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mickbhoy1888 on 18th December 2017 1:24 am
Aye, can’t believe we’re not winning La Liga. Doesn’t matter what league you play in, 69 game unbeaten runs are difficult to achieve.
Good morning CQN from a cold and clear East Devon.
Not a lot can be said about yesterday, glad it’s over, onwards and upwards.
Hail! Hail!
Good morning friends a dry, crispy and slightly frosty East Kilbride. Just thought I’d resurrect the ole EK
weather reports for the run up to Christmas ;-)
Hope its Judith for the weather.
Thanks Jobo – would have assumed rain again and not left time for windscreen scraping:))))
Notrunninglate CSC
PS. Celtic, I love you more than I did this time yesterday. Onwards to Wednesday
HH
I don’t know if this has already been discussed but did anyone else feel concerned about the number of times our players slipped. Just before pulling the trigger, back tracking in defence and whilst cutting inside of defenders. We seemed to be slipping constantly whilst they managed to remain on their feet. Better suited footwear on a slippy surface or just bad luck?
Thanks for that BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS, my other brother,Gerry got a very personal e-mail from RWE shortly after Franny died, to which we both responded. He sounds like a very brave man and I’m glad to have made his acquaintance.
TIMHORTON on 17TH DECEMBER 2017 11:43 PM
bottom line is you have to win the 50/50 tackles, we dont.
now if you want i could give you plenty of xcelts that won the 50/50 tackles. talk to bertie maybe ho could make a come back.
to many on here moan about refs and how rough those players are that we play against, for gods sake grow a pair.
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The art of tackling (and it is an art) and then winning the ball is sadly lacking among most of our first team regulars, even the defenders whose bloody job it is. I think other teams have sussed this, hence all the rough stuff this season with little or no protection from the match officials.
All too often our players go in for 50:50s by waving a leg at the ball either cos they are a bit feart or they expect the opposition to quickly give the ball to us even if they win this time round. The last player I was confident would win more tackles than he would lose was Wanyama. Since then we have lacked a midfield or defensive enforcer. Even our captain isn’t that great at tackling but he’s probably the best we have.
Win the tackle, win the game.
Thebarcamolesbro
I didn’t know your brother but he was well thought of on these pages, good to see you posting on here
Welcome to Cqn
Hail Hail
Ah Well,
The Unbeaten run is over the ‘distraction’ is gone.
Thankfully the Plc, PL and Paul 67 never Celt oot and we have the Judicial Reviews and Res 12 to look forward to.
Thankfully the flogging of T shirts wasn’t about Celling oot and paying off legal fees and putting the whole thing to bed.
Anne Budge must be really regretting ignoring the Supreme Court Verdict.
Thankfully Brendan knows how to set up a defence…
It was the slippy pitch, the referee, Sky Sports, Scottish football is much better…tired players, they played rough, especially Lafferty and that 16 year old:)
Thankfully the £49 Bigotfest with Sevco is Celt oot and Glibby and Co will enjoy the Director’s Box at your expense.
Hopefully the Invincible run was worth it?…Hopefully the players aren’t fed up with the tactics?
Sevco,the SFA and the SPFL might have the last laugh?
If you are getting an ear bashing at work, just tell them that Peter Lawwell, Dermot and the Internet Bampot Brigade have an Ace up their sleeves….That card is Res 12 and the legal process;)
Celtic Plc never Celt oot to Sevco and the SFA…( and the Lodge).
Bring on the Dodgy Dons, Sevco and Zenit and your money, photographic ID and National Insurance Numbers:)
Duty Calls
There is a lot of venting and score settling on the back of our first domestic defeat in 70 games. How that stat proves that Brendan is a dud and that this team is mince, is beyond me.
However, please do not let my mild criticism stifle your innate right to complain.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 18th December 2017 8:29 am
Wouldn’t you be better addressing this to specific posts as I can’t really see this opinion on Brendan and the team being widely held on the blog? No doubt a very good team have lost their mojo at the moment and that’s surely worthy of discussion.
Clougher Celt
Is that a cracked Celtic crest you wear upon your breast?
MWD
3 points clear,game in hand, first trophy in the cabinet, Santa’s on his way, CELTIC are for life, not just for Christmas…. HH.
Anyways, If Jobo can do the weather, I can do the Uxbridge letter of the day which is M:-
Magistrate: Madge isnt a lesbian.
Maisonette: A very small Chief Constable
Malcontent: What you find in your local shopping arcade.
Malediction: Irresistble compulsion to spend all your time in a shopping arcade.
Malinger: A person who hangs around shopping centres.
Malteasers: Jocular traders.
Mambo: Female version of Rambo.
Mammoth: A female moth.
Mandrake: A mythical creature, half man half duck.
Manganese: A condition affecting the leg joints of Japanese comic artists.
Manhattan: A light brown hat worn by men.
Manoeuvre: A vacuum cleaner even men can work
Marigold: Get-rich-quick
Martinet: Australian crash helmet.
Mascarpone: To conceal a small horse.
Mastiff: A group of young men watching a porn film.
Matrimony: How much a wedding costs.
Matrix: Practical jokes executed by your best friend.
Maximum: A very large mother.
Meander: She and I
Melancholy: Fruit and veg.
Mendacity: Urban renewal programme
Merciful: Liverpool’s flooded
Mericarp: A very happy fish.
Merseyside: The killing of Scousers
Metapsychic: To meet someone who has extraordinary powers of the mind.
Metatarsels: Got together at Jeffrey Archer’s
Metronome: A garden ornament that frequently travels on the underground.
Metropolis: The London Underground Transport Police.
Miasma: The reason I carry my inhaler.
Midwifery: Half way-through a fart.
Migrate: The speed that a Russian fighter jet travels at.
Minimalist: A piece of paper an anorexic takes to the shopping centre.
Miniscule: A toddlers’ play group in Liverpool
Minister: Only moving the teaspoon very slightly.
Minorca: A very small killer whale.
Minotaur: A short excursion.
Minute: My pet amphibian.
Misfit: A very attractive female teacher.
Mish-mash: To be late for chapel due to drunkenness
Misled: A toboggan that i own.
Mistake: Winner of a butcher’s beauty contest or Regret becoming vegetarian
Mississippi: Wife of Mr. Ippi
Missive: South African for ‘very big’
Mobster: An aggressive crustacean
Mogadon: My cat’s a professor
Molest: To be most like a mole.
Mollify: To turn into a mole.
Monologue: One single log.
Morass: Extra bottom.
Morose: An excess of a particular vowel.
Moreover: Overweight dog
Mortician: Increased demand for Venetian art.
Mushrooms: What Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen does
Mustache: Blimey, that must hurt!
Muzzletoff: A good thing to do to the Countryside Alliance
Myspace: The velocity of rodents.
Mystic: A rod of wood that i own.
Mystical: Miss Whiplash for children
Mytosis: Your female sibling stepping on your foot.
Gorbals Tam
Too many specific posts to address each individually.
I never criticised anyone who said we got warning signs that we couldlose a match, indeed I said so myself. However, rather than having lost our Mojo, I think we just lost a match.
Aff Oot now
The next three games for the hoops will tell us a lot Partick Thistle Aberdeen and Rangers if we slip up in any of them the league title race will definately be on.Brendan has a short time to sort things out we have so many players looking off form and for me Brendan has brought this on himself by his constant tinkering take Griffiths for example how can he be at the top of his game the way he has been treated. So for me I look towards the management team to sort it out starting with the defence. H.H.
Brendan SPL record
Played 56
Won 46
Drawn 9
Lost 1
Add 14 Scottish and League cup ties and 14 wins
Is that correct?
Yep. Whilst the man is not immune from criticism I think he’s earned the right to a bad day on the domestic scene.
I’m pretty sure that it won’t just be yesterday’s collapse that’s had him considering how to improve the squad, the European games will have seen to that.
Rather than see yesterday’s defeat as a reason for doubting our 10 in a row ambition, I’m sure it’ll have strengthened the resolve of our manager.
I await with interest the January, and particularly the summer transfer windows.
maybe just maybe. thats the monkey off our back. our next game will tell us.
It’s also a certainty that given Levein’s comments yesterday that he used the “ Anderlecht “ style to press us, that a number of Scottish sides will now desert their ‘ park the bus’ tactics and have a real go at us.
Looking forward to that. I expect to see our goals for column increase significantly over the next couple months.
We won’t always be as lax as an attacking force as we were yesterday.
Pfft, imaging losing a match. Who does this Rodgers character think he is?
All those unbeaten games and trophies were just papering over the cracks…
*or “imagine”
whatevs…
THEBARCAMOLESBRO
Aye,RWE is a tremendous fella. He and his family have been through the wringer on a few fronts in the past few years,and they deserve a change of luck in 2018
HH
Word of The Day
bibulous /ˈbɪbjʊləs/
adjective
1. fond of or addicted to drink (Scotland at Christmas …)
2. absorbent; spongy (our defence yesterday …)
Derived Forms
bibulously, adverb
bibulousness, noun
Word Origin and History for bibulousExpand
adj.
1670s, “spongy, absorbent,” from Latin bibulus “drinking readily, given to drink;” of things, “absorbent; moistened,” from bibere “to drink” (see imbibe ). Meaning “fond of drink” attested in English by 1861.
KTF
So this is how it feels to lose a game. I had forgotten. Amazing. Thank you Celtic.
OOFFFT! A short read back and to be honest, what a lot of malcontents we have on here!
1 defeat in 70 games and we are pish? Jozo and Dedryck were (quoting most on here) great at the back up to a few weeks ago; Broony was imperious; KT was the best thing since sliced bread (well, Danny McGrain actually); the Griff/Moussa/Big Eddie were world beaters.
FFS, we lost 1 game. As sometimes happens, we played as badly as we could and lost 4 very bad goals and Hertz played at the top of their game and scored (from their perspective) 3 very good goals and a penalty.
The young lad Cochrane had the game of his life (McDonald looked good as well when he came on); Lafferty had a great game and bullied our entire defence – he did what he did and did it very well. They knew they couldn’t compete in a passing game so they harried, harassed, kicked and bullied us into submission. Milinkovic played very well and their makeshift back four nullified our attack. It happens from time to time. We have done t to some big European teams recently.
The bottom line is that we have won 4 trophies since Brendan Rodgers arrived; we have won 6 League Titles in a row and are well on our way to 7. We are 2 points ahead in the league with a game in hand. We have 4 games in the next 2 weeks. Win all 4 (Thistle H, Aberdeen H, Dundee A, Sevco H) and we will be at least 8 points clear of second and 11 clear of third.
This is how it feels to be Celtic ……….
KTF
Moonbeams,
I think the Christmas advert for the Superstore is a cracker.
Hopefully folk will ‘fill their boots’ on the strength of that and keep the Plc till ringing…
Weren’t Sevco meant to go bust? Or weren’t they middle table fodder?
Hopefully the new 32 year old will pass the ‘Celt Oot’ Medical and sort things.
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“Stat: Brendan Rodgers has worst defensive record of any modern day Liverpool manager”
“This Is Anfield
14 January 2015”
( A great guy but when he loses he loses heavily. That’s usually okay in the SPFL (The Scottish Pub Football League)…but all things come to an end…
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2015/01/stat-brendan-rodgers-worst-goals-record-modern-day-liverpool-manager/
Hail Hail
So same team for the Harry rags game,barring injury of course.
OR
Wield the sword of Damocles now before the winter break.
Me—- I would take the first option,tell them to go and prove they want to be part of our future.
H.H
The one big difference between this season and last; other teams have upped their fitness levels. A great competitive advantage was had last season when Celtic had the legs for a high-tempo 90 minutes whilst apponents began to fade later on. In actual fact, i think our general finess levels are lacking compared to last year. Winter break will hopefully give them a reboot in the baws.
Jfh@9.12
If we are going to play “Rangers” we’re going to need a tardis (although I must admit I jump a little higher and scream a little louder when we score against the tribute act).
We lost a game. Having gone to watch the Tic during the 80s and particularly the 90s we are truly blessed to be living in these great Celtic times. I remember going over to watch Celtic play Burnley in the abomination which was the Anglo Scottish cup, while 1st “Rangers” were playing Juve in the European Cup on the same night (and we lost).
Just remember we did these incredible things whilst paying our dues and with a credit line from a bank. No cheating from us and sometimes against what seemed insurmountable odds (think Dundee Utd and Tommy Burns and the forces of darkness that are range(r)d against us). It’s that which breaks their hearts. We have opened the door a little to raise their expectations. Time to slam it shut.
The next instalment of invincibility starts on Wednesday.
HH and god bless the famous Glasgow Celtic.
The Griff Myth in full full noo…
“The way Brendan has treated Griff”
Big Bad Brendan eh Joe…
Rodgers oot…
Clougher Celt
Nice you are so interested in Celtic and Liverpool as well as film making.
How about Celtic, do you like them?
MWD
” we have so many players looking off form and for me Brendan has brought this on himself ”
Played 70; Lost 1.
JJ
PS Didn`t Neil Lennon bring it on himself as well?
Gearoid.
Well said.
We are Blessed to be living in such times as these.
HH.
Hot Smoked.
Played 70 Lost 1.
Nail, on, head, hit.
HH.
“with his constant tinkering”
The Deila Complex!
defeat has been coming for a few weeks now , This is not the same celtic team from last season .
Apart from a few games when we clicked , Aberdeen away , Motherwell third game . .we have been sitting at squeaky bum time . For me ,and I have been saying it for ages now , we have positions in the team ,that can be improved upon , yesterday was a wake up call . We are as soft a celtic team as I can recall , we were bullied from start to finish , and this is not new , god almighty I have read posts on here ,calling 5ft 8 inch lasley a thug . That guy Paton a thug . Broony is a wee hardy guy who never hides ,but I can’t say that about some others . And that for me is unacceptable . We have 3 games coming up , hearts approach yesterday will be analysed , any More hiccups and our lead will be under pressure . When the widow opens I hope BR gets the cash he needs to fill the positions in the team , that imho badly need filling . Saying that 69 games undefeated , will that ever be equaled. ,it was some journey . HH
GEAROID
Sair wan,I was at that Burnley match too.