Work ahead of the new season is underway in earnest after Celtic came through a game in Austria against top flight Russian club FC Krasnodar in Austria yesterday afternoon. Every hour has to be carefully planned from now on.
Ronny Deila has only 11 days before taking to an Icelandic field on Champions League duty. Players need to step up, from 45 minutes against a fellow-preseason team, to 90 minutes of competitive action against a team who are already midseason. Pushing muscles too hard now will be counterproductive; players need a planned gradient of training, rest and games to get them as close to peak condition as possible. No matter how well this goes, the players will be short of their peak for weeks.
Trying hard not to think or talk about signings but it’s good to see Craig Gordon confirmed. Fraser Forster is the most committed professional at the club, so he’s not a player who needs to be driven to improve, but we all need fresh incentives to go back to the well again, and the arrival of Craig will give Fraser fresh focus after returning from a disappointing World Cup campaign.
Welcome to Celtic, Craig.
There are around 36 CQNers already out on Aberdour Golf Course in what could be described as ‘fresh’ conditions. A great night lies ahead.
This year we are raising money for Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookiejar Foundation. We have two copies of this magnificent canvas, signed by Billy McNeill, one is available to the highest bidder on ebay here.
The other is available for raffle. Every donor to this JustGiving page gets an entry in the raffle. The minimum donation is £1, which we can all afford to participate in, although you can donate as much as you want. Our thanks to @BarryMcGonigle for the image on the canvas and OPG Graphics for creating the work.
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delaneys dunky
10:34 on 5 July, 2014
Cowie
I am 67 miles from Styx says satnav, see you soon bud.
. . .
Now I’m not superstitious, but is that an Ohmygod for you :-)
Sky Sports managing director Barney Francis said: “We’re delighted to kick off our Scottish football season with Rangers’ and Celtic’s opening matches, and the first Edinburgh derby. The SPFL is a vital part of our unrivalled football schedule and this season we’ll also bring Scotland’s UEFA EURO 2016 qualifiers and Celtic’s Champions League campaign. This is Sky’s 24th year covering Scottish football and we’re really looking forward to bringing our viewers more of the best matches this season.”
This is what we face and always will
Satnav?
Bloody hell,it will be telescopic sights on the cues next….
TINY TIM
Bloody brilliant idea,mate!
Well done,and I hope it goes like a well-oiled machine.
Good morning from a Hun free flute free drum free Castlemilk.
Castlemilks Green and White, the Brazen isn’t opening till later today as well shocking.
Good news is I hear they are getting papped out of the Glasgow Green at 2 pm, I’ll believe that when I see it.
Bmcuw
if its run by Tiny Tim it will
corkcelt
10:36 on 5 July, 2014
Nice:-) love that
In other news…..
Police scoddland – We wont tolerate sectarian behaviour at Oranj Ordure walk…….
………………………………………..
……..horribly hurtin’ on so many levels.
…..oh aye…..
Vote NO.
Now who earth is Nejc Pecnik, we are supposed to be interested in ?
Won’t happen, he’s 28
Hail Hail
“Necj Pecnik”?
……BIG scrabble winner…!
Scotland’s ‘Big Walk’ today…..
If you run in to it just remember – these are adults doing this. Dressing up in faux miltary uniforms, crimpolene trousers, silly hats of many varieties, brightly coloured ‘sashes’ and white gloves. And they take themselves seriously. Seriously?
These people are adults? Grown ups? Post pubescent humanoids? It would be funny if it wasn’t so potentially damaging.
It’ll all be over come the early hours of the morning. Then they’ll dust themselves off and make ready for the Real Deal next Saturday in Ireland. Spare us a thought. Because it is going to turn violent – the UUP and DUP have been working to ensure that for the last 12 months.
That said, I’m staying north for the 12th. In fact I’m heading out on the night of the 11th and 12th. If you know where to avoid you can have a perfectly (apart from taking a myriad of detours to get where you’re going) normal day. Unless you are from Ardoyne, or the Short Strand in which case you’ll be a prisoner in your own district while others get to celebrate ‘civil liberties’……… as people are fond of saying on here: Good Grief.
I keep having to remind myself – these people are adults. Adults!! Holy mother of mercy! Spare us and educate them………
Golf yesterday? Another waste of a walk……
Golf? Another excuse for grown adults to wear ridiculous clothing before getting hammered…
Once more CQN has benefitted more than it deserves from my occasional input of wisdom and profundity…….
Away for a run. I was going to walk but I can’t bring myself to do so today for some reason.
Running? An excuse for adults to dress in unbecoming sports wear and justify the beer I’m having later……. but still much better than golf or orangeism
Good Morning from Darkest Stirlingshire.
I managed to climb into my bed last night about 1:40 am after a fabulous evening at Aberdour.
Can I just say a huge thanks to Taggsybhoy and Blantyre Kev — ably assisted by BJ Mac ( who should really get a real job and stop playing golf all the time ) for a fabulous evening and a superbly run event. With various call offs all sorts of rearrangements had to be made on the golfing front and that is a huge amount of effort and organisation– yet all brilliantly done.
Fabulous meal at Aberdour Golf Club and great speeches from former solicitor Len Murray and a complete belter from Frank McGarvey who was very funny.
We had a short speech from a chap who started one of the charities ( Cookiejar ) we were raising money for. This man came into a room full of strangers and explained how he watched his 19 year old son die from cancer and how at times he could not be treated and how this was distressing.
The problem with the treatment was that to provide it, the medics could not find a vein to use for injections.
The chap concerned then went on to explain how they were forced to go down the private medicine route and low and behold there they had access to a hand held machine which showed up all sorts of veins that were hidden to the human eye…. and so treatment was easy or at least easier.
For me, as this humble local man spoke about his son and his passing, explaining his predicament and how it was easily solved with access to private medicine, I felt my blood began to boil. His son was 17 when he was diagnosed with cancer, and was only 19 when he passed.
I have sons who are 19, 18 and 15……… there but for the grace of God goes I.
Some of the money raised last night will be used to buy some of these machines so that other families do not need to face that same trauma or have to face the dilemma of having to go down the private medicine route when they cannot afford to.
Now, let me say this.
After the chap from Cookiejar had spoken our own Paul67 was introduced.
I have heard Paul address an audience of different types many times, but his short address last night was just about the finest I have heard, if not for the rhetoric used but for the sentiments expressed.
Paul compared the cost of bringing HMQ to Fife to launch a £6.5 Billion aircraft carrier together with all the pomp and ceremony and security and cost… to the fact that we have kids and teenagers suffering from and dying from cancers and the NHS cannot provide a “vein finder” and so forcing people to resort to private medicine and facing all sorts of stress and worry about treatments.
NAIL — HEAD —- HIT—– SQUARELY— AND WITH A DEVASTATING BANG!
This was a very simple reminder of what matters and what should be prioritised in society….. and in so doing, it was an obvious and clear, although unintentional, reminder of just how thoroughly good and decent guys like Paul, Kevin and John McTaggart and many others in our midst are……. and what good can be done and should be done in the name of Celtic Football Club and its fans.
In it’s 10 year history this golf event has raised more than £35,000 for charity and good causes — not counting last night. That is a fantastic achievement.
No doubt Paul will tell you later about the prizes and so on and expand more on what I have said here– but it was a privilege to listen to the speeches and have a meal in such good and funny company.
There were too many CQN’ers to mention by name but can I just thank my dining companions at my table for their irrepressible company and companionship.
Captain Moonlight, Jobo ( who sneaked out to his bed ), that doyen of the dram ACGR, Lambo’s front teeth, Young Jocimar Nascimento who by this time will be on a plane for his holidays, and last but by no means least…. that tour de force that answers to the name of Sannabhoy.
Lads that was great craic last night and I was honoured to be in your company.
Others present and scattered about included Tiny Tim, Paddybhoy88, Sipsini and loads of others. Earlier in the day Old Tim , Blantyretim and others had been present but sadly I missed them by the time I got there.
I have not swung a golf club in years….. but each year after Aberdour I am bloody tempted!
I hope the guys playing pool and whatever have just as great a day.
If you are in Clydebank from around 1pm onwards come and say hello at the Celtic Shop in Clydebank Shopping Centre and listen to the craic with Big Yogi, Wee Bertie and Tommy G.
Celtic Quick News —- what a bloody brilliant group of people —- making you think since about 6:45pm last night.
RT
parade, its much better than walking
Men walking all over the country……?
……………………. in strange brightly coloured polyester……?
carrying sticks?…
…swearin’…
…occasionally throwin’ them in the air????
Gowfin’ or….walkin’?
;)
Morning Celts, everywhere.
Windows closed.
Silverstone practice on Two, le Tour on Three. Is this what it’s like to have Sky Sports?
I could get used to it.
CQN,
Is indeed blessed, there is one other adult exercise I am fond of but you dont see many adults discussing it on here or is that childish :o)
Bankiebhoy
Aye…but it’s the Tims being arrested for complaining…big it’s dontcha know
You never forget the first time you experience the sights and sounds of an Orange Walk.
After which you’ll spend the rest of your life trying not to be caught again, in that threatening air of aggression and abhorrent primitive ritual.
The only reason it’s tholled and ignored is because of the tolerance levels of Catholicism, and other normal people of Scotland.
Came out of 5s in the Gorbals to find the Saltmarket had been shut off for the Orangies.
Had to do a wee detour to get into the motorway so passed a few of the horrible, manky monkeys making their way to the starting point.
Dear God, in what civilised society can this expression of hatred ever be deemed to be culture or heritage?!
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
10:56 on 5 July, 2014
RT
parade, its much better than walking
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Only on May Day!!
Up the workers!
BT
Big G64 saying they have shut off Asda car park…using for coaches etc….do Asda get compen……………that mingin mob still running country with aid of polis and lab/snp politicians….SCUM!
It’s days like this that make me proud to be the unbowed , undefeated and unrepentant Fenian that I am ………. they can all get it right up them ……Hail Hail .
Right, swaggering off now……..
I am old but I am beautiful…………..
City Centre gridlocked,shops and businesses closed especially on London Rd and Gallowagate.
PF
scoddish justice!
It all boils down to the Mr Stein formula.
Rattle in the goals – win cup finals – parade trophies
being serenaded by a packed out Celtic support with
spine-tingling renditions of YNWA and that’ll have them
on the pitch rioting!!!
Only then…can Timdom sit back comfortably in the knowledge
that – we’ve rapped it right roon them – simples :)
Btw, the ‘two’ new strips don’t look anything like Celtic jerseys. imho
The bottle green tartan thing looks like a gin bottle with mis-printed tartan.
The white one is like a strip for Croke Park ie: along the same lines as the
hun ‘tangerine’ wan. imho
Celtic strips should be green & white or, whie & green.
Why’s that so difficult?
Anyway…did the rain-dance last night, to no avail :(
Hail Hail
BSR
Your last point imo is well observed.
I think we are to an extent conditioned to put up with them in exactly the same way that the followers of the oranj ordure and their ilk are conditioned to expect that they will be allowed and facilitated to practice their supremacist views.
HH
whie = white
typo
See that the Walk is wending its’ way through Glasgow today. Can anyone tell me if they’re doing their thing in Kirkintilloch this evening? Just hoping they aren’t and don’t want to be held up by that “quaint cultural practice”.
Now that my brain has cleared, a little, I would like to thank all involved at Aberdour yesterday-Taggsy,Kev and BJ for organisation- Len Murray for a wittie speech and Frank McGarvey for an incredible insight into life and reality of a football career. His revelation of the difference between what Charlie Nic was earning at Celtic and what Arsenal offered was mind blowing.
BRTH- The gentleman from the Cookiejar charity gave one of the most moving talks I have ever heard- the idea that the NHS couldn’t provide a glorified torch to ease the turmoil of a families struggle with Cancer made me want to personally insert a Vienfinder in a painful place of any one of our smug Eton Trifles of a Cabinet.
Proud to take part and humbled by the generosity and friendship of CQN
Hail hail
Early lunchtime one July Saturday in the Gallowgate….2 men sitting nursing a pint at the back table and another doing the same at the bar, chatting to the barman. The door opens and a man walks in sporting dark blue crimpolene trousers, a pale blue shirt with red piping round the lapels, he saunters up to the bar…’lager mate’ he says to the barman.
The barman stares hard into his eyes for a few seconds then shrugs and turns to pour a pint.
A few minutes of stoney silence as the man takes a couple of sips and wonders why nobody is talking to him or even to each other.
Eventually he tries to strike up a conversation with the first man at the bar…’How’s it gaun big man?’
Boom! A haymaker from the regular punter sends wee crimpolene man sprawling onto his arse. ‘We don’t appreciate your sort in here ya filthy wee orange b********’ he spits as he steps over the prostrate and bloodied body and oot the door.
After a few seconds the wee guy stumbles to his feet, shocked and confused….’Whit? Me?….an orange b****’ He says confused……’Ah work fir Scotrail!’
The auld yins are the best.
.
Used to Look forward to the Orange Walk every Year..as We All used to go to Blackpool for the Day to get away from it..
Fun Times..
Summa
MONTEBLANCO
That is a stoatir,bud!
You owe me a moothfia Guinness,but I’ll let you off.
Trying to explain to some bemused Italians what is happening today in some parts of Scotland.
Happens here as well, but it often involves people carrying large statues of Christ, the Virgin Mary and assorted saints.
…and not a flute baund in sight!
HH!!
Looks llike BT willl be a VP today….
Frank McGarvy was funny? Naaaaaaaaaaaaa the x Celtic player? Wow!
That I would love to have seen.