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There’s always Patrick Thistle as the old saying goes Firhill for thrills and better pies .  🥧 .

Mon the lads. 

The bottom of the premier league has been more exciting to watch than our premier league I cant think of any matches north or the border that I have enjoyed no not one I suppose they're is always this Saturday for us to redeem ourselves with a five star performance. 

Jersey royals are in season nice with herring and spring onions and a knob of butter 

1 minute ago, Bill said:

Wrong on both counts 😂

You’ve never tasted her dumplings 

11 minutes ago, lenny3k said:

Delia Smith

A better cook than Ramsey and better looking 

Who are we linked to this morning 

Plenty of goals in yesterday’s three games just the ticket for the armchair fan 

and now some pundit linked Morelos with the toffees aye that will be right 

13 minutes ago, CammyF said:

So how did he inspire the team to the SPL title, the Scottish Cup, 2 decent runs and 1 amazing run in Europe 

 

Is he to blame for all the failures but not responsible for any success?

yep as captain he should be urging them on in their faces when mistakes are made driving them on he's hopeless absolutely hopeless unfit to be a Rangers captain not a leader and never will be 

five one victory for the toffees just the ticket 

mon the toffees 

1 minute ago, Bill said:

You cannot simply ignore the fact that Tav is our long-standing captain and therefore has a disproportionate influence on the rest of the squad. As long as he remain in that capacity, the message to everyone else is “more of the same”.

he couldn't inspire a drowning man into a lifeboat 

2 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

I can picture him wandering up the marble staircase with a blunderbuss.  

the Purdey 

Just now, CammyF said:

Goalie blameless? Midfield blameless? Strikers blameless? Subs blameless? Coaches blameless? DoF blameless? Boars blameless? 

you missed out the manager stick him on the out list another dud and i wont listen to any  tripe that he has had only one transfer window one to many in my opinion 

4 minutes ago, CammyF said:

So it's only Tavs fault that we've only won 2 trophies? Holy smoke......

I never said that, but he is to blame with any other  of the other three we line up in our back four not one of the can defend and as long as we give away goals we will continue to play for second place 

FFS wake up Tav has to go he is a complete disaster as a defender he's hopeless i dont hold with all this crap about the goals he's scored ask yourself how many trophies has he lifted no no no get him out .

if the toffees keep this up we will be okay

I voted Yilmaz time to stake his claim 

1 hour ago, alexscottislegend said:

Wouldn't mind us trying out a back three, with Souttar, Goldson and a left-sided CB. Use the wing backs for our width.

Tav has to go an uninspiring captain and a useless defender no use to man nor beast 

12 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

He publicly threw Morelos under the bus, which was out of order, and may not go down well within the dressing room. 

 

I don't see how he can pick Morelos again after that and don't think it was to get a reaction. 

Morelos and Kent should have been consigned to the bin long ago I think those two downed tools long ago I would Hope someone at the new board level sees this because in my opinion those two should be joined by Beale and given the heave ho .

It’s not over yet City have their eye on success in the European stage this might have a say in league performances 

9 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Who?
Morelos is the only fit first team striker we’ve got. 

Sakala can’t play the lone striker role

He's not interested and if Beale cant see that then weve no hope 

32 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

We should just drop him. 

 

Throw Lovelace into the deep end. 

Better telling him clear your gear and just fuck off and the same for Kent as well let them see out the season on holiday 

Morelos should not be anywhere near the team chase the fat lazy lump 

Mon the gers.  

On 25/04/2023 at 20:20, Uilleam said:

OH DEAR!!

 

Jock Stein ‘paid tribute to paedophile Celtic Boys head a decade after kicking him out’

Jim Torbett found guilty of child sex attack

Marc Horne

David Love

Tuesday April 25 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

 

Jim Torbett was jailed for three years over sexually abusing a player. It is the third time he has been jailed for sexual abuse

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paedophile-celtic-boys-club-founder-jim-torbett-abused-player-aged-13-c5k6lswc6

 

Jock Stein paid tribute to the paedophile founder of Celtic FC’s feeder club a decade after he was said to have kicked him out for molesting boys, it has emerged.

Jim Torbett was today found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old player, causing “incalculable harm”.

It is the third time Torbett, 75, has been jailed for attacking players at Celtic Boys Club.

 

Torbett was granted permission to launch and lead the boys’ club in 1966 by Stein, the Celtic FC manager, and Sir Robert Kelly, the chairman, gaining dispensation to use the club’s crest, colours and Barrowfield training ground.

 

Judge Andrew Cubie told him, before jailing him for three years, that he had used the club “as an elaborate front for recruitment of young victims”.

 

During Torbett’s first trial in 1998, where he was jailed for abusing three boys, including Alan Brazil, the broadcaster and former Scotland international, it was claimed that he was dismissed by Stein in 1974 after becoming aware of allegations of sexual abuse.

Giving evidence Hugh Birt, a former boys’ club chairman who has since died, said: “According to Mr Stein, he literally put his foot up his backside and kicked him out. It was all covered up by Celtic FC as to why he was kicked out.”

 

However, in December 1983 the Celtic View, the club’s official magazine, published a photograph of Stein posing between Torbett and Frank Cairney, a boy’s club coach, who was jailed in 2019 for abusing seven players.

A report from a trophy presentation night said: “Mr Stein made a particularly moving speech about the first time he was sent by Sir Robert Kelly to meet Jim Torbett, who had the idea of starting a Celtic Boys Club.

“This meeting had taken place in a small hall in Maryhill.

“Mr Stein said it was a sign of how much the boys’ club had grown that he was now among Celtic Boys Club in one of Scotland’s finest hotels.”

Stein died in 1985.

Two other former boy’s club officials have been convicted of sexual offences against children.

 

Cubie told Torbett that he had “caused significant damage” for the sake of his “selfish sexual gratification”.

 

The High Court in Inverness was told he had abused a boy in his car, in his mother’s flat, an Italian restaurant and in a toy shop where the teenager had been put to work creating souvenirs celebrating Celtic’s European Cup Victory in 1967.

The former player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said Torbett made him wear the club’s shorts before attacking him as he and another boy slept in the same bed.

 

Torbett returned to Celtic Boys Club in 1978 and remained there until 1996 when fresh abuse allegations emerged.

He ran Celtic FC’s chain of club shops in the early 1990s and organised testimonial events for first team players and coaches, including Tommy Burns and Sean Fallon.

Torbett’s company, The Trophy Centre, had a long-term contract with the club, reported to be worth £250,000.

 

He was imprisoned for another six years in 2018 for sexually abusing boys between 1986 and 1994. The youngest was aged five. He will resume that sentence and has the further term to serve.

 

During his latest trial Torbett insisted he was a “decent man”.

“I will keep repeating that till the day I die,” he said.

 

You could now say it’s official big Jock did know and buried his head in the sand I am all for stripping every trophy from this club from the time Torbett and Cairney were linked to them .