If you are going to Celtic Park tomorrow you will see a lot of photos like the one above. Outside the ground 200 bucketeers will be collecting to raise money to send Oscar Knox for treatment for neauroblastoma.
Be prepared. Bring spare cash with you, have it ready and do your bit for Oscar.
For the second week in a row we take on the team at the bottom of the table; see how that worked out last week. After an awful August which saw Dundee’s return to the SPL marked with one point and no goals scored from four games, they picked up three points at Tynecastle before losing a lead late in the game against Motherwell last weekend. Manager Barry Smith will have watched how St Johnstone went about their business six days ago and will believe his team can nick something at Celtic Park.
Neil Lennon (and some of us) will welcome the drop in intensity from Wednesday’s Champions League tie as Celtic are likely to give game time to those who joined the club three weeks ago. Miku, Lassad and Ambrose all need to stretch their legs.
Big shout again for the guys raising money for Celtic Youth Development through TicPick. It’s £1 to enter and you win £1000 for predicting 10 results. I’ve gone for Celtic to beat Dundee, West Ham to beat Sunderland, Aberdeen and Motherwell to draw, Man City to beat Arsenal, St Mirren to beat Killie, Dundee United to beat Hearts, Man Utd to beat Liverpool, Hibs to beat Inverness, Chelsea to beat Stoke and Spurs to beat QPR.
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BMCUP
fishel site show 17.00
I call them pickers not winkles…. o))
Morning All
This is the day… this is the day… (will stop there before I start a song debate:-)
All Volunteers registered, Team Leaders allocated their Companies! We are now ready to mobilize!
Today is our chance to be part of something special to give Wee Oscar the treatment he is desperate for!
The biggest ever bucket collection will take place today in Paradise! The Celtic family pulling together again! It is days like this that make you proud to be part of this wonderful community!
Dundee fans have got behind the campaign as well with Dee4life tweeting its support and an article all about Wee Oscar encouraging their fans to donate to our green bucket brigade
lets fill those buckets bhoys and ghirls and make a real difference!
Hail Hail
Top of the morning to you all from a cloudless Fife.
The documents the Sun (and Green) make a big thing of are nothing unusual.
Such documents can make proposals as a basis for discussion without conceding matters of principle.
Such papers are sometimes known as “Calderbank offers” and are made without prejudice to the parties position and cannot be refrerred to in any subsequent legal proceedings.
BLANTYRE TIM 0643
Well,that’s just weird.
I posted the 4pm comment from my desktop at work based on the info on the site that I checked.
Now,at home,can’t even find the site!
However,pleased to confirm that other sites I have checked agree with you.
It is,indeed, a 5pm ko. And therefore easier for us nightshifters to see.
BTW,BT and all others involved-
BESTALUCKWITHEBUCKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That also includes MINX 1888
Who used to post here more often than she does now.
What’s up,Minxy,not gone shy on us,have you?
Get back here where you belong.
If that’s ok with you,of course…….
On the subject of female-monikered posters,good luck to MARGARET McGILL who is,I believe,back home for a bit.
Have fun,Mags.
Right,youse can have yer blog back noo…..
Morning all!
Back to SPL business today.
Will Lassad and Efe get a run-out today? A few who played on Wednesday will probably be rested. Would have Tony Watt on from the start.
HH!!
Good morning friends from a sun drenched (again!) totally clear skied, frost on the ground East Kilbride.
Agree with Tallybhoy re:Watt getting a start. He looks to have real pace which is lacking in most (other than Jimmy F and Big George) of our forward players.
Hoops, Miku and Stokes doubtless have many positive attributes, but the ability to run clear from defenders isn’t one of them.
Is Lassad a speed- merchant; I haven’t seen anything much about him.
BGFC
Morning CQNers
Welcome to Green Bucket Day.
200 volunteers of the Green Bucket Army descend on Paradise to help Wee Oscar. Our volunteers range from 2 (little April Commons) to 72 and come from all walks of life and background. Today they are united under the Celtic family name for a common cause; to help a wee family that needs our support. The Knox family does not deserve what they are going through, nobody does.
We have up to 40 kids helping, 70 females and a fair few CQNers.
Do me a favour, when you see one of our volunteers, donate what you can but equally as important, say “Thank you”.
This Army is special
Enjoy the game, Bhoys & Ghirls
HH
CRC
Jobo
Glorious in ole Hamilton. Came down the stairs at 7 and the dog had a look of astonishment on his wee visage, as if to say,
“What the flip are you doin up at this time on a Saturday??!!”
For an hour I’ve been trying to psyche myself up to go for a run!!!!
Best name ever!
Lassad Nouioui!!
Just checked on Wikipedia, he is 6 ft 2 and french
C,mon the hoops the day! 10-0 I reckon :D
WEE BGFC
Hamiltontim –
You really will need to enroll for Parkrun – http://www.parkrun.org.uk/strathclyde/home
Strathclyde Park for me for the 9.30 start. Back home in the shower by 10.25!
Managed to beat an Olympian last week, Ron Hill.
Jobo
BGFC
Celtic’s record victory – 11-0 – came against Dundee in 1895.
It’s high time it was broken – so I’m going for 12-0 today!
HH!!
HAMILTONTIM 0800
Normally when you come down the stairs that early,you’ve missed the bus by an hour already………
BTW,hotel booked. Right at the station-nae buggering about wi taxis for BMCUWP.
Bestaluck today,you and the rest of the lorryload of volunteers!
TALLYBHOY
Highest I saw was 9-0 v Clyde,about 72.
Morning Celts…… One love for wee Oscar today
Celticrollercoaster did ask fur a bit o sun and yes CRC gets his wish, I wonder if he was granted 3 wishes :>)
Jobo
If I began at 9.30am I’d be back in the hospital by 10.25am.
No, I was thinking of Chatlerhault as a wee ice breaker to this fitness regime :-)
Get a taxi I’ll half ye for it, no probs. V
Ha ha, I thought I was texting a mate there .
V
Glenn will get some vitriol for this accurate piece
By GLENN GIBBONS
Published on Saturday 22 September 2012 00:00
VIEWED in the appropriate context, Rangers’ frequently embarrassing performances among the lower orders this season are no more discreditable than those of their predecessors during the so-called halcyon days of the nine-in-a-row 1990s.
Then, as now, it was a matter of fashioning a team to accomplish a specific mission. And, despite the nostalgia-tinged reminiscences which continue to convince mature Rangers fans that the last decade of the 20th century brought an irrecoverable golden age, it is also an unarguable truth that deep disappointments, accompanied by tempestuous rages in the stands, were as common as they are today.
The most obvious difference between the club’s present objective and that of 15-20 years ago, of course, is that the players engaged for the latter were charged not only with competing credibly in the Champions League, but actually winning the most prestigious – and coveted – title in the game.
But, if there is a mountain-to-molehill element about the heights to be scaled in the different eras, it should be recognised that there is a commensurate disparity in the general standard of personnel recruited for the respective tasks. It is, for example, certainly more by design than by accident that, in recent months, a raft of highly-paid internationals has been encouraged to drift off, to be replaced by more affordable, but palpably less formidable deputies. These are obviously considered capable of moving off the bottom rung of the ladder.
Given the opportunity to select two players who would personify Rangers’ lofty ambition in the Nineties, few people would look beyond Paul Gascoigne and Brian Laudrup. Unquestionably extraordinary, the English midfielder and the Danish winger, it is surely reasonable to suggest, are held by the majority of Rangers fans to be the two most gifted foreign players ever to have invaded Scottish football.
Gascoigne and Laudrup were, equally without question, expensively acquired for the sharply-defined purpose of bringing success in Europe. They would certainly not be required to maintain domestic dominion at a time when resistance was low, their principal rivals, Celtic, lurching towards, and eventually away from, bankruptcy.
Yet an examination of their ‘contribution’ in the area for which they were hired shows figures that are almost breathtakingly unimpressive. During Laudrup’s four years from 1994, Rangers twice failed even to reach the group stage of the Champions League, losing home and away to AEK Athens in his first season and on a 4-1 aggregate to Gothenburg (0-3 and 1-1) in his last.
On each of the two occasions on which they qualified, they finished bottom of their section, with one victory and five defeats in 96-97 and no wins and three draws the year before. Between the unsuccessful Gothenburg and AEK qualifiers and the group campaigns, the 16 matches yielded one win, four draws and 11 defeats.
Ironically, neither Laudrup nor Gascoigne played in the solitary, 2-1 home win over Grasshoppers of Zurich. Gascoigne, who joined a year after Laudrup, missed the two defeats by AEK, but was around during the other 14 games, although there were several in which he, like the Dane, took no part.
The European adventures misfired so badly that they brought about the removal of manager Walter Smith, whose impending departure was made public early in the 97-98 season, following the latest elimination from the qualifiers by Gothenburg. By then, Smith had few champions left among the supporters; it will be something of a concern to Ally McCoist in the present climate that his previous, seemingly immovable backing, appears to be wobbling dangerously close to collapse.
BMCUW
Normally if I’m on the stairs at that time I’m heading north TO bed!!!
Looking forward to your own visit north!! (See what I did there?)
Lads,a wee link from the record that you CAN click on
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/celtic-star-kris-commons-girlfriend-1337403
Show them that positive reporting is good for them,click on the link,please!
Big Georges Fan Club
I had a fairly close-up view of Lassad when he came on near the end at St Johnstone.
I thought he was more impressive than Miku. I went looking for the ball and had the ability to beat his opponent. He looked like a player who could make things happen.
Lets put it this way he showed more skill on the ball than Ive seen from Bangura.
BMCUW
Received a text through the night that hopefully another partner of a Celtic player is wanting to become a volunteer.
HAMILTONTIM
Superbly worked,sir. Had a good long chat yesterday with one of the contingent-looking forward to it immensely.
BTW,I can beat ANY Olympian-to the bar! They can have their silver medal consolation as long as I get my golden pint.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
08:19 on
22 September, 2012
TALLYBHOY
Highest I saw was 9-0 v Clyde,about 72.
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That game yir on about was the last time the LL played together, a poster on here said a few days ago that it was 5-1 or summit?
I was busy at work so couldnt post, I distinctly remember we were gee ing up the LL to get into double figures.
I hope we huvny started up a Celtic v Clyde debate….. Tims Are Laughing TAL.
V
HAMILTONTIM 0831
Gonna need a bigger lorry?
VMHAN
http://www.celtic-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/celtic/vs/clyde/index.shtml
Ive got a spare season book for todays game , anyone want it ? Price! a contribution
to wee oscars bucket today ! I will be in The tavern at tollcross rd about 1oclock , wearing a celtic uefa cup final 2003 baseball type hat any takers ?
bamboo
why did you go looking for the ball?. o))
BMCUW
when is your trip to Gasgow?
Jobo
So you’ve abandoned the real Parkrun just because that Lanarkshire one is a bit flatter??
LazyParkrunnerCSC
Anybody that has any money left after they put their money in one of the Buckets and is daft enough, here is this week’s CQN Coupon:
Lennybhoy – Exeter
Jobo – Hibs
EN – Dun. Utd.
GL2 – Falkirk
AWATR – Man City
TTT – Wolves
BT – MK Dons
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post your selection at the end of the previous article :
“What we learned from last night”
Alternatively, if you cannot access the previous article for any reason, then you can send me an email message with your selection to : fleagle29 at gmail.com
All the best, fleagle1888
BMCUW
A gold medalist to the bar?
That’ll never take off in Swindon!!!
The pie whisperer is in the papers today saying he wishes he had a time machine and could go back to being a player.
Aye right, more like go back to a time when a steak bake was thruppence fae greggs.
The diet challenged chubster’s kidding no one.
JohnnyClash –
Aye, we never did met up on that grassy knoll after all. Ran in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago but only cos the Strathclyde one was cancelled.
I’m sure you could make Stratclyde for 9.30 if you left now?
Jobo