The 14th annual CQN Open Charity Golf Day will take place at Aberdour Golf Club on Friday 29 June. I you would like to attend, please contact Taggsybhoy/Blantyrekev at cqnopen2018@outlook.com before Saturday 7 April.
The day will comprise of a round of golf at the beautiful Aberdour GC, followed by food and entertainment at the newly refurbished Woodside Hotel, Aberdour. Cost for the full event is £80 (inc evening meal) and £40 for night time. Speakers, entertainment and good cause recipients to be confirmed. There are discounted rates for CQN’ers at the hotel that night and discounted golf subsequently at Aberdour Golf Club and at the very attractive Burntisland Golf Club. Contact reception@thewoodsidehotel.co.uk if you are interested.
This is always a great day with a fantastic group of CQN’ers. I look forward to seeing you then.
Great gesture by Scott Brown to donate his Testimonial Game proceeds to various charities, including Liam Miller’s bereaved family. Let’s hope there are three trophies paraded before kick off that afternoon.
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FRANNYB67 on 27TH MARCH 2018 2:14 PM
Bada Bing @1:43
First ive big Judith in a while ?? HH
What’s the missing word….:)
!!BADA BING!!
In my dreams!
Jim Brogan was a player of his time.
His strengths lay in his robust style.
If he was playing in this era, Motherwell or St. Johnstone and their ilk would be the only kind of teams where it would be tolerated. He wouldn’t get away with it in a Celtic Jersey.
At the top level now, tackling is a refined art, where the mere suggestion of “going to ground” is an automatic foul, if not a yellow card.
TWIST N TURNS
Just caught your post Yesterday , aye I remember the snooker game in Blackpool. Met Vinny over in Lisbon when he was doing his Lisbon bike run.
Still based in Barrow, we run a wee bus up for most home games.
I am still in the shipyard , 5 years to go . Always got Celtic Quick News on my computer in work , hope everything is ok with you “Hail Hail”
Mahe
Big Enrico Annoni was mainly a right back for us. He was a good man marker in any defensive role. I remember one game against the now deid team, where he didn’t allow Brian Laudrup a kick of the ball.
ps I miss Awe Naw and Mags McGill on here
BB
Judith isnae a patch on Gillian.
Dallas was correct. It is Neil not Andy Watt who was a Celtic reserve and father of the gorgeous Kerri.
HH
Delaney’s ,
Thanks. I remember his coupon ,,with a strange beard I think.
I might sit down some day and look at all the squads and try to connect the left backs from TG to current.
By the way, is the best butchers in dalmuir “top of the hill”?
Hope you’re well partner.
Hail Hail
BB- not sure what the forecast was…….:), we can confer one day….HH
Mahe
Top of the Hill butchers is on Kilbowie Rd.
They have an outlet in Dalmuir Coop store.
Their skwerr slice and steak pies are amazing.
I would say it is the best butcher in this part of the world, Aye.
HH
DD- previous post was for you mate…
M6BHOY on 27TH MARCH 2018 7:51 AM
Jim Brogan was one of the last proper defenders in that he he could tackle a brick wall and feared no-one. He could also man mark for fun and I remember him following Jocky Scott all over Hampden Park in a Scottish cup semi-final when Jock Stein flagged him up as Dundee’s biggest threat. Jocky Scott was at the height of his powers at the time and didn’t get a sniff of the ball for the whole match.
*I mentioned before how he did the same with Bobby Graham at an SC replay at Fir Park after the latter had dominated the first game, the last game played on a Sunday due the state of emergency which ended when the tories were turfed out of office the floodlight ban came to an end tae, in front of a huge around 50,000 crowd. We came from behind twice that day, Jim played as a conventional left back.
In the replay, Jock had him playing the man marker role with “Fat Pat” slotting in at the left back position, Early doors Pat went down injured with Tid replacing him, however, Jock kept his game plan and and TC had a fine game at the back, in fact our winner fae Dixie came fae big Tam rampaging down the wing and crossing the ball fae the bye line.
Too many of today’s defenders couldn’t tackle their way out of a wet paper bag and get by because they they “are good going forward” This wasn’t part of Jim Brogan’s natural game though few who were around at the time will ever forget his last minute winner against the huns at CP when they were still celebrating what they thought was match saving equalizer. Oh joy :-)
*Still etched in my memory of Brogie running behind the goal and over tae the Jungle. Tempered a bit the following week when we tied 1-1 down at Cappielow due tae a Brogie og, our equaliser by Harry Harry was again laid on by the much maligned Tid.
Talking about left backs, at one time we had Tommy Gemmell, Wullie O’Neil, Davie Hay and John Gorman vying for the position. Davie was eventually preferred in the midfield and in all fairness tae Wullie and John they were both allowed tae leave for Carlisle, John as a replacement for Wullie who had tae retire due tae injury,tae give them game time, in hindsight a loan might have been more preferable for John.
Fast forward 2 years and Big Tam has fell out with Jock and went tae play in the same side as MON, Brogie playing at left back is injured in the San Siro in the EC Semis with a young Pat McCluskey coming off the bench and would also play a couple of weeks later in the Dixie penalty second leg.
Incidentally our reserve left back then was Jimmy Quinn with Donald Watt at centre half, the latters only appearance in the first team at right back was against Dumbarton in the Dryborough Cup; he would later join the Super Sons and star in the left back position in the same side as Tom McAdam, Wispy and big Cush.
Meanwhile after a plethora of players in the LB position we eventually settled for Andy Lynch, sometimes you get lucky.
BB
Thought you were chatting to yourself pal :))
My fave combo is wee Anne Lundon reading the news wi Gillian Smart forecasting the weather.
The perfect pair on the BBC. ;)))
Just 3 hours till the HUNSCO anthems belt out…. ;-)
Just back from Lidls as you do, among other things got Caramel Wafers, same as Tunnocks to all intents and purposes.
Youngest daughter says ‘ they’re cooncil ‘ ( not sure of spelling?)
No idea what she meant CSC
Jungle chants of the 70’s
Brogie’s gonnae get ye
Brogie’s gonnae get ye
hi Celts, please can i have a wee second or minute of your time to say a prayer or spare a thought for my friend and good Termon man Paddy joe Mc Menamin.Found out in the last few days he suffered a brain haemmorrage.s
god bless ye Paddy.look over Mary.
Thanks blog in advance
HH
BSR,
She probably meant that you didn’t have to pay a Sky high price for them!
TTT
Boom
Tontine
I was a young Jungle Bhoy when we played Andy Lynch. He was a bit of a scapegoat amongst the Jungle boo bhoy older ‘men’.
I would never boo any Celtic player, maybe shouted criticism at a few. However as a 10 year old in the Jungle, I always preferred Daniel Fergus at our side in the 2nd half, than Andy Lynch in the 1st half of games. Loved the combo of Danny and Davie Provan in the later 70’s, 80’s. Joy to watch together.
HH
DELANEYS DUNKY on 27TH MARCH 2018 3:04 PM
BB
Dallas was correct. It is Neil not Andy Watt who was a Celtic reserve and father of the gorgeous Kerri.
*He joined us along with Davie Moyes and Mickey Doyle fae Bearsden Academy FGS.
Sabre toothed Westie Fergus the postman’s friend was well known locally.
A dog of character and impeccable breeding even though it was from deepest darkest Dundonald, renowned for leaving two clean sheer bites through the latest CD software from eBay that dropped into his letterbox. Any said object that made it to the floor inside, meant Fergus was at the Kennels, and it was the Glasgow Fair.
In fairness he never grasped the concept of a letterbox and understandably , how was he to know that when the hole in his door opened every morning that and there was somebody out there that wasn’t merely trying to get in?
Not his fault either when he sliced the next door neighbours pocket straight off his new Blue Northumbrian Barbour with one neat shake of his wee heid, also well capable of taking out the much bigger dog was Fergie. His piest de resistance was to affix himself to the under carriage of any unfortunate, with only one winner ever, it always rankled why one particular vet in lower East Kilbride was always so much more expensive for emergency repairs.
Horse racing on TV was fun time, when he used to try and catch the horses coming out of the end of the telly, not grasping again how was he to know it was only Channel 4 and wasn’t even HD never mind 3D?
Who would win in a fight between Fergie and a rubber finger puppet? I hear you ask well he made it, thanks to the skill of the surgeon’s canife who removed it, some 4 months after he’d swallowed it whole, in a fit of pique. He even made it to Google earth lying sunbathing on the front lawn one day, and his ashes are scattered by the rhododendron bush where the postie used to throw away his wee red elastic bands
My eldest daughter picked Fergus and his name as he was the sharpest in the litter.
Fergie CSC
Jobo
What is this HUNSCO stuff?
Don’t get it. Am I just slow?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 27TH MARCH 2018 4:04 PM
TTT
Boom
****
It takes the biscuit !
Hope all is well with you.
Did you watch the weather forecast ? No ?
Neither did i. It seems we missed something.
Supervalu in Dungloe have a smashing Australian Chardonnay @ €8.
Think I might get a few bottles for the Spring Festival, formerly known as Easter.
Our local bands are climbing a mountain on Monday, not Errigal, as that is where they have the Huddle up Errigal.
Anyway it’s for band funds.
I hope it isn’t raining, as some people are taking their wee dogs with them.
Ah well, that’s about all the interesting things I have to say now.
DD
I assume Jobo means that a combination of SFA and EBT McLeish as the Scotland manager leads to
Hunsco (tland).
JJ
BSR
I am having a ‘cooncil’ dinner tonight according to my daughter. Pie, beans and chips instead of something properly made from scratch and cooked. Weans today eh! :)
HS JJ
Someone mentioned earlier the SFA are using the term. Shirley no?
JJ- The Sfa not using #hunsco,re tonight’s game, says a lot….
Tontine
I think Murdo was a Bearsden Academy FP too?
BB
Ahh! I take it is a twitter thing.
Hun for Hungary, Sco for Scotland.
I was correct. I am slow. :)
DD – it’s used for every game these days, but not tonights……
Tontine Tim,,
Can you tell me who got the nod after Brogan at LB?
Enjoyed that post earlier,,love me a left back.
Hail Hail
BB
Gotcha thanks. I don’t do twitter.
Was Friday’s match #SCOCOS?
Hi all.
A wee post to say I’m off on holiday in the morning.
We’re off to Fuerteventura, so I won’t be on the blog for a week or so.
Good health to all.
Hail Hail p
Mahe
Pat McCluskey, then Andy Lynch followed Jim Brogan at LB.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 27TH MARCH 2018 4:20 PM
BSR
I am having a ‘cooncil’ dinner tonight according to my daughter. Pie, beans and chips instead of something properly made from scratch and cooked. Weans today eh! :)
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DD, canny whack a pie, beans and chips… Was that no a school dinner???
D :)
Delaney’s,,
About top of the hill butchers,,
I’m a foodie and after reading the strange to me names like swkerr and bridie I googled it and can now look at top of the hills entire shop. I shouldn’t though,,just makes me hungry. Looks effin delish!
Was prone to a pastie bap after a few pints in Beal Feirste but I remember the fella eating a half a white pudding in batter over in Glasgow for one of the games. Had never seen the like of it.
As the blog discussed deep fried Mars bars I remember a pretty decent eatery in Belfast serving it on their dessert menu with home made irn Bru sorbet. That was 20 years ago maybe.
It’s deep fried Twinkie some places in the States and the disgusting thing that is called funnel cake.
Must say meatloaf and “biscuits and gravy” has grown on me over here.
Hail Hail
DD- i think so, don’t do Twatter either, pretty sure Andy Lynch was signed as a left winger…..?
JNP
http://sanusfuerteventura.eltenedor.rest/en_GB/