The Celtic Supporters Association Rally in the Kerrydale Suite last night was a complete joy. On the way out I remarked that the club was in good hands with the Association. This was their 64th annual rally, over generations they have protected and cultured the unique spirit of our football club.
For me, it was the third opportunity in a week to hear the Thai Tims, who performed an excellent set. Paul Lennon of the Good Child Foundation is a real inspiration and example to us all.
It was also a great opportunity to spend a few hours with many from the CQN community, always a treat. I know one CQN’er who is going to think twice before digging up Tom (“get your facts right”) Boyd on the blog again, just in case our former treble winning captain reads it and goes looking for him on a night out.
To continue the spirit of what we are all about, on Saturday 19th May there is a charity dinner in Glasgow for The Andrea Kearney Fund, which supports women who are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy. The fund in memory of Andrea, who was diagnosed while expecting her fifth child and died in 2008, aged 41.
It promises to be a great night for an important cause, I hope you can support it. You can book tickets here. I look forward to seeing you there.
You can buy a hard copy of the new issue of CQN Magazine via Magcloud here.
The graphic below is just for a flick through, to read the magazine go here to it’s dedicated site.
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canamalar
I stood in picket lines becaused I supported the strike.
I will refuse to boycott Celtic games because you or anyone else tells me that it is the right thing to do.
I have a conscience, I live by it and it serves me well thank God.
see it as a form of boycott tomorrow!!
otherwise can you explian the amount of tickets for sale.
Me, i am a Celtic addict and will need to be there ALWAYS.
I hope you understand and that you dont judge me as a bad person.
Its just the way it is
Kit
Magic, have you seen the film?
ht,
You said earlier you’ll be there regardless, and if your there then it’s no a bhoycott, read back your words no mine.
I asked if your the only one in the away end is it still no a bhoycott cause your there.
You came back confused you said.
You’ve again stateted on this page you’ll be there regardless
So what’s the point of trying to deal with a bigot, tell me.
Had to finish on a Celtic note.
Supporting Celtic is in many ways emotional blackmail in and of itself.
As someone else said (actually RTC on his latest article), supporting a football team is an investment of emotional attachment. As such, it sometimes defies logic, reason and a simple cost/benefit analysis.
I cannot come up with a sensible scenario which would be so bad, that I would stop supporting Celtic. So, regardless of what the team or the club do, I am theirs. Not only that, I have diligently passed this on to both my sons, and now to my grandson.
That is committed emotional attachment, and I accept that sometimes the club get money from me for a service or a product that seems over-priced. My response is to buy the blooming thing by convincing myself that I’d rather the money went to the club, than to some other source. I am being emotionally blackmailed into a purchase because of my irrational emotional attachment and self serving personal logic. With no such attachment, I wouldn’t dream of making the purchase.
Being a Celtic supporter (and many other teams too) means accepting emotional blackmail as part of the deal.
That’s the case with me anyway.
Night all this time
HH
canamalar
I’m a bigot is that what you’re saying?
See if I was going to write a book, I would call it,’See that Hun bird upthe stairs, she has actually got a hairy back and she stole ma 20 Mayfair!’
Slan
RalphWaldoEllison-is Neil Lennon Season 2011-12 on 6 May, 2012 at 03:02 said:
Bloody brilliant!
monteblanco
You live two stairs below me??
FFM
To some people, SDM is a loveable rogue like Delboy. He wheels, he deals etc.
Derek Trotter was a personable guy (ok he’s fictional but you know what I mean) but he was a crook.
Maybe MIH was the model for TIT. (Trotters International Traders)
HH
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 6 May, 2012 at 02:44 said
Its better than yours :)
The threat of a boycott was to get the SFA to look at the Review Panel rules and use the Mcleish Review as a route to reform
A boycott was not required because the SFA agreed under the threat to change the process after Gordon Smith said they could not and Smith actually resigned although I would not claim thre threat was the reason for that. Celtoc were happy to use the leverage the threat gave the to pressure the SFA.
McLeish was met by the CST who pressed for the need for accountability and transparency, words you used yourself in the months before and bloody good ones they were too, and the whole disciplinary process was revised after the SFA voted for the McLeish reform.
What might be causing confusion was a later call for a boycott by the CSA related I think to the SFA handling of Neil Lennon. Kilmarnock were the suggested target. The problem with that threat was it had no stated objective other than to punish Kilmarnock for reasons I cannot recall JF will remember.. That was the one where Lenny stepped in to say he wanted the support to attend away games. It was also the subject of much debate.
As a concession to the CSA Regan and Doncaster met with them to set out the reform path and on the basis they were serious about it the boycott call, which had unclear objectives fell.
What I will say about the CSA’s latest comment on Kilmarnock is that the objective this time would be clear and that would be to target clubs who voted Newco into the SPL. I imagine the Rangers mob will be targetting those who did not so vote.
The SPL will know there will be a price to pay whichever way they vote but the deciding factor should be sporting integrity. They can retain trust in the competition and so support, trust that once lost they might not recover with long term consequences on income..
fortunes favour…
am still takin her oot on thursdaay, if only to get my own back!
how to yo type (laughing like a deranged maniac?
monteblanco on 6 May, 2012 at 03:05 said
That is the kind of thing my youngest son would say. I would ask you to confirm you are not him did I not already know you are not.
RWE
:)) Aye, loveable Scottish rogue. The opposite of the left breast :)
Insomnia. At least the night is peaceful.
I have no doubts that Hun F.C. is finished and all the fantastic saviour tales are children’s dreams to keep the stupid orcs from frenzying and to keep them coming to The Bigotdome until their pathetic season ends.
We really have nothing to fret about.
They’re done.
Decrepitude is their shroud.
ht,
Go look up the literal meaning,
You refuse to accept any argument but you own on this issue thats bigotry.
Me, I will never listen to any argument that justifies fascism I am proud of that bigotry I possess.
RWE is exactly where I was not so long ago, what ST and me were talking about earlier and my telling people if they criticised any part of the club (specifically the board) then they were attacking the whole of the club, I was bigoted In my argument, from the actions of the board I have changed that view.
You appear to have the same problem, hopefully one day you will see the only way to make changes is to segregate the good from the greedy.
Auldheid
Excuse my ignorance but do you post on behalf of the CST or the CSA?
Miki67,
Did you tic the box to include old firm games ?
Auldheid your youngest son would not last ten seconds on this sainted blog
that is why I love him and his bro
and you
canamalar
I’m well aware of the meaning.
So you’re calling me a bigot is that correct?
auldheid sold me my first car!
What an ashtray!!
(green rover 214Si)
hamiltontim on 6 May, 2012 at 03:15 said:
No I just went along to the Open meetings. I found myself writing up what was happening at them that I posted on CQN to keep thosewho could not attend in the picture.
This was the most comprehensive
http://www.celticunderground.net/index.php/templates/file:/C:/Users/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&limitstart=665
titsbumfannythelot said at 3:20 am
:)
We are the mods
monteblanco on 6 May, 2012 at 03:19 said:
Was that not sold to my son in law? I dont smoke. :)
monteblanco
FFS. Is that motor still doin the rounds?? That’s what happens when you try to scrap a deathtrap motor at MIH metals. >:((
Auldheid,
Bloody splitters :0)
We never got everything hence we are here, the refs are still a rouge state.
ht,
You didn’t appear to be aware
Are you calling me a bigot
I live too far away to get to many games,and when I do it’s akin to a pilgrimage. I look forward to those trips.
If I was lucky enough to have a season ticket,the only games I would not go to are the ones involving any kind of Rankers Newco that has been slid into the spl.
But I really don’t see that happening. The whole shebang is way too murky to stand serious scrutiny.
I read all the blogs & tweets,all the forensic info re. the toxic lot,and it is that…toxic. There is so much more dirt to be exposed that I don’t see how it’s possible for any kind of Rankers to function in that atmosphere. This stramash has a long way to run. It just has to play out until the bitter end. Theirs.
Auldheid,
I’m sure the initial open meeting with Lawwell was to question him about the boards intentions about other issues, which he refused to answer, however his strategy was to wave shiny things in front of the attendees and introduce our new manager, that’s when the threat of supporter action turned to dust.
canamalar
Never have I even alluded to that.
Go back to your post, are you saying I’m a bigot?
Please don’t be pedantic and stand by your convictions. If that’s what you believe then please say so.
I must try to sleep.
Who knows, all I know is the huns smell of cack and the hairy backed neighbour (face of an angel) stole my Mayfair!
But the Thistle burnt down and I have Shuper Shunday with the mods
(who writes this pish) in fact hold on till I youtube usout of here…..
hamiltontim on 6 May, 2012 at 03:15 said
My experience of life is that folk are capable of justifying anything to themselves and sometimes the real motivation is subconscious.
So when we say we love someone or support something we are actually saying that we get so much personal joy from doing so we are not prepared to give that personal joy up, even if in doing so there might be a wider benefit to everyone else.
It is when we realise that and are prepared to surrender what we love that gives us so much joy that we are truly loving and supporting. Real love/support is very demanding.There is nothing wrong with wanting to experience that joy, just as long as we know it is for our own sake and we are prepared to make a sacrifice if the situation warrants it.
Love of other, love of self – the battle ground of the soul.
No apologies asked , expected or given!
Pure love! Up yees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq5Uvaint3w
Miki67,
The support are being charged and given the option for old firm games, why ?
ST renewal prices have increased, why ?
ht,
I don’t shirk my conviction
Your a bigot, I thought I made that clear.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 6 May, 2012 at 03:29 said:
If you mean the Roadshow that was the much maligned Jeanette Findlay’s idea to go out and face the support that Celtic used for their own purpose. Trust me.
Auldheid,
Wise words as always :)) But, when you reach a certain age, love becomes unconditional, and you want to protect the future. That’s the argument I see going on here from those advocating bhoycott. I don’t agree it’s the right method, or even the right time though, But you know all this, don’t ya?!? :))
Auldheid,
I know, that’s why I became so dismissive of the lot of them.