I’m sure Ronny Deila is delighted to have the backing of John Harton, now he doesn’t need it. John’s attachment to the club is not in doubt, nor should a new manager want unquestioning support from anyone, but some clubs reach a point when they become unmanageable. Influential voices collaborate with perma-upset media and fans to expose shoots of recovery to a winter frost.
The mea culpa, when it arrives, is often too late.
Save us from the click bait that is suggesting Craig Gordon is a ‘target’ for some or other English club. Derk Boerrigter is interesting Real Madrid, honest, they’ve been watching him with the Development Squad.
I’ve been waiting for weeks on someone to ask the question: if a club accepts money on the condition that the lender has the right to appoint two directors, in the event the club removes those directors, do you reckon that would be a breach of the terms of the loan?
I’d be extremely worried if a well-intentioned, but nonetheless, baying mob chased away the last independent director of my club. Many Germans celebrated the Armistice, thinking a conclusion to hostilities had been agreed. Months later they learned the terms left them bereft of land, defensive capabilities, capital equipment, authority and self-respect. What seemed like an end to the trauma only set in motion far greater horrors.
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Wiznae me. I saw it elsewhere recently, was reminded of it when reading the nightshift, and thought I’d share it.
travellerbhoy, please believe me, there was no sarcasm whatsoever intended in my post after your first poem last night.
HH
Sky Sports what a con.yesterday’s sports news.still getting air time.The Repeat Station.I pay 83 pounds for this.also them presenters are picking up easy money.and why like news presenters do we need 2 of them.I’m seriously thinking after nearly 20 odd yrs with Sky.quitting.What apart from B T or Virgin is the alternative.
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked
08:48 on
4 March, 2015
I was in Morrisons this morning and the smell of lamb from the newspaper section was stronger than it was in the meat aisle.
Hee hee hee.Very good.
I think Ronny will make changes for tonight’s game, some forced some unforced. Armstrong & Commons went off injured at the weekend so probably shouldn’t be considered. GMS can’t play for the next 2 games so need to bed someone else in. Not sure what the score is with Izzy, broken finger ? would imagine he would be available to play. JG is supposedly injured as well, thigh strain so stick with LG. Will be a totally different line up from Saturday with only the spine remaining…
We’ve won every home league game 4-0 this year, that will do for me…
Izzy is out along with KC tonight
Financial Fair Play.
Inter.
Italian media that UEFA will sanction Inter re breaches of FPP.
Warm and sunny – way down south.
jungle jim hot smoked
08:48 on 4 March, 2015
I was in Morrisons this morning and the smell of lamb from the newspaper section was stronger than it was in the meat aisle.
JJ
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Brilliant :-))
TRAVELLERBHOY
Mary Cameron R.I.P
Good to see you posting during the night sir and hope to catch up soon.
yer man BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
covered it for me
03:40 on 4 March, 2015
TRAVELLERBHOY
Congratulations to your daughter,on her achievements and on her engagement.
As for your lad,I’ve already told him how chuffed I am at his own achievements.
You brought them up well,bud.
ACEILERGONOFRUST 0921
Quite right,bud. No point in wasting quality sarcasm on a good guy like TRAVELLERBHOY when a more deserving target was in your sights!
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Ronny Deila’s focus on fitness pays off as his lean Celtic stars race towards a Treble
08:35, 4 March 2015 By Gary Ralston
THE Norwegian is in a rush to take Celtic to the highest level and has the stats to prove his players are also picking up the pace in their bid to reach
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Jeff Holmes/PA WireCeltic manager Ronny Deila celebrates in the wake of the win over Aberdeen at Celtic Park
CELTIC boss Ronny Deila has revealed he is already gearing up for a Champions League run – and a run, and a run, and a run.
The Norwegian is in a rush to take Celtic to the highest level and has the stats to prove his players are also picking up the pace in their bid to reach
the top.
The Hoops will not compete with Europe’s elite on their fitness levels alone but Deila insists it will be the foundation of any success they may one day enjoy.
He points to six wins in the SPFL after their last six European games this season as proof positive his side are on message and heading in the right direction – and quickly.
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He has also hailed the athletic endeavours of new players, such as Gary Mackay-Steven, who are keen to make an impact and warned others he has the stats at hand to prove why they are not worth a place in his starting line-up.
Deila questioned the fitness level of his whole squad in his first few weeks in the job but now they’re lean machines who look primed to over-run all domestic resistance.
Celtic threaten to head over the horizon in the league this evening as a win at home to St Johnstone in their game in hand over Aberdeen will take them nine points clear with just 11 matches left to play.
And Deila said: “The most important thing is the players and everyone around them sees that what we are doing is effective.
“We have had six victories after European games this season and that’s really good.
“You don’t see that around the other European leagues. Inter Milan lost at the weekend and they are struggling a lot after Europe, so we did well to win in that way.
“We have increased the high intensity running by 30 to 40 per cent since summer, which is a lot.
“We want to be direct, create, penetrate, be a high pressing team, so you have to run and you have to run quickly and you see that in the stats and in how we perform.
“Rodrigo Palacio, the Inter striker, ran for 1250 metres against us at Celtic Park at high intensity. That’s an incredible number. But on Sunday, Gary Mackay-Steven ran 1300m against Aberdeen.
“We now compare to the better Champions League teams in terms of our figures and we have to find benchmarks. Where are we good? Where can we be better? That way we can be as prepared as possible if we get to the Champions League.
Ronnie right on the ball.Incredible stats about GMS.We are in safe hands with RD.His professionalism shines through every time he speaks.
If anybody looking for tickets for Tannadice on Sunday e-mail me at lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
JJ
A few takeaway establishments in Falkirk got in bother a few years ago for apparently putting cheaper types of meat in their curry’s but selling it as the more expensive lamb.
Whatever the hacks are getting is not lamb and its certainly not succulent.
Appologies to Weefra for mentioning lamb curry….oops :)
The boul midfield maestro is correct.
Today is Fergus McCann day.
Happy Fergus Day to you all.
Árd Macha
Turkeybhoy
When we look at the detail Ronny uses before making decisions, it might invalidate the view that we are all entitled to our opinions. For the sake of harmony, I will say that we are entitled to them but they are only worthwhile if we can substantiate them as Ronny can.
JJ
Thunder Road,
Good to hear from you . If the opportunity presents, it would be good to meet up for a pint again.
JJ
Tiny Tim
Just picked your post last night re The Patriot Game, many thanks and thanks to BCW for the link.
Wonderful!
Happy Fergus Day to all. A timely reminder why our club finds itself in such a strong position today, and why our former rivals were liquidated. Also worth noting that at the time the same ‘sorts’ who had the knives out for RD at the beginning of this season also tried to destabilise Fergus in the early days of his tenure. They failed then and have since failed to knobble RD. Both of these men have character, vision, a plan and exection model that works.
KTF 4iar
I was at Celtic park the evening wee Fergus took over the club and I shall return this evening (thanks to hebcelt) for my first game this year, its actually my first game since Maribor
looking forward to it
BIG Fergus McCann, a true Celtic legend.
What would the huns give for someone like him right now to ride in on a white charger??
Taking Zbysek into Edinburgh to have a look round and I suggested the Museum and the Castle, I would have taken him round the Botanical Gardens but I think I’ll be knackered by the Castle.
Morning all and a happy Fergus McCann day to one and all.
God bless the ‘bunnet’!
HH!!
The Lying King is often referred to as `Glaswegian`. Did anyone on here ever know him or know anyone who did/does?
JJ
…and be quick; I have to go and play golf 0:-))
oldtim
enjoy your day and dont overdo the walking
JJ
think he comes from chateau au lait
oldtim67
Cowgate is worth a visit.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=james+connolly+plaque+edinburgh&biw=1237&bih=342&tbm=isch&imgil=xjSNdvT_RWv71M%253A%253BqdeqbdFGCi_Z0M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.geograph.org.uk%25252Fphoto%25252F1349803&source=iu&pf=m&fir=xjSNdvT_RWv71M%253A%252CqdeqbdFGCi_Z0M%252C_&usg=__0sOvWHyqWZWuJHDstViJxx2sWMY%3D&ved=0CEMQyjc&ei=Y9z2VOlNwa3sBsjjgJAD#imgrc=xjSNdvT_RWv71M%253A%3BqdeqbdFGCi_Z0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fs0.geograph.org.uk%252Fgeophotos%252F01%252F34%252F98%252F1349803_ffa5b603.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geograph.org.uk%252Fphoto%252F1349803%3B640%3B436
LB
BT
Thanks. So, Tony Donnelly might be aware of him. Hmmmm….
Cheerio,
JJ
Traveller bhoy
Good read overnight,Mary Cameron rip
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Oldtim67
Enjoy your day in Edinburgh being a tour guide to Zbysek :-) dont be worrying just use plenty of those hostelries as pit stops :-) enjoy.
Just checking something ( and now I can imagine the comments THAT will generate!!)
Belated birthday wishes to Billy Mc Neill and a Happy Fergus Mc Cann day
When it comes to our clubs history the term ‘colossus’ is just not big enough for these 2 gentleman
HH
Fergus Mc Cann page from the Celtic wiki,a timely read
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Fergus+McCann
HH
Traveller Bhoy – reading back, I enjoyed your contributions.
Well done to you and yours!
Keep it lit.
Happy Fergus day and well in Traveller Bhoy, you are a credit to yourself and family RIP your friend.
I can totally get the frustration felt by the millions of folk, generally 20-30 year olds who feel disenfranchised from the politics of the big party’s.
Just this morning, it has been announced 20-30 year olds get 7% less income than they did in 2010, that’s a shocking announcement during what Osborne trumpets that we’re in a recovery.
Again, I totally get 100% some on here saying we should be spending loads of money on great things that would benefit people who need proper food/homes/health care.
An uncomfortable fact of life is that, as a nation we do not vote for parties who want to raise tax. Pre-nu- Labour, old Labour tried asking the nation to accept 1-2p increase in income tax to pay for all the goodies in their well left of centre manifesto’s, result……years in opposition.
It’ll be different in Scotland I hear you shout…….Will it?
Scotland is also conservative with a small-c when it comes to the rub. Pre-Thatcher there were 19 Tory MP’s returned in Scotland, there were a couple of Liberals and a rump of SNP.
The disappearance of the Tory’s in Scotland post Thatcher spookily coincided with the rise in fortunes of the SNP. The SNP outwith Glasgow and Dundee are not best pleased at the lurch to the left of their party during the Indy ref, they are not called Tartan Tory’s for nothing, Salmond was advised as such by the SNP rank and file in his own neck of the woods.
Because the people of Britain (Scotland included) refused to stump up income tax, Nu-Labour were heralded into power BECAUSE they basically lied and said they would follow the Tory spending policy’s.
The Labour Party actually DID follow the Tory spending policy but introduced what later became known as ‘stealth taxes’ to pay for £19 BILLION pounds per year EVERY year on top of the annual spend on NHS to absolutely transform the dilapidated hospitals and surgeries inherited from 18 years of Thatcherism.
The same goes for schools and Universities, towns have been transformed from sleepy hollows to vibrant student towns and the allied support infrastructure (accommodation/eateries/entertainment) as up to 40% of our kids gained access to higher ed.
This massive uptake in demand for education cannot be shouldered by normal taxation. It is not unreasonable to ask kids to start paying back WHEN THEY START EARNING £21,000 a year.
The Labour Party also engaged with Private Health care. It had to to get the inherited waiting lists (2 and a half years to even see a consultant) down to a reasonable time.
Mistakes were made with PPI, I don’t think the correct people were negotiating some of these.
Illegal wars? I think you’ll find there was a vote in Parliament.
Should Saddam Hussain have been allowed to go south into Saudi after he had slaughtered the marsh Arabs in the south of Iraq and invaded Kuwait? I’d like an answer to this if you are going to shoot down my post on this topic alone, tell me what YOU would have done to stop him.
We certainly know he had weapons of mass destruction because we (the west) had given him them.
Labour has made mistakes but I’d rather have a bumbling Labour government (not that that’s what I’d prefer) than what we have.
Team for tonight
Craig Gordon
Darnell Fisher
Virgil Van Dyke
Jason Denayer
Efe Ambrose
Scott Brown
Nir Bitton
Stefan Johansen
Liam Henderson
Gary Mackay Smith
Leigh Griffiths(John Guidetti)
HH
Looking at old photos 90s at the main stand inside the ground.my god what a difference,to that one at the present, who ever gave the go ahead for that to take place made a boob,take a look bhoys and see what u think
murdochbhoy
08:15 on 4 March, 2015
Good morning CQNers,
Last night I had a cold-call from someone purporting to be representing Celtic pools and informing me that supporting them would help fund the development of Lennoxtown and the on-going work there.
Does anyone know if we’re using such telesales?
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Had the same call a couple of weeks ago, girl with a Liverpool accent. I agreed to go ahead, and received my tickets last week. So, it would appear to be genuine.
HH
It really is amusing to watch Labour apologists twist in the wind.
BAWSMAN
FWIW,I supported the effort to get rid of Saddam Hussein. For pretty much the reasons you state. Many people did,though many didn’t.
Sanctions on his regime weren’t working against his regime-only against the people of Iraq.
What I didn’t realise was that we went into a war without an exit strategy. And while it was obvious that we would be a junior partner to the US,nor did I realise that we would be a subservient one.
That it finally did for Blair,I can take comfort from. For what it has done to the reputation of the UK in the eyes of much of the world,certainly not so much.
That it may be seen as the nail in the coffin of The Labour Party-the only chance the working class,underprivileged,infirm,etc could rely on-really breaks my heart.
Labour has to find a way back into its supporters’ hearts and minds. Tick tock,I’m afraid.
Just popping my head round the door to see what the chat is on the run up to a Celtic game.
I see the politicos are still at it.
With the greatest of respect, gies peace.
Toodloo the noo.
HH