A Europa League tie against Rennes on Thursday would normally set midweek pulses racing but when Celtic have such a crucial game ahead in the fight for second place Neil Lennon has a major decision to make, does he rest players for the Motherwell game?
Sunday’s game at Fir Park is set to become one of the most important games of the season for Celtic and I’m sure Neil would prefer a clear midweek to prepare for it, but resting players, with the inherent increased chance of defeat, could further damage fragile morale.
Celtic need a confidence boosting win but they need heads focussed on beating Motherwell even more. The consequences of defeat on Thursday are unpleasant, but the consequences of defeat on Sunday are incalculable.
Issue 4 of CQN Magazine will be out soon, if you would like to advertise email me: celticquicknews@gmail.com
Read issue 3 of CQN Magazine free online here or buy a print version at Magcloud.
[calameo code=000390171bb1634f4d942 lang=en page=1 hidelinks=1 width=100% height=500]
1,000 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- »
sftb-I am not questioning their effort of dedication but their ability to get a message across.The cohesion as a unit is not there,injuries dont help mind you.The line about Garry Parker was facetious,i grant you HH.In your opinion, given we are 12 points behind after 12 games,when do you think it is time for a change if we dont win on Sunday?
00:16 torcherous = torturous. Iphone (don’t know what that means, assume it’s Greek for apologies for bad spelling or grammar).
We are only 12 games in.
THEMS luck wont last and they WILL falter.
Murderwells luck won’t last, suspensions and injuries will kick in and they will falter.
We can’t get any worse. Players will find form. We WILL win this league.
Stick with Lenny, he is our Pep and our next Stein.
Hail hail.
Mickeybhoy1690? Don’t even bother responding.
BMCUW
Big day Thursday so keep me in yer thoughts fella.
Enjoy the game cos despite all our problems its still a magical, wonderful experience to go and see the famous Glasgow Celtic.
Caesar 67
Caesar 67
An affirmative to 4 of your questions
And as a wee aside just because you won’t see me posting on the blog for the next few days don’t think that you and your auld cronies have been successful in hounding me off the blog. The reason is that posting from a hospital bed on 3G has used up 80% of my mobile data in standing up to Fudds like you and your cronies. The other 20% is too valuable to waste on questioning inane posts of how much a grown and I assume mature man hero worships a football manager.
You must be sadly lacking in other aspects of your life if you have to express your emotions through the your undying love for someone who would probably wouldn’t even know who you are if he walked by you in the street
Ps when did this man become bigger than the club
Ceaser67 says
Last night is the past, tomorrow is the future until it becomes last night! Then it is the past, unless the universe starts contracting, time goes backwards and stars disappear, one by one off Rangers shirts.
Mind you there are certain stars that are forever in the firmament. Sirius, The Sun, Proxima centauri, Polaris and a billion others; the brightest of all is the one that makes us blink and remember who we are and why we care. Its name?
Ach maybe it is waiting on being Christened..
Hail hail
Estadio
British soldiers are fighting in Afganistan right now, without basic survival equipment, and the hun are thinking of ways to deny the resources needed to protect them.
Well there you are eh, the peepil
Estadio
Jayzzuzz. A simple naw would have sufficed!! Did you not go out as Saltyballs? lol
In today’s Sun, Andy Devlin opens his piece saying “ARMS flailing, eyes bulging and veins popping, Neil Lennon tore through Celtic’s dressing room like a force ten tornado on Saturday.”
Now unless Devlin was actually in the dressing room, there’s no way he could have written what he has. In fact, there’s not a single quote in the piece that mentions the above, either.
So, yet again, another reporter maintains that Lennon’s demeanour is nothing but a snarling, vein-popping ned. I know y’all probably won’t find this surprising, however I still think it’s relative.
Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3908747/Gaffer-was-right-to-give-us-hell.html#ixzz1cVGdKHA2
Ceaser67
You deserve more than a ‘naw’. Just like I deserve another glass of 13.5%. :-)
Hail hail
Estadio
Ceaser67
Oh, I also forgot the question.
Great story about three dimensional nuts and two dimensional apples from sharkeys tonight. Think I’ll save it for ron.
Hail hail
Estadio
For an old friend tonight.
In Dreams
sftb-catch up tomorrow mate,thanks for chat HH.
Darkest before the dawn, a new day is coming :o)
mick 1888
mind warrramm your bed pan!! stick your ipod in it!!
Neil wd probabley toss a penny in your bunnett when he past you. May ur god go with and your troubles vanish. H H
hail hail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=B4nF-BTclRM
Fred C Dobbs
Wallowing in Roy O.
Brill. And by the way I can sense the feeling you had for your friend. He/She meant a lot.
Superb.
Hail hail
Estadio
When you turn on your own you become them
Estadio
Is that Roy O as in Orbison?
Ceaser67
Hope so! otherwise my spelling is stuffed.
Hail hail
Estadio
Estadio,
Sad news tonight (not unexpected) but still…:O(.
Estadio
My fav big O song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogeuinHxlqw
In Dreams Estadio. We can only pray!!! Keep the faith. Night all.
Easy posters..!
MickBhoy is in ‘hospital’ .. Remember just because we can’t see it …it’s still an illness just like a physical ailment. Let’s not exaccerbate things.
Ok mickBhoy, son sleep well in your big comfy cell…
Night night just take your medicine .. Don’t tight it.. Good lad!
Fred
I would never even think I was entitled to glance at someone else’s loss. But, maybe the strings being plucked. the chords being struck and the words being sung are what magic is made of.
So ….here we go with Roy, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes.
That’s music
Like your affection for your friend, it will echo forever across the universe.
Hail hail
Estadio
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd
Without going into detail and not engaging in the OTT politically correctness of the blog, mickbhoy is actually in hospital.
I realise your post was meant as a joke.Unlike some he will take it as a wee joke. As you have seen he can give as good as he gets!
Estadio,
Thank you for that. You don’t know how close to the mark you are.
Hail Hail.
In March 1965 Jock Stein returned to Celtic Park.
As part of his negotiation Jock insisted on full control over team matters including team selection and transfers, a privilige that was dinied to the previous manager jimmy Mcgrory who had suffered unacceptable interference in team matters from chairman Bob Kelly.
What followed was the golden years for Celtic, a period of unmatched glory and success culminationg in the holy grail in Lisbon.
Fast forward 46 years and another manager will probably feel some sympathy with Jimmy McGrory as he tries to drag Celtic out of a slump while suffereing almost constant undermining from the deferer of bonuses above him.
The point is as in 1965 root and branch change is required to the way the football operation is run ie by football people only. If this is done, although things seem dark now, major honours can be just round the corner.
In the unlikely event that turkeys vote for Christmas and SPLOB is stripped of his goose laying golden eggs then sadly Neil Lennon, like Mcgrory, through no fault of his own would probably be a victim, sacrificed for a more experienced manager.
He would go with my highest regards for him still intact.
Bada Bing
Sorry i was called away and I won’t be able to post in the morning.
To answer your question. Any time is good for a change. Whether it’s the big change (of the manager), that’s a hard question and everyone will have their own answer. There’s no doubt a lot of our fans have turned away from belief in Lenny. I still think that’s a shame.
I hope the Rennes result is not used to undermine the Sunday match. They looked a tasty counter-attack outfit. We will need a tight defence and hopefully our attack keeps them busy enough.
Regardless of results or managerial appointment, i will be there and have just secured my ICT ticket. I have to go to that as I missed our league-defining game there last season though I was on the bus all the way to Newtonmore for the postponed game.
G’night CQN
There is no doubt the most important figure at a football club is the manager. Stein and Ferguson are prove if needed.
Lennon is inexperienced and is learning his trade whilst manager of the biggest little football club on the planet.
Don’t be so sure their is a Plan B at Celtic Park.
When Mowbray finally left Neil was only expected to be there a couple of months but manager to win 8 games on the trot with a team that previously lost 4-0 at St Mirren, who in turned had just lost to nine man rangers in a Cup Final. Therefore the board couldn’t do everything but give him the job.
He continued his good work and won a further eight league matches in a row. Followed this up by beating rangers greatest manager in head to head meetings, narrowly missed out on the league and won the Scottish Cup. Not a bad feat.
Ofcourse there is going to be downs as we are experiencing just now but that is football – pure and simple.
There is no great experienced manager awaiting the call from Celtic. If you don’t believe this think of the shortlist of managers in 2009 – McGhee, Martinez, Mowbray and Coyle – hardly the stuff of our dreams.
Neil is the best man we can hope for in the present circumstances.
As for the players if they have stopped playing for Lennon and downed tools in the hope that Lennon will be replaced shame on them, how can I ever support these guys again?
Hail Hail
Hmmmm ratio of Scottish to British clubs going into administration last 25 years = 7/61.
Hmmmm ratio of Scottish to British clubs going into liquidation last 25 years = 2/5.
Ratio of Scottish to British clubs?
ratio of population
ratio of Money?
Hmmmmmm
Worth a bet I think.
I hear the donut has set up a new site
http://www.betdaq.orc
Look I am not encouraging gambling. Not at all. I myself used to be a heavy gambler.
Now I just make and take mental bets.
I lost my mind recently.
So watch yersels.
So Hypothetically speaking and in a most sincere way.
Just say Huns are deducted 10pts and still win 4iar.
How many of me fellow tims here would agree to an away boycott?
Just askin?
There is serious truth decay in Scotland..which reminds me
RTC, hae found another twist in the tail, amazin what a few untrained amatures can find out, imagine what a heavyweight journalist could dig up if they went looking,
Waitin on Uefa penalizing them …….didny
Waitin on Maribor penalizing them….did
waitin on SFA penalizing them….didny
waitin on HMRC penalizing them……oh oh … is it a pattern?
I think A great many Celtic supporters suffer from penalizing envy. Freudian.
ok…How many CQN’rs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
3.
1 to screw in the light bulb and 2 to hold the pen…….THE LADDER …..THE LADDER!
G’day Aussietims/ morning Celts, from a drab n dreary looking NW coast of engerlund.
So did the hun players get paid? They must have eh!
My point I made yesterday morning about playing ONE or TWO under 19 players on Thursday grew some Chinese whispers, some thought I wanted a reserve team (bull) , and others called me a feartie for my opinion…. I guess some posters will stretch it a bit in order to state their own point of view, must have learned that trick from the politicians :>)
My wish for a MAX of 2 under 19’s on Thursday, was because they would give NL 100%, and because the Man City v Celtic under 19’s game was the best footie match I’ve seen for a long time.
In addition to the above, I believe the europa game to be a distraction and the main prize is 3 points against Well. It’s where we are now, we ain’t got a team to compete in Europe, how many points have we thrown away after a Europa cup game this season? The answer is far too many.
On a positive note though, from a balanced book perspective, it will be a welcome income steam that may or may not be used to purchase a striker in January, it would be a nice gesture to the hard working Celtic faithful who turn up on Thursday night, will it happen?
I hope for a good performance on Thursday and 3 points on Sunday, have a good day y’all.
V
HH
Margaret M, just added ye on FB!
HH
canamalar –
I know we haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but I have to say I have really enjoyed your contributions to the CQN debates recently.
An example to us all of how to really support a club and a cause.
Hail Hail.