card to divide and conquer.
WITS….
Religion helped my mum bury my dad, helped us bury my mum, people who don’t believe fair play, for people who believe let them get on with it, I know for a fact when I walk out of chapel on a Sunday I feel quite good, maybe that’s just in my heid but I choose my daughter to go at a catholic school,for one simple reason, it was the school I went too, for some nutters that think kids get taught hatred in schools they are the ones who have hatred in their minds, hatred is taught in the home, I am happy knowing their will be no hatred taught in my home
cathach
19:30 on 19 July, 2015
How you doing my friend, long time no hear? Drop me an email let me know what you have been up to.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Gerryfaethebrig
I couldn’t agree more
Most religions help people get through their lives with comfort at times of stress etc
Most religions have the same basic tenets of love and tolerance, turn the other cheek, love thy neighbours, do unto others as you would have them do unto you etc.
It’s the crazy witch doctors who twist all that around to mean” burn the unbelievers” that are to be avoided
Cathach,
Just had the weather forecast for the week: basically 1 low pressure system after another coming in from the Atlantic. Means more of the same: wind and rain, except that later in the week, the wind will be coming down from the North. So, it will get cold again. They contrasted Glasgow and some place in Surrey for rainfall so far this July. Glasgow 119 mms; the other place 2 mms. I’m sure Largs will be even higher than Glasgow.
Another one from jj…
Whilst out fishing with his brother, said brother lost his rod and decided to go into the river to recoup it, unbeknown to him there was deadly reeds in his way, jj seing his brother entrapped in the reeds dived in with his favourite knife between his teeth.
After a long struggle to get his brother free and giving him the kiss of life…guess what?
He had dropped his knife, back in jj goes, amongst all the reeds to get his special knife fearing nothing. I saw the knife and I believe him;)
Fholks,
Is this weeks return leg on the box? If so which channel?
WITS,
It’s only Christian religions that have turn the other cheek as a basic tenet which is why it was so revolutionary.
Most other religions have preach eye for eye
Oh, the programme has just finished with the presenter talking of “this glorious summer”. Would make you weep.
Canamalar
Don’t get me started
I will have you burnt at the stake you heretic
WITS,
I like my stake well done
Here Tic if you don’t mind
What is the Stars
Disnae even need to be a heretic……………….just burn the git !
Canamalar
I am a medium rare man myself
Big cup winners
Ah sure the place wouldn’t be the same without grumpy
Leave Canamalar alone, a nice gentle soul who wouldn’t say a bad word to or about anyone.