James Forrest’s injury in September happened three days before Jeremie Frimpong’s best performance of the season, in the home win against Hibs. I remember using the MVP acronym for Jeremie at the time. Team form until that point was patchy: wins with alarming defensive performances and an unmitigated disaster against Ferencvaros. The team shape was clearly wrong and pushing Jeremie forward in James absence seemed logical.
It was the first of many changes I wanted to see, each followed by a realisation that we were groping around in the darkness, until Ismaila Soro and David Turnbull became the central points of a midfield diamond. Having (hopefully) fixed the fundamental tactical problem, James return to full training offers Neil Lennon the flexibility he is denied on the right and enhances his option in the middle.
Ryan Christie is well short of his best form in a Celtic shirt but all of those best performances came when he played through the middle. He can cover for James and offer options on the right while giving the manager a different option when he wants to swap out David Turnbull in the 10 position.
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Good to see the Queen & Phil got the vaccine. We are all in this together my arse
Paul
They’re 93 and 99 so what do you expect
Thank You All for your kind Birthday Wishes & yes this time ye got the right day.
Happy Birthday to the Legend ACGR a privilege to share the same day with you.
Funnily enough I also have another old friend from Cork who is 82 today.
Like Mick this guy is known to drink copious amounts of whiskey.
I enjoy a wee dram as well, Must be something about the 9th January & a wee drop.
So if you want to live a long Happy Life, Drink plenty of whiskey or even whisky,
On a more sober note commiserations to David ,
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
So that is who Phil’s famed source is……………mmmmhh
SAINT STIVS on 9TH JANUARY 2021 2:46 PM
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Class pics and posting St Stivs
Think Gordon is in that pic.a much missed bank of knowledge to this blog.still on titter
HH
THEBHOYFROMU.N.C.L.E- do share mate…
!!BADA BING!! on 9TH JANUARY 2021 3:53 PM
See above @ 3;27
HOOPY BIRTHDAY
CORKCELT and ACGR 🍻🍻
CORKCELT you will be catching up to me👍
DAVID66
Sincere condolences.
THEBHOYFROMU.N.C.L.E- doh….
Any mods about?
PAUL THE SPARK on 9TH JANUARY 2021 3:27 PM
‘Good to see the Queen & Phil got the vaccine. We are all in this together my arse’
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Presumably will help encourage some of the doubters among the vulnerable to get a jab when offered, so can’t see the problem.
31003 on 9TH JANUARY 2021 4:24 PM
Any mods about?
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How may I help?
Ernie
I wish you could
31003
You can always email Paul if you’ve got an issue
Gene
I’ve done that a couple of times but never a response
3’sy
Just post profanities for a couple of lines and you’ll soon wake one up
BT
Good idea
Breithlá sona to CorkCelt & ACGR.
While Corky’s liking for whiskey and ACGR’s liking for whisky are well known I can exclusively reveal that Corky has a love of socks- he has a different pair for every day of the year.
David66: Sincere condolences to you on your loss.
Ar dheis lámh Dhé go raibh anam Andrea.
31003
That’s disappointing 😞
Vale get their first win for ages having sacked the manager 👍
BT
*”#@*#@ ,- will that do 🤔
never really understood why folk get so upset about sweary words
they are all just words using letters from the same set of letters as your non-sweary words
how offensive something is depends on what your intention is and not whether it contains a sweary word or not
Hagi rediscovering his best form in Glasgow after a slow start to the campaign and made a telling impact off the bench during the 1-0 win over Celtic.
I must have fell asleep and missed this ‘impact’
Just woke up and red back
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31003 on 8TH JANUARY 2021 11:26 PM
Ernie
I don’t think he’s a villain.
I think he’s a two faced swine
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Couldn’t agree more, everybody and their Uncle new Neil was expecting him back, and if, as he says now, his intention was always to go back to Southhampton then why on earth did he not tell Neil. The start we made to this season – fumbling about trying to figure out our best defence – has cost us the 10
Clearly we have must been negligent as well, I mean how hard is it to keep tabs on your number one signing target, and then we let Craig Gordon go when we had no guarantee that FF was coming back, criminal.
all water under the bridge now of course
DAVID66-sad news.
RIP Andrea 🙏💛
The swearing thing – no I’m not a fan – if tolerated within days we’d all be elfin and blinding at each other,
and that would just be the start, eventually, imo, most of the folks who post now would be offski,
besides, its a simple enough house rule to follow surely, in fact I think its the only house rule
ROCK TREE BHOY on 9TH JANUARY 2021 5:06 PM
‘Couldn’t agree more, everybody and their Uncle new Neil was expecting him back
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Seems folk didn’t actually know anything, just made assumptions based on very little.
And carry on doing so.
Such is the life of a football fan.
David 66
Andrea added to my prayers , god rest her soul
Bhoys thanks for the kind posts regarding our dear friend, cousin and fellow Tic supporter Andrea.
Turning to Footy, I cannot wait to see the bhoys on Monday.
Oh and I do think if we get Benkovitch he will do a good job for us.
HH
D :)
MELBOURNE MICK on 9TH JANUARY 2021 12:54
I was being pedantic.
However Filip Benković is almost certainly on his way as I said earlier in week it’s being dripped into our sub conscious. Started by Paul This week .
All but confirmed by Roger Hannah today on Clyde
Who also stated quite firmly I para phrase ” yeah I think Celtic will bring in a centre half ( no shit Sherlock) I think they will get FB in from the EPL.”
Also HATEM ELHAMED is looking to leave this window
Hannah is one of the CEOs. Press drops. So that’s that .
I am so depressed by the board I don’t think I am even bothered or surprised by this I have lost a bit more hope today … I don’t think I have much left !
Huddle
I think swearing was twofold, children used to read CQN and it made for more civilised debate
The kids are all grown up and the debate is no longer civilised I’m afraid
And if you don’t agree you can GTF 😉 😂
John Kennedy has revealed that Celtic hope to keep Duffy for the remainder of the season.
dearie dearie have you no been watching John or maybe that’s the level of quality that’s acceptable.
DAVID66
Has Bencovic not signed for someone else (Belgian outfit)
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 9TH JANUARY 2021 5:35 PM
Huddle
I think swearing was twofold, children used to read CQN and it made for more civilised debate
The kids are all grown up and the debate is no longer civilised I’m afraid
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When WeeBGFC was Wee, the non-swearing rule was one of the reasons that I let him read CQN.
Been a bit of a slippery slope over past few years I fear. Need to keep it clean for others here who have weans / grand-weans they might want to come on to the site.
As for those who have been commenting on Big Nir using – if reports are true – anti-Semitic comments – find them, bar them from their social media accounts, bar them from Celtic games sine-die.
Worse than Huns.
HH
BGFC
Marspapa I dont know, I have had the grandkids all day so not seen much sport updates or listened to radio.
If we did get him then I would be happy.
D :)
AN TEARMANN on 9TH JANUARY 2021 11:58 AM
One for Tontine Floodlights at Boghead
*I was at that game; I knew the Dumbarton side as much as I did the Celtic one. This was due tae only getting tae Parkheid if my da or elder elative took me.
For my fitba viewing then it was, on alternating Saturdays, the Milburn Park tae see the Vale of Leven where I incidentally listened tae the 7-1 game on a bluenose’s radio on a sunny day, or Boagheid tae see the super sons.
We were seated in the stand opposite the main one, no idea how we got tickets although at the time I had family, including my mother, working in Burroughs at Strathleven Estate, the Sons Chairman at the time American James T Fitzgerald was also an executive at this plant.
He had a son who appeared in my class for a short while and then disappeared, it is surmised he went tae St Als. Anyway, Dumbarton at that time had huge ties with us, might have been the St Als connection.
We loaned then wee ten thirty and Dunky Mackay while John Coronation Bonnar spent a season with them after leaving us and oul Sean ended up manager there as well, Alec Rollo also played that night for the Rock.
My da came fae that part of Dumbarton where Boagheid is situated and his family were well known among the Irish community there so he might have obtained them for us.
Anyway that night was the Charles Patrick show, the Tims, and there are many in the town, were in full voice and he duly entertained them.
The scorer of Dumbarton’s 2 goals, Hughie Gallagher a prolific goal scorer, was the brother of the Renton born unofficial world flyweight champion.
Incidentally we had a promising youngster, Dubliner Vince Ryan, playing for us that night; we signed him from Home farm beating out Sir Matt who then signed Liam Whelan who lost his life at Munich.