A two-goal win for Hearts on Saturday lunchtime would be enough to move them into second in the table. It would be reassuring to have an early opportunity to restore our five-point lead at the top of the table. Another possibility is that Newco win at Tynecastle to go top, for a few hours at least.
Irrespective of how well our season has started, defeat in Paisley last time out suggests that five-point lead gave us some false comfort. If they get through Saturday intact, Newco have the comfort of knowing that within the first seven games, they have already played away against four of the other five clubs in the top half of the table. They have significantly fewer challenging periods ahead.
We were in a far worse situation this time last year, when we comforted ourselves with the knowledge that we had almost certainly come through our most difficult period. With many eyes on the Champions League game on Wednesday, we first need to get the job done against Motherwell.
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Surely not
Why not
Have they not suffered enough
Real Celtic fan here,come say hi 🙌🙌
HH
An Tearmann
Are you stalking me now also!!!!!
Will our new new fleggers look at the cost of monarchy?
https://youtu.be/2W2eyFQC-K4
HH
Good afternoon all from Parkhead.
https://youtu.be/SbC4Zvh4Ozk
Coolio in Paradise RIP,he had the place in an uproar that day….
WHAT IS THE STARZ on 29TH SEPTEMBER 2022 12:08 PM
An Tearmann
Are you stalking me now also!!!!!
Busted! Am just not good at it. 🤣
HH
Celtic v Motherwell
Referee:John Beaton
AR1
Dougie Potter
AR2
John McCrossan
Fourth Official
Duncan Williams
Hearts v Them
Referee:Alastair Grieve
AR1
Dale Kerr
AR2
Michael Dixon
Fourth
Celtic Mac- many years ago on these pages, i touted Barry Hearn to run Scottish Football, or be an adviser. He was guest of honour at a bash for the Hampden hierarchy, and proeeded to destroy Doncaster, Reagan et al,for bad deals on TV, sponsorship etc,he didn’t take a fee from them either.
The 5 point lead only became false comfort after we lost to St Mirren
The quiet man – Alistair Grieve ? He’s a new MIB to me…..
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Bada
Me neither
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2859373/Scottish-football-terribly-lazy-self-pity-according-Barry-Hearn.html
P67 — not sure I get your argument.
A two point lead is better than a 5 point lead because it will make us more focused / engaged going forward?
Interesting angle that I don’t agree with.
We should give the TFOD2.1 nothing but headaches
We played as if we were hungover at St M’s.
Not sure where it all came from but AP has a tough few weeks coming up.
My friends in Celtic.
Instigate initiative:
We have discussed the benefits of summer football, but we have still to address the upgrade of the stadium, in particular the main stand. ( with the notable exception of MM )
Without extensive renovation it will not be fit for purpose within a decade.
If we are working smartly it will be a topic around our boardroom. This issue is not yet a problem, but it soon will be.
How to pay for it and bring it into the 21st century with 5 star rating.
Sell stadium rights, Lennoxtown and a futuristic Barrowfield. Optimise our magnificent surroundings to the max. With the Emirates next door we can create not just a Celtic hub or a sporting hub but a complete intregated entertainment hub. The aspiration must be to productivly utilise our facilities 365 day of the year
Talking about the Emirates. They pay Man City for a controversial 10 year package a whopping £400m . I believe they have one year left from 10.
I’m not suggesting we could get anything like that amount but with correct marketing we could get a substantial sum
Let be honest no matter what they called it, eg The Addidas Paradise Arena. We would still call it Parkheid. ( Or Parkers to the young upwardly mobile fraternity )
Look at the marketing for the Glasgow Warriors. Transport, discounts pub deals on food and drink. ( Little Soho and Bag o nails to name just two )
This was what Dominic Mckay was ” headhunted” to explore, just because Dominic has left the building doesn’t mean we must stop.
HH to all.
Apologies all round for the link — FT on yesterday’s nearly crash.
Not football / not even politics just hints that after 14 years the bankers would appear to be back playing games with our money.
Creating complexity to a level that they do not understand.
Yesterday’s BoE intervention would appear to have been only a matter of time as the inflation bubble runs through the financial system like figs through bloated stomach.
Derivatives trading — boy wonders trying to confuse the public more like.
Heads I win / bonus time — Tails you lose / state bailout of the financial sector again.
As noted in the article this might be the first of quite a few “unwindings”.
Hope the link works …
https://www.ft.com/content/f4a728a5-0179-48bd-b292-f48e30f8603c
MADMITCH
From earlier. Sorry mate jus a poor attempt at humour, still love your posts
Regards
KINGLuBO
Paul67
Not following you with at that line of thinking.
I thought the St Mirren defeat was a mild shock in football terms too, but the 5 point lead was already well won and deserved. Main rival always plays ahead of Celtic this weekend included, but we’ve played away or against our three main rivals, so our points and goals plus was well earned especially in manner.
Sevco being top for will only matter if it’s on a Monday morning, and quarterbacks can kick in.
P/head and its tarmac prairie is now a development desert in the East End.
Incredible that after all these years the East End is more developed than our location.
we are currently holding the East End back.
We should be a shining light given our resources.
Currently we have the look of a cathedral in the desert.
Not good.
KL @ 12.43
Well you got me with that one.
Spitting tacks so I was / spitting tacks.
Your now back on the Christmas card list.
Crownpoint — there was chat last week that somebody is looking at using the football pitch for their home games.
We might have missed a trick if it is a goer.
EastEndSportingVillage CSC.
Crownpoint = Clyde looking at the site.
In the news 3 weeks ago seemingly.
I wonder how we will react to this?
It will be closer than Airdrie.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/clyde-submit-glasgow-stadium-bid-132225721.html
MADMITCH on 29TH SEPTEMBER 2022 12:43 PM
There’s a strong argument that says yesterdays intervention in the gilts market was a direct consequence of the strict regulation of the pensions. It wasnt a particularly complex issue and was one that the B of E was probably aware of before it happened and before Fridays announcement. Nothing to do with inflation – it was instigated by the Financial Policy Committee not the MPC
You’re right though, Truss and Kwarteng are interested in deregulation in the name of growth. A return to the days of unfettered market excesses and unregulated industry. Polluted rivers running dry, man made earthquakes from fracking, the sell off of anything that isn’t nailed down.
Fortunately the markets see it for what it is.
Hopefully we can get St Mirren out of our system
We shouldn’t forget how nervous they’ll be after their last few results. They can’t defend, they definitely can’t defend set pieces, Robbie Nielsen will be all over that
WeeJT
Yep nearly crash,still may happen we will see.
Do try and understand the article,markets are a reflection
It did happen in 2008 however.but that will be part of your amnesia.11 years of feral incompetence by 11fingers Broon was akin to base jumping wi no chute
You suggest 14 years prev incompetence.that indeed could be argued
Yet 2008 was a big banker from o’er there and ran away..Gordon is responsible.its why keev is all bout finanshul comptinz
Markets react.
HH
Think as well as amnesia
C40 @ 12.57
I am an outsider looking in regarding financial stuff.
From what I can gather — the issue was gilts.
I thought that they would be held for their income potential — low risk income stream until redemption.
However comment has been made that they were also being used for value / worth and used as security for other riskier investments / trading arrangements.
Inflation is increasing — interest rates are going higher.
Therefore bond values are falling as their yields try to keep up.
The market for bonds in this environment is soft — values going down.
If you have pledged bonds as security for other financial arrangements / instruments then if they fall in value you have to make up the difference with something else — seemingly cash is best not more bonds which would have been my first port of call.
Cash required — seemingly you sell more bonds into a weak market = more falls.
Rinse and repeat and the BoE starts to hear the cries for help.
That is how I get inflation as being involved — as noted above outsider looking in.
Open to any other offers regarding what is going on.
If the bankers are back into fancy derivatives after 14 years ago then hell mend them.
But unfortunately the state will have to bail them out.
The FT article suggests that there are other card houses out there.
Small wind and they will fall.
Interesting if the UK is more reckless than the US.
CelticMac
It’s the same rush to deregulate and liberalise that gas been goin on since bigging in 84/5 ish.
Met with the same answer as 2008.then market reset had to happen.its how efficient markets deal with incompetent govts,08 was an example,today is another,democracy awaits the next General election and the same obvious result will come,Gordon got booted out,so will Liz
HH
“still call it Parkheid”
No, we’ll still call it Celtic Park, as that’s what the official name of the ground is! por cierto.
Big bang in 1985
Its almost as if he doesnt know anything about the east end of glasgow.
Or construction, or real estate, or how to read a set of accounts.
Credible enough suggestions about how the environment around Celtic Park (The Paradise Arena) could be upgraded, improved, transformed depending on your level of ambition.
Realistic blockers, IMHO, though.
Glasgow City Council
Never mind a major transformation, they wouldn’t even let us put up a sign !
Some idiot even challenged our superstore submission because it would damage local shopping trade !
Scottish Government
Potential for the square kilometre around Celtic Park (incl. Emirates Arena) is huge.
Would need a partnership arrangement to see it through and deliver mutual benefit.
No way this current Scorrish administration gets into a dual funded bed with Celtic.
For the avoidance of doubt — there were many causes to the crash in 2008.
The primary one being that after G”W”B got re-elected the US had nothing to sell to the world but its debt.
And soon all the good debt had gone.
So they started selling the crap in shiny wrappers as good debt.
Companies offered insurance products to try and make up the difference / offer support to sceptical buyers.
Started off being easy money and then reality hit.
The secondary cause in the UK was the banks relying on short term wholesale funding which was cheap when times were good and non-existent when times turned bad.
Locally catastrophic / nationally it took some turning round to get things back on track.
EU banks / sensible banks / banks without a CEO from Paisley that still had a retail funding stream / paying out decent rates of interest on the high street …
Well they survived — they survived with a little help from the state.
No need for the 11 times table in all of this.
Please ignore anyone with a grudge and a Tory headline to sell.
POR CIERTO on 29TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1:33 PM
“still call it Parkheid”
No, we’ll still call it Celtic Park, as that’s what the official name of the ground is! por cierto.
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Well it’s either or I suppose por cierto,but Greenpinatas other term brought a smile,Parkers- that’s a boot in the boz
HH
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