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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Just caught up.
I assume the tickets Phillys can source for the citeh game are for the home end. If not questions must be asked.
Hail hail
5. May1967. 2-2 draw at Ibrox in the rain. Wee Jimmy scored a brace and it meant we had won the league and having already won the Glasgow Cup, 4-0 at Ibrox with Bobby Lennox scoring a hat trick, the league cup beating Rangers 1-0 we had only one hurdle to clear to complete an unprecedented quintuple.
6. August 1967 in a League Cup match against Rangers at Celtic Park. Down 1-0 to a very early Henderson goal, John Clark tripped the same player late on as he bored in on Ronnie Simpson. Kai Johansen whose name invokes a bad memory, hit the bar and then played the ball. It was at the Celtic end and we let loose a mixture of cheering and jeering. We went down the park, won a corner from which Wallace scored. The incomparable Bobby Murdoch and Bobby Lennox finished off the job. As my brother and law said “We are the European Xhampions after all.”
I hope you’re all proud of yourselves on here. I went up to bed a few hours ago and screamed the house down
There was my Mats standing in a tutu sod all things! Well,I quickly calmed down because things haven’t been too good in the bedroom area recently and I thought maybe my Mats had decided to spice things up. I told him how hot he looked and he burst into tears.
Seems he’s flounced off this stupid blog at last but you can’t leave unless you wear a tutu.
Your a bunch of heartless idiots. Is this a masonic thing? It’s not been much fun for my Mats recently. There’s no Labour Party left in Scotland to pay him for advice and The Telegraph doesn’t pay much. He tried to offer his advice on here for free and you ungrateful lot threw it back in his face.
No wonder he’s in tears. He put our house on Labour not losing a single seat in Scotland and now he can’t get work either. And now this. He doesn’t know where he is or who he is.
I’ve a good mind to send you all the psychiatric bills but I think Labour had him in Bupa.
Politically I don’t agree with Macjay but I agree with him that some of the extra curricular threats on cqn is a disgrace
Hun like
7. May1998. After losing to Rangers twice in April and being thrown a lifeline in the league when Kilmarnock scored a winner in added time at Ibrox, Harald the trophy bringer slotted home the second against St Johnstone to double up Henrik’s peach and settle our nerves and the SPL. The monkey was well and truly off our backs and oh how we celebrated. Old men in Kearny throw away our walkers and danced on the pavement while Fenians in Manhattan stopped the traffic in midtown with a huge huddle on 5th Avenue.
8. Nov 1998. Lubo announces his arrival with a double in a 5-1 win against Rangers. The MSM in their infinite ignorance said Loo Who? What pleasure he was to give us in the years ahead and what pain he inflicted on Rangers.
MAGS
To be honest,it’s like a bearpit in here at the moment.
We’ve just qualified for the CL,pocketed Dave King’s warchest in the process,got probably our best manager since MON.
Clear at the top having beaten some decent teams so far and the huns are in disarray.
We should be gorging on jelly and ice cream again. Instead we’re choking on invective and malice.
It’s a worrying trend,for sure.
I read an article on trolling in TIME the other day. It’s not just here it happens. But the site would be the better for a lot less of it.
I was at the 4-2 game
My coronation as a believer
Worst parkhead too … Can’t remember when huns won 2-0 and Hately gave us the finger which was in my general direction when he scored
‘GG
“From zero to hero,Lubo?”
Just shows how much the hacks know about football. Tossers.
BMCUW
I know
Djokovick has stumbled through his first game at the US Open, winning 3 sets to 1.
He looked disinterested and tentative.
So it’s time for bed and my final two in the top ten will need to wait till the morning.
The tension is bearable, I know.
Play nice bhoys and ghirls
some of the things people on here get upset about is hilarious.
anyway weather report from monsoon land… it’s still pishing it down and there are thousands of people now ‘displaced” (media speak for now got no home left, even though they had little to lose), oh and on top of that there was a 6.8 earthquake chucked into the mix last week.
BMCUW
Yup but I believe Lubo said in response “I was never a zero”
He then went on to prove it :)
MINGALARBAR
Good luck wi it,mate. One of CQN’s finest lives in The Philippines. He could give you chapter and verse on similar.
“When you ain’t got nothing,you ain’t got nothing to lose”
Hardly a comfort. Take care,bud.
MAGS
Indeed he did.
And
Indeed he did.
Hero,not zero.
Legend,not legned
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 4:48 AM
how true that is.
i know a few lads from The Philippines and they can tell some really interesting stories on that.
from a footie point. I have an interesting champions league household as my wife is a manc and therefore is a city fan!! the locals will be celtic fans by that point – i’ll make sure of it!!
MOONBEAMSWD ‘STAND UP ON 15 FOR THE GB’ on 30TH AUGUST 2016 1:05 AM
Tiny Tim
Defo Ibrox one. Must have just been my dads favourite song then. We were 2-0 down at half time. I watched it back on Sportscene with him that night. I wasn’t allowed near derby matches then. :-)))
MACJAY – shame :-)))))))))
MWD
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You’re right. But it was three years after the 4-2 Parkhead game. 1982, I think, at Ibrox, we came back from 0-2 at half-time. It might have been Charlie Nicholas last game before he went to Arsenal. I remember him at the Celtic end scoring a penalty against Big McCloy. But not much more as too much drink taken. But it wasn’t when the league was won. I’m afraid it was the same day as the league was lost to Dundee United.
HH
MINGALARBAR
Oh,dear. Just as well there’s not much to occupy her time in Myanmar or there could be a sex ban when we muller her team(!)
1983,to be precise. Not splitting hairs,btw.
A bad seven days saw us lose to Aberdeen in the cup-Black playing handball in the lead up to their goal-and again in the league as well as to Dundee Utd.
Cost us a double.
Good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/29/belfast-ex-ira-richard-orawe-gerard-hodgins-cuffs-restaurant-crumlin-road-jail
Course,it won’t be as good as the stew in Felons.
That was,to borrow a word,braw!
DOC on 29TH AUGUST 2016 11:09 PM
As some posters are having difficulty with facts tonight can I point out one.
James Traynor bought shares in Celtic when they were in the “grubber”.
No implication from me here.
Good long term investment btw:-)
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Doc. Comparisons are odious. You’ve plumbed the depths with that.
I wonder if the same Traynor, in his desperation to see his team, would have paid £350 he could ill-afford to a ticket spiv on the morning of the match in Seville. I did, and paid the same for my son.
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Good long term investment btw:-)
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Only an economics illiterate would think so.
And by the way, has any one of the CQN sleuths asked how many of the four requisitioners who represented the 100 Res 12 signatories hold shares in the club?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 30TH AUGUST 2016 6:04 AM
i take the ban if we gub them – last min og will do
Good morning friends from a dry calm but grey cloud covered East Kilbride.
Disappointed on reading back to see some posters ridiculing the TV documentary about the Hearts players who perished in the trenches during the Great War. It wasn’t ABOUT Celtic. Some people just see everything in a parochial way.
I got the impression they hadn’t even watched it, but simply took umbrage because it was about Hearts players and not Celtic.
Thanks to THIRDS63 for praising the programme without the childish pettiness.
On the other stuff, I was away at a funeral yesterday and just been reading back. My Gawd CQN is at an all time low.
Don’t you just hate international breaks?
MWD
How ye doing buddy!
Top 10 games attended:
1. 4-2 game 10 men won the league
2. 2-4 Charlie’s first swansong at poundland 1983
3. cup final 1985 Provan’s free kick and Frankie’s header
4. Cup final 1988 Macca double
5.Sporting Lisbon at CP a deluge oif goals
6. v deidco Paul Lambert goal that stopped 10 ( knocked the stuffing out them)
7. V Juve 4-3 first euro match with my son
8. Anfield Kop – right in line with Thommo freekick goal, then BBJ
9. Boavista away- Henke’s goal grown men in tears
10. 125 game v Barca 2-1 with my son ( mass previous niight with dad at St. Mary’s )
Really need a top 50 ;-)
AULDTAM
Sorry to hear about yer pal. Bliddy horrible things,funerals.
Worst thing is,they come around more frequently these days.
How the SMSM systematically wrecked their beloved team, blowing smoke and ignoring the obvious.
Then, spend the rest of their pitiful careers trying to salvage …something…anything!
Discuss.
all the time in the world…
Saltires
I was thinking top 500 but then decided it’d be good to get the guys really thinking about their favourites.
Kill Ultra
I directed a more pointed post to you with a couple of Q’s. Would be interested in your answers/views.
MWD
BMCUWP
Enjoyed reading all the top 10. Was hoping for more, especially from the older/wiser contingent as I wasn’t around to memories theirs. C’mon BMCUWP. You could take us right back to the first 5 in a row surely? :-)
MWD
Saltires
Deja vu with Sevco currently in play.
MWD
Med
Add ’65 cup final against the pars when big Billy scored the winner and the new year game around that time when we were a goal down at half time only for Yogi to run amok in the second half frost for a 5-1 victory.
AULD TAM on 30TH AUGUST 2016 6:26 AM
Disappointed on reading back to see some posters ridiculing the TV documentary about the Hearts players who perished in the trenches during the Great War. It wasn’t ABOUT Celtic. Some people just see everything in a parochial way.
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I think some of the criticism may be around a campaign that the SMSM had a couple of years ago to get Hearts to share the league they narrowly lost out to because they had lost so many players only for it to turn out that Celtic had lost just as many but wasn’t mentioned at the time. Just my thoughts, I will look out for the programme and give it a watch.
Top 10 for me, with two substitutes
1. Seville – The whole experience
2. Meeting Billy McNeill in Perth, WA 1999
3. First Final v Hibs 1969 LCF
4. Love St v St Mirren 5-0 1986
5. Stopping the 10 v St J
6. Real Madrid ECQF 2-0 1980
7. 4-2 10 Men won the league
8. Sporting Lisbon 5-0
9. Third Final v Hibs 6-1 1971
10. Meeting Bertie Auld in the Celtic Shop in June
Sub 1. Lubo’s screamer at Easter Road
Sub 2. Being lucky enough to have seen the King of Kings
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3764325/amp/Jozo-Simunovic-nears-Celtic-exit-Torino-eye-3-75million-offer.html
THETIMREAPER
You get the feeling that Jozo’s career is not quite his own…
We never even got a chance to see him, serious injury and now another decent money move….
Hmmmmmm as a great man once said..
If a dwarf fortune teller escapes from jail…..
Is that a small medium at large ?
Hoopy Birthday Bobby Lennox
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4vYNaRqSKQ#
Tom
My dad said he met you on Saturday, now we just need to re unite you with Cunnie.
Weebobbycollins
He usually berates the Cqn bhoys n ghirls for encroachment, being an old fashioned type of keeper he usually clears them out ;-))