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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Personally can’t see what anyone gets excited about in young Mc.Carthy.
He looks like a work horse type of player, who doesn’t impose himself on the game, as much as you would expect from his physical stature.
Not saying he is not a good player, just that I can’t see it.
A fit Fisher would have been a better option than a struggling Matthews, no matter how he played the previous week.t
TET, yes thats the way at present, but from celtic plc’s perspective they are biting the hand that feeds them & my fear is that we will end up in a downward spiral for various reasons from plc’s handling of GB/no atmosphere, SFA collusion re dead team, lack of inspiring signings, football played, costs of match entry £29/26 for on the day value for money in austere times? No competition from said dead team, etc etc
We need to see creative thinking & signings from the club, the next nearly 4 months will be a damp squib. We have to get a settled team on the pitch that is capable of qualifying for CL group stages as i mentioned before we gambled last season & made it, if we hadn’t we’d be looking at a full season of anti climax. HT mentioned letting Griffiths & new players get an understanding. For me that means no more Samaras & managing rest periods for those going to WC & key players for the CL Qualifiers like earlier in the season has to be done. First of all stability & second back the manager we have the money, need a goalscorer, whats the problem?
ernie
“You’re as ridiculous as each other.
Stop.
Think.
Is it just perhaps possible that you’re wrong?”
Always possible but I am more likely to be convinced of my error by an explanation over an insult.
, including the lines
Go ahead and parse the lines that don’t fit your hypothesis, and try to argue your case
Ernie,
I enjoy your posts, and agree with them often
Maybe you should stop and think, and drop this attitude of the superior intellect now and again.
And maybe you should stop assuming that you know other posters preconceived ideas.
The song isn’t difficult; there are no strangled metaphors. There is no deep message in it. Intentionally, or otherwise, it denigrates a section of society which has been an easy target for too many. If they strangle a version of Hail Glorious Saint Patrick, at least they’re singing it.
Again, I ask when was traditional music set in stone. Who dictated when it should be sung, and by whom. When did it cease to be the peoples music, only to be sung by official minstrels.
These 2 Arabs??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U
Mathews shld have been subbed when he was clattered
A bank usually requires money to be paid back and with interest. Sounds like a sticking plaster move.
paolosboots FC before PLC
The problem is that PL won’t spend the money to guarantee qualification, he gambled last time, and he will again, I will wager on that.
Problem is we might not be so lucky in who we get in the next set of qualifiers.
What if we fail, season books will be down anyways, the prospect doesn’t bear thinking about, but it’s staring us in the face, don’t qualify, the downward spiral will become an unstoppable vortex.
Over to you Pedro.
HH
Thomthethim
In response to your earlier post about the Celtic Park TO being open on cup final day, I don’t know why I can only tell you what staff told me today.
I’d imagine though that there would be on the day collections.
SFTB,
I think that maybe you are a wee bit precious about the sentiments of that song.
Emigrants often get over sentimental and become a bit of a parody,
For too-la-loo-ra-loo-ra, read heederum hodderum.
I remember my father telling me of a time. Before the War, he and a mate were working in Coventry.
They were in a pub one night, singing My Granny’s Heilin’ Hame, with tears streaming down their cheeks.
He had never been further North than Maryhill!
Don ‘t know about you, but Irish theme pubs are generally naff and are best avoided.
They are as authentic as a whining Irish Country ‘n’ Western singer.
The only authentic Irish pubs are actually in Ireland, strange to say, which rules out the synthetic imitations to be found elsewhere.
Btw, when are you going to buy me a genuine Irish pint in a genuine Irish pub?
Sleep well Timland
Enjoyed the chat tonight.
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
The Unstoppable Vortex. What a great movie that was. :-)
I am more than familiar with sentimentality, thom.
Still think that particular song crossed a line and targeted more than a crap folk singer.
If circumstances allow, I’d hope to be there in the summer. We buried my mother’s brother recently and his picture hangs in Hiudai Beag’s pub in Bunbeg, playing with the pipe band. Would like to pay respects over there.
TET, Pedro has put so much pressure on himself we might now get to see what stuff he’s made of!!!
thomthethim for Oscar OK
00:39 on
11 February, 2014
Emigrants do often get over sentimental and become a bit of a parody, but would you like to guess how many “traditional” songs have been born from that?
I’m maybe gettin a bit touchy on this, but there is a whole truckfull of hypocrisy about what constitutes traditional music. These songs were born and bred in homes in and out of the land they sing about – Scotland, Ireland, or elsewhere. By ordinary people, sometimes murdering them, sometimes taking them to new heights.
Any “minstrel” that takes the piss out of this is a twat who doesn’t appreciate where his bread and butter has come from. Full Stop.
Syd Negakev
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HH
I went to see Gary Og a week past on Saturday in a pub in Glasgow that has a growing reputation for Irish Republican music and political expression.
It came the day after the Labour Party announced that should they gain power one of their first targets would be the Trade Unions and the weekend of Bloody Sunday commemorations.
He sang a couple of Billy Bragg songs and most of the songs remembering the events in Derry in ’72.
It ended up a bit of a session and several hours later we found ourselves in Molly Malones at 9pm where Gary was playing again.
The song list was completely different. Gone were much of the politics and rebellion. It was a set designed for those whose Irishness is expressed in pints of Guinness and a granny from Donegal and Republicanism is consigned to history.
That’s fine, I’m not expressing criticism, but it shows that those who sing of Ireland are acutely aware of an audience and how to play to it.
I’d suggest that Gary isn’t alone in this and Mr Bogle may be the same.
HT,
Thanks for the reply.
SFTB,
Hope you make it over.
JimmyQ,
My reading of the verses, first time I have seen them, was that Bogle was paying respects to the songs.
Time to put Gerry to bed. TET will understand.
An on form Joe Ledley added something to our mid-field. But he was never the exceptional player some now claim he was.
Fritsong
I’m watching the game again just now, something I rarely do. It’s incredible how frequently Flood and Robson going themselves in acres of space in the midfield. I agree, with Ledley there that wouldn’t have happened.
TTT for Oscar
Brendan Behan maintained that Kevin Barry was the national anthem of Chicago’s lumpenproletariat. And that category included Poles, Ukrainians, Italians as well as Hibernians.
It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Oiche mhaith
JimmyQuinnsBits:
There are some folk singers in Australia, whose affiliation is diametrical to that which we share, who gladly belt out the rebel songs for the sake of coin. Two nights latter they’ll be in another venue, much more comfortable, belting out the Sash and Hello! Hello!
I’m quite sure one of those singers has actually performed The Fields at Celtic Park.
Celtic were privvy to all which has happened after the we deserve better campagne.
Not a soul was intrested
Brian quinn had a future vison of the ffp ..and the masonic Bank of scotland had to implement the nececcesrray procedres
everything that has happened and will happen (with one or two unexpected hitches ) phil will keep us updated about .
It has all been plannned …i fortold it it 2008 ,when all Honest mistakes were happening …any one who thinks other wise is deluded .
Celtic like the scottish Oil Econnomy is saving up for a rainy day ……untill they came back pissing on us !!!
Enjoy it while it lasts …:)
Ps I hope all the neccessery work that the spfl and the snp and the scottish goverment comes to pass and one day the whole of scotland can live in one ,..but I eat cheese a lot before i go to bed
Hail Hail and well done the Dons on saturday for attacking
Breaking news
In an attempt to bring back the thunder and preserve and extend big Frasers league record of shut outs.. The board of Celtic Football club have reached agreement to allow the occupants of section 111 to return now and will apply for a standing section to be implimented after the commonwealth games.
In return the Green Brigade will bleach all the sheets they have used previously and ensure they are spotless. They have also agreed to change the banner at the back wall to “Ultra Whites” which will become their new identity.
Proposals to change the slogan to “Until The Last Persil” and the song to ” Come on you bhoys in white” have been put on hold until the new season.
Why I wrote Roll of Honour….
Published on Monday 10th February, 2014 by Celtic Trust
It was an honour and privilege to be asked by Celtic Fans against Criminalisation’ to permit them to promote the song ‘The Roll of Honour’ to aid the funding of their campaign against the law that effects everyone with Irish roots or a love of Irish culture. Ballads have been an integral part of our culture and heritage from time in memorial and the role of the Bards and Street Singers holds a unique and honoured place in our history.
I wrote the song ‘The Roll of Honour’ in 1982 at a time of great social and political upheaval in the North of Ireland. It was to commemorate the sacrifice of ten young men who died in the Hunger Strike of 1981. They, too, were protesting against Criminalisation. The song was a reflection of the thoughts, feelings and beliefs, held by many in Ireland and throughout the world who felt that these deaths could have been avoided if the Brittish Government at that time had not taken such a harsh and unbending attitude towards the prison crisis. The line “England, you’re a Monster” is figurative language and is a reference to this belief. The word ‘Monster’ is defined as someone ‘unnaturally cruel’ – The Government at that time. It is not or was not, at any time, to be construed as referring to the English Nation or the people of England, it is not a Racist remark.
Neither is the song a sectarian song. It is an historic, social commentary about one stage in a long freedom struggle that is still continuing but that now uses democratic paths and institutions that did not exist in the early 80’s. The ten men commemorated in the ‘The Roll of Honour’ hope to bring about a land that would cherish… ‘…all the children of the Nation equally’ (Irish Proclamation, 1916). In the words of Wolfe Tone, a protestant leader of The United Irishmen, they wish to establish a society which would ‘ substitute the name Irish Man in place of Protestant, Catholic or Dissenter’. The dream of Bobby Sands and his comrades was for a Nation where sectarianism and violence would be a thing of the past:
‘Our revenge will be the laughter of our children’ (Bobby Sands)
On behalf of The Irish Brigade.
JOE Ledley has described the Thai Tims as “brilliant” on the back of their video tribute to the midfielder while at Celtic.
After signing for Crystal Palace on deadline day nearly ten days ago, the video was made aware to a number of Eagles fans of the youngsters in Thailand singing about the Wales international.
And Ledley revealed that Celtic invited the schoolchildren over to Scotland to meet their heroes on the back of how popular their videos were.
He told the Advertiser: “They were brilliant. We had them over to the training ground at Celtic and they were singing all their songs.
“They had a song for each player and they were just a brilliant bunch of kids.
“We all respected them up at Celtic and it’s great what they did.
“It’s worldwide now and fantastic with some of the songs they make up. It was a privilege to have met them and they just keep doing what they’re doing.
“And they speak fantastic English as well.”
Fascinated to read earlier that Jimmy Reid was a communist.
Can`t remember hearing him described that way during his “active” life.
Found this interesting.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/08/reid-a25.html
Good Morning Timland.
I see we’re still going over our SC exit,NFL got it wrong
on Saturday, but believe he should be the one who decides
when his time is up at Celtic, think we owe him that…..away
to my happy hun infested work,have a nice day.
wedonteatourowndowe?CSC
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
00:33 on 11 February, 2014
Mathews shld have been subbed when he was clattered
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Morning, just in from a night shift.
I don’t think he got clattered, he went in for a tackle over stretched a bit and came out the worst, he didnt recover from it.
Ayrshire is Green and White
HH
Good morning friends. It’s a pretty wet and wild Tuesday morning here. And chilly too.
macjay1,
As a youngster growing up in Clydebank around the late 60s and early 70’s, most were aware of Jimmy Reid, in the main because of the UCS situation. I thought that I could recall that he ran for parliament for the Communist Party (confirmed in your article), if I can remember, and this part I am not 100% clear on, but something tells me that my Dad told me that the local priests at OHR told the congregations that they could not vote for a commie despite Jimmy Reid’s popularity in Clydebank at the time. I think the Labour Party put forward a proboscis monkey as their candidate and it won……if you get what I mean!
AR
antipodean red
07:03 on
11 February, 2014
macjay1,
Mate,my recollection was that voting for a communist was a mortal sin.
I remember ,as a member of Celtic Films,doing a “show” in Clydebank ,maybe `77.
If you were present,you would remember.It was a total debacle.
The projector had an off night,or maybe the projectionists.
Did you ever know of a guy called Hugh Aitken from Atlee Ave.?
macjay1,
Your bang on the money, that’s what my Dad told me, it was a mortal sin!
I don’t think I was at the one in 77 but I do remember one at the Unity Club that showed the 4-2 game probably late 79, the picture was very grainy but it still brought back memories of a great night.
I don’t recall a Hugh Aitken from up there, I did know a few others from up round Atlee, Greenwood and Kirkwood from my school days, could be quite a dangerous place at night, even for a Whitecrook man.
AR
**0750 UPDATE**
Snow falling quite heavily as I drove to work there.
TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox
04:15 on
11 February, 2014
Breaking news
In an attempt to bring back the thunder and preserve and extend big Frasers league record of shut outs.. The board of Celtic Football club have reached agreement to allow the occupants of section 111 to return now and will apply for a standing section to be implimented after the commonwealth games.
In return the Green Brigade will bleach all the sheets they have used previously and ensure they are spotless. They have also agreed to change the banner at the back wall to “Ultra Whites” which will become their new identity.
Proposals to change the slogan to “Until The Last Persil” and the song to ” Come on you bhoys in white” have been put on hold until the new season.
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This is clearly a trap
Look out for many GB members being lifted for alleged bleach of the peace :-)
antipodean red
07:47 on
11 February, 2014
macjay1,
I lived in Scotstoun but spent some time in Clydebank.Girlfriends etc.
Hugh was probably a good bit older than you.Like me.
If you`re ever in Sydney,give us a shout.
Brisbane Kitalba has my details.
Cheers.