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High expectations, the day the season pivoted

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Luis Palma’s 87th minute goal should have been enough to secure the win at our visit to Fir Park in September.  Incredibly, Motherwell’s equaliser 8 minutes later was not enough for them to take a point.  A game which couldn’t produce a goal for so long, ended with a flurry.

Almost two months later, the winner that day, scored by Matt O’Riley, feels like it is going to be one of the most important goals of the season.  Not only did it secure another two points for Celtic, it punctured the pre-match mood 15 miles away at Ibrox.  There, the early crowd came alive at news of Motherwell’s 95th minute equaliser.  The O’Riley goal sapped energy out of the stadium.  Barry Robson’s side scored three and took the same number of points back home to Aberdeen.  If ever a season pivoted on a day…..

I like Stuart Kettlewell.  The Motherwell manager is a talent waiting for a bigger platform.  His achievements in Dingwall were under-appreciated, but they love him in Lanarkshire, for now, anyway.

We return to Celtic Park after the last of the autumn international breaks, desperate to see Celtic, desperate to push through a season with so much promise.  Being eight points ahead and going into a period with predominantly home games, expectations are high.

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  2. Hot Smoked on

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 25TH NOVEMBER 2023 9:56 AM

     

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    MODERATOR1888 on 24TH NOVEMBER 2023 10:42 PM

     

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  3. scullybhoy on

    25.11.1981

     

    1st Round Watford 3- 0 (Nicholas, Crainie, McStay)

     

     

    2nd Round Manchester United 2- 0 (Crainie 2)

     

     

    Semi-Final Ipswich Town 3- 1 (Nicholas 2, Crainie)

     

     

    Final Celtic 1- 0 Southampton (Nicholas)

     

     

    Squad: Latchford McStay, Garner, Nicholas, Crainie, Weir

     

    Coach: Jim Lumsden

  4. scullybhoy on

    A talented Ipswich side could not find a way of stopping the youthful Hoops who sealed their place in the final with a 3-1 win. A vastly experienced Southampton waited in the final and the south coast club were able to call upon veteran World Cup winner Alan Ball and twice European Player of the Year, Kevin Keegan.

  9. Scaniel on

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  10. Prestonpans bhoys on

    I use brave as my browser and don’t have a problem.

     

     

    Used my tablet which uses a standard browser to see what you guys are encountering !!

     

     

    Quite simply without a adblocker this site is unusable 🙄

  12. celtic40me on

    Please bear in mind that the comments section on CQN relies on Paul67’s generosity with his time and revenue from advertising.

     

     

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    I know we’re not all tech savvy but the answers to your problems are all out there on Google.

  13. glendalystonsils on

    Anyone like me using Chrome? Someone posted previously to disable java script which I did, and now have no problems.

  14. bournesouprecipe on

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league

     

     

    They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,

     

     

    They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,

     

     

    From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,

     

     

    To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,

     

     

    There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there’s ever been,

     

     

    Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,

     

     

    And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.

     

     

    Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,

     

    Celtic, Celtic on to victory,

     

     

    They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,

     

     

    We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.

     

     

    Repeat to fade CSC

  16. Fred Colon on

    Big Jimmy at 7.03 am

     

    The posts are inane from front to back or back to front .

     

    I should know , I write some of them 🤪

  18. Melvin Udall on

    I use Duck Duck Go on my iPhone and never see ads on CQN.

     

     

    Jimmy, if you’re using an iPhone, go to the App Store and download the Duck Duck Go app from there.

     

     

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  27. lets all do the huddle on

    what i do is have a browser on my phone that i only use for sites that i want javascript disabled for like cqn and then a different browser for all other sites.

     

     

    saves me having to disable/enable javascript all the time because for most sites i guess you would want it enabled.

     

     

    in saying that i also recently started using DuckDuck and that seems to be fine.

     

     

    only problem i find with having javascript off is that you need to log in a lot to see all the posts which can be a pain

     

     

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  31. The returnof weeron on

    TAURANGABHOY on 25TH NOVEMBER 2023 9:07 AM

     

     

    Taurangabhoy….

     

     

    I came over in September (from Canada).

     

     

    I checked the Celtic website (tickets page). I realized that, for ‘ordinary’ games, Celtic put a small number of tickets up for sale a few weeks before the match. I can’t remember how many days, but if you start checking it daily, you’ll figure it out.

     

     

    They have 2 types of tickets available:

     

     

    1. Hospitality (A bit pricey, but I took them for the 1st of the 2 games)

     

     

    2. Regular seats (These came available a few days after the Hospitality ones).

     

     

    Bought them, and arranged to pick them up at the Ticket Office.

     

     

    HINT: If you don’t have one, set up an account with the Ticket Office in advance. That will speed up the process when the tickets go ‘live’. ALSO…they go fast. Maybe within an hour. And that was for home games against St Johnstone and Dundee….

     

     

    I hope they get their tickets.

     

     

    All the best,

     

    Weeron

  32. Burnley78 on

    Scullybhoy

     

     

    Thanks for sharing re the Daily Express Football Five a sides

     

     

    Another great trophy. Only Scottish team to win it. I used to love that competition. It clashed with UEFA Cup 3rd round which we were never in as we were mostly in the big cup.

     

     

    It was the centre piece on BBC Sportsnight with Coleman.

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    Scaniel @ 10:41

     

     

    Was advised some 4 years or so ago to use DUCK DUCK GO (think it was FRIESDORFER) as a search engine instead of google or safari and never had a problem since.

     

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    I also followed the advice on here, and downloaded DUCK DUCK GO onto my iPhone (only ever use my iPhone to log into CQN).

     

     

    Prior to this, it was a nightmare trying to navigate this site. NEVER had an issue since switching to DDG. 👍

     

     

    HH

  36. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Palma suspended for Tuesday so get 90 minutes out of him today.

     

     

    Looks like we might need to go with James and Yang wide Tuesday.

     

     

    Assuming Brendan plays that system.

     

     

    If he does, no idea who comes off the bench

  38. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Gianni Capaldi continues his mission to turn Hollywood green and white.

     

     

    Good for him.

     

     

    Guy should be on commission

  40. Saint Stivs on

    b78,

     

     

    couldnt get logged in, just seen the offer, thanks very much for that, i cant make it now, another time perhaps,

  42. bognorbhoy on

    CELTIC: Hart, Ralston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, McGregor, Holm, O’Riley, Yang, Palma, Kyogo.

     

     

    Subs: Bain, Johnston, Phillips, Turnbull, Oh, Iwata, Tilio, Bernabei, Berarndo, Johnston.

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