What is the cost of Tom Rogic’s continuing absence for another two months? Tom has scored more than a few winning or equalising goals over the last two years. We could need him to deliver the third leg of the treble, or to keep the winning run in the league going, but this will not be the real cost.
Tom has been robbed of a precious three months during the most effective spell of his professional life. He improved with every passing month, got stronger, lasted the entire game and even scored a last minute winner.
With competition as it is at Celtic, he’ll be distraught. The personal target of all those who have been on an upward trajectory this season is to put their name on the team sheet for the summer’s Champions League qualifiers. For a player who the manager insisted worked for months before he was relied upon to last 90 minutes, any time he gets before the end of the season will be about recuperation.
For now, there should be no personal targets for Tom apart from being fully fit come June.
You know when you read a nugget which encapsulates much of the journey Scottish football has been on in recent decades? Chick Charnley yesterday on Jim Duffy: “When I played for him at Dundee and Hibs, he would give me Mondays off because he knew I enjoyed my weekends.”
And that was Chic making the case that Jim should have a higher job! Cheers.
Another quote to consider, this time from Brendan:
“There are three types of supporters. The first type who absolutely love you because you are the manager of Celtic. It doesn’t matter what you do, they’ll give you shirts and want you to sign everything.
“The second group are: ‘Okay, we’ll give you a chance and let’s see how you do. See if you win games and I’ll decide’.
“The third group, that’s the group who if you won five they’ll say you should have won seven. ‘You won 5-2? Why did you let in the two goals?’ You can never win!”
I wonder if he’s spoken to Gordon Strachan?
Oldtim
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Gary67 9.18pm
I listen to SSB regularly and a few of the “pundits” rave about Billy Davies, (who only knows why) the usual suspects, and always mention the next team that gets him will be lucky, that has been ramped up this week (level 5 who would probably work for nothing)!
Hope the Greenock Morton add to their misery
It’s that time again, Statement O’clock. Truly embarrassing. The gift that keeps on giving.
Baz way Walter dream team announcement imminent.
Sith ‘n apprentice
kouassi eboue
Never Capitalised
WOW – an Eveveveven better Victor Wanyama.
WOW.
CELTIC
Wonder if I’ve had a vision earlier today? Then again might have been from reading one of Petec’s many prophecy postings?
Stuck £10 on Morton +1 @4/1 (smiley thing)!
the under 20’s coach…..
ahahahhahahahahhahahahahha
they will finish 5th now, (unless they get a points deduction for something) watch for the exodus zombies and players,
life is good.
Jeezo, a five year old could have written that statement, step forward tinfoil heed
Warburton is saying he has no idea he has resigned.
Maybe someone hacked their website.
According to Magic Hat’s twitter he hasn’t resigned
@StanCollymore: Just had to sack my gardener. Says he’s off to be a football manager.
From the BBC
Rangers announce they have accepted Mark Warburton’s resignation, but the manager has told BBC Scotland he knows nothing about it.
That is still up now.
SUPERSUTTON on 10TH FEBRUARY 2017 9:28 PM
Maybe someone hacked their website.
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They are so amateur in everything they do a 2 year old wean would be able to do that nae bother.
There will be no shortage of people prepared to do their duty in serving Sevco, it will be a temporary appointment until the season end expecting the incumbent to get 2nd place in the league, probably tattie heid,then you will see the jostling for this job, McInnes, Davies, the return of the myth, none of any gravitas will touch it especially with them having no capital for transfers.
Thebarcamole.
It wasn’t coming across as flippant at all. The good intentions were shining through.
Let’s hope everything works out for you and V.
Hail Hail my friend.
Mark Warburton the Tommy Cooper of Scottish Fitbaw…
Jus’ like ‘at…
CELTIC, banned from saying, oh my.
https://twitter.com/leemullin1/status/830164253193695232
Its kinda quiet. Anything newsworthy today?
A semi literate statement from a semi conscious football club in a permanent state of shame. Hilarious!
ST sTIV’S
Yep, that’s the man. Yer a grand port onion
I can actually understand him now…must be the years in the soft south
Loaf, weir, McPee gone …
CELTIC ALWAYS.
Are they simply trying to force him out on the cheap?
Amateur hour over there again.
Aha it works now.
Define …Resigned
VFR800
I was there 89/90
The Flags, The Keys , The Garibaldi and the Forresters pubs i frequented .
Saw things i never would have believed if i had’nt seen with my own eyes …….
Hedonism ooooofttt.
Warburton gone stale?
bloody annoyed i didn’t get IP registered for the Warburton is Russ Abbott rights,
i said it first, now everbuddy is using it.
Always a laugh at the shambles , but frankly I would have preferred him to stay.
Chris McLaughlin tweets that Warburton claims know nothing about sevco statement and he has not resigned
Celtc when typed Over and Over, it is not Alllowed.
OK
I Love Celtic
Well The Warbmeister will be disappointed if he has to go before he gets his One Of The Peepil certificate, uniquely numbered don’t ya know.
Chris McLaughlin
@BBCchrismclaug
Mark Warburton says he’s unaware of #Rangers statement regarding his resignation. Says he hasn’t resigned. Bizarre.
The gift that keeps on giving…..
Warbutons bread must stretch back to the leftovers from The Sermont on the Mount….
Smiley breedy thing …
Braw
Put some loose change on Morton at 12/1. Theye’ll not be that price come Sunday….
Duplicate comment incoming so much CELTIC
This must end up in a tribunal surely, it would appear they have put out a story saying MW has resigned but he knows nothing about it according to the BBC, so have they sacked him and are now say ing he wanted to leave? That must be thin ice even for them and their methods.