I’d a look at the fixture list preseason and didn’t expect we’d be top of the table so early, having played only three games with 10 teams having played four, and two of those games coming against our nearest challengers from last season.
But we stepped up to the task. The earlier win at Tynecastle and beating Aberdeen 4-1 on Saturday has issued a warning to all. Bookmakers are offering Celtic’s title odds of between 2/9 and 1/7, and have created a separate ‘Betting without Celtic’ competition. One of Brendan’s jobs will be to remind players that they need to earn the points every time the whistle goes. Defeats come quickly to teams operating at 95%.
Not that we had it all our own way on Saturday. Aberdeen disrupted our rhythm and passing in the middle part of the game. You can see how Brendan has changed the way we use the ball in possession, but there’s still a bit of work to do for it to become more natural looking.
The goals were outstanding. Leigh Griffiths’ effort would be immortalised in song, if one of the Barcelona players due to visit Celtic Park soon had managed it. Tom Rogic’s technique is of particular importance.
Celtic face a lot of packed defences; having someone able to reliably hit an unstoppable shot from around 22 yards changes how a defence will shape up to play us. This is a player Leeds United thought they could buy for £1m recently.
I was pleased to see Dorus de Vries make his debut. He had little to do, and could do nothing about the Aberdeen goal, but if he’s to be relied upon in any of the important games ahead he needed an outing as a Celtic player.
It was equally important Erik Sviatchenko came through 90 minutes with Kolo Toure. The defence is set for some almighty challenges ahead, and will need to face them with little common game-time to allow partnerships to be cemented.
There’s a degree of trepidation for the Champions League task ahead, but pretenders to our domestic dominance beware: evidence mounts that this is a good Celtic team – one which will continue to improve for some time to come.
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Cuchulainn,
You are in minority tonight talking about football but very welcome anyway!
Build the team round Tom Rogic.
Whit English mob put in a bid of 1million?
Get away !!!
Reminds me a wee..ee..ee bit of Bobby Murdoch.
What a shot and eye for a telling pass!
He will get more caps for Australia than Bobby ever got for Scotland ( I wonder why….).
Hail hail
btw, i thought the SMSM misquoted PL. I then listened to the podcast playback and PL said “we’re hoping to bring in one more before the deadline” that was it!
Celtic are stingy with their money – we don’t speculate to accumulate. Drives most of us nuts but the team is protecting financial superiority to ensure we can dominate in the long term i guess .
i think the RB is all we’re getting!
Delaney’s D………………
Dalsetter Pitches?… No-Man’s Land, The Drum………….memories of sleet-sodden rid (raw) ash parks on a December saturday…….with rid raw thighs to boot………
………………………………………Soviet era changies…………..and bri-nylon taps.
Brrrrrrilliant!
Spurs BC CSC
HH
Lucky Cody,
It grinds my gears is all, especially when he makes accusations about the financing, that really is none of his business unless he contributed which he clearly did not, yet demanded more than anyone else. I expect he thinks there may be hope that it might be a weak spot however I can assure everyone that is as clean as a whistle.
But your right I shouldn’t let level5 trolls get under my skin, especially now, it’s time to laugh them off :)
KIll Ultra
I don´t baby feed.
Your regular failure to answer questions and debate at any level is too obvious. FOR EVERYONE
I am a bully I could also be a troll as well placed here for the likes of you.
Ye canny kid a kidder or was it an agitator ?
Canamalar has you sussed as Auldheid has Tony Donnelly sussed
HH
KILL ULTRA on 29TH AUGUST 2016 5:52 PM
DOC on 29TH AUGUST 2016 5:44 PM
Kill Ultra, you have proof of your accusation? That one requisitioner has tried to scupper Res. 12?
I have met each requisitioner bar one, and would trust all.
You are agenda driven trying anything to discredit them.
It’s not working.
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Sorry, Doc. You’re level of proof in meeting three of the four requisitioners leads to your trust is obviously not as high as mine. I have facts to back up what I’ve said.
Kill Ultra in your reply to Doc you have stated you have facts to back up what you’ve said, let’s see them then ?
Canamlar, indeed, that was my thinking.
They are so blatantly obvious.
The day Kill Ultra comes forward with any evidence, never mind damning, is a day we will not see.
PR simply to try to discredit Res12. Another PR 101, shoot the messenger when you can’t pull down the argument, but hey ho, overtime tonight, so the invoice going in will be so much bigger:-)
PapaJohn, good to hear from you. Hopefully some will realise now PapaJoe55 is not the well known respected poster.
Prestonpans Bhoy, your a mind reader mhate:-)
There is a tweet on from Paul the Tim saying we are interested in Lucas Leiva at Liverpool.
It would be good its true.
Lucas , has a had a few injuries in the past , but could do a defensive midfield job for us. Loads of experience playing in Europe.
Brendan likes signing players he previously had at clubs doing by his three of his signings so far.
Lennybhoy
Quackser Fortune was a character played by Gene Wilder ( who died today) in a movie set in Dublin called Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx….It was silly auld american Paddywhackery but in the movie Gene Wilders local is The Gravediggers
Just in case you thought I was putting up an RIP for a real person…..well i was of course,,,Gene Wilder
PS Development team drew 1 all with St. Johnstone. The Saints got 2 penalties, scored one and missed one. We got one, which their Keeper saved.
Prestopans boys…. you have raised a point I have often wondered about …. the name of CQN …Celtic Quick News…
a ‘quick’, as most of you know, is an old term for a living person (as opposed to a dead person) …so this is a blog about Celtic people who are not yet dead …. but, a quick is also the term used to refer to the part of skin that is found underneath a nail (such as a finger nail or a toe nail) …
so, we have a blog devoted to news about non-dead Celts … or a blog about Irish finger nails…
CORKCELT on 29TH AUGUST 2016 9:09 PM
I don’t know whether Kill Ultra is a Troll or a genuine Tim.
But for the moment I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is a Tim.
So now Kill Ultra I am addressing you as a fellow Tim.
Can you not see that the overwhelming majority of posters here trust & respect the Res 12 bhoys.
OK, you may share a different approach which is your prerogative.
However coming on here with your single issue topic repeating yourself endlessly is boring and annoying. It is also rude & selfish. The rest of your fellow Tims are on here attempting to debate, learn, amuse and just chew the fat on a whole range of different issues.
If you have a problem with a couple of posters, take it offline, why are you subjecting the rest of us to this personal spat.
If you want to join the general Celtic chat then fine but at the moment in my opinion you are just being disruptive & spoiling the blog for the rest of us.
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Cork Celt
Please see earlier post
“I didn’t start this. I haven’t been on this blog for weeks. After Winning Captain’s post yesterday evening I was vilfied, sneered at, at least a dozen times before I posted a reply, and that only after the name of a blogger, Papa John had been mentioned by Teach Solis.”
So you think I should have ignored these posts?
Canamalar
You no nothing about me , I have told you where I live and offered to meet any CQN regular , I suffer from ME/ chronic fatigue my season book was at the top tier of the Lisbon lions stand we used to park our bus at the fire station walk to the ground up all these flights of stairs and back down then back to the bus it took me 3 days to recover. I am slightly better at the moment and the bus now parks behind jock stein stand and my pals seat are on a lower level so was not as tiring. No doubt you will find something to criticise about this as if people don’t agree with your agenda they are trolls. HH
It took 3 years for the res12 dissenters to show their hand. Highly suspicious of all res12 naysayers. Not convinced of either the club or their cqn sycophants either. Yes it’s powerful And is appropriate. As awe naw says any neigh saying from any billy goats gruff better remain as trolling.
And if the fat hasn’t fallen off them, why, they’re still fat; and so,
Snip, snap, snout. This tale’s told out.
McGill at McGill Montreal
Where’s kojo when you need him?
Just because you hope to bring in one before deadline, it doesn’t mean you won’t bring in 3.
MIT 9.05pm
All very good here, hope likewise with you
I ventured into hunmedia a few months back, actually enjoy their pain old or new klub, but their sick posts made me promise myself never again, how any adult would go out there way to post really sick stuff as “banter” again being married to one of the best Sevcoians in the world I still enjoy their pain :-)
By the way, I still remember you taking that club and them knocking you out of LMS so no hiding place on the old timternet :-)
An elephant never forgets
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS on 29TH AUGUST 2016 9:21 PM
I was of the belief that Brendan didn’t fancy Leiva much when at Liverpool as he wasn’t much of a passer.
Aurora
Ahh,,,,,,,,,,, so you do know the bit about why you were reported to Paul67 and had
your offensive post removed.
Good CSC
Well its good to see everyone is sussed so we all know what we are and where we are now.My goodness if my grandchildren came out with such nonsense I might understand it as they are at primary school but from a grown man ? The sooner this International break is over the better so we can get back to discussing the hoops. H.H.
Aurora,
sounds like Paul67’s email has landed in your spam filter
HH
Weeminger
Better getting the players BR wants than just getting players ….
BigCupWinners asked me the other weekend who he thought we would get in my reply was right back, middle of the park & striker…. I jokingly have posted Gerrard & Borrini just because Brendan has worked with them, Kolo Toure has been immense since he arrived and will bring on others about him, at Perth the other week when Murray Davidson tried to get our captain to react, big Kolo (Stanton copyright Dallas) put his arm around Scott to get him to count to 10, maybe Stevie Gee still has it ?
If not am sure 99% of us Celtic fans will go with BR decides (and be happy with his decisions)
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 29TH AUGUST 2016 9:26 PM
Aurora
Ahh,,,,,,,,,,, so you do know the bit about why you were reported to Paul67 and had
your offensive post removed.
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What are you talking about offensive post?
I have never emailed P67
Prestonpans Bhoys
55 was the year I was born it was to differentiate between another papa joe who posted here. BT it was an honour to meet your Dad I remember taking penalties against him at the church fete in early 70s. Sorry for just being an honest truthful Celtic fan it seems to upset so many. HH
How good was the goal from Griffiths on Saturday?
Nearly deadline day and we’re signing good footballers and not projects.
We’re going to have a party in the Champions League.
I’m buzzing about the season ahead then I read a few pages on here and I think wtf?
Hail!Hail!
BSR,
You do realize that I have been using this account for 6 months or more?
Mags McGill 9.23.
That sums it up for me.
The Billy goats are the perpetrators trying to make themselves out as victims.
DALLAS DALLAS. I think Liverpool for some reason are playing hardball with Brendan over players names have been mentioned but we have not secured a single player.I hope we have better luck with this one. H.H.
Interesting evening by the looks of it – will need to read back.
Res12 has significant enemies. This is a professional operation with a great number of contacts and a significant financial motivation to discredit Res12 in general and the letter from Uefa in particular.
Their influence stretched to senior management at two broadsheet newspapers. Both were prepared to act in an underhand, sleekit manner to accommodate their requests.
No ordinary supporter or supporters group could achieve that.
There were discussions on Scottish Football Monitor site around 11-12 August attacking the Res12 Bhoys and making the same accusations – all without any evidence whatsoever.
Did you notice – you probably missed it – the little mention of where Winning Captains lives? I haven’t posted all day yet someone back on the blog for the first time in months randomly mentions that.
Paul told me today that he is settling the Res12 legal bill with the funds – that Kill Ultra has said he didn’t contribute to.
He will then meet CRC – they have been in touch to arrange – and an audit will take place. We paid the ads, got one sum back from the Guardian, spent £100 on graphic design and then paid this second legal bill. Other than the inevitable at source deductions from PayPal all remaining funds – every single penny – will go to Mary’s Meals. The only other possible expenditure is for refunds, last call tonight for that. Still at zero btw.
I went to see the SFA a few months ago. Had a meeting, discussed all things Sevco. There is no love lost ther these days.
I’d love to tell you what we’re up to. The key is in that letter and I am guessing the next one.
I will tell you this. You only hear a little of what the guys working on this have had to endure. It not got long to go and I reckon we’ll need our collective strength to get there.
55
I was trying to inject a wee bit of humour to the site.
PapaJohn, a troll copied close enough to your blog name to cause a little confusion.
Good to hear the Wilsons are well.
Who got wed, haven’t seen them for some time.
JNP
It’s their mission to make us suffer like they are suffering, they can wind us up and the like, but we will never suffer like them.
Education will see to that :-)
HH
** HAVE WE MISSED YOU? **
*** LAST MAN STANDING 8***
If anyone has contacted us asking to be included in the latest competition but hasn’t heard anything back can you please send a further “can I play” email to cqnpredictor@gmail.com . Almost 130 in, most of whom have exchanged 2 or 3 emails so just wanting to make sure we’ve not missed any!
Jobo and CRC
Surprised Paul the Tim’s tweet re Lucas hasn’t generated much of a response. Surely Lucas is the type of guy we are crying out for. I know a tweet is just a tweet but Paul has a bit of form in being ahead of the posse with news,
European football show on BT Sport, knowledgable panel all predicting Citeh and Barca to top our group but stating that Celtic and BMG will take points.
Oh to see ourselves as others see us.
Hail! Hail!
THEMAESTRO72 on 29TH AUGUST 2016 9:32 PM
Yeah was just thinking the same, it’s all about the Celtic for me. Refreshing my Twitter every 5 mins to see if we have ‘that’ midfielder lined up and ready to sign.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 29TH AUGUST 2016 9:21 PM
Silly me, too subtle for me buy hey the Gravediggers still a great wee Pub …
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Corkcelt
I think Dallas has hacked Paul the Tims Twitter account, he has been going on about Lucas for the past few weeks…. I have the email evidence :-)