Celtic surrendered another two points to fall further behind in the championship race, drawing 0-0 at home against Hibernian. It was a unorganised looking performance from the home team who gave Graham Stack little to do in the Hibernian goal.
Gary Hooper squandered Celtic’s only gilt-edged chance of the game when, after playing a one-two with Anthony Stokes, he struck the outside of the post with Ki available for the square pass. Anthony Stokes had earlier tested Stack, who failed to hold the ball but did enough to clear.
When the same teams met on Wednesday James Forrest transformed the game when he drifted inside but he spent most of today’s game adrift on the right wing. On two occasions he cut inside with purpose, once testing Stack with a blistering shot from 22 yards and later when a 25 yard pile-drive struck the crossbar, but Hibs were content to limit Celtic to such speculative efforts.
Neil Lennon was justified in his criticism of his front pairing of Stokes and Hooper today but Celtic were equally clueless in midfield. There appeared to be no cohesion and there was certainly not a productive match plan.
Motherwell’s away win in Inverness gives the Lanarkshire side a three point lead, having played a game more, going into next week’s crucial game against Celtic at Fir Park. Manager-less St Johnstone dropped three points at home this afternoon, leaving them four points behind Celtic in the fight for the last Europa League place.
This is where we are people, scrapping between Motherwell and St Johnstone. Get used to it.
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kitalba says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:13
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Thanks Kitalba, been waiting for you to post my thoughts for me :)
Had to look up asposty tho!
saltires en sevilla says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:11
And
kitalba says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:13
Thanks for that guys. I’m an occasional poster, but I’m more a lurker. I will always go on to CQN to help me feel better after a sh1te result and that was one yesterday.
I have to say that I totally agree with the above posts you are spot on. I gave up reading the laptop loyal a long time ago and I have to say reading some comments on here today it seems that some supporters still read that muck. Words like ‘outed’ are pure LL sensationalism and are taken completely out of context! That’s why I’m against our players and management team speaking so openly to them (win, lose or draw). They just can’t help themselves they have been trained to twist words.
I just can’t put my finger on what has happened this season. Is the horrendous abuse that Lenny suffered from last season finally catching up with him, or is the shocking injury list (brown, izzy, commons etc. All key players last season) affecting the consistency of the team, or do we have one eye on what is happening at the bigotdome (I sincerely hope not!). I really don’t know what is. But one thing is for sure I’m still backing Neil to turn this around. He was extremely unlucky not to win the league last year and he had a team playing a fantastic brand of football (that outplayed sir dignified on several times). He WILL get it sorted!
som mes…………….
Whittaker,Davis,Lafferty,Edu and Naismith ….
think i`m right
they may even have bought Bougerra as well
they spent about £12 m the didn`t have
saltires en sevilla 10.11- Sorry, meant to say- that was a superb post!
In an unprecedented attack on free speech The Scottish Government is outlawing the use of the word ‘cookie’ when referring to Rangers supporters. This follows on from a motion submitted bt the RFC trust who argued successfully that following the banning of ‘Hun’, Celtic supporters have started using a whole range of Greggs related aphorisms such as ‘bun’, ‘pasty, ‘bridie’, ‘eclair’, ‘bacon and egg sandwich’, ‘thinly sliced freshly baked wholemeal loaf’, ‘steak bake’ and ‘packet of crisps and diet Irn Bru’ in a thinly disguised attempt to circumvent the anti-sectarion and offensive language bill.
‘Cookie’ however seems to be the latest in a long line of underhand attempts to throw insults at the long suffering ‘sausage rolls’.
When asked for a comment on the matter, that well known man of moderate eating habits, 42 stone ‘The Govanhill Gub’ simply said in between mouthfulls of ‘cream doughnuts’ “Ah’ll feckin ‘circumvent’ you pal! ….whit does that mean?”
In a ‘clarification’ statement, Kenny ‘well fired roll’ McCaskill also hinted at legislation to ban anything thyiming with ‘hun’ from everyday usage. Words like son, son, done, run, fun, won, gun, none, pun would no longer be taught in schools.
It is rumoured on the interwebby thingummy that Celtic fans are now calling Rangers supporters ‘McCaskills’. Kenny immediately banned the use of his surname and has taken his wife and children into the deed poll office intending to emerge later with new identities and smaller noses.
What a ‘meringue’.
Hail hail
Estadio
kitalba,
Smell the coffee.
A couple of simple pointers to winning the SPL
1. The most important man at the club is the manager. Get the right man, back him and don’t interfere and you are well down the road to winning the league.
2. The team that invests most in the transfer market generally comes out on top
3. Look at Celtic in 2000 when MON took over and them in 2008 after we’d won 3IAR. Both clubs invested approx. £20m in the playing squad over a couple of transfer windows which gave them a succesful squad for the next 5 years in our case and 4 years and counting in theirs.
None of the above is rocket science, it is proven to work in our wee league where you only have to beat one team to be successful. That success then opens up the possibility of financial riches afforded from CL football.
Estadio.
Bacon and egg sandwich. Lol.
Brilliant post, still laughing while typing.
Ernie Lynch
I am of the same view.
There would be no point to the football if Rangers emerge relatively unscathed with their spoils intact.
There was however an intereting post repeated on the live match thread that suggested this possibilty is unlikely. Am on mobile so cannot copy paste it but worth bringing forward.
Oh oh, we’re in trouble…if we’re not careful, the huns’ll win the double.
The team needs to fight like a dog now. I had a pal in Mallorca who had recovered from a life-threatening form of cancer. He heard me say “fight like a dog” once and said,
“It’s not about fight like a dog, it’s about how much fight is IN the dog.”
We’re about to find out.
Whether the fight is for 1st 2nd 3rd or 4th place the bottom line is were in a fight,
its a dog fight, its a fight we need to take on head first,
there are many who would sit back and take great joy at the implosion of the Club, we don’t need to give them any help in that one,
the disappointment we have now and to be frank (theres that guy frank again) that has been there most of the season is hard to take, its bloody hard to take, but its there, deal with it,
In my opinion now is not the time for change, now is not the time to start turning on ourselves and in that I include the manager, now is the time to roll the sleeves up and get stuck in,
4.45 yesterday I was, we all were really pissed off…… again,
let down……… again, sickened……… again, its becoming a habit and a bad one at that, habits like many things can be broken,
today is another day, lets break the habit.
Hail Hail
Som mes que un club
Summer Transfer Window 2008
Steven Davis – From Fulham, £3 million
Madjid Bougherra – From Charlton, £2.5 million
Pedro Mendes – from Portsmouth, £3 million
Kyle Lafferty – From Burnley, £3.5 million
Kenny Miller – From Derby County, £1.9 million
Andrius Velicka – From Viking, £1 million
Maurice Edu – From F.C Toronto, £2.5 million
Aaron Niguez – From Valencia (loan),
SwanseaBhoy
SALTIRES IN SEVILLA 1011
Brilliant piece of work,sir. Not just because it echoes my own thoughts,haha!
Particularly the disparity in punishment for tackles made by us and the opposition,which I think verges on requiring an investigation by HS
I woke up this morning hoping the clock had went back 4 years!!!
Bring back Strachan.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:58
Hey leave H&S out of it,
im still trying to investigate the CQN dyke jumping morphine incident from yesterday.
A few posters last night were talking of our need to “turn the corner”.
To attempt to turn a corner in reverse and at the speed we are going backwards is not recommended.
Oh, and has anyone prepacked yet?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:58
SALTIRES IN SEVILLA 1011
Brilliant piece of work,sir. Not just because it echoes my own thoughts,haha!
Particularly the disparity in punishment for tackles made by us and the opposition,which I think verges on requiring an investigation by HSE.
Sorry,the previous post from was slightly incomplete!
Also,the reference to PL is a good one that I hadn’t previously considered. As you say,he is financially secure. Surely he must realise that the policies he is driving through are destructive to the club,and to the morale of the players and fans?
And what it’s doing to Neil is unforgivable.
Stand up for what you know is right,PL,your time has come…..
CHE 1101
That was about the only laugh I had all day yesterday.
Just as well maybe,what wi sore ribs-bad time for a heavy head-cold!
The Jury’s Out,
Of course you’re right. Too many on here believe that just because someone once played for the club they must be the right man now.
No. And, NEVER in the case of Lennon. In fact, he is becoming a total embarrassment.
SACK HIM NOW.
pauloanthony
I woke up this morning…in itself a remarkable achievement.
But my crowning success was cooking a full fried breakfast and eating it. Mind you I burst one of the yolks, and after about ten minutes fruitless efforts I gave up trying to get the runny stuff back in the egg. This revelation now takes over my favourite definition of impossible””’Like trying to get a yolk back in a burst egg’. My previous favourite was ‘Impossible? Whit? It was like trying to stick yer erse out of the bathroom window, run down stairs and throw stones at it!’
Time to build up towards a cure I think.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Gonny gonny gonny stop speculating as to where the Huns are going to finish up and let us concentrate on employing a coaching strategy that is capable of sustaining a challenge that is going to see us finish above all the other teams in the league
The Jury’s Out
Thanks but I’m a tea man mate, so why don’t you answer those very simple questions I asked you?
Neil’s Taxi’s Here !
Is that your first post on CQN or have you posted previously under a different moniker?
SwanseaBhoy
Estadio
Very funny. You are making me HUNgry.
Halloween news coming in sir minty dressing up as a tenner
PF Ayr & SwanseaBhoy.
Thank you.
I intend to put this to him today.
SwanseaBhoy says:
30 October, 2011 at 11:08
Your not insinuating there are……………… hunterlopers about????
kitalba,
Tea,coffee,meths,whatever……I think we know what he means. Course the huns have won it even with a 50 point dedeuction they’ll win it cause we aint stopping them but you keep believing if it helps.
Meanwhile …………back in the real world.
topkat says:
30 October, 2011 at 11:09
aye and mcmoist is the size of an italian tenor
I just had a cup of toffee.
That is one tea bag and one and a half teaspoons of coffee.
It was an accident, but thinking of my sainted mammy’s protestation ‘think of the poor weans in Africa’, I drank it. It was allright!
hail Hail
Estadio
See the people on here talking about the Celtic board not listenimg to Celtic supporters with regards to a Newco huns, I think they can find some pointers as to what they think of us by the way they allow the police to treat us. Someone from the board needs to have a word.
I was at the Fans Against Criminlisation demo and they were absolutely itching for something to kick off. It didn’t though so at the end of the game the police had had enough and decided to cause it themselves. This has been reported in the media as ‘disorder at the Celtic game’.
If the Celtic board wish to maintain any link to the fans, this has to be sorted.
I can take going to see Celtic when they are p**h, I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again but I’m sick of being treated like a second class citizen by these people, who if you try to talk to them rationally have not got a clue. If this bill survives, these are the people who decide what’s a criminal offence. I despair.
Sorry for the rant.
SwanseaBhoy
first. Cant take any more of what I’m seeing at CP. Time to break cover. Lennon is taking us to hell in a handcart.
Kayal33
The economics of funding a title winning team if both clubs do it, is the loser goes out of business.
The lure of CL money makes clubs reckless in its pursuit.
If I were the SFA/SPL I would propose any CL money is distributed pro rata amingst all SPL clubs.
You only have to look at the debt incurred to see that one season without CL money (as is happening to Rangers this year) can endanger its existence.
All clubs depend on each other for their existence, structuring payouts that encourage clubs to endanger themselves is the height of folly but stupidity is to football as oil is to the oil business.
I just wish somebody in our game would show some leadership and campaign for change.
Swanseabhoy
i think he used to be call celtic first or something like that:¬))
I love this song… The Patriot Game
Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing,
For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
And it makes us all part of the patriot game.
My name is O’Hanlon, and I’ve just turned sixteen.
My home is in Monaghan, where I was reared.
I learned all my life cruel England to blame,
So now I am part of the patriot game.
They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair,
His wounds from the battle all bleeding and bare.
His fine body twisted, all tortured and lame;
They soon made me part of the patriot game.
It’s nearly two years since I wandered away
With the local battalion of the bold IRA,
I’ve read of our heroes, and I wanted the same,
To play out my part in the patriot game.
This Ireland of ours has for long been half free;
Six counties still under John Bull’s tyranny.
But still De Valera is greatly to blame
For shirking his part in the patriot game.
And now as I lie here, my body all holes,
I think of those traitors who bargained in souls
And I wish that my rifle had given the same
To those bastards that sold out the patriot game.
So come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing,
For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
And it makes us all part of the patriot game.
….PFayr
not me,pal.
Anyway off to B&Q now. You guys keep working on the answer ( which starts with bulleting NL )
KItalba
I think it was “quislings” instead of “bastards”.
Hope you are well!
The Jury’s Out says:
30 October, 2011 at 10:45
re McCoist, I was one of the many who derided his appointment. His performance in Europe was even worse than I anticipated but it must be said that in the SPL so far they have been an ugly winning machine.
Have a look at this video, 0:40.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOl7C3bo4o
It’s interesting to note the role of Kenny McDowell.
He is an experienced coach who knew the squad inside out before McCoist took over. I suspect he has a massive role in running the team. He is often seen instructing McCoist during games and I reckon is the brains behind him. He sure as hell needs it, going by his interviews.
Lennon doesn’t have experience next to him, and picking up the phone to Martin O’Neill or Gordon Strachan is not the same as having that guidance on the bench during games. Not making excuses for Lennon’s woeful performance this year, just pointing out that, with hindsight, the team of Lennon, Mjailby, Thompson and Parker was doomed to failure.