What price an SPFL game against Celtic in America? £2m? More? You can’t blame Dundee for being enterprising but I can’t see this initiative happening.
Celtic are the Great Gravy Train of Scottish football. We defy the status of our league to reach European Nirvana, which enriches us but also pays a healthy dividend to our supportive (cough) domestic competitors. The Caravan of Celtic arrives once or twice a year at each location, bringing paying fans and TV cameras. Therein lies the business model of many Scottish football clubs.
This is fair enough, but there are limits beyond which it’s inappropriate to spread the Gravy.
Don’t think I’m being sentimental here. Dundee can play their home games wherever they like as far as I’m concerned. They can move them to the US, in fact, if they convince the residents of Dingwall to do likewise, I’d have no problem with the ideal. Just so long as it’s consistent with a significant growth strategy for Celtic. The odd £1m here or there isn’t worth it for us otherwise.
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Prayers for your wife and you will continue all the best,
My cousins wife had part of her tongue removed with cancer over 15 years ago ,and though she can communicate well with her family she finds talking to strangers difficult, but that was 15 years ago,. technology has moved on so much and she leads a full and active life. Hope this is a little comfort to you both , stay strong and give it your best shot.HH
Proving a causative relationship between blows to the head ( boxing , football ) and Alzheimers is impossible .
Viz. non boxer , non footballer females .
Proving a contributing role may be possible , but extremely difficult.
PAPAJOE55 on 12TH JANUARY 2017 8:47 PM
It’s a tough thing to watch someone go through. As Mackay says, it’s difficult to determine causality and can strike anyone!
Keep strong!
KTF
“On the pitch, I am a lion.”
Kouassi Eboue
God speed and good luck to Efe Ambrose at Bastia
Bada Bing, true enough, and how many are locked?
PapaJoe, getting along fine, working, the winter break is a good idea, but it’s a long time between games.
https://twitter.com/scotsunsport/status/819655358549553153
Celtic withold 40k for damage to CP toilets, caution Sun link…
JFH, my thoughts and prayers are with your wife , you and your family.
One of my neighbours had cancer in his tongue and following succesful surgery , he is feeling the healthiest he has felt for 40 years.
He has lost 3 and a half stone , in his words a more than welcome weight loss, and is in fine fettle. He too required a trachiotomy. They removed about a third of his tongue and it took him about three months after surgery to regularly eat solids ( he was fed up having soup) .
I hope your wife’s surgery and recuperation are as succesful as my neighbour’s.
THETIMREAPER on 12TH JANUARY 2017 9:15 PM
“On the pitch, I am a lion.”
Kouassi Eboue
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Having watched the assaults carried out on Celtic players ( Kayal for one ) which have led to long term injuries at the hands ( or elbows ) of the Mc Cullochs of this world , I think that we may have finally got ourselves an enforcer ( hatchet man in my day ) .
His prime role may be for the domestic scene .
How long till the men in black attempt to nullify his protectionism ?
Brendan , it seems , has been coveting the Celtic job for some time and would be well aware of these issues.
Macjay
On reading your post,the thought occurred to me that maybe we don`t have an enforcer because the treatment he would receive from the referees,and the media in Scotland would mean we played too many games with ten men.
Goodnight all,
JJ
JOE FILIPPIS HAIRCUT
Very difficult time for you all.
So many Tims by your side.
Bada Bing
What do you want to bet that the Zombies now claim that they spent twice that after the last game at Snake Mountain for ‘fire suppression services’ due to the wanton destruction by Celtic fans (when a tea light/air freshener was left by a Celtic fan)….
Big hoopy birthday to Cozy Corner Bhoy and young ACGR
Friday tomorrow- bliss, the weekend is around the corner (again)!!!!
HH
CRC
HOT SMOKED on 12TH JANUARY 2017 9:39 PM
Too true.
Betcha Brendan is on that case too.
Very pleased with our new acquisition .
remember a Sadowitz gig couple of years back where he rolled off a stroke joke
I was in pain laughing (may have weed a bit) would have clapped if I could
I am a Rooster , formerly a lion.
From the video that was posted on here recently (sorry, I cant remember who posted it), I like the looks of young mr. Eboue. He seemed to take up good positions. And when he receved a pass, he controlled it with his first touch, and played some really nice incisive passes first time. If that video is even remotely accurately, then it looks like we have signed a very good young player, and just the sort of midfielder we have been crying out for.
Feliz Cumpleanos to CCB, Awe Naw and young Ross, and any others I may have missed.
HH
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JFH
My mate has just had the same op a month or so back, he is doing great, he did have a feeding tube for a while but that didn’t last too long, he still managed his dram tho :-)
Best of to your Mrs. she will be fine.
HH
MIT- We will be made out the bad guys for taking 40k from them, one of the comments said, they could have bought another player with it…..:))
Hope that the zombies hold back money from next visit to CP and thus escalate this until we give them feck all!
Would rather have no zombies at CP than accept tickets for the Crumbledome!
HH
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Bada … for 40,000 pounds, I would think you could buy several of their first team players, and have change left over! And get the asbestosdome thrown in for free (if you are prepared to assume the liabilities!). :)
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 12TH JANUARY 2017 9:36 PM
Brendan’s family will have made sure he is under no illusions as to what we are up against in this land. Thankfully he has assembled a team that no amount of MIB cheating will be able to stop.
As for the new bhoy, he has that look of authority about him out on the pitch. Brendan and Kolo will have him playing out of his skin soon enough. High hopes.
Big Senderos could have stuck his tool belt on and saved them £40k.
Johann Murdoch
Not sure if you are still around mate … but, by coincidence, I saw an article today about the ex-American football player/all star/ baseball player, Bo Jackson …. he says that, had he known then, what he now knows about brain injuries, he would never have played (american) football …. and this from one of the games’ great players. Telling.
!!BADA BING!! on 12TH JANUARY 2017 9:29 PM
https://twitter.com/scotsunsport/status/819655358549553153
Celtic withold 40k for damage to CP toilets, caution Sun link…
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Thanks.
Lots of post match vision I hadn`t see before.
TTR
Good game of 5s tonight! Very close indeed, but your team just shone through in the end, and must have been due to Hamilton Tim doing all that grafting up and down the pitch for you. :-)
HH
CRC
THETIMREAPER on 12TH JANUARY 2017 10:05 PM
I think you are absolutely right.
He gives the impression of having been extremely well informed and prepared well in advance of the press announcement of his accepting his role.
The defeats against Imps and Barca would have shaken off any illusions about the job he faced.
A blessing , well disguised.
Macjay1,
Celtic, like all of the top teams have abandoned the old fashioned,getting stuck in tackling.
It is unacceptable in the higher levels of the game.
Instead, interception and quick pressing of the man in possession, is the prime means of regaining the ball.
The actual physical tackle is almost used as a last resort.
Most of our recent free kicks against us have been for opponents falling over when the sense a Celtic players breath on their necks,
Eboue will be well coached in pressing and interception.
CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING @WALKWITHSHAY on 12TH JANUARY 2017 10:19 PM
Everything you hit went in!!!
JOE FILIPPIS HAIRCUT – Thoughts and prayers for your wife, yourself and family at this time.
AWE NAW and HutchyBhoy – Hope you guys had a good Birthday
HH
Billy Mc.Phail, a hero of the 7-1 game, developed dementia later in his life.
He brought a case ,claiming that his condition was caused by heading a ball repeatedly.
He lost it.
‘They claimed we damaged ibrox. Celtic gave them until last night to provide evidence. None forthcoming.’
@celticunderground
TTR
One of those very rare nights!
And yet still lost :-)
HH
CRC
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 12TH JANUARY 2017 10:24 PM
Agreed.
Nevertheless , I don`t think that message has reached the higher ( lower ? ) echelons of the Scottish game where clugging remains an acceptable approach .
And one often ignored by our lords and masters at Hampden and their acolytes in black. ( Viz. Kiernan ) .
Which is why I mentioned Eboue`s possible role in particular relation to the domestic scene.
Nevertheless , I feel we shall have lots of fun finding out.
Hail Hail , fellow Columbine.
stein connolly on tv now
transport scotland
got to be a tim ?
So Sevco 40k down…
Goodness, hope they don’t need that to get back from Germany…
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 12TH JANUARY 2017 10:31 PM
Didn`t know that.
Still remember big Billy nodding it down to Sammy Wilson.
Loved that combo.
As I said , virtually impossible to prove the cause of a degenerative condition one way or another .
So many possible alternative causes. Genetics being one of them.