This time last year there was far too much talk about trebles on these pages. Celtic were flying in all three competitions, having established a lead in the league, and were heading for a League Cup semi-final against Falkirk. Falkirk were beaten but it took a late Anthony Stokes goal to make the game safe for Celtic. The script was written; a final against Kilmarnock, who always bottled it against Celtic in Glasgow, and a successful run in the Scottish Cup was all that stood between us and the fourth treble in our history.
I’ve lost count of how many such trebles we’ve look forward to. Football has a way of promising lots but it takes an exceptionally good and consistent team to win both cup competitions, as well as the league. More often than not, great and dominant teams don’t win the treble.
Celtic are a great and exciting team but they have not been nearly consistent enough to win the treble this season. We have lost two from eight home games and two from seven away. Good enough to win the league but not to win two cups.
I watched a bit of St Mirren at home to Ross County before heading to Celtic Park last weekend. They were far from impressive but no less so than when we beat them by seven goals in the SPL four years ago. The following week the same team knocked us out of the Scottish Cup.
Sunday is one of the biggest games currently on the roster. Raise your game, Celtic.
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monaghan1900
13:11 on 25 January, 2013
George Galloway inducing choleric ravings in Orcdom:
“RANGERS TAX LIABILITIES
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Monaghan can you clarify what that means please to simple taxi driver such as myself
Is this an agreement to be discussed in parliament or is this a request to have it discussed in parliament in the future or is it George Galloway trying for another cause celeb to keep his profile high??
As I say I’m only askin cos I’m genuinely not sure of the significance of your price
Cheers in advance
Hail hail
Is it a full moon soon??
South Of Tunis
They strike me like they are going through our Left Back and GK angst of windows past.
Price = piece
Between seasons 1964/65 and 1977/78 Celtic appeared in 14 consecutive Scottish League Cup Finals, winning 6 and losing 8 – including 7 in 8 years!
During the same period the club made 11 Scottish Cup Final appearances, winning 8 of them.
Ten League titles were won.
A grand total of 24 domestic trophies – but ‘only’ 2 trebles.
What contributed to this -imo a combination of mibery, inconsistency and failing to turn up on a particular day.
But…we have our proud and distinguished history and a shed load of trophies which we have won honestly and fairly – and by playing football the Celtic way!!
HH!!
…………..whit………….??????
That wasn’t even the FINAL…………
ah gie up………………….!
;)
The crazy world of Chuck…
“If you look at the balance sheets at the end of next season you should see the strength of the two companies,” Green claimed.
“We are in the Third Division and Celtic are in the SPL and what I’d like you to do is promise me at the end of this season, when all the games are played, examine the balance sheets of the clubs and tell me which one is the strongest?
“Then let’s see who has got the strongest balance sheet.
“We’ve not got the debt that any of these clubs have and on the last day of the season I would really enjoy some clever financial analyst looking at the balance sheets and debt-to-equity ratio of every club in Scotland.”
Big g,
That’s a bad time.
Nicolas Anelka? Just how much money has that particular journeyman made for agents everywhere?
The last I heard, and that was a few years ago, was that, even back then he had generated £20mill. in transfer fees.
I only remember because it was quite a statistic.
Juve are sounding desperate. Why? They’re going great guns domestically.
Doh….£20mill = £60mill…
siesta required…
miki67 13:29 on 25 January, 2013
Nicolas Anelka’s brothers are his agents.
If nothing else he has looked after his family…
The lapdogs unsurprisingly,have not followed up on a structural collapse inside Poundland at the last home game.
starry plough
13:25 on 25 January, 2013
Is it a full moon soon??
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It is always a full moon somewhere.
PAUL67
” More often than not, great and dominant teams don’t win the treble”
We would have won it many times over in Jock’s reign.
In 1970,we were cheated in the SC Final,in 68 in an earlier round-Dunfermline?
After that,they got craftier,pun intended,and done us in the LC Finals,repeatedly.
Our record in finals in that competition is truly shocking,but certainly more than a coincidence.
MHARK67
13:23 on 25 January, 2013
It’s an early day motion, a request to have the matter discussed in the House of Commons.
There’s little chance of that happening.
http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/edms/
Anelka is currently with his tenth club in a career dating back to the late 1990s. He has never been at a club for more than 2 seasons.
He turns 34 in March.
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
We must be spending too much time together,bearing in mind my post a few minutes later!
MHARK67
13:23 on
25 January, 2013
He’s tabling a motion to have the issue discussed in the Commons. Unlikely that it will be. I think it’s a deliberate wind up – the Orcs will never rise to the bait though.
BOBBY
Europe is our town.Rangers were indeed the Biggest club in Scotland. Everyone knows Celtic are the real Club in Scotland.
Bada Bing
Do you mean part of their cowp collapsed
“How can Manchester United’s revenues be £320m and Aston Villa, who are completely useless, get £250m.”
Guess who…
HH
Thanks for the tennis updates.. Had to turn phone off at work in case my standard should fall. Ha..
Loved the way Djokovic ripped Lance Armstrong. You could feel his contempt.
Murray different with big Ivan in his corner. Big Ivan a cracking golfer BTW..
I still miss Dan ” oh I say ” Maskell. My memories of him commenting on Borg v Gerualitis in the 70s – those were the days..
Ok tennis over..
Sevco – Green , lol of course their running a loss. They’re bonkers … Business plan? Based on bigotry?
If the pound land arena is renamed it could be The RABID Arena…
HH
Hi Paul67,
Been a really different Season in a very good way…
However I was thinking the pre-New Year games may have been the highlight of 2012/13, getting over ourselves to put consistent high quality performances that means the League is in grasping distance, overly excelling in the CL that means that any further success this Season will be an unexpected bonus.
Howevah!
The treble…
Yeah…
Why not?
Now that has got to be a real possibility, my appetite is well and truly whetted again.
Well done Andy Murray a supreme performance by a true self-built athlete, well deserved.
Ah!TheTreblebutwhichone?
petec
Thought I heard some howling in the bright valley…
steinreignedsupreme: 13:31 on25 January, 2013
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I didn’t know that. Interesting. And, in that context, well done to him.
HH!
(siesta still required and imminent)
zimmerman
Ah Know!!
especially on a sunday!! :(
hh
BMCUW
There’s nothing quite like a good ‘sesh’, which very quickly degenerates into a free for all where we all end up talking ‘pure p*sh’!
Great so it is!
Where are you btw? Thought you were heading back down the road today?
HH!!
I think poor Chuckles has been taking a wee toke too, and is now getting the Giggles. What’s next? A Whytey?
Unless Celtic sign one of the world’s top football players – say Iniesta, or perhaps Pastore from PSG, shelling out +£20 Million on the transfer fee, or the Board decide for the first time to pay a huge dividend on the Ordinary Shares of the company, or inexplicably, donate a huge amount of cash to some needy charity or another, or are found to have bought a shed load of penny shares on some recently AIM listed phoenix operation, Celtic will be, for the first time since Fergus’, cash rich.
In the absence of such unlikely circumstances, Celtic will close the financial year with a record breaking profit, and an 8 figure cash balance, not considering any player sales in the meantime.
Does federer smoke?!
:-o
Skin up roger.
ASonOfDan
Lisandro Lopez is not a done deal .
I’d be very surprised if Juve are bricking it . They are very concerned about the number of chances they miss , I imagine they worry that might cost them ..
Matri and Quagliarella miss chance after chance . Juve want a striker who”ll take those chances .
Juve have scored 45 goals in this year’s Serie A . They scored 11 goals in their Champions League Group . Juve want a striker who is likely to add to their ability to score goals. They want a striker who’ll take that chance when it’s 0-0 with 3 minutes to go . They know that Matri or Quagliarella might put it into Row Z
HH
Bhoylo83, 13.44
Not sure if he smokes CIGARETTES.. Ha. The man is horizontal.. What an athlete. I sweat more popping to the post box.
HH
starry plough
13:44 on 25 January, 2013
petec
Thought I heard some howling in the bright valley…
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Thanks for making me search this sonic and feeling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1Ue5tiS7U
It was normal people that carried out attrocities and I would hazard a guess most were God fearing.
Think FFS.
Wee dugs at the vets for an op.
So was sitting in Costa in Silverburn
watching Murray beat Fed on my Htc Flyer thx to Costa’s WiFi.
Ain’t technology a great thing!
HH
/Bishop B
Interesting tweets from Mr Green’s Q&A
“Charles Green says when we were in SPL he has parties interested in shirt and stadium sponsorship but not while we are in SFL3.”
“He confirmed that the club is currently not in profit he also confirmed that this includes 2 years of season ticket that will be in this years accounts.”
Getting home early.
That is all.
Well done to Andy! You can see he believes now. Ticking off the boxes one by one.
Big Ivan has made all the difference, having instilled some discipline and self control in him. He has a good chance against the superserb on Sunday. As long as Lendl is in his corner, he may well be destined for number one.
ThatwasgoodtellyCSC
ernie lynch
13:34 on 25 January, 2013
MHARK67
13:23 on 25 January, 2013
It’s an early day motion, a request to have the matter discussed in the House of Commons……
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Earnie and Monaghan ….. Cheers for that every day a school day on CQN !!!!!!
HAIL HAIL