Back in the 90s, when we struggled to achieve much, we appeared to have the Midas Touch when it came to signing strikers. The Three Amigos, Henrik and even big Mark(o) made the job look simple. It was keepers and the like we had trouble signing back then.
The litany of strikers who have trudged through Celtic Park in recent seasons provides sharp contrast to earlier times. Scott McDonald, Gary Hooper and Leigh Griffiths are the only strikers with a half decent scoring record since the departure of The Swede 12 years ago. Since then we’ve been home to many and various strays, from Dion Dublin to the Miku-Lassad twins, Kazim-Richards, Cole, Scepovic and Guidetti.
A few of these worked on paper (Scepovic and Guidetti) but the return on our money has been painful.
Getting it right in this department is important for Brendan Rodgers but I’d caution judging too much on what a player looks like on paper. I remember the comments section when McDonald (largely sceptical) and Griffiths (vehemently opposed by many) joined.
There are lessons from elsewhere too. Markus Rosenberg scored 20 goals in five seasons (none in 18 months at West Brom) before pitching up at his first club Malmo and eliminating Ronny Deila’s Celtic. Rosenberg was 32-years-old at the time but Malmo knew what they would get from him.
I’m not particularly inspired by any of the strikers we’re being publicly linked with but I’d take a player the manager knows and trusts can do the job before someone who shakes out of the scouting DVDs.
Chris Sutton Night, Irvine CSC
The Irvine Celtic Supporters’ Club are hosting a Chris Sutton evening on Friday, 24 June, at their social club in the town. Tickets are available for £10 by calling the club (evenings only) on 01294 271967.
If you are from the area, or fancy a good night out in Ayrshire with a Celtic striker who looked good on paper, looked better on the field, and delivered some of our best memories in the last 40 years, get along to see him – and bring your camera.
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BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH JUNE 2016 3:01 AM
AN TEARMANN on 14TH JUNE 2016 3:14 AM
I made one comment about Stephen Fry.
Hypocrite .
I made no comment whatsoever about his sexuality or that of anyone else.
Nor would I.
None of my business.
An T.
Thanks for your good wishes.
MACJAY
Disingenuous there,old bean. Most unbecoming of you.
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about our exchanges over the years has been your unflinching willingness to stand up for your opinions and to back up what you’ve previously said.
MO’N saying that he wanted to try to get Celtic as close to the Mr Stein era as it was possible to get. Then the Hierarchy brought in PL and half emptied the stadium with, one puppet-manager after another.
Ye see, when we came back from Seville, the narrative from the Hierarchy should have been along the lines of – “The top level of the game has seen just how magical the Celtic support is, we want to let the Celtic support know that we’ll be doing everything within our means to ensure that, the good folk of Seville and all the other places where our support have made new friends, will see our incredible supporters more often.”
Instead, all we got was – “We need to downsize – we can’t compete at this level – we’re in debt – our esteemed manager blah, blah, blah….”
Aye MO’N….if, rebellious Celtic supporters were in control of our club, you might well have taken us to ‘that’ place that, you knew in yer heart, where Celtic FC and her magical fans should be…..
Ye know what else MO’N…..?
I will forever be convinced that, you flicked the switch, lit the fuse with yer famous media conference in the Nou Camp in 2004 when, you called out the condoned sectarian-racist treatment of Neil Lennon on the pitch at ibrokes when you walked round the pitch with Neil after the final whistle when, your team lost a mibberied game and, you let the establishment know that ‘you’ would not be rolling over or, sitting at the back of the bus for no klan.
MO’N……my biggest regret…..?
That, MO’N and the KOK’s never experienced being being cemented into the soul of Celtic FC, by the Jungle.
Mhan,…..that would have been so grand.
MO’N….I think yer Republican team can get out of this group and then,…..the magic begins….imho.
1916 – 2016…..watch this space.
……oot-zzzzzzz……..
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH JUNE 2016 5:05 AM
MACJAY
“Disingenuous there,old bean. Most unbecoming of you.”
Don`t understand.
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“One thing I’ve always enjoyed about our exchanges over the years has been your unflinching willingness to stand up for your opinions and to back up what you’ve previously said.”
Agreed. And unsullied by cheap schoolyard taunts.
Apart from the occasional F.F.S.
:-)
MACJAY
Aye,we’ve exchanged a few ffs’ in our time!
Bobby.
Perhaps this will explain.
Stephen Fry dismantles the Catholic Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sz8D411kE
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You may be able to point me to his trenchant criticism of fundamental Muslimism, particularly their “attitude ” to gays , because I most certainly haven`t seen any.
Good morning all from a dry, bright but breezy East Kilbride where there are at least a few small patches of blue sky in a mostly cloud covered roof.
No, me neither….
MACJAY
To return to the point I made earlier,it was that Fry is likely to have had his lifestyle choices criticised personally by members of the Catholic faith,but not so much by Moslems. As such,he was commenting from personal experience.
That’s by-the-by. I take your point that he should have been less selective in his criticism. But then he might have been accused of a scattergun approach.
Canny win,eh?
JOBO BALDIE
Blue sky?
Not expecting to see that again this week down here.
(Wee hint for the going at Royal Ascot there,btw…)
Morning dot count –
445 – 1 (row M)
416 – 60 (1 in the back row, the other 59 in rows H to S)
61!
at……..it………………..
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 14TH JUNE 2016 7:10 AM
Canny win ?
Speak for yourself.
:-)
Don`t want to carry this on , but there`s an article in the Telegraph ( Torygraph to you ) which puts a slightly different slant on the tragedy.
MACJAY
I’ll need to wait till I go into work tonight to read it,bud. Paywall at home,but free at work.
So Macjay if some asked Stephrn Fry this morning about bigots killing innocents in the name of Islam you think he’d demur and mumble something about taking the 5th?
Really?
Orlando’s obscenity was no more a reflection of true Islam than a Hellfire missile killing innocent kids in Afghanustan is a true reflection of Christianity.
Concentrate our ire on the perpetrators, not a relatively banal commentator.
HH jamesgang
HH jamesgang
Oh and I can’t help but think that the world would have been a far better place if An Tearmann had been the first European who ‘discovered’ the rest of the world.
A proper giant striding in through the shallows (15 feet deep) who greets the locals with a giant mitt and grin to match, climbs their mountains and goes home firing nothing more hostile than a winning grin.
Imperialism. Western. The true foundation of most of the world’s evil over half a millennium.
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG on 14TH JUNE 2016 7:33 AM
So Macjay if some asked Stephrn Fry this morning about bigots killing innocents in the name of Islam you think he’d demur and mumble something about taking the 5th?
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Hypothetical question you ask.
I see his stance on religious attitudes to and treatment of gays as completely inconsistent and illogical.
That`s all.
No Macjay you choose to quote one lecture he gave and present it – without context – to justify the dim view you want take of him!
You’re good at that. But it’s a bad thing to do.
Have you done a full ‘lit review’ of all his utterances?
Have you asked him all the questions you feel he should answer to your standards?
Right of reply for Mr Fry?
GuiltBySoundbite me thinks Sir.
HH jamesgang
Oot n aboot in a windy and overcast Sciacca.
There is much contentment re last night’s way better than expected performance. Tempered by a worry that Sweden can’t play that badly again ..
Classic post match from Conte –won a game nothing more / played as instructed / played as a team / missed 2 chances/ some players could do more / one game at a time / .
Mrs S of T opined that –” Conte is a really scary man — black really suits him “
SoT
I just always get a sense that Mrs SoT is a lady whose views would command my respect.
No black suit required!!
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG on 14TH JUNE 2016 7:52 AM
Mate.
How many lectures do you need ?
The point.
Why does he ignore Muslim fundamentalism and its attitude to and treatment of gays ?
He attacks Catholicism .
I have invoked my right of reply.
Being gay isn’t a lifestyle choice.
Harry Brady podcast with james kelly msp on OBF Act and its repeal
https://twitter.com/HarryBradyCU/status/742612700778397696
HH
WEEMINGER
It is to those who criticise it.
Macjay
Why don’t you ask him?
I’m not being facetious. I’d be genuinely interested to hear his response.
And I’m more of a mind to triage my ire. A world made up largely of Stephen Fry duplicates may tire me with its witty and slightly camp comedy. But it would be a world devoid of genocide and assorted violence me thinks!
If he’s your enemy you’re fighting the wrong battle imho.
HH jamesgang
James.
I would love to ask him.
” Devoid of genocide and assorted violence ”
Oh,no.
I would also have a few questions about Israel.
Let`s not go there.
BMCUW
They’re wrong.
WEEMINGER
Of course-but if you read the whole sentence again,you’ll see that the term was aimed at those who use it.
That’s why you still read of people who can “cure” homosexuality.
(I wish I’d used inverted commas in the original sentence,btw!)
BMCUW
Fair do’s. It’s just one of those ones that really irks me.
WEEMINGER
Nae bother,bud. I’m glad you pointed it out,I should have drawn attention to the source of the expression at the time.
Macjay
Israel and its neighbours is simple in theory. Making it actually happen is devilishly complicated.
When people in that area want life for their children more than death for their enemies then peace will have a chance.
Oh and it also needs for one side not to be a nuclear armed regional super power fighting against militia armed with little more than you can currently purchase in an American Walmart.
The appalling repeat of history as Israel turns a nation into a ghetto breaks my heart
HH jamesgang
jeese oh,
Residents of Larkhall have launched a petition to have more lamp posts erected so that they can use up the vast council resource of plastic Union Jack Flegs.
Upper Ferniegair CSC
St Stivs
Aye. Whit you said!
JAMESGANG on 14TH JUNE 2016 8:41 AM
Macjay
Hey.
Absolutely agree .
Incidentally , I was wrong in my expectation of Fry`s attitude to Israel .
From Quora
We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.”
Mea Culpa.
Can we not stick to the subject matter this blog was created for?
Fitba n hoarses?
One fifth of posters on CQN are just too tense!
TWISTS N TURNS on 14TH JUNE 2016 8:53 AM
Can we not stick to the subject matter this blog was created for?
Fitba n hoarses?
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Good point mate.
1. I’m looking forward to Celtic playing scintilating fitba next season.
2. I’m looking forward to sevco getting hoarsed next season.
Anything else I can help with – just ask!
:-)
BSR
An opinion without 3.14159 is just an onion