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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Paul deepest sympathies
A rose so rare,
one of it’s kind,
love and beauty a mother,
yes!
mine.
A rose without thorns,
not a petal was torn,
a perfect rose stood straight and tall,
my mother was the most precious of all.
A rose that survived the worst kind of weather and yet the most delicate ever,
a rose with a fragrance,
there could be know other,
you see this rose is my Mother.
A rose is picked and put to dry,
the beauty is still there,
it never dies.
Born67
ryecatcher
23:40 on
11 March, 2014
My 83 year auld da once told me an interesting statistic…..,
100% of non smokers die.
_____________________________________________________________
And a huge % of smokers die prematurely………..
………………..from smoking related causes.
Beebawbabbity –
Thanks for your response. As I say, I’ll gladly eat humble pie if I am proved wrong.
Thoughts and prayers with the Brennan family at this sad time.
Gerald766 @ 1.32
The decision to use smokers’ and ex-smokers’ lungs for transplant reflects the appalling shortage of donors versus recipients. It doesn’t for a second indicate that smoking doesn’t do huge and often fatal damage.
So many people die while waiting on the transplant list that the nhs had now been forced into this move as something close to a last resort.
HH jamesgang
My sincere condolences to the Brennan family.
Sorry for your loss Paul and family .
For those of you with Apple products, I see there have been “improvements” to the Calendar function with their latest IOS update.
I updated yesterday to IOS7.1
One of these “improvements” is that it has added “Battle of The Boyne” to my calendar on 12th July!!!
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I was a smoker for over 50 years, till I went in for my hip replacement op. In nov. 2012, they where tellin me about my pre. Op. What kind of medication I would be on in my post op. I would be on this an that an all sorts of drugs, and seen as I was a smoker they would be putting a patch on me, so I said no forget the patch, as I was on enough stuff I hate drugs of any kind, but I understood that at the time needs must for some of them but the patch I could do without, I woke up from that op. Couldent remember a thing till the next day, as I said I hate drugs and react diff. From normal ( some would load up on that statement) anyway, they next day they where telling me what I had done :( , it was the night of the Celtic Barcalona game, and the guy in the next bed to me had the game on his radio, and when he told me Tony Watt had scored to make it 2-0 I went fecking Tonto :( , and the guy across the ward from me had a knee op. That day and he was shouting over to me to keep it down, un be knowing to me by this time I was gone on an other planet, I picked up a packet of chocolate digestive biscuits launched the right across the ward at the poor guy with the knee op, and the scattered all over the feckin place, they sedated me and I was out of the game the whole night, I was so embarrassed the next morning when they told me, they get you up the next day after the op. To get you mobile as soon as possible so I went over and appolligised to the guy, turned out he was a Tim, and he was ok with it, but he did laugh and say, he did take offence at me calling him a dob :( , anyway after I got out I haven’t had a fag since, and it hasent even came into my mind to have one either, strange night indeed ;) , true story, ask Masty.
Take care of yourself and your family Paul67. Hard when the old ones leave us, for a time. Thoughts and prayers for you and yours. I am sure Rose was a pround Mum and Grandmother who lived a full and happy life with her family.
Good morning friends from East Kilbride where, like yesterday, it’s a bright, clear skied sunny but frosty start to the day.
2 more sleeps.
Sincere Condolences for the Entire Brennan family
May Perpetual light shine upon Rose Theresa
Thoughts and prayers
Oh and what a legacy you set Rose, a family who care for and will support the life’s of thousands in the future
Cowiebhoy back home in Bannockburn
tonydonnelly67
07:16 on
12 March, 2014
Love it,Tony.
Love it.
I remember hearing somewhere that anaesthetists always had some concerns about the post-op reactions of red haired patients.
Maybe the cap fits?
TD67
That sounds like it should be filmed as a comedy sketch! For the record there were plenty of us going mentol on that night, regardless of what chemicals were or weren’t in our systems!
CelticInMyVeinsCSC
HH jamesgang
Macjay1
Half of smokers die from a disease caused by smoking.
Half of these deaths occur in middle age (35-64).
In a country like UK, each smoker’s death in middle age loses 23 years on a non-smokers life expectancy.
Smoking’s a real mug’s game but the Exchequer loves it !!
Exchequer does love it. But actually shouldn’t. Because once ALL the associated costs are added up the nation as a whole actually LOSES money!!
This is because costs like accidental fires, picking up gag ends, loss of GDP associated with long term respiratory conditions aren’t factored into the headline figures that are usually cited.
HH jamesgang
Macjay1
No not a red head, red faced the next day? Yes, lol.
Right. Aff oot I go. To work. At a health charity that specialises in lung health/disease!!!! In case you hadn’t guessed.
All joking aside if any of you and yours are affected by lung disease or you want to know more about how to protect the weans from second hand smoke (+80% of which is invisible and had no smell) drop me a line and I’ll help in any way I can.
Not quite the same as Pat which his beanies and new tyres but I’ll do whatever I can!!!
HH jamesgang
Sorry Jamesgang
This is a myth propogated by Big Tobacco based a commissioned research.
Tax is not an issue: governments are ingenious at finding sources of tax.
The problem is Pensions. If no one smoked cigarettes then life expectancy in UK would increase by over 2 years. This would bankrupt every pension and social security system in Europe.
The struggle on this issue between Health and Treasury is vitriolic in Governments.
Thoughts, prayers and condolences with the Brennan family, Rose will be very proud of her legacy
Bigyininmilan.
What is a myth? The ‘it doesn’t recover costs’ point I made?
These were the conclusions of scotland specific work undertaken by ash scotland who are as far removed and opposed to big tobacco as it’s possible to be.
But I do def agree about big tobacco’s love of spin and BS in their commissioned research.
As for the overall costings to public (ultimately our) monies, cash saved on pensions is certainly wiped out by the costs to nhs (staff, premises and drugs), GDP and family income (when people are forced to become carers), etc, etc. Catch 22 as there’s then less in the pension pots – at govt and family levels.
Respiratory disease had an horrific cost. Certainly to families but to the public purse too.
HH jamesgang
Apols. HAS an horrific cost. Not past tense. Maybe one day.
Morning all. Looks like another lovely day beckons down here. Long may it continue.
Any more hilarity from Govan? I believe their spin doctor has walked away. Is he joining King?
Train arr in the toon. Aff oot.
HH Timdom. Be ghood to one another.
HH jamesgang
Another death of a pensioner left on a trolley in an A &E ward being investigated in the
Royal Hospital in Belfast
‘They will get you somehow’ !
H.H.
To me, it looks like the spin doctor got in over his head, and the boys from across the Irish Sea have had enough, things haven’t been the same with thems and the new board since chuckles promised them that new Orange Strip, and it never came to fruition, am tellin yi, it’s awe gonny end in tears at some point.
FF are still on the hunt to get Celtic and the GCC for us getting money and preferential treatment
New thread on our new Celtic park walkway
Taxpayer cash funds new Celtic Park walkway
And the ole favourite land deals a thread now running at 87 pages, are they obsessed?
TRS: “European Commission seek explanation on Celtic land deals” apparently its all in this link all the dirt……………………………………………
…http://t.co/ILRR8qpJgS
Tony Donnelly –
Great story.
My father was in for surgery about 10 years ago. There was an elderly guy in the opposite bed who had just come out of his own surgery and, like you, was on myriad medication.
My wife and I were visiting my father and the other guy’s curtains were drawn so we couldn’t see him, but he was throwing little brown balls of excrement over the screen at all and sundry. The nurse had to give him a sedative to calm him down before taking on the onerous task of cleaning up after him.
Next morning. The man was brand new and was talking away as normal. Eventually he asked the other men in the ward if they fancied a dip into his big box of Quality Street.
Quick as a flash, my father said, “If they’re anything like the maltesers you were dishing out last night, ye can stick them up yer arse!”
Just heard that Wenger complaining about diving. He always sees it when it happens against his team; never when his team practise it. No respect.
Good Morning,
CQ10 approaches — but only a fraction of all the CQN’ers will be there on the night as obviously we can’t get everyone into the one place unless we have some kind of convention in a huge arena.
However can I ask everyone going — and especially all those not going — top watch the first couple of minutes of the film below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFU8cU-cICs
And then do what you can on Paul’s donate page.
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/paulbrennan68
Remember the auction for ACGR’s unique bottle of whisky mentioned in Paul’s leader — it is a really special dram and he has kindly donated it to the cause.
Cheers
We can make a difference
BRTH
Royal Boy a n/r in the first at Cheltenham.
Yesterday, someone on here posted a link to a petition to have the semi-final played at a neutral ground should Sevco beat Rovers. I sent it to a United supporting pal of mine and received this reply:
“To be honest Jim most Utd fans i know including myself want to beat them at Ibrox in semi.”
A fair point.
JJ
GCT…………hilarious post.What other forum gives you the opportunity to debate independence,NHS.Smoking,Carry on Nurse and regular reviews of a wee out of season pantomime in the Sputh Side whilst also recognising the sorrow of a grieving family.
Not just a club indeed.
BBB
Martin, Paul and Kevin, I’m saddened to hear of your loss, my sincere condolences to you and all your family and to all your mum’s/grannie’s friends and loved ones. Martin, you be strong mate.
BigYinMilan
07:34 on
12 March, 2014
Mate.
Lived through all the bull about smoking is safe with filter-tipped cigarettes or menthol fags and the blatant lies of the tobacco “barons” who lined up ,as a man,to reiterate their belief that smoking did not harm one`s health.
My understanding is that these days Hollywood “stars” are paid a huge bounty to be seen smoking in their movies.
These messages are not directed to the Western world.
In the words of the now late,then dying Yul Brynner.
Don`t smoke .
Whatever you do, just don`t smoke.
The late Yul Brynner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI
So, the sevco PR guru was sacked yesterday…? ….. didn’t notice THAT being reported yesterday …never mind, probably missed it, due being busy…..?
67 Heaven
Given that he’s the one who writes most of the copy maybe he decided he didn’t want it reported too widely?!?
HH jamesgang