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  1. Hot Smoked on

    Jamesgang

     

    I didn`t see the game yesterday so cannot comment on the performance;

     

    This season compared to last?

     

    I don`t subscribe to the `we should dominate games` mantra. We are in a very good position to win each of our Scottish games but the margins in ability between professional footballers may not be as wide as many seem to think.If they were, we would be scoring every five minutes. Whilst always hoping for fabulous displays, I am content with out performances and present situation so far this season.

     

     

     

    TNT

     

    I used to be Jungle Jim but another poster adopted the same name so I changed to Jungle Jim Hot Smoked ( after my favourite food in Arbroath !) but just use the HS and sign off JJ.

     

    That does not necessarily mean you are not losing it :-)

     

     

    JJHS

  2. San Luis on

    As ever, online at least, there’s a massive over-reaction to a below par performance. A I said yesterday , it’s one of those games that we will quickly forget and struggle to recall within 6 months.

     

     

    At 11 v 11 it was an intriguing contest, but the ref put an end to that. We then faced a brick wall and , not for the first time, struggled to make a dent. However, their goalie made some good saves too.

     

     

    Yet, there were some positive signs, notably the performances of Ajer and Hendry and the return of Roberts and Armstong- and whilst neither contriobuted a great deal, their legs and lungs will be thankful of the run out and this will be crucial in the coming months.

  3. twists n turns on

    JJ

     

    Oh I’m losing some of it I’m sure.

     

     

    I think we met in Blackpool JJ ? Yeah?

     

    Rebel night? Vmhan soirée?

     

     

    BT, MWD, CRC , PF Ayr et al?

     

     

    Tell me we did?

  5. ughAye on

    Tommy Docherty was doing halftime commentary for the Canadian Broadcasting Company during the World Cup 20 plus years ago

     

     

    Russia got a penalty the player placed the ball stepped back about 15 yards ran up and blasted the ball past the goalie

     

    Tommy showed it in the highlights and he said watch thisguy I don’t travel this far for my holidays

  7. twists n turns on

    JJ

     

    Good. Means I’ve not completely lost it just yet.

     

     

    I may be completely wrong on this next part but was St Stivs at that same bash? His Sunday name being D?

  8. jamesgang on

    JJ

     

     

    I agree that there’s not a gulf between our players and their opponents as I think the average footballer in Scotland is far better than our press give credit for.

     

     

    And we play what, 20 more games per season.

     

     

    And they’re people (sometimes tired or injured people!) not machines.

     

     

    Yet with all these caveats we can still play better than we have this season. I don’t think that’s entitlement. It’s just me trying to be objective.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  9. twists n turns on

    Jamesgang

     

    For clarity, I wasn’t suggesting any bhoys looking for improvement are guilty of holding a sense of entitlement, I wish we were playing better too.

     

    I just feel some are going way over the top at a couple of dropped points.

     

     

    I think we have played 19?games v Dons and Huns since BR took over. 17 wins and a couple of draws.

     

    So even though we are dropping a few more points than before, it looks as though when the most meaningful matches arrive, Brendan has the team fully wound up for it.

     

    If he can achieve that another twice this season, I think we will all be very happy bhoys with an unprecedented double treble to celebrate.

  10. Greenpinata on

    PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 19TH MARCH 2018 8:23 AM

     

     

    Surely that is why we have such a large first team squad and have the ” luxury ” of being able to put many players out on loan.

     

     

    With respect, I think tiredness is over simplistic.

     

     

    HH.

  11. Hot Smoked on

    TNT

     

    Sorry. With Blog names and real names, I struggle to remember who is who. There were about fifteen of us there so if you think you recall St Stivs, then he probably was there.

     

     

    Jamesgang

     

    I would never accuse you of having a sense of entitlement. There is a big difference between that rather Hunnish trait and wanting your (our ) team to be as good as possible.The latter is definitely your position.

     

    In a nutshell. If we look at the bigger picture, we are satisfied with Celtic`s performance. If we look at individual games,we will see just cause for criticism.I tend not to do the latter because the rest of Scotland does it for me .

     

    Hope to catch up with you before the end of the season.

     

    Cheerio for now.

     

    JJ

  12. jamesgang on

    TnT

     

     

    It’s ok mhate, that wasn’t a dig at you. Not at all.

     

     

    ‘Most meaningful matches’ – they all offer 3 points. They’re all ‘meaningful’!

     

    Ipox only became ‘meaningful’ last week because of sloppy draws against St J etc.

     

     

    I want our opponents to have the fear again. Especially those from the dark side!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  13. jamesgang on

    And JJ I’d never accuse you of accusing me…

     

     

    Smiley thing. Must fly, literally……

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  14. twists n turns on

    JJ

     

    Thanks

     

    Yes there was a fair few of us there. I’m sure I spoke to a bhoy ( we’d all had a few) who was helping Vmhan with the arrangements, looking after the door and tickets etc, and I had it in my head it may have been St Stivs. I’ll ask him when he pops in here.

  15. bournesouprecipe on

    That’s a nice article on Tommy Docherty by the redoubtable CQN’er James Forrest.

     

     

    Good to see James writing about Celtic on ‘The Celtic Blog’ like alot of us he tends to locus on Sevco to the point of overdose. All of the Celtic blogs have a central Sevco theme because Celtic are well covered by Celtic’s own media group, but the internet blogging Celtic fan swings from legal matters about the football fraud that has permanently marred Scottish Football to full on photoshop Sevco comedy central, on a daily basis.

     

     

    Blogs are ‘edgy’ and Celtic fans can write what they like and whilst you’ll never read ‘old firm’ ( that label relaunched in 2012 ) in Celtic’s own coverage you’ll see it dissed everyday somewhere in the Celtic net. That’s where it becomes a blog and separates us from mainstream media where there is supposed to be impartiality, where they’ll one day write about a death, then the next day and forever more, pretend they didn’t.

     

     

    Preview a title race but will give up instantly when the horse they back is trailing, they’ll pedal lies for fun, and to serve their subscribers, so bless James Forrest and his bloggers look what happened in our back yard when he wasn’t obsessed with the first Rainjurz .

     

     

    There are many different ways to support Celtic CSC

  16. VFR on

    Word of The Day

     

     

    Literatim /ˌlɪtəˈrɑːtɪm/

     

     

    adverb

     

    1. letter for letter

     

    2. literally

     

     

    Word Origin

     

    C17: from Medieval Latin, from Latin littera letter

     

     

    KTF

  18. Delaneys Dunky on

    James

     

     

    All full time players in Scotland have similar levels of fitness and attainment. Has for example Hendry or Armstrong become better players by flitting from Dundee to Glasgow?

     

    Guys who play fitba can have off days. I am happy about yesterday for 3 reasons. Scott Bain has given me confidence in his ability, Patrick Roberts is back and my favourite player Stuart Armstrong fae Inversnecky came back and looked good. 4th we didnae lose.

     

    HH

  19. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    James Gang

     

     

    We are not at the level of last year’s results because we had an invincible season. Unless you think there is some kudos to be gained from a season where you beat every team by 5:0 there is no point in trying to improve on the reulsts. Improvement must happen elsewhere in the club.

     

     

    Now, the settled view on here is that last year’s performances were better and I am not going to try to argue against that perception. However, I will point out that there was plenty of criticism of the team on the occasions that they failed to win. There were just fewer of those occasions last year. ven a player like Scott Sinclair whose stats, for goals and assists, have only dropped slightly, is being called out for having a “slump”. The view was, however, that he had a poor second half of our Invincible season too.

     

     

    So, we have definitely and unsurprisingly had fewer good results than last year when we had our Invincible season, and when Moussa scored 32 goals and was fit throughout, Sinky scored 25 throughout his “slump”, Griff 18, Stuart Armstrong 17, Rogic 12 and Paddy 11. And we have a poorer level of performance, so where did Brendan seek improvement this year?

     

     

    In my view, as a development coach, rather than a chequebook mnager, he deliberately forsook your preference to “squeeze harder” as to do so, he would have just continued to play the settled Invincibles team. Those were hte guysgetting that job done but you canot continue to go to the same well and ignore the newly bought, fring or young players who are meriting an inclusion in the squad. Brendan has lowered the age of the squad, brought in more players to the squad, and has dopped some of the stalwarts who helped last year (Sviatchenko with 43 appearances, Bitton with 39 and, for part of the season Leigh Griffiths with 38). He has also had to do without, due to injury for significant parts of the season, Craig Gordon, Dedryk Boyata, Stuart Armstrong, Tom Rogic, Paddy Roberts, and leigh (when injured).

     

     

    I will take comfort in the fact that Scott Brown stepped up, James Forrest stepped up, Kieran Tierney, Kris Ajer, Olivier N’tcham, Eboue Kouassi and Odsonne Edouard have stepped up. Many are young and still improving, yet, in their development year and, despite the increase in dropped points, we have a healthy 10 point lead as we head to the split, we have one trophy in the bag and 2 matches, we hope, to land the SC again. Their youth and inexperience undoubtedly led to dropped points but they developed toughness through that experience. Swalex went through the same stage when he was blooding his young players, Beckham, the Nevilles, Scholes and Giggs etc;

     

     

    I believe that the club will be better for dropping points at the expense of renewing the team. There is just as much reason to believe that next year could be easier for us because of how we chose to develop this year, rather than just playing your “best” players till they drop and ignoring your developing talent. We, as a crowd, have to accept that we cannot and should not expect an Invincible season every year just as we should not get birthday cake every day. We need to appreciate that blooding youngsters and breaking up ( I prefer, renewing) a successful squad will result in dropped points.

     

     

    If it can be done while retaining the league and one or two cups, then it has been an undoubted successful plan and we can kick on. The fear is that our rivals have taken heart from “getting closer” to us, even though the league gap is still double figures. However, they, like us will have to renew their teams next year and it will be a different Aberdeen (without Mclean, Christie and Woodman, I expect), and a different Sevco (with 7 players whose contracts or loans run out (Martin, Cummings, Kranjcar, Goss, Miller, Dalcio and Bates).

     

     

    Will they be able to do as “well” as they have done this year. Who knows? Football has many vagaries of form and it could be Hibs or Killie challenging. It might, however, be a surprise of another team that has blooded youth players frequently and absorbed the hit, like Hearts.

     

     

    I look forward to those vagaries rather than the certainty that it should be 5:0 against every squad in our league. There is little virtue or learning in that scenario. We need tougher matches and tougher opponents in order to improve and cope with the adversity we still find in Europe.

     

     

    I think only a change of league will improve that mentality for coping with challenge and adversity but, meanwhile, improved Scottish opposition is the best we can hope for.

  20. South Of Tunis on

    JAMESGANG @ 8.07

     

     

    The view from the couch -way down south .

     

     

    Didn’t play well yesterday . Pedestrian. Side to side ..Looked tired ..

     

     

    They don’t look as” good ” as last season …

     

     

    It’s hard to dominate when you don’t feel 100% and the opposition isn’t willing to be dominated .Motherwell turned up . Motherwell put a shift in . The result was a draw . . Celtic got one more point re winning the Title …

     

     

    I watched SPAL 0 -Juventus 0 .. Manager of Spal said this — ” We’ll remember this forever , they will have forgotten it by Tuesday “.

     

     

    I watched Napoli 1 -Genoa 0. 90 minutes of nervy football from Napoli. . Sarri , The Manager said this after the game -” being expected to win easily is a psychological burden and when the opposition smell that it gives them added incentive.”

     

     

     

     

     

    .

  21. NorrieM on

    Goooooooood Morning CQN

     

    We still 10pts ahead of our closest challengers

     

     

    Anyway, only 4 days until my daughter Laura and St Mary’s Bannockburn hold the Charity Fundraising Race night in aid of Let Us Shine, our local schools sponsored girls school in Ghana

     

    22 jockey sponsors still available, to have a 1 in 8 chance of winning 1 of these special prints as donated by the Walk with Shay team

     

    So for £5, if anyone would like to join in :-))

     

     

    The prizes

     

    This will be a high quality A3 print and the winner can choose from:

     

    (1) An amazing print of a drawing as a tribute to 50 years of Lisbon drawn by our very own Thunder Road

     

    (2) An awesome pic of the Lisbon Lions holding the Big Cup back home

     

    (3) A visually “green tainted” print of Cesar holding the BIg Cup

     

    (4) A superb signed print from a painting of TOHG hanging off the crossbar after winning the 1965 cup final painted by our very own Celtic Rose.

     

    See here

     

    https://www.facebook.com/celticrollercoaster/posts/10212965685750086

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    This is to support my daughter Laura, who in turn is supporting a small Charity “Let Us Shine” a girls school in the middle of Ghana.

     

    This school is sponsored by St Mary’s Bannockburn ( where Laura teaches) St Margaret’s Cowie & Our Lady’s Raploch plus our local churches.

     

     

    Laura will Fly to Ghana, travel 10hrs on a bus, then a further 2 hours to get to this school, and be only the 2nd fully qualified teacher to teach the girls, some of whom travel 4 hrs walk to get to the school for both education and a feed.

     

    Laura ( & St Mary’s ) have arranged a race night on 23rd March at 7.30 – tickets £5, and would grateful if any CQN’rs could join CRC and I at this

     

    Alternatively win one of the above prizes through sponsoring a jockey in one of the races for £5.

     

    Contact – laurahmccabe@icloud.com

     

    Laura is looking to raise £3000 to help sustain this school, and has booked 2*30kg cases to travel and hopefully fill with essential items for the girls – this includes Celtic strips :-))

     

    Looks like one of the cases already filled with books, due to the efforts of St Mary’s school kids :-))

     

     

    So if you have a spare £5 take a 1 in 8 chance to own a print – donated by the Walk with Shay team

     

    Thanks for listening, and to those who have already entered good luck

     

     

    So it’s laurahmccabe@icloud.com, and only £5 for a chance to win

     

    Good luck

     

    &

     

    Hail Hail

  22. Delaneys Dunky on

    SFTB

     

     

    What a brilliant post at such an early hour.

     

    Whit coffee do you drink T? :))

  24. Eurochamps67 on

    Lovely morning here in ML3. Bracing but clear.

     

    Six wins away from an unprecedented Double Treble.

     

    What’s not to like?

     

    Better players and better pitches to come. Two home games for Charly and Paddy to show their skills.

     

    Like some of this morning’s posters, I’ve going to see Celtic since the early sixties.

     

    These are indeed, very good times.

     

    Don’t heed the negativity.

     

    Soak up the pleasure of rolling up to Paradise, the joy of your Gazebo, the company of good people and the delight of a supreme Celtic team.

     

     

    Eurochamps67

     

     

    AroryinspiredreturntothefairwayscallsCSC

  26. RobinBhoy on

    EUROCHAMPS67

     

     

    Totally agree, whilst we are not firing on all cylinders at the moment there are a lot of injuries to contend with and with players coming back to fitness we will only be stronger going forwards.

     

     

    Meantime we are on course for another great season.

  27. Oldbhoy on

    TIMBHOY2,Is still around,the only Fan,who tells it straight,and a lot on here don’t like him for that, Yours Sincerely, Oldbhoy.

  30. San Luis on

    SFTB

     

    you wrote :

     

     

    ” Brendan has lowered the age of the squad, brought in more players to the squad, and has dopped some of the stalwarts who helped last year (Sviatchenko with 43 appearances, Bitton with 39 and, for part of the season Leigh Griffiths with 38). He has also had to do without, due to injury for significant parts of the season, Craig Gordon, Dedryk Boyata, Stuart Armstrong, Tom Rogic, Paddy Roberts, and leigh (when injured).

     

     

    I will take comfort in the fact that Scott Brown stepped up, James Forrest stepped up, Kieran Tierney, Kris Ajer, Olivier N’tcham, Eboue Kouassi and Odsonne Edouard have stepped up. Many are young and still improving, yet, in their development year and, despite the increase in dropped points, we have a healthy 10 point lead as we head to the split, we have one trophy in the bag and 2 matches, we hope, to land the SC again.”

     

     

    I think this is crucial to the understanding of where we are this season and how we got there. Many will have ignored the process involved in developing and restructuring the tam to this point and you made it brilliantly. Well done.

  31. Philbhoy on

    SAN LUIS

     

     

    Add to that European football after Christmas and, if we do the treble all KPI’s will have been met.

     

     

    Bring on the next windae!

  33. bournesouprecipe on

    Bit of slap in the face for Callum MacGregor in the annual Stuart Armstrong

     

    transfer debate?

     

     

    A wee warning perhaps for Stuart to buck up his act if he thinks he can run down his contracted quiff, whilst getting a game ahead of the Callums.

     

     

    PassittoaCelticPlayerStuart CSC

  34. corkcelt on

    TimBhoy2 The only fan who tells it straight, I’ll have to get on to Neganon & get him to up his game.

     

     

    RE Yesterday, Football is a game based on fine margins, one goal from one our many chances and we would be shouting Mind the Gap and one to them from their few chances and it would be we need a huge clearout of half the squad.

     

    Reality is Motherwell defended very well got in some fantastic last minute blocks particularly when Sinky was through on goal & another when Dembele was set up by a nice through ball, also a few things like Dembele’s downward header hopping up over the bar, Paddy having a shot that clipped the bar, Armstrong trying to place one top corner but went narrowly wide.

     

    On another day one or more of them would have resulted in a goal and it would have been euphoria on another we would as yesterday have missed them all & Motherwell would have one of theirs and it would be disaster.

     

    It is a League Competition, winner is decided over 38 games, the winners will be Celtic, end of story.

  35. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan on

    Good Morning All.

     

     

    Now I see the Jamesgang has attracted all sorts of comments because of his “polishing a turd” analogy.

     

     

    Now, well, what can I say?

     

     

    I was out on the skite on Saturday with a big blonde who has known him from his school days. We were quaffing alcoholic beverages for several hours during which she told me a thing or two, oh yes!

     

     

    Even told me she used to be afraid of his dad, who I personally think is a lovely man, but that is another story altogether.

     

     

    Good to see Old Tim and BT down the west end lanes, team handed as usual.

     

     

    Re yesterday’s performance all I can say is this.

     

     

    When I was in my late teens and went to University, myself and some of those I was quaffing with on Saturday entered a five a side team in a few tournaments including the overall University championships.

     

     

    The standard wasn’t bad and in the overall championships we played against one team that contained some guys who went on to play senior for the likes of St Mirren, St Johnstone and Hamilton Accies.

     

     

    By the end of the year we had won every tournament we entered with some really good performances.

     

     

    Of course we decided to defend each title the following year and once again we were successful against the same opposition and more — But that second year was turgid and much harder because the other teams knew what and who to expect. Knew our moves and positions and where we had won at a canter before now we found these were really tough and often physical battles which were much closer encounters.

     

     

    No doubt we were poorer and no doubt the opposition was smarter and better. Coincidentally it was during that secomnd year that I seriously buggered my knees without knowing it at the time.

     

     

    I am not for a minute comparing my wee fives team to the Invincibles but there are good and clever managers in the SPFL and they have players who can play at a decent standard especially if they are well organised and play against a team which has played a tremendous amount of games in the season compared to them.

     

     

    Any slip in performance by Celtic which is matched by an improvement in tactics or performance by another SPFL team will bring about a difference compared to last year.

     

     

    Motherwell sat in magnificently yesterday. They fought for every ball and we just didn’t have the ability or luck to break them down. Had we come away with a 1-0 victory the table would look a lot different and many on here would not be so full of angst etc because a win is a win.

     

     

    I think towards the end of the season we will see a rejuvenated Celtic simply because we have a virtually unused team coming back into contention for places and amongst those available there will not only be fresh legs but fresh faces and abilities posing new problems and asking fresh questions of the opposition.

     

     

    Equally, some of the opposition teams will mentally soften as the season comes to an end with many making sure they are fit and uninjured for next season where they may be wearing the colours of a new club under a new contract.

     

     

    It’s just fitba. Great isn’t it?

     

     

    Oh and congratulations to the Grand Slam Winners of Ireland. I was wearing your colours with pride on Saturday. Jeez, now there was a tough and brutal 80 minutes of play!!

  37. VFR on

    OOOFFT!

     

     

    Not been on the blog since Saturday and started to read back.

     

     

    I thought I was on Follow Follow without the sweary words!

     

     

    League Cup in the bag; 10 points clear with a game in hand; the league will be wrapped up with 4 or 5 games to spare; 2 games away from a remarkable double treble; European football after Christmas.

     

     

    What a disappointing season!

     

     

    Perspective, from my perspective: last season was remarkable and one which we will probably never see the likes of again. Last season was in many ways an anomaly and we shouldn’t benchmark our team against that. We are, by a country mile, the best team in the country.

     

     

    Hendry – 22

     

    Ajer – 19

     

    Ntcham – 22 (just)

     

    Edouard – 20 (just)

     

    Dembele – 21

     

     

    5 of our outfield players are young and largely inexperienced in real terms; injuries have disrupted our team selection for most of the season (particularly our defence); many of our creative players have had long periods out injured; and we have played many, many more games than any other team in our league ( and at a higher level). We also have to give some credit to opposition teams who were in many cases badly beaten last season and have found ways to nullify Celtic at times; that’s what they are paid to do!

     

     

    Ntcham, Ajer, Hendry, Bain and Edouard are all new this season (Ajer wasn’t there last season – he was on loan) so we are bedding in new talent which is always difficult.

     

     

    Irrespective of what some of our performances have been, had this been the first post-Ronny season then I reckon it would have been seen as a significant step up!

     

     

    So in the grand scheme of things, I don’t think we are doing too badly!

     

     

    Faithful through and through? Hmmm!

     

     

     

    KTF

  38. VFR on

    SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 19TH MARCH 2018 9:05 AM

     

     

    Great post; I was scribing my less eloquent version before I read yours. Could have saved myself elf some time had I seen t first!?

     

     

    KTF

  40. VFR on

    BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 19TH MARCH 2018 9:59 AM

     

     

    Ditto – see my response to SFTB above!

     

     

     

    KTF

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