The trip to the US to play Real Madrid is core to strategy for Celtic right now. It allowed the significant North American support an easier opportunity to see the team, keeps the club’s profile high among the game movers and shakers and will have contributed valuable financial resources.
You know there’s a ‘but’ coming, don’t you.
Gary Hooper, Anthony Stokes and Daryl Murphy all picked up or aggravated strains on the trip. The players are still stepping up their fitness regimes. Muscles are being stressed, then rested, then stresses a little further. Returning from two lengthy flights with a high incidence of non-contact injuries suggests we need to review how we prepare athletes for travel.
Do you like the new-look Celtic Quick News? Some fundamental changes have engineered into the back-end which should make things more solid going forward. More new features will come on-stream shortly. My enormous thanks to Kev, who designed the template and everything new in the engine room.
Don’t forget, if you have an article in you for CQN Magazine email me: articles@cqnmagazine.co.uk and let me know what you would like to write about. I’ll be able to give you some pointers. Next edition coming soon.
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To be fair, the sevco signings so far are astonishingly brilliant signings.
For a Division Three side.
But to be honest, it’s a bit like using a 10lb sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
And with Sally managing them, it’s further akin to my three year old wielding the aforementioned smashy walnuts instrument – bound to be some quality comedy moments. And then someone gets hurt. :-(
Fud King on Snyde said he was totally unaware of any damage reported to Bedoya’s car,but we have to take his word for it.Probably damage from deadclub’s fans anyway.
Test
Just in and hallucinating. I could swear that some people are suggesting we should re sign Fortuné. Must be the heat.
Like visits to remote division 3 outposts, the new CQN will take a bit of getting used to.
Test
You’ve got to admit that Chuckles is trying VERY hard with ra bears!
“People are now warming to us and we are staying.
“But if we leave fans to one side for a moment, while ever that lot are against us, I’m not leaving. There’s no-one spoke for this club for three or four years. It’s not had anyone standing up.
“I am going to get fined every week, I suspect, or I will get banned.”
Wonder who ‘that lot’ might be?
Apparently its 30,000 season tickets they’ve sold now.
How much is a ticket out of interest and will they stay for a few years?
we’ll see.
No mention on BBC Scotland’s sport about Green’s rallying call to the manky mob. Strange that.
My Dear,Dear Canamalar…
An excellent reposte to ‘Socialism’,from the “American Thinker’ blogsite…
Economic Inequality is a Small Price to Pay for Staying Human.
By Oleg Barbashian
August 5, 2012
Economic Inequality is a Small Price to Pay for Staying Human
To paraphrase Baudelaire, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world of the moral superiority of collectivism. According to Ayn Rand, if we don’t convince the world otherwise, nothing else will work. Our greatest ally in this fight is human nature. Our greatest asset is morality itself, which is really, truly, undeniably, and absolutely on our side.
Today’s political debates often end up in the following compromise: capitalism may be more economically efficient, but it’s no moral match to economic equality that benefits most people. But the only way economic equality can benefit people is by pandering to their class envy. In all other aspects — economical, political, cultural, philosophical, and spiritual — it’s a dastardly, immoral cause.
To begin with, it is the efficiency of capitalism that benefits most people. Among other things, it raises everyone’s living standards and quality of life; expands consumer choices; boosts innovation that reduces the share of low-paying, mind-numbing manual jobs; increases the pool of well-paid professional jobs; gives the poor access to things that only the rich could enjoy a short while ago; promotes the creation of new cures of diseases; extends life expectancy and makes old age much more enjoyable.
The alternative to capitalism — whatever one would like to call it — is the loss of freedom, loss of choices, government corruption, and moral decay. What do we get in return? The vague promise of economic equality.
But in human reality, complete economic equality cannot be achieved. A century of collectivist social experiments around the world has proven three undeniable facts: One, government-enforced economic equality results in a forced inequality of a powerless, impoverished populace ruled by a corrupt elite. Two, the main obstacle to economic equality is human nature. Three, human nature cannot be changed, no matter the effort to re-educate, indoctrinate, or punish the violators.
An essential part of everyone’s human nature is what collectivists are maligning as greed. Generally speaking, it is a normal desire of all humans to achieve a better life for themselves and their children. In a free capitalist system, “greed-driven” achievers engage in lawful productive work, start businesses, and build things. In a restrictive socialist system, to achieve a better station in life, one must either join the corrupt government apparatus, or become part of the criminal underworld with its vast shadow economy. The alternative is to succumb to misery and, very likely, alcoholism or worse. In the end, capitalism brings out the best in people; socialism brings out the worst.
How worthy and moral can an ideal be that punishes achievement and criminalizes human nature?
Proponents of economic equality are either willfully blind, or are themselves sociopathic megalomaniacs, trying to create a restrictive system in which they envision themselves to be part of the powerful ruling elite. Both are willing to go to extremes in order to achieve their goal. As they spin their tale of an imminent paradise, they never say what it will cost us to get there — and, frankly, they don’t give a damn. Individual human sacrifice is never an obstacle for collectivists; their glorious end justifies any unsightly means.
It is up to us then to examine just what exactly we will have to give up for the promise of economic equality — something that has been proven to not exist.
At first we will have to accept restrictions on certain consumer choices and products in exchange for letting the government take care of our personal well-being. Then come restrictions on speech and activities: a price for maintaining the national well-being. Eventually all dissent is suppressed and criminalized, as the media falls under the government control, young people are indoctrinated in the “new ways,” businesses pay enormous taxes, more and more families descend into misery and live off government subsidies, the economy crumbles, and shortages create long lines at the supermarket.
The leaders shift the blame to “enemies of the people,” saying that this country would have been a dreamland if it weren’t for a few greedy reactionaries. With no one left to object, desperate citizens succumb to the hatred and accept the idea that eliminating the few is a fair price to pay for improving the lives of the many. Then they accept the idea that eliminating an entire class of people is a small price to pay. But despite all the bloodletting, the promised collectivist paradise never arrives and the misery only increases. By now the demoralized, destitute masses are fully separated from the ruling elites by an impenetrable wall of privilege.
The ultimate price — the relentless sacrifice of millions of people: their work, careers, ambitions, property, and lives — has been paid to reach an unattainable economic mirage, a phantom concocted in the feverish minds of a few maniacs obsessed with class envy.
In contrast, the price of living in a free and prosperous capitalist society is merely to accept economic inequality as a natural extension of human nature. Without doubt, it’s a small price to pay for remaining Human.
Have been a lucker for an eternity. But as I’m in Malmö, and as you bhoys are like to be passing through on yir way to Helsingborg next week, I’ll come out of the closet. Now feel free to hurt me.
Lucker?
snakes..,
were clyde not saying last week it was 35000, maybe someone will ask why the hoard has handed back 10000 season tickets :oD))))
Damian F
Welcome to the Timternet.
Have you 666 behind your ear?
Damian Finnegan
Welcome!
Have you got a spare room or three in your, hopefully, big hoose?
Are you a hun?!
HH!!
damian finnegan
Are you a Hun?
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
Well lets face it, they’re gonna need all that cash if the players are on the amount of money they are claiming they are.
And then it still won’t be enough.
It drops down by a few thousand – comedy gold.
You’re the perfect expression of creativity, Hamiltontim. Thanks for going easy on me.
Long time lucker?
You got any tips?
Steady on ,Canamalar..Don’t Take your eye off them Skittles..! Don’t Take your eye of them Skittles..!!
Doh..!!
Nurse..! Nurse..!
(Thumbsup?)
Damian
It was my poor attempt at linking the CQN initiation of ‘are you a hun?’ to a demonic series of films :-)
Welcome anyway mate.
Gbhoy, although I am a terrible character, I do have some character.
damian finnegan
Welcome Bhoy.
Hail Hail.
caeser1967
Fair dos – i wasn’t really proposing M-A F as a striker – he did well for us on the right and for wba in a free role, often on the left of midfield/attack a bit like sammi does now. i was thinking as a squad player – better than the fringe bodies we have and better than we have let go too.
Agree Watt would be a better option up front. we still (IMO) need a big striker who can score with his head and 1 (or lets be honest… 2) centre backs. Those signings should be the best quality we can possibly afford. If we get into the Cl and drop out in 3rd, then surely we can expect to have a crack at a run in the europa knock out stages? What other club in europe doesn’t really have to worry about week-to-week league football? we can throw everything at europe this year if the Club wants to be ambitious.
It’s back!
CQN fantasy league :- fantasy.premierleague.com
To all those who played last year, its a simple 5 minute job to re-register and set up your team, most of you will have probably forgotten your passwords so just type in your email and a recovery password will be sent to you.
New players just register normally, will take no longer than ten minutes.
I have done a classic league for this year, get as many points and most points wins, very simple compared to last years head to head win,lose,draw system!
To join the league the code is :- 721106-181775
Enjoy!!
Gbhoy, don’t eat yellow snow.
SSB ……. Comedy Gold
Welcome Damian and some of us don’t think you’re a hun.
I think.
damian finnegan
19:04 on
14 August, 2012
Gbhoy, although I am a terrible character, I do have some character.
Great answer
Damian
Hi! Are you a Hun/ used to be a Hun until the Huns deceased and now a supporter of a division three club/ formally a Hun?
I see the BBC are STILL putting stories about the dead on the SPL page.
Why?
Oh well, that’s it, then…..SSB say Jordan Rhodes doesn’t want to play for Celtic ……LOL
Tallbhoy
Mrs. F has all the beauty of a peacock but none of the charm: You’d sleep better on a railway track, if you get my meaning. Love her dearly, though.
Thems are a 4th division club…..4TH DIVISION .
How many times does this need to be said…..
themightyquinn … 19:07 on 14 August, 2012
and SKY still have them on the SPL text page…… LOL
Damian, welcome.
I visited Malmö on a day trip last year. Liked it. I hope you like it there too :-)
The Singing Detective
Slavery and Genocide, the price America was prepared to exact. Those that survived both these crimes against humanity will be grateful to know that their history was and is; “a small price to pay for the price of remaining human”. A small price indeed.
Luxcelt
Swear MA’F has already signed on again at WBA, never really rated him anyway, especially after he said 12 goals was personally a good season (as the clubs main striker!).
If deployed on the right wing however he can be a threat
HH