Many of our early season concerns manifest themselves in the performances against Dundee. A 1-1 draw at Dens on the last day of the summer transfer window, followed by a 2-1 win at Celtic Park in November, told the story of a club just about getting by on the domestic front.
The Celtic Park win saw us go seven points ahead of Aberdeen on the same games played, but defeat to a Stuart Armstrong goal for Dundee United, and a home draw against bottom of the table Ross County, briefly gave us what looked like a genuine championship challenge.
Something happened at Rugby Park in the first week of the year. Kris Commons was sublime but the improvement in Celtic’s performance was due to more than just him. We’ve won six games on the bounce, without losing a goal, with convincing performances, in all but away to Ross County, who belie their lowly position to squeeze every ounce of effort out of Celtic.
Before last week’s game at Hampden it was possible to find plenty of “Celtic are rubbish as well” comments. We were rubbish, earlier in the season, but you’ve watched the team grow in recent months. So much so that it’s becoming difficult to give an honest opinion on the goalkeeper, he is so rarely troubled.
Forged on the road
On Wednesday we have the Glasgow derby against Partick Thistle, before a trip to Perth next weekend, often a difficult venue for Celtic. That will bring to end a nine game run since New Year, with only one game at Celtic Park. The growth in the team has been forged on the road, often on smaller grounds with variable surfaces.
The return to Celtic Park, on Thursday 19, against the Italians with their famous blue and black stripes, will present Ronny Deila and his players with a bigger challenge. It’s not a must-win game, but it’s an absolutely necessary test to a team who are looking more and more imperious in Scotland with each passing week.
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Call me a happy clapper if you want but I will always stand up against anything derogatory said about about my club, board, team or supporters. We have many people on CQN who have expressed their views about our CEO and “bored” appointing Ronny Deila as our manager.” PL is only looking at his bonus”.
Now we are in the run in for trophies and still involved in four tournaments and these posters (or imposters) are very quiet. Not saying we will win everything but at the moment we are playing very good “football”.
Can we now say the BORED and Ronny D are doing the right thing after the transfer window, bringing players in and, as the managers says, ” Celtic are spending money they have” Strength ed the team and still making a profit not bad in my eyes.
Cliftonville, don’t post after bottle of Rioja, like me.
HH
JQB
Choral and musical brilliance there! :)
Thanks for posting.
winning captains
23:16 on 8 February, 2015
Everybody has too move with the times. But in my view never try and fix what isn’t broke, and in my humble opinion CQN is in a good place
Remember and give th idiots guide if the troops are moving to another site
Fess 19
You are a happy clapper
It’s cool there is loads of us
Fess,
In fairness, we were humped by Legia and Manowar. Thanks to incompetence.
Ronny is progressing well but we must defeat Inter at home.
weefrathetim
I posted earlier today – towards the end of the previous article – updating the blog on the plans for the new look CQN as we want to make sure everyone is aware of the plans and can comment etc.
If you have a look at http://www.cqnmagazine.com – the top two posts on there will become the home of Paul’s two most recent blogs with the comments following. The other features will be below that.
That site will transfer over to become CQN when we have tested it and taken feedback from the blog. HT said he wants to maintain the single blog with comments and this is still there -just on a much improved site.
CB
We will defeat Inter 2-0 in Paradise. 1-1 in San Siro to follow.
Keepdafaith!
philvisreturns,
This weekend was already superb.
God is real
Iron lion zion.csc
Off to bed, Happy, God Bless all.
winning captains
Ok, I think :-)
I’ve not had the time to look at the new layout so I trust you to have explained it well enough for even the likes of me :-)
Ma friends memorial match. Won 3 2. RIP Oh over and over we will follow u. Over and over we will c u thro. Cause we r celtic supporters faithful thro and thro. Hail hail.
Gerry
Proud to be a happy “Celtic FC” clapper
Im spending too much time on CQN…im now a confirmed happy clapper…board loving Ronnie loving always offended labour loving unionist….i refuse to confirm on non red wine drinker…thats a nein( still cant say you know what)…maybe there is still some hope….
hamiltontim
For those who prefer CQN to stay the same we have tried to accommodate that wish. We will also have additional user functions that CQNers listed previously so it will be an improvement for those posting.
Weet weet weet
Genesis 1 has got heavens and earth; Light and darkness; vegetation; living creatures; Man.
No mention of fitba’.
Someone should tell big Goran and let him get back to putting strikers into the stand!
Wc @0002
An ignore button!?? :))
I think Cliftonville Celt maybe feeling a little fragile today and it won’t be any thing to do with rioja more likely this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31204142
HT
Fear of change is associated with old age.
HH
From STV report:
The statement, released on Sunday evening, said: “It is regrettable that the Board of Rangers Football Club were not in attendance at today’s important Scottish Cup tie against Raith Rovers.
“Given the events over the past few days and after advice from the Club, the decision was made not to attend the game.
“The Board has a duty of care to the fans, staff and stewards to ensure safety at the ground at all times and they believe this was the correct decision.”
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And thus the thugs given the green light to continue their bullying.
Is ANYONE associated with the game in Scotland EVER going to stand up and state categorically that thuggish behaviour is not acceptable?
Oh hang on a minute…. This is Sevco.
I forgot….
Ki, Ledley and Kayal all scored yesterday.
Breaking news Nigel Pearson not sacked by Leicester.. He should be because he’s clearly a thug.
Bgx,
Tristram (?) Hunt (?) showed what Labour’s hierarchy think about religious people. Hopefully Scotland will continue to reject these privileged chumps.
I’m definitely a glass half full type
Was really scunnered earlier in season with the negative opinions expressed about the football standards and RDs management ability. Was thinking give the bhoys a chance to sort of out.
Now I think the pendulum has swung too far the other way.
Its true we are playing tidy sometimes elegant and hard working football but we’re not ‘great’ or ‘excellent’ and RD s some way from genius (probably).
Now I hope we continue to build and improve but we’ve a way to go yet methinks. I’ll be a very a very happy bhoy if we do!
Keep calm and carry on…
HH
Captain B
Cannot argue about early results in Europe. Who’s incompetence? the manager or the players who could not play as the manager wanted?
Maybe too early in the season for players and manager after NFL left in the summer and left Celtic to find a competent manager who fitted into our philosophy of living within our means
DD/Nostradamus,
That will do just nicely.
Sleep well all.
Thought Greg Stewart was a stand out again for Dundee. Hopefully we get him this summer.
Fess,
In my opinion, the board and players were most culpable.
Sleep time.
WC
Just tried the new format and could not get rid of a Mazda car advert. They are not my first choice of cars but certainly not my favourite. I will be quite happy if CQN remains in the current format. IMHO of course. Thanks David. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
nite nite
hh
fess19
23:56 on 8 February, 2015
Gerry
Proud to be a happy “Celtic FC” clapper
Not at all, I am quite happy just being a Celtic fan/supporter, it’s actually the way I have been brought up, no hatred just want Celtic to do well, by the way when my father introduced to me to Celtic there wS no happy clapping and no moaning bams… You just supported the hoops, in fact sometimes (Raith Rovers 1994) was one of the best nights I ever experienced, Celtic isn’t about winning….. Celtic us about Celtic (that’s not we are the people excrement)
Byeeeeeeeeeeee
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
I posted last year about how I’d been out of work for a while. After a while I took a job that usually I’d never look at as it was basically as a labourer on a building site. It did however pay the bills and I was grateful for the work.
I continued applying for jobs and ventually got a Foremans job with a company from manchester who do a lot of work for Scottish Power. Money was good and the guy who runs things is a great person.
Why am I telling you on CQN this? Well a few weeks ago I tweeted about the advert in the Herald, I encouraged fans to spread the word amongst fans of other clubs.
For some reason the huns on twitter thought that I had funded and paid for the advert and went mental, my notifications on twitter went mental.
A friend who suports Rangers phoned me up and said there a thread on a hun site where they were encouraging people to share any info they had on me. My home phone number, who I worked for etc was disclosed.
We recieved a few phone calls to the house late on and tbh, while I was sure it was just idiots, Isobel was not so sure and we eventually decided to call the Police.
I went to work as normal on the monday. By 10 o’clock it was evident that this wasn’t a normal day. I was getting litterally hundreds of notifications from twitter, non were complimentary. “wer you abused as a child” “peado” “IRA loving Peado” being the majority of tweets.
My bosses wife worked in the office 1 day a week, monday, she adswered the phone etc. She had to go home she was so upset about the abuse she took that morning. Over 300 emails and phone calls demanding I be sacked as I was a sectarian bigot.
On the wednesday one of my fellow workers stoped at Abington sevices for fuel in a works van, the guy was from Manchester, he was approached by 2 guys demanding to know his name “are you that fenian Rice”. Thankfully there is CCTV at Abington and apart from being a bit shook up he was ok.
After that incident my boss asked if I would take some time out. There have been 2 other incidents since and tbh I’m glad I’m at home just now as I know how vunerable Isobel feels.
I’m meeting up with the boss this tuesday and hopefully I can get back to work soon.
What pisses me off is how these morons can continually get away with this, don’t we pay our taxes so the Police can protect us from these lowlife scumbags?
Keeping the faith,
Mcgeouch, twardzik, hopper hooper hattrick and conroy today.
A few on the ol scoresheet this weekend
HH
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Captain Beefy
“Ronny is progressing well but we must defeat Inter at home.”
Why MUST we? What happens if we don’t?
& “Tristram Hunt showed what Labour’s hierarchy think about religious people. ”
Naw, he didnae. He showed what most of us think about having unqualified people in the classroom. Properly qualified teaching nuns were not included in his condemnation. Which non-privileged chumps will you be voting for?
Eddie
Shocking bro! Any help you need phone me.
eddieinkirkmichael
Shocking but sadly not unexpected behaviour. I hope your boss is strong enough to back you.
DD
Thanks mate.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
He’s Irish and knows the score.
Delaneys Dunky
00:13 on
9 February, 2015
Thought Greg Stewart was a stand out again for Dundee. Hopefully we get him this summer.
Total agreement.A fine talent.
Baw Baw time.A happy sleep on its way.
Nite all.
eddieinkirkmichael
Disgusting behaviour you are having to tolerate. I wouldn’t waste my time discussing the problem with the front office of the station that is nearest to you. Go as high up as you can.Ask to see the divisional commander.