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    Steven Gerrard To Aston Villa - Official

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    21 minutes ago, SonicWill said:

    I'll be gutted if he leaves but, realistically, the day was going to come.

    I also don't get any of the anger or bitterness directed towards him.

    If you got offered a better paying job, closer to your family, with more career progression opportunity then you'd very likely take it.

    And whilst mid-season isn't ideal, it's not up to Steven Gerrard to have a succession plan in place. 

    He was brought in to rebuild our club and stop celtic doing the 10. He's done that and I'll be forever grateful. He's been incredibly upfront about the fact that he wants to manage his boyhood club and this move will take him a step closer to it.

    If he leaves, I'll always support him and wish him the best of luck. 

    Could stand either side of this argument. 
     

    Asked the majority of us what we wanted from him at outset I’d say he’s ticked most boxes. Stop the downward trajectory (fucking free-fall), get the title back, stop OF embarrassments, getting us back in amongst European Football (holding our own) and in general have us looking like a modern, professional club again...he’s done all that and for that reason I for one consider him to have done a good job, excellent tbh.   He is one of few managers in my lifetime that would hand the club over in a better place than he picked it up, by some distance. 
     

    it’s the timing though isn’t it - will there ever be a good time ? Answer is probably not but you’d struggle to find a worse time. This campaign is so crucial...last year emotionally it was peak, the stakes are higher this year. 

    I guess what he has said, installing that feeling of getting it, understanding where we are trying to get to and more so where we have been...I guess it’s easily chalked up as ‘they all say that’....Well I fell for it. Naive? Yeah, seems so but there you have it  

    Unfortunately the timing is the difference of take a lap of honour to leaving a bit of a bad taste, I do think history will be kind to him as far as we are concerned  

    Gorra emphasise - total speculation, but reading between the lines I’m thinking it’s in flow now. 

    Steven Gerrard To Aston Villa - Official

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    25 minutes ago, Smell the hotdog said:

    Hope to fuck Wilson sounding out people as we speak.

    Show time for him. 
     

    Not a single fan hasn’t been acutely aware of the risk this could happen and the potential consequences. There has to be a succession plan in place. Any sense of long term, patch work caretakers whilst the process begins will be a cataclysmic failure. 

    Candidates should already be identified and shortlisted based on our core requirements

    If this happens we should be doing what Villa have done....1 out 1 in quicker than you can say ‘did he not just say he was happy and settled’

    Accounts 20/21

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    8 minutes ago, Rangers_no1 said:

    Over £50m loss over the last three years.

    CL is a must next season!

     

    It is a must buddy but going forward we cannot be reliant upon CL money. I just do not understand how we cannot sell. 
     

    Take Goldson - we should never have ended up in this position. Borna? Croatia left back and we can’t seem to atttact bids when he was bang on form - what’s he worth right now ?
     

    Something odd about it for me - we need a model where we sell and right now Wilson has done no better that his predecessor in that regard. 

    Accounts 20/21

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Amateur hour from me but it strikes me that our failure to cash in on one high ticket player strikes again.  Stating the absolute obvious but one healthy sale and those numbers are oh so different. 
     

    We can only accept a bid if we get it but I just can’t understand how at the end of last season we were not in a position to do that. 

    Travel plans

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    47 minutes ago, Drumloyal said:

    Whereabouts at Loch Lomond mate? Probably best to get the train from Balloch to Partick and go downstairs to the underground, only a couple of stops to Ibrox. 

    Yeah deffo this 

    There is a bus runs form Alexandria as an option as you are near them

    https://m.facebook.com/DumbartonAlexandriaLoyal/?locale2=en_GB

    Or as Drum Loyal has said - train from Balloch to Partick and Tube from there 

    If you really want to drive up you could take car to Kelvin bridge station as you can park there and get tube and it’ll be easy to get on tube (less queues etc)

    I’d personally avoid trying to park near stadium as roads in and out under pressure due to COP

     

    Travel plans

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    5 minutes ago, markem said:

    No on foot, no. If returning from Ibrox you can come over bridge (on casino side) and either straight up into Finnieston or walk along Clydeside into town

    That’s deffo the situation right now. I cannot guarantee it won’t change but they look set up now (the noisy bastards) 

    I am heading over early tonight as need to go to ticket office so if it appears that is changed for pedestrians I’ll pop that up here 

    The more I think about it for those on foot I’m pretty sure you can go right up PRW and over where the new Barclays building is, not 💯 on that but when I walked back yesterday that bridge looked open. 

    Travel plans

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    18 minutes ago, KingKirk said:

    Is the clydeside no shut off tho

    No on foot, no. If returning from Ibrox you can come over bridge (on casino side) and either straight up into Finnieston or walk along Clydeside into town

    That’s deffo the situation right now. I cannot guarantee it won’t change but they look set up now (the noisy bastards) 

    I am heading over early tonight as need to go to ticket office so if it appears that is changed for pedestrians I’ll pop that up here 

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    Walter Smith the Memories

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    I worked in Cameron house during the period that Rangers had a huge presence there, basically every foreign player that signed would stay until they found a house (unlike Gazza who from memory never left)

    Worked in a restaurant that would close for 3 hours, maybe 3-6 so staff would work split shifts. One particular day I was asked if I’d work through the split as a group needed a private area, just top up the tea etc so I agreed.  

    In walked Walter with some other guys I didn’t know but it transpired they were representing a potential signing. 

    It quickly became clear the name Brian was being mentioned a lot and then I heard the iconic surname (admittedly more through Michael for me) I stood there the next couple of hours as they (as it appeared to me) if not close certainly put in place the Laudrup deal. 

    Won’t mean much to others that story but for me to have been present that day when such a pivotal moment occurred involving such giants of our club, it’s hard to believe to be honest. Hand on heart the great man took time to chat to me during their break, in hindsight I should have left him alone but well, young and dumb so was right in chatting to him.  
     

    Walter was always around the hotel and it’ll surprise nobody when I say all the hallmarks of his character and values were constantly evident - had time for everyone, I recall we played a staff 5 aside game out the back one day and he stood for ages watching, i could barely move  

    So many stories from Cameron House at that time (Gazza!) but to digress a little I’ll finish on a lighter note …. Working a shift at their marina when this bloke started talking to me about Rangers, we were playing Celtic the next day and he asked me if I was going, I said no, I had no ticket…are you going mate says I? He said aye I'm going, I am the Rangers goalkeeper. It was Dibble…I genuinely think he was about to give me a ticket until I said that.

     

    Saudi takeover of Newcastle United

    in General Football & Sport

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Assegai said:

    This is why I'm glad our Club isn't part of what the PL has become - reminder that Newcastle's prospective new owners kidnapped a journalist, drugged him, dismembered him while still alive and then dissolved his body in a bath of acid and flushed him into the sewer.

    Really needs to be added to the fit and proper multiple choice test 

    Have you ever….

    celtic Face 25 actions regarding Historic Abuse

    in General Football & Sport

    Posted

    3 hours ago, superallysbears said:

    Maybe McKay as previously stated was just actually a decent cunt, he's took one look at that mob running the place and thought better of it, in more ways than one may I add, probably relieved to get out when he did.

    Who knows, for me it’s a stretch on him being decent as as much as he may not have known the full extent of the CSA situation he’ll be well versed in separate entity bull shit yet wanted to be the CEO of that organisation 

    Could be right though - perhaps he’s got the full picture and thought, no thanks. 

    Lundstram must start

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    1 hour ago, born a blue nose said:

    If Davis done the job lundstrum done today he would have been motm and not a peep would be said. 

    The 'love in' swings both ways imo 

    Thought he was rightly motm, loves a tackle too. 

     

    Is absolutely right ^

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