John Guidetti has put himself out there by letting us know he’ll score a hat-trick in next month’s League Cup semi-final. I’m not normally an advocate of showing confidence, if not contempt, for opponents prior to a game, but Guidetti’s comments come against a rich canvas.
The player is in a rut and will be feeling the weight of disappointment with each passing chance. He is a goal-scorer, he’ll score again, but he needs to find the spark to fire-up the second part of his season.
You will remember Kenny Miller ran his guts out in his early months as a Celtic player but it was not until a game against oldco Rangers in September that his landmark first Celtic goal arrived. Kris Commons has been a scoring sensation throughout his time at the club apart from his second season, when he took until April before scoring, a delightful chip over the oldco keeper.
Ahead of both of those games I knew it was all going to come together for Miller and Commons. John Guidetti has set himself a target. He will probably score before that game but he knows how important it is to perform at Hampden. He is good enough to deliver on this one, don’t bet against him.
Contrast John’s comments to those last week from newco defender, Steven Smith, who said, “The fans will probably be dreading [the Celtic game]because in the big games this season, we haven’t done well. Everybody has got their opinions and are entitled to them.
“But with the results we have been having and the way we have been playing, I don’t think we can think about it too much.”
You will be hard pushed to find a clearer example of the language of failure: “dreading”, “haven’t done well” and “the way we’ve been playing”. You normally need to work a bit to find a player’s insecurities. It’s good of John Guidetti to mark his card on what to expect. Give me a confident striker over a scared defender any day.
The Second Annual Celtic Supporter’s Féile is on the weekend of Friday 30 January 30 – Sunday 1 February in Philadelphia. The events include live music each day, the US premier of The Asterisk Years, with a Q&A with Paul Larkin and Graham Wilson of Beyond the Waves podcast, as well as live coverage of our first ever meeting with newco Rangers in the League Cup semi-final.
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beatbhoy @ 08:13
Bolleaux’s.
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Unnecessary use of the apostrophe and the ‘s’ there.
Should read, bolleaux, eg, in a sentence, joie de bolleaux = the joy of bollocks, or beaucoup de bolleaux = plenty of balls, big balls.
As for Bolleaux Nouvelles – the possessive here is Andy Murray’s.
gary67
08:12 on 13 January, 2015
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Badly needed.
Lenny also allowed to many players happy to sit around and pick up money.
Berget
Wakaso
Tonev
Balde
Pukki
Derk
Efe
Mcgeouch
Kayal
That should free up a decent amount of wages.
Any decent bids for matthews should also be accepted as fisher and lustig more than capable for the role.
Be happy for us to get guidetti full time..keep virgil and bring in another centre half and cover at left back.
Id be very happy with that until the summer.
I went to primary school with Johnny Doyle’s son(year below I think). Got me a flyer with all the squad signatures. It was a printed copy but I was still over the moon. Good lad.
They lived near my cousins and my secondary school was beside the cemetery. We all left class that day to watch the cortege. Very sad day which I remember vividly. There was a touch of excitement due to the Celtic players and management arriving, which I still feel guilty about. Only defence is that we were 12/13 at the time. Frank McGarvey’s brother was a teacher there at the time if memory serves.
Morning Timdom from what was a lovely snow touched dunblane.
TET. Thoughts with you and your glamourous cave goddess.
Off to the ‘Burg. Had salt n sauce on my porridge to prepare.
HH jamesgang
PROUDBHOY
I think Adam Matthews’ contract is up in the summer. And I doubt he’ll renew.
He’ll be outa here like a scalded cat,eager to ply his trade where he doesn’t wear a target on his back,and the laws of the game are properly applied.
From the DR,
Anthony Stokes tweets new hair
HE’S not bad with the ball at his feet, and now Anthony Stokes is good in the hair too.
The formerly balding Celtic striker has been having treatment at a Glasgow hair studio.
And he’s so chuffed with how it’s going that he tweeted a photo of the results to his 127,000 followers, with the message: “Barnet is almost back!”
Stokesy, 26, is enjoying a winter break in the Canaries with the rest of the Hoops squad.
But when he’s at home, he advertises KSL Hair with fiancee Debbie Lawlor, who goes there for extensions.
Hoops team-mate Leigh Griffiths is also on the firm’s books.
Stokesy said: “It’s only started to become more noticeable in the past two years, so I thought it was time to do something about it. I believe KSL Hair are the team to sort this issue once and for all for me.
“They understand what you’re going through.”
KSL offer treatments including Follicle Unit Extraction, where hair from elsewhere on the patient’s body is transplanted on to the scalp. And Stokesy’s Twitter fans were impressed with his new look.
One told him his barnet was “looking braw” while another added cheekily: “Now you’ve got a second chance, don’t ruin it by getting highlights again.”
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Do I detect a fellow CQNer in the replies there?
11 first team including 5 star signing
11 string reserves challenging the above
11 youths eager to challenge when called upon
Total squad 33.
Payment depending on where you are :
1st 11 Top 5 players on £30k/week, remaining 6 on £10k/ week
2nd 11 top 5 players on 5k/ week
Remaining 6 on 3k/ week
3rd 11 top 6 on £1500/ week
Remaining 6 on £1k/ week
Total playing bill- £ 267k/ week
£13.9m / year.
Wonder if Stokesys hair will grow short and curly
James Forrest writes a very interesting piece this morning.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/friends-in-low-places/
Not ‘good interesting’ I might add.
HH jamesgang
Dexter
I would keep Forrest and tell him it’s his last chance to get himself fit for the Celtic
Physically and mentally
This is probably an unpopular view but I don’t really see the point of the advert in this Sunday’s Herald.
Does it make them any more or less dead to people?
I think they are dead so my opinion hasn’t changed. Those who feel differently won’t be persuaded by any statements from Celtic Supporters.
I guess it’s a demonstration of freedom
Of speech and it gives a voice to Celtic supporters that is muted by mainstream media but for me it is unlikely to change any minds..
I’d be interested to know how much a full page advert costs?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
08:46 on 13 January, 2015
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Didnt know that.. i like adam as a player and he seems to be popular amongst the players aswel which is always good.
Kayal also out of contract so no fee there either… poor management allowing these players to play down there contract espcially those who havent been regulars in long time like kayal
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
09:02 on 13 January, 2015
Dexter
I would keep Forrest and tell him it’s his last chance to get himself fit for the Celtic
Physically and mentally
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Heard Oldtim gave you a similar pep talk recently ref keeping your place in the BV Dream Team!
;-)
HH jamesgang
cultsbhoy
I stuck my fiver or tenner in for the ad as I support it.
Your view is perfectly valid though. It’s the ongoing situation that’s ‘unpopular’ (to say the least!) not your view IMHO.
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG
Just read JF’s latest.
Some random dots being joined,but all in all,they make a fairly unpleasant picture.
CultsBhoy
09:08 on
13 January, 2015
This is probably an unpopular view but I don’t really see the point of the advert in this Sunday’s Herald.
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Your opinion is noted.
Some of us don’t want to sit and take the ‘same club’ lies.
57 years on the planet getting their ‘tradishuns and entitlements’ rammed down my throat, not any more.
The late great Jock Stein killed them, he set the bar at a level they couldn’t reach even using the banks, taxpayers money and all the liars and cheats at the SFA.
I’ll let them know that……………If it’s OK with you?
The biggest security company in Qatar is G4
Cults…,
Do you remember the SMSM ever telling the truth since liquidation ?
Bawsman
09:25 on 13 January, 2015
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You’ll let – who – know that?
Who reads the Herald?
Two guys & a dug?
The ship has sailed……
The open-goal was there, two years ago when the huns were granted a licence to work their way back up the leagues.
Celtic’s PLC ‘bored’ sat and said nothing, just like they looked the other way when the dying-huns were stealing £60 million in CL money from ‘your’ club on the back of mibbery. Why didn’t you want to make a ‘statement’ about that?
CANAMALAR
G4S is the biggest company of its type in the world. No great surprise it has a strong presence in Qatar.
Edinburgh beckons
Take care Timdom
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
Just off phone to the Oldtim
Told me to keep myself in shape for Friday pm. 8))
CultsBhoy
statement not an advert……….are we trying to sell something or recruit someone.????
STATEMENT………….rangers deed ok deed.new club. 2 years history.
BIG PS HERE………HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.!!!!!!
BMCUW,
It surprises me actually considering the existing security authorities, I’m surprised because I’d expect such a large security force could be considered a potential threat to security, if you get my drift.
Bawsman
I know where you are coming from and I fully support freedom
Of speech and extreme measures when that right is stifled..
I just don’t feel it will serve any purpose in changing anyone’s mind. Our minds are already made up one way or the other- whatever side of the argument you fall on,
My disappointment around this who debate is the number of Celtic Fans who perpetuate the myth,
As far as Hunco fans go I don’t care if they think they are the same club.
I know what I think and that’s all that really concerns me.
kevjungle
I read the Sunday Herald. Ma dug less so.
I also read the People’s Friend and want to say how much I enjoy reading your column in it.
;-)
HH jamesgang
Favorite Uncle,
Many happy returns
jamesgang
09:00 on
13 January, 2015
James Forrest writes a very interesting piece this morning.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/friends-in-low-places/
Not ‘good interesting’ I might add.
HH jamesgang
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Mr Forrest’s piece is a load of unsubstantiated drivel laced with a high level of paranoia – and like those putting together the Sunday Herald, smacks of narcissism.
jamesgang
09:36 on 13 January, 2015
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Mind don’t be tellin emdy whit page it’s on :)
Hail Hail
Canamalar
You are working under a false assumption that I actually give a flying **** what the Scottish media say about anything..:-)
KevJungle
09:31 on
13 January, 2015
Bawsman
09:25 on 13 January, 2015
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You’ll let – who – know that?
Who reads the Herald?
Two guys & a dug?
The ship has sailed……
The open-goal was there, two years ago when the huns were granted a licence to work their way back up the leagues.
Celtic’s PLC ‘bored’ sat and said nothing, just like they looked the other way when the dying-huns were stealing £60 million in CL money from ‘your’ club on the back of mibbery. Why didn’t you want to make a ‘statement’ about that?
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And?………….you did what?
jamesgang
brill just gave my birthday a great start.
CANAMALAR
No country which runs its affairs like Qatar does is likely to object to having a potential private army on its payroll!
CultsBhoy…………………I think we get that you don’t want to do/say anything. That’s an option.
Cults..,
I think it is addressing the problem that is confusing many many Celtic supporters, the SMSM and football authorities constantly professing the lie, the ASA backing up the lie. This propaganda is winning and is unchallenged, this statement in print will clarify for many the actual status especially when neither the authorities or ASA challenge the statement.
Maidin mhaith CQN.
Árd Macha
HAPPY HOOPY BIRTHDAY
to
FAVOURITE UNCLE!!!!!!
I contributed towards the Glasgow Herald statement, it will be the truth in regards to the nonsense spouted around Sevco and their status, what’s wrong with a statement telling the truth in a MSM quality ? Isnt that what we are supposed to be reading in the press, the truth !
The biggest preposterous guff i have read is that apparently a statement in the Glasgow Herald will lead to violence at the up and coming semi final game
I work in Lanarkshire in a large warehouse with over 1000 workforce, mainly males, we have various sections of the Sevconian support, for the last three years we have heard mainly from the Orange end of the spectrum spout angrily and aggressively about the attacks on their culture and their club, the undercurrent of violence amongst this group is palpable, i suspect if you add alcohol to that potent mix it will become explosive on Feb 1st, my advice is to avoid this group wherever they may gather on Feb1st