I know Ronny Deila was delighted Dedryck Boyata pitched up at Glasgow Airport last night. He’s a player the manager has known about for some time and one who was not on the Man City available list when we secured the loan deal for Jason Denayer a year ago.
The mechanics of the deal are interesting. It’s quite possible it wouldn’t have happened at all without the success Jason enjoyed in Glasgow. A year ago Jason was a complete unknown, below the pecking order than Dedryck, but we gave him a platform and now he’s a full Belgian international. The pitch we put to Dedryck was along the lines of “Look what Jason achieved here”. If we’d singed Dedryck instead of Jason a year ago, Jason would still be an unknown and Dedryck would be a Belgian international.
Assuming no late hiccups, Ronny will know his central defensive pairing for the Champions League qualifiers is sorted, allowing him to concentrate on other areas.
There are no guarantees in football, least of all with Champions League qualification, where we have three awkward knock-out rounds, but we’re starting the summer from a good place.
There’s so much to discuss about yesterdays’ Fir Park hilarity, the consequences of which will be profound. More on this later in the week, but a few points on Motherwell. For a team with such glaring shortcomings they deserved the scale of their victory. Barraclough took a squad who finished 11th in the league into two challenging games and out-thought his opponent.
However, if Celtic fans behaved the way Motherwell fans behaved yesterday your Government would be all over it by now. I’ve seen flares thrown onto pitches, I’ve seen pitch invasions (although I don’t remember seeing one congregating in front of opposition fans), but I’ve never seen a player smacked in the face and leg by a spectator’s flag, and I’ve never seen anything close to this entire repertoire from fans at a single game.
Who knows what the score would have been had Newco faced the team who finished 10th in the Premiership! Their attempt to emulate Grenta in winning three successive promotions always sounded like a tall order. They came close, but they’re no Gretna. Not. Nearly. As. Good.
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Over the years many bloggers have flounced off CQN and many of them never return then there are the ones who come back.I think it has improved a bit as some CQNrs have got to know each other by attending various social events.There are also some who come back with a new user name so the blog is a living thing constantly changing as the seasons and the years go past just like the Celtic support.H.H.
twists n turns
13:41 on 1 June, 2015
Can you flounce more than once? Surely if you flounce, then post again, your flounce wisnae a flounce at aw?
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Just say it was the holding company that flounced and you’ll be fine..
Ahm “mola” about the fish puns, so ah ahm…
Thunder Road, It is hard to tell from the clip he looks a wee bit raw but an ideal player for us to sign and see if Ronny can improve him.H.H.
Joe
If ye flounce, but come back on, yer original flounce is redefined as a huff.
Yesterday was a drive-by lurking and wee bit posting kind of day.
On GCT/TomMcLaughlin
I questioned McCall’s honesty and I also questioned how his statements were presented by the BBC in particular.
It is perfectly reasonable to suggest that McCall did not see the Mohsni FIRST kickNpunch to Erwin – very few people did – but saying that does not mean that his statements after the match were honest. They were very political answers to questions that were never even asked.
The clear impression readers were left with from reading the text was that McCall was somewhere else altogether, saw nothing and thus could make no comment on what transpired. The same BBC article had pictures, one of which showed McCall and an unknown (to me) sevco chap holding Mohsni back as he is banjoing Fraser Kerr (I think). A straight left in fact (ask Scott Cardle)
McCall’s comments were less than truthful, and begged the kind of real questions that any scribe with integrity would have asked, but no journalist asked him any supplementary questions on the fracas.
Different Standards for Different Clubs and media partiality are the issues for me.
For good measure look at the rest of McCall’s statements about the games against M’Well – laughable nonsense about deflections and such.
Don’t always agree with Tom McLaughlin and he knows that.
But to borrow from DBBIA – Modern Name Calling is Rubbish
Hope you are well Tom and we see you back after the Health Spa Mudbath :o)
Yorkbhoy
:-):-):-):-):-)
The oul’ Revolvin’ Flounce is a CQN staple, reserved for those of a special disposition……………………with a penchant for the sound of a clapper board an’ the smell of greasepaint.
…jus’ count to ten!
The posters who are missed most are those who do not crack a light that they’re skying the park at all.
They just log off and take their sense of humour, their insight, their love of Celtic elsewhere, leaving the blog a poorer place.
TheUnannouncedFlounceCSC
Serial flouncers should be banned.
What about the ‘ scrollers by’ they are worse
RWE
Good post.
Methinks mullet doth protest too much.
That’sGospel CSC
If you flounce do you get to keep your history?
The unseen fenian flouncer CSC
CQN, Like the oul’ Hovis – “As good today as it’s always been.”
Says it all really …..WOW ….!!!!
“Lionel Messi is hoping to face Celtic in next season’s Champions League, claiming it is the ‘best atmosphere in Europe’.
The Bhoys’ Celtic Park is famous for its electrifying atmosphere during Champions League nights and Messi who has sampled this first hand with Barcelona in 2008, 2012 and 2013 would like a repeat scenario with the Catalan club so he can collect more mementos and memories.
‘I have a Celtic jersey at home. The games against Celtic were special and I want to remember them,’ he told the Daily Record.
‘The performances of Fraser Forster against us were talked about for a long time. There was one game in Scotland where he was not human, it is the best goalkeeping performance I have seen.
‘Celtic Park is a tough place to go to, it is never easy to get a result there.
‘We know we would get a tough game if we drew them in the Champions League, but everybody involved in those Barcelona vs Celtic games wants to go and play there again.
‘It is the best atmosphere in Europe and we all want to experience that again.’
It’s not a mans flounce that counts but his flouncebackabilty that matters:))
“Football is nothing without the flouncers”
JS CSC
RWE
Nae flouncin without a tutu. Thems the rules.
Mail to follow,and it isnae me in it!
As one ………….Flounces Off,
annurra “character” settles in………
(and then there’s those awful coves in the multiple eye-katchin’ kostooms!)
A pair of Flouncers
Deadclub media thinking
“Scotland must be the only country in the world where a football final can have two referees”.
Come flounce with me, let’s flounce, let’s flounce away
If you could use some exotic booze
There’s a bar in far Bombay
Come flounce with me, let’s flounce, let’s flounce away
Come flounce with me, let’s flounce down to Peru
In llama-land there’s a one-man band
And he’ll toot his flute for you
Come flounce with me, let’s take off in the blue
Once I get you up there
Where the air is rarefied
We’ll just glide
Starry-eyed
Once I get you up there
I’ll be holding you so near
You may hear
Angels cheer, ’cause we’re together
Weather-wise, it’s such a lovely day
Just say the words and we’ll beat the birds
Back to Acapulco Bay
It is perfect for a flying honeymoon, they say
Come flounce with me, let’s flounce, let’s flounce away
Once I get you up there
Where the air is rarefied
We’ll just glide
Starry-eyed
Once I get you up there
I’ll be holding you so near
You may hear
Angels cheer, ’cause we’re together
Weather-wise, it’s such a lovely day
If you say the word, we will beat those birds
Back to Acapulco Bay
It is perfect for a flouncing honeymoon, they say
Come flounce with me, let’s flounce
let’s flounce away
LB
The Journey to a fully fledged flounce often involves a return ticket!
Paul67…..hahahahahahaha …. Brill ……… That is all :)
BSR….as I’m sat on the couch next to the missus, there’s no way I’m clicking on that link!
Celtic Quick News does not shrink to fit the inferior flouncer.
Modern “scrollers by” are rubbish as well, seen them at the Ole Burns Howff
along side the Mullets Dire Mingers what a waste of time and money that wis
Hello again all you young rebels.
I’m just posting in case you think i’ve flounced or did an
unannounced flounce or a scrolled by flounce well a huvnie.
But am sure Paddymacoz has.
H.H Mick
Scrollers by? What about page-downers?
bankie
You’re very wise.
MELBOURNEMICK
Yo,bud. How did Sevco Submarine Sunday go Down Under?
The family motto of ole Bournesouperecipe:
Nihil sine ubera
The original uber Tim
The flounce of a thousand miles begins with a single demi plié..
JFH
Well, one things for sure….he has a hard act to follow because Denayer was oustanding.
The lad pretty much has it all and the only thing that may stop him being a top player in that position is his height.
Id still love to see what he could do in the middle of the park.
IF Bhoyata is as good i will be delighted.
It’s the aggressive scrolling by that irritates me and also the scrollers who think they are always right and everyone else is wrong.
I prefer to stroll, rather than scroll.
Syd Negakev
14:09 on
1 June, 2015
It’s the aggressive scrolling by that irritates me and also the scrollers who think they are always right and everyone else is wrong.
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Hell mend them – they are only wearing out their own mouse. Unless they are in a library in which case it’s a disgraceful misuse of public property…