Can you imagine how a formal complaint about the comment ‘Rory Bremner can pretend to be Tony Blair’ would be composed?
‘Dear SFA, a rude man’s joke hurt our feelings. Tell him straight, no more jokes!’
I clicked onto the NEW club’s site to confirm their reaction. As well as complaining about a joke [it wouldn’t hurt if it wasn’t true], they complain about the Daily Record, “the paper is riddled from top to bottom with an anti-Rangers bias”, just to prove they also have a sense of humour.
They also attempted to put a stake in the ground by affirming that Pinsent Masons, now representing Scotland’s champions and sole Champions League participants, did not report to the police that Craig Whyte has any connection to the club/company.
No one has ever suggested that Pinsent Masons made such a report. This is a bit like insisting that Ally McCoist will not manage the Champions League winners this season. Pinsent Masons were far too busy taking instructions from their top client’s chief executive, in his non-comedic role.
What a laugh!
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kev jungle at 7:33
I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks but need to now.
I’m sorry mate but Judas Johnstone… UNFORGIVABLE.
End if story.
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TheBarcaMole
07:36 on
18 November, 2013
Tom McLaughlin 07:16 on 18 November, 2013…….
No you didn’t imagine said games but my recollection of the format is slightly different in that I thought it was first team against the reserves with a sprinkling of trialists. I ‘m also sure that sometimes the game would be three periods of thirty minutes……. First time I saw the likes of Paddy Turner, Hugh Maxwell, and a few others were at those games..
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The start of my love for Celtic…..First player that I really enjoyed watching, hence the blog name.
Also Hugh Maxwell…..remember his signing from Falkirk & his first game was on the Saturday against Falkirk, where he scored his first Celtic goal in what was(near enough) the first minute.
Both of these guy’s only lasted a dozen games if they were lucky
Paddy T
Morning all. Damp, cold and grey down here.
Any good news today?
Anti red. I did read and enjoy. I lived opposite chandlers for about a year in 1993
Tom if we had those trials again. Guys like pukki and derk would not end up costing us 5m :))))
Anytime there has been a meet up either pre match close season etc there has been an open invitation.
If bloggers/posters don’t wish to meet they don’t. I have met a few from cqn some whom I now regard as real friends..
Some whom I continue to argue with.
CQN like Celtic is open to all and it and can be daunting taking the plunge and getting replies.
It is never my intention to deliberately ignore anyone who posts on cqn..
Hail Hail and KTF
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Rory Bremner
8:08 AM on 18/11/2013
Here’s my impression of oldco Rangers;
Beep…Beep…Beep…Beep…Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Blantyretim.
Summa said that he mailed you and me, Did you receive one.
Good Morning CQN
As a matter of interest, does anyone know the whereabouts of Pat McMahon who Jock Stein signed when he returned from Lisbon.
If so get in touch.
Noticed some posts through the night about CQN in the “old” days and commenting on how today the blog has become more of a chat room for a few– although it is a pretty big few to be honest— and the regret that some of the old guard no longer post.
Two things.
The CQNten Dinner can accommodate 450 of us and we want as many to come as possible especially if you were one of those who were in at the start. So if you used to post and now just lurk– for want of a better word— then please come along or get in touch it is you who we are reaching out to— amongst others.
Secondly, i mentioned on the blog the other day that the only way to get involved in the blog is to participate. We want as many people as possible coming on to share points of view, tell a story, ask a question, make an arse of themselves in the nicest possible way or whatever.
The regular contributors don’t “own” CQN but they do drive it and as can be seen from last night’s posts it only takes someone to mention Maurice Johnstone or something similar for the blog to pick up on it and carry it off with lots of people having a view and a story.
Glad to see that some have received the annual and that the reaction so far has been positive– please keep the feedback coming.
Remember to have a look at the latest magazine and anyone who has an Ipad should download it on the Ipad function Winning Captains sorted a few days ago as it does look stunning when viewed that way.
BRTH
Paddy Turner 08:09 on 18 November, 2013………..
Absolutely……….. I grew up watching players that never really made a massive impact on the first team but they were still my heroes……….Frank Brogan, Paddy Turner, John MacNamee, Hugh Maxwell, Alex Byrne, Mike Jackson, etc., etc., Loved them all……..
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Celtic & Peter Lawwell repsonse to Sevco
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The strip with the green shamrock I would love us to wear again, although I would change the shamrock to a Celtic cross or club badge. But, imo, far far superior to many of the second strips we wear nowadays. I know our reserves wore it regularly (I used to go on Friday nights) but did the first team ever do so? There was much need for a changed strip in those days.
The worst aspect of the blog for me is it being used by folk for private conversations with each other about their last night out, making arrangements to phone each other, etc, etc.
Why not just phone or text each other direct?
Should read: There was NOT much need.
To Antipodean Red and oldtim67:
AR – I read your trip to Seville piece first time and it is well worth the re-post, I hope others will enjoy it.
ot67 – I remember your first attempt at a post and the encouragement you received to keep on posting, thankfully you did and improved your writing skills immensely.
I have read CQN almost every day since Paul67 started it almost 10 years ago but I very rarely post. I agreed with GCT earlier when he stated that lack of response doesn’t mean you are being ignored but after reading oldtim67’s request and remembering how he started off shows that acknowledgement of a good tale really does encourage people to keep posting and not go back to just lurking.
MJM
parkheadcumsalford…..I bought one of the retro remakes of the Shamrock strip and was wearing it a couple of weeks back when we beat Ajax. Got a lot of younger fans staring at it and probably thinking it was a rugby top.
Anyway my Dad still tells me to this day, that the Govan mob hated that top….all the more reason for wearing it.
When you look at all the old Celtic team line ups, that Shamrock away top was used from about 57 to about 64-65. There is even a pic of the 7-1 team wearing it, although we all know they wore the Hoops on that magical day. HH
BAKU/BLACK ISLE CELT
The Seville post certainly did not warrant a repost. It just brought back the bitter memories.
Not of defeat,that I can cope with. The bitter memory of not being there!
ANTIPODEAN RED
Ignore the above,meant entirely in jest. As I said when you first posted it,it evokes the occasion brilliantly.
HAIL HAIL!
Oldtim
It may have been oo1 taking the p.
The Barca Mole,
You mention players I loved watching, especially Alex Byrne.
maestro-number8,
Never realised they hated it. Makes sense, as it’s a thing of beauty.
BMCUW,
I have the same bitter memory of not being there but had a great night at the Celtic club ib Baku.
MJM
or even IN Baku
BAKU/BLACK ISLE CELT
TBH,those memories are tempered somewhat by the joy so many friends experienced in being there.
Just a pity the lucky sods still take a great delight in telling me about it!
I was thinking about the Living Wage issue.
There is obviously going to be a cost whether that be £120K or £500K and that cost has to be met from somewhere.
In years of plenty such as now the sums look like ones that can be absorbed without any impact on the player wage budget that has an impact on the quality of team on the park.
However in lean years if the living wage is added to the overall expenditure and so becomes a fixed cost, it could have an impact on the player wage budget.
Thus in paying a living wage which the club ethos demands, we either exonerate the Board from any downside on player wage/performance to paying a living wage or find a way that it does not become a fixed cost.
So my thinking is make payment a bonus/allowance dependent on success in fat years that could be withdrawn in lean (if it then became an affordability factor) I,e a bonus or allowance that makes up the difference between a wage below the living wage level and a living wage.
Anyone see any problems with this in principle? It achieves the objective and removes one argument for not doing it.
Fat years would be CL qualifying ones, lean years when we do not qualify.
Parkheadcumsalford 08:44 on 18 November, 2013……….
Aye for sure……..Must have been going to reserve games on a Friday night from about 59-64……
Standing in the old enclosure or even sitting in the stand sometimes………..Magical, absolutely magical. Could go on and on about it for hours but wont………. So the blog can rest easy……..
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
BT.
I thought about that.
Parkheadcumsalford
08:44 on 18 November, 2013
Alex Byrne was a bit of an enigma, brilliant and bumbling but graceful on the move.
A player I liked to see was with Hearts, Willie Young? Hunter. I cannot remember his second name and I think booze may have caught up with him but he was a magnificent inside forward and I hoped he would sign for us.
Auldheid
Celtic do pay a bonus, to full time staff I believe, dependent on the financial results any given year.
Why don’t we just ask the players to take less money or remove 1 Player from our squad, what I mean is reduce the playing squad by 1 next year, which would free up more than enough to cover the $500,000, supposedly, needed por cierto.
No reasons, no sob stories, no deceptions, no revisionism’s, no alternatives, no reflections…
He is an unspeakable, unforgivable, duplicitous, irredeemable…. MERDE
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Auldheid 08:50 on 18 November, 2013…….
To be blunt; yes I see a problem with it……… Bad enough having ‘so called politicians’ telling the world that the poor cannot manage money. Well to manage finances it helps to know what to expect is coming in the door in order to budget the running of the house or just for day to day living and life’s necessities……… The club/board/remunerations committee or whoever should just pay all of the workforce the living wage (as a bare minimum) and be done with it…………..Cheers.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Paddy 8.26 I understand your point of view but I think that most of the time these public arranging of meetings are an unwritten welcome to any other CQN’er who might be in the vicinity to drop in and say hello. However obviously if you have a couple of hundred guys chipping in on one single thread blog, you will have some problems, Every poster will not be interested in commenting on the same subject, there could be a number of discussions overlapping etc, with the odd troll like westcsc trying to be clever etc. In that environment some brilliant posts will get ignored, I know cos I composed some of the brillianter of them but nobody cared or gave a damn. What I’m trying to say before I head off to Golf and avoid the ignominy of having yet another long rambling post ignored, is that CQN is not perfect but it is still one of the best blogs on the net.
Morning bhoys
Dont see how anyone would want to play against that sevco mob….consign them to the dustbin of history, where they belong.
Oh and BTW….if theres any hun lurkers about….Rangers are deid
There ive said it…..report me to the SFA:)
HH
JUSTAFAN
He went from being one of the hottest properties in the game to,well,not.
Ask any Everton fan what they thought of him. He was only 28 when he signed. Should have been reaching his peak.
I think we dodged a bullet with him. But I wish him no ill-will.
He’s merely an irrelevance as far as I am concerned,and not worth the blood pressure tablets.
Auldheid
It’s a little unfair to have the lowest paid dependent upon the performance of the best paid to be paid.
Easiest way is to increase productivity to cover the cost. In the catering division, that means an average of one additional pie sold per employee per hour.
In Security it’s a little more difficult as productivity is essentially an issue of labour hours per game. Perhaps catering would need to up the productivity improvement to a pie and a drink to compensate.
To be honest, my experience is that food service at Celtic Park is so slow that there is room to increase revenue considerably by applying just a little decent management.
Problem Celtic have is the cascade effect on wage differentials throughout the hourly paid staff. Adding £1.20 to the lowest rate per hour adds the same or more to all other rates, hence why the club claim the cost would be greater than estimated.
However, the solution is by no means beyond the collective capability of a board comprising some of the best commercial minds in the country plus a collections of current and former Govt ministers.
P.S. OldTim is a fraud. He is not that old at all. I met him at the Ajax game and he definitely looked younger than me. He certainly looked younger than the previous year when I met him at the Juventus game. I think I’ll start drinking gin.
THE BARCA MOLE
IMO,the “living wage” disagreement won’t go away,and the board will eventually pay it.
That said,they should pay it now.
Auldheid,
Is it Willie Hamilton you are thinking about?
Also played under Big Jock for Hibs.
Hugely talented player but fell foul of the demon drink if I remember correctly
KEVJ@ 7.33
Controversial as usual Kev….but i remember how outraged i was with judas, he was well out of order
If he was a Celtic fan…..why would he join the huns?
Doesnt sound like any Celtic fan ive ever known….IMO he was a hun to start with, what other explanation is possible.
Anyway
HH
Maestro…no8
I have a recollection We wore the reverse hibs strip against Killie at CP in q-final of the 65 Scottish Cup.