We can take some comfort in the fact that Salzburg have lost three games on the bounce but they sit in second spot in the Austrian Bundesliga, Celtic are fourth in the Scottish Premiership and have won only one of their previous five games. The Austrians will see just as much comfort in our form.
Success on Thursday will be determined by who manages to overcome their frailties most effectively. As far as Celtic are concerned, that will mean trying to find the kind of defensive performance that we put in last season.
Our reason for most confidence should be the speed which we can break at, and Salzburg’s only defensive issues. They shipped three goals to Sturm Graz and Malmo in recent outings.
Many thanks to everyone who has already taken our ‘Who we are and Our Values’ survey, it took just over 1 hour to register 1,000 submissions. It’ll take you little more than 5 minutes to share your view on some important matters, take a look here.
I’m a wee bit late to the party but I’ve signed up for the Great Scottish Run on 5 October to assist Celtic Foundation’s work in the areas of health, equality, poverty, and learning. If you’ve already registered with the event, or you have a pair of trainers and an outrageous disregard for the aging process, get involved.
You can register for the Great Scottish Run here and with the Foundation be emailing them, details here.
This is our club, they are your trainers, that is your outrageous disregard for the aging process. Let’s do it.
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“Dear Lord,
This has been a tough two or three years.
You have taken my favorite actor Patrick Swayze.
My favorite pop singer Michael Jackson.
My favorite Blues Singer Amy Winehouse.
My favorite actress Elizabeth Taylor.
My favorite football manager Bobby Robson.
My favorite golfer Seve Ballesteros,
My favorite singer Whitney Houston
and now my favorite actor, Robin Williams
I just wanted you to know that my favorite politicians are:
Alec Salmond, Tony Blair, John Prescott, Ed Balls, Campbell Ogilvie, Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband (in no particular order)
Amen
Another day becons, decided to take Friday off as I think it will be a momentous day in Scotland’s history.
Beginning to really think we can do this.
It’an aye for me.
kitalba
Love the wee bit at the end about politicians lol
eddieinkirkmichael:
I didn’t write that, it’s just a wee joke that was in my e-mail this morning. It gave me a wee smile for a minute or two.
eddieinkirkmichael:
I’m taking Friday off too, heading to Scotland for the party also.
Yee Ha!
Good morning friends and welcome to Independent Europa League Eve. Just one more sleep.
Meanwhile I can report that it’s another slightly damp and slightly foggy but mild morning here in ole EK, part of the soon to be former UK ;-)
Yes!
.
Courtesy News Asia..??
Among football fans, Scotland referendum cuts across divided
GLASGOW: Patrons of Glasgow’s Brazen Head Irish pub, united in support of the city’s Celtic football club, are split over an independence referendum that has cut across class, religion and even football loyalties.
Drinkers wearing “Yes” to independence badges mingled with “No” voters amid the Irish tricolour flags embraced by Celtic, the club beloved of Scotland’s Irish Catholic diaspora.
Owner and keen independence supporter Gian Fraioli, 42, said the historic referendum, which will take place Thursday (Sep 18), had split his customers, with older drinkers tending towards a the “No” camp which wants to retain the United Kingdom.
“Most of the people who come in here would consider themselves Republican. But still some of them they’ll vote ‘No’. I don’t understand it,” he said, shaking his head in disbelief. “I think a lot of friendships have broken up about it. It depends how strongly you feel about it.”
Seated beneath a framed copy of the 1916 Proclamation with which rebels declared “the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland”, Catholic Glaswegian pensioner Tony Donnelly, 66, declared his intention to vote “No”.
“I’m voting ‘No’ because I’m voting for the union,” Donnelly said as he sipped a pint of lager ahead of a match between Celtic and visitors Aberdeen. “What do flags mean to me? Flags don’t pay the bills.”
‘CATHOLIC CONVERSION’
Across the city, the other giants of Scottish football are Rangers. Rivalry between the two clubs has historically acted as a proxy for tensions between Catholics and Protestants, mirroring conflict in neighbouring Northern Ireland, with which Scotland has close cultural links.
Though grandees of both clubs have urged a “No” vote, a May survey showed a lead in support for independence among both fans of both Celtic and their “Old Firm” arch-rivals Rangers, who embrace British iconography like the union flag and the royal family.
“Protestants in general are somewhat more likely to be in favour of staying in the union than are Catholics,” said John Curtice, polling expert and politics professor at Strathclyde University. “Crucially, once you take into the fact that Protestants are older than Catholics and older people in general are less likely to be in favour of independence, the religious difference washes out.”
But Tom Devine, a Scottish historian who has come out in favour of independence, said Catholic voters – many of them descended from Irish immigrants – could help secure a “Yes” victory in Thursday’s vote.
Devine said there had been a “Catholic conversion to independence”. “They account for nearly a quarter of the electorate, have suffered decades of discrimination and may very well determine the result,” he said.
In increasingly secular Scotland, the fault line on independence may be more economic than religious. Matches like Saturday’s have been targeted by the Radical Independence Campaign, which casts the independence vote as a grassroots struggle by the working classes to wrest power back from elites, and from a Labour Party that has betrayed its roots.
“Without a shadow of a doubt the working class is for this. We feel we’re up against corporate UK,” 28-year-old Danny McGee said at half-time during the match. He said the centre-left Labour Party, currently the main opposition group in the British parliament, was “digging its own grave” by campaigning for “No”.
Scotland, long a stronghold of Labour support that the party has at times depended on to form government majorities, could cause a crisis for the party if it breaks away.
During the Celtic-Aberdeen game at Celtic Park, a group of fans held up placards reading “YES” in the 18th minute to mark the date of the referendum.
Supporters flooded away triumphant after a 2-1 victory, passing estates where “Yes” signs and Scottish flags predominated in windows and balconies. They were met by campaigners from Ireland, who had flown to Glasgow to join Scottish friends in the “Yes” campaign.
“We tell them: we’ve had our ups and downs, but through all our troubles no one would ever want to be ruled by Westminster again,” said Dublin activist Conan O Broin, 28, as he knocked door-to-door in the surrounding estates.
Summa
Who would have known it TD67 a Unionist ? Hope he enjoyed the company of all the GBers in the Brazen on Sat after the game.
Eddie
How’s the carriages this morning?
Not very good mate, old an worn ;)
Eddie
Not you, I meant the OTHER carriages :-)
hamiltontim
Cheeky b@@@@@@ lol
Good morning CQNers,
A football post…
A quite amazing fact from last night’s Champions league games…… would you believe Liverpool committed 22 fouls yet didn’t get a booking, their opponents, Ludogets, by contrast committed 16 fouls and had 4 booked.
In total the home teams committed 103 fouls, receiving 9 bookings, an average of 11.4 fouls per bookings. The away teams committed 124 fouls, receiving 23 bookings which works out as an average 0f 5.4 fouls per booking.
Is it referees are more than twice as likely to book a player from an away team for a tackle, or is it away teams are dirtier?
Fouls Bkings Av Fouls Bkgs Av
REAL MADRID 8 1 8.0 BASEL 8 3 2.7
LIVERPOOL 22 0 22.0 LUDOGETS 16 4 4.0
DORTMUND 10 1 10.0 ARSENAL 16 2 8.0
JUVENTUS 9 0 9.0 MALMO 15 3 5.0
OLYMPIAKOS 12 2 6.0 A MADRID 15 4 3.8
BENFICA 12 1 12.0 ZENIT 16 1 16.0
MONACO 16 2 8.0 BAYER L 19 2 9.5
GALATASARAY4 2 7.0 ANDERLECHT 19 4 4.8
Damned formatting, but hopefully you get the idea.
Morning Timdom
Mild n muggy here in dunblane this morning.
Bit like myself really!
Two days to go till I awake to a Jobo double bill of climatic and electoral observations.
Shouldn’t Jobo be the one to make the formal announcement to the nation?
HH jamesgang
Kitalba give God a break he did take magpie and Ian Paisley if only to pass them on to his counterpart. Enjoy the party whatever the result. Scotland is the winner. Show the World that we can agree to disagree and have real debates about the future of our young. Stand up for them, whatever you choose. Hail Hail.
From today’s Indo!!
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-a-unique-look-inside-dublins-freemason-headquarters-30591746.html
murdochbhoy
07:06 on 17 September, 2014
Homer referees is the answer
I often look at cards/referees stats at that level and it can be quite marked
Try http://www.soccerway.com for further info
Cards betting is quite unreliable as we don’t know what edicts FIFA UEFA hand down to referees beforehand
Early 2014 WC group matches saw some games where referees were clearly under orders not to wave cards – to my cost.
Good morning my friends in Celtic,
Hot off the press : It has been decreed,In an independent Scotland all warning signs will be removed as they are now deemed scaremongering.
HH.
Commons had 11 assists last season, equal highest in the SPFL.
Commons had on average 4 attempts at goal per game last season, much of those games he played as a striker.
Yep he’s greedy and selfish accordion to some on here.
Greenpinata
The press quote…..’addicted to welfare, the Scots embraced the something for nothing society, and they objected to the poll tax, as they felt the responsibility of paying taxes should be the responsibility of someone else……’
Daily telegraph, ‘this vote is about Salmond, and him alone- he can only be compared to Mr Mugabe’…….
Daily mail…’this threat of independence can be compared with the tactics of Adolf Hitler. Who started out in the exact same fashion…’
None of the above can be deemed as scaremongering either then, eh?
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
NielsBohrCSC
Top of the morning to you all from a grey Fife.
Not Salmond’s biggest fan but his role in the Yes campaign has been immense! Harvey, Canavan, Sturgeon also good but PEOPLE the real heroes!
This may be the second last day of the old Empire.
Morning all, especially my fellow “cretins” (never thought I would hear Billy McNeill and Bertie Auld called that on a Celtic site) and members of Salmond’s “joyous” mob.
Looks like it may be a lovely day down here. It’s been threatening to be so since Saturday. Maybe the ole sun is waiting for tomorrow like the rest of us.
Whatever happens, I plan to be at Celtic Park in my usual seat on Sunday.
Here’s hoping that whatever the result, Ernie takes his pals Google & Wiki out for a well deserved pint as they have been overworked these last months! :-)
Was waiting for colonel green to declare an imminent terrorist threat and ww3. Yep hot off the press. I expect that the press in An independent Scotland will be more ….truthful. Not that it matters as most people I know in Scotland can look out the windae and make up their own mind. YES Scotland. Do it. Make your own Destiny. Depend on yourselves. Stand tall. YES.
Nan
I hear you’re being lined up as 1st President of Scotland.
Our very own Vaclav Havel!
:-)
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang.
Rumours are exaggerated.
Havel seemed like a good bloke though. IIRC
I genuinely fear for the mental and emotional health of some of the posters on here come Friday.
Art of War
08:11 on
17 September, 2014
Here’s hoping that whatever the result, Ernie takes his pals Google & Wiki out for a well deserved pint as they have been overworked these last months! :-)
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and the person who bought him his Thesaurus
every day for weeks now he has been throwing the same insults at YES voters, but using different words to express those insults
as if we wouldnt notice
one trick pony
tictaewin,
I have no doubt the press or media outlets unless they follow the party line in an “Independent” Scotland will face “their day of reckoning” as will all persons who fabricate warning signs.
To acknowledge risk used to be the prudent thing to do and we would then mitigate against it; not rely on “it will be alright on the night” because I say so.
Therefore, any warnings will be deemed unconstitutional and un-patriotic.
HH.
tictaewin 08:03
Could you add links to the articles so that we can see the context, and failing that paste the paragraph they were taken from, and failing that at least paste the complete sentence and not just the bits of them that suit your agenda would help, thanks!
Big nan- A NO-leaning friend is now a definite YES after watching Tommy Sheridan on Sunday morning running rings around Andrew Neill on the ole biased Beeb.
Elaine C Smith too, she should be Queen of Scots.
Morning Bhoys and Ghirls I hope you are all well this morning. H.H.
A piece from my daughter on when and why the media used an image of her child to attack the Yes campaign
https://www.facebook.com/lornayoung/posts/10152720116960903:0
Yogiy link didn’t work mate.
ernie lynch
08:17 on
17 September, 2014
I genuinely fear for the mental and emotional health of some of the posters on here come Friday.
No you don`t.
JJ
goldstar10
Hard to argue about Tommy Sheridan being attributable to a “swing”.
HH