If you thumb through the pages of the Celtic Quick News comments section you’ll find a couple of overlapping areas of indifferent form being reported. One for Beram Kayal and one for the team as a whole. You’ll also note several contributors commenting that Beram’s form improved after his new contract was signed, settling speculation surrounding the player.
It may be coincidental that Beram’s form seemed to pick up after his future was settled but the fact that this happened a few days after the pivotal 3-3 draw at Kilmarnock suggests a whole lot of what has been going right at Celtic was linked to the Israeli’s form in this crucial central midfield area.
Neil Lennon has a huge tactical decision to make. Get it wrong and he will not be able to replicate the impressive run of 10 consecutive wins. Before making a decision, a good place to research would be videos of Celtic’s run up to and including that Kilmarnock game. Knowing some of the things to avoid is a good start.
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JimmyQuinnsBits says:
14 January, 2012 at 01:46
My belief has been always to get independence … SNP is the only party to have put this forward. I would then vote for the best party that I believed would drive us forward. Folk need to realise the Labour party would change and even the tories would change. We need to see what is published in a few weeks time in the proposal before we slag it off. I am hoping that it will outline how we will fit into the European Union as a whole and my hope is also it will not include a monarchy,.
I believe we need to make a clean cut. The problem is our old media are and will scarmonger… We have labour leaders on backing up tories and taking cheap shots on personalities. We had a Scottish labour guy on QT last night making an ar*e of himslef when a point was tryignt o get made he kept goign on about the Gourock Ghirl. For F’ sake we are debating about the most important thing in Centuries and we have ‘leaders of our country’ acting like 12 year olds.
We have a guy who could not beat Gordon Brown and win an election trying to dictate to us. How many votes did they get up here?
What is your prefernece?
Celtinental says:
14 January, 2012 at 01:54
If any Premiership team goes for Ki, they will know they will cash in big time.
Ki will only be sold for absolute top dollar.
And that will be upwards of £10Mill IMO.
There will not be any players leaving this transfer window IMO, first team squad anyway. A hungry up and coming striker should be added to make sure of the title and to also bed in for next seasons attack on the CL qual/CL.
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Margaret
That one could be a gonner!
How does an Elephant sneak over a snooker table without being seen….? He wears a green cloth cap!
Time for bed
sTICks
The only 1st team player I would not shed tears over is Ki…it would have been 2 before SB signed again…
I’d sell him at anything north of £5m and buy a striker who could come in and make an immediate challenge to Stokes and Hooper… Right now they have too little competition and we are vulnerable if either is injured…
Failing resource materialising through sales… It’s Sutton or Skacel as back up …even Gary Harkins from Kilmarnock?
offski.
GL2, your on form tonight, keep it lit, and your right, i think.
the hoops to win 38-0 tomorrow by the way.
late weather check, i know its important to some of youse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5KTUiaAzm8&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Wonder what increasingly desperate ‘story’ the PR companies will be pumpin’ the morra.
Shameful.
GL2,
mate… I can’t argue about politics, because there isn’t one to be had
“we have ‘leaders of our country’ acting like 12 year olds”
This is true of all parties. Worse, they treat the electorate – you and I – like 12 year olds. This isn’t a nihilistic rant, merely an observation of the calibre of our current crop of politicians. We get what we deserve unfortunately. AS is streets ahead of Cameron or anybody he can put up – he will eat them. AS’s judgement however, in terms of social changes, is suspect – I don’t need to expand on that. He’ll get at least Devo-Max if not independence.
I used to be a nationalist, because I believed that Scotland had a more socialist electorate than the UK as a whole. I’m not so sure now – I suspect there is a latent right wing in Scotland who won’t vote for the tories but would vote right of centre in an independent Scotland, depending on how a party of that hue pitch their policies.
What is my preference? If the SNP had demonstrated a clear political philosophy that was evidenced based an forward looking, they would have my vote – as they had in the past. Not now I’m afraid.
As to who I’d vote for – haven’t a clue
On George Galloway.
Obama is considered to be Bush the 3rd over in America because of his continuation of the disgusting Dubya Bush’s policies.
Come on George start calling out Wall St backed Obama before its too late.
Especially for George Galloway because the real time of enslavement was a long time ago 1913 to be precise.
Just read this book.
petec.
We need a target-man striker NOW,to secure the league.
Has to be now,as we need to ‘bed’ him into the team,so we can navigate the CL qualifiers,especially as Brown and Forrest have had their heads turned by this GB Olympic nonsense.
If this pair persist with their notions of swanning around at the Olympics,at the expense of Celtic’s ambitions,they should lose their places to our up and coming Under 19s…McGeouch should be alternated with Forrest now,and Brown’s performances do not justify his automatic selection on the right flank.
In his article on the STV website,I see that Tic Tac Tic was somewhat dismissive of Jordan Rhodes,referring to him as Flavour of the Moment…
How very dare he…?
GG is like the rest of us humans, a mood swing between the tit and the good guy – although, the cat thing…. naw
You saw my lust for glory
Like a cat, for a bauble on a thread
Your cold, implacable, endless patience
Waiting, waiting, for the blood so red
You fed my lust with grievance
You sauced it with immutable truths
salted it with a whispering rumour,
And I took it all like a lovestruck youth
So the mind works hard to absolve the blame
To make it them and not to see
the thing that burns the heart with shame
That all of this
is me
petec says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:02
Hope you’re right – not only from my selfish “match on TV” perspective, but I rate him as valuable in Lenny’s squad & team.
Some don’t fancy him as he doesn’t appear to espouse the “blood & snotters” style so beloved of many scottish football fans, but give me craft over bulldozing any day of the week.
In an ideal world our vote is based on policy and belief.. In reality it is heavily influenced by the prospective leader…. I’m no fan of SNP or Salmond but I don’t find alternative leaders credible right now…
All,
Looking forward to going to the game tomorrow. Despite our recent great run that has seen us turn 17 points, I don’t think we can have any complacency or expect DUFC to turn up and just roll over. Tomorrow will be another real test for us and we will need to be focussed! To use the new football cliche we will need to, ‘boss the game’! We also need the crowd to do their bit – of course within the the rules as set out by the club! :O)
I bid you goodnight with, IMO, the best song of 2011!!
‘Charlie Charlie’
God Bless,
sTICks
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:19
I would love to share a beer with you as I think we are not that far apart except on the trust of the Scottish people post independence.
In reality we have 2 or 3 votes.
The first vote is do you want independence yes or no (Im against Devo max)
If yes then we then have the parties campaigning to get our vote and take us forward as a new country
If No we then vote Tory
I will say it again an Independence vote is not a vote for SNP. People need to realise that
The Singing Detective,
M8, I really don’t know much about this Rhodes guy, you have commented very favourably continuously about him and I think you are becoming essential reading because of your depth of knowledge about all different levels of football.
Is Jordan a target man?
Celtinental says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:26
Neil will be playing him today, I just like to keep playing players who play well (hence my team selections).
Ki will be vital over the next 5 or 6 weeks to make sure we win the Treble. ;)
A wee song for tonight
Scotland story
petec says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:20
On George Galloway.
Obama is considered to be Bush the 3rd over in America because of his continuation of the disgusting Dubya Bush’s policies.
++++++++++++++++++++++
garbage!
shall we begin? or do you admit you’re talking pish?
It’ll no doubt be fascinating but……….
Margaret McGill
Hi :)
Hope you are well.
Lets go……………
One for PETEC before I nip back out.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-99_1k3mE
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By the way,selling Ki or Hooper just now would be lunacy,at anything less than £10m each.
How many points in front are we?
TWO!
Not 102,ffs.
GL2,
I’d enjoy that beer.
For all my views, I have nothing but questions. I’ve read Marx, and he proposes that communism will be a natural result of human social evolution – i.e. it can’t be encapsulated in a nation or state, but something that humanity will ultimately transcend to.
But, for me, he doesn’t adequately answer the problem of incentive – placing it in an educational context, and relying on an intellectual, rather than material, need for fulfilment. This ignores some of the baser human instincts that we all know ill prevail in any society. And, even as a socialist, I’m as sick as anybody about the spongers we see every day. Balance that against the billionaires that make their money, and hide it to avoid taxes, on a worldwide and corrupt betting market and you see where my confusion comes in.
Still, argument and discussion is the teacher
Firstly
I suspect that the timezone for these CQN contributions suggests Fox news gullibility. To compare equally anything Obama has done as equivalent to Bush suggests to me an alterior motive other than galactic stupidity as an excuse..so whats yours?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:46
A Classic.
PETEC
I’m rather fond of that one,I must admit.
Anyway,must dash.
Say hello to my two sisters tomorrow,I think they must sit near you. If you enter the ground directly under the Green Brigade,turn right then up the first aisle about three or four rows,they are hakfway along.
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:48
haha Brilliant…You are either GG or Ernie Lynch in disguise …I mean that in the best way….Protocol on the blog is that you need to ask for my e-mal from Paul and we can meet for a few
Ive stayed up waiting on the middle cub coming in so she is now in so good night and God bless to you all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1C7WKNAcf8&feature=related
Dont worry the Saints are coming
Greenlion2 says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:55
Got to be the best contemporary song written about any football club… wish it was the tic
Gnight chief
My dear petec,I am not knowledgeable about the game of football….truth to tell,I was more of a rugby player in my youth..
However,Mr Rhodes has all the qualities we seek,for a modest price. He will undoubtedly be worth substantially more,were we to transfer him onwards after a couple of years.
Celtic have a good record in developing talent.
Most importantly,he will be ‘acclimatised’ to the SPL,as the upper reaches of his current league is of a similar standard,and he will be accustomed to our cold,wet winters….Diawara would not know what hit him!
Hmmmm……I see Ms McGill has changed her tune on the subject of the Manchurian Candidate who is currently masquerading as the Leader of the West…
We need Divine Intercession for Newt Gingrich,the only candidate who can save the Western World…but only just..!
Obama The Enslaver
“Remember when I was a lover
and we ran all the way to the sea
and the sea birds they laughed at our dancing
but were jealous of watching dark mary and me”
No More Songs
Joe Heaney
I will sing no more songs: the pride of my country I sang
Through forty long years of good rhyme, without any avail;
And no one cared even as much as the half of a hang
For the song or the singer, so here is an end to the tale.
If a person should think I complain and have not got the cause,
Let him bring his eyes here and take a good look at my hand,
Let him say if a goose-quill has calloused this poor pair of paws
Or the spade that I grip on and dig with out there in the land?
When the great ones were safe and renowned and were rooted and tough,
Though my mind went to them and took joy in the fortune of those,
And pride in their pride and their fame, they gave little enough,
Not as much as two boots for my feet, or an old suit of clothes.
I ask a Craftsman that fashioned the fly and the bird,
Of the Champion whose passion will lift me from death in a time,
Of the Spirit that melts icy hearts with the wind of a word,
That my people be worthy, and get, better singing than mine.
I had hoped to live decent, when Ireland was quit of her care,
As a bailiff or steward perhaps in a house of degree,
But my end of the tale is, old brogues and old britches to wear,
So I’ll sing no more songs for the men that care nothing for me.
Goodnight and may your god bless ya… courtesy of that wee Irish comedian on a stool who I can’t remember the name of
Margaret McGill says:
14 January, 2012 at 02:50
I was going to ask you the exact same thing my beautiful Spotless friend.
I can’t assure you that only setting free the bears thinks anyone who has independent thought watches Fox News. It would be a very sad indictment on anyone who isnae Left wing if that was the case.
The propaganda is strong in Scotland and also in America and also in Poland, wherever.
I maintain, have done consistently, that America was the only free nation, EVER because of the Constitution the FREEMASONS gave the people in their inter generational step towards global control of humanity, they knew that the people as a group would get lazy and give up their freedoms, it is a stepping stone, the whole idea of the pyramid structure.
I tried to put SFTB on the road to the real deeper meaning of things but he just wants to concentrate on the MIDDLE of the Road.
I love both Maggie and SFTB, I love Ernie, I love Philvis, I love guys who stick their neck oooot.
A Real Christian COULD NOT go to war, how anyone can then say that Bush is a Christian is purely down to PROpaganDa.
Sweet
BOBBY,
I dinnae have season tickets m8, I just go to games when its possible financially and when the wee man isn’t playing footie.
2010 Never Again
http://celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=840%3Athe-economy-of-truth&catid=47%3Aseason-2011-2012&Itemid=83
The Singing Detective says:
14 January, 2012 at 03:09
Mags is one of the best people on this site because her views are not set in stone.
And that is just my Brutally Honest opinion. ;)
petec and the singing Michael Gambon have both lost track on the gullibility stakes.
There is nothing superior in an oligarchy that gives precedent powers to its judiciary than its democracy.
This was one thing “Dressed like thatcher” understood in a more sophisticated way than you American lovers. For this reason the undertones will always be superior to the supreme courts interpretation of its own American constitution and the Bill of rights. Remember all judges have been paid off. Not all unions have. However, I am not responsible for the conceptual difficulties of stoopid currents.
The Singing Detective says:
14 January, 2012 at 03:09
Ron Paul?
Said the smartest thing I have heard fron an American Politician since slick Willie.
Bring the GIs home.Urinating or otherwise.
After 10 years combating insurgents in failed states with nuclear ambitions ,U.S.and the West ain`t safer.
Who doesn`t know that?
I agree ,Maggie…The Undertones are one of my all-time favourite groups.
Feargal Sharkey..a voice like an acetylline torch…!
But how exactly could they save Democracy..?