We’ve often talked about the only real danger to a football club: internecine strife:
Internecine, def: pertaining to conflict within a group, mutually destructive.
In football, your enemies can’t inflict permanent harm, that can only come from within. This morning’s media cover threats from Sevconians to boycott (clearly in homage to Irish tradition) club/company products. More power to their elbows, they should boycott every piece of tat Newco’s disparate IP rights holders churn out, apart from the occasional novelty duck.
Here’s the thing, before you turn the tanks inwards, you’d better be sure you’ve got the ‘What happens next?’ question sorted. If you don’t, you’re playing a real life version of Lemmings.
Threatening Mike Ashley? Aye sure, that’ll work, knock yourself out. I’m sure Ashley’s known as a big pussy, he hasn’t got the money to face down the malcontents, either. I bet he’s already writing his capitulation letter, “Dear Sevconians, by noticing that I can’t handle conflict you’ve outsmarted me. The game’s up.”
What was it Charles Green told John Brown he would do to Ibrox? Hmmm.
Blame the SFA, SPL, BBC, Celtic, Her Majesty’s lawyers, the Daily Record and Raith Rovers but you need to be on the inside to wreak havoc like this.
Interesting front opened by the English Premier League today on the copycat use of pyrotechnics at football games. “Someone could get killed”, said policing minister Damian Green. You’re 20 years out of date, Mr Green.
Here’s the problem: it’s possible to discharge one of these devices in a crowded area without accepting the safety/reputational/fine consequences. Enormously invasive searches of unconnected people would be required to prevent pyros being taken into a stadium which is just not possible, eradication requires everyone to decide not to participate.
The only practical method I can see of stopping the use of pyrotechnics in Scottish football is to give Sports Direct exclusive distribution rights. Who’d buy them then?
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Are the Sons of Struth, the Sons of Anarchy provisional wing? Can zombies be some someone’s son, or did they cease to be someone’s son when they became zombies? Do they still have a parent and child gate? If the price of the ticket is an arm and a leg…..how many games can they go to in a season. Oooft ma heads sore.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
I think we all know who the dead parrot is!
That Mr Struth sure had a lot of illegitimate boys.
;o)
Jim Renton from Cowdenbeath.
Bragged how he never officiated a Celtic match as a ref , that Celtic had won.
I don’t know if what he claimed was true, but I did hear him Bragg about it with my own ears.
A wee bitter Masonic Hun.
TT
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Afternoon gents, long time lurker, first time poster.
I’m going to use the oft quoted excuse of not being as eloquent as most of the postres on here as my excuse for that!
This post, however, inspired me to post a similar tale about the dirty wee swinesman, John Gilmour, who I used to drink in the same boozer as a good few years ago (the now a chicken cottage Porky’s, in Renfrew).
He had a similar boast, although his was along the lines of Rangers never having lost a game where he was running the line!
Another example of blatant hunnery!
I’m no a hun, by the way!
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First post made with impeccable timing!
Ryan
haha… the wee huns bricking it over Bob Jamieson potentially scuppering their CVA by bidding for the Lithuanian shares – one of the site admins posted this following an earlier revelation that he was banned from their site:
‘Bob Jamieson is reading this thread.
What the feck are you playing at man?’
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
12:32 on
3 December, 2013
garngadto croy
Iaskedthis question yesterday. If Celtic win the double does the UEFA place not go to a league place ?
If not is this why the resolution has been adjourned ?
If it is …what happens if sevco dont make the final ?
HH
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No a Europa place (for which Sevco would need an UEFA licence via UEFA FFP Article 15, but is highly unlikely given the Derry City refusal all of which I covered on previous blog) goes to the SC Runners up.
Europa League
The Europa League places are slightly more complicated. There are 3 places available, and they will be allocated in the following order of preference.
◾Scottish Cup Winner (if not already qualified for Champions League)
◾2nd in SPL
◾3rd in SPL
◾Scottish Cup Runner-up (if Champions League qualifiers win Cup)
◾4th in SPL
http://splstats.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/how-to-qualify-for-europe-2/
and I cannot see any connection whatsoever to the adjourned resolution that was explained here (and at least three times updated in last week on CQN)
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/resolution-12-shareholder-statement/
Bournesouprecipe –
My Big Coat arrived in the post yesterday. But very disappointed that it didn’t come with any instruction booklet. Never tried to wear anything with quite so many zips, buttons, studs, velcro straps, toggles and buckles. Going to check for any YouTube “how to…” videos tonight.
Time for a lunchtime stroll in my single zip unimpressive jacket…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
Aye.
I know loads of them that went to Manchester. None of them witnessed any bother at all.
Yet I know five or six Mancunians who tell a very different story of their day in and around the city centre. Amazing isn’t it.
Thank goodness for CCTV otherwise they would claim there was no trouble at all. Still, it was Chelsea fans anyway…
JOBO
From the sounds of it,you may find the how to videos are x-rated!
i ordered the cqn on 25 Nov.
to be sent to glasgow address
can you say if it has ben sent out yet
thx
The situation at Sevcoland is every bit as confusing as who was on the right and the left in the Spanish Civil War.
Is this protest against folk who are going to run the club with other people’s money but pocket more than their share of it?
and f
is it for those folk who want to run the club with other people’s money but not pocket their wad?
Is their anyone standing on a platform of running the club with their own money on a sustainable basis, that might mean they will be a lot less successful than anyone running their club on the same platform as the two previous parties?
Do they really know what they are all involved in?
Jim Renton from Cowdenbeath.
Bragged how he never officiated a Celtic match as a ref , that Celtic had won.
I don’t know if what he claimed was true, but I did hear him Bragg about it with my own ears.
A wee bitter Masonic Hun.
TT
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Afternoon gents, long time lurker, first time poster.
I’m going to use the oft quoted excuse of not being as eloquent as most of the postres on here as my excuse for that!
This post, however, inspired me to post a similar tale about the dirty wee swinesman, John Gilmour, who I used to drink in the same boozer as a good few years ago (the now a chicken cottage Porky’s, in Renfrew).
He had a similar boast, although his was along the lines of Rangers never having lost a game where he was running the line!
Another example of blatant hunnery!
I’m no a hun, by the way!
Just to make it clear, I posted that post as the last post on the old topic. If you’re anything like me, you possibly won’t bother to read all the quoted posts, therefor you would have missed this little nugget.
STEINREIGNEDSUPREME
My mates back home are more honest about it,and largely shamed by it.
The ones down here though,well,a few beers and a singsong and I usually GTF.
THEY CAN BE REALLY POISONOUS WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER.
The only good bit is that they usually turn on each other as the night wears on. Buncha eejits in company.
Mr Big Coat!
Who do you think you are?!
Mr Big Coat!
You’re never gonna win my love !
RYANBHOY
Welcome to the site,bud.
Keep the anecdotes coming. Just don’t mention Bobby Davidson-it causes JIMBO67 to hide beneath the settee.
ryanbhoy 84,
Calm down mate,
I’ve heard similar stories like your own.
Doesn’t surprise me.
Welcome.HH
exclusive pic of Jobo\’s new single zip coat
Paul67
The current Rangers board cannot be removed as they have the majority of shares …… seems to me that the Struth group and others have woken up at least 18 months too late and as part of their activities they should :
– insist on a public apology from Lord , sorry Sir David Murray, to the Rangers supporters and Scottish football. A TV appearance on Newsnight with JP would be adequate.
– A boycott of Murray companies products and services until an apology is forthcoming
A boycott of Rangers products and season books will result in another administration , another non-cost cutting administration with the sale and leaseback of the ground , training complex the only option.
Either way , Christmas is cancelled and the New a Year holiday booking on hold for the funds to support the sale.
I suspect that there will always be dodgy funds and funds managers either willing to support the brotherly cause or see a chance to make a killing. The second lot will be put off by the current Brothers Struth behaviour which just leaves crazy Ranger supporting Fund Managers!
I see the discussion on Rangers is moving towards more investment in the 1st team squad, good grief, as if the current financial position is not grave enough. We should be pushing for FFP in the Scottish domestic game , fall foul of FFP then no admittance to domestic cups, transfer bans, you get the picture.
The current sight of a club running up £14m losses , boasting about unbeaten records is laughable, remains to be seen who laughs last!
Jobo Balde
Check you know the ” safeword ” before committing yourself to anything.
Auldheid – are you never tempted to say “ah f*** it – you lot must be right, 3 years of accounts it is then”?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc,
Time for my kip, looking likely I’ll be nightshift for a while yet.
Updated sky go for the I pad, any suggestions for a good series to download to keep me entertained.
From last blog
An Tearmann
12:37 on
3 December, 2013
oldtim67
08:49 on
3 December, 2013
I shall not,nae never, watch Celtic play against a team that doesn’t exist in my eyes. I’ll never get into Bed with them.There are so many people that have come on here and vilified them, but the same people will be the first too break rank and put mega money into their coffers by attending one of those hate games, why, if your hate them so much would you attempt to keep the vermin alive, by paying money to watch them. Nae never again.
True.So true..
07.22 Oglach
I am disappointed you are taking a rest my friend.Our very strength is in the fact that we can disagree.We are a dynamic and all encompassing diaspora and we have in Celtic a beacon of how successful an immigrant population can be in their business when heads are put together.The GB are a part of Celtic not the other way around.They add verve to the matchday experience and along with other supporters have a political veiwpoint,nowt wrong with that. like other posters say that lurkin lark aint all its cracked up to be.hope to see you on soon.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS
I largely echo the sentiments in your last post,though I can see where OGLACH…UFB to give him his original moniker is coming from.
I also would be sorry to see him posting less-TWISTS N TURNS made a very good point on that subject early this morning.
Celtic fans are a broad church. Most football clubs are the same. We are seldom drawn from the same demographic. Tolerance of the opinions of others should be a given.
Of course,the right to discuss those opinions should not be diminished!
I always say that it’s a blog,some views are incompatible with mine. But I wouldn’t go to the pub with people who agreed with everything I said.
It would bore the nipples off me.
So,haste ye back,OGLACH UFB
‘It would bore the nipples off me. ‘
-sounds like you’ve got ole Jobo’s big coat on back to front.
No further reporting on McColl’s claim of threats against him and his merry men…..they are all just gangsters with cheap suits.
GlassTwoThirdsFull
12:39 on
3 December, 2013
Mea Culpa 12.32
Spot on. Why did they not challenge the “relegation”? Surely there can be no grounds for a club finishing second in the league to be relegated.
As for the “transfer of membership” – why the need to transfer membership from one club to the SAME club??? Makes no sense at all.
This has always been the point .If it was only the “Company”that went bust,why punish the club.Surely,a new company could have come in and carried on.
The entity being wound up at the moment is RFC.Not any “Company”In fact,which “Company”are they on about?.Is there such a company known as RFC?.
All very confusing for me.Maybe I am a bit dim.I am sure someone from the MSM could clear it all up for people such as me.
Sipsini-Boardwalk Empire is very good on Sky Atlantic.
I note that, apart from a now meaningless jaunt to Barcelona, we have a diet of 11 Premiership fixtures in our stroll to the title, before we can face the more unpredictable outcome of a SC tie with Aberdeen in early February. We will play everyone bar united, Aberdeen and Ross County before then and will face Motherwell, Hibs, and St. Mirren twice in the league during that period.
We are going to need something to motivate our attendance during that period of “competitively meaningless” matches.
Therefore, I would like to thank our friends from Ibrox, for providing that motivation as it gives us a chance to sing and chant about their troubles during our stroll to the title.
They really are the gift that keeps on giving.
Big Yogi getting Inverness job
Auldheid 13:25
Is their anyone standing on a platform of running the club with their own money on a sustainable basis, that might mean they will be a lot less successful than anyone running their club on the same platform as the two previous parties?
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No, basically! Interesting that Paul Murray is banging on the door, yet has never once said how he would have run the club in the “Craig Whyte year” ie WITHOUT CL money which had sustained them for two years.
The truth is that the only option would have been to sell five or six of their best players (with corresponding drop down league). But of course he can’t be seen to be saying that. And nobody bothers to ask him!
Jobo’s big coat is great.
Truss me .
Maybe I’m being ultra paranoid.. Is this another scam to go into administration with the new creation?
Blame each other and start fresh again.
I really wouldn’t put anything past that lot.
Jobo Baldie
I wouldn’t worry about working out how to put that coat on.
Two men in white coats will be along shortly to show you how.
!!bada bing!!
Cheers, I’ll download it.
Turkeybhoy 13:42
For me, that is the key to the whole thing – the whole club/company thing.
If you go down the Keith Jackson/Gordon Smith route (I know, but stay with me for a minute!), that it was “the company that owned the club” that was liquidated, then the “transfer of membership” was presumably to do with a change in ownership. So why was there no “transfer of membership” in 2011, when it went from MIH to Wavetower?
All highly confusing!
SIPSINI
To be honest,just watch re-runs of ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES.
You won’t have the usual quota of huns to keep you entertained,so you’ll need a laugh…
Oh,and you may be lucky and see the one with TRIGGER’S BROOM!
SFTB,
I really hate all this nonsense about “Mineshafters,and Happy clappers”..We all want Celtic to be as good as they possibly can.Different opinions on how this is achieved will always go on.
Personally,I think financially we are going great.I like Peter Lawell.I know what he has in his heart.I dont agree with the scattergun approach in the signing policy.Some do.The signing of a striker is the main bone of contention with me and many others.Many say we cannot afford to bring in a good striker.We have spent money on,at the moment,Bangura,Pukki,Balde.The new boy I wont include.The combined transfer monies,and wages would have gone a long way to getting us the player we need.Lenny has admitted this.Hence his new hunt for said player.It seems like madness.
If people cannot see why many are not happy with this situation,I cannot see why.If we had not wasted money on hopefuls,bought a striker,maybe Lenny would now be able to turn his search to a number 10.We are so close to having a team to be proud of,its galling.
This is the main point of the arguments between the protagonists.but at the end of the day we all want the strongest possible Celtic on the park.
DBBIA 1341
Ffs,bud!
I spat half my pint across the pub there,my last before bedtime too!!