If the Premiership divides into four groups:
Celtic: 8 points clear at the top with 67 games in hand.
Hearts, Newco and Aberdeen: within 2 points of each other in the battle for two Europa League games in June 2017.
St Johnstone: isolated in the middle of an 8 point bubble.
The rest: all 2 points from the automatic relegation spot.
Then Motherwell top their group. They have infinitely more to play for than Celtic at Fir Park tomorrow. For them, this is about livelihoods.
We have an early kick-off at what will be a hostile environment. Arrive with your war face on, Celtic, and get the job done.
Pretty stunning work by the Celtic commercial team, who, alone against the nation’s major retailers, were promoted by The Telegraph as one of The best Christmas 2016 adverts. A level of professionalism is beginning to envelop the club (and I know it’s not there completely yet).
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WWW, talking of Spit the dug.
Does anyone remember the guy who took a Spit the dug puppet to the games in the eighties? He called him Tim the Dug and wee Tim wore the hoops.
****CQN Bonus Christmas Caustic Competition****
Good evening fholks and thanks for the entrants so far. We will respond soon.
As a wee added interest before LMS9 or maybe a “brand new soon to be announced” competition gets underway we are announcing a quick fire December competition to add to the funds for Shay,
Very simple competition.
Before Saturday at 3:00pm we want you to email us and predict Sevco’s December points total.
The cost is £10 per entry and the correct answer will receive 50% of the paypot.
If there are multiple correct entries the prize money will be split equally amongst the winners
If no one has the correct answer then the prize money will be shared between the nearest entries.
Sevco have the following games in the month of December.
Dec 03 HOME v Aberdeen
Dec 10 HOME v Hearts
Dec 16 AWAY V Ham Accies
Dec 24 HOME v ICT
Dec 28 AWAY v St Johnstone
Dec 31 HOME v CHAMPIONS
Simply confirm your entry to cqnpredictor@gmail.com and highlight the number of points you expect them to secure, by hook or by crook.
Payment details will follow in due course, once you have been registered.
Entrants predicting 18 points will be placed in stocks and beaten with a soft cushion.
Remember A Sevco European challenge is not just for Christmas…but then again…
HH
CRC
Natknow … just had a look. peed a wee bit! :)
sorry guys… I’m just in one of those silly moods today!
:)
A wee Christmas gift suggestion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrVzhXOANSk
Dallas! Dallas!
I do remember the guy with Tim The Dug – he won some superfan contest c1983 and carried Tim around with him after Bob Carolgees stopped aopearing on TISWAS. Aside from the coincedence that I looked up Carolgees and Sally James on Wiki earlier today I also wonder if he was on the Gallowgate bus to Moenchangladbak recently as there was a bloke of similae age on that bus who looked helluva like the bloke who had carried Tim all those years ago. But I never asked him becaise he was bigger than me!
Jimbo67
MIKE IN TORONTO on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:07 PM
Natknow … just had a look. peed a wee bit! :)
sorry guys… I’m just in one of those silly moods today!
:)
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LOL! Belter, innit?
” Matt Crooks reminds me of a young Alan Hansen ” ( free from Accrington Galacticos )
BFSDJ
CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING @WALKWITHSHAY on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:06 PM
Entrants predicting 18 points will be placed in stocks and beaten with a soft cushion.
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Think we should be allowed the tradition of throwing tomatoes at them. Tins of tomatoes…
Just looked at buying tickets online for myself and two young daughters for the home game against Partick Thistle on 20 Deccember. Would be their first Celtic game at Parkhead. Complete nightmare so won’t be trying this process again. Am I being an imbecile or is there an easy method that I am missing?
Celtic’s goals scored by position 2016/17: Defenders – 1 Midfielders – 33 Strikers – 26
@optaceltic
MIKE IN TORONTO
ANY SIGNS OF THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD HOUSE HUNTING IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS……..??
Mikael Lustig is the only defender to have scored for Celtic this season from a possible 12 defenders.
@optaceltic
WEEMAN67 on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 5:51 PM
Thanks for the Erection by the numbers info. Velly infomattif
Weeman ….
I’m having dinner with Scarlett Johansen tomorrow night …. but, ssshhh!!! its supposed to be a secret!
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:23 PM
Sviatchenko scored
MIKE IN TORONTO on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:27 PM
Weeman ….
I’m having dinner with Scarlett Johansen tomorrow night …. but, ssshhh!!! its supposed to be a secret!
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Know what would be funny? If you put a spider costume on the dog….
neilbhoy on 2nd December 2016 6:15 pm
Just looked at buying tickets online for myself and two young daughters for the home game against Partick Thistle on 20 Deccember. Would be their first Celtic game at Parkhead. Complete nightmare so won’t be trying this process again. Am I being an imbecile or is there an easy method that I am missing?
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I’ve always found using the online site pretty straightforward, click the section of the stadium you want, click the dots (seats), bingo
Natknow…. the dog walker keeps dressing her up in silly costumes, and sends me photos of a very vexed Derry! But I have got her a lion costume (head thing) for next halloween … will be fun!
and, if Scarlett doesn’t see the humor in all of this, then clearly she isn’t the woman for me!
The Huddle
Thanks for the feedback. I selected the section with availability but then couldn’t find any green dots to show the seats that were available. Must be doing something daft….
The longest number of consecutive sleeps Jobo Baldie will have between Celtic matches in December is 4.
4 home and 4 away CSC
AWE_NAW
If you include honest mistakes?
MIKE IN TORONTO on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:32 PM
Natknow…. the dog walker keeps dressing her up in silly costumes, and sends me photos of a very vexed Derry! But I have got her a lion costume (head thing) for next halloween … will be fun!
and, if Scarlett doesn’t see the humor in all of this, then clearly she isn’t the woman for me!
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My wee dug needs daycare. She runs about on a farm all day and when I get home at night, there she is – ready to give me a big lick and smelling of goat shit… I like the sound of your dog walker better! :-))
BSR
Was a legit goal seemingly
HH
NATKNOW on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:15 PM
CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING @WALKWITHSHAY on 2ND DECEMBER 2016 6:06 PM
Entrants predicting 18 points will be placed in stocks and beaten with a soft cushion.
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Think we should be allowed the tradition of throwing tomatoes at them. Tins of tomatoes…
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Might knock some sense into or stupdity out of them :-)
HH
CRC
Neilbhoy – like the huddle I think on line ticket buying is alright ((ridiculous extra charges aside!!)
That said it took me a while to get the hang of it. It seems a bit slow at times and you can end up clicking more seats than you want, wrong age categories etc
Stick with it. It does deliver
BSR @ 6:34 – Broad smiles here! ;-)
New way of beating the offside trap.
Celebrate before the flag goes up,
It doesn’t work but it is at least a comfort blanket for when your team has been Turkish delight……
i had forgotten about our own tam the dug, seen the guy often, very funny to look at.
but gordon was right about supporters with their devil dogs drinking lager
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CBrg2cTGKFU/RsDH2SDL9QI/AAAAAAAAAFk/xWcOmRIWnWM/s320/clip_image002.jpg
http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/0gnghY8fi2OODoYKYb2g_w100597/GW430
Talking of calendars. I’ll be over on the 17th of December with some of the Association of Irish CSCs calendars. They celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions achievement. At £7 each they make an ideal stocking filler. If interested, leave a message here and I will make arrangements to meet up on the 17th.
http://www.aicsc.com/aicsc-calendar-2017/
btw has anybody seen an article being awe nawed lately ?
be on guard !
Dear KT
I hear that you may have a free night tomorrow.
I will arrive at Toronto Pearson International Airport at 17.00. See you then.
Good Evening.
Here is a new blog all about a VERY secret project…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/the-top-secret-secret-project/
Jim Payne, sorry for the delay in replying.
He was a real character. My pals and I saw both a lot on the early to mid eighties at our league and cup games.
I believe the Sunday Post did an article on him and Tim the Dug. Tim even had his own passport.
Hrvatski .Jim …
Ha!
I think I’m in trouble, no matter how I respond to that…
cap doffed!
:)
Dallas Dallas
He was. Took Tim with him to a few places in Europe following the Hoops .
Jimbo67
I have met many celts lately who have admitted to near ecstatic states at looking at the spfl table. Me , I thought staring at the table was a tim nirvana til the jambo (lock lennie up) stuck two identikit goals in against the new ragers and I took in the daily prophet the next day . I’ve often experienced sadness over happiness but these times are worldess joy when their own tell thems they are beyond and there’s nothin they can do.
Craig Whyte started playing the stock market at the age of 15. By the time he left school he had more than £20,000 in his bank account.
Today, aged just 39, this financial whizzkid from Motherwell stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life – and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football.
Record Sport understands self-made billionaire Whyte has entered into the final stages of negotiations to buy control of the club he loves from Sir David Murray.
And he’s still one year younger than captain Davie Weir.
A deal worth around £30million is now believed to have reached such an advanced stage that sources say Whyte, a high-roller who splits his time between a home in London and the idyllic Castle Grant in Grantown-on-Spey, could even have the keys to Ibrox in time to fund a major refurbishment of Walter Smith’s top-team squad in January.
The news will delight Rangers supporters who have been fretting over the future of their club ever since Murray first slapped a For Sale sign on the front door of Edmiston Drive around three years ago.
As the club’s financial health deteriorated to such an extent the banks moved in to control the purse strings, a series of false dawns came and went.
First, a consortium headed up by South African-based tycoon Dave King came to the fore only to fail to meet Murray’s asking price.
Then, in March this year, Londonbased property developer Andrew Ellis emerged as the frontrunner and was granted a period of exclusivity in order to get the deal done.
But Ellis, now part of the consortium, did not have the financial clout to back up his bold promises and his bid collapsed, leaving Rangers firmly in the grip of the Lloyds Group.
Exiled Glaswegian King was then talked up once more as the possible saviour but he was also engaged in a long-running battle with the tax man and while those issues remained unresolved, he too looked l ike an increasingly unlikely white knight for a club now engulfed by crisis.
But yesterday, quite out of the blue, Record Sport learned a new man is at the table and that a deal to end Murray’s 22-year reign is ready to be completed.
And that man is a relative boy.
By the age of 26, Whyte was already Scot land’s youngest self-made millionaire. Now, 13 years on, and in charge of a vast business empire, his wealth is off the radar.
Whyte is a venture capitalist who has made his millions from playing the markets – a skill he secret ly began honing in his third year at Glasgow’s Kelvinside Academy. In one of his few interviews he revealed how he immediately regretted going to the private school – because he despised playing rugby.
He said: “I hated the discipline of it. It was a rugby-only school, which I didn’t play as I was interested in football.” Whyte worked weekends for his dad’s plant hire firm. And he saved up his wages to fund his habit of gambling on Stock Exchange.
It is said that, by the time he left school, he had more cash in his bank than many of his teachers.
At 19, he was in charge of his own hire plant.
Now he owns his own castle – one of the most historic buildings in Scotland. And very soon he could be adding Rangers to his portfolio. It remains to be seen if Whyte’s move to capture the club will f lush any other parties out of the woodwork because – despite their failure to strike a deal with Murray – King and his consortium have yet to throw in the towel on their own ambitions.
They had put together a package worth around £18m but this was flatly rejected and Ellis drove the price up when he agreed to pay Murray more than £30m.
The club’s debt has been reduced by around £10m since then but the selling price remains the same.
Now, quite clearly, Whyte believes he will be able to close the deal and the young gun must have said enough to impress Murray, who has stated all along that he will only sell the club to the right people – men with enough money to take the club forward.
Who knows? Murray may even regard Whyte as something of a kindred spirit.
After all, Murray was himself aged just 37 back in 1988 when he launched a takeover of the Ibrox club.
It was the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Rangers’ history but Murray’s aggressive pursuit of European glory eventually saw him writing the kind of cheques that his club could simply not afford.
Now Whyte is bringing his money to the table but it remains to be seen if he will adopt the same scatter-cash approach as the man who has owned the club for the past two decades.
But if he brings in even half of the number of trophies Murray delivered then the fans are unlikely to be complaining.
Now 13 years on at 39, he is charge of a vast business empire and his wealth is off the radar.
Keith Jackson Daily Ranger
sportswriter of the year