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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HT
Agree re Hooper
The ” of late” was deliberate tho
Since Hooper …most ,if not all ,attempts have been poor
Bangura , Murphy,Pukki, Balde, Stokes( this season) ….train wreck
Used to think Cowdenbeath was a bit backward like a town from the movie Deliverance.
Pre conception probably stems from the fact that most of the residents view Donald Finlay as an intelligent man.(intelligent maybe…..but man is just taking it too far).
Anyway,seems like 65% of the duelling banjo players are far more intelligent than I thought,by not voting for anyone in the by election.
Just think if nobody voted……What would the self serving leeches do?
It would be an interesting conundrum,ey?
SpoiledballotpapetsCSC
Pfayr
Yep agreed but I think that all of those you mentioned had been less than prolific at their previous clubs.
Let’s just sign someone who’s scoring goals right now, at least then we’re giving ourselves a fighting chance.
Has there been any comment on the PE article from this weeks magazine?
Since things come in threes when will the final instalment come?
1) AT outburst — Comedy Central it was so poor.
2) PE article — Lots of words but few facts.
3) ???
Apologies in advance if this has been done to death.
No time to lurk this week, too busy winding up our colonial cousins about autos.
winning captains
11:44 on 25 January, 2014
Perhaps Bobo could provide you with an article.
Ernie Lynch, I’l have you know that I have a sylph-like profile (depending on the light) and only get treated to fried breakfast at the weekend.
Minx88 I did enjoy it.
BIGNAN……
Totties with breakfast?
Need to try that…….Was it good?
” that most basic of human rights,the right to vote”
– The gap between rich and poor has grown faster in Britain than in any other developed country. (Source OECD)
– Wage cuts for British workers deepest since records began. (Source Institute for Fiscal Studies)
– In the UK 13 million people living below the poverty line, more than half of are working. (Source Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
– State pension age, people in their late 20’s will have to work till 70. (Scource Government statements)
– UK state pensions are the LOWEST in Europe. (Source OECD)
The UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life. (Source uSwitch)
Snouts in the trough.
– MP’s vote themselves 11% pay rise (they wanted 32%)
– MP’s expenses continue to rise after the 2009 expenses scandal broke (despite the Labour Party’s 3 line whip to force its MP’s to vote against allowing a Freedom of Information expenses request).
– MP’s pensions
To achieve their current pension on the open market MPs would need to save about £60,000 a year for every year they are in parliament.
– MP’s get 29 weeks paid holidays per year
I defy any defenders of UK ‘democracy’ and ‘right to vote’ to google ‘MP’s expense scandal’.
If you can’t be bothered reading do a Google Image search and look at the pictures..
I have nothing but contempt for the ‘right to vote’, given the political quagmire in this country.
It is patronizing.
” that most basic of human rights,the right to vote”
– The gap between rich and poor has grown faster in Britain than in any other developed country. (Source OECD)
– Wage cuts for British workers deepest since records began. (Source Institute for Fiscal Studies)
– In the UK 13 million people living below the poverty line, more than half of are working. (Source Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
– State pension age, people in their late 20’s will have to work till 70. (Scource Government statements)
– UK state pensions are the LOWEST in Europe. (Source OECD)
The UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life. (Source uSwitch)
Snouts in the trough.
– MP’s vote themselves 11% pay rise (they wanted 32%)
– MP’s expenses continue to rise after the 2009 expenses scandal broke (despite the Labour Party’s 3 line whip to force its MP’s to vote against allowing a Freedom of Information expenses request).
– MP’s pensions
To achieve their current pension on the open market MPs would need to save about £60,000 a year for every year they are in parliament.
– MP’s get 29 weeks paid holidays per year
I defy any defenders of UK ‘democracy’ and ‘right to vote’ to google ‘MP’s expense scandal’.
If you can’t be bothered reading do a Google Image search and look at the pictures..
I have nothing but contempt for the ‘right to vote’, given the political quagmire in this country.
It is patronizing.
Hasta la Victoria siempre
Just read the linked article re Monaco and their pay off wrt tax breaks. Anyone else think they have got an absolute bargain?
Also listened to Martin Kelner on the wireless point out that in the new Deloitte”s soccerball rich list PSG and Citeh are top 5 teams….this can only be due to sweetheart sponsorship deals from firms linked with their owners. So FPP is meaningless really unless this is addressed.
HH
Jobo thanks for the weather.. It’s awful on the southside…oldest son off grumpily to play footi in Helensburgh…
Can’t blame him ..
Well done GlennGibbons..noting SMSM breaking cover as the ship sinks…
Again
HH
Said it twice doh!
Tom ….
Bang on with the patronising comment,until you used an American zee instead of s.
EnglishlanguagepedantsCSC
HT that’s not the way I read it.
Tonydonnely you didn’t answer my question? For example do you defend celtic for lying to us about threats around safety certificates for the stadium?
Ryecatcher
Always better to have a wee bit of tottie before your breakfast
Mickbhoy…..
The great Jack Nicholson preferred it after lunch in ‘The Witches of Eastwick’.
TottiesaregreatCSC
Pouring with rain in East Lothian so decided to go shopping at the Fort. Got four feet in the car, flat tire, reverse four feet and park car. Not changing it in this so afternoon of footie on ITV London and of course CQN!
“Yesterday, a chase for a player ended quite abruptly so that became a source of frustration, but it is part and parcel of the January window.”
Neil Lennon Celtic Manger…
Glorious sunshine in South Staffordshire.
Pouring rain in Govan.
Spotted an Orc filling up with petrol,on his way up to Glasgow,this morning.
GIRUY……haha
Weather report. Anyone thinking of going to the Edinburgh artificial ski slope should avoid. It’s snowing here, making conditions very slippery.
Just in to say…
Stringer Bell – Thank you for the ‘Not The View’ stuff.
Back in those days when, the entire media – apart from the Sellic clique – were all assembled around SDM’s table, eulogising about the huns run to 9 in a row, there were a few fholk who, for me…were driving a ‘Save Celtic Campaign’ by, laying siege to the old ‘bored’ and, Gerry McNee in particular, was illustrating, almost on a weekly basis on, Scotsport on a Friday nights…how, to get rid of the old ‘bored’. imho
Ye see, McNee, Keevins, Cooney and Davie Provan were, just like me…hurting Tims !!!
McNee’s, efforts and, co-operation with the ‘rebels’ was indeed praised in one of the books that came out when the change-over had taken place.
Ye see…whilst the SMSM were have collective wet-dreams about the huns domination…there were a few pockets of resistance. McNee was the trailblazer in all of the Celtic ‘boreds’ downfall and, was greatly misunderstood by the vast majority of the Celtic support who had fallen for the, old ‘bored’ line that, painted McNee as an ‘anti-Celtic bogey man’…just like they have done presently with, Hugh Keevins which, in my humble opinion, demonstrates all that you need to know about, the minnions who are in charge of directing a giant in the game which, looks like it might be about to fall asleep.
Anyway – during the nightmare 90’s….Not The View, Once A Tim and Gerry McNee, Hugh Keevins, Paul Cooney and Davie Provan…save me from throwing myself in front of a bus.
P.S. 67 Heaven – who does the swimming pool belong to ? Ye know whit ah mean ? :)
Hail Hail – Take Care Tims – Off oot.
Well spotted ryecatcher
Must have picked that Americanism up on my travels,
Ardrossan 22yrs?
Stafford 36yrs?
Thames 1yrs?
Nah! must stop reading…
starry plough forza oscar
12:41
on 25 January, 2014
“Yesterday, a chase for a player ended quite abruptly so that became a source of frustration, but it is part and parcel of the January window.”
Neil Lennon Celtic Manger…
…that Juan Mata’s a wee bugger knocking us back!
HH
Good Afternoon Folks.
I am not convinced by Griififths. He has undoubted ability but does that ability further our Champions League strengths and is he the type of layer we are looking for.
I would prefer a penalty box predator. Someone whose off the ball skills and workrate can move a defence about and make then think about him for the full 90 minutes. Someone who can get into the heads of defenders, be a constant worry and threat, and who can link the play where necessary and at the same time be the scorer of some ugly goals by just being a penalty box poacher and presence.
Winning Captains– Happy Birthday from yesterday.
I am away to finish some things for the next edition of the magazine and to finish off my Seville reminiscences.
In the interim, over on twiiter I was asked tp repost my toast to Robbie Burns from a couple of years ago.
In my opinion, there has never been a more influential and worth studying Scot.
Adam Smith and all the other inventors and thinkers may well have their place but Burns’ basic sense of equality and justice, his observations on all living things and life in general rank above all others.
The so called great Romantic poets all worshiped at his shrine and in general he was just the world’s first artistic superstar with over 10,000 coming to his funeral and an even bigger crowd being kept outside Dumfries by armed Militia.
William Pitt the younger saw Burns and his memory as a genuine political threat and spent considerable money in dispersing his family and shaping his public memory to suit the stability of the Government of the time– a time that saw revolution in France and the Americas.
As a poet he had no equal, as a Romantic figure he remains unsurpassed, as a songwriter he is the only ever artist who has one of his songs sung every second of a 24 hour hour cycle on a particular day somewhere in the world ( Auld Lang Syne ) and his songs and poems have survived for over 250 years from a time when there were no CD’s, LP’s or radio — they were retained by word of mouth and written publication alone.
Yet, Burns was DANGEROUS!
He published in Scots dialect at a time when the King’s English was demanded after Culloden, his content was always controversial and even towards the end of his life some pieces had to be published anonymously for fear of official retribution.
Why Hollywood has not adopted the Burns story I will never know — Abe Lincoln was hugely influenced by the man from Alloway.
Anyway I post my wee ( laughs ) poem below.
If he were a striker I would sell the house to pay his wages myself!!!
On Robert Burns………
http://broganrogantrevinoandhogan.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/on-robert-burns/
Fried tatties with a fry up are pure magic
Forget Lee Griffiths, if we can’t get a quality striker in before the deadline then put the lid back on the biscuit tin and recall Tony Watt – Give the boy a run of games in his favoured position and not stuck out wide. He’s got all the attributes to be a top class striker, make him the focal point and maybe he’ll screw the nut. Watt or Griffiths? No contest for me!
HH!
So if Bangura goes will that have been a £2.2M fee for 11 appearances.
So leaving aside all salary costs we’ve basically paid £200K per appearance and then decided he’s a dud.
So if a loan I’d football’s equivalent of ‘try before you buy’ we’ve managed to end up doing the opposite with ‘buy before you try’!!!
And that’s coming from me, a pretty happy, happy clapper!!
You could place Dirk into the same category (due to his injury record) and Pukki and Balde too though I accept ( and hope) that either or both could come good.
But we have an Academy to produce ‘projects’ for polishing. One recently came on against Motherwell when the game was one and lobbed the keeper in a way many of thought wax like a young Charlie Nic. On a larger scale the league is in the same position. It’s won. Fling on the youngsters. There’s no better time. What do we do? Send them to Shrewsbury.
And I am, I restate, a self-confessed happy clapper!!!
HH jamesgang
starry
From the same interview he says he’s not confident of signing anyone in the January window, but hopes to have two players in by the end of the week.
Confusing CSC
What a wonderful place CQN and it’s posters are or is.
Just been gifted a bottle of Craigellachie – Telford’s Bridge, for my House Bar,
For those I have not met, I do not drink ( my choice)
Suppose I will need to start planning another wee celebratory night
Hail Hail
bournesouprecipe
I saw that Bourne, it’s all lies everything that comes out of everybody’s mouth at Celtic park, they’re all at it Bourne form the top to the bottom, we’re doomed ah tell ye doomed and if we sign that Griffiths I’m tearing up ma bus pass for the Basel Region!!
DerPfafferCSC
As it is Burns Night, a tribute to Tommy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7MX7so7Ir74
HH
ryecatcher
12:22 on 25 January, 2014
BIGNAN……
Totties with breakfast?
Need to try that…….Was it good?
…………………………
As Burghbhoy testifies pure magic.
If they are virgin they are good but if the spuds in question are half spuds that have been on the dinner plate the night before and soaked up a bit of gravy they get even more interesting.
Anyway asume your steamed/boiled half potato is a reasonable size it should then be sliced in 2 or 3 to give you a 10mm thick wafer of spud which should then be fried to a crisp golden brown on both sides.
Mashed potato can be patted into a cake and given the same treatment and the comments re gravy absorbtion above apply.
The humble spud is much uderestimated IMHO of course.
My preference is for HP sauce, which gourmets sneer at but the stuff does it for me.
P.S. The original Big Nan had a 1/2 grapefruit for me as starters but this didn’t enhance the breakfast much.
I also had two slices of buttered wholemeal brown bread, I as is the other toasted.
Braw!
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
12:49 on
25 January, 2014
Good Afternoon Folks.
I am not convinced by Griififths. He has undoubted ability but does that ability further our Champions League strengths and is he the type of layer we are looking for.
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hola bud.
i remember your almost forensic dismantling of the strengths and weaknesses of LG during the cup final , when I asked “would you sign him”
i thought, this guy knows his football.
i dont want the bhoy either, if we are looking at that level then its stevie may for me.
brogan rogan trevino and hogan supports oscar knox, mackenzie furniss and anyone else who fights neuroblastoma
12:49 on 25 January, 2014
Good Afternoon Folks.
I am not convinced by Griififths. He has undoubted ability but does that ability further our Champions League strengths and is he the type of layer we are looking for.
2nd last line… Last word.
Did you mean it? V funny either way my friend.
Think of it as scoring direct from a corner… Course he meant it!!!!!
HH jamesgang
Well it was the last word in the line till I hit ‘post’. 4th last now!!!
Kevjungle
Have you been at the magic mushrooms again? That is the funniest post I have ever on CQN. I think I’ll have to go upstairs for a lie down.
Aren’t all transfer figures quoted in the press works of fiction even without considering that all the clauses are added to the headline figure without the trigger points being reached. I doubt we’ll be paying any more on Bangura than the barest minimum. Could be wrong. Has it been quoted in our well audited accounts?
Starry plough
And the band played believe it if you like !!:-)))
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