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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petece @ 03:05,
I agree with MWD’s position on this as well. Closing the upper tiers is downsizing and discouraging occasional visitors.
This is where it gets depressing.
Downsizing never leads to a successful business – quite the opposite. It’s an unstoppable train wreck once it is put in motion :(( This board are destroying our club using the death of Rangers as a smokescreen.
I fear it’s too late to stop it, but reference some chat earlier between Neganon and Canamalar, surely a group of reps can be created legally with the responsibilities clearly documented, involving the likes of the CSA and independent CSCs an the CT, that could then be in charge of a supporters’ share buy out.
It can be done. I actually think it will be eventually, but fear it will be too late.
Petec
Jackie was asking after you, as she beat me at pool last night. :)
FFM good to see again bruv.
Delaneys Dunky
03:12 on 29 November, 2014
FFM
I would be up for that. Sounds good. :))
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The Genius
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
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I’m of the opinion that no matter who is/was in charge of Celtic we’ll still be heading to where we are at the moment.
We need to realise that Scottish football is basically dead and all we are doing is struggling to keep it “breathing”
Delaneys Dunky
03:17 on 29 November, 2014
Petec
Jackie was asking after you, as she beat me at pool last night. :)
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Super sharp Shooter. I’d Marry her in an inistance.
Maximum respect to the Excellent Couple.
The Huddle @ 03:10,
I was put in a bath aged 5 with my cousin, who is senior to me by 2-3 years.
She regularly shit in the bath and always blamed me. She’s a London based film/ tv producer now so she didn’t take kindly to me reminding her of this by posting it on her facebook page, which she quickly deleted :))
Luvvies, eh ! :))
DD @ 03:12,
Should be good. I’ll contact ole pedro and see if we can tie up a date. If you like putting the odd pound on a game of pool, then the charity of your choice will benefit greatly :)))
BRTH @ 03:12,
I’m watching the Ade Edmundson link just now – so far, I’m very impressed. Very good music.
the hudle @ 03:13,
Great stuff as well.
Some good music here !
Great music there from BRTH and the Huddle,
I’ve posted this before, but hopefully it keeps with the theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7ugH15oqQ
ACGR @ 03:18,
Thanks fella !
Hope you’re keeping well. Apols I missed you and BMCUW again this year – it’s been a difficult one, but am determined to see you all at the next meet.
Still loving your patter :)) You’re probably the only one out of us who is as sharp-witted in person as online :)) HH.
the Huddle @ 03:22,
It’s clearly a problem, but this board aren’t doing anything to counteract it.
Instead they are utilising the loyalty of our supporters to line their pockets. As soon as you have a former BT chairman involved, alarm bells should be ringing.
Right, mission complete. I’ve scared everyone to bed now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3hHbpCdRt8
Imagine you are a touch skint.
The phone goes and when you answer it someone says you must get on a plane with your pals and travel to the other side of the world. It is a trip that will change your life, the caller says.
You are more than a touch sceptical about this but the caller is insistent.
Just get the plane they insist. Take a gamble. Leave your country behind but bring it’s culture and your talent and gamble all your savings for just 5 minutes on TV in a foreign land.
So, with a little trepidation and with a big intake of breath, you book four seats on a plane with your own money knowing absolutely nothing about what awaits you and where it will lead.
Sure enough, the caller was correct.
You bring your culture, your voice and your talent …….. and after 5 minutes your life is never the same again.
Here is what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvL_Yk1Q9Z0
BRTH,
I’m starting to discover a new found respect for your taste in music :))
I think JH was the vehicle that took Seasick Steve to the British Isles as well.
But Raghu – fantastic music
Many thanks for sharing.
BRTH,
I was looking for something else, but stumbled onto this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wra4p4zARw
You wonder what stories those tunes are telling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHE-CbKC8Vc
FFM
That was brilliant — I have saved that.
OK Last from me before going back to bed.
Once upon a time, a young London musician went to see a little known band from Liverpool.
They were an odd eclectic bunch, but they were good– very good.
In fact they were so good, that the author and founder of Mojo Magazine, Paul Du Noyer, would later say that in the history of popular music in Liverpool only two bands mattered and they were the Beatles and this odd bunch.
Individually, they would later score all sorts of successes as producers, arrangers, singers, actors and actresses – many using their real names.
But when they came together as a band they abandoned all sense and donned various false persona’s and stage names — The Very Reverend Max Ripple, Enrico Cadillac Junior and the husky throated female singer — Bette Bright.
Holly Johnston of Frankie Goes to Hollywood said that they revved up Liverpool music for a generation, and they certainly inspired many others.
However, for our young Londoner, he heard a sound which would set him off on a spectacular career with his own band, but would later admit that had he not gone to that concert.
40 years on, and despite the fact that many of them had spent the better part of that 40 years working on the day job ( whatever that might be ) they occasionally get back together and play concerts at small venues up and down the country.
Same musicians, same daft dramatis on stage, and many of the same audience who they can name by name as they have a cult following.
These days, the young London fella occasionally gets up on stage and sings a song with them – he is clearly a fan — and he just happened to fall in love with and marry the husky female lead.
Last year, someone filmed a wee impromptu appearance and you can tell that this piece from the mid 70’s inspired a whole sound and is regularly played in someone’s living room late at night with all the hand actions and gestures of a group of daft drunk teenagers — in their 50’s or 60’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNdB4wGtfaU
Tell a lie — The final act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-N3fiWsqts
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BRTH,
Great stuff.
Madness are an oustanding live band, the real deal. That fact gets lost easily amidst the current nonsense of perfecting over-indulging singers where the song has no relevance.
Good music live is an unbeatable force.
Respect to you! Might bump into you in the OM some thursay night coming btw.
I take it Ian Brines heard what McCoist said to Lenny at 5:40 in…..
No report made though on what turned out to be the pivotal “shame game” that put us where we are now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PLn6uFbfEw
Mighty Tim,
Hope all went well today on what must be a horrendous experience for you and your family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Ta8ekk9k8
Athens CSC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SreBLJcxVcM
Keith Jackson….
On twitter showed himself to be the personification of a absurd hypocrite he is…but it should be remembered that such ‘journalism’ is not restricted to sports.. It permeates the whole reality we are presented with…
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Hunter S. Thompson
I only wish more Tim’s would remember that it is not just Fitba…
HH
Neil Lennon,
Fought the forces of freemasonry on its homeland, and despite what they threw at him, he won.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-wkcTyFNs&list=UU0z5apok_7R_L0YSu6rjTsw
PJ @ 06:16
We do, but it’s feckin painful.
What can we do, eh. :(((
I think it’s seriously depressing many, as is every day life now.
Despair.
Going back to music,
Scotland never ceases to amaze me.
This fella is the best songwriter Scotland has produced in the last 40 years, he understands folk and trad music, but has also written the most timeless classic love song as well.
Yet he could walk down any street in Glasgow and few would bother looking him in the eye.
Mike Scott.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu7AR0-FRro
Good morning CeltsQuite mild in Glasgow today but stay out of the city centre today if you value your life..it will be madness.
ffm….absolutely love This is the sea album especially the title track.
ffm and pjbhoynyc,
I agree totally with you guys, down here in Oz, the national broadcaster is under attack from our government, one of its more mature hacks, Qeuntin Dempster is being made redundant (among others) but he has not missed and hit the wall. I have attached a part of his leaving interview, particularly of interest for me is the line relating to Murdoch, now that his monkey is free after ‘serving’ a whole five months in prison.
http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-sacks-quentin-dempster-20141128-11voj4.html
AR
7am @ the Peak in Stirling as the Wee Lass tries triathlon.
Thank the Big Mhan above the coffee shop was open!
Mild n black. That’s the weather, not the coffee!
HH jamesgang
Guys as i always say to my other half never mind the old adage “Don’t believe what you read” mire importantly now its a case of Don’t believe what you see”.News agencies are controlled by crooked oindividuals and goverments who add their own narrative to any pictures to twist the story to suit their agendas and millions of good honest people fall for it hook line and sinker I mean apparently 85 people own 85% of the world”s wealth…shocking.
Good morning friends.
Damp and grey in ole EK. That’s the weather AND the ‘tache.
One more sleep.
http://mobro.co/jobobaldie