Best news of the day? Kris Commons wants to be involved tomorrow against Barcelona. I doubt Kris is anywhere near match fit, so there’s no chance of him starting on Wednesday against Astana, but a 15 minute cameo, when the Astana players’ body clocks are telling them it’s after 2am, would go down a treat.
I’ve always been a bit more ambivalent about Leonel Messi than most. “He’s not hit the levels of Ronaldinho” is my stock comment, and then there’s the dirty little subject. (Tax).
But his media comments ahead of tomorrow’s International Champions Cup game, “I have a Celtic jersey at home. The games against Celtic were special and I want to remember them”, proves there’s substance to the man.
I’ve a Celtic jersey at home too, Leo. A few of us here do.
Former-Rangers former vice-chairman Donald Findlay is to defend Craig Whyte is his forthcoming trial.
Whyte’s urban legend is going to be difficult to shift, but it’s not accurate. We mocked Rangers fans a few years ago, referring to him as “Our Hero” but he never was. He was the bag man for a very dirty job.
How he handled the SFA, Uefa, HMRC and, most crucially, the insolvency court, when he managed to secure the appointment of Duff and Phelps as Rangers administrators was crucial in the continuation of football at Ibrox.
It was Duff and Phelps who gave Newco the right to use the name “Rangers”, after which point Whyte could claim he was passing on “Rangers”. Everyone else mocked this liquidation fantasy at the time. Until liquidation became a reality, that is.
Whyte left Newco relatively safe in the hands of Charles Green, where it would have thrived, if it hadn’t faced a hostile and damaging takeover bid from its first week of life.
Our auction prize, donated by (the pretty fabulous) Celtic sponsor, Intelligent Car Leasing, closes just after 1pm today.
You can win:
2 seats in the directors’ box
Champagne reception
5 course meal in the Walfrid Suite
Fully expenses bar (pre and post-match)
Half time snacks and refreshments
Car Parking
At the game against Kilmarnock on 24 September.
Money raised from the auction will go towards building a school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. It it will be the 5th CQN school kitchen.
Our four existing kitchens feed over 2000 primary aged kids every day. School attendance has increased 30% since kitchens were built, as kids attend for their daily meal. This has an impact on health, education and life chances.
You can follow the auction on eBay here. Thank you.
I’m off to Aberdour now for the 12th annual CQN Golf Open. I’ll be the one holding the jackets.
See you then.
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Was Ľubo Moravčík ever hailed a ‘Triathlete’?
Neganon2 – Did you see Astana’s run of results in the ECL last season ? Pretty impressive stuff.
Earliest of early seasons, team still getting up to fitness, thems in mid-season, plastic pitch, homer of a ref, thousands of miles from home, makeshift centre halves.
I’m not arguing the other extreme that all is rosy (it ain’t) but you’re in danger of fulfilling brand negativity rather than being worth a listen to…..just saying.
TURKEYBHOY is threatening to leave?
His choice and many better posters have done this.
I for one won’t miss his constant disparaging remarks of Celtic supporters.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD
Commons didn’t have as much game time last season as he normally does, but he almost always contributed. His goals/assists per minute were better than any regular player bar Griffiths, and certainly way ahead of ANY midfielder (including the much lauded Roberts, of whom I’m also a fan).
Don’t get the hostility towards Kris last season. Too many letting the blood go to their head after the Molde strop, methinks.
Big waves, clogher I get they had some good results last season but I thought they had sold some of their best players etc.
Like I say I was pleased with the end result but my god we had folk justifying our loss to the imps cos there are apparently no easy games and because we can’t compete with the epl!
Paul
Was it not BDO as liquidators who allowed sevco to use the term The Pure Ragers FC?
HH
Sometimes opinions on here suck, but they are only opinions unless it gets personal…
There are no need for candles unless it gets dark. And we’ve many of us lit a wee candle and said a wee prayer.
We never light the candle for ourselves. Well I’ve never yet a person who did.
We are the force we always were, we are the Club that won the Big One in 67. We were football royalty then, now Sky have made us beggars.
But we are educated and proud beggars each and every one of us.
Bournemouth bigger than Celtic?
I like Bournemouth.
AWE-NAW-NO-NEGANON-ON-ANAW-NOO
:-))
TurkeyBhoy
Come back on and stop being a drama queen. I’m missing your rants already.
Neganon
What sort of budget do Astana work with? I remember when Aberdeen lost to Kairat many of their fans pointed out that they had a much smaller budget than the Kazakh team.
Astana have the biggest budget in Kazakhstan.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/astana-benfica-champions-league-kazakhstan
“FC Astana – the little club with deep pockets ”
Like many things in Kazakhstan the club was created and is owned by the state, and is part of a campaign to promote the country’s newly minted, remote, and rather unknown capital city: Astana.
The official owner of the club, which was only formed six years ago, is the country’s super-rich sovereign wealth fund, known as Samuryq-Qazyna.
Among the fund’s assets are Kazakhstan’s postal system and the state oil and gas company KazMunayGas, as well as banks, mines, airlines, airports and the country’s railways.
Neganon,
I know they aren’t world beaters but they aren’t a bad side at home. It was a good performance for the most part in a difficult venue.
Credit where credit is due, good use of substitutions and BR seems to be able to get better performances out of the players at his disposal (actually playing in their positions).IMO
I’ve always been a bit more ambivalent about Leonel Messi than most. “He’s not hit the levels of Ronaldinho” is my stock comment,
“Who were Wings? Only the band the Beatles could have been”. Alan Partridge.
Thing is, I am happy just to get through these games considering it’s July with a new coach.
We won’t really know how good we can be under Brendan until it’s December. Anybody remember when we beat Barcelona? We really laboured through the ties with Helsenborg’s that season.
We won 4-0 on aggregate but the performances weren’t great. The good thing is, we managed to have the belief to drag ourselves back in the game when it didn’t look likely. Wee Paddy Roberts of all people didn’t give up on what appeared a lost cause.
And Griff had the cojones to stick away his only real chance.
O’Connell didn’t let his early mistake get to him and was willing to commit to tackles.
I can see the desire!
timaloy29:
What about the people of Kazakhstan… are they all Borats? Are they all rich too? Football without fans…
kitalba on 29th July 2016 4:21 pm
timaloy29:
What about the people of Kazakhstan… are they all Borats? Are they all rich too? Football without fans…
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Well, they looked like they had a decent following.
Still, looks as if Astana is a vanity project for the Kazakh government. The cycling team have certainly had success and the teams respectable showing in the CL will be viewed as a success.
I tell you what, I’d be delighted if we qualify for the CL and manage to get into the Europa league after the initial group stage.
Qualifying second place in the group just guarantees a pumping of a team like Barcelona. I actually prefer the Europa League
“Still, looks as if Astana is a vanity project for the Kazakh government”
… just like th huns are in Scotland.
Any attempt at European Glory over at Ibrox certainly has been in vain
;-)
John Kennedy on SSN saying that Lustig, Sviatchenko and Toure haven’t travelled to Dublin.
Kris Commons wants to be involved in a glamour game versus Barcelona?
Could he really have told Paul Cuddihy anything else, when asked live on Celtic TV?
What pro wouldn’t want to pull on his boots for that event?
More pertinently, where has KC been? Back operation was mentioned on Celtic TV & fitness but..
It’s like he’s been a non person for six months. I’ll take his eagerness to play against Messi & Co with a pinch of white stuff.
As for the suggestion that he be Celtic’s next manager, a pure coffee spluttered on screen moment.
Guardiola sent Nasri home for coming back overweight to pre-season training, and was also quite happy to say so to the media when asked. The expectation from Pep is that players arrive for pre-season training in shape and within appropriate weight limits. This sounds very familiar, eh Ronny?
Maybe Kris’s haircut counts as lost weight. :o)
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/teams/manchester-city
Kris’s Celtic TV commentary on Wednesday was articulate & at times insightful. An improvement on the usual fair, with due apologies to Alan Sneddon & Mick McManus. This may well be his post football career, not club management.
Paul Cuddihy may indeed have a perfect face for radio, but KC definitely has one for TV.
As for The High Court hodge podge of crap:
Findlay QC would have known that this was to be adjourned well in advance, and as usual, chose to grandstand for the SMSM bottom feeders.
If I was Whyte and aware that the Prosecution were floundering and at best uncertain, I would recruit an attention seeking & shameless man with a track record of odiously searching examinations of witnesses. Just in order to scare the chocolate out of the Prosecution. Intimidation or plain passive aggression.
The case against Whyte is evaporating, and I don’t expect it to get anywhere near a trial.
The real indictment should be directed towards the investigators, legal counsel and Fiscals involved in the whole tragi-comedy of this “prosecution”. A deliberate mishandling or incompetence or a genuinely difficult cased from the outset? As usual in Scotland, transparency is invisible.
The Scottish football establishment have allowed the biggest sporting scandal in British history to disappear with no one remotely held accountable. (Whyte being the pushed out of door he had already walked through)
The Scottish establishment allowed the HBOS & MIM scandal to disappear with no one held accountable.
HH to Resolution 12ers. You have my admiration always.
Astana’s video evidence to Uefa showed their man elbowing LG in the face, to which Leigh took exception in a robust manner. However, the complaint was made as much to set the tone for the 2nd leg, so Leigh & Brown can expect some similar intimidation from the opposition on Wednesday. Patrick too will need an extra thick set of ankle protectors. If I were their coach that would be part of the pre game instructions to get us on an early yellow/red and neutralize the CP crowd factor.
The referee will be well aware of the official complaint about the decision making of the Italian ref from the 1st leg.
Traffic delays in Dublin being advised for fans travelling to the game in Dublin. Safe travels & return to all.
SJ
They do like a flutter (allegedly),
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/14651600.Former_Rangers_striker_Kyle_Lafferty_charged_by_FA_for_betting_offences/?ref=mr&lp=5
Not surprised that Eric & Lustig are not traveling but thought that it was an opportunity to give Kolo a run out.
Let’s hope he is not injured ffs.
As my trips to Glasgow are reducing due to advancing years, I cherish every opportunity to see the ‘tic play.
So friendly or not. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow. Planning to meet Almore & Clogher, hopefully might bump into one or two other CQN’ers as well.
Can Kriss Commons play center half ?
Kolo Toure won’t be involved in tomorrow’s friendly against Barcelona in Dublin.
The defender signed a 12 month deal on Sunday following his release from Liverpool and was expected to feature at some stage in the show-piece clash.
After consulting with the club’s medical staff it was decided that Toure should continue to work on his fitness at Lennoxtown.
Brendan Rodgers had hoped that his former Liverpool star would be able to play a part in the Champions League second round tie against Astana but the odds on that have lengthened with Toure missing from the squad that flew to Dublin this afternoon.
First team coach John Kennedy explained: “Kolo is still working fitness wise so he’ll stay back, it’s a bit early for him to play.
“We’ve got pretty much the same as we had in Astana. Erik (Sviatchenko) didn’t travel over.”
Mikael Lustig was rested from the squad while Stefan Johansen stayed behind after his partner gave birth.
With Toure unlikely to be available to face Astana Rodgers looks like having to go with a similar defence to the one used in the first leg.
Jozo Simunovic and Dedryck Boyata appear to be no closer to fitness with Celtic just eight days away from the domestic kick off when they face Hearts at Tynecastle.
Further limiting Rodgers options a hand injury to Kristoffer Ajer leaves Efe Ambrose and Eoghan O’Connell as the only central defensive options with first team experience.
Sid -thanks for reply
Corkcelt-enjoy your day out with the bhoys
Kris Commons getting pelters for his strop at Collins makes me laugh… He should have got a medal for calling out Ronny and Johnny – as the pair of hopeless puppets they both were…
Anyhow – I’d keep him as he is extremely talented in a team that needs talent. I’d love him to score 6 goals by early season… We then get a penalty and tell him he’s getting taken off… Let him explode and then tell him he’s being wound up and let him hammer no 100 through the back of the net. Ideally V the Hun tribute act …
I thought about the best of all time and decided to look at my best 11:
Lev Yashin
Roberto Carlos Franz Beckenbaur Claudio Gentile Danny McGrain
Jinky Andreas Iniesta Pele Diego Maradonna
Ferenc Puskas Johann Cruyff
Messi, Ronaldo, Fat Ronaldo and Ronaldhino didnae even get considered! Di Stefano would be in before any of them as well.
VFR800A8
Wot? No John Divers?
JJ
PS Where does your nom de plume come from?
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.bike-parts-honda.com/moto-honda-identification-VFR800A8-10407.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjAxtyXh5nOAhWoCcAKHc7xDokQwW4IFjAA&usg=AFQjCNGfLWMtnJxcccLLeaFNAbjW8lsJKw
How good are Astana?
I’d say no bad. Solid. Hard to beat.
I wouldn’t say pish or brilliant.
They will make chances against a vulnerable Celtic defence and they will limit us to very few opportunities.
By the looks of things they don’t give cheap goals away too often- arguably Griffith’s goal was a defensive blunder on their part. However that’s not typical looking at their record.
6 wins , 5 draws and two defeats in Europe compares very favourably to our 0 wins in last 7 European outings.
Wednesday night cliche will hold true..’first goal is all important’
If the score it they strike me as a team that can play an 8 man defence.
If we score it we should go on ..
Can Rogic play in centre of defence?
Didn`t work as planned!!! ( but at least I know what VFR800A8 is now!).
Can someone explain why Ajer can’t play because he has a sore thumb ??? Can he not join the latest craze and stick a bandage on it like Vardy, Ciftci etc ?
HOT SMOKED if the nom de plume was chosen now it would be Monster 1200.
http://m.ducati.com/bikes/monster/index.do
And I do remember Johnny Divers!
Corkcelt,
Did you see my e mail? I don’t know if it is of any interest?
Offski now.
I’ll give you a buzz tomorrow.
HH
CultsBhoy – 4.59…. would you accept KC behavior from any of the boys you coached?
Our result against Astana is pretty much the norm now across these type of ties.
Every one of the other qualifiers are tight and out of 29 games in the Europa last night only 5 of them ended with a few goals between the teams.
Roberto Carlos was pish IMO, if he wasn’t Brazilian he would have been a nobody.
VFR800A8
I have one of them in my garage, still in it’s box as well.
HH
Stop!!! Breaking big news…
Bryan Adams record for consecutive weeks at number 1 will not be broken this week.
Carry on guys
HH
Cultsbhoy I believe you are a coach tell if one of your players launched a tirade at you what would your reaction be? Agree with him or discipline him? H H Hebcelt
Pheersy
No because I tend to treat my players fairly and don’t systematically destroy their careers – remember Commons was our best player the season before these two puppet jokers took over with their fitness obsession.
I do hear you though… No player should under any circumstances behave as he did but he probably knew by then they were on borrowed time. He had very little to lose but his temper. Most of us shared his utter frustrations at the time.