I like Neil Lennon. If Neil Lennon is talking about football, I shut up and listen. But I respectfully disagree on other subjects. If the last three years have taught us anything it’s that Celtic don’t need oldco or newco Rangers. Unequivocally, Celtic Park is quieter since Rangers liquidated, the level of competition we previously had added many to the gates, none of us feel the anxiety of genuine sporting challenge, but so what?
If Celtic sell 40,000 instead of 50,000 season tickets are we mortally wounded? The accounts would suggest otherwise. Does it mean we cannot compete in Europe? I refer to Neil’s record. Does it mean we cannot attract quality players? Well, it means we will not be able to attract some players, but I’m more than happy with the calibre of players we’ve recruited at the moment. Good riddance to the parts of Celtic that went out the door when Rangers were flushed down the Liquidation Lavvy.
I’m going to cut Neil some slack. I’ve been among Rangers fans and been generous enough to acknowledge income will rise at Celtic if newco ever reach the top flight. It costs nothing to be magnanimous.
What we do need is competition, the like of which Aberdeen have given us in the league this season and they and Dundee United may provide next season, if current trends continue. Congratulations are due to Hearts, who won the Championship before the clocks went forward, an incredible display of dominance, but as our two cup wins against them this season (3-0, 0-4) proves, they are miles away from providing the level of competition we see from Aberdeen.
Don’t have time to get dragged into a larger debate at the moment, but whenever Scottish football next turns its mind to strategic development, how to bolster Aberdeen and United should be top of the agenda. I enjoyed our four games against United this month and the recent league game against Aberdeen. More of them would be welcome.
We have a league split at the moment, where the top six hive off to play for the title, but it comes with only five games to play. An earlier split, allowing us more games against those at the top, while creating more opportunity for teams at the bottom to pick up points from their peers, makes more sense. Especially if more commercial income could be shared with the likes of Aberdeen and United.
Have you ever walked up Ben Nevis? Will you ever do so? It’s a big task if you are starting from scratch. When is it safe, what do you wear, what if something goes wrong, how long will it take, what about nourishment along the way?
The Ben Nevis Huddle delivers much of what you need on a plate. The Foundation have it all in hand. You get to walk up the mountain with a couple of hundred other Celts. They let you know what you need to know, check the weather for you and generally look out for things. They have left no one on the mountain. Yet.
What’s more, you get to do it in the name of Celtic FC Foundation, for our work with autism, downs, the homeless and destitute, those marginalised from our society, and those living in third world poverty.
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marspapa
19:01 on 23 March, 2015
Davie Cooper was a terrific player and on his on his day unplayable …
Played 5′s with him regularly in Larkhall and shared a good few pints with him , and always was a gentleman , it was a privilge when he called me friend .
Did he hate us when they played us definately , did I hate him when they played us definately , thats the nature of the game , imho a lovely man God bless his soul
That’s fine, that’s the way you want to see him, I know for a fact he was a bigoted HUN, and hated anything Celtic, .
thebarcamole @ 18:46,
Thank you……………..I think………
You know, I enjoyed you posts, too many good CQNers post infrequently these days.
But I’ve read a lot of nonsense written about NL over the years and can understand why you would want to defend him, but I thought on this occasion some context might help.
Mine not….
Hail Hail
Good evening friends
glasstwothirdsfull,
Nice one:))
Mibbee not!!!
So is Dave King putting pressure on the SFA by saying he won’t invest until the result of the fit and proper investigation?
That’s news and that’s sneaky.
Is it time to boycott the SFA’s Scottish Cup games yet?
No?
Oh well, we’ll just carry on harumphing on here and elsewhere and scramble for Hampden tickets as usual, until the SFA really do something to upset us.
allmoothcsc.
gearoid1998 18:49 on 23 March, 2015 ………….
No worries, at least your views are your own……….
Cheers.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Hearts must be due a points deduction when sfa/spfl spivs hear their players singing last night, 24 point one should about cover it ? No
Marspapa
Like you, I knew Davie Cooper. He was a warm and unconsciously charming person. I liked him. He was also marred by a streak of bigotry that he couldn’t help. I watched him send back wine glasses that had green stems because they had green stems. He had that flaw but I would not define him solely on that. He was a nice guy.
On the subject of Guidetti; I remember, as a young teacher, a parent complaining to my boss that I had called her son a liar. ” What you have to understand, Mrs x, ( said my boss) is that your son IS a liar.”‘
In the same way, what everyone has to understand is that they ARE Huns.
Good evening, Jobo.
Ray W–might be the ‘b’ word why it was deleted….HH
“Well Celtic just take it on the chin John Guidetti is guilty as charged there is video evidence of the interview and he plays for Celtic so he is fair game,Just like Boerichter and Tonev before him we keep bringing in loan players who have no respect for Scottish football and they keep letting the good name of Celtic down.Come on Celtic get the gloves off and stand up for our great club and our players”
Joe,
This makes no sense to me.
It contradicts itself surely?
Sipsini
Av goat a crush oan yir 20 summfin lassie
Jist kiddin lol !!
That story about Mo johnston is true alright. , aftet training they would be introduced to a prolific CATHOLIC goalscorer, the buzz about the place was electric because they were led to believe it was Ian Rush
When Mo Johnston was revealed , Davie said any tim but him , i’m off and Nicholl said he was with him , and btw COOPER was correct johnston was a fkn RAT ….
“I watched him send back wine glasses that had green stems because they had green stems.”
Dr Whatfor,
That is a sign of mental illness
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 18:59 on 23 March, 2015
THEBARCAMOLE
No chance of that,bud. I’m not to be trusted with people of drinking age. I lead them astray,apparently………………………
So where am I in this alcoholic jigsaw pal re leading people of drinking age astray???
TBM
I watched him send back wine glasses that had green stems because they had green stems.”
SAIS it all, I rest my case.
Geordie Munro.
Indeed.
THEBARCAMOLE
Good point,you taught me a lot!!
Met m johnson when he played for us…what a letdown…total moron of a guy…
The word “hun” sums them up perfectly.
Peeple motivated purely by their baser instincts – hate anger rage and a sense of superiority and entitlement based on nothing except what’s in their poisoned heads.
Jonathan Swift wrote in Gullivers Travels about a species he called Yahoos, a travesty of humanity embodying all of its worst attributes, who lived naked and unwashed in trees roaring and howling at each other and covered in the filth and excrement which they shat liberally and frequently all over the ground and each other.
A description not dissimilar to the huns behaviour in Manchester Barcelona and just about everywhere else they’ve polluted with their foul presence.
do I need to change my moniker ?
Doctor whatfor
I have friends who can talk about Rangers no problem , untill their uber Celtic supporting freinds join the company all of a sudden its fkn h… This gkn h… that dirty orange b’s and all sort of profanity”s
Mob rules and all that , maybe its the dame for some players , being subjected to all manners of abuse for doing your job … Anyhoo i’m off :-)
Jimmynotpaul 19:08 on 23 March, 2015………..
OK T thanks, just thinking about pals gone and aye BTW, like you. can only ever hear the song of McGrory and McStay being sung by Billy C…………….One of those things that cannot be shaken……………
Way past time for my staggered step to the stairs of Bedfordshire………
Maybe see you for a pint or four in May……………
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Gonna repeat it..saw it on twitter…” The reburial of Richard the 3rd has been cancelled as ATOS have declared him fit for work”…brilliant….
As Neganon is wont to say, Scotland is still institutionally sectarian/racist. Only in our benighted wee country could the national football association even consider citing Guidetti for singing a wee ditty on Dutch TV. We seem to be on the receiving end of utterly shameful charges even more this season.
We are hated. Look at the lengths they will go. They try and disrupt us in our series against DU by blackening the name of the national team captain, never mind allowing the manager and an endless procession of DU’s players bringing the game into disrepute without any charge being laid against any of them, never mind the hacking they employed without any criticism. Earlier of course we had that bastion of probity, the owner of Hearts condemning our support, while appeasing the undead. And so it will go on.
Let’s get out of here.Can you imagine what it would like if Sturgeon’s lot gained total control……………………????
Coincidental that Guedetti’s charge comes on the back of an online petition to have the word ‘hun’ classed as sectarian?
I think not.
Whitedogch…
Why would you? :))
Chairbhoy 19:12 on 23 March, 2015 ………..
Welcome, and thank you. Appreciated.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Paul, couldn’t agree more about the death of the Huns. As my love and knowledge of Celtic FC grew so too did my disgust at what that club stood for. When I visit Glasgow now I rarely see people wearing Hun attire. Also, whereas they would make derogatory comments in the past when they saw you with Celtic colours, now they just look the other way in embarrassment.
an tearmann 14:49: you are welcome big man. The club is the United Irishmen, Brother Walfrid is the main image on it. I laughed when people pointed you out and said “there’s chairman” :)
DD & Petec: What were you like last night?:) ya rockets. You and the others spoilt me rotten on Saturday I’m seriously considering coming over again before the season ends. Will choose a date after the last five fixtures are confirmed.
Coinnígí an creideamh
Parkheadcumsalford.
yeah..what was it…about 100years of a sectarian signing policy and
what was done about it under labour and tory govs…thats right..Nothing….
.
GEORDIEMUNRO. The first part is meant to be tongue in cheek fella. H.H.
Joe,
Well that explains it then :)
HH
marspapa 19:32 on 23 March, 2015……….
MY PAL………. ONE OF THE BEST………….. AND A LESSON IN GOODNESS………….
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Across in Malta enjoying the company of Zico MalteseBhoy and Mrs ZMB and just read about the JG ‘huns’ ‘deid’ debacle.
Posted this on Twitter to echo my disgust …
@embramike: So ‘huns’ and ‘deid’ is offensive? Now waiting for living relatives of Attila to sue @superguidetti and @celticfc any day now! Nonsensical !
Thebarcamole.
Yes I would like that.
H.T. has my number, once you have sorted out details ask H.T. to let me know.
I have to go and pick up my daughter now. Not Debbie though or that would be a bit of a journey!!!!
Willie Maley was his name Csc.
Hail Hail
ALMORE
Believe me,if anyone deserves to be spoiled rotten,you are the man!
Glasstwothirdsfull
The only wash Murray was interested in at the end was a Whyte one.