I remember some disparaging comment from sections of the Scottish sporting media regarding Mikael Lustig’s performances for Sweden at Euro 2012. Mikael had only recently joined Celtic and was still finding his feet in Scotland. In short, we didn’t have enough information to make an informed judgement before the Euros. We do now.
His energy levels, speed, height, crossing and general levels of performance has been remarkably high and consistent. Sweden handed him the job of subduing one of the world’s top three players at their recent World Cup qualifier in Portugal, Ronaldo was shackled, scoring only when he left Mikael’s area of the field.
There is a notion that this type of player, who can perform solidly at Champions League and international level, but who we can convince to renew his contract, is more important than the more stellar performers, who have an eye on the exit door.
Adam Matthews timely return from injury will compensate for Mikael’s absence as he recuperates post-op, but we’ve never looked as effective on the right since both of them were fully fit.
The reaction to yesterday’s AGM at Ibrox has been surprising, mostly as it surprised anyone. The outcome has been a forgone conclusion for weeks (if not months), while the realisation of what the future is going to look like for Newco has finally dawned on a few.
A generation brought up to believe in sugar daddies will have to learn: expenditure must equal or be less than income over any given business cycle.
In this respect, I cannot figure why fans are so unhappy with the Newco board, whose central failing has been to spend far too much money on wages for a manager and players. From what I hear, no one at the AGM demanded football budget is cut to an appropriate level.
As their new chairman said, costs will be cut; doing so is a financial imperative. The current Rangers might play in the same colours as its liquidated predecessor, but things will never – eeeeeeeever – be the same again.
This afternoon is the final pre-Christmas posting time if you want your CQN Annual before the day:
Willie Wallace, Heart of a Lion:
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A wee Christmas song from the Canadian maritime provinces
Teuchter ár lá
Petec
My Godson/nephew is in the Jackie Mac squad at DU. In his 5 months away fae Clydebank vices, Jackie has got him and the large Glasgow contingent at DU, into health, fitness and nae booze at all.
Petec
I agree with you. I find it highly unlikely that Sammi has been offered a reduction in wages.
That said. It may be time for him to move on. His performances this year have been more sproradic, less influential, particularly in Europe where teams seem to have got wise to him and just double or triple team him. Maybe if we had players that would offer him more options on receiving the ball, that he wouldn’t try and do it all himself is another matter.
If he leaves, then it is with thanjks from this tim.
Incidently, and it adds not a jot to the debate, Richard Lochhead MSP is not from the north-east, he’s from Paisley, told me himself.
HH
Blagged my mate’s season ticket for the Pool v Cardiff later.
Love going to Anfield as always find football fans on Merseyside (Blue or Red) very similar in their passion for their teams to Hoops fans.
Lots of similarities between Scousers and Weegies.Lots of empathy with Celtic fans and their constant struggles v the Establishment.
Celtic and Liverpool are my idea of what football clubs should be all about.
Delaneys Dunky:
Yes I miss St. Paul’s and the people I knew there. I also miss St. Peter’s, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, midnight mass in Corpus Christi, but most of all I miss St. Simon’s by the cross and all the people I never knew there.
I miss Loch Lomond, the Rock, the Wickets, the Smiddy, The Dolphin, the Art Galleries, the Mitchell library and the Byres Road, especially the Oasis if it is still there.
I don’t miss the Glasgow police, evil fat pies, fish and chip shops, the bigotry, A&E at the Western Infirmary and slush after snow.
Do I know you?
Delaneys Dunky
02:32 on 21 December, 2013
Petec
My Godson/nephew is in the Jackie Mac squad at DU. In his 5 months away fae Clydebank vices, Jackie has got him and the large Glasgow contingent at DU, into health, fitness and nae booze at all.
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Jackie is a real rebel like Neil.
Both are more interested in their Football, quite rightly so.
Kitalba
Do you know the name Delaney fae Scotstoun? You must. :)
petec:
It is almost Christmas and I would rather not put into print what I think about Celtic at the moment. It would not be nice reading.
But think about this one, this is two boots in the plums.
Without proof, Celtic were judge and jury on the Green Brigade, without proof.
They offered them moved or to refund the worth of their season tickets.
Now this is the really sick part…
They then offered the empty seats to charity….
Delaneys Dunky
Yes I do.
Joe Strummer and his magnificent song for Henke and Jinky…….
► 5:35► 5:35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHL8efKKPE
The Clash – The Magnificent Seven … The Clash – London Calling (Full Album)by …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPUI0gjsBEc
Kitalba
Uncle John Delaney, Glasgow’s first Stockbroker fae the Catholic side, cause of his brain. My Godfather and mentor. God rest his soul.
Delaneys Dunky:
I remember him well, he could be intimidating, and I remember how kind and caring his wife was too. I remember the whole family. If you’re of a mind to, can you ask our host for my e-mail address?
Celtic is just a Vehicle….
Take a ride for free or donate.
POLITICS and RELIGION, should definitely be left at the Door when Celtic are taking on Europe’s finest.
I had a conversation yesterday with a guy who had no idea about PC’s and the virus protection, he thought Norton was good, I told him about how Norton was not Intelligent in detecting Virii, Kaspersky had an Incredible success rate in intelligent virus detection.
Transhumanism…….. Thin/fat32
;))
Sammi gets his shirt aff!
http://youtu.be/hZKQPpAs8Y8
Kitalba
My beautiful Aunt Winnie. God rest her soul. Would love to communicate further with you.
Delaneys Dunky:
One quick question before I have to go, were you with me the night the Glasgow Polis came from all four directions and arrested us for playing football?
kitalba
02:47 on 21 December, 2013
petec:
It is almost Christmas and I would rather not put into print what I think about Celtic at the moment. It would not be nice reading.
But think about this one, this is two boots in the plums.
Without proof, Celtic were judge and jury on the Green Brigade, without proof.
They offered them moved or to refund the worth of their season tickets.
Now this is the really sick part…
They then offered the empty seats to charity….
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Information is really important, always.
Delaneys Dunky:
Yes that was her name and a very kind woman she was too, she had a sister in Knightswood who was as kind too. If you are, who I think you are, it’s been too long. Please get my e-mail from Paul.
Will have a huge lump in my throat again as I walk past the Hilsborough Memorial today.
God Bless Liverpool FC and their fans.
God bless Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish….my childhood hero….and our greatest ever player in my opinion.
Still lose it every time I watch this video.
Justice for the 96…..nearly there now….how these families suffered….nearly there now.
YNWA
► 4:50► 4:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWn4Z2zwSnQ
petec:
I’m not being rude, I just don’t understand what you mean.
Petec you think that KLF group where against the system? Yet Corporatist Reverse communist NME magazine often gave them high praise indeed. You go on about esoteric symbolism, they where as reeked in it as the likes of JZ. If they where against the system they’d be dead like many other musicians who decided to quit, reading on wikipedia they where discordiants, don’t you know in the elders of zion book, or the communist manifesto of america their various pointed plans for a one world government involves unleashing the nihilists and atheists and then once the world cowers at the lack of faith they will come crashing in as nights in shinning armour (although in the case of the communists manifesto of america it stops at the creation of an atheist state). I often wonder why banks have links to alleged left wing organizations, and then it all made sense. We get communism for the vast majority of us, so it appears the rich are screwed, certainly the multi millionaires will be, yet the billionaires,trillionaires will be left in control of a pseudo communist regime where the wealth is redistributed upwards to the bankers. Much like orwells hell of 1984. I’m not stupid enough to know if Orwell was a whistle blower, an esoteric who turned his back on it, or was merely revealing what is to come, in a typical “hidden in plain sight” but I do know that the reason is irrelevant, we can take it as warning of what is planned regardless if we know Orwell’s exact and true motives for writing what he did, and not just what the media wish us to believe. If you want a fairer more equal and humane society communism is not the way to go, we need a leftist egalitarian philosophy free from secular humanism, and esp esoteric mysticism, because engles used the sweet in his writing to divert attention away from the dire which funilly enough shares a lot of philosophy with various esoteric sects and humanism… Although like Bonnepart no doubt engles thought he could control the esoteric sects he was probably apart of, but of course you can’t.
I appreciate good music for what it is. I doubt the character of any one who gets to be a pop star, although I know their is a lot of coercion and threats against them from the beast of a record industry that created them. Atheists should be agains illuminatism, sadly many of them are not (at least the useful idiots that speak online), are only to willing to discourage the real threat to the lifes of billions of people on the planet of all faiths and none, all they do is quote the myth that said ancient order of illuminated and wise men was in fact merely a secular peace loving organization… its quite sad really.
kitalba
03:15 on 21 December, 2013
petec:
I’m not being rude, I just don’t understand what you mean.
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Kitalba, I’m delighted ye dinnae understand what I mean, I’m more unique on CQN than any other, I reckon, well Kojo is definitely ostracised by many but he is a devout Catholic, and I believe he is. I think Kojo is the best poster on here because he has detatched the emotional side of Celtic. I knew this very early, Kojo never kicked a baw at all but he is incisive in his analysis of Celtic players. Me, I get FAR too attached to players and Love them way too much, especially the really bad ones who get selected.
Kitalba
You think I am my cousin Tam. You will know me when we meet. I know who you are now.
antipodean red
03:08 on
21 December, 2013
Sammi gets his shirt aff!
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how you doing …Sammi is Sammi ..Kilbowie Kelt said it all ….to be blunt it is F+cking annoying to be surrounded by mediocrity ,poor Sammi has had years of it ,but he loves the Celtic ….sad xmas if Sammi goes …no sae braw
Are we debating football….listening to great choons…..discussing Alpha Catholicism in South America….or just?………
MOONHOWWWWWWLINGGGG
Bankies re -united …………….braw …tell the Griffs ,we will have a right party …..braw
PM
Kitalba
Aunt Jean, her identical twin.
When I said discouraging I meant Discounting. The worst kind are yon sheep who admit its all estoric symbols we see all the time but masonic and illuminatism controll of the world doesn’t really exist. I’m amazed at the level of blindess by people that must be at serious cognitive dissonance to one hand admit the sheer presance of estoric religious symbols we see all around us, and on the other hand say “but said group died oot in 17xx because said founder of a group more secretive than the masons said it did.. Take it their where no more nazis either after hitler died….” Its really sad some let their hatred for christianity or islam etc blind them to truth and willing to believe any illogical crap the media tells them too, and how little critical and independent evaluation these people are capable. A conspiracy theorist is just an enlightened (wish those b’s didnt corrupt the meaning of “light”…) critical analytical thinker, who says what they sees and comes to beleive in a theory after themselves being highly sceptical of said theory. Of course one theory that’s nonsense is that “its the space Lizards are behind it all”.. classic Disinfo tactics right their from the estoric HUMANS that control our world….
Neustadt…
Didn’t know Clydebank very well when I lived in Glasgow as your tourist board were not very good back then and I never felt the urge to go there apart from Kilbowie Park to watch the Hoops.
Always had the impression that it was a hotbed of Celticness and that the natives had Celticitis.
Doughnut or a Merringue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhVhYRtnEg
heads up Sammi ………
I wonder if folk read me and agree or disagree or partially agree. Kev J was right about more than I thought at the time… but not lizards… and its kind of sad that folk either believe none of it or all of it when it comes to conspiracies…..
Antifa….
Like a broken clock…..KevJ is right twice a day.
ryecatcher….ye kling like a well rounded sort of bojo ……Clydebank is Clydebank ….end of paragraphooooooooooo ….hahahahaha braw ……NB knows things ….hail hail ….hope yer listening to that horn …. braw
Kitalba,
I cannae believe that, what you posted @ 02:47.
I have never doubted you but that just sounds like an agenda, not your agenda, I hasten to add.
Time will indeed Tell.
HH
NB
The Clash are banging in Delaney’s Bankie hoose. Death or Glory? :))
Ah nice analogy ryecatcher. I’d say a lot more than twice but I get your point :)
Personally im against inde-pendants the worse kind of mason would get power than the kind currently in power. Ones more tainted by illuminsim. It may be a strange reason to be against it but its my reason, it makes sense to me and over 100 years or less wise folk would see what I mean and that I was absolutely right.