When the Champions League draw was made, I feared we would face Anderlecht at home on the final game after five defeats. This would not necessarily have been the end of our interest in European football, but it would have damaged the momentum in the club in recent months.
You will remember, ahead of match day five, we discussed that the Anderlecht-Bayern Munich game was probably more important to our season than the PSG-Celtic game. As it transpired, Bayern’s second half winner made all the difference to the second half of our season.
News last night that Celtic are the only group stage qualifier from the Champions Pot to still be in European competition offer some comfort; outcomes could have been a lot worse.
While European football is the custard in our doughnut, all I hear from is Celtic fans who are grateful it is over for a couple of months. We have an unbeaten record to further and two games a week until the January break.
It can be pretty horrible, a huge club stuck in a minor league without competition, but it offers us respite, an opportunity to recharge, experiment and return afresh.
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wish I had yer number Bmcuwp ….then I’d call ye…..email me it ? ;-))
JAMESGANG
Delighted for you big man,treasure her
HH
If it ends in 98, pick it up.
Send to gmail….if yer gonna
Landline does….no ring
Andy
Dunno how many addys you have from me.
Try this one.
bmcuwp@gmail.com
and save the details. Ffs,we’ve met up plenty of times and you don’t have my details ? Hauf the Louden has my details,I get threatening calls because of putting this on here and you canny remember it?
Don’t half make me laugh,old bean.
It reads as Email protected…..am checking my past….got a shitload of Fatima pics….no number
Sent u an email on yer gmail
kevj is gonna call us a clique ;-))
H.H.
0141 638 5798…..or 0141 638 5978…..you may have sent me yer Moby…..but it changed…..or u lost yer fine…..or new contract
Expect a shitload of dummies ;-))
H.H.
fine= fone
THELURKINTIM
Kept my numbers over the years. Always easier than informing people who don’t update.
Fone me or not…..rite number or not…..I don’t have a Moby number…..Av got a Whatsapp number that works…..despite no sim…..
mmmm gonna havta check my old hotmails if they exist…..bluff n counter bluff ;-))
H.H
Splainit to me why I always feel like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas everytime I log into CQN?
What he said was sad
But considering all the rejection that’s he had
To pretend to be glibby could only be idiocy
Mags,
Some on here refuse to see the light…..McInnes has been tapped up…..SFA Penalty…..who ama a kidding ;-((
The amount of Sevco hilarity on here….there’s an Old Firm occupational hazard…..avoided…..;-((
My last till….
My next to last….been a blast…..not a flounce…..keep yer tutu’s…..will b bak….sometime….( has it got something to do with something…..probably ;-)))
Keep it lit….
INVINCIBLE QUADRUPLE 67ERS…..Oh my…in my lifetime ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
Lurkintim
Absolutely correct.
Come on nae flouncers here
Just red cards
Delaneys Dunky on 8th December 2017 12:34 am
BMCUW
I printed off Jim’s tale of the Clydebank Blitz 13 and 14 March 1941. My niece used his work in a project in Saint Eunan’s school Clydebank. Her teachers were impressed wit BRTH’s work.
DD that made me smile of a morning because I was baptised uo at St Eunan’s and the church has always been a wee bit of a lucky charm for me because throughout my life every time I go there something good has always followed.
I have to laugh when anyone describes the anything I write as “work”! I just don’t see it that way, and my only regret with the Strandsky Tales is that I really struggle to find the time to write more due to the work stuff and committments to other people which must come first.
I have a Celtic story up my sleeve which I must tell even if I have to curtail the detail and length (That Lurkin Tim says I can be longwinded – Jeez if I had the time I could be a full force gale lol) and I must do that very soon though I have been saying that to myself for at least a year!
My radio has just brought me the dulcet tones of Roddy Forsyth via Radio 5 and apparently Dave King & Co are “non-plussed” at Derek McInnes’ decision to stay at Pittodrie and turn down the opportunity to manage Rangers where he would have been assured of a far bigger budget with which to buy players and further his ambition.
I wonder if this same snippet will find its way on to Radio Scotland?
What a sense of entitlement there is at Ibrox?
There is just no recognition or understanding that their repeated empty claims and promises are just not believed by anyone who takes the time to look beyond the paper thin statements.
Let’s wait and see what the SMSM write about McInnes’ decision and the latest Ibrox statement.
BV Christmas Lunch later today – that’ll be a laugh!!
Jeez this typing in the dark thing isn’t easy! Typo’s by the dozen ………..
BRTH,
R U THE Jim I MET PLAYING POOL…..if u. are that Jim….i apologise for not silencing you then…..A joke…..;-))
You are the Tim….in the bread that keeps us together…;-))
H.H.
The Lurkin Tim
Was that in McChuill’s fairly recently?
Did we not meet in the BV?
Anyway, Delaney’s Dunky and last night’s discourse has inspired me to dig up a wee poem about the Donegal roots.
The Ancient Cottage
Do you hear the calling of the wind
as towards me it floats and roars.
Do you hear the crashing of the Atlantic
As it rushes home to shore?
Do you hear the rustling of the fields
and the straining of the land?
I am the ancient cottage
and in silence here I stand.
Do you hear the urgent cry
of the lovers on the bed?
Do you hear the call of children
demanding to be fed?
Do you hear the cutting of the plough
and the planting of tomorrow?
I am the ancient cottage
witness to joy and sorrow.
Do you see here come the soldiers
with their bayonets and their guns,
obeying London orders
that their empire must be won
Do you see there sits the coffin ship
to separate man and wife
to bring misery and hardship
and ruin many lives.
Do you see those little children
and the strength behind their eyes?
Do you see that it is inevitable
that one day they will rise
and demand an education,
accepting coffin ships no more
telling any passing soldiers
“ This is OUR Atlantic shore!”
Yes, I am the ancient cottage
I’ve seen generations come and go
I’ve heard their names
joined in their games
and watched their children grow.
I’ve seen the dawn of electricity
heard the aeroplane’s skyward groan
I’ve been abandoned for modern bungalows
I’m just a pile of bricks and stone
But I am the ancient cottage
I have children far and wide
and though they may be far away
I am always at their side.
Some sit in fancy offices
in London or New York,
Some teach in Letterkenny
others run a bar in Cork.
Some help propel spacecraft
up to those shinning stars
and others they make engines
for those fancy German cars.
My children’s children are long gone
they have roamed the seven seas
gone to all the corners of the earth
and scattered on the breeze
But no matter where they wander
what they achieve, or are their goals
I am the ancient cottage
I am the keeper of their souls.
I am the ancient cottage
I’ve seen life born within my stones,
I’ve seen the young grow old
and I have buried many bones
But I still hear Atlantic waves
crashing down below
I am the keeper of many secrets
and there is many a tale I know.
So dear visitor, do you want to hear
the best story I can tell?
It involves the wind, the fields, the birds
and that relentless ocean swell.
It is a story full of triumph,
dignity and pride
A story to be proud of –
just stand silently by my side.
Do you hear the calling of the wind?
as towards us it floats and roars.
Do you hear the crashing of the Atlantic?
as it rushes home to shore?
Do you hear the rustling of the fields
and know now what you always knew
Yes, I am the ancient cottage
And my best story …… is you!
BRTH
Not bad for bog-trotters,eh?
BRTH,
counterpoint….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUyXxPaCjY
H.H.
BMCUWP
I have always been proud to be a bog man.
None of this ancient king of Ireland stuff for me.
TheLurkinTim on 8th December 2017 6:22 am
Love Yeats – my personal favourite is The Host of the Air which I have been able to recite from memory since I was a teenager, which is more than I can say for my wee cottage poem lol.
Sorry….not an up wan ship pish….you wer a teenager ;-))
I love poetry…..especially if it’s to music….call me a pleb ;-))
H.H.
Fek…. you were a teenager?….question mark lol ;-))
TheLurkinTim on 8th December 2017 6:36 am
Apart from my knees I am still a teenager!
Ok…here’s wan that mibbe blow yer mind….2 piece novel…..Hyperion n Fall of Hyperion…..a sf Canterbury Tales….following a poet, a soldier, a theologian…..etc check it out ;-))
H.H.
BRTH
My parents are from very different backgrounds,though very similar socially.
I doubt that my Mum could find anything but traditional Scottish DNA,nor that my Dad is 100% traditional Irish.
(The wee caveat there being traditional,not their fault if there is a millennium-old ancestor or six from longboat country!)
Many years ago,I went out with a lass who apparently could trace her lineage back to The Crown.
Which is nice,of course.
One night we were on a train to Maidstone,she pointed at Rochester Castle,and excitedly told me that “They shot Hamlet in there!”
I politely pointed out that Hamlet was run through with a sword then poisoned. The rest is history.
As was I soon after. She probably asked her Dad.
Good morning CQN from a clear, windy and bitterly cold East Devon.
There’s something smelly in the state of Govania…..should be Shakespearean…..but not enuff blood n snotters ;-))
H.H.
Word of The Day (A lot of this happening down Govan way…)
keck /kɛk/
verb (intransitive)
1. to retch; be nauseated.
2. to feel or show disgust or strong dislike.
Word Origin and History for keck
v.
“to make a sound as if to vomit,” 1530s, echoic. Related: Kecked ; kecking.
KTF
BMCUWP,
The joke is in the interpretation…..if she’d ave said “we can shoot our wedding in there…”…..you’d ‘ve bolted from a moving train ;-))
H.H.
BMCUWP
Ha re hamlet — could see that coming.
Right, thanks to all who have so far contributed to the Mary’s Meal appeal.
We are now only £140 short of £2k raised towards feeding 805 kids in Liberia which is brilliant and as that will be matched pound for pound that means nearly £4k out of a target of £11K has been raised.
Anyone wanting to help get the total over the £2k mark can do so by donating here.
https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/fundraising/project/jim-mcginley/st-anthonys-balfron-appeal-for-a-meal-1
All monies received before 31st December will be counted as double.
Remember these kids have nothing. Nada. Nil. Zilch. Zero. and a single meal based on porridge is literally a life saver and an essential luxury.
Off oot — I will see the grey brigade in the BV later on for Beers, cheers and jeers.
BRTH
THELURKINTIM
You’ll like this. Apparently Boristhebawbag was being quizzed in Parliament yesterday about telling the EU “to go whistle for their money.” That’ll be the £50m that we’re now hoping to get away with.
So here’s how it goes,we meet them halfway and welch on 50%.
The bumbling Foreign Secretary said: “I don’t want to repeat the offending phrase but go whistle seems the appropriate reaction to that kind of money.
“When it comes to other sums, I think you will find the Government is absolutely punctilious in wanting to meet our friends more than half way and to be useful.”