Europe? A week ago I was all for it; there has been a lot of learning since. We are not ready to make an impact on the latter stages of the Conference League or any other Uefa competition. For me, the focus of this week is all about Easter Road on Sunday. Football, however, does not allow you to pick and choose.
If Ange rested much of his first team against Bodo/Glimt tomorrow and suffered an even worse result than in the first leg, a new avenue of consequences would open up. You cannot prepare property for an important game by losing a few days earlier.
Celtic must go out in the frozen north and give a professional performance, preparations for Easter Road will wait a few days.
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Ernie, Mr Logic, he’s a pain in the arse.
Kev Jungle still living rent free in vacant heids.
Whata bhoy Kev J.
ERNIE LYNCH on 23RD FEBRUARY 2022 10:59 PM
I never claimed it was all down to me unlike your grandiose bullshit of the secretly placed Labour vote
The FAC group did all the hard graft, lobbying politicians in all the opposition parties, organising the campaign, supporting football fans who had to go through the court process, what a job they did
It was repealed eventually when the political lobbying paid off and the Tories were convinced they could give the SNP a bloody nose politically and voted to repeal
The celebration party was a grand night, the real stars of the campaign got a gift and recognition for all their hard work, some of the FAC committee I’m glad to call friends, however, somehow the prize for being the mystery Labour party voter in the mystery constituency that secured the end of OBFA never got awarded
and if bye magic, viz lives i tel yeese,
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8N7uNvOzYI/X0jQ8p-Dz3I/AAAAAAABd1Q/VGUMaKjr7m8lWNX9m354nqL5QgjRjLYmwCLcBGAsYHQ/w225-h320/Fuckwitt1.png
Agent P🏴🇬🇧 (@AgentP22) Tweeted:
Terrifying stuff.
What an economic basketcase an independent Scotland would be.
Makes you wonder why Sturgeon, Blackford and Co would willingly heap such financial misery on the poor, the vulnerable and disabled people who all depend on benefits.
https://t.co/iTdGBX3wha https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1496469836356104192?s=20&t=L4dJDfUef4FuIOJvGljkhg
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Wee sleekit drawers hoping they dim Tims don’t cotton on to this 👆
Oh mammy daddy!
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LR67 just a pity he never applied his supernatural powers to the UK elections. Which is strange after all surely he wouldn’t want a tory landslide?
Read back, Dear God,
CATHOLIC WITNESS IN AMERICA 🇺🇸🚛🇨🇦 (@catholicinusa) Tweeted:
Let’s tune in for some common sense instead of warmongering hysteria!
Let’s say NO to war!
Let’s say YES to peace. https://twitter.com/catholicinusa/status/1496594736399982599?s=20&t=xNVuVfC1UWmeWSkza0cy7g
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From every street in America they proudly make their way
to hear what Geordie Galloway has this week got to say!!!
Imagine troubling God about words on a blog.
It dizny matter how you vote
Its who counts your vote that matters.
Awe you do is find out who the sitting council is
then you’ll know who has planted the plant who miscounts your vote.
Jamie Blackett (@Jamie_Blackett) Tweeted:
If our expensive state broadcaster spent more time scrutinising Sturgeon’s record in office, Scotland wouldn’t be in the mess it is. https://twitter.com/Jamie_Blackett/status/1496512353072041989?s=20&t=FEPjzjy2m2NJbBf9othRYQ
Kev j
Get back on your medication son, you know its best👍👏👍👏
Sorry about having the audacity to interject posts about football games on today’s blog.
Reading back, I can see that they are jarring, totally out of place and just don’t belong.
I like any football/politics/cheese on toast/rebel songs so long as it’s civil.
As someone who voted for independence, I appreciate Ernie’s thoughts and he has made me at least consider my position.
I find his points of discussion more compelling than others who go for the ‘you’re a hun/Brit/never seen you at a game’ approach.
Play the ball etc…
👍🏼
If there hadn’t been certain political decisions taken back in the day then there wouldn’t have been any need for the founding of Celtic fc, so Celtic were/are one of the most majestic outcomes of politics ever!
Late night.
Why do we do this to ourselves? Saying stuff to one another remotely we would not dream of saying in the pub face to face. Celtic men. My auld da would be spinning in St Peter’s, Dalbeth at such a state of affairs. Casting aspersions. When there is a League to win.
For me, first priority is League (with respect). First and always is the League. Hence season ticket. Everything else takes care of itself and paid for on a case by case basis. My auld da was in Lisbon and Milan. And countless others. I was in Seville. And countless others.
The politicos set out to take over this site and if football posters keep responding to them they will have won. Do yourselves a favour…blank them
What was the thinking playing O’Riley and Rogic in the first leg?
All the talk about Ange playing Bitton or McCarthy I just can’t see it as he they lack energy to play the way Ange wants us to play.
So why O’Riley and Rogic in the first leg?
Has anybody ever met “Ernie Lynch”?
The answer to that will be a resounding no.
He is a troll and fair enough but please see his posts through that prism.
MAJESTIC HARTSON on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:01 AM
https://twitter.com/Deckyy67/status/1496502900679446530?s=20&t=h2SGWifeOdsLMJ5P0zuFmw
Ange wont change his 4-3-3
Ange played Rogic and O’Reilly because he believed in their attacking ability at home would win the game
NEILBHOY on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 12:02 AM
Has anybody ever met “Ernie Lynch”?
aye at the old burns howff
Most passes completed
108: Cameron Carter-Vickers (Celtic)
107: Carl Starfelt (Celtic)
89: Callum McGregor (Celtic)
87: Jacob Rasmussen (Vitesse)
81: Jannik Vestergaard (Leicester)
The concept of “passing your way out of trouble” took something of a hit in the first legs of the knockout round play-offs, with seven of the top-ten passers (including all of the top four) ending up on the losing side. Celtic (3-1 losers at home against Bodø/Glimt) accounted for three of those players, with three more coming from Vitesse (2-1 losers at Rapid Wien). Leicester’s three-man contingent got more reward for their distribution, the Foxes securing the biggest win of the night: 4-1 at home against Randers.
Crosses completed
4: Josip Juranović (Celtic)
4: Jota (Celtic)
4: Maximilian Wittek (Vitesse)
3: Marko Vešović (Qarabağ)
3: Andrija Živković (PAOK)
If Thursday’s games didn’t always reward accurate passing, they were even less kind to players who made accurate crosses. The only five players who managed to send in more than two successful balls during the course of the evening all ended up losing. Josip Juranović and Jota peppered the Bodø/Glimt box with incisive crosses, but like Maximilian Wittek, Marko Vešović and Andrija Živković, they earned little tangible reward.
Balls recovered
13: Çağlar Söyüncü (Leicester)
10: Philipp Max (PSV Eindhoven)
10: Josip Juranović (Celtic)
10: Dávid Hancko (Sparta Praha)
In all-action terms, Leicester defender Çağlar Söyüncü and Celtic right-back Josip Juranović scored high this week; Çağlar also featured in the top ten for passing accuracy and clearances, while Juranović was first in the crossers’ ranking too. The Foxes’ 4-1 victory against Randers was doubly satisfying since it brought an end to a five-game winless run in domestic games, including a shock FA Cup exit to near-neighbours Nottingham Forest.
Clearances
11: Marius Høibråten (Bodø/Glimt)
9: Henrik Dalsgaard (Midtjylland)
9: Idan Nachmias (Maccabi Tel-Aviv)
8: Çağlar Söyüncü (Leicester)
8: Emanuel Aiwu (Rapid Wien)
It was backs-to-the-wall stuff for plenty of sides this week, Bodø/Glimt’s eye-catching win at Celtic Park owing much to the ability of defenders like Marius Høibråten to bail them out when it seemed they were in danger of being overrun. Henrik Dalsgaard’s clearances helped Midtjylland earn a narrow win against PAOK, while Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s 1-0 loss at PSV Eindhoven was hardly a disaster as their opponents face a trip to Bloomfield for the return.
Most saves
12: Patrik Carlgren (Randers)
5: Luka Gugeshashvili (Qarabağ)
5: Daniel Peretz (Maccabi Tel-Aviv)
5: Nikita Haikin (Bodø/Glimt)
4: Paul Gartler (Rapid Wien)
Randers lost 4-1 at Leicester but apparently loved the experience, goalscorer Vito Hammershøj-Mistrati saying: “Their fans, our fans – the whole vibe was just amazing. I really enjoyed playing here, except for the last 30 minutes.” No Randers player left an impression quite like their Swedish goalkeeper Patrik Carlgren, who came to their rescue a dozen times, more or less keeping them in the game until the latter stages.
George Galloway (@georgegalloway) Tweeted:
I fought for #Brexit ergo I’m a “racist” according to the “left”. I support the family as the best building block for society ergo I’m a “sexist”. I support women’s rights ergo I’m a “transphobe”. I oppose Nationalism in Scotland ergo I’m a “Tory”. The state of the “left”… https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1485270111363678212?s=20&t=FneY0c_MLVt7oCuCivwfZw
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George is correct, the left is dead.
Left killed in USA by the mass murdering ‘Democrats’ since forever.
Left killed in UK by Tony Blair the war mongered Labour Party has been dead ever since!
Who needs left when, common sense social conservatism is on offer from WPGB??
Social Conservatism lifted 800 million Chinese people out of poverty and built up better structures socially for its people, that’s why every western news outlet smears China all day. 👍
If you want politics, well President Zelinksy of Ukraine really has laid in on the the line in the last hour or so. And he has done that speaking in Russian to the Russian people. In the event of war……
“You will be looking at our faces ….. not our backs”
No Western Leader, not Biden, not Johnson, not Macron, not Trudeau could address the situation Ukraine faces in such a powerful way. And it has to be said, in doing so, he has went up immeasurably in my own view.
Russia has legitimate concerns in relation to NATO on it’s doorstep, an organisation which recently left Afghanistan on the verge of starvation after twenty years of liberation and occupation, but Ukraine is not the aggressor here, it is the potential battlefield, the likely killing field. And lest it should be forgotten wars in this part of the World do not come cheap, no no no, everyone pays a heavy price, including and sometimes especially the victors. Pyrrhic victories the Romans used to call them, with only one question needed to be answered.
Who Pays The Ferryman?
Good morning cqn from a whiteout Garngad
COYBIG
D :)
Temperature wise, Glasgow is similar to Bodo this evening. Seems a tad windier over there, though same for both teams.
Big game, possibly the second biggest we’ll face this week.
Baltic in Corcaigh…………
Does anyone know where I can find a Celtic site dealing with tonight’s game. This politics stuff is not for me. Came on here years ago to share with other supporters about Glasgow Celtic, not to read about politics.
CM @ 1.02
There is tripe and then there is GB infused / St Als 6th form common room / wee boy on a man’s world tripe — and you are on point when it comes to performing logical gymnastics to try and make sense of a world you don’t understand.
Nationalism is in play / identity politics is in play / playground dynamics are in play.
You are an appeaser / an excuse maker — absolutely no use in today’s world.
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Watching back on last Thursday’s game, I can’t see how we might win tonight. Their fitness, physicality, mental attitude and skills were top class.
That being said, when we scored, we were really unfortunate to give away the third goal. A wicked deflection.
An honorable result tonight, but far more importantly, no injures.
Sunday is the main event.
Connor –
Share yopur stories of Celtic and Celtica – ask yer pals to do the same…
don’t indulge the trolls or give them the oxygen of a name-check and they will be beaten………………….
( I’m looking forward to seeing the Celtic play tonight, I can’t figure out how Big AP will set out the team but I’m looking forward to it anyway.)
Lionsroar,
Cheers for the reply. I get that he was playing them for the attacking aspect if their but at the expense of Hatate seemed at the time a gamble. It wasn’t helped by O’Riley having his worst game in the hoops.
And regarding Ange changing shape, I agree that is not going to happen.
I also can’t see Bitton or McCarthy getting a start, as some have mentioned. I don’t think it’s on our manager’s make up to be thinking of being ‘so’ defensive
Madra Rua,
Anything you picked up from the re-watch that you didn’t catch first time around?
CONNAIRE12 on 24TH FEBRUARY 2022 8:34 AM
Well said . I don’t post often but when I do it’s not about politics . I read the blog every day but these days I do far more scrolling than reading . I suspect there are many more like you and I , unless they have given up on CQN completely . It has been suggested that this is the politicos intention and I’m beginning to wonder .
I would love to beat Bodo on their own patch . They are a good team but one thing that has irked me about them is their fondness for mind games . All the comments before the first leg about how they were underdogs , their mid-match huddle and now telling us that we won’t handle the weather there .
All comments eagerly lapped up by the SMSM of course .
Never in history have so many of our ‘kind’ been so wrong.
We have been attacked by others – denied work & opportunity by the asking of one question, “what school did you go to?” – had organisations in the country in which we live, e.g. the Orange Order, march in the streets publically expressing their hatred of us, routing these ‘parades’ past our places of worship aided and abetted at the outset by the Church of Scotland and an emerging Scottish Nationalist movement. “Send the immigrants home” was the cry at different times by all these three Scottish based organisations. The Church of Scotland has had the good grace to apologise, the Nationalists never have – the OO never will.
Yet now we have large numbers in our community voting SNP and hoping for independence – not because we are oppressed by the UK, or, that we will benefit economically from separating from it, but for spurious & blinkered reasons. It is self-evident that there is no coherent economic case for independence, if there was the cult that is the SNP would be shouting from the rooftops and plastering it on every billboard it could lay its hands on. Through the global financial meltdown of 2008 and the recent ravages of the first modern day pandemic, ( how many more will we see in our lifetime?) we have had the strength of the UK economy to see us through and to protect our livelihoods, jobs and income – either earned, or, benefit based. The Barnett formula allows Scotland to spend almost £3000 per year, per head of population, on essential services more than England, even though we are running a current budget deficit of some £30b – 15% of GDP.
What is prompting this anti-UK voting? Put crudely, the fact the “Rangers” community seem to favour the UK and wave the Union Jack. How absurd – cutting our nose off to spite our face for what is basically a West of Scotland football reason. If the Ibrox legions suddenly performed a volte-face and supported independence and the SNP, our SNP lot would change sides and vote UK, that’s how shallow any political commitment really is.
Will we eventually come to our senses and see through this Nationalist tripe, or, wait till it’s too late, continued to be conned by the cult, sleepwalk into independence, when we will ‘squeezed till our pips squeak’, and our identity is ‘Tartanised’ and neutered?