I winced slightly reading that Deliotte’s suggested Celtic were a ‘top 40’ club in terms of turnover. The days we featured in their annual Top 20 report are long gone, lost in the raft of TV deals which flooded into England, France and elsewhere.
This is a problem for Celtic but at least we have a decent shot at Champions League income each year. Others in Scottish football have been left to wither on the vine (phrase of the week), as the likes of AFC Bournemouth cherry-pick their talent.
Celtic need a solution to help them compete with their peer-group of European heavy-weights but the solution has to accommodate the other top Premiership clubs. Dundee United have the ability to produce remarkable talent, if only they had the TV deal to allow them to retain it long enough to build a team. The same could be said for Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Inverness and Ross County.
Scottish football would benefit enormously by federating with a neighbour.
You would think after administration and liquidation those who look to Ibrox for their football fix would, to adopt a popular phrase around those parts, have suffered enough from financial ‘ambition’. Not a bit of it, it seems. Not when the spectre of “being battered” by Celtic looms like an enormous green and white tidal wave.
For the last 12 years of its existence, Dave King was one of the non-executive directors of Rangers, paid to ensure that financial controls and risk management [role of non-execs defined by government 2003 Higgs Report]were in place. I am not being glib or shameless when I say he did a remarkable job.
With Newco appearing to be in some financial distress, King told the Daily Mail he opposes planned cutbacks: ‘If we cut the club back to a level that’s just enough to win the League One or the Championship then that’s fine. But the gap between ourselves and Celtic when we get to the Premiership will be obvious.
“But I don’t feel the club should respond by cutting the costs to the point of saying ‘we only have to do what is necessary to beat East Fife or whoever.
“Because if you do that Celtic will build up to 10-in-a-row and we could be so far behind them that even when we are back in the Premiership we are not in a position to catch up.
“We cannot risk going to Celtic Park and being battered 6-0.”
Those trying to keep Newco Rangers afloat will not welcome suggestions that current shareholders don’t have the “appetite or willingness to invest”, a few months before they will ask fans to buy season tickets.
Learn your lesson, there is no shame in losing 6-0 to Celtic, this is sport, bad results can happen, but there is enormous shame in failing to live within your means.
I’m off to contemplate 10-in-a-row for a while. To hyphenate or not?
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BCW, sorry it was winning captains who mentioned it , my apologies
CowieBhoy, ye nicked it fae Auld Doc!p
Winning captains, what’s the good news?
Mike Conroy
Signed from Port Glasgow on the Monday.
Played and scored in a 4-1 defeat to Hibs on the Saturday.
We were rank that season. If you were even halfway fit,you played.
Offski,have fun!
Genuinely can’t remember where I got it from,
But well worth a look, and what destroyed some other mob :-)
Enjoy Bhoys & Ghirls
http://twitpic.com/dt9f8v
sixoclockatthechapel
23:20 on
24 January, 2014
That’ll have been the night they signed the t-shirts. November 2006.
Burghbhoy
Watched Jimmy Lumsden as a kid at Kilbowie. He was a great player. He fed Davie Cooper on the wing and Cooper worked magic.
I mind Joe Miller signed on the Friday and played v Dundee the next day.
Emusanorphan-Would guess so.They didn’t sign one for me though-perhaps they didn’t like my singing the Celtic Song as they were belting out Galway Girl!
Mr Stockbridge has left the Big hoose.
Next ?
DD
Aye , ma faither thought he was great, only lasted a few games , became a coach wi us.
Did MacAvennie not sign Friday night and play Saturday v Hibs?
Gordon64, he has left after stripping everything but the wallpaper!
A richer man for the experience.
JimmyQuinnsBits
I had a listen.
And I think that it is very good.
I’m not a musician, but I make my living from arranging words. You’ve strung some lyrics together that will resonate with most folk, and that, as you will know, is the trick. Human empathy in music
I think you are on to something, I really enjoyed it.
You have my admiration and support
TJ
Night Bhoys and Ghirls, got Sunday to wait for
Hail Hail
TTT
Joe did. Do you remember the Frankie and Josie show at Greenock, when they destroyed Morton together? Loved that game!
Burghley
That’d be correct about Macca.
I remember being on the Downcraig CSC bus on the way back from the Dortmund on the M1 and seeing a newspaper headline that we he was signing. The Hibs game was a 1-1 draw.
Night night all. Fermers never get late nights. Great night on here tonight, but missed most of it. See yawl in the mo. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Winning captains are you about? Tell us more.
JimmyQuinnsBits
Very nice and just the right time of night don’t worry about the
singing it works
HH
Oops Burghboy, sorry.
Tommy,
many thanks… it’s messin about, sometimes music is the only thing that keeps me going… it won’t go anywhere, but it fires me
What do you do? With words?
Bognorbhoy,
as you can tell, I’m not a pianist…. I said PIANIST
I prefer the guitar
https://soundcloud.com/cuddy-mccann/all-that-lovely-money
I’m shameless
Night Bhoys and hail hail
DD
4-0 game? Or was that the game when macca and Andy walker scored 2 apiece?
Actually I think that was 1st game of season.
In the half hour since the pic went up, 90 people have seen it.
A fair few from twitter, but mostly from CQN.
http://twitpic.com/dt9f8v
It’s a dishcloth!
Ticketbus – that’s Paul’s gig. He is dropping clues!
JimmyQuinnsbits – who says it wont go anywhere?
Let me tell you this – your key stanza is on my fridge for my wife to wake up to.
We’ve been chatting recently about being more present, which is completely different to living for the moment, and your lyrics encapsulate that perfectly.
But to answer your question, I do some speech writing, I’m on my first novel, but I’ll always be a social worker, and I believe that it’s words that move people to action….
Don’t hide your light, you never know who is listening…I was tonight.
Take care mate….
TJ
Winning Captains! show us the deeds!
Ticketus – Diversifying into leasing?
They made us stronger so they had to go.
Green Brigade
TTT
Blaw and wine were partaken that day. :) Remember wee Josie destroying the left back at oor end and giving Frankie a constant supply.
Doc – put your pic on Facebook page – will get a good few thousand views
Mary Duff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8WEoJnwoL4
JimmyQuinnsBits
Again nice one Will follow your soundcloud
Hail Hail
Goodnight Tims
Tommy Joad
23:56 on
24 January, 2014
Tommy, appreciated
I know what’s wrong with it, but I can’t fix it…. a metaphor for life
I know, listening to real artists, how it is. I’m happy singing to the void ;)
fred c. dobbs
Cracking video mhate.
We are getting an invite to another league, Paul has been hinting at this for months, I have posted this before!