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Celtic return to action at Easter Road tomorrow in a game it would be fatal to make any assumptions about.  With two away games ahead, our nine-point advantage could be reduced to three, by some refereeing errors or substandard performances.

Going by what we saw on Christmas Eve, the latter sounds unlikely.  That was our best performance in months, however, Hibs will have a gameplan that involves exploiting the unaccustomed right back, Reo Hatate, should he continue in the role.

There is a potential upside to the week, win twice and we will be at least 12 points clear at the top of the table.  For now, we cannot consider that, all that matters is Easter Road.

I hope you had a happy and fulfilling Christmas.  For those of you who work most of the year, I hope you managed some time off (I did).  God bless each of you who had to work over the period –thanks from the rest of us for keeping the world spinning.

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  2. DeniaBhoy on

    The alarm bells should be ringing for the Jan 2nd game simply because I cannot see us losing. That is never a good sign against that mob.

     

     

    But having watched them against Aberdeen and Hibs, their defence is as poor as I can remember. Abada or JF should destroy Devine or Barisic, Jota will do the same to Tavernier, they have no pace or guile in central defence and their keeper is on his last legs.

     

     

    Tillman has good moments and may be a danger. Arfield too, if he plays. Ryan Jack and Kent offer little anymore that we cannot deal with and Morelos is Morelos.

     

     

    Expect them to start hard and fast but if we score early we will win comfortably.

  3. bigrailroadblues on

    Team for tomorrow;

     

    Joe, Tank/JJ, CCV, Carl, Greg, Captain, Reo, Matt, Aaron, Kyogo, Liel. Ange told me the team in Ramsays chippy after he’d had a few in the Queens Park Cafe.

  7. Taurangabhoy on

    Merry Christmas to you and your family Paul67. Hope you had a great day and are looking forward to a brilliant 2023. Thank you for keeping CQN going. Hail Hail.

  8. Sláinte Ange on

    AN TEARMANN on 27TH DECEMBER 2022 4:59 PM

     

    All 200 Celtic goals under Ange

     

    https://youtu.be/X8wwSR6ouSAz

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

    Thanks for posting that great wee video.

     

     

    It could be called Postecogoals

     

     

    I’ll get ma coat!

     

     

    HH

  9. Tontine Tim on

    Noticed that our former protege Ben Doak is making a lot of noise down south and wondering why the smsm are NOT clambering to canonise him like they did with bully whatshisname, oh how silly of me they now have a now hero sweet sacrament devine.

  11. !!Bada Bing!! on

    TT-Spot on,these SMSM clowns,were trying to climb aboard our successful sell on players,and thought Gilmour would make them millions

  12. Almore on

    Everyone at parties? Just watched Thomthethim’s son interview Philly McMahon on Virgin Media 2.

     

     

    Philly played for the Dubs in several All Ireland football winning teams. He grew up in Ballymun in drug-ravaged North Dublin and his dad was an IRA volunteer in Belfast.

     

     

    Well worth a watch if you can find it.

  14. Magwai on

    Iontach ciúin anseo anocht Almore. Nollaig Shona ó Ghaoth Dobhair.

     

    Ádh mór don bhliain atá amach romhainn uilig.

     

    Hail Hail (níl Gaeilge ar bith ar sin).

  15. ‘GG on

    Kyoto’s first (not given) goal has not been part of any of the discussions of the game I’ve seen or heard. It seems like it has been air brushed out of the match report. I would have thought that a goal line camera would be included in the VAR kit.

     

    Why is it not part of reviews?

     

    Is it to ensure hun leaning linesmen can deprive us in close over the line calls?

  19. happy tim 67 on

    Hi everyone, Happy Cristmas, or, Happy Saturnalia, you just can’t tell what way folk swing these days, there’s also another Happy event for another community as well too, I don’t want to misspell that other Happy —, or I might get called aunty this, or that, you know what the folk are like nowadays.

     

     

    Thing is, Im a PLC advocate, and as such Im more interested in the club getting the cash registers in tip top shape, for the financial robustness of our great Celtic football club.

     

     

    We are led by giant’s.

     

     

    This fantastic blog, Celtic Quick News, and also, Sentinel Celts, are very useful public squares for Celtic supporters to have a blether about events at Celtic, and elsewhere, obviously on a limited spectrum on Celtic Quick News, a little more like Sentinel Celts, as each day goes by, that for me is good management by the blog administrators on here.

     

     

    If folk want to live in the past, then it might be a good idea to invite them to go and live there?

     

     

    That decision of course is not my call, but as time rolls on and events from the past seem to slip from the minds, then letting these things go might be the best call, to move on and deal with the present, and embrace the future as the good Celtic supporters that we are.

     

     

    All of this agreements and disagreements is how we roll, or it should be from my view point.

     

     

    No harm to the Resolution 12 guys, or those arguing about the PLC viewing Sevco as Rangers, it just doesn’t matter anymore, and possibly 59.999 thousand Celtic supporters have never even heard of these annoying issues.

     

     

    I say annoying issues because thats what they are, issues that would annoy the majority, so its outstanding that we have blog administrators who very cleverly don’t waste any time on annoying thorny issues, then the 59.999 won’t even be aware of these thorns, and can enjoy their Celtic experience in the most positive way possible.

     

     

    As it should be.

     

     

    Ok, the SFA etc screwed all other clubs to give Rangers a licence to play in Europe, whilst Rangers were breaching financial fair play laws, and what did our PLC do, they brushed the issue off the the table and lied, and lied, their way out of it, and they did so with the blessing of our amazing supporters, and not a single ticket sale was lost, so the fans had spoken.

     

     

    Our amazing supporters backed our equally amazing PLC for the sheer class with which the PLC exuded in removing our club away from the very annoying, and what might’ve proved to be very time consuming wrangling on the Resolution 12 shenanigans circus.

     

     

    Our rivals died in 2012, then a new Ibrox club came to the SPFL in 2016, and some Celts were wondering what we might call this new club?

     

     

    Not to worry, we could call them whatever we liked, but we would’ve looked rather childish whilst doing so.

     

     

    We could never be grateful enough for the way in which our amazing PLC totally stage managed this other thorny issue.

     

     

    The issue of what do we call the Ibrox club, “Rangers or Sevco?”

     

     

    Our amazing PLC brought us an EPL level manager in 2016, a manager called, Brendan Rodgers. Wow!!

     

     

    The Celtic fans were dancing in the streets at this appointment, and crucially, the arguments about what will we call the new Ibrox club after their promotion, the ticking time bomb dilemma, was defused by a PLC masterclass of, cloak and dagger theatre, the outcome of which was, we don’t say Rangers name, or Sevco name, we retain the old Rangers price on the new club Sevco, Old Firm tickets, which Celtic fans would’ve paid “any” price for, especially with Brendan as our manager.

     

     

    So please go away you negative pains, 59.999 thousand are not listening to you, so go away if your not happy.

     

     

    A classic theatre of smoke and mirrors, we don’t say the Ibrox clubs name, new or old name, we just keep the Old Firm tickets at the same price as previous, and Celtic fans couldn’t get enough of these tickets, and our EPL level PLC, had removed yet another thorn from the Celtic fans daily lexicons, and let our fans enjoy Celtic in peace, and free of unsolvable arguments, which consume too much time.

     

     

    A big thank you to Sentinel Celts, and to, Celtic Quick News, for not writing articles about these two thorny issues in your daily feed, I know that recently Sentinel Celts wrote about “Resolution 12” like Celtic Quick news used to do, but please dont give any oxygen to this annoying idiot and his, “Rangers prices onto Sevco Old Firm 2016 tickets” which gets in the way of letting Celtic fans enjoy their Celtic experience in a positive way, free from these two very time consuming, and very annoying thorny issues.

     

     

    Cap doffed to you.

     

     

    Its not my place to interpret the source of subjects on Celtic Quick News, or on, Sentinel Celts, but if the two blogs could agree on a banner sized pop up, at the top or bottom of the screen advising posters to keep their Celtic experience as positive as possible, and it would be much more enjoyable, by refraining from any discussion about the “Resolution 12” borefest, or the other thorny posting trouble maker, who always insists that keeping Rangers value onto a Sevco ticket was somehow, our PLC not playing within the integrity of the game, what a borefest, by helping “Sevco become Rangers” just because our amazing fans were too busy positively enjoying the appointment of Brendan Rodgers to notice!

     

     

    What is wrong with this guys head?

     

     

    Very annoying!

     

     

    The “Resolution 12 issue” and the “Rangers value onto Sevco tickets in 2016” were not negative experiences for the amazing Celtic supporters, far from it.

     

     

    These two instances were masterclasses in how a top class, EPL level PLC, takes on thorny issues and makes them go away!

     

     

    Just like that…..gone!

     

     

    And 59.999 thousand Celtic supporters didn’t give these two thorny issues a second thought.

     

     

    Mighty impressive, no one could live with Celtic football club when its led by mighty wizards and just two shakes of the wand and these two issues were removed from Celtic`s inbox!

     

     

    NEXT?

     

     

    Happy Tim 67

  20. petec on

    Happy Tim,

     

     

    And Respect Brother in Celtic.

     

     

    I don’t expect betting sites to have pictures almost a minute in advance of Celtic Season Ticket Holders, paying for their Virtual Season Tickets.

     

     

    I’ve got excited before and bought Celtic TV for Pre-Season friendlies. I’ll never do that again.

     

     

    It was like watching a very polished stream. The betting sites were miles ahead.

     

     

    Anyway it’s trivial.

     

     

    Hibs will have a go and Celtic, hopefully, will take them apart.

     

     

    Rewind for Favourite Ever SC Final without Celtic.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLhUiYrZhA

  27. bigrailroadblues on

    Good morning all from Govanhill. Going to be a hard game tonight, just bring back 3 points bhoys. Gerrintaethum Celtic!!!!

  32. Auldheid on

    Happy Tim

     

     

    Res12 may have bored you but it has played a role in the very future you wish folk to move into.

     

     

    How significant history will judge, but I hope you and all Tim’s enjoy the benefits of Res12 labours.

     

     

    You fail to recognise that eventually the Board, whose virtues you extoll, are part of the Res12 narrative which ended with The Foundation announcent made possible after 14 months of enabling in consultation with Celtic Executives who recognised doing the right thing in difficult circumstances is not a bad idea and in the Company”s interest.

     

     

    Educate yourself and read this article unless boredom is your excuse to remain ignorant.

     

     

    https://thecelticblog.com/2022/12/articles-and-features/a-group-of-celtic-shareholders-has-forced-change-at-uefa-the-sfa-and-ibrox/

  33. Auldheid on

    GlassTwoThirdsFull.

     

     

    Agreed. The gap is the measure of the increasing or decreasing comfort and anxiety zone that we occupy.

     

     

    It’s like a pair of flexible trousers. If it gets to tight our anxiety level increases and we want the trousers to be more comfortable. But if the gap is too big we risk the trousers falling down as our complacency leaks on field.

     

     

    I’m pretty confident that over the season the gap will remain, but not complacent about it.

  34. Big Jimmy on

    It appears that MICK BEALE believes that the GAP is ONLY THREE POINTS, cos the Huns have only played Celtic ONCE this season ??????

     

     

    CHUMP of the HIGHEST ORDER.

     

    Tell the Mankie Hun support anything they want to hear….it probably works ?

     

     

    HH

  37. Gene on

    Good morning from a wet North Staffs

     

     

    Auldhied

     

    I’m sure I read that part of the Res12 was to sue the SFA for the loss of revenue caused by their cheating in giving oldclub a license.

     

    Was that the case?

     

     

    Notwithstanding that I’ve got the utmost respect for what the group has achieved.

  38. David66 on

    Good morning all from matchday Garngad.

     

     

    Big Jimmy catch up soon. No problem about the game tonight.

     

     

    As long as that rascall BRRB doesn’t turn up he nearly got us barred the last time he was in.😉

     

     

    3-1 to the leather belts.

     

     

    D :)

  40. Dontbrattbakkinanger on

    Very best Christmas wishes to you all.

     

     

    Like many Tims I am delighted with the new tin hat Santa brought me, to help with my VARanoia .

     

     

    I imagine it will see lots of service between now and the end of the season .

  41. Gene on

    DBBIA

     

    Good to see you posting

     

     

    VARanoia 🤭

     

     

    Doing a family football quiz last night and apparently VAR doesn’t stand for Vantage ala Rankers

  42. paulsthroughball88 on

    AULDHEID

     

     

    Re HAPPYTIM’s post, I think your sarcasm detector may be set at “off”.

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