As this clean sheet run has continued, every time Fraser Forster has made a good save, I’ve found myself suggesting that the defence is not playing as tightly as it used to. We quickly regard exceptional performance as the norm.
Fraser has, of course, been exceptional, again, this season. Efe Ambrose and Virgil van Dijk are fast and commanding. Virgil has a presence about him, like Wanyama, but bigger. On the flanks, despite the lack of competition, Emilio Izaguirre is performing at his best, while Adam Matthews, Mikael Lustig and Darnell Fisher have shuffled through the right back position as availability dictates.
I have a notion that Scott Brown is also worth credit for the defensive performance. He seems to have grown this season, perhaps as a consequence of fitness. This is his best season yet.
Ultimately the game is all about tactics. Any team can keep a clean sheet but 10-in-a-row (get used to reading that) is a consequence of team plan, which is where Neil Lennon comes in.
Tomorrow is the final day to confirm tickets for our CQteN St Patrick’s Day Dinner on 14 March at the Kerrydale Suite. The dinner will raise funds to build a kitchen at Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji, Malawi, where 1200 kids currently attend without food facilities. If you have lost your invoice email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com
See you there.
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Ethnic cleansing now …
Papa John
Brilliant >}
I passed 1st time, can only put it down to my Da greasing the palm of the examiner, [allegedly] my Da need me to have a licence for the business.
HH
jobo baldie
20:09 on 30 January, 2014
Keep the faith in wee billy Davies :-( boke HH
BCW
He said just bin it, he can get another one no bother
BT,
Hope he is OK. Will try to get a hold of hime furra chat;) hope all well with you, too.
Bhoys doing well.
Ur the THEMS still deed?
Hail Hail!
Papa John, I pass on my 2nd test too but I wore Trousers.
Seems like another lifetime (one of toil and blood), but was only 4 years ago……..
One of the most dramatic days of my Celtic supporting life. My phone nearly melted! Doomed in the end, but what a day………
This was the start (lifted from the ever excellent Video Celts site….
Braafheid is the first through the door on deadline day
Date: 1st February 2010 at 9:16 am
Written by: Joe McHugh | Comments (1)
Today promises to be one of the most dramatic ever in terms of transfer turnover at Celtic.
We’ve all read in the past about the big names poised to join the club only for them to peter away with Phillipe Senderos of Arsenal the most recent example.
This morning however there is a genuine freshness about a number of realistic targets with none of them currently playing for Hibs or Dundee United.
Transfer window’s are a notorious letdown but this time it looks like Celtic have been working diligently to uncover the type of players that will be interested in coming to the club rather than scouring the best of the SPL and attempting to recruit highly paid players from England.
Lessons seem to have been learned with negotiations to bring Edson Braafheid, Diomansy Kamara and Ivan Ramis at advanced stages.
The deals to bring Braafheid from Bayern Munich and Kamara from Fulham are both loans with Spanish defender Ramis a possible £2.5m signing from Real Mallorca.
Braafheid seems to be the deal closest to being concluded with the player and his agent arriving in Glasgow last night after turning down the chance to return to Holland with offers on the table from Ajax and PSV Eindhoven.
A loan deal until the end of the season should be a formality giving all sides the result that they require.
Braafheid has a place in Holland’s World Cup squad to target, if he achieves that aim it’s unlikely that he’ll be remaining at Celtic but a consistent reliable left back would be something of a novelty in that problem position.
Kamara, as a former West Brom striker, is clearly well known to Mowbray with his arrival likely to mark the exit for Scott McDonald.
The departure of the club’s most reliable goalscorer in mid season is something of a shock with all sorts of rumours flying around attempting to put two and two together.
Whatever has been going on in the background McDonald has never been anything less than totally professional in public and I wouldn’t be surprised if he does a Caldwell and backs out of an ill-advised move to the Celtic colony at Middlesbrough.
With four players already at Celticboro, Gary Caldwell at Wigan and Mark Brown moving to Hibs it’s certainly shaping up as a dramatic month.
Jos Hooiveld and Morten Rasmussen made an impact at Hamilton alongside Ki Sung Yeung who seems to be adapting very quickly to the demands of playing for Celtic.
The team that finished the match on Saturday contained only three outfield players that had featured under Strachan with Paul Caddis hardly figuring in Strachan’s plans.
Swindon had hoped to take Caddis on-loan until the end of the season but that looks unlikely with the player capable of playing in a number of positions as well as deputising for Andreas Hinkel.
Keep tuned in to NewsNow throughout the day for news on the comings and goings up and down Kerrydale Street, G40.
Stevebhoy
he hasn’t been great recently tbh..
notthebus
20:09 on 30 January, 2014
If ye didnae laugh ye wid greet :))
TET
Wisnae a Knucklecrushen Palm a hope,cover yur Wurk, used it awe the time in the Fire Service, way back in the Seventies.
Awerabest PJ
leftclick Together we will get justice for the Dam 5
He/she is getting more demented by the day
Kikinthenakas, Space Invaders for me, every time!
Had my 2 yearly medical today for my work and done the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, take a pee with a nurse I’ve never met before standing back to back with me, talk about stage fright 1 hour and 20 mins later forced it out, had drank so much water once I started I couldn’t stop lol HH
Hoops_Neil_Lennon_diditagain
Brilliant btw ,mine,s wis a Mini, wae an open top,maybe thats how a passed.
Awerabest PJ
Good grief Forrest are awful!!!!
TET the way things are run its a basket case of a country & when i’m looking at independence here i always compare to what Ireland’s become, private health service, cowboy bin companies, now a water board costing €2bn just fix the pipes more & more shenannigans! But the brown envelope sorts all…
just cos.
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Air of unreality as 140 years of history is formally ended in less than nine minutes
Teddy Jamieson and Richard Wilson
Thursday 14 June 2012
It was over in nine minutes.
The Rangers creditors drifted in through Exit 50 at Ibrox Stadium just before 10am and by 10.09am they were on their way out. In those few minutes 140 years of history had been rubbed out.
Of the few owed money by the club who attended yesterday morning’s meeting at the Ibrox Suite most didn’t want to talk, and the few that did struggled.
“We’re in shock,” admitted debenture holder Stewart Boal. “The club’s gone. We’ve got to move on and start again.”
In truth, everyone knew the meeting was a mere formality after HMRC announced earlier this week it would reject Charles Green’s terms for a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
Few of the 276 creditors, who are owed somewhere in the region of £134 million and range from a face painter and magician to the local newsagent, turned up for the meeting. Those that did were clearly shocked by the speed of the club’s end. Asked to sum up his feelings, as he left Ibrox, Mr Boal said he found the whole thing “unreal, very, very sad”.
Fellow debenture holder Robert Killen attempted to look ahead. “It’s a new beginning,” he said. “We’ll make the best of it, I suppose.” But the uncertainty in his voice told its own story.
Most of the money from Mr Green and his backers will now go to the administrators Duff & Phelps, leaving the rest of the creditors to pursue what they are owed in whatever way they can. Did Mr Boal and Mr Killen have faith in Mr Green and his team? “I don’t know who they are,” said Mr Killen simply, before the pair wandered off, still reeling at what they had just sat through.
Inside, it was a sombre affair, but conducted briskly and curtly, as if dealing with little more than a minor point of order rather than confirming that Rangers Football Club plc will eventually be liquidated.
In a sense, the meeting was a formality. The precise outcome of the vote on the CVA proposed by Duff & Phelps was academic, since HMRC had already indicated its decision to vote against. It is currently owed £21m out of a £55m debt pile, and with the holders of 75% of the debt having to vote in favour for the proposal to pass, there was no chance of the CVA being approved.
Lawyers queuing up outside chatted like old friends, and discussed who they were representing. “I’m here for Ticketus,” said one. “Are you? I’m here for Palermo,” said another. They all took notes during proceedings, although Paul Clark of Duff & Phelps refused to take questions from the floor because too many journalists were in the room.
Once HMRC’s formal rejection had been read out, Mr Clark explained there was £30m represented in the room, which contained 30 people. When he asked if any others wished to reject the CVA, three arms were raised. He then asked for abstentions, and one hand was raised. Everybody else voted in favour.
After explaining that the administrators would remain in charge of the affairs of Rangers Football Club plc for another six to eight weeks before BDO, the HMRC-appointed liquidators, take over, he handed the microphone to a pale and drawn Mr Green.
After a pause, he said it was time for unity, “whoever owns the club”, before revealing that the newco would be called The Rangers Football Club. Manager Ally McCoist was sitting at the back, next to the director of football administration, Andrew Dickson, and his face was set firmly.
“That then concludes the business of the day,” said Mr Clark.
Well I’ll tell ye sumthin. If Lenny wants to get a decent striker who knows how to drive the ball into the net he better put the foot down. He may need to steer his search in a different direction and will need to step it up a gear. I understand he still has a clutch of players in mind. No doubt he won’t ‘brake’ from tradition though, and we’ll be left with a misfiring old banger!
Theunseenfeniansteeringwheelcsc
I don’t care who wins with Forrest and Watford, as long as there are 2 more goals, that will do for me.
HH
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PJ
>}
HH
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Paulosboots
When people spend up to 1/2 a mill to get elected to a council seat tells you something.
HH
hun skelper
20:20 on
30 January, 2014
Had my 2 yearly medical today for my work and done the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, take a pee with a nurse I’ve never met before standing back to back with me, talk about stage fright 1 hour and 20 mins later forced it out, had drank so much water once I started I couldn’t stop lol HH
“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
How was the nurse?
Back to back?
1 hour and 20 mins?
if you say so!!!!!!!!
St Stivs @ 20.25
Will never ever tire of reading that.
Crap day at work , that fair cheered me up!!
Hail Hail
Prime Minister W E Gladstone , has announced that he is renewing his West Ham season ticket following their draw with Chelsea.
Goodnight Timland.
Late night tomorrow with the last day of the windae, so it’s
early bed,hoping for a wee surprise fae PL, maybe good
enough tae get my cqn hero KEVJ to come on here and
sing his praises.
noteffinglikelyCSC.
Does anybody think there would be a market for greetings cards – ‘Happy Transfer Deadline Day!’ ?
valentinesday
20:32 on 30 January, 2014
You stand back to back so your not using someone else’s urine and it took a total time of 1hr 20mins to get a sample, wasn’t standing back to back for 1hr 20mins lol
http://celticjournal.org/3960/top-5-budget-alternatives-leigh-griffiths/
What the eff are are scouts doing ?
HH
Dylan gone
Celtic Football Club@celticfc
Best wishes to Dylan McGeouch who has joined Coventry City on loan until the end of this season. (PC) http://t.co/ajWn8557Lu
TET
I was given the polish lads name 3 months ago, so obviously know about him.
I have been given another name which may come off tomorrow, and spending serious money, not putting up as given in confidence
Hail Hail
Thank you >}
HH
Had high hopes for Dylan until I attended the Morton game
TET that says it all really,remember the Daily Star running an article on how county councilors wanted same pensions as TD’s after a 4 year term wtf like!
Cowiebhoy
There are plenty out there.
Are his initials………………………………………………………..>}
HH
cowiebhoy supporting the celtic to 3 in a row
21:03 on 30 January, 2014
Was told JR was in the pipeline last night on the bus going to the game and the same guy told me on the way home look out for it on Friday !
hun skelper
Never mind yer pish, gees a know for a fact made up
rumour……catch it in the morning bub, night night and
God bless.
Cowiebhoy your just a tease:-) go on go on ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Plenty Skill and plenty of the right winners attitude, if anyone we sign has those two I will be a happy camper tomorrow.
Till tomorrow Bhoys and Ghirls
bub= bud, sorry
valentinesday
21:07 on 30 January, 2014
We will know in 26hrs or so :-) HH