Good luck to the Development Squad for their Uefa Youth League one-off cup tie against Valencia this evening. A win would see Celtic proceed to the quarter final – no mean feat when you consider the way some bigger league clubs harvest scores of youth players from across the globe.
Kick-off is 5pm, if you can get to Celtic Park. It’s not THE Champions League, but it’s an important metric we should follow.
Delighted Davie Hay and Tom Boyd are Celtic Ambassadors. I see enough of what the Celtic support to here to know the value of the club, but we can never take these values for granted. The Celtic Movement needs leaders. Davie and Tom have been informal ambassadors of the club for years, as many of you can testi
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Timaloy29
We are all of a similar mind I suspect. Blogs tend to polarise views as we get down to binary decisions. Keep or sack manager? Change or support the Board?
Actually for me neither of these decisions are straight forward or likely to work on their own. For me it’s more about a change of strategy/ direction. I accept we are living within our means but I also believe we can take managed risks. I’d personally prefer more £5m players than multiple £1.5m.
I also recognise not many £5m players want to play in Scotland. Hence why European success is important not just as a revenue stream but as a recruitment and retention tool.
I ham up my monomaniac obsession with PL and his ‘grossly inflated £20k/ week salary’ ( Auld Bertie- that’s a self paradyfor your benefit) but I do question this as it’s morally wrong in my view but wrong commercially when we are down scaling operations. So
Failure is probably a strong statement. I think it’s as close to the mark as Success.
Right now we are treading water but the tide is coming in..
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I agree that we’re not a million miles apart.
Regarding the £5million players, as you say many won’t want to come here, especially if we miss the CL.
I’d also add that while the fee’s always come into it, the wages will restrict the rest of the squad. I’d like us to try and sign the odd player at that price if we think they can be stars.
That’s a big gamble though. Look at Finnbogasson.
Sorry that last post was directed to CultsBhoy
Tiny Tim
You serious? You want me to answer that?
LENNONS PASHION
It’s not a hanging offence if he hasent got the money to pay it, but as I said you don’t have to start paying back the loan till your course is fin. And even then if you can’t you can cut a deal, and at least make the effort, as long as you make the effort to pay it I’v no problem with that, but if you just don’t even try, then your a parasite, sorry that’s the way I feel.
BCW
I sort of agree :-)
The reason I react is that it’s the lies and spin that bother me, if I disagree with something a poster writes, I offer a reason, I don’t attack the poster for his post or beliefs.
If I say the team or coach or board are not doing as well as I reckon they should be, I give reasons why.
Now the poster who tends to dominate the blog has tried to spin his way out of disrupting the blog with lies, he is changing his tune from his original post this morning, he now says it’s about not paying back a loan when his original post was attacking the ” Uni Mob ” on here.
Have a look see, and watch the spin from the poster.
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TonyDonnelly67 on 10th February 2016 11:21 am
Party political broadcast today? Uni mob taking over again, you’d think wi the spare time they had, they’d get a part time job an pay back they’r student loans, ferkin Parasites .
Day ma nut in that mob,
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Disruption at it’s finest.
HH
Was refreshing to hear tom Boyd on Sportsound last night, we’ve been crying out for sometime to hear an ex player come on the air and back the team. Wonder how much more air time he’ll get though.
At one of the first CQN nights at Celtic Park I won a framed Celtic strip signed by the players of the day. Tom Boyd came over to the table later to congratulate me and just have a blether. I mentioned to him that one of the mates loved him and would never allow a bad word to be said about him. Tom asked me if I had his number on my phone which I did, he asked me to phone him and then walked off with my phone to a quiet area where he spoke to him for about 20 minutes.
Small things like that that Tom probably wont ever remember but he made my mates night and he still raves about it to this day. One of us, for us. not enough like him.
Agent Green (if you are still around!) 1:08
Great post.
Time for THE CLUMPANY to make a comeback.
https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/the-end-of-satire/
Easter Sunday would be nice timing,but sooner would be better…
West end of East End
The phone story re TB. That’s class.
marspapa
Sorry for the late reply mate was oot there with the dogs getting my arms stretched once more.
If they get stretched any longer i swear i’ll turn into a knuckle dragging hun shortly -))
Allyhuntersgloves on 10th February 2016 1:33 pm
I also heard that Ferguson interview.
Sounded like a couple of schoolboys interviewing their hero footballer from the team they support!
No prizes for anyone guessing who!
THEEXILEDTIM
I know how you feel,bud. But there are better things in life to enjoy,a wee look at the crest in your pool for one,or a laugh at TBO’s book.
Etc…
You’re high up in the hills,you experience the oxygen being sucked out of your surroundings as you drive home. You can’t do much about that,but you can ignore it when it happens on here.
WESTENDOFEASTEND
As ESTADIO would say…
KWALITYMAN!!!
The Exiled Tim
Keep up the spin, the more you say it makes it easier to prove that what I posted isn’t what you think I posted, but to you all my posts are like that, as for dominating the blog? I get slagged for not answering today, so I try to answer, now I’m dominating the blog because I answer?
http://youtu.be/PECmjB9df0w
TONYDONKEY 67 on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 2:05 PM
Disagree with your opinion personally think he shouldn’t have to pay back anything.
This demonstrates is why lurking is best
TONYDONNELLY67 on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 2:05 PM
LENNONS PASHION
It’s not a hanging offence if he hasent got the money to pay it, but as I said you don’t have to start paying back the loan till your course is fin. And even then if you can’t you can cut a deal, and at least make the effort, as long as you make the effort to pay it I’v no problem with that, but if you just don’t even try, then your a parasite, sorry that’s the way I feel.
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So basically your default position is that all students are wasters until somebody tells you if their individual circumstances and you then make individual exceptions.
You know what people would describe such blind, uninformed preconceptions as being ??
Bigotry.
From the just of the other posts I’m seeing today it seems TD67 has been up to all the stuff that caused me to filter him in the 1st place.
ROBERT88
Correct,yer opinions are best being a secret(!)
I’m glad it’s all been straightened out for me.
Paying a fortune in tax, employing four people in two countries and I should consider myself “a parasite”.
I’ll burn that piece of paper on the wall the nicht.
ImnotworthyCSC
If this blog was a TV programme it would be Grumpy Old Men.
If this blog was a film it would be The Good, The bad & The Ugly.
If this blog was a song would it be The Strawbs ?
Any other suggestions to try and lighten up the place ?
LuxCelt, my error, I understand he is an under 21 internationalist (different I know) but to the point, is night and day compared to Danny Wilson and Rob Keirnan.
Glasstwothirds, I was incensed by that interview so much so that I filled in the BBC Complaints form. Now love him or hate him, Ian Ferguson is one of the most decorated players in Rangers FC history and they chose to ask him this rubbish, which play’s to sectarianism and the lowest common denominator. You wouldn’t believe the answer I got back, The BBC send the complaint to Sportsound (the people who made the show) and they decided there was nothing wrong with it, you couldn’t make it up, the accused is also the judge , maybe it will catch on over the next few months …………..
Oh, I was wrong.
Apparently there are part-time jobs paying over the student loan 17k payback threshold.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-camerons-gravy-train-scandal-7153710
I like the cut of that Corkie youngster’s sheets and lines captaining the youngsters. Single minded, with a dead pan delivery.
WEEMINGER
Quandary,innit?
One viewpoint is that by ignoring him,he’ll go away,the other is that his posts cannot go unchallenged.
and when he is challenged,accusations of ganging up fly thick(!) and fast…
West End of East End on 10th February 2016 2:37 pm
If this blog was a TV programme it would be Grumpy Old Men.
If this blog was a film it would be The Good, The bad & The Ugly.
If this blog was a song would it be The Strawbs ?
Any other suggestions to try and lighten up the place ?
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If this blog was a graduate it wouldn’t bother paying back the loans ;)
If this blog was a book it would probably have been burned (same applies if it weighed less than a duck)…
West End of East End
its worse than big brother
WEEMINGER on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 2:33 PM
From the just of the other posts I’m seeing today it seems TD67 has been up to all the stuff that caused me to filter him in the 1st place.
Weeminger please dont take this the wrong way, but why are you informing the blog you have “filtered” a member.
Why would any of us care? it’s the internet man it’s no real -)))))
WESTENDOFEASTEND
Think yourself lucky,the other night AULD BERTIE had me thinking of this…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Kum8OUTuk
Love this place, in the middle of a day hard at work, it’s the perfect antidote to logic, reason and sobriety. Just don’t take anything to heart and it’s like a tonic for distraction and humour.
Burgas Hoops on 10th February 2016 2:41 pm
So that people are aware that if they find their enjoyment of this great site is being jeopardised by trolls they can easily be avoided.
It’s fine to scroll past but when you’re scrolling par nearly an entire page of messages it’s boring. This way is quicker.
It’s not a case of removing viewpoints that I don’t agree with. It’s how they’re put across. I almost never agree with Ernie Lynch but I still like to read his posts. Same with Neganon.
If Carlton Cole’s tweet re the Adam Johnson case is genuine,he will be off the wage bill before the day’s out.
BURGAS HOOPS
WEEMINGER on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 2:33 PM
From the just of the other posts I’m seeing today it seems TD67 has been up to all the stuff that caused me to filter him in the 1st place.
Weeminger please dont take this the wrong way, but why are you informing the blog you have “filtered” a member.
Why would any of us care? it’s the internet man it’s no real -)))))
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That’s one of the funny things about Tony’s tenure on CQN. Reading those who crossed the filtering Rubicon, try to continue their argument when Tony is creating chaos.
!BADA BING!
If it isn’t fit for the blog,can you mail it please?
That is a case which no-one should comment on,if I remember correctly.
Allyhuntersgloves
I am currently banned from RadionClyde. I was a regular caller and my reason for calling was to point out pro Hun bias. Mostly centred around the relative fawning of Super Ally.
Anyhow on my last call I was prepared to question some pro Hun nonsense when Gerry ( bid up tv celeb) asked me to comment on the issue of referees befor I made my point as this had been the previous discussion. I answered simply that I had no faith in them and my view was that they were corrupt as evidenced by ‘Douggie Dougie’ etc. if I recall it was after the ICT penalty incident.
So I was roundly condemned and cut off. I was then phoned by producer who told me I had exposed the programme and myself to libel. That referees could sue both Snyde and me.
I was so hacked off by this lunacy that I complained formally to both Snyde and Ofcom.
The executive producer called me a few days later ( Brian Page) and said The producer has complete editorial discretion but he felt I was unfairly dealt with. Told me he had to support his producer’s decision. Consequently I am banned.
I know I am banned for expressing anti Hun views and suspect the producer is a Hun.
That’s what we are up against. …
In fairness Brian Page was very reasonable on the phone and through exchange of email he recognised Ibwas not just an Internet bampot….still dissenting voices are quashed.
I pity Gerry bid up tv’s soul as he has sold out..
!!Bada Bing!!
Whats he saying to him?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
The problem is cross-reference. If someone blanks out my posts,but it is referred to by someone else-even c&p-it’s difficult to avoid.
Don’t think that’s the real Carlton Cole.
Hang on, did we actually sign the real Carlton Cole?