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Watched the game in PV with paolousboots, Marspapa and the Barca mole
Well it was on in the background
Thank god this season is nearly over
Uninspiring watching
Onwards and upwards
Well with paolousboots you only listen as he is non stop….:-))
Must have kissed the Blarney Stone in his youth
Res 12, SFA corruption etc is clearly a war of attrition – the wearing down process on all levels, from all quarters is well under way
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART on 12TH MAY 2016 3:57 AM
Canamalar,
‘Lets be honest, there are a lot of b*stards from the extreme left and right who hate Jews.’
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I’ve never encountered anyone on the extreme left of British politics who hates Jews. I suspect I have more experience of that milieu than you have.
Just to be clear, I don’t regard reading articles in the Daily Mail as experience.
ok paul 67 who are JUSTPREMIUM and why o why are they blocking my computer.
Would it not be an idea to get Peter Lawwell on CQN one day to show he wants to integrate with real Celtic fans
We have had the likes of Tommy Gemmell, Davie Hay etc so why not our Chief Executive to show his willingness to talk to the fans
haven’t read back
any comment on the 2 offside players for the St J second goal
I hear McCann didn’t rate it worth a mention
as for the pitch….
Celtic continue the education of my son…….
The cup semi final taught him what untenable means….
And when he watches the St J 2nd he’ll see exactly why his coaches tell him to listen the keeper’s shout and get out the fekin way!!!
For those not at the game don’t be fooled by the colour of the pitch. It was probably dried up mud painted green so bad was the bounce of the ball.
That exonerates joe Hanson mis controlling the fame for the equaliser but begs the question of why we were fan dancing in that area of the pitch. Compare that with big, strong functional St J.
McGregor – good for first goal and looking to be involved
Christie – like though faded in 2nd half
Erik – good and suits that captains armband
Ralston – dig and then more dig. Looked far more confident and physically strong than a rookie I first saw in the equivalent match last year. Young kid called KT. Wonder what became of him?!?!
Young Ralston has strength and a definite desire to win the ball. 2 things we’ve sadly lacked all season. He was issuing instructions with force to Efe. This says a lot about young Ralston….and sadly, a lot about Efe.
Good to spend my 90 mins in the company of the less than talismanic figure of TootingTim. And thanks also to HT for the ticket and most especially the ‘full refund in the event of a home win’ I noted in the small print.
Finally a girfuy to whoever decided 9pm was the right time for the southbound contra flow on the A9!
That is all………
…..apart from to say it’s mibbee just as well I didn’t post what I was thinking yesterday about the cqn leader article or mr lawwell’s actions…….
Suffice to say the traditional kafkaesque mental image of a bank of monkeys with typewriters was given a 21C twist – the vision from hell was squirrels tapping away assiduously in their iPads.
HH jamesgang
PS sign up the Wee oyster catcher that covered every blade of mud as it flew back and fore harrying and pestering those encroaching on its territory.
We could learn a lot from that ballsy Wee warrior bedecked in black and white. Reminded me of John McGinn playing at Celtic park a couple of years back!
HH jamesgang
Imo, last night showed perfectly how we have fared under RD. Scott Allen was played where CM started last season: out on the wing rather than in the middle of park, where they both play their real game. Too many square pegs in round holes.
Just took a quick look in to carch up.
In my opinion it will be a shame if there is a low attendance on Sunday. Yes, it is an early kick off but I thought that most of us, if we HAVE to play Sundays wanted a 12.30h start.
Yes, there is justifiable anger at giving interview to Sun and a view that Board is out of kilter etc. etc.
However, 5IAR is worth celebrating unless, of course, some people espouse the SMSM denunciation of the feat as “tainted” 5IAR is not the sort of thing which happens too often and players such as LG, KT, ES, CG at least deserve a healthy crowd to show our appreciation. All IMHO of course. HH
An Teach…,
I expect there to be a very big turn out for the last game of the season, simply for the fact that it could be their last game full stop, I personally know quite a few.
Except that was a comma :)
Didn’t see last night’s game- sounds like another masterclass from the ole Durkhshlak *
-* Yiddish for colander; closest I could find to sieve.
My friends in Celtic,
Watched the game last night and it seemed we were just going through the motions.
This season is finished, but already I am full of anticipation for the next. Thats what ordinary supporters do.
Now I know that many of you who don’t read papers will not be aware or bothered, but I think that Roy Keane would feature more on the front pages, when we should be doing our business on the back pages.
A proven track record is required this time round and it shound not be influenced from where someone originates from or who he is friendly with.
All in my opinion of course.
Hail, Hail .
PS : Spending money is not always the answer, good leadership is vital. Recent events in Engurlundshire have demonstrated that.
CANAMALAR
Hopefully there will be positive movement regarding the issues causing long term supporters to consider giving up.
As a club we might not be able to solve all the corruption within the game and the institutional bigotry in the country, but , I agree that CFC should at least be taking all measures to oppose and condemn them.
Hopefully CFC taking action to progress Res 12- again thanks- may be a start to winning back trust among the support. HH
Auldheid 1:51
Such an app would make a good pressie and could produce a CQN FM Blog with Neganon2 going on about lack of response from the key Board and TD telling him to leave the Board alane.
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And KevJungle saying sack the key board. Or rather key bored :-)
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If you read just one thing today then read this ..the truth will out #res12
The scandal in which Scottish football has become embroiled is neither equivocal nor complicated. It happened. It is easily seen to have happened. It is certainly not a degree course in nuclear physics. Why then, are simple facts ignored day after day, week after week, by not just the so called purveyors of truth in the media, but the body of the SFA itself, the clubs?
Five years or so ago, systematic cheating by a club involved in Scottish football was uncovered as a consequence of the club slipping into liquidation. This is easily established as fact.
It soon became clear that the authorities had been aware of the situation for as long as it had been going on, but instead of applying their own rules, which would have saved that club from it’s ultimate demise, they chose to enable it and cover it up. Also, backed up by documentary evidence.
As a consequence of the slide towards liquidation, the authorities went into cover-up overdrive to protect their own position. Inquiries based on rhetorical “you’ll have had your tea!” questions were set up to arrive at predetermined conclusions. The post-truth era in Scottish football had begun in earnest.
The claims of corruption which subsequently emerged were dismissed out of hand by the authorities and the press; first by accusations that it was only Paranoid Celtic fans looking to put the boot into Rangers who were behind the claims, then, when it became clear that it was not only Celtic fans who were angered by the way the integrity of the sport had been shattered, the “mad Celtic fans” epithet was amended to “mad online conspiracy theorists”.
The tactic was clear. NEVER address the issue. Attack the messengers. Ridicule them, mock them, demonise them. Despite that, the message of SFM and others was gaining traction and dangerously for the authorities, becoming difficult to ignore.
Last Autumn SFM was approached in confidence by senior figures in two print media outlets. The request was for us to provide them with the facts we had in bullet points – to make it easier for them to reach their audience, an audience they claimed was not sophisticated enough to absorb the detail and minutiae of the story.
The role of journalists is to do exactly that of course. They had access to the same documentary evidence we had (we know this because we gave it to them), but they wanted us to do their job for them? Leaving aside the scant regard I have for football journalists in this country, I don’t believe they are incapable of carrying out that simple task – but we humoured them anyway and provided them with the “SFA Corruption for Dummies” guide that they asked for.
But what were they really up to?
Remembering the RTC thread where he pointed out that genuine whistle-blowers in this saga were reluctant to come forward because of trust issues – they feared any contact with the MSM would result in their details being provided to those they were exposing – we proceeded with some caution. Amusingly, the same three questions was asked at each meeting; “You must know who Rangers Tax Case is?”, “any idea who John James is?” and, “what team do you support?”. (FYI, my answers were, “No”, “No”, and “Celtic” respectively).
Interestingly, for people who needed clarification by bullet-point, they were well enough versed in the minutiae to attempt to argue the flat-earth case and try to sell us the “it has been established legally that ”
Our only conjecture was that they were trying to convince us we were wrong, or ascertain how firm a grasp we actually had on the facts to better see who and what they were dealing with, or (most probably) they were reacting aimlessly to online pressure and not really following any plan at all. Perhaps they were seeking to reassure themselves that it was just Celtic fans who were angry – although I fail to see how Celtic or their fans have less credibility when asking legitimate questions about the running of the game just because Rangers were involved.
Subsequently, despite the platitudes of “print and social media should work together” and the like, and despite being furnished with the aforementioned bullet points, no further contact was made with SFM other than a couple of childish comments about SFM on Twitter.
Facts might be facts to us all, but in the case of the print media, they can be ignored on the basis that mad internet bampots are not a credible source, although metaphysical hypotheses are clearly thought to be a far more sensible line of inquiry!
However, facts ARE indeed facts, and in the hands of real journalists like Alec Thomson and those in The Offshore Game (TOG), they are given the credence they merit. Since TOG published the report on the SFA (see below), the facts have emerged from not just the so-called internet bampots. Those facts have survived the scrutiny of several reputable journalists involved in TOG – and their legal advisers.
Accusations more blunt and unequivocal than we have ever made have been published. The genie is most definitely out of the bottle, but the prodigious MSM Twitterati, so meticulous in their investigations into the occupation of Craig Whyte’s female companions, appear to have run out of batteries on their keyboards. “No answer” is the loud reply, since TOG cannot be ridiculed quite so easily without exposing themselves to the same scrutiny they have failed to apply to the SFA.
If I can be as unequivocal about this as possible. Senior journalists in at least two MSM print outlets KNOW there has been a cover up, and that systematic cheating took place. They knew that before the TOG report, long before it, but still they did nothing. Even now they do nothing. They are now playing a reactionary role – as counterpoint to the accessible online truth – involved in actively concealing that truth from the offline public. An Offline Game if you like.
Of course we are not surprised by that, and as the falling-off-a-cliff circulation figures show, fewer and fewer people are playing their game. Even those who still purchase newspapers believe little of what they read.
The clubs are a different matter. Fans of every single club in this country – and that includes TRFC – will benefit from an inquiry into the handling of this matter. In the light of the TOG report, there is no excuse for the clubs to ignore calls for an inquiry to be set up. In fact by doing so, they are actively embracing corruption.
As we have said time and time again, this is no longer about Rangers. It is about institutionalised mal-governance at Hampden. By assisting the cover-up, the clubs are ensuring that the same corrupt practices are in place, ready to go again when necessary. Those practices which saw journalists and SFA officials cede editorial control (both statements backed up by documentary evidence) of their output to one club, and allow damaging conflicts of interest to circumvent rules.
The Offshore Game has thrown a media spotlight onto a cover-up. The MSM have attempted to bury it in the offline domain, but corruption, however well established,is not unbeatable. We can beat it if we work together – and here is how.
Season ticket renewals are dropping through letterboxes as I write this. If we do nothing other than protest, the clubs will do – just like Stewart Regan says he will – NOTHING!
There is only one way to establish the Independent Inquiry that is demanded in the wake of TOG report. Ask your club if they will vote for an Independent Inquiry to be set up.
If they agree, there is no problem. They are doing the right thing and will be deserving of our support.
Otherwise, send their renewal forms back to them unsigned.
It really is that simple.
An Teach…,
The trust can only be won with action and communication, action without communication puts supporters back where we were, same with communication without action. It’s fair enough for the older supporters telling us that in their day no one really cared about how the club was run only the the football mattered, IMO that is exactly why the old board were allowed to almost destroy the club. And we know that attitude is exactly what destroyed rangers.
Since the Celtic Plc was formed more supporters have become shareholders/stakeholders and quite rightly IMO expect and demand more from our clubs “guardians” on accountability.
Good Morning Bhoys another lovely morning. I dont want Roy Keane as manager for two reasons first he has done very little as a manager and secondly Roy thinks in my opinion he is bigger than the club instead of getting lots of information about the team the chances are we would get all about Roy so for me he is a no no. H.H.
Res 12 is a war of attrition – Between CEFand SFA against celtic fans.. hoping they stopped talking about it
Celtic will only react when there is 25 000 at the first game of the season
With LG suspended for Sunday (& first league game of next season) what chance one of the development squad strikers gets a run out? Who would it most likely be? Miller? McMullen? Aitchison?
‘A great crowd had gathered….’
James Connolly RIP
Sunday might be the day to unleash hoopslegend Carlton Cole.
Or if he remains indisposed, wee Cheryl.
Lol in leith!
‘As I walked through the Glenshane Pass, I heard a young girl mourn’.
Francis Hughes RIP
I’m not buying into the narrative that a strong well-drilled, St. Johnstone outfought and out-thought us last night.
They were as sluggish and as uninspired as us. They got two goals courtesy of a pitch tackling Jo Hansen, and a brain fart from Efe. They created nothing and fully deserved to score nil. As did most of our team apart from one moment of dribbling genius from Leigh.
Too often posters equate a defeat or a draw with tactical prowess being displayed by a rival SPFL manager (usually one who manages to forget his tactical genius and loses the other 2 or 3 games he plays against us).
We never hear of Ronny Deila’s tactical genius in winning 25 games and losing only 3 times before the league was secured.
I would go as far as to say that SPFL coaches, in general, have been mighty slow in working out how to defeat our wide open defence. Certainly, compared with the managers of Legia and, perhaps, Molde, they have been very dull in their thinking.
Aff into work now.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 12TH MAY 2016 9:09 AM
Perfectly summed up.
One point though…..I blame Johansen as much as the pitch. You don’t try to play clever football out of defence on a pitch like that. Pass it or clear it.
DONTBRATTBAKKINANGER
Agree,wee Cheryl and change for Nat King at half time!
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 12TH MAY 2016 9:09 AM
This kind of resonates with my thoughts listening to shortbread on Sunday. They were opining that Aberdeen led by DM had had an exceptional season. Celtic and RD, on the other hand were lackluster.
They couldn’t seem to see that they were saying a moribund Celtic were still superior to an exceptional Aberdeen. Instead of just admitting that perhaps the overall criticism of Celtic had been a little too harsh.
Weeminger
If Deila had led AFC and McInnes had led Celtic this season… Do you think points difference would have been better or worse?
“Mark Warburton a happy man after Rangers beat Spurs 4-3”
Eh? Should that no read…
“Mark Warburton relieved to see his first team scrape past Spurs youth & development team”
Last night was just an awful end to an awful day and frankly an awful season of discontent.
The result though means nothing as nothing at stake. Personally Zim glad some fringe players were exposed.
I’d be happy to have another look st them on Sunday regardless of the outcome.
This season , this regime just needs to finished and the sooner the better.
If PL doesn’t roll out a superstar manager soon his goose is cooked.
Most of the players are on holiday mode and deservedly so. Last night meant nothing.
Really hoping it’s Brendan and not Roy.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 12th May 2016 8:19 am
An Teach…,
I expect there to be a very big turn out for the last game of the season, simply for the fact that it could be their last game full stop, I personally know quite a few.
add me to that list.
CULTSBHOY CAN NOT RELATE TO CELTIC BOARD AMBITIONS ON OR OFF THE PARK on 12TH MAY 2016 9:20 AM
I have absolutely no idea. The players that worked well under RD, may not have done so under DM. It’s impossible to say.
The point remains the same. I think Aberdeen, have had an excellent season. I also think that league wise we’ve done reasonably – we did after all win. This is not reflected in the media coverage. That’s all I’m saying. Nothing more.
SFTB
I disagree with your view that SPFL managers “have been mighty slow in working out how to defeat our wide open defence”.
Quite the contrary actually. Pretty much every team sets up the same way against us, and largely it works.
I saw ‘largely’ because it works to the extent that they get chances to score according to the system used, and these chances follow the same pattern, but the key difference is that the finishing is generally not good enough.
Were standard SPFL clubs to have strikers of the standard of the teams who have beaten us in Europe, our system would have been toast long ago.