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Ronny Deila has been talking about a treble since early in the season, far too early for my liking.  History suggests that trebles are notoriously difficult to win, even for dominant teams.  The league is usually won by the best team but it’s hard to win every game in two cup competitions, no matter how good you are.

Despite this, I’ll not bet against Ronny getting his wish.  He needs to win four games cup games, three of which would be at neutral Hampden, with only one game, the Scottish Cup quarter final, possibly being played away from home.

The cynic among you will, therefore, expect an away draw, possibly in some far-flung end of the country, like Inverness.  My money is on a trip to Easter Road.  I’ll be happy to avoid Tannadice, scene of our last defeat and a place they’re understandably feeling sort over the loss of Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven.

People of Kirkcaldy: that whole 1994-Ibrox thing, forget about it, we’re OK.

Well done to Celtic for highlighting their position as the least likely football team to financially default, according the US rating agency, Standards & Poor’s.  Commercial and ticket income across Scottish football has fallen in recent years but that was only going to result in Armageddon if those in charge of clubs put an inflated sense of their own importance ahead of paying bills.

See the photo above sent by Mary’s Meals last week of the school kitchen we funded at CQ10.  Work is already underway to raise funds for a fourth CQN kitchen in Malawi after the CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, on Friday 13 March at the Kerrydale Suite.  Email me for ticket, celticquicknews@gmail.com

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  1. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    An Tearmann, Mrs acgr mentioned earlier about a young guy from Forfar being found dead at the foot of a hill in Forfar and said they were waiting on more news of the circumstaces.

     

     

    Tragic, regardless of circumstances for a young life to be lost at such a young age.

     

     

    Same age group as my boy and he may have played with or against him in the boys leagues.

     

     

    Tragic and saddening.

  2. skyisalandfill on

    Anyone hear Chic Young on the radio tonight. Twice he said that if he was Elbow’s defence lawyer he would plead that he had nowhere else to go. chic. You aren’t a lawyer. You are supposed to be an impartial, knowledgable sports journo who can call out.a thug and more importantly the referees who continually let him and his ilk in blue get away with it. There’s a story for you. Maybe not though.

     

    BRTH

     

    As always, a kind and thought provoking piece.

     

     

    ACGR

     

     

    You going to the Inter game?

     

     

    HH

  4. skyisalandfill on

    Bugger.

     

     

    An Tearmann

     

     

    Are you going?

     

     

    I’m bringing my boy and a mate from work. A wee Euro night adventure if you will.

     

     

    HH

  5. An Tearmann on

    ACGR

     

     

    Kinnoull hill.v.sad I agee.night mhate.

     

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    Skyisalandfill

     

    how you doin bro?

     

    Dont worry bout Chick.we have still to listen back to him fawning wi traynor to get accepted into david murrays harem? :-)

     

    HH

  8. skyisalandfill on

    Alright. I’m now talking to myself. Looking forwards to the Inter game as I haven’t been to Celtic Park since the Salzburg game.

     

    Timings wrong for work the main reason.

     

    Like others I sense a a growing spirit and confidence about the team.

     

    Inter will be a true measure of how much we have improved.

     

    Heres my favourite song right now

     

     

    http://youtu.be/UuBdNLxYZwI

  10. skyisalandfill on

    Brilliant AT.

     

     

    Won’t be in town until 1800 hrs so will have to sup fast in BV and try and grab a steak pie.

     

    Cannae wait. Been to three away games since last at CP. Assume it’s a sell out.

     

     

    HH

  11. An Tearmann on

    Skyislandfill.

     

    You may well be talking to yourself now.

     

    But you will be accompanied by 60, 000 Celtic supporters belting out support in a rematch of this countries greatest sporting achievement :-):-)

     

    Celtic

     

    Catch up soon bog fella

     

    Night cqn

  13. An Tearmann on

    Sandman

     

     

    I am showing same symptoms you are.

     

    – sore side with laughter

     

    – hernia like pain at its most acute(current statement free for all)

     

    – on passing a deidtap, hands on knees, weeping like laughter:-)

     

    -just involuntary giggling in shop queues hearing they are victims

     

     

    I dont want anythin tho my jaw threatens lockjaw in a smile lol

     

    Hope your good mhate

     

    HH

  14. mungolian bhoy on

    I was in the butchers. Four ahead of me was a sevco top. Quiet shop. No music. The man with the blue top looked really really sad. He was staring into space thinking , who knows what. Suddenly I exploded into laughter and nothing could stop it. Covered with my hand Snot running over my fingers. It was deluxe because I was my scarf !

  16. 001 Bhoy.. on

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    G’Day CQN..

     

     

    Something’s You need to Share..

     

     

    Especially after having a Nightmare of a Morning and end up being a Tad Demented..Which is Not like me..But lesson Learned..

     

     

    A Few Months ago on CQN l Believe The Battered Bunnett posted a Hilarious Wee story of his Hols that Included a Minah Bird..That Talked

     

     

    About a Week before that Wee Story My 2 Local Mynah Birds decided to Build a Nest on top of a Outside Speaker on my Front Porch..Noisy Buggers my front is Mostly Glass and one of them would perch on the Awning bracket (Twig in Beak) and scream at me through the Glass..

     

     

    l had already Named them Walter & Sally..Sally was the Noisy Fecker with the twig in Beak..Walter was always there in the Background..Funny enough they are the Only living things that My Wee Dog Raphael (Need to stop naming Dogs after Saints)..Doesn’t Bark at..He barks at Mosquito..and can Jump feet in the Air to catch a Moth..wtf..

     

     

    l Probably should have just Boomed Rebel songs out the Speaker for a Week to get rid of them..Walt & Sal..But l had a Pet Mynah bird as a Kid..Which sadly passed away due to My Mum spraying the Cage with Air Freshener or Friendly Fire from Hairspray from my Wee Mam’s Beehive..so the Story goes..

     

     

    And Plus We thought Sally was Pregnant..as she was rather Rotund compared to Walter..

     

     

    EnyWhooo..

     

     

    Get too the Feckin Point..;-)

     

     

    Me and Raphael are sitting in the Front Room and the 2 Italian Ghirls that stay with me were Out the Back deck..l thought.. as its 34C today..and my Oldest was is out on Porch reading her Book..

     

     

    Suddenly the Two of them (Italians) are Screaming and shouting and l can hear thuds/bangs as if someone was getting attacked with a Pot..Raphael went Berserk..You know the way Dogs go when being Attacked..

     

     

    l Ran in and Walter & Sally have Only invaded the Kitchen and are Flying aboot like Headlees Chickens (Apart from the Flying part)..and Hitting every Window (2 Walls are mostly Glass)..Jeezo it probably only lasted just over a Minute from start to Finish..and the Flew (Walked) Away but the State of the 2 Lassies and the Feckers had Shit everywhere (Walter & Sally) not the……………

     

     

    After spending nearly 3 Hours on the Phone this Morning hitting my head against a Wall it was a Welcome stress releaser..;-)

     

     

    All Quiet Now..

     

     

    The Ghirls X3 are Off to the Beach..Raphael is back sleeping..Ally is in the Garden somewhere and Walter has Disappeared again..Me..? l am Just about to Crack open a Coldie and Lie on the Hammock..

     

     

    After l find that Charlie and the Bhoys CD..

     

     

    Moral of the Story..

     

     

    Be Careful Who You let Occupy Your Head/Porch Rent Free..

     

     

    Phone now on Aeroplane Mode.. till next week..

     

     

    Summa of AlwaysLookOnTheBrightSideOfLifeCSC

  18. fan-a-tic on

    Eddieinkirkmichael

     

    Sorry to hear of your troubles at the hands of the klan.

     

    Stay strong.

     

    Where are the authorities when these hun hordes flaunt every law of a democratic society?

     

    Probably to busy aiding and abetting their brown brogued brothers.

     

    The fear is palpable that their supremacist days at all levels of Scottish society are coming to an end and they are using every source to continue their imaginary days of dignity and glory.

     

    Haven’t lived in Scotland for 30 years and hoped this bigoted country was going to change but the evidence since the huns died suggests they will try everything to keep us in the dark ages to maintain there fragile psyche.

  23. 001 Bhoy.... on

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    VHman.. In the Scotsman yesterday the Printed there 12 Worst results since they went Under..

     

     

    And a Couple of sentences of Each match Unbelievable 2 or 3 I didn’t even know about half the others I had Forgot about..

     

     

    And that Didn’t even Count the Kanus and other results before they went Under..

     

     

    I used to think thon Doomsday Clock thing was a Load of Rubbish but it has recently moved nearer Midnight.. Do they have Daylight saving in Govan.. Ha

     

     

    Hope Yir Guid..

     

     

    Need to give Ryan a pm he has been Quiet must be working Too hard..

     

     

    001

     

     

    Ps.. Had a Crowd of Young Rebels at the House for the Game Sat Night.. Put on Apple TV to keep us going till Kick Off.. Guess what game came on by chance first.. The One You have me the GB ticket for one of the Bhoys was a Couple of rows behind your seat.. :-)

  24. North Cyprus (formerly Baku) Bhoy on

    A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    23:47 on 9 February, 2015

     

     

    I’m a bit thick when it come to the rules of the game and citing players after the event but………I could have sworn I heard with my own bat like ears that the player who karate kicked the hearts player on the coupon was being cited after the event.

     

     

    What’s the difference in this incident and the “elbow’s” incidents in the last two sevco matches?

     

     

    Thug tackle, thug booked for tackle. One thug isnay a hun and retrospective action can be taken. One thug is a hun and retrospective action cant be taken.

     

     

    ?

     

     

    Is it simply a hun thug thing?

     

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    Here’s the text of an e-mail that I sent to the SFA’s Compliance Officer yesterday, as a follow-up to the e-mails I sent him last week. I’m hoping that a few RR fans will be complaining this week. Feel free to join in! HH

     

     

    Hello again Mr. McGlennan,

     

     

    Your failure to cite Lee McCulloch last week left him free to continue his campaign of cowardly attacks, on his opponents, during yesterday’s Scottish Cup tie against Raith Rovers.

     

     

    Surely, you must now feel compelled to issue a Notice of Complaint against him, in order to prevent serious injury being inficted upon another player.

     

     

    If you, again, allow him to continue, without appropriate censure, what kind of message does this send out about Scottish football?

     

     

    As before, I should be very grateful if you would please acknowledge receipt of this e-mail, in order to remove any suspicion that complaints of this type are not being forwarded to you, by whoever receives them within your organisation.

     

     

    Yours sincerely,

     

     

    North Cyprus (formerly Baku) Bhoy

  25. North Cyprus (formerly Baku) Bhoy on

    Elbows committed at least one other yellow card offence, after the one for which he was cautioned.

     

     

    So far as I know, there’s nothing to stop the SFA’s Compliance Officer from issuing him a second yellow, for the later offence, thereby adding up to a retrospective red card, and ban.

  26. Vmhan - YNWA Wee Oscar on

    001 bhoy….

     

     

    06:15 on 10 February, 2015

     

    ………….

     

    In work and reading back, that’s brilliant you won’t forget that game ✊

     

    Ryan’s in NZ, not sure if you know that? They’re both having a ball.

     

    Work stuff calls.

     

    Hx2

  27. Marrakesh Express on

    Just had a look at Jackson’s piece in the banned rag. There are no words to explain this trumpet. Brass neck doesn’t cover it. Now going out his way to blame his newspaper for the CW Billionaire fairy tale to the gullible hun suckers . He wrote it, not as a one-off but over a period of weeks, just to get the hun salivating and Whyte in the door, and probably at the behest of Master Murray.

     

    Jackson’s a classic example of modern day gutter journalism. Then again, his name and newspaper will appear on the credits list, as having played a role in the destruction of Rangers.

  30. 67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar / Neil Lennon.. Ipox belongs to the creditors on

    a ceiler gonof rust

     

     

    00:45 on 10 February, 2015

     

    67 Heaven aye I know what you mean. I thought that was the new Celtic Choir we were promised and I had hoped they would all be situated in or around about area 402, row B seat 26. Alas, it was not to be. I got the general abusive, hate the team, negative prikks I tried to move away from last season, bahhhh!!!

     

     

    Next season bud, it will be you and me in amongst the sexy sweaty trombone licking Celtic Choir………This time next season we’ll be smiling even more and we wont give the millionaires a second look…………………………………………………………..:_)

     

     

    >>>>>>>>

     

     

    We can only ‘live in hope and pray, that derhun will go away’….!!!!

  31. Taurangabhoy on

    Vmhan if yer lad is heading down Tauranga way he has somewhere to stay if he wants. My two older girls off to uni so plenty of room and always a beer in the fridge. BMCUWP or Estadio have my email.

  32. South Of Tunis on

    Lovely sunny day way down south.

     

     

    Inter ?

     

     

    Big cheese suit states that a failure to qualify for the Champions League will necessitate the sale of players..

     

     

    Media assuming the relevant players are Icardi ( Atletico Madrid ) and Kovacic ( Bayern / Barca / Real Madrid / PSG / Chelsea / The Manchester 2 ).

     

     

    Much of the credit for last Sunday’ s improvement is being given to new signing Brozovic – He is not registered to play in the Europa League.

  33. murdochbhoy on

    Good morning CQNers,

     

     

    Quite clearly the root cause of most of the ills that afflict Scottish football can be traced to the SFA, an organisation that no one is willing or able to actually do anything about, so I can’t get too agitated about them and McCullough.

     

     

    On a tangent…..

     

     

    While France, Belgium, Spain, the US and Argentina have launched legal proceedings against HSBC and its high net worth clients, the UK’s tax authority has in five years used the data to bring only one prosecution.

     

     

    What do we do in this country? We make the guy in charge a lord and appoint him a Tory government minister.

     

     

    Don’t you just love Margaret Hodge, she done more single-handedly to hold this inept government to account than the entire opposition.

     

     

    “You are left wondering, as you see the enormity of what has been going on, what it actually takes to bring a tax cheat to court,”

     

    “If it had been a benefit cheat it would have been up for court years ago. Now we have had only one tax cheat taken before the British courts.”

  34. kdc - Tully's corner on

    pedrocaravanachio67

     

     

    14:05 on 9 February, 2015

     

    We play D.U. Three times in the space of 2 weeks.

     

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    And 6 times this season, zzzzzzz

     

     

    So, I say again,

     

     

    We MUST HAVE a 20 team top league in scotland. Below that a 12 team championship and a 10 team third division. ( I’d take a 20 team second tier) We need a true pyramid set up for non league to enter the bottom level to bring in new blood and ambition and weak clubs to drop out till they’re stronger.

     

     

    There is little separating inverness ross county st johnstone patrick hamilton killie from raith ayr hearts falkirk hibs qos morton livingston dunfermline in terms of quality or support. Hibs hearts apart in terms of support.

     

     

    It’ll guarantee the tribute act back but let’s be honest thats going to be shoe horned in this year come hell or high water. Mibbery loans and down right cheating all round if needed.

     

     

    The current 4x a season (potentially 6, I wouldnt be surprised to see dUtd 6 times this season ED:PSYCHIC OR WHAT) is killing our game. Killing it as much as the corruption at sfa.

     

     

    Dont even get me started on the embarrasment of the split, its a laughing stock!

     

     

    It would make competition at the top much more likely. Take the dons, closest team to us just now I think we’d agree. They would only be in direct competition with us for 6 points a season, not the current 12. And going to aberdeen would be a real occasion. Easter rd, tyncastle, much bigger occasions.

     

     

    Get it done and start fixing our game.

     

     

    Chuck out insolvent clubs and bring in ffp rules. Sack ogilvie reagan and doncaster and appoint a proven franchise marketer from the states to head up sfa and spfl and a president with integrity, someone with a mandate to clean the place up and deliver transparency

  37. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    There’s an offer for tickets and hospitality for the Thistle game through Itison………..£49 includes a ticket meal etc.

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