In the absence of Cameron Carter-Vickers, Celtic will pair Stephen Welsh and Moritz Jenz in central defence in the Bernabeu against Real Madrid tonight. These two have only played together once before, at St Mirren Park, which saw our only domestic defeat of the season. The omens are not good.
If you are in the business of looking for more generous portents, there’s always that game in Barcelona 18 years ago, when a teenage David Marshall and 20-year-old John Kennedy were drafted into the Celtic side that denied Ronaldinho et al. Results like this do happen, as most of the CQN demographic are old enough to testify.
What does not happen, ever, is the likes of Celtic pitching up at the home of the European champions, playing open, expansive football, with an inexperienced and young central defence, and leaving with anything other than an absolute drubbing.
Ange, for the love of everything green and white, defend tonight. Regard forward runs with anything more than three players a ridiculous extravagance. Deny Real openings, like a two-on-one overload at the back post. Ask John Kennedy how exhilarating it was to be the extra man necessary to scoop the ball away from an opponent just before he shot.
We are five lessons into the Champions League this season in a group that held such promise when the draw was made. Nothing will be learned from discovering what will happen if both full backs simultaneously bomb forward to give Stephen and Moritz forward passing options. Even a win, unlikely as it is, will not affect our bottom of the group status.
Tonight is hopefully a dry run for what we will do away to tier one teams in next season’s Champions League. Let’s use it effectively.
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Paul67, you win the internet with that headline. Absolutely right.
Anybody know what a ” CLAQUE” is ?
NOPE…Me neither.
BIG JIMMY
Good to see you posting!
BIG JIMMY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:00 PM
ART OF WAR on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 3:37 PM
There’s a guy from Fife in court for murder and then using deceased ID to obtain Viagra.
The judge has told him he faces a stiff sentence!!!
” It will never stand up in Court !”
Big Jimmy`s back !!!
Imagine Sevco had a Home game this weekend. What would the crowd reaction be when `Simply the Best` was blasted out over the tanoid ?
Re the tony Watt red card .
There was a segment on it on sportscene and IMO it wasnt a red card .
The trouble was that the VAR only seemed to show Beaton a part of the incident and did not show it through to the finish .
It seemed to pause it at the point and angle of Watt making contact with the players shin . If that is all Beaton was shown I can understand why he thought it could be a red .
If however the VAR had let the incident play through to it’s conclusion ,he would have saw Watt pulling out of the challenge with no malice intended .
IMO though it just highlights the fact that the person on VAR duty can influence a check to their preference
HH
One for us to watch out for in our future games
HH
MOD 1888
Feel free to delete my 4.05 post either on the basis of it being pre watershed so inappropriate or purely for being a lame attempt at a joke.
I know CQN is a broad church but shout outs for WW2 era German paramilitary / not so secret police with a penchant for sharp suits and torture is surely stretching it to breaking point.
saint stivs
The young guy you encountered was not homeless.
More likely penniless. He told you he had used up his emergency credit on his pay as you go meter that morning. Did you ask him if he had received the £66 voucher from his energy provider, which can be used to top up his meter via card or key? Or had taken it, with meter key, to the Post Office or Pay Point? The reason I ask is that some £30 million in vouchers issued in October have not yet been retrieved by those who rely on pay in advance meters. It is a widespread problem, and most likely affects those whose lives are less well organised. He will due another voucher this month, not a solution but some support at least over the winter.
Claque = Clique for bullet magnets.
PHILBHOY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:06 PM
BIG JIMMY
Good to see you posting!
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Cheers my friend, my absence was prolonged by forces outwith my control.
Nuff said.
HH Mate.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:10 PM
I just found it too hard to believe
Roll on the game.
Anybody know what a bullet magnet is ?…..NOPE…Me neither ?
Saint Stivs – thanks for sharing that experience, Big Jimmy – good to see you on always enjoy your posts
HOT SMOKED on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:07 PM
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Cheers my good friend.
MON the Auld Leather Belts tonight….but Im not too optimistic to be honest.
COYBIG.
HH Hot Smoked.
MARKIEBHOY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:17 PM
Saint Stivs – thanks for sharing that experience, Big Jimmy – good to see you on always enjoy your posts
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Cheers mate thats very kind of you.
try and get yourself to one of the CQN Bevvy sessions, for Beers and Tears of laughter.
HH Mate.
Oddly looking forward to this evenings game.
I’m also oddly looking, apparently.
Hard to reconcile what ‘acceptable’ looks like. I’ll probably leave that to those supporters who have made the commitment to be there
Anything south of a humping perhaps
Fingers tightly crossed for more
Tonight — not sure that we will win but I think we will play some good stuff.
KF to get a couple.
St Patrick’s bhoy
😂
Carl Starfelt to start .
Team
https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1587842353657794562?t=8G6X4O2yItIwrxAzJz-_IQ&s=19
HH
MADMITCH on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:13 PM
I know CQN is a broad church but shout outs for WW2 era German paramilitary / not so secret police with a penchant for sharp suits and torture is surely stretching it to breaking point.
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Thats a strange comment from some one like you…If you are addressing or Posting about SAINT STIVS….YOU would abbreviate it to SS…Would YOU not ?
Oh the IRONY…
Hahahaha
CELTIC: Hart, Juranovic, Jenz, Starfelt, Taylor, O’Riley, Hatate, Mooy, Abada, Kyogo, Maeda.
Subs: Bain, Siegrist, Giakoumakis, Haksabanovic, Turnbull, McCarthy, Jota, Bernabei, Abildgaard, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh
DENIABHOY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:01 PM
Defence lawyer said he had a hard upbringing.
And added that he was an upstanding member of the community.
Big Jimmy
A claque is a group of people hired to applaud. I think it originates in French theatre but has become used to describe those who sycophantically applaud politicians.
I never knew what it meant until the newsletters supposedly written by an increasingly Gordon Brown in Private Eye in which he would routinely describe his critics as belonging to a Blairite Claque
Jimbo
AN TEARMANN on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:28 PM
Team
https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1587842353657794562?t=8G6X4O2yItIwrxAzJz-_IQ&s=19
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Cheers my friend, and I just hope that The Bhoys give a really good account of themselves..,…including the Subs.
HH Mate.
My Bets in recent days havent been my best, However..I did have an 18/1 WINNER at the Horses yesterday…Followed by the CORRECT Score for AJAX V Huns last night with it being 3-1 to Ajax at odds of 12/1.
Not too shabby.
HH
FSTB 4.09
Nice to see you posting again S. Ya Garngad ruffian.👍
A strong attacking Madrid team this evening, they’ve swapped a defensive midfielder for an attacker.
4 defenders, 2 mids and 4 attackers *eek*
Big Jimmy
Nice one 👏👏. Pint of Guinness and a large Aberlour. Cheers mate. HH.🤣🍺🥃
excellent bench tonight
JIMBO67 on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:30 PM
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Cheers mate, but sadly my French only goes as far as ” Eight more Beers Garcon” !
HH.
Looks like Real Madrid are going to try and outscore us 😜😵😵😂😂
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:39 PM
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I hated myself for taking the Huns to score…but I had a funny feeling they would get an Own Goal and/or a Penalty at some point.
HH Mate.
………by a dozen or so!!
Gulp.
CELTIC MAC on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:14 PM
saint stivs
The young guy you encountered was not homeless.
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aye, as you descirbed it, poor guy is potless, might have other issues, but the complexity of applying for the vouchers, and keeping the heat on is beyond his ken,
there had to be a better way to do this, like making direct payments to the energy company on the people behalf.
those pre pay meters at higher charge rates are a disgusting profiteering on the peolle who cannot afford it the most,
if a party actually propsed in a manifesto their commitment to do away with them i would vote them in.
BOGNORBHOY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2022 4:40 PM
Looks like Real Madrid are going to try and outscore us
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Cant we have a penalty shoot out BEFORE the Game ?
I would take that right now.
LOL
HH
We’ll moida da bums. Gerrintaethum Celtic!!!!