I’m not going to laugh at results against Luxembourgers or Lithuanians – it’s not so long since Gibraltarians bloodied the nose of a team who went on to become invincible treble winners. Scottish clubs have a long history of pitching up in June and July wholly unprepared for European football.
These results only retain the ability to concern if they are not resolved by remarkably improved performances. Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic grew in stature last summer until they became a competitive Champions League team in the autumn. Others may do the same this season.
What will be clear long before the lottery of the European play-off rounds, is where the gaping chasm exists in Scottish football: are Celtic our only team competitive in Europe, or is there at least one other?
Neither you nor I care who competes in the Europa League, but failure there if Celtic progress to the Champions League will compound an already acute challenge for the Scottish also-rans.
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Episode 2 of ‘A Celtic State of Mind’ finds Paul John Dykes and Kevin Graham discussing a variety of topical subjects concerning Celtic Football Club, including:
* Callum McGregor: The Youth of Today;
* Death of the Cult Hero;
* Norwegian Wood – Ronnie Deila’s Exit Interview;
* Farewell to The Stone Roses;
* Hillsborough: The Truth.
Paul John Dykes also chats to SFA President, Alan McRae, to challenge him over recent comments made about Celtic’s domination of Scottish football.
Connect with A Celtic State of Mind @PaulDykes and @CQNMagazine or just listen using the link below…
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Clogher
A fine swathe of Irelands history there.
Thanks mate.
:-)
HH
CLOGHER CELT
Enjoying your informative posts mate..
Thanks for them..
HH
The papers have Celtic selling both Armstrong and Dembele after the CL qualifiers are done.
Ultimately, if we fail to qualify I could see a scenario where both players are sold. However, I am an optimist and I’m very confident we will qualify and Armstrong will sign a new deal. Once that happens, I think Dembele will remain at least until January.
We’ll see where we are at the end of the window but I’d be happy with Musonda/Roberts and another striker.
Oops,
Maybe I’m being unfair.
W.A.T.P. on t Dressing Room wall is surely a timely reminder,
‘We are the ‘Paye (as You Earn.)’
John James fairly laying into the marchers on Saturday.Some shocking facts that should shame Police Scotland,but sadly wont..
An Tearmann/Starry Plough,
Thanks. My quiet life is about to be tested as the young fella has 4 lads coming over for the Shamrock Rovers game at the weekend.
Gary Og is apparently playing in Drogheda after the game, so it’ll be busy.
HH and Till Later
CLOGHER CELT on 3RD JULY 2017 10:08 AM
Keep them coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coTOrDdanU0
On a day when reports that Sevco are holding out for 750,000 for Wee Baz,this from one of the great deluded a couple of months ago.
DR Hotline 20 JAN 2017 … the supposed Barry MacKay transfer to RB Leipzig
Steve Downie, Shropshire , said: “I pray that Rangers don’t panic-sell and undervalue their talent, as they have too often done in the past. Celtic have been good at holding out for top dollar deals so I don’t think Rangers should even pick up the phone for anything less than £12 million”
Oh my aching sides.
I try not to get too excited about signings until i see Lennybhoy or Catman confirm, so ill keep my powder dry on Musonda until then……………………………………………………….would be good though
Celticprocrastinating CSC
CLOGHERCELT
My Dad and I will not forget your hospitality nor your generosity with your time.
Our visit to the River Boyne and the battlesite was as eye opening as it was informative.
Just a lovely serene beautiful place.
That’s the way I’ll remember The Boyne. Others can remember it as they wish.
Clogherhead was magic anaw,btw. Really lovely people.
With the BTC appeal to be determined this Wednesday what do we all think will be the outcome?
There’s attention to detail (B. Rodgers) … and then there’s Sevco’s OCD green boots ban because another team wears them.
It really must be cold in Celtic’s shadow.
Charly Musonda.
At 1.06 in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOAiuZZ8n0
I’m sold.
SIGN HIM BRENDAN!
I want to see that move bamboozle the Gullibillies down the wing in front of the main Hun Monkey enclosure at Taco Hell. Bucket list.
In the 1950’s my uncle Charlie, who lived in Dublin, took me Drogheda and the Boyne. Cannot remember too much about the “celebrated” river, but my memory recalls that I came away thinking that on a good day I could have jumped across the Boyne. Thereafter, apart from acknowledging the beauty of the place, it has never been very significant in my life.
OG Rafferty 11:06
I assumed it must be Hibs – they are Sevco’s main rivals after all.
Or it could be just another pathetic PR stunt to try to attach themselves to Celtic. I make that about four in the last week!
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Alternatively the could just go all in with their Zombie season ticket monies on Euro Nightmare in the 8:45 at Hamilton tonight and be done with it…
#shakespearewasatimcsc…..
With the BTC Decision 2 days away I took this from BRTH’s analysis the other day.
EBTS are given post performance on a judgement of that actual performance AFTER the period of it.
Wages are contracted to be paid performance by performance DURING the period of the performance according to stipulations in the contract for that performance.
The former is based on trust that performance will be rewarded to the level of the latter. A side letter guaranteeing an equivalent level of payment has to be a breach of trust by its very nature, ie no trust in the person contracting.
To undermine that principle by determining that the ebts with side letters are not a breach of trust would tear down the walls that separate one type of tax arrangement from the other.
The parties to the arrangement should have no bearing on the decision but given the lack of support or recognition of the value of the principles at play in Scotland this might not be the slam dunk it should be.
I tried to keep that as short as possible :)
IMATIM WANTS JUSTICE AND THE TITLES TO BE STRIPPED FROM THE CHEATS on 3RD JULY 2017 11:04 AM
“With the BTC appeal to be determined this Wednesday what do we all think will be the outcome?”
*****
Hopefully, one that will enable you to rearrange your moniker to include the words ‘got’ and ‘were’ one day.
That lad Masonda looks a player, bags of skill and pace.
If Brendan manages to sign this lad i will be impressed.
Charly looks the real deal, love to see him in the hoops.
HH
new article posted.
BMCUWPs,
Thanks.
I read the comments in the Herald Article this morning…
One guy thought The Boyne was in Ulster. Another thought that it was about his/her Presbyterian heritage.
* As you know the Boyne runs through Leinster.
*The other Herald commentator should read the original rules of Orange Order Membership,
“Resolved that no member is to introduce a papist or Presbyterian, quaker or Methodist, or any persuasion but a protestant.” [The Formation of the Orange Order 1795-1798, Page 125]
Maybe these guys also think there is a club in Glasgow going after 55 Titles and that Glibby and Co are Fit and Proper Board Members?
Chris McLaughlin BBC is reporting there has been no contact between Celtic and Chelsea regarding Musonda.
Brendan said talks have been ongoing since January regarding the player we are after.
Who knows?
Twisty/67 Heaven
Re. The podcast. I’m with you guys. Nothing challenging McC’s world view of his Rangers.
I also expected something big re. Res12 after Winning Captains post to Auldheid. I must have missed that too.
The rest is just like all other podcasts. Personal opinions on Celtic related matters so worth a listen even though I don’t agree at times.
MWD