I’m getting beside myself with annoyance at the emergence of blog and online distractions ahead of the most important game of the season. Darling-Salmond do not get my heart pounding, Henrik Larsson’s summer conversation with Celtic (he was asked if he was interested, he said he’s not ready, nothing more than that), and despite the need to sign players, they would be pointless if we don’t win tonight.
This is our Cup Final, our biggest game of the season by some margin. This game determines what pace our development project proceeds at, what players we can attract and who we can afford. For the season ahead, this is our α and Ω.
For the players, it is a joy. A gift. This is their chance to perform a task they are more than capable of in front of an appreciative crowd. For Ronny and Johnny, it is their first stake in the ground.
Don’t assume it will be straightforward. It could be a long night, we may lose the first goal, but it takes a brave team to leave Celtic Park with the spoils on a European night. We have to remain patient early on; Maribor will tire as the game progresses. The final 15 minutes should be Celtic’s most productive.
Enjoy the game.
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bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
14:06 on 26 August, 2014
THE GREEN AND WHITE TIGER.
I used to go to the Marquis too,but back in the 90s.
Spice of Life was always fun too.
Anyway,here’s a coupla suggestions for tonight.
My choice would be Wimbledon. But make sure the underground is running.
Cost me a fortune the last time because of that!
http://londoncelticpunks.wordpress.com/celtic-pubsclubs/
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I’ll be at Wimbledon CSC, come on down. Tis good. District line all good.
Aye, it’s all you can eat goat curry in Wimbledon tonight!!!
;-)
HH jamesgang
DAVIDOPOULOS
Working,mate.
8pm ko tonight.
I’ll be over to visit you lot the next time we have a Saturday lunchtime ko though.
(Cue mass exodus on the next convenient flight North)
Interesting that we seem to be chasing another forward in a very similar mould to the croatian striker………hopefully no last minute hitches with that one ……..the reason being I can’t honestly believe we would spend 6 million on two very similar players …….little worried..
Bob O’ Baldy
13:51 on 26 August, 2014
It’s only the nats who are talking about their hobby horse today. The rest of us are talking about Celtic. This is what it’s going to be like after the 18th of next month, so get used to it.
Saturday the thirteenth,as it goes.
Unlucky for some….
Thanks Bobby Murdoch.
Davidopolous see you there :-)
Hail hail
jamesgang
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Where am I going to get a goat at this short notice? What’s done is done, the bet is placed.
So is there anything official to say that it was just an unfounded rumour about CG, or is it just rumours it was an unfounded rumour?
vinniethedog
Agree but maybe just a way of getting the first deal over the line. Last year we were linked with lots of strikers and ended up with Pukki who I got the distinct impression was far from Lenny’s choice. Hopefully a (real) striker and a positive result to set up a great season.
HH
Afternoon all. I must admit I’m always puzzled at the references to ‘Peter Lawwell spending money’ or ‘Peter Lawwell loosening the purse strings’. Whatever he does will only be what the PLC board permit him to do. I think he gets far too much blame for things at times. He is given a remit to work under at the end of the day.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
Good stuff, I’m just new to the club but it’s a great place to take in a game.
the green & white tiger
Hopefully see you there.
ERNIE
No offence intended by this,but I genuinely hope that whatever the outcome of the vote,we just get on with making it work.
Recriminations and what-might-have-beens,and even speculation about the future either way are not going to be constructive.
Btw,I agree that the above scenario is Utopian and unlikely,but bearing in mind that everyone who will vote will do so for the future of our country,I hope that those on the losing side can put as much energy into our future as they have done for one single day.
We can all feel the pain of the Unionist apologists. Isn’t it great?
They haven’t got over the royal tanking Darling took last night but moreover they are in complete denial that the audience themselves were the ones who delivered the biggest poundings.
Aneurin Bevan on your shoulder? Someone should be making T-shirts.
What they are also in complete denial about is that these voices of dissent came from people who were once Labour supporters and voters who want to vote for the party they were brought up with but who now see it for what it is.
It is not the SNP who should be worried about a no vote but instead those in the Labour party.
They, in their minds, are fighting nats when the reality is something far bigger that they cannot control or envisage and will not contemplate because it affects their narrow minded world view.
Sorry but that is the truth.
I hope you all keep on posting about it because I am having one hell of a laugh. Thanks.
As for tonight, a big performance is required let’s make it two great nights in a row Celtic.
Onwards and upwards.
YES to Independence
YES to the Champions League.
Hail Hail
Curried goat ?
Curried goat ,rice and peas —-yum ! .
Best in London is ———–
Ochi -Uxbridge Rd , Shepherds Bush .
Highly recommended !
The Scepovic signing seems a good one to me. Teodorczyk seems an even better prospect and I’d be delighted if that were true.
I can’t see it though – with the strikers we have on the wage bill that we probably can’t get rid.
There is also a bit of a pattern when Celtic are haggling over a transfer fee or wage demands that another candidate suddenly appears in the press … Hmmm.
THE GREEN AND WHITE TIGER
DAVIDOPOULOS
See ya on 13/9.
The rest of the lads will be delighted with you for keeping me away from them.
davidopoulos
Dude, I stayed in forest hills for 2 years. Couldn’t get moving for goats. All over the shop. I’m sure Wimbledon is similarly blessed with the beasties!
Bigger question will you find a karangandy fan soon enough to dispatch it?
Failing that a wee donner is probably a worrying close alternative.
Improvise Mhan!
Hungry now!
Train arrived. Aff oot to do an annual review for my colleague who is simply brilliant. Can I just write that on the form I wonder?!?!
HH jamesgang
UPTHEHOOPS
Glad to see you on,mate.
COSY CORNER BHOY is indeed a doyen of said august establishment you mentioned. I think he missed your post on Saturday due to a pressing engagement in there!
If yer not a million miles away from Kilwinning,drop me a line if you fancy a wee sesh wi the Ayrshire Tims in October.
bmcuwp@gmail.com
Bring a railway timetable.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
14:20 on 26 August, 2014
It’s going to be a no vote, nobody with any sense things anything different. And the SNP are then going to tear themselves apart. So the rest of us will have peace. Happy days.
Bob O’ Baldy
13:51 on
26 August, 2014
re: referendum
Paul67, Ernie Lynch & Italiabhoy are so dismissive of the referendum debate they’re still talking about it.
If the three of them are so enamoured with all things better together, why don’t they post daily updates from the Commons and the Lords?
It might have something to do with those in the Commons and the Lords think it’s perfectly acceptable to claim expenses daily for a breakfast at £38 a pop, whereas Alex Salmond trusted the people he was speaking to last night, something completely unheard of in UK politics.
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ALEX Salmond claimed £116,000 in MP expenses – despite making just six visits to Westminster.
That works out to almost £20,000 a day.
Last night, Labour claimed the figures proved First Minister and MSP Salmond couldn’t manage his three jobs – and called on him to quit as an MP The expenses were revealed under Freedom of Information to Labour MSP George Foulkes.
They cover the time from last May and include £84,664 staffing his Westminster office, £18,591 in “incidental expenses” and £14,000 rent for a flat in London.
Each night at the Dolphin Square flat, which he has now given up, cost taxpayers £2333.
Salmond has taken part in just 18 of 249 votes in the Commons, which breaks down to £6500 of taxpayers’ cash per vote.
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Nicola Sturgeon has refused to detail how much taxpayers’ money Alex Salmond spent at a five-star hotel in Chicago during a trip to the Ryder Cup as the First Minister jetted out to the US again.
She dismissed calls for the Scottish Government to provide the cost of his stay at the city’s Peninsula Hotel, which is popular with Hollywood celebrities, saying they amounted to “smear and insinuation”.
But Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, said Mr Salmond had continued to refuse to answer this newspaper’s Freedom of Information request about the costs despite promising to do so in January.
We disclosed last month how the First Minister has told the Freedom of Information (FoI) watchdog that revealing the information would jeopardise his personal security despite the trip taking place in September 2012.
It has previously been reported that Mr Salmond stayed at The Peninsula Hotel – which charges up to £1,205 a night and is popular with the likes of Justin Bieber and Brad Pitt – after a Government spokesman revealed as much in a briefing.
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Kinda makes £38 for breakfast seem like a bargain, eh?
It’s an absolutely beautiful sunny day here in the Garden State.
Temps are to climb into the mid 80s in the afternoon.
No need today for a last minute goal from a Craig Gordon header.
No need for a frantic scrutiny of paperwork.
No need to visit the doc tomorrow to treat fingernails bitten down to the quick.
Celtic will cruise calm and comfortably following two early first half goals.
Mystic Meg has spoken.
JAMESGANG
Only if said colleague will do your annual review in future.
First goal scorer tonight lads ? I managed to get McGregor on two out of the three occasions he has done the business for us in these qualifiers. He started off as being 14-1 in the Icelandic game and was down to 8-1 for the Maribor game. Tonight the bookies are taking few chances and actually have him in to 5-1! The value is gone.
I rather fancy the price about VVD at 14-1. He was very unlucky not to score out there.
Marti
Ernie
Reading your posts I’d be intrigued to know what your professional background is.
Having said that I know it’s none of my business and would never want to place anyone in CQN on the spot.
And these are genuine statements. No hidden agenda I assure you.
HH jamesgang
BMCUW
This person is a gem. A gift from God (but not Lubo!)
Aff oot this time.
HH jamesgang
ERNIE
I hope that it will be a No vote,as you know.
Unfortunately my opinion is irrelevant at this time.
What isn’t irrelevant is the future. And it should not be defined by recriminations,I’ll-feeling,whatever.
One good thing about the whole campaign is that it has got people interested in our future. We should use this to take back our politics,our government,from self-servers and reclaim it for our own.
I’m fed up wi the-och,whit can ye dae,they’re a’ the same.
They are. Let’s change that.
JAMESGANG
Aye,bed for me. Back up far too soon.
MONTHEHOOOOOOPS,
and I hope you all have a fantastic night.
Esp HT and Minx,et al…..
bob o baldy
The simple answers to the question of why aren’t we better together now could be..
Perhaps we are and don’t know it.
Who says we’re not. Look at all that green grass over there..
If/when things get worse after any yes vote, then we will indeed have been better of together.
The only difference after a Yes vote is likely to be that we don’t have Westminster to blame in future, so who will we blame then..
A barney between two university chaps is not a case for one side or the other. It is a sideshow full of sideshow Bobs.
The referedum decision for most seems to be an emotional one and as such those who talk logically about the issues are wasting their time with those who vote emotionally.
Like many interactions on here – just an exchange of opinions.
COYBIG
CraigGordon CSC
Can we all
See the Hun has managed to get the Petrified Cup game postponed, (against East Fife!!!!), as players are on International duty. One of them is Mohsni, if ever they had a chance of winning surely it would be an even greater chance with him oot the way?
Meanwhile, we`re going for Champions League glory tonight. Sack the bored right enough.
BMCUWP
Enjoy your kip..but I have a feeling it might be a restless few hours :o)
HH
Can we all…Whit
Who hijacked my keyboard?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
want kept to date on game via mobile or have you arranged that already????
Sorry, is Craig Gordon injured ?
67heaven
Apparently not!
Anyone notice that last years manager of the year in the SPFL, and the previous SPL manager of the year, have kinda got off to a sticky start to this season, we are well up to date on how the new Celtic manager is doing, funny that eh? Or is it just me?
Green and white tiger. Davidopaulus.
Enjoy yourselves at the Wimbledon CSC tonight. On holiday just now or I would have joined you.
Bmcuwp. It’ll be cracking to see you again. Normal pie service will have resumed for the weekend games by then. 2-1 hoops tonight.
Hail hail
tonydonnelly67
Yes, great observation por cierto