I had a look at the story on the official site this morning about a compilation CD with various versions of the Celtic Song being released. After the initial pleasure of seeing Emilio Izaguirre and Scott Brown on their feet unaided, what struck me most was the apparent body mass of the two players we would normally consider our midfield enforcers, Scott and Beram Kayal.
Against Paddy McCourt, Joe Ledley and Emilio, not to mention men of considerable bulk, like Charlie Mulgrew, they are comparatively svelte and diminutive. The central midfield role is about mobility and football-intelligence more than anything else. How you use your weight against an opponent is as important as having the weight to begin with, but when the margins between winning and not winning are so tight, getting the physical balance right is important.
I don’t think I’ve been happy with a Celtic 4-4-2 line-up for years but playing Scott, Beram and a couple of wingers across midfield feels like an invitation for more limited opponents to bully this area, something the Highlanders did very effectively the last time we visited Inverness.
After mentioning tomorrow’s Fans Against Criminalisation meeting in yesterday’s blog I read Joe O’Rourke’s item on the Supporters’ Association site on the same subject with a mixture of horror and foreboding. The First Minister would be well advised to quickly reign-in whatever loose cannons he has roaming the corridors of power. Well done to Joe for bringing this to the attention of a wider audience.
The guys from the Alzheimer’s charity, FootballMemories,org.uk asked me to bring their site to your attention. They work with Alzheimer patients, using the universal platform football provides us all, to engage and invoke recollections. The site has lots of great Celtic stories, take a look and add your own.
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The problem with CQN friday nights is its on friday night after a long working week. I’ll look forward to catching up on the overnight posts in the late morning. Sleep beckons.
Good night all.
HH
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:47
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Allright Higgie,
The music was the pistols and the clash.
going to the games when younger.
Ska I like a lot,
Who was the big guy in your year who went to the games for a few seasons, dark hair , nice big guy, who got expelled for aiming bow and arrow at PE teacher???
HH
Ulster Celt
if I have referred to you or your type as slaves as I have said I apologise but, I must admit I have not found anything to persuade me that you are not!
Listen Pal
thanks
But I dont feel the need to persuade you or anyone else that I am not a slave
maybe its you that are a slave to your ghetto mentality
Cue self righteous indignation
Fortunes Favour Mibbes says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:46
Tragic loss to music and what an awful way to go-in front of her kids too I think.
Here’s one I always used to like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ieij6JPiw
A letter to MQ Magazine Issue 10 and short biography on our namesake who gratiously gave permission for the Lodge to use his name and presented the Lodge with his 1st Cavalry Sword which is still used in the Lodge to this day. Come and visit and see the inscription.
EARL HAIG THE MASON
By chance, just after I had read the article about the Duke of Wellington and Freemasonry (MQ, Issue No. 9), there was a visit from Archie Eglinton, who is my wife’s cousin, and I told him about a more modern Field Marshal and his interests in Freemasonry. Archie instructed me to write to you with this story.
In 1920, Lord Haig came to visit at Broomhall in order to visit a club of ex-servicemen that had been developed in our local town of Dunfermline. My father told me that, in the morning following this dinner of the ex-servicemen, Haig said that he was hoping to be able to form a number of these groups all over Scotland and elsewhere.
My father said that he then told Haig that he was finding similar groups of ex-servicemen who were joining or had recently joined Freemason Lodges in Scotland.
Father went on and said to Haig: “You didn’t by any chance become a Freemason, did you?” Haig apparently looked surprised but admitted that, as an undergraduate at Oxford he had joined the local Lodge at Leven in Fife near to their Cameron Bridge distillery and had become a Freemason in Elgin’s Lodge at Leven No. 91. This Lodge was named after the fifth Earl, who was Grand Master Mason in 1761.
My father then discovered from the Lodge secretary that indeed Douglas Haig, described as an undergraduate at Oxford, had taken his First and Second Degrees and was still awaiting his Third.
A suitable date was arranged for Field Marshal the Earl Haig, K.T., to receive his Third Degree and he later went on to become Master of the Lodge and was persuaded to take office in Grand Lodge, which he did. When he died he was Senior Grand Deacon.
The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine K.T.
Past Grand Master Mason of Scotland
What is the Stars
Derry has a capital D Ya slave.
can you readily name the atrocities carried out in the name of the republic~? do you acknowledge the death toll during the war of independence and civil war is higher than the the conflict between 69 and 99? do you actually know???
UC
What is the Stars @ 00:38
I noticed the sensitivity about the name mentioned earlier. Earlier i confessed to my limited understandings on this, although the sensitivities are clear, which is why i never used the term “Freestate”. I don’t anyway. To a West Central Scot with Irish grandparents, Ireland is Ireland. Again, excuse my ignorance, i was just being honest about how ignorant we are here in Scotland (generally speaking of course) about the issues still dividing Ireland, though i do know there are several – in my mind, the effects of the “divide and conquer” approach last for numerous generations – they are that destructive. One of the numerous reasons Churchill put the proposal to MC was that he knew at the very east Ireland would be divided in more ways than one for the foreseeable future.
Again, it’s just my thoughts – i’m open to/asking for thoughts on it, as in Scotland, we have been limited in what we’ve been told, and can’t possibly understand the many different opinions/ divides that have arisen since then, despite how well read we might be (which i’m not). Ye get me?
Absolutely lilian Gished..
Just back in from ‘sportsman’s dinner’.. Afterdinner speaker Jon RowbOthom
Even accounting for poetic licence.. Obviously massive hungry at large In Scottish football.!
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:31
I concur.
Also….
I would like Paul67 to get rid of the google chrome advert box, I have a real problem with that hidden 666 undermining this site more than any other pesticide.
I never liked the Celtic Triangle either. DD and his Masonic Jetskis… ;)
Honesty is always the very best policy.
;))
Largely thanks to his son, the Field Marshal’s reputation has now recovered from some of the furious attacks of the 1960s, though he still has his detractors.
In 1991 Haig condemned as “poisonous trash” a book claiming his father forged passages in his diary to make himself look better to historians, and which spoke of “blunders” at the Somme, Passchendaele and Cambrai, and of panic in the face of a German offensive.
Three years ago Haig courted controversy by criticising the Ministry of Defence’s decision to pardon all 306 soldiers shot for cowardice or desertion. “It was a terribly sad situation and some of these soldiers were genuinely shell-shocked,” he said. “But many were rogues, persistent deserters and criminals, or they were guilty of cowardice. They had to be made an example of. I know my father took enormous trouble to consider the merits of each case before authorising any execution. It wasn’t a decision he took lightly”.
Palacio67 says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:53
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:47
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Allright Higgie,
who was the big guy in your year who went to the games for a few seasons, dark hair , nice big guy, who got expelled for aiming bow and arrow at PE teacher???
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narrow it down, could have been about 30 of the nutcases in my year.
What is the Stars
My mother was one of the few hundred who turned up at the embassy.
She asked her mother if she could borrow 10p for petrol.
My Gran gave her the money.
Only when she was out the door did my Gran realise that my Mum didn´t know or hang around anyone with a car.
Until the news came over the radio about the embassy my Gran had been racking her brains about the borrowed money.
My Mum was a bit wild in her day god rest her. 11 years gone yesterday.
Fortunes Favours
Yes I get you and I am sorry if I came across agressive,thanks
Ulster Celt
Derry has a capital D,very good,
Ya Slave ?? thats just childish,
Then again maybe we all are at times
And yes I know my history very well,
69-99 when did your war end,comrade
Random song :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgMFP9-Jy0
What is the Stars
No worries, i know it’s an emotive subject (i should learn to stay out of subjects i can’t contribute anything to :)
setting free the bears says:
12 November, 2011 at 00:50
Can’t believe anyone else on here would know that song-absolutely brilliant!
Here’s another tribute song-not nearly as good as yours but mildly funny
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 01:00
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Green pilot jacket always, think he might have been english?
His name Elder???
HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waacof2saZw&ob=av2e
EBM Electrobhoy
God rest your mum
I was 11 then but some older lads 17/18 from my street went,I desperately wanted to go but was too young,Was so proud when it burnt
Yes I know Ulster Celt I am a slave who did nothing blah blah
Thing is I grew up where I grew up
What is the Stars
read your history, your republic hasn’t got the glorious history you wish it had
UC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36c5aFZSr4
Forgot the link!
Spongebob,
Read back last night. Hope you’re doing ok bud.
Fortunes favours
What is the Stars
No worries, i know it’s an emotive subject (i should learn to stay out of subjects i can’t contribute anything to :)
Hey pal you are as entitled to your opinion and contribution as much as any one else.
We can all fall out about stuff but thats what life is about
Lovely track….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
Kitalba
Just in and caught up with the blog
deepest condolences to you and your family reguards your Mothers sad passsing
Ulster Celt
We are never going to agree on any of this stuff
My republic hasnt got the glorious history i wish it had ??
whereas your republic does ???
Abercorn/La Mon etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcGvHbHduw
Seldom heard Nick Lowe “tribute” to the BCRS-What was he thinking about?
I see PeteC has gotten the party, karamu, fiesta, forever, started:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiLziusKW4s (thumbsup)
Palacio67 says:
12 November, 2011 at 01:04
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 01:00
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Green pilot jacket always, think he might have been english?
His name Elder???
HH
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your bloody magic at pulling memories out the hat.
Davie Elder was a good big pal for a while growing up in slaemuir and grampian road.
we had a shared interest in ska/punk/oi/ wearing doc marten boots and going to the games
he delivered the tele, and spent all the money to go to the games.
we allways allways wore, celtic top, levi jeans, DM boots, pilot jacket.
we went together to
Dundee Utd 2 Celtic 2
the saturday after we beat ajax in the european cup.
brilliant big guy.
moved to Irvine, and we lost touch.
petec says:
12 November, 2011 at 01:08
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Agree, not heard it in years.
HH
Don’t know where the Cure come into my napper from, but this is a good one.
Bob Smith is actually a very good guitar player. His slow note melodic guitar solos led folk to think he was average at the guitar. Not true. Only a very good guitar play can knock out this rythym…AND sing at the same time !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlAhAC-DTB4
Spongebob,
Take strength from the Lord, He never leaves ANY of his Flock.
Glorifying the LORD is not at all hip or trendy at the moment but Trust me, Giving him his Place will ensure you are happy beyond belief, and it is not a mystical wand done in 1 night.
what is the stars
15 minutes
name IRA atrocities from the last 100 years? (remember the
UC
Nick Lowe’s explanation of what he was thinking
(remember the —————-THE IRA have been about since the early 1900’s
UC
Saint Stivs says:
12 November, 2011 at 01:12
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I wonder if he’s still in Irvine and going to the games?
Last memory of him at a game was clinching the league and invading the park in 1982 against St Mirren, big team of us at the bottom of the Celtic end.
As I said nice big guy.
HH
UC
mon over to the old Celtic Park and be with friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYn8aW2Oiqs&feature=related
Celtic Soul Brother @ 00:54
Aye, remember hearing the news. Awful. Far too young :(