Well done to CQN’ers Eddie and Michael who answered the call from Glasgow, the Caring City, last week. They and a few others loaded 20 tons of clothes (and some soap products) onto the back of a truck, which arrived in Serbian on Monday. All clothes will be distributed to refugees before Christmas.
20 tons is a big truckload – enough to clothe 12,000 people. Getting practical help to people in crisis areas of the world is difficult for those of us sitting thousands of miles away, but Glasgow the Caring City make it possible for us to get involved. Warm weather clothing and personal hygiene products are a staple human right, but as you know, there many families are in flux this winter.
Absolutely delighted we have recalled Ryan Christie, from his loan at Inverness, where he has been since we signed him from them in August. Walking away from Celtic Park on Saturday, when we failed to create enough chances, thoughts immediately turned to Ryan, a creative mid. I wondered how long it would take for us to ‘recall’ him.
In the coming months he’ll need support as he managed the move away from home and into the metropolis, so give him 10 minutes before starting the online petitions!
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My last post was of course about Scott Allan.Just what will happen when Ryan is fit is anyones guess.I really fail to see why Allan has not been used in the SPL.We have no creativity at all.One of the reasons I am losing faith with Ronny is his refusal to try something different.
“Walking away from Celtic Park on Saturday, when we failed to create enough chances, thoughts immediately turned to Ryan, a creative mid ”
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I’m afraid your thought immediately turned in the wrong direction, Paul.
He will be played on the left and his effectiveness r diced or nullified. Unfortunately.
We have creativity in the current squad, it’s not being utilised properly. That where my thought turned on Saturday..
DAVIDOPOULOS on 23RD DECEMBER 2015 1:15 PM
Are you shore ?
Jamesgang.
thought about giving you a call last week as I was heading for Edinburgh but plan changed at the last minute, fell down a couple of stairs,
Auldheid
I for one appreciate all the effort you are doing regarding Res 12. If the SFA were to say they were unaware of any tax liabilities regards oldco while kicking teams out of cup competitions for not signing a form twice it would be very hard to swallow.
Regards the blog, are Neganon. kevjungle and Canalmar in fact Hugh Keevins, Jimmy fae Lennoxtown and Laurie fae Dennistoun. Doom and gloom merchants who love to hear the sound of their own voice. Nothing ever positive, only criticism. Some of your negative comments on here make me want to vomit. I’ve seen enough crap Celtic teams in the past to realise you get a lot of lows as well as a lot of highs.
Guys,
Have a wee read at this: A letter from a Belfast boy to Santa Claus in 1932 during the Great Depression.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35161811
Árd Macha
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
absolutely, it’s a fish-shell.
Jamesgang.
By the way,shock more than hurt put me off from going to the Capital, might have a few beers some day?.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 23RD DECEMBER 2015 1:19 PM
you mean your a shellfish bassa ?
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Hahaha, you’ve caught me there pal.
Paul 67
We have plenty of good footballers or creative midfielders, Allan, McGregor, Commons,and prior to that Mcgeoch so we add Ryan Christie to the mix, I wish the lad well and hope he develps into a top class player, be interesting to see where he is played
HAMILTONTIM on 23RD DECEMBER 2015 12:37 PM
Did you not get the message to follow Celtic by forking out every penny you have and going along to support them means you have to tow the party line. Still, two out of three ain’t bad…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I need to be careful (for my own sake – not because I will get abuse on here) as I find myself questioning everything we do at the moment
But recalling Christie !!!
What does that say ??
We should not have loaned him in the first place ??
We need him – and what does that say about who we have ??
We are going to sell someone in January ??
67ECW
Could it be that Scot Allan and Anthony Stokes are indeed heading off to Easter Rd on a loan ?
HH
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 23RD DECEMBER 2015 1:26 PM
Johansen more likely to be sold than Allan sent out on loan. Stokes will definitely go IMO
Jungle Jim
That last post was it. :)
Paul67:
I will certainly give Ryan more than 10 minutes but will never start a petition. The question is how many games will it take for Ryan to get more than 10 minutes game time?
Call me a cynic but I suspect that Ryan’s recall is to soften the blow when we don’t strengthen in January.
One thing it does do is send out a message to James Forrest’s Agent, sign or leave as we have a ready made replacement.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Oldtim
Look forward to it Young Yin!
Lennybhoy
I see RC as a no10 not a winger.
HH jamesgang
Some of the stuff on here is so so way out it’s unbelievable, but anything to batter RD with.
Scott Allan has been injured, hence he is being nursed back to full fitness, Ronny said this in a presser, but slap him down anyways, I may be wrong here, but I can only recall once that he has been played out on the left, still beat Ronny with it.
Wasn’t Ryan Christie only on loan for the rest of the year anyway?
Lennybhoy
You have a great memory for a name and a face.
We were all talking about you last night and Olivia said to pass on her best wishes to you and your family this Christmas.
Best wishes!
Can Ryan play at centre half?
Noone else at the club seems able to!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 23rd December 2015 1:42 pm
Was supposed to be until the end of the Season.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Doesn’t Christie play on the wing for Caley?
Ronny has said that Ryan will start training at the end of January, be a while till we see him in the hoops then.
PHILBHOY on 23RD DECEMBER 2015 1:43 PM
My Wife laughed at me afterwards, she often says to me no matter where we go, you always meet someone you know. Couldn’t believe it, walking along Princess Street and who do we see but C.
Give Olivia our love. We wish you all a Holy Christmas and a peaceful 2016.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
LENNYBHOY
Thanks for that,mate. Wrong again!
The Huddle
He wasn’t on the wing when he waltzed through the centre of our defence at CP earlier this season!!!
HH jamesgang
It will also get Christie up to speed with the Celtic regime ahead of CL qualifiers.
Nice wee video, narrator sounds like an absolute dreamboat.
Really, I only ever seen him play on the wing (right and left). Of course playing on the wing doesn’t stop any players from appearing through the middle at some points of the match.
Lennybhoy
Best wishes to you too!
Hopefully meet up in the New Year.
Take care.
The Huddle
Ignore me! I’m just babbling like a Babylonian!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Sorry chaps, I posted this on a thread that was dead (like R*ngers). The thread was still alive when I started compiling my post, but passed away quietly mid-stream! Here is is again, for the benefit of P8ddy:
p8ddy (23rd Dec @ 12:28am), thanks for sharing your views.
I didn’t actually say that I think the Scottish league is inferior to the Austrian, Swedish and Norwegian leagues, although I certainly don’t think we can justifiably claim that it is any better than those competitions. UEFA’s country ranking (http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2016.html) would appear to back up this assertion, with Austria ranked 16th, Sweden 21st and Norway 22nd.
Scotland is ranked 25th.
Those leagues are definitely more competitive than the SPL, and in terms of the UEFA coefficient, more teams tend to contribute to the total. The rarity with which any Scottish team other than Celtic actually gets past even one qualifying round in Europe diminishes any success that Celtic do have, as coefficient points are divided between all the teams from each country. So the other teams’ early exits dilute Celtic’s points.
A year ago only Austria (of those three) was ranked higher than Scotland, a fact that points to Scotland being a country in decline, while Sweden and Norway are on the up. And no, we should never expect to beat anyone, in Europe or domestically. I’m sure Man Utd expected to beat Norwich at the weekend, as Barcelona expected to beat us way back when. Whoever you are and whoever you are playing, you have to earn victories with effort, application, concentration and discipline. It matters not a jot what the management team say before the game, if the players don’t do those four things to the best of their ability, then any match can end in defeat.
Your reference to the fact that Celtic “were a pot 3 champions league team” fails to acknowledge that the team placed in pot 3 achieved this distinction largely due to the European performances of their predecessors, the coefficient being accrued over a five year period. So it is partly due to the relative lack of success by that pot 3 team that we have dropped to where we are today. It has been downhill pretty much since the dissolution of MON’s UEFA Cup Final team, further impacted by the wider financial environment to boot.
We could have continued buying players from the EPL in an attempt to chase the European dream, but if I point out that in 2008 we were ranked 41st, while a team called Rangers were ranked 24th in Europe, it is clear where such a policy may have led us…
On another of your comments, regarding warming up for the Euro qualifiers, wou fail to acknowledge that while we engaged in a few pre-season friendlies, both Malmo and Molde were half way through their competitive league seasons. They were fully fit and match sharp. We were not.
I can’t comment any further at the moment as I have already overrun my lunch break, but to finish, your tongue in cheek suggestion that we should regress to improve may actually be closer to the truth than we would care to accept! Certainly our policy of “pinching” the best players from other SPL teams is not going to enable them to put up more of a fight. Maybe we should be loaning out more of our youngsters and “squad players” to other SPL teams instead, to give them more chance of pushing us harder. One to ponder perhaps.
And yes, I am fairly satisfied with where Celtic are at the moment: Successful, solvent, and… well… just Celtic. Half a dozen better results a year (in Europe) would make it even better, but that would just be the icing on the cake.
Talking of cakes… At least I’m not a currant bun!
jamesgang
Away hang oot in yer garden then. That’s what Babylonians did, wasn’t it? Or have I picked that up wrong?
;-)
Every other club in Scotland would like Ryan Christie on their books.
Leaving him with ICT was a good move imo as he won them points that helped keep them out of bother. Dundee Utd might have wanted a similar deal with hindsight.
So I’m pleased to see him arrive but I’d like to see us sign a clugger that lets our opponents know that dishing it out carries more risk than it appears to at the moment.
Trouble is I cannot identify one outside Celtic that has also the right level of ability in other areas to hold down a first team place.
Any of our scouts on CQN got names to offer?
I know you were :o)
Just picking up on a few previous posts about Ronny likely to stick him out on the wing.
Pity Ryan Christie isnt an out and out striker or Centre Back..
Where does he fit in the midfield that already has:
Scott Allan
Scott Brown
Tom Rogig
Nir Biton
Stuart Armstrong
GMS
McGregor
Stefan J
all competing for a slot?
I’d like a settled team with some consistency of selection.
Adding more and more midfielders at the expense of defenders and even worse goal scoring strikers seems ill judged to me.
Unless a few of the guys above are on their way..?