Fixtures between now and the end of the season fall into two categories: games between Celtic, Aberdeen and Hearts, and the rest. Aberdeen and Celtic each have to play Hearts home and away, while the only remaining fixture between the top two will take place at Celtic Park.
Despite the last minute turn-around and Aberdeen’s collapse two weeks ago, we are still very much in a title race which a reversal tomorrow would illustrate. Aberdeen don’t play until Sunday, so, as with two weeks ago, they will have to sit on wait on Celtic’s result. Derek McInnes will have marked this game out weeks ago as one he needs Celtic to drop points in.
Celtic have a settled look about the side. The goalkeeper and defenders have settled into good form, while a fully fit Brown and Bitton anchor the midfield. With Leigh Griffiths up front it’s the three places behind the striker Ronny Deila has to make decisions for.
Kris Commons enjoys playing against Hearts and has not been exerted by international football, he should play. Unlike Tom Rogic, who will surely sit out after his trip to Australia. Your guess is as good as mine as to who will play on the flanks.
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I don’t know what yous are talking about cos there are some I just scroll right past.
Like when you see a jobbie on the pavement!
HH jamesgang
DD Good stuff. I recall Roy c, 16 Roads and myself demolishing the club’s Jamieson supplies. What a sing song amigo. HH
JAMESGANG
The wee mhan is always at me to visit Celtic park and i’m working
on it, so a trip to Ireland would be included without a doubt and
maybe catch up with some wonderful bhoys.
H.H Mick
SFTB
P.S. I exclude the critics who have ptargeted a daft conflation of Celtic trust and Res. 12 issues as they are either false flag posters (in the case of Alfie Thompson-Pastry and The Donald Dick) or they are confused “reds under the beds” chasers like Macjay and Tony Donnelly. Those guys have not landed a blow and are fairly harmless.
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I have said nothing about Res. 12 , but hope as , I`m sure we all do , that our efforts are successful .
The fact that you conflate ( confuse ?) entryism with communism is of course completely understandable and speaks volumes .
I said the CelticTrust were entryists .I have never suggested they were communist. But they most certainly are political.
Very simply , the Celtic Trust put their politics before the Celtic .
By their own admission, they want Celtic run by supporters , undoubtedly of their choosing.
The “living wage” issue is just a tactic. P.L. is the perennial scapegoat.
You`re right.I am harmless.
The Celtic Trust most assuredly are not.
That`s the point.
The only point.
Entryism (also referred to as entrism, occasionally as enterism) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organisation in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. In situations where the organization being “entered” is hostile to entrism, the entrists may engage in a degree of subterfuge to hide the fact that they are an organisation in their own right.
Melbourne Mick
I think we’d put on a hootenanny in your honour!
Any excuse!
HH jamesgang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0HhrwIwp0
Kings of Leon
HH
FGF
Cracking version….for a wee Friday night
JamesGang, just old posters who come back with different monikers, but same rancid attitudes.
Melbourne Mick, Emma had a bit of a rough time when she first went over and left Melbourne, she is now back and has a job and transport (god they never stop spending their dads hard earned). Think she will contact you soon as she was asking where are they showing the semi, but who knows the youth live their own lives and things aren’t set in stone like they are for us old ones.
Gerryfaethebrig
Cheers mate .
HH
Haunting Version of Grace by Danny O’Reilly of The Coronas, his sister Róisín O and cousin Aoife Scott have joined forces for this beautiful rendition of Grace.
The trio performed the song which is deeply rooted in Irish history in one of the most significant locations of the Rising, Kilmainham Gaol.
They have performed the song for RTÉ’s Centenary
https://youtu.be/uUgt3xC40WU
It was a great day in Dublin and I couldn’t have spent it in better company. Except for my old pal VP who was with us in spirit. HH
Slightly longer version but not as good quality
https://youtu.be/SZTgsHSSSiI
For Clogher Celt, Almore and Wits…
we can’t thank you enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3vaNUYgs
CQNBRIGADACSC
https://youtu.be/uUgt3xC40WU
Gerryfaethebrig , have you seen this mate ?
Melbourne Mick- Ha Ha ur a right good wee story teller. I think Almore has gone to his bed.I look forward to getting his present and thank him sincerely for such a nice gesture,it is greatly appreciated. Now do not sell it for a bottle of scud Michael ,I’m looking forward to wearing it ,at our next shindig, which by the way is on the same day we play the huns.HH
Bundoran Bhoy
It must be a brother thing :-)
Freeky
BMCUWPs,
A highlight for me last weekend was bringing yourself and your dad around the Boyne battle site. Once a place of conflict, but now safely restored to the people of Ireland and a place of beauty.
The fact that we were able to enjoy the scene can be traced back to the sacrifice of the men and women of 1916.
Looking at the demographics of the six counties it won’t be long until our countrymen/women in the north of the island are able to enjoy the same freedoms.
It reminds me of the fact that the Ibrox club are not only financially bankrupt. But are also morally and ethically bankrupt (always were).
This wee sketch brings home the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
FGF
Yep but I got it on blog first ;- )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK_280ebIY
Terrorist or Dreamer
Bik McFarlane
dontforgetthenorthCSC
So Bundoran Bhoy is faster than FGF, nah shock there then:-)
BB, FGF either of you out for a few beers after the game tomorrow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx2ExLiuNE8
farewell to Bellaghy
Gary OG
HH
If you’ve never spent a day on the lash in Dublin town with the fantastic Roy croppie you don’t know what you’re missing. One of the very best and an absolute gent. HH
Doc
I can still beat you to the bar
( nae shock there then) :-))))
Aye but FGF is (even!!) handsomer than you (he telt me!) so he wins (he telt me!!)
HH jamesgang
EDDIEINKIRKMICHAEL
As usual its the time difference that makes it difficult to arrange
meet ups for the games but the semi is on early enough that
night for us and Paddymac is trying to arrange a tele fix up with
the Bay hotel so if your daughter contacts me she will be
welcomed with open arms.
H.H Mick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
The Verve
Bittersweet Symphony
HH
FGF, aye but you forget yer wallet!
FGF/Bundoran Bhoy
Cheers, never saw that version before, Clogher put a video up a good few months back more about Joseph Plunkett than Grace but pretty amazing stuff…… Everyday a school day on CQN
Evening All.
I have read back and notice a couple of posts from Kill Ultra and Big Nan about yours truly.
Now, I am not that important, and most people who have met me will hopefully confirm that I have always taken that view, so I don’t want any issue re me and who I know or who I have met to detract from any debate on Res 12 its merits, how it has been handled, or whether it is a good or a bad thing or whatever — so I will address the posts although I know I don;t have to.
First, I cannot recall coming on to this forum and dissing anyone. It is not my style. I may disagree with the opinion of some about this or that, and I may not agree with the syle of someone else’s comments, but hey it is a free world and I would defend the right to free speech with my last breath.
But I don’t do perosnal attacks on anyone. Pulling of the leg yes — personal attacks no.
So with that said, what follows below is no more than a reiteration of fact and not me having a go at anyone.
I hope that is clear.
KILL ULTRA
You brought up my relationship with Michael Nicholson who is the Celtic Company Secretary and cast some doubt on my saying that I hadn’t realised I knew him before the meeting at Celtic park at the outset of Res 12.
Well, the fact is what I said is totally true. I had no idea that I had spoken to him before and even at this date I can’t remember if I had actually met him before. In his previous life, Michael was a litigation lawyer with Harper McLeod. On occasion, my firm – which was a small commercial firm — had dealings with Harper McLeod as we did with more or less all the other commercial firms in Glasgow.
Over the course of years, you develop telephone relations with people when you find that they are involved in transactions or court cases with you on a regular or occasional basis. I can think of one older solicitor who used to do a certain kind of work whom I spoke to regularly for years. However, I never met him — ours was purely a telephone relationship. Eventually I did meet him and it was a funny thing to put a face to a name after many years.
With Michael Nicholson, I think I may have spoken to him on about 10 occasions over a 20 plus year legal career and I may have met him once or twice at most before that day at Celtic Park. Forgive me, but as some CQN’ers will know, I am rubbish with names.
Meeting people and remembering their real names is hard enough, but remembering their real names AND their CQN names is a nightmare for me. I just can’t do it.
So, when I say I didn’t realise it was the same Michael Nicholson it is the absolute truth.
However, I will add to that with two points.
Over the years of my adult life, I have had no real dealings with Celtic. I couldn’t tell you the previous company secretary’s name as I have no idea who he was as I had no reason to. Until you posted it, I had no idea when Michael was appointed Company Secretary — all I knew was that it was reasonably shortly before I met him. We had a brief chat about why he had left private practice behind but beyond that — that was it.
I don’t know him socially — though he seems a very nice guy — and he is much younger than me — despite my Peter Pan looks I am a reasonably old bugger.
I should add that from August 2001 onwards I spent much more time working in London than Glasgow and that led me to give up the law altogether in late 2005. So when I spoke to Michael Nidholson re Res 12 in late 2013 I had been out of the profession for a the better part of a decade and any previous conversation with him will probably have been a decade before I think.
I honestly can’t remember everyone I have spoken to over the years and it is meant as no offence to Michael when I say he remembered more about our previous conversations or meetings than I did.
Once he reminded me I got it, but if he hadn’t have mentioned it I may well have been none the wiser.
Finally can I add, I don’t think I have ever had a meeting with him re Res 12 on my own. There has always been someone else there — Morrissey, Auldheid, Canamalar — and their dealings with him have been as regular or frequent as mine have. Auldheid possibly more so.
Honestly, there is nothing suspicious in the fact that I had spoken to him before and I will reiterate that I have found him to be nothing but starightforward, straightalking and to the point in all my dealings with him.
So, that is that.
Big Nan.
I remember your article about the speculative society lol and yes I remember telling you that I knew various members. I wouldn’t say I know loads, but I can’t pretend – and wouldn’t pretend – that I haven’t met a few.
Now, why did i retweet your Spec story? Because it is a ludicrous, dangerous, outdated, ridiculous and quite frankly offensive organisation and it has no place in the 21st Century in my opinion.
Those who join its so called secret ranks, in my experience, are apt to tell you that they have been invited to join as if it is something impressive. However, it is not that impressive to me and, again, I really have nothing to do with such people.
In a past life, the nature of my work was such that I frequently had to instruct some of Scotland’s leading advocates, some of whom were members of the Spec as far as I was aware. You will probably know, that back in the day you could only instruct counsel in certain cases through an “Edinburgh agent” – namely an Edinburgh solicitor — and guess what? Sometimes, they too would be members of the Spec.
I always objected to the fact that there was an Edinburgh closed shop. Previously you could only get a divorce in Edinburgh and all that — which was completely ridiculous.
Anyway, the point is that such was the influence of the Spec in Edinburgh that if you employed counsel then you were destined to bump into the spec.
There are one or two members whom I told straight that the whole thing was bollocks. They however said that you joined to get a puddy up with the big jobs as if that made things better or justified its existence.
It only served to make me all the more cynical and determined to have nothing much to do with them.
As mentioned above, I eventually left the profession– not because I didn’t like the law itself but because I eventually didn’t like some of the people in it and around it — and other opportunities were presented to me which meant I chose to walk another road.
One thing that used to annoy spec types was not conforming to their dress code. At Parliament house the uniform is dark suits and club ties. More than once, the Spec types would ask that I desist from turning up for consultations out of uniform. Such requests were always noted and the next time I would turn up in a cream suit or a green one — that didn’t go down well and was just my daft way of rebelling. They didn’t like the Cowboy boots either.
Anyway I have nothing to do with such folk. I have few friends who are lawyers — though I obviously have some — but in the main my contact with these people was a lifetime ago and nothing to do with today.
As for my lifestyle stories and who I have met?
Well, I have been fortunate enough to meet some great people over the years some of whom have gone on to achieve a degree of fame — something I really don’t envy.
In my time as a solicitor I sponsored the arts and the like a bit cause it got you into see plays and concerts, and I knew quite a lot of folk at the BBC at one time or another and would go to their parties and so on. Very different to the Spec types. As a result, I would be asked to look at contracts for bands, actors, musicians and others. I used to do a lot of work for licensed premises, concert venues, promoters and so on so you meet people through them.
I worked for some politicians and trade unionists, and went on various marches and protests where you occasionally rubbed shoulders with the likes of Harry McShane or a young Alistair Darling.
Through my parents business I met lots of people as a teenager — footballers, actors etc etc — and yes I have a story or two to tell. Sometimes, I diidn’t even realise I was meeting anyone significant and to be honest it was no big deal if I was.
So when you say some of my stories are too good to be true or whatever, well hey think what you want I can’t stop you and wouldn’t try. I have just met a lot of folk over the years.
I would never describe myself as a man of the people. I have never knowingly joined a politcial party though was once an affiliate member of the Labour party through accidently joining another organisation in my student days. I have been on a few marches when I think something is worth protesting about. The last was with a trade union in Edinburgh — a couple of years ago.
In the past, two lawyers quite separately and on separate occasions tried to put a description on me, and to this day I am reasonably proud of both descriptions.
Both were more than slightly frustrated with me for one reason or another and so came out with these comments:
At a meeting the first suddenly turned and said ” I see you as an East end boy made good!”
I don’t know what I was menat to take from that but as I was raised in Clydebank and the west end of Glasgow he couldn’t have been further from the truth. Maybe he didn’t like people from the east end?
Things took a remarkable turn in that conversation when I retorted by asking how the guy’s mother was which he at first took to be some kind of threat which made him even more mad. He calmed down when he realised that his mother was a neighbour of my mum and dad’s in the west end and the nice young fella she had told him about who quite often helped her up the stairs with her messages was yours truly.
We later forged a reasonable working relationship but I never forgot the comment nor the insinuation that I was somehow a lesser being.
The second comment again came from someone who was regularly on the other side of cases from my own firm. We got on reasonably well, and even shared the odd drink together.
I don’t do business dinners — don’t like them and would rather spend my free time with friends and family than sit with bankers and the like — but one night I found myself at a dinner and this guy was there.
He had a good drink in him and in a state of inebriation he collared me and pointedly told me:
” Always remember — I see you as just a punter with a law degree!”
You know what? He was dead right — I am just a punter with a law degree.
Never really wanted to be anything else.
Phyllis Dietrichson on 1st April 2016 11:23 pm
You are right to say that “there’s no conflict between the heroes of RES 12 and a level of healthy scepticism from people who are opposed to secrecy and closed door negotiations.”
And my concerns in February 2014 that led to my spat with Canalamar and Morrisey in May 2014 was predicated on secrecy as to what was going on and by whom.
I didn’t support the requisitioners who had taken over RES 12, nor was I aware that Morrisey had appointed Auldheid and BRTH until it came out in that Twitter spat because there had been no report back.
So I took my leave of the issue and since then and up until this last week or so hadn’t been involved, not a word.
I then criticised Paul’s description of those who were critical of the handling of RES 12 as trolls. This in turn led to me being the subject of some personal abuse and misinformation from Canalamar.
I responded to that in a measured manner and left the facts for others to judge.
Since then there has been more criticism of me and those who question the efficacy of the requisitioners.
We are not Celtic men, we have soiled CQN as we fear Res 12 or are green with envy.
I can assure you that I am none of these things but I am a questioner by nature and like a dog wi a burst baw the more I am attacked the more I will resist.
Unlike Winning Captains I don’t know BRTH or Auldheid in fact I don’t know a single soul on this site (to the best of my knowledge) and of the handful of posters on the site I have met I can safely say I have only met them once, briefly at Celtic Park so I am unencumbered with preconceived notions about the requisitioners and other posters on CQN. ‘Trust me I’m a lawyer/teacher’ won’t cut any ice with me.
Having had my interest in RES 12 re-kindled by personal abuse and unfair criticism I will try to assess whether or not the past two years have been well spent or wasted.
There are issues emerging that trouble me and no doubt they trouble others too.
Don’t expect me to wait in silence for the big victory that is just around the corner because I have been reading that for years.
And whatever the future is for RES 12 it won’t be affected by my reasonable probing/comment.
My biggest hope of course is that I am wrong and will have to flee from this site like a whipped cur with the laughter of the requisitioners ringing in my ears. But I doot it!
H.H.
Gordon64
That was on the lash…lol
Class act big mhan
Can you remember that final Jamiesons yet?
O’Donoughes wowCSC
Doc
Its better than forgetting your purse like you
:-))
Doc sorry got family stuff on tomorrow
James gang you two timing me??? I’m hurt lol
Gerryfaethebrigg no probs mate
James
Your jobby on pavement post near ended me. So apt, so pertinent, so feckin funny.
Love doin the Hertz. We will tomorrow.
Hail Hail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRANzd9a6l4
bed and breakfast man
madness
nuttybhoysCSC
BRTH my quote of your DM was verbatim.
It is true to say we haven’t exactly saw eye to eye on some issues, such as your endorsment of Mure while on other things we agreed.
I didn’t object to you being appointed along with Auldheid on the basis of my previous posts with you but on the basis that no one told us it was happening and when it did no one reported back.
As a lawyer you must realise that keeping the client timeously appraised of matters is essentail?