It’s difficult to say for sure if Stjarnan are the worst team I’ve seen Celtic play but they are there or there about. They defended resolutely, have a good goalkeeper and scored a fine goal, but they are no Arbroath.
Ronny will be annoyed at the loss of the early goal. I always think of San Marino’s opening goal against England on these occasions. This was back in the 90s, when San Marino weren’t the team they are now (cough). England took kick off but found themselves a goal down after 7 seconds. They lost a sloppy goal because they were far too complacent, as did Celtic last night.
One thing which will be clear to all is the focus on goal Leigh Griffiths brought when he came on. It will be tempting to contrast this to Nadir Ciftci, who looked (and was) less potent, but Leigh’s first sight of goal came as a result of Nadir’s work. I suspect both benefit from being able to play off a partner.
The passing looked better last night and it was good to see the lungs remained productive until late in the game. We now have a big week of preparation ahead of the next round.
Delighted to see the Celtic Foundation on the shirts last night, well done to all concerned. The Foundation should feature more prominently in everything we do (fans and club). And if you’ve got a pair of trainers, sign up for the Great Scottish Run.
Just caught news of Newco’s £175k bid for Scott Allan. Define overinvestment, to use local parlance.
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I hope all the clique who ‘jumped’ on my considered comments regarding the Qarabag tie, will now ‘eat their words’ after reading Ronny’s interview in the Scotsman this morning.
It will not be a ‘walk in the park’ and we cannot be confident, only hopeful.
The clique will of course not ‘eat their words’, instead they will make up some nonsensical reasoning for their tripe and accuse me of being a ‘hun’, of wrapping myself in the ‘butcher’s apron’, or some other crap.
LOL
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skyisalandfill..
Thank You..Yip Great Dog..Too human-like though (My Fault)..
Funny enough it was Only after watching the Fanning (Surfer) interview after the Shark attack that l thought about the Guy swimming that Day..
At least I’m not the Only one who gets a Fright when l kick a bit of Seaweed whilst swimming in Oz..
001
I see masonic hun ref McLean referee against Rennes this weekend
http://videocelts.com/2015/07/blogs/latest-news/steven-mclean-to-referee-celtic-match
hope the green brigade get something made up for him
thompsontwin
I seem to remeber you made a witty take on my name once, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Why not come along to the BV a before a euro game or make yourself known at CQN corner.
I promise you will meet some brilliant TIms who aren’t in any clique.
Why not?
HH
Just seen this, haven’t seen or heard anything about it in the scottish press. I wonder why?
http://www.talkingbaws.com/2015/07/23/former-rangers-defender-kirk-broadfoot-allegedly-receives-10-game-ban-for-sectarian-rant-at-james-mclean/
taurangabhoy
Cheers – I suspect I’ll continue to lurk more than post although I know it’s the duty of the decent posters to drown out the noise if they don’t like it. We shouldn’t need to scroll on..
Ronny revolution suits me. It was the right time for The Board to experiment as you or I could win the SPFL… But I think Delia is a good appointment at this time. I’m no fan of John Collins but he seems to be playing his part but I wouldn’t be shocked if he runs his course in the next season.
One thing I am liking is the home grown approach to signings – we know what we are getting with Griffiths. Armstrong GMS etc and they seem sensible signings to me. It’s been easier to get these players as we are operating in a market we can dominate.
Kind of ironic shift from Traditional UK manager to Foriegn manager at the same time we shift emphasis in player recruitment more from foreign to home grown talent.
I think Delia will grow with Celtic and the team will grow with him.
The homegrown recruitment should do a couple of things it should reinvigorate the support and it should also facilitate more Celtic youths transitioning in to first team.
I’m looking forward to next season and keeping realistic expectations which for me means a treble and a decent run in eufa cup…any significant progress in CL would be a totally unexpected bonus..
skyisalandfill
Picking him up on route so I will make sure he has his meds 8)
Hendrix67
Campbell Ogilvie is lodging his appeal as we speak
BT
I kinda knew you would. :-)
hendrix67
07:30 on 24 July, 2015
Just seen this, haven’t seen or heard anything about it in the scottish press. I wonder why?
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It’s in todays DR online edition
Celtic got skelped wi Legia Warsaw last season…the main culprit in a Celtic jersey was Charlie Muldini….imho
Guess who’s in the Celtic defence for this seasons qualifiers?
CM’s best position for Celtic is, on the left of a midfield 5 where Neil played him on the day that Sammi skelped ibrox…a magical day.
Shinnie of ICT was the ‘one’ to replace Izzy….another boat missed…imho
Just in
Dugs have stopped chasin motors in Renfrew in case they get elected
Found this very funny. From TBB last night…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=17705&cpage=9#comment-2636448
KevJungle
Phil is correct at every step he has made with regards to them finally being put to bed, then someone last minute saves them, that can only go on so far even where MA is concerned also.
Love the bit where it reads “terms to be negotiated ” is that the same terms as the face painter? Priceless.
DAVID HARDIE
21:56Thursday 23 July 2015
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HAVE YOUR SAY
Claims that Scott Allan has told Hibs he wants to join Rangers after the Capital club rejected a second bid for their star player are wide of the mark, the Evening News has learned.
The midfield ace has been kept abreast of the fast-developing situation but has been told Hibs have no intention of selling him to their biggest Championship rivals.
An initial offer of £175,000 – with “payment terms to be negotiated” – was, as the News revealed, rejected out of hand by the Easter Road club, the same treatment given to a follow-up offer of £225,000.
Once again chief executive Leeann Dempster and her fellow directors gave the renewed bid short shrift, agreeing within seconds there was, again, no decision to be made.
Hibs are determined not to be “pushed about and bullied” by Rangers, while angered that the Glasgow outfit appear to be seeking to undermine and weaken them ahead of tomorrow’s Petrofac Training Cup clash between the clubs.
Head coach Alan Stubbs “categorically” insisted Allan would not be going to Rangers in wake of the initial bid, which most would see as being derisory for last season’s Championship player of the year.
And, the News understands, that remains the case following the £50,000 jump which, again, is believed to have strings attached, the offer made in an e-mail which came late yesterday afternoon as had the previous day’s communication.
Hibs have made it clear to Rangers they won’t sell and although the Glasgow outfit will undoubtedly attempt to turn up the pressure, they are determined Allan won’t be heading along the M8, well aware of the message that would send out to their supporters after a year of rebuilding bridges following the divisions wrought by relegation.
Stubbs spoke to Allan regarding Rangers initial approach but will talk to the former Dundee United and West Brom player again to stress Hibs’ position remains the same – he’s not for sale.
It was claimed that Allan had indicated his desire to leave for Rangers in “discussions held with club officials” but, the News has been told, no such request was made, while Stubbs will today reinforce Hibs’ determination to ensure he sees out the final year of his contract.
Speaking before Rangers renewed effort to lure Allan away, Stubbs said: “We were very up-front. I’ve spoken to Scott and told him exactly the situation, that there has been an offer and that is has been rejected.
“He was aware – I’m sure his advisors had told him. I’m sure they’d told him everything.”
As everyone knows, Allan is central to Hibs hopes of clinching promotion at the second time of asking and, to that end, Stubbs insisted Rangers would be the last club to which they’d consider selling.
Adamant Allan would be selling himself short by becoming new Ibrox boss Mark Warburton’s latest signing as English Premier League clubs will be chasing his signature next summer, Stubbs said: “Our stance is very strong – we are not prepared to sell Scott Allan.
“We are trying to put together a team which we feel will have a chance of being close for promotion this season.
“Scott is fundamental to what we want to achieve. You don’t sell your best players. No matter who you are, you don’t sell your best players, especially to your closest rivals.”
Hibs are prepared to let Allan leave for nothing at the end of the season rather than cave in to Rangers, Stubbs saying: “Scott has got 12 months left on his contract and we as a club are prepared to let him run it down.
“I feel, potentially, he has an option at the end of this season to be playing at the top level. I honestly believe he can play in the Premier League in England. I can’t say that about everybody, he’s got a fantastic opportunity.
“If he can play even better this season then he could get an even better Premier League club.”
I notice that on BBC both our report and Aberdeen’s has we are both through but with a scare? not even sure they checked the scores over the two legs for both sides. both of us finished over all a few goals to the good, how is that a scare.
I’m not paranoid about it but it does seem strange,
West am, went through on penalties last night after losing in 90, now thats a real scare, no mention of that anywhere!
Robert88
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Hail Hail fella.
With respect…how can Phil be right when…they are obviously not dead?
Phil isny a daftie…why do you think he rushed into print with his book about the huns ‘downfall’….he knows they’ll ‘never’ die-out-all-together.
I think that Celtic FC are involved with MASH to get the huns back to a level to challenge Celtic…folk are looking the other way…being deceived by all of this 75p out of so many £’s that they sell so…on the other hand….where does the money keep ‘mysteriously’ appearing from….my guess is…Celtic are giving them it…canny prove it but, I can sense that something isny right.
HH
Kev..,
Big deal, I Disney matter whit you think, know nat
Oh
HH
Canamalar
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Nor you.
KevJungle
a simple answer would be loans and investors, the people sticking money into them, are not doing so for the love of the club, they are doing so for the love of their wad and wanting it back with interest.
They are dead, and without substantial loans to keep them going, that give away more and more of what was once owned by a single entity that is hunco, now belongs to several different people waiting to get their loans back or else.
Just in, Lambeth council just repealed by laws for dugs chasin motors in case they an MP
Mistaken identity is a common occurrence in London apparently, innit
kevjungle
07:58 on 24 July, 2015
Robert88
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Hail Hail fella.
With respect…how can Phil be right when…they are obviously not dead?
Phil isny a daftie…why do you think he rushed into print with his book about the huns ‘downfall’….he knows they’ll ‘never’ die-out-all-together.
I think that Celtic FC are involved with MASH to get the huns back to a level to challenge Celtic…folk are looking the other way…being deceived by all of this 75p out of so many £’s that they sell so…on the other hand….where does the money keep ‘mysteriously’ appearing from….my guess is…Celtic are giving them it…canny prove it but, I can sense that something isny right.
HH
The above is a certainty that drugs fck up your nut, remember this kids, don’t do drugs.
Geeze
Robert88
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As I said….deception.
They’ll do what they’ve always done….play by their own rules.
If their dead…why is 95% of the content of this blog about them?
tonydonnelly67
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Hail Hail fella.
Hope yer well :)))
tonydonnelly67
Will be at Celtic park for the Ross County game next Saturday, first game at Paradise for 28 years, my wife Sadie and I have tickets, visit the Barras then the Granite/Brazen head for a continental swallyAfter the game. Some of my old drinking mates…TIM ,Hughie Gillan, Terry, fat Danny , Beatnik, Jim Gill, John Dinnie ,Chic Burns, Rad, Gennotti, big Mary behind the bar, to name a few. Jimmy . Queensland . Australia.
KevJungle
Liquidation tends to mean the end, their reincarnation is the most interesting thing to be perfectly honest than anything I can think of in years going back in Football and business, it really is amazing on many levels and is far from over.
That would probably be why.
TD… Lol!
What if……..?
Celtic draw the huns in a cup competition this season…..will Celtic go along with Celtic v Rangers stuff?
Or, will they sit back and hope that enraged fans will chip-in to get a ‘statement’ printed in an anti-Celtic newspaper the week before the game?
And there we have it, no quotes or nothing from player, if true hibs have to put the wee fucker in the stands for a year!!
Ibrox target Scott Allan pleads with Hibs to let him join his boyhood heroes Rangers
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mrhenrik67
A bit early in the day for profanities surely. 8))
KevJungle
I hope another advert but this time with the four horsemen tifo included.
BMWC
Thank you for the info yesterday
To The Dublin Bhoy
Thanks for the info
Dbba
Went to St Lukes last Saturday night, lovely wee church
Hope all the Aberdour Bhoys have a great day on and off the greens
Robert88
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Aye….that would be grand:)
The only way that the huns would have been ‘seriously’ terminated would have been if….when the huns were granted a license to start again, Celtic FC should have ‘threatened’ to walk out of Scottish football if the huns werent banned from ‘all’ football levels until their antics from the start of the David Murray era till ‘that’ present time were investigated by some ‘outside’ organisation and, that all the trophy’s that they won during that time were ‘scrubbed’ and all they money that they had stolen from every club be repaid in full.
Celtic FC with the backing of it’s supporter base would have been, backed by several other clubs and their fans…imho
But….that was never going to happen when Celtic FC are run by a hierarchy who ‘rolled-over’ at the LNS-verdict and, kowtowed to a Govt-summit after the ‘shame-game’ which planted the seeds for the OBAF-thingy which Celtic FC agreed to.
Going away as, some stuff needs to be done.
If, I don’t ever return from where I’m going….I want you all to promise me one thing….that You’ll Never Walk Alone…thanks…bye.
TT @ 7.21
I agree with you that the Qarabag tie will be much more difficult than Sjarnan and would be not just surprised but
I would be a little horrified if Ronny said otherwise. From what I have read on this blog most seem to think that as a relatively unknown quantitity who play a long way from Scotland who don’t let many goals in they will be a tough nut to crack. At this stage of the season whilst teams are at different levels of preparedness results are more difficult to call. A quiet confidence seems appropriate as whilst Qarabag might not be Sjarnan they will not be Barcelona either.
TT I have rarely liked or agreed with what you contribute to this blog but here I think you are on to something . Does not make me wish to meet you for a beer – I am teetotal at present- or to turn my one man clique into a duet but because you said something does not make it wrong.
Have a good day all
Jimbo67
Sevconians do their utmost to unsettle their opponents before the ‘big’ (in the smallest possible terms) match.
Similar to the DR running their stories to unsettle Celtic players before every Celtic V (what was the name of that other Glasgow team?).