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Celtic’s primary job tonight is to defend properly, something we have singularly failed to do this season to anything like the levels achieved last term.  This is not solely to do with the defence, and has nothing to do with the goalkeeper (who missed the Legia debacle), but is a function of the entire team.

Scott Brown and Stefan Johansen have the primary job of protecting the back four but most importantly, whoever plays wide midfield, has to partner with the corresponding full back.  The full back positions have not been stable recently.  Emilio looked to be back to his best at the weekend, but his form since returning from the World Cup has been erratic.  We’ve had Efe Ambrose, Adam Matthews and Mikael Lustig at right back, leaving Callum McGregor little chance to establish a working relationship.

We have the speed, and Salzburg have the defensive record, to suggest we can score on the break, but focus should be on ensuring this is not an open, fluid, game of football.

The day has come

This is a unique time in our history and a CQN’er and academic has prepared a survey to record who we are, where we came from, our views and how closely our objectives align with the Club.  You will be asked about the Referendum, faith, education, your heritage, the Offensive Behaviour Act and more, but you’ll be finished in around 5 minutes.

The objective is to identify why you support Celtic and whether these reasons are being recognised and served.  You don’t sign up for anything, but the survey will record only your first visit.  You’ll find it here.

I’ve never waved a blue and white – nor red, white and blue – flag in my life.  Nationalism holds nothing for me, so I’ve found the political question of our time to be a difficult, technical, assessment, principally about jobs – Scotland’s real need.

This time tomorrow we will know the verdict and whether it’s Yes or No, we will come together behind green and white flags once more.  In the event the polls are accurate, and No wins an unconvincing victory, use your voice in as many places you can, and let the chastened UK powers now that if they have any intention of Nation Building, they must use their influence to stop the exclusion of Scottish clubs from the dominant England-and-Wales football market.

Many people in Scotland feel culturally and economically excluded by this England-and-Wales legally permissible cartel.  It suits the regions of England, it suits Wales, but it costs jobs and income in Scotland, is unjust and must end.

Allowing Scottish clubs to enter this market would bring tens of millions of £s into the east end of Glasgow every year.  It would also establish emotional and cultural ties among groups in society who feel disenfranchised, and who the Westminster parties seem to have lost.  In political terms, reaching out to football is a no-brainer.

Nation building is part art, part science, but it doesn’t work if you exclude people on what they hold dear.

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  2. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Captainmoonlight

     

    fine buddy, I’ve managed to get club opened at 5.45….

  3. tictaewin on

    If no win.

     

    Give it 5 years.

     

    See where we are.

     

    You won’t find a No voter.

     

    No one will admit to it then….

  4. bankiebhoy1 on

    Jamesy bhoy………..

     

     

    The glass used in the manufacture of Alpine “boatles” was recycled from old historic lighthouse lenses………said “boatles” could withstand “drapping” (technical term) from a height equivalent to 2 tenement floors without fracture – although by then the contents would have taken on an unstable explosive quality.

     

     

    FACT.

  7. Celticrollercoaster supporting Shay,our bhoy wonder along the way on

    Paul67

     

     

    Based on that theory then we should abolish the separate international teams and become Better Together United.

     

     

    No thank you, time to take responsibility and ownership of our own country, rather than hiding behind the comfort blanket of UK.

     

     

    Perhaps superduper devomax will upgrade the food banks for a better choice of foods to select? To have food banks in 2014 is a legacy of what Better together is bringing us. Shocking!

     

     

    Not for me, thank you.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  10. corkcelt on

    Genuine question. Will a higher turnout suit the Yes or No side or is the size of turnout considered irrelevant re influencing result.

  11. NegAnon2 on

    MWD thats just because you dont want to think.

     

     

    Lurkintim – I said that the game tonight holds no interest for me. It still doesnt.

  12. Billy Bhoy on

    NegAnon2

     

     

    I may be partly responsible for the, in my opinion, minor imbalance.

     

     

    When it came time to leave school my parents sat me down to talk careers. The debate lasted about 60 seconds.

     

     

    Me;”I’m thinking of joining the Police”.

     

     

    Da; “Naw, yer no’ joinin’ thaim”!!! and at that promptly walked out the room. End of careers interview!

     

     

    I joined the PO Telephones instead at his “suggestion”.

     

     

    This may well have been replicated throughout Timdom.

     

     

    Incidentally, my Da was a local postie and would probably have known all the local cops. I’m not sure why he reacted the way he did. My Da rarely took questions.

     

     

    Anyway, I’m pleasantly surprised by your figure. Given how we are treated around the country supporting the hoops I would have put it in single figures.

  15. Alasdair MacLean on

    corkcelt,

     

     

    I think the higher turnout is what swung the poll statistics from being an easy no victory to a tight no victory.

     

     

    Many reasons but it is thought that the disengaged were from the poorer end of society and they see this as an opportunity for change – or nothing to lose – depending from which side you’re on.

  19. Gary67 on

    Are Lustig & Matthews definitely out tonight? Ambrose at RB is an accident waiting to happen. Izzy needs to have his defensive head on tonight and not leave space in behind as he’s liable to do. Up like in the SPFL he will be punished if he does.

     

    I’d be tempted to bring in Biton for Commons from Saturday’s line up to give us a bit more in central midfield.

  22. Hamiltontim on

    Kit

     

     

    If your definition of ‘hun’ is the same as mine, more fool you.

     

     

    Neganon

     

     

    You never did read up about Mary Honeyball did you?

  24. notthebus on

    “tonight holds no interest for me”

     

     

    Never heard a Celtic fan say that ever , not even a testimonial.

  25. corkcelt on

    NegAnon, May I ask why the Celtic game holds no interest for you. Is it preoccupation with vote, in which case I would have thought the game might hold less interest rather than no interest or have you become isolated because you perceive a large section of the Celtic base holding a different political view to yours.

  27. jamesgang on

    bankiebhoy1

     

     

    Also fact, it could melt a wean’s teeth at a thousand yards!!!

     

     

    Corkcelt

     

     

    I think the unprecedented level of registration and turn out will add many votes to both sides…..but more to Yes.

     

     

    I base this only on the fact that so many who previously/usually feel completely disengaged from the political process will be involved, many for the first time.

     

     

    I don’t that as many of them are doing so from a ‘traditional unionist’/Orange perspective as would have been the case in past times.

     

     

    And I can’t see many voting for the first time to offer some kind of grudging endorsement of a system they’ve effectively blanked till now.

     

     

    I may be wrong. I often am. (The 2 least used sentences on CQN!)

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  29. Ulsan/Black Isle Celt on

    Neganon,

     

     

    I’m not questioning the information, just politely asking if you had considered alternative reasons.

     

     

    No ulterior motives.

     

     

    HH

  31. The Celtic Way on

    Timabhouy

     

     

    Thats really funny AND dead clever. That `God bless her majesty`, then a few posts later `s revenue & customs`

     

    Have you ever posted that before?

     

    I just can`t stop laughing, lolling and spitting coffee all over my keyboard. And my sides are sore. I`ll need a surgeon to remove the smile from my face.

  33. The Battered Bunnet on

    Al MacL

     

     

    That’s the Pollsters dilemma. They defined their cohort against the 2010 and 2011 electorate, where turnout was 63% and 50% respectively.

     

     

    We know turnout will be a record high for this poll, prob in excess of 85%, with many voting for the first time, or the first time in a generation.

     

     

    Because the mobilisation of the electorate has occured relatively late in the day, cohorts have not been changed. The views of about one third of the electorate in this poll are therefore unknown to the pollsters.

     

     

    The Pollsters have had to assume that increased turnout will reflect the pattern of opinion amongst their defined cohort.

     

     

    That’s a big assumption, and accounts for the relatively low level of confidence amongst pollsters on the consensus 48:52 outcome.

  35. NegAnon2 on

    Uslan Its only one piece of information I agree.

     

     

    The response to it has been more enlightening I think.

  36. SydneyTim on

    Neganon2. From previous blog. ” who am I voting for?”

     

     

    If I had not been forced to leave Scotland and my friends and family due to manufacturing being flattened by Westminster rule

     

    I would be voting yes

  37. timaloy29 on

    Can we not just vote to be part of Germany?

     

     

    I like the food, the beer and the Bundesliga would be fun.

  40. NegAnon2 on

    Corkcelt there are many things at play. I genuinely have no interest in tonights game. Some of it is probably down to my feeling towards celtic and those who run the club. The referendum is the larger part. Not just because I am preoccupied by it (which I am) but because my feelings towards some of my fellow celtic supporters has changed. Not because they are voting differently but because the deparation to avoid and analyse information, to twist messages, to seek to use FACTs, to deny scotlands problem with sectarianism etc etc has shown me that we are very divided.

     

     

    I have spent much of my time on CQN over a decade defending the celtic support. I’m not sure I can do that anymore. I guess I just feel disenfranchised.

  42. NegAnon2 on

    Sydney Tim as I have said to others ordinarily I would have no issue with that. But you dont need to live with the consequences.

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