After a tenacious win in Paisley on Friday Celtic were back in the groove last night. Passing was swift and accurate, movement – perpetual. It was a quiet game for Kris Commons, which at an earlier time would have meant a game with few chances for Celtic, but the prodding of Johansen, Armstrong and Mackay-Steven ensured Thistle played much of the game trying to chase shadows.
The return from injury of two of our three right backs, Adam Matthews and Darnell Fisher, has given the team better balance, although Adam still looks to be finding his sharpness.
John Guidetti established his early season reputation against Thistle with a League Cup hat trick but that seemed like a lifetime ago last night. The striker had the odd chance but the terror he inspired in defenders a few months ago has gone.
Enormous thanks to winning bidder for our Open Golf Championship Hospitality competition, which finished a moment ago raising £2050 for our School Kitchen project for Mary’s Meals in Malawi. Thanks to Eden Mill Distillery and Brewery in St Andrews and all who participated.
It was a stunning effort and the money is now in place to complete the fourth CQN school kitchen! Well done to all who played their part.
Celtic sponsor, Magners, who have helped from the beginning of this recent school kitchen project, have a competition to play at Lennoxtown and Celtic Park. You can enter your 7-a-side team into the Magnificent 7s competition before 5pm Wednesday 15th. It would be good to see CQN represented. Qualifying round takes place at Lennoxtown on Sunday 26 April with the finals at Celtic Park.
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Marty
Congrats to you and that lucky lady who found you 30 odd years ago.
Bravo amigo! Mon the Celts! :)
kitalba @23:05
“SFTB:
Could it not be possible that some of those shortbread comments are in fact derogatory insults to Scotland and her culture.
I took some of the comments to be derogatory as I do others. The hard part is determining when somebody is being mean without asking them to their face, I’ll be buggered if I’m going to speak for everybody by declaring that their comments do not harbour any malice.”
I suppose some insults replacing the singular Shortbread for the singular Scotland would and should be read as insults against Scotland.
However the reference to which Delaney’s Dunky was reacting was specifically a “Radio Shortbread (for Scotland)” reference and it is to that which I replied.
Other CQN posters HAVE explicitly attacked the culture or, to be specific, one of the cultures of Scotland. I am thinking of posters like Neg Anon and ernie and others who have expressed opinions that Scotland has a distinctive form of bigotry that it should deal with. When they have done so, i believe they have attacked Scotland openly and not via the much smaller and unrepresentative target of mentioning Radio Shortbread.
So I am not excusing anyone, not even myself, of lacking malice. But my malice, which I can speak for, was directed at Radio Scotland and BBC Scotland (which, incidentally, I prefer to its commercial equivalent, that black hole of taste and decency that is STV). Bankiebhoy issued the same explanation as have a few other posters.
I still consider myself to be a citizen of this country and entitled to criticise it for aspects which merit criticism. In the same way that you and I can be good Celtic men while still criticising aspects of the club, we should be afforded the same privilege in speaking of the country where we chose to live and work and raise family for most of our adult life. For all my criticisms, merited I believe, of Scotland, I am not looking to live elsewhere. I like having a healthy disrespect of icons and totems. I remain wary about attempting to put a flag or a song or a political or state post above criticism because it “embodies” a culture.
We live and work here with fans of the Ibrox club. It is as much their country as mine. It belongs to the country lover and the metroplolitan, to the religious and those of no organised faith, to the born Scot and the incomer or adopted Scot, to those who believe in Independence and those who favour shared sovereignty. There is no singular culture and no fetishised icon of flag or anthem can forge that in anything but a synthetic way.
Now, since I hope I have established that I, and the other posters who specifically attacked Radio or TV Shortbread are not being “unpatriotic”, can I ask yourself and DD, do you guys not cringe at some of the parochial stuff that comes from BBC Scotland (and STV is beneath them in terms of my contempt)? Do you not find it shortbready? Is it disloyal to see shortbread as a handy symbol for the kind of tartan kitsch that has held us back and not allowed us to represent ourselves in a more modern manner?
I don’t consider Scotland to be high on the table of intolerant places to live, otherwise I would not be here, but I want to keep it improving and prevent it from slipping into bad habits. I don’t consider Scotland to be uniquely corrupt or bigoted but I do see it as having a larger problem with accommodating the Irish Catholic (and lapsed) immigrant than do England or Wales. That is my truth and my representation of this country- warts and all.
Now I must sleep or I might get grumpy :-)
winning captains
so sorry for the family loss, i will remember margaret in my prayers
r i p margeret
BGX
I’m off to my kip.
I am disappointed in your response.
You started with – “Come on all of you- tell me what I am getting wrong!” to “don’t address me and I’ll ignore you” very quickly.
I don’t consider it impolite or impertinent to ask another poster to make their point clearly. That is all I asked of you. Reasons rather than assertions, evidence rather than pronouncements.
I ask the same of myself and, if you had not become bored and wanted to ask, I would have been prepared to explain any bit of my statement you felt I had not evidenced.
Still- off to my kip now
SFTB
Racist diatribe! ;))
DD
Cheers mate
How about this one from RM tonight lovin it
“That was Soul Destroying! Especially since i put the biggest bet of my life on sevco at £200 ffs”
Livibhoy
Nil illegitimi carborundum
Winning Captain
I have just noticed a couple of posts offering condolences to you.
I don’t know the circumstances but I hope God gives you and your family the strength and grace to cope.
Marty
Wee shame for the hun numb nut.
Good Night God Bless Marty and all CQN folks. X
Hi Everyone,
Isn’t it great to be a Tim?
Our children do great at school, despite being told we are stupid Paddies.
Look at the Arts, Technology , Science. Sports.
We are finding our own, no better than anyone, but getting towards just being equal
God bless DD catch that pint soon
DD
It’s actually really quite good. I’ve been throughly enjoyed reading every day over the last few weeks.
What with this ‘n that it was a good source to get my regular Timternet fix.
So I thought. Here why not join in.
Thanks for askin . . Yet aw sound :-)
I’m walking Hame from the boozer typing this so apologies for the ridiculous grammar and structure of my previous post . . Up the rebels
martybhoy59
01:07 on 10 April, 2015
All well and good if the said DeadCo idiot can afford to lose it.
If that’s his wife’s housekeeping its a different story.
If not, then hell mend him.
winning captains,
Sincere condolences to you and Karen and all of your family on the loss of Karen’s Mum.
God Bless
AR
Herbo,
Let us know when you are home.
Clogher
Clogher
Hi honey, I’m home :-)
Good stuff, Up the Rebels, and you are one of us!
Clogher
Haggis is well dodgy but!
No offence to Scotland “and her culture”
I appreciate you were replying to DD and my post to you was mostly about not being able to speak for others. Maybe I did not make that clear, my fault.
I did say in part:
“Could it not be possible that some of those shortbread comments are in fact derogatory insults to Scotland and her culture?
I’ll be buggered if I’m going to speak for everybody by declaring that their comments do not harbour any malice.”
It is strange what people take offence to, but we are all made differently. Some will perceive offence from words, whilst others think the same words nothing more than innocuous banter, whichever, whatever, it is all in the eye of the beholder.
The sleekit posters are the ones who get on my tits, not the ones who use vernacular slang and whose choice of words may be innocent and innocuous colloquialisms, or conversely, may very well be sly malicious barbs. I often find it hard to determine either way, however my life is too short to get too upset over such irrelevances or to squander good heartbeats analysing the distinctions(to my mind that is, though if you or anybody else feels the need to embrace the angst over slang, be my guest).
I’m a wee bit surprised you should introduce N.A. and Ernie into the exchange and I got a wee bit confused with your tangent, after all I thought I had asked a simple and specific question. But to address them since you introduced them, they may well submit controversial and emotive posts on occasion but they are far from the only ones, and I don’t think for one moment either of them do it through puerile malice.
I try and read evocative posts with a degree of compassionate tolerance because the motivator to so many of those posts is often core-deep passion and – dare I say – ‘cultured love’. And with passion and love in play, either separately or in tandem, logic and reasoning can often be a stranger. I personally try to make an allowance for that.
Don’t forget mate, I too am a citizen of Scotland regardless of what some may pontificate to the contrary and I too have an affliction whereby I sometimes perceive insult where only a joke was intended. And I never even hinted that you, or anybody else, should not be allowed to criticise our country, ever.
Tasking offence is so, so easy for some people and giving it out even easier for others. However, a wee axiom, one man’s joke is another man’s insult and often passionate individuals collide in error, it happens, and on here often.
Van Morrison – And The Healing Has Begun (with ly…: http://youtu.be/wZl96Bciv80
Uplifting Story about Scotland,
About a year ago my company sent me on secondment to Glasgow. We rented a house in East Kilbride. But because we are Irish we were tormented for a few weeks by lads coming into the garden singing the Billy Boys, chip wrappers on the windows etc.
The man across the road 80 years of age, Rangers Season Ticket holder came to the door and said he would stop it.
The next time they came he was there with his two sons, he spoke to them. They never came back.
CLOGHER CELT
Good on yer neighbour. I wish there were more like him,and fewer like the neds he had to sort out.
That goes for more than just football or religious differences,btw.
MARTYBHOY59
Sounds like you had a pleasant evening,glad to hear it.
Just looked up The Market Garden. Getting some great reviews. Once WHITEDOGHUNCH has given it the thumbs-up,I’ll suggest it to my parents on my next visit home!
Thanks BMCUWP.
Got an e mail from your dad, I think you are both coming over
strangers on the shore………did you know he loaned his RR to Gerry the Tramp…and what did Gerry do ..drove 4 miles into Bristol for 4 days and watched ….wait for it …Jungle Book..
braw ….Frankie Howard had a place on the drive ….with a braw Butler …
tisafunnyoldlifetissythingsortofthingcfc
CLOGHERCELT
Wild horses wouldn’t stop him. Nor me.
Really looking forward to it,mate. Well done on all the spadework.
Podium?
Damn! Pipped at the post .
Aff Oot tae work. Beautiful morning in auld Reekie.
LB
Good Morning Timland.
WC…sincere condolences.
I’m off to my hun infested work,a overtime shift, cannae
beat a bit of time and a half……and some serious hun baiting.
winning captains
Sorry to hear your sad news.
Rest in Peace Margaret.
Would never happen in Scotland
http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/perth-glory-salary-cap-team-banned-from-finals-and-fined-269000-for-multiple-salary-cap-breaches/story-e6frf4gl-1227298706668
HH
Morning CQN
A wee wry smile on my face this morning .. Betting there’s not much fitba chat from the sevconians this fine morning
Lunch time finish for me then pop into the superstore to sort out the CQN stone on the Celtic way
LB
Hope your work goes better today and the situation improves, shocking situation to exist in 2015. Easy to say but don’t let them grind you down and hope you have a good weekend with your family.
KTF
gunaydın.
the huns hahahahaaaaaaaaaaa