You can only beat the team in front of you, and in that respect, Celtic were scintillating against Nomme Kalju last night. The precision and speed with which they moved the ball was a significant improvement on most of last season, the impact Ryan Christie had on this fact should not be underestimated.
Kalju defended solidly until the opening goal went in. At this, their resistance crumbled. Simultaneously, Boli Bolingoli went off injured, his second injury retirement in three games for Celtic. On this basis, I am not convinced the player is injury-free, which may be inhibiting his performance.
When Mikey Johnston replaced Boli, Kalju were reduced to chasing shadows. When Johnston, Christie, McGregor and Forrest are allowed the dictate tempo to the extent they were last night, they are remarkably effective.
Leigh Griffiths’ goal was cathartic for the player. It was an exceptional free kick, reminiscent of his strike against Hapoel Be’er Shiva three years ago. Last season we succeeded in winning a treble, despite being reduced to one striker for most of the campaign – and to none for some of it. With Leigh back in the squad, Neil Lennon will have options that were not available earlier this year. Including playing two strikers, as he did last night.
With defensive numbers still low. yesterday we signed 28-year-old Israeli Hatem Abd Elhamed. It remains to be seen how Neil Lennon views the player, who made his international debut replacing Nir Bitton last month, and may well replace him as central defensive cover.
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As we need another right back, I’ve been doing some scouting and I recommend this no nonsense tackler
Go to 40 seconds
https://youtu.be/s4y_hbRH2fc
Celtic MAC
You don’t know what happened in Tallinn that night – the Scotland fans turned up to cheer Estonia onto the park. The SFA acted disgracefully on the occasion (are you surprised).
Italy had already played under those floodlights, in a country which was recovering from Soviet occupation, the SFA tried to lord it, the fans didn’t like it and, to this day have a strong relationship with Estonia. It backfired on the SFA but if you go to Tallinn you will be very welcome.
HRVATSKI JIM on 25TH JULY 2019 10:43 PM
Another with no nonsense tackle.
https://twitter.com/jacobitejolly/status/1154493569681494022?s=21
Melbourne Mick 10.40pm
Am glad you could organise a piss up in a brewery :-)
Enjoy your day
One last thought I wonder if Progres Niederkorn have any fair play issues, bbc Scotland just gushed at goals from Aribo (cross border big wages) & Ojo (loan wages from the team that win the champions league) secured a 2-0 victory tonight … am pretty sure both goal-scorers will be earning money that Progres could not offer, obviously this would fair “if” the club paying these wages could actually afford them …
UEFA fair play ?
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2019/07/25/johnson-cabinet-a-whos-who-of-amoral-incompetent-bastards/
GFTB
Thanks Gerry, it will be tough but our tims will fight to the ( bitter ) end 8-))
Another big do next month with our treble treble dinner dance coming up.
Oh my poor heid.
It’s certainly tough being a Celtic supporter but always worthwhile.
H.H Mick
Rees-Mogg is such an important figure that he has just been appointed to. a Cabinet position last held by someone called Mel Stride.
Mel Who?
Boris feels there’s only room for one Village Idiot at the top.
Melbourne Mick 11.08pm
Maybe am too young (50 next July :-) but av never found it tough, the 80s & 90s have as many good memories as bad … these days should be appreciated, in the 80s I attended 4 Scottish cup finals 1980.. McCluskey/McGrain, 1985.. Provan & McGarvey, 1988.. McAvennie & McGhee, & 1989… Joe, Joe super Joe ,, I wish I had known back then how good the 80s were before the 90s :-)
But the 2000s …. are ours, the Ebt years the lot :-)
And even now the Huns are still cheating while losing …. it’s in their DNA :-)
Reading back and can’t understand the moaning and groaning about
our new bhoys Boli, Morgan, but then again i’m auld enough to remember
the treatment Jinky, wee Lemon, and the imperious Bobby M got from
some numbskulls in the jungle early sixties.
Gie them a chance FFS.
h.h mICK
GFTB
The tough bit was tongue firmly stuck in cheek Gerry 8-)))))
H.H Mick
Melbourne Mick 11.20pm
Wouldn’t read it any other way :-)
Keep that green flag flying down under
GFTB @ 10:37
Hatem has played right back 6 times in two seasons. If he is the answer, I don’t think Neil would still be looking. Seems to me he is cover for central defense, and maybe an emergency right back. But hey ho, he might turn out to be Danny McGrainish.😊
IniquitousIV
INQUITOUSIV
Yes thats my reading of his signing, think the right back is coming
shortly.
H.H Mick
Melbourne Mick
I’ve never met you. I may never do so. But I know you’ve looked after the kids of some of CQN’s finest because you’re one such person yourself.
I’d love to buy you a pint. And not (just!) because I know you’d buy me 12 back in return.
HH jg
GFTB
Talking about green flags? should PADDYMACOZ be waving one
as he leads us on this brave assault on the brewery ?
H.H Mick
Oh gee thanks JAMESGANG.
It’s what Celtic supporters do.
A club like no other.
H.H Mick
The bad loser brigade in full , or perhaps fulminating , flow.
Hilarious.
Silly me. Used to think that was a hun trait .
Waterford ? What`s it got to do with Waterford ?
What did they have to say about Ireland having to chip in to fund Merkel`s immigrant folly ?
Do tell.
Come on now , Boris.
Brexit delayed is Brexit denied.
Iniquitisov 11.27pm
Am just going on Neil’s words and he said the “people” who say he isn’t a right back have never saw the player playing … by the way since you mention Danny McGrain am pretty sure Danny was surprised when a young Stephen O’Donnell was released and then went to Patrick, Kilmarnock and now a Scotland player and some think he would be a “cheap” option … what does the great Danny McGrain know about a “specialist” right back :-) all about opinions
Was Boli Bolingoli correct for “when was the last player we signed put straight in the team” ?
MELBOURNE MICK on 25TH JULY 2019 11:18 PM
Well said Mick.
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Just cannae fathom Celtic fans hoping Aberdeen win!
Do you attend games and listen to their filthy/disgusting songs about us?
Total and utter defeat for them is what I hope for.
Hail Hail.
Now i’m wondering what should i wear tomorrow as we assail
the brewery?
A Celtic top is compulsory but i don’t want it stained with all those
different beers, should i take one of Grace’s green bibs?
and what about trousers? would i be better with green shorts and
only my lower legs will get wet?
So many Questions, maybe you’s could help me decide lol.
H.H Mick
GFTB @ 11:41
Signed July 3, played July 9, so yes, you are correct.
A wee test – who was the one before that?
IniquitousIV
Mick
It is indeed a wonder to observe the boys in our club bend forward to protect their hoops while eating rolls on skwerr with lashing of the ole broon sauce.
BreakfasttimekickoffCSC
Good morning CQN from a clammy and balmy Garngad
I could not sleep a feckin wink, due in turn to the weather and Either these mozzy bites from Rhodes have injected me with something or I have caught a summer cold my heed is sore as feck.
MM – Whatever you wear on the bottom, just keep the ole Celtic Tap beer free.😂👍
I thought Boli played not too bad the other night, just his passing that let him down, too casual for my liking.
Still would like a right back in.
Oh and if we keep KT it would be a great windy.
HH
D. :)
Good morning, friends and a Big Happy Friday from a not quite so hot, cloud covered and still pleasant East Kilbride. 8 more sleeps till we begin our quest for 9 (NINE) in a row.
Free C Dobbs – to answer you question
When old Rangers used to pitch in with good euro results, between them and us scotland earner enough coefficient points for scotland to be about eighth ranked nation giving automatic CL for the champs and qualification CL for runners up.
When olds rangers died no other scottish club stepped up to the mark and scotland ranking plummeted – the ranking used for this year’s competition is 26th. I want all scottish clubs to get wins in europe to help bring us back to automatic qualification to CL and avoid pre season before the schools are finished.
Due to sevco’s wee run last year (added to ourselves) scotland will be rated as 20th for next year. Similar year on year results (it’s a 5 year process) will take us back up to the position where there might only be one qualifier, if any at all, for us. I will continue to hope scottish teams do well in europe because that is what is best for Celtic IMHO. Hope that answers your question.
QF
fred not free
Sorry.
This pre-season hiatus is interminable and my hunger for Sellick games turns into a craving; addicted so am ur.
So, why don’t Celtic show us tomorrow’s closed doors friendly against Man City’s u-23 side? If youz’re anything like me, you’re dying to see the squad players get a run out…so we can see who our next Boyata, Ntcham or Roberts will be from Citeh, and so we – CQN experts – can help the club choose its best starting line-up ;)
Seriously, is it a cost or rights thing that prevents them screening the game for us??
Iniquiitousiv 1.34am
Too early in the morning for me to even guess :-)
QF 7.25am
Surely old Rangers gained these xo-efficient points illegally with improperly registered players ?
But I do agree I would prefer all Scottish clubs to make the Europa group stages, especially playing on a Sunday would hopefully have them playing catch up on the current champions
It is not often talked about but even if we make the ‘play off round 4’ in the current Champions league Q we will earn around 4.5 million in prize money even if we get knocked out and put into the Europa league.
It is unlikely we could even match that figure with a really decent Europa run.
This is the huge difference between winning the Scottish league and finishing second or third.
And of course we all know the bag of gold you can earn if you actually make the champions league.
We need to stay focused this season and keep the noisey neighbours in their cash strapped pond.
A rogue seagull ripped off a man’s right testicle as he sunbathed naked in his back garden, it has emerged.
Experts say the fearsome bird mistook the man’s exposed privates as a couple of birds eggs and dropped in for a tasty snack.
As the man – who has not been named – dozed on his patio in his detached home near Ipswich, the seagull swooped from the sky, and with one bite of its beak ripped away the right testicle.
In gripping scenes that could have been written by a copywriter, he woke screaming in agony and saw the bird flying away with one of his ‘crown jewels’ wedged in its yellow beak.
His wife called an ambulance, and staff at Ipswich Hospital’s accident and emergency department had to patch him up, and give him a course of antibiotics to prevent infection.
A hospital source said: “Nobody could quite believe it when the poor chap was brought in. There was a lot of blood and he was in agony, but he will feel better in a few weeks.
“The injury is not life-threatening, and tests have confirmed that his remaining testicle is still in working order, so he will be able to have children.”
A spokesman for research group Seagull Watch International confirmed that seagulls often feed on the eggs of small birds.
“Eggs are full of protein – it’s why we eat them, after all. Gulls will often steal other birds’ eggs, so it is unfortunate for this man that his private parts resembled a couple of eggs in a nest.
“It was no doubt a young adult gull that is still learning to be independent.
“This is the first time we have heard of such an attack in the UK, and it is probably a one-off event, but just in case this particular seagull has now got a taste for ‘men’s eggs’, we would recommend putting some shorts on while sunbathing at home.”
A spokesman for the Albert Hall declined to comment
https://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/seagull-testicle/
Does anyone know the official crowd figure from the other night?..cant find it anywhere.
Looked about 80% full……….I see over at Ibrokes last night they got 43,000
Lazydynamite, BadaBing told me the other night it was about 45k. Which I think was good for the height of the Holiday Season.
Why are we supporting C Dobbs?
What has he been incarcerated for? Where is he being held? Are Amnesty International involved? 😉
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JIMTHETIM53 on 26TH JULY 2019 9:48 AM
Cheers mate
Keep saying lennie- great job so far
Fred C – to be fair, some of ours have been singing about them having sex with animals for the last 35 years?
Hail hail
https://celtsarehere.com/strahinja-pavlovic-interest-makes-parkhead-exit-likely-for-rodgers-signing/
Interesting, if true.
Feel like the Serbian market is one we should be continually looking at.
After signing Elhamed however, not sure another centre half is required ??
That is, providing we aren’t planning on selling for example : Jozo Simunouvic