Pretty gutted for Inverness keeper Dean Brill, who will miss the Hampden Scottish Cup semi final with a dislocated knee. We saw enough from the Highlanders on Saturday to know they pose Serious Treble Risk, but you want to beat teams at full strength.
Anyone who tells you Celtic suffered a material loss due to Rangers liquidation is blowing out his bum. We lost some revenue but we’ve not been in such good shape, financially and on the field, in years.
I I could argue it was the best thing to happen to Celtic in the last 48 years but we’ll have the decades to come to ponder the full impact.
The Memorial Stone for CQNers no longer with us has now been fully funded with circa £500 left over for Mary’s Meals. A humbling effort, well done to all involved, especially TBJ.
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Hello
Me?
hail hail
Raffle tickets still on sale
well done tbj
HH
Good afternoon summer has finally arrived………………………………i think
Glad to hear that £500 on top if the CQN Memorial stone raised. Great effort.
Just as we arrive in Belfast!!
P67 you have post ….hope you and the bhoys can help…thanks
braw
Top 10 in York!
How to get raffles?
What exactly is Keith Jackson not understanding about Fit and Proper Person regulations at the SFA?
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/still-not-getting-it/
‘The Fields of Ashley’
In a lonely shopping mall
I heard a wee Hun calling
Michael you took Broxy Bear away
Borrowed 5 million and some porn
So ra Gers might see the morn
Now we’re gettin’ screwed by Ashely
No way, can the Huns afford to pay
And all their dreams, they’re just pie in the sky
LOL at Davy King, of Green and Whyte we sing
It’s so funny laughing as the Sevco die
In a lonely shopping mall
I heard a fat Hun calling
Nothin’ matters but the Big Hoose tae me
HMRC and the Crown
They pumped us, noo we’re down
Nothin’ left ‘cept broon brogues and digni-tee.
No way, can the Huns afford to pay
And all their dreams, they’re just pie in the sky
LOL at Davy King, of Green and Whyte we sing
It’s so funny laughing as the Sevco die
By a lonely shopping mall
We watch the last Hun bawling
As Sports Direct dig up Ibrox Park
We dance up the Celtic Way
Cos the Huns can never pay
It’s so funny laughing as the Sevco die
No way, can the Huns afford to pay
And all their dreams, they’re just pie in the sky
LOL at Davy King, of Green and Whyte we sing
It’s so funny laughing as the Sevco die
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan. the vow – critically rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
13:15 on 13 April, 2015
Taranis
All yours buddy.
If you are on twitter follow me then we can DM for arrangements and meet up.
MWD said AYE
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan. the vow – critically rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
13:16 on 13 April, 2015
Taranis
@Moonbeamswd
MWD said AYE
The answer is blowin out his bum.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/still-not-getting-it/
Good reply to the awful guff that Jackson churns out day after day after endless day, was it not him that coined the term MBB, these muppets have no shame..
Sandman 13:45
Vintage :-) :-)
Paul, on a decent pitch like hampden (I know, I know), ICT will be no threat on Sunday. A comfortable win.
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar
what time you getting back to hotel ??I will look out for you.how many of you and are you all wearing the COLOURS?
I posted this earlier, upstairs in TSFM, re Jackson’s fairy tale.
ThomTheThim says:
April 13, 2015 at 11:42 am
ecobhoy says:
April 13, 2015 at 9:40 am
An unusual note of realism from Jackson:
******
I think that article is a sleekit piece “journalism”.
Ostensibly, it is about inviting King to let the Bears know of his plans. Fair enough.
However, the gist of the article is about swinging the F&P decision in his favour, by Dermot Desmond applying pressure on Peter Lawwell to use his “influence” on the Board.
He also misquotes Desmond as ” needing” Rangers and quoting the ” two years loss of £10m” to Celtic.
The £10m that PL stated was based over two years, citing the £100 reduction on Season Tickets, plus match day income for four fixtures against RFC, etc.
He could easily have written that Celtic have adjusted their financial model to suit the circumstances, thereby dismissing any notion of them being needed.
No club in Scotland needs RFC.
Another disingenuous bit was the introduction of King’s alleged legal position re his tax convictions was to suggest that in SA, tax convictions were really just a way for the authorities to collect revenue and the jail terms were an irrelevance….and the £40m was more or less a fine.
His bottom line was that PL could be corrupted to ensure that the Coronation can take place.
If Desmond had that control over Lawwell then Roy Keane would be in the Celtic dugout today.
“Anyone who tells you Celtic suffered a material loss due to Rangers liquidation is blowing out his bum.”
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Errrrr, who said that?????
Paul, re “blowing out his bum” I was in the company of a director of an SPL side last weekend. He was in the boardroom at CP as his team visited us in the last month or so. He tells me Bankier was going on about the £8m PA Celtic are losing with TRIFC not being in the league. That’s more than ” some revenue”. Which makes me think, if it’s not true why is he saying it ? and making a big deal about it.
Interestingly he also told me they were desperate not to be in the playoff as they don’t think whatever SPFL Premiership team ends up in a final v TRIFC will be allowed to win it…………
Big Georges Fan Club – Hail, Hail, Wee Oscar
You can get the raffle tickets at http://www.cqnbookstore.com – this will run until around 7.30pm this evening to let as many contribute as possible. We will draw the 5 winners and post on blog this evening.
Thanks again to TBJ and everyone who contributed.
PS – More Celtic news stories today at http://www.cqnmagazine.com
Bob Dylan?
What happened to Big chippie??
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
He’s ootside wi’ Big Fishy:))
This has to be a Tim at the windup, strong language in parts
http://youtu.be/m6vYBfEJWUs
gsu
How can we be losing £10 Million due to lack of huns when we get circa (almost guaranteed 6 home Euro fixtures and associated income?
Allyhuntersgloves
13:58 on
13 April, 2015
So they’re assuming that TRIFC will be in the final, which I wouldn’t say is a given. Even with mibbery afoot.
Paul,
I could not agree more ……best thing to happen to Celtic in our history….!!!!
“Anyone who tells you Celtic suffered a material loss due to Rangers liquidation is blowing out his bum. We lost some revenue but we’ve not been in such good shape, financially and on the field, in years.”
Gonnae dae sumfin about the number of booky pop ups polluting this site on entering
I pop on from time to time,mostly always using a different pc.
sometime taking 5 mins of being bounced around a bookies site.
is this all part of the new CQN experience? hope no.
Bawsman
14:12 on
13 April, 2015
You could attribute all sorts of lost revenue to lack of them. Lower ST sales (might just be the economy), lower sponsorship/ad revenue (might just be the economy) and so on and so on.
It’s one of those things where you could say opposing things to different people and both could be true.
Mcgeady rumours
I doubt everton are too interested in forrest to be honest.
Love to see celtic fans line up as players but not sure if i would want to see most of our wage budget spent on aidan. We have other areas that need more attention to be honest. Especially if we lose our centre backs.
Re the huns and the play-offs, the fix is in. Nothing surer.
They will be polluting the SPL next season if the pondlife survive that long.
Sickens me.
JamesForrest@13.45
“Keech Jackshun” indeed.
Like Charlie Nick was sitting here looking at the Championship tables and thinking that Livingston have been deducted points for “financial irregularities” whilst another “CLUB” is trading whilst insolvent with no sanctions whatsoever imposed.
Wonder what the difference is????
gearoid1998
…surely they have suffered enough?
Shurely?
Some thoughts on this morning’s article, and some comments on the weekend…
1. Paul writes, “Anyone who tells you Celtic suffered a material loss due to Rangers liquidation is blowing out his bum.”
Does this include PL? He is reported to have said that, ““The lost money which Rangers, and now Hearts and Hibs, have taken out of the game, has been made up from profit from selling players. Our revenues have stayed the same from selling players to make up for those lost millions.”
Now, losing ‘million’s is still losing millions, even if we were able to ‘make that up by selling players’. The millions that we lost are still lost, and the millions we gained (and which then were used to pay the electricity bill, for example, could have, and otherwise would have, gone to buy and pay better players.
The Board should come clean on the financial issue, and what PL meant by this. Statements like this which are materially incomplete and/or misleading do not assist. PL is going to make statements like above, they have to be accurate and clear
You go on later to say that “[the loss of R*****S was the best thing to happen to Celtic in the last 48 years but we’ll have the decades to come to ponder the full impact.” I agree 100%, and I think I know where you are going with this argument.. If I am correct, that is a related issue, but that does not necessarily make the first statement correct. It depends on how one defines ‘the best thing’ and, as you say, over what time period.
On so many levels, mostly social … the country will be better without a spearhead/repository for hatred… and financially, we dont need them ….. but, I think you need to tell PL and NFL that.
2. Talks about tactics …3-5-2, etc….. it doesn’t matter where people stand … its where and when they move, and we dont move smart. We need to work on this. Related to this ….
3. Aiden McGeady for James Forrest? …. Both are abundantly skilled, but, for me, they are both lacking football intelligence … RD has us playing more of a team pressing game … but , like the spartans, that system only works if everyone knows their role and where they should be … if one guy is in the wrong place, the whole framework can fall ….. we are getting that with RD, in terms of closing down, but we still need to really develop that instinct when we are going forward ….. I just dont think AMcG brings that football intelligence … he has bags of skill, but doesn’t really know how or when to use it to allow the team to get the best out of it ….. too many times, he would beat someone, then run into a dead end ….. I love his skill, but I think the money could be better spent elsewhere ….
Certainly the best think where Celtic is concerned to have happened to me in the last 45 years…!
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