It’s a lot easier to improve a bad team than a treble winning team, but Brendan Rodgers has the latter challenge ahead this summer. One of his principle objectives will be to retain Stuart Armstrong on a new deal. As CQN reported this morning, good progress has been made on that front.
Loving the updates from the Celtic FC Foundation delegation, currently in Malawi with Mary’s Meals. You can follow the remarkable updates from LeftyBhoy here.
This work is being done in your name, with funds you helped raise. Keep an eye on what is being achieved.
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For what Craig Gordon cost us, it must be one of the best signings ever.
To replace him with equal walk into the team ability would cost mega, mega bucks. And to think I was against signing him at the time.lol.
HH.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 13TH JUNE 2017 12:00 PM
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Good shout Bobby M.
That was a terrific wee night, the weather was fine for once – standing drinking and singing Celtic songs in the heart of the city centre.
St.Mary’s is a beautiful church.
Don’t think any of us stepped inside though – not enough time! Ah well, the road to hell is paved with good intentions!
HH.
OK, EVERYONE, ITS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, EYES DOWN, ITS TIME AGAIN FOR JOHNJAMES BINGO!!!
‘I digress’
‘Came down In The Last Shower’
‘My Exclusive’
‘I was vindicated..’
‘For the birds…’
‘Incompetent & Complicit’
‘Coach & Horses’
‘Unconsionable’
‘Bob Hope & No Hope..’
And the EuroMillions Rollover;
‘Bob Hope & NO Hope’
BIG HOOSE!!!
Ian Paisley Jr quips “The future is orange” during a Westminster photo shoot today.
Bad times.
HH
Panda Hands
The Harp Bar
Was that where all the punks used to hang out,early 80s
£30m in the “best league in the world” is nothing nowadays.That’s the equivalent of us spending £1-2m on a player.It is ridiculous but ridiculous is the norm down there now.An overhyped,overrated,underwhelming product that makes owners and players financially rich whilst pretending to offer the best football in the world even as your eyes are burning at the sight of West brom v Middlesbrough or Burnley v Crystal Palace doing their best to convince us otherwise.
The EPL is a shining example of how the idolatry of money ruins whatever it permeates.Apart from the marketing folk,they love it (Bill Hicks was spot on about them).
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Anywho,enough of that,still giggling at the huns having a player called Candyass. ;)))
I’m very happy with Craig Gordon, he’s been outstanding for us. He could have done better at the first goal at the weekend but blaming him for the second goal is nonsense.
There were a couple of mistakes for England’s 2nd goal. Armstrong’s bad ball, Mulgrew not tracking Kane’s run and then Gordon not cutting out the cross.
I thought Gordon had a poor game over the piece, badly at fault for 1st goal, nearly got caught out charging off when KT cleared off the line, parrying most of the shots hit at him and always looks to have a clanger in him when the ball is at his feet. That said I’d much rather he had games like that for Scotland rather than Celtic.
WITS
May well have been, seeing as I was still in shorts in the early 80s I’m not too sure.
Just a few yards up from Duke of York in the Cathedral Quarter it has undergone a recent revamp and is one of the most popular bars in Belfast City Centre these days.
HH
The two centre halfs in front of Gordon wouldn’t have done much for his confidence.
Neither looked as if they wanted to take a pass from the keeper.
A keeper playing out from the back needs ALL the players in front of him to be on message.
As an aside, do any of our fact checkers know if any of our players on International duty, lost in a WC qualifier at the weekend?
Who would win in a fight between Craig Gordon and Jordan Pickford?
I could not agree more with THETIMREAPER about Craig Gordon.
He has made very few mistakes this season and I would rate him as one of the very best goalkeepers in Celtics history.
How did Tom Rogic’s team do today?
Parkhead
Brazil smashed them 4-0
Rogic was only on for the last 12 minutes – not sure why as he is one of the few Aussies capable of passing a ball
Brazil played within themselves and could have scored 8 with continhou an later Willem being the standouts
GIVEHIMTHEMONEYPETERCSC,
Thanks. Personally, I’m glad he only played that long. I hope there are no more games. He needs a rest before training starts for the qualifers.
Thought Craig Gordon responded perfectly to his dual challenge from De Vries qnd BR wantinball on the deck type of keeper.
Thought he got better as season progressed.
HH
That awkward moment when you’ve no idea who Jordan Pickford is?
Rogic was being rested for the Confederations cup, apparently that’s why he didn’t start today.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Is she a tart with a removal firm on call to “remove or improve”her breasts when required?
Paul 67
Don’t listen to those free staters-)
Good call already on bars
Kellys ( although how Bobby M remembered it is beyond me)
Maddens
Duke of York
Wouldn’t have to go beyond those
Harp was indeed were punks congregated Wits
Up the hoooops
Felons in West of City
Everton need a first team keeper. 30 million for the future England Number 1 won’t be excessive in the long-term.
BMCUW
I don’t think it is but I can see what you’re getting at there
Everton are a silly club going round in circles.
Gearoid
Robinsons,The Crown,Duke of York, Kellys Cellars, I remeber being in those.
McGuires on the Springfield Road ( was in that a few times,near the corner of the Falls,sticky pub if I remember rightly,God knows what its called now)
Then there was a place near St Annes that the commies used to drink in,near the Duke of York.was in it pleny of times but just cant think of the name now.
Joe Ledley is available on a bosman. Would love to have Joe back.
Depends on wages I suppose.
The Harp Bar-Belfast.
A working in Belfast me went to see the great -Monochrome Set -at the Harp Bar in late 78.Support act ? A local lot called The Victim .They were dire I was wearing a suit,a shirt and a tie.The punks in the bar thought I was Plod.I absolutely spooked them.
SMSM’s bottle fair crashed hurrying with the sell Leigh Griffiths stories right after his goals went in.
BSR
Who would win in a fight between Arlene Foster and the Ghost of John Knox:)
HH
Wits
Mc guires now the Fort. Used to have a decent CSC running from it. Stickie bar (no not that type of stickie) further down Springfield Rd was my first CSC Oak bar. Used to subsidise you going to matches. Handy when you were a Student. Had to sell a lot of ballots though.
People used to jump over hedges when they seen you coming (well I think it was the ballots). Interesting times particularly during the feuds.
“Commie” bar was the John Hewitt owned by Belfast Unemployed Centre. Does a lot of craft beers now and that could be worth a shout Paul.
Hope you’re well Wits
Gearoid
McGuires was a stickie pub though wasnt it ? …As in WP
The John Hewitt..Was it called something else back in the late 70s/early 80s when I used to solve the problems of the world in it of a saturday afternoon
Yep it was Wits. Most of the bars from Springfield Rd down tended to be of that persuasion. My Stickies comment was for the benefit of the good folk on here who would have a different interpretation as in Sticky buns.
HH
TGM
Ask John Major?
AULDHEID on 12TH JUNE 2017 6:35 PM
‘Glad to clear up the foundering misconception.
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Apologies for late reply.
Auldheid. You have done nothing to clear up my ‘misconceptions’.
You withdrew an offer to let me talk personally with a donor (who I was willing to travel from Ireland to meet) that you say funded the early Res 12 legal work. So, why can’t I meet up with him now? It could still be arranged. I don’t bite. Although, if I remember correctly, you suggested that he might bite, or worse.
Or, as I believe, the donor story just made up… and, that the early Res 12 legal work was funded by the Plc?
Another chance you had to clear up my ‘misconceptions’ was that, when asked, you refused to say if the four requisitioners were shareholders. What was so difficult with a Yes/No answer?
As a signatory to Res 12 it would have been preferable to me to have been represented by fellow shareholders, but in the grand scheme of things it didn’t matter that much. So what was the big problem? You could have told me privately in our email exchanges. Instead I was forced to take the company legal route and ask the PLC for its list of shareholders. Instead of asking a question of you demanding a basic binary yes/no answer it was much easier for the CQN pack dogs here to turn around and vilify me as some sort of McCoist-like witch hunter. What an irony!
You later suggested privately, my quest for the truth could be helped, if I met up, here in Donegal, with Phil MacGiollabhain, who, I was told, had participated with requisitioners (The fifth Beatle??) in the early stages of their Res 12 deliberations with the Plc.
I refused that invitation, for the same reason that I declined Canamalar’s suggestion by private email to me that I join the inner circle after the climb down in November 2013.
Believe me Auldheid, I’d chose blissful ignorance any day, rather than to have to listen out for dog whistles from you, Canamalar or Phil MacGiollabhain in order to become one of the ‘privileged’ few, being fed scraps of self-serving pap by the Plc. You’ll see, I’ve left out BRTH. That’s for another day. Morrissey too, but, in his case, I don’t know enough to comment.
Finally, I’ll refer you to your own analogy, of the Res 12 ball being just six inches from the goal line waiting to be tapped in. How long ago was that?
And you say you haven’t been duped!
Goalkeepers, eh!
Bailly loooks good to me, the guy hasn’t had a chance, but what do I know
KINGLuBO
BSR
I will dig my ouija board out and find out:)
Although John Knox might be slightly annoyed to get conjured up, to fight somebody that wears a dress:)
HH
Don’t feed the troll lhads.
De Vries will be on 15k a week plus, sell him,Baily looked ok in the few chances he’s had
The Fort is mixed – Stickies and Provos.
I think it original name was Gilmartins, or McCartans? Could well have been Maguires, or maybe that’s the Laurel Leaf, not certain.
Said to be the best pint in Belfast.
The main Sticky club is Cyprus Street, not far from where The Oak used to be.
WITS – There’s a Gaelic club called Dwyers, could have been sticks drank there?
That Blackstaff was a mental pub – Erps and Ra all drank there together.
Then there was also the Hibs, Davitts, Foresters, McDermots, Daleys – the old Celtic bar was top 5 lunatic asylums ever drank incredible level of insanity.
There’s a brilliant wee pub near that area called Hanratty’s – probably one of the smallest pubs in Ireland, really nice pints.
Walked through Bank Square an hour ago and outside Kelly’s was buzzing, it’s mild enough today.
St.Mary’s is getting a lot of work done to the facade, must still be open though as people were walking in and out of it.
Enough talk from me about drinking.
Laters.
HH.