Having seen European football played on what could easily be mistaken for a swimming pool, I would be surprised if Uefa postponed Wednesday’s game Quarabag-Celtic game. Champions League and Europa League football takes place on pitches which are unplayable every season.
The combination of clubs travelling thousands of miles, crammed fixture schedules, competitors from hundreds of towns, many of which are not in natural grass growing regions, forces match supervisors to turn a blind eye. If the pitch in Baku is truly in a bad shape, the best Celtic can achieve is to have the game moved to an alternative venue., but even that would take an unlikely alignment of stars.
To some or other extent, everyone wants to control what the media reports about them. This is not in itself bad, but there are limits to the extent a football club, or any other group, should take this desire to control. Often for the reason that it will simply not work.
If some numpty reports that Ronny Deila said something off about Neil Lennon, and Ronny said no such thing, the numpty in question would find (found) himself banned from Celtic Park for using falsehoods to cause the club trouble. His newspaper would have to suck it up, as they were in the wrong.
When it comes to journalists reporting an unwelcome fact the rules are completely different. BBC’s Chris McLaughlin, who was banned from Ibrox days after reporting police arrested fans at the Hibs – Newco game for sectarian offenses has been publicly backed by the BBC.
The Corporation eventually backed Jim Spence after he was subject to significant intimidation for using the phrase “some people will tell you, the club that died” in connection to Rangers, but from the outside they appeared to be on the back foot early on.
In his excellent interview with Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, published today, Spence talks about this, saying “It has been and still is a blatant attempt to coerce and ultimately take journalists livelihoods away from them”.
Banning journos work in some circumstances: when they are factually wrong and doing you harm, but if they are factually correct, you’re handing the perceived enemy the initiative, and the high moral ground. A comment about a small number of arrests for sectarian offenses, which few people read, has now been magnified beyond comprehension. It’s a complete PR disaster of their own making, Newco should buy-in some expertise in this area.
Incredibly, when Craig Whyte made himself busy banning journos who reported what he was up to, those who should have been most alarmed were so lustfully delighted at the bans and invitations to demonstrate, they didn’t stop to consider Whyte was diverting their attention.
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Morning Lhads
I reckon we will batter this mob, on their bumpy pitch.
If we don’t, we don’t deserve to progress….clear as day, …no excuses.
HH
Winning Captains
I’ve been able to log in fine throughout on my iPhone.
I think I post less at present cos the article and comments are embedded amongst so many other things so subconsciously it feels like it takes more to get to the ‘chat’. This may of course change once I’ve grown used to it.
I would certainly echo the previous request to highlight the monikers cos my wee thicko head can’t help but start with the highlighted text thus causing me to go back to the start to see who wrote it!
Cheers for all your efforts. Much appreciated.
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
I wouldent highlight the monikers, as most of them post sh.. Anyway :))
I agree with Dallas D earlier about getting more of a return for our corners, around 15 in 2nd half with nothing to show for it. The RC goalie was allowed to come out and catch balls in his area with no one attempting to block him. Look back at last seasons 4-1 against Aberdeen, Griff stood his ground in fron of their goalie and Denayer was free to score. Need to look at this amount of corners and find out what we can change to be more productive.
Bein sports TV ( in Indonesia) has been showing SPL premier games live and repeats daily, don’t know what will happen when football starts down south, back to delayed showing? better than nothing.
HH
Tony
That’s WHY they need highlighted!
I might read something by a troll-ee Toley otherwise!
HH jamesgang
Whats the latest poison from the Hun Meeja.
Are they still on their three-year plan for world domination?
Should we be looking over our shoulders.
Hun Journos…seriously, I wonder how they get any employment at all…..Oh wait, that’s right…a dodgy handshake.
No matter that most of them can hardly string a sentence together.
Only in Scoddland.
HH
The Math exam was too hard.
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Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set “L” of lumber for a set “M” of money. The cardinality of set “M” is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set “M”. The set “C”, the cost of production, contains 20 fewer points than set “M” Represent the set “C” as a subset of set “M”, and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set “P” for profits?
Teaching Math in 1980:A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her cost of production is $80 and her profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
Teaching Math in 1996:By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company improves its stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per share does the CEO make by exercising his stock options at $80? Assume capital gains are no longer taxed, because this encourages investment.
Teaching Math in 1997:A company out sources all of its loggers. The firm saves on benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the logging work force can easily be cut back. The average logger employed by the company earned $50,000,had three weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan and medical insurance. The contracted logger charges $50 an hour. Was outsourcing a good move?
Teaching Math in 1998:A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a ridiculous alimony from his first failed marriage comes into the logging-company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16 executives and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when he nails a politician on the premises collecting his kickback. Was outsourcing the loggers a good move for the company?
Teaching Math in 1999:A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for blowing away several people was trained as a COBOL programmer in order to work on Y2K projects. At 00:01, 01/01/2000 his cell door automatically opened and he escaped. Should he be allowed to log again? Maybe this should be renamed “progress” ? ?
Teaching Math in 2000:In order to clear over grown forest, the U.S. Forest Service sets the forest on fire. A process they call Prescribed Burn. The fire gets out of control and burns peoples homes and threatens a Nuclear Development Center. The Tax payer has to pay to fight the fire. Would logging this area have been a better solution????
HH
1 of the 3 bears Douglas Park a director at Sevco has resigned from the Board.but his son has taken his place.so nothing has changed and still one of his Buses is still getting hired to take our first team to there games. Why does our club hire from Parks.if the shoe was in the other foot.you can bet your bottom dollar. No way would Sevco.hire a bus from someone who supports Celtic Football Club.
An old one from the wee Huns.
https://www.facebook.com/tony.donnelly.773/posts/10152987291581611
Timbhoy3
It’ll be a masonic thing…….
To be very honest, I don’t get the bus thingie from Hamilton either, as the man said, situation reversed? Not a chance in hell, I just don’t get it.
Now that’s a question I would ask the board, why them?
Can’t wait to get my money back now that those Tory gits have sold off my shares in RBS
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on 4th August 2015 9:01 am
yes and at discounted deals
Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser
RBS highest post bailout share price?
558p in April 2010
Government sold 5.4% stake at 330p last night
BLANTYRETIM
More likely he’ll hammer the likes of us to make up the £1bn loss on the 6% he sold off.
Good business. But not for the taxpayer.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/04/rbs-sell-off-george-osborne-defends-1bn-loss
The new CQN is working on Chrome now – good job folks
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 4TH AUGUST 2015 9:01 AM
Can’t wait to get my money back now that those Tory gits have sold off my shares in RBS
Another C.Q.N. capitalist bassa.
Hee hee.
Macjay
100% current
Before Capitalism and Insider Trading take over, what do we think the team selection should be tomorrow night?
JJ
LIONROARS67
He’s also sold £14bn of Lloyds shares and still runs a deficit and an austerity programme. And still places the blame elsewhere.
JUNGLEJIM HS
Same as the first leg,with possibly Griffiths in for Ciftci.
JJ
I think we should start with the beautiful Virgil at centre half, ensuring we are tight at the back. Allow him to glide elegantly into centre midfield as he judges appropriate and opportunity permits, thus providing the creative energy for the team, and we should finish the game with him at centre forward as a reward for his masculine magnificence, simultaneously offering a lesson to Lee Griffiths in the utility of male grooming and good bones.
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 4TH AUGUST 2015 9:14 AM
Macjay
100% current
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Affairs?
The Must Play group:
Gordon, vanDjik,Brown,Bitton,Armstrong.
The Almost Certain to Play group: Lustig,Boyata,Johansen,GMS,Ciftci.
The Probable group: Forrest,Tierney/Izaguirre.
The Bench Stars: Commons,Griffiths.
The Bench Extras: Scepovic,Rogic,Janko, `keeper.
So, my likely team:
Gordon,
Lustig Boyata, van Djik, Izaguirre ( I would prefer Tierney),
Brown Bitton Johansen Armstrong GMS
Ciftci.
JJ
It’s probably a decent time to buy RBS shares, you’ll probably double your money as the Govt sell off their stake. It’s possible that the price may have been lower had Osborne just dumped a few million shares onto the market right now, instead of letting his mates have dibs but had he dumped them earlier in the year when the price was circa £4 I bet today’s low is the lowest he’d have got but less profit for his chums.
Alternately he could have just held on and reaped the divis.
Good Mornng CQNers
I haven’t posted for a while but I have been lurking.
Very impressed with site upgrade although I have to admit not done much “navigating” around it.
Also for some strange reason not all the letters I type actually get on the page first time!!!
Anyway I’m looking forward to the match tomorrow and a victory for the Celts. All this rubbish about the pitch is only to take Celtic’s focus off the matter in hand…….Qualification. Have no fear boys. An early goal for us will put the game out of reach of the Azeris.
Well done the techies and Hail Hail to ALL the CQN community
JJ If the pitch is as bad as is being made out then after JCs comments yesterday I think a change of formation might be in order going 442with Griff and Ciftci up front and getting the ball back to front a lot quicker with Leigh looking for the big fellas knock downs .
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 4TH AUGUST 2015 9:20 AM
JUNGLEJIM HS
Same as the first leg,with possibly Griffiths in for Ciftci.
Yep team selection simple, no major changes or gambles on our C/L fortune, However the big question for those like me who don’t believe Ronnie is the next footballing messiah is can RD and his management team produce a professional dull boring defensive spoiler of a performance scoring with a set piece or a quick counter attack ?
Bun
Blantyretim you can whistle. Classic Tory doubled dip. Screw you the first time with the bail out then back for the second dip with the sell of on the cheap to there banker mates. Why does Scotland still want to be ruled by Westminster . Scottish Labour, Nats and republicans for independence. You know it makes sense. Anything better than 0-0 in Baku will do .
I am failing to find any odds on the van Djik V Qarabag game tomorrow. I know Virgil will be Favourite but will the price be restrictive?
JJ
PS I do share your opinion of Virgil. I believe ho is the best central defender I have seen in Scotland.
Above to TBB, obviously.
Winning Captains, Paul67 – just for the record, the site works completely fine on my Android 4.4 phone.
FOUR young Irish footballers will cross the Irish Sea later in the season to join up with Celtic’s Youth Academy for a week-long coaching session after they were selected by a team of coaches from the club at the recent football camp for elite players in Ireland.
Ebuka Kwelele (Glenmuir United, Dundalk), Josh McGlone (St Joseph’s, Dublin), Ethan O ‘Sullivan and Dylan Kelly (both Pike Rovers, Limerick) all impressed the Celtic staff during the three-day event which was held at Kings Hospital in Dublin earlier in the summer.
Over 180 players attended, representing 20 partner clubs across Ireland who had nominated them to participate. A group of 12 Celtic coaches travelled to put the boys and girls aged under-12 to under-18 through coaching sessions and 9v9 and 11v11 games.
The young players gained an insight into the philosophy of the Academy both on the pitch and off the pitch via the likes of performance consultant Jim McGuinness, who delivered a presentation on mindset on football, Head of Celtic’s Academy, Chris McCart who gave a unique look into what it takes to be part of the Celtic Youth Academy and International Soccer Academy Manager Willie McNab, who conducted a presentation on how to be a positive player.
The players also received individual feedback from the coaches on their performance and identified areas for improvement as well as highlighting areas the players excelled in.
First-team players Anthony Stokes and Tom Rogic also attended the event to watch some of the players in action as well as engaging in a Q&A session on what it takes to take it make it at the top level of professional football.
Check out our gallery on Facebook with photos from the Elite Camp.
We look forward to welcoming the four youngsters to the club and working even more closely with our partner clubs in Ireland this season.
To find out more about International Partnership opportunities please contact Willie McNab at wmcnab@celticfc.co.uk
TBB
Are you Lionel Blair? por cierto
Nye bevan. Know the feeling. Hope the results went well. Mini – Sanna (well not so mini any more ) got his this morning . AAAAB .Entry requirement met for Vet school. Now the hard work begins.
Proud da csc
Sanna
JUNGLE JIM HOT SMOKED on 4TH AUGUST 2015 9:25 AM
Nah….Griffiths to start, and Izzi is fine / fab …. :-)
JJ
Deadly :)