You and I will miss our football this weekend but the winter break came at an excellent time for Celtic. They get to rest after an arduous nine game December on the back of handing Newco a lesson on their own pitch. Having to sit for three weeks, unable to get a defeat out your system, would have been torture.
Celtic have already played 36 competitive games this season (only one against lower league opposition). That’s close to a full league programme concertinaed into a little over five months. Add in the fact that almost the entire squad is involved in some form of international football and you realise the players have been on match duty twice a week since preseason.
This is exceptional and not conducive to delivering top performances. By comparison, Aberdeen have played 30 games (two against lower league teams) and Newco have played 28 (five against lower league sides). That’s eight and 10 times we’ve played two challenging games a week more than our direct opponents – neither of whom are particularly burdened by international football.
The second half of the season will be more balanced. We only have three midweek games scheduled, including our game in hand – so you can be reasonably confident our “slump” will end soon………..
We all remember the days when someone talking about putting in a £20m offer for a Celtic player would be held in a locked room until a deal was signed. We’ve been on a long road since, but the financial stability we’ve earned through many tough years affords us the ability to keep players who have several years to run on their contracts.
As for Moussa, I hear if we can arrange for him to play against the Target Practice Torags every week, he’d extend his contract until 2027.
Really enjoying the dissonance in some places over the anticipated approval of Kouassi Eboue’s work permit. Play by the rules, work inside areas you are allowed to and pay your dues. It’s not difficult.
By now you should be aware of The Road to Lisbon project. 28 cyclists will set off from Celtic Park on 11 May, arriving in Lisbon in time for the 50th anniversary of the Lions’ triumph. It is an immense project which is expected to raise tens of thousands for Celtic FC Foundation, Solving Kids Cancer and Children in Crossfire.
An opportunity exists for corporate sponsorship of the project. If you would like more information, look here, or email, theroadtolisbonmay2017@gmail.com
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MAGS
I think your post strikes a chord with many of us on here.
We are raging that the huns have already got away with so much,and barring going bust again,the events of the last few years seem likely to become a footnote.
I bow to few in my criticism of the board on many things,but I’m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt on how events unfolded.
I prefer to think that they decided not to push anything as due process would ensure success. They had broken football regulations,so titles would be stripped. They had stolen from HMRC,so were gonna get cleaned out in court. They were massively in debt,so on the way out,gone,liquidated.
And thus subject to Insolvency Act 1986
Gone,never to return.
Even this paranoid Tim didn’t believe The Craft could simply deny it took place and have it accepted as fact.
Heyho,I posted this for you earlier in the week on its 50th anniversary. Let’s hope the last track is prescient.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhGov2HQCLQ
Is it late or is it early?
Either way, for the 88 folks who have already registered for GOALS FOR SHAY the first fixtures have just been emailed out so get yer thinking caps on. There’s a prize fund just short of £450 and rising by the day.
Not too late to join. Be brilliant to get to 100+….
Just email us at cqnpredictor@gmail.com
GORDYBHOY64 on 8TH JANUARY 2017 12:30 AM
BMCUW,
just seen your e mail,
unfortunately i dont even know any huns i could have passed it onto
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Must be plenty at your work!
JOBO
88 is a fine number.
basking- surely you’re just thinking about Nutella. Wee plastic thing of chocolate with a spoon.
Don’t expect the ‘proper’ weather report will be this side of 9.00am. But to keep you going it’s currently dark and drizzly in ole EK.
Be nice now and sleep soundly when the time comes……….
GFTB
I have to be honest, I prefer it when Celtic win.
But as the song alludes to, whether they win, lose or draw, they will always be my team. The team of my Grandad, my father and my daughter. The team of my family, my closest friends. And all who support Celtic are my kin.
HAIL HAIL to the worldwide Celtic family.
Gerryfaethebrig on 8th January 2017 12:38 am
The board will always chase the £’s
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there is chasing the £’s which is fine and there is chasing the bigot £’s which to me is encouraging sectarianism. Many Tims just dont see it that way. I do.
BMCUW
I sincerely hope you are right.
@Mags…lifes too short…are ye ever happy?
don’t expect a replycsc.
Drambowiecelt on 8th January 2017 1:01 am
Youre right. I am blessed.
When i die and I find out God is a muslim at least I wont be so disappointed. :)
Hunderbirds
Of course I want Celtic to win but in life I don’t need Celtic to win :-)
Mags
See my reply to Bobby…. they are a busted flush who hang on to their bigoted “values” gutter trash
Mags even god would dissapoint ye
H.H
And if a coold spell ..so wood eye:)
BMCUW,
no surprisingly not,certainly not my side of the counter,
thr rest i dont engage with,just a knowing smile sets them off
Drambowiecelt on 8th January 2017 1:07 am
youre a funny man! I’ll be seeing you up there then :)
Ive noticed the exit of another local chancer…
soon as a near neebs appears it becomes silent witness mode..
From the Port tae Feck off….
H.H. yeknowwhoyeare.
Yet again I will bid you good night CQN
Hail Hail
@Mags ..feck that the journey is where it’s at
H.H
Mags ..you must have flattened some grass in yer time@)
H.H
Feck me …lookin back..
At awe naw,,,was meant tae be a smiley thing at the end of my comment.
Any road it was the Melrose pub..The Melly…
i played it many a time….l
I met big Mcdougall in the casino one night wae young Eddie Kane
and he said he copied the scene tae “keep on playin ” fae oor band.
when every cant was fightin…
nae offence meant mate…
H.H.
quite brilliant , that presidant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEH9kVbNX3A
GORDYBHOY
I hope you aren’t using sectarian hiring practices?
Actually,tbh,I hope you are!
@St stivs …ye deef?
TUDOR CRISPS !
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
They are still listed in all their glory. Tainted to us and anyone else wi a brain,but still there.
Are we laughing at them cos they’re on their uppers,or are they laughing at us because where there’s life,there’s hope?
Rangers will one day win a league again,an absolute certainty as long as they see out the next few years. Income sees to that. Demographics too,a WoS wi a lot of young Rangers fans playing youth football.
That will be our failure. Not that any old team were good enough,but that a team who should have been Third Lanarked were still around to do it
Our God Reigns.
June 1982
300,000 singing at Bellahouston Park in the company of Pope John Paul II.
Incredible.
Nestle+ perrier.. poison….. you live in Michigan?
dont drink the water .Gov John Angler drinks whisky ……
Water cartels? near you everyday…..
Who lives and who dies………?
Drinktoiletwater
PARKROAD67
Aye,Pickled Onion wans especially.
Strange thing,regional peculiarities. Growing up,you think every shop stocks everything you like.
Try getting Kraft Cheesey Pasta in London in the early 90s,or Irn Bru in South Shields a few years earlier.
Or a decent roll to put your skwerr on. If you can get skwerr,of course.
Strangely,despite living in various parts of England for most of the last 30 years,I miss Scottish grub. Not once have I got that must have feeling with English grub. Pease pudding,eels in liquor,NAW,not for me.
But you’d think they’d be able to bake a bliddy roll,ffs!
@Bobby….Rankers will one day win the league again?
Not a feckin hope in hell you(and me) will be cqn ashes
brucie forsyths demise ..mickey and michaels weddin
yer underwear washed by a femme fatale.Annd
A nice malt diescsc
DRAMBOWIECELT on 8TH JANUARY 2017 1:36 AM
@St stivs …ye deef?
keep it lit
Before I hit the 4 poster.
Good read back tonight. Kola cubes . Penny Daintes . Caramac .
Mags. Europe ,every time. Decapitate ? In Scotland ? I wish .
It ain’t allowed , the big lie has flourished .
Enjoying these good times , sometime though , in the future ,the silence of the PLC and others ,will come back to haunt us .
Third Lanark & thems . What’s the difference ? Cash.
Goodnight Timland .HH
DRAMBOWIECELT
I hope you’re right. Wise money isnae backing hope.
Lithium slows the brain down…..
Aye i know ed…….It makes the person docile…
And guess what…yer drinkin it everyday…..
H.H.
Bobby , just read the last couple of posts , great minds !
Btw . I miss pie & mash ,wae green liquor.
The corner stone of any east end diet . HH
Goodnight Timland . Again .
@Bobbys curled up wans..
i extend to you a challenge sir that ..the Monkeys will never win ..
The most cherised of all ..A league title..
In my lifetime expectancy date ..2046..
DRAMBOWIECELT
One of the first signs of a new bout of depression kicking in is a hopeless disregard to whether your bet wins or not. As I sadly had that conversation today with a close friend,it’s still fresh in my memory.
Summed up as doing far far too much of the things you know you shouldn’t,and not enough of the things you should.
Anyway,you know you’ll lose that bet unless they go nipples north shortly. I don’t wanna see it,neither do you. But it will happen.
The only good thing being,they’ll celebrate it like their first(!)
SAINT STIVS on 8TH JANUARY 2017 1:32 AM
quite brilliant , that presidant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEH9kVbNX3A
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I fear that history will not treat him as kindly as you do.