I was away last week and missed the Rennes game, so I have that ‘Can’t wait to see Celtic in action’ buzz right now. The outcome of the tie was decided in the first leg when Scott Sinclair added Celtic’s third goal, but the game is important preparation for the stiffer challenges ahead. Boli Mbombo and Christopher Jullien need every possible minute on the field to become part of a solid defensive structure. Everyone in the squad has fitness work to do, and remember, this is Neil Lennon’s first proper chance to work with the players on new tactics.
It was at this stage last year that Jozo Simunovic picked up a red card suspension, despite Celtic winning the away first leg 0-3. It made no difference in the end, but there is no point making life complicated; let’s not pick up unnecessary bookings that can count against us later in the competition. I know it would be asking too much to hope for 90 minutes without injury…
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Yes game is on Celtic tv tomorrow and available to ALL!
Nomme Kalju could only list 5 subs out of 7 permitted for today’s game in Macedonia. No reason given. They did very well nevertheless.
IniquitousIV
SAINT STIVS on 16TH JULY 2019 9:22 PM
Too true.
The Battle of Aughrim was won by William on July 12, 1691.
The Battle of the Boyne was won on July 1, 1690 and Pope Innocent XI & the Catholic Church financed half of Williams army & military equipment. When news of the victory at Aughrim in 1691 came through, Te Deums were sung in St Peters in Rome and in cathedrals in Vienna, Madrid & Brussels. All of Catholic Europe rejoiced except France.
After the victory, William forbade Presbyterians from practising their religion & ordered them to pay tithes to the Church of Ireland, the Irish version of the Church of England. This persecution is what ultimately drove Prebyterians in their thousands to emigrate to America.
The subsequent unity of Catholics & Protestants in the United Irishmens rebellion of 1798 scared the British ruling class so much that they set about dividing the two communities & thus the OO was used to that purpose. Pitt the Younger was PM at the time.
Back to football.
HH
OLDTIM67
Yes, we had a drink on Pink Street in the evening.
NOT for the first time SFTB beats me to a punchline :-(
Though his was funnier.
Macedonians cant draw deid team as there are seperate
routes or champions and alsorans
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SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 16TH JULY 2019 9:09 PM
Do Shkendija now drop down into the Europa
Maybe Chris Jack was being psychic?
After all, he has special powers.
He sees dead clubs.
Ftw 9.46
Aughrim as you say was the bigger battle
And was fought on the 12th of july
The change of calender to Gregorian one ridicules them too.Bells were indeed rang.
Heard a cracking tale of the inbuilt ignorance that ran thro the bastard 6 county statelet when it failed to follow the 1918 democratic election.
In 1923 to celebrate the opening of Stormont they set aside monies to purchase a picture of king William of Orange riding his white horse to celebrate ones kultyir.There was proposed that there be an official unfailing of the painting.
Alas on the unfailing there was much grinding of tooth enamel and exhaling via the nostrils lol,there was a Franciscan monk with rosary beads praying for William on his white horse,on the left was the pope of the day giving his backing and blessing to William to whom the Vatican was allied to against the absolutist French.
Cheers for posting that.
Chap was on radio ulster last week,a history prof,was smiling at the hard of thinking questioning him
Hope your well fella
HH
Now that’s funny Big Man Dan!
😂😂😂😂😂
HH jg
David17
Drop those pics of ot67 in Lisbon and I will pass it on if you wish
Antearmann1967@gmail.com
HH
AN TEARMANN on 16TH JULY 2019 10:29 PM
Cheers, I’m doing well thanks.
Hope you are good today, but better tomorrow after the game :o}}}
HH
Question Time
I just seen a photo of the SFA Blazers
Should Rod Petrie Not be removed from his role ??
He is no longer associated to a club after the Hibs takeover
Thought to be in that role you needed to be part of a member club
Just asking, or has the rules been changed to accommodate???
Norrie M
Wow, there’s a thought! Hope you and yours are all well.
HH
Hello again all you young rebels.
Seeing as how you don’t think my offering of Boli, Boli, geez a goal
wasn’t very good how about this.
To the tune of..Eyes and ears and knees and toes.
Boli, Boli, Mbombo, Mbombo
Boli, Boli, Mbombo, Mbombo
Eats pies and beans and cheese and toast
Boli, Boli, Mbombo, Mbombo.
Surely thats a winner 8-))
Toomuchkidstv.com
H.H Mick
Can’t understand why my wee offerings break the blog?
C’mon admit it, how many tried to sing it lol.
H.H Mick
Let’s try the true version 😉😄
Those who March and parade in their Orange sashes in praise of their hero King Billy, to celebrate the great protestant victory at the battle of the Boyne , know this :
William of Orange was not fighting for the protestant cause. He was an ally of pope Innocent XI and his successor pope Alexander XIII in their struggle against Louis XIV of France under the treaty of Augsburg.
In fact half of his army & military equipment was financed by the Catholic church.
The Boyne victory was celebrated as a great Catholic victory and a Te Deum was sung in st Peters in Rome , and in the Catholic cathedrals in Vienna, Madrid and Brussels.
The whole of Catholic Europe except France, rejoiced in the William of Orange victory. As for those Irish protestants who fought on Williams side , how did he reward them?
He forbade them from practicing the Presbyterian religion and ordered them to pay tithes to the Anglican church of Ireland, the Irish version of the church of England. This caused such despair among the Presbyterians that they left Ireland in droves and migrated to the USA. Appalachia, Carolina.
Thereafter the Presbyterians dropped their bigotry towards Irish Catholicism and when the first Catholic church was built in Belfast it was protestants who supplied most of the money to build it: about half the congregation at first mass were protestants. In the United irishmen’s rebellion of 1798 Catholics and protestants fought side by side for Irish independence. This terrified the British ruling class, and William Pitt the younger gave the order to split up the protestants and Catholics no matter the cost.
The governor, brigadier general Knox replied : “simple, i will use the Orange order to create division” thereafter the Orange order was used as a tool of the British ruling class to divide and weaken the working class. That is the true ‘heritage’ of the Orange order and probably few of those who March, bang the drums and play the flutes are aware of it.
To this day the OO still creates division on behalf of the British establishment.
FTW,
Beat me to it 😄😄
AN TEARMANN on 16TH JULY 2019 10:29 PM
I’m sure I posted this on here a few years ago 😉
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/state-papers-ian-paisley-demanded-a-picture-of-the-pope-blessing-king-billy-for-his-office-29868823.html
Pog
Yes, but I still couldn’t identify that source.
Do you know whence it came?
HH
Was rummaging around on the official Uefa site when I discovered that I’d gone through the time machine process while on CQN.
Uefa announce that “PSV Eindhoven will face Basel, while Nõmme Kalju will take on Celtic.”
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2020/draws/round=2001137/
All right then, can someone tell me the aggregate score in the tie?
Did we play an expansive game or was our back door a little “Ajer”?
Did Olivier get a place on the bench?
Did Morgan start & whip in some crosses?
Can’t find anything on the Celtic FC site…
Stiltskin CSC
Pog
Sounds like one and same pic the good prof
was on radio ulster bout. Saturday was a good day esp for Davie
HH
William lll Dutch blue guard where his most loyal and trustworthy regiment!, oh and Catholic to a man,.
Went into battle under a papal banner.
But history isn’t the huns strong point.
Buzzing for tonight…. No more sleeps!!
Lenny will not allow any complacency. Have faith.
Great to skim back and see Saturday was the success I knew it would be for the Legend that is OT67 Hail Hail
Mon the Hoops -COYBIG
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Why are Celtic not acting on this? Or are they por cierto?
https://videocelts.com/2019/07/blogs/latest-news/celtic-fall-silent-over-sfas-refereeing-scandal/
Good morning friends from a cloudy but currently dry and warmish East Kilbride. Can’t wait to attend my first game of the 2019-20 season tonight.
A wee question (on behalf of my sister!) – I received a new season card this year for the standing section but am I correct in thinking that for the rest of the ground you had to retain and use last years card?
Melbourne Mick at 11:36 –
So ridiculous that it could be a winner. I’ll be sharing that online shortly!!
JOBO BALDIE on 17TH JULY 2019 8:56 AM
Good morning friends from a cloudy but currently dry and warmish East Kilbride. Can’t wait to attend my first game of the 2019-20 season tonight.
A wee question (on behalf of my sister!) – I received a new season card this year for the standing section but am I correct in thinking that for the rest of the ground you had to retain and use last years card?
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Morning Jobo I too received a new card for the North stand so not just for your area
HH
OneMalloy, thanks. My sister’s in the South Stand but doesn’t remember erceiving a new card. I’ll stick something out on Twitter….
Jobo,
North stand for me…same card as last season.
Hail Hail.
Jobo at al,
I’m in the Jock Stein stand and I’ve to reuse my ticket.
Season book yellow voucher 47 for me ;)
HH
Orange Order chief ‘will accept united Ireland’ if majority votes for it
Mervyn Gibson of the Orange Order
July 10 2019
The Grand Secretary of the Orange Order has said that he would be willing to accept a united Ireland if the majority of people in Northern Ireland voted for it.
Rev Mervyn Gibson told the Irish Times that if a united Ireland came about as a result of a border poll he would accept the democratic result and was not “going to go to war over it”.
However, Mr Gibson said that he was not worried about the prospect of a united Ireland anytime soon and that attempts to link it to Brexit were part of “project fear”.
Mr Gibson said that he is “proud to be from Northern Ireland”, but that he felt he had an “all-Ireland dimension” as his father and grandfather were born in Co Donegal.
He praised Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for a visit to the Orange Order headquarters in Belfast last year, saying it was “pivotal in changing and improving relationships”.
Mr Gibson accused those of saying Brexit could lead to a united Ireland of using “scare tactics” and said they were “playing politics” with the issue.
He said that he has “nothing to fear from politics” and that he didn’t see the need for a border poll “right away”.
“What will come will come but I am not a doom-gloom merchant, saying it is around the corner,” the Orange Order Grand Secretary said.
“The only thing that will take us into a united Ireland is a vote of the majority of the people. As a democrat, I’ll accept that. I’m not going to go to war over it.
“We will survive as a British people here in Northern Ireland. We have faced a lot bigger challenges than that.
“We couldn’t be bombed or bullied out of the United Kingdom. We are not going to be bribed out of it now either.”
Mr Gibson said that he believed little will change as a result of Brexit and that the issue was being used to “unsettle the constitutional question” and “create apathy among British people”.
He questioned how unionists in the farming community could express support for a united Ireland if it directly benefited them.
“One wonders that if someone can change their allegiance for purely economic reasons, what was their allegiance in the first place?” Mr Gibson said.
He also admitted that he regularly signs Irish passport forms for unionists and loyalists.
“It surprises me but I don’t think it diminishes a person’s Britishness. They are not signing them to be Irish; they are signing them for European citizenship, for the benefits of living or working in Europe,” Mr Gibson said.
The Orange Order Grand Secretary also touched on recent comments from the actor James Nesbitt who said that he wanted to have a conversation about a “new union of Ireland”.
Mr Gibson said that some people from a unionist background “when they become famous” sometimes change their stance because unionism is viewed as being “on the wrong side of history” while “republicanism has all the romanticism”.
“People associate with that as opposed to what is viewed, wrongly in my opinion, as a bigoted and sectarian culture,” he said.
Belfast Telegraph Digital
Well,I see the Record is at it again,trying to stir up the poo among the fans this time.Commenting on the KT saga,they come away with “The Record UNDERSTANDS,that Tierney has not asked for a transfer,and is very happy to stay at Celtic”.Anyone who knows anything knows this to be twisting the wording to suit their agenda.We know KT has not asked for a transfer,only to be “kept informed”of interest,and we know he is happy at Celtic.They are desperately trying to convey that Celtic are pushing KT out the door,against his will.
Scumbag reporting as usual where we are concerned.
Multiculturalism:
History is undecided.
Ulster Scots Good or bad ?
Later on , The famine in Scotland where tens of thousands fled to Ireland.
Where we are now. The Neathandrials are still marching and the population of Ireland is 20% foreign born. In a generation there will be a substantial voting population in Ireland that will not be governed by history.
The modern population of Ireland will not regard the OO as a kind of Mardi Gras, they will see the hatred and division and want nothing to do with them.
That’s Ireland sorted what about Scotland?
HH to all.
North Stand 202
Same card as last season, used last Saturday v Rennes, and again this evening v Sarajevo.
HH
Seemingly all available tickets are gone for tonight.
A sell out.
Absolutely amazing
COYBIG.
On last nights Orange Order topic , the divide and rule tactic was-is often employed by brit imperialism . A recent example was in Iraq . We’d invaded and conquered (under false pretences) then the US-UK started working on stirring up conflict between Sunni and Shia populations . Special forces ,undercover, were planting bombs and shooting up and massacres in market places in the different ethnic neighbourhoods – and it was a success .It got them at each others throats and it helped created Isis . Job done.
The following is a true story!
In a well known rag there was a problem page, similar to the old Marjorie Proops column.
Anyway, a Japanese ex soldier had written to the rag with the following tale.
As the Allies regained Singapore at the end of WW2, the Japanese army was in full retreat. This particular soldier was so scared he went down into the sewers with a good supply of food and water. For days he wandered on and after about 10 days he came across another Japanese soldier. The shared tales , swapped addresses and each went on their way.
Back to now. The soldier asked the agony column the following question. Do you think I should make contact with the soldier I met, or shall we just remain two nips who passed in the shite.
KINGLuBO
Greenpinata
as the game is free on the season book, there were very few tickets to buy(i managed to get one for my dad in rangers end, pretty far away from me in the jungle)
As such, I will be interested to see what the crowd is i.e. season ticket holders attending(i usually skip it due to the travel from Ireland or holidays). Not usually a busy fixture but Neil’s first competitive home game.
Bamboo err we’ve got a game tonight but let’s discuss British divide and rule tactics in Iraq ????? H H Hebcelt