An article on STV this week brought an old memory to mind. Days before Rangers’ goalkeeper, Chris Woods, was set to break a Scottish shut-out record across all competitions he gave a media interview when he said, “I just hope when we do lose a goal it is not an important one”.
Woods duly broke the record in a Scottish Cup tie against Hamilton Accies but that game, 27 years ago last week, is not remembered for the achievements of Chris Woods, it’s remembered for the fact that Accies left back, Adrian Sproat, found himself in nosebleed territory as he thrashed the only goal of the game into the net. Records count for nothing when you’re knocked out of the cup.
Fraser Forster has demonstrated remarkable concentration in recent games, when he has been called upon to make incredible saves after long periods of inactivity, but there are only so many times he’ll be able to pull off ‘save of the season’ acrobatics. We need to protect him and close down space well away from the Celtic goal.
These records may matter little if they are recalled through an embarrassing defeat but, just consider how often and fondly we refer to the 25 league game winning run in season 2003-04. History is always worth making.
Many thanks for everyone who for getting your seats confirmed for our CQteN St Patrick’s Day Dinner at the Kerrydale Suite on 14 March. As we stand there are a few non-confirmed but from tomorrow we’ll be able to allocate seats to the waiting list. Will let you know if we have space available soon.
The dinner is to raise funds to build a kitchen for Mary’s Meals at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji, Malawi, which has 1200 students and no catering facilities. Children often are faced with the choice of working to eat of going to school. With a kitchen in place this dependency will flip, those who go to school and get an education, will also get a meal – often their only reliable meal of the day.
Marys’ Meals perform minor miracles, feeding each child in Malawi for £7 per annum, while employing locals to work in the kitchens (which will be used as a classroom outside of meal times). It will be a remarkable legacy to mark the first 10 years we’ve had out of CQN.
Two new badges will launch at the CQteN dinner to record the decade and raise funds for the Malawi kitchen. The designs have now been approved (see here) and they are about to go into production. If you would like to register interest, email Celticrollercoaster on cqnbadges@gmail.com
If you would like to read the new CQN Magazine, GO HERE to read properly, and for FREE, the graphic below is just a taster.
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Ally demands to know the names of the people who awarded the Olympics to Sochi.
CIHAROTCLIC
Me too.
Used to do our food shop at waitrose and M & S.
Not now.
And we have an Aldi on our doorstep.
It’s taken me a wee while to get the misses on board but she’s afan too.
ryecatcher 21:36 on 6 February, 2014
I don’t remember too many people complaining when TB got sacked.
Quite the opposite in fact.
As you said: “Let’s not get revisionist with history in this sea of McCann sentimentality,ey?”
Philbhoy…
Have you not got school tomorrow,son?
Doc
1 of each please for me will email also tho ;-)
HH
Good night bhoys and ghirls.
God bless.
ryecatcher
Good night to you too.
Ryecatcher
… being a hun in disguise must be such hard work ?
Philbhoy – Free the Dam 5!
21:22 on
6 February, 2014
Anyone shop in Aldi’s?
I bought a bottle of Highland Black, 8 year old whisky. £12.99.
Not bad at all.
Anyone tasted it?
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Philbhoy, seen this today and I’ll try it tomorrow :–)
Budget supermarket Aldi, the go-to shop for the recession-hit middle classes, has won a prestigious gold medal award for its own brand scotch.
Experts at the International Wine and Spirits competition awarded the chain the top award for its Highland Black 8 Year Old Scotch Whisky, which costs £13.19.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379101/Aldis-Highland-Black-8-Year-Old-Scotch-Whisky-wins-gold-medal-industry-awards.html#ixzz2sa3uDT1N
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Not a Daily Mail reader.
Just noticed it when I did a search for a review :-)
Nakasammi
Nothing wrong with going to aldi but reading the daily mail is unforgiveable.
Ha beat me to it
nakasammi
£12.99 in Linlithgow.
Very good too!
Mea Culpa,
It’s quite funny a ( half ) grown man needs to speak in innuendo and ask himself questions which he knows the answers to.
How can anybody take such a clown seriously.
Hope he continues his slabberings.
ryecatcher
21:36 on 6 February, 2014
“Over paid for it”
He put his money in when no one else would, told us what he would do and when he would leave.
Everything he said he would do he done.
He left when he said he would.
Got rid of that rat farry and let the Huns at the sfa know we won’t be walked over again.
Every penny earned in my book HH
nakasammi
2 parts Highland Black, 1 part water.
Lovely.
Ryecatcher
Away and boil yer heed man!
TB got plenty of money – thing was he spent it all on midfielders or forwards with the result that despite having Thom, Cadette, Di Canio on the park we couldn’t hold a lead against a team from a lower division in a SCSF!
Rewrite history as much as you want but those facts are in the book!
HH
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
21:07 on
Couldn’t agree more and if that day ever comes that we are invited into the \epl or some European/World super league will be the day that the club I love dies.
Those that yearn for that invite also have to except that what they are wanting is someone like Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as our owner or maybe Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his family. No doubt the Tony D’s among our support will shout support the board and excuse their pasts buisness history’s or human right’s abuses while building their empire’s.
We may then be able to afford the best players in the world and even compete with the best but at what cost to the ideals and ethos of the club?
Celtic’s share price has almost doubled in the last 12 months, something is going on that the fans will have no control over or say in. As you say BRHT only 1 man will be to blame or take the credit, depending on your point of veiw, if we are at some point in the future bought by some tyrant or venture capitalist with no morals.
I believe Tommy Burns may not have been the best manger in our history.
But I love him just the same.
BT
It was only after I cut and pasted did I realise the source. Oh, the shame!
Ryecatcher
As I say I think you are wrong- Celtic were abysmal before Fergus McCann took over on 4/3/94 . They also had to build a stadium . Perhaps they should have gone out and signed Romario , Maldini and Matthaeus in the summer of 1994 and we’d be sitting on bench seats in the Celtic and Rangers Ends as well as the Jungle to this day. No wish to fall out bro – I shall disagree civilly with you.
BRTH
What would your alternative have been in 1994/5 to the share issue?
I have misgivings re Fergus McCann and stated them here a few weeks ago. He always seemed a rather sour individual in addition to the more obvious failings but , to me, he has far more on the credit side of the ledger than the debit. But then as Ernie would say BRTH your posting has obviously sailed over my head.
Perhaps Ernie would wish us to bring back The Doc , Chris White and David Smith and his two Celtics and Gefinor
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
ryecatcher,
aye very good. FF offline tonight?
It’s amazing how those on this blog,who are obviously intellectually challenged ,are conditioned to respond ‘lurking Hun’ or ‘Hun in Disguise’ to any poster who doesn’t concur with their narrow view on anything Celtic.Lots of this type on Follow Follow,too.Two cheeks of the same arse,really.
BRTH……Tell it as it was and is on Fergus, mate……you just might get called a Hun though!!
BRTH
Very good points, and genuine concerns.
If your fears do come to fruition, and the club is taken over by others unknown, we will be playing with the big boys, with access to untold riches, slightly ott, but you know what I mean, and said others will only care about making money, and making money comes with a winning team, they will care not for the soul of the club, but they will fill the stadium week in week out.
You may well rightly be concerned re the soul of the club, but I would wager that in the years to come, and it’s happening as we type, the soul is being torn from the club, the younger generations may not care as we do, as long as they see a winning team on the pitch.
They may try and take the soul from the club, they may to an extent, but I doubt they will totally.
Having said all that, I would rather that than be at the back of the bus in scotland, where people are walking away due to the cheating and corruption.
If we stay we die, if we leave we die another way, choices, choices, I know the one I choose.
HH
philbhoy – free the dam 5!
21:52 on 6 February, 2014
Correct mate, played great football at times.
Tommy the man no greater Celt IMO if he wasn’t on the park he would have stood with us on the terracing FACT HH
I can’t believe or understand the criticism of Fergus.
Our backs were to the wall, we got Fergus and look at us now.
Thems backs were to the wall, they got Craigy boy and look at them now.
Some so called Celtic fans need to get a sense of perspective.
I’d rather be saved by an honest businessman than a dishonest one
eddieinkirkmichael
21:51 on 6 February, 2014
Those risks are there wherever we play.
It’s just that The Great Desmondo is more likely to sell (because he’d make a profit) if we move away from the SPFL.
It would be worth the risk.
Fergus McCann – the guy that ensured Celtic survived a baddie.
Pat Nevin – a guy that tells lies about and denigrates Celtic fans on live TV for cash a no-so-baddie.
Have I logged on to CQN in Upside Down World or something?!
BRTH – I disagree. Wee Fergus saved our club, as simple as that.
I hope that the club also re-name the North Stand after him – after all, he built it.
Italiabhoy,
Ff offline?
Dunno mate…..too busy……on wiki…..
…… counting the amount of Italian footballers to have plied their trade at Ibrox compared to Paradise
Hail hail brothers and sisters,
Not been on recently, too busy with the day job.
We need to be at the top of our game on Saturday, the season will die a slow death if we do not progress in the cup and you can bet Mcinnes will have them fired up.
I know too many complacent fans, not bothered going its on the telly aaaagh
Please please NFL have them fired up.
On another note Albion Rovers are on £500 a man to reach the quarter final for the first time in over 50 years.
And lastly BEANIE HATS BEANIE HATS BEANIE HATS
Another lot getting posted tomorrow and a few being collected at the game on Sat.
They are now in Spain, Australia, Canada, Ireland and all over the UK.
Thank you to all, the more ordered the bigger the donation to Mary’s meals
If you want to know who everybody is at CQten as Doc says,simples wear your beanie.
To put your order in email me patmcg1888@aol.com
HailHail PB1888
philbhoy – free the dam 5!
21:38 on 6 February, 2014
CIHAROTCLIC
Me too.
Used to do our food shop at waitrose and M & S.
Not now.
And we have an Aldi on our doorstep.
It’s taken me a wee while to get the misses on board but she’s afan too.
A wee bottle
Opened
Someone pointed out the the Dons have 4 sections 119-116 that would be near 3000 fans. Could be a good sing song in the LL stand :-)
Brgoan etc at 21:07.
Sorry, but that is arrant nonsense. You object to fans owning shares in Celtic because someone you don’t know might buy them? At some point in the future?
Better to have shares handed down through family dynasties, like our own version of the Windsors?
What say do we have in who ends up with them then?
Philbhoy and other Aldi drinkers
Been telling yous all about Aldi vino for a few years.
I don’t know if it’s available in britland, but the do a wine called Epulum, the purple, silver, gold and black are the best, the black is 7.99 here, quality, the purple is 2.50 well worth it, if you see it try it, you won’t be disappointed.
HH
paddybhoy1888
Email sent buddy
HH
Obviously some Celtic supporters detest Fergus McCann – Michael Kelly for instance.