If Celtic overcome Armenian champions Alashkert in the Champions League first qualifying round, they will face either Icelanders, Valur, or our old pals, Rosenborg, from Norway. The Norwegians and Celtic will be overwhelming favourites to progress from the opening round.
Rosenborg gave Celtic a fright a year ago when they took a 0-0 draw from Celtic Park in the Champions League third qualification round. A James Forrest goal settled the return in Celtic’s favour.
Rosenborg went on to eliminate Ajax from the Europa League, winning home and away, before finishing third in their Europa League group behind Zenit St Petersburg and Real Sociedad. Norwegian teams play through the summer, so Rosenborg have played 27 games since their winter recess. This will be a stiff test for Celtic, should the first round go to form.
CQN Golf Annual Charity Open
This year’s CQN Open is set for Friday 29 June at the first class Aberdour Golf Club once again. It is a day of sport, entertainment, Celtic chat and is always good fun.
After the golf, we head up the road to the CQN friendly Woodside Hotel for our evening meal. We’ve the usual round up of all things Celtic by Paul67, and our very funny after dinner speaker is Willie Allan. Then musical entertainment from Scoogz, who you may have seen if you’ve been to Celtic Park entertainment nights. Plus all the usual prizes and charity fundraising, for the Petrov Foundation this year. Cost is £40 night only and £80 all day including golf. Please contact cqnopen2018@outlook.com if you’d like to attend this fun event.
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Personally i reckon a lot have moved onto twitter, which has caused the drop with people not posting anymore.
Good evening all, must say I am really enjoying the WC so far in comparison to 2014. I am not finding the VAR intrusive at all and look forward to the day when it is forced upon the cheating SFA. I would go even further and allow managers 3 calls per game for incidents anywhere on the field of play. That would send the cheats into a frenzy!
I like this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTj-_55WZ8
These Days
sipsini on 19th June 2018 9:05 pm
you could be right , but a while back some of the comments became personal and nasty
and not the reasoned replies of old , it was then I went back to lurking
.G-D on 19th June 2018 9:07 pm
now that would put the cat among the pigeons
HH
Sipsini
I reckon most of us are already onTwitter. And for that mstter the Facing Bock.
However , My friend ,CQN offers a totally different experience. Let’s embrace rather than deride
HH to all.
No Twitter or Facebook for me.
CQN only.
Tomorrow I will be fitted for my new dinosaur suit.
Scott Allan is back training with us and we have three u19’s on trial, names are unknown.
Apparently one from USA, one from Brazil, one from Columbia.
Hrvatski Jim on 19th June 2018 9:38 pm
bit of a fossil myself :-))))
HH
Jamesgang – last rites for CQN? As a long time lurker and v occasional poster, you’ve knocked me out of my post season stupor! Hope you’re wrong – you were one of the 1st people to welcome me to CQN long time ago – a place of warmth, learning, laughter, the odd flounce, but most of all Celtic! Hail! Hail! And long may it continue!
Let The People Sing
Then let me be one of the first to welcome you again!
It can be a magical place. I’ve certainly met so many magical people through it.
I too hope I’m wrong. Very wrong!
HH jamesgang
I don’t do facebook or twatter…
… I like CQN.
Put me down for a table at the Jurassic Café.
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… Or Almore’s Fans Café
Whichever is easiest to land the Tardis on.
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Remember the good ole days when people had the decency to flounce before they left and before that to threaten to flounce and prior to that they would announce that they were going to annouce a forthcoming threat of flouncing if things didnt change.
Now they just sneak off like little Sneaky MacSneakyPants
Well I tell you one thing I am in the ” I’ll never leave ” Clique.
The number of posters on CQN who hurl personal abuse around is relatively small , but the number of reasonable posters/lurkers who are put off by this is much larger. I’ve noticed a marked change in tone since I first came on to the blog many years ago…..It was during Tony Mowbray’s tenure, when I think we were more united in outrage against the campaign of ‘honest mistakes’.
Pebble in the pond time.
Squad management — need to up a gear.
Need to fill the loan roster ASAP.
Last season’s trio have all moved on in different ways.
The squad is one player down — two out / one in — and £5mill out of pocket.
Consequently A loan signing or two would be a great start.
We know the positions we have to fill so that should provide a focus and an impetus going forward.
Then comes the JMcG angle — £3mill down and another couple in add ons should get the deal done — please don’t get fancy and link it to SA going the other way. We are not that good.
Main thing for me is that if you don’t move forward you stagnate.
Last season we had peak BR 1.5 with the TFOD2 thumping and the SCF and the wonder goal at the end. Within less than 3 months we were on our erse with JF filling a jersey at CF and a CB pairing that could not get on the park due to a range of ailments.
Please not again — BR 3.0 needs to get off to a flying start.
Jamesgang – good mhan, that’s better!
Good Evening fholks
Our second summer CQN beer bash is on Sat 30th June and it will also be a belated 60th birthday bash for Lionsroar67.
We are planning to meet up at Malaga Tapas in Sauchiehall Street* at 1pm for a bit of tapas and beer and then onto The Bon Accord for a few beers from 3pm.
All welcome to join us , but if you want to join the lunch drop me an email at cqnpredictor@gmail.com as I need to book.
* Venue may change to the restaurant in St Andrews Road, if the restaurant in Sauchiehall Street does not re-open in time ( Closed due to the 2nd Great Fire in Sauchiehall Street)
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186534-d1087980-Reviews-Malaga_Tapas-Glasgow_Scotland.html
HH
CRC
Hrvatski …
as you know, I am a bit of a numpty when it comes to computer stuff…..
years ago, I set up a facebook account to keep in touch with my niece who was away at school….
at some point, I tried to change something about my facebook page, but somehow (because I’m a computer numpty) opening up a new, second facebook page in my own name ….
after that, I kept getting notices from me (my second facebook page) asking me if I (my first facebok page) wanted to be friends!
naturally, I said no! but every month I would get an email from me asking if I wanted to be my friend! used to drive me up the bloody wall!
Took me about three years to figure out how to cancel the second me.
Funny, now I kind of miss me.
:)
Stars
I flounced once I think, then thot better of it, why deprive all those who would rather see me flounce of me flouncing, I just decided to stay to annoy them all :-)
It makes sense to me anyways.
HH
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The fact the old blogs are at the side and they are 1000s strong and the blogs these days are in there 100s, JamesGang does have a very serious point.
I know a few who can’t handle the adds don’t bother any more, another handful the bitching, if that’s multiplied
What about the old Cqn summer reading list.
Anyone reading anything good
Any recommendations for the beach..Not that I will be getting to the beach this year. The old leopard print thong is staying in the wardrobe for another while
Now if the thoughts of that last sentence dont kill off CQN nothing will
With the parking restrictions coming into place I experimented on Sunday by cycling from Bishopbriggs to Celtic Park which is about 5 miles to see if this was a viable way to get to matches in decent weather.
In theory…yes.
In practice….unlikely due to traffic.
Looks like taking the car to Springburn and train to Duke Street. One train delay and kick off could be missed.
MIT
I wouldn’t be friends with myself either
G-D….
Spot on, the only team up here that won’t welcome VAR are the huns and the tribe that follow them. HH
WITS
Is that the Ronny Roar leopard print thong exclusively sold by the superstore at £18.88? :-)
HH
CRC
DAVID17 @ 9:42 PM,
That’s interesting…
With Lewis Morgan signed, Christie coming back and last Season Liam Henderson departed*, the conventional wisdom was, there was no place for Scott…
I’ve always thought there was a player there… if Brendan and his coaches do too, maybe he’ll get a chance and they can work their magic…
*Nice little article on CQN regarding Liam.
Hail Hail
Starry Plough
Now if it’s cringeworthy commentary you want…from the USA…
“That was a Knuckleball”
“He’s the Tip of the spear”
“Balls in the the Circle now”
“Shot was on frame”
All from this week’s games.
Knuckles, Spear, shot, balls – a negative association with personal injury emerged later.
Muted TV CSC
WITS – Do’t post too often myself.
What I’ve always found is that the people whose posts wind me up tend to post quite frequently.
Anyway, for summer reading it’s a bit heavyish but Tim Shipman’s ‘All out War’ is a great chronicle of the Brexit debacle.
Fundamentally CQN is a blog. A blog where we a talk Celtic ,and any topics the posters choose
The fact that many persons have met up and became friends is secondary ( however welcome) to the original concept.
Let’s welcome all newcomers who may choose to participate. And let’s welcome back those who have sinned
HH.
TET…
The bitching only started when females were allowed to post. ???
mike in toronto on 19th June 2018 10:05 pm
Hilarious
I opened a facebook account and my daughter was at home and looked at it asking
“mum why have you so many friends ? and how do you know these people from south America and south Africa?
I answered “people have taken time to ask me to be their friend I cant just ignore them”
needless to say she removed half of my account
better sticking to cqn :-)))
HH
Well on behalf of CQN, I can report that I carried out slightly more research than Darren Cooney* on behalf of the R**ord Online, into Alashkert, and can avail my readers of the good news that the surface of the Alashkert Stadium is grass. The club play in yellow shirts, black shorts and yellow socks. Away kit is all white.
The team have played eight Champions League Qualifiers to date, only losing twice. Their record includes creditable draws against Dinamo Tbilisi at home and BATE Borisov away last season.
* I spent ten minutes whilst watching TV and conversing with Mrs H.
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Mike
Get Seamus to sort it out for you.
Hope that all is well with you.
I am nervous about Facebook in particular.
Today my business had a cyber attack from a range of China based attackers. Our system security measures prevented access. As you know we hold sensitive personal information and penetration would have been a major problem for us.
I am amazed at what people post publicly on Facebook and similar sites.
Little old CQN is enough for me.
sipsini on 19th June 2018 10:19 pm
Ahemmmmmmmmmmmm :-)))
HH
Dena29
Nice to see you posting! Hope you and your lovely daughter are well?
Caityrollercoaster in Zante at mo ( back home tomorrow) with her pals and many other kids from the area. MrsCRC will shortly be able to come down from the ceiling only to go back up there when she leaves for Dundee in a couple of months, :-)
HH
CRC
CRC, been to the one in St Andrews Road for my brother’s 60th (his choice). Brilliant food and service.
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Sipsini, absolutely and it will only happen if the SFA clean up their act and start acting like an organisation which exists to benefit all members.
I was at a meeting in Salsburgh last year with the fabulous Paul Larkin who really was a treasure trove on the beginnings of Masonic influence in the SFA, I believe the origins were in Carluke. On a pro rata basis he told me that 1% of Scotland were Masons and 60% of Refs were! That shocked me to the core and saddened me greatly. I don’t believe I have Paul’s figures wrong but stand to be corrected as I had a few sherberts by that time.
Sips
Even with the :-)))) you are trading on dodgy ground :-)
HH