I’m sure I’m not the only one who winced when I read Neil Lennon suggesting tomorrow would be “very joyous”. Let’s remember, Inverness Caledonian Thistle won at Celtic Park on their visit earlier this season and have punctured our title ambitions in recent seasons. There is a competitive football game to win before anyone can talk about joy.
Getting nervous about tomorrow already…..
Delighted Motherwell made short work of Dundee United last night. They deserve their second successive top two SPL finish, a remarkable achievement for a small club. Where are you, Aberdeen, United, Hibs, Hearts?
The curious situation of Charles Green, no longer Newco Rangers chief executive but still director of the club, and expects to remain so until the end of May.
Dundee manager and professional deep searcher, John ‘Bhomber’ Brown this afternoon told Radio Scotland, the SFA “want to take stock and take a look at their own department”, when asked about Neil Lennon’s victimisation for using industrial language at a football game.
Wise words from Bhomber.
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…Osborne wisnae to hot on the Latin and Greek either. He mixed them up as well.
Ntassoolla
96mph these days gets you an automatic court appearance, minimum 4 points and a larger fine than that.
Must have been a long time ago.
RobinBhoy
Love Lenny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-wkcTyFNs
Ntassoolla ta loo ra le.
Have to admit, I’m sniggering a bit after Robinbhoy’s post.
You been rumbled again? :)))
Lenny’s the mhan.
Should be Celtic Manager until he retires – don’t let any muppet tell you otherwise.
But who shoud reaplce him in 40 yrs?
I’d give my granddaughter a shot. She’s yet to be conceived, as is her mother. But she will be well-schooled in the Celtic Way :))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_ElYLwR80
RobinBhoy, April 1992 – prior to technological innovation opening the possibility of speeding as a revenue stream, when policemen were free to use their discretion.
Ntassoolla ta la roo la rey,
That’s a fair cop.
So it kind of makes your point at 05:04 meaningless, which is mibbes what Robinbhoy was getting at?
I dunno. Am just an underclass mug. What de ya say?
You were right on one thing in our last exchange. I never fail to read your posts. Always interesting :)) I actually thought you might be a middle-aged frustrated housewife at one point, but summit you said contradicted that, and made me think, “nope. Just another establishment stooge right enough.”
Ntas,
Your slow response betrays your fear.
I urge you to continue delving down a bit further until you find your gonnads. Touch them, massage them, make sure they are there. Then give us a response.
Good luck, big man. ;)
You are too much fun for me by the way ;)
FFM you mistake fair comment from RobinBhoy as an invitation to attack.
RobinBhoy in the wee small hours of Saturday morning the police used to let you drive according to conditions. Technological advance has removed them from the equation.
FFM speeding tickets these days are not issued by policemen. Rage against the machine. Like a good old British leftie.
Ntassoolla ra where is the bog roll,
“FFM you mistake fair comment from RobinBhoy as an invitation to attack”
I never saw anyone attacking anyone.
Why do you think there was an inference of attack on you?
I genuinely wish you would stop that wooden spoon thing you have going on, as without it, you’d be great sport for a chat and a laugh. But as it is, you’re not fitting in very well amigo.
I think you underestimate the intelligence of posters here – and I don’t mean myself. I’m the only mug debating with you.
But I genuinely find you very amusing.
Especially since you pointed out to me how stupid I was not to realise that your moniker is a Latin/ Greek combo.
Ntassoolla
Speaking from personal experience unfortunately. Twenty years ago I was clocked at over 100mph reduced to 96 and a three point penalty and standard fine. Police discretion, that was in England.
Two years ago on the A9 on the way from Inverness to Glasgow 86mph in a 60mph zone on an overtaking lane keeping up with traffic (picked out in a line of traffic even) court appearance in Inverness 4 points and a £240 fine.
Times are a changing…………for the worse.
Robinhoy
FFM unlike you I don’t pull others into petty spats.
You do not respond to the content of my posts.
Yet you seem to be always thinking of me. In the most intimate of ways.
Have you won your battle against anorexia?
Are you chubby cheeked and full bellied?
Ntassoolla de la rue du gay,
There you go again.
I don’t pull anyone into spats. I speak with my heart.
As do a lot of posters here, which is why “spats” are invevitable.
You have chosen to jump in on these and create drama where it isn’t necessary.
You’d be surprised if you knew how many CQNers see through that.
As for thinking of you in an intimate way – this makes me think your ego is part of your problem.
I enjoy seeing your moniker – a baddie is a necessary part of our conditioning, and I like seeing you being put in your place.
Only you know why you have the urge to be odd.
And, yes, I am pot-bellied, chubby cheeked and trying to deal with middle-age. But that’s not a big issue for me. I believe you might have a problem with that. Are you Jeffery Archer?? :))
RobinBhoy do you understand my lament?
No camera in the country is programmed to issue a ticket to a vehicle driving dangerously slow.
You’re correct in your observation that my peccadillo was many years ago. TBH I thought I’d had it. Clean licence. Clean car. Reasonable police officers. Stupid me.
I don’t regard that as unhealthy regard for authority.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes @06:15 there you go again.
Speaking for other people.
Learn to stand on your own two feet.
Not just the right one which lost you your licence.
ZeroPoints.csc
Ntassoolla ra loo ra lay,
There you go again.
Disappointing response that will fool no one.
What planet are you on ya mentalist?
But I will give you that, I do lean too much on one side of my body, and expect some hip replacement in the future years because of it.
Are you possessed by Margaret Thatcher’s ghost?
Morning all!
To all you lucky bhoys and ghirls going to the game today, safe there and back – and enjoy.
…and spare a thought for us overseas exiles!
We will be there in spirit!
Title celebrations no 44 beckon.
HH!!
Ntassoolla la roo la rey,
Are you one of those establishment figures what can sell me my “lost licence” back?
Or are you Jeffrey Archer?
Gonna be a low-scoring game today, methinks.
Unless…
Lenny goes with my selection.
I like to call it ‘Tit Ride Extraordinaire’.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Zaluska ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::: Ambrose :::::::::::::::::: Wilson ::::::::::::: Mulgrew ::::::::::::::::
Commons :::::::::::::: Wanyama :::::::::::::: Ledley ::::::::::::::: Matthews
::::::::::::::::: Forrest :::::::::::::::::::: Hooper :::::::::::::: Stokes :::::::::::::::::
…would you give me a speeing fine for missing the accelerator and hitting the dirt what needs trampled down? :)))
Travelling from Hong Kong to Taipei shortly, no Celtic pubs in Taipei that I know about anyway so will try to watch the game on my iPad with my trusty VPN.
Love to be there, when was the last time we won the title at home, was it really when Henrik and Harald stopped ten in a row?
Can’t for the life of me remember a more recent one.
RobinBhoy
morning champs,quality start to the day
http://youtu.be/ZGwDYBWEDSc
HH
FFM I sympathise with your worries about a hip replacement.
But console yourself with the knowledge that you’ ll never need a brain replacement .
You lack the prerequisite.
Alas, I have no special powers in road traffic law. Just an obstreperous approach.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes @06:48 mistypes “…would you give me a speeing (sic) fine ”
No FFM. I’d just let you be.
Ntassolla ta loo ra ray,
Thanks pal. I lack the prerequisite for a brain replacement. Don’t remember asking about that, but whatever insult comes your way, do use it :)))
Will you grant us permission to extract your’s and keep it in the icloud for future inspection? Would be a charitable donation on your part, and might be the making of you….
You know it makes sense….or do you?
HAIL ! HAIL !
THE CELTS ARE HERE !
Good morning CQN from a wet Clydebank
Off to 8 O’clock mass then get
Ready for the game really looking
Forward to it
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Ra bomber tells ra meeja they aint daeing their joabs
It was going to happen anyway,” Brown told reporters. “You are journalists, if you do your job properly you would find that out. It is going to be interesting. I am not surprised because I knew what was going on but I am trying to get a job at Dundee.
“Walter Smith and the other directors there I am sure will be on the case to find out what is going on there, but it was always going to be the case because Charles Green wasn’t the owner. The Rangers thing has to get sorted out sooner rather than later or it will be a deeper hole they will be in.
Hopefully championship day at Paradise, looking fwd to it, sister and Nephew going
Nephew so excited,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,so am i
Now I remember it was 2006, evening game against Hearts, BBJ with the only goal.
Watched it in a Celtic Irish Pub in Charlotte, the flew home slightly the worse for wear after a day out with mental Scots ex-pats.
Going to have to sort out my travel schedule better.
RobinBhoy
feels like a good day to be champs again.
will be sat with young greenyin in 115, hopefull
he’ll see his 1st league clincher.
greenyin
Morning Celts
Greenyin aye hope so, enjoy the game both of ye.
HH
Did. Lenny appeal the stupid sfa ban?
V
Sevco are in the position they are in because of financial mismanagement on an epic scale, tax evasion and the WATP/no surrender guff, Celtic have won the league fairly within the rules, it has been a very competitive league this season
Leading questions, negativity beyond reason…………….Neil stop being so honest with parasites
By ANDREW SMITH
Published on Sunday 21 April 2013 00:00
NEIL Lennon hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Celtic spending up to £4 million on one player this summer. However, the Celtic manager gave a flat “no” when asked the other day whether such a recruit could be a marquee signing.
The chances are that Celtic will do enough at home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle this afternoon to officially clinch a league they had won before a ball was even kicked in the campaign – one reason why, if there are celebrations in the east end of Glasgow today, those indulging in them are likely not to number close to the 60,000 the stadium can hold.
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell admitted last week that 10,000 season ticket holders were declining to attend league games. The attractiveness of these fixtures has been diminished by the removal of jeopardy that has resulted from the demise of the old Rangers. There was a time that Celtic might have sought to mitigate against any potential boredom factor by bringing in a player who could be considered a draw for the crowd. That is not the way the club can afford to be run now. A certain David Murray used to talk about “changing the menu” by signing names every summer. That gave his club carte blanche to end up in football’s soup kitchen.
“There will be good players coming in,” said Lennon, pictured below, who must steel himself for a number of good players going out. “We want to turn them into stars. At the end of the day, [Victor] Wanyama turned out to be a marquee signing. But if there is a £3m or £4m player who can make us better now and who can make us money in a few years time then we will do it. I think the board would have no problem seeing that one through. Look, I think the squad needs a jag. I think some of the players need to see some new players come in. We have been together three years and done remarkably well but they need a bit of a hand. It is always good to see new players come in. It gives the squad a lift, it gives the backroom staff a lift and it certainly gives the fans a lift as well.
“As a player, you would always get excited [if the club made a high-profile signing]. When Juninho came it was: what he is going to be like? [Craig] Bellamy was fabulous. He had a great six months up here. He lit the place up and gave everyone that little bit of a shove in the right direction. We haven’t spent a lot of money. We are probably in the black with transfer dealings with Ki [Sung-Yueng] going and some other big hitters like [Daniel] Majstorovic and [Glenn] Loovens coming off the wage bill. We only brought in really [Efe] Ambrose, [Fraser] Forster and [Thomas] Rogic for not a great deal of money. There is money there to spend.”
Yet spending money, or identifying the right players, is a devilish task when you operate in such a modest domestic environment as Scotland. Players such as Miku, Lassad Nouioui and Rami Gershon, sparingly used reinforcements added to the squad in the past year, illustrate the inherent difficulties in squad augmentation.
“It is never easy,” Lennon said. “Already we have been knocked back on a couple of enquiries and already we have had agents on the phone pricing them out of coming here. We have a wage cap to think about within the group. I don’t want to break that by having a big disparity between one individual and the rest. It never changes. You are successful with some, you are unsuccessful with others. What I have to take into consideration is: will he makes us better? That is what we are interested in. The wages have to come into line as well because there is a fantastic spirit in this group of players and I don’t want to change that.”
The likely departures of Gary Hooper, Wanyama, and the possibility that another player such as Kelvin Wilson or Forster could be tempted back south, ensures Lennon will impress upon his players the special moment they have created. Some may never win another title, he pointed out. Keeping his players motivated with no Rangers on the scene has been problematic, the Northern Irishman admitted, but he was scathing about the suggestion from former Celtic striker Andy Walker that the title soon to be landed could not be anything like “as satisfying” as the one the club beat the Ibrox side to last season.
“That is just total nonsense, absolute rubbish,” said Lennon. “Andy has won a title so he should know how special it is. I do get the feeling that sometimes ex-players aren’t as complimentary towards our club as other ex-players are towards their own. That disappoints me because this club has been nothing but good to them. Of course it will be as satisfying, off the back of the European run, off the back of reaching a cup final. That is pretty satisfying to the players, I would think.”
“When you win the title it is the best feeling in football you can have because it is a season’s preparation, work, endeavours, all coming to fruition. It is really good for a player to have on his record. When you don’t have it you realise what you have lost. I lost two titles on the last day of the season, one that was in our hands, and one we couldn’t do much about. The feeling after that was one of total emptiness, despair. When you’ve come through that adversity it makes you stronger and hungry for more, so I want the players to realise what they have done and take a lot of pride from it.
“I know we have lost six games this year. That is not ideal. We have conceded more goals than we have done in the previous two seasons. Our points total will be lower than it has been in the previous two seasons. On the plus side, we have had a brilliant European run, totally beyond anyone’s expectations, and brought the supporters some nights they will never forget, and the players will never forget in their careers. And we are six or seven goals short of the best total of goals scored under me so I would like to get over the line in that department – there are pros and cons.”
Celtic must hope that when season ticket renewals come around their followers focus on the pros.
thanks vmhan. got a feelin it’ll one of
them “real celtic days”
Gregory Ioannidis @LawTop20 2m
Kalimera everyone. Best wishes to Glasgow Celtic. Glory and Honour Day today for the uninterrupted and alive history of a great club.
Amen to that brother
morning bhoys and ghirls
so looking forward to todays game and hopefully being Champions again!!i didnt think i’d feel the excitement that im feeling..didnt feel it last home game v hibs although we were Champions for about 8mins or so..so today it must be one big push and get it in the bag..lets wait for Lenny though..im sure the match organisers will manage to keep us entertained ..maybe a 15 min huddle or a 12″ version of YNWA..Anyway lets enjoy it to the max and have a party…all over the World…C’mon you bhoys in Green..hail hail!!!
Good morning all from a sunny Northern Netherlands.
COME ON CELTIC
HH