Partick Thistle are second bottom of the table, but there is a bigger story going on.
They have failed to win only one home game in over three months – a 0-1 defeat to Hibs, which means they have a better home record than anyone else in the league over that period. While only three points above Ross County, they have won three of their four games since losing 2-0 at Celtic Park the week before Christmas, losing only 1-0 at Pittodrie. Alan Archibald’s squad has been bolstered in recent weeks by the return of several of the long-term injured, which has changed the entire perspective on which teams should be regarded as vulnerable in the bottom half of the league.
Thistle now believe they will escape relegation and the play-off spot (tip: County, Accies, respectively). They will know that the champions will provide their sternest test at home since our disputed 0-1 win their earlier this season, but we will earn any points we collect tonight.
We should win, of course, but I’ll be happy with a down and dirty 0-1.
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HEBCELT on 23RD JANUARY 2018 1:53 PM
SOT would be interested to hear your views on Ray Davies – if you have any!! In my view one of the finest songsmiths this country has produced. h H Hebcelt
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I saw/heard Ray perform at the Hop Farm Festival a number of years ago. Beautiful sunny evening as he came onto the stage and he powered through a load of great songs. Then, just as the sun set burst behind the oast houses and as the crowd urged him on, he picked up his acoustic guitar and started playing the opening chords to the classic…….”Lola” – the one about the tranny. Much to everyone’s disappointment he didn’t bother with Waterloo Sunset. Still a great performance – one of the best songwriters we’re ever seen.
Regan to face tough questioning from SFA board
Q – Stewart, heard you were a bit unlucky with O’Neil appointment
A – yeah, never mind there’s always Mcleish
Q – going to ipox tomorrow night
A – of course – see you there
Meeting adjourned
Mogwai sponsoring St Roch’s school team strips……well done.
Will we be strengthening in this transfer window?
If we sell Moussa, we will have to replace him with similar just to stand still. I’m not too concerned but neither am I confident.
We need CL players but we can’t pay CL prices for them so a bit of luck, excellent contacts and inspired scouting is required. Here’s hoping.
As for tonight, we are likely to be playing a dogged team on a swamp of a pitch which will be a great leveller. Dubai will seem a long way away. I’d take a 0-1 but would just like to see that we have thrown off the lethargy we played with before the break.
Will BR play Dembele tonight? Its a gamble, he might get injured but if he does play and scores a couple it gets him headlines.
ShopwindaeCSC
!!BADA BING!! on 23RD JANUARY 2018 1:58 PM
Natknow- was chatting with bhoys yesterday , pitch at Swinecastle and CP v Sevco, were poor and we were continually closed down , usually after taking a touch, Firhill will cut up tonight too.
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Yeah – suspect you are right – unless they’ve come up with an innovative way of dispersing the water. Not ideal for us but hopefully the players will take note and wear right studs. Have you noticed how much we’ve slipped about at some ground over the past wee while??
HEBCELT @ 1 53 .
Ray Davies –
For what its -worth — IMO- a very fine musician / song writer . Very British / Very English / Very London . . Humour , sarcasm / social commentary and much regret re a changing world .
Early Kinks stuff was great IMO . I bought the 45s / the EPs and some of the LPs — last one I bought was Percy in the early 70s ..
Saw the Kinks at the Kelvin Hall in 65 . A Good gig..
https://youtu.be/4HfLH5S6q9k
Who would win in a fight between Coca Cola and Cherry Cola?
CO LA cola CSC
Natknow- yes, Swinecastle especially
Two top choons-
https://youtu.be/-2GmzyeeXnQ
https://youtu.be/F4DV-5d6a5g
More crap links at the bottom of the page, ‘Dembele could by eyeing move reveals Davies’, where and when did Chris actually say this?
CQN’s finest ole SFTB sometimes still takes his tranny to Celtic Park.
LarssonFixestheRadio CSC
!!BADA BING!! on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:35 PM
More crap links at the bottom of the page, ‘Dembele could by eyeing move reveals Davies’, where and when did Chris actually say this?
The MSM twists more than Chubby Checker.
Celtic team sheet latest…………………..Wee Jamesie
!!BADA BING!! on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:32 PM
Natknow- yes, Swinecastle especially
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Yeah. The other side – not so much. Which made me suspect they watered the park sneakily once our players had their shoes on. :-))
Chubby Checker and a woman dancing for BSR
https://youtu.be/im9XuJJXylw
Natknow- it’s possible….
Glen D- last week on here it was ‘St Mirren legend Thommo backs Morgan…’ .The ‘legned’ in question, ‘Thommo’ , was EBT Steven Thomson.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:32 PM
Who would win in a fight between Coca Cola and Cherry Cola?
CO LA cola CSC
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You really got me there BSR…
!!BADA BING!! on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:45 PM
Natknow- it’s possible….
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More than possible – likely! They’re a bunch of cheating bar stewards….
Bada Bing , a terrific gesture by Mogwai. They are also sponsoring the Gasgow Deaf school football team.
Chairbhoy @ 2.01
Agree, entirely.
Think he has downed tools, psychologically at least and with a fraction of the starts
comes a fraction of the form.
This ‘Dembele bid’ might be the same at the SMSM prepared Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool………….Keiran Tierney bids that never get beyond a Level5 type laptop.
If a £20M bid comes on somebody on CQN will blame ‘Lawwell and Co” for just having lost us £10M and another poster will “drive him to the airport masell” for that money.
HH
Plus ca change CSC
clogher celt on 23rd January 2018 11:32 am
Chairbhoy,
Thanks for the re-post.
The debate yesterday actually made the point I was trying to make in the post.
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I read the point you were trying to make with extreme interest as my first reaction on reading it was “this guy gets it, I’ll need to respond” and here I am.
This bit is very apt.
” As insight develops the penny drops that the cheating is really pointless and ultimately causes huge personal pain and cost to everyone involved, at Sevco and elsewhere. I forgive them and leave them with the burden. I am free of the corrosive effects of the toxin.
I don’t carry it.
If that is contrary to a divisive, greedy, dishonest mantra then perhaps there is a more profound message in Resolution 12 than was initially anticipated.
In effect ,in the absence of clarity from the Plc Board I move away from a toxic, harmful activity and I experience much more of the beauty that life has to offer. What other Celtic Supporters decide to do is their own business, wherever we are ‘on the one road’ is valid.”
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The first part about Sevco learning that cheating doesn’t pay comes under “it is the bitter potion which heals the sick self” and I’ve always watched what has happened there from that perspective. I posted the extract on Pain from The Prophet on the RTC blog ages ago.
In respect of the absence of clarity from Celtic PLC, having waited this long to see words turned into action I am happy to wait a bit longer for the clarity of action to emerge, but if it doesn’t I’ll write a book.
That ” there is a much more profound message behind Res12″, is what has kept me going and would enhance a book.
This little item has helped:
On Waking Up
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
You know, all mystics – Catholic, Christian, non Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion – are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.
Last year on Spanish Television I heard a story about this gentleman who knocks on his son’s door. “Jaime,” he says, “wake up!” Jaime answers “I don’t want to get up Papa.” The father shouts “Get up”, you have to go to school.” Jaime says, “I don’t want to go to school .” “Why not?” asks the father. “Three reasons” says Jaime. “First, because it’s so dull; second, the kids tease me; and third, I hate school.
And the father says, “Well, I am going to give you three reasons why you must go to school.
First, because it is your duty; second because you are forty five years old, and third, because you are the headmaster. “Wake up! You’ve grown up. You’re too big to be asleep. Wake up! Stop playing with your toys.”
Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don’t believe them. Don’t believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. “Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success.”
This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That’s all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don’t really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.
Waking up is unpleasant you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. Its irritating to be woken up.
That’s the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I’m going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times “Wake Up!”
My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it, fine; if you do not too bad! As the Arabs say,
“The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.”
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I occasionally like to sing my song and dance my dance. :)
Thanks again.
HH
Nat Now been a fan of RD since way back got just about everything he has written/recorded amazing output. Agree our bhoys have been prone to slipping in too many recent games and the throw-ins don’t get me started!! HH Hebcelt
SOT
Ha – much more difficult than it looks.
I think Edouard will start tonight, Griff won’t be risked with favourite song being should I stay or should I go.
‘VVD at fault for Swansea’s winning goal last night’ – who’d have thunk it?
Dedryk Boyata CSC
HEBCELT on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:56 PM
Nat Now been a fan of RD since way back got just about everything he has written/recorded amazing output. Agree our bhoys have been prone to slipping in too many recent games and the throw-ins don’t get me started!! HH Hebcelt
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It’s true what you say – the quality AND the output are what make RD so amazing.
Unable to take a shy properly – that Millennials for you…waiting for their maw or da to do it for them :-)))
Further to my previous post, the rumours surrounding Griff and Dembele possibly leaving , their favourite song is should I stay or should I go.
I wonder what nick the pitch will be in tonight and may that affect our team selection .
“…there is also an acceptance that maybe Moussa feels it is the right time for him to move on.”
Chris Davies
How things change
We are all obsessed with how much we spend, how much we should sell a player for and how much should we buy a player for.
Well done the board for shifting the mindset.
Oot, dog to drop off to the transporter to Aberdeen.
BSR @ 2:56 PM,
That’s very true, what caused the “injuries”, the lose of form… far too early for the post mortem but I’m sure the potential career ending tackles that go unpunished don’t help.
Scottish Football Needs to get a grip…
Apologies for the all italics in the last post, I needed a slash when I was writing it…
Hail Hail
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 23RD JANUARY 2018 2:28 PM
HEBCELT @ 1 53 .
Ray Davies – For what its -worth — IMO- a very fine musician / song writer . Very British / Very English / Very London . . Humour , sarcasm / social commentary and much regret re a changing world . Early Kinks stuff was great IMO . I bought the 45s / the EPs and some of the LPs — last one I bought was Percy in the early 70s ..
*an amazing group and IMHO more innovative than the Beatles, I bought their first LP and their early stuff has more than a hint of ska. I believe they were also first to use the sitar before George Harrison and Brian Jones.
The way they progressed from You Really Got Me to Tired of Waiting which was originally supposed to be the follow up but All of the Day was preferred due to its similarity to You Really Got Me.
Then A Well Respected Man and the similar Dedicated Follower of Fashion on to the likes of Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Sunset, and then when we thought they had peaked and were on the way down back up they came with Lola about a tranny, pure genius.
I could go on, Mrs TT to this day still raves about them and her taste and mine, with the exception of the 60s, are night and day.
The St Mirren Hall of Fame was started in 2004 with Tony Fitzpatrick, Ricky Gillies, Campbell Money and Hugh Murray as first inductees.
Membership is by invitation and players are eligible for the honour if they have played in over 200 matches for the club or played a significant part during an important period of the clubs history.
Steven Thompson is to be inducted in May 2018.
St Mirren legends…http://www.stmirren.info/id318.html
TREBLE WINNING CAPTAINS on 23RD JANUARY 2018 3:24 PM
The St Mirren Hall of Fame was started in 2004 with Tony Fitzpatrick, Ricky Gillies, Campbell Money and Hugh Murray as first inductees.
Membership is by invitation and players are eligible for the honour if they have played in over 200 matches for the club or played a significant part during an important period of the clubs history.
Steven Thompson is to be inducted in May 2018.
Are you seriously saying we should be reading about a so called ‘legend’ , who has an EBT , in glowing terms on these pages?
we are well rested select out strongest starting 11 tonight and that means MD and EK play
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
It started with a kiss, in the back row of the classroom
How could I resist the aroma of your perfume
You and I were inseparable, it was love at first sight
You made me promise to marry you, I made you promise to be my bride…
You don’t remember me
do you?
You don’t remember me
do you?
You don’t remember me
do you?
You don’t remember me
do you?
It started with a kiss
never thought it would come to this.
It started with a kiss
never thought it would come to this.
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
Alan Partridge CSC
A discussion about the wonderful Day Davies and yet no-one has yet mentioned his best ever song* – “Days.
* – in my opinion (or, as the fantastic Ernie would suggest, One born every minute).
nearlyhometimeCSC