Robbed of the ability to accept credit cards, or roll-over Standing Order fans’ payments, by all accounts season ticket renewals at Newco Rangers has been considerably less than those of fellow lower league club Hearts.
Notwithstanding all of this, the Ibrox club’s remarkable PR people this morning published an article titled “Season ticket waiting list”! Waiting list!! Every word is priceless.
I’ve long maintained that anyone looking for a strategy in any of this was misguided but one thing you can be sure of, the lawyers will be giving advice on when to flush the club down the lavvy (ven.).
Newco have banked season ticket cash from a few thousand people, giving them a liability to stage football games until May next year. If they are unable to stage those games, they cannot spend, or continue to accept, that money. None of this was relevant before deadline day, but the extended deadline passed yesterday, so the club now have their primary indicator of how much income they will receive this financial year.
If the board believe they do not have enough income to finish the season, they must stop spending – and accepting – season ticket money, and ask the court to appoint an administrator. Despite the apparent inevitability of this, the board can roll the dice for a while yet.
They can reasonably claim to have an expectation thousands of more tickets will go before the season starts, or that the club can embark on another share issue, but in the meantime, they must continue to pay wages and other costs. Cash is king when you don’t have bank support and hundreds of staff will continue to earn wages over the summer months.
Wages and other costs will need to be met for May, June and July, before Newco’s biggest vat bill of the year becomes payable in the first week in August. Ticket sales would need to pick up incredibly in the coming weeks to see them through this.
I don’t expect administration this week. The club has cash in the bank, has a theoretical chance of turning things around and, as far as we know, is meeting all liabilities when due. The more likely time administrators would be required is when creditors cannot be paid on time.
There’s an interesting media angle on all of this. Graham Wallace is a hired professional, there to deliver a future for a football club in distress, no more and no less. Sections of the media compliant with ‘the rebels’ (cough) are now telling readers he has made several sackable offences.
It suits King & co if anyone with a modicum of competence to leaves the premises. This campaign is brutal, but remember, don’t go looking for a coherent strategy, there isn’t one.
Speaking to season ticket renewals
Saturday’s magnificent Scottish Cup Final had a fitting home at Celtic Park but the Celtic show only rolls on if you, me and tens of thousands of our close friends want Celtic succeed as much as Newco’s fans want their club to fail, by buying our season ticket.
The most important ticket deadline in football is THIS FRIDAY, 23rd May. Be there, or be less shamrock shaped. When it comes to supporters, faithfulness trumps loyalty any day.
After watching St Johnstone win the Scottish Cup, in what was a genuinely thrilling final on Saturday, you could not come to any other conclusion that this was a fantastic season for Scottish football. Celtic were irresistible in the league, Aberdeen and Dundee United resurged, Motherwell were again Best of the Rest, which is not quit the league title it could be, but still an achievement. I’m loving the game this way.
Congratulations to Atletico Madrid for achieving what seemed impossible only a few months ago. Congratulations also to Barcelona fans, who applauded the league winners in recognition of that achievement. There are some good guys in the game.
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Quiet tonight… Och well, catch up with some “sons of anarchy” …. Enjoy the soaps bhoys :)
Celtic talk
Looking at Champions League Qualifiers, do we play in 3 pre – qualifiers ?
And when we make it :-) still in pot 4
How do Liverpool go straight into pot 3 ? When was last time they played in Champions league, and how did they accrue so many points.
I take it is because England’s coefficient ? Why does a club pick up so many unwarranted points
More fixed than Scotland leagues :-)
Who are the clubs we can meet ? In rounds
Hail Hail
Cowiebhoy
Yes
Yes
Will get back with other things you mention
Nakas and vmhan
I will pass your mob numbers to bada if u don’t mind
Parkheadcumsalford
17:03 on
19 May, 2014
For those of you who may be a wee bit surprised at Louis Van Gaal having the middle name Maria, it was commonplace for Catholic parents in Holland at the time of his birth to add Maria to their son’s names.
*I have a good friend over here whose parents and oldest sister are Dutch and his middle name is Ann, must have been a favourite Saint of them.
BT
Hope your doing better :-)
Just dropped Bada, Googybhoys number
Hail Hail
BRTH – I live near farm that has lamas! Couldn’t believe it one day they were all fighting with each other !!
It was a real lama lama ding dong!!
( hat coat – oot)
Had awful weather, thunder and lightning, hail and a torrential downpour in G84 about 16:20 today. Just started a few minutes ago in G83..
Unknown coef.
———————— — —————-
Dinamo Tbilisi Geo 6.975
CH Hun 4.825 – 10.325
This stuff does not cut & paste well
Our 1st round as follows
Seeded teams coef. Unseeded teams coef.
———————— — —————- ———————— — —————-
Steaua Bucuresti Rom 39.451 .
Celtic Sco 36.813 Malmö FF Swe 6.265
BATE Borisov Bls 33.725 KR Reykjavik Isl 5.350
Sparta Praha Cze 28.870 F91 Dudelange Lux 4.975
Dinamo Zagreb Cro 23.925 Strømsgodset IF Nor 4.855
Ludogorets Razgrad Bul 18.125 The New Saints Wal 4.850
Maccabi Tel-Aviv Isr 17.875 St. Patrick’s Athletic Irl 4.775
Sheriff Tiraspol Mol 17.075 Skënderbeu Korçë Alb 4.600
NK Maribor Slo 16.200 Levadia Tallinn * Est 4.575
CH Pol 15.275 – 17.275 Rabotnicki Skopje Mac 4.550
CH Srb 9.325 – 14.825 Valletta FC Mlt 4.466
Slovan Bratislava Svk 8.700 Zrinjski Mostar Bos 4.000
FK Aktobe Kaz 8.150 Cliftonville Nir 3.225
FK Ventspils Lat 7.750 HB Torshavn * Far 3.175
Garabag Agdam Azb 7.575 Zalgiris Vilnius Lit 3.050
HJK Helsinki Fin 7.435 FC Santa Coloma * And 2.166
. CH Mon 1.200 – 2.450
No to bad cowiebhoy
back to work today so early night…. o)
2nd qualifying round
(unseeded 17.075)
Unknown coef.
———————— — —————-
Sheriff Tiraspol ** Mol 17.075
NK Maribor ** Slo 16.200
CH ** Pol 15.275 – 17.275
CH Cyp 7.650 – 37.650
CL-QR2 ** 6.975 – 10.325
Seeded teams coef. Unseeded teams coef.
———————— — —————- ———————— — —————-
FC Salzburg Aut 46.185 .
Steaua Bucuresti ** Rom 39.451 .
Celtic ** Sco 36.813 .
BATE Borisov ** Bls 33.725 CH ** Srb 9.325 – 14.825
Sparta Praha ** Cze 28.870 Slovan Bratislava ** Svk 8.700
Dinamo Zagreb ** Cro 23.925 FK Aktobe ** Kaz 8.150
Ludogorets Razgrad ** Bul 18.125 FK Ventspils ** Lat 7.750
Maccabi Tel-Aviv ** Isr 17.875 Garabag Agdam ** Azb 7.575
. HJK Helsinki ** Fin 7.435
. AaB Aalborg Den 5.260
EK – heavy cloud but no rain
http://youtu.be/1T0tJnaUhU8
stingCSC
Squire
I seen that, but were we not restricted to only about 6 teams we could meet last year at each stage ?
Hail Hail
Johann
Very good ;))))
morrissey the 23rd
17:29 on 19 May, 2014
Feel free to add your comment to ‘Why Celtic need a strong Rangers’ : http://efootballnet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/why-celtic-need-strong-rangers.html
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Done job. I enjoyed that!
Given the persistent flavour of those comments it makes you wonder why so many ‘Celtic fans’ contact SSB with a contrasting view…
:-)
Been busy today……just heard Barca have new manager…who’s Luis Enrique ? Away to google him…. hehe
Cowiebhoy
I suppose the straight forward approach is that we are seeded all 3 rounds
If the seedings go to form, the supposedly hardest opposition the top 5 here should play in the final qualifying round are the bottom 5
Steaua Bucuresti Rom 39.451
Celtic Sco 36.813
BATE Borisov Bls 33.725
Sparta Praha Cze 28.870
Dinamo Zagreb Cro 23.925
Ludogorets Razgrad Bul 18.125
Maccabi Tel-Aviv Isr 17.875
Sheriff Tiraspol Mol 17.075
NK Maribor Slo 16.200
Champion Poland 15.275 – 17.275
Cowiebhoy
The first 2 rounds seem to be split geographically
That explains why we got trips to the statelet and Sweden before Kazakhstan
Cowiebhoy
I reckon we will get either
Ludogorets Razgrad
Or
Garabag Agdam
I’m sure both of these are anagrams but not worked out their real names yet ;)
http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedcl2014.html
Is a very good site re: all things uefa
croppybhoy
17:26 on
19 May, 2014
Growing up in the 1960s Real Madrid were THE. European team that we knew
Gento, Puskas, Di Stefano, Santamaria -great players who played a vibrant brand of attacking football
*the word legend is much misused but those 4 you mentioned above were just that.
I too like all football fans loved the Real team of that era and can recall nearly being in tears getting ready for school when it came across the wireless that Barca had knocked them out, I hated Barca for years and was glad when Benfica beat them in the final.
BTW the star of that Barca side was Luis Saurez who missed the Lisbon final against us through injury.
Just finished Pele’s bio and he never wanted play his club football outside of Brazil although Real and Inter pursued him relentlessly, the latter in 1966…..lucky for us he was such a homing pigeon.
As for AM in ’74 most Celtic supporters were glad we drew them as we reckoned they were the weakest of the 3 semi-finalist, the other 2 being Bayern M and Újpest Dozsa who had troubled us in the past.
@celticservant
If Celtic knocked out in 3rd round qualifier then 1 qualifier for Europa. If knocked out in 4th qualifier straight into Europa league.
Anyone else find the ‘toon fans just a tad arrogant?
They feel like a tad like the Northern English orcs….
http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/could_lennon_replace_hughton_833222/index.shtml
Cowiebhoy + TBJ
In case you missed – posted my thanks when I got home Saturday night.
Great day and excellent company.
Yesterday I was like Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb!
H!H!
I see that the new Khazak champions are FC Aktobe who beat the Karagandies 4:0 last week. Would rather avoid them and get a nice trip to Luxembourg or Malta this time.
Revised post from 20:36
Apologies
FC Salzburg Aut 46.185
Steaua Bucuresti Rom 39.451
Celtic Sco 36.813
BATE Borisov Bls 33.725
Sparta Praha Cze 28.870
Dinamo Zagreb Cro 23.925
Ludogorets Razgrad Bul 18.125
Maccabi Tel-Aviv Isr 17.875
Sheriff Tiraspol Mol 17.075
NK Maribor Slo 16.200
tbj 20:39
Don’t fancy Ludogorets – got to last 16 of EL before losing to Valencia
sftb
Celtic don’t get easy ties:o)
Tbj- ta ( must go now my work here is done !)
Oh anyone wanting to stay near murrayfield for champ qualifiers new budget hotel recently opened Tune hotel opposite new entrance to hay market station ( rooms start from £25 if booked early ) nice big new pub under it too – hh
Brines is a policeman as is Thomson.
Select the odd one out
A. They referee matches like they are clipping neds round the ear.
B. They treat players like weans and act like the headmaster.
C. They referee matches like they will banjo the player if the player doesn’t act scared.
D. They referee matches with maturity and respect & encourage players to do likewise.
HH
Praecepta, Nice :-) and glad you enjoyed.
So we join in rounds 2 to 4 to qualify ?
Still need an explanation on how Liverpool get straight in, and into pot 3 ( and yes I know they have high coefficient pts, how many of these do an English club get for nothing ?)
Hail Hail
squire danaher
Saw those games, they looked quite handy in the earlier rounds too…………….avoid
Zagreb, would also be a challenge
Praecepta
It was my pleasure to run you and sips to Victoria rd … I lived there for 5 happy years and have good memories around there
Squire
I’ve never heard of them … Have they got any decent players we could sign ;)
EDB-last year’s qualifiers were as easy as they come,i hope for the same this year but……..HH
Cowiebhoy
I think city went in as a 3rd seed in their first year ever in the champs league
Cowiebhoy
Top 3 in England qualify irrespective of individual Club’s co-efficient. Almost impossible for the EPL to slip out Top 24 thanks to cumulative co-e for country.
Domestically
1. We need competition.
2. As much as we say it the provincial clubs will never grow big enough to give us that over a season. Odd one off cup games.
3. I suspect a version of the klan will be in the top division in the next few years.
4. They will make it slightly more competitive (I.e narrow the gap at the top) but there will be a gap.
5. The fixture will generate an interest and their presence will bring sell outs at both grounds.
6. They ll be the benchmark for what we will term competition.
Until we find new pastures this will be our future in Scotland.
Doesn’t answer do we need them but it ll make the league slightly more competitive….an unpalatable thought to some on here.