If Shane Duffy wanted to whet the appetite of supporters after securing his loan move to Celtic, scoring a 93rd minute equaliser for Ireland in their Nations Cup game in Bulgaria last night was the way to achieve it. Those who know the player told us he was a commanding presence and the manner in which he powered home his header from a corner kick backed this up.
When you watch how teams defend set-pieces against Celtic, you will note their key defensive resources concentrate on Christopher Jullien. He also appears to be the man other Celtic players try to provide space for, by stopping opponents getting a block on him.
Jullien is a better set-piece target than we have had in many years, but this makes us predictable to defend against. Duffy will make Celtic significantly less easy to stop on these occasions.
If there was a Greatest Set-Piece Team of All Time table, Martin O’Neill’s Celtic would sit top. Bobo Balde, Chris Sutton, Joos Valgaeren, Johan Mjallby and John Hartson were five absolute mountains. Defenders seldom knew who to cover. As a consequence, Henrik Larsson did as much damage in the air as any of them.
Football has changed greatly in the years since that team rose to prominence, it was a thing of its time, but defending and attacking at set-pieces requires the same core attributes.
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INKYREDSTAR on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 5:40 PM
FOURSTONECOPPI – at 2.43
The Junior‘S Cup final was written by James Copeland, he was an actor( the Seekers, The Maggie), he also wrote poems. He is the father of Scottish actor Jimmy Cosmo.
His poetry collection is called ‘Some Work’ – the Junior’s Cup final is in it – I have it in front of me as I type! All the way from 1972.
Thanks for this , the James Copeland name rings a bellI’ i’ll have to to hunt this out we deffo had a copy of this on vinyl when i was a kid in the 60s
Powfoot very small village about 4 miles frae Annan , 1 hotel
and a great links golf course .
Powfoot is on a dead end road with a stoney beach right on the
Solway Firth , very fast tides .
Quiet place but no nothing of the caravan park , sorry .
political so scroll by Celts
troll in denial on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 6:04 PM
AT @ 4.42
You really are showing your ignorance if you think Old Monkey Glands owns the “Forgers Gazette” — really poor show that highlights your lack of stature in the world of politics
p1 == it was you who said forgers gazette,I interpreted that as all meeja owned opinion your war criminal leader handled(soft/hard grip).It pleases me I have no stature in the world of politics.===
As for the 1976 / IMF “incident” — we got OK’ed for a loan but never drew down on the line of credit because — surprise / surprise — the Treasury got its figures wrong and was just crying wolf.
==oh please troll.this is where you are getting laughable.so your saying Denis didn’t draw down any funds from imf and didn’t make any monetarist exp cuts? lol mm head shaking here at the above.simply making up shite lol.
do you recall a few weeks back you finally agreed with me that the 11 fingered Dyscalcic son o the manse retained noolabours
expenditure all within the monetarist Tories
confines.the above is another example.a colossal error on your part so much so I would advise you to talk to a Labour (new or old)for advice ===
Obviously you knew that and were just at the madam.
=still up for a pint anytime my friend I talk as I type and it’s always good meeting Celtic fans…somehow tho….
In future you could look into the whole event regarding how did we ever get into a situation where an orthodox Treasury establishment would want to put the kybosh on a progressive political agenda …
== your still making it up.so romantic:-). how those pesky capatilists were undermining jim
and Denis as they carried out the public exp Freeman would have been proud of,and as I stated honest capitalist Thatcher complimented Denis on such a sything job
Start of from a position of an establishment that had lost confidence in its own abilities would be a good place to start — post colonial economics aka raw material inflation / the Barber Boom / Oil Shock 1 / industrial militancy / inflation all played their part.
= oh I see a pattern here emerging,it was something/sumdi else fault- selective memory
syndrome.lets just type dithering excuses that as you type you know are guff..still would like a pint as these fantasy theories you are having about things happening/ not happening would be a joy to listen to==
Or the more base political angle involving the North Sea.
So that when HW + DH !?! wanted to squeeze the pips until they squeaked they took fright and tried to pull their horns in before the oil revenues started to grow and real change could be accomplished.
we should meet for a beer your theories are getting a bit detatched.i am laughing here.
1976 was a an establishment economic coup and nothing else — HW got the country out of the 3 day week and had made great strides to modernise the country socially and that would never do.
inflation at 26%.imf loan achieved and drawn down(lol)
Post 76 — JC + DH was nothing like monetarism no matter how much JC’s son in law tried to claim credit for a reduction in spending. The growing economy in 1978 would suggest that they had weathered the wobble and were making progress.
yeh going so great that a real monetarist took over in 79! tor indoctrinated guff jeest disnae cut it lol
ps where was your local pile of rubbish?
So much progress that the Treasury / establishment had to call in some favours from the skilled unions to put a spoke in the wheels — literally in the case of the strike at Ford that closed down the profits from “Treasure Island” which were keeping the whole company afloat at the time.
== defo a meet.for a beer these fantasies of yours are funny==
Consequently if you want to discuss the 70’s — less right wing propaganda and more analysis would be useful.
=== it’s a Celtic blog.i will meet you and discuss with you your guff.
Having a functioning memory is not right wing being an apologist/rent boy for a war criminal is right wing I would say==
If that is all you have got then that is your issue but please no more Forger’s Gazette lies.
==lol there you go.trying to establish a narrative only your head understand lol sadly politics is what go in on outside it.
funny that..the war criminal it sticks more than any initial or shiteswipe 1,==
time for a tea “incident” lmao
ERNIE LYNCH on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 6:57 PM
JINKYREDSTAR on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 5:40 PM
FOURSTONECOPPI – at 2.43
‘The Junior‘S Cup final was written by James Copeland, he was an actor( the Seekers, The Maggie), he also wrote poems. He is the father of Scottish actor Jimmy Cosmo.’
Did he not become an actor only when he retired from being a headmaster?
*Jimmy Copeland was born and bred in Helensburgh. After completing his education at the local Hermitage School he joined the police, Mrs TT’s da remembered him on the beat in Dumbarton. He was a keen amateur actor so he soon became a stalwart of the People’s Theatre in Dumbarton.
After the Second World War broke out Jimmy went to work in the Blackburn Aircraft Factory in Dumbarton, which built flying boats, a place close to my heart as members of both sides of my family worked there and it’s where my parents met.
Later he studied at the College of Dramatic Arts in Glasgow while working at night as a water bailiff with the Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association.
While still at college he had his first professional engagement at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, and he never looked back.
A keen poet, he was an expert on both Robert Burns and McGonagall, and he wrote Jimmy Copeland’s Shoogly Table Book of Verse, which included a poem about the Scottish Junior Cup final.
He also wrong songs, probably the best known is These Are My Mountains, which became a hit for both Peter Mallan and the Alexander Brothers.
His son James Cosmo, contrary tae popular belief, was born in Dumbarton Cottage Hospital and not Clydebank and attended Hartfield Primary School in the town. After the family moved back up the road when he was 11 he later worked for a time at Arnott Young shipbreakers in Dalmuir.
How presumptuous …
How can we make Celtic better :-)
Not my words … some people should realise Celtic is for every Celtic fan .. I enjoy CQN but it is minuscule in the Celtic world… huddle board and even the “wee” blogs … am afraid any internet poster that thinks “Celtic” can be influenced .. should probably file it under Res 13 …. sometimes Celtic fans should just enjoy Celtic instead of chasing … whatever they want to chase
Back Slapping Blog CSC
GFTB
I agree. CQN probably only accounts for a few hundred Celtic supporters.
My post about Powfoot was for Ron Bacardi
Ron Bacardi 8.53pn
I have been lucky enough to meet many CQNers … but from James Forrest to Nicola Sturgeon … Neil Lennon to Brendan Rodgers … CQN is pissing in the wind … CQN = nothing
Although I love this place … but I can assure anybody … it’s not important for the vast majority of Celtic fans … but still a cracking Celtic oasis
Bankiebhoy1
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Ernie, Fourstone – Tontine got in before me😀
Yes Jimmy was in the Polis before going to the Citizen’s – the book came to my wife through her drama work in Glasgow and also her good works in Castlemilk – which included a very young SFTB😀
TONTINE TIM on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 8:17 PM
I’ve got him mixed up with Alex MacKenzie who played MacTaggart in The Maggie. He became an actor at 61 when he retired from teaching.
Copeland played the mate.
Should read ‘teaching a very young SFTB!
Spot on Ernie – great film The Maggie – wee remnants in the early Para Handy’s with Roddy McMillan
JINKYREDSTAR on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 9:07 PM
Who was the taxi driver in The Maggie.
As you say, a great movie.
GFTB @ 7:42 PM,
Just for clarification
surely it must be difficult to forget we are living through a pandemic
Yes it must be.
Especially if you are a Health Care Worker in a nursing home, helping to support highly vulnerable elderly people with Dementia.
Who has a Covid test at least once a week.
Who has extra restrictions both required and voluntary to do your best to keep these wonderful people as safe as possible
Who wears a face mask 12 hours per day.
Who has been doing this for six months now.
Who does this with both pleasure and pride.
Hail Hail
GFTB on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 5:50 PM
The Onlooker 5.41pm I was listening but didn’t even give it a second thought … your post makes it even sweeter :-)
I did catch the bit the hosts were saying that every “celebrity” fan was a Celtic fan but at least all CoS reverends followed the Gers…. everyone anyone
*possibly correct, however the Rev Ian Miller contradicts that. Born and bred in that ecumenical society of Kilbarchan he follow followed the team that his compatriots did until he realised what they were singing about which is when he switched to us.
He is a self confessed Celtic supporter who spoke at our 125th Anniversary celebrations and was instrumental in finding the final resting place of our first goal scorer on the grounds of his local Bonhill Church.
I had left the place by the time of his appointment there but it now seems like an exorcism.
In the 1960s the rev alan hassan, a minister of Bonhill Church, was a leading figure in the grand lodge of scotland.
He was a demagogue full of hate and many good Christians left his church to preach elsewhere, it has been alleged that paisley modeled himself on him.
The local primary school Bonhill Public where he was pastor used tae play in an Ipswich style strip blue with white sleeves; he had it changed tae blue and orange.
He was to head a local orange walk on a white horse; the horse was brought to Alexandria and stored in a local garage the night before the glorious twelfth.
However, it was rumoured that local lads incensed with this slight on the Catholic population allegedly painted green hoops on it, as such he was forced to ride a brown and white one, I know as I witnessed it.
BTW the Vale of Leven was never orange, presbie and masonic aye, in fact the nearest lol is in Dumbarton.
Balloch Park at that time was under the jurisdiction of the Glasgow Corporation so when asked by the lol could they use it was their ceremony and picnic the Corpy were more than happy tae see it as far away fae Glasgow as possible.
There were 3 more after that, much tae the consternation of the good people of the Vale, that is until the estate was designated as a country park in 1980 and since 2002 has been part of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
As the years moved on the green and white hooped horse was seen as a myth. That is until this wee mhan here was at a party in a basement north of Toronto, one of the attendees, up visiting fae the states, collared me and asked me if I remembered it, when I said myth, he replied that it wisnae and he was one of the painters.
He then went intae detail about that Friday night, who he was with and how they found out where the horse was, by the time he was finished I was more than sure this was the true story, couldnae wait until the next day tae phone my da with the details.
By this time the wee bigot had already absconded with the ludge money and made his way tae Newfoundland. En-route tae a conference in Iceland the plane for some reason was diverted tae Prestwick and he was taken off and charged with embezzlement.
Now this was where it got interesting, the illegitimate son of an Egyptian sailor and an Irish Catholic mother was born in Wales, the da absconded and his mammy sent him up tae the heilans tae live with relatives, where his heid was turned.
He also said he wished he had never heard of the lol. Seemingly the deid team wanted him tae open an orange shop at their ground and 2 current players at the time were appointed to help him, this of course was vociferously denied.
Apparently after doing time on release he changed his name to Alan Cameron and was a piper on the Mound.
So Ian Miller is like a breath of fresh air tae the good people in the Vale of Leven and although retired still lives and works in the area.
Fellow Celts ..
Good night n god bless
We are living in a shoite time .. Celtic should be our constant … but as per some Celtic fans will never be happy .. I suppose we all have our “own” view
Am just delighted my 1yr old and 5yr old great nephews already love the hoops … any Celtic “fan” that doesn’t enjoy handing Celtic down to their family ….. probably is too wrapped up in their own self importance … Like it or lump it Celtic will outlive any wee unimportant blog person … life is far too short … enjoy Celtic … “we” reside on terrific Celtic times …it might not always … be this way
Hail & Hail
Ernie – wasn’t the driver Roddy himself – just gearing up for being Para Handy ( but he wasn’t the original) – Duncan McRae played Para in the Pilot episode
St Stivs.
Ref comment about St Johnstone badge.
Check out Preston North End,their badge depicts the lamb of St Wilfrith club founded 1880.and won league in 1888.
Letters on badge PP is Latin for Prince of Peace and that part of England has a large Catholic base.
Chairbhoy
Read your own post … you are on here and run back to your other blog while slagging CQN… take care
I don’t particularity like wearing a mask myself … hence I realise what we are licence through
CB 7.27pm
‘ All good here, thanks for the reply, I forgot the Covid factor”
Ah well …
AT @ 8.04
Short and sweet — Away oot n’ play tig wae the buses ya zoomer.
If you don’t know what the Forgers Gazette is then you know nothing about local politics.
All you offer is rancid comments about Old / New Labour and now 70’s Labour.
You offer nothing regarding your own beliefs apart from moon howling at TB / GB.
The GB stuff is particularly pathetic as no insult would appear to be out of bounds.
Troll / Tory Troll / Tiny Trot / Mini Marxist / Little Libertarian / Toaty Trumper — who cares?
You are talking oot yer erse and showing your raging ignorance with every keystroke.
Please no more political pish.
Chairbhoy
I have read all your back slapping posts and your vitriol against most things Celtic … but if you forget the “Covid factor” just to make a kid on point more fool you … I wish you well but you are another who actually takes joy when Celtic are not winning … when we hit October you will be one of the net spend punters … again if wearing a mask for 12hrs but forgetting the Covid factor …. Ok
JINKYREDSTAR on 6TH SEPTEMBER 2020 9:28 PM
Ernie – wasn’t the driver Roddy himself – just gearing up for being Para Handy ( but he wasn’t the original) – Duncan McRae played Para in the Pilot episode
A wee cock sparra sat on a tree,
A wee cock sparra sat on a tree
Chirpin awa as blithe as could be.
Alang came a boy wi’a bow and an arra,
Alang came a boy wi’a bow and an arra,
Alang came a boy wi’a bow and an arra
And he said: ‘I’ll get ye, ye wee cock sparra.’
The boy wi’ the arra let fly at the sparra,
The boy wi’ the arra let fly at the sparra,
The boy wi’ the arra let fly at the sparra,
And he hit a man that was hurlin’ a barra.
The man wi’ the barra cam owre wi’ the arra,
The man wi’ the barra cam owre wi’ the arra,
The man wi’ the barra cam owre wi’ the arra,
And said: ‘Ye take me for a wee cock sparra?’
The man hit the boy, tho he wasne his farra,
The man hit the boy, tho he wasne his farra,
The man hit the boy, tho he wasne his farra
And the boy stood and glowered; he was hurt tae the marra.
And a’ this time the wee cock sparra,
And a’ this time the wee cock sparra,
And a’ this time the wee cock sparra
Was chirpin awa on the shank o’ the barra.
Tontine Tim 9.28pm
Your posts are informative and a total pleasure … thank you
EXCATHEDRA44
Preston – origin Priest Town
Chairbhoy
I have work tomorrow ..mask on train I am staying up in case you won’t to respond .. you don’t have too …
Just giving you the option to respond
Even though I don’t have to wear a mask for 12hrs … I can assure you this pandemic isn’t something you forget
Although maybe some can
GFTB @ 10:14 PM,
Don’t stay up GFtB, I’m not going to respond.
Have a good night.
Hail Hail
Mcphail bhoy.
Thanks for reply.
Yes forgot that term,now you mention it can remember my Grandfather quoting that.
HH.
Chairbhoy 10.16pm
:-)
Take care mate … and enjoy Celtic but keep at me so I question my own happy clapping 🍀
GFTB,
Can I ask you when you last attended a competitive Celtic game?
Hail Hail.
Fred 10.26pm
Nope
Fred C
Can I ask you when you put Celtic before your family ?
Feel free not to answer :-)))
Fred C
I take it you don’t have responsibilities ? I attended Celtic Park all through the 80s & 90s .. my season ticket got lobbed into the “temporary stand” when the “Coatbrig end” was getting redeveloped … … I wax in the temporary stand when Goram saved Hooijdonks Penalty … but why the question ? … iron horse Bhoy
Any kids Fred ?
Guess what … see when you have to prioritise cash … I can assure you / anybody Celtic is bottom of my list … fact
Just wondering, as I say feel free not to say.
Hail Hail.
Fred
Feel free not to answer my question as well