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.
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Doc
So who is deciding on what is the best team?
HH
The Quiet Man
at 22.00
By , Jingo.. Ah AM impressed,man..
Where did YOU spring Fae?
Ah nevah hiv read such..
Sound. n Non- Adulterated LOGIC.. which,is the best kind.. oan here.. Fur ..well..
Since, Ah read Ma last Submission.
Pal.. Ah am giein’ Ye a Sincere,Gleeful n Ebullient Tip o’ the Kojo.. Sombrero..
Ye hiv earned it.
Ole.. Amigo.
Pleased, tae Meet Ye, Ah am sure..
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
TET, we will collate the results and those most voted for each position will be in the team.
One Goalie, One left back, one right back, top two CBs, and so on.
You can pick three midfielders if you want three strikers.
It’s up to you.
But only one entry.
So CQNers will decide, democratically.
The Quiet Man
22:00 on 10 February, 2014
67Hamilton, you confuse pride in being a Celtic supporter with disappointment in and criticism of poor performance. I can and will criticise the team and the manager when I feel it is merited. That means just that, it does not mean I throw away my scarf and tear up my season ticket and vow never to go back. I’ll be there next week as I was the week before the Aberdeen game. That’s because I’m a Celtic supporter. However, much as I detest what NFL has had to endure in Scotland, that does not mean that he is beyond criticism as a football manager. Celtic have had many embarrassing results in their history, Morton this season is just the latest. I’m afraid i don’t go for blind loyalty. To deny what you see is delusional. However, don’t suggest my disappointment at embarrassing results now and again means I’m embarrassed at being a Celtic supporter. That is not at all what I said, is untrue, so pls do not misrepresent what I say again. For the record, the fact I am unhappy about aspects of this season does not mean I want NFL sacked, it does not make me a Hun lurker, and it does not make me a Fergus booer (I was there that day and it was a dark day for those celtic supporters who did boo Fergus). It’s my opinion that our manager got it badly wrong on Saturday. I say that as a Celtic supporter and supporter of NFL.
Next time, tackle the point not the man.
I second that
Hail Hail!
FFS I need to rethink my whole strategy now that Kojo agrees with me : )
Only Kidding Kojo.
Sorry 67Heaven for getting your name wrong.
Good night all
I loved WGS but loved Martin just that wee bit more those days were incredible maybe expensive but incredible all the same.
Celtic 6 deadco 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQ96X9ekag
Aye Lenny and his staff got a couple of thing wrong against the sheep, if they learn from it fine.
What I don’t get is we can play a different system and blow teams away, hartz, m/well, why change that ?
I understand horses for courses, but the sheep are about the same standard as m/well, and yet we resorted to a tried and trusted failed system, [ on occasion] a system that has brought us some bad results against oppo we should be beating with ease.
Still wouldn’t contemplate getting rid, if Lenny decides to go, fair enough, but sacking him, never.
HH
better quality of 6-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6Yl5UEnEw
goodnight all
twists n turns
21:46 on
10 February, 2014
Auldheid
Question for you.
Have any other clubs expressed an interest in the outcome of resolution 12?
Spartans for example?
Am I right in assuming that they would have applied for the position that was awarded to deadco? Who else applied for league membership , only to be royally shafted?
Had the deceased not been given the slot in division 3, who would have been in pole position to take it?
Your thoughts please.
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Res 12 has nothing to do with the decision to award Sevco a place in the SFL as The Rangers so Spartans will not be interested.
The licence was actually granted within the rules at 31st March, the question surrounds the SFA handling of the monitoring thereafter from 30th June.
The rules allow for a club to be expelled after a licence has been granted but that is unlikely to have happened, a sanction in the following season being more likely (but the avoided that by going bust). The Res though asks for the whole process to be referred to UEFA to confirm full compliance with the rules, Celtic thought it necessary because of what the SFA told them, but information emerging last year questions the SFA version and that is what is being looked at to see if they carried out their responsibilities properly.
Had Rangers been excluded as at 31 March 2011 Celtic would have got the CL place and from memory Kilmarnock would have got a Europa slot as Celtic won the SC which allowed the 5th placed team in.
Doc
Muchas gracious.
HH
Auldheid
Thank you,fur yer Welcome , Reply..Sir.
I wulll look forward tae..
the Final Denouement ..of this..which wull Vanquish awe Ma.. Mis-Conceptions..
Ah am sure.
NIce chattin’,Palomine..
Ye ur a Gentleman n A Celtic Fan.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
kojo why talk so much sense pally iam with you all the way time for the revolution to start we need goliaths in midfield broonie dont know johanssen dont know with your inside information please lets go still laffin
Martin got us to Seville.
Never thought I would witness our club getting to a European final in my lifetime.
I will forever be in his debt!
The Quiet Man
Ah only ask..
that ye Continue tae Post.
Ah like a guy, who ..
Tells it ..
‘
Like it Lays..
N,Brother..
You sure fill that Bill.
Nice Chattin’
Kojo.
Still,Laughin’
Bif Packy,
We’ve got my ould da stayin with us just now, toothless laughin
He’s just been reminiscing on how he led the church choir way back in the 60’s. A choir of around 70 individuals, singing a 5 part high mass.
I’ve heard of 4 part singing, sez I, what’s the 5 part make-up?
Faither replies: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass….. and Packy
Packy Lavin was an ould legend in his part of the woods, and he lived life as he sang it.
Auldheid
You say……
The licence was actually granted within the rules at 31st March, the question surrounds the SFA handling of the monitoring thereafter from 30th June.
Was that on the say so of the huns that the wee tax bill was settled, or was being settled ?
If yes…….Mmmmm
If no, why did they get it ?
HH
EIK
I bow to your more intimate contact however he must have started working in the yards by the late 1940s – as I say he went through the system and the unofficial policies remained in place until after UCS when Government money and political oversight might they had to go
Read what I wrote – did he ever speak out about it? – if so can you point me in the right direction
I seem to recall that he worked for both Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch – all good there then!
Never said he was a bigot but I go along with the old civil rights adage that if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem
Was I wrong about him being at The bigotdome on a regular basis? I’m sure he never joined in the songs but always suspicious of a thinking man who could go along with the hordes just for the fitba!
HH
Read in the S Mail young Mc Carthy was broken hearted Celtic didnt go that extra 100 grand to sign him. He also says he hopes to pull the Hoops top on sumdae
TET
That is the key point: what was said, was it true and how was it proved it was.
jimmy quinns bits my auld man was from croy used to sing with joe cuddy mcbride tenor john mcormack songs mother machree etc sadly gone fom this life but never forgotten holy cross croy hail hail
Big Packy..
Shhh.. don’t let the Ithers ,intae Ma Secret..
Dae Ye wanna Get us awe.. Fired?
Yes.. Ah agree,fine..
Broonie,is not a very good Mid Field General..
He is Mair Like a No Very guid.. Private ,Secon Class.
He ,probably wid be a Fine Chucker Oot.. at the Dennistoun Palais..
Is IT… Still there… By the way??
N
Broonie is No Captain Courageous, eethur…He Wiz a Poor Choice fur a Leader..
Fur , he Leads too Much wi’ His Left… rather than His Heid.
He wiz Useless fur Four Years.. n .. then he Started tae Play a wee bit bettah..
But.. He has bin a Very Bad Buy..
A Very Expensive Mistake..oan the Part of wee Gordon.
But, we hiv bin landed wi him. that’s Broonie..No Strachan..
so Ah guess he wull be here until..
well…He is No Here.
Nice Chattin
Kojo.
Still,Laughin’
Auldheid
Is there a possibility of a freedom of info here ?
HH
Auldheid is it true that their very own Andrew Dickson was part of the licencing committee ?
kojo agree 100 per cent by the way love america love international drive orlando been twice day trip to miami what more cani say hail hail
To whom It May Concern..
McCarthy , hid several Trials..as A Youngster, wi us..
We hid oor Chance.. tae bring him in… Long afore he ended up, wi Hamilton.
He never wiz signed,after those Try oots…so we hid Summarily dismissed him as ever amounting tae Much.
So…Yes.. we missed the Boat
Jist his we hiv missed several.. well.. Boats, in the Past..
n.. we wull Continue tae Miss Those.. Boats.. In the Future,tae.
N the reason that we Miss So Miny Boats.. is..
well..
Ah Dunno!
But ,we dae,dae.. n we wull continue tae dae,dae.. tae.
N that’s a Fact.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
When do sevco have to pay Dunfermline by ?
HH
big packy
Is the pub on Int Drive called Mulvanys?
eddieinkirkmichael, I can add my tuppenceworth into the JR, was he wasn’t he debate and from my recollection he was no friend of Celtic.
I remember driving through to Celtic Park one Saturday afternoon with my son probably about 1983-5 and listening to the car radio heard Reid give a terrible put down of the Plastic Paddies stuff, mocking the fans who sang of Ireland and had never been out of Scotland etc, etc.
He then went on about local people should support their local team and not travel the length of the country to watch the OF.
You can take that to the bank.
I was livid in my car listening to it and never had any time for the man after that. The fact he helped the Sun discredit Arthur Scargill who as we now know was set up by MI5 and was telling the truth about the 75 pit hit list that McGregor had doesn’t do him any favours either.
But for his absolute contempt of those like me who feel an affinity to the country of my ancestors and follow Celtic he made it clear as day, and there must be a record of his views on this. He wasn’t likely to say this once and off the record on live radio.
I think, out of our run of consecutive clean sheets Samaras played one, maybe two games. In the game I recall him playing I believe we played awfully poor. On Saturday, I thought we had four defenders & four forwards with an invisible midfield. More importantly though, I thought we played like a team of individuals, even-more-so like a team of individuals who had just met for the first time the previous day.
Based on results this season & this season alone, when Samaras has been in the team, we have been at our worst, its as if the entire system has to be changed to suit his strengths which in turn exposes the weaknesses of the rest of the squad. Dont get me wrong I thought the pass Sammy made for Stokesy’s goal was his best pass all season & seeing stokes score that goal gave me the impression that the arrival of Griffiths had given him (Stokes) the desire to raise his game like he did when he was playing for a new contract. But that soon excitement dwindled soon after the goal.
Adam Matthews nowhere near even 60% match fit
Giorgios Samaras hitchhiker
Anthony Stokes uninterested
Stefan Johansen stranger
Scott Brown invisible liability after his booking
Kris Commons cant fault him as he is already player of the year due to his excellent form this season
In contrast to the main article, I cannot fault the defence due to their recent form & I feel they were let down by the midfield & forwards.
Mc Carthy was brill at Hamilton week after week he carried them!! I demand to see the “scouts” report on the Bhoy!!!
Feckin thickoh!!
TET
Whats ur point caller? I worry for the wee Rovers gate money.
jude 2005 havent a clue just remember my wife telling me to stop arguing with this 7foot american about using my video camera
I didn’t see anything of the game on Sat. Saw the team in paper yesterday but not read any reports.
Did we go with Sammy and James loitering g on the wings again and get swamped in the midfield or was it just a bad day at the office e?
Big Nan
I remember the first time I saw your moniker on here, it reminded me of a time, the first I recall, the wife and I were in Newry, and she wanted an Indian meal, she saw a sign that said ” Nan Rices ” it’s a a bar said I, but no she had to go in, good pint of Guinness btw >}
HH
Jude2005
We got Ki instead of McCarthy at the time, that’s the info I was given?
Just a point in defence of Lenny and his decision to play Adam Mathews.
Young Darnell had a poor game against St Mirren, the week previous, with St Mirren targeting that area (in my view), like many young players, they will suffer a dip in form ?
Lenny must have seen this, hence decision to play Adam, who again in my view, if fit, is a very good player
Hail Hail from Brotton (Redcar)
jude
That is my point, if Dunf don’t get theirs, not a hope in hell AR will get theirs.
HH
garygillespieshamstring
We did, and were swamped.
HH