For you and me, it was a dead rubber, an opportunity to watch Celtic without the pressure of winning or losing. For the players and coaches, not so much. The entirely-changed 11 who took the field played like they wanted to make an impact, as did an almost-as-changed Real Betis side.
The game was competitive, the nine added minutes at the end of the second half passed excruciatingly slowly; by that stage of the evening, no one’s head was in dead rubber territory.
When Albian Ajeti pulled up lame in the first half, Ange Postecoglou had plenty to ponder. At that moment, he was left with only one fit striker, Kyogo Furuhashi, the most valuable asset in Scottish football, who was resting on the bench.
Of course Kyogo came on. Ange did not set his team out to pull their punches, he wanted and got a performance. He gave fringe players their opportunity. Would it have been right for him to pull his own punches, 30 minutes into the game, by leaving his only striker on the bench? If he expects the players to commit, he has to commit and play the game competitively.
Management is so subtle. Selecting the right players and tactics is not nearly enough. If you want players to follow you, you have to live the role. Ange knew this when he told Kyogo to get stripped.
So what did we learn? James McCarthy looks more than comfortable in a Celtic shirt every time I see him. The player he was is slowly emerging. Liam Scales can feel aggrieved he has not had a sniff of proper action before this week. Stephen Welsh continues to grow into the role of Celtic central defender, a year after breaking into the team.
We finished third in a group against the third placed teams in Germany and Spain. Collecting six points from Ferencvaros was an objective delivered, although so much more could have been achieved as we allowed comfortable positions slip in Spain and Germany.
If you are old enough, you will remember being told Celtic win trophies when they first emerge. Perhaps the Europa Conference League will have its compensations.
Motherwell on Sunday afternoon is anything but a dead rubber. The Celtic FC Foundation Bucket Collection returns for the first time in two years, those in need remain numerous. The work of the Foundation does is remarkable and literally life changing at this time of year. It is our greatest boast.
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Thank goodness all this Ange bashing has stopped – as if any of us has ever made a mistake eh!
Someone even posted that the decision to play Kyogo will cost us the league – thats some leap!
If it had gone the other way – if Kyogo had scored the winner – would the decision to bring him on be seen as a masterstroke?
These things happen in football and all of us know that – quite shocked to see all the Ange bashing,
and yeah, where are the moderators? The foul and abusive language on here recently has been ridiculous, assuming its all adults that are posting and not juveniles.
Martin O’S
Senga Fae Facebook= coffee nab soakage
Q Anon Rubbish= bash bro Quinn
Who’ld have believed it!
CHAIRBHOY @1:15pm
🙋♂️Hi CHAIRBHOY! 😊 🍀
I rarely post on here nowadays, but often lurk. Too often reading through is very hard work, even during matches, where my thinking is along the lines of:
– Politics. FFS!
– Argumentative tosser!
– WOW! A Post about Celtic! 👍😊🍀
– Tit-for-Tat!
– Boring!
– I’ve had enough, so that’s it; I’m out of here! 🙄
However, just occasionally someone leaves a nugget of Pure Gold🥇! I think reading CQN Comments is like panning for Gold; you just KNOW there are nuggets to be found, but you have to sift through some amount of sh*t to find them! 🙄
SO, THANK YOU CHAIRBHOY for leaving your link to Dr. McGilchrist’s work; a nugget of pure Gold! 🥇👍🍀😊
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
Oh dear, looks like trouble at the mill.
I’m sure BBC Scotland and STVnews and pink tie Ponsonby & co will be all over this like a rash?!?
Then again, naw they wulny.
https://twitter.com/themajorityscot/status/1469654805169811458?s=20
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 5:20 PM
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Good luck to you and your people my great friend. ✌
omicron delta = media control = decontrol aim
Whoda thunk that
Susie Dent Blue heart
@susie_dent
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10 Dec
Word of the morning is ‘frobly-mobly’: the 18th-century version of ‘meh’.
RTB @ 5.17
KF’s injury on Thursday night was perfect for those who look for someone to blame for any mis-fortune that happens to them or their favourites.
All to easy — something bad happens and they need somebody to blame.
Reality / context circumstances mean nothing — just a case they have to blame somebody and blame them long and loud.
AP is not perfect but a more complete view would be that he is doing his best in difficult circumstances.
He is learning and he is learning fast — interested to see what happens regarding the new players coming up from the B team.
Hopefully we start to put more effort in to the B team — huge plus if we get it right.
https://twitter.com/stjohnstone1884/status/1469716297663590406?t=DO6ZWfKHlmedgX22BrqAkA&s=19
Sheep winning goal…..dearie me
Ernie
Indeed.
And in agreeing with you on donation increases to rnli
My preference would have rescue services rnli/mrt core funded parallel to police.The expertise volunteered is priceless.
Tomorrow.play Abada thro the middle or give young Moffat a go?
Who is available?
Big sacred
A back 4 of urgohide ccv starfelt scales.
Calmac tam? JamesmcC? Tony?
Moffat abada(me:-)
Its goin to be interesting team
Hope for victory
HH
AN TEARMANN on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 5:56 PM
State funding would risk state control which is the last thing I’d like to see for the RNLI at the moment.
MO…you talk absolute Pish
11 tomorrow will be
Hart
Juranović, CCV Starfelt Taylor
Turnbull, Rogic, CalMac
James, Abada, Johnston
ROCK TREE BHOY on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 5:17 PM
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Name one serious club who has ever coveted the services of Ange?
One name will do.
Oh, and don’t shoot yourself in the foot a and say “Celtic” as serious clubs don’t sacrifice the interests of their own supporters, to maintain the lifespan of their bitter devil worshipping rivals.
But “Celtic” do that. The last ten years has provided a tsunami of evidence to support that view.
Maybe “Celtic” are sacrificing their supporters interests right now, and most supporters are so bewilderingly constantly in the wrong movie making it easier for “Celtic” deceit, deceiving supporters by recruiting Ange?
If Ange doesn’t have the players to play to the style which seems to be the only way Ange knows how to play, then what does he do? Did “Celtic” know that Ange would eventually run into a dead end running out of players and being so one minded, or a stubborn old mule, that he wouldn’t know how to reverse “Celtic” out of the dead end, which would put the season at risk, but but but but, it would play into the sinister “Celtic” plan of sacrificing yet another league title to maintain Rangers FC’s financial existence and bigoted rivalry by the enrichment of £40 million of European money?
Other “Celtic” sacrificed titles, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021, 2022? tic, toc.
hh
BOGNORBHOY on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 5:43 PM
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TICTASTIC on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 6:01 PM
MO…you talk absolute Pish
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Thank you.
You’ve just made my weekend. 👍 🍻
ERNIE
Will send a doughnut over.
Ernie.
At mo i can see it triggers a debate,I would agree,a future hope for all rescue services at core funding level.the whole thing needs remodelled.
Abada thro middle or Moffat?
Hh
North Curve Celtic
@NCCeltic
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5h
A reminder for tomorrow’s NCC Christmas Toy Drive
North Curve members will be at collection points outside area 111 from 1.30pm up until kick off
All donations big or small are welcome
Good evening all from the Vogue, sunny Ruglen. 😂
Moffat through the middle
Abada on the wing
Forrest on bench
If it’s working leave it , if not , choice of Moffat or Abada off (whomever Ange thinks is not working ). If Moffat off ,Abada into middle Forrest on the wing , or Abada off Forrest on wing
This managing lark is easy, from an armchair
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 6:17 PM
Good evening all from the Vogue, sunny Ruglen. 😂
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Bastard Ruglen polis called already :O)
p.s
Ruglen cops founded dunkies ago to arrest Irish navvies (who were building the rail lines) frequenting the local bars.
Bognorbhoy, would be my choice. We’re doomed I tell ye! 😂
BIGRAILROADBLUES
Great day in Vogue yesterday ,saying goodbye to recently departed good friend of ours.hh
VP, 😂😂
VP that wasn’t about your last text ffs 🙄
TRUTH_BEAUTY_AND_FREEDOM @ 5:23 PM,
Glad you liked it, I found Dr McGilchrist to be very impressive.
Have Christmas and a “big” birthday coming up so the orders in for his book, of course I could just go out and buy it, yet I feel this is something very special, having it as a present would make it more so…
Reading it, now that will be the tricky bit:))
Hail Hail
passed a local bistro there, packed out, dancing going on, people having a good drunken time,
it aint going to end well.
Six successful penalties in the EPL today – Sterling, Jorginho (2), Raphinha, Salah, and of course, Ronaldo.
Just seen that Aberdeen goal . Crawford Allan and his fellow champions of justice in the media will be all over it , I’m sure .
MADMITCH on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 5:46 PM
Agreed.
MARTIN O’SEVILLE on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 6:03 PM
No disrespect Martin but you come across very very loudly as a wind up merchant,
never engage with them, waste of time.
BRB, what’s a good pub in Shawlands ? Nephew has recently moved there .
Rock Tree Bhoy,
Martin O Seville, Danny O’Velenski, Joe Ordinary, Scepital Citizen, 5 or 6 versions of Park the Bus and probably 4 or 5 others , Kev obviously has time on his hands so if Martin doesn’t wind you up he still has plenty of options up his slieve.
I wonder if there’ll be outrage about the dons getting an advantage from goal which came from a handball
AN TEARMANN on 11TH DECEMBER 2021 6:12 PM
Ernie.
At mo i can see it triggers a debate,I would agree,a future hope for all rescue services at core funding level.the whole thing needs remodelled.
Abada thro middle or Moffat?
Hh
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Wouldn’t it be better to elect a socialist working class political party driven by the interests of 99.9% of the populations wishes, and vote that party into office?
A party who’d drag Britain, and as a consequence of that, Scotland, drag it kicking and screaming out of the always at war, always agitating for conflict, NATO, and all the subsidiary’s costs attached to the big, NATO, factory of lies, and use that saved money to build from the bottom upwards, and as a consequence of that, all of these bombed countries that all of these terror stricken refugees are coming from, then they wouldn’t need to flee from carnage, and they wouldn’t need to be refugees in the first place?
You won’t like this bit, and that’s not my intention, its a simple fact, that the only political party offering withdrawal from imperialist oppression, and constant agitation, is a party led by someone that you, 100% of media, and 100% of MP’s, and MSP’s, are 100% hate filled against, and that person is,
George Galloway leader of The Workers Party Great Britain, and the only political leader who has to wear a hat to hide as you say, “The chib marks” on his head after he was attacked by the very same people who destroyed, Jeremy Corbyn leader of HM’s Opposition, and because JC folded like a cheap deck chair in the face of a waged campaign from, all of those mentioned above who hate, George Galloway, but also from 95% of JC’s supposed party colleagues, who spent 5 years briefing against JC, and stabbing him in the back constantly, whereas, if George Galloway was in JC’s shoes, then that 95% of Labour MP’s would’ve been put on notice, that they’ll all be replaced by working class socialists at next General Election, the 95% of frauds to be outed every day and publicly trashed, every day, BBC’s Kuenssburg, ITV’s Peston, Sky’s Rigby, and all of Ch4 news, all of STV, puppet Ponsonby, McKay (((Eye)))1&2, BBC Scotland’ Glenn Campbell, journalists / propagandists, would’ve had to resign in shame because George Galloway would’ve delighted in handing the fake media their lying arses!
George Galloway doesn’t allow fake put up lying journalists to interview him, he puts them on trial, constantly reminding them during each ‘interview’ of how pathetic a journalist that they are, how truth is a stranger to them etc, etc, that is what Celtic managers and players should be doing in every single ‘interview’ these put up liars aren’t fit to judge George Galloway, or, Celtic employees, so let them know how we view them, and if that stance flies in the face of required media protocols for Celtic employees representing Scottish national team then don’t represent the national team, do you think Kieran Tierney looks happy in Scotland’s colonial blue colours?
99% of Joe Public would’ve warmed to George Galloway, draining the swamp, telling media when their licences run out there’ll be no renewing those licences because 99% of citizens shouldn’t be lied to, and the liars become £millionaires through their lying!
That has to stop.
Do you think that there’s a sinister reason behind the creation of all these refugees?
Are these refugees being used to diminish white working class majorities Christianity in all of the 5 (((EYES))) countries, thats not a racist view before you twist my words, its merely an observation of deliberate modern trends, imho, and ten the creators of these refugees sneakily slip in a culture trap, BLM charade, kneeling by players being booed by supporters who can see through the trick charade, happy clapped by those who don’t, tricked into thinking getting rid of the police is a good idea, yeah, and replace them with what? Unwitting photo op traps like the Callum one on this thread earlier today, if you criticise it you get cancelled, all of this is being sneaked in, and only the so called paranoid unhinged are onto it, and others who aren’t onto it, call the paranoid unhinged, Qanon?
Only last week, Pope Francis said that, countries who lose their individuality, also lose their Christian traditions, only Poland in EU is resisting all of this new stuff as they highlight their determination to protect their devout Catholic heritage, not the spin MSM uses, and back to Pope Francis he was talking about EU, and only the proud Catholic journalist on GB news, Colin Brazier, highlighted the Pope’s comments where what the Pope was insinuating was, that if there are not more Brexit events in EU, breaking free of EU new wave bullsh*t, and soon, then Catholic’s and, Catholicism itself, in EU, will be severely marginalised by “all of these new cultures that are coming in” said Pope Francis. Pope Francis was warning about the cultures that are sneaking in, like the one that Callum was photoed with, or trapped into because he and Celtic arent cute enough, nor have the balls to resist this new wave bullsh*t and their cultures are growing in prominence in Scotland especially, around the t issue, and Celtic supporters might want to be minded that the Callum photo op might’ve been a honey trap, such is the sneakyness of this growing culture, and again, we need leaders to show us how to navigate our way through this growing by the day culture, and if we are not led at the minute by men and women, and we aren’t, we’re being led by abominations, and the same abominations are carefully planted into the media to lie 100% to us, and they do, when Jesus told us that….
“in the last days of this world, men will become women, women will become men, boys will become girls, girls will become boys, bad will become good, good will become bad, black will become white, white will become black, truth will become lies, lies will become truth….”etc, and he warned that evil will be in front of your face and you won’t know, because “you have eyes, but you cannot see.” our holy saviour warned of these days.
And the paranoid unhinged cynic would say….
“Did he say that? did he really say that? where you there? how do you know? it was written in the bible you say, would that be the same bible that is opened and spread onto a purple cushion and sumdy wearing a bowler hat white gloves and an OO sash carries that same cushion at the front of the OO parade with that same holy bible on it you say? the same holy bible? oh that’s a different holy bible you say? the Freemasons have a bible as well you say? oh right, so who wrote all of these bibles? do the folk who wrote all of these bibles post on cqn? if not then how do we know who these bible writers are? is history written by folk who post on cqn? if not then how can we verify what these writers say? its a wee bit confusing now, so you know what? I’m away to watch my favorite film, “The Quiet Man” isn’t that nice?
Oh, before I go, did you know that, him again, George Galloway, is the only political guy who has declared that,
“The bible is written by men. Men can be corrupted. So think carefully about that, before you read, The Holy Bible!”
Wouldn’t that kind of direct ballsy honesty blow the roofs off of each, and every Parliament?
GG is the key to dismantling the enslaved human matrix, because George Galloway can’t be bought bullied or negotiated with, by that matrix, and 100% of the matrix are terrified of his truth, what are you all waiting for?
hh
Ticket business.
Sweeneys (old bay horse)
Corona at shows x
Linen room rumoured hun onion bar.
Granary mixed pub
Finland and John maxwell.
Pub opposite iceland old Doune Castle
Depends on age etc.
No sticky carpet nightclub kike Roscoe or mr d’s.in my day
Vibrant wee area.good luck
I would walk down to Heraghtys
HH
Ticket bus
Don’t worry SS 6.51pm, shop, drink, eat and be merry for in January they’ll close the schools.
I find it bewildering that parents in this country seem not to give a toss about their childrens education.
Selfishness in the extreme.