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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Nothing beats that feeling, on the bus, can in hand and off to Paradise!!
CQTen tickets arrived the day.
Happy Fergus day to all
“The game….the game is over the Rebels have won”
Brian Dempsey
Doc cheers
How do you know when your Virtual CQTen tickets arrive?
Happy Birthday to excellent CQN’er Gordon J..
Happy Bunnet Day to the rest of you!!
Mon the Hoops.
Big Nir to run things..
bmcuw,
Getting too old to mix beer, wine and whiskey without considering the consequence or the carnage as it was in my case.
AR
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G’Day CQN..
Peace to All.. Hope there’s Bin Nae Fifhting Oan here..
【ツ】
Summa of GoldCoastKitTimCatAlbaCSC
bmcu,
Thanks, that sounds like a plan.
Wouldn’t want him to be banned or kettled in his first match.
Gordon J, Hoopy Birthday mhate.
Inverness have never avoided defeat at CP twice in the same season.
@SPLSTATS
Prince Myshkin on October 10, 2008 7:17 AM
It’s my beirthday today here in Oz. My wife is Australian and when she stayed with me in Scotland for a few years, I took her to Celtic Park on a number of occasions.
greenpinata
13:10 on 1 March, 2014
Orange barsteward – sectarian
News to me
Ed Miliband.
What an orator.
What a charismatic character.
Ffs!
HH!!
You did just admit to being the Prince didn’t you?
BSR
Your virtual postman delivers it to you …how else ..silly :-))
antipodean red
I’m sure you know to whom I was referring.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed your swally sesh at the ole Irish joint.
Regards.
TIme to get the layers on and head off to The Park to see the Champions play.
3 Nil to the good guys with Leigh to get his first home goal with a left foot curler…
tallybhoy
11:24 on 1 March, 2014
“Choose yer weapons gents.”
“I’ll huv a cucumber. If it’s good enough for Shettleston it wull dae me!’
…
HH!!
The lassie in the bookies said
Is that a cucumber in yir haun or are yi jist pleased tae see me
HH
Celtic Football Club@celticfc·2 hrs
Fergus McCann quote in full “It’s not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.” (NM) pic.twitter.com/ORP0HImuUX
https://twitter.com/celticfc/status/439737666641215489/photo/1
Just about to go into CP, what’s the Hun score?
syd,
Certainly did buddy, just acting the goat…….are Tim’s allowed to act like goats?
AR
antipodean red
kids anyway!
Bawsman, 0-0 at HT
GOOGYBHOY
I think I have your addy somewhere so will forward this,but meantime….
doc is neil lennon
19:43 on 26 February, 2014
CQteN Dream Team.
We now have 184 teams logged and counted, only 16 to go until the magical 200 releases another wonderful prize!
Keep the coming, details below.
“CQteN Dream Team” Less than 2 weeks to go until nominations close.
Now is your chance to select and influence the CQteN dream from the last decade,
Email us on doccqten@gmail.com
Rules are very simple:
Select 11 players from the list below, forming either a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 formation
So you will need:
1 goalkeeper
2 full backs
2 centre backs
3 or 4 midfielders
2 or 3 forwards
and of course….
1 manager.
Each player on the list below has made at least 10 starting appearances from July 2004 to date during the CQteN decade.
So no Henrik, Lubo,or Mjalby then!
When you are selecting the players, you should ideally base your selection on their performances during the CQteN decade, but then again that is your choice.
Send your selection to us by email to doccqten@gmail.com with your CQN blog name (if you do not have one, then you need to get thinking as well)
Anybody can enter: bloggers, lurkers, friends and family, but you can only enter ONCE.
The closing date for entries is 3pm Sunday 9th March 2014
The CQteN dream team will be announced at the CQteN night on Friday 14th March and will be published online soon after. There will be a couple of prizes for the closest teams selected to the winning team.
Good luck and get selecting for a fantastic competition..
HH
CRC
Goalkeepers
Appearances Clean sheets
Artur Boruc (G)
220 82
David Marshall (G)
30 9
Fraser Forster (G)
177 88
Lukasz Zaluska (G)
40 20
Mark Brown (G)
14 6
Rab Douglas (G)
19 11
Full Backs
Appearances Goals
Total Total
Adam Matthews (D)
82 4
Andreas Hinkel (D)
101 1
Cha Du-Ri (D)
35 2
Charlie Mulgrew (D)
144 25
Daniel Fox (D)
22 0
Darnell Fisher (D)
10 0
Edson Braafheid (D)
11 0
Emilio Izaguirre (D)
132 1
Jackie McNamara (D)
44 1
Lee Naylor (D)
134 3
Mark Wilson (D)
116 3
Mikael Lustig (D)
57 5
Mo Camara (D)
24 0
Paul Caddis (D)
10 0
Paul Telfer (D)
71 1
Ulrik Laursen (D)
15 0
Centre Backs
Appearances Goals
Total Total
Bobo Balde (D)
93 4
Daniel Majstorovic (D) 61 2
Darren O’Dea (D)
49 6
Efe Ambrose (D)
73 5
Gary Caldwell (D)
147 7
Glenn Loovens (D)
84 9
John Kennedy (D)
14 0
Joos Valgaeren (D)
25 0
Josh Thompson (D)
19 3
Kelvin Wilson (D)
72 0
Stanislav Varga (D)
57 7
Stephen McManus (D)
195 20
Steven Pressley (D)
24 2
Thomas Rogne (D)
54 3
Virgil van Dijk (D)
31 4
Midfielders
Appearances Goals
Total Total
Aiden McGeady (M)
194 36
Alan Thompson (M)
56 13
Baram Kayal (M)
88 3
Barry Robson (M)
40 7
Didier Agathe (M)
22 0
Evander Sno (M)
20 1
Efrain Juarez (M)
10 2
Jiri Jarosik (M)
35 7
Joe Ledley (M)
136 30
Juninho Paulista (M)
14 1
Kris Commons (M)
106 55
Landry N’Guemo (M)
43 0
Marc Crosas (M)
40 1
Massimo Donati (M)
34 4
Neil Lennon (M)
130 1
Niall McGinn (M)
15 6
Pat McCourt (M)
19 10
Paul Hartley (M)
74 4
Ross Wallace (M)
18 3
Roy Keane (M)
12 1
Scott Brown (M)
246 26
Shaun Maloney (M)
97 31
Shunsuke Nakamura (M)
157 33
Stephen Pearson (M)
11 4
Stiliyan Petrov (M)
94 24
Sung-Yong Ki (M)
60 11
Thomas Gravesen (M)
23 6
Victor Wanyama (M)
80 13
Zheng Zhi (M)
11 1
Forwards
Appearances Goals
Total Total
Anthony Stokes (F)
100 55
Chris Sutton (F) 43 18
Craig Beattie (F)
18 14
Craig Bellamy (F)
15 9
Derek Riordan (F)
13 8
Gary Hooper (F)
127 82
Georgios Samaras (F)
162 70
Henri Camara (F)
16 8
James Forrest (F)
85 22
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (F)
89 44
John Hartson (F)
83 50
Kenny Miller (F)
28 11
Lassad Nouioui (F)
10 3
Maciej Zurawski (F)
53 30
Marc-Antoine Fortune (F)
30 12
Robbie Keane (F)
17 16
Scott McDonald (F)
117 64
Teemu Pukki (F)
15 4
Tony Watt (F)
13 8
Managers
Neil Lennon
Tony Mowbray
Gordon Strachan
Martin O’Neill
Celtic Football Club@celticfc·6s
Celtic team to play @ICTFC Forster; Matthews, Ambrose, Van Dijk, Izaguirre; Forrest, Brown, Biton, Mulgrew; Stokes, Griffiths (MH)
Celtic Football Club@celticfc·now
Subs: Zaluska, Samaras, Boerrigter, Commons, Johansen, Kayal, Fisher (MH)
WEET WEET WEET
I told TALLYBHOY earlier that it will be used to ridicule posters having a spat.
A very funny slant on the already hilarious story.
Basically,haw you get yer cucumber oot!
Johansen only makes the bench.
GOOGYBHOY
Forwarded,save you C&P the above.
Might be in junk folder.
bawsman
13:56 on 1 March, 2014
0-0…..30 mins to go…..(looked in specially for….cleaning telly now…:) )
Mulgrew ahead of Johansen, WTF, i take it Johansen is not 100% yet. Very slow looking midfield.
KTF as always 1-0 Celtic
Sammi on bench and no balde and pukki. Why
Looks like Forrest in the KC position.
I think he would make a go of it, if he stays fit.
Anything good on at the pictures today
Canny be arsed going to the game
Just in to say…..
Booooooooooooooooooo – Stokes again ?
Booooooooooooooooooo – Fergus !
Booooooooooooooooooo – The ‘bored’
Booooooooooooooooooo – The Happy Clappers !
Booooooooooooooooooo – The middle-road fence-sitters
Booooooooooooooooooo……etc…..blah….blah….
Off oot.
Pharrell ‘Happy’ Williams – CSC
My beloved Prince Myshkin is being mentioned on my beloved CQN. Happy days. Old Fyodor would be proud. I visited his house/museum last week. What a man Fyodor was.
Jim Spence on top form again.
Did it suddenly get very smelly in here!
Ah someone is stealing the oxygen..
I would hope that Johansen is no 100% fit.
Strange bench.
Happy birthday Gordon_J
HH