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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inside out ……braw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPAwrtm-JK8&list=RDL8s9dmuAKvU&index=3
hehehehehehehe
do not want to be a Sevco defender….
braw
wow that wis close …your awfy braw
Neustadt-Braw
Hows the weather in Germany?
Sooooo, is this the original Nessie or a newco Nessie?
Mega black sky – chances of a mega downpour are high .
Inter rumours –
Icardi will not play v Sassuolo .A kick in the butt for his performance v Torino last weekend .Italian media have him going to Atletico Madrid in the summer.I think he is a very good player but often looks as though he would rather be somewhere else.
braw
That’s a braw shift you’ve put in bhoyo
Hail Hail
Robert88
08:34 on
30 January, 2015
Neustadt-Braw
Hows the weather in G
………………… its snowzy…like mz keyboard ..Luckilz I got supplies when it wisnae white …lots of stuff here ,,,but don,t wirry James is on the BrawButton …
ACGR is awfy braw btw …jistsainlike …
braw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mri_BzkSGg&list=RDL8s9dmuAKvU&index=4
Blantyre is braw ………..do you know tommy and margaret …go go the Vics
agent green
08:35 on 30 January, 2015
Sooooo, is this the original Nessie or a newco Nessie?
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All the Nessie toys I see are green.
And when I saw the real one popping in for a gingsters pork pie at that petrol station in inverness she was definitely green.
Ipso. Nessie is a Tim. A highland Tim with lots of what they lack – history!
HH jamesgang
NORMAN NORMAN, WHERE ARE YOU, REMEMBER AND TELL THOSE TIMS WE ARE THE SAME CLUB.
Braw
Probably ,although I work in the KSC
I was at the St Fergus night the day the orcs lost at home v Killie what a night that was.
For what it’s worth, this is the team I think Ronny may start with on Sunday:-
Gordon
Lustig Van Dijk Denayer
Matthews Brown Bitton Izaguirre
Commons Johansen
Griffiths
Subs: Stokes; Forrest; Guidetti; Ambrose; Zaluska; Henderson
Seems like a solid enough selection, the 3-4-2-1 formation hopefully enough to pierce the Sevco heart, making them the deidest deid team ever.
The message should be, keep the heid, stay focused and shoot on sight.
We have plenty options on the bench if things go wrong.
I was away last weekend & start of this so never had the opportunity to post congratulations to the Bhoys who placed the Herald Ad. All statements were factually correct & beyond dispute – power to your sword.
We have been subjected to lies, damned lies and ignorance in the days following the ad and not too many ex-Celts emerge with any real credit – Tom Boyd, you’re one glowing exception.
Safe journeys to all attending Sunday’s game, remember to tell THEM the truth – they let their club die.
This match is an unwelcome distraction; the real football starts again at Dens on Saturday week.
COYBIG
NoMoreOldFirmCSC
apooo poo Nessie …zou,ll be glad to know that Braw wis in Invermorrisson for a guid 12 months … ithir bros wir there fir ages ,,,,Nessie …there are all oor the place …
jist saying like …but ask anybody the old post office …and the bobby,s wouldnae come doon fae the capital …hahahahaha
boats are braw
james your missing adjectives etc etc etc ,,,,,hahahahhhahahahahaha
Went out with my bro one day many moons ago when he worked for Dunoon ceramics
Toured most of the highlands and took in the Nessie tour , never met her although met a few prehistoric orcs in and around the place, had to go go Fort Augustus for a beer
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRViFCvvUo
very bad …
braw
Neustadt-Braw
Have you just been drinking cups and cups of string Coffee and or eating Jelly tots? are you not getting a message coming up stating you are posting too quick?
Laters Braw Bhoys n Ghirls
HH jamesgang
Jamesgang
I’ll look out for you passing the sir John Moore
Agent Green
08:35 on 30 January, 2015
Sooooo, is this the original Nessie or a newco Nessie?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saint Columba was an Honest man i’m sure and had the first sighting in 565. So with 1450 years of unbroken history i would put Nessie down as a grand old monster. With no reported accidents with boat propellers, i would suggest that she’s ever been liquidated!
Veltins 500 mls and then Loch Lomond when ACGR gave it the clear …then lots of LL when the Carmylie lad txt his Bloody Sunday stance…
apart from that …a normal loon day ..
braw
post a tune . braw
Brenda Kerr – I wasn’t Even Born
http://youtu.be/roXVh-D3mMs
Sorry…. never been Liquidated.
Metro
‘De boer predicts english move could earn virgil a national call up’
I guess they want him to move before Sunday!
Watching the MSM work is like finding your walls covered in paint and a 5 year old with their hands covered in paint…..blaming the wee boy next door who’s actually been next door all day.
Pathetic.
HH jamesgang
james …….no speculation please …you know how the neighbours love that ?
braw
jamesgang
Watching the MSM work is like finding your walls covered in paint and a 5 year old with their hands covered in paint…..blaming the wee boy next door who’s actually been next door all day.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are right, i posted earlier today that two nights ago the BBC tried to get Ronny to call the game the Old Firm. He wouldn’t. Now listening to Last nights BBC podcast, they tried the same thing with Broony.
Again, Broony wouldn’t call it the Old firm. He called it a Celtic – Rangers game.
The MSM are pathetic and so see through it’s embarrassing!!!
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRViFCvvUo
braw the Dunblane Jive
braw
apologies aboot the wee gren links …
On the BBC world news one of the main stories is the obesity pandemic.
One of the poor faceless victims is sporting the old Carling Rangers top.
Who’d a thunked it.
I wonder what celtic will turn up on Sunday. Hope to god it’s the free flowing side. If not we could be in for a fight. I feel celtic will need to put some daylight between them early, and keep thompson out the equation. I also hope we’re tough enough to handle what they will bring to the game. Many of the teams I grew up watching, had men more than capable of putting it about, but the present side for me anyway don’t have a hay, auld, brogan. Just a wee hunch, but try and keep count of the free kicks they get just outside our 18 yard box, a favoured ploy of the mib. Stay safe to all the bhoys attending. Safety in numbers is the name of the game here. And justice be served on that mob.
Posted from my phone as can’t log in to CQN on my ipad. Since the crash a few days ago
Following overwhelming success with the “buy a brick” petition, they turn their FFin’ attention to 32Red:
“take assertive action against current board
We the undersigned supporters of [Sevco] Football Club, demand that our current shirt sponsor ’32 Red’, take assertive action against the [S]FC board for the negative publicity generated by their recent actions. The way our board conduct business reflects on the reputation of their sponsors and we would implore [demand, Sammy, demand]’32 Red’ to take this VERY seriously. Failure to do so will be taken as a show of support for the actions of the current board,
In the event that no contact with the club is made on this matter by 1800hrs on Sat 31st January 2015, our support will no longer be making use of the ’32 Red’ betting service. In addition, those attending this weekends internationally televised *** **** match will cover the ’32 red’ logo on our replica shirts, by blanking over completely, or covering with the logo of a betting service competitor.
We sincerely hope ’32 Red’ see sense in this matter and prevent such action being necessary.
Please do not make the mistake of underestimating our resolve.”
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“Please add a comment with your signature to say if you are willing to cover the logo or stop use of their site etc.
The written word goes a long way with these things.
This petition will be hand delivered to their Gibraltar office TODAY [Thought we were givin’ them to the 31st, Sammy?]so let’s share, tweet, do whatever you can to bring in extra signatures.”
Monaghan1900
I take ma wee braw hat off …you are the biz …
a hope you don,t need a lot of lateral thinking in yer day job …
daeyirheidincfc
Walrid 88 – I really don’t expect Ronny to suddenly change formation.
It’ll be 4231.
I’m guessing
Gordon
Lustig
VVD
Denayer
Izzy
Bitton
Brown
Stokes
Johansen
Commons
Griffiths
Only real question marks are Lustig or Matthews, Commons or Forrest and Griffiths or Guidetti.
Big Sloppy Jamesgang
Braw :-)
jamesgang
09:03 on 30 January, 2015
Watching the antics of the media is actually witnessing ‘bigotry in action’ ……. the level of anti all things Celtic is pathetic, …. but that’s all right, it cost oldco their very existence, and it is costing the tabloids (for example) their circulation figures …….when will they ever learn, bless them…
(Cannot quite get my head round why any CELTIC supporter would go anywhere near Hampden on Sunday, but Hey Ho…. It can be argued that you are simply ‘supporting’ Celtic, but, IMO, we should be taking a stand against THE BIG LIE)
jimtim – Whatever Rangers turn up on Sunday they will need to be at 100%. Nothing less. Not a single player can be anything under their very very best. They will need to win every single individual battle all over the pitch and not lose concentration for a second. I have seen them play 3 times this year and each time, their concentration whilst defending has been suspect and if it were not for the level of opposition they were against they would have considerably less points. All mistakes will be punished on Sunday.
Celtic are fitter, faster, more skillful and sharper due to playing at a higher level. Do not under estimate the importance of the sharpness.
I expect it to be a little like Motherwell the other week. They will sit back and pack out the centre but once we score it will fall apart.
I see the Rangers players say all the pressure is on Celtic, what I will say is Celtic will be able to get away with mistakes, they know they can’t even afford one.
Maidín mhaith.
Árd Macha
Bhoys
Just been informed that my uncle James has very sadly passed away
Can I ask you to remember him in your prayers
Rest in Peace James McCabe, and May Perpetual light shine upon you
PS say Hail Hail to ma Auld granda Hubby, granny Mary, and Oor Ryan