Could someone remind me the last time we heard rumours that Ronny Deila had players rebelling against him? I heard it often, and put it to the club, but was told the players had bought-into the changes, then underway and largely unproductive. I think we got our answer after the full-time whistle yesterday. This is a group of players and manager with a common purpose.
Celtic are now top of the league, a point away from qualifying from the Europa League knock-out stages, and are beginning to look like a team, but the results are largely secondary to the transformation. Even if Virgil’s 90th minute winner hadn’t arrived at Pittodrie, progress is evident. The fragility and lack of cohesion which marked so many of our performances until early last month has gone.
Success has many fathers so it’s difficult to know exactly what’s behind the improvement. Scott Brown’s return from injury helped enormously, as did the return of Mikael Lustig and Adam Matthews (although I thought Adam had a torrid time with Niall McGinn yesterday).
The blossoming of Stefan Johansen has to be the most striking element. He has without doubt been the most improved player this season and an early contender for end of season awards. By any measure, he had no right to score his goal yesterday.
The return of James Forrest, who yesterday played his fourth game in eight months, will give the squad an extra boost before the final two Europa League group games. If he has fully recuperated from the problems which blighted him throughout this year, he’ll give fresh impetus to the pacey product Ronny is trying to hone.
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Bada
Believe me mate I’d rather I was just going and watching the football.
Parkheadcumsalford
18:54 on
10 November, 2014
By the bye, did any TV channel comment on “clever” McGinn (copyright McCann), never mind condemn him, for diving and having our captain sent off?
Same happened last season,Stokes moved the ball from a FK at Tannadice,[backwards or square],and scored.A week later Moloney done the same for Scotland,and it was “really smart play”
Havant & Waterlooville v Preston North End FA Cup 1st Round 20:00BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 1 HD
The romance of the FA cup CSC
Oops, meant to mention, day 7 and still going strong, much to the annoyance of BMCUW. Lol.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Aberdeen policing of Celtic supporters has a funny side for me, although it wasn’t so funny at the time.
My late brother Brian married an Aberdeenshire lass and moved up to live there. In fact it was his daughter I stayed with on Saturday night prior to the game at Pittodrie on Sunday.
In September 1994, Brian’s 40th birthday weekend coincided with Aberdeen v Celtic and a big party on the Saturday night after the game.
Mid Saturday morning, Brian and his wife were in a hotel bar near the harbour in Aberdeen. The Celtic Supporters bus from Motherwell was due to pass the hotel and the plan was to drop me and my 3 other brothers off to meet Brian and his wife for a bit of lunch before the game.
Brian was standing on the street outside the hotel as planned when the bus duly stopped and the 4 of us dismounted and greeted our brother.
Just at that, a big uniformed police sergeant appeared from nowhere and ordered us to get back on our bus. Brian was at pains to explain that he was expecting us for a family occasion but he was having none of it. All he would say, in his gruff, Aberdeen accent was, “Git back oan yir bus!”
Every word of protest was silenced by a wave of the hand and the plaintive cry, “Git back oan yir bus!”
A couple more coppers appeared and we knew we’d have to accede. As we trundled back on the bus, we were astonished upon seeing Brian, whose wife was sitting waiting for him in the hotel bar, being unceremoniously ushered onto the bus.
“But I wasn’t on the bus,” he protested.
“Git back oan yir bus!”
Argument was futile and we were being threatened with arrest, which would have completely ruined the whole weekend for everyone. Eventually the bus moved off, with a perplexed Brian sitting there shaking his head. There were no mobile phones in those days and we had to get a taxi back to the hotel. It took about an hour and Brian’s wife was convinced he had met us and pissed off to another pub, leaving her to stew in her own juices.
She took a lot of convincing.
Celtic won. The party was a great success, and every time we saw a copper, one of us shouted, “Git back oan yir bus!”
The Celtic security department seem to agree with focus that there is a problem with our support. Focus claim their tactics are intelligence led and having communicated with both frequently about this don’t hold your breath about the club backing their fans.
WeeFra
Well done on the past 7 days wee man, keeping busy is the answer. Cleaning windows for example :-)
Celtic score after 2 mins. Cross by Liam Henderson turned in by defender for OG
bournes….
Any figures for Sunday Herald?
Acgr@18.52
Again I understand that WC wants to keep everyone up to speed with the intended “here’s why you are dead article” but I would seriously consider holding a few little surprises back for maximum effect.
HH
parkheadcumsalford
Raman actually saw a tug. If he keeps this up he’ll be a ref soon…
hh
Bsr@18.57
With a bit of luck and a few novenas.
Architectsoftheirowndownfallcsc.
KTF Bsr.
Delaneys Dunky & Dallas, I posted a photo of the Lisbon Lions CSC on the CQN Facebook page. Would post it on here, but ah canny, don’t know how! So if some tech wizard would be kind enough to put it on here, I would be very grateful…not sure if ex lions will be! It will make you feel very old. Thanks Frantic07.
Leftclick….
Thanks for that little bit of solace…I think lol
geordie munro
18:43 on 10 November, 2014
:-))) Needed something to sit on the way down the road. We had used our seats to smash up a local carry out shop.
Youngest daughter tries to download Kevin Bridges AudioBook……..message comes up not enough room on your iPhone to download this book.
Email invoice £9.95 received for book via iTunes and the bank of Dad.
Arrrrgggghhhhh
Ron Bacardi
18:16 on
10 November, 2014
Parkheadcumsalford 17:24 on 10 November, 2014
Was it 1960 that we played them at ibrox and were getting hammered
That was the first ‘big’ game my late father took me to . He wouldn’t let me go to another until the Dunfermline cup final in 65.
That Ibrox game was a nightmare for a young kid. Celtic fans on the pitch , bottles getting thrown at fellow celtic fans. Scary.
HT
Aye, wi nae friggin thanks to you buddy. Hahahaha. Hope you and Minx had a ball on the way home yesterday. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Henrik Larsson
Want to wish the man continued success for himself and family. He really is a one off and deserves to be a success, and he will be.
in a year or so perhaps young Jordan will grace us with his presence, now that would be something, would it not?
KINGLuBO
A great win yesterday , and a right boot up the Archie for that Mcinnes , a right horrible bigot of a man . But although delighted to be back at the top of the league , I am not getting carried away , because we are far short of being a good team . I won’t argue that from the start of the season we have shown slight improvement ,but it’s just slight improvement . There are positions within the team that need vastly improved . We have a window coming up , an opportunity to fill in the blanks , which for me lie chiefly in midfield . Midfield should be our engine room , creating chances for our forwards . controlling the midfield area by nullifying the other teams attacks , and helping out our defence , tasks our present midfield fall down on , I lost count yesterday how many chances they had from us not clearing our lines at free kicks and corners . Ball bobbling around the edge of the 18 yard box , giving opponents free time to have a pop . And I still feel we are too soft .a point I have made on many occasions . I also hope we can fix VVD up long term ,as this lad is class , but I can’t see him being a Celt after January . All the points made are mho only , but that’s my view of where we are today
Weefra
few weeks but progressing well
BSR –
Shitting myself I was :-)
hamiltontim
19:04 on 10 November, 2014
Serious question would you rather have the search yesterday or the free for all attitude at Motherwell. The Friday night game when the seats got broke.
justafan
The Herald and the Sunday Herald now appear in the twice-yearly ABC regional newspapers report,…..apparently.
HH
Lennons p
:)
Bsr, tell her to delete some guff of it and try again. It shouldn’t charge you twice.
BSR
I did the same with a tv series for my wife’s i-pad.
I had to de-install a load of stuff to make room for it.
Not only was she unhappy about this, she thought the show was mince!
No good deed goes unpunished!
roy croppie
19:03 on
10 November, 2014
The Celtic security department seem to agree with focus that there is a problem with our support. Focus claim their tactics are intelligence led and having communicated with both frequently about this don’t hold your breath about the club backing their fans.
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Interesting,the info I keep receiving is the searches on us are because of the high probability of flare usage based on previous games,I have not actually analysed any other occurences at other games to see if their reasoning is factual.
Geordie
We’ll get it………it’s out there somewhere on the great big hard drive in space ( or California )
SteveJobs CSC
excathedra44
I know some other clubs had issues with flares but it does appear to be very heavy handed for our support. I wonder how other fans are responding.
Bsr, lol
Aye I’ve to do a format or 5. They always turn back up. :)
beatbhoy
You’ve just got to love wives ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
My daughter left with her pal for a “power walk” I know…. She is just of the phone Caesar the cat has followed them… Daft as brush that cat.
weefrathetim
7 in a row.
My hero! (Well you were already!)
It’s dark now. Safe for another day for those windows!
HH jamesgang
WeeFra
We were both very sensible as we had work today, the good lady was on soft drinks!! :-)
BSR
Or else!
lennon’s passion
19:15 on 10 November, 2014
hamiltontim
19:04 on 10 November, 2014
Serious question would you rather have the search yesterday or the free for all attitude at Motherwell. The Friday night game when the seats got broke.
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There were reasons why Fir Park occurred mate, none of which would have been prevented by searches outside the stadium.
Obviously the smokes may have been stopped but nothing else.
sips
Hail Hail Caesar the Cat
Hail hail to all in CQN land.
Have been reading the site for about ten years now and only ‘rediscovered’ my log in details over the weekend so thought I would start posting my inane drivel from time to time with you fine lhads if thats ok….
ST holder in FS1 with mini-calves for a few years now but fully expect the ‘he’s a current bun !’ fingerpointing – it has been a right of passage on CQN since Jesus was a laddie.
Big hail hail to any other tims isolated in a sea of sevconians (aka Fife) :)
CHCalves