While the postponement of today’s Premiership game against Dundee was inevitable, Brendan Rodgers and the players will be far from happy not participating in a game they prepared for. For the manager, in particular, this of one of the two games he could deploy Marvin Compper before heading to Ibrox a week on Sunday.
Compper signed his Celtic contact in December but it will be March before he wears the hoops for the first time. His experience would be invaluable at Ibrox next week, but on the back of only one game, and that against lower league opposition?
I don’t know the player but without further evidence, I’d stick with Ajer and Simonovic.
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Don’t think NOAL will be making an offer. Nor LIAM for that matter – both big Tims…
Bad news for Close Bros. The Albion car park worth feck all now. Aldi or Lidl will have a ready made store to walk into when Toys R Us shuts down next to Asda in Govan. ;-))
The only good thing about the game being cancelled is that I now don’t have to get up at 3am.
I’ll see your blizzard and raise you a massive thunder storm.
Thorshammercsc
Who would win a fight between Jack Frost and Thor?
https://twitter.com/606alfieconn/status/968832892125270016?s=12
Dundee game new date
Bada
Not the first the Celts have had 2 games in 1 day :O)
Old Tim.
That was a great wee ramble.
As you can probably tell, I grew up in a house full of stories.
My dad fisrt went to Celtic Park a short time after the Clydebank Blitz. As a reward for surviving the blitz he was taken to Celtic Park by a Partick Thistle supporting bankie, and like Old Tim, that experience was enough to have him captured for life.
He was already familiar with names like McGrory, Miller, McStay, Crum, McDonald and his favourite Delaney from the radio.
Afetr that he would ride the penny special tram from Clydebank to Celtic Park and later he would organise buses to games home and away. Later it was trains and then planes and any other means of transport to watch Celtic, anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
My mother’s family were not quite so fanatical but they supported Celtic all the same and as an International Netballer and Coach my mother used to talk about the ball moving in a triangle and about players moving off the ball and into a space — and how that often made the other team move about and so leave spaces for a “ball carrier” to run into.
Jimmy Delaney gave way to Charles Patrick and Malky McDonald gave way to the likes of Peacock, Evans, Collins and Crerand and many others in between.
By the time Stein arrived to take his place in history My old man was certain that after years of nothing Celtic were on the verge of something. He was at Motherwell on the day that we clinched the league title and he described the emotion and joy in such a way that it left an indelible mark on me.
What was it like to feel that happy, that involved, that sense of “us” – whoever “us” was – all involved in mass celebration?
My first game was the following year and while I experienced the excitement of Celtic Park and the team itself, growing up the talk at home was always of the fans and the remarkabel things that Celtic fans do for other people, or on trips to games or whatever.
Who were these people? Why did they laugh so much> Why was I always hearing of people doing favours for one another and doing good turns for folk? And why was there always singing and all sorts of new songs every other week – at least that is the way it seemed.
Yes I would walk a million miles for one of your goals, and like everyone else I would not be moved, and Celtic Celtic were the team for me.
I grew up hearing stories about that camaraderie amongst fans and, of course, with a team and with players who could do no wrong and who were exciting from back to front.
Over the years I have experienced my own moments where the emotions and memories and feelings will never be forgotten. I am blessed with a great memory and at certain times what someone says or does at a certain time stays with me and becomes central to what I remember.
Scoring in the last minutes against Hearts in the cup semi final, The centenary final itself, Austria Tyrol, Lamberts pile driver against the Gers, Henrik’s chip in the 6-2 game, Naka’s freekick against United, Tony Watt’s killer against Barcelona and all sorts of others over the years — right up to Cristiano Ronaldo’s bar in Lisbon on Cup Final Day and the ball hitting the back of the Aberdeen Net and Big Kickinthenakas shouting “There’s yer dinner!” at any one of half a dozen TV screens.
Celtic is a football club, It is a team and a squad of players, it is a PLC, and a social movement. Celtic are a Thousand stories, a million memories, and any number of things still to come. Celtic is the collective name for a group of people who enjoy their sport but equally enjoy making a difference to and for others because it is simply the right thing to do.
And most of all Celtic are the fans. From those who founded the club to those who are still in romper suits as at todays date and the stories that can and must be passed on through the ages. From Patsy Gallagher’s somersault, through Tully’s corners, to the Bernabau shouting Ole each time wee Jimmy beat one of their own favourites to the huddle and the lights being turned on in the 67th minute.
I admire the fans of virtually any club and those who properly support their team no matter who they be and where they live.
But no football club can come close to replicating the romance, the sense of goodwill, the excitement and the stories that come time and time again from the team from Parkhead wearing Green and White …. and their fans!
VP- did you make both of them?,))
BRT & H
You go to all that trouble penning an excellent post yet the part that caught my eye was `romper suits`. I think that is/was the American name. When I was a child, they were called `Siren suits` !
JJ
BRTH
Very good. Very moving
But what about Dastardly Lawwell and his 30 million
**** LAST MAN STANDING 10 ****
******** THE LAUNCH ********
We are now welcoming entrants for the return of our Last Man Standing competition which starts Friday 9th March 2018.
The competition will follow the same format as before and to win the entire prizepot, all you have to be is the Last (wo)man Standing remaining at the end of the competition.
Not played before? Simply, select a uniquely different team from the list of football fixtures provided by us each week, and if you are the last (wo)man standing, then you win the prize. Remember you can only pick the same team once in any competition, so you need to decide when to play the big guns! Full rules will be emailed to everyone who shows any interest.
The cost to take part is £10 per entry ( you can have more than 1 entry if you wish), and just in case you falter in any weeks 1 to 3, then we even allow you to buy your history back for a further £10. How easy is that? Surely you must win it!
The prizepot is 50% of all entrance and “history buyback” fees, with the remaining 50% being paid over to good causes.
For LMS10, the remaining 50% will be split between our Lisbon nominated benefactor “CQN Helping OUR mate Mick” receiving 80% of the donated proceeds and our Seville nominated benefactor “Just another street dog”, a charitable cause that is run by one of our CQNers and his wife, receiving 20% of the donated proceeds.
You can read about these worthy causes here –
mymatemick.com
https://www.facebook.com/Spanishstreetdogs/
So if you want to take part please send us an email saying ” Count me in” and we will send you emails detailing the rules, how to pay your £10 and, of course, the first week’s fixtures.
Please also feel free to encourage family, friends and work colleagues to join in, as they more that take part, means a bigger prizepot and more monies raised for good causes.
In LMS9, we had 137 entrants which was a record. It would be great to beat this record entry level in LMS10.
HH
Celticrollercoaster and Jobo Baldie
The Quiet Man has just started on Film Four.
I am away to watch Barry Fitzgerald act everyone off the screen and steal every scene he is in and quite a few where he isn’t even there at all!
BRTH
He was at Motherwell on the day that we clinched the league title and he described the emotion and joy in such a way that it left an indelible mark on me.
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I remember the post match celebrations is if it were yesterday. Got the train back into Glasgow where a few hundred of us decided to have an impromptu march. Needless to say scotland’s finest weren’t impressed and moved in to break it up. Nothing’s changed.
Seriously, please take care anybody that’s out in this weather it’s not funny now.
TONYROME.
Sorry being late with the reply,But thanks for the info, I like that price you mention, less than half the price of my Hotel room , They probably have a higher rate for a midnight run, but it still would be better than the Hotel price.
HOT SMOKED on 28TH FEBRUARY 2018 3:55 PM
Siren suits and liberty bodices. Sloppy joes , sandshoes and snakebelts.
BSR
I just looked at the George Square webcam. It would seem that most people are being unusually sensible. The Square looks like a Ghost Town.
JJ
BSR
You’re dead right – Blizzard here in north staffs – luckily we had a break around 3 when we got the grandsons from school – they might be having a sleepover
Oldtim
why don’t you organise a sleep out after the do
2birdswithonestoneCSC
GDT
I was asking about `sloppy joes ` just the other day. In the part of America I lived in the early 80`s, a `sloppy Joe ` was a meal a bit like mince and totties.
I still use the term `sandshoes`. A `snakebelt` was also an` esser ` belt as in looking like the letter `s`.
Was a liberty bodice a corset?
JJ
Had to go out and pick Mrs VFR up from work. 20 miles an hour max up the Gallowgate, Millerston St and Edinburgh Rd. 45 minutes for a journey the usually takes about 15 minutes! The roads are very, very quiet.
Some real roasters out there who have no care or consideration for other road users. I’m surprised here haven’t been more crashes.
Car dubbed up till further notice!
KTF
Bada
Ye can go right off fholk :O)
HOT SMOKED on 28TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:14 PM
Interesting re the ‘sloppy joe’. Haven’t researched the origin but I suspected that it had come across the Atlantic. Didn’t know it applied to food as well.
I remember my wee sister having a ‘liberty bodice’ as a child. It was indeed a vest of sorts.
VP
Well, did you?
J
GDT
Now that you mention it as being worn by children, I remember the wee vesty thing.
JJ
Hot Smoked
Big Bada knows fine…..he gave me a lift over .hh
JJ- VP burst a tyre on his Chopper…;0
Just got a call telling me not to go into work tonight yesssss HH
See the Sheep want to buy Christie? How much would he cost us if he was a Sheep player? £3-4 million?
Yip, – another sloppy joe wearer here ?
Sloppy joes were what people now call t-shirts. I always thought they were brought over here by the US soldiers during WW2. They were summer attire.
My late sister, God rest her, had a liberty bodice when she was wee. It was a vest type thingy.
Is The Beast From The East and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms one and the same creature?
OLDTIM
I drove private hire for 10 years in Paisley area up until 2 years ago the mileage price was the same no matter the time of day or night only difference was 40p yes a grand total of 40PENCE if you ordered your car after 7.30 p.m.
GLASGOW PRIVATE HIRE CARS have a base on Edinburgh Road about a 10 minute drive from Celtic Park.
Phone them and ask for a quote for your journey 0141 774 3000.
If you book one remember when you get in to tell the driver you were quoted £X for your fare it saves any argument if he’s a wrong yin.
KEEP THE FAITH
What happened to GLIB’s wine cellar money?
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 28TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:04 PM
The Quiet Man has just started on Film Four.
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Just watching it. Victor McLachlan brilliant, ‘He’ll regret it till his dying day, if ever he lives that long.’
Looking forward to the big fight.
Based on nothing other than pure speculation…
Wouldnt surprise me if Ryan Christie is pushing for move to be made permanent. I dont blame him.
He didnt get his chance at Celtic and is a sure start at afc
!!BADA BING!! on 28TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:35 PM
See the Sheep want to buy Christie? How much would he cost us if he was a Sheep player? £3-4 million?
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Read the article, it doesn’t actually say that anywhere, the headline is misleading. Regardless, he will be back for pre season and assessed from there.
BADA BING
How much did they get off us for Jonny Hayes who IMHO isn’t a patch on young Ryan.
KEEP THE FAITH