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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ayrshirtim
David@cqnmagazine.com
The same idiotic abuse,handed out by the usual suspects,to guys who’s only thoughts’ on here,are to improve our lot as fans,and help others.Can some kind of Code of Conduct not be adhered to?
BocchiniBhoy
13:57 on
5 November, 2014
Name 10 players who have won English FA Cup Scottish Cup English League and Scottish League medals . Top league only.
Dalglish, McClair, Strachan, Van Bronkhurt, Kanchelskis,
angelgabriel
13:26 on 5 November, 2014
Winning Captains.
You can add moi to the list .
Kitalba…as above.
TD
Those who have contributed to & supported Res 12 have done so in the
knowledge that without proper governance the game is a bogey. KTF.
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I have been asked to stay off the subject, and I will keep my word on that.
IGC
Jim Brogan???? I’d never have guessed that.
Winning Captains
Count me in !
“Let the People Publish”
Jamesgang
Do you have a link to the Spiers article you mentioned in an earlier post?
thecyclist
http://www.celticfc.net/pages/supporterliaisonofficer
WC & co.
I would gladly make a donation,
will there be the setting up of a paypal account?
Happy Celticing. .
All correct ST Stivs
4 to get
Dalglish and Kancheskis have also won League Cup Medals on both sides of the border.
Bocchinibhoy,
Steven and Stevens of ye olde rangers.
lct
Ud been ideal for that job!!!
WC, BRTH, Kitalba, et.al.
Would like to express my thanks and support for the work you are doing.
When you get the paypal thing set up, I would be happy to contribute.
One year on from RES 12
A year ago Canalmar & others were running about shouting the board have done/said nothing about the team playing out of Ibrox.
I stated on here that I had read nothing about the Celtic Board accepting/or not the other company/club presently residing in Ibrox Stadium. (I’m from Govan and HATE stating that they are resident there, due to boundary changes). TD67 agreed that indeed the board had not committed one way or the other. Prior to the AGM Celtic had a meeting with several posters/members to enlighten them on the Celtic stance. I have not read any update, but I am not worried because the team from Ibrox do not come into my thoughts. (when was the last time EVERY Celtic supporter looked up their score before Aberdeen/DU, ITC etc) We have a game against the new club playing out of Ibrox and I believe that is the time to show our cards.
Keep your cards close to your chest and give your enemies no clue to how you are thinking.
HH
BRTH
Thank you for the update on Res12
Slowly slowly catchy………….. :))
Kitalba ACGR and winning Captains
Great ideas count me in.
BRTH:
I heartily compliment you and all the others, known and unknown, who are beavering away with the Res 12. I truly hope it realises its initial objective. Having said that, I do take exception, not offence, at your somewhat condescending description of “ill-informed drivel by some posters. If the said posters you refer to had been unequivocally kept assured that progress was ongoing I think they, and me too, would have felt less frustrated and dare I say cheated. Cheated in the sense that I invested so much hope into that initiative only to see it apparently stall if not parked.
I have faith in the integrity of those whom I am aware of working on the Res. BUT I never felt confident or assured that the Res would be pursued to a satisfactory conclusion. I still don’t have a confident feeling that it’ll be successful but I do so wish you and all well and courage and stamina. My personal desire to see so many wrongs righted often causes the blood to boil and often it manifests in heart-felt frustration and short words.
Celtic are often accused, and often rightly so, of being poor at communication and this does cause angst, not just with me but with many multiple decades old, and some younger, Celtic supporters.
Communication is key. Without it people will arrive at their best thought our conclusions fuelled by historical scepticism, paranoia, fear, hope, desire, and the wish to live just once in a world of a level playing field. All those people who spoke either in glowing terms or not regards Res 12, every single one of them without exception, is a Celtic man or woman at heart and soul. I can’t speak for all of them and I wouldn’t dare try but I think like me they aspire to enjoy their emotional and financial investment in Celtic knowing that their efforts are not pre-prejudiced and in vain.
In simple English… we all want that level playing field, with all of our hearts and souls. Individually and collectively, as a good support and a caring culture, we want that level playing field, not just for ourselves,I don’t think any of us that selfish, we want it for those who have already gone not knowing it, and we want it more for our children to come, and I’m not just talking about a football club and its culture, I’m talking about our shared culture within and beyond the club. Having such hopes dashed, or appear to be dashed, can often lead to harsh words. I’m sure you can appreciate that too because just like me, you can’t walk in every Celtic Supporters shoes.
Empathy is a virtue and I repeat again, you, auldheid, morrisey, all of you, you have my admiration and again I wish you courage and fortitude and I think I can speak for most if not all Celtic Supporters by saying they’ll wish you nothing less and much, much more.
Oh! and a result, I wish you a result too.
glendalystonsils
Here it is in full mhate…..
Spiers on Sport: call me a hypocrite, but I can’t wait for the Old Firm game
Some will say I’m about to venture down a road of hypocrisy here, and not for the first time in my life.
I was at the Bet Butler Stadium at Dumbarton last Saturday revelling in the early evening drizzle when news came through that Celtic had drawn Rangers in the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup.
I couldn’t help myself. The internal surges of excitement and anticipation were undeniable. The first Old Firm meeting in over two and a half years, out of nowhere, was an enthralling prospect.
On no subject, surely, have I written more frequently or copiously than the Old Firm: its passion, its dramas, its poisonous bigotry and the rest.
In that time I’ve also done my fair share of lofty head-shaking and poo-pooing of the fixture�of how Scotland could do without it, of how tawdry and despicable it can be at times.
I’ve delivered all the lines: the A&E scenarios, the domestic violence spikes, the “scar on society” and the rest.
Yep, done ’em all. I’ve got the medal for self-righteous disdain. I’ve utterly deplored the disgusting Old Firm spectacle.
Now I can’t wait for the end of January. I can scarcely keep myself from looking ahead to this Hampden cup semi, having been starved of the fixture for so long. I simper quietly to myself just thinking about a Celtic-Rangers match after this Glasgow derby period of purdah.
They – our moral guardians out there – are flashing up their warning signs already about the match. There’s trouble ahead. There’s yet more poisonous singing to come. A few wives/women are set to take a few blows. Doctors and nurses, like some battle-scarred village on the Western Front, are on a red alert.
If I wanted to I could dig out some of my own stuff about “the Old Firm being a blight on Scottish society”. And there is a lot of truth in all this. The fixture can attract everything that is primeval or bad in west of Scotland man.
Well, hurry up and bring it on. Let’s just get to the end of January right now. Because, in spite of everything, this is a Celtic-Rangers game to cause a sensory overload.
To be honest, I’m not expecting great football. In fact sometimes – not always – the quality of football in the Glasgow derby can be like something out of the Ayrshire Juniors.
This looming cup tie might fall into that category, such is the panting for it, the lusting for the day to arrive. The atmosphere around it is going to be so charged, so hyped, that I’m not sure much football will break out.
Yet the fixture has been sorely missed by hundreds of thousands of people. For some peculiar reason, a few Rangers and Celtic fans make a point of denying this, affecting not to have missed it at all.
This is The Great Lie. In truth, I would say 99% of Celtic and Rangers fans have really, really missed it. The Old Firm match, warts and all, is absolutely engrossing to take in.
You can smell the cordite already. Bring it on. Hurry up.
END
HH jamesgang
Is the kick off time five 2 morro night???
mike in toronto:
I’ll accept your gratitude but I didn’t do anything.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
I wouldn’t last a day under the workload that is being left to JPT by others .
fess19,
Just a wee correction about res 12, it was never aimed at rangers, it has always been about the SFA and their licensing administration.
Hail Hail
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
FC Astra v Celtic
UEFA Europa League
6th November 2014
Kick Off 18:00
Siesta time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
lct
Ta
Jamesgang
I don’t drink much in the house during the week. I have a couple of pints on the way home instead! 1 bottle of beer opened immediately after I get in and no-one is the wiser. I nurse that bottle all evening and my wife thinks I have great will power.I put the belly down to my excessive chocolate eating
Not only Scepovic, but I hope Leigh G gets some time tomorrow as I have a good feeling the wee mhan will bag us a goal:)))
Till later all.
coneybhoy
14:31 on 5 November, 2014
I like my chocolate. My food on general.
Still got my sportman’s appetite but deadly ‘granny knees’ as patented by BRTH!
Right. Where is that packet of chocolate digestives!!!???
HH jamesgang
tonydonnelly67
12:23 on 5 November, 2014
For what it’s worth, my understanding from the CQN updates is that Celtic were proceeding cautiously on all of this, and would update Canamalar etc at an appropriate stage….sounds like that stage is imminent…….now, stop being so cheeky to anyone who doesn’t agree with you, FGS…..hahahahahahaha
Appols if posted already, should be interesting if nothing else……….??
http://golazoargentino.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/racing-to-face-celtic-in-friendly-50-years-after-historic-intercontinental-cup-win/
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire 14:28
Sorry but I believe (maybe wrong) it was about the Celtic Boards apparent inactivity about accepting/or not the SFA’s decision to accept NEWCO into Scottish professional football.
No team may have been mentioned but of course their licencing/administration was only to help ONE club.
I think/hope the board will speak up when the time is ripe.
Winning Captains, together a great advert and I’m sure we can help many other Celtic charities.
HH
HH
Trevor Steven ,Gary Stevens for quiz?
Ktalba @ 14:27
What the hell? I’m in a good mood … have a cyber pint on me too!
There’s a debate going on in the Scottish Parliament right now on sectarianism and the Offensive Behaviour at Football Bill.
Seems that the bill is due to be reviewed in March 2015. It’d therefore probably be very handy for some folk in high places in politics and the police if all hell was to break loose in the upcoming League Cup semi final with the newco.
In fact very convenient for a lot of people that we were drawn with Sevco immediately before this bill is due to be reviewed. What were the chances of that?
***Lunchtime Quiz – The Answer***
Sorry I don’t agree with the answer (page 4). I don’t think Jim Brogan played in any tie in european cup in 1966/67. John Fallon was only an unused sub.
mike in toronto:
If you’re coming to Brisbane and I’m home we can have a pint together. I’m in a good mood too. I love it when Celtic Supporters get all pro-active like winning captains displayed earlier and like when canamalar kicked off the Res. 12 movement. Look where it’s taken us this day.
Kit..,
Everyone was unequivocally assured that there was progress throughout this process, the problem was some made the decision that they needed all the information so that they could determine what progress was and that they were deserving of that information more than others, then decided to fill in the spaces when they never got that information, the space filling was the ill-informed drivel BRTH was referring to.
Patience and trust was requested and for most that is and was enough for others they could not contain themselves and that is and was disappointing but expected.
Everyone here has the same aspirations and we have had to agree to thing that go against the grain but when your dealing with corruption it’s no a good idea to give too much away, how much to give away was always the problem, we with the exception of a few frustrated occasion tried to give nothing away.
This has never been a popularity contest so having people disappointed and frustrated was always going to happen, the hardest part for me was keeping the info and no ramming it down doubters throats, aye it’s been frustrating for you and many others but put yourself in our shoes, imagine wanting to tell everyone every detail knowing just one detail the wrong detail could destroy the trust a shut the whole thing down.
weeman67
It’s bad enough commemorating the start of World War I, without reliving the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Montevideo! Even so I did enjoy the reference to the “Uruguayan Celtic supporters who showered the pitch with whatever they could get their hands on”, puts those Chelsea fans to shame!
canamalar:
My hands are up.