This season, Gary Hooper has looked well below form of last term; his touch, movement and goals record don’t match up, but he came off the bench on Thursday to score a truly excellent goal. Controlling a difficult ball in the centre circle, with defenders in close attendance, he picked out Giorgios Samaras before sprinting past his markers and finishing.
The winner against Motherwell was less spectacular but required sharp movement and spatial awareness.
Footballers cannot always play through bad form, sometimes they need a break, even for an hour on the bench, to get a different perspective on how they and the team play.
Despite his return to form I would retain the same 4-2-3-1 formation against Inverness next time out.
Issue 4 of CQN Magazine is out next week, let me know if you would like to advertise, celticquicknews@gmail.com.
1,040 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- »
now bhoys
lets keep it within the rules…
just because you don’t agree don’t go there..
Hen1rik
Phil apologised on his blog for getting a story wrong.
Said his normally impeccable source at the huns had let him down.
it happens.
If Phil was sold a pup or given good info,the response on here has been unanimous.All good IMO,the heirarchys’ response a wee bit strange but they need a fire lit under them.
BRTH,
If I read your ‘essay’ correctly , the Rankers are stuffed if they do and stuffed if they don’t ?
Either they hold their hands up to SPL and admit there were payments made to players that were not in contracts, or , they hold their hands up to HMRC and admit that the payments into trusts were part of the players contracts. ?
Celt for life “Now is not the time to be standing outside our tent pissing in”……SPOT ON.. our Board know the score…….they have experienced what we have experienced….and they know our history…….if the current buns go out of business, or drop to league 45 (LOL)….Parkhead will be full for generations, and other teams in the SPL will also be able to play on a ‘level playing field’ …..I will love my football, knowing that attending matches will be to watch the teams, not the officials…….!!!!
Hen1rik
Should have said he apologised a week or so ago.
celtic40me says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:13
That’s your opinion but i would rather believe phil than any of the celtic board if that is your source…
Phil has always been spot on and anyone who says he has been wrong is lying, without this guy were would we be ie dallas huns tax problems and many more but hey we all have an opinion..
timbhoy2
In amongst your normal stupidity didn’t you post last week that Neil Lennon would be gone by now and his position would be taken by a current member of staff at Celtic?
Well you did post such stupidity but doubtless you’ll baffle us all and come up with further nonsense to back up your plainly daft claims.
Bundoran Bhoy. How’s the craic ?
BRTH
“Does anyone really think that all of this ends with an insolvency event and a wee ten point deduction?”
Amendment.
Does anyone really think that all of this should end with an insolvency event and a wee ten point deduction?
The answer is a resounding “No”.
Unfortunately, there are instances of an Establishment or a ruling class getting a way with all sorts simply because it is an Establishment or a ruling class.
On the other hand, there was The French Revolution.
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Doing good mate, how’s you?
You get my e-mail bout not making Friday?
I used hundreds of brownie points going to hamiltontim’s bash but it was well woryh it, you going out on 2nd December?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
hen1rik
Are you calling me a liar?
Ootside!
apachecelt says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
Alright mate, things are good. Hows things in old london?
HH
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:23
Yeah got email, was gonna head out on Friday for a few hours. Doubt ill make the 2nd December tho. Whos all going Friday and the 2nd?
HH
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
Hen1rik
Phil apologised on his blog for getting a story wrong.
Said his normally impeccable source at the huns had let him down.
it happens.
I disagree on that m8 because phil said the 28/29th for huns will be a historic day but what can he do when Mr Whyte spoke to a company called close something and they funded this so that is something phil had no control over or his sources…
Lennybhoy
As you’re about. Did you have a chat with the original Holy Ghoalie?
Philbhoy
I don’t think he apologised for anything, I would retrieve the artical but my computer is as slow as anything, but he reinforced that he was corect in his assertions.
Somebody will bring it up.
Estadio says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
quite apart from my point about what phil might do with what he hears at board meetings is what function would a fan on the board serve? a grown up plc which is what we have to aspire to has directors who bring something to the business, expertise that adds to the company. a smooth running board is an absolute must for a company like celtic. what would a fan on the board bring to the table – if its just to find out what the fans want and what the mood of the support is theres no need for a seat on the board.
eyes wide shut, hen1rik his post at 22:13 makes it obvious what his agenda is
timbhoy2@22.16
My Dad grew up in Bridgeton,played for the Sacred Heart and then Clyde ( broke his arm playing against Celtic ).He married and settled in the Gorbals where I was born.He had 3 sons and a grandson all of whom made a promise at his funeral that we would carry on the Celtic Story.
Others have commented that money men do not recognise what we are talking about and that we are merely customers.Well I beg to differ.I am the Chairman of 2 companies and a non executive director of 2 others and whilst I recognise the financial arguments I would remind everyone of the critque of Thatcher as someone who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I vote we press the delete button on Rangers-they would never have given it a moments thought if the boot was on the other foot.They are a cancer.
I Just remembered an incident that happened to when i was about 16 yrs of age ,working in hollins mill in boden street .there was this foreman in there his name was lees. i knew he didnt like me .well anyway what happened to me in there was 4 of us playing cards down in the basement ,well the next thing this lees appears ,marches all of us up to the office, guess who was the one that got sacked ,yes me the other 3 nothing happened to them. that lees well i know now he was out to get me just because i didnt kick with the right foot .just a bad man i never forgot that .and that was around about 1959.not one of them stood up for me ,i carried the can for them.
Bada Bing
If by unanimous you mean that ‘it would be the final straw and we would all walk away’, well I agree it is a huge majority along the lines of a Board/AGM proportion. But it is not unanimous.
Me, Hamiltontim, and philbhoy said that we would still go to watch the team. Large oaks etc…
hail Hail
Estadio
Sorry now realised that the spelling on that last post wasn’t checked! Incestigative? Freudian slip perhaps.
Can I also add something else. Most teams have finance arrangements with banks. If the SFA/SPL change, bend or manipulate their rules so that there is no apparent footballing penalty for shafting your creditors– how do you think the banks will react when the yearly review of facilities comes up?
It could very well be that by agreeing any wee ten pointer and not ensuring strict compliance with fiscal rules, The SFA/SPL may well succeed in having each and every overdraft to a football club called in immediately and so completely knacker what is left of Scottish Football.
Anyone think that banks welcome less stringent regulation that enables them to be shafted?
Time on the bench gave Hooper space
2
share11 This season, Gary Hooper has looked well below form of last term; his touch, movement and goals record don’t match up, but he came off the bench on Thursday to score a truly excellent goal. Controlling a difficult ball in the centre circle, with defenders in close attendance, he picked out Giorgios Samaras before sprinting past his markers and finishing.
The winner against Motherwell was less spectacular but required sharp movement and spatial awareness.
Footballers cannot always play through bad form, sometimes they need a break, even for an hour on the bench, to get a different perspective on how they and the team play.
Despite his return to form I would retain the same 4-2-3-1 formation against Inverness next time out.
Issue 4 of CQN Magazine is out next week, let me know if you would like to advertise, celticquicknews@gmail.com.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
«1…910111213141516
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:11
Quiet day on the blog.
God bless Celtic and all who support her.
Or all who continue to support her.
Night bhoys.
share
celtic40me says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:13
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:08
today was the biggest story about celtic he’s ever posted and it was wrong. not just wrong but so ridiculous and so poorly informed that its difficult to take what he says now seriously.
share
clunks says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:14
Ifs……….buts……..maybes…………..I heard this………….I heard that………………precedant this…………..sfa rules this…………….fifa fair play rules that……………..financial doping rules this…………….my club might think this……………..my opinion is that.
There is a long way for this to travel yet. There sure are a lot of destinations they could travel to yet.
The worst part is not knowing. When you wake up in a pitch black room and can’t see anything the mind can play tricks on us and we see a face or a human shape.
Let’s wait a little get the facts and then act. If we act on every bit of tittle tattle we fragment our our force. We lose momentum, we fight among ourselves.
Divide and conquer.
The closer we get to the end of snake mountain (whatever form that may take) the more they will spread rumours and heresay. Smoke and mirrors, call it what you will.
Cool our heals, calm the beans; just for a moment longer.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Let’s stand united.
Let’s not fall divided.
share
TopCorner says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:15
2011 movie
on More4 now
The Flaw
global financial documentary type o thing
bunch o bankers
share
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:15
setting free the bears says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:10
Tell me when then please…
share
timbhoy2 says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:16
GARCIA LORCA Were in bridgeton did you come from
share
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Alirght Lennybhoy
share
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Alright lennybhoy
Hows things buddy?
HH
share
SydneyTim says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Eyes Wide Open no problem, i have heard from another of good sources that Peter Lawell puts info out on CQN via Plants for spin, i asked who, and was told it was obvious
Ask mim if he things its right to manupulate the transfer system ?and lie to the fans? and put 5m of the mcgeady money in to paying off the debt, just to ensure his targets are met
He will soon disapear
ST
share
Estadio says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
EWO
I agree but my point is that unless the ‘fan’ has a significant shareholding/represents a significant number of shares, in a plc they will achieve zilch. Their hands and tongue will be tied.
Look at the AGM voting for what will happen and DD isn’t even an attender.
I agree with Celtic40me on this and I am the antithesis of a board lackey.
I more than accept and empathise with your motives and objectives, but change is a slow process and perhaps somewhere in a place not far from here the ingredients are being assembled. If you strain your ears you may hear the approaching rumble of the thunder returning!
Hail hail
Estadio
share
blantyretim says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:18
now bhoys
lets keep it within the rules…
just because you don’t agree don’t go there..
share
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
Hen1rik
Phil apologised on his blog for getting a story wrong.
Said his normally impeccable source at the huns had let him down.
it happens.
share
!!Bada Bing!! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
If Phil was sold a pup or given good info,the response on here has been unanimous.All good IMO,the heirarchys’ response a wee bit strange but they need a fire lit under them.
share
Clashcitybhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
BRTH,
If I read your ‘essay’ correctly , the Rankers are stuffed if they do and stuffed if they don’t ?
Either they hold their hands up to SPL and admit there were payments made to players that were not in contracts, or , they hold their hands up to HMRC and admit that the payments into trusts were part of the players contracts. ?
share
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!! Tick Tock !! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
Celt for life “Now is not the time to be standing outside our tent pissing in”……SPOT ON.. our Board know the score…….they have experienced what we have experienced….and they know our history…….if the current buns go out of business, or drop to league 45 (LOL)….Parkhead will be full for generations, and other teams in the SPL will also be able to play on a ‘level playing field’ …..I will love my football, knowing that attending matches will be to watch the teams, not the officials…….!!!!
share
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:20
Hen1rik
Should have said he apologised a week or so ago.
share
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
celtic40me says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:13
That’s your opinion but i would rather believe phil than any of the celtic board if that is your source…
Phil has always been spot on and anyone who says he has been wrong is lying, without this guy were would we be ie dallas huns tax problems and many more but hey we all have an opinion..
share
ElDiegoBhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
timbhoy2
In amongst your normal stupidity didn’t you post last week that Neil Lennon would be gone by now and his position would be taken by a current member of staff at Celtic?
Well you did post such stupidity but doubtless you’ll baffle us all and come up with further nonsense to back up your plainly daft claims.
share
apachecelt says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
Bundoran Bhoy. How’s the craic ?
share
iki says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:22
BRTH
“Does anyone really think that all of this ends with an insolvency event and a wee ten point deduction?”
Amendment.
Does anyone really think that all of this should end with an insolvency event and a wee ten point deduction?
The answer is a resounding “No”.
Unfortunately, there are instances of an Establishment or a ruling class getting a way with all sorts simply because it is an Establishment or a ruling class.
On the other hand, there was The French Revolution.
share
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:23
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Doing good mate, how’s you?
You get my e-mail bout not making Friday?
I used hundreds of brownie points going to hamiltontim’s bash but it was well woryh it, you going out on 2nd December?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
share
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:23
hen1rik
Are you calling me a liar?
Ootside!
share
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:23
apachecelt says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
Alright mate, things are good. Hows things in old london?
HH
share
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:25
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:23
Yeah got email, was gonna head out on Friday for a few hours. Doubt ill make the 2nd December tho. Whos all going Friday and the 2nd?
HH
share
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:25
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
Hen1rik
Phil apologised on his blog for getting a story wrong.
Said his normally impeccable source at the huns had let him down.
it happens.
I disagree on that m8 because phil said the 28/29th for huns will be a historic day but what can he do when Mr Whyte spoke to a company called close something and they funded this so that is something phil had no control over or his sources…
Is this the story you are talking about or have i got it wrong..
garcia lorca says:
8 November, 2011 at 21:58
Wonderful post.
Like you, through my father and his father before him, we go back to the founding of the club.
Their demise would be more than “payback”.
It would be an act of purification of Scottish society. An act that would hopefully allow that beautiful country to leap forward four centuries, shorn of the festering sore that has plagued it’s history.
I know the problem goes deeper than RFC, but that organisation is the glue that holds their hate together and covers all tiers of Scottish society.
Scotland and the World would be better off without them.
A permanent embarrassment and occasional disgrace…Ian Archer.
hen1rik
Please yerself.
Boys sorrry copied all previous comments on previous post..
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:25
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:19
Hen1rik
Phil apologised on his blog for getting a story wrong.
Said his normally impeccable source at the huns had let him down.
it happens.
I disagree on that m8 because phil said the 28/29th for huns will be a historic day but what can he do when Mr Whyte spoke to a company called close something and they funded this so that is something phil had no control over or his sources…
Is this the story you are talking about or have i got it wrong..
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
you’d best take it up with paul67 then, read what he posted earlier.
Doin ok ! Working nightshift but all the geezers are away to their kips so it gives me a bit of time to catch up on the blog. Read Phil’s blog today and it made me feel sick. Glad it was repudiated later on by Paul. If we support the HUNS in any way that will be it for me i’m afraid.
apachecelt says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:29
When you next in Glasgow? Maybe sort a wee night with myself n Jim/John etc or even a few CQNers?
HH
Be like the Boxers, Celtic.
I have recently re-discovered my interest and love for the ancient art of pugilism. This nascent fascination may have been brought about, in part, to my re-reading of The Fight by the American writer Norman Mailer, a truly outstanding account of the Foreman-Ali heavyweight title bout in Zaire in 1974.
His wonderful prose seemed to act as a catalyst for my protracted period of research and study into what is surely the toughest of all sports. In the last eighteen months I have found myself watching classic tear ups on Youtube at silly o’clock, familiarising myself with the histories of the heavyweights, the lightweight luminaries and everything in between.
The death of Joe Frasier, he of the inviolable will and the inexorable rise of Ricky Burns, have, in the last seven days, served to deliver me back to the boxing books. Exploring the lives and times of great fighters and enjoying reruns of the great fights, my more quixotic notions of the fight game have been reinforced, dispelled, then reinforced again. To an extent, I do not know what boxing means to me or why I have come to enjoy it, but some of my eariest convictions about boxers themselves remain intact.
As someone who has never boxed or sparred a round in my life I am in awe of boxers at all levels from professional to amateur. The discipline and sacrifice associated with the art appears, from the outside looking in, to imbue its protaganists with other worldly strength and occassionally, a sort of inner peace. Fighters routinely discuss the opportunity boxing gives them to achieve self discovery and the strength of character to match their outward power.
As I leave my youth I have come to value simplicity in life and greatly envy the ability of some boxers to endure austere lifestyles and the privations of training camps, emerging hollow cheeked and with deep set eyes, into the often frantic miasma of a weigh-in, never emerging from what appears to be a trance, remaining magnificent in their focus.
Boxing has a proclivity to take young men from the wrong side of the tracks and cultivate a sense of identity, responsibility and purpose. However, when it goes wrong, it can be grotesque. Avarice and hubris combine and we see Floyd Mayweather Jnr set fire to hundred dollar bills, while the deserately bellicose David Haye attempts to generate a phoney war by parading in garments displaying the severed heads of the Klitschko brothers. Even the great Ali took his racist taunting of Joe Frasier way beyond the realms of gamesmanship in the seventies. While there is much to admire in Mayweather’s skill and ability and as a gifted exponent of the rarified art, he does not and will never, recieve the veneration afforded to the man he habitually avoids, Manny Pacquiao. A devout Catholic, recently elected to serve in the House of Representatives in the Phillipines, Pacquiao is a world class sportsman with a strong social conscience. Having dropped out of school due to extreme poverty, his chosen profession has delivered him to great heights.
And so it was heartening to read of Ricky Burns victory on Saturday night. As a world champion Celtic fan, he is in illustrious company alongside Pat Clinton, Benny Lynch, Scott Harrison, Steve Collins and perhaps a few more. He presents as a sanguine yet private young man dedicated to his discipline and possibly destined for greatness.
You CQN’rs who have not yet given up on my musings will be waiting for the parallels. What is your point Tommy Joad?
Why are you using the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the current position of our beloved Celtic?
I am not yet sure, but bear with me, please. The argument is under developed but I am sure there is a link.
If Ricky Burns from little ol’ Coatbridge can become lightweight champion of the world, one fight away from Mayweather or Pacquiao, then the present Celtic squad may do well to observe him train. Our insipid start to the season, at one point slipping blithely to third position in the table, leaves hundreds of thousands of Celtic fans wide open to the ignominony of finishing behind Rangers for the fourth season in a row, even allowing for the possibility of their ten point deduction for financial doping.
However, great title fights, in boxing and football, oscillate this way and that, and are open to the strange phenomenon known as momentum, which in football, is a complex mix of power, adrenaline, confidence and belief. Remember 86, 88, 2008?
No matter how far ahead on points, the knockout blow is difficult to deliver while your opponent refuses to become recumbent.
The Motherwell game on Saturday gave me an incredible feeling of satisfaction. I sensed we had climbed off the ropes. We looked like a team again, hungry and purposeful, the team fronted up and non one hid.
Last Wednesday evening, Neil Francis Lennon and his young lions were recieving a mandatory eight count from pundits, rancourous Rangers men, sceptical Celts and jurrassic journalists. Surely Rennes or Motherwell would deliver the fatal blow? Alas, neither could.
The international break gives this youthful, inexperienced yet talented team some time to gather their thoughts between rounds. The cornermen will have to earn their keep as will the masseurs, doctors and physios. At Inverness they must come out fighting and leave nothing to providence.
Come on Celtic, long way to go in this one.
TJ
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning! says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:27
M8 i hope you ain’t falling out with me it’s just my opinion that’s why we have this site we will agree sometimes and disagree sometimes or maybe agree all the time lol..
SydneyTim says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:17
Cheers bud, good to know and will keep that in mind.
Estadio
I agree, within the current and existing voting structure it would be futile, another candidate would have bene Matt McGlone and he has given up going to the agm’s ever again.
There would need to be root and branch changes for the fan initiative to be worthwhile, my original post was to point out how vehemently opposed those in charge of Celtic would be to such a fallacy as well as hoping to point out we should all be after the same thing – as much success for Galsgow Celtic as is possible within the structures we are forced to operate.
hail hail
MWD
Aye could be. I think something is a bit strange about this one, maybe Phil just wrote the story so that the club HAD to react with a definite NO!!!
HH
Bundoran Bhoy says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:25
Mainly the fatbhoys slim club on the 2nd. Friday; MWD, CRC and Sannabhoy I believe. TTTT, Stephen Black and me cannot make it.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
garcia lorca says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:26
To coin a phrase from thatchers old hq….
‘HERE HERE’…..!
hen1rik
I don’t know the man so I can’t give you the specifics.
I have never met a man who has never been wrong and I refuse to believe that Phil is the first of his kind.
Has he ever put on a bet? Did they all win?
Has he only ever loved one woman? Is she his current partner?
Claiming to have never been wrong is a surefire sign of a liar.
Phil has never claimed infallibility and you should not make the claim on Phil’s behalf
celtic40me says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:29
hen1rik says:
8 November, 2011 at 22:21
you’d best take it up with paul67 then, read what he posted earlier.
So what paul67 is says is gospel?