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I’ve no fondness for Stuart McColl but I’m disappointed the wheels have fallen off Motherwell’s bogey this season.  Delivering two consecutive second place finishes in a league populated with mostly better finances teams was exceptional.  Over the last three years they have lost players instead of paying money they couldn’t afford, otherwise they would almost certainly be challenging at the top of the table.

I like Gordon Strachan.  One of the things I like about him is he is almost impossible to get on-message.  Talk about manipulating football in order to get the ‘right’ teams in the top division is ludicrous, Gordon knows this, or he wouldn’t have used a word like “manipulate”.  On a substantive note, I think he’s wrong on this point.

The game changed when Rangers were liquidated, and it changed again when Hearts and Hibs were relegated.  Fewer people buy tickets as there is not genuine competition for the league title, but some things we can do without.

Scottish football survived without the ticket money these clubs brought them, and the country’s streets, pubs and A&E departments have benefited from not having to cope with the sheer hassle we used to put up with.

I’ve enjoyed our four lower tier-only games this season, they were atmospheric and entertaining.  If this was our future, I’d bite your hand off for it before I’d want to go back to the old ways.

Celtic, Motherwell, Aberdeen and the rest are defined on their own merits, and many of us are enjoying our football.

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  1. PJBhoynyc on

    I’ll tell you what…

     

    CQN night shift is like the old days…

     

     

    Just saying… Where’s Maggie?

  3. An Tearmann on

    Pjbhoynyc

     

    Cheers mhate.it is indeed a blight on modern life as to why our economic system fails those.but my spirit in Celtic was renewed going to the game on Saturday.The food pick up point was staffed by smiley volunteers packing donations into a van.The van was nearly full (bout 2pm) I was lifted in my heart.knowing my club was essentially doing what it did in the 1880s, our charity like our history is ongoing and continious.

     

    :-)

     

    HH

  4. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    winning captains

     

     

    01:33 on 4 November, 2014

     

    ”gg

     

     

    Re the match programme – we fully intend to publish our own version for the league cup semi final, don’t be in any doubt about that!

     

     

    ‘gg

     

     

    01:35 on 4 November, 2014

     

    WC

     

    That has a certain ring to it does it not?

     

    By WE do you mean CQN or Celtic FC?

     

     

    ..

     

     

    The Worst thing a Employee can Ever do..

     

     

    Is..

     

     

    Assume they Will Still be in a Job in 3 Months Time..

     

     

    Summa

  7. 'GG on

    Now we know who is really running Scottish football

     

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/ally-mccoist-i-will-postpone-alloa-league-match-if-it-is-best-for-rangers.25757118

     

    ALLY McCOIST says that football rather than finance will influence whether Rangers choose to postpone a match for the third time this season.

     

     

    McCoist revealed he is considering asking for the SPFL Championship game against Alloa Athletic on November 15 to be re-arranged should the club have three or more players away on international duty.

     

     

    Rangers had two SPFL League 1 games last year and a Petrofac Training Cup tie against East Fife and a league game against Cowdenbeath this season postponed for the same reason. The Central Park game has been re-arranged for this evening.

     

     

    McCoist will make the call on the Alloa game once the squads for the forthcoming international fixtures are named this week but, with Lewis Macleod, Bilel Mohsni, Dean Shiels, and Arnold Peralta all in line to be called up for their respective countries, he is likely to enforce the postponement. A re-arranged midweek match with Alloa would probably mean a much-reduced crowd at Ibrox but McCoist revealed that, despite Rangers’ financial difficulties, he is under no pressure to play the game at the weekend when a greater attendance could be expected.

  8. 'GG on

    Not the most glowing of football reports. LOL

     

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/morton-0-airdieonians-0-yin-to-be-missed-managers-philosophical-at-journey-into-the-v.25756605

     

    Morton 0 Airdrie 0: Yin to be missed…managers philosophical at journey into the void

     

    Callum Baird

     

    Monday 3 November 2014

     

    BACK in the sixth century BC, when Babylonia fell, the Persian Empire rose from its ashes and toga-wearing Greek philosophers first started to look quizzically at tortoises, the Chinese sage Lao Tzu delicately laid down the first few brushstrokes of the Tao Te Ching, the text that would go on to become the bedrock of Taoism.

     

     

    Morton goalkeeper Derek Gaston calls for a Socratic dialogue

     

    Lao Tzu had faith in the duality of the universe. “When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly,” he declared. Yin and yang. Each thing must, by its very nature, have an opposite.

     

     

    So perhaps that in order to have that mouthwatering Old Firm derby drawn out of the hat on Saturday evening we first had to sit through this: 90 minutes of the most tedious, excruciating football imaginable. For what seemed like an eternity, the large clock hanging over one of the stands at Cappielow poked fun of the spectator. Time stood still. The little hand lazily ticked its way round, trundling through treacle. The match cloyed at the senses.

     

     

    Whenever Airdrieonians booted long from a goalkick, every single player on the pitch, bar the goalkeepers, was crammed into a space that could not have been more than 20 yards by 20 yards. The ball arrived from on high, then bumped around and off bodies in that tight, cramped area until it probably went out for a throw-in. Rinse, repeat.

     

     

    Even Airdrie’s strip was a blight on the eyes, the kind of garish bright pink that could make a man weep simply through prolonged exposure.

     

     

    While there were chances, they fell into a familiar pattern. If a striker even caught a glimpse at goal, he shot straight at the goalkeeper. Andy Barrowman was guilty, in the second half. Liam Watt had done likewise after just four minutes. Keigan Parker, Scott Gray, Conor Pepper … each found himself in promising positions and messed up.

     

     

    “I’ve been training with tennis balls to get my reactions up,” declared Derek Gaston, the Morton goalkeeper. He might as well have trained with a beach ball for all the toothless strikers troubled him.

     

     

    He was beaten on one occasion, when Parker crashed a quick shot to rattle the crossbar after darting in cleverly from the right.

     

     

    There was another rare moment of excitement when Joe McKee was shown a straight red card after he slid in, studs up, on Morton’s Luca Gasparotto – on loan from Rangers – and left him writhing on the turf in agony. It perked up the crowd for a moment – something had happened! – but did not change the game much. Morton settled for the replay, Airdrie could not break through. The match fizzled out.

     

     

    Both managers expressed their satisfaction at being involved in today’s draw. They are no closer to Hampden, though, and on this form neither will get anywhere near.

     

     

    The poor crowd, shellshocked as they wandered out, were left to contemplate these five chilling words: there will be a replay.

     

  9. PJBhoynyc on

    an tearmann

     

     

    03:11 on 4 November, 2014

     

     

    Love your experience…

     

    It’s all good!

     

    Spread the love….

     

     

    It’s the best anecdote to the alternative…

     

     

    C’est La vie.

  10. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Summa of Sammi….

     

    02:40 on

     

    4 November, 2014

     

     

    Careful with that sort of thing now.

     

     

    Sean North C.S.C.

  11. PJBhoynyc on

    gg

     

    Ha Ha has….

     

    Thanks for that…

     

    Callum Baird is one to keep a keen eye on…

     

    Under Cappielows Milk Wood…?

     

    Jim Duffy will be pleased…

     

    Roll on Callum Baird….

     

    Superb!!!!

     

     

    GrassRootsCSC

     

     

    Roll on The Future…

  13. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Celtic Statement..

     

     

    Twitter Retweet @CelticFC

     

    Glasgow Celtic FC would like to Formally Welcome Glasgow Rangers back to Celtic Park for the First Old Firm game in nearly 3 Years.

     

    Celtic FC would like to congratulate this New Rangers, Team New Directors and New Manager to Celtic Park for the Forthcoming Old Firm League Cup Semi Final.

     

    We as a Club would also like to Acknowledge their change in Signing Policy as they Thrive to stand together with Us in their ‘Open to All’ Policy we also Look forward to Many Many more Years of rivalry between the Two Glasgow Giants of Scottish Football and We Would Also like to thank Donald Findlay QC for his Efforts in Enlightening Our Support that this is a New Rangers that we Stand together with in both our ‘Open to All’ Policies it’s is truly a Momentus time for The Old Firm of Scottish Football.

     

    No further Statement will be made till the Start of Old Firm Week at the End of January 2015.

     

     

    Ps.. Celtic FC would also like to Warn any Unofficial Celtic Blogs that Any Lateral Movement on Celtic FC’s Official Stance towards our Glasgow Neighbours could mean the Closing Down of CQN corner on Match-days as We Fundamentally can’t have Fandan Funda Mentalists gathering to Preach or hand out leaflets of Hatred and Won’t they be allowed to Put their Spiritual Leader Wee Fra The Tim on His Soap Box to spout his Foul Ideology on the Rangers Support..

     

     

    @CeticFC

     

     

    Summa

  14. PJBhoynyc on

    Let me be Frank…

     

    Some posters on here. And let’s face it, everywhere… Feel more comfortable associating/identifying themselves with a more elevated status/position/privilege….

     

    Cognitive Dissonant Snobbery I call it…

     

     

    At a historical moment… Where every cog in Scotland felt the need for change…The establishment Media went all hands on deck….

     

    An Identity is being undermined by everything that can challenge it.

     

     

    Food for thought…

     

     

    It is hilariously tragic….

     

     

    GNight!

  19. 'GG on

    Giants are trailing the Colts 37-10.

     

    I suppose that should really read 10-37.

     

    It’s the end of the 3rd quarter and despite the fact that Andrew Luck has another 15 minutes of play to inflict pain on the 3-4 Giants, it’s time for me to retire in preparation for Thursday afternoons enforced retreat.

     

    Oops it’s now 40 as the Colts make a field goal.

     

    It’s always good to see a team in blue being taught a sports lesson.

  22. PJBhoynyc on

    Summa…

     

    :0)))))

     

     

    gg

     

    Of course you realize the are from NJ, not NY.

     

     

    Love@ SOAL

     

    GNoght for sure.

  23. PJBhoynyc on

    Maybe not for sure…

     

     

    My Daddy would light fire and polish my shoes after a winters night shift at GPO….

     

     

    No saying my daddy was bigger than your Daddy…

     

     

    But every time I look at shoes shined…

     

     

    I find myself back half a century ago…

     

     

    And asking myself why I am not doing the same.

  25. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Melbourne Cup Favourite Admire Rakti (Japan) has collapsed in his stall after finishing last in the race..Vets all around and the Area closed off..

     

     

    Does Not look good..

     

     

    Summa

  27. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Macanbheatha

     

     

    It seems that’s the way some see it

     

     

    IMO it’s convenient for CFC to hide using it as an excuse

     

     

    All we want is the truth ….nothing more

  34. lymmbhoy on

    Summa

     

     

    Ha

     

     

    You enjoying your day off?

     

     

    You about next Friday? Down in Sandringham before heading to Torquay Saturday.

     

     

    HH

  38. kitalba on

    Auldheid:

     

     

    The right thing to do was to have said “no feckin’ way” to the ‘5 Way Agreement’. We did not; neither did any of the others. We live in the crappy shadows cast by our endorsement of the Scottish Declaration of Deceit.

     

     

    An agreement that the hun never had an intention to honour and of which Sir Charles of Normandy belatedly decried an illegal document and all the powers of the land did nothing. And all those – ENDORSERS – post their silent complicity, scuttle from one shadow to the next avoiding the light and their moral and ethical obligation to tell the truth.

     

     

    In the meantime, nothing has changed, the game is still corrupt and those who make most coin from the corruption are still raking it in and the Kings of Deceit will soon retake the throne and we will pay homage at the expense of our families Dig deep bhoys Campbell needs new tyres for his Bentley and the Cardigan is comming to tea..

     

     

    Oh what a wicked web we weave……..

  40. kitalba on

    PJBhoynyc:

     

     

    There are food banks in all the home counties too. There is abject poverty shrouding Greater London and it is to the greater extent and English demographic. Kids born in the Greater London area have a very slim chance of getting a council house allocated to them far less earning enough money to rent an appropriate property far less buy one.

     

     

    Every church collects for the local food bank.

     

     

    I’ll hand the first stone to any man who – with malice -says the English – as a people – are ripping of Scotland… and I hope he’ll be able to live with his mistake.

  41. kitalba on

    Auldheid:

     

     

    Let’s not face down fascism lest somebody get hurt… makes no sense to me no matter any which way I try to twist it.

  42. kitalba on

    Auldheid:

     

     

    apologies, reading the posts backwards,

     

     

    Tell me, if you have seen categoric evidence that the hun cheated all, and the powers that be were made aware of it, and did nothing… and the media were not interested… then why did you not send a copy to the police and to the City of London Police?

     

    (okay I know)

     

     

    However, if you believe that the powers that be are in a toxic alliance to cheat Scottish football to advance but one, the hun, why do you continue to part with your money and subsidise the bigot feast?

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