‘The magic of the Cup’ was perhaps missing as Celtic eased Brechin City out of the competition on Saturday but the occasion provided Brendan Rodgers with the perfect opportunity to exercise limbs in competitive action for the first time in three weeks.
Four games now stand between Celtic and a second consecutive treble, at least one of which will be at home (to Partick Thistle), with two at neutral Hampden, should we get there. Celtic have won six on the bounce at Hampden since Tom Rogic’s penalty missed the target in the Scottish Cup semi-final of 2016. Whatever mental block we had at the place before Brendan arrived, it is well and truly sorted now.
More about Thistle tomorrow. They may be second bottom of the league but there are reasons to believe tomorrow’s game at Firhill will not be straightforward.
It occurs to me that you and I have talked about making history so often in recently. These truly are incredible times.
I see Chris McCart has been busy with plans for a ‘colts’ team to enter the bottom tier of Scottish football. Not sure how this would workout but I just hope the hoards of conservatives (small c) in our game don’t block an innovative change without just cause.
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http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/the-roberts-effect/
I showed in the last article how injuries to the most creative players simultaneously, rather than volume of injuries, is hampering Celtic’s league form. Roberts has missed more than anyone. What impact does his absence have on performance?
Cowiebhoy
;-)
Congratulations & good luck to former Ac Milan, Chelsea PSG World player of the year, now President George Weah of Liberia
CB- if it was Neil Lennon who done it, he would have been lifted….
One other thing, a liquidated club walked into our league 2
No idea why we should find it acceptable that our colts should do the same
And
The liquidated clubs 2nd team either, after all they forced the cancellation of reserve league football years ago
Zenit 5 -0 friendly
Ah well….
COWIEBHOY on 22ND JANUARY 2018 7:48 PM
One other thing, a liquidated club walked into our league 2
No idea why we should find it acceptable that our colts should do the same
And
The liquidated clubs 2nd team either, after all they forced the cancellation of reserve league football years ago
Cowiebhoy.
My thoughts too. Sense of entitlement here.
Why should 2 clubs be given preferential treatment?.
Hail Hail
MWD-best wishes for your dad.
I’m all for the Colts playing in League 2 or whatever. I would have thought the offer should be open to the other SPFL clubs. I wonder why the deid team wish to be involved, as they destroyed the Reserve League, didn’t they?
WEEBAWBABITY-thank you,hope the cruise is going well mate
BBC Scotland seem to have a fixation on McLeish becoming the next Scotland manager. Words fail me.
There seems to be no issue in Sevco directors holding shares in other clubs
Why don’t some Celtic directors buy shares in someone like Albion Rovers, and play our Colts through them ???
Thinking ooot the box :-))))))
COWIEBHOY, would love that ,my long dearly departed grandad loved the rovers.hh.
All sorts of debates on here lately and not a word from Ernie,
mention the SNP and on he is in a flash.
MWD
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your dad.
KINGLUBO
My late mother who had no interest in politics always said SNP stood for soon no pope.
BHOYS
Regards Mhairi Black. When I was a taxi driver I picked her up a couple of times from her folks house. We spoke about football she knew I was a tim and she never made any poor remarks about anything Celtic. She does speak the same way in life as she does in the commons,not a put on accent. Ernie her parents house is as close to a golf course as mine was when I was growing up and it didn’t make me a fake or phoney. I actually found her polite, knowledgeable and personable. If we had more young people with her drive and desire to change things this country might stand a chance. By the way I have never voted SNP and probably never will.
KEEP THE FAITH
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD @ 7:55 PM,
Yes they did (didn’t fancy 10iar), then Sevco pulled out of the Development League.
Now they want to be first in the queue for the Colts… can’t believe Celtic are working along side them on this.
It’s a travesty…
Hail Hail
The latest CQN Podcast – A Celtic State of Mind is our now and features a brilliant interview with the Original Holy Goalie John Fallon.
You can find the podcast under Paul’s post today.
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Mike Ashley
TT
Labour hierarchy have always had a soft spot for Thatcher
Gordon Brown commissioned a £100,000 portrait of her
As a “personal tribute to her achievements”
Think on that
“A personal tribute to her achievements”
smiley only our rivers run free thing
Braw
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VVD will not improve Liverpool if he defends like that.
Headed corner straight into centre of box for Swansea player to volley home.
Bamboo
“Haven’t seen her comments but I will guarantee they weren’t sectarian in anyway. More likely her targets will be those support a free Ireland but dont want the same for Scotland.”
You haven’t read them but you are offering guarantees???
I have read her words and i can guarantee that they had nothing to do with those who support a free Ireland but can distinguish easily the fact that Scotland’s union was of a vastly different order to Ireland’s invasion.
It is pure dogma and “my party righ or wrong” to give her the carte blanche backing you gave her.
Her comments were demeaning, verging on bigotry, and she remains unapologetic about them. Her words were directed at people who had dared to criticise her for her previous views.
Now I dissociate myself from any demeaning criticism of her gender or her looks, just as others should have when Kezia Dugdale was getting similar treatment, but she does not realise the offence she has caused and she has indiscriminately suggested that all her critics were “plastic” in their Irish identity. Out of the mouth of a so-called Unionist politician, such words would be quickly and unequivocally condemned by all here. But some are conflicted by their loyalties and are willing to give her a bye because she is young (she’s old enough to be an MP), or a girl (sexist excuse), or, mostly, because she is pro-independence and speaks with a Glesgae accent, neither of which facts, excuse her words.
read them first and then make your judgement.
Neustadt
Was Alex Salmond in the Labour hierarchy?
Both he and gordon Brown made a similar blunder but if you are politically one-eyed, you will highlight one only.
https://twitter.com/celticlisboa/status/955541479966953472?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Enet.whatsapp.WhatsApp.ShareExtension
Chris Davies on transfers
Mhairi Black accused of being a bigot, again
http://www.theirishvoice.com/news/mhairi-blacks-reference-to-plastic-irishmen-is-totally-unacceptable-for-a-member-of-parliament/
Point of order
The Irish are not a distinctive race from say the Scots for example.
There is no Irish or catholic gene.
Its cultural, therefore sectarian. Not racist.
As much as the Irish want to (and SNP want to as far as “scottishness” is concerned) it is not genetic.
i think Arsenal may have got the best of Mkhitaryan/Sanchez deal.
Mkhitaryan was stifled by a manager who plays negative football and thought i am no fan of Wenger he does encourage positive players.He has the skills to light it up.
Sanchez deal will cause ripples of discontent in Man U locker room with his ridiculous salary and he is not seen by many as a team player.His behaviour at Arsenal in the last year created a lot of friction in the team.
Mhairi Black.The best politician in Britain for standing up for the rights of the disenfranchised,like single mothers,women who have had their pensions ripped from them,the unemployed.These are all things that Labour should be doing.The people on their high horse,about Black,have obviously not heard her in the Commons,lambasting those who take peoples rights and Pensions away.3 Times she has tried to get a Bill passed to give Women their rightful Pensions,while Labour vote against her.Ask the people of Paisley in her constituency,what they think about her.One of the hardest working people in Parliament,yet some numpties ,probably Labour voters,want to have a jolly about her appearance.
Calling someone brought up a Catholic,educated as one,a Bigot,is Hun talk.
Maybe you dont like SNP,but many of them are doing great for the people they represent.Dont class all the same.Especially if you are a Labour voter.Far too much in your closet.Plastic Tories.
GORDYBHOY64 on 22ND JANUARY 2018 8:13 PM
All sorts of debates on here lately and not a word from Ernie, mention the SNP and on he is in a flash.
*in all fairness to Ernie, there are some of us on here remember when the SNP were akin to the ulster unionists and that could be put down to cormack and his 9 Edinburgh councillor colleagues who wanted to, in future enoch powel style, repatriate the Irish in Scotland.
However, it should be noted that the first president of the SNP Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham was also the first ever socialist member of the UK Parliament and a founder and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party.
Also, there are 2 streets named after him in Brucehill, a monument and the Cunninghame Graham Memorial, at Castlehill which are definitely not leafy suburbs in Dumbarton, near the family home at Ardoch.
The monument was removed due to vandalism in 1981 to Gartmore closer to the principal Graham estate in full view of the Wallace Monument in nearby Stirling, however the Cunninghame Graham Memorial Park at Castlehill (which is managed by the National Trust for Scotland) is still affectionately locally known as “the Mony”.
Celterela
I’m a Catholic Gene :)
Turkeybhoy, if Neil Lennon called the hearts supporters plastic proddies yesterday would he have been presented as a bigot. You are judged by everything that you do, not just the things others like
gene on 22nd January 2018 9:05 pm
:)
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 22ND JANUARY 2018 8:44 PM
Bamboo
“Haven’t seen her comments but I will guarantee they weren’t sectarian in anyway. More likely her targets will be those support a free Ireland but dont want the same for Scotland.”
You haven’t read them but you are offering guarantees???
Not any different from your guarantee that her comments are Racist,Sectarian.Ridiculous post.
Celtarella
It’s not a racial identity it’s a cultural one.
Turkeybhoy
Being a Catholic, if she still is, does not prevent her from being a bigot. Being right on other subjects does not stop her being dead wrong on this one.
the westminster is strong in this one……did alex want nelson mandela hung…..and a white only South Africa……
smiley wake up and smell the buckfast thing
Braw
STAIRHEEDRAMMY on 22ND JANUARY 2018 9:06 PM
Turkeybhoy, if Neil Lennon called the hearts supporters plastic proddies yesterday would he have been presented as a bigot. You are judged by everything that you do, not just the things others like
Another ridiculous analogy.I like to judge people by their actions,not what they say.Blacks actions in the job she performs are first rate.Maybe thats too much to bear for the thick Labour supporters on here that “Hear no evil,see no evil”from the party they support.
Tontine Tim,
i am not an SNP supporter and have never voted for them,
just observing that in all the debates that take place on here Ernie
rarely contributes,only ever appears to criticise the SNP.