Norris Cole

"Captain calamity" I hate to throw sand at your blatant agenda, but Kenny Miller is not the problem.

Loan signings aren't supposed to be leaders. But if you have gaps in your team that need filled for six months or so they can be worth their weight in gold. From memory, Weiss won us a couple of tough away games where we were struggling to make a breakthrough. And Bartley, we'll agree to disagree on him because I thought he was solid when called upon. Scott Brown must still be picking bits of Kyle's studs out his legs.

Re. Loan signings, I'm all for it personally. Walter was a master at it - Weiss, Bartley etc., guys that can bring that something to a team to get it over the line.

Tavernier has qualities he can bring to the team. But he has become a liability and is in dire need of a spell on the sidelines and a boot up the arse.

Take 50,000 people at random from any society, anywhere in the world, and you will have a few bellends. Non story.

Oh and at the risk of repeating myself, can Tavernier PLEASE just spend a month on the training ground and learn his trade again.

Good post, I agree with pretty much everything. However I'll just throw this out there: O'Halloran is looking more and more like a dud for me. Yes, you can point to the fact that he isn't getting regular football under Warburton, but when he does get an opportunity he just strikes me as a player of limited quality. Pace is only worthwhile if you know what to do with the ball. 2.3 million on O'Halloran and Garner. Just saying.

Aye, and then we start all over again with Derek f*cking McInnes. Oh, and still no money.

Maybe it's age, but they have to do a bit more than that to wind me up these days. I'm sure his fans thought it was 'pyoor mental n'at'.

The board need to give Warburton a fair go at this thing by opening their wallet. And if they can't, then they should make way for a board that can. We could have Pep or Jose and still go nowhere under these conditions.

It just makes it look like a Mickey Mouse league, as much as rbr's point stands. I can't remember meeting anyone who is a fan of the current set-up.

Does anyone know if we are considered a bottom six or top six side, for the purpose of the post-split matches? Bearing the race for second place in mind, we could be looking at a third trip to Pittodrie and/or Tynecastle if the SPL have deemed us a bottom six seed on account of being newly promoted.

See these 'big jobs' Warburton is occasionally linked with? Nobody is going to offer him employment until he proves he can build a defence worth the name.

Honestly, who else but him against them?

Yeah it's down. Hope to god it's fixed soon.

Afraid not, I just remember it from the old VHS and it's stuck with me. There may be extracts on YouTube though. Walter and Archie would have scared the bejesus out of me in their prime.

Distinct shades of Aluko getting done for "simulation" a few years back after the usual media outcry. Or the UEFA sanctions after not singing TBB v PSV in 2011. Or...you know, fuck it, take your pick. What a country.

Oh come on, that's a bawhair away from watching snooker in your pants with a big bag of Doritos.

Listen Frankie don't take any cheek on this thread - big Davie Weir was stoating through the Celtic team at 40. Happy birthday mate, here's to three points tomorrow:drum:

Bridges, Jesus wept. When were Celtic ever interested in building bridges? They're simply an outlet for bigotry and hatred with, let's face it, minimal interest in sport.

Couldn't agree more, and you begin to wonder just what it is the club are scared of.

I'll throw in a Devil's Advocate thought grenade here: Henrik Larsson? I file him with Gascoigne, in that while not a world class player per se, he was capable of world class performances. You don't come off the bench for Barcelona in a Champions League final and turn the game on its head without being top drawer. I'd have called him world class for maybe two seasons in his prime. From the modern era: 1. Laudrup 2. Larsson 3. Gascoigne In that order. I get a little cheesed off when Moravcik is mentioned in such discussions. He did nothing in his career before having a Davie Weir-style Indian summer. Albertz was a better player. If for propriety's sake I need to add another Celtic player to the above list (again, from the modern era) I'd say Petrov. But now we're straying a long way from world class.

If Baxter was on a list with Puskas, that's good enough for me. Baxter was before my time, I never saw him play, but it has always struck me that he was 'world class'. Not all would agree, but for me, Brian Laudrup was world class. And without becoming obsessed with 'criteria', I simply ask myself: did he regularly produce performances Zinedine Zidane would have been satisfied with? I have to say yes. Gascoigne was capable of world class displays, rather than being a world class player per se. Side note 1: Anyone remember the Laudrup video from back in the day? Archie Knox throwing himself about the training ground trying to get the ball off Laudrup before having some sort of breakdown: "You fuckin try then, ah cannae get the fuckin thing aff him!" Side note 2: If I had the option of signing Diego Maradona in his prime, or Zidane in his, I'd pick Zidane. Maradona would not have been the same player in the modern era IMO. Side note 3: I do wonder what the great players of the 90s make of the team/club today. Guys like Amoruso, Mols, Gough etc. are regulars at Ibrox, I just wonder what goes through their heads at times. I mean what did Laudrup make of Sandaza and Kyle?

The Record, eh? *Leaves thread*

If we feel a player might be prone to Theo Snelders Syndrome, we shouldn't be signing them.