Consider this: with Celtic certainties to win the league, they have now been given three consecutive home Scottish Cup games, against Brechin, Partick and Morton, on the road to perhaps becoming the first club to retain the treble in Scottish football history. For so many years home cup draws were as elusive as the outcome to SFA review results into Rangers Uefa licence in 2011, but here we are.
The big picture from the weekend: Despite things still being far from flowing on the park, I’m delighted with the win over Partick Thistle. Of the two cup games this week, the Thistle game was the most important. An aggregate win over Zenit would flood more euros into the Celtic Park coffers, but progress of (perhaps only) one more round in the Europa League will be forgotten long before the outcome of this season’s Scottish Cup.
In his first five seasons in charge, Jock Stein won five league titles and five League Cups, losing three Scottish Cup games during that period. This is the standard we now dare aspire to.
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64 FFS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdGMkYFTTrg
No arguments here
TET,
both versions in my eyes are excellent,
CRC.. no, I don’t think it was a good week, so I was hoping you wouldn’t notice …
I’ll go do it now
:(
GB64
They are, it’s the song that counts, forget the singer :-)
HH
Yer still wrong btw :-)
HH
TET,
You caught me with your first one….me opening it and thinking … eh?
Fraid I can’t join in the night. A eifr watching pishh on the telly my only excuse to this point.
Spent the weekend on Luke Kelly and various versions of 1798 songs though.
One Dubliners early recording intro really intrigued me….I’ll look back and post if Ifind it.
Cheers,
Al
TET,
no its the mandolin or whatever strings they use that sways it for me,
that and the announcement when he becomes MP,
gives me goosebumps every time
Not many folks have heard this version of Kevin Barry, Leonard Cohen at his best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4INuSYr28
tontine tim
watched both shows.
For a wean, this is goosebumps for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmx–WjeN7o
This is the intro I’d never heard before.
Probably old hat to the guys here, but anyway…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MF04VsJTJAk
AM
Please do, am finding life harder that it should be just now, so a wee indulgance in music takes away the strain.
HH
Sleep well Timland
HH and KTF
SFTB@ 11:52
another laugh out loud post. Thanks!
And some great music tonight.
Evenin/Mornin Ghuys… can I ask a question, (by all means shoot me doon If i’m simply stupid).. With all the induction and shuffling of the brothers at the sfa (112 hampden ludge) right now.. where was the current president alan mcrea, who was also president of cove rangers, (takin over I think from campbell ogilvie) in 2012, when there was a vacancy in the scottish league 2.. when cove rangers (nickname ‘the wee rangers’) are now pushin very very hard to enter the league this time, through the play offs.? I seem to remember 2006 (I think) when Gretna went bust and there was a scramble to take there place.
Will be grateful for any feedback.
Cheers and HH.
TET .. … for whatever it is worth, I have always thought that you seemed like one of CQN’s really good lads, so I hope things pick up a bit for you.
HH
TET,
I’ve just joined the few, (thanks to you), who now know that Leonard Cohen sang Kevin Barry.
1972.
THIS is like CQN of old.
Everytime I log in…I learn something.
And take away with me.
You know the mileage I’m gonna get out of this one?
Raymacs dog.
A triumph for the gael.
Keep it lit.
Evening/morning all. Not been on for a wee while. That`s me just home from the pub. Hope everyone is keeping well. A wee question for you. Does the word “publicly” still exist ? All I see these days is “publically”. WTactualF is going on here?
AndyR53, can’t remember the circumstances of 2006 that you speak off. But I remember when Rangers went bust in 2012 and were ‘only’ allowed to begin playing professional football at the bottom tier of the SFL. They done a place out for the club who were due to get promoted from the Lowland/Highland ? league. Can’t remember which club it was. But similar to Cove Rangers I guess.
There was no uproar on behalf of the small club. Such was the desperation to get ‘them’ operating in some capacity. But if I remember correctly there was not much challenge from the wee club themselves. Think they found it too much of a financial and operational burden. Then again, maybe they got a sweetener?
JTT
Spartans?
I should have inserted ‘the new club’ were only allowed to begin……
Yes, I think it was Spartans, thanks.
JIMTHETIM53..
Yea, thats what I’m trying to sort in my head, was there any protest or challenge to sevco being placed in league 2.
Just seems that cove ‘the wee rangers’ are mounting a very serious effort this year to gain promotion… new stadium, all planned out who they will meet in the play offs before meeting Cowdenbeath. Anthin to do with alan mcrea??
ABURNTOUTCASE,
It’s no one I’d a picked up on…..but with you all the way.
Andy,
The leagues below level four are classed as “non-league football”, meaning they are outside the Scottish Professional Football League and are played on a regional not a national basis. The Lowland League is parallel to the Highland League. These divisions created level five on the pyramid and from season 2014–15 the two league winners have played off against each other, with the winner then playing the team finishing 10th in League Two in a promotion and relegation playoff. Below the Lowland League is the East of Scotland Football League (13 clubs, which includes a reserve team, in a now-merged single league structure) and the South of Scotland Football League (15 clubs in a single division) – with promotion and relegation into the Lowland League.
Andy, does this help?
I seem to be hindered from posting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qKh06B_1I
Keep it lit.
HH
DIXIEDEANS,
To tell yoy what we’re up against, this is the 4rh tine I’ve typed a reply to say that your post cheered me up. Now got the heater on in the garden shed and posting thro Bt 4g to let you know I enjoyed your post.
They will never beat me.
Effin laptop…HP, BOUGHT 2013??.
Apart from couple of wee posts…all the rest from my effin phone tonight….as always. Which I hate.
Never liked that laptop…..
Well, 8 pages, that means phone on its side to change pages now.
I said yesterday it was “ mildly irritating “
I’m elevating the status today to “ somewhat annoying”
JIMTHETIM53…
Yea, the years you mention, 2014 – 2015 when the play offs were introduced have filled the blanks for me. My paranoia, ( and life experiences) suggested something rotten surrounding the president of the sfa and cove (the wee rangers) being one and the same, hence no challenge in 2012.
Cheers and HH.
ABURNTOUTCASE 1243
https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/publicly-and-publically/
TWISTSNTURNS
I’m predicting that tomorrow it will be a severe pain in the arse,DEFCON 5.
Enron-style double-shuffle accounting?
https://philmacgiollabhain.ie/2018/02/12/terms-and-conditions-really-will-apply/
Good morning, friends from a drizzly but very windy East Kilbride. Tie down your wheelie bins.
Oh and what’s happened to Ianbhoy from Devon?
TWISTSNTURNS
I’m predicting that tomorrow it will be a severe pain in the arse,DEFCON 5.
Bobby
I’ll be upgrading the irritant level to
“ pure ragin’ man”