Any away win by a Scottish club in the Netherlands is noteworthy but Aberdeen’s win last night is even more significant. It is a sign that a recovery is underway in one of Scottish football’s perennial underachievers. St Johnstone’s result is more of the same after last year’s achievements. Motherwell’s sorry exit is a lesson on being unprepared….
If Celtic can reach the Champions League group stage for the third successive season, there’s reason to believe our game is on solid ground after the years of excess and abandon.
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Lasley epitomises everything that has been wrong with Scottish football for many seasons. It is ironic that a player who has been indulged by Scottish referees should be at the centre of this debacle.
Chavez
11:34 on
25 July, 2014
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I have been “pre-moderated” on the Guardian comments for asking/suggesting that Israeli Jews committing genocide in the Gaza Ghetto are no better than the German Nazi’s committing genocide in the Warsaw Ghetto……..
Democracy my errs………..
Lisbon Lions in Coatbridge store tomorrow
http://www.celticfc.net/news/6321
1. We seek out and buy gems from under the radar and hope to build home-grown youth players plucked early.
2. Part of our sell to said gems is that they will get the chance to promote their skills in the ECL and earn a bigger move (to them) to that big ugly, overpaid neighbour next door.
We align our investment with top training facilities, sports science, tip top scouting and a management team aimed at improving the gems to our benefit.
3. We hope that this churn doesn’t become unbalanced to the point of starting afresh each season.
There are risks and the bang for the buck at scouting level isn’t good enough but it improving. McGuiness, Collins and Deila will see us create one of the fittest teams around.
So anybody who needs reminded of this strategy again and again (and we can howl at the moon at its unfairness) is just refusing to pay attention and is a stirrer.
‘Bored’ indeed.
Peter Lawell stole my girlfriend csc
“Yes a great night for team Scotland and a great night for them this morning too.”
Jane Lewis, BBC Scotland 5 minutes ago.
Italiabhoy
Great post sir. I don’t like it either and football for me is dying on its arse.
Without sounding arrogant I have to put up with a Hull City fan at work who has now joined the smug band of EPL worshippers pretending they are one of the big boys !
Hull blinking City !
Our achievements in the ECL over the last few years in the main have been incredible with the deck set against us.
MCDOWELCELT
He should heed the advice offered on here.
But no,so might as well let him go.
Get as much as possible would be my suggestion now-oh,and a written transfer request too.
001 no mate done it once here it was good but not again. Prefer the sun and warm
Premier Sports £9.99 a month,minimum 2 months + £10 connection fee
they are showing St Pauli game tomorrow and a bhoy posted they are showing Legia Warsaw away on Wednesday
St. Stiv’s (from last night)
Thanks for the support re TSD’s outburst but I have never written to Paul asking for anyone to be banned. Paul has shown his attitude to this poster and his supporters by his rulings on matters and it is his blog and his rules as far as I am concerned. I have never asked that anyone be banned. I have argued long and hard that the poisonous tone brought about by hun infiltrators a few years back who were taunting us about our club (in contrast to Edward Ursus’s polite presence) that the blog would react and quickly become just an exchange of insults. A similar effect is being created by TSD and chums. Whether it is the one sided posts that seek to generalise from Isis, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram to demonise all Islamists and all immigrants in turn, or the much less harmful wind-up postings of our correspondents from Daily Record Land, the same effect of generating heat rather than light would result and has resulted.
As I say, I never proposed banning. A couple of these posters are popular with others and merit their place in conversing with their friends as much as I do. I proposed and continue to propose that CQN move on to threads format so that these people can find their own home and area but I do not need to be associated (in the eyes of other Celtic sites) with an attitude that tolerates or condones this pish.
There are not two sides to this. There is no equivalent alternative voice promoting the virtues of Islamic fundamentalism, Communism or Left-wing terrorism. There are no voices suggesting the Yellow Man, Black Man or Brown Man is superior to the Caucasian. There are no voices defending ISIS atrocities.
Last night, TSD merely suggested that, in fighting the Red Army, his “Bosnian” Muslims were fighting SFTB’s friends, the Russians. The idea that I would defend the Russian position is a joke as my posts to Zbyszek and John O’Neil have shown. TSD and Jo’N have shown much greater support of Putin’s boys which gives you a good idea of where on the spectrum of democracy, Putin lies.
TSD’s post last night was full of the usual one-eyed nonsense about the complexities of WW2. In citing three divisions of SS helpers to the Nazi regime, he overlooks the much larger contribution of Croatian Catholics and clergy like Archbishop Stepinak and Friar Filipovic to the cause of the Ustasa. Bishop Saric of Sarajevo said :-
“there is a limit to love. The movement of liberation of the world from the Jews is a movement for the renewal of human dignity. Omniscient and omnipotent God stands behind this movement.”
If we are going to equate a Mufti’s support of the Nazis for Islamic backing of the Holocaust then we are free to make the same demonising generalisations about the RC church (and other Christian supporters of the Nazis) and pretend there was an indelible association with that regime. Of course, kitalba and others a few months ago pointed us in the way of the more complex picture of relations between the RC church and the German regime in WW2, so we should not be making that stupid generalisation any more. There were no bad or good churches; there were individuals everywhere, of all denominations, who stood for or against the right wing extremists. One of the few groups with a more continuous record of pro-Nazi support were the British Mosleyists and their offspring today, the EDL and BNP, the bed-fellows of TSD himself, who only recently disavowed Hitler because he was an election liability rather than being wrong and evil.
So thanks for the support, but I feel Paul is disinclined to banning.
I have been told that CQN Facebook is relatively free of the poisonous presences but I am not on Facebook so I cannot guarantee that this is a fact.
Anyway, I appreciate the support and the sentiments.
big wavy,
Totally agree.
However, it won’t stop the logic defying captains of industry and sporting gurus who inhabit these pages from insisting on an unspecified alternative policy.
tom mclaughlin
13:45 on 25 July, 2014
“Yes a great night for team Scotland and a great night for them this morning too.”
Jane Lewis, BBC Scotland 5 minutes ago.
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Jane couldn’t have gone home last night.
One’s Big Cup gives one big ears
ST would it be OK to cut and paste anyone of your posts and repost them twice a day give you some time to do something else. Posting the same thing over and over does’nt make it any less right or wrong why not try a bit wit or even rearrange the words. I respect your right to hold your opinion but please change the record. Hail Hail Hebcelt
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
Ssssssh don’t mention the Facebook CQN clique of all cliques or there will be smoke alarms in the rubber rooms of the serially deranged!!
The flotsam and jetsam of CQN’s ocean wash up there of an evening, not like here but not too bad when the blood pressure levels are being tested on here..
Thanks for taking a stand when I myself am shocked more and more by the levels of uniformed and downright bogus material posted on here daily..
Starry..
BMCUW
Ya cheeky young bassa!
I will be having a word with yer dad!
HH!!
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Admirable post and admirable restraint.
TSD just has a wee pop at whoever is his flavour of the month in order to inject a little bit of needle/humour into his posts.
Like he reckons we read them and say-oh ain’t he the one,bloody funny guy,that-while reading and subliminally ingesting the rest of the garbage ideology espoused.
That’s not to suggest that he is a clever poster. Were he,he would have learned how to get his opinions over without alienating everyone.
And that last sentence identifies him for what he is. An attention seeker.
Maybe he isn’t allowed the remote control in his own house,I dunno. But while I believe the site should be open to the views of everyone,that is subject to common decency.
Something he has shown himself to lack.
As for Facebook,if you ever see me on there,shoot me. Or the person pretending to be me.
If rather put a rusty four-inch nail through my foot and walk to Ampleforth for a dirty weekend.
TALLYBHOY
Sorry,bud.
Couldnae resist it.
Off to see his grandson tomorrow in Reading. We’ll raise a glass to our absent ancestor.
He’s still in the doghouse after The Market. My Mum thought he was only nipping down to The Market in Kilwinning!
squire danaher (and Richie) from earlier
I am afraid that I was, perhaps, offended by Squire D’s assertion too but, since Richie withdrew his objection, I should check I have understood the point intended.
I took it to read that you were saying that the same people who mistake an anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist post for anti-semitism also tend to equate support for Scottish Independence with support for the SNP.
If that was what, indeed, was intended then I am offended on 2 levels.
Firstly, because of the crass comparison with the warfare of the Middle East with a democratic settlement of the future relationships between the “nations” of Wales. England and Scotland.
But, secondly, because it is inaccurate. I read most of the blog (I know?) and I spotted only one poster who made that connection between anti-Israeli and anti-semitism. That was JO’N posting now as Captain Beefheart. Is he the poster you meant? Is he really guilty of getting heavily involved with the Independence debate to any great level? If so, I may have missed those posts.
However, I suspect that, in contrast, both ernie lynch and myself have been guilty of throwing out the SNP jibe on occasion but neither of us fits the bill in equating anti-Israeli sentiment with anti-semitism. So who were you thinking of if that is the allegation you did intend to make?
Apologies in advance, if I have your intentions wrong but that is how it read to me.
P.S. I throw SNP out as a jibe in retaliation for all those many posters equating No voting with supporting the Orange Order and Paisleyites. I don’t actually think that, in accusing anyone of being SNP, falsely or otherwise, I am being anywhere near as pejorative as the Yes voters have been. There is no shame in being an SNP supporter really but I am surprised at how many claim to be Independence men but not SNP voters and how few have the honesty to state that they are SNP men.
ziggydoc1 @ 13:13
I know this week’s travel was a nightmare, but we need a big support for this game
Official attendance for 1st Murrayfield game (from CFC) believed to be 39,099.
Interesting to see attendance at second, more important game.
BMCUW –
Where is Ampleforth and how do I get there?
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
I read it as saying that criticism of Israel’s current offensive should not be construed as supporting anti-Semitism.
Anymore than voting Yes in the referendum should be construed as supporting the SNP.
I agree with both of those assertions.
starry plough and BMCUW
Thank you for the constant reminders that the beating heart of CQN is basically decent.
It really isn’t about being annoyed with right wing views or dissenting voices. It is more about remaining committed to non-lazy journalism, and avoiding stereotypes and bigotry.
TOM McLAUGHLIN
You may have to spend that weekend with TSD,and I suspect you will feel dirty afterwards.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampleforth_College
He says it is his Alma Mater.
As is McGills University in Canada.
Both of which are known for their liberal approach so he must have spent most if his time under matron.
BMCUW@14.17
Both of those assertions are basically accurate. However, I thought the post was saying that it was the same people who make the conflation. I also think it is comparing a huge insult with a mild jibe (antisemitism being the huge insult, for clarity’s sake).
VVD to Sunderland? Would seem like a strange move to me. OK more cash. But move to a team likely to struggle rather than enhance your reputation in the Champions League?
I can understand that he wants to play in the EPL. But I would have thought that his best long term plan is to stay for another season and then look to attract an offer from the higher end of the league.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
We’ve all been guilty of crap analogies,mate!
embramike
14:10 on 25 July, 2014
It would be interesting to know what the tickets sales were from that total. Certainly the local 26 to Seaton Sands was like a CSC bus !
Sorry to all those who think this blog is the place to perpetrate their very personal, individualistic and sometimes unpalatable opinions on world politics and religious belief on the rest of us, but I will always contend this is a FOOTBALL blog (as in C.Q.N).
So I will confine my posts to things Celtic and football, with the odd attempt at humour to lighten the moment.
World history is replete with evidence that religion and politics have caused untold misery and death perpetrated by those who think that ‘my religion / politics is better than yours’.
I get really fed up with those on here who like the sound of their own ‘blog voice’ and inflict their views on CQNers who are not in the least interested and will never be deflected from their own equally personal views.
We all have opinions on these subjects but are gracious and considerate enough to confine them to appropriate forums. I find it clutters up a FOOTBALL blog and I shouldn’t have to ‘just scroll past’ skewed, petty and vindictive comments.
Let’s talk coefficients, transfer targets, team formations and performance, stadium facilities etc, and leave the political and religious sensationalism to the gutter press.
Gordon J
You seem to imply a level of intelligence to footballers that doesn’t usually exist. I guess the phrase treble your wages is all he’s heard so far.
We’ll see. Haven’t seen the story myself but I can only imagine the battering Paul’s poor server will take at anybody being sold will bring down on it.
We can’t hold them prisoner csc
embramike
I’m with you on that fella.
Do you think Kris Commons, and I’m a huge fan, is a template of Ronny’s style ? Got a concern there that could be round peg and square hole.
From last night…..
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setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox but saying no to CQN racists
20:27 on 24 July, 2014
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Aye.
Thanks for yer long-winded / Andy Roxburgh / Craig Brown type of
attention-seeking / clique-recruiting / Hahahahahappy-clapping post.
Take a bow before yer fellow self-appointed blog-police who, cry for their
mammy’s at the slightest sign of an alterative view to their own erse-licking
Celtic PLC type of ‘pornography’ that ‘use’ dish out as non lazy-journalism.
BOLLOCK’s!!!
Folk like ‘you’ are planted on here to ‘brainwash’ the easily duped into thinking
that, all in the Celtic garden is rosy.
No, it aint.
From here on-in…you can join, nitpicking winklepickers on the – don’t exist – anymore step as far as Kev’s Jungle is concerned.
Every rebel needs a tyrant – not a bum-chum.
Off oot tae read yer post from last night again.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Paul67
I think you’re a wee bit premature. (:-)
Let’s wait and see what sides get through to the proper CL AND EL group stages,if indeed any.
TT
big wavy,
Long term thinking is sadly missing – and agents eager to get a percentage of multiple transfer fees don’t exactly help
big wavy
I think he sees KC as the real creative spark in the team with a goal threat, but I was surprised at Murrayfield when for the final substitution, he pushed KC forward to the striking role and introduced Liam Henderson in midfield instead of giving Tony Watt the last 10/15 minutes of a done game.
Ronny has stated he likes the ‘two wide men’ approach. Will be interesting to see what additions he makes to the squad as I fear than Derk and McGeough are not good/consistent enough and young McGregor is not up to CL pace yet.
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Me Olde SydneyTim..
Have You ever thought..That You bring more Support/Backing/ Etc and overall more Positive Publicity to Peter Lawwell that Paul67 (As You Infer) ever Could..?
..;-)
Nearly everything l know about PL is from Posters pointing out things in Posts replying to Yours..
Hmmmm..
001
embramike – Totally agree mate, I use the scroll function more and more especially when the schizophrenics appear. I wouldn’t even go back and read them when a discussion on what they wrote earlier starts, wont’ ever get that time back.
Football season has started for us so plenty to discuss and blame Peter Lawwell for. Do you know he whispered in VVD ear that he could treble his wages in England so his balance sheet would look great and his bonus is secured … Oh that was his agent ? his name must be PL as well…
EMBRAMIKE
I take your point,and respect your opinion. It would be a much less controversial site,for sure.
Quieter too.
Mine is that the site is similar to a bunch of Celtic fans having a blether down the pub. We start off talking the ‘tic then get side-tracked onto other things.
Life,loves,politics. You name it.
Difference is that those with unacceptable views are swiftly hollered down and just not invited back.
Note,not those with different views. Just those which are unacceptable.
Big difference.