Congratulations to who originally penned: “We shall not be move, not by the Hearts, the Hibs or The Rangers, erm, we’ll not be moved, OK?” Celtic stand alone, our historic rivals, those who half a century ago denied our grandparents, are gone. Do we have a perfect season ahead? Maybe not, but it will be a unique historical joy nonetheless.
Some of the chat yesterday was that the Premiership would be poorer without Hibernian next season, but anyone who watched Hamilton out-pass and out-play them on Sunday wouldn’t think so. Hibs have offered nothing of note to league football for years. Terry Butcher has got practically everything wrong since arriving at Easter Road but his post-match comment, that perhaps his team needed relegation to thoroughly clear the decks.
Whatever Hibs are they are not competition to Celtic. Our domestic competition next season will come from Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell. United and Aberdeen both finished the season poorly after showing considerable promise early on. Expect Jackie McNamara and Derek McInnes to build on their work over the last year.
If you were an aspiring Championship club you will not have welcomed the Accies result on Sunday. Now clear of their administration travails Hearts have the strongest squad in next season’s Championship. They will also be solvent, able to build on their squad and are likely to sell more season tickets than anyone else in the league.
Hibs’ newly recruited chief exec, Leann Dempster, is potentially the clubs most important recruit in 10 years. She will surely attempt to fit her successful Motherwell template onto the Edinburgh club – and may even have more resources at her disposal.
Queens and Falkirk know they are up against it in their bid for promotion next season but they are two well-run clubs who will have an influence on who does go up. I’m not even prepared to consider anyone else for the promotion spots, some just don’t have the players, some don’t have the management, some don’t have the money to end the season. Some are afflicted by all three ailments.
With the potential of a rejuvenated Hibs making next season’s play-offs, Premiership clubs will spend the next 11 months anticipating the very real possibility that it’s odds on that two clubs will go down next season. Accies and Dundee look more than a match for St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Ross County and Partick Thistle. While Celtic will win the league comfortably, we’re likely to see intense competition between Motherwell, Aberdeen and United for the ‘Best of the Rest’ badge, and between the other eight clubs to stay up.
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BMCUWP:
Brilliant stuff.
2 tickets booked.
thejunglebeforeduringafterthe4:2gemme=ecstacylikenoutbeforeafterinthejunglethemightyjungle…etc…
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Would I be right in thinking that, like me….you look upon cliques
like they are some wee, sneaky fly-mob like
the masons or, the knights?
Folk who ‘sneak aboot in wee gangs’ do so
cos they’ve got sumthing to hide. imho – CSC
Love being here off oot tae work
You’ll never walk alone
True
The Honest Mistake loves being first 08:48 on 28 May, 2014
BMCUWP:
“Brilliant stuff.
“2 tickets booked.”
Can you make it three tickets?
sipsini …got your t shirt on ?
126 years ago celtic football club played their first game
59 years ago i was born
67 years between celtic and me ….mmmmmmm
happy birthday to us
HH
Chaps…….
Don’t be taking your morning coffee as you read back the bhlog today………..
Despite the spoilsport(s) attempt to break up play last nicht……….(usual / unusual suspects)
………..
check oot ACGF’s exchange with Pat McG’s scammer – comedy gold, and well-worthy of a wee serialisation in the CQN mag……..
Also watch out for Thunder Roads antipodean observation….:))))
CQN at its lighthearted best.
Anyhoo……………………….busy day.
HH
bognorbhoy oscar in my thoughts
08:55 on 28 May, 2014
sipsini …got your t shirt on ?
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You’ve got me there?
Happy hoopy birthday to your goodself and the famous Gasgow Celtic. HH
Happy birthday bognorbhoy!
Have a great day :)
Hope you dont think you are entitled to another podium because you are the birtday bhoy.
sipsini
The one that says……….. grand football match
celtic
versus
a side of r#######
monday may 28,1888
HH
Gasgow, jeeso, that’s without a drink :((
For the moment that is, just home from work after doing an asda run.
My daughter kindly text me last night what to get…could be worse you should see the orders she’s left for her brother.
I pity the poor bloke she marries. :)
sipsini / Thunder Road
cheers
no podium chasing today :-(( working
HH
I see Michael Laudrup is in the papers today … seems like the press picks a name at random and links them. I do take a childish glee at the fact that they clearly have no idea what’s happening.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 08:43 on28 May, 2014
THE HONEST MISTAKE
I have a bit more time to post now that the work has eased off.
If there is any chance of getting a third ticket that would be great, as I think someone else will be interested in coming along.
Thanks in advance.
the honest mistake loves being first
08:48 on 28 May, 2014
BMCUWP:
Brilliant stuff.
2 tickets booked.
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Marvellous,bud.
Tyvm,see ya there. I’ll bring my songbook.
KevJungle,who misses, Murdo Macleod’s – ball-winning,hun-skelping,title-winning,net-bursting,Jungle-party-inducing-displays,in the hoops
08:46 on 28 May, 2014
Just in to ask – whats the beef with
Owen Coyle?
He’s a crap manager. Simple as that.
Oooops.
the honest mistake loves being first
08:48 on 28 May, 2014
BMCUWP:
Brilliant stuff.
2 tickets booked.
Re STEINREIGNEDSUPREME coming along,can you make it three tickets please?
Apparently I’m too drunk to go to work
So says my son
Maybe I was too drunk to go to the hospital when he was born
So says me
(-;
ɥɥ
zo ɯoɹɟ
˙ʎoɥqɹouƃoq ʎɐpɥʇɹıq ʎddɐɥ
John McGeogh was born 59 years ago today.
What a great guitarist he was.
Magazine – Definitive Gaze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtI_EVA9zYI
Gary67
09:21 on 28 May, 2014
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Is Owen Coyle any crap-er a manager than BTM?
You see, I ask that cos….the very folk who brought
BTM to Celtic, still hold office – thats a worry. imho
Steinreignedsupreme- Greenock’s greatest guitarist?
HAPPY HOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY
to
my sister,love hugs and kisses.
And to BOGNORBHOY who can get his l h and k elsewhere!
travellerbhoy,
Your son is a smart bhoy, it was a pleasure to meet you both at the hootenany.
Maybe a wee kip might help.HH
Also a happy birthday to wee Kylie.
So,why not?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx3WX4DES0&feature=kp
Sacked
Magic
I started this company
The golden boy takes over
Sack me
Sack me
I am the bbc
Father tedcfc
Dontbrattbakkinanger 09:28 on 28 May, 2014
“Greenock’s greatest guitarist?”
By some distance. Not sure what the competition is like, right enough…
Another great McGeogh tune: Susan and the Banshees – Israel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnjRH826Clw
Tomorrow is payroll day over at Mordor.
justsayinglike csc
I think Django Reinhardt was from Gibshill.
a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMqwTOFhXc”>The Late, The Great and the Most Humble – Mr. Sean Fallon
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
23:43 on 27 May, 2014
Reel him in Bud :))))))))
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Travellerbhoy
Y.N.W.A
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bognorbhoy& Ye olde BMCUWs sister :)))
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY
Till later
gettin SENT tae shops,where did it all change :)))
KevJungle,who misses, Murdo Macleod’s – ball-winning,hun-skelping,title-winning,net-bursting,Jungle-party-inducing-displays,in the hoops
09:25 on 28 May, 2014
Gary67
09:21 on 28 May, 2014
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Is Owen Coyle any crap-er a manager than BTM?
You see, I ask that cos….the very folk who brought
BTM to Celtic, still hold office – thats a worry. imho
OC is a crap-er manager than BTM, IMO, and we know how he turned out.
3 out of last 4 managers, appointed b
3 out of last 4 managers, appointed by current regime have been successful, not a bad hit rate
Some of his 19 grand-children, RTÉ, all of Ireland and Sligo in particular, Sir Alex Ferguson, and Celtic too, pay tribute to Sean Fallon in his last ever interview.
Birthday Greetings to Bognorbhoy and BMCUP’s sister……and to anyone else who are celebrating today.
I asked a question last week, but never saw any responses.
Will Hearts and Hibs get Grade 1 refs for their games next season, or is it the sole preserve of new clubs?
Tony Mowbray was appointed because Owen Coyle [amongst others] turned it down.
The job is manager of the famous Glasgow Celtic, not manager of Cowdenbeath.
apologies for screwing up that first link, but I enjoyed him talking about his dad and his war dad’s war wound and how he levelled his very own playing field.
The Late, Great and most humble – Mr. Sean Fallon
Courtesy of TSFM site…a wee article by that moron Leckie talking them up and not lamenting in the least the lack of competition in the Scottush game when THEY were on top of the pile.
It is an article written by Bill Leckie in 1997. For those wondering who ‘Muz’ is, it is clearly Murray.
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Leckie, 1997
All I can say is, massive respect is due to Rangers – and Muz in particular – for keeping Brian Laudrup in the game.
And before all you Celtic fans – including the one standing over me with a
rolling pin as I write this – start giving it the there-ye-go-ah-always-
knew-he-was-wanna-them paranoia, remember one thing.
Rangers also beat you when Laudrup WASN’T playing.
This time last week I was all set to write a piece on how they had finally,
eventually, taken the leap forward they’ve threatened for so long; but then
the news broke that their greatest asset was leaving.
Suddenly all the summer’s advances – the arrival of a foreign coach, the
signing of Thern and two top-drawer defenders, the Defenders lost their
sheen.
You wondered just what a downer there would be on the day their Great Dane
went walkies for good.
A couple of seasons ago, last summer even, you wouldn’t have bet tuppence on
Muz being able to talk the boy round. But something has happened at Ibrox,
something you can’t put your finger on, which seems to have propelled them
into a different orbit.
And so, as Ajax sat back waiting with a spacecake and an Oranjeboom and
Fergie came out gloating that the player was his, Muz quietly got down to
the business of making Laudrup stay.
Were I a Celtic man, I would be so afraid. No manager, no sign of a manager,
two biggest names threatening to do a bunk, no sign of new blood, season
ticket holders in a major huff.
Call me picky, but things do not look good. And hell mend them.
I cannot believe how quickly and how far Fergus McCann has allowed things to
slip, especially after Tommy Burns took them so close.
It is easy to say now that Burns was a failure, but what is nearer to the
truth is that he was a very good manager with the wrong club.
The closer he got to toppling Rangers, the more his emotional attachment to
Celtic overtook the rational thinking his job required.
Others would disagree, but I reckon Burns will go on to be a huge success
elsewhere, starting in King Kenny’s bootroom at the Toon.
What is not up for argument, though, is that Celtic are in a far worse state
without him than they were with him. Rangers are leaving them further and
further behind with every passing day and there is no white smoke from the
Parkhead chimney to signal a comeback.
The Ibrox men are, I reckon, one more signing away from finally leaving
their greatest rivals – and, therefore, the rest of us – so far behind them
they will be no more than a dancing dot on the horizon.
Who is that signing? I’d go for Batistuta – though Muz says no – but whoever
they end up with he will be big time and he will be here soon.
It’s enough to make any Celtic fan hide behind the couch. Sorry? Oh, you
already are.
Kitalba
Did you note that Res12 is parked over at Hampden?
Having had the tank filled Celtic drove it there. They were always ready to do so given sufficient fuel but wanted it done quietly.
It just took a while to fill the tank.
Hopefully matters will become more transparent but the story is still being written and the ending is unpredictable but it will be told when the story ends.
One of the aims of Res12 was to get at the truth, a concept part of Scottish football and society struggles to grasp. Hence the time taken and need to go about the job quietly.