Don’t give me your ‘slump’ mockery. Just think for a minute, what if this IS our slump? Five league games in 17 days, four of which were won by a single goal is as bad as it’s been since Brendan Rodgers took over as manager.
We have, of course, shuffled the pack. With a hefty nine games this month, Brendan is correct to rest the weary legs which concluded our Champions League group only two weeks ago. He also has a full programme over the festive period to prepare for.
With 20 wins in 21 domestic games this season we’ve won the first trophy, scoring 11 and without conceding. Win our remaining games this month and we’ll be at least 17 clear “and it’s not New Year”. With a game in hand.
Scottish football has never had such a dominant champion, even during the two nine-in-a-row eras. It’s been achieved with largely the same squad as last season, while we were the only team participating in European group competition – and with a sustainable financial model.
I know talk of “slump” is ridiculous, but I bet you’ve already picked up a shift in perception of what is normal for Celtic. Most of us have been around long enough to remember the dark days. Some of us have been around to remember the winter solstice, which lasted from 1954 to 1965, but we’re all susceptible to recent-experience bias.
The collapse of Aberdeen this season robbed us of what competition we had but in compensation, we’re watching a great Celtic team come together. Team development does not happen on a linear plane. It requires risks to be taken and mistakes to be made, but no one is in any doubt about Celtic’s direction of travel.
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BMCUW
Mail sent. ( At last!!)
Guyfawkesforeverahero
Ypu are correct.The man city fans sang it with regards to “we got..
Gaurdoila.I was in Blane Valley and we were given a table slapping rendition with the song, with the pub laughing
Beatbhoy like your version better re clad all over.
HH
My friends in Celtic,
The Sevco fans having realised that they are not going to win anything in the footie have turned to music. We should never underestimate how difficult this has been for them. To many it’s been a whole life changing experience. Singing a song watching Sevco without any add ons or FTP connotations .
It will never last, total confusion has set in.
Stealing a well known Crystal Palace anthem to sing about the current “legend ” at Greyskull has put some over the edge and cheap wine sales have rocketed in Brigton and Larkhall.
Little Mix and the horrid Huns head to head. Forget radio or downloads, get them on the box.
Let the great general public decide who is more photogenic, and who is more worthy.
Time to lighten up a bit guys, it’s Christmas after all.
HH.
Wow, some interesting comments of late. Bottom line for me is that CQN is an amazing vehicle of Celtic-ness and we are a very broad church. IMHO we are very lucky to have CQN and I thank Paul67, a bloke I have never met and probably never will meet, for that.
Big few days for me coming up so I thought I had better get my last blog before Christmas in early doors. Please enjoy and share with our fellow Tims, esp those in DownUnderland.Ta.
https://stayinguplateblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/mutual-trust-and-confidence/
Good morning CQN from a clear, dry and cool East Devon. Hail! Hail!
STAYINGUPLATE on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:13 AM
A very happy antipodean Xmas to you , pal .
And the very best of British ( oops ) with your nascent organ.
I hope to be with the civilised in Cheers bar on New Years eve.
I will chivvy ( oops ) the local CSC into supporting you.
You deserve it.
https://stayinguplateblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/mutual-trust-and-confidence/
And getting up early.
Good evening (morning for me ) Macjay- picked up your reply from last night, cheers.
Hopefully see Rab soon
From a dark and potentially. Very windy Glasgow.
JINKYREDSTAR on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:54 AM
Good evening (morning for me ) Macjay- picked up your reply from last night, cheers.
Hopefully see Rab soon
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An amazing , and very welcome , blast from the past.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 6:46 AM
Thanks Macjay. Really appreciate your support and Cheers would be the only place to be in Sydney on the 31st, I kid you not.
Ozbhoy was at the Thistle game and he said it was cold and wet and I was so jealous despite sitting in 30C temperatures.
You went all Frankie Howerd on me there with reference to my nascent organ. Titter ye not !! :-).
STAYINGUPLATE on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 7:02 AM
There`s a schooner gently cooling in Sydney when you`re next released from Canberra.
Mate.
All the best.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 7:05 AM
Sounds like a plan. I will take you up on that.Ta.
Good morning from a very, very wet, windy, thundery and lighteningy East Kilbridey.
Word of The Day (Inspired by Sevconians – see definition 1)
Agglomerate
adjective (əˈɡlɒmərɪt ; -ˌreɪt)
1. crowded into a dense cluster, but not cohering.
2. formed into a mass
verb (əˈɡlɒməˌreɪt)
3. to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect
noun (əˈɡlɒmərɪt ; -ˌreɪt)
4. a confused mass
5. a rock consisting of angular fragments of volcanic lava Compare conglomerate
Derived Forms
agglomeration, noun
agglomerative, adjective
Word Origin
C17: from Latin agglomerāre, from glomerāre to wind into a ball, from glomus ball, mass
KTF
HAMILTONTIM on 22nd December 2016 12:07 am
VFR
If you have a Lenin hat, a Stalin polo neck, Trotsky socks and a Che balaclava then you’re in :-)
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I’ll add my Marx tie to the collection ……………………
KTF
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 7:25 AM
Depart from me , ye cur sed .
;-)
MOONBEAMSWD on 22nd December 2016 12:11 am
It was the tone rather than the content that I was referring to; everyone is entitled to ask, but ask nicely.
You usually do; others don’t.
As far as moderation goes, I would guess that a moderate MWD is an oxymoron! :>)
KTF
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 22nd December 2016 7:27 am
I’ll assume that was clever (as usual) rather than a typo! :>)
KTF
Res:12 shouldny even be an issue….imho.
Res:12, as far as I understand it….is all about setting the record straight that, the SFA allowed Rangers FC into the CL when, RFC didny fulfil the criteria to do so.
But,…..what is ‘never’ mentioned here is the fACT that,…..
The SFA were only allowed to do this for the huns coz, the SFA knew that the Cellic PLC would look the other way and, not cause any problems etc….imho.
Ye see,….Res:12 is ‘THEE’ biggest squirrel of all.
The Cellic PLC are arrogant enough to think that, by bringing Brendan into the club,….the fans would take a leaf from the PLC’s book and,….look the other way…imho.
But,….but, but, but,….Res:12 isny the issue here.
The issue is that, a group of Cellic supporters have had to pursue this course of action at all.
The very reason that the Rangers FC were allowed do cheat on an industrial scale was because, there would be no form of protest from Cellic PLC.
Ye see,….all of the sharks and, eagle-eyed crusaders of justice, the petition-peddlers….are the ones that the joke is on.
Ah mean, BRTH said on these pages that…..
…”Fergus McCann set up Celtic PLC as a, mechanism to keep the fans on the outside.”
If, Fergus McCann was a mhan of his word, he’d have sold all of his shares back to the Celtic supporters who put him into power in the 1st place and, he also stated that he’d sell these shares back to the support at 10 % less than the price that he bought them for. He didn’t.
But,… but, but,…..BRTH’s comment should have sparked off a tsunami of rebellion but,…..sadly, all it got was a bucket of saw dust poured over it.
Does anybody think that, a Cellic board led by a rebellious group of supporters like, Jeanette Findlay and her ilk, would have looked the other way as, Rangers FC were granted a dodgy licence to play in the CL and, all the honest mistakes that were carried out on the pitch to ensure a RFC victory and, also, to do all this after taking £millions from Cellic season ticket holders whilst, knowing that the game was already rigged to cheat these same Cellic supporters and, the supporters of all the other teams as well too ?
THAT……..is what Cellic PLC did and, they were only able to do so because, Celtic FC / PLC is ‘rigged’ to keep the Cellic supporters outside of what they though was they’re club.
So, dealing with specifics….what is the bigger issue ?
Res:12 ?
Or,….
Cellic PLC being designed by McCann to keep the Cellic supporters on the outside.
Think about it,….would cellic supporters running the club have looked the other way to allow the huns to cheat ?
Res:12 is a drop in the ocean compared to the McCann swindle.
But,….sadly, its the easily gulled culture who support the Cellic these days.
Ye couldny write it.
…oot…
HT & VFR
Don’t be forgetting your Kim Jong-un (I think that’s how you spell his name?) haircuts now.
BTW VFR you are aware personal attacks or forbidden just like the apple from the tree? Calling me an Ox and a moron is unacceptable. Mod2 sort him out will you.
:@-)))
MWD
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 7:44 AM
Fat fingers is the typical excuse.
I`ll use that one. :-)
MARGARET MCGILL on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 3:07 AM
I suspect too that Paul has had to choose his path. He has chosen a commercial and orthodox one with good tie-ins to the Club.
He no doubt is rewarded for that and by that.
I have always been a bit of a contrarian. Coupled with my melancholic temperament, I am what you might call an against the grain carbunkle with a critical eye. If I were a detective I might have been Rebus or Taggart, but I’m neither.
So what?
Against the grain carbunkles with a critical eyes have a hard time keeping the pax caledonia on overtly toe-the-line fan platforms.
So I’m done for. There’s been a murder. Or there will be. But what are the options Mags?
I do like CQN as it generally clean of pre-pubescent plastic paddy provos.
Is there a Celtic forum out there that hasn’t sold it’s soul yet attracts the quality and calibre of many of our posters on here like the #RES12 team, Celts for Change etc?
Owen. I don’t accuse Celtic fans of being stupid. You accused me of attacking Neil Lennon. It was a lie. Do you retract it?
Winnings i don’t disagree that CQN have published articles etc on res 12. But tell me. Why won’t paul67 publicly discuss it? Or the boards place in it?
Owen
NEGANON2 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 8:03 AM
Owen. I don’t accuse Celtic fans of being stupid.
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I wouldn’t blame you if you did. Many are. Many are like succulent lambs to the slaughter in the hands of the PLC-PR machine.
MWD, at least as an ox you’ll get the usual seasonal gig in the stable.
As a moron, you’ll fit in well here. :>)
MACJAY, you should have taken the credit!
KTF
Neganon
Big Peat must be psychic.
Your question at 8-03 was answered in the first two sentences at 7-57!!
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 8:20 AM
An island of reasonableness in a sea of je ne sais quoi.
Some adamantly determined to see the dregs instead of the vino.
When Celtic are such a joy right now.
Hail Hail
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
When is the CQN carol service?
We are having one, right?
Will Carol be there?
Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn king”
Peace on earth, and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled
Joyful all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic host proclaim
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”
Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn king”
Christ, by highest heaven adored
Christ the everlasting Lord
Late in time behold him come
Offspring of the favored one
Veiled in flesh, the God had seen
Hail the incarnate deity
Pleased, as man with men to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn king”
✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳
Hail the heaven born prince of peace
Hail the son of righteousness
Light and life to all he brings
Risen with healing in his wings
Born that man no more may die
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth
Hark the herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn king”
✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳✳
Uxbridge words of the day
Paintings: Jamaican torture implements.
Quadrangle: Four people all arguing simultaneously.
Rambling: Tacky jewellery for sheep.
Pardon me!!!
From The Scotsman:
Firms owed by oldco Rangers face further delays Firms owed money when ‘oldco’ Rangers (sic) were liquidated (sic) in 2012 face further delays in their hopes of getting cash back. A protracted legal action by the investment firm Worthington Group is the cause of the delays. (The Herald)
Also I was told that the 10% sell on clause for Virgil kicked in if he was sold on after 5 years with Southampton. Being sold on prior to that would be subject to a far more generous pay-back. Can anybody confirm that 20% within a 2 year period would ‘in fact’ be false? Too little?
I said after we qualified for the Champions League that a £90m turnover was achievable.
Our cut of the Van Dyke transfer makes that closer to reality.
The uncomfortable truth for some is that Leisecter City won the English league on close to that. They are at 50-1 to win the Champions League for some odd reason even though they could easily beat Seville and escape Barcelona or Bayern in the next round.
Resolution 12 though still sits uncomfortably. If the club want this to go away surely there would not be a better time?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 22ND DECEMBER 2016 8:41 AM
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Funnel
An oxymoron.
The van Dijk sell on ,might be from any profit made by Southampton,not the whole transfer fee…..
Committee on improving youth football in Scotland on BBC parliament – Fraser Wishart on
What about Harry Brady’s Twitter on the Underground last night, regarding Exceptional Big News ,coming out of Celtic Park ,some time to day,is it genuine,or just a rumour.
GARY67 on 21ST DECEMBER 2016 11:07 PM
Backpage of tomorrow’s Sun has us close to signing Darlington Nagbe from Portland Timbers for £3m.
Or as he’s known in the States…..No 26……….
Timbhoy3
Maybe its the money raised for the Charity Foundation which this year is the best ever.It’s on the official website