Speaking at the weekend, Kenny McDowell looked ahead to the cup semi-final saying “We aren’t going into the game fearing a big defeat. If anything we are going into the game knowing we’ll have to be on our guard and wary of that, but we are not going into it fearing of losing by a big score-line”.
Admitting that he’s wary about the prospect of a big defeat is the last thing you want your manager to say publicly as you prepare for a cup tie. It conditions everyone to the prospect of defeat.
From Ronny, it’s all positive: “It’s going to be fun.
“It’s good that this is a big game, so we won’t be underestimating the opponent.
“We are in a good position, we can win everything and that motivates.”
Big games, big results, are often won in the head before a team takes to the field. You win because you know you’re going to win, because you know you can rely on your team-mates. You know that if you do your job correctly, there is nothing the opposition can do, short of elbowing you in the face and hope you retaliate.
No game of football is easy and Ronny and the players will know they will have to work for anything they get on Sunday, but the preparatory work has been done. The players are fit, rested and can’t wait for Sunday.
On a side note, I can’t believe how thoroughly the New Club advert has penetrated media coverage this week. On top of Motivator McDowell, can you imagine ‘ex-players’, pundits and fans having to explain their existence and relevance in the run up to a semi-final? This wasn’t a crowd-source advert, it was crowd-sourced media management, which ran rings around the best paid PRs in the business.
Let me know (celticquicknews@gmail.com) if you want a ticket to CQN 11 St Patrick’s Dinner at the Kerrydale Suite on Friday 13 March – Cup Final weekend, as it happens, or you can buy a ticket at the bottom of this page. I’m in the mood now.
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this is awfy awfy ….braw ….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7KNtF5KjE
braw
San Diego Bhoy, at least you get to say that in the sunshine. I’m freezing ma nadsack off telling hun associates that here in the frozen wasteland of north Britain.
My boy is coming up the road so we can watch the pumpfest together, I’m fair looking forward to seeing him. Not so much the game, but at least I know he’ll be with me on Saturday night and not out there with the mad wans like Sipsini and his hun workmates.
Go fishing instead and top up yer tan:_)
Hail Hail bruv
San Diego Bhoy
Thats your sentiments mate, and I’m sure theres a few who will share them. However, there’s those of us who, whilst denying their existence as the former club ,will be looking forward to pumping them “royally” on Sunday. I’m sure you’ll still take some sort of gratification on Sunday night. Enjoy the Superbowl
HH
I went for an eye test today. Everything was cool banana’s on the eye front but the optician dude was a bit of weirdo. He spent the entire time talking about camels. The only camels I’m familiar with are the smoking variety.
HTF does an optician in Carnoustie become a world authority in camels?
A fair had the hump when I left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7KNtF5KjE
braw
this is a better link …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQ96X9ekag
ACGR …hahahaha in my Farfar heid yer were away to tell the one aboot how long it would have to be if it grew outwards ,between your eyes ! hahahahahaha
eggs2ofcfc
braw
vmhan, naw, bobM is aboot forty years older than me:_) We bro GR is pedrocaravanchio67. He’s not as good looking as me and he’s nae use wi the ladies. Other than that he’s a damn fine young (younger) man than me.
BobM aint gonnay thank you for that one vmhan……………………………….ha ha.
Keep on runnin:_))
Braw, you can laugh, but wait till you see ma new greggs.
As far as I know there are no, and never have been any camels in Carnoustie. This dude knew the location of the world breeding stock.
I only went there for new glesses, FFS, I came out and my ears were bleeding.
Bed time as I’ve a spark coming to fit a new alarm system tomorrow morning and I’ve lost all the bits nbobs he needs.
Glasgow’s Green and White.
Hail Hail Celtic men and wummin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu37E3WhX_g
half a century against the beasties….
CRC, I got your mail re your friend and his whisky venture. I’ll reply over the weekend.
Antipodean Red, got your email and will respond too, thanks for your kind offer.
HH
ACELERGONOFRUST
Haw you,I’m less than six months older than you!
Hard paper run,and still bliddy daein’ it anaw…
new alarm….? hehehehe protecting that braw topsoil no doubt…zer nearest bobby is eberdeen! min….hahahahahahaha
spray glue bhoys will love ye …
jist asweel ye hiv guid pals ….
braw
RIP – Large boned big hoose guy, he was passionate about his Club, I guess he couldn’t get over them being liquidated, I suspect a Broken Heart.
Neustadt-Braw 01:21
Brilliant video, loved the comments by Jim.
It is a big ask I know, but looking for 3 tickets for the Dundee game, it’s not essential but it will be the wee mans first away game with the fanatics, I thought that was as good an away game as any as I won’t see him the following weekend because of the mad party people in Belfast.
For 16 Roads…..
I loved this DJ when he played this set at the first outdoor Rezerection Event. I even adopted his name when playing online gaming because he came out with the most unique tracks in his mixes.
DJ EaSyGrOoVe
get my addy of WC if you or youse need security when your oot makkin trouble …braw bhoys working oot of Arbroath and Montrose …. but I am sure yer covered …
braw
Good morning all
Just discovrered I can access the site again.
Away back to sleep.
Jimbo67
Jimbo67 broke the blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!
braw smiley thing …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inCC-PAggRA
yeah …glory glory days …and many more to come …
braw
Philbhoy, I think it is the other way about. The M.I.T.B. instruct our boys in blue what their priorities are. Hh
……Sevco statement in reply to cqn’s Herald page 12
:-):-)
https://twitter.com/MireCSC1/status/560990105650102272.
Did you laugh?
HH
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Replace firm wi fraud.
HH
Thirty years ago today 14 people were murdered by British soldiers who were supposed to be there to protect them.
They will never be forgotten.
Sunday
I lost three years but that’s irrelevant.
Sunday
he bought your club for a poooooond! hahahaha braw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3OnulDd7Q
braw
acgr ..ye aright laddie …hail hail …
braw
Whats happenin’ in Toronto?
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The Way We Were January 29
Sadly, the last ever Old Firm game was played on April 29, 2012.
A new version of the Glasgow Derby (apologies to Partick Thistle) begins Sunday morning when the Hoops take on Sevco Scotland 5088, also known (to some) as Rangers.
It’s been awhile, so here’s an excellent highlight package (in HD no less) to refresh your memory on “the way we were”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgdKlYVBoE
Join us Sunday morning to cheer on the Celts, should be fun with a good crowd on hand!!!
Sunday, February 1 at 8:30 am
League Cup
Celtic v Sevco
Catherine Anne is organizing a “breakfast” Sunday morning with the proceeds to benefit Wee Jay and the Down’s and Proud Charity!
Sausage and rolls will be served before the game, so bring some change with you to throw in to “Jay’s Bucket”!!!
You might remember Jay, the wee boy Sammy plucked from the stands on title day after receiving a Championship Medal from Neil Lennon!
Check out the website of this noble cause!
http://www.downsandproud.com
Broony signed an extension! How about you?
The 2015 TOCSC Membership Drive is now on!!!
This is a key revenue generator for the Club. Please support it by filling out a membership form and getting yours TODAY!!!
It’s been a very busy January at the Club and there’s no let up as we roll into February!!!
First up!!!
Celts Against Cancer!
Friday, February 6 at 8 pm
Please join us for a very special evening, where the “Celtic Family” will show their support to all those we know who have “taken it on”! This is a night when “we” can collectively participate to raise money to fight cancer and show our loved ones that they’ll never walk alone!
There will be laughing. Drinking. Horse races. Raffles. Head shaving.
That’s right. HEAD SHAVING!!!
This will be a fun night to build some positive karma, raise some money and lose some hair!!!
It’ll cost you to shave it! It’ll cost you to save it!
But it’s nothing like the cost others we know have paid.
Please come out and support a great cause, the Celtic Way!
This year’s TOCSC AGM is scheduled for Sunday, February 8 at 2:30 pm. Please attend so you can hear and be heard!!!
St. Vincent de Paul Night with Hugo Straney!!!
Saturday, February 28 at 8 pm
Our old pal Hugo is hosting a night of cheer and charity at the Club!!!
Pencil this into your calendar more details to come!
Upcoming Games
Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 am
Scottish Cup
Dundee v Celtic
Saturday, February 14 at 7:45 am
Scottish Premiership
St Johnstone v Celtic
Thursday, February 19 at 3:05 pm
UEFA Europa League
Celtic v Inter Milan
Sunday, February 22 at 8:00 am
Scottish Premiership
Celtic v Hamilton
Thursday, February 26 at 1:00 pm
UEFA Europa League
Inter Milan v Celtic
Home of the Staggies Trivia
Take the OVER!
Victoria Park’s capacity, 6,300 which is greater than Dingwall’s population of 5,500.
Hail! Hail!!
ACGR
You have mail.
Teuchter ár lá
03:10 on
30 January, 2015
ACGR
You have mail.
……………………………
good man you are …….
braw
The Sevco statement is a Joey Beltrami.
I hope they get the biggest hiding EVER, Scottish fitba will be over the Moon if they get beat up bad. Ronny step forward.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/30/newsid_2452000/2452145.stm
my condolences ACGR….a further cause for contemplation on an already warm week end …inflammatory does not seem to do it justice …!!!
slainte ..
braw …the Loch Lomond isnae good enough to send to the coast….
braw
Had a few sherbets tonight.
My only wish and hope for Sunday is that my Tim brothers and sisters get home safely after the game. As an Ayrshire Fenian, I asure you they will be out in numbers.
YWNWA
Wee piece for the night-shift boys and my last before the game.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/the-reckoning-ii/
They may not be Rangers, but I want to beat them as if they were.
I want to sear this match into their memories for as long as they live.
Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission of San Diego, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of newly independent Mexico, and in 1850, became part of the United States following the Mexican-American War and the admission of California to the union.
I like you already ……..braw ….whit scherbet ir ye awn?
braw
Neustadt-Braw
Did I ever tell you aboot the time we returned from Pittodrie and stopped off at oor usual place in Coupar angus?
The bar used to close at around 4 o’clock on a Sunday(I think it was to get us oot and on our way) well, we just kept turning the hands on the clock back half an ‘oor every 20 mins or so – The barman became a wee bit suspicious when it got dark outside.
Another time, we hoisted a JP2 Tricolour on the flagpole outside the pub and a’ the locals gathered and waited on us comin’ oot……was like a scene from young Frankenstein, wi the torches :-)
Those were the days my friend – I thought they’d never end.
And now we have Peter!
Hail Hail bro
and James ye are right teeownee …there,s wan fir yer pennio…
braw
yer a Teuchtar efter ma oan wee hert so ye ar ….awfy braw …
clever ? you,ve never seen clever …that,s Braw,s motto …keep moving and keep nipping there heids .. coke bottles worked well ! hehehehehehe
ach comm on noo …if ye were Peter ….who wid want that jobby …. the man is as good as he can be …full respect for that …
life is fill o considerations …tis a fact ..sad though ……….I love GIRUY ….in a literal sense of course !
braw
ps if yer aw wondering why I cannae get drunk and disappear …well it s because Braw is thinking hard …
aye awfy hard …
braw
neustadt-braw
03:30 on 30 January, 2015
Hello Herr Neustadt! Always enjoyed your posts. Often a laugh amongst those taking themselves too seriously.
I”m on a bottle of Monkey Shoulder from Dufftown. A very fine blend too.
Prost!
I think a Cleansing is indeed the word. Make it Binary Ronny, obviously 100-0 isnae likely when Thompshun? is in charge, I’d obviously settle for 1-0, listening to that ridiculous person Myth, well he never took on board the Absolute kindness Tommy offered him when he passed away.
A new Rangers team with Ashley behind them would be a formidable force, I guess they just really want Rangers Men, Brogues and Aprons.