Tonight, we see the conclusion of the first of two ties that don’t involve Celtic but have a significant bearing on our income and domestic competitive stance. Union Saint-Gilloise take a 2-0 lead to Ibrox, a result that in earlier times brought an 80% success rate. Without the away goals rule, the advantage is reduced, Union also lost heavily at the weekend. Newco will be rightfully confident of progress.
Qualification for the Champions League play-off round is worth over £5m in prize and gate money. Celtic stand to earn an extra £3m if Newco are eliminated at this round or the next; that money would otherwise float across Glasgow to become part of Newco’s European bounty. More importantly, our casino-football addicted rivals would be denied expensive chips to place before the transfer window closes. No apologies for watching CL qualification closely this year.
Just a year ago, Celtic were eliminated from the Champions League the second qualification round by Midtjylland. The transformation between then and now could scarcely be imagined. A year ago, it was significantly more unlikely for Newco to reach the Europa League final. We cannot underestimate them, or the significance a Champions League windfall would have.
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MM
The prickapedia of CQN.
i found out recently that the name for Dublin is the same as the the name for Hurlford in Ayrshire from a Gaelic POV
The older name for Dublin , Ath Cliath is ‘ford of hurdles’. A bit further inland from the Viking settlement which the Gaels called Dubh Linn (Dublin)
Same name Ath Cliath in Ayrshire was Anglicised (or Old Scots -ified) to Hurlford
MM don’t you have a wife to talk to
Or does she ignore you aswell
Main point about the sudden upsurge in interest in the teaching of the invaders tongue — Gaelic — in Glasgow is the negative connotations of the social segmentation behind many of the parents decisions.
Negative bussing would be one way of looking at it.
Heard it straight from the horses mouth 30 years ago when the first primary school opened — file under middle class gaming the education system.
Instead of grammar schools we will have Gaelic language schools.
Although for social segmentation we now seem to have social and potentially racial segmentation.
Worth a watching.
CF @ 3.21
Wife to talk too …
Yes I do and to get away from all her Big Pharma chat I go on CQN for football chat …
… and to wind up the happy clappers / Nats / property geeks / Not Jacinda luvvies / Tories — Tartan or BoJo friendly / ex school teachers / amortisation freaks / senior citizen bullet magnets / Tiny Trots / Micro Marxists that drop in from time to time.
And yes — I too struggle to work out why she puts up with me.
I would hope that it was my good looks / sparkling conversation / patter / dancing feet but I fear that it is much more basic than that …
I am the better cook.
does anyone at all understand that gibberish.
Coneybhoy
the Black Pool
Couldnaewindupawatch…
CORKCELT on 9TH AUGUST 2022 3:03 PM
Ernie Glas in Gaelic means Green.
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‘….the name of the city has never been satisfactorily explained, and its derivation has never been authoritatively traced. Nearly every writer upon Glasgow history has had his own suggestion.’
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24679959
SCULLYBHOY on 9TH AUGUST 2022 3:13 PM
If only our (maybe not yours right enough) SNP government cared enough about Gaelic language and culture to get a decent ferry service sorted out for the Western Isles etc.
MadMitch 3.36 – Chefs are amongst the maddest people I have ever known, maybe you missed your vocation? Or are you Ramsey in disguise? 😜
Ramsey=hun=MM
WITS
No, they can never have suffered enough for me.:)
tonight we are all unionists.
for a few hours anyway.
West Craigs.
…..or all Saints.
Re the Fainne,my twelve year old granddaughter has a gold pin,it’s is great listening to her speaking the language.HH
“ROBERTTRESSELL on 9TH AUGUST 2022 2:49 PM
Not caring about your rivals fortunes is the outlier behaviour, ”
….or maybe bare-faced liar behavour
Come on the phlegms.
Grog all over them.
SAINT STIVS on 9TH AUGUST 2022 3:39 PM
Coneybhoy
the Black Pool
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Aye, up near Dublin Castle apparently,
I’ve been here 14 years and I only dug into Baile Ath Cliath recently. On all the buses and GAA shirts!!!!!
How many times in the opening five games will the Huns have kicked off before we have?
Funny when you think about it, that posters who could not find Parkhead on a map, are trying to tell us the history of Glasgow. Or would be.
Mad Mitch loves to call Gaelic the Invaders Tongue.
Strange carry on for a supposed Celtic Lover.
Yes the starving Irish who descended on Glasgow after the Famine who mainly spoke Gaelic could be classes as Invaders,
They were our forefathers and they gave us Celtic,
For those of ye living in Scotland The Huns like to remind ye That the Famine is over and ask why don’t ye go home.
Mitch isn’t quite there yet but he is getting there.
Last Post he admitted one of his reasons for Posting is to wind people up.
So a self confessed Troll as well as a Hun.
Anyway Mitch you don’t wind me up, ex egg chaser who’s wife talks big Pharma,
In your dreams you sad little man,
RC
I’m sure our CEO, his names Michael Nicholson in case you didn’t know, is dealing with it.
Not !!!
Dallas Placeman will be getting his last minute instructions
I remember when we lost any CLQ game, the self doubt in the Club was huge,most folk questioning the Board, manager, players,scouting, Lennoxtown, pies,hot water the lot,here’s hoping for tonight 🤞
SAINT STIVS on 9TH AUGUST 2022 3:38 PM
does anyone at all understand that gibberish.
You have to be a bit clearer on whit poster you are referring to😱😂😂
I live in Strathclyde and after a few pints, my native tongue is quite Byronic
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
Sometimes the old jokes are the best.
I am not biased it doesn’t bother me who beats the huns, or in this case the current incarnation of the huns, good luck to to the Belgians.
Rugby a game played by men with odd shaped balls.
RC
can anyone enlighten me on the outcome into the enquiry of the dreadful scenes the last time we played the the old firm at thems place, or are they more interested in the nutter that thro his bag of chips at the jam tarts player.
There was a police investigation but there was no evidence to charge anyone for throwing the bottle, presumably because there was no cctv footage of the offence being committed.
It is also possible that the police do have cctv footage of the perpetrator but he is not known to the police and enquiries are on-going. In such cases, after a period of time where the police have not been able to identify the person through standard investigation, cctv footage can then be made public and the people asked for help in naming the person. That could still happen.
As for punishing Rangers FC, Scotland does not operate a policy of strict liability, so they can’t be held responsible for the conduct of their supporters.
PS. Before anyone starts demanding strict liability, be careful what you wish for.
I think I score 4½ on Mr. Mad’s wind-up list…might be 5, if I can work out what the second half of “senior citizen bullet magnets” means…
Maybe it’s a translation from the Welsh?
My old man still speaks Gaelic.
The Bullet Magnet consists of a bullet shape magnetic core and a stainless steel shell. The bullet magnetic core is helpful for the materials to smoothly pass through smoothly, reducing the accumulation of materials in the bullet magnet.
The magnetic core has a strong magnetic force, which can effectively adsorb iron impurities mixed in the quickly passing material.
Bullet Magnet is usually installed in gravity pipelines or air ducts, used to remove iron impurities (such as iron filings, nuts, screws, bolts) in dry powder and granular materials.
Its is widely used in food, grain, feed, mining, chemical or other industries.
Corkcelt
The Gaels/Scots certainly did come to Scotland and extended Dalriada from Ulster. Whether they were invaders or settlers is debatable and would have to be based on the culture at the time. I don’t think MM was referring to the Famine migration which was not even immigration as all were under the UK at the time
All I know is that the Gaels and Picts fought each other and the Angles and Vikings but also traded etc and ended up intermarrying nobles until a common King and a new country emerged
I think when you come to a settlement like that, the previous scrapping should be forgotten about, hence the Gaels were no longer invaders but Scots. Same with Danes in some of the islands; deals were done
Scotland has a great melting pot of languages or just words ; English, Gaelic, Danish, German, Dutch, French
I thought it was much simpler when we just said, Scotland, Ireland and Wales were Celtic cousins. Simples!!
RobertTressell on 9th August 2022 2:49 pm
Most sense I’ve read on here in ages I 100% agree.
Nothing turns my stomach more that the football tourists at EPL games wearing half n half hats/scarves.
Football for me is all about the rivalry, were it not for the rivalry we’d be as well going to opera/ballet/cinema etc.
I do, like you, have levels of rivalry though, so I don’t wish ill on everyone. I do keep my consistently nastiest unrelenting wishes for the huns and England. Under no circumstances could I ever imagine hoping they win.
By the way do you really need to be fluent in Gaelic to get a ferry to the western isles?
Every day is a school day.
what have the flemish ever done for us
coney and ss- almore and wits might have to confirm this for me – the literal translation of dublin following the black pool idea would be pool black ( dubh linn) which wouldn’t be said like that as gaeilge – black pool would ‘an linn dubh’.
couldwellbewrongcsc