The stats tell an enticing story, Milan have played thirteen competitive games since beating Celtic and won only two, but you can forget about them right now. Celtic are good enough to take three points tomorrow but it will require a perfect match plan if they are to do so.
This fixture will hold no fears for Celtic, who have been over similar ground many times before, but they face players vastly more experienced at playing the intensity of football which will be on display tomorrow evening. If we are to get anything from the game, we will have to subvert a team who will enjoy the majority of possession and territorial advantage, with impeccable defending and expert finishing.
We got it spectacularly wrong against Italian opposition last season, who were considerably weaker than the Spanish opponents who left Celtic Park empty handed, overwhelmingly as a consequence of diverging from the game plan which left Barcelona scrambling for a consolation goal. This is football at a remarkably unforgiving level, as Juventus let us know; you’re not in the SPFL now, Dorothy.
Did you get to speak to the CQN Girls handing out Annuals at the Superstore on Saturday? We’ve got budget to bring them along for one last time ahead of the Milan game tomorrow. See the video below for a glimpse of what we were up to on Saturday and thanks to everyone who has bought an Annual!
CQN Book launch – Celtic Park from Partickular Films on Vimeo.
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Mark Wilson on shortbread. Going to be speaking about Gauld in a bit.
excathedra44
18:07 on 25 November, 2013
I’m sure you will agree that Neil has learned VERY quickly……….given the ‘barriers’ a revelation…..!!!!!!
chairbhoy
Yip, SFA are adept at repeating what they’ve already said, which is damned little at all.
The SFA member at the relevant time – pre July 2012 – was RFC plc, the incorporated entity of the members club founded in 1872.
There is a new member – Sevco Scotland Ltd, now called TRFC Ltd – to whom RFC plc’s membership was ‘transferred’.
But let’s not allow the facts to get in the way of disingenuous obfuscation, eh.
TBB
After Mackay-Stevens scored Utd third goal on Saturday he jumped over the hoardings to celebrate with his own fans. There was no booking.
The ref in charge was Collum, the same guy who consistently books Celtic players for doing far less after scoring.
Someone at Celtic should show the the footage to the SFA and ask questions.
Marrakesh Express
18:10 on
25 November, 2013
Aye but there’s no smokies in meelan…
oh wait a minute Brian Graham scored the fourth jumps a hoarding and runs along clapping hands with the Utd fans.
No booking?
Collum seems to be a law unto himself.
Chairbhoy 17:25
He doesn’t seem to say why you would need to transfer a membership from one club to the SAME club. Strange…..
The Battered Bunnet @ 18:34,
Thanks for your views, we went through this in some detail over the weekend so there’s no point running over it again – though the T&C’s imposed will be interesting.
Good to see your comments on Ryan Gauld, I’m impressed with this lad, seems to me that he proves a small lad and a young lad, if good enough can make an impact on the Premier League.
“Celtic’s conclusion is that the boy is at the right team at the moment. Leave him where is and let him grow.
Is this to insure he grows unAdamed????
Hail Hail
Good evening friends
25 hours to go…
Arbroath fans are unhappy (both of them) that they are missing a good telly nite due to their proud club falling so far that they are forced to play the b@stard offspring of rangers fc on a monday night. They plan to complain to the sfa in a mildly worded letter if they manage to find someone at the sfa who cares.
With all the work at CP ,what’s happening with The Gazebo?
BT Sport CL deal will give us £7m extra a year. We MUST get into the group stage every season. Get new players in in the Jan window and give them time to settle.
BBC Scotland News reporting the bad news for Scottish football.
With the new BT deal for Euro rights, due in 2015, the TV money is set to double.
Bad news ?
Of course, according to T.English.
It will mean that Celtic will become richer and the rest will fall further behind.
This must be the Armaggedon of which they speak.
Jungle Jim
Sorry I missed your post earlier.
He was in finance. Now lives on the west coast but hardly misses a home game at Gayfield.
Cheers.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
18:31 on
25 November, 2013
excathedra44
18:07 on 25 November, 2013
I’m sure you will agree that Neil has learned VERY quickly……….given the ‘barriers’ a revelation…..!!!!!!
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Of course,but we all have blind spots,or preferences,which when in Management,you have to suppress for the greater good.
GlassTwoThirdsFull @ 18:40,
Well exactly, it doesn’t advance the discussion although to be fair he did address and answer the question I put to him.
Quite a few posters have told me over this last year the membership can’t be transferred, membership dies with the Club and there was no Member Certificate as such.
Stewart Regan’s e-mail seems to suggest otherwise – for me it raises more questions than it answers…
Why?
And what were the Ts&Cs?
Though anything short of accepting punishment for all wrong doing and payment of all outstanding monies.
Still that doesn’t explain why they wouldn’t just deal with Oldco and seperately Issue NewCo with a new membership subject to Ts&Cs.
Hail Hail
The Battered Bunnet.
Couldn’t agree more with your comments.
I read this every week in the local rag about DUFC/DFC kids.
Let’s see.
!!bada bing!!
18:50 on 25 November, 2013
We’ve loaned it to sevco to store sally’s pies
Bada
If they’ve got a Gazebo it’ll get flattened at the end by egrets.
I think there is a danger in overhyping young players, Celtic have had its fair share of youngsters of whom we had great expectations
Charlesdickens csc
Banjo starts for Arbroath v Sevco.
What I would pay for a headline tomorrow!!
:-)
Smokies v Brokies?
When 20p doubles can win you a small fortune –
Arbroath (12/1) and Aston Villa (5/2) for me…
Hope to be in the Blane Valley around 3.15 then Merchant Square around 5.00 if anyone fancies a small libation. I’ll wear my new found CQN badge…
Homeland calling. Laters….
‘See all of the SPL goals, and Rangers’
– The Scottish Sun
asonofdan
18:35 on 25 November, 2013
That’s a very important point……these refs need to get roped in…..
Marrakesh
are we going to this CQNs bash in feb?..
BMCUWP…..
Looking forward to your cunning plan.
Email you tomorrow mate.
CrookedhouseCSC
Everton v Liverpool fae Saturday on LTV Sky 429 now
Chairbhoy
19:00 on
25 November, 2013
Ranger’s went into liqudation and forfieted their spl membership ,the owner of their membership went to club 12 ,who were Dundee who came up from the old first division.
This is where there is a break in there history ,because they never had ANY membership for any league’s in Scotland .they had no where to play ,because they were just a new club trying to get invited into Scottish football .
ASonOfDan
18:40 on
25 November, 2013
oh wait a minute Brian Graham scored the fourth jumps a hoarding and runs along clapping hands with the Utd fans.
No booking?
Collum seems to be a law unto himself.
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A fair question,why not drop this guy a note.
I write to him regularly usually about Bobby Madden.
John.Fleming@ScottishFa.Co.Uk
BT
The Sun Hotel Preston is the place to watch the Bhoys. Preston is a very Tim friendly place, I have found.
Evening all.
Been absent for a few weeks for a variety of reasons, but still been lurking.
Very much looking forward to tomorrow night – wish I could be there. Will be in spirit.
Milan having a hellish season so far, but that will count for nothing tomorrow.
Just seen an interview with Max Allegri – the Milan coach. He looked terrible – seems to have lost weight, was drawn and looked almost as old as me. I qualify for my bus pass next year – he’s 15 years younger than me!
C’mon the Hoops!
HH!!
the battered bunnet
No offence but I think that seems a rather arrogant and complacent attitude. We missed out on James McCarthy because we thought Ki was a better option ( a mistake in my opinion) and under Lennon we have signed very few players from SPL, Stokes and Mulgrew being the only starters I can think of. Instead we have signed rafts of foreign imports, some who have been great, others who have been poor.
I for one am concerned that we seem to be ignoring domestic talent in favour of punts on young cheap (and sometimes not so cheap) imports. Johnny Russell ignored in favour of Balde and Pukki is a case in point.
I’m not saying we should bid silly money for Gauld but the idea that we should have total faith in the scouts/manager to cherry pick the best domestic talents in their own time doesn’t wash with me. I don’t see evidence that we’ve done that effectively recently.
Crickey, Neil is so lucky to have these SSB pundits to advise him on the team to play….hehe
Paul67 et al
I see Tottenham Hotspur have entered the ol’ Should I stay or Should I go debate;
“Those fans wishing to avoid the rush and the crush are advised to stay on to the end of the game”
Masty
Probably will do.
Hope this info is wrong but watch out for high ranking UEFA officials using tomorrow as a cover to fly in and tell Celtic to drop the lawyers and investigation of Dam violence.
Been decided we are hurting the ‘UEFA family’ by pursuing this.
Corrupt as f***…
Tallybhoy
Great to see you posting again you have been missed.
Hope you are as well as can be .
Ohhhhhh yon BMCUWs wan hiz been asking after you.
YNWA