While captain Scott Brown will return to first team action this week, with the league encounter with Aberdeen out of the way, Brendan Rodgers will almost certainly continue to rest players ahead of the teams next meeting in the Scottish Cup Final.
Getting it right for Hampden is only one aspect the manager will be concerned about. Celtic’s first Champions League qualification round starts eight weeks tomorrow, between now and then the entire squad has to get their annual rest period and a significant portion of preseason. Several will also be on international duty four weeks from now.
While you and I want to see out the league programme undefeated, it is more important players are rested for the various cup finals which take place between now and the end of August. The Partick Thistle game on Thursday doesn’t register on what is important.
Celtic FC Foundation
Six days from now, while you are watching Celtic skelp Hearts, I’ll be running my first marathon, in aid of the Celtic Foundation. I’m now in mild panic about what lies ahead, but on this Anniversary month, it’s important that we pay more than lip service to what being a Celtic supporter is all about.
If you are able to, please support the Foundation here. If you are unable to, perhaps you know the Hail Mary…….
Thank you for the unbelievable support I’ve received so far. There will be a time on Sunday when it will fuel the legs.
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Reggie,
Where is the evidence that Brendan disapproves of rebel songs.?
There is no evidence. I hope none is forthcoming as it will be a sad day. I’d very much like to avoid that happening.
But if he does speak out as Lennon was compelled to then what? Will you ignore his will as you ignore Lennon’s? Or will you attack whoever asked the question? Engage in whataboutery perhaps? I know the huns are worse than we are. I just don’t accept that that is the barometer.
Good night. God bless. HH
Reffie
Not interested in your papers and made no comment about you.
However…
“Of course not. But it is a reason. ”
You did say “haemorrhaging” which suggests it was a big part of the bleeding. It’s not even in the top 5 reasons.
TR
Thanks for the kind thoughts.
Time for my bed, i think.
Apologies- Reggie- not reffie
It’s a rotten newspaper but a good article.
Scott Brown
Good night!
REGGIE – I’m not attempting to defend,nor exonerate anything,or anybody here… However,you’re opinion that the Celtic support singing one or two rebel songs – has deterred football fans in the 26 counties from supporting Celtic, is pure and utter tripe.
It’s a non-issue.
How do I know?
Because I’ve sat in many a pub,in every county in Ireland – in the midst of the most fanatical EPL fans on earth, bar maybe the Far-East.
Once the game is over, the music is on – and the ballads begin, and the ballads they sing.
Resplendent in their Liverpool or Manchester United regalia.
We are Celtic supporters,not Liverpool fans.
Lastly – ye constantly referring to NFL as “Lennon” – Hopefully that’s outta respect.
HH.
What we have here Is NOT a problem of communication….
Exciting Times (And politically explosive) .
I Hope I live to see it unfold.
As Frankie Boyle said….
That moment when you realize Armageddon may stop 10 in a row…
Missed The Cool Hand from that last post. Exciting Times…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxjR3yQvwck&sns=em
Well said PJBHOYNYC,well said indeed.
We are the CELTIC.
From Ballymurphy to the Bronx.
We cannot be defeated – Many have tried, wept and cried :
https://youtu.be/7m94ip38UKs
COME ON CELTIC!
:)
HH.
Good Morning CQN
9 days to go.
Today in Lisbon, the weather will be mainly clear with frequent sunny intervals, and no rain forecast. Temperature will reach a predicted high of 86 degrees.
:-)
Bateen bhoy
Factor duffle coat for me when we arrive on Tuesday by the looks of it
No doubt catch up at some pint in the week
Or point obviously ☘️☘️
Morning all. Still looking for a spare for Sunday if anyone can help.
Good morning friends from a ground-damp, fairly bright but mostly cloudy and breezy east Kilbride.
Blantyretim,
yes, a chilly 74 on Tuesday next week according to my trusty forecaster. Better make sure you pack those hooped longjohns. :-)
Catch up with you next week
☘️
FAO HEBCELT ( QUIZ),
I haven’t read back fully yet so sorry if this was posted already ?
How many International caps did the Lisbon Lions have collectively ?
Let me know if you want the answer, or you may already know this question/answer ?
I won a Tie Break in a Celtic Quiz in Bairds Bar one night, against Michael from Charlie and the Bhoys.
Easy Easy Michael, if yer lurkin you know me well !
HH
Read the demonic monster IDS has gone to hell.
Not a peep about it on Monkey Media, strangely enough.
Considering that pedos are their own chosen,specialist subject.
37 page spreads and what not.
The sick zombie cnuts.
No point scoring, no apologies – just an expose of their own ridiculous hypocrisy.
Peepil
In
Glass
Houses
Shouldn’t
Throw
Stones
Say what?
The Scotsman: Alan Pattallu
Scott Brown: I’d love to end my career at Celtic
Scott Brown wants to finish his career at Celtic and plans to sit down to discuss a new deal when the season ends.
Brown, whose contract runs out at the end of next season, could go into the talks having led Celtic to a historic treble.
Manager Brendan Rodgers, who recently extended his stay at the club until 2021, is sure to want his captain’s future secured. Rodgers recently described the 31-year-old midfielder as on a par with Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante – named footballer of the year in England by both his fellow players and football writers.
Brown, who joined Celtic ten years ago today, feels he has nothing to prove by moving to England and is determined to stay at Parkhead.
“I have one year left,” he said yesterday.
“We haven’t spoken about extending, not yet. We will wait until after this season is out the way and see what happens. We have three important games left so there is no point in talking about contracts now.
“I would love to stay here as long as possible and finish at this club. It’s the best club I have ever been at and the best club I ever will be at. The fanbase, the football base and training base are first class.
“The ten years doesn’t really mean too much, it’s more about me playing for Celtic as long as I possibly can,” added Brown. “I think once I retire and look back I’ll probably think about it a lot more rather than when I’m still playing.
“Just now, I just need to try to enjoy playing football as long as I possibly can, because you never know when your career is going to be over.
“I’ve got a year left at Celtic, so I’ve got to enjoy the rest of this season and next and you never know where I’ll go from there or what I’ll do from there.”
Linked several times with moves to the English top flight, Brown, has so far resisted.
“No, I don’t need to prove anything to anybody,” he said.
“People can judge me if they want, but I’m not going to prove I need to be in England.
“I play for Scotland, I captain my country and the only thing I want to do is lead my country to a World Cup and win trophies for Celtic.
” After the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May there is a two-week gap before Brown’s season is due to finish with a World Cup qualifier against England at Hampden. Brown is available for selection but will consult Gordon Strachan before the Scotland manager names his squad.
“Am I playing? I’ll speak to Gordon and see what happens in the next few days,” he said. “Will I get a holiday? That’s the problem. I have sat down with the gaffer [Rodgers] and looked at a couple of situations. We will see how it goes.”
Daily Record: Gordon Parks
Celtic skipper Scott Brown says he was a ‘cocky little p****’ until former manager Gordon Strachan sorted him out
After the current Scotland boss sat him down at the end of his ‘immature’ first term, Brown went from tearaway to diamond as he had one of his best seasons the following year.
A decade at Celtic is a landmark Scott Brown could scarcely believe possible when he arrived as a cocky kid.
But as unlikely as it appeared on May 16, 2007, when he signed a £4.4million deal from Hibs, that’s exactly what the Hoops captain celebrates today.
Yet for all the silverware he has lifted since, Brown pinpoints a title-winning date at Dundee United in 2008 when he played a peripheral role in the run-in as the day the penny dropped.
Gordon Strachan dropped the midfielder to the bench for the Tannadice triumph, a dramatic learning curve that ensured Brown would go on to lead the party rather than feel like the spare part.
He said: “I got suspended for four games at the end of my first season.
“The rules had changed and six yellow cards got you a suspension so every season I’d be suspended four times. I missed the run-in to us winning the league at Tannadice. I came back with two games to go and we had won four or five in a row so I was on the bench for the last two games.
“I came on but thought I better change my ways instead of missing the games and I wanted to be part of the team that won the league.
“Don’t get me wrong, it was phenomenal still to be part of the squad and winning games.
“But from there Gordon sat down with me and we spoke about it and I went on to have one of my best seasons the next year.
“I felt as if I owed him. Everyone knew I was a wee bit immature when I signed and it was more on the field than anything.
“Instead of following the man back I would end up trying to win the ball and mistiming the tackle, picking up silly bookings and that sort of thing.
“It was just about changing small parts of my game to improve everything and he was the one who did it. That’s why I owe him.”
The Celtic captain is far from flattering about his own abilities when he first arrived with that hefty price tag. He’s even less complimentary about his personality flaws at the time but credits Strachan as the man who turned a 21-year-old on-field tearaway into a polished diamond.
He said: “When I first signed I was a cocky little p****. I’ve enjoyed every single minute of it and there have been ups and downs. But there have been a lot more ups than there have been downs. I could have gone to England but the main thing was Gordon Strachan.
“The wee man was brilliant when I went and spoke to him. He understood what was going to happen and from that moment he was phenomenal – everything about him, the way he trained and the way he spoke, the way Peter Lawwell spoke as well and how highly they spoke about me.
“I didn’t speak that highly of myself so it was quite good of them. I was a wee so and so but I wasn’t a defensive midfielder, that’s for sure.
“I would bomb on, run about and chase every single ball and tackle anything that moved. I didn’t have too much quality on the ball or the vision to see a pass.
“It was about getting my game away from the running and chasing a ball so I got two dogs to do that for me instead. Gordon taught me how to play in a position.
“He played a 4-4-2 at the time and made me more of a defensive midfielder rather than an attacker and I used my legs at the back. He got me to understand my game.”
Brown’s mentor has never been far away with Strachan now counting on the Celtic captain to help his Scotland side open a door to World Cup qualification with a win over England next month.
The 31-year-old said: “I spoke to him the other day and he was saying he told me last season that when you’re 29 and have a bad game you’re just s**** but when you’re 30 and have a bad game then your legs have gone.
“He said, ‘You’re 31 and flying – you need to get it out of everybody’s head that you’re too old before your time and play as long as you can. I played until I was 40.’ And I was like, ‘Aye, I know gaffer – we all know you played until you were 40!’
“I probably couldn’t play as well as he did when he was 40 but I’ll give it a right good go and play as long as I possibly can.”
Rest In Peace Brian (lambos front teeth). Another CQN’er gone to Paradise, may his family friends be comforted in this sad time..
YNWA
Thoughts and prayers with the families of Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Especially for the family of a Keith Bennett who’s body was never found.
There is a special place in hell for you Ian Brady. Never RIP you evil bastard of a sub human. I hope you suffer for eternity.
MWD
Good Morning CQN.
*IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION* *IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION*
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PROPOSED FUNDRAISER IN THE ADMIRAL BAR SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 18TH MAY HAS BEEN POSTPONED!
WHEN IT WAS BOOKED AND PLANNED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO NOBODY ENVISAGED THAT THERE WOULD BE A CELTIC MATCH AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME.
HAVING DISCUSSED THE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS THEY PREVAIL NOW, WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ADMIRAL, WE HAVE AGREED TO POSTPONE THE EVENT UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR TO A DATE WHERE WE CAN HAVE A CELEBRATION OF EVENTS IN LISBON WHERE THE FOCUS WILL BE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF LISBON AND ON RAISING SOME MONEY FOR GOOD CAUSES, SOME LIVE MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT, RATHER THAN ON A LIVE MATCH.
SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED AND HOPE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS.
BRTH
Word of The Day (Inspired by the SFA and SPFL)
Homologate /hɒˈmɒləˌɡeɪt/
verb (transitive)
1. (mainly Scots law) to approve or ratify (a deed or contract, esp one that is defective)
2. (law) to confirm (a proceeding, etc)
3. to recognize (a particular type of car or car component) as a production model or component rather than a prototype, as in making it eligible for a motor race
Derived Forms
homologation, noun
Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin homologāre to agree, from Greek homologein to approve, from homologos agreeing, from homo- + legein to speak
KTF
Moonbeams – I expect to be barred for life for that post, and rightly so.
However,could you imagine the outcry if that demonic monster had any kind of connection to Celtic?
They’re even trying to link thon Dunblane child murderer to Celtic ffs.
I’m fed up with it.
Probably the last post, but remember this – I know the zombie like I know the back of my own hand.
Worst cowards.
Gone.
KTF.
Reading back after my Nightshift
Thoughts and prayers with LambosFrontTeeth,, family and friends.
HH
I stand by every word I say by the way.
Unrepentant Fenian Bassa.
F them all.
Def gone now.
God bless the Celtic of Glasgow.
Slan.
HH.
Reggie on 16th May 2017 1:47 am
There is no evidence. I hope none is forthcoming as it will be a sad day. I’d very much like to avoid that happening.
But if he does speak out as Lennon was compelled to then what? Will you ignore his will as you ignore Lennon’s? Or will you attack whoever asked the question? Engage in whataboutery perhaps? I know the huns are worse than we are. I just don’t accept that that is the barometer.
Good night. God bless. HH
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Reggie, herein lies the answer. Neil Lennon was compelled to – your words. That was, IMHO, a carefully worded statement from the Club.
Fast forward to the day Celtic were next presented with the SPL trophy; what did Neil Francis do? He apologized to the Green Brigade by walking over to Section 111 and planting the trophy right in front of them. That’s what he REALLY
KTF
* ..that’s what he REALLY felt! *
KTF
Still looking for a couple of tickets for the Thistle game on Thursday if anyone has any spares.
KTF
16 roads
KTF
Good morning,
Looking for a little help, my little princess niece, dropped the iPad last night, it has lines running through it like a badly tuned tv. Can anyone recommend a repair shop in Glasgow, it is out of warranty ( bought in US)
Thanks,
Hail Hail
Bom Dia! From a very sunny Lisbon. Set for 28 degrees today. Beer will be drunk. Take care everyone. HH
Just to remind everyone that there is a special Mass at St Mary’s in The Calton on Saturday 20th May at 11:00am for the Lisbon Lions (some of whom will be in attendance).
More details here: http://www.celticfc.net/news/12580
KTF
Reggie your a stinking Hun clown
No true Celtic supporter calls Neil Francis Lennon by his surname
So foff back to FF scumbag
Almore
6.54 am
I’m not coming up for the game so there’s a chance my ticket will be available. I’ve just messaged my kids to see if it’s being used. If not, it’s yours . Will wait on reply from kids
Just watched Brendan’s interview with CS.
“(When we are together) Celtic is a powerful force. We will have bumps along the way…”
Heaven help us on here when we have a bump :-0
My team for Thistle:
Gordon, Izzy, Erik, Boyata, Ralston, Biton, Henderson, Johnson, Rogic, Forrest, Griff
Very sad to read of the passing of Lambosfronteeth recall speaking with him at a CQN event. He told me how
he was way too busy working to use the Blog but still looked in occasionally.
Requiescat in pace