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I own you,ya wee basturt. And yer maw. You all think you got democracy wi Yeltsin,evil laugh. Oh and by the way,I own the American president anaw. Yer in good company.

RALPH

Thinking back to some of our more recent signings from within Scottish football,the likes of Armstrong GMS and Hayes always performed well against us and everyone else.

I don’t recall Turnbull at all last season,not against anyone. Just saying.

If he signs for us,cool. He’d better realise that he isn’t the big fish at Motherwell,and he’d better realise he needs a new agent. That eejit has been difficult for a lot of clubs,even at a far lower level,and has probably cost a few fledgling players their career.

I know he nearly went too far at a SPL club and a youngster,for example. Little first team experience but maybe 30 caps at his age level,and nearly wrecked the whole thing by his demands.

Celtic should stop dealing with him. If you fancy a move to Celtic,get a new agent.

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Don’t panic wee man but …

THE RANGERS ARE COMING.

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Shut the fuck up or you’re getting sent to Ibrox!

Caption:” Hello little manski, what do you want to be when you grow up?”
“President of America?”
“No probleski. Uncle Vladimir will fix it.”

“In the real world players will not see Celtic as the place to be.

The money is crap, the weather is awful and the goldfish bowl existence doesn’t suit everyone.

We may have to wait awhile for any “marquee ” signings as , whether we like it or not, we will not be their first choice, and all we can hope is that we will be the one they pick when no one else wants them.

Thats the reality, and thats why it will be easier to entice Scottish players to move, and why we will struggle to get anyone of note in.”

Sorry but that’s nonsense which gives us a free pass to not spend money and to limit our horizons.

We will of course be a stepping stone, in the same way that Porto, Shaktar, Ajax and, frankly, most teams in the world are stepping stones.

We recently appeared in a prestigious report with the other top 31 teams in Europe (by value of the club), we have a turnover of £100m which puts us in the top 30-50 clubs in Europe and have competed in post-Christmas European football in the last two years. Oh, and we have £50m in the bank.

Despite all this, we have to set our standards on Scottish talent only? It’s expectation management. Our biggest signing in the last window was PL’s bonus.

Give me your lollipop or your off to the huns on loan

Still very funny.

Stephen Brown, His posts were made on F.B. in 2010 of an unsavoury, sectarian, discriminatory and homophobic nature, remember Hugh Dallas was still in situ. so he was probably trying to gain favour with his boss’s. The John Fleming, Hugh Dallas, Stewart Regan, Putrid Petrie school of refereeing. It was reported that it took until 2014 for it to be removed from I-cloud and his (cough) indiscretions was reported to the SFA and brought forward to its Judicial Panel. (Auldheids friends) who gave him a slap on the wrist and told him to continue in the same vein. It was only when he reached the giddy heights of Cat. one refs, when he failed the litmus test of the SFA’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion panel, what they have another panel and Maxwell booted him out. It only took Nine years, OMG. Euston, we have a problem.

He’s not been keeping very good company, which is part of his vast problems.

Hopefully he does knuckle down and put in the hard graft that he hasn’t done in the past 3 years when he’s been a disgraceful professional and thoroughly disruptive presence.

Eddy is a model professional and we raised the bar when we signed him and Dembele before.

Hopefully Griffiths finally understands this and he should be no more than 3rd choice and none of this “I’m the fucking number 1” crap anymore.

Turnbull is probably on a grand a week I would say Celtic would have offered 12 maybe with add ons.Im sure his agent would have wanted more and been.looking at 20k I don’t think he is worth that tbh. Henderson with more game time will do the job.
But we need defenders this is the problem not chasing after midfielders, are the 2 American guys coming or is their a problem with visas ?
Can’t understand if they haven’t joined the squad as yet for pre season training.

Tictoc here is what I found m8 hooe it helps.
young Willie McBride could have been one of 19 soldiers killed in action with the same name.
It’s a beautiful ballad regardless and tells of the horrors of war no matter if your orange or green.So enjoy singing it and playing it m8.

World War 1
So, just who was the ‘young Willie McBride’?
Graham Clifford visits the final resting place in France of the famed soldier from County Armagh

Graham Clifford
11 May 2014 2:30 AM

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Scottish singer Eric Bogle wrote the song.
In a quaint French country graveyard in the village of Authuille (5km north of Albert and close to the battlefields of the Somme) a wreath, with its leaves now withered, rests against a white headstone.

On its inner rim green, white and orange ribbons and a circle of synthetic poppies still stand out against the brown earth below.

This is the last resting place of Private William McBride who served with the Inniskilling Fusiliers and lost his life on April 22, 1916.

He was just 21 when he was killed – one of so many Irish men to have lost their lives in the Great War – but in song his memory is preserved.

Though there were eight soldiers named ‘William McBride’ listed with the British forces, and a further six registered as ‘W McBride’ who died in France and Belgium during World War I, it’s believed the William McBride buried in Authuille is the one on whom the song ‘The Green Fields of France’ is based.

The song’s Scottish composer, Eric Bogle, recently confirmed that this was one of the graves he sat by before writing the emotive song words – though Private McBride was 21 when he perished – and not 19 as the lyrics state.

Bogle allegedly told a local historian that the grave (of ‘his Willie McBride’) belonged to a soldier who was with this battalion – without being specific about the location of the grave.

In the same cemetery I find the headstone of a Private W McBride who died in February 1916 but records fail to confirm his age (most believe he was 19).

Some are convinced that, in fact, this is the ‘Willie McBride’ in question but Bogle’s testimony seems to contradict this.

The composer has been reluctant to clearly pinpoint the source of his inspiration beyond all reasonable doubt – perhaps all of those fallen acted as inspiration en masse.

In the song, made famous by the Fureys and Davey Arthur, the singer asks ‘Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly? Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band sound the Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?’

On the day I visit the only sound is that of the gentle breeze blowing through the manicured trees which shelter the cemetery on each side.

Private William McBride may have been buried with military honours (though it’s more likely during the intensity of war his body was interned quickly without such a ceremony) but for most of the last century his grave site has been peaceful – so at odds with the conflict that ended his young life.

But who exactly was the Willie McBride we now sing of – the fallen soldier and mother’s son the song’s composer says he prayed over?

One of four children, born to Joseph and Lena McBride in the small Armagh village and townland of Lislea in 1897, a young William attended the Crosskeys National School.

From a Presbyterian family he would have been a regular mass-goer at the local Temple Presbyterian Church.

Interested in becoming a cobbler before war broke out, a teenage Willie would serve his time in the ‘shoe trade’. Initially he worked as an apprentice in Aitkens, Cootehill. He then went to Irvinestown for a short time before moving to work in Belfast.

Eager to do his bit for the war effort, Willie enlisted in the army in Belfast just nine months before his death. He would serve with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers which was formed in Omagh in September 1914 and was known as ‘the Tyrones’.

Interestingly, the 12th battalion of the Inniskilling Fusiliers fought against the Irish rebels on Easter week in 1916 in Dublin with two of its soldiers dying and seven being wounded.

On the day Willie McBride was killed fighting conditions in the trenches were even more devastating and bleak than usual.

The rain poured in, men stood in water up to their waist – many half-waiting for death. Furious German shelling came on a continuous basis and sick men tried to hold onto their positions.

It simply was hell on earth. The end was inevitable for most, including Willie McBride.

Looking out over the beautiful flatlands near Authuille today it’s hard to imagine that these green expanses were turned into such bloody killing fields for the likes of the youngster from Armagh.

The irony is that these ‘Green Fields’ once ran red with blood.

An entry in the cemetery log by a ‘James Crowley from Cork, Ireland’ reads ‘Willie McBride – you gave your young life for the cause of freedom – every time we sing your name we’ll remember your sacrifice and that of so many brave Irishmen who fought this most brutal of wars so far from your native homeland. May you have found rest ‘where the red poppies dance.’

The Green Fields of France
The story of 19-year-old Private Willie McBride who died in 1916 recently inspired four young Dublin schoolboys to delve into the history of World War I.

The result is a book exploring the futility of war, which has been published by the Glasnevin Trust and is for sale in the museum gift shop in Glasnevin.

Inspired by the Eric Bogle ballad, ‘The Green Fields of France’ the boys from St Paul’s in Finglas, Michael McDonagh (15), Ciaran O’Connor (14), Aaron Boylan (14) and Jamie Broughan (14), used the internet and the commonwealth war graves database to attempt to find the ‘real’ Willie McBride behind the classic song.

During their research they discovered that 19 Willie McBrides were killed in World War I, all of Irish descent. Two died in 1916.

They concluded that the most likely subject of the song died on February 10 and is buried in a French cemetery near the town of Albert.

Their book is a tribute to all Irishmen and Willie McBrides who perished in the Great war.

Boggle also made the case for the song after the bombings in Birmingham and London by the IRA he said there was too much anti Irish going on in Britain and they had forgotten how many brave Irish men had given their lifes to preserve their empire. It his is why he wrote and released the song. I think the Clancy brothers with Tommy Makem had 28 weeks in the Irish charts with it.
dont think Bogle was happy with the way the song was used for the poppy day a couple of years ago as they missed out some lyrics and verses.

Jimmy, I replied to you, Pal. It’s self-explanatory.
If you look oot yer windae ye may see it passin’ alang wi’ a’ the ithers.
Just who TF moderates the moderators?
Treble Treble, ma face is a mess,
Scum huns, your worth less than less…

HH

Mods, please FFS.
Comments arriving late lose ALL the point of blogging, the on-line, ON TIME discussion.
Of course, do your best, do your worst, it’s your FN site but, without some consistency, this best of all Tim site will erode and crumble. DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN.
Offer explicit parameters and advise that posts OUTSIDE of the parameters will be binned, permanently, as will the poster.
I’ve been fucking awful on here at times and I would actually be helped by said parameters.
YOUR CALL, of course.
Love and kisses, TicToc. xxx
HH