Celtic have been linked with a whole barrage of players over the last 24 hours, strongly linked in some instances. While it is more fun to drool over players coming in than fret as existing players leave the club, I’m very sure that some of the reports floating around right now are the product of wishful thinking on the part of agents trying to place their players with a top European club.
For each player you read about, two others will be under consideration, and remember the golden rule, if players or agents are talking publicly, they are not talking to Celtic. It’s easy to generate screeds of column inches for you, or your client, with a few well-chosen phrases.
Ukio Bankas statement this morning that current bids for the assets of Hearts which they hold security over, specifically Tynecastle Stadium, scene of Scotland’s most famous non-assault, do not meet their valuation presents real challenge to the club. Hearts are a club capable of generating in the region of £10m. Operating the club on a budget this size will be difficult, raising enough cash to satisfy Ukio Bankas might be impossible.
Unlike the situation last year with Rangers, when Craig Whyte secured an irrevocable undertaking upon liquidation to transfer Ibrox Stadium to Sevco 5088 Ltd, Ukio Bankas liquidators are unlikely to reject a CVA but accept a lower bid for Tynecastle. Without a stadium, a Newco is unlikely. The best Hearts fans could be faced with is going “Cap in hand”, as they sing down Easter Road, to Hibs, with a request for Newco to ground-share.
Wallace Mercer was ahead of his time. Flats, flats……….
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Martin42
Post of the night.
timgreen
seriously man wtf?
not the place!
TBJ – its obviously past my bed time!!!
tommysbhoy
how did your interview go? was on way too late to wish you well
My bedtime too. Night all.
Hail! Hail!
CC’s Daily Mail article,
“suggestions that flowed ‘sweetly’ from the queen mother’s pen”
Best laugh i’ve had for a while.
Whats the connection between this Celtic Blog and catholic priest pedophiles in any country?
Timgreen?
Really?
Haven’t seen your name on here before! Hmmmm
I only hear that kind of stuff from really hurtin hunz. Just sayin, like!
WeefratheTim
23:58 on 29 July, 2013
Im tellin the teacher! Im tellin the teacher! Im the tellin the teacher!
OK guys. I knew I was in for a hard time by addressing this issue. And I do think it was valid on CQN. Because here, on CQN where I have posted under 3 names for 10 yrs, many exalted the evidence unearthed by this journalist about RFC. Because we all knew his evidence was true. Because it was well researched. Nobody said it had no place on CQN. So that guy has credibility and is accepted as a valid journalist who relies on hard evidence.
He gives clear evidence of systematic abuse which the Catholic Church dealt with internally instead of reporting it to the police. But some say this has no place on CQN. I’ve been on CQN since it began and have immense pride in what Paul has achieved. If he thinks I have abused CQN, he can ban me and I will accept his decision.
As I said before, the issues raised and the abuse proved are matters too damaging to be dealt with quickly. I’ll disappear for a couple of days and reflect. I suggest some of you do the same. Some of the quicker to react might feel differently if, like me, they had very close friends who had been deeply affected by child abuse.
I am not trying to be controversial here, just saying that all it needs is for people to stay quiet whilst others’ lives have been ruined.
The Catholic Church Is Being Attacked By The Red-Green Alliance…..
And The ‘So-Called’ Secularists….
Because It Is Perceived As The Strongest Pillar Of Christianity…..
The Full Agenda Of The Frankfurt School Is Being Brought Against Us…..
To Undermine The Traditional Family…
And Our Christian Values….
Our Real ‘Enemies’ Control The MSM…
Particularly The BBC…..
I Reckon That There Has Also Been A Concerted Effort By The Powers That Be..
To Stir Up Trouble Between Our Christian Communities In Scotland…..
To Distract Us From A Growing External Threat To The Christian Foundations Of Our Nation…..
Any Of Our Protestant Brethren Who Are Gloating Over The Issues Afflicting The Catholic Church In Recent Years…..
Are Guilty Of Having A Blinkered…
And Short-Term View…..
Other Religious/Ethnic Communities Across This Country…..
Do Not Receive The Same Level Of Scrutiny…..
For Reasons Of Political Correctness….
There Is Also A Particular Problem Within The Clergy Of The Catholic Church In The USA…..
Which Appears To Have Been Penetrated By Marxists In Recent Decades…..
With The Objective Of Undermining It From Within….
Curtis Bowers,A Former Idaho State Legislator….
Made An Award-Winning Documentary..
‘ Agenda: Grinding America Down’…..
(Petec *****)
About Marxist Infiltration Into American Society….
And Even Within Church Institutions..
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Video/ Agenda : Grinding America Down
http://youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&gl=GB&v=GEHEOPpTNsw&fulldescription=1
(Scroll To Film Credits At 5min…As Film Preceded By 5min Infomercial )
Timgreen,
The subject you speak of has being going on for centuries and is not exclusive to any church or religion….imho.
Someone really has to publish the CQN rule book.
Now we’re being told that not posting on a subject a million miles away from “Celtic Quick News” makes us somehow lacking.
Jeezo
Review Of Curtis Bowers’ Documentary
” Grinding America Down ”
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2010/nov10/dvd.html
We are a club that reached the last 16 of the CL last year. Apparently, we have ambition to do so again this year. Why the feck are we, less than 48 hours from a crucial qualification tie, now scrambling around in a last ditch attempt to sign (a) player(s) when, for the last couple of months the world, his wife and, presumably Celtic PLC, knew that our top scorer and best player would be leaving????
Look, fair play to the club if we now sign 2 or 3 decent players. However, where is the bedding-in time, the training, the recovery from flights, negotiations etc?? Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale might not be ready for a game on Wednesday with a transfer on a Tuesday.
This last minute approach surely does not benefit the club. It leaves us as hostages to fortune (whether that be of a player, club or agent). I cannot fathom how an organisation such as Celtic would not have transfer targets identified and pursued long before a transfer window opens, never mind before it closes.
We are watching the club gamble with our CL future. Any squandering of same would be negligent. We are not calling for financial irresponsibility on the part of the club- just modest investment which would have an exponential return.
This lastminuteitis must be cured….
HH
timgreen
00:40 on 30 July, 2013
You will tend to find that any attack on the catholic church on CQN is generally (not universally) considered with disdain. Even pedophilia is an acceptable price to pay for catholicism for some. It’s Islam like in its rhetoric.
The Dyslexic detective
This is for you
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83438026/
Timgreen,
This journalist Mark Daly has reported on many things since then. Why do you feel so strongly about this particular topic ?
Paul lets all kinds of shitebags post on here so I would not worry about that.
HH
Timgreen
Can you tell us your other two names and anything that you discussed in the past? Also why the need to change your name on here?
Highland bhoy
The thing to remember about the Church is its pathological obsession with secrecy. The other thing is its blind loyalty to those in Holy Orders.
When I was young the whole emphasis was on ‘sins of the flesh’. In the light of what’s been revealed in the last ten years that’s a joke and a very sick one at that.
As an institution they ignored the victims, they failed to lead the laity and they allowed the decent majority of clerics to become suspects in the eyes of the world.
The Nefarious Marxist Agenda Of The Frankfurt School…..
Which Was Founded In Europe In The 1920s….
Before Re-establishing In The USA…
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/oldsite/article.asp?ID=13488.
Other Cultures And Societies Have Their Own Problems With Child Abuse….
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/400000-minors-abused-by-inner-circle-person-in-turkey-report.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51123&NewsCatID=341
a previous poster said there is now a moral vacuum in the republic
personally i would prefer a moral vacuum than catholic church control with child abuse on an unbelievable scale
Awe_Naw !!
Surely NOT….??
‘Splain……!!
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(From American Thinker )
July 28, 2013
Juror B29’s Imbecilic Comments: Maggie’s Addled Mind
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Michael Applebaum, MD
Maggie M., aka Juror B29, is indisputably incoherent.
Yet I have not seen any real challenge to her statements. If there is a voice of reason challenging her stupidity, it would seem to be meek in comparison to the support and communicable inflammation/incitement coming from most pundits and commentators.
Recall that the role of “the jury is to determine the facts of this case. You are the sole and exclusive judges of the facts. You alone determine what evidence to accept, how important any evidence is that you do accept, and what conclusions to draw from all the evidence. You must apply the law[.]”
Essentially, the jury applies the law to the evidence to arrive at its verdict.
Here are excerpts from her much-heralded interview on GMA:
The only minority on the all-female jury in the Trayvon Martin case says George Zimmerman “got away with murder” when he fatally shot the black 17-year-old…
“For myself, he’s guilty because the evidence shows he’s guilty,” the juror said.
Really?
But the juror, a 36-year-old mother of eight who moved to Florida from Chicago five months before she was selected for the trial, says the panel had no choice but to acquit Zimmerman, based on the law and evidence.
That was her job. The evidence did not support any other choice.
“As much as we were trying to find this man guilty…they give you a booklet that basically tells you the truth, and the truth is that there was nothing that we could do about it,” she said[.]
Bummer.
Clearly, truth is a problem for her. Perhaps she is better referred to as Mendacious Maggie.
Forgetting the clearly prejudicial “we were trying to find this man guilty” part, apparently “we” is being used in the “royal we” sense and is not representative of the panel:
Maggie’s approach contrasted sharply with that of Juror B37, who was first to speak out. That panelist, a white woman interviewed anonymously on CNN, expressed sympathy for Zimmerman and said Trayvon was partly responsible for his own death.
So it really is not “we,” so it appears.
Maggie, continues:
Maggie said that when the jury, which included five mothers, began deliberations, she was ready to convict Zimmerman of second-degree murder, which could have put him behind bars for life. “I was the juror that was going to give them the hung jury,” she insisted. “I fought to the end.”
But after nine hours of reviewing evidence, Maggie decided the jury had to let the neighborhood watchman walk free, she said[.]
Because, why? “[T]he panel had no choice but to acquit Zimmerman, based on the law and evidence”:
“You can’t put the man in jail, even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty,” said the angst-ridden woman, known during the trial as Juror B29. “But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence.”
Bummer, again, what with having to “look at the evidence.”
(There is that” royal we” again, raised by a “royal our.”)
Good call. And evidence that the system works even when what one could only hope is the lowest common denominator gets jury duty.
… Maggie told Roberts. “But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can’t say he’s guilty.”
Then put a sock in it.
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Michael Applebaum is a medical doctor and lawyer practicing in Chicago.
One of my moral crusades on CQN is personal pronoun abuse.
Zimmerman getting it again, ;))
The guilty party in the Zimmerman trial is archaic American gun law.
Just the price you pay for your gun laws.
Americans accept the laws so they find them and the resultant deaths acceptable.
What`
Alone Again Or
The guilty party in the Zimmerman trial is archaic American gun law.
Just the price they pay for their gun laws.
Americans accept the laws so they find them and the resultant deaths acceptable.
What`s the fuss?
tommytwiststommyturns
21:47 on
29 July, 2013
Good Morning TTTT.
It is great to hear of the progress being made by Vanessa Riddle, and God willing she will never have to go back to Germany for any more treatment to help her battle the dreaded Neuroblastoma.
However, that does not mean that her battle has ended.
Unfortunately, Vanessa will have a few medical battles to face in the future. Hopefully they are not life threatening, but battles they will be. That is the price for having the disease at a later age ( even though she is very young ) and beating it.
It is only fairly recently that I, personally, have felt comfortable talking about Neuroblastoma again.
It is great to hear of Vanessa improving and it was just fabulous to see Oscar take to the field against Cliftonville last week.
The Oscar campaign has been a thing of wonder! When you think of all those volunteers doing all sorts of things to raise money for the wee guy it just takes your breath away. There are so many who have my admiration that they are far too many to mention, although for sheer miles covered and utter persistence I would have to say that Mouldy takes the biscuit.
However, the Neuroblastoma fight is not just about Vanessa or Oscar, it is about the fact that this so called “rare” disease claims the lives of many young children in Britain and is not fully treated here– hence the reason that the Vanessas and the Oscars of this parish end up going to Germany or the USA for treatment at vast expense which they literally have to beg for help with.
Of Course, it goes without saying that the very fact that they have to go to another country for treatment is an utter disgrace!
However, for every Oscar or Vanessa there is an Adam Birt or a Niamh Curry — children who sadly do not make it and who pass away despite all the work, all the fund raising, all the treatment, and all the hope.
As a Celtic fan, I am extremely proud that we as a group have embraced the Oscar’s and the Vanessa’s. Yet as a Celtic fan I cannot help shout and scream that we need to do more. Raising money is not enough. Looking after Oscar and Vanessa, while great achievements, is not enough.
This disease is curable if caught in time and treated. This disease is an aggressive cancer which attacks young children but is most fatal when it returns when they are older– when they are less likely to respond to treatment.
When I say older– that can mean that they are 6 or 7 years old as opposed to 2 or 3.
Vanessa Riddle defied huge odds to survive when she found the disease back again at 8 or 9. I remember being told of her grandad talking about the fact that she was walking about and for all intents and purposes was just a happy normal wee girl — but all he could see was a child who he had been told had a less than 10% chance of survival.
She was literally “riddled” with cancer. It was everywhere and there was very little hope!
If we believe in that first ethos of Celtic FC — that the football– and all that– is there for the purpose of raising money and alleviating the plight of the poor and the needy, for helping those who are in trouble and who are less fortunate than those of us who can go to watch a football team, then we cannot rest with the glorious sight of a healthy Oscar Knox.
I have written before about going to the odd internet bampot night only to be met by total strangers who talked very kindly about the attempts to help Vanessa and Niamh Curry. I will not hide the fact that I found myself openly crying when discussing the fact that Niamh did not make it — something that came as a complete shock — and I am not good enough with the words to adequately described what a complete personal kick in the guts it was when I was told of her passing.
Yet, I had never met her or any member of her family — they were just a family or group of people looking for help in a dire situation and they had heard — somehow– that such help might just be forthcoming from the supporters of Celtic Football Club.
That took me right back to Walfrid. The man who started a football club to provide dinners for people the support would never necessarily know or meet. That was the very bedrock of Celtic.
So– in that light– can I ask that as many as possible do something for 1254125.
The great scottish run is coming, but if like me you cannot run 10k — then just walk a mile– that green mile that I have talked about before.There are other initiatives and fundraisers– everything from baking cakes and holding raffles to shaving your legs!
I don’t care if you raise £125 or £1.25– while the money is important it is not the B all and end all!
What is important is that we do what we can to highlight things like the fact that child poverty is wrong and unacceptable in 2013. That sending kids to foreign countries for medical treatment instead of them being treated here is wrong — especially when the treatment is available but not given on grounds of expense– and that we highlight these things, call for change and make a difference in the name of Celtic Football Club.
Whilst all the time supporting a football team– with a smile and a song… or two!
That is who we are and what we came from. It is what I would like us to be.
I have taken some time away from keyboard bashing for charity ….. I just couldn’t stop doing it for Niamh one day and start doing it for someone else the next as that just didn’t seem right.
But maybe it is time, at the start of this new season, to get back on the horse, to do what can be done and to help out someone, somewhere with a bit of support when that support is needed.
So do what you can for 1254125 — every little helps, and as I say it is not just the money.
Maybe what I am trying to say is that Vanessa and Oscar and many more got a vital wee boost because people like us gave them a wee shot in the arm by delivering a very important message.
And that message is — that even in the darkest hours and in times of need…. You will Never… walk alone.
We are Celtic.
Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence.
Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot.
Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports.
One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)
The reason the Zimmerman trial was on TV was to distract attention away from Bradley Manning, Snowden, defense contracts, health and education being deprived due to war taxes, The American incarceration scam, Guantanamo, and gay marriage has become boring.
The Anthony Weiner sex scandal about how he photographed and published his weiner online overshadowed all news about tax fraud and the 200 or so murders since Zimmerman was acquitted.
BRT&H
In amongst all the sheer bollox and numerous crazies, green Huns & Huns (aye you know who you are :( who have taken over this dear green place thankfully on occasion we still get treated to a wee gem of a post!
Thank you for that last post of yours. Cap doffed once again.
MWD
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
Archaic American gun laws…????
The last year I could find records for, 2008, showed that 68 people were killed by gun shot in the U.K.
A country where no one is allowed to have a gun……?????????????
If you go by percent of population probably not too far behind the U.S.A.
Keep in mind most deaths by gunshot in the U.S.A. are black on black in the ghettos, the MSM won’t tell you that, most of the others are drug related, turf wars etc.
There are not too many if any good law abiding citizens who are gun owners going around shooting people for no reason.
As far as Trayvon Martin goes, he was a 6′ 2″ 175lb THUG, and if his mother had kept him in Miami he would most likely have got killed there.
If you are an anti gun person you are entitled to that opinion.
Here’s hoping Hearts are liquidated. It will contrast nicely to the Sevco hypocrisy.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
http://fdnyretiree.com/2013/07/24/the-15-minute-trayvon-martin-video-to-end-all-videos-forever/
weeman67
02:06 on
30 July, 2013
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
Archaic American gun laws…????
The last year I could find records for, 2008, showed that 68 people were killed by gun shot in the U.K.
A country where no one is allowed to have a gun……?????????????
Individuals will always break the law.See U.K.
I think your statistical comparison is way off.
The point is that the availability of guns in the U.S.is directly related to U.S.law.
Even the Mexican govt. has complained to the U.S. govt. about cross border movement of weapons.
Availability of guns in U.K. is generally illegal,with a few notable and tragic exceptions.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
Close the Mexican border, less illegal guns in the U.S., and I agree about guns going south, someone needs to check with Obama about that, also I am sure Mexicans are crossing the border to aquire arms. Just keep in mind, if you are going to ban guns you need to get them out of the bad guys hands first, the UK didn’t do a very good job of that.
Margaret McGill
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/11/george-zimmerman-trial-black-crime