The clean sheet record had to go eventually, so I’m pleased it went to a good goal, not an error by Fraser, which would have been harsh on the big keeper. Having already recorded Celtic’s, then Scotland’s league clean sheet record, the British and European records were within touching distance, but that is now a matter for next season.
Months ago, when Virgil van Dijk first suggested we could go through the league season without defeat I said we were not nearly consistent enough to achieve this. Ironically, last night’s defeat came after a sustained period of consistent an authoritative performances, in the league.
Aberdeen will have lots of reasons to wonder where there team might go now, having beaten Celtic twice in a month. Amid all the newspaper talk in 2012 that Celtic needed their soon to be liquidated opponent, a few of us suggested that what Celtic really need is an opponent, and that Aberdeen, playing to a captive audience in a wealthy city, were the most likely candidates.
Manager, Derek McInnes, knows he does not have the resources to compete over a league programme, but he has proven a few points: he knows how to beat Celtic and his team are the best of the rest.
If Aberdeen can cope with the vagaries of trips to Easter Road and Victoria Park next season, four games against Celtic will take care of themselves. Let’s hope Newco Rangers don’t nip in and buy their best players with that non-emergency £1.5m loan.
The immediate challenge for Celtic is to get back into winning form on Saturday. League Cup finalists, Inverness, will come to make up the numbers.
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Big Nan
I did that as well ,in the 60’s. Our boat stopped at all the main australian ports with a mixed cargo before taking on a load of coal for Japan. Then on to New Caledonia for iron ore and we carried on dodging about in the Pacific for some months. Happy days!??!
bamboo
08:44 on 27 February, 2014
Big Nan
I did that as well ,in the 60′s. Our boat stopped at all the main australian ports with a mixed cargo before taking on a load of coal for Japan. Then on to New Caledonia for iron ore and we carried on dodging about in the Pacific for some months. Happy days!??!
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I was on a tramp, King Malcolm and we had taken wood pulp from Finland to China then loaded general for Australian ports where we sailed from light ship to Fiji for a bulk cargo of sugar for Europe.
Happy days indeed though the month in aussie was an alcoholic haze.
Auldheid,
Are we to assume from one of your posts yesterday, that the old “Honest Mistakes” is alive and well and will come into play in major games? It does seem odd that all the major decisions in the two most recent Aberdeen games went against us, e.g Robson handling the ball twice in the lead up to their second goal at Celtic Park, our being denied a penalty, which looked a very proper shout on Tuesday night.
Anyway, morning all. I heard for the first time a representative of the Sons of Struth earlier. King is going to ride over the horizon and save them, so he and his ilk now believe. How can someone like King be considered a fit and proper person????
Bamboo should have said light ship from China to load Japanese ports, six IIRC, Nagoya, Shimonasaki, Moji, Shimazu, Yokohama, Kobe.
Little parcels each stop and took over a month to load. Braw.
To the Aussie guys.
Spent 5 months touring Australia about 15 years ago.
Sydney and Gold Coast for a month then on to Perth to visit relatives.
Drove up Broom along down through. coast and came back inland.
Loved the country it was spectacular.
However the people were the most racist and rude of anywhere I’ve been.
Found that strange as living in London at that time the Aussies were very outgoing and friendly.
Should say drove up coast from Perth to Broome and returned through interior.
As 16 year old deck boy I sailed out of Glasgow on a brand new ship the Chatwood. Through the Suez canal and down to Oz . Thought seriously about jumping ship there but bottled it. After Oz we went to Japan 3 times between Borneo ,New Caeldonia then to New Zealand for a cargo of wool to bring home via the Panama canal .A one year trip .
Quite an experience and many adventures but I didnt go back sea after it.
Some cracking early posts from the Oz bhoys, big nan and bamboo.
Fascinating stuff.
HH
It’s good to see that Ronnie Cully reads CQN, and uses it as a source of information for his articles…
Note my comment at 10.22am yesterday:
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=14772&cpage=29#comment-2096694
Then look at Ronnie Cully’s Evening Herald article which hit NewsNow at 7.09am today:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/celtic/celtic-can-spin-another-record-153852n.23551084
Strangely similar in content, I think. Although I like the way he has added some more orthodox journalist style content after the stats to make his piece look more like a properly researched and written article than a geeky stat-attack (as per my comment!).
Ronnie… it would have been polite to at least acknowledge your source. ;o)
fan-a-tic,
Despite the stories this morning, there are lots of good people here. Another thing that I would have to say is that despite each town being very parochial, you get work here on merit, something that doesn’t always happen elsewhere. All in all it’s a great place to live and it has been very good to me and my family, my son has spent almost all of his life here, his values will hopefully be those which have been taught in our house, good Celtic values!
AR
Big Nan, Bamboo
Shouldn’t you both be getting this down on paper?
HH
The company I work for is 52 strong. It has 18 different nationalities working for it. To my left is a French man, to my right a Chilean, in front of me is a Chinese girl behind me is a Sri Lankan girl. I love it. I must be the luckiest guy in Australia, after 16 years and having worked with literally thousands of workers, I’ve only twice heard racist comments. Maybe it is just the company I keep.
I’ve just applied for a job up in New Caledonia, Gold mine, hence the French lessons. Got my fingers crossed for it. One of my mates is up there and loves it.
Sorry that post should have been addressed to bamboo.
First time I visited Australia was on another King boat the George but it was Clan Line coloured crew which I didn’t like. Anyway Australia then was 6 o’clock closing for pubs.
The second time I was there, on the King Malcolm (white crew) was when the licensing laws changed and closing time was extended to 10? I think.
Anyway I was in a pub just up from Flinders St Station the night it chaged and the “six o’clock swill” boys just did the same thing as they always did. Burst in the pub about 5 or when they finshed dran furiously for an hour and then staggered out pissed.
Been doing it for so long there was just no other way for them. All would change in a wee while I suppose, but we are creatures of habit.
The Green Man
In that one year there were enough stories to write 5 books.
There was this big old guy from Skye who started to lose it when we were crossing the Pacific . He was threatening and attacking guys in the crew. He dissapeared over the side mid-Pacific. Then the giesha bar girls in Japan. ………….. ……
Macjay1
Yup I see your point.
The camera angle from the goal makes it seem like there was a touch but the one from behind VVD shoes PP touched ball out of VVD’s reach.
I only checked the angle from the goal a few times and on its own it looks like VVD got a touch but the other angle suggests not.
As I said I could see why ref gave it from his angle but from the other angle it looked like the ball was played first.
If any of yeez happen to find yerselve’s in Fooshan
tell Master Ip – I was asking for him.
HH
Donnie Yen – CSC
Loving the posts this morning, interesting to hear the stories of bhoys travelling the world. When I was a kid(16), I had enough of scoddland and wanted to travel.
First place I got to was Amsterdam….needless to say, it opened my eyes very quickly.
For years afterwards, I rambled all over Europe, I got to know a wide spectrum of people from all backgrounds, steeped myself in European culture, soaked it up like a sponge. I’ll add at this point, that I was very much a wee hippy, although with a Glesga attitude, if you get my drift.
I learned so much, from many fine people, Dutch,German,Irish,English, and of course, Scots.
Travelling certainly broadens the mind, ive never been the same since:)
I still travel regularly, like to get to the remote places that I discovered when I was a kid.
Mon the Hoops
With Virgil off the park before Aberdeen scored is he still on for a central defenders record for the most minutes played without conceding a goal ;-)
Big Nan:
It has changed quite a bit and some. The nearest pub to me is purported to be the biggest pub in the southern hemisphere and you couldn’t pay me to go in it. City centre pubs stay open to about three in the morning, some stay open to five. I’m at work and they are still open. Actually some stay open around the clock. The five o’clock dash is long since gone.
kitalba
We were anchored a couple of miles off-shore inside a coral reef . Me and a couple of guys got to go onto the island to see the doctor about some made up illness. The doc was in cahoots with the guy who had the local hotel so we had a few days in this village . The locals were negro types but many there were many mixed race . Used to be a French penal colony. I played football all day starting off with the kids and then as day day went on the adults joined in . Many played bare-foot or had one boot. Brilliant footballers and very friendly people. But I didnt get to any of the larger towns. I think its it under France.
bamboo
Get writing…..get those stories down, they should be preserved.
My own story, makes breaking bad look like the tellytubbies:)
HH
Off oot – to join the foreign legion :)
laters…
For example…..did I ever tell you about the time, that I stayed in a hippy squat in the Dam.
Hippies, yeah , sure…..,But they did have some very interesting skills:)
HH
bamboo:
Yeah France still has a big say there, though to be fair, that’s the way the population want it. I’ve always wanted to go there, we’ll see.
One more about Australia in the 60’s . It seemed pretty wild west to me.
In the pubs you didnt get a pint you got a massive jug of beer on your table.
The most racist country I’ve worked and lived in has to be China by a big country mile, second to that Malaysia, third to that England, forth to that Scotland, then Laos, then America. On my scale of racist countries Australia doesn’t merit a twitch.
bamboo:
You can still order your beer like that if you want to, not the done thing generally though. By law here in Queensland, you cannot be served a double measure of spirits.
Tom Molach (09:34), I posted that one yesterday too!
I’d sue you and Ronnie Cully for pliagi… plaiga… playje…if I could spell it.
;o)
Morning Tims from a dull dreary dank industrial estate ,what was the designer of the Scotland Jersey on? And don’t say£40 grand a year!
King was facing prison in South Africa in 2012….He settled with them and all charges were dropped…..We must follow king…a rangers man or we are finished. …..be nice if king Walter came out and backed king…maybe paul Murray too…..not McCoist though because although I like him loads he is thick and backs all the wrong people.
From some moronic hun in the Record today.They really are the stupidest people,alongside the most gullible.And this numpty thinks Ally is thick.Oh my aching sides.
In the merchant navy in those days the racisim was very extreme.
We took on an eygptian crew to get us through the Suez canal . They were on the boat a couple of days but wernt allowed to use the ships toilet facilities or showers or canteen. They had to stay outside .
The chippy built a wooden platform over-hanging the water for them to use as a toilet.
Morning all,
Having breakfast in the Europa in Belfast right now. Served by a young asian lad with a full Belfast accent. Anyone who doesn’t appreciate the diversity of humanity when it appears in front of them is an €rse IMHO. Have always loved knowing where people – and esp their accents – have come from.
Loved the yarns from the old sea dhogs earlier. HHS CQN could set sail of these tales….. Def agree you should get them down for others to read…. The bits you can remember!!!!
Right. Fun over. A paper to write.
Laters Timdom.
HH jamesgang
And no, I’m not Ronny Cully! Different kinda paper!!!
NoPlagiarismCSC
HH jamesgang
Imagine being able to list a whole screed of countries in order of level of racism.
I can say which country I believe is the worst, in my experience, but a league table?
I smell shoite!
bamboo:
I spent four years at sea, my highlight was swimming with dolphins and whales in the South Atlantic. Best place visited, Copenhagen, worst, Naples.
Gold Coast Tom:
Maybe you should try taking a shower now and again.