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Treble chasing; business, not personal, the dirty battle

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Amid the general hilarity on Scottish football at the moment I’m sure it’s not escaped Ronny Deila’s attention that we have one of our most important games of the season coming up on Saturday.  The league is a marathon without any specific focus, the League Cup final is another huge game, but facing Dundee away is exactly the kind of game a club who are chasing a treble often lose.

It was Dundee who knocked the Aberdeen bandwagon off its tracks.  Given half a chance they will do the same to Celtic on Saturday.

Kenny McDowall must have felt a bit humiliated at being told he has to pick players on loan from Newcastle United, although clearly not humiliated enough to tell them to stuff the remainder of his contract.

Llambias’ instruction appears bizarre, but there’s always two sides to each story.  If McDowall informed his chief executive that he would not use the players, for reasons other than sporting merit, Llambias may well feel justified in making the instruction.

This public shaming of Llambias, the board, and by extension, Mike Ashley, is another act in a dirty battle.  Still, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business”, as Dave King almost said about Ashley yesterday.

Ashley’s men may be robbed of the ability to pick the team after an EGM next month, but he remains able to inflict a lot of ‘assistance towards the club’ before then.  If I can paraphrase Tom Hagan, ‘Mr Ashley never asks a second favour once he’s refused the first, understood?’  When personal offence has been taken, sometimes even good business isn’t enough to bring a ruthless patriarch to the table.

When news of the attack on the 10-year-old boy broke on Monday I assumed it would be a matter of hours before the offender was charged.  Three days on without news is concerning.  It appears that those who associate with people who believe random violence is acceptable and care little about the application on justice – which has nothing to do with any specific policing issue.

Hard cash is now available to anyone with information leading to an arrest. If you can’t report the offender for the sake of the victim, do it for the money.  You don’t need to be a witness to report the issue and collect the reward, you just need to know enough to get the ball rolling.

Well done to all who have gotten involved in the appeal to help the victim, especially organiser Rod Lee.  Stunning work, Rod.

CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, Cup Final weekend, Friday 13 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park, email me for details, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  3. corkcelt on

    Kev J, I’m lurking for a few months but am breaking my lurking status to respond to your disgraceful comment. As a member of the Catholic faith, I was appalled by the entire child abuse scandal. It was clear that certain men who were totally unsuited for priest-hood did join and their actions were indeed disgraceful to the extreme. I am very confident that this cancer has been rooted out and the present child protection practices are amongst the best and most thorough of any organisation in my country. To now make a flippant remark that the Catholic Church is full of paedos is an insult to many on this blog, We as lay Catholics are part of the Church so you are directly smearing us and insulting us. There should be no yellow card, you should be kicked off this site immediately and you can stick any apology.

  5. yorkbhoy on

    OK in an attempt to drag the blog out of the gutter.

     

    Who is your favourite Celtic signing ( not someone who came to Celtic and did well, like Lubo) but someone who you were excited about when they signed and did well?

  11. jimbo67 on

    Morning all

     

     

    Seems a bit rancorous round here this morning so thanks to Roy for his post at 9.59. Andy Lynch stayed round the corner from me and that goal was something similar to Dixie’s hat trick in72 for Andy as it went a long way to atoning for his personal humiliation at Fir Park a fortnight earlier. Saw him at a funeral not so long ago and he still looked pretty fit

     

     

     

    Ah well I suppose its back to the Miss Marple theories, the political bickering and as he has been quiet these last few days the Airstrip One slogans in BIG LETTERS AND LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!

     

     

    Thanks Roy for managing to remind me of a specifically happy memory of my adolescence and generally that supporting Celtic can be a lot of fun

     

     

     

    Jimbo67

  12. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    Awright. Chris Sutton.

     

     

    But I’ll bet WG widnae badmouth us in the papers!

  15. gearoid1998 on

    Yorkbhoy10.08

     

    Strange choice from me (and no doubt will change as others respond) but because he CHOSE us over other suitors Alan Stubbs.

     

    ThemwasthedaysCSC

  18. WeefratheTim on

    Good morning all.

     

     

    See I’ve been missing all the fun!

     

     

    BMCUW

     

     

    Aye ok, second auldest. Smartass. Lol.

     

     

    Email received, Dignity indeed.

     

     

    Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.

  19. BigMike on

    Just to say welcome back Jobo!

     

     

    As for KJ, this piece of work should never be allowed to post on here again for his latest outburst.

  21. yorkbhoy on

    I would go for Chris Sutton but not sure if it’s with hindsight ( I thought Regi Blinker was going to be a great Tim)

  22. roy croppie on

    I loved the signing of Billy Stark too. In no way was it as exciting as McAvennie but it intrigued me and he was a great addition.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Thanks for the comments Bhoys, much appreciated but it’s ‘All About the Celtic’ as a mate of mine continually reminds me when discussing any topic you can think of.

  23. up_over_goal on

    corkcelt

     

     

    I am very confident that this cancer has been rooted out and the present child protection practices are amongst the best and most thorough of any organisation in my country

     

     

    It would seem Pope Francis, for one, doesn’t agree with you.

     

     

    http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/06/396369/Pope-urges-clergy-to-root-out-child-abuse

     

     

    Oh, and er..

     

     

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/01/images-child-abuse-found-vatican

     

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31013653

     

     

    I have no wish to denigrate anyone, but saying child abuse has been ‘rooted out’ of the Catholic church and that ‘the present child protection practices are amongst the best and most thorough of any organisation in my country’??? Can’t be having that.

  25. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Yorkbhoy

     

    We didnae sign Regi

     

    He was traded. 8))

     

     

    Roy

     

    Great stuff

  31. CultsBhoy on

    Time for the medication round – CQN needs a CPN……

     

     

    Yorkbhoy

     

     

    My favourite signing could be GMS…he will be a sensation and important for our younger supporters. My football mad 12 yr old loves his moves and can’t wait to see him at work in the hopps.

     

     

    My personal favourite player was Paul McStay cloely followed by Henrik. But the signing that surprised me most in terms of being a great player was Jackie MacNamara. He epitomised everything I’d look for in a player if I were the manager. Give me an 8/10 guy who gives you 10/10 effort every week…every time over a guy who is 10/10 but inconsistent.

     

     

    Teams are built on players like McStay and Macnamara. Brown has belatedly become that foundation stone for the current team.

  34. yorkbhoy on

    blantyretim is praying for the knox family

     

     

    10:18 on 6 February, 2015

     

    Yorkbhoy

     

    We didnae sign Regi

     

    He was traded. 8))

     

     

    Yeah for Di Canio… Hmmm

  36. up_over_goal on

    CultsBhoy

     

     

    Brown has belatedly become that foundation stone for the current team.

     

     

    Would that were true.

     

     

    Ronny would drop every member of that squad before he’d drop Johansen, unfortunately.

  37. corkcelt on

    up over goal. I’m not being complacent, we have to be ever vigilant. I know what is happening in my parish and I am confidently saying, that the child protection code instituted is thorough and comprehensive. I am not foolish enough to believe that in a Church of over a billion that there are not bad apples, of course there are. However there are thousands and thousands of great people inspired by their Catholic Faith, working at every social level, at home and abroad to make a positive contribution to their society. There is no praise or acknowledgement for all those people, who are the real Catholic Church. Yet some people feel its OK to make a jibe such as the Catholic Church is full of paedos. Well its not, and I for one will stand up for my Faith.

  41. Alfie Noakes on

    Celtic (i.e Peter & Board) have made an exception by re-signing – they have changed the policy of new signings by going along with Ronny & John’s wish to recruit the cream of Scottish talent.

     

     

    I think now is the time for all the resident PL/Board-haters to start consuming large dollops of ‘humble pie’

     

     

    In the confines of the Scottish football environment, The Celtic Football Club is doing the VERY best it can

     

     

    FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT – FACT

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