Discussions about normalising ticket allocation between Celtic and Newco were coming to a positive conclusion ahead of the first meeting between the clubs this season when it occurred to Newco the landscape may change by the time they visit Celtic Park in January.
In the late summer, we were back and gathering in our thousands at events, indoors and out, for the most part, jabbed and ready for the world. When Celtic alerted Newco that an equal distribution of 7,000 tickets would depend on unrestricted access at public events, Newco went cold on the idea. The prospect of government action with major sporting events in the middle of winter has been actively considered since.
Newco have the curious advantage of playing their most difficult away fixtures: Celtic Park, Pittodrie, Tynecastle and Easter Road, between now and 2 January, when facilities face the greatest uncertainty that they can remain open to full attendances, with or without variants.
Call me a cynic, but that 2 January date looks vulnerable to some of the Scottish Government influences you have become accustomed to. They have yet to miss a trick when it comes to subverting Celtic.
This is Scotland.
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If the board appoint Higgins how many will not renew their season books?
I reckon it will be around, give or take, approximately, none at all.
The only thing that will cause people not to renew is a sustained and serious loss of form on the park. If that happens then probably about 15-20,000.
!!BADA BING!! on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 3:54 PM
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/covid-19-ireland-cabinet-meet-22314669
New restrictions for travel to The Republic from Friday
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had a right crappy day with this today. Went for Boots as they were cheaper than GLA. Had to upload 3 people’s details and photos of passports and then pay.
Then you have to go to another Boots site to book a slot in a shop. Only shop in the west of Scotland appears to be Braehead (i had planned to hit the town centre ). No slots from 8 Dec all the way to the 27 Dec when I need it.
Cancelled and bought the expensive GLA slots instead (2 sites again!!!).
All because Michael Martin is a wee sweetie wife who likes to get it up the UK and ruin Christmas for all the Irish ex pats looking to come home to mammy.
£165 for 3 tests
2 Tory parties and some tree huggers is no kind of government at all
Coneybhoy on 30th November 2021 4:54 pm
I had exactly the same experience with Boots in the summer eventually used these guys:
https://scotnursing.com/private-covid-19-test/
Cheap and quick.
Sorry not the summer, the October week.
TIMMY7_NOTED on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 4:49 PM
Regarding Brian Wilson I pointed out that a Celtic director, speaking as such at an AGM, stating that it was wrong to describe what happened to the huns as demotion represented a step in the right direction, and was completely at odds with what the club’s de facto owner has stated on a previous occasion.
To that extent I welcomed what he had to say.
I’ve also pointed out that the sustained and long running campaign of attacks by cult supporters on Brian Wilson are politically motivated because he tells it like it is, and, being intolerant and authoritarian, as most cults are, they cannot tolerate anyone who challenges them.
The same MO is evident on here.
I hope (but without any great expectation) that clears up any misunderstandings you have.
TIMMY7_NOTED on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 5:02 PM
Coneybhoy on 30th November 2021 4:54 pm
I had exactly the same experience with Boots in the summer eventually used these guys:
https://scotnursing.com/private-covid-19-test/
Cheap and quick.
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thanks for that, will have a look tomorrow; just had to make sure i got booked before slots went. I can cancel GLA within 48hrs.
CelticEarlyYears
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OTD 134 years ago came the 1st mention of Celtic in the press, 3 weeks after we were formally constituted in St Mary’s Hall. A committee was elected & met weekly on a Thursday night in the same hall. Their priorities were to build the 1st ground, search for players & raise funds.
https://twitter.com/EarlyCeltic/status/1465356924342480903/photo/1
16 people still to make their Superbru midweek predictions. There are games tonight, on Wednesday and on Thursday. Deadline for tonight’s game is 7.45 pm
trying, very very trying
Thursday night should be a cracker of a game – even better if we win! Here’s the Hearts manager’s take on it..
Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Robbie said: “Definitely, we can go there with confidence. We’ve got a good team here.
“We have belief in the team and we have to go and take that out onto the pitch and that’s what we’ll try and do on Thursday night.
“They’ve got good players, there is no doubting it. You look at internationals right through their team. They’re going to be a good team.
“We played them at the start of the season and they were just starting to develop how they want to play and it’s a bit more consistent now.
“The last time we struggled to get any pressure on them, especially in the first half. We got kind of dominated but in the second half we changed it and got more pressure and we were more in the game, and managed to score a couple of goals.
“For us it’s, we’re off the back of a good result last week and we’ve got the chance to now go and implement our game plan on the game at Parkhead.”
getintae them
Rock Tree Bhoy on 30th November 2021 6:03 pm
Thursday night should be a cracker of a game – even better if we win! Here’s the Hearts manager’s take on it..
Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Robbie said: “Definitely, we can go there with confidence. We’ve got a good team here.
“We have belief in the team and we have to go and take that out onto the pitch and that’s what we’ll try and do on Thursday night.
Manager double speak for 11 men behind the ball…..
Marspapa ,, 👏👏😂! London is too meet daughter and grandkids , they stay down there , off at xmas for a cple weeks so could catch up then 👍
Just read today’s “debate” and I have to say I am disappointed. It was very low level “ya boo- sucks” stuff that I was reading.
Pretending that England was responsible for British imperialism is as weak a line as stating that Independence will see us deliver policies that we cannot campaign for now because they would be vote losers. It’s see-through unconvincing nonsense.
Everyone exploited the West African Slave trade and colonised the Americas. English, Scots, Welsh and Irish, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedes. They were aided in the process by Arab slave traders, European Governments and, above all, by churches that backed a view that anyone without a Christian creed, and some with an inferior version of a Christian Creed was a lesser person.
It was a mix of Feudal and Capitalsit thinking at a time when European Nation states were burgeoning. And even nations that were not nation states such as Scotland and Ireland, benefited from trade for products produced by slave labour like Cotton and Tobacco. Nobody with recent family history as a slave descendant is going to give any of us a bye and say you were just obeying the orders of your own colonial masters. Nobody compelled a Scots or Irish slave master to adopt that role but they did. Even Rabbie Burns, a man who expressed sympathy for the French revolution against the Aristocracy, was prepared to become a West Indian Slave master. A man who could anthropromorphise human values in a louse and a mouse, was prepared to set them aside for melanin-enhanced peoples.
There’s no Scottish exceptionalism here. We fought voluntarily against the French attempts to establish a republic and the US version of the same. We were still fighting when the Irish mounted their 81% successful rebellion against the Crown 105 years ago.
The Scottish Government DID treat Celtic FC badly last year and went easy on Sevco. Paul has an arguable point that they could harnm our chances by shutting down crowd advantages in January. This time though, if that happens, it will not be motivated by anti-Celtic sentiment, if it ever was, I believe, but by the vagaries of the fixture list.
Unless we believe that they or the SFA engineered it so it was our turn to play them in Winter when lockdown measures are more likely.
I find it hard, to credit either the SFA or the Government with that level of foresight.
We need a more grown up argument here.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
Far too much sense there. You shouldn’t be ashamed of yourself.
I see Celtic by numbers, has given James McCarthy a very decent report, for his first 90 min game played for us on Sunday 👏
Yeah sftb, we were in it all together but the tudors practised slaughter and extirpation in Ireland and then exported it to the world.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:35 PM
It is also worth mentioning that around 15% of the population of England are, or are descendants of, immigrants from the former colonies. The equivalent figure for Scotland is 5%.
So on that basis you could argue that the current population of England bears less responsibility for, and are greater victims of, the crimes of the British empire than the population of Scotland.
NorrieM on 30th November 2021 6:59 pm
Thats Good News as we need to rest our most present players when we can in this most hectic of periods.
James McCarthy was miles off it when he was being introduced but he is hopefully gonnae play a big part in the coming weeks.
Ange is the Man!!!
The first colony of England was England itself.
Talking to my wife this afternoon about all things Celtic and there supporters how as customers we are treated by this present board ,her reply was if it’s as bad as you are saying I wouldn’t renew my season ticket till they fix our grievances,and she is correct,When think of all the bonus and salaries they have taken out our club and us the customers being served up 3rd rate facilities make you wonder who is the mugs.
For anyone looking for a good watch, I Believe I Miracles is now on netflix.
Film length documentary on Clough and Forest European Cup wins. It’s excellent and funny…….young man.
before the calton, before the irish were forced to come.
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Happy #StAndrewsDay! Here’s Allan Dreghorn’s St Andrew’s Parish Church in 1759, 30 years before it was enclosed by David Hamilton’s square.
On the left is the Washing House of Glasgow, built in 1730, where women would take their linen to be cleaned and bleached
Pic: Mitchell
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFcnyJMWUAcJuQQ?format=jpg&name=small
TIMBHOY163 on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 7:18 PM
Talking to my wife this afternoon about all things Celtic and there supporters how as customers we are treated by this present board ,her reply was if it’s as bad as you are saying I wouldn’t renew my season ticket till they fix our grievances,and she is correct,When think of all the bonus and salaries they have taken out our club and us the customers being served up 3rd rate facilities make you wonder who is the mugs.
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you could always go see another team at murraypark, sit in their exceptional juniors ground stand bought and paid for (mibbies naw) by thier own mug supporters, sit amongst ra peepel who give up their free time to patch and mend their stadium,
you know the former debenture holders and such like.
percentages this.
percentages that.
percentages used to felt georges hat.
The results reveal the genetic ethnic make up of the ‘average’ person in the UK and what countries and/or regions they can trace their ancestry back to over the past 500 years. They found that the average UK resident is 36.94% British (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celtic) and 19.91% Western European (the region covered today by France and Germany).
Following these top three regional ethnicities in the average UK resident are Scandinavia (9.20%), the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) (3.05%), and Italy and Greece (1.98%). For more information on these regions see Table 2 below.
Interestingly, breakdowns of the data also reveal differences between residents of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and even within English regions.
English people have significantly less Irish ancestry (just 20% of their genetic make-up) on average compared to people living in Scotland (43.84%), Wales (31.99%) and Northern Ireland (48.49%). English residents do however have the highest amount of Scandinavian (9.39%) and Western European (French/German) (20.45%) ancestry.
Scottish residents have the highest amount of Finnish/Northwest Russian (1.31%) heritage, which is explained by their geographic proximity.
Welsh residents have the highest proportion of ancestry from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) in the UK (3%).
Within England, London is the most ethnically diverse region, having the highest amount of heritage from 17 of the 26 regions[ii] analysed. Yorkshire was found to have the highest percentage of British (Anglo Saxon) ancestry (41.17%). The East Midlands has the most Scandinavian ancestry (10.37%) as well as the most Eastern European (2.47%).
The East of England has the most Italian/Greek (Southern European) ancestry (2.53%) and Western European (French/German) (22.52%) ancestry, as well as the highest amount from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) (3.43%). Within England, the North East is home to people with the most Irish (Celtic) ancestry (27.58%).
MARTIM1980 on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 7:20 PM
For anyone looking for a good watch, I Believe I Miracles is now on netflix.
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5 live sunday morning was talking about it again.
Johnny Owen the best on the radio, producer of the documentary, stated that many Forest players believed that John Robertson was the best player in europe, not keegan who got the award.
vg listen, and that is a brilliant watch
SAINT STIVS on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 7:35 PM
Will give the show a listen, thanks!
WISHAW TIM on 30TH NOVEMBER 2021 6:27 PM
Marspapa ,, 👏👏😂! London is too meet daughter and grandkids , they stay down there , off at xmas for a cple weeks so could catch up then 👍
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Even better, gives us time to talk about the wallopers 😂😂😂
have a great time pal.
keep safe 🙏🟩⬜🟨💚
The Scottish Government suspected of fixing the fixture list to assist Sevco with away fixtures on the hypothesis of a covid winter shutdown, deary me
Unless we believe that they or the SFA engineered it so it was our turn to play them in Winter when lockdown measures are more likely.
all while ignoring the “reverse fixtures” that has been in place for donkeys year.
home, away, home, away, last season
becomes
away, home, away , home this season.
i do know though they told Higgins to carry out his orders in a viscious arrogant and aggresive manner, cos Nicola doesnt like tims.
ayrshire nationalists, what ir they like.
Live football Prime Video Leeds v Crystal Palace ,McCoist one of the match Commentators,Sky Sevco ,Motherwell v Dundee Utd Boyd and her that’s fronting it , bet she will have Sevco Leanings,why is it that these ex Sevco players are getting more media work than other ex football players who probably are needing the money than them two ,who probably are finically secure .
Watching Eddie Howes Noocasso
A lot of long ball stuff. Not nice to watch
Mibby it’s because they are the bestest pundits ever , no ? You don’t think it’s that? Me neither 😜😜😜😜😁😁
Glad I got over to see match last weekend. Booked also for Dec 12th but new restrictions mean it’s not worth booking flights in advance.
Stay safe everyone.
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Higgins is a sideshow we can do without.
It will hinder our efforts on the park of that I am certain.
Whatever it takes we need to get rid of this corrupt, incompetent, lying cabal we have as a board and the idea of a character like Higgins even darkening our door.
D :)
signing in very very difficult once again.
Worldwide protest against Higgins appointment.
https://celtsarehere.com/celtic-fan-protest-goes-global/
Celtic PLC know that Celtic fans don’t have the balls to sack them, as a tsunami of reasons to do so over the past decade, have been bottled by fans, or deceitfully deflected by issuing Sevco-esque statements ala,
“We support Ange, ‘not’ the PLC!”
This 👆 after giving the PLC £666 × 53,000.
Ah mean, don’t don’t piss in my pocket, then tell me its raining!
Even in the Jungle days, fellow Tims wouldn’t piss in their fellow Tims pockets, then tell them its raining!
Now a days fellow Tims just look after Jack.
PLC sucks!
Manager is a an idealist puppet tick, tock…💥
Players will be sold at the drop of a hat!
Supporters protest in the car park for 6 months, even Jeanette Findlay, standing on a stool, in the pissing rain, screaming into a loudspeaker, about the PLC, blah, blah, blah!
And then, after 6 months, the renewal bells rung loud and clear, and the protests were given a rubber ear.
The 6 month long protesters, put down their loudspeakers, carried away their wee stools, and joined the renewal queue, like their fellow Tims, and played their part in securing another year of, PLC collusion, deceit, deflections, cover ups, lies, more lies, and all of the usual rigmarole.
Probably the best thing that could happen to Celtic now, is for GvB to win 5+ titles in a row, and scunner the 53,000 “People’s Friend” type of rebels, to F out of Celtic fc, with all of your details on the numerous data bases, utilized to ensure that none of you set foot inside Parkhead, ever again!
50,000 silent library. OOT!
3,000 misinformed blown up bootlaces playing at being rebels! OOT!
Really?
Real rebels wouldn’t have allowed parking tickets to be put on, food bank collection vans, but you lot did!
What were you doing? Filming it on your phones?
Food bank parking tickets!
The likely appointment of Higgins, and who knows what other Jacks are waiting to jump out of the box?
Most of you observed the political, naked hatred, directed at Celtic last season !?
Then what did most of you do?
You went out and voted for Celtic hating politicians, who’s leaders skin, visibly crawls, when she says the name,
“Celtic”, and watched her app!ying a different rule book to Celtic, to cheat Celtic, in 10 in a row season! Celtic win the 10, and Sevco would’ve died, but the leader of Scotland, applied specific, Celtic targeted rules, rules that proved to be injurious to Celtic’s hopes of clinching the 10, and most of Celtic’s supporter’s went out to the Scottish elections in May, and voted for this, nakedly, Celtic hating, skin crawling, party, back into office, so that she will ensure further, injurious outcomes for Celtic, maybe even pressing the nuclear button, and banning Celtic out of Scottish football for their ar*e dragging, deflection, dither, delay, deny, obscure, unavailable for CH 4 interview, re: the disgusting, stinking abuse issue, which the executive that you all financially remunerate, year in, year out, have dodged, and left ticking under the surface, waiting for a daily TV personality, to rewrite the script and get, big HunBilly back onside, by throwing Celtic out of Scottish football, under investigation! Wee sleekit will say,….
“The disgusting issues at Celtic, are way, way, way, worse than someone not paying taxes, and anyone who has supported those who’ve engaged in this cover up, namely, Celtic PLC could be looking at criminal convictions, and folk who’ve paid into this PLC regime, might also find they too have helped to cover this up, by burying this issue, hoping it would go away, their actions are naive, or complicit in the cover up, by financially rewarding the PLC doing the cover up, our Scottish law officers will decide their fate, in this new normal!?”
Oh dear?
And wee sleekit will hold open the door for a HunBilly landslide victory at next UK GE in 2023? wee skin crawling sleekit, getting HunBilly onside in time for the united Ireland, Ulster Scots exodus from the emerald isle, into wee sleekits arms, indy2 liquidated, by big HunBilly, and before you know it, in Scotland, every day will be the 12th of July with almost every West of Scotland street, bedecked in pageantry colours, paramilitary flags flying from lamp posts, Celtic Park surrounded by fire brigade engines every night as big HunBilly wants to put the entire stadium, bit by bit on top of awe the bawnfires on the Celtic Way, etc etc, as Celtic Park has big giant padlock onit, and entire outer stadium is sealed off with yellow and black crime scene tape, and wee sleekit will use one of her daily TV shows to inform her nation that,….
“The majority can celebrate their culture for as long, and as often as they please, and given that Scotland is a democracy, and a freedom loving country, any minority community who can’t appreciate other cultures, in the new blue normal, then they are free to leave whenever they like, but if you do go just bear in mind that, we could never have pulled this off, if it was Parkhead Jungle supporters from back in the day, so we are all grateful that its only 53,000 cuddly toys. Thank you Timdom, mammy Scotland loves you more than you’ll ever know, you fkn snowflakes !”
She is capable of this! 👆 💥
53,000 sleeping cells, couldn’t hold a candle to the pish flowing Jungle supporters who would’ve deleted the PLC, if they knew, what you have all known, for over a decade.