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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Not good enough-
Ambrose
Mulgrew
Derk
Forrest
Scepovic (tho I’d give him wee bit longer)
Stokes
Whilst not a first team regular Boerrigter could be the biggest imposter since….
Thanks, everyone for the updates on the Raspberry Pi.
I work, myself in IT as well, on the Oracle database side but I have done a little bit of Python myself.
The CodeAcademy site is good for learning it along with HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.
We’ll maybe hook it up this weekend and have a go.
I think the Hibees will be getting into their annual Scottish Cup lather but this time perhaps with reason.
Should we not get through at Tannadice (gloom) I think maybe just maybe 2015 will be the year! I wonder though, promotion or the cup…which?
With Allan Stubbs there, well, its no loss what a friend gets.
HH
Well I can give you several good reasons why there won’t be a 16 team premier league at the end of this season…
1. 30 SPFL league games are not enough – too big an income drop
2. Every Championship team should know what they are playing for when the season starts – not find out what they achieved after it has ended.
3. Top Championship Teams are looking forward to additional income from lucrative play off games.
Points above are seriously made – and thats before we even consider what will happen regarding “Arab Spring Version 2” if supporters of all SPFL clubs think they are being stitched up to only benefit Sevco.
I think it isn’t going to happen…
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. The Vow – Critically Rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
16:30 on
9 February, 2015
Yep. I’ve revitalised several old laptops that can’t run recent versions of Windows with lightweight versions of Linux.
Anytime I hear of somebody saying they’re going to throw out a computer I’m like ‘gies it’.
And there I was thinking Izzy has been one of our best players this season.
I know nothing.
ManuelCSC
Rock Tree Bhoy
I did say ` regular first team players ` 0:-)
Those who have made suggestions support my own view. We have quite a decent group of players here and if Ronny is as good as I believe he is, we could become a bit special. Our biggest problem is holding on to the van Djiks of this world. Not easy to do in Scotland.
JJ
JJ
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked
16:14 on
9 February, 2015
We dont know because we dont have any.
Currently we barely have a player the fans have a song about.
Eyes wide,
There’s nae ‘i’ in ‘team’.
Anyone on CQN had a gaz conversion fitted to their jam-jar?
sorry if ive broke the blog-)))
Eyes Wide Open
“We dont know because we don`t have any.”
Hmmm…. Well, what difference would you LIKE the blue chipper to make to Celtic?
JJ
Bhoys targeting derby victory http://www.celticfc.net/news/7627
CELTIC’S Development Side will be aiming to build on last week’s win over Dunfermline and close the gap on league leaders Hamilton tonight when they face Partick Thistle.
The young Hoops sunk the Pars last week 3-0 at Airdrie’s Excelsior Stadium and they’ll be targeting another victory against their Glasgow rivals at the same venue.
Stevie Frail’s side occupy fourth spot in the table, trailing current pacesetters Accies by 18 points, having played five games fewer.
However, defender Eoghan O’Connell and the rest of the Bhoys are confident of closing the gap and winning a sixth successive title.
“We are a few points behind in the league but we have games in hand, so hopefully we can claw that back and win as many games as we can,” he told the official website.
“Being at Celtic you have to be confident as going into every game you want to win and we know we can do it. We have been on a decent run lately and if we can keep that going we should be alright.”
Celtic will have the same problems as the likes of Dortmund, Ajax etc.
You are constantly in transition because of the economics of football. You build a solid team and it won’t be long til they are headed to England. You sell your transfer hits and are struggling to offload your misses.
Sooner or later you are developing young talent for the european elite just so you can get decent players (Denayer etc)
Dortmund sold Sahin 2010/11, then Kagawa 2011/12, then Gotze 2012/13 , then Lewandowski 2013/14 and it will be Reus 2015/16. The constant reshuffling has had an effect.
I like Izzy
he has the best side shed in world football.
If he didn’t get injured when he did he would have been sold-probably to England, and instead of watching him motor down the wing we’d be polishing his memory.
When you watch a Celtic player you have to love their flaws, because without flaws they’d be playin’ for Bayern.
Geordi…..and there`s no point in a circle…..nor in running round in them…..which I`ve got a feeling I am going to be doing with EWO if I am not careful!!
The majority of players on the rubbidge list have songs in their honor.
eyes wide open
14:32 on 9 February, 2015
I don’t think being one of the most financially secure clubs is something to be shouting from the rafters when we are playing in front of half empty stadiums to be honest.
If anything, it probably re-affirms some of the decision making paths the half sitting at home have taken in the belief our club has been on a spiral of downsizing for years now.
I believe the product on the pitch is better than it was last season and has been but in contrast to most Celtic teams throughout our illustrious history – it is still very poor by comparison.
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Your eyes may be wide open, but can confirm where they are located ….? .. :)
JJ,
He’ll not catch you if you are on your game or your bike though :)
HH
For the avoidance of doubt, I kinda like Izzy…. Think we all do.
I just think his defensive frailties are easily exposed at a higher level…
What is the Dirk Boerigter song?
67Heaven
Was it with you I had the £10 charity bet re Kris Commons staying with us?
JJ
Of the non regulars, the squad fillers Boerrigter, Tonev, Wakaso, Scepovic are all not good enough
starry plough
14:07 on 9 February, 2015
You have to beat the best to secure a Cup, a sell out at Tannadice should be a great occasion in the season, two football teams vying for a place in the semis..cracking draw..
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It’s awe they could afford …!!!!
DBBIA
“What is the Dirk Boerigter song?”
Call your self a supporter? Shame on you .
Forget that last post….I will try again the paste the podt I am responding to …. Hahaha
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
Dirk Boerigter
Is a wee flower, too.
Someone said that only one of Ronnys signings faced sevco,add S.Armstrong & GMS
and i think we are in for an exciting few years(hopefully), as the Gaffer & his backroom bhoys build a team.
I think there is a real possibility of us truly building one that will stay together for a few years, of course we will lose those that want to move on but I see the start of young home talent who just love it here starting to show,
The rollercoaster that is Celtic is up and running :)))
Gary67
Do you think we’ve seen enough of Tonev, Wakaso and Scepovic to judge, a wee run of games did Nir Biton the world of good, I’m tired of us bringing players in and we never see them really.
Tonev in particular look liked a pretty intelligent player to me..
Wakaso is a centre mid we played him out on the wing?
Dirk well he wears white sox:)))
Ants CSC
so 2 out of last 18 cup draws at home … what are the odds ? ( no really does anyone know , what are the odds ?)
talking of all things luck related… imagine how much worse things could have been at Irebox yesterday had Kenny McDowall NOT been wearing his lucky hat ?
starry plough
16:59 on
9 February, 2015
Seen enough of Tonev. Wakaso isn’t a winger and whilst he is probably a decent central midfielder we have them In abundance who are better than him. Scepovic is another from the Celtic scouting team’s striker production line.
hot smoked
16:53 on 9 February, 2015
Can’t recall, but I did feel he would go with Neil …… I’ll donate £10 extra anyway to Mary’s Meals at CQN11, just in case …. :)
Gary67,
I’m with starry.
I think we haven’t seen enough of these guys now the team is a little more settled.
Maybe they aren’t good enough but weren’t you all for throwing Biton under a bus a few months back?
*I’d like to see more now that the team is a little more settled.
Can’t find that post, but someone said BBC were showing a sevco game at some point, and my comment was…. “It’s awe they could afford …!!!!” ……..I’ll get my coat
Gary67
If we haven’t seen Wakaso play centre mid for Celtic how do we know??
I think Ronny will keep Scepovic and me personally I would give Tonev a chance, think there’s a player there.
In Ronny we trust.
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