Last month we heard from one of our community, RalphWaldoEllison (John), whose adult son, Tony Conway, has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the same strain of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) that claimed Jimmy Johnstone almost six years ago.
Tony, John and their families now live in the United States, but they, along with Tony’s brother Martin, are travelling to Scotland this weekend to watch Celtic play Dundee United. They will be here for a total of around 48 hours but I will get a chance to meet them and they are going to the game with Jinky’s son, James Johnstone.
I spoke to James last month and he relayed Jinky’s strong views on research into MND. The fight against this disease will be won one day but there is a great deal of research and political effort required before then. Tony has committed himself to this end.
This morning James Johnstone told me: “My Dad was my hero and I took great pride in the way he fought this horrible disease, it’s great to see the same attitude in Tony. I know how much my Dad loved the Celtic fans and his answer to this would be to help get a cure for MND. Hail, hail.”
I encourage you to visit Tony’s blog dontshrink.com, learn about the condition and leave him a message of support. The Celtic Movement began by putting food in front of hungry children 124 years ago and it remains one of the most able forces for good in the land. We can pick up this challenge.
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Barcabhoy great post at 4:30
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Splash out on a Striker..Hmmm
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If ever a Premier League manager needed a warning on the pitfalls of splashing the cash in the January transfer window, they need look no further back than a year ago.
Last season, a record £225m was spent overall with Fernando Torres’s £50m move from Liverpool to Chelsea helping fund the Reds’ purchases of £35m Andy Carroll and £22.7m Luis Suarez.
The Uruguayan striker has easily been the most successful buy from that trio, his eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra apart, and the three goals scored by Torres and Carroll combined summed up the rest of their seasons at their new employers.
In fact, if you add in Chelsea’s £21.3m capture of David Luiz, the two clubs forked out a combined £129m last January yet moved up three Premier League places between them.
Summa
Michael Collins says:
12 January, 2012 at 04:27
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Agreed, being 2 points ahead of that crap should not mask the fact that we need one seasoned striker……. I’m sick of saying it but lack of goals could cost us the league, get a striker in NOW please, the waiting game is an excuse for “we tried”.
Make the signing nowCSC
Vinny
Off To work …… Toodaloo the noooo.
Vinny
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Note to Punters..
I’m Still Off the Punt..But watch the Markets..
Andy Murray was 7s-8s a Couple of Weeks Ago for the Australian Open..He is Now 9/2 with PP..
He Won the Recent Brisbane International Well and is Now Coached by Ivan Lendl..I Believe this is His Best Chance Ever of a Big one..Loves Playing in Melbourne and Understands the Heat Now..if we Get it..
Just a Thought Bhoys..
Summa
Maccargo @ 05.38
Hahaha – stupid skint Huns. I wonder if the hordes still think Whyte is their saviour.
Season ticket money up front please! All aboard!
Celtic will not be signing any players this window, unless a good loan acquisition is offered to the club between now and the end of the month.
Other than that slight possibility, we can start referring to this as the “Lustig window”.
Hail Hail.
Morninng,
Every day I log in hoping to see we’ve signed Diawara.
I just don’t buy the financial prudence argument in this case. The value of our squad has surely risen by over £5 since the start of the season. Adam Matthews alone would rate at at least £4m surely. I would hope we don’t sell any of our regular starters this window, but my point is the value of our assets has increased, so spending £5 million now would not do us financial harm.
And of course getting the striker that Lenny wants would vastly increase our chances of winning the league and securing further income.
In the longer term we are going to have to get used to selling the occassional star to make the financial model work, but I’d like to think that we can build this team and only sell for decent money and when it suits us.
Tom,
Your opinion or something you have heard??
Cheers
Mac
Good morning all from a colder and blustery East Kilbride.
Jobo
Tom
That would be madness as we only need 2x 500k players as back up… Or even 2 loans.
From today’s Daily Mail
The man is an utter scumbag. But we already knew that. A typical hun.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2085466/Jeff-Winter-blog-carries-verbal-attack-Catholic-church.html
SPF
Any news on the striker yet??
Agree with Michael collins and vmhan
A striker is a must. Not a luxury
Window nearly half gone
Must go before the ” do nothing and hope for the best brigade” abuse me
ST
BRTH with respect to yir good self I think this wonderful, heartfelt post deserves another wee push………. can someone re-post when the next blog goes up!
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Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 says:
11 January, 2012 at 08:29
Good Morning,
From a clear new day in central Scotland.
You know, I am really a pretty stupid man! Well maybe stupid is not exactly the right word– dumb might be appropriate — or blind– or daft or whatever.
Last night, I made one of my usual nonsensical posts and started it with a question– what would your dream job be?
Later, I got the chance to read back and as sometimes happens CQN ( or really my fellow Celtic fans on CQN )give you a right good and well deserved kick up the backside. In short, I was reminded that I already have the “Dream” job– and so do many of you!
The Job Title?
Being dad! or mum! It doesn’t matter either way!
The news from Knoxy about Oscar’s progress just blows all the other mince about things down Govan way and all that stuff out of the water.
This morning, I have woken up to a text that has asked me to do something for someone I have never met, but the text was specifically sent to me because the sender knows that I post reasonably regularly on this site.
It was also sent in the full knowledge of the reach of this site and the nature of those who read the posts.
Below, I attach a link to a just giving site. It is for a site related to a wee girl called Vanessa.
http://www.justgiving.com/vanessa-appeal
Vanessa, has undergone a long course of Chemotherapy and other treatment in relation to a rare cancerous condition. It had been thought that this was successful.
Alas you will see from the site that December brought a relapse and now all hope rests with pioneering treatment that can only be concluded in the USA. Whilst there may be some help with this, in the main the necessary money will have to be privately raised. In part the sums raised will be used for Vanessa’a treatment, but part will also be used to hopefully further the research which will help make this condition a thing of the past and alleviate the suffering of other children and their families.
So this is an appeal for your money. I realise that money is not easily come by, but even as little as a pound can make all the difference. This site apparently gets something like 640,000 unique hits. £1 from each would more than achieve the target.
In the space of a few hours last night over £10,000 was raised. But time as much as money is of the essence here so if anyone can do anything at all it will be greatly appreciated.
As I say, I have been asked to write this precisely because someone knows I post on CQN, and it is recognised that it is precisely this type of thing that the Celtic family are good at and have at their core.
I appreciate that there are many other causes to fund and be considered and I respect that totally.
However if you can give something it may mean the difference between a wee girl living and not.
Christy Moore sings a line that is stuck in my head:
” When you look into a Child’s face, you are seeing all the human race
Of all the possibilities there, of what a child can do………”
If you can give that would be great, if not thankyou for taking the time and trouble to read this.
Remember too to give blood for Oscar and, that for the rest of us, each and every day presents just another opportunity.
I will send this out by twitter as well and if you have a twitter account then please retweet.
Many many thanks for your time and all the best in Celtic.
Brogan
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Vinny
HH
ST….. go on tell us yir just away doon the beach….. ya …….. :¬)
When was the last Celtic V rankers game last season ? anybody remember? it would be end of Aril or beginning of May 2011.
Vinny
Vhman. No it’s too late. Have next week off and driving up the coast with the family
It will take about 3 hrs. When I stayed in Glasgow it would take about 3 hrs flying somewhere. Plus check in. Customs bus trip at other to get somewhere nice and warm
:))))
Morning,all.
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VHman..
Nearly Always Beginning of May..
Summa
OOOOOOPS! Good start…..
Anyway,just been reading back,and good to see the utterly loathsome Jeff Winters being rag-dolled.
Stangely enough,this very suggestion of the site being hacked first came up on RANGERSMEDIA about a fortnight ago.
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http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=207932
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Sorry if this has ruined any breakfasts!
Celtic Legends vs Manchester United Legends Full game.
ST it will be nice and warm in amongst the Green Brigade on Saturday :¬)
Vinny
Seems we are heating battered by a storm here in Yeadon.
Scott Brown, The Captain of the Celtic.
SoS ta….. but does anybody ken the exact date?
V
I know it isn’t Friday night music chat yet but just read a review of Gil Scott Heron autobiography(posthumous) and it sounds good.
PS Milk Cup Footie is rubbidge , bring on the Skol Cup semi
PPS skol Cup Final was a euphemism for a very dodgy video tape back in the late 80s.
Hail hail
Vmhan Supporting Lenny! says:
12 January, 2012 at 07:30
http://www.justgiving.com/vanessa-appeal
donated by text this am and re posted link to facebook
GoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD
Morning………………………………………………………………………..
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A wee bit overcast in the Costa…………………………………….
Have the huns gone bust YET…………………………………..
BigJoethinksITSnotLongNOW
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VHman..
Sun 24th April 2011
Summa
macargo
President Alexandre Lacombe admitted he was surprised by the snub and said: “It was Rangers who contacted us about making a final offer for Edu.”
I’ll bet it was
Summa of Sammi…. says:
12 January, 2012 at 05:49
Hooper hit a hatrick in the home game v Sion; Stokes likewise in the return ;-)
Good morning Bhoys
Now some say his hair only grows on a Tuesday and that the big toe on his left foot is precision crafted out of aluminum.
bhoys I give you VW
Apologies if this is just repeating what other have said….
Leading on from the debate following SSB last night I, like many others, am not convinced that the MSM are avoiding comment on Rangers’ tax woes due to legal obligations, nor do I believe that they do it just to avoid upsetting their Rangers supporting audience. I believe that the principal reason that the MSM “slopey-shoulders” the issue is that their arrogance prevents them from acknowledging those in the know about the situation within the New Media community. Rather than admit that the internet is where this story has be fully exposed and analysed, they avoid touching the issue in any great depth. This is purely an act of defiance by the MSM who refuse to accept that the printed press is a twitching corpse and in the coming years will (rightly or wrongly) be consigned to museums. For them, admitting to following RTC, Phil Mac or Paul McConville on the internet weakens their position as self-proclaimed football experts and blows any notion of the press having inside knowledge on football out of the water. Over the last couple of years, as more stories in Scottish football have been broken on the internet, it has become apparent that the MSM “sit” on more major stories than they break (here I accept that these cases usually favour(ed) Rangers/Murray), so their inside knowledge isn’t exactly worth very much to the rest of us. Who are they to decide what the public should hear? This is the major positive of new media; if the story is there it is broken, indiscriminately I would add. Keevins and the MSM are clawing to hang on to their profession in its current form. They are slow to change, they may not change before it is too late, but their refusal to acknowledge the truth, new media and amateur [sic] opinion is driven by defiance. The law? That is a mere excuse for not having the foggiest, Mr Keevins.
Michael Collins (and ST)
“I am also unsurprised to see the usual Lawell fan boys defending the do nothing and hope policy that has failed so badly in recent years. ”
If that was directed at the likes of me for challenging the prevailing view of Steven Fletcher as Saviour of the Year 2009, then it is water of a duck’s back.
But, again to clarify for those with reading difficulties, I am not an advocate of any sort of “do nothing” policy. I advocate that we do GOOD things, that we buy and DEVELOP good players. I merely oppose the view that spending BIG is the only PROOF that you are doing things right.
If spending moderately big and doing good combine in the action of signing a Diawara or Rhodes, that is a good thing. If we spend £600k and fluke discover another Larsson, that would be another good thing but I doubt the “flash the cash” brigade would agree.
We reached a real nadir in terms of failure to learn when Lustig was described as a Bosman we do not need. I would have thought that we might have learned a lesson from labeling Ledley, Matthews, Forrest & Izzaguire as projects and Bosmans but apparently not.
Work calls.
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DirtyMac..
Ye Had me for a Minute there..:O(
Summa
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Tumbleweed blows across the blog…………………….
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Have the huns gone burst yet…………………
BigJoecantWAIT
The sex of a fly
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Swatting flies”, he responded.
“Oh. Killing any?” she asked.
“Yep, 3 males and 2 females,” he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell?”
“Well three were on a beer can and the other two were on the phone”
Is this the quietest ever Janela de Janeiro on CQN?
Being top of the league against a huns team ready to go pop must be bad for internet traffic.
Could be that Jack Irvine’s Goons are deployed elsewhere, keeping the truth away from herr bears on FF instead of winding us up on this blog. When was the last time a troll posted on here?