New contracts are Champions League dividend

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It’s great news that Celtic have secured three first choice players, Charlie Mulgrew, Adam Matthews and James Forrest, on new long term contracts.  It allows the players to forget about long-term career issues and concentrate on team matters and the manager and scouts can worry about squad recruitment efforts in other areas.

This news is a direct consequence of Champions League group stage qualification.  Not only do Celtic have funds to increase wage budget, more importantly, aspirational football players, who want to reach the very top of the game, have a reason to be here.

The same is true of Fraser Forster’s England call up.  Scottish football has long been regarded along the lines of lower division football in England, but with Champions League football, the English national team have endorsed our football.  It will be easier to attract the next wave of recruits as a result.  One day Kris Commons [stand out Player of the Year candidate]can only hope his own national team will regard his productive displays in the same manner.

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  1. Apparently Arsène Wenger has “unearthed” Santi Cazorla (according to the post-match interview on Match of the Day).

     

     

    Apart from anything he did for Villarreal and Málaga, Cazorla has played almost 50 games for European and World champions, Spain.

     

     

    In what sense has he been “unearthed”?

     

     

    The arrogance of the English knows no bounds.

  2. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Made my day completely,

     

    Stirling Albion fans singing go home ya Huns and this absolute classic from the Zombies on Sevco Media-we should go for Davie Moyes..

  3. PeteC

     

     

    What are you talking about?

     

     

    Ordinary people don’t just have “demons” lurking around. That’s not how it works.

     

     

    Please.

     

     

    I’ve said this to you before. You clearly have a keen interest in these things. Why not study them properly? You can’t study theology on YouTube.

  4. Goodnight alla fantastic day on the blog and we never kicked a ball :)))

     

    Really hope the Green Brigade give “dont sack McCoist” laldy Tomorrow.

     

    HAIL HAIL

  5. Celtic_First

     

     

    23:42 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

    Remind me what you said please? As I can’t quite recall it.

     

     

    Anyone is open to demonic possession if they let the spirit in and if you know your Bible it can occur after many generations which should make everyone Fearful of God.

  6. Right this has got to stop right now.

     

     

    I have been slowly catching up with the blog but its gone beyond a joke now.

     

     

    Sannabhoy asking for my sisters phone number was bad enough, I’ve seen what he can do with a Galway Hooker but then some character called “voguepunter” is talking about planking a carryout for her. If I have to come up from Cork and skelp somebody I will, I wont enjoy doing it but I will. :-)

     

     

    Enjoy the match Dena and Bee

  7. Magnificentseven on

    leftclicktic

     

    23:45 on

     

    6 October, 2012

     

    Goodnight alla fantastic day on the blog and we never kicked a ball :)))

     

    Really hope the Green Brigade give “dont sack McCoist” laldy Tomorrow.

     

    HAIL HAIL

     

     

     

    you better believe it McMoist is the perfect manager for them but Sir Furious couldn’t save them now :-)

  8. There is no pillow too soft as a clear conscience

     

     

    Thats 500 million sleepless huns

     

     

    Goodnight all its been another good day to be a tim

  9. tommytwiststommyturns on

    Doc – we really have to take into account the health of your average Tim.

     

    Our livers are at breaking point with all the celebrating, our teeth are ruined after all the jelly n ice cream and the less said about the embarrassing incontinence the better!

     

     

    Sales of Tena Lady are through the roof and SEPA are sick of issuing flood warnings every weekend! It has to stop….!

     

     

    T4HSE

  10. petec

     

    23:47

     

     

    Rubbish. It’s absolutely not true that “anyone is open to demonic possession”. I am not. Only people who open themselves to reaching beyond the veil that exists between this world and the next are vulnerable to demonic possession. So, yes, people dabbling in satanism, freemasonry, wicca, blah, blah, blah … they are vulnerable. Ordinary people are not. And to suggest that you might be vulnerable because of something someone in a previous generation did has no basis whatsoever in Christian experience. None. Stop scaring people.

     

     

    All I have said to you before is what I have said to you tonight.

     

     

    If you are seriously interested in these things, study them properly.

  11. T4

     

    Agree re-liver, it’s shot, teeth are not mine, the embarrassing incontinence, no yet, but it may well come.

     

    Just watched MotD, no bad, but best league in the World? it’s no the best league in the UK, Div. 3 for me

  12. MWD

     

     

    What if the Last Judgement was not one where God judged us but was instead when we stop judging ourselves and as a consequence, each other?

     

     

    Turns everything on its head.

  13. I hope we keep the Ki fee and CL money banked … And keep this team together.

     

    They will flourish even more by bankrolling the current trimmed squad

  14. tttt

     

     

     

    leave the ginghers alone, its not like they are zombies.

     

     

    my wife is a redhead.

     

     

    nae hair, just a ……………..

  15. Celtic_First

     

     

    23:54 on 6 October, 2012

     

     

     

    You really need to open your eyes to what is going on around about us.

     

     

    It is the subtle reintroduction of paganism through the media and our children are more exposed to these Cults than you (and I think you are a a very educated elder gentleman) can ever imagine. I see so many online gamer names ending with 666 and all sorts of other Satanic references.

     

     

    http://www.openbible.info/topics/generational_curses

     

     

    There is no questioning the validity of the Scriptures. God/Jesus is being mocked in the media and society at large. And you dare to say this is not demonic?

     

     

    HH m8

  16. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar's Green Bucket Army on

    tommytwiststommyturns

     

    00:01 on

     

    7 October, 2012

     

     

    and baldys

  17. Glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly on

    Super Ally has vowed to get Sevco back to the top by the 12th of never………….and that’s a long, long time………..

  18. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    My lowest point,today made me physically sick,when will Andy Little be back,protection from referees and wait for it Ally v Billy Davies..

     

     

    We are loving it ya shower of cheating,tax dodging vermin.

  19. tommytwiststommyturns on

    St Stivs – good to see you punching above your considerable weight! ;-)

     

     

    CRC – shut it, Lofty!

     

     

    T4

  20. PeteC

     

     

    Watch it.

     

     

    Elder gentleman? I’m 49. And a half.

     

     

    Right, if you mess around with Satanism, you are opening yourself up to danger, whether it’s deliberate or not. I’ve already said that.

     

     

    Have I questioned the validity of scripture? No. I have studied and continue to study it. You are dabbling.

     

     

    I second the post from the other day that said your contributions to CQN on football in general and on Celtic in particular are great. Your contributions on theology are amateurish and tend towards scaremongering. You have no authority for that. You should stop it.

  21. Anyone who does feel they have demons can get rid of them Straight away by Calling out to Jesus Christ and using his Authority to banish them as they are Nothing compared to the Lord.

     

     

    Satan tried to tempt Yeshua with everything in this temporal World.

     

     

    Failed…..

  22. CRC………….

     

    Thanks for the mention of the Cumbernauld No. 1 CSC re their contribution to the wee Oscar fund….. Great bunch of Bhoys…….. Will pass on your message…..

     

    Regards & Hail Hail

     

    TBM

  23. tommytwiststommyturns on

    C_1st : as good ole CQNer Subterranean posted during the week, there are some dangerously extreme viewpoints posted on this site, some political, some religious. This has contributed to some long term posters drifting away from this fine site.

     

     

    I disagree with most of the extreme views posted, but I don’t have a right to tell them to stop posting their beliefs. Paul does and any moderators he’s appointed, if any.

     

     

    HH

     

    TTTT

  24. Celtic_First

     

     

    00:08 on 7 October, 2012

     

     

    I genuinely missed your comment and that is why I asked what you have said.

     

     

    I appreciate your kind words about my analysis regarding Celtic.

     

     

    If you think my contributions regarding Theology are mince, who am I to argue, I tend to think I have a good grasp on things and the End Times are within the next decade now you are pushing me about Biblical stuff. It is the only reason I am more concerned about non believers rather than enjoying the fantastic Glasgow Celtic, and BTW I am loving every Celtic performance.

     

     

    The day everyone is a Jesus Christ happy clapper on here is the day I will be Super happy. Honesty is the best policy right? ;))

  25. StMichaelsBhoy2 on

    The Rite starting Antony Hopkins was based on a book of the same name about an American exorcist called Fr Gary Thomas.

     

     

    He stresses that demonic possession is extremely rare, and that anyone who claims to be possessed almost certainly isn’t.

  26. @ETimsNet: We hear Ally said to his players after today’s 1-0 loss to Stirling; “They may take our dignity but they’ll NEVER take…our brown brogues”.

     

     

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

  27. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Scores have been good for me today

     

    Stirling Albion 1-0 The Rangers

     

    Linfield 1-3 Ballinamallard

     

    Lisburn Distillery 1-2 Cliftonville.

     

    Thorniewood 2-0 Kilbirnie