With John Guidetti ineligible, Anthony Stokes is manager Ronny Deila’s first choice striker for Europa League action. Anthony arrived at Glasgow Airport this morning but was sent home ill. He was a certain starter, so whatever plans the manager made, a rethink is in order.
Stefan Scepovic made his goal-scoring breakthrough against Astra last month, and followed up with a goal next time out against Kilmarnock, but he was benched for Partick and Inverness Thistle. Despite being third on the roster he’s likely to be the solitary striker role tomorrow evening.
This is a big game in Stefan’s Celtic career. A European ground with an 8500 capacity presents a different pressure, and expectation, than Celtic Park. Can he rise to the challenge? Wakaso stepped forward in Salzburg and Callum McGregor did the same in Reykjavik, Warsaw and Maribor. Both benefited enormously as a result. I could make a case that Stefan needs this game; the script’s written……
Many thanks to everyone who bought the DVDs from CQNBookstore since yesterday, that’s’ the deal finished. Will try to pull another together at some point.
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Weefra, see you in five mins, you can’t help it :…))))
sipsini
Ha! Ha!
ACGR has had a hard life and I’ve got more hair!
Celticrollercoaster supporting Shay,our bhoy wonder along the way
22:48 on
5 November, 2014
Jack
Have you paid your leccy bill?
You will be cut off on Friday
HH
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soon as i can bud, and a wee response to your email as well. tomorrow.
thanks bhoys …god bless the grand ship CQN and all who sail with her….
braw …
Sadie
Don`t blame the poms.
The first leg at Hampden was a nasty affair.
Bertie did the collapso trick down at the corner flag after minimal head contact and,from memory(fading) the Argie was sent off.
As for Argentinian “sporting” conduct……………a contradiction in terms.
Galtieri`s predecessor bought the `78 World Cup.
praecepta,
Lol, he’ll come gunning for us now.
Are you making it with the Belfast Brigade on the 14th?
P
Sounds good, I have been saving up for a decent away day, none of the group games took my fancy, and the wife putting her foot down had nothing to do with it >}
Still haven’t got my passport renewed, I will make that my pressie to masel for the new year.
HH
Well ghuys, after a sleepless night in Embra due to the grandson’s snoring :-)) I’m officially banjaxed and off to my bed. Can’t wait to see the Bhoys play tomorrow night. A wee prayer that they do well.
Hail! Hail!
Anybody on here go to Madrid in 74?
Had a pint with my uncle last week. He reckoned him, a mate and two priests were the only Celtic fans in the stadium that night. They got the old cut throat sign for the whole game, even the priests. By the way they’d no colours on either.
I’m sure there had to be more there.
Macjay
Argentina ’78 is my favourite ever World Cup. Loved that Argentina team as an impressionable schoolbhoy. Didn’t know they bought it?
Macjay
They right wing/capitalists buy everything. You should know that… 8-)
Turkeybhoy is in.
Dixie and THAT penalty!
I said a couple of weeks ago that I had a Dixie story to tell — and yes it does concern that night.
However, I have never got round to it yet and it is too late for tonight – so tomorrow morning I will put it on the blog.
Sorry for chasing money yet again for the Malawi project for St Ambrose Coatbridge and for Yompa last week but there are so many good folk out there trying to do good things that they all deserve a shout and a little encouragement wherever possible.
If the Lotto ever comes up it would feel just brilliant to make a difference.
Anyway, night folks — tomorrow is full of opportunities — as always.
macjay1 for neil lennon
22:53 on 5 November, 2014
Sadie
Don`t blame the poms.
The first leg at Hampden was a nasty affair.
Bertie did the collapso trick down at the corner flag after minimal head contact and,from memory(fading) the Argie was sent off.
As for Argentinian “sporting” conduct……………a contradiction in terms.
Galtieri`s predecessor bought the `78 World Cup.
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You’re confusing me with a pom- basher, MacJay. I didn’t blame anybody but the Racing Club thugs themselves though I am sure that those who linked it to the 1966 world Cup game and Alf Ramsay’s ‘animals’ comment are 100 per cent correct. We got caught up in the crossfire. I’ve never heard them apologise for their behaviour.
I disagree that there was minimal contact with the head against Bertie. The guy threw his head backwards and Bertie did not expect it. In my opinion he was caught full in the face.
Macjay
The Peru 6-0 game was very dodgy. Was some deal not done beforehand, to do with the release of political prisoners from Argie jails?
Praecepta @22:32
I think your memory is playing tricks on you Dixies penalty was going nowhere near Brigton Cross. It was more than likely it landed in Dalbeth and was buried there for evermore
http://youtu.be/yjhrLqndD1U
Just got an e mail from CRC re LMS
I hope Minx wins it and all the rest go crashing out >}
HH
praecepta-you’re wearing well sir,HH
express
23:01 on 5 November, 2014
In those days there was likely to be 11 Celtic supporters on the pitch unlike today
Just in and I see that Slovenian ‘pub team’ did alright tonight.
sipsini
Belfast will be a miss. :-(
Too long a session for me these days. Was with OT & Ritchie in the BV on Friday – then we did a M/City wander and I can barely remember getting home!
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TET
Am up for a wee Europa away jaunt if we reach the last 32/16. Problem is the 32 tie is very short notice pre-Christmas. Correct results tomorrow night and I will look at potential opponents and do a bit of research. Will email you.
H!H!
Night all. Night wee Oscar my hero God bless x x
Craigellachie
Aye, the pub team should have beaten Jose’s superstars in Slovenia. Ronny’s duds did better in Slovenia than the London world beaters did tonight.
BRTH
My niece’s girl is over there just now. Got all the kids Celtic songs!!!
Night bhoys
A wee extra prayer added for London Dave. Another poster long since gone from cqn.
Out of hospital today after a wee op.
Dave take care and god bless…
singing Celtic songs!!1
WC Great idea. I’m definitely willing to contribute to the cost of the ad as is Mrs QM. I do fear that the S Herald May bottle it but well worth trying.
On Res 12, glad to see there’s still life in it yet, and from the comments from Auldheid and BRTH it sounds as though a forensic case on the detailed rules and their application is being prepared. The devil really is in the detail, and that’s where I’ve seen senior QCs at their very best, picking away at the detail relentlessly until the bare truth is all that’s left. Hope so anyway. Tough game tmw but fingers crossed for the hoops.
My son is there and says Bucharest is a strange place but most of all bloody freezing !
Bt
Mention of London Dave always makes me think of Dagenham Dave by one of the best bands of the 70’s
TET
Am up for a wee Europa away jaunt if we reach the last 32/16. Problem is the 32 tie is very short notice pre-Christmas. Correct results tomorrow night and I will look at potential opponents and do a bit of research. Will email you.
H!H!
Yes please
HH
mickbhoy1888
Memory is hazy – had a lot on my mind at the time (an appointment at St. Gabriel’s on 1st Dec) – old M-in-L was always on my case about spending too much time following the Tic!
Good grief, I’ve not even been on the auld fishwives are dissing me in my absence.
Sipsini, the only way you could look younger than me would be if HT’s Minx took her new iron to yer wrinkled coupon. Full steam ahead would be required.
Praecepta, I’ll give you that. I’ve cut my hair short for years after a freak hair cutting incident in Texas. That’s another story for another time though:_)
Eddieinkirkmichael, correct. I don’t like needles ever since Mrs Acgr (before she actually got the gig), gave me several inoculations for a foreign trip. Trouble was we’d just been down the Pond hotel and she was more pished than me. Ouch.
Ahh, Jamesgang, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. And yes, I did get one covered up but it wasn’t as you suggest. Although I did get it the day the huns pumped us 5-0 or maybe 5-1? The day thon flo scored one of his few goals for the deid team. Ha ha, I was talking to JJ about that one on the way to paradise on Saturday. Do you always drink during the day?
Mon the hoops tomorrow, take us to Exeter.
Acgr,
Welcome back :))
ACGR
How you doing? In Bathgate tomorrow mid-morning if you are handy for coffee – Pat is giving the mini-Hummer the once over.
That Southampton set up is astonishing. I wonder if we have had anyone down looking at what they are doing.
Sipsini, cheers dude. Are you going to Belfast? I booked my flights today and have been in touch with the price of the emerald isle re hotels. I’ve never been to Belfast and would not like to end up with your flute playing, flag waving chums.
Praecepta, have you ever seen a map that puts Carmyllie anywhere near Bathgate, and I know you’re usually pretty good on the map routine? I don’t even know where Bathgate is:-) Hope all goes well with the hummer. PB1888 will sot you out.
I might be up for a wee away trip depending on who we get. Keep me posted on any plans.
Marrakesh Express, I expect my great uncle would have been at that game. He spent his entire life following Celtic everywhere, home, away and in Europe. No way to confirm for sure as he’s left this earth but my wee bro might know if he was at that game or not. He might have been one of the four you mentioned. He wasn’t a priest, but his brother was and he followed Celtic too.
HH
Shortened and edited version of a post from a few days ago for consideration by the blog re the Sunday Herald…
A STATEMENT FROM CELTIC SUPPORTERS
On 1st November 2014 former Rangers vice chairman Donald Findlay in an interview in a Scottish newspaper stated that the post liquidation Rangers are a ‘new entity’ which must establish ‘its own history and tradition’.
Findlay stated: ‘It is a different club. They may play at Ibrox and they may play sometimes in royal blue jerseys. But you cannot pass on that which is undefinable. And that is spirit and tradition and all the rest of it.
‘To me this is a new Rangers which has to establish its own history and tradition. But it’s not the Rangers I know. To me, genuinely, it is a new entity.’
You can buy assets,’ he conceded, ‘but you can’t buy history. You can’t buy tradition. History and tradition are in the heart and in the mind. You can’t buy that.’
In June 2012 Charles Green bought the assets of Rangers Football Club Ltd after the creditors voted down the CVA proposed by the administrators Duff & Phelps. These administrators were selected by Craig Whyte and appointed by the Court of Session on 14th February 2012 as Rangers slipped into administration.
Since 2012 a narrative around these facts has emerged where the word liquidation is never used. Instead we hear that the club “emerged from administration” and was “demoted” to the bottom tier of Scottish football at the beginning of the 2012/13 season.
The role of the SFA in all of this merits a mention. Supporters of other clubs including Celtic point to Campbell Ogilvie, “the heavily compromised” President of the SFA remaining in post despite being associated with and a beneficiary of the tax schemes that contributed to the Rangers’ demise. These supporters believe that everything possible was done by the SFA to assist the new Rangers club. Indeed it took an online rebellion by season ticket holders of other Scottish clubs to prevent the SFA from parachuting the new Rangers club into the second rather than the fourth tier of Scottish football.
Before the League Cup semi-final takes place, many Celtic supporters wish for the avoidance of doubt state that we totally agree with Donald Findlay, the ex- Rangers (1872) vice chairman when he describes Celtic’s semi-final opponents as a ‘new entity’ which must establish ‘its own history and tradition’.
These Celtic supporters firmly believe that there is no track record between Celtic and our semi-final opponents. We regard the semi final as the first meeting between Celtic and the club that currently play at Ibrox, having been established in 2012.
Further we regard the term Old Firm, the joint descriptive term for Celtic and the liquidated club, as having died with Rangers upon their liquidation.
Again for the avoidance of doubt these Celtic supporters wish to re-state, ahead of the semi-final, the facts regarding the new Rangers club starting life in the fourth tier. Rangers (1872) was never demoted, they were liquidated. On liquidation their place in the SPL was taken by Dundee FC who moved up a division, not through sporting criteria but as a direct consequence of the space created by the liquidation of Rangers (1872).
As every other club moved up one place to fill the gap caused by the liquidation of Rangers, the new club created by Charles Green was allowed to enter the fourth tier of Scottish football. So there was no demotion of Rangers. The old Rangers died and Charles Green’s new club started life in the Scottish league system at the bottom – with no history and no tradition.
Finally as Celtic supporters, faithful through and through, we wish to point out that we will be at Hampden to support our club and hope to achieve a victory in our first meeting against this lower league club thus moving to the Final with the hope that we can add another trophy to our club’s hugely impressive and unbroken history.
Delaneys Dunky
23:01 on
5 November, 2014
This is a recent article,but the Peruvian players admitted it years ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2098970/Argentina-cheated-World-Cup-1978-says-Peru-senator.html
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
23:04 on
5 November, 2014
Macjay
They right wing/capitalists buy everything. You should know that… 8-)
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And deservedly so.
:-)
Malvinas Britannicas,O.K.?