There was an unusual reaction at full time last night. Some attempted to boo, but the applause from the majority in the crowd soon drowned them out. Not all defeats are the same, this one came after one of our best performances of the season, against an undoubtedly better team.
It was important to qualify for the knockout stages of the Europa League. Bereft of domestic competition, Celtic need to test their abilities against top teams, they need to be stretched, forced to defend for long periods, parts of the game which simply never happen in Scotland.
It’s also important to see tangible signs of improvement. Those four weeks of summer, which saw defeats twice to Legia, to Maribor and Inverness, were signs of a team in crisis. They cost us Champions League football, and revenue, but finishing our Europa League group in second place behind Salzburg is the top end of where we expected to be three months ago.
I’m not happy with this morning’s line that we qualified thanks to the result in Romania; we qualified because we collected eight points from our opening four games, including a highly respectable draw in Salzburg. Win, lose or draw last night, the qualification work had been done. We can now start planning for the second half of the season.
Those three months since the summer crisis passed with only one defeat, an ultimately costless, if embarrassing, reversal at home to Hamilton. We can afford a similar episode on the next three months, but not this Sunday. The visit to Tynecastle is our most important game in the next two months, considerably more so than last night’s.
Commons and Forrest return to full fitness will be closer, while it would be good to see Denayer and Lustig available again.
It was kind of Rangers International to publish their accounts as a pick-me-up for us when we got home last night. More tomorrow, if we have time.
Shocked and stunned at the news Roy Keane has chucked it at Aston Villa. No way did I ever see his appointment as assistant to Paul Lambert looking like a pointless distraction so quickly. Next time we appoint a manager, cut the lines to Barbados and keep Martin’s mobile engaged!
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Mags
TDW. Magic :))
Great track. Great band.
ACGR
Didnae get it…..
Will check, if nothin, I’ll post here and u can let me know….
Right….alanis morrisette, here goes:-)
emusanorphan, was that for me?
Emusanorphan
No had a fist lately?
Och that’s a shame.
acgr/bt
You lot are hallucinating. Hahahaha. The sooner the friggin better. Wooooohoooo. Take care all. BT, hope the christmas shopping went well. Yer da’s a clipe. :-))) Cot time for me. Night Night Timland.
Acgr
as soon as i put that baseball on my head last night i knew it had to be yours…
The fact that i couldnae get it on ma big heed even…..8))
BT, hee hee, if we tie the wee bam up we can drink everything he’s got. I’ll sort him out with a wee dram. Doc’s a nurse, he can administer it intravenously.
Great to meet you and your long suffering Mrs BT yesterday.
She deserves more than a medal:-)
She got a baileys….
Weefra
it was the jubilee, food the the valley for the swally
Interesting quotes from a newspaper article reporting on the Huns tour of the North of Ireland with a begging bowl just after they went into administration in 2012:-
“A number of Wilson’s former political allies from the Progressive Unionist Party were at Wednesday’s meeting, along with leading figures from other unionist parties, including Gregory Campbell and Danny Kennedy.
Campbell let the meeting into a secret – that a Rangers supporters club set up by MPs at Westminster has been working quietly behind the scenes to help Rangers.”
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/why-unionists-only-have-eyes-for-rangers-28726855.html
Well, well, Westminster MPs working quietly working behind the scenes to help their beloved tax-dodging Rangers. Who would have thunk it?
Even if i was a bin man i would have been
the best bin man in the world.
when i was a kid ,back in the day used to say to kids
one day i am going to be champion of the world,i
might be a great doctor one day going to be a dentist,
be a great scientist,be president of the country.
Not many kids can come back and say to you ,”i told ya ”
Cassius Clay Chicago
(age16)
Cassius Clay
Butsybhoy
My memory of end of reserve league is that a team could not afford a reserve team and did not want another club to get ten in a row.
No prizes for naming the Deidco And the other club, but open to correction if I am wrong.
BT
Hope it all went well yesterday. Widnae rush back to work! :))
BT, see when DD gets ma bullet flask back to me, you’ll get the wee tasters I mentioned last night. There might be a small delay, weefra is in front of you in the line though, and he’s pretty convincing.
acgr
You can kidnap me awe you like, just be sure your here to muck oot in the morning. :-))))))’ Seriously, you know, nothing would please me more than to spend a night with our esteemed CQNrs. I have enjoyed almost every minute on here for the past 10 years. Paul67 might give me my exact,original signing in date. I find it amazing that I have never met one CQNr I could not relate to and not enjoyed their company. Keep winkles oot of it, he’ll come up wi sumfing. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
How did the young Celts get on last night v the new mini hun young yins?
ACGR
Yer wee bullet beauty is sitting facing me in my living room. Get ye it soon.
PS Did I see you last Saturday late?
Or was it one of those mad psychedelic dreams I have been having of late? ;))
Ronny Deila CSC
BT
Hope you and mrs bt had a cracking day. Hopefully see you both soon. Great to blether wi mini. You get better soon kiddo. :-)
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Acgr
no rush, weefra is more deserving than me…
DD
gp Thursday so maybe work from home until Christmas then see how it goes after that..
Night bhoys.
god bless…
hail hail..
ACGR …
it was 2-0 to the good guys…. apparently a pretty chippy affair… but I dont think the junior zombies had a shot on target the whole game….
DD
Missed you thurs, did you make it?? Hope you are well. :))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
BT
Good luck. GNGB
Cot time defo now. Struggling to keep the peepers open and wishing I was pissed.:-)) hey ho, such is life. :-))) oh, meant to mention, now a month aff the fags. How chuffed am I???
Luv to all and KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Weefra
Got in late. Got better as it went on. I enjoyed our 2nd half show and thought we deserved a draw at least. Bring on the car hire mob Hertz! :)
Mike, thanks for that and yeee haa for the young hoops. Getting any victory against the new club at any age level is just another girfuy moment.
HH bruv and say hello to tony for me.
Ardbeg
DD
:-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
DD, you’re sound mate. You were not hallucinating (at that point). I did indeed meet you on Saturday. I nipped out fo some smokes and when I came back you were floating about outside in a bit of a haze.
BCW was also there but he was a bit more lucid than you………………and me.
I’ll catch you at the game on Wednesday.
HH
I’ll give it ten minutes before weefa comes back in………………………..:_)
ACGR … cheers.
Dont know how you guys manage the late nights on here …
I must be getting old … I’m getting ready to wind down for the night, and I am five hours behind most of you guys!
HH
ACGR
Have not a clue how I got home to Dalmuir? Presume train? But memory erased.
Mike
Us back shift workers with the next two days off, are just warming up. ;))
Mike in Toronto. Most are on mind bending substances and fruit flavoured mushrooms. I just stick to the drams maself.
……………..unless I meet DD or yon morissey rocket.
HH to you bruv
Hun media is particularly vile right now in regard to Craig Whyte. Death threats and promises of what they will do to him in prison.
Makes you think most of the hun filth are already incarcerated and need a play thing.
Bombs and bullets, they are not nice peepil
ACGR …. that’s my problem … I dont drink, dont smoke …not sure how I ever made it past the first CQN screening test!
just going to jump on the bike for an quick ride before the better half gets home from work, then off to take the dog for a walk….
have a great weekend lads… hopefully, we’ll be celebrating Sunday.
HH
What a Great night on CSGO with the Wee Man and another techno/pc guy, from Guernsey.
Aidan started to call the Strategies for most of the rounds. Massive, relating it to his Football.
Ronny Deila’s team will Rock.
……I mean with his Own players.
patience
eddiebhoy, thumbsup to you and I agree wholeheartedly with you about that sense of entitlement creeping in.
Win – Lose or Draw.
ACEILERGONOFRUST
If ever there was a salutary lessons in the dangers of “Home Alone”,you are it.
Drammed to the nines,pizzaed oot,stoned to smithereens.
Thankfully you don’t do webcam,or I’d be really jealous!
(Chucking it doon where I am,just about to go for a drive in it. Fancy “Trading Places”?)