How many of us rolled eyes at the news this week that Issouf Bayo was off to play for Watford, a Premier League team last season, and Oliver Burke would ply his trade in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen? Both are forwards, both 25, both fleeting unsuccessful stints at Celtic, now they have won a ticket for wages at a high paying club.
There is a great truism in football, the fans who watch a player week-in, week-out will provide a more telling insight than YouTube clips, stats or scouting reports. Good luck to both of them but I expect neither to succeed.
The problem with Watford and Werder is that they both want a striker in early and do not have the patience to hang around until nearer the end of the window, when talent that is actually in demand will become available.
Looking in from the outside, we can both see the rashness. What benefit is there in recruiting guys who were so easily handled by SPFL defenders? Watford fans will see Bayo who banged in 11 goals in a six-month loan stint a Charleroi, whereas Werder fans will wonder at how they picked up a striker on a free transfer who has twice been sold for in excess of £13m.
Having qualified for the Champions League group stage, there is, by contrast, a calm over events at Celtic. Two of last season’s successful loanees are now on permanent deals, Dundee United’s free keeper was signed and we paid a tidy sum for what, by any measure, is an ambitious move into the South American youth market.
There are more spaces in the squad available: a third striker option and midfield cover. Let’s not be like Watford and Werden Bremen.
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McPhail Bhoy
It ultimately doesn’t matter on the field. I think the SMSM try to keep the two teams on a similar level for the fans so that they buy the paper.
Our signings speak for themselves but the hun inaction needs a boost
In the early 90s I got sucked into the Paul McStay Daily Record ‘buzz about the place” stuff and thought we would challenge for the league – of course we didn’t!!
Coneybhoy
Yes of course that’s all that matters. But interesting that both sets of supporters think that they get a hard time from the papers, the Huns really don’t know what a hard time is!
DAVID66:
While you’re there, gonny tell them that I really love the Cherry flavoured Turkish delight, it’s Fandabydozy!!!! You and your family enjoy the rest of your hols bud! por cierto
When do the North of Ireland jenga games begin ? Whit it’s no jenga , they are going to burn the pallets 😵
Let’s say average used pallet £ 5
How many pallet stacks ? 10 , 20 ,30 ( quick Google search160 – 250 in 2021 )🙈🙈
How many pallets per stack ? ( Some huge some not so ) average 5000 ?
So let’s say £2,000,000 +for argument sake…
That would buy a player , or keep the lights on at the bigot dome for a while 😜
The above is for comedic effect , but it’s really no laughing matter burning wood and tyres in this day and age …
David 66,
Enjoy your holiday.
Has Turkey ever been more popular. I know loads of people holidaying in Turkey now.
HH.
PS. Where’s Big Jimmy. ? Hope he’s OK.
BIG JIMMY!
Are you OK?
How depressing is the news from the US. Reoccurring evil with such regularity.
If there is no reform of gun laws, how do the authorities protect its citizens.? Draconian, uncivilised measures may be the only way. Prevention must be better, if cure is not possible.
Sickening and depressing.
By the day its becoming more obvious that songs about guns and bombs have no place in a football ground.
HH.
GREENPINATA on 5TH JULY 2022 9:51 AM
‘By the day its becoming more obvious that songs about guns and bombs have no place in a football ground.’
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That’s just woke, snowflake, political correctness gone mad, virtue signalling.
@Quad…..Fair enough ..but why all the cryptic going round in circles jargon?
A different turn of phrase…Aye in your head..Not mine
Best saying what you really mean mate.
I will remember it’s in my head the next time i have to listen to the ratbags singing ….
they are up to their knees in republican plasma….Have a good day.
Ernie,
I’m glad to hear you denounce woke. You even use the katest ” buzz” phrase. Ie virtue signalling.
But seriously, how can we as civilised people denounce the escalating atrocities against innocents when we embellish the use of guns, bombs etc in song ?
HH.
GREENPINATA on 5TH JULY 2022 10:14 AM
I’m not a pacifist and I don’t have a problem with the justifiable use of weapons.
HOT SMOKED and GREEN PINATA…
Thank you gentlemen, but I am reasonably okay just now.
Ive been unwell recently…and in the last 3 weeks or so I have had major Computer problems also. I hate trying to read and/or post on CQN using my small phone, when my old computer was hit with a Virus by Scammers pretending to be from Microsft.
I ordered a “”New” REFURBISHED Computer from a very reliable company in England last week via the telephone, with new 23 inch Monitor etc, new keyboard and mouse all for £200.
On arrival on Wednesday of last week, the ” New” Computer wasnt working either.
I was about to return it to the Company in England and/or book a PC Repair Guy to come to my home and have a look, when I decided to phone my Internet Provider on Sunday morning. I feared that my IP Address had been ” Compromised” ?
My IP Advisor suggested that I turn the Computer ON, and then PRESS and HOLD the ” RESET” Button on the back of my Router and count to 15.
This I did, and the ” New” Computer was then working immediately !
So I am a lot happier now.
Cheers Bhoys and thank you for asking after my health.
I havent been out anywhere since the last meet up with DAVID66, BRRB, BELMONT BRIAN and the LURKING TIM almost 4 weeks ago.
Hopefully, I will be out for many beers some time soon.
HH Bhoys.
FAO DAVID66…
Im am very happy to read that your Hoilday is going FAB so far…I hope that continues….Im sure it will.
God Bless you all and well done to wee Riley and his Frankfurt Top….noising up any Huns.
LOL
HH Mate.
Big Jimmy.
Good to see you on these pages.hope the health holds up
HH
Big Jimmy
Good to hear from you. Hope your health improves. Take care fhella.
HH
Good news Jimmy.
DRAMBOWIECELT on 5TH JULY 2022 10:05 AM
@Quad…..Fair enough ..but why all the cryptic going round in circles jargon?
Compared to some of the posts on here, there was nothing particularly cryptic, circular or jargon-like in wot I wrote. As I already said – ‘for self-entertainment and self-expression reasons, I try using different ways of describing things.’
‘Best saying what you really mean mate.’
I meant what I penned and you got that meaning right away.
But it’s a blog where we’re free to post in the manner and style each of us prefers.
If anybody else misinterprets or misrepresents that input…Well, tough titty, right! It’s just a blog.
Equating the horrific attacks in the US with singing songs at a football match, really?
Why don’t we go the full way and take down that horrible terrorist flag!!
I’m afraid I agree with Ernie.
Welcome back Large James
Good to see you on Big Jimmy.
I met Suggs before a gig recently and he asked me what my preferred pronouns were.
I thought, that Madness gone politically correct…….
That awkward moment when you log in and get the Lego treatment.
DRAMBOWIECELT on 5TH JULY 2022 12:46 AM
Here ..i will name them for you
Irish Republican Army..
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You don’t count Drambowie Celt
It was a war.
A war that ended with a peace treaty
A treaty now under fire from the state and its acolytes due to Brexit.
States don’t get to define violence.
Especially states like the UK who were so benevolent in their murder.
A state killing machine.
Going on right upto kitson inspired death squads in recent years.
HH
Quadrophenian
“Why tut-tut and pooh-pooh American sports teams/fans who use or misappropriate names, terms and iconography pertaining – not exclusively – to native American cultures (and not always maliciously or malevolently)?
After all, plenty amid our own fan-family still celebrate and serenade the antics of an across-the-water terrorist group which – during its legitimate struggle – murdered thousands of civilians, cops and soldiers.”
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A bit of a false equivalence there.
As you said- the republican struggle , like the partisans fighting the Nazis, was a legitimate one, albeit with some atrocities committed during its course.
The equivalent of the Yankee v Native American scenario would be if the English clubs were calling themselves Peterborough Paddies or Manchester Micks.
You can excuse London Irish or Farsley Celtic because some exiled Irishmen were involved in its founding and there is no parody or condescension involved as there is with white men whooping and pretending to make tomahawk blows. Now I know I did this myself on the streets of Castlemilk and on the lower slopes of Cathkin Braes too. I did the same with a Zulu shield when the film came out in 1964 but my excuse was that I was 8 years old and I no longer engage in this behaviour.
There was a fair bit of Gammon/Karen interpretation going on about this yesterday. Use of the term “The Jungle” is not going to be proscribed anymore than the Bruce Springsteen song “Jungleland” will be. Nor will Kipling’s book, Disney’s film or Disney’s theme ride< Jungle ride or "George of the Jungle" (either version) or the Asphalt Jungle, The Concrete Jungle, The Blackboard Jungle or Jungle Jim. These are just absurd fears.
Like the change to using Ms.- the renaming of Cleveland Indians etc; and the future renaming of Arrowhead stadium will pass without memory of a fuss and life will go on until the next manufactured outrage is stoked.
Mind you – if the Supreme Court of America continues with its mission to establish Gilead- all bets are off
BSR.
For some reason your post tinkled a memory of leggat,the famed blogger as Rosemary had her baby.:-)
:-)
HH
Where is he noo
Hh
SFTB…
Whitaboot…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1w8jQI4cg
Drambowiecelt
Belated anniversary wishes to your mam and da.
SFTB @ 11.17
Surely a shark as been jumped — partisan analogy is vapourware.
What republican struggle — there have been quite a few?
Starting with a bit of street theatre with German guns.
Plus all the name calling for people you do not agree with — very weak.
These are complex communities that you condense into cheap jibes.
Well beyond the forces if identity politics striving for NatLand.
Initial indications are that the Chicago shooter was another teenage Trumpist with a manufactured grievance.
And yet again, the proliferation of guns did nothing to deter the outrage or tackle the gunman- it is a false line of reasoning. Craig Ferguson, the US talk show guy from Bishopbriggs, used to do a comedy routine under the name Bing Hitler, whereby he advocated that, in the days of plane hijackings, every passenger should get a gun on boarding so that, when the hijacker pointed a gun and said “Take me to Cuba!” – there would be a 100 guns pointed back at him saying “Naw!- we’re going to Torremolinos!”.
Back then it was a comic routine. Now it is becoming MAGA official policy.
MM
“Plus all the name calling for people you do not agree with — very weak.”
Irony alert- MM
I have no appetite for getting into it with you today. I got all the evidence I needed yesterday that there were no ears open on your side to progress the debate.
Try someone else!
SFTB @ all over the place
Farsley vs Bloemfontein — discuss?
I think you are working against your original argument.
The justification you are now putting forward for a team in England to use our name.
I don’t think that justification stretches south of the equator in this instance.
Do you write all your posts?
Or do you farm them out to friends and extended family?
Your productivity is amazing a times — batch posting in all its glory.
Quality and consistency — not so good.
SFTB @ 11.34
Communities vs individuals — discuss.
As I highlighted you would appear to be into naming communities.
Do not discuss it oh my darlings
It makes for a boring day ,
Do not discuss it oh my darlings
Maybe it will go away .
Up the Hoops
Tom Rogic has pulled out of the Oz squad citing personal reasons.
sftb
Maybe Farsley Celtic not the best example you could have come with.
Bognorbhoy
I expect we will see a lot of fringe players today with most players on for 45 to 60 minutes tops. With he team involved in heavy training at the moment the game sharpening exercises are development work rather than genuine competition.
Nonetheless, we should win the game and the main aim is to minimise the chance of serious injury that befell wee Karamoko last season.
I am looking forward to the next few “friendlies” but not as much as I am looking forward to the first competitive match
new article posted.