First the treble then the double slipped through the net leaving Celtic absolute certainties for the inaugural Scottish Premiership title, but with only a couple of higher aspirations to aim for. Fraser Forster is closing in on Bobby Clark’s Aberdeen league shut out record, which if he keeps a clean sheet at home to St Johnstone on Sunday, he would be able to eclipse 31 minutes into the visit to Tynecastle on 22 February.
Neil Lennon called Saturday’s defeat unacceptable but it would be just as unacceptable to concede to St Johnstone at home this weekend when so close to an all-time record. Saints have scored only one league goal away from home (at Firhill) since winning at Tynecastle on 2 November last year. Notwithstanding their four Cup goals at Forfar on Saturday, you could not wish for a more goal-shy league visitors.
The manager was rightly critical of his defence on Saturday so will hopefully use this weekend to ensure they are ready to play up for their goalkeeper this Sunday.
One of the highlights for the Celtic community last year was the incredible Ben Nevis Huddle, completed on the snow-capped mountain in June. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, 28 June. Applications opened on Friday and there are only 77 places left (big mountain but limited safe standing capacity). Go here if you want to get involved.
If you would like to read the new CQN Magazine, GO HERE to read properly, and for FREE, the graphic below is just a taster.
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What’s all this crap about getting a new manager? Get a grip you spoilt bastards.
Ghents, for the CQteN Dream Team, please email your selections to this address, they won’t be counted otherwise.
doccqten@gmail.com
CRC’s full post from earlier.
“CQteN Dream Team”
Now is your chance to select your CQteN dream from the last decade
Rules are very simple:
Select 11 players from the list below, forming either a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 formation
So you will need:
1 goalkeeper
2 full backs
2 centre backs
3 or 4 midfielders
2 or 3 forwards
and of course….
1 manager.
Each player on the list below has made at least 10 starting appearances from July 2004 to date during the CQteN decade.
So no Henrik, then!
When you are selecting the players, you should ideally base your selection on their performances during the CQteN decade, but then again that is your choice.
Send your selection to us by email to doccqten@gmail.com with your CQN blog name (if you do not have one, then you need to get thinking as well)
Anybody can enter: bloggers, lurkers, friends and family, but you can only enter ONCE.
The closing date for entries is 3pm Sunday 9th March 2014
The CQteN dream team will be announced at the CQteN night on Friday 14th March and there will be a couple of prizes for the closest teams selected to the winning team.
Over the coming weeks, to assist you in your selection, we will select a category and list the players relevant appearances and goals. So watch out for these on CQN.
Good luck and get selecting.
HH
CRC
doccqten@gmail.com
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Goalkeepers
Artur Boruc
David Marshall
Fraser Forster
Lukasz Zaluska
Mark Brown
Rab Douglas
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Full Backs
Adam Matthews
Andreas Hinkel
Cha Du-Ri
Charlie Mulgrew
Daniel Fox
Darnell Fisher
Edson Braafheid
Emilio Izaguirre
Jackie McNamara
Lee Naylor
Mark Wilson
Mikael Lustig
Mo Camara
Paul Caddis
Paul Telfer
Ulrik Laursen
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Centre Backs
Bobo Balde
Daniel Majstorovic
Darren O’Dea
Efe Ambrose
Gary Caldwell
Glenn Loovens
John Kennedy
Joos Valgaeren
Josh Thompson
Kelvin Wilson
Stanislav Varga
Stephen McManus
Steven Pressley
Thomas Rogne
Virgil van Dijk
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Midfielders
Aiden McGeady
Alan Thompson
Baram Kayal
Barry Robson
Didier Agathe
Evander Sno
Efrain Juarez
Jiri Jarosik
Joe Ledley
Juninho Paulista
Kris Commons
Landry N’Guemo
Marc Crosas
Massimo Donati
Neil Lennon
Niall McGinn
Pat McCourt
Paul Hartley
Ross Wallace
Roy Keane
Scott Brown
Shaun Maloney
Shunsuke Nakamura
Stephen Pearson
Stiliyan Petrov
Sung-Yong Ki
Thomas Gravesen
Victor Wanyama
Zheng Zhi
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Forwards
Anthony Stokes
Chris Sutton
Craig Beattie
Craig Bellamy
Derek Riordan
Gary Hooper
Georgios Samaras
Henri Camara
James Forrest
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
John Hartson
Kenny Miller
Lassad Nouioui
Maciej Zurawski
Marc-Antoine Fortune
Robbie Keane
Scott McDonald
Teemu Pukki
Tony Watt
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Managers
Neil Lennon
Tony Mowbray
Gordon Strachan
Martin O’Neill
Alex Rae. a face you would never forget
Neganon2
If you are reading I saw on my mobile you asked for an update on Res 12 this morning.
This one from the weekend in response to another enquiry slightly amended covers it.
Celtic chased up the requisitioners for a meeting after the last one on which everyone was updated generally or individually if they wanted detail and there is tons of that which had to be read in order to get to where things stand.
There is a further meeting at end of Feb when canalamar is in the UK.
It could have been earlier with his consent but given he was due back it seemed right to delay.
One of the problems that causes folk to get upset is that Celtic like to operate under the radar.
Their cooperation is needed to see this through and whilst it is understandable folk want to know what is happening that has to be balanced against getting a result that resolves the issue.
Nature does abhor a vacuum and because Celtic operate under the radar (and why is an issue that should be examined as it damages communication ) it causes folk to give their own meaning to the silence and that is not necessarily a true reflection of events.
Two examples. On Res12 it only came out after it reached the agenda that Celtic had written to the SFA in Dec 2011. That had never been said before but if it had then claims that Celtic were not tackling the SFA could not be made. I think they could tackle harder but the point is they did ask questions but kept quiet.
On the OBB the response to the Open Meeting showed that Celtic wrote to the FM in April to be involved in the review of the legislation and the CEO had met the relevant Minister twice in June and Oct 2013 to present their and supporters concerns. Perhaps they will be accused of not doing enough, but the fact that they did act in 2013,even if unsuccessful in trying to get an earlier review again removes any argument that they are unaware of feelings and questions the strength of the one that they are complicit. The full response will I understand go on the CST web site.
Why the policy of under the radar operating exists is one that needs examined. Celtic must see some benefit in it but at what emotional cost?
The main cost is the lack of trust that results because of non-communication. That is not the policy on the part of the Res12 requistitioners but it is one that has to be observed to see matters through and whilst folk might not trust Celtic the requistitioners need to trust them and we in turn need to be trusted by the shareholders who signed up that we are our own men.
Big Packy
How’s Declan?
Zbyszek
Thank you my friend. Only the assistant? He has fallen on hard times indeed:o)
Hope things are well with you and your family at these times. We must communicate soon.
Best wishes to you all.
twists and turns havent a clue please enlightent me
Crc
GK- Forster
RB- McNamara
CB- Balde
CB- Van Dijk
RM- Agathe
CM- Wanyama
CM- Petrov
LM- Nakamura ( also able to play just behind strikers in a 4312 formation)
CF- Hartson
CF- Hooper
Well said voguepunter.
Who started this new manager nonsense
the exiled tim
20:07 on 10 February, 2014
ttt
Good thanks, and I keep forgetting to mail you, sorry, I remember and then forget, old age Eh >}
HH
*****
Old age,eh? Tell me about it!
top kat- Nosferatu and Alex Rae, separated at birth.
Tn’T
the very same thought occurred to me.
The Dr. Who of CQN
Zbyszek
20:08 on
10 February, 2014
Great to hear from you again.
Greetings.
The Quiet Man
20:05 on
10 February, 2014
I agree entirely.
Its a new catering manager we need….them pies on sat. were as dry as a stick….but loved the bovril
right first game parkhead not sure about date celtic 9 airdrie 0 franck haffey missed penalty aqnyone remember
Auldheid
I saw the AR bit, still don’t get it, thick or what !!!
So are you saying that if they do win the cup, the sfa will forward them, only for it to be knocked back after consideration ?
Or will the sfa not propose them ?
HH
If poss, can someone please put up the pics of celtic and dons fans with the banners…….Ogilvie out and regan out……..mant thanks
Z-thanks for that.
VP
Anymore of that kinda talk and we’ll all need to re-evaluate the disbenefits of a career down the Vogue.
Top comment (insert clever BSR thumbs up or summit)
Ok, Guus Hiddink is no longer at Anzhi.
Shows how much I know!
He is a multi-millionaire ‘tho.
HH!!
ttt
U have mail.
HH
I was in a house in Los Angeles in summer 1994 that had about a £10m art collection.
Very impressive indeed!
Auldheid,
I, for one, trust in the bone fides of yourself and Canamalar et al, in this matter.
There is no way that the overseas requisitioner would remain silent in the face of a cover up or derailment.
That Celtic prefer to work under the radar in this matter is prudent, given the environment.
I believe that the collective support give them the breathing space required for this action to run it ‘s course.
As for the other bones of contention between groups and the club, I wish that they too could be deferred until the real enemy of the Game is dealt with, i.e., the SFA.
To this end, I would like to see the supporters groups engaging with their peers at other clubs, to form an alliance against the games authorities.
The initiative of the Aberdeen lads with their Scots Fans4Change campaign should be fully embraced.
Sort out the game first, then deal with club issues.
2012 showed that it was only by the fans actions that the Plan was thwarted.
Tallybhoy
at 20.29
So’s Neil.
So?
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
hendrix67
You only playing with ten men?
HH
CRC
THE EXILED TIM
20:26 on
10 February, 2014
Auldheid
I saw the AR bit, still don’t get it, thick or what !!!
So are you saying that if they do win the cup, the sfa will forward them, only for it to be knocked back after consideration ?
Or will the sfa not propose them ?
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The process is the SFA notify UEFA in April of possibility a club might apply under Article 15.
That is when UEFA will kill it if the applicant is The Rangers but not if it is Albion Rovers who might still be in the cup by then.
If UEFA do not kill it at that point using Art 12 as the reason then they totally undermine Art 12. They have already refused an application from the resurrected Derry on those grounds so would have to go against that precedent also. So no chance.
Albion Rovers however are not subject to Art 12 so could apply if they win the SC and get approval.
Alex Rae by all accounts was a handsome fellow in his youth…..saw a picture of him in a wild life book
Rocket Man
20:30 on
10 February, 2014
I was in a house in Los Angeles in summer 1994 that had about a £10m art collection.
Very impressive indeed!
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I used to live in a house in King st Rutherglen that had a picture of yon Hawaiian burd
leaning seductively against a tree.
2 Hockney’s, a Kandinsky and that picture of the dogs playing poker…
Not been on here for ages.
Paul67; great guy, done well with this site and enjoyed listening to you at Dumbarton Harp.
However, to suggest that losing a clean sheet record is on a par with being knocked out of a cup competition is lunacy; or, you know people in high places you don’t want to upset.
Sorry, it will be ages before I’m back here again.
big packy
26/10/63
9-0
Frank Haffey missed a penalty at 9-0
Teams
Celtic
Haffey, Young, Gemmell, Clark, McNeill, Kennedy, Gallagher, Murdoch, Chalmers, Divers, Hughes
Scorers Gallagher, Hughes 3, Murdoch, Divers 3, Chalmers
Airdrie
McKenzie, Black, Keenan, Rowan, Hannah, Johnstone, McColl, Murray, Boyd, Reid, Jeffrey
Hendrix67
And no manager :-)
HH
CRC
thomthethim for Oscar OK
Thanks for that.
I did a podcast for TSFM aiming at the SFA.
http://www.tsfm.org.uk/2014/02/tsfm-podcast-1/#comments and you are right the baseline needs to widen.
The podcast hopes to help that process.
Paul67
That’s you been told again…..keep your opinions to yourself :O(
the quiet man
20:05 on 10 February, 2014
Now don’t you be whispering this to anyone, but teams sometimes have poor results / seasons. HH
And that’s a true story!
Zbysek – great to see you posting again mate! What’s happening with Legia?
T4