If you have been in Celtic Quick News or several other places online in recent months you will be aware of Oscar Knox’ battle against Neuroblastoma. The CQN community has never been slow to react for those in need. On this occasion Bundoran Bhoy and Celticrollercoaster have taken the initiative and have launched the Wee Oscar 4 Life campaign. This is what they plan:
Today we are launching the ‘Wee Oscar 4 Life’ campaign focusing once again on the generosity of the Celtic family and the Celtic Internet community. In the past your generosity has helped better the life of Kano & Vanessa to name but two. Now Wee Oscar needs you 4 life.
Over the next few months, with the full support and endorsement of Wee Oscar’s family, we will be holding a number of events where we will all be able to come together to raise money that will go to helping provide Wee Oscar the immunotherapy treatment he desperately needs to help his young body fight of further attacks of Neuroblastoma (an aggressive form of childhood cancer).
So please look out for confirmation of dates that will be posted over the next couple of weeks, book your tickets for the events, bring your wallets and were possible help us promote the following events:
Wee Oscar 4 Life Celtic Quiz Night (based roughly on the Friday night CQN footie quiz)
Wee Oscar 4 Life Bucket Collection
Wee Oscar 4 Life Race & Auction night
We are also planning a cycle from Glasgow to Belfast for St Patrick’s weekend in March 2013 and will be looking for cyclists to take part in this event to raise funds for the Wee Oscar 4 Life appeal. If you are not from Glasgow there is no reason to stop you organising/participating in a cycle (or maybe even a run or walk) from your local town to Belfast on the same weekend.
Around £80,000.00 pounds has already been donated to the Wee Oscar Appeal and we hope that the ‘Wee Oscar 4 Life’ events detailed above will take Wee Oscar closer to the target of £250,000.00 the family require to raise.
As ever our thoughts and prayers are with Wee Oscar Knox, his Dad Stephen (CQN’s very own Knoxy2000), his Mum Leona and Wee Oscar’s sister and best friend Izzie.
We welcome your continued support and look forward to seeing you over the coming months.
WeeOscar4Life Campaign Team
Email – weeoscar4life@gmail.com
Twitter – @weeoscar4life
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Well done again for highlighting the campaign Paul,
To Celticrollercoaster and Bundoran Bhoy, keep it up lads you are a credit to your own families and the Celtic family.
Bundoran Bhoy if your lurking, I am starting working on a few cycling clubs from Roscommon to maybe join with that cycle next March going from Roscommon to meet you in Belfast. Will keep in touch through email.
Hail Hail to Wee Oscar and Knoxy, keep the faith
Somebody open a window… (thumbsup)
cardiffbhoy -Awe Naw
We are restricted in the fact we can’t bring in kids form St America and Africa, train them up 9in the hope we can sell on for good profit.
The UK government have placed unrealistic standards on bringing in players from outwith the EU.
Portugal does not have the same restrictions, Holland can bring in players from many countries in Africa due to the Dutch colonies.
We were told last season that Bangura was the only one we would be allowed, that is strangling our game, when clubs from other countries can bring in as many as they want,
hendrix67 13:26 on 20 August, 2012
Stadium announcer never fair well when they make jokes at their expense.
Just ask Tiger Tim!
HH
/Bishop B
Quick……..
…sumdy mention ‘Owen Coyle’…….
THE EXILED TIM – I don’t think it’s strangling our game.
We just need to be a bit smarter than clubs who have the luxury of easily sourcing players from Latin America or Africa. (thumbsup)
Regards the postings about Celtic operating the Porto ‘model’
Porto have signed 4 Brazilians and 1 Colombian player this summer so far. Of the 5, only Jackson Martinez (Colombian) would have received a UK work permit due to the stringent rules in this country. Martinez cost Porto £7m and is an established international
Porto can delve into the SA market at will and bring players across without any fear of them not getting the necessary accreditation to work. They have made a fortune in doing so through the likely sale of Hulk ( bought for £4.5m, likely sold for upwards of £25m) and Alvaro Pereira (bought for £3m, sold to Inter this summer for £12m)
Udinese are also very similar to Porto in the way they operate, and again have no issue with work permits etc
20 August, 2012
Somebody open a window… (thumbsup)
And Kick it oot – Nae mare moaners please.
Derby have signed striker Conor Sammon from Wigan for an undisclosed fee, with the big Irishman signing a four-year deal at Pride Park.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Mate if you think your over hyped bombardment style and attacking people on a personal level every two posts passes for high quality debate, I’ve got a wee message for you-it’s no!!
Have fun wi’ the coos…
philvisreturns
And pray tell how we can be smarter than countries who have a massive advantage ???
Or is the Tory in you comming out :>)
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo – I have zero sympathy for your mental health issues. You’re a grown man and have the ability to get help.
Other people suffer from depression and still manage to comport themselves like decent human beings rather than vile guttersnipes.
Get yourself sorted out. (thumbsup)
One major factor the Portuguese league has in its favour is that it sits next to a league which rates their football and provides them with their major market for selling players. They can command high transfer fees because the Spanish teams actually think the players and the level of football are pretty good.
The Scottish leagues sits next to the most arrogant, myopic and self-obsessed league in the world.
Scottish football is also absolutely terrible at marketing itself, recently demonstrated by the doom and gloom predictions of Doncaster and Regan over the fall of Sevco. Just listen to craig burley commentating on or about any Scottish team, this is the calibre of salesmen we have marketing our league.
cardiffbhoy
to go over old ground again
If the board had told Martin to sell, Bobo, Sutton, Thompson, Henrik and any others, even though their value was sky high after seville, there wouldnt be a parkhead, it would have been burned to the ground but the best fans in the world!
This is what porto did, their best players were sold for millions, MON didnt sell anyone, he gave them all massive new contracts.
I see sunderland haven’t signed any players yet, and are in the market for over priced ‘older’ english players. same old MON.
The signing policy of a club is very much dependant on how the manager conducts business.
It seems with the arrival of WGS we turned the corner.
kitalba/Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo:
Are you two at the wind-up or have you been eating the same soup- or are you just pathologically dissatisfied with everything?
Perfectionism comes to mind.
Why is it nobody on here ever criticises your relentless negativity and periodic cynicism whilst others are slaughtered for the slightest wee comment? ( like I will be for this one).
Awe_Naw is your blue funk caused by listening to far too much Nine Inch Nails and reading too much Nietzsche…so many of your posts are relentlessly morose and disconsolate. Or is it a case of you playing a role for so long that you have become the role…like Quincy, M.E?
You were even like that immediately after we beat HJK- I really don’t get it.
Naval Bhoy you have my email so keep in touch regarding cycle.
Also want to thank the rest of the bhoys & ghirls helping myself n CRC (an amazing bunch of people I’m proud to call friends)
God Bless Oscar
Navan Bhoy I meant lol
HH
THE EXILED TIM – And pray tell how we can be smarter than countries who have a massive advantage ???
It means we have to be more creative about how we source and develop players than they are. They have the easy option, we have to take the smart one. I think we’ve done encouragingly well in identifying low-cost, high-value young players with excellent potential in the last couple of years.
Or is the Tory in you comming out :>)
Did he ever go back in? (thumbsup)
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Awe I’m cut to the bone, drat here was me thinking I was hiding my Sunday Post fetish so well.
Up your game is another standard response with no substance, up it to what your level?
“No one like us we don’t care”
NAw I am just going to stick about
be an Überhun spoil sport
Dead easy …. easy peasy
Let the persdonal abuse rain down.
Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu………………………….
:-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Starry
I thought you were just a podium chaser ? :-)
HAil Hail
Great way to highlight an amazing cause – well done Paul67, CRC Bundoran et all!!
God bless wee Oscar – CQN Legend!!
Isnt that the model that the club is trying to copy?
The way I see it we just aren’t good at it.
Probably comes from being in a league where there are a lot of hammer throwers and we see the same faces every couple of weeks.
I’m okay if players say tehy are here to move to the premiership or use the club as a stepping stone. They have to play well for that to happen.
Of course I would prefer that our team all played for the jersey but motivation is motivation.
No matter where it comes from, if it gets our players working and trying harder, constantly striving to improve themselves… I’m a happy tim.
Paul 67
Have a word with Awe Naw,,,he is bang out of order??
HH
persdonal = personal
snake plissken
13:11 on
20 August, 2012
Is THAT what it is….? ………..LOL
Usual attention-seeking roasters on here today again I see.
This blog has really gone downhill over the last year or so.
Pity.
AWE_NAW
Nippy sweety syndrome today…..away and roll a fat one and relax.
Your self medication seems to be slipping…..
Aw Naw
The attention seeking is becoming tedious now,,,do all of us,including yourself a favour and go take a break eh???
HH
ibleedgreenandwhite1, Everbody ok guys
Sorry
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Black Power apology for Australian sprinter Peter Norman 48 years in the making
Pic..US athletes Tommie Smith, centre, and John Carlos, right, stare downward and raise their hands during the 200m medal ceremony as Australian Peter Norman stands in second place.
PETER Norman, the Australian sprinter who was blacklisted for supporting the Black Power protesters at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, may receive an apology from the Australian parliament.
Norman, who died in 2006 aged 64, ran second in the men’s 200m final and won the silver medal.
On the podium, he wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge to support African-American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze), who gave the black power salute.
Norman was punished but allowed to stay in Mexico for the rest of the Olympics. However, in 1972, he was overlooked for the Munich Olympics by the Australian selectors despite meeting the qualification standards.
The apology will be debated in Parliament next Monday by MP Rob Oakeshott, Sport Biz Insider reported.
Sport Biz Insider reports the wording of the debate will be:
“That this House; Recognises the extraordinary athletic achievements of the late Peter Norman, who won the silver medal in the 200 metres sprint running at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, in a time of 20.06 seconds, which still stands as the Australian record;
Acknowledges the bravery of Peter Norman in donning an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the podium, in solidarity with African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who gave the black power salute;
Apologises to Peter Norman for the wrong done by Australia in failing to send him to the 1972 Munich Olympics, despite repeatedly qualifying; and Belatedly recognises the powerful role that Peter Norman played in furthering racial equality.”
In a 2005 interview, Norman said he supported Smith and Carlos because he was sympathetic to their situation.
At his funeral in 2006, Carlos said:
“We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat. He said, ‘I’ll stand with you’.”
He said he expected to see fear, but he didn’t. “I saw love. Peter never flinched (on the dais). He never turned his eyes, he never turned his head. He never said so much as ‘ouch’.”
The debate will be led by Dr Andrew Leigh of the ALP from Canberra. There will be seven speakers involved and Oakeshott believes the apology should pass without any problems.
Summa
How much do you think we can get for Charlie Mulgrew if we were to sell him tomorrow ?
850k ????
Hail Hail
iPaddy McCourt
I have been on here eight years .. it has went down hill this last year. How long have you been posting ?
Hail Hail
THE EXILED TIM
13:24 on
20 August, 2012
‘Porto are really not a good example to use.’
Are Spanish and Portuguese clubs not exempt from EU work permit requirements for South American players due to the historical and cultural links they have?
Summa of Sammi…. – What about Red Power?
Better red than dead. (thumbsup)
Chris McLaughlin@BBCchrismclaug
NL: I might not get the Ki money. Could be used to service the debt. I don’t know yet. #Celtic
Yea we really turned the corner during wgs signing caldwell robson hartley all young guys that we could improve and sell on
Give me mon teams and signing policy anyday
Bobo free agathe 50k etc
ernie lynch – My information might be out of date, but I thought the work permit requirements were set by national governments rather than the EU. (thumbsup)