No, that’s not an outbreak of Tourettes across small patches in the west of Scotland, it is the long-suffering Newco fans realisation that their board have been breathtakingly incompetent in their attempts to recruit a manager.
In many respects, briefing the media ahead of their two games against Aberdeen and an AGM that Derek McInnes would be installed at Ibrox this week, had the desired effect. The players were sufficiently motivated to out-perform Aberdeen, while Dave King got through the AGM on a nod and a wink. The falsehood of the assertion, however, will surely come at a cost. King will hope that memories fade before he has to face fans again in 51 weeks.
My immediate reaction when I read the ridiculous statement from Newco last night was that their hilarious PR system was at the keyboard while jaked. They spend six weeks targeting McInnes, then, after he rejected them, claimed this was evidence he was not up to the job.
An obscure phrase was used, “concomitant risk”, instead of the more common “associated risk”. There’s a fair bit of research into why people unnecessarily use complex and obscure words instead of simpler alternatives. None of it is flattering.
I assumed the statement was the work of Newco’s shamlessly-brilliant PR operation, but a studious CQN’er emailed this clip of Dave King’s AGM speech last year.
4 minutes 29 seconds in he states they should: “run an operating deficit, without a concomitant event risk that could lead to a repeat of the last few years”. Last night’s statement has Dave’s tones all over it. Fewer and fewer people compliment the emperor on his new outfit.
A big thanks to teams two and three in the league, who have damaged their positions and/or humiliated themselves, while Celtic have extended their lead at the top of the table.
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CORKCELT
Make the days count,wow.
Just wow.
Park Road 11.17
Leigh scores goals
Dembele has great attributes and Edouard scored 3 against Motherwell but our Leigh (in my opinion) is more potent than both
G64
Listened to it mhate, Bobby in the Skybox…changed days!
ComeallyeyoungrebelsCSC
Gerry Bhoy.
Oddsone wa……………
I know whit yer saying.
Maximum respect.
Long term.
Leigh has it all Finishing wise.
Sounds as fresh today as it did 28yrs ago when it was first released.
Stone Roses – Fools Gold…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RDEM9b0S-iSBUEXRsNHV5KhzrQ¶ms=OAFIAVgN&v=c9tp3US8Xss&mode=NORMAL
Rascar.CSC
Sitting in Hennesseys in Scarborough – Boozer is going mad with guys who are buying me drink coz I have a hooped “soccer” top on :-)
C’ Mon Toronto….Hic!
Gordon…
Loved the The Bluebells,… still do. Also really liked McCluskey Bros., the Poems …
2-0!! Yes!
TAL
How ya keepin?
For a Love of 1s Country?????
What?
800 years……
GFTB
Good to see you back.
As for our best striker, sometimes I think it’s the Griff, then it’s Moussa, but the other boy intrigues me, the Odsonne fella, I think he has got it, Brendan said he had been showing up well in training so gave him his chance, and that’s the way it should be, but that doesn’t say much for Eboui Kouassi….SP… he obviously hasn’t been showing up in training cos he is no getting a sniff, he is another who has it imo.
HH
MIT
Great mate.
Didn’t they do well….Eh!
Don’t tell me that Gerryfaethebrig is back?
FFS. Have we not suffered enough
Petec 11.18pm
I know very little but I think Leigh is our best striker… some might say Moussa is better holding the ball up in Europe, dint think that’s working well, so okay the Bhoy who actually might score in Europe
Lyon May 2018 – Leigh Griffiths :-)
Play the Bhoy who scores the goals
Corky
The first time I heard the make the days count was at my Grandas funeral, never was a truer word said, it has stuck with me.
HH
‘Celtic Celtic that’s the team for me…’
No wonder I struggle sleeping as that bangs around my head all night. 50 years old and an ever expanding Celtic memory-head-Would I change it? Not a chance.
Love it. One love.
CQNCSC
Jerusalem is EVERYTHING.
STFU.
The Latest Temple will be built. The red coo will be found.
Celtic just keep on Winning.
No-one knows the Hour.
Young Glasgow lad Declan Welsh is worth listening to. Maybe not CQNs cup of tea but love his passion. Hh
TET 11.23
It was always going to be difficult getting through a weekend without a wee lurk… as soon as I read Roy C my stubbornness disappeared :-)
I have the backbone of a newt
But it’s good to be back :-)
Gerry Bhoy – the Celts are gonnae shine.
Leigh is awesome, he is likely like you and moi.
I know how good Leigh is technically – excellent as a striker – he will be marginalised by truly World Class operaters.
Put him out wide perhaps?
68
That’s what you do wi life. See them off,raise a glass,give them the respect they deserve.
Or greet
–////////////////////)/))////
Raising a toast…..does crying make it mutually exclusive ;-/)
Tony Ralston.
WOW
Who else is under the Hood?
GFTB
The Teacake is very potent !!! TEUCHTER AR LA Lap it up in Scarborough !!
Evening all.
A number of weeks ago I started to get ahead of myself and work out which game we’d reach the 67 milestone. I thought that after that it might actually be therapeutic for the run to come to an end – and not sure there is a least-bad club than Hibs to lose it to (Petrie aside).
What we don’t know for sure here is whether Brendan places a lot of store in keeping the run going. If he does, it’s arguable that it could be counter productive (he may be reluctance to rest players, etc).
I have never, ever wanted Celtic to lose. And I don’t want us to lose tomorrow. But, if we did, it could be (a) against my least disliked other Scottish team and (b) the release valve to allow some of the pressure to blow off and some of our players to be given a rest?
Hope that makes some sort of sense.
And GFTB – good to see you back.
Better believe it WITS Gerry’s back wae a vengeance !!!
WITS 11.25pm
Gutted
Suffered enough you have now aligned me to the Huns
Shame on you :-)
MIT
I see your younger bro is still standing in LMS9 after 11 weeks.
3 through this week so far, with the remaining 3 on Liverpool tomorrow,
HH
CRC
Jobo – are you inside my Mind?
HH Great Great Great Dude.
Hibs 3 Celtic 5
allow it
Gerryfaethebrig
Go on outta dat.
You know I love you
ALMORE on 9TH DECEMBER 2017 7:55 PM
Mary is known locally as Mhaire Rua and is still going strong.
Two big loves in her life, Celtic and Our Wee Daniel.
CRC
Hey… LiT is older than me! I am still negotiating my agents fee… I went in at 40%, but the drives a hard bargain.
And he told me that you ratted me out for picking Sebco in LMS8!? I thought that there was LMS privilege … like solicitor/client or priest/ penitent privilege! Shocked I was!
:)
Jobo
Surprisingly the media haven’t gone too much on our invincible record, prob cos they are steeped in hun garbage, but the players and the coaches must be feeling the pressure, every game that goes by and we don’t lose ramps it up another notch, now had we been playing in a league where we had honest referees who were not impartial, it would be so, so much easier, but we don’t so our record is all the more impressive.
HH
SFTB,
Sorry, just catching up and read your reply to Almore.
WITS 11.45pm
We both know the feeling is mutual :-)
TET –
It’s one of those records hat you want to keep going as long as possible but in the knowledge that it does have its downside (the constant pressure). Similar (but this one is far, far better) to a few seasons ago when we went something like 9 or 10 games without conceding. We would get to the 80th minute, 2-0 up and suddenly it was keep ball at the back (to preserve the record) rather than play ‘the Celtic way’.
A real conundrum.
The Lurkin Tim
Funerals?
I don’t mean to preach and so the following is no more than my own take on funerals, and after 56 years I have been to a few – where we have said goodbye to the old, and unfortunately, the young.
For a long time now, I have taken the view that if just one person turns up at a funeral to pay their respects to the recently deceased, then that shows that the person who died made a success of their life.
Whatever they did, however they did it, and why was sufficiently important to someone to make them take time out of their daily routine just to devote an hour or so to pay their respects to that one special person.
Obviously, if more than one person turns up at the funeral, then, it might be argued, that the deceased was successful in life time and time again.
However, the converse is also true.
If any of us take the time to go and pay our respects to someone who has passed because of what we saw in them, because of what they did for us or what we saw them do for others that filled us with pride, then that too is a measure of our lives and our journey.
I appreciate that 5 funerals in a short space of time is hard going, but how lucky were you to know those 5 people and what they did during the course of their lives?
As I say, I don’t mean to preach or be sanctimonius, but sometimes rather than thinking of the deceased we should think about ourselves and the people we have shared our time with, both the living and the dead.
In that regard, I know that I have been very lucky in life, and I suspect that you have been too.
HH
BRTH