This morning we have the luxury of being concerned at the volume of chances Motherwell passed by before briefly pegging Celtic back in yesterday’s encounter at Fir Park. Before kick-off, all that mattered were the three points that necessary to keep our title challenge on track. We got what we wanted.
Virtuoso performances by Mohamed Elyounoussi and, to a lesser extent, Tom Rogic, meant the win was eventually secured in some style. Motherwell threatened repeatedly from halftime until they eventually scored on 72 minutes, better teams would have done more with the chances, but stout defending, by Diego Laxalt in particular, kept them at bay.
Elyounoussi’s potent ability to time his arrival into the danger perfectly brought his first hat-trick as a Celtic player. He described the first, a rebound from Albian Ajeti shot off the post, as lucky, but he was the fastest ‘lucky’ player to make the follow-in run. His second, from Rogic’s cutback, made the most of tight space inside the Motherwell area. The salmon leap-like header for the third goal was a delight. On this form, Mohamed will have a big influence on the season.
Shane Duffy and Odsonne Edouard were rested, with the returning Kristoffer Ajer and Ajeti preferred. Both did well. Ajer’s early retirement through a recurrence of his groin injury is a concern, I don’t think we will see the best from Celtic until he and Christopher Jullien are paired together at the back.
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!!BADA BING!! on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 1:45 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105
Promising news on the vaccine front
The markets must have been surprised by this. Some leapt almost 8%. UK up >5%. Lets hope this is as significant as it seems.
PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:37 PM
Great result. Rogic and Moi superb. We live to fight another day.
Ajeti over Eddy from now in. Sell Eddy in January. He couldn’t give a rat’s ass about us now.
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PeterLatchfordsbelly
I have zero insight into this but ‘not giving a rat’s ass’ might be something else, other than working his ticket? My understanding is that Eddy stayed in Glasgow during the lockdown and chose not to travel to France, he then contracted Covid while on international duty and seemed to be quite unwell with it. He is still a very young man, living away from home in a strange, unpredictable world and he seems to speak very little English, or at least has no confidence in speaking it (if Celtic tv interviews are to go by).
Some things are not as straightforward as we think, maybe none of the above is a factor and you are 100% correct but maybe not.
AN DÚN on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:29 PM
I think we’re looking at the season through a nervous prism.
I honestly don’t ever recall fans and I include myself, losing the rag over an effective three point gap in November.
Against Rangers you just assumed the league was going down to April or May but we’re now use to having it effectively won come St. Patrick’s Day.
Throw in the ten and this season has taken on a very much heightened sense of pressure- the Sevco will feel that when they have their stumble.
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Spot on. 2012-19 was a new norm.l for us. It’s reality time again now (maybe a lot sooner than most expected) and we’re in a battle. We need to keep the heid. Of course we’re also facing a propaganda campaign, even great than usual with daily anti celtic ‘news’. Even the shite that is being spun today about Dembele’s transfer valuation being a major blow to us. Let’s try to get some respectable results for the Europa games and get a run going in the league. Defend as a team.
Apologies for coming back to this subject but I’m still fuming about it . Sky sports ref Dermot Gallacher thinks Cole of Motherwell should definitely have seen red for the shocker on Jeremie , that we can agree on .
He also reckons Dallas may have ‘read it wrong’ , which is nonsense .
Dallas had a clear view , obstructed only by his orange tinted glasses.
Hopefully,after the break,Lenny will try a back 4 of Elhamed,Ajer,Jullien,Laxsalt.Wee Frimpong does not bring enough to the party.Not at the moment.He is weak defensively,and shockingly wasteful,with his final ball from the byeline.
Christie is a conundrum.Sometimes sublime,others ridiculous.For the life of me,I cannot fathom why he has not grasped the the amount of power it takes to kick a ball,in different circumstances.
Calmac,simple.Being played too far back.He was scoring for fun when an attacking midfielder.He is not a defensive midfielder.We all know this,Lenny does not.Soro,is a defensive midfielder,but can’t get a game.Go figure.
What I have been saying.Give the players not getting game time,places in the Europa.Soro,Turnbull,Griff,Dembele,Ajeti,Taylor,when he gets back,Jullien,get him up to speed.No idea why people are actually concerned with this tournament this season.No money in it,and don’t give the “Prestige”guff.Who in Europe remembers we beat Lazio last season.Our history will be the 10,the Trebles.Win what you can.
PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 12:37 PM
Great result. Rogic and Moi superb. We live to fight another day.
But.., we are a continuing shambles as a defensive unit. That includes the midfield. The management team appear negligently incapable of improving it. So much so it’s transported me back to the 90s.
Our only hope is out scoring teams, but on current form we’ll get skelped in Europe and by Sevco. We made a strategic choice to make ourselves this vulnerable.
Ajeti over Eddy from now in. Sell Eddy in January. He couldn’t give a rat’s ass about us now.
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i would cut Ed a bit of slack my friend.only due to recovering from covid.which he is still doing
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goalie
Elhamed Jullien Ayer Laxalt
Bitton
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Thought the team looked good and sharp yesterday. Don’t think the criticism of CalMac and Christie is justified though, my opinion obviously.
Does any know the real story surrounding Julien, mystery.
It’s obvious now we are out of Europe and apart from the financial side I see this as a benefit.
We don’t need to send our best /strongest team out, now it’s time for a wee bit of lateral thinking.
i’ d play Soro, give CalMac a rest and Broony, send in our young guns and see what they make of it, after all, they will be trying like mad to impress.
We simply have to get 100% geared up for the league, that is what it’s all about now.
We are not beaten , nothing like it. We have payed two games less than Der Hun, and no one is going to tell me they will not drop points, I mean, come on, really!!!!
Schummi
Bada Bing – I recall Elhammed saying when he was being signed that he saw himself as a centre half and not a RB but he would play wherever he was asked.
testing 1 2 3
Maybe Soro isn’t getting a game cos he’s shit??
Christmas sorted – Old Ireland In Colour
Colourised by academic lecturer Professor John Breslin, the photos are being published in a new book called Old Ireland In Colour.
the following words are not mines
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Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins, the left of the two men shaking hands, greets a former head of the Gaelic Athletic Association at a hurling match between Dublin and Kilkenny in 1921. Collins was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising who later played a key role in the Anglo-Irish war of independence between 1919 and 1921 which ended in the partition of Ireland. But after agreeing to a peace treaty with the British government, he was assassinated by anti-treaty radicals in a Cork ambush
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/11/35464690-0-image-a-5_1604920230504.jpg
Founding members of the Irish Women Workers’ Union (IWWU) pose for a photo outside Dublin’s Liberty Hall in 1914. The union was founded in 1911, with early members including Constance Markievicz – who would in 1918 become the first woman ever elected to the UK House of Commons, although as a Sinn Fein abstentionist she never took her seat at Westminster. Women also won the right to vote that year, and maintained it in the new Irish Free State after 1922
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/10/35464716-0-image-a-2_1604919362314.jpg
AN TEARMANN
My apologies for misspelling your nom de plume.
I don’t mind you not apologizing for asking if I was a hun because I wrote honestly about what I saw. And I didn’t know it was customary to ask posters if they are a hun the first time they post. There you are.
BTW I was told it was allowed to answer a question with a more than one word answer. Hence my answer to your question.
OK AN TEARMANN let’s just get back to talking about the club we all want to win 10IAR and 4X3.
ye olde Celtic Quicknews Corner ?
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A fair day at Ballybricken in 1910, with visitors buying tea and coffee from a booth while children and livestock stand nearby. The fair used to take place every month and a market is thought to have been in existence there as long ago as 1680. Farmers would arrive at the fair as early as 5am with their pigs, cattle, poultry and horses, before the livestock was assembled in squares and streets and people traded animals and other farm goods. When the fair ended, droppings were used as fertiliser
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/11/35464712-0-image-a-19_1604922257006.jpg
SFTB,
You know I’m not one for ” conspiracy theories ” ( A terrible terminology played by the CIA to discredit authentic information)
However. Now that Tangoman Trump has been flung out of office, watch the vaccines suddenly appear. The USA will make a remarkable Covid 19 breakthrough and cases will plummet.
I bet you a cyber pint.
From a UK perspective I now see sub contract workers losing their livelihoods for displaying symptoms of the common cold.
There is no safety net for these people, and their mental health will suffer as sure as night follows day.
The ” new normal ” is not normal and ” the science” as proclaimed by financially incentivisied experts must be challenged.
Cheers and HH.
Options on the bench ?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/13/35464714-8929173-Several_generations_pose_for_a_picture_with_their_dogs_in_the_Bl-m-17_1604927619747.jpg
Several generations pose for a picture with their dogs in the Blue Stack Mountains in 1950. Pictured here are Niall de Búrca, Joe Mac an Luain, Seán Ó hEochaidh, John Mac an Luain, Joe Beag Mhic an Luain, Máire Bean Mhic an Luain and Pat Mac an Luain. The man standing up, Seán Ó hEochaidh, was a collector of folklore in his native Irish language, gathering tales from Donegal in a collection which was given to University College Dublin
Dallas style
Matt Corr
@Boola_vogue
· 8 Nov
Replying to @ItalianCeltsCSC and @Moielyo
Of course, this is the best version of Bella Ciao!
Winking face
@Brazenhead1888 @ciaranm1967 @joannadoyley
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325465315820580865
SAINT STIVS on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 3:37 PM
Options on the bench ?
Great photo. I have ‘Old Ireland in Colour’ on my Santa list, amazing when they are colourised they just come alive. In saying that the most incredible old photos I’ve ever seen are those originally coloured ones taken by a French photographer in the 1910s in Connemara, they are incredible.
MCPHAIL BHOY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 4:09 PM
SAINT STIVS on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 3:37 PM
you got a link to the frech phties ?
Dallas strikes again
Tacit Acceptance? CSC
I do worry about Lenny’s growing confirmation bias, only seeing what he wants to rather than what he needs to.
I’ve always admired his intellect and straight talking and I know there’s a kidology component for the benefit of the team, but this creeping Barnes/Mowbray-esq element of his interviews remains a worry.
No shoes on the big fella on the grass, what an image
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A large group of men, women and children line up for a picture outside a cottage in Gweedore, a village in County Donegal, in the late 19th century. The parish, known as Gaoth Dobhair in Irish, is tucked between the Atlantic coast and a mountainous national park and is today a tourist attraction. Ancient remains have been found nearby but the current settlement is thought to date back to the 17th century. Today, the parish describes itself as one of the main Irish-speaking enclaves in the country
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/11/35464702-0-image-m-24_1604922905351.jpg
Saint Stivs
I hope this works
http://antoilean.blogspot.com/2012/12/old-colour-photos-of-ireland-in-1913.html
SAINT STIVS on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 4:25 PM
No shoes on the big fella on the grass, what an image
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A large group of men, women and children line up for a picture outside a cottage in Gweedore, a village in County Donegal, in the late 19th century. The parish, known as Gaoth Dobhair in Irish, is tucked between the Atlantic coast and a mountainous national park and is today a tourist attraction. Ancient remains have been found nearby but the current settlement is thought to date back to the 17th century. Today, the parish describes itself as one of the main Irish-speaking enclaves in the country
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/09/11/35464702-0-image-m-24_1604922905351.jpg
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I’ve seen this described before and only when it was pointed out to me did I notice, look at most of the women and girls’ hands, they’re all knitting didn’t even stop when they were getting the photo set up and taken!
Ryan Christie aye adds nothing on the right,is that right,I Wish we had another 10 Ryan Christie’s ,The Bhoy never stops running gives you a Hundred Percent,and Neil Lennon to keep his job needs to start with Ajeti,and Elynoussi.,and stick with them,but this defence needs sorted out ASAP,Duffy I’m afraid needs to go back to Brighton,the Bhoy who plays for Motherwell Centre Half far better and scores a few goals ,also up till now is included in the Scotland squad,and for the life off me I can’t remember his name,
BSR at 12.32: https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/virtuoso-elynuonissi-as-laxalt-keeps-motherwell-at-bay/#comment-3533243
Belter. That’s a great bit of blogging.
TBB
MCPHAIL BHOY on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 4:33 PM
Saint Stivs
I hope this works
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it did ta, I was in Athlone and Shannon , Loch Ree last summer, the pictures are fascinating
Just watched Charlie Adams talking about Ajeti
” I heard through the grapevine that he’s not as good as EVERYBODY’ thinks he is'”??
Guess his EVERYBODY is the same as me tellling the wife ” I only had a couple of pints” “
Fess
It’s not often you hear a player dissing another.
Gene
Guess he’s trying to keep himself in the limelight, onside with the zombies
Saint stivs ,/ mcphail
I’m currently looking at my family tree and 2 strands come from Armagh and Mayo – those pictures focus on the lives they lived as farm labourers in the early and mid 1800s.
Apparently the vaccine needs cold storage so it would be fine on a winter’s night in the North curve.🥶
ILJASB on 9TH NOVEMBER 2020 3:28 PM
My apologies for misspelling your nom de plume.
I don’t mind you not apologizing for asking if I was a hun because I wrote honestly about what I saw. And I didn’t know it was customary to ask posters if they are a hun the first time they post. There you are.
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Its not customary to be asked if you are a hun when first posting on CQN, unfortunately some of the resident yahoos on here think its a great laugh back slapping all round who can be the first to get a rise out of the new bhoy sort of thing, all fairly harmless silly schoolboy stuff, which unfortunately even those of us who think its bad manners to be asked that as an introduction to CQN can’t do much about,
anyway, welcome to CQN ILJAS, hope you enjoy the experience.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54874541
Here is what we have had to endure as an excuse for a politician long before Trump was even heard of.
Rock Tree – I know you’ve been around for years but are you a ……😀
Welcome ILJASB – a mysterious nom de plume! Children’s first names perchance, ex burdz? (Naw that would be Big Jimmy😀)
Obscure linguistic term ( naw that would SFTB)
Weird abbreviation (naw that would be Madmitch)
Go on reveal all.