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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Weefra
Quit the smokes 5 months ago and have found it easy. However last time I quit was for four months and time before many years ago……was 9 years without. Bottom line ….. You never really quit.
Best thing I find is to keep telling myself……I’ve been through the worst of the withdrawal, do I really want to smoke again and go through the withdrawal all over ? ( Got that from my guitar hero Keith Richard in his autobiography, although he was coming off heroin…..same thought process applies)
Good Luck mate
petec
02:26 on 29 November, 2014
Go Forth and MULTIPLY.
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I’ve always tried to follow this one rule as on the face of it, it should be the easiest!
But trying to find a willing partner in this era of Black Friday Luciferaniasm is proving difficult. Despite my charm and looks…. :)
petec
The Deluded that think the World is overpopulated, well, they are so deluded.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Delaney’s,
I saw that reference earlier as well :))) I was nearly going to say that, it is indeed the look of a skinny Alun B’Stard ! Was it you goodself who spotted that?
BMCUW @ 02:28 –
Will be interesting when Green enters from stage right into the court a sphere. But I think he may have simply been a spokesman, and it was others behind the scene that Craigy has the dirt on. Either way, as we all know, it stinks (albeit expected) that the knighted one is enjoying a blanket of protection and hun lunacy is being directed at small time spivs.
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
02:31 on 29 November, 2014
petec
02:26 on 29 November, 2014
Go Forth and MULTIPLY.
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I’ve always tried to follow this one rule as on the face of it, it should be the easiest!
But trying to find a willing partner in this era of Black Friday Luciferaniasm is proving difficult. Despite my charm and looks…. :)
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It was embarressing watching the Materialism jingoism with Black People at the forefront.
Sick of it all, you know I am, I’m just trying to enjoy Life as much as I can now.
God Bless ye Marchisio.
the_huddle
02:31 on 29 November, 2014
petec
The Deluded that think the World is overpopulated, well, they are so deluded.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
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and?
petec @ 02:29,
:)) Not quite, there’s still a few I need you to help me with!
Pool playing skills are a vice you know…. :)
Petec
Give us a great tune please. ;)))
the_huddle
Or is that Nand or Exclusive Nor gates?
Are you Deluged with information that, well…. HH
petec @ 02:37,
It was ugly depressing stuff to see, but then I remembered this was a minority of people.
It suits the establishment to make us all see such “profane” footage and hate ourselves for it.
The majority of us are still good people.
Stay strong.
FFM
Thought of the late Rik when I saw our hero today.
Delaneys Dunky
02:42 on 29 November, 2014
FFM
Thought of the late Rik when I saw our hero today.
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My brother said the same thing :o)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ais53rladFU
Johnny Cash – The beast in me
http://youtu.be/T8tGCVavS5s
The Huddle
Comic Strip! :))
I’m not a Man of God because I’m Nothing but a bad Sinner.
Shall we take a trip?
I’m so tempted to take those E’s and Coke again, everyone I’m working with seems to be doing that stuff at the Weekend.
I have experienced the bad side of opening up the Mind, Christ, made me feel safe when I felt so scared lying in my own bed, I’d fight anyone, no matter how big they are as well.
Think before you take that trip.
DD/ The Huddle,
Bottom is one of the funniest series to come out of the BBC, along with Still Game and a few others.
Rik and Ade on live stage looked brilliant and was hilarious as well.
For some reason the truely best comedies and kept in the sidelines.
Watched an interesting programme called “Toast..” on Ch4 tonight for first time. The actor had to join the masons to get work. Nothing we don’t know here but most of the Enlgish audience must have been wondering what was going on. Very good programme.
Delaneys Dunky
02:49 on 29 November, 2014
The Huddle
Comic Strip! :))
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I was called Rik as a teen cos of how I looked with the curtains haircut :o)
petec,
Give me a bell, let me know how you’re getting on.
the huddle,
:)) As long as you wore your underpants no higher than your waist, it’s a respectable nickname :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4RLpQ1fkwI
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
02:50 on 29 November, 2014
DD/ The Huddle,
Bottom is one of the funniest series to come out of the BBC, along with Still Game and a few others.
Rik and Ade on live stage looked brilliant and was hilarious as well.
For some reason the truely best comedies and kept in the sidelines.
Watched an interesting programme called “Toast..” on Ch4 tonight for first time. The actor had to join the masons to get work. Nothing we don’t know here but most of the Enlgish audience must have been wondering what was going on. Very good programme.
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Toast of London is gold, Matt Berry from the IT Crowd is genius. The bit when then mutilate the goat is brilliant.
http://youtu.be/iN82uk0LQT0
Clem Fandango
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
02:38 on 29 November, 2014
petec @ 02:29,
:)) Not quite, there’s still a few I need you to help me with!
Pool playing skills are a vice you know…. :)
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If Money allows for us all, a wee night in the Horse and Barge has a very competitive Pool table, it also has Dalmuir station next door to it.
Just don’t go in with a RED FACE or Paul will quiz you like you are from another Tenalp. ;))
Hang on, I’m seeing it now.
The UFH fabricated Rik’s death so that he could play Agent Whyte to finalise the death of Rankers FC.
http://youtu.be/msX-SizUAiQ?t=27s
Jeez 23:59
Jeez I don’t know how I forgot about Atletico. They certainly were the best side of the nine. Salzburg were good but not potential winners.
before I die, cash my chips etc, I want to see that eyesore flattened.
I hope the do it on a Saturday,
the Huddle,
:)) Aye, that was very funny. Censored footage then picture of the slaughtered goat.
It didn’t exagerate or fancify freemasonry, which was interesting. Yet most watching it would assume just that.
FFM
Rik & Ade. Young Ones was the school chat of our time, with Monty Python. :)
petec,
That sounds like a good challenge – would yourself and DD fancy a few games of pool there some night over the next few weeks?
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
02:58 on 29 November, 2014
Hang on, I’m seeing it now.
The UFH fabricated Rik’s death so that he could play Agent Whyte to finalise the death of Rankers FC.
http://youtu.be/msX-SizUAiQ?t=27s
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Happy as Gilmour could ever be.
MWD is right, there would have been at least 10000 supporters supporting Celtic against the Branded Club.
Celtic hierarchy are making a lot of mistakes, IMO. they are doing a Good Job overall, though, IMO… Never forget I know nothing.
DD,
While all my classmates were havering about the Young Ones, I was being tortured by a single parent mother who insisted I bathe every second night and wash my hair twice with Vosene.
Between that and knocking back the lassies I had no time to watch the Young Ones.
Hence my smelly, unwashed days of the 90s where I lived in student flats and cared not a jot for hygience, so could watch Bottom while discarded cups of tea would eventually make their own way out of the house. :))
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:07 on 29 November, 2014
DD,
While all my classmates were havering about the Young Ones, I was being tortured by a single parent mother who insisted I bathe every second night and wash my hair twice with Vosene.
Between that and knocking back the lassies I had no time to watch the Young Ones.
Hence my smelly, unwashed days of the 90s where I lived in student flats and cared not a jot for hygience, so could watch Bottom while discarded cups of tea would eventually make their own way out of the house. :))
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Sunday night bath only for this smelly so and so :O)
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:02 on 29 November, 2014
petec,
That sounds like a good challenge – would yourself and DD fancy a few games of pool there some night over the next few weeks?
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The Bankies are the best @ Pool, IMO, it could get tastey
FFM
I would be up for that. Sounds good. :))
Jeez,
Reading back, I note Mike in Toronto has been dubbed most sensible poster on the blog.
Thank Christ — someone once posted that I was a sensible type which made me worried for the sanity of the race as a whole.
Sense is a word that should only be preceded with a non!
Anyway, speaking of Mr Ade Edmondson — have a wee listen to this all the way through.
How many tunes that you know can you hear?
Once a folky always a folky………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__KtZNtuyn8
The Stagger Rats – Drinking song
http://youtu.be/st4Z2HgNz2c
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:07 on 29 November, 2014
DD,
While all my classmates were havering about the Young Ones, I was being tortured by a single parent mother who insisted I bathe every second night and wash my hair twice with Vosene.
Between that and knocking back the lassies I had no time to watch the Young Ones.
Hence my smelly, unwashed days of the 90s where I lived in student flats and cared not a jot for hygience, so could watch Bottom while discarded cups of tea would eventually make their own way out of the house. :))
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Your Mother is one of the Greatest persons to walk this Earth.
Thank You, Marc