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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THE EXILED TIM –
If you’ve got lots of time to install Linux, load header files and scripts to allow you to display something on a screen etc. then get a Raspberry Pi – which is basically a circuit board to designed to allow kids to learn how to code. I’m not saying you won’t get it to work, but it’s not a simple box with an on/off switch.
How about jail-breaking an Apple TV instead? Much easier to install XBMC
Harry would be good, especially if he dragged along Tom and another 126 Taffs too, as long as they just played at being rebels and pocketed the check and didn’t indulge any of that lateral movement nonsense or aggressively harmonise.
I’m sure they could do a good cover of all the GB’s hits. Glasgow’s Green and White….
It’s probably just a generational thing, but I’m astonished that people aren’t aware that Jimmy Reid had been a leading member, and certainly for at least a decade, the best known member, of the Communist Party.
Mind you I seem to recall that his biography on the SNP’s website, while it mentioned his trade unionism, leadership at UCS and his moving from Labour to SNP was silent on his membership of the CP.
up_over_goal
10:03 on 11 February, 2014
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Ha :)
If ahm in it – Bruce Willis will need tae play me.
Ahm no too sure aboot this Neganon2 ghuy ? Hmmmm
HH
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
10:06 on
11 February, 2014
It’s a lot simpler than that these days, you can get SD cards pre-set up with XBMC, but as I said earlier, that itself is no guarantee of hassle free watching of anything.
Clyde SSB is a big pile of pants withoot – Terry O’Neill imho.
And, I think Hugh Keevins knows it.
weeminger-Nat
If I get a bigger dish, prob a 1.9 mt one, we will get all the channels, but they cost a fortune just now, in the meantime, the wife just will have to watch on the lappy.
HH
tet,
Theres a system out there that allows you to get all satellite channels for free initial outlay cost a bit but once installed its there for ever
The Exiled Tim
We’ll keep you up-dated with the UK news . Not much happening just now.
Apart from the flood waters creeping towards London and a dusting of snow up here.
Might go back to CP – twice this season
to see my 2nd favorite team Aberdeen FC
if, they get to the SCF and, if there is an indication
that, ticket sales are slow. I would always wait until
the fans who go every week had theirs.
If the Dons get to the final and, face the huns…that
would be a ‘dodgy’ game to go to.
Would bring back memories of a time in 1981 when
myself and a fellow Tim who, used to go to the games,
hame and away every week a, guy from Blantyre who
went by the name of Paul Taggart. If yer reading this Paul,
please take off yer mask :)
Anyway….myself and PT went to the SCF replay between oldco
and Dundee Utd – the huns won 4-1 :((((
We were amongst the Utd fans in the ole Cellic end.
Coming home was scary – we had to get the ‘Rangers football special’
train home as that was the last one. It was a terrible experience.
Anyway…if the Dons face Sevco I will ‘maybe’ try n go.
weeminger
10:11 on 11 February, 2014
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
10:06 on
11 February, 2014
It’s a lot simpler than that these days, you can get SD cards pre-set up with XBMC, but as I said earlier, that itself is no guarantee of hassle free watching of anything.
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You probs more about it than me mate. I looked at it when it came out and fancy using one with Arduino project kit. As you say, there are probably other options at the same price for watching TV but that are more convenient.
Shirley Temple has died.
Canamalar
Just a wee note of encouragement to you.
I am grateful that you are involved with resolution 12.
I know that you won’t role over and just meekly accept what you are fed.
I disagree with much of your views ,and at times have been very disappointed by your posting style.
However i have formed the opinion from your posts ,that you are a man of integrity and resolute.
Thank’s for all your efforts.
TT
Off oot – tae phone my auld Da – laters.
Take Care Tims – Off oot.
favourite uncle
09:33 on 11 February, 2014
Sorry, had to give myself a haircut….don’t know why I bother!.
The last three would do me fine, oh and the grand weans……only if they knew the words.
Have a rousing night.
Gb
KEVJUNGLE
I will attend the Ramsdens cup final and on the day support my local team Raith Rovers.
Unlike you i will also attend almost all of Celtic’s remaining fixtures.
Fans like you are a sad loss.
I wish there was something i could say that would get you to return to supporting the team ,and helping finance us against our enemies.
You obviously still have a Celtic heart.
TT
kevjungle
10:30 on 11 February, 2014
Might go back to CP – twice this season
to see my 2nd favorite team Aberdeen FC
if, they get to the SCF and, if there is an indication
that, ticket sales are slow. I would always wait until
the fans who go every week had theirs.
If the Dons get to the final and, face the huns…that
would be a ‘dodgy’ game to go to.
Would bring back memories of a time in 1981 when
myself and a fellow Tim who, used to go to the games,
hame and away every week a, guy from Blantyre who
went by the name of Paul Taggart. If yer reading this Paul,
please take off yer mask :)
Anyway….myself and PT went to the SCF replay between oldco
and Dundee Utd – the huns won 4-1 :((((
We were amongst the Utd fans in the ole Cellic end.
Coming home was scary – we had to get the ‘Rangers football special’
train home as that was the last one. It was a terrible experience.
Anyway…if the Dons face Sevco I will ‘maybe’ try n go.
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The above is what I posted at the weekend, read below.
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/arnold.html
TET – you’d be as well getting a cheap 7″ android tablet with hdmi output. Something like this would do the job.
coatbridge paper bhoy
will do many thanks.
So Jimmy Reid is oot the gang because he didn’t attend Celtic Park whilst he endeavoured to save thousands of jobs and help put food on the table in an attempt to alleviate the unemployment which was later to ravage the town and areas outwith.I think Big Jock managed ok without him. Seems like lots agree with Shanks’ line about football being more important than life and death. We whiff of hypocrisy in the air.
TinyTim,
Cheers, i’ve been a wee bit surprised recently at some of the people who have questioned and the manner its been framed, as you know diplomacy is not a speciality of mine so I
let the ever patient Auldheid field the questions but even he gets frustrated at the barracking he gets sometimes.
I admit I have been compromised, I originally wanted to keep everything out in the open, problem with that was, the club are the only ones who can question the SFA and represent us so if they need confidentiality then we must accede that to get what we want.
Saying that the new Jag, corner office at Celtic Park and six figure salary has persuaded me integrity is not everything :oD)))
I expect most know enough about me from here to know if we get stiffed I’ll scweam and scweam till my nose bleeds. The naysayers will gloat but I’ll know we did everything we could to see it through including swallowing some pride.
Hail Hail
tiny tim
You were correct the other day when you voiced your concern about the cup game and my own optimism was misplaced.
However when i saw Neil’s press conference late on friday i got spooked about the game. Felt really sorry for him he looked downhearted.
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Happy Anniversary to your good self and FAVOURITE AUNTIE.
Fortyfive years,bloomin’ ‘eck!
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
10:52 on
11 February, 2014
Regardless of what anybody says in the future, you will have tried to make a difference, and that’s a lot more than most.
A wee footnote on the late Jimmy Reid exchanges …
In 1974, at the height of his fame, (i.e. following fast on the heels of the remarkable UCS work-in, which he helped lead) and not long after being elected Rector of Glasgow Uni), he did indeed stand as a Communist Party candidate in 2 general elections in Clydebank.
As a youngster, I was ‘lucky’ enough to join my Dad at a hustings meeting in the hall of the old Miller Street school, prior to the February 1974 general election.
As others have hinted, in those days the Labour Party could probably have put forward a chimpanzee and got it elected in Clydebank.
In the event the sitting MP, Hugh McCartney (Dad of Sir Ian McCartney), was comfortably re-elected, ahead of [in 2nd place] the Tory, Michael (later Sir Michael) Hirst. (The SNP were 2nd in the October general election of that year, with the Tories dropping to 3rd).
I remember that the school hall was packed to the gunwales. I remember, too, my Dad pointing out how uncomfortable Hugh McCartney was, trying to hold his own in the presence of the charismatic Reid, who was an outstanding public speaker, very able to think on his feet and clearly relishing the occasion.
The atmosphere was made the more intense, because Reid had a sore throat and spoke in a kind of hoarse, stage whisper; if memory serves me there were no microphones in the hall. So that the hall seemed to fall into a sort of reverential hush anytime Reid took the floor.
As a Catholic altar server at the time, I also recall the message being broadcast from the constituency’s parish pulpits that it was wrong for the faithful to vote Communist. (I think I might also be correct in recalling that (the then auxiliary) Bishop [later Cardinal] T.J. Winning was then based in the Clydebank parish of OHR; though I wasn’t in that parish, so can’t remember if he would have been PP.
This latter recollection – of pulpit , if accurate, would indicate that it wasn’t just the Labour Party that thought Reid was in with a shout of getting elected.
FF
BIG NAN
I see your point about Jimmy Reid,but he was long a hero of mine. Even the Scargill thing merely diluted that a tad.
His newspaper articles were excellent too.
I remember one of them particularly,when the Honda Civic first arrived on our shores and one of his mates bought one.
He raved about its frugal consumption.
Very second night on the way home from the pub,Jimmy and the rest of the crowd would top up the tank by about half a gallon. The Civic owner was beside himself,it never seemed to need refuelling!
After about six weeks,they started removing half a gallon every so often.
The guy sold the pig in a poke as the fuel consumption had gone through the roof!
canman
Are you talking about an Android box ?
It runs on Filmon, who are in court in April re illegal streaming, I don’t want to spend on a box for it to be useless in a few weeks.
HH
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weeminger
I will look into that, thanks.
HH
TET,
I was talking about a satelite system with decoder, one of the systems with motorised dish the follows the satelites, no sure how it works when it disappears over a hill or how you get it back but I hear they are excellent :o)
Borgo67
I am not fooled by the winning run.
I am however delighted by it.
We have a squad with too many mediocre players.
When their efforts are matched ,we quite offer don’t have the extra ability to overcome the efforts if our opposition .
TT
Weeminger,
Cheers, we can only try our best.
Hail Hail
Offer= often
Hehe.
http://youtu.be/4B7ypA1fSwU
JOE LEDLEY has lifted the lid on his gut wrenching decision to quit Celtic.
And he admits it still hurts that he left Scotland without saying goodbye to his team-mates and fans.
Ledley, who left for Crystal Palace 12 days ago, said :”That really upset me. I will always regret the fact that I didn’t get the chance to say a proper goodbye.”
The whirlwind move ended a trophy-laden three & a half years at Celtic Park.
But it happened so fast he didn’t have the opportunity to say farewell.
“I didn’t really have time to think about it. Maybe it was a good thing as leaving a club like Celtic is a really hard thing to do.
He revealed; “We’d spoken about a new deal at Celtic and were still weighing a few things up. Do I stay or do I go? I was genuinely thinking about staying. I thought I would end up staying. I had told most of the boys I thought I’d be staying. But I came into training the next morning and there was talk I could be leaving.
“The next day the bid was accepted and I was on my way.
“It was a good deal for Celtic because they got some money for me and it was a good deal for me too.
He added: “Celtic is a fantastic club, they’ll always be my team. I got on with everyone at the club, the lads were fantastic. My family were settled and I was really happy in Glasgow. But sometimes things happen in football.”
canman
A name would be helpful >}
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
10:59 on 11 February, 2014
BIG NAN
I see your point about Jimmy Reid,but he was long a hero of mine. Even the Scargill thing merely diluted that a tad.
His newspaper articles were excellent too.
I remember one of them particularly,when the Honda Civic first arrived on our shores and one of his mates bought one.
He raved about its frugal consumption.
Very second night on the way home from the pub,Jimmy and the rest of the crowd would top up the tank by about half a gallon. The Civic owner was beside himself,it never seemed to need refuelling!
After about six weeks,they started removing half a gallon every so often.
The guy sold the pig in a poke as the fuel consumption had gone through the roof!
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Like the petrol story and liked Reid up to that day on the motorway.
We should never put people too high on the pedestal as they usually let us down with some human behaviour that we ourselves are prone to.
Walter Matthau did the petrol trick with his screen son in a weepie about a boy who gets sick and dies, can’t remember the name but Matthau was a favourite of mine.
TeT
next time you visit the costas ask one of the guys who have the irish or british bars.
They all do that…
off out schools off so no time for cqn…o))
TET,
Dreambox
BIG NAN
All of our heroes have feet of clay,one way or another.
We all strive for perfection. But I know that I would loathe anyone who actually achieved it!
The Walter Matthau-agreed,marvellous at what he did-connection I was unaware of.
Perhaps Jimmy wasn’t though…