Anthony Stokes started the season with a flurry, scoring four goals in the first three league games of the season, but he managed just another three goals before the arrival of Leigh Griffiths two weeks ago. He has since scored against Aberdeen in the Cup as well as Sunday’s hat-trick against St Johnstone.
Three goals in 28 appearances is a desolate return for a Celtic striker, especially during a season where the team have been so dominant, and would have contributed to Neil Lennon insisting a striker, capable of scoring regularly in the league, was recruited in January. Managers often talk about needing competition for places, so it’s natural that we should extrapolate from the arrival of Griffiths. While we may see both strikers play together between now and the end of the season I’m not convinced the manager will have this pairing in his mind for next season.
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Select 11 players in either a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 formation; you’ll need a goalkeeper, two full backs, two central defenders, 3 or 4 midfielders and 2 or 3 forwards. You also need to select a manager from the decade.
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erryBhoy
22:10 on 18 February, 2014
‘Barca are indeed more than a club…..
The German taxpayers will testify to that.
Every top Spanish club has their debts serviced by Mrs. Merkel’s citizens.’
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Maybe they should think of it as war reparations.
ffs im callin myself Hot Chocolate from now on
I pose a question and TD goes and watches movies
and the then the Ryester goes to bed.
I watched 60mins of the game tonight in my local(to work). Cheered Barca opener and got some turned heads from Dubliners but caused no ripples with the various English guys away from home on contracts.
Funny old game
Doc, my mhate has not got back to me yet
Sell the spare ticket
Hail Hail
Ernie Lynch…..
War reparations to Franco’s Real Madrid?
You’ll be telling me the Catholic Church should give ‘blood money’ to the Catalans next.
Lenny was a pundit on tv3 the nite for the game.
Says he has no intentions of goin anywhere and is planning on rebuilding squad again.
ernie lynch
22:26 on 18 February, 2014
I feel that you may be living or thinking very much in the past.
History educates but it should not be overdone. We move on
positively in Europe.
HH
Gerry
Charliemac you’re the one throwing around the figures. I suppose you want a new manager now!
ryecatcher
22:19 on
18 February, 2014
Turkeybhoy…
I’m having a bet on Bayern to win at the Emirates.
Now if that doesn’t make you lump on Arsenal then hell mend ye haha
Villa,Jeep,Boat,wifes car,devil dug,all getting lumped on a draw tomorrow.Anything to go against the two results you mentioned.
rambling observations from today.
the allways excellent gentle comedy of Moone Bhoy was a classic tonight.
set against ireland at italia 90 and the father wanting to immerse himself in gaeltacht.
and not really supporting the fitba, they go looking for packie bonners house.
pretty funny, worth a watch.
two observations,
in the romania game , a big union jack in with the irish fans, wtf.
and returning to dublin, lots of green white and yellow tri-colours , why was that ?
Marrakesh – In our case, where do you stop? Why ban Keevins but welcome Jackson? Spiers is a middle class buffoon who pretends he’s above bias while regularly firing low blows at NFL. But then so does Tom English who is embarrassed to be Irish in Scotland.
I’d rather the manager and PL were willing to openly and politely debate with them when they lie as that would make others think twice about it – public humiliation is rarely welcomed. On the other hand, if they just write stuff we don’t like, what’s the problem? There is a lot worse said on here about players, manager and board than the press are ever likely to publish.
Ach, the answer is there is no answer. Just opinions.
Nite all
HappydreamsCSC
observations number 2, i spent the day in dublin, going round offices on the m50 north.
at one place, Northwood, or some such name, just down from kinsealy, tour guide says, great this side of the road, but 5 mins that side and its not so nice.
i said och i am from the port, it cant be that bad, we drove through, jeese oh.
CowieBhoy ok.
First come first served.
One ticket at our CQteN tables has become available.
If you are interested contact me.
doccqten@gmail.com
@Ernie
Treaty of Versailles?
war guilt? or just plain economics.
paolosboots fc before plc
22:38 on 18 February, 2014
Can I be the Manager, cause I’ve picked the best CQeleveN team, in fact I even gave the subs
Guess who didn’t get into top 17 :-)
deniabhoy got same midfield though
Hope your doing well Bhud
Hail Hail
American Thinker
February 12, 2014
Russia Then and Now
By Bruce Walker
The woeful incompetence of Putin’s Russia to run the Olympic Games is grim proof of the soul-destroying properties of those vile secular totalitarianisms which have infested much of the world in the last hundred years. The deliberate rewriting of history — an ongoing and Orwellian conveyor belt of mendacity — masks one of the true lessons of recorded humanity: “He who controls the past controls the future.”
Few areas of forgotten history are as vital to understanding the world today as the remarkable success of tsarist Russia and the utter destruction of Russian greatness through the malignancy of Marxism in action. In 1914, one century ago, the Russian economy was the most dynamic in the world. Industrial production in Russia was growing faster than in America or Germany or Japan. Russia also produced more agricultural and mineral wealth than any nation in the world.
Russia was a center of science and technology. The best railroad locomotives and the best bicycles were made in Russia. Behavioral psychology and chemistry, cosmology, and other scientific frontiers were paved by Russian genius. Literature has had three great periods — ancient Athens, Elizabethan England, and tsarist Russia. Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, and Chekov were equal to any writers in history. Russian classical music also rose to high peaks under the tsars.
The carefully cultivated myth of backward and dull Russia prior to Lenin was needed to rationalize the almost unimaginable horrors of Bolshevism in practice. But even in the area of political and civil rights, tsarist Russia was much better than its Bolshevik successor. The accused in the law courts of the tsars had the right to free legal counsel, and juries often acquitted those whom the tsars might have wished to be found guilty.
Russia had a freely elected national legislature, the Duma, and its members openly criticized the tsar’s government, even in the middle of the First World War, showing more freedom of speech than Americans had at the same time, during Wilson’s vicious persecution of those who thought the war was wrong. It sometimes surprises people to learn that the Duma had many competing political parties, some of which were unabashedly revolutionary. Russia had newspapers, magazines, and books that were in many respects freer than nations in the rest of Europe.
Communist Russia was worse than tsarist Russia in every way. Communist Russia, despite routinely turning out hundreds of thousands more scientists and engineers than America, fell hopelessly behind. The breadbasket of the world needed regular and large purchases of grain from “capitalist” nations just to feed its people. In stark contrast to the exceptionally high quality of Russian locomotives and bicycles, Communist Russia produced horrid motorcars and dangerous airliners.
Just as ghastly has been the extermination of art from Russian culture. No great writer except for Solzhenitsyn has grown up into manhood within Communist Russia. The single area of Communist Russian adequacy in arts has been in performing the creations of others, as through ballet or orchestral music. The lamp of creative artistic genius is extinguished.
Communism was effective only in one aspect of national life: it was a diabolically pernicious and permanent toxin of the Russian soul. Communism is, in essence, the utter submergence of the human mind and soul into the abyss of mendacity. When Orwell wrote 1984, he was writing about Communist Russia. His masterpiece was such a stark and clear description of the soul-destroying horrors of Communist Russia that those privileged party members allowed to read 1984 quietly asked visitors from the West when Orwell had been in their home country. (“Never” was the answer.)
The poison of this first modern totalitarianism has been so lethal that even two decades after the reign of the Communist Party ended, Russia still languishes in state-sponsored corruption, bullying, lying, and stealing. While the world watches and national pride is on the line, the Russian nation cannot run something as ordinary as decent accommodations for Olympic athletes.
It ought to be a warning to the rest of the world — and particularly to America, which has a president marinated in Marxism and committed to statist solutions at every turn. We are a sunny people, much given to optimism even when clouds darken the sky. What Russia then and now tells us, however, is that those values precious to the heart and soul of liberty and faith, once lost, may be lost forever.
Sandman
22:00 on 18 February, 2014
DeniaBhoy
petec
Lads, when I said we were about a tenth of Citeh’s worth, it was of fthe cuff, off the top of me head.
Ultimately, the point is, as others have added to, that Lenny deserves MUCH more credit than the keyboard Steins give him.
Our value v Citeh? Probably nearer a fiftieth but whaddaya want on CQN? Facts? Statistics? ;))
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I am right with you in your thoughts about Neil. ;))
It is all good m8ty.
Marrakesh Express @ 22.18 hrs.
About the DR. “When oh when is Lawwell going to ban them? I know some will say a ban doesnt work, well give me the reason or reasons why”
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I will try to answer your question from a ” Joe Bloggs” perspective. As we are still in a democracy ( For now ) freedom of speech is paramount.
Many, Many Celtic supporters still read the DR and want to read about their team. I appreciate that this is a reoccurring topic on CQN, but just as the trust does not speak for all, neither does CQN.
Give the ordinary fan some credit. I very much doubt that every article is regarded as “Gospel ” and Has the ban on Hugh Keevins achieved its aims ?. In my opinion. No.
Controversial and unpalatable as this may be to some, we need the press. Its debatable if there is such a thing as negative publicity in purely footballing terms. Use savvy and manipulate them to our advantage.
Banning does not work and is self defeating. If you do not agree with what is written then simple, do not buy or read the product. This also goes for radio phone -ins.
Bans are also normally self defeating and are perceived of desperation, something to hide or plain vindictiveness.
I would be more worried if the press stopped writing about us and deemed us un-newsworthy.
Again its all about opinions,
Best Rgds and HH to you.
67 Heaven, seeing you didn’t like my colourful people and dancing bear birthday present, and me not being the kind of guy to give an unwanted present I’ll retract the dancing bear and replace it wit new Celtic Choir. The word is that they’re better than the Green Brigade and should be in place at CP for the game against St Mirren. I do hope so.
I hope this is more appropriate ya grumpy auld hoop:_))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5i-6cJMJs
I hope Barca put 6 past ManC at the Camp Nou. Best league in the world my arse!!
Cowiebhoy doing well thanks hope you are too. I bet you have the dream team of henrik and sammy up front or knowing you 2sammys :-)
Evening Timland from a dreich hun free mountain valley.
Had a great night in the local, free vino during the game, no the may west, but drunk much worse.
Barca were strolling it at times, miles ahead of City.
No bad for a team that has past it, puts into perspective how good we done against them.
Superb analysis after the game, none of your pro club agenda, just proper disection of the game.
HH
Night night Timland. Take care all. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Man City:
Between 2008, when Abu-Dhabi-based oil magnate Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan bought them, and the end of last season, the club’s total cash outlay was <b£930.4m, of which only £365.3m was generated from their own operations.
Green Pinata
Thanks for that good response on the press ban issue. Much as the press copy can frustrate we can’t ask for free speech on the one hand and bans for those we don’t like on the other.
Deniabhoy
Many Celtic fans are brainwashed by papers, the DR in particular. I’ve lost count of the tims Ive spoken to who ask me how I know and where I ‘read these stories about the huns, coz it wasnt in the papers’. Makes me want to scream.
The msm demonisation of NL alone should have been enough to make the club take action, as it did when Keevins overstepped. I’ve catalogued their lies spin and non stories before, the thugs and thieves etc.
The DR is bad for business, full stop.
Saint stivs would it be from the pope john pauls visit there! I have seen worse in glasgow and greenock than ive ever seen in dublin. Still miss it though.
GerryBhoy
22:34 on 18 February, 2014
Well said Gerry.
I had the privilege to work in Germany for almost six years and loved the place.
The people were great and friendly. I remember not long after I arrived I was in a queue when an elderly man started talking with me and I had to admit that I did not speak German. He then kindly switched to English and we had a great chat. He ended the conversation by saying that it was great that we could talk in spite of recent history. I thought that that was sad as virtually every country has its dark past and I told him that I was only glad to be in his country, accepting their hospitality, and making friends.
When the World Cup was played their in 2006 and people were putting the German flags up in their house windows and in pubs there were questions asked in parliament whether it was appropriate for the people to display such nationalism. That was ridiculous but just shows that Germany is a country acutely aware of its recent past and will not tolerate a return to those dark days.
The modern Germany accepts more refugees from most conflicts than all other European countries put together. From the recent Balkans conflict in one year it took in more than 250,000 and continues to do so. Hundreds of thousands came and settled from eastern Europe when the wall came down. Compare that to the reaction within our country when we have immigrants arriving.
@Greenpinta
WE need the press?
I don’t feckin think so, The press need us to print their made up
headlines and fabricated innuendoes.
Ban the Barstewards
Nite Nite Timland :-)
Craigellachie10
at 22.57
Of Course, we kin ask fur “Free Speech..oan one Hand, and Bans oan the other”
Fur.. Ain’t we Fur Free Speech?
Maks sense tae me.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Kojo
:)
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
22:25 on
18 February, 2014
Not to mention Hungary `56.
Czechoslovakia `68
Afghanistan `79
Ukraine`14 ?
The Media age we live in now is a different world IMO.The rags need us more than we need them.New media is all ours now.Twitter ,facebook,apps,tablets,smartfones,and blogs,carry news far quicker than a next day paper.Leckie and his rag should have been banned after the Coughgate lies.MacLean,Nevin and the BBC. banned and made to publicly apologise too.We have the control at our fingertips,yet blend in with the 2 faced SMSM.
Tickets gone fholks.
Billy Bhoy will be joining our merry gang.
Welcome Squire.
Craig
with all due respect it doesn’t come down to who we like or dislike.
it boils down to downright defamation at times
now who among us likes that?
16 Roads, Drambowiecelt,
Glad you liked Magyar Himnusz: I find it moving, but then I remember it from 1956.
coneybhoy
22:31 on 18 February, 2014
Imagine a Dublin pub cheering on an EPL team v Barcelona….
Whuda think it……
Well now you mention it, I recall being in an Albufeira bar for the 2011 CL final between MU and Barcelona
A pair of Dublin clowns were giving it the “COME AAN UNOITED” every 2 minutes and got quite peeved at a crowd of us – some of whom had enough on Barcelona that night to basically pay for the weekend – having the audacity not to be cheering on the team from the Greatestleagueintheworld.
They soon got the message.
Were Connolly and Pearce still alive they would wonder why they bothered.