It’s ‘get back on the horse’ time for Celtic tomorrow when they face Inverness at Celtic Park. The Highlanders will arrive with a different type of momentum about them from the home team. On their last outing Celtic conceded a league goal and lost a league game for the first time since before Jock Stein’s arrival in 1965*. They are now out of all three cup competitions and have an unassailable 19 point lead in the league. Talk in some places has already turned to giving the younger players an outing.
By contrast it’s all kicking off for Inverness, who humbled Hearts to reach the first Celtic Park final of the season, just two weeks away. The excitement in Inverness is palpable. Betting odds are seldom generous on Celtic at home but with all the sub-currents surrounding this one I’d prefer not to predict an outcome.
What we need to do is match the energy of Inverness and ensure our passing and movement remains crisp.
If you are tempted into a bet, don’t look past Kris Commons to get things moving. He is our go-to guy when we’re looking for an ignition button. Kris has been phenomenal in front of goal this season but he has failed to score in four outings. The last time this happened was 51 weeks ago. My bet is that he can’t wait to get on the field and put things right.
The outstanding Celtic Graves Society are breathing life into the memory of Peter Dowds, who played for Celtic from 1889. Writing in 1936, Willie Maley wrote about Peter, “He did not find the ball. Nothing so common. It found him.”
A short ceremony will take place at Peter’s grave, at Abbey Cemetery, Elderslie, at 11:30 tomorrow. If you live in the area or can make it along, please do so. You will hear from Jim Craig and others, and get infused with our early history in a way you’ll never do sitting at a screen. Details here.
There is a little over two weeks to go before the CQteN St Patrick’s Night Dinner on Friday, 14 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. The beneficiary of the night will be Kholoni Primary School, Malawi, where we will fund Mary’s Meals to build a kitchen for 1200 kids who currently don’t have meal facilities.
We have received some incredible assistance already, but you can get involved by ordering a personalised beanie hat, with your name on one side and CQN on the other.
Hats cost £15 each and if you order before 7 March you can collect yours at the CQteN Dinner. If you’re not attending the dinner (and why not?) the £15 will cover postage and packaging. If you ordered a Virtual Ticket, you’re personalised hat is part of your package. All profits go to the school kitchen.
Take a look at the front and back of the hats. To order, email hatfrompat@celticquicknews.co.uk with name, whether you are attending CQteN and address if not, and I’ll get your message to Pat.
*not totally accurate.
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CQTEN tickets arrived,dress code smart……looks like I’ll
need to get the suit oot the pawn…..away for a pre-match
pint….4-0 for the Celtic
Ancient antipodean antagonism and angst arrives again. :-)
Afternoon all. Just about to set off to Parkhead for about the first time in a month (long story). All excited already.
Still have two tickets available for CQTEN – drop me an email if interested and will get back to you this evening. David@cqnmagazine.com
Hope everyone gets their tickets in post today – the tickets are matchday style.
If you get a chance nip over to http://www.facebook.com/CQNMagazine and check out the Celtic team pic that Tommy Gemmell gave to Cqn this week. Love the strip too.
Please like the Facebook page if you check it out –
Olivia
Go easy on him please , just spend his money :))))
ryecatcher
12:27 on 1 March, 2014
Ciara’s dad …
East of Fife is a place owned by BIGNAN.
He is the most intelligent guy in the whole Kingdom of Fife and puts the Huns and Masons in their place up there.
I’m just biased though,because we both share a love of chippies and restaurants in that area.
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Worked at oil rig construction yard at Methil and locals treated us (west Fifers) as if we were from another planet.
Cue Michael Marra song “I don’t like Methil”
WC @ 12:47
Please post pic for the non face bookers .
Thanks
HH
Leftclicktic
thanks…..thought it was something new thar I had missed…
HH
Now who wrote this on March 23, 2009 6:41 AM ?
Some of the Celtic support on Sunday were an absolute disgrace. The “Cheer up Walter Smith” song is sectarian in the extreme and I am sick of hearing these scumbags besmirching the good name of the club I love. I really don’t want to read any more smug comments on CQN about how the Rangers fans are steeped in bigotry and sectarianism. Of course they are, but as long as a section of our away support continues to poison the air with this sectarian filth, we have nothing to pull them up for.
Also, the constant “every-five-minutes” chant of “Warren Feeney – You’re a W—-R” just got very childish and boring after the tenth rendition. The same happened at ICT recently with Terry Butcher. If you want to get that message across, then once is enough. Not twenty times during the game.
I live in Australia and will be coming home for a holiday in May for a few weeks and plan to take in a couple of home games in the run-in to 4-in-a-row. I will not be going to any away games though, because I refuse to sit amongst that shower of brain-dead neanderthals who have the cheek to call themselves Celtic fans. And please note – I am talking about those who partake in these nefarious chants and songs, not all away fans. Also, I do not have a problem with The Soldier’s Song and BOTOB etc as these are in no way sectarian. But calling someone an “Orange B” in a loud, concerted chant is disgusting and cannot be condoned. It has to stop. Maybe a hefty fine for Celtic will bring these morons to their senses. Then again, pigs might fly.
Greatest fans in the world? Now there’s a laugh.
How come it’s only wummin that end their posts with a kiss symbol on here?
Would the blog be a better cyberspace if we all spread the love amongst each other with this universal symbol.
Aff oot to golf now.
Laterzzzzz. Xxxx
kitalba
12:51 on
1 March, 2014
Now who wrote this on March 23, 2009 6:41 AM ?
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Have to say I agree with some of the sentiments expressed here – don’t enjoy listening to people chanting about ‘orange bastards’ etc either.
We should be better than that
Heading up to Paradise, great day for a good win against Yogi’s boys. Would love to see Leigh and Amido start together up front.
e=mc2 skiving at work
12:56 on 1 March, 2014
If that’s what there are I don’t have a problem with it
Winning Captains
1964-65
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Celtic/Celtic-change-kits.html
Right Aff oot for 9 holes of golf as the ankle won’t take 18 today,followed by some Hun baiting of the only Orc in the clubhouse.
Sometimes we can’t help taking liberties and ripping the pash out of the intellectually challenged,ey?
English golf courses……open to all regardless of colour,creed or religion….You pays your money,you play in enough comps to get a handicap…..You get a member to sponsor you….You’re IN.
Can’t remember it being so easy to do this for a third generation Irish family member like myself when I grew up in Glasgow.Hopefully this has changed in last 20 years?
NotatthebackofthegolfbuggynomoreCSC
tonydonnelly67
11:20 on 1 March, 2014
Gawn yer sell aul yin, brilliant.
http://youtu.be/WU-Qu-EDho4
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Glad to hear your good news.
The link you posted reminds me of a wedding I was at, in Kirkintilloch, many years ago.
A childhood friend of my wife married a lad from across the divide.
At the reception, there was just the bride’s immediate family and us
I was pressed into going up to sing and, in honour of the brid ‘s family, who were over from Donegal , I launched into a Little Bit of Heaven, complete with the crescendo finale.
Couldn’t understand the muted response to my heartfelt, watery eyed rendition.
Courses=clubs
e=mc2 skiving at work:
It is your prerogative to get your nose out of joint over the singing of such songs, just as it is the prerogative of those who have suffered at the hands of those sad Orange people to retaliate in song rather than violence or denial of human rights.
There is a fence, you can stand on this side, you can stand on that side, or you can squirm with the pointy bit protruding your bowels.
syd negakev,
Some of us antipodean types are happy with our lot……although a certain Coatbridge Tim made me miss an entire Friday of my life by luring me to an Irish establishment on Thursday night!
AR
THOMTHETHIM
Mibbe they didnae know the words. You should have had it included in the Wedding Missive,or whatever they call it.
I’m sure they would have loved to sing along.
I always foot-tap at their dos,and sing the proper words mentally.
Pisses them off,they know they stole our choons!
The CQteN badges are coming, the CQteN badges are coming……
ETA end of next week, but will be launched on the night CQteN.
This will be the one and only production run, so up to yoy not to miss out..
To pre-order yours drop us an email at cqnbadges@gmail.com
HH
CRC
ps With 8 days left, the CQteN dream teams are crawling their way to the 200 mark!
We currently stand at 189 and still nobody has picked Henrik :-)
ANTIPODEAN RED
Glad yer time wisnae wasted,even though you were!
CELTICROLLERCOASTER
Did you get mine?
Sent it Thursdayish,I can resend if necessary.
All that effort,misgiving,guilt at leaving out marvellous servants,wouldnae want that to go to waste!
e=mc2 skiving at work @ 12.56 hrs.
Was thinking the same.
hun skelper @ 12.59 hrs
” If that’s what there are I don’t have a problem with it”
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Cant agree with any sectarian views. Please refer to our club ethos.
We are better that that. Not just the opposite side of the “Old Firm ” coin.
HH.
BMCUWP
yes received and logged
Some very close battles for positions and some not very close!
HH
CRC
Here we go again, we’re on the road to Paradise.
CRC, will you be about before the game?
Got something for you.
sunny here in Cambuslang should be a nice day for the game
CELTICROLLERCOASTER
And laughed at,no doubt!
Good man.
BMCUW,
that must have been it.
Karaoke would have been handy, but it hadn’t been invented then.
INFO REQUEST.
I’m going to the St.Mirren game at the end of the month, with my brother and grandson.
Part birthday treat, but mainly as a remembrance to our own father, who gave us the gift and also to pass it on to my grandson, whose first Celtic game it will be.
We are going to the Club lounge, where I know the dress code is, no colours, etc.
Does that extend to when you are actually watching the game?
Not for myself, the last time I wore Hoops was in1958, St.Augustine ‘s U14s
Would my grandson be evicted from the seats if he wore his?
Any replies great fully appreciated.
Today’s CQN Coupon –
Awalkarosstherooftops – Burton Albion
Jobo Baldie – Aberdeen
Lennybhoy – Watford
PFAyr – Arsenal
The Token Tim – Plymouth
Greenlion2 – Bradford
BlantyreTim – Southend
Pogmanthony – Ipswich
Oh and I have a cheeky wee 5 shillings on East Fife at 14/1….
BetwhatyoucanaffordtoloseCSC
ps With 8 days left, the CQteN dream teams are crawling their way to the 200 mark!
Anyone got a copy of the players that we can pick for this team. Still to do mine.
Utterly dire stuff at Methil, Gordon Strachan totally vindicated for ignoring that trumped up journeyman L Wallace, the so called best left back in Scotland.
Couldn’t pass water.
THOMTHETHIM
Best bet may be to have yer grandson wear THE HOOPS under another top.
Ask the question on the way in.
That way,if no,no problem. If yes,but someone objects later,put the other top back on.
And at all times remind him of how lucky he is!
I hope you have a great day,mate. Youth is not after all wasted on the young,it is merely a means of us auld yins reliving memories vicariously.
Home from EK CQNTEN tickets arrived…me and Mrs time for change will be at table 12…looking forward to putting faces to monikers…..time to head again….
HH
Googy, I’ll put it back up tonight mhate, on the way to the game now, CRC is too.
I can put it on the CQN FB page later too.
Getting worried no sign of my tickets!
Hopefully Monday.