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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“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
Papers desperate for more of our players to go to weaken us & stop 20IAR.
Headline in DR big Fraser to leave or risk losing England chance.
jobo baldie
07:51 on 11 February, 2014
**0750 UPDATE**
Snow falling quite heavily as I drove to work there.
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Jobo no idea why but thank you that made me laugh!
Morning Timland from a damp and chilly hun free mountain valley.
Oh no, they are going to be saved !!!!!
Football
Football News
Rangers FC
Ibrox greats step up to back push for fan ownership ahead of Supporters Direct forum
10 February 2014 01:55 PM By Dailyrecord.co.uk
RANGERS great Richard Gough and former midfielder Alex Rae are backing the bid for “greater fan ownership” by Supporters Direct Scotland.
Richard Gough: “The fans are the heart and soul of Rangers Football Club.”
RICHARD GOUGH and Alex Rae have become the first two former Rangers players to back a scheme that could hand the club’s supporters power at Ibrox.
Representatives of the club’s support have been invited to hear a presentation from Supporters Direct Scotland on how they could set about launching a bid for “greater fan ownership”.
SDS has already helped supporters of Dunfermline and Hearts successfully arrange deals to take control of their clubs and believe the Rangers faithful could be the next to grab a greater say in how their club is run.
They will discuss the vision at a meeting at the Louden Tavern, Ibrox, on Valentine’s Day and have already won the backing of nine-in-a-row captain Gough.
The former Scotland defender said: “The fans are the heart and soul of Rangers Football Club and one sure way to guarantee that this remains the case at Rangers forever is for the fans to collectively have more power in the club.
“As we are a PLC, fans collectively owning shares is in my opinion one way to ensure this, and the more they own the louder their voice.
“I therefore look forward to hearing what comes out of this meeting on the 14th and hope it move the cause of fan involvement forward at Ibrox.”
Former Gers midfielder Rae – who helped the Glasgow giants land the 2005 Scottish Premier League title – has also indicated his support.
“When I go to Ibrox I hear the Rangers fans singing ‘Four men had a dream’ about the men who founded the club,” he said. “Well the many thousands of Rangers Fans can now make that dream a reality again by gathering together with the single issue of collectively owning their club.
“That is why I look forward to hearing what comes from the meeting of the 14th and look forward to supporting the next step.”
It is understood that SDS has drawn up a blueprint that will see a Community Interest Company formed which will then collect monthly contributions from fans.
It will be based broadly on the same model which has put the Foundation of Hearts group in poll position to rescue the administration-hit Jambos.
Head of SDS Paul Goodwin spoke last week of how a scheme with around 25,000 supporters handing over around £20 a month would give them £6million after 12 months.
The current Ibrox share-price has fallen to 25.75p – a huge drop on the 70p launch price.
The Foundation of Hearts announced last week it had struck a deal with majority shareholder UBIG to take control of their 78.97 per cent stake in the Jambos. The Gorgie bid is backed by more than 7,500 fans each making a monthly donation.
SDS is also currently working with fan groups and boards at Motherwell, Ayr United and Annan Athletic as they bid help take those clubs into community ownership.
Rangers announced a £14.4million loss for the 13-month period up to June with reports suggesting the club is still losing £1million a month.
The club’s AGM just before Christmas saw angry shareholders lining up to criticise the Ibrox board for their handling of the club’s affairs.
Last month, the first-team players rejected a proposed 15 per cent pay cut while chief executive Graham Wallace has started a 120-day review of the League One leaders’ operations after admitting spending is out of control.
2 questions-they suggesting that with the share price being low it can be done( any help I’m saying after they have acquired 30 % of the shares ,they will need to make a offer the other shareholders at the highest share price of the last 12 months ).
Why doesn’t Gough just ask his best pal for the money
lady on SKY NEWS.”WE’VE GOT 15 HORSES AND NO HELP SO FAR.”
well why prince Charlie is not down there doing a wonderful job I do not know.
every house has a boat parked on the river!!!!!!!
move them all to EAST KILBRIDE I say .a wee bit of snow won’t hurt.
as for the 15 horses……..FRAE BENTOS anybody.
ps a wee happy 45th wedding ann.to F.U .and wife.
Has anyone found any evidence regarding the post last night from Bartin Main saying that the horribles have secured funding from some arab bank or am I just being naive .
HH
Doc,
Mailed you my team selection. Could you let me know if you got it as the I pad has been playing up since I dropped it :((
Harking back to the weekend and the ensuing shocks, Celtic losing to Aberdeen, Hibs losing to Raith Rovers and the might Albion Rovers making the quarter finals. However, is there anything more shocking than the sight of RC Ogilvie taking his seat in the directors box on Friday night. Anyone with even an ounce of decorum would stay locked in a padded cell until the stench had at least started to abate. Not this chancer, you could not mark his neck with a very large blow torch, completely unembarrasable! ( is that a real word?)
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/070214-Rangers-v-Dunfermline-Athletic/G0000iF_fs9HjrWQ/I00006IppYCHLBCI/C0000Lnj26DX67t0
On a lighter note, it’s interesting to see Mr Rumbold from ‘Are you being served’ making an appearance in the directors box, hope Mr Humphries took his inside leg, you only need one trouser leg to get into that box, don’t you?
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/070214-Rangers-v-Dunfermline-Athletic/G0000iF_fs9HjrWQ/I0000NtRcHesIcnM/C0000Lnj26DX67t0
AR
AR 0703
Spot on ……. and the direction came from Cannon McGoldrick,Fr Quinlan , Fr Higgins and the Celtic Legend…Fr Cairns.
4taeaparishCSC.
ohits
It’s a parody account, reeled a few in >}
HH
Top of them morning to you all from a dreich Fife.
eddieinkirkmichael
00:02 on 11 February, 2014
Big Nan
22:57 on
I would be absolutely astonished if Jimmy Reid ever used the term Plastic Paddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YXXJAbMvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG1VEY1RX5g
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Eddie, forget the backdrop of this interview and Reid says nothing at all about our club’s Irish identity, as opposed to fans having a strong bond with their clubs.
As to his using the term “plastic paddy” I am not sure I said he did but his scathing condemnation of us in terms that disparaged those Scots who would sing of Erin’s green valleys on the slopes of Celtic Park, but who had never set foot on the place was delivered in his most sarcastic and powerful orator’s manner. This was on national radio and I was livid.
Has he ever done anything that would be contradictory to that? Perhaps he has, but then he belied his UCS image when he took the Sun’s shilling and attacked the miners, via their leader of course.
As an ex shop steward myself, I was a fan of Reid, until that day on the motorway travelling to Celtic Park.
H.H.
Antipodean Red
Don’t know about Mr Rumbold but it looks helluva lot like David Milliband sitting behind a Piranha Brother.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
antipodean red
08:57 on 11 February, 2014,
Third row down, bloke with glasses on looks like Kev jungle :))
favourite uncle
ps a wee happy 45th wedding ann.to F.U .and wife…..
A big happy anniversary to you and yours, hoping for many, many more.
What’s for diner tonight?.
Gb
What is the piffle from the SPFL today?
CQteN Dream Team
Mark Brown.
Paul Caddis/Ulrik Laursen/Glen Loovens/Josh Thomson.
Landry N’Guemo/Zheng Zhi/Evander Sno/Ross Wallace.
Craig Beattie/Lassad Nouioui.
Nurse!
coatbridge paper bhoy
looks like SPAG BOL.and a visit from the 3 grand kids for a bit of chocolate cake.
not forgetting BLUE NUN.10%.i know I know but 45 years ago nobody drank wine .plus a nice wee malt just to get us going and some CELTIC VIDEO ,and some REBEL MUSIC,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Embdy know anything mini computers called a Raspberry Pi ?
HH
FU
Happy anniversary.
For the record, I’m firmly in the camp copied and pasted below.
Professional musicians have a place, but they represent only a reflection of the real source – and their main interest / driver is based on commercialism if you allow me that wee generalisation.
“The folk” is the real source.
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JimmyQuinnsBits
00:47 on 11 February, 2014
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.
Just in to say…..
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sipsini
09:19 on 11 February, 2014
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Naw he dizny :)
So, git it roon ye :))
Hail Hail Amigo
Thatwiznyabite – CSC
ET
Thanks mate , can settle now and get on with some work .
HH
Ohits,
You and me both!…………
TET – are you asking if anybody knows anything about Raspberry Pi mini computers?
I have one. I got one on the first rush of excitement months and months ago. It’s still in it’s box.
Alasdair MacLean
Ita a four letter word you know , last trip home on 26th , CP on the Saturday .
Happy days.
TET
Just noticed I have been abbreviating your Nom de to ET , sorry .
HH
From yesterday….
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Joe Filippis Haircut
12:14 on 10 February, 2014
Kev Jungle. We have been given the go ahead for a standing room only section for next season I am sure that I read the board are going ahead and it will be ready for the new season. H.H.
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Thank you for that amigo.
Hail Hail
weeminger
Mrs TET likes her tele, so far have lost all the BBC channels, and the ITV’s went this morning.
I understand that you can down load xbmc to it and get all channels including Sky sports etc, etc for free.
HH
Alasdair MacLean:
I heard a rumour Celtic were down in Wales trying to rent a singing football crowd.
ohits
Been called worse >}
HH
beebawbabbity,
I remember at primary school being part of the group that lined the streets at Canon McGoldrick’s funeral, I can also remember Father Cairns quiz on each Saturday’s Celtic game, you felt like a million dollars if he asked you for the answer and you got it right, Church was packed as well, my old Dad still goes there.
AR
Any updates on the – Celtic movie that had been mooted a few months ago ?
Some fholk were saying that it was like….the gangs of New York meets – the field of dreams. I think ?
HH
THE EXILED TIM
09:49 on
11 February, 2014
Yes but it’s not that straight-forward. For one thing XBMC depends on dodgy streams, so you’re unlikely to get consistent access to any of your favourite channels. It’s also quote slow so it can be really frustrating checking one option, seeing it’s not working and then checking another option.
They’ve switched satellite haven’t they? By the time you get a Pi, keyboard, mouse, power supply etc you could probably pick up a freesat system for about the same price. Manually tuning it would be no more difficult than getting a the Pi up and running with XBMC.
kevjungle
09:39 on 11 February, 2014,
Just a bit of banter Kev ;-)) Hail Hail mate.
kitalba,
The Welsh Celtic Choir……
It’s got a ring to the name, I’ll give you that.
Is Harry Secombe still on the go?
jimbo67,
Maybe they’re planning on getting more government handouts after the next election!
sipsini,
Hit a wee kevjungle nerve there!
AR
sipsini
09:59 on 11 February, 2014
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We canny awe be film stars like you :)
Hail Hail n God Bless
KevJungle
No. The studios want it updated, futuristic ‘Terminator’ style, where Celtic are run by a fans collective led by you and NegAnon2. Lars Von Trier set to direct.
antipodean red
10:02 on 11 February, 2014
sipsini,
Hit a wee kevjungle nerve there!
AR
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Aye :)
Ahm still awe itchy after looking at it – yuk :)
Hail Hail Amigo