Aberdeen will already be in town ahead of their game at Firhill tonight. Lose tonight and a season which promised so much as recently as Monday, will effectively be over.
Tomorrow’s game against Inverness will present a robust challenge for Celtic. Inverness are one of four clubs locked within a point of each other, a maximum of three of them will be in the top six after the split. Despite the fact that the Highlanders are competing in the right half of the table, with a Scottish Cup quarter final against Hamilton Accies to look forward to, they are only five points from the play-off spot.
Players will be battling for their livelihoods in every sense of the word.
Well done to Erik Sviatchenko’s old team, Midtjylland, on their Europa League win over Manchester United last night. And to the observer who noted that they have now beaten more top six teams in the England and Wales Premier League than Manchester United or Manchester City.
You wonder what last night’s results will do to the marketability of the Midtjylland players, and whether or not we would have been able to get Sviatchenko in the summer, had he stayed. Big results bring focus and scores of scouts. We nipped in at the right moment with Erik.
Good luck to Thistle tonight.
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Up the dubs
Carlton doesn’t like the climate! !!! I’m not a big fan of it myself but i get up at 6:30 each morning and suffer it . I’m also not delighted to sit in the north stand lower with the rain and wind hitting me for 2 hrs but as long as I’m watching the hoops I’m happy enough .
BTW I see warbo is still bleating about Kilmarnock unforgiving pitch causing waggers season ending injury ( even the astroturf hasn’t forgiven the zombies )
No mention of how his staff allowed him to get up from the injury and take the penalty then walk off the park rather than have the medical team carry him when he has such a terrible injury
TOM BOYD IS BETTER THAN SUPERSUTTON on 20TH FEBRUARY 2016 9:09 AM
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/lose-and-aberdeen-season-is-over/comment-page-13/#comment-2780377
Yep, SEE YOU THERE….. HH
Today remember :
Tonys Huddle
Dont Shrink
N.O.W.A.
CQN Coupon for today:
TTT – Bradford
PF – Northampton
AWATR – Ross County
Pogmathonyahun – Hearts
Lennybhoy – Barnsley
Jobo – Burnley
BT – Carlisle
GL2 – Plymouth
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
http://bbc.in/24f1W90
Using insolvency to run away from debt
HH
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league
They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,
They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,
From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,
To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league.
There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,
There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there;s ever been,
Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,
And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football league.
BSR
Are you wearing your Hufflepuff quidditch robes today? Jobo was asking…
Propaganda from eyewitness
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44260.htm
Morning all.
What’s the weather like in Glesga?
Is the game in doubt?
It’s fine here!
18 degrees, dry n sunny!
HH!!
The team we might want, but won’t get
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:::Lustig:::::::Boyata:::::::::Erik::::::::Keiran
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::::::::::::::::Broon:::::::::::::Bitton:::::::::::::::::
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Roberts:::::::::::::::Allan::::::::::::::::Christie
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::::::::::::::::::::Griffiths Offside:::::::::::::::::::
Team for today…. If only to trump BSR’s team selection
———————- Iain Andrews———————-
Mark McNally Du Wei. Rafael Scheidt Pearce Oleary
Paul Byrne. Kiki Mizuno. Mike Galloway. Martin Hayes
—————-Mo Bangura. Willie Falconer ——————
Subs
Anton Rogan
Paul Mcguigan
Lassad
In fact any selection of the Macari and Liam Brady era..
Top class bhoys
This is a ‘stand up and be counted’ day.
I’ll be there as usual, so will my pals – let’s hope that all of our season-book holders get up, get out,and get back into Paradise.
Management and players must also ‘stand up and be counted’ today.
It is time that we put down a marker and started to stamp our authority on this campaign.
A week ago, we were contemplating possibly going into today’s game, points behind – results and events could mean we are six clear tonight and nine clear on Friday night at Hamilton.
No excuses – just a convincing performance and first and foremost a WIN – HH
Everyone fit, does Ronny know his strongest 11 ?
I would hazard a guess and say no..
My favoured 11 would be
———————-Bailly ———————–
Lustig. Jozo Simo. King Erik. Tierney
———–Broony. Bitton——————
—Roberts. Rogic. Christie ——
————Griffillo —————-
TBB
To be, or not to be that is the question.
EC67 says gazebo beckons ‘early doors in’ so it’s full wee Harry Potter mode,
– wait for me, as the traffic may be unkind.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks
Ruggyman
That’s us got two Rutherglen teams, what about Ronny?
BSR
The Koala tea of Murphy is not strained.
JJ
JJHS
I see what you’re doing to the great man there.
WS CSC
Glasgow Weather centre predicted another filthy weekend in lower EK.
Anyone in East kilbride/rutherglen area need a spare for today? Family do so can’t make game.
Can drop off for you if you give me a shout within next half hr
eddieinkirkmichael
Jobo Baldie EK’s most famous son is looking for a spare.
BSR-I hope we can see a bit of flair and creativity in the starting 11,not with 8 minutes to go …..
Warburton on Alloa’s artificial pitch from earlier this season: https://t.co/ZV6c7je22v
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Dunno Warburton’s problem-it shoooorly canny be that difficult to find someone else to take penalties?
Time to depart from a sunny and pleasant Arbroath. I understand Glasgow is not faring so well. Nevertheless, I leave with Charles Dickens ie Great Expectations 0:-)
Cheerio for now,
JJ
Anyone have Jobo’s email?
eddie
Jobo has gotten a ticket now.
Ok cheers mate
For anyone interested in the Easter Rising of 1916, there is a really interesting site on Facebook. If you have Facebook search, Blanchardstown Dublin15, The Easter Rising and Irish Civil War.
I don’t know who the creators off the site are, but it looks to but it is worth a look if you have the time!
Wet and miserable here in the northeast of the Emerald Isle.
Don’t you just hate South Of Tunis’s weather reports when it’s pissing down here and you’re setting out for the game like Shackleton going to the South Pole?
22’55”
BSR / Eddie – thanks for thinking of me but Doc / Coweibhoy have me sorted.
CRC
Can you e-mail me the address to send my cheque to for LMS7 please, I appear to have misplaced it.
Enough to ruin my lunch .
Tv news running an item re a Brexit rally ———— up pops film of Gorgeous George Galloway sharing a platform with Nigel Farage .( hands joined together in a clenched fist celebratory salute ) .Vile !
Gee I’d love it if Killie were to write to Sevco stating:
Yeah, I know but it’s still the same pitch isn’t it?
Good morning CQN, lovely day for visiting paradise
Interesting article by Pat Kane
Exercise care if flying a flag – national colours can trigger sectarianism
SHOULD Irish tricolour flags be flown over public buildings in North Lanarkshire, to commemorate the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland? I’ll give an unequivocal answer to that at the end.
But if one wanted to access some decent social science on the politics of community flag use, you’d turn to Northern Ireland, yes?
Correct. On Tuesday, The Queen’s University, Belfast and their Institute for Irish Studies launched a major study called Flags: Towards A New Understanding. I recommend that the Queen’s report should be read by everyone: councillors, police, Holyrood politicians and (err) “interested” citizens who want to make the right decision over the North Lanarkshire tricolours.
The primary concern, I suggest, would be to ensure that we don’t trigger off the same cultural and territorial wars here that are conducted via flags over there.
The report is fascinating and learned about the usage and power of flags in general. I wasn’t aware, for example, that the Scottish Government has specified that, above the Holyrood building “the Saltire must be flown in the superior position, with the Union Flag in the second superior position and the European flag in the third”.
Local councils across the land may tremble over the relative placing and fluttering duration of saltire and Union Jack but ScotGov has set them a clear lead. Though thankfully, so far, there’s been no community bonfires and burning effigies about the matter.
The Queen’s study is also compelling on the nuances of the disputed flags themselves. They note that the Union Flag is specifically “the symbolic expression of the Act of Union of 1800”, itself a response to the rebellion of the United Irishmen in 1798.
To get the Cross of St George, the Cross of St Andrew and the Cross of St Patrick yoked together, the designer had to “make the point of intersection slightly off-centre”, say the Queen’s academics. “This allows the three flags to sit in relation to each other in such a way that none of the three dominates the other two”. With piquant irony, it seems a single Ireland lurks in the design of the Loyalists’ treasured symbol.
The Irish tricolour also apparently thrums with a complex history. If the point at issue is the commemoration of the Easter Rising, then it’s worth reminding ourselves that three flags went up during the events of 1916.
Over the General Post Office in Dublin, the flying of the tricolour was actually secondary to Pearse’s raising of a gold harp on a green background, bearing the words “Irish republic”. (The Scottish revolutionary Republican James Connolly hoisted another symbol-of-the-nation contender, the Starry Plough, over the Imperial Hotel across the road).
The Irish tricolour was a 19th-century invention, consciously modelled on the flag of the French Republic, whose usage had become moribund in Ireland. But after it flew from the top of the GPO, the tricolour swept Irish communities as a symbol of rebellion, and was thereafter explicitly identified with the Easter Rising (and only officially adopted as the flag of the Irish state in 1937).
So to fly the tricolour means a wee bit more than associating your local council with a significant date in a neighbouring state’s history. To those with the relevant knowledge in their heads, fluttering the Irish flag over a municipal building resonates with an act of violent republicanism (no matter how you stand in relation to the long-term historical justice of that act).
Would that implication be enough to keep the flags off the poles in Coatbridge, Motherwell and elsewhere? It would be nice to think that we are relaxed enough in Scotland to be able to cope with this possibility: that some states and countries we might fraternally celebrate have their origins in acts of violence.
I’m unaware that the various mutual incursions and invasions across the history of Scandinavian nations generates much lingering resentment. And given the rapacity and gore that has spattered the British imperial record, requiring violent national liberation struggles of all kinds, the continuing good relations of the Commonwealth still seem like a miraculous exercise in forgiveness.
Let’s say we’re not entirely relaxed about our relation to Irish politics and history in Scotland. But first, let’s make sure we appreciate what we have. All hail the soft power of Scottish civic nationalism which, at its inclusive best, serves to dissolve many Scots’ prior identifications with either Ireland, or a tightly unitary Britain. In that sense, long may Nicola Sturgeon and her progressive, detailed, womanly calm, set the tone of our national conversations.
However, are there warning signs about the consequences of drawing contemporary, forward-moving Scotland into Irish historical disputes? Should we worry that the keyboard warriors of websites like Vanguard Bears or Regimental Blues are warning of “action” and “consequences” if the North Lanarkshire tricolours are raised? I’m not sure we should, too much.
The Queen’s report wants to stress that, at least for Northern Ireland, institutional provocations or hard legislation can generate insurgent responses. The trigger in recent times was obviously Belfast City Council’s decision, on December 3, 2012, to fly the Union Flag over its main building for only 18 days in a year (one more than the designated number set by a UK Act of Parliament), rather than all year round as before.
Ugly civil unrest ensued, alongside a proliferation in flag-making, predominantly on the Loyalist and Unionist side. This only built on years of angst among Northern Irish Protestants about their identity, post the Anglo-Irish Agreement. The Institute of Irish Studies measured public flag display in Northern Ireland in the five years from 2006 to 2010; unionist flags outweighed nationalist flags by 13 to 1.
But the Queen’s authors counsel an approach which consults and mediates with Northern Irish communities as much as possible, much more than a strict enforcement of existing laws over flags or even more ambitiously, a redefinition of “hate crime and speech” itself.
The effect of the latter measures, say the authors, “might simply be like moving the bump in the carpet… If a new legislative regime inhibits the erection of flags, then more kerbstones might be painted. If there is a crackdown on the painting of kerbstones, then more murals might be painted – and so on. In the end, the criminalisation of cultural expression is all too likely to fall victim to the law of unintended consequence.”
Now, for Scotland, we have to honestly ask ourselves: how big is the bump in our carpet? Last year, 80 per cent of Scots in a YouGov poll declared themselves satisfied with Holyrood’s Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications Act, birthed as a response to sectarian football culture. That doesn’t feel like a seething boil of frustrated identities, thwarted in its expression by punitive legislation.
One survey showed that as Scotland has gained more self-government, those exclusively identifying themselves as “Scottish” has decreased. As a Yesser, I’m a bit wobbly about what that means for my own dream project. Is a complex existence within a capacious Britain what most Scots really want?
As a citizen who wants to live in a peaceful society, I’m glad that both facts indicate that the bump of Scottish sectarianism and extremism, at least compared to Northern Ireland, may yet be smoothed out of our carpet, with steady and repeated hoovering. In these matters, we’re dull, boring and small-time.
It feels like hard enough work to build a majority for Scottish independence, confident enough to weather the next storm from elites and establishments. And however much I admire and respect the Irish Republic, I don’t want our national movement to get caught up in their historic and terrible beauty. For those reasons, and those already outlined, I hope the tricolours don’t fly over North Lanarkshire
Note to oneself ….check CQN regularly
Door goes …..Eddieinkirkmichael standing there , ticket for today’s game
Cheers Eddie and special thanks to Delaney’s Dunky for suggesting me for the spare :)
Catchyeez .
Ole Pat Kane whippin up a storm whippin up a storm…………… Oh yeah
What a Hue n Cry CSC
Paul67
In mentioning Midtjylland it shows up how a football club should be run
Interesting also the Ghent boss was also in the news this week
Two clubs with a fraction of our support and income before earning in Europe that shows how a football business should be run
Unlike Celtic fc only run as a business
Celtic fans under direction of Peter Lawell can only dream of these type of teams success We cannot complete in Europe to these examples of well run football clubs
Both of these clubs will not have 17 midfield players and one striker
Both these teams will not have spent 30million on 20 strikers in 6 years and found 2( hooper and Griffiths)
Paul 67 in trying to highlight how wonderfull our one signing is , you have just shown how poor a CEO of a football club Peter Lawell is
Time to wake up and smell the coffee
What has the tri colour got to do with the easter rising ?