Virgil van Dijk looks like a level-headed footballer, so I don’t think his game will be upset by his agent’s loose lips. He has enjoyed a remarkably successful first season at Celtic Park but any attempt by his representatives to create an earner this summer is likely to be inhibited by the three years remaining on his Celtic contract.
There is always a risk of serious injury, but short of that, Virgil’s market value will not diminish in the next 12 months and may even appreciate. He is in a completely different situation from Victor Wanyama and Gary Hooper, who glided into the last two and one year of their contracts respectively.
It’s a truism of football that those spending a nation’s the mineral wealth on football players tend to get what they want, but it remains to be seen if a handful of Champions League performances are enough to tempt this kind of approach onto the table. Great player though he promises to be, Virgil’s not been tested at the top level over a prolonged period.
Thanks again for all your support of the Mary’s Meals Malawi school kitchen project ahead of Friday’s CQteN St Patrick’s Day dinner. You can get involved here.
For whisky aficionados, we have a very special auction running between now and 12:00 on Friday. We have bottle No. 1 of a limited edition (291 in total) Craigallachie Telford’s Bridge, in a wooden box and presentation cardboard tube, whit an authentication certificate.
Bids are by email only to auction@celticquicknews.co.uk. This is a rare and valuable bottle, an opening bid of £100 is on the table. Shipping within UK and Ireland is included. Please include contact details and your bid amount.
Rest in Peace, Rose Theresa Brennan, who died yesterday, and our thoughts and prayers to Martin42 on the loss of his mother, for the difficult days ahead.
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WeeFra and DD
Sounds like a plan. Need to book ma flights now!
I usually drink in BB but will head for the new pub at the ground to meet you lads.
I will send email as you say WeeFra. Nae smokin mind!!
DD
Whit, dearie me, out of touch big time, well I suppose a lot of palms need to be greased to allow it on the streets, on the streets btw is through diplomatic channels, did you know that over 90% of heroin, and over 80% of hash-grass that enters the UK comes in through those channels, not something that the msm bleats about, I wonder why, Mmmmm >}
HH
Coneybhoy
That would be great, weefra and I have a habit that means we leave you alone for 5 mins, every so often. :))
TET
Peed me right off, but in fairness, in better climates it would work a treat. My big point is, why have labour never been voted in since McConnell got stuffed? The smoking ban. He misjudged the Scottish working class and it destroyed his party. He was well warned on the lead up to the election of the strength of feeling in the country, but because of the party’s majority, he went with it. Damn them, if they ever get in to power again, I hope they listen to the people that matter. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Tet
Sad, I know. Backward Scotland.
coneybhoy @ DD
Soooooo looking forward to that meet. keep me posted guys. :-)))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I forgot to mention the amount of cocaine that comes through them channels, it amounts to round about the same as the heroin, slightly more if the truth be known >}
HH
Far more important than any independence debate…..coz I don’t get to vote anyway….Heyho,no loss of sleep for me though!!
Even more important than any roasted / toasted cheese debate,even.
When you make yourself a sandwich(could be a toasted sandwich…..doesn’t matter!!)…..After you make the filling and plonk one slice of bread on top of the bottom slice,which is by now covered in your choice of filling (roast beef and coleslaw in this instance)……….
Do you:
Be a right greedy bassa and just eat it without cutting the sandwich?
Cut the sandwich diagonally whilst slavering?
Cut the sandwich horizontally whilst slavering?
And…..Mini Cheddars or McCoys on the side?
StarvingatmidnightCSC
TET&DD @0009
That was the deals I was on about. Hahahaha. Cot time, Night Night Timland.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Weefra
Me too. GNGB, construction in the morn.
Paul67 and Martin42
Just catching up as I’ve not been on all day.
Please accept my sincere condolences on your sad loss.
May perpetual light shine upon Rose Theresa.
Weefra
I have only set foot in scotland once since the smoking ban was introduced, so I really don’t know what it’s like, but i can imagine, publicans won’t spend money in catering for smokers, they will do the min they have to, here it’s fine, most days the sun is out and we cn sit outside, most bars have a canopy for the winter time, they cater for their customers.
Anyways, it’s a filthy habit >}
HH
The Easdales doing the divvy.
http://youtu.be/5fgOR6Q8_38
I don’t smoke…..well, not since i was 10!
I don’t mind it that much though, apart from when it drifts right into my face!
Personally i think alcohol is a MUCH bigger problem, but i partake in my fair share.
Anyway my point is…..a wee story.
I work in the NHS and like so many employer’s they have banned it.
There is a particular manager that has been on a wee crusade to catch smokers over the last few years and she is pretty unpopular.
Because of the trust policies smoking on the hospital grounds and even in your own car could lead to disciplinary action.
Now this manager is quite a big girl and i don’t mean tall.
1 day she caught a few guys having a puff on the hospital grounds and she tore into them about it.
She asked if they knew just how much smoking was costing the NHS and to his credit, 1 of the guys asked innocently……about the same as obesity?
Not sure if he still works there now!
No twice, how could I forget.
HH
Talking about people living to a ripe old age……
Name one member of the UK Royal Family that has died from cancer in the last 50 years?
Statistically it eventually gets 1 in 3 of us at whatever age.
Makes you think,ey?
ParanoidrepublicanCSC
Rye
Essiac is the reason.
HH
Rye
It’s all there, it cures cancer, and a multitude of other things, fact, the drug co’s can’t have it on the market, end of.
http://www.healthfreedom.info/essiac%20aids.htm
HH
Tet….
Seriously,is this the Canadian herbal tea they trialled years ago?
I reckon they have some expensively pure Bicarbonate of Soda for certain people…..hmmmmm
Paul and Martin
Please accept my condolences for your sad loss.
Tet….
Thanks for the info….
Will do some research soon.
Off to bed now.
GNGB
Hail Hail
Rye
It is, and it does the biz, I have seen it first hand how it works, my Ma was told she had 3 months tops, she was around for 3 more years, and when she did go, she died pain free, she refused any help the NHS was offering.
I take it every day as a preventative, I smoke, I drink, I am overweight, and I’m getting old, I have had no more one or two boughts of the cold in the time I have been taking it, say about seven years now, I reckon that’s a no bad stat, no asking you to believe me, but I have no reason to lie.
HH
WeefratheTim
OK I will do that, but i will wait a wee while because he will have enough goin on.
I wouldn’t mind paying a bit more than “normal” eggs just to try them once, but……as much as i would love to try em……..there a line that i wouldn’t cross!
Thanks for now though, eh.
bawbaws for me!
Tet…
Where can I source this legally,bud?
DD ans WeeFra
I don’t know how to mail P67 to pass on my mail to uou guys. Can you do ir? Same result
Rye
It’s perfectly legal, there are 1000s of places that will sell it to you, most are looking to rip you off.
There are very few that will not rip you off.
Mail me at nohunshere@hotmail.com and I will give you the place where a years supply will cost you 50-80 of your brit pounds.
The stuff they sell is as near as dammit 100% organic as well, they are not a scam job.
HH
Smoking in public places was horrible. I don’t care what anyone says but it was selfish and left others stinking of the smoke. I didn’t want that.
I haven’t entered into health issues as I don’t need to.
One last thing put the fag ends in a bin ya lazy gits.
So there you go.
Tet….
Will do mate.
Nite nite
Hail x 2
Sleep well Timland
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
Beebawbabbity –
C’mon I hardly “slaughtered” the guy.
And what do you mena when you say “it doesn’t work like that”.
I said I didn’t think Tony would make it at Celtic, which is obviously nothing more than my own opinion. I then said if I am proved wrong then I’d be delighted.
What is wrong with that and why is it not allowed?
Could you do me a favour and send me a copy of your CQN rule book for future reference?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know how to mail P67 to pass on my email to DD and WeeFra?
Paul67
Condolences. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
God bless.
Smoking!? & Second hand smoke!!!!
My brother was an Internee in the late 50’s -60’s, gave them up for obvious reasons!
‘Was’nt earning, didn’t want his family lumbered with unnecessary burdens,etc.
I had to take him ‘privately’, just recently, ‘for a review of his general health’ the Consultant, asked him, if he smoked!, my brother replied,’not for 56 years’ , the Consultant told his Secretary to , ‘put him down as a smoker’!
The government of Northern Ireland, in line, with the rest of the UK, have just passed a law,
underlining, the right of the NHS to, use SMOKERS lungs, for TRANSPLANTS!
Digest that!
H.H.
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Just booked my flight to GLA on 22nd. No return on the day from Aer Lingus back to DUB, there never was with Ryanair.
I usually get home on the last flight
Really makes it hard to get over with out a night in GLA now. Hotel conspiracy.
Looks like I will have a few libations back in Ayrshire after the game and kip at ma maw’s hoose
On the subject of smoking, I wrote the following for a magazine in the UK. Still trying to find the link, but in the meantime . . .
Last night I was talking to my 17 year-old grand-daughter. She was bemoaning the fact that her mother – my daughter-in-law – smokes cigarettes. Susan wondered out loud why we adults are so stupid as to risk our health and indeed our lives in the pursuit of such a “filthy and disgusting habit”. I resisted the urge to point out to her that it is not just we older people who smoke, while I wondered what kind of school she attends where none of her peers inhale the dreaded weed. Or perhaps they do it in secret, behind the bicycle sheds – do they still have bicycle sheds in modern day schools? – away from the prying eyes and sensitive noses of non-smokers like Susan, and more urgently, prowling teachers intent on catching them red, or nicotine-stain, handed.
Susan was on a mission as she mocked the world at large for allowing the sale of cigarettes in the first place.
“It’s all about profit and greed,” she said, turning up her little nose as if she had just caught a whiff of tobacco smoke. “Why should the big capitalist tobacco conglomerates care about people’s health when there are millions to be made?”
I began to wonder if she had been reading my weekly copy of Socialist Worker again.
“I understand where you are coming from girl,” I replied in an empathetic tone. “But it isn’t as bad as it used to be. The authorities have done a lot over the years to make smokers feel unwanted and unwelcome in most public places.”
“But it should be banned everywhere. Made totally illegal.”
“Even in the comfort of one’s own home?” I asked, playing devil’s advocate.
“Yes. All smokers should be transported to an island somewhere and left to smoke themselves and each other to death.”
I began to wonder where my grand-daughter was getting all this pent-up anger. As a non-smoker myself, I would not object to a total ban on smoking, but at the same time I realise it would be utterly impractical and unworkable.
“When I was your age, smokers were allowed to smoke anywhere and everywhere.”
“Where exactly?”
“Well, anywhere really. In restaurants. In the cinema. In the theatre.”
“No way.”
“Seriously,” I put my book down and gave her my full attention. “Ask your mum and dad. Believe it or not, people smoked in the waiting room at the doctor’s surgery.”
“You’re kidding me.”
“In fact, when you got in to see the doctor, sometimes he was puffing away as he examined you.”
“Now I know you are kidding me.”
“Seriously Susan, there was no restriction on smoking. Very few at least.”
She tilted her head slightly and looked at me for a few moments, deep in thought, rather like an attentive puppy dog.
“What about on an aircraft?”
“Yes, even there,” I confirmed, warming to the subject. “You were allowed to smoke on the plane. Well at least after take-off. When the plane had taken off, the no-smoking light went out and people would instantly light up.”
“But wasn’t it dangerous?”
“Of course it was – looking back. But in those days, as I have said, you could smoke anywhere. It was only through time that society woke up to the dangers of allowing people to smoke anywhere and everywhere.”
“They really smoked in the surgery?”
“Yes they did. In fact, as a teenager I remember my father being rushed to hospital with a hernia. When I went to visit him, patients were smoking in their beds.”
“Bullshit!”
“No shit. In fact, when the doctor came round to look at my father, he examined his stitched wound with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.”
“Oh my God that is so gross.”
“It gets better. When my first son was born – your uncle Tony – your grandmother, God rest her soul, was lying there, legs akimbo, and the midwife delivered the baby with a cigarette in her mouth.”
“Urgh!”
“Several times she had to brush away ash from your grandmother’s thighs.”
“No.”
“When I was at school I had to visit the dentist to have a tooth pulled.”
“No. Don’t tell me.”
“The dentist looked down into my wide open mouth with a burning cigarette hanging from between his lips. The dental nurse stood there with an ashtray which, at his signal, she would place under the cigarette and allow him to drop the ash into it with a clever flick of his tongue. A couple of times I coughed and spluttered as ash fell into my mouth.”
“Oh no. I swear I would have thrown up.”
“It was common for surgeons to perform brain surgery and open-heart surgery with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.”
“Stop it or I really will throw up.”
“Many a patient was sown-up after surgery with cigarette ash, and even the occasional stubbed-out cigarette end still in their bodies.”
“Shut up. I don’t want to hear any more . . .”
“Some surgeons believed in cauterising internal bleeding by stubbing their cigarette out on the offending wound.”
Susan ran to the toilet and as I returned to my book, I could hear her retching as her stomach reacted to the images I had implanted in her over-active brain.
“Happened all the time,” I shouted above the sound of more retching.
Paul and Martin sincere condolences on your loss.
They never die who live on in our hearts.
GCT…0106
Apologies for the ‘split’ post…gremlins and big thumbs.My point to you should have come across as for lazy journalism read ‘ it doesn’t work like that’….which I thought was the principle of the site……no made up rules from me. Did you read Tony’s account of events in terms of playing time? Sounded perfectly reasonable to most who commented on the Belgian manager. Some times we should look at the shortfalls of some coaches who lack that important ingredient of man management and getting the best out of a player.My opinion is that others,Balde,Pukki,Kayal ( maybe more) ,suffer from this void at Celtic Park.Hope this clarifies the initial post,good luck
BBB