27 wins in 28 visits to Hampden since Brendan Rodgers first arrived at Celtic in 2016 is a record which has elevated the Scottish and League Cups to a level not previously known. Earlier generations were used to seeing ‘provincial’ clubs picking up a cup on a regular basis; even Jock Stein’s Celtic made a feature of this with an unfortunate run of League Cup Final defeats.
Not now. These days, the chance to win either of the Scottish domestic cups is cherished by all. Ask around. Your Newco fan pals cherish their 2022 Scottish Cup win over Hearts and last term’s League Cup Final defeat of Aberdeen. St Johnstone will celebrate their two cups in a season for much of this century.
The more trebles you and I get to celebrate, the more we want to win. Yesterday’s 5-0 victory over St Johnstone did not quite match our 6-0 Scottish Cup semi-final win over Aberdeen earlier this season, but it challenged the rest of the pack to raise their game if they want a sniff of silver.
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Evening all.
Rest In Peace Holly Father.
Rest In Peace Fr. Kavanagh ( Connaire ).
Holly = Holy
I apologise
Tosb
No problem
Right the SF49ers thing has run its course – come up with other shite fast!
‘Gerrard & Mourinho interested in Rangers job’ – gossip’
BBC Sport
Was out this morning having a Coffee with my wife and for some unknown reason Connaire & ParkheadcumSalford came into my mind and I started telling my wife about them.
Not sure if it was passing of the Pope brought them into my mind or not.
Couldn’t believe it when about 7 or 8 hours later I learned from a different platform that Connaire, Fr. Charlie had passed away.
Never met the man and only knew him from his Posts but still feel a sense of loss,
May Father Charlie Rest in Eternal Peace.
Farewell Great Celt.
Father Charlie and Father Francis – two of a kind. Requiescant In Pace.
RIP Connaire
Tony taking on the chin again
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0r547rd2p4o
Surprised he returned after his health problems
I reckon they get addicted to the adrenaline gene!
I’m surprised WBA had him back
R.I.P. Connaire………..Fr. Kavanagh
Oh dear Ange , that shoogly peg just got shooglier .
glendalystonsils
He’s safe until they’re out of the euro
GENE
Fingers crossed for him but Bodo Glimt will be a huge ask with that Spurs defence .
Regarding the SFA’s Referreeing team disregarding any stoppage time on Sunday and overturning the penalty decision, it stinks of corruption.
Are match day Officials or anyone else in the SFA being influenced by betting companies via sponsors?
If there isn’t any clarification offered by the SFA on disregarding the Laws of the Game then the game’s over.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 3:20 PM,
Yes, Brendan not giving the negatrons much wiggle room these days.
It was a nice touch with Mackenzie Kirk, the young man must have been gutted – still, he didn’t foul and took the goal great.
The players and team will have “performance targets”, in the next five games, that’s great to know – hope Bernardo and Idah get some serious game time to sharpen their edge.
Hail Hail
R.I.P Fr Charlie (connaire)
One of CQNs finest.
RIP Father Charlie,( Connaire) a fellow traveller on Greenock CSC.
A font of knowledge who.will be greatly missed.May he and Pope Francis rest in peace.
Re Connaire- another guy I wish I could have met,loved his posts re 67,so sad,condolences to friends, family, and guys on here who knew him. RIP
Always a sad day when we lose a veritable member of the CQN Parish, in this case Connaire, and then to discover he was also a long time serving Father, who has passed away on the very same day as the Pontiff in Rome, Pope Francis. Both a sad loss, first to their families, and to the wider family that is still the Roman Catholic Church
RIp the Bishop of Rome and….
RIP Father Kavanagh
Forest have perfected the technique of fouling the guy then lying on top of him.
Doesn’t happen by accident.
Clearly coached.
Still to see a player from an EPL team ,who are losing, going down with cramp, but winning teams……another racket
B2B
Happens against us every week 🙄
With Leeds United promoted to the EPL, despite selling eight players, and pocketing £150 million close season, will the 49rs vehicle still be as interested in buying a controlling share in a loss making club in Glasgow?
Not so sure.
I would hate Celtic involved in the EPL charade, Dermot Desmond might not be for everyone but I’d much prefer the Desmond family than other “money” the CL is obviously where we won’t to be … but give me league titles and cup finals every season ..
100% behind Brendan & the bhoys
(Although he still shouldn’t have left 😂 )
don’t think a Europa League win will save Ange
On other blogs some knitting is being ripped as sumdy called the Ibrox team “Rangers” as a wee measure of how obscured from reality so called sharp posters on blogs really become.
Its a trick question of course when it is asked “What do we call the Ibrox club?”
How about asking the Celtic ticket office how much the tickets are for the Glasgow Derby?
When you are told it is whatever it is now £56 maybe £58 or even £60???
Who knows but just ask “Who agreed to these prices?”
Then get in touch with the CLO or whoever and ask why it is so much for a “New Club” vs Celtic?
When at first you start to deceive etc.
All of this could have been sorted out in 2012 if Celtic had some honesty coursing through its veins and demanded that no football fans, or their club should be punished for the antics of criminal directors.
Now had that avenue been pursued, Celtic could have brought down the entire British Establishment, just by simply being honest.
Honestly highlighting that Rangers or their fans are no friends of Celtic FC, but, if we agree that Rangers FC and their fans be punished for the crimes of a Knight of The Realm, then how could Celtic FC and our fans claim to be the good guys here by going along with punishing innocent people for crimes that they did not commit?
But that is what happened.
To say that the Hun EBT Crimes were none of Celtic’s business when it was mainly Celtic fans who were cheated during the EBT era of Scottish football, is what you would expect from cop out merchants and cowardly liars to say.
And Celtic fans danced along and continue to dance along to this masquerade.
So who really died, Rangers or Celtic?
Celtic’s integrity, honesty, bravery, and straight talk died in the eyes of honest and sharp fans which are like hens teeth nowadays and the PLC were perfectly aware of that.
Rangers had no integrity before EBT crimes but for Celtic to say nothing – then sleekitly go along with the cover up through tickets as if Rangers were still alive and kicking is probably WORSE than what David Murray did. How much is Celtic integrity worth?
But the PLC have got away with their cover up sleekitry because Celtic fans are just not made by the same people anymore.
I saw nothing ( Celtic-ish ) about Celtic PLC and Majority of Celtic fans approach to the EBT disaster, indeed Celtic and their fans made this mess even WORSE by not speaking truthfully. Hiding behind the bike shed like wee fearties.
No we didn’t steal EBT money. But we went along with punishing the wrong people for crimes that fans or even players who benefited from EBT’s – did not sanction that crimewave.
David Murray did sanction the EBT’s and no one from Celtic FC were pointing fingers at DM and why not?
Freemasonry? If not that then what?
Different shoite … same flies
Unless you don’t understand what liquidation means
Then it’s pointless
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #51 CELTIC 5 ST JOHNSTONE 0 (McGREGOR, MAEDA(2), IDAH, JOTA)*
Good evening, friends.
Let me start with an apology. In a few recent MOTM summaries I’ve mentioned about us being on target to set a new ‘goals scored’ record for the SPL top flight. I previously understood that the record stood at 105 from season 2003-04. This was incorrect as Celtic have since beaten that total twice, scoring 106 in 2016-17 and 114 in 2022-23. With 5 games remaining this season, the correct record (114) is likely to remain intact unless we can score 18 in our remaining 5 games. Apologies again.
And so on to yesterday’s game…..
We started in a very positive fashion with most of our good play again coming through James Forrest on the right. A full half hour of pass and move possession against a resolute defence and then the floodgates really did open. The very impressive Captain McGregor opened the scoring from the edge of the box with a beautifully placed finish into the corner of the net, albeit that there was a bit of the parting of the blue sea in front of him. And 5 minutes later it was Calum’s defence splitting pass to Maeda, on the shoulder of the wide defender which led to number 2, Daizen curling a low shot into the other corner of the net.
As half time approached, Liam Scales got in on the act with yet another defence splitting pass inside the defender to Reo Hatate who cut the ball across the 6 yard box for the onrushing Adam Idah to find the net. Then, a minute later we scored our 4th goal in 15 minutes. Some close footwork inside the St Johnstone penalty area finally fell to Maeda. To me it looked as if Daizen tried to backheel the ball to McGregor but missed the ball, then somehow drove a left foot shot into the net. 4 nil at the break and game clearly won by half time. Again.
We did keep the pace up during the second half but were only rewarded with 1 outstanding save, 2 lengthy VAR interventions and 1 more goal. In the 50th minute Sinisalo stretched and arced his body to produce a fantastic twisting right handed save. The attacker may perhaps have been offside but our latest fine goalkeeper wasn’t to know that. But 3 minutes later Sinisalo could do absolutely nothing to stop a 25 yard screamer flying over his head to give St Johnstone a goal. VAR correctly intervened – as the referee should have done in real time – to point out the blatant 2 handed push on Idah in the lead up to the ‘goal’ and so the score remained 4-0. In the 60th minute the referee correctly awarded a penalty after 3 St Johnstone defenders tried various methods of stopping James Forrest’s run into the box. I think the referee gave the penalty for a trip on James which, on later viewings might not have been correct. I don’t think he saw the blatant hand into James’s face. VAR intervened and ultimately the referee changed his decision. I think he got that one wrong.
Our 5th goal was a great passage of play. Kuhn had possession with the option of cutting inside and having a shot. Instead, he realised Johnston was an option on the right. AJ wrapped his foot around the ball, sending a fine curling cross to the back post where Jota managed to half volley the ball and squeeze it in past the St Johnstone goalie.
We have played 2 cup semi finals this season and scored 11 times without reply. Brendan’s unbelievable Hampden record continues!
We have now played 51 games this season. In Europe we played 10, won 3, drew 4 and lost 3 scoring 15 goals and conceding 17. Domestically we have now played 41, winning 33, drawing 4 and losing 4, scoring 128 goals and conceding 29.
So, domestically we have averaged 3.12 goals per game.
Thank you so much to the 72 who voted this time around. The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Sinisalo: 0
Johnston: 0
Carter-Vickers: 0
Scales: 6
Taylor: 8
McGregor*: 70
Hatate: 50
Engels: 3
Forrest*: 18
Idah: 2
Maeda*: 57
Jota: 2
Kuhn: 0
McCowan: 0
Bernardo: 0
Ralston: 1
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against St Johnstone are –
McGregor – 5 points
Maeda – 4 points
Hatate – 3 points
Forrest – 2 points
Taylor– 1 point
And the overall positions after 51 games played are –
101 points – Maeda
67 points – McGregor
60 points – Hatate
59 points – Engels, Kuhn
52 points – Schmeichel
41 points – Bernardo, Scales
39 points – Johnston A
32 points – Trusty
30 points – McCowan
27 points – Carter-Vickers
26 points – Taylor
24 points – Kyogo
22 points – Jota
19 points – Schlupp, Valle
18 points – Yang
15 points – Idah
9 points – Forrest
7 points – Nawrocki, O’Riley
3 points – Sinisalo, Welsh
2 points – Murray
0 points – Bonnar, Cummings, Holm, Johnston M., Kenny, Palma, Ralston, Turley
Finally, as I previously promised to occasionally update our goalscorers table then here’s the latest position –
33 – Maeda
18 – Kuhn
15 – Idah
12 – Kyogo
10 – Engels, Hatate, McGregor
6 – McCowan
5 – Jota, Yang
4 – Johnston A
3 – Bernardo, Scales
2 – Carter-Vickers, Ralston,
1 –Schlupp, Taylor, Trusty
2 Own Goals
Total Goals – 143
We return to league action next Saturday lunchtime when we visit Tannadice seeking the single point that would crown us Champions Again. Kick off against Dundee United is 12.30pm.
Hail Hail!
Time moves on … I miss the £49 tickets 😂
Tell me when the kiss of love becomes a lie
That bears the scar of sin too deep to hide behind
This fear of runnin’ unto you
Please let there be light
In a darkened room
To post
What another waste of time, mental effort and emotional input @ 10.22. To what purpose? If 99% scroll by without reading a word of it, what does it do for you to realise that?
And ……. this is written without having read a word ot it. Again.
Ave Ave
Does anyone have any footage of the Mass in Lisbon, 25th May 2017, Fr. Cavanagh said the Mass.
It was broadcast on TV as part of a programme about the 50th Anniversary of Lisbon.
GFTB on 21st April 2025 10:34 pm
Different shoite … same flies
Unless you don’t understand what liquidation means
Then it’s pointless
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Show me were Celtic said Rangers were liquidated.
Show me were Celtic have even pretended that Rangers were liquidated.
Show me were Celtic have called out SFA, SPL, Media, etc for calling Sevco “Rangers” you can’t because Celtic don’t have the balls, integrity, honesty, etc to clearly demonstrate that they are the good guys from the EBT movie.
Celtic went along with the Masquerade of Sevco being taken for “Rangers” from day One.
Celtic didn’t represent their victim fans who were cheated by EBT’s just like they tried to slither their way out of the CBC abuse scandal like cheap punk sleekits, probably thinking that Thompson’s Solicitors were as easy to fool as their supporter base were about the big lie.
Celtic are a poisoned snake on every link of their chain of Command washing their hands of one scumfest after another. The GB the only Tims left with any integrity being thrown under every bus by the PLC because the majority of the fan base has demonstrated to the PLC that lazy sleekitry isn’t solely confined to the boardroom.
The going along with the cover up of the big lie must have brought a great big laugh to Parkhead and Ibrox boardrooms when Celtic fans paid old Rangers prices to see Sevco vs Celtic at Ibrox and then sang that Rangers were dead.
The joint boardroom Zoom calls must have been a blast!
Laughing their asses off at the Celtic ticket fix Zoomers whilst keeping all of their history, trophies, Rangers Name, etc, etc.
🌚
The sad passing of two committed men of faith on the same day.
Never knew/met Connaire/Fr Kavanagh but his posts were frequently concise, considered and bile free.
RIP Charlie and Francis both.
Citizen Kev …
If you need to be “shown” about liquidation well that says it all … I worked in HMRC at the time everybody knew what was going on .. one of my sisters (no interest in football) knew wee Heidi Ploom (sic) she was the accountant in the first tier tribunal .. she couldn’t understand the other two on the tribunal trying to ride with the Huns … the whole case was to scare the EPL clubs into paying their taxes … that’s why it went to the upper tier tribunal … HMRC weren’t interested in the Huns £70m … they forced the English teams to declare what they were paying … but batter in … blame Celtic, the snp or whoever else … try and enjoy Celtic mate .. you post on a Celtic blog but take zero enjoyment from Celtic … whit a shoite exsistence … Celtic should be good for you mate