This morning’s images of a chain of people snaking around the Celtic Park ticket office and out towards London Road is remarkable. Even more so when you consider more people were buying season tickets online than queueing from the small hours to make sure they can support Celtic next season.
Frankly, I didn’t think we’d see sights like this until we saw a change in playing environment.
Season ticket sales, together with recent commercial deals concluded with Dafabet and Magners, puts the club on an enormously better financial footing, but the benefits extend beyond what we see today. Peripheral income, such as match day spent at the superstore and at kiosks, will have a corresponding lift.
Now if we get Champions League income on top of this………….
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ROBINBHOY, DALLASDALLAS
Thanks for the comments. Didn’t know about the uv lighting.
CANAMALAR
Yes I noticed the pitch was poor last season and wondered if there had been a change of groundstaff last year, or if spend on the playing surface maintenance had been downsized to keep in line with everything else. The current nature of the main stand must help the playing surface though. It could only deteriorate with a higher stand on the south side of the ground.
We can but dream of the likes of Zlatan, but it could have worked, raise the SB by £100 and there would have been a bigger Q for books that anyone could imagine, paid for up front and the added exposure would have been priceless, it’s times like this that a top of the range CEO comes into his own to make these things happen :-)
Looks as if there will be a few Res 12 T-shirts in South Ayrshire from Girvan to Troon !
Www(GBWO)
What did he do to make you form that opinion.
TT
Hunderbirds..,
The surface was relaid for the commonwealth games, after which it was relaid again too close to the start of the season which did not give it time to bed in properly, it never recovered.
Canman
From what you say I imagine there are regs to beat the band.
HH
TET
I was just thinking the same.
Would I have paid an extra £100 to see the likes of Zlatan play for us per season?6
The answer is a resounding YES.
TT
CANAMALAR
Of course!
For me it’s like the commonwealth games never happened. I was in the Western Infirmary in Edinburgh in a coma at the time.
Anythingtogetoutofwatchingthecommonwealthgames CSC
WWW(GBWO) on 6TH JUNE 2016 10:04 PM
Harry was the year above me at school .
I got the same impression about 30 years ago when he brought over my lunch in his pub.
Engaged him in conversation about mutual acquaintances.
Remote and unfriendly.
Loved him on the field however.
TT
Aye, you wouldn’t have been alone.
It’s a numbers game these days, James Forrest wrote a blog earlier about how the huns will never catch us, purely because of the numbers.
It could have been done, nothing is impossible :-)
HH
What a breath of fresh of air, that Les Miserables are,with a couple of exceptions, wonderfully conspicious by their absence today.
The Celtic family have spoken, loud and clear – it is what happens on the park and in the dugout, that drives them, not Res12, not ‘calling-out’ Sevco, not ‘wringing their hands’ over the SFA.
Of course there are issues to be addressed but they must not completely overshadow the club and why we support them – coming on here sometimes is like eavesdropping on the Witchfinder General’s posse – pitchforks and all.
Robinbhoy
Re your earlier post about your business experience…..your observation then relating it to CFC….Spot on!
But Be very careful if you keep posting rational quality business based observations on here you are likely to be targeted as Pastry in disguise!
Hopefully not!!!
A ROBINBHOY on 6TH JUNE 2016 9:54 PM
Lullabies and Battle Cries are you a Hun :-0))
Maybe see you in Bruce’s Well wi’ the fashion statement on!
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Sounds like a plan, agree don’t think D OShea will understand, although I’m sure we could explain it to him
Collin Stam is an anagram of Dearie Me :-)
Dearie Me
How many people can one person be ?
Hynderbirds…,
You never missed anything :)
Glad your through it and on blog.
HH
Hunderbirds
Drastic measures :-)
Like the Canman says, delighted you got through it.
HH
YNWA
Winning captains thanks for the response earlier. I desperately want Celtic to speak out and speak out decisively. I hope they do.
Robin bhoy you asked me what would drive me to buy a season ticket again? It’s simple.
Lawwell gone (he has presided over disaster).
Celtic actively dealing with corruption.
Really really simple.
Brendan’s Rodgers as manager appears a great step forward but quite frankly I am pretty disgusted with most on cqn.
Rather brilliantly mats nilloc proves my point.
His triumphalism in season ticket sales not being about corruption but just on the park success (despite bizarrely any proof of on the park success) is what disgusts me.
So mats and clearly other where just waiting on the return of the Hun. Old Firmism indeed. The Celtic board did the same.
All these years of jelly and ice cream and so many squirrels I fear for their future survival.
5 years of posts analysis I the Hun and their cheating and the big lie etc.
No we have people like mats celebrating our stupidity.
More than a club?
Less that a sporting institution.
More like a pantomime.
So here we are. Most of you want the Bobby Ewing shower scenario.
I am frankly appalled. Spandex it seems is increasingly popular.
What a happy place this is tonight. A real feel good factor going on. Is it too late for me to switcheroo? Probably too late to get a season ticket, though!!
NA2
It’s all about the money, always has been always will be.
HH
I will eat my boaby if mats pilloc or whatever he is calling himself today is not a journo on here stirring it.
CANAMALAR
Just a wee subarachnoid haemorrhage. Nearly 100% recovered, and back to mostly “normal” ;)
The Blog was a great find for me when I got first got home and couldnae walk 3 yards. Was great to have this at a pretty difficult time. But the Blog was a great help to my recovery, reading on here showed me that there are always people worse off than you ;)
TET
Cheers Bud.
HH
Good evening friends.
So I decided to go online there “as if” to buy a season ticket. Map of the stadium comes up and if this is accurate (and no reason to doubt it) then there are only about 1300 seats left available to buy! Admittedly, Sections 415 to 419 (where the banners have been the last couple of years) are currently shown as ‘unavailable’ so I’m assuming they haven’t been released yet. being the saddo that I am I’ve just spent about 10 minutes countine the wee green dots, or estimating where there were too many to hurt my failing eyesight. Figures for each section are as follows with an asterisk showing where I just made a reasonable guesstimate.
Lower tier – just 14 seats available!! 7 in 121, 2 in 122, 3 in 123, 1 in 139 and 1 in 113. Incredible!!
Upper Tier section by section –
401 – 5
402 – 55*
403 – 30*
404 – 5
405 – 2
406 – 4
407 – 13
408 – 45*
409 – 90*
410 – 4
411 – 200*
412 – 160*
413 – 250*
414 – 115*
437 – 90*
418 – 50*
439 – 15
440 – 12
441 – 10
442 – 65*
443 – 24
444 – 48
445 – 21
I may copy and paste this for my usual early morning post.
Sleep well!
NEGANON2 & EXILEDTIM
Don’t take my word – ask our almost 50k season ticket holders – or are they all daft, or, are they all squirrels and/or planted journalists?
Hunderbirds,
Aye there’s some real tortured souls posting :)
All the best for the last stretch of the recovery.
HH
TINYTIM
I’ve been in his place on and off for years,and recommend it to many people
Yesterday he stepped over the line
Had my MRS not been with me I would have chinned him
HH
Neg, People on here simply want Celtic to do well. Yes we would love if Ogilve & the SFA were nailed, Nimmo as well but in the meantime I for one am not prepared to put my Celtic life on hold.
I think the penny has dropped with Desmond, maybe a bit late but better late than never.
We have a proven experienced Manager in place, we have hope that our squad will be positively restructured.
Nothing is guaranteed but we have plenty to look forward to.
Following Celtic should be a life enhancing experience, I’m not bothered at all about the Huns, I am a Celtic Supporter and there is enough stress, angst & hassle in life, so forgive me if I don’t join you in your Crusade of Misery.
Hail Hail and I genuinely wish you well
EXILEDTIM@10:48 – Do you want sauce with it?
JNP – I’m sure your immediate family are a tower of strength to you…..your Celtic family are also here for you….
TBB – Your near forensic analysis of ST uptake made for interesting reading ;-))
BillyBear – Celtic are open to all…..’cept bears named Billy….;-))
Mats Nilloc…..I get the feeling that you think that Res 12 is about the continuation myth…..it is…..but only incidentally…..it’s about open & transparent governance at the SFA…..if the knock-on of that is a questioning of our boards’ strategy re doing what’s best for shareholders….then that should be applauded….no?
FTSFA
H.H.
Mr Pastry
Division is your goal, you are actually piss poor at it but I give you a three out of ten for effort.
As others have said when you stick to the football you are a decent poster, but your mask slips and you canny help yourself, you are never a Celtic supporter, never in a month of sundays.
All you want to do, in any of the guises you post here is to divide us.
I may well be as thick as it gets, but when it come to trolls and huns, my hundar is spot on.
HH
Have a nice day :-)
Hello again all you young rebels.
Looks as though my families pilgrimage back to Scotland
has come at a lovely time, they leave on Sunday back to
Glasgow and the wee mhan is champin at the bit, he’s
looking at all they big queue’s outside the ticket office and
hoping they will all still be there for his first ever visit to
Paradise, me and the princess are stuck here dog sitting.
So if you see a big handsome arrogant Zlatan lookalike
outside Celtic’s main door it,s o.k. to mob him, he’ll love it.
H.H Mick
Evening Celts
See Mr Pastry is stirring it yet again….Yawn.
Thinks he is a smart arse.
But he isnt.
Quick shout out to my hunbusting fenian rebel comrade…Kev J,….Rebel Flag Flying in Maryhill:)
EDB….Postive vibes to you bud.
JimmynotPaul
In my thoughts bud.
HH
Tiny tlm
I’ve been in his place on and off for years,and recommend it to many people
Had my Mrs not been there I would have chinned him
Arsehole of a man
HH
Billybhoy:)
Come on down.
Knew you were fond of the Celts.
Im sure the bhoys would be pleased to welcome you to Paradise.
You know it makes sense:)
HH
T-shirt purchased. Will buy another one if it becomes available in green.
Meant to say…..although it’s not really my cup of tea…..the Boss last Weds was pretty effin awesome…..from 1st…..getting the wee lassie on stage…..to seeing Silvio Dante on stage ;-))….to the tribute to e street member…..to his stamina…..hope I’m like that when I’m 66…..if I had a bucket list…..that gig would be scored through ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
TET yes money! Money and Moneyball.
Cqn editorial teams refusal to discuss anything of importance when it comes to Celtic just sickens me. Disgustingly cqn still pretends to be against lazy journalism.
Mats nilloc you are a new name on this blog. That’s okay but what isn’t is your glorying in the repulsive acceptance of fraud and corruption.
I will never be able to return to Celtic while the game is an open pantomime. Your clearly like the stage mats.
Corkcelt. As In Wrestling sometimes you will be allowed to win. But mostly the rigged game will be against you.
I find it remarkable that, despite the last 4 years and the wanton corruption and cheating we simply celebrate a decent move from a board that has shafted us for 4 years. It shows the attention span of a toddler and it won’t be long till they screw it up badly.
Even allowing a lower division racist club to humiliate us is t quite enough for you.
Well get ready for more and more humiliation Corkcelt.
The board think that humiliation is our birthright.