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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Cowdenbeath???
Isn’t Victorian Dad the ‘hiheidyin’ there now.
Good cultural fit apparently.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 says:
14 January, 2012 at 09:32
I posted this with a link the other night, it might be something you would be interested in for long term fundraising, I saw it in one of my community groups, but if we applied it to a group like CQN I think it could provide a fund for charitable donations. I have emailed Paul67 about it. Free money you cant beat it.
St.John.Doyle says:
11 January, 2012 at 19:57
Paul67, Auldheid Sanna.
I have just been dealing with a Community group in my area and that brought a fundraising method to my attention that I thought was quite good, you guys might have heard of it. I have posted the link below.
It essentially is a scheme you sign up to if you use the internet to purchase goods, if you go through through this site before you make your purchase, then these companies will make a donation to your organisation or charity.
I thought this might be useful if we wanted to create a CQN charity fund we could make donations to The Kano Foundation or any other worthy cause we think is deserving.
The community group I am involved is not particularly large but they made over £400 over the Christmas period.
I know Auldheid is working on a membership scheme but I thought this is something else we could look at because it is free money and it sits well with our charitable ethos.
This is the first time I have tried the link creator here goes
Good Fundraising Scheme
For those discussing which type of sparkling wine/cider/whatever to toast the huns going bust I suggest you don’t celebrate too soon.
Wait to see what happens with the newco huns.
If they’re allowed straight into the SPL with Celtic’s connivance then it will have been a Pyrrhic victory.
And the deal will have been done while everyone is busy celebrating.
Afternoon bhoys, the sun is out, and it’s hun free as ever.
So Drysdales tweet was a wee bit premature by the looks of it.
ernie,
The hun going to the wall will be cause for celebration in this cave that’s for sure, as for newhunco, that will take care of itself, be it what we expect or not.
Some say he has no understanding of queuing
and that if you tune your radio to 67.7 you can hear his thoughts
All we know is he’s Victor Wanyama
Catching up with some of the political stuff from last night.
Two things stick out –
The number of people who believe big government is now the problem and the number of people who believe that Scottish independence is the way forward.
On the first point big, sorry bigger government has brought us fresh water, clean air, increasing child survival rates, better and more comprehensive medical services, rising standards of living and economic and educational progression for the many not the few.
As the right wing, dog boiling mentalists in the ConDemNation have proved, this state of affairs is not a given, it may have been won in the last 150 years but it can be lost in a flash if it is not defended.
We live in very interesting times, we are currently having a re-run of the 1930’s without understanding the lessons of that decade or having a political establishment to put them into practice.
Last nights high drama over the thoughts and utterances of a “ratings agency” over the economic futures of several large and sophisticated states tells you all you need to know about the madness now engulfing the world.
Maybe DI was right all along.
Maybe we are being manipulated by a super race of lizards in drag.
The human race is currently behaving like experimental rats in a lab.
Things are mental and unfortunately they are getting worse.
TET
I agree, we live ‘in the moment’….
;)
ernie
I would suggest that any such deal with the spl-sfa could and must be legally challenged.
We need to keep a little bit aside to help fund a fight against any dodgy arrangment that lets them off the hook for their cheating.
It’s been said that Greenwich Mean Time checks with Him first……………….
All I know is, his name is Victor.
(tick, tock….)
Guys
Tony Hamilton might manage to get Vanessa’s appeal on the big screen.
If so can you point it out to others in the stadium sitting next to you and ask them to text VANY99 with £x after that to 70070.
If everyone in the ground gives a fiver tyhe fund will rocket!!!
Cheers and thanks
Monaghan will e-mail you later thanks.
Please pass this message on to KDS and anywhere else please
bankie
One thing most seem to in agreement about is they will suffer an event not to their liking.
Now whether that event is as many want will be up for discussion when the time comes, but they will have to live within their means for a time, and that with all it entails is worth waithing for.
The referees are the priority imo.
I will wager now that they will get MIB help today, they can’t help themselfs.
As for their euro licence the last few years, I’m surprised that more people are not grasping the fact that their players were paid by an outside agency through the EBT scheme, which is against uefa’s regs.
Off oot to the market, laters.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 says:
14 January, 2012 at 11:20
Please do.
Thanks
Monaghan
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 at 11:20
tried it twice there and both times said code not recognised? Any ideas?
Mort
Mort
VANY99 (uppercase) worked for me last night.
MWD
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
bigjoePracticingFORwhenTHEhoopsScore
From the beeb… http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16560704.stm
Francisco Sandaza has rejected the offer of a pre-contract agreement from Rangers, according to St Johnstone manager Steve Lomas.
Rangers boss Ally McCoist confirmed on Friday that an approach had been made for the 27-year-old Spaniard.
However, Lomas told BBC Scotland that the forward wants to wait until his contract expires in the summer before deciding where his future lies.
Sandaza has scored 12 goals for St Johnstone this season.
More to follow.
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Ooooops Ally, looks like you can’t even sign a free from St Johnstone.
Serge
if you have the laptop with you and a decent dongle.
you can watch the game anywhere
best wishes to all
Ernie Lynch@11:04
Phyrrhic…..yer showin’ off now..:-)
MWD
Thanks, that was what I tried. Did you put a space between that and £x?
Mort
I don’t know if it is helpful or not but we had a neighbour round for dinner the other night, he works in IT, for Apple ( don’t ask me what he really does) and surprisingly what he told us was that……in the online world, especially Blogs you had to be careful about sharing your email addresses……with others you don’t really know.
We were a bit surprised by this, being daft about all things tecchie…..but apparently, you have to be careful.
Another day, something new learned.
HH
I fancy a good result today for our heroes and earlier another Saint, this time Johnstone(geddit!!!) will have us celbrating this night.
I find it amusing in the extreme when I see the meeja saying hun are in for this player or that player when we all know the can’t afford a bag of chips. Grrrrrrreat!!
KINGLuBO
In this together
But Charles faced every parent’s nightmare when he had to sit Elizabeth and May down and tell them they had to leave the public schools they adored.
Another planet or what?
I’m pretty sure that if you were to discuss ‘every parents nightmare’, that would not be the scenario envisaged – ask the parents of Milly Dowler.
Yesterday we put up the first of our questions about Celtic’s history over on the CQN Facebook page. Sadly no-one answered it, but over here on Celtic Quick News Kayal33 did. The question related to our very first season, when we reached the Scottish Cup Final. We asked what goalscoring feat Celtic achieved, setting a club record which still stands to this day. Kayal33 rightly said it was the most goals Celtic has ever scored …in a season in the Scottish Cup, although he didn’t have the magic number. He rightly pointed out that before clubs played a league calendar the Scottish Cup was a longer tournament. In that season, our first, don’t forget, we scored 37 Scottish Cup goals, and in all our history since that record still stands, and probably always will.
They were scored, as follows; Shettleston were beaten at home 5-1; Cowlairs were beaten at home 8-0; Albion Rovers was beaten at home 4-1; St. Bernards Edinburgh were beaten 4-1 away; Clyde were destroyed 9-2 at home; East Stirling were dispatched 2-1 in the quarter finals away; Dumbarton were beaten 4-1 in the semi and in the final, at “second Hampden”, we lost 2-1 to Third Lanark for a total of 37 goals scored and 9 condeced along the way.
The Celtic team that day was John Kelly, Gallagher, McKeown, W Maley, James Kelly, McLaren, McCallum, Dunbar, Groves, Coleman, T Maley. The goal was scored by McCallum.
It was a special achievement, to reach a cup final in the very first season of our existence, but then that’s Celtic for you, a special club who have been setting records since the begining.
It was to be a couple of years – in 1890/91 – before Celtic participated in a league tournament. That season, we finished third. Today’s question is simple, or so it seems. Who was our first league game against?
I seen the ConDemNation supported by the Right Wing,Dog Boiling Mentalists at the Ole Burns Howf,talk about wasting time n money? No wonder the place went to the wall.
Second thing that caught my eye was the many and varied reasons people have on here for supporting Scottish independence.
Given my viewpoint – ultra unionist –
If the 26 counties would have stopped Maggie from ever coming to power then sorry MC get out the 1880’s devolution proposals and be done with it / Glasgow has more in common with Belfast, Liverpool, Newcastle, the Black country … than it has with Salt ‘n Sauce land and it’s ties to Dublin, Bristol, Cambridge and the City of London.
… so I have many reasons not to support Wee Eck and his children’s crusade towards the Holy Grail of “Devo Max” – which in time will lead to England wanting it’s own independence.
However the main disconnect that jumps out at me is the fact that the considered opinion on sees the need for the club to get into the EPL just as a sizeable minority want political independence. Bit of a disconnect to me but hey ho it makes sense to some people.
Another point that does worry me is the desire for independence after all the events of the past 5 years that show only too clearly how the political and judicial system can be highjacked to put pressure on the victims and not the perpetrators or the wider viewpoints that support and encourage them.
The concept of the “Edinburgh Jury” has now passed into Scottish folklore.
It is only the start as an East coast establishment try to re-Tartanise Scotland.
One point that did surprise me was the hope that Scottish Independence would generate another Scottish Enlightenment as it was a simple exercise to link the two.
The details / context seem to be forgotten all too easily –
The influence of 1707.
The influence of 1745.
The hatred of the Highland clan system.
The pre-industrial environment.
The desire for a more continental outlook.
The mono-cultural / religious outlook of the lowlands.
Does anyone really want to re-create this PIT view of Scotland?
Ordered my CQN magazine yesterday afternoon.It just popped through the door 5 minutes ago…noo that’s service :O).
Looks smashing too. Anyway, got a train to catch for Paradise, will enjoy it later, “C’mon you Bhoys in green”.
dirtymac says:
14 January, 2012 at 11:41
Perhaps the parents should read about Vanessa (http://www.justgiving.com/vanessa-appeal) before talking about every parent’s nightmare.
It would also do the Daily Mail some good to highlight some cases of real heartbreak.
Mort
BRTH,
Your blog this morning about the difficult choices facing the chairman of other clubs if Rankers go under raises an interesting point about markets and regulations.
Now , more than ever, industries are facing increased exposure to ‘regulators’ trying to ensure there is regulation and compliance . The Leveson inquiry is a prime example, and the financial pages are regularly filled with fortune 500, FTSE 100s , being fined or punished for anti – trust / ‘non ethical ‘ behaviour.
One of the key considerations in any potential vote about re-entry , will be about the ‘ corporate reputation ‘ of Scottish Football. Any vote or decision which does not address this issue, or leaves questions unanswered, or a slight on the industry ‘s governance , will also have a halo effect on the wider industry.
It could be argued that the current reputation, is poor, and with that I would agree to a certain extent ie amongst supporters
However, when it comes to bodies like the competition authorities they haven’t traditionally looked at football. An industry with a tarnished reputation may well be of interest to those wishing to understand why prices at so many clubs are so similar, and go up or down by similar amounts.
If the governing bodies do allow unpunished re-entry, then by default it will be a league which is tarnished and likely to draw much more attention from Government regulators.
As I said, and , as you imply , any decisions are about the long term reputation of Scottish Football and not merely when is our next tranche of Rangers fans gate money.
James Forrest is Lennon says:
14 January, 2012 at 11:43
That cup campaign also witnessed the curious distinction of a team being ‘beaten’ three times.
dirtymac:
Tell me more. Intruiging.
bankiebhoy
re hirsute learned counsel and the blue brazil…correct
btw
had a wee laugh at The Herald this morning
thon hun chuckle monkey Grant ..he of the £20m warchest story but 6 mths ago
states..”an English agent has been given a mandate to sell Jelavic for up to £10 million”…
what happens if a club offers more than £10m …does the agent reject the offer as he doesn`t have a mandate to accept it
appalling spin journalism from a poor journalist of very limited ability
nae wonder the ole press are on their knees
Clyde beat us, as did Third Lanark before both games were nullified due to poor conditions, although the Third Lanark one was agreed prior to kick off that it would be played as a friendly. Third Lanark obviously won the replayed final and we pumped Clyde 9-2 in the replayed tie.
Interesting analysis by everton.
http://www.evertonfc.com/evertoninteractive/where-the-money-goes
Wonder if Celtic did this, would it appease those who think the board should be spending more money, or would it actually show that they were right all along?
Mort
Good afternoon to the Celtic Family from a damp Central Scotland. I am looking forward to todays game I think we will win 2-0 the biggest danger we face is complacency in our team however,I know Lennie will do his best to try to ensure that doesnt happen.H.H.
Mort
CFc board couldn`t do that exercise
it would show them trousering cash to pay off debt …it would just infuriate those who are unhappy
Cillian to come off the bench and score the winner today.
Im sure Wishart will totally condemn the illegal tapping up of one of his members…….mmmmmmmmmmm
ah well maybe not then.
Glasgows Green and White … And a wee bit dull over CP…..
Heading to the 5 ways soon if yir around Coorslad, meeting Paddy and Joanne there innaw.
Vinny