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Half the battle when it comes to PR is not to score an own goal, which Neil Lennon managed to do in his pre-match press conference today when asked about the local ‘tradition’ of ritualistic animal slaughter before the game.  “You have to respect the traditions in Kazakhstan, they have a different culture.  We have our traditions.

“Our scouts watched Shakhter’s game against Astana on Friday.  We know the played a weakened team.

“We arrived early to adapt to the weather condition.  The journey went well.

“Tomorrow we play against a strong team.  It’s important to get a good result in the first game to increase our chances of reaching the Champions League group stage.”

Really looking forward to this one now.
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  1. Mea Culpa on

    3 obvious lines of defence for Black:

     

     

    1. I could not have bet against Rangers FC because Rangers FC don’t exist.

     

    2. I didn’t bet against Rangers FC, I only bet against the holding company.

     

    3. I didn’t bet on the outcome of a football match involving Rangers FC. You can’t call that football.

  2. Vespacide on

    Just listened to Sportsound tonight, 48 minute show with 6 minutes of Celtic coverage.

     

     

    What a joke of a radio programme.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  3. gerald766 on

    Hey! Relax! Chill out! We are in good hands, this team, and it ‘ s management team have your interests at heart, they know what this means to you all!

     

    They will be trying their ‘eye-strings’ out on our behalf, on the other side of the World!

     

    Spare a thought for ‘them’, say your prayers, ‘not that we win’!, just that we acquit ourselves

     

    well, in the ‘spirit’ of all the Celtic teams, that have gone ‘ before’,.

     

    This is what makes us ‘CELTIC’!.

     

    H.H.

  4. pauloantony on

    3 strikers we have been linked to!

     

     

    And people are RAGING Because we will not pay a £5m fee for them then on top another £5m in wages …

     

    T E N M I L L I O N P O U N D S £ £ £

     

     

    For WHO?

     

     

    We’re these three guys household names?

     

     

    …..

     

     

    Now!

     

     

    IF and I say IF

     

    We qualify for the champions league. There will be far far superior strikers looking for a doorway into paradise ahead of these 3

     

     

     

    Trust me

  5. A Stor Mo Chroi on

    pauloantony:

     

     

    Who are these posters who are, as you put it “RAGING”, because the Club won’t spend “a £5m fee +£5m wages” on a player?

  7. Tom McLaughlin on

    Summa –

     

     

    Let’s hope Lenny’s words put an end to claims of the board “gambling” with CL qualification.

     

     

    Ok, I took that a bit far there.

     

     

    2-1 Celtic tonight.

  9. Oscar Knox is my Hero - RWE on

    Mrs RWE in Calabasas, California all week.

     

     

    Calabasas!

     

     

    For film & music fans, Mulholland Drive, Topanga Canyon, Ventura Freeway, Mulholland Heights are in the city.

     

     

    To me it sounds like a gang shout up Possil way as they’re steaming into some passing tourists from the Caledonian Road, Gorbals.

     

     

    That edge when you were winching a girl from somewhere that was previously just an exotic Corporation bus destination – Auchenshuggle, Dalmuir, Drumchapel, Nitshill, Carntyne, Penilee. You definitely needed an exit strategy in those days.

     

     

    Frank Haffey CSC

  10. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    JOHNBUD78 0108

     

     

    Au contraire,we do not argue on here.

     

     

    An argument needs a winner and a loser,and can cause resentment.

     

     

    No,we merely dicuss things. Heatedly and passionately,granted.

     

     

    But little in the way of bad feeling,and as THE EXILED TIM says,every day is an education.

  11. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    A STOR MO CHROI 0222

     

     

    Fair play to them for highlighting Mackenzie’s plight.

     

     

    Seems to be quite a moderate site overall.

     

     

    But then,so was RANGERSMEDIA until about two years ago. Not now.

  12. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    Waste of a full moon tonight,the regular moonhowlers must be outside baying.

     

     

    Just gonna join them,I reckon.

  13. Oscar Knox is my Hero - RWE on

    TomMcL

     

     

    Maybe not that far.

     

     

    Those who feel aggrieved that we haven’t “spent” the Victor/Hoops money meet up with those who are convinced that the club are shafting the GB and they all chat with those who feel that the club spokesmen/board have not taken proper advantage of the Deidco debacle or the SFA’s complicity in same.

     

     

    After that you need to lock up your pets and wait for the storm to blow over.

     

     

    Neil Lennon is no man’s dupe. Spend a minute in his company or in one of his media conferences when some eejit tries it on with him. You are left in no doubt as to his strength of character. That’s before we reflect on bomb scares, threats on his life, and assaults on a weekly basis at one point, simply for being the Celtic manager.

     

     

    Good performance/result from the team tomorrow will do even more to calm the mob

     

     

    Hope the good test results are continuing for you.

     

     

    HH

  14. Oscar Knox is my Hero - RWE on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Get to yer work/bed.

     

     

    Same difference for nightshift workers. :0)

     

     

    HH

  15. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    RALPH WALDO ELLISON

     

     

    Aye,but heaven forfend we have a bad result!

     

     

    There are some on here will still be remembering it in years to come,like the fabled Willo Flood Window.

     

     

    And that was four and a half years ago!

     

     

    Not PL’s fault our three international strikers hit a collective drought. Much as it may pain me to say it.

  16. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    RALPH WALDO ELLISON

     

     

    Driving a desk till 7am. I reckon I can do that from my bed…..

  18. A Stor Mo Chroi on

    If Celtic didn’t think they needed a striker then why are they publically admitting to chasing Schalke’s striker Teemu Pukki, Hamburg’s Artjoms Rudnevs, and Heerenveen’s Alfred Finnbogason?

     

     

    When we off loaded all our covering strikers at the end of the season, every man and his dog knew we needed a replacement. Those in the footballing department of Celtic knew this long before the end of the season. Just a few weeks ago official ‘Celtic’ described Balde as a prospect, not the finished article.

     

     

    So to date, on the eve of a game, that could have as much as 15 million riding on the result (albeit over two legs) Celtic failed to bring in a striker. Neil Lennon admits this and he tells people not to panic. I haven’t seen any evidence of ‘panic’ but I have seen much evidence of justifiable concern.

     

     

    I’ll bet Celtic won’t be flying home with a rookie pilot at the controls, or without an experienced pilot to back up an even more experienced pilot.

     

     

    Lightning doesn’t strike twice or so some say and with that thought I hope whoever gets the nod to play up front comes through the game injury free.

     

     

    Complaining they only have two fit strikers for their own Champions League play-off with Panathinaikos the German giants have refused to sell – for now.

     

    ‘Sometimes you find clubs stockpile centre forwards,’ explains Lennon.

     

     

    ‘Look at the Pukki incident. Huntelaar is injured now, so in hindsight they are probably right not to sell him at the minute. We just have to keep looking.’

     

     

    The thinking of the Germans is what you’d expect from a club with ambition.

  20. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    From the awfishul site as penned by Scotland’s greatest living newspaperman:

     

     

    “It has come to our awarenessness that a player with this magnificently dignified and deeply historical one year old club has been caught on the shuffle.

     

    To say that we are disappointed, shocked, outraged and just pure Beelin’ does not adequately described the feelings abroad within the club!

     

    How dare the anti-rangers, Celtic loving, fatally compromised media report this!!!!! The fact that a player who wears the shoddy jumper with pride has been at the madam is not a matter which should be laid before any old johnny come lately! This is a matter which should have been, in the best traditions of this club, swept under the carpet and no action taken.

     

    The sooner the Scottish media returns to it’s traditional role of repeating any old Barry White the club told it to print, the better!

     

    We will not let this matter rest until the people who were involved in grassing our man up have been threatened with all sorts from the more dignified of our supporters.

     

    You can bet on it!!!!!”

  21. A Stor Mo Chroi on

    Miku (ex Getafe) a Venezuelan internationalist, Lassad (ex Deportivo) a Tunissian internationalist, Bangura, a Sierra Leone internationalist ( Celtic out on loan) they were the backup we had for Hooper (ex Celtic) at the end of the season past.

     

     

    We have now played 4 CL qualifiers (another tomorrow) and 2 SPL games and the above named players have been replaced with Amido Balde.

     

     

    See the guy who drives around in his car without insurance, he thinks he’s cool and smart and saving a few bob and never looks panicked… until he smacks head on into a brick wall.

  22. Tom McLaughlin on

    A Stor Mo Chroi –

     

     

    What was the score in those 4 CL games and 2 SPL games?

     

     

    Just in case I have been living in an alternative universe and didn’t know it.

     

     

    :-)

  25. A Stor Mo Chroi on

    Maybe if you read what I had written you might understand but if you are having any difficulty about anything I have written, please highlight it and I will gladly take my time to explain.

  27. desertbhoy on

    BT.. Yes, Dubliners Bar in le Meridiene hotel Dubai. Not far from airport. Will be there tonight!!

     

     

    Not aware of anything in Ajman.

  30. Neil Lennon & McCartney YNWA Oscar Knox on

    pauloantony

     

    01:40 on

     

    20 August, 2013

     

     

    IF and I say IF

     

    We qualify for the champions league. There will be far far superior strikers looking for a doorway into paradise ahead of these 3

     

    —————-

     

    I think you got it spot-on there.

     

    World Cup next year so there will be many players looking for a “CL club”

     

     

    HH

  31. 'GG on

    In an exotic land Far Far Away, Celtic will experience a defining moment in this side’s history.

     

    Our young side tempered in the heat of Barcelona, Moscow, Lisbon and Torino will take a huge step in their advance to the group stages of the Champions’ League.

     

    The teams in pot two will look on this with more than a little trepidation.

     

    No team in Europe will relish a trip to Paradise.

     

     

    I confidently predict we will take home a two goal victory and a happy celebratory flight back to Glasgow.

     

    Please don’t check my performance in this week’s CQN Predictor as it was strictly average.

     

    However, as they say, a broken clock is right twice a day.

     

     

    COYBIG

  34. A Stor Mo Chroi on

    lymmbhoy:

     

     

    you might want to copy and paste that article because when you click on the link it blocks access.

  40. 16 roads - Wee Oscar the Celtic warrior. on

    Some ludicrous shenanigans taking place over there in the land that time forgot.

     

     

    Genghis: “What wonder could aid us in our quest to defeat those pesky Celtic invaders?”

     

     

    Ming: “I know what we’ll do…let’s kill a sheep,right before kick-off! That shall spook the Celtic invaders alright.”

     

     

    Genghis: “Good thinking Batman,that sounds like a plan!”

     

     

    Such nonsense.

     

     

    That place is not in Europe.

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