There appears to be nothing more than a desire to move-on behind Johan Mjallby’s decision to leave Celtic at the end of the season but it leaves the original four man coaching team of Neil Lennon, Alan Thompson, Mjallby and Garry Parker reduced down to two. The management team needs to be rebuilt.
Assistants do more than just put the cones out and get players go through their paces. They are an extra pair of eyes and ears, at the side of the field and in the dressing room. When they are most effective, they are a source of learning, bringing improved techniques and ideas into the club, forcing the manager to reconsider established practices.
Strip some of the greats of their productive partners and they proved to be prosaic underachievers; Cough without Taylor was a sorry sight. By contrast, Ferguson played the assistants’ game perfectly, swapping them every few years to enhance his stock with fresh flavour.
Alan Thompson was not directly replaced but irrespective of the speculation which constantly surrounds the club, a wind of change will blow through Lennoxtown this summer, filling the gaps in the original four man team.
If you’ve wondered about getting involved with some of the charity events surrounding the club there is a perfect opportunity coming up. The Foundation is having a badge day at the Dundee United game on Sunday 11 May. This is an important opportunity to anchor the ethos of the club to its roots by engaging thousands of Celtic fans in the simple act of buying a badge for charity.
All monies raised will go towards supporting those afflicted by homelessness in the Glasgow area. I volunteered to help on the day and offered to put the word around, over 100 bucketeers are needed. If you want to help, all you’ll need to do is turn up early for the game, wear a hi-vis vest and hold a bucket, but I can assure you, you’ll enjoy it. Email the foundation with your name and phone number: cfcfvolunteer@celticfc.co.uk .
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BMCUW…
no, not this morning; in the office.
BB 05…
overcast, but quite bright??
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
07:28 on
24 April, 2014
Ireland did not willingly chose to participate or profit from the British Empire in fact the opposite is true.”
The former British Empire is full of Irishmen and their descendants.Many went there of their own volition and continue to do so.
My point was straightforward.You had a real go at the role Scotsmen have played in the worst aspects of Empire building.Quite right too.
Reasonable to look at the role played by Irishmen.No?
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Again i repeat drivel, the fact that some Irishmen played a part in Empire is an irrelevance.
The Irish nation / people did not consciously and deliberately decide to join in a alliance with England in order to subjugate for profit as did the Scots. In all countries subjugated by the English and Scots there were certain sections of the population that for whatever reason decided to throw in their lot with their oppressors and profited from that. However it is a somewhat different scenario from country and people who wholeheartedly joined in the rape of an empire with their erstwhile partners and to this day as a people / nation shown little or no contrition.
Question ‘worst aspects of Empire building’ what were the positives ?
BMCUW
Canny mind much about him to be honest. I was weeish bhoy and all I remember was that I disliked him fairly equally among the Hun players. Haven’t heard much from him before?
They’ll have Gordon Ramsey speaking up for them next.
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
08:05 on 24 April, 2014
BIG NAN
Also the Oscar Slater frame referenced. Shocking tale.
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Yes the Glasgow Police and the Lord Advocate of the day came out badly when he was eventually released after spending 19 years in jail for a murder he didn’t do.
Police definately went after the German Jew rather than look into the possibility of one of their own doing the murder and the Lord Advocate laboured the point that a man living on the immoral earnings of his French prostitute partner would do anything for money including murder.
Interesting to note that the review of the flight from justice evidence in 1914, which should have brought about his release, failed.
Then as now the establishment would rather see innocents in jail than admit they got it wrong.
eddieinkirkmichael
07:09 on 24 April, 2014
Morning guys and girls is it true Killie could be in trouble with SPFL? Twitter is full of it
Killie in Forge Probe.
Seems that an office worker saw a player signing a form with another player’s name on it, and this was before the game Celtic won 3-0
He’s practising for an independent Scotland, where the weather will be whatever you want it to be! That right, Billy Bhoy?
Morning all. Lovely weather down here at the moment.
I see King’s hopes of acquiring the deid team’s assets on the cheap are being ably abetted by the support.
desertbhoy
08:17 on 24 April, 2014
BB 05…overcast, but quite bright??
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Aye he’s no bright..
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey you have to admit MacJay has a point. Sure the creation of empire may well have spurred Scots and Irish men and women to look for better lives for the families in the colonies and this may have involved the very same acts of subjugation witnessed in their own lands. In Tauranga this week we have the 150 anniversary of the battle of gate pa (Maori fort). If you are interested in history give it a go. The Maori warriors had accepted earlier christian missionaries values and created a code of conduct that is not unlike and preceeded and may even have influenced the geneva conventions. They then battled fully trained and armed empire troops with a few bartered muskets and their own clubs and spears. The result was a surprise reprieve , called a victory, but just a postponement of destruction of one Iwi (like a clan) . The victors were lead by a highlander from Skye General Cameron and as far as I know the brits had soldiers from all over the Isles hoping to get gifted a parcel of land on which to create an economic base for their future families. The ancestors of the survivors of the warriors and the soldiers are celebrating their history, together. Who am I to judge the original settlers any more than Leigh Griffiths for singing football songs in a pub.It is certainly not black and white mate and the truth is somewhere in the middle. I am proud of my Skye and Donegal heritage but have no illusions about any of my forebearers being saints. Hail Hail.
Question ‘worst aspects of Empire building’ what were the positives ?
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English spoken/understood basically worldwide.
desertbhoy
08:17 on 24 April, 2014
BB 05…
overcast, but quite bright??
That can happen here as to the west it’s a wee bit dark but overhead it’s quite bright, and looking to get brighter.
Sorry for the confusion
que?
BMCUW… why you asking about the ipad??
BB05
Did you see my question to you about Lisbon, yesterday? I was caught out by the new article being up, so think you had moved on? Just heading out, will check later to see any reply.
I find it ironic that the club would hold 500k a prisoner in budget in lieu of the living wage whilst thinking it is ok to share details of Celtic supporters with the Police. Their actions if late are looking counter productive. They look as though their policy will lose money through the gate. I don’t get it and its time the club started communicating properly.
That aside, I see from tsfm site that Killie might get done for forging a players signature. This comes from a story in the Record. The Record will probably see a points deduction for this offence as fair and campaign for it as they see this as some sort of equivalence to what happens to Rangers. Again the irony. I am sure Sandy Bryson will come out if the woodwork to justify why this was a worse offence than what Rangers did.
Hiho
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey . I have asked myself the same, what were the positives. Not of the Macedonian, Roman, Mongol, Ottoman or Aztec empire but the empire of the Victorians. The answer, if I am real about it, is that there were many many positives and a hellofalot of information sharing. In my travels I have seen a lot of evidence of huge improvements in lives through engineering and innovation that dated from the victorian age and amazingly are still use to this day, built to last, for the benefit of man. Honestly, in my opinion, colonisation hugely improved the lives of the latest indigenous people of Aotearoa,the clans of Maori, although the cost was high in terms of land ownership and ethnicity.
DESERT BHOY
I didnae understand yer post,and thought it had been auto-corrected.
My excuse for a lame attempt at humour is the 12-hour shift just finished. Sorry,mate.
taurangabhoy
08:22 on 24 April, 2014
Great post. Wise words. Most especially the conclusion. I barely know my family history but even a generation or two that I know of offers skeletons aplenty and some monsters too.
Minx – many thanks.
Mighty Tim – your Son is experiencing real injustice. There are many wise, experienced heads on here. If you and your family have the stomach to fight then I’m confident that those responsible for his mistreatment (whether in the state authorities or elsewhere) could be called to account.
HH jamesgang
desertbhoy
08:22 on 24 April, 2014
Question ‘worst aspects of Empire building’ what were the positives ?
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English spoken/understood basically worldwide.
you meant to say “we educated these people”
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey ” Independance for Shetland Now”
08:20 on
24 April, 2014
On pasting my reply to you,you left this part out.Here it is.Interesting that you make no comment about it.I would have thought it was entirely relevant to the significant ,in this case paramount,role which Irishmen played in the creation of the British Empire.
“You call it drivel and then confirm the fact that Irishmen played a role in the creation of the British Empire.
It was an Irishman who subjugated India to British Rule.This you call an irrelevance.”
precious aren’t we all.
BMCUWP you havin a laugh : )
Jamesgang we can only go forward.
Agree with you to Mighty Tim. If someone at Celtic park hasn’t already been alerted to sort this out pronto I will be really surprised. Better be the right result for MT’s boy.
taurangabhoy
08:32 on 24 April, 2014
But I’d push back on this one!
Every wonder of Victorian progress was built on the sweatshop efforts of empire. The indentured Indian labour that built the mighty railways across Africa. The dr facto forced migration of peoples all over the world. And the intentional eradication of native people’s who inconveniently lived on a choice piece of land.
All backed up by a brutality that matched the worst seen in history. Non conforming Indian troops were cannonaded. Strapped a la cross to a cannon which was then fired. As well as the physical destruction of the torso the soldiers themselves believed in condemned them to eternal damnation as the body couldn’t be properly constituted for burial.
I don’t rush to judgement on nations or peoples and I think it’s important to focus on the future. By the British Empire perpetrated a multitude of horrors.
HH jamesgang
PS Jobo. Stunning day on the dunblane – Glasgow commute!
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:39 on 24 April, 2014
The people of Scotland as a whole benefited from the Empire because the economy benefited.
That can’t be said of Ireland.
On a per capita basis the Scots participated in the building of the Empire to a greater extent than the English. The Irish hardly figured (and beware including the Anglo Irish ruling class in your calculations).
The Union between Scotland and England came about because the attempt by the Scottish ruling class to establish an Empire of their own failed and they saw Union as a way of getting access to overseas territories.
Don’t paint the Scots as victims in the venture. It’s incorrect and demeans the Scots.
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey ” Independance for Shetland Now”
08:20 on
24 April, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
07:28 on
24 April, 2014
Ireland did not willingly chose to participate or profit from the British Empire in fact the opposite is true.”
The former British Empire is full of Irishmen and their descendants.Many went there of their own volition and continue to do so.
My point was straightforward.You had a real go at the role Scotsmen have played in the worst aspects of Empire building.Quite right too.
Reasonable to look at the role played by Irishmen.No?
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Question ‘worst aspects of Empire building’ what were the positives ?
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Why don`t you ask the millions of Irishmen who have chosen to live in the former Empire or even U.K.itself.
Tempted to ask you where you live.Is there a clue in your moniker?
Dr facto = de facto! Though I may use the nom de plume if I ever start as a dunblane rapper!
HH jamesgang
Taurangabhoy
08:32 on
24 April, 2014
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey . I have asked myself the same, what were the positives. Not of the Macedonian, Roman, Mongol, Ottoman or Aztec empire but the empire of the Victorians. The answer, if I am real about it, is that there were many many positives and a hellofalot of information sharing. In my travels I have seen a lot of evidence of huge improvements in lives through engineering and innovation that dated from the victorian age and amazingly are still use to this day, built to last, for the benefit of man. Honestly, in my opinion, colonisation hugely improved the lives of the latest indigenous people of Aotearoa,the clans of Maori, although the cost was high in terms of land ownership and ethnicity.
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Do you really believe that the Maori, Indians, Africans, Native Americans etc etc etc etc would have happlily given up their lands and freedom for a railway line and a telegraph pole?
“But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.
A speech attributed to Calgacus (leader of the Caledonian tribes) prior to the battle of Mons Graupius AD 83 (NE Scotland)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
08:34 on
24 April, 2014
DESERT BHOY
I didnae understand yer post,and thought it had been auto-corrected.
My excuse for a lame attempt at humour is the 12-hour shift just finished. Sorry,mate.
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no need for apologies bud; just if we ever meet up you’re buying!!
I often throw in these little gems and myth peddlers was basically the shoite emanating from the hordes of the great unwashed; although could easily have substituted with p*ss takers!!
Frank Ryan
This was your reply at 23.27
As a matter of balance,I thought it was important to respond.
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Raped and pillaged Scotland for 600 years?
Usurped the rightful royal dynasty? No I think you will find that Queen Mary (Wee King Billys wife )was James II daughter so a Stuart still on the throne then . And significantly more Scots fought against the return of a Stuart dynasty (Bonnie Prince Charlie) than supported the Jacobite rebellion.
Scotland willing participated in the subjugation of the British empire not only the English. Many Scots made amassed huge wealth in doing so, the country as a whole benefited from the subjugation of millions – the ship yards supplying merchant vessels to carry off the plunder and the warships to protect the empires ill gotten gains.
Do not get me started on Ireland and the role the Scots have and continue to play in Irelands misery.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon @23.28 hrs 23-04-2014
“Here`s one for you. Sydney….Saint Denis…..the Norman conk”
Without using google I would guess :-
Sydney = Origin by families emigrating to Australia. Possibly penal colony connections.?
Saint Denis = Some French connection, possibly military or church ?
Norman Conk = Some connection to William: the first Norman King of England. I do know there was a Glasgow gang called this. Can’t link this tho.
If you are still about, or when you are available can you please enlighten me.
Cheers and HH.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
08:47 on
24 April, 2014
Why don`t you ask the millions of Irishmen who have chosen to live in the former Empire or even U.K.itself.
Tempted to ask you where you live.Is there a clue in your moniker?
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Do you mean Irish men who were forced to leave their homeland due to the famines, devestation and ecomonic poverty wrought on their country by the English and Scots. Perhaps we should just all go home as the famine is over – should we?
I have lived all over the world. Where i currently reside is not important, i own property in Scotland as i worked in the NE for a number of years and yes I did live also in Shetland for many years.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
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when i get back later today and if i can locate it i’ll post a little bit of comment from history…
Greenpinata
08:57 on
24 April, 201
Sorry,pal.
We were discussing Glasgow Street names,particularly their origin.
Sydney is from the French..Saint Denis. The Norman conquest introduced many French words and names.
Sinclair from Saint Clair
Fitz is from fils de.
I could go on all day.Don`t worry.I won`t.
Here`s wan fur you ………..”piñata”
Anyone mention Martin O’Neil for the Man U job!
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey thanks for replying. Kia ora. Do I believe that the subjugated want their lives changed. Absolutley not. If I could put on my kilt and live back in the highland of Skye I would think about it, and then complain my back hurt from ploughing the hard land. Your own reference to what I personally call relatively recent events just shows that life does go on, cultures evolve and change and become part of the future. The Romans were the real barbarians but they did bring innovations and information to the locals which changed everything. Not saying that everyone won mate but the tribes of Britain were heading into conflict no matter what way you looked. Ironically the Roman peace lead to a weakened Celtic nation that was munted by the Germanic tribes. New Zealand’s biggest city Auckland is in the process of becoming an asiatic city. 30 % chinese or far east ethnicity.In a few decades NZ will be a truly multi ethic country. A blend of black white and yellow. It is also true that the Maori culture will survive and become part of the modern New Zealand heritage.
Frank Ryan’s Whiskey ” Independance for Shetland Now”
08:57 on
24 April, 2014
I did say Irishmen who went “of their own volition.”
Mate.We`re Tims.I just like balance.
I`m a Jock,We`re not the only bar stewards.
If you had to be empired,then you can be thankful it was the Brits,when you compare us to the Spanish,Portuguese,Belgians,Germans or the French and the current state of the countries in their former Empires.
desertbhoy
09:02 on
24 April, 2014
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
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when i get back later today and if i can locate it i’ll post a little bit of comment from history…
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Always interested.Always learning.
Thanks.