It was Back to the Future on Saturday afternoon, listening to Aberdeen rescue a point against Dundee was more like 1985 than 2015. TV highlights suggest Aberdeen pounded Dundee, but three excellent goals were enough for the visitors to set the stage for Celtic to return to the top of the league against Motherwell on Wednesday.
Aberdeen have been imperious in recent months. Incredibly, apart from Dundee and Celtic, they have failed to keep a clean sheet only once (at drubbing at Hamilton) since September. That’s title challenging form in any language.
This run is unlikely to endure as the vagaries of form and fortune catch them up, but it appears our long wait for a notional title rival looks to be over. Which is good.
Any business with operating expenses in the region of £33m a year, which is £2.75m a month or just over £600k a week, that had to borrow £500k in the first week of the month in order to pay an unexpected tax bill of the same magnitude, will by now be in urgent need of funds to pay rates, other tax liabilities, electricity and gas (no matter how little they used on Friday), while wages day is approaching. And remember, those gardens don’t ‘duty’ themselves.
Newco Rangers will need a loan, or to sell a player for cash, to avoid imminently slipping into insolvency. If Dave King is confident about carrying shareholders at a March EGM, and has the resources, he should loan the club money to get them through the next two months, no strings attached. A bit like John Keane did for Celtic in 1994. With insolvency looming, Keane, currently a Celtic director, but at the time an agitator for boardroom change, wrote a seven figure cheque, no strings attached, to pay-down Celtic’s overdraft, as the Bank of Scotland threatened to call in administrators.
Anything less than this is playing into the hands of Mike Ashley.
CQN11 St Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance is on Friday 13 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. The focus of an excellent night’s entertainment will be funding the construction of a kitchen at Chibwata Primary School in Malawi, for Mary’s Meals.
Email me if you would like to reserve a ticket, celticquicknews@gmail.com or book directly via the links at the bottom of this page.
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sipsini
23:19 on 19 January, 2015
jamesgang,
You’ve had a long day big chap, night and mind and get your bed socks on.HH
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Don’t knock the bed socks ….mine are brill …. Hahahahahahaha
Rumour is they will run out of gardens by end of February.
He’s thrown in the trowell
HH
Beatbhoy
This place does that to me every day. Usually a reference to a game I was at in the 70s or 80s and had forgot about. My brain goes mental for a minute and then I can recall where I stood at the game and details of it. Brilliant. :)
andyr53
23:34 on 19 January, 2015
….and God bless you also, Andy53 ……… CHALLENGE THE LIE …!!!!
One thing you can say about McDowall he always calls a Spade a Spade por cierto.
Bed (not flower) for me………….. goodnight CQN!
I think they are trying to lure us into a false sense of supremacy.
justafan
23:16 on 19 January, 2015
Think I may have been first
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Get in line. ……;)
Is this part of a Dave King-led disruption strategy? Key coaching personnel to activate 12 month notice periods in their contracts on a sequential basis every few weeks to maximise disruption and destroy the club from within? First McCoist, then McDowall, maybe Durrant in a few weeks time and then Durie for a few weeks after that, and all get paid handsomely to sit at home watching Jeremy Kyle each day.
As part of this strategy have the players downed tools and gone on a work to rule to effect regime change? Or are they just rubbish? :)
Auldheid
23:40 on
19 January, 2015
Rumour is they will run out of gardens by end of February.
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And, there was me thinking you were a CUT above that -:)
SOAL-Exactly ,get some fresh blood in, to get ripped into this mob at Hamdump
kdc…
I was generous by using ‘think’!!!
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Fat Sally…the man who put DIG in dignity…
..hi-tailing it before the hampden game……their names would be in the history books as failures……pair of bottlers
DD
CQN Time Machine. . . .reverse only, unfortunately for the fixed odds bhoys!
Will Sevco be seeded in Europe this year?
Auldheid
That’s beautiful
Where’s the gardens!
Night all…..oh, happy days
whats bothering me about modern football with all its money, that no one has grabbed Ally mccoist as their manager.
Beatbhoy
Haha. Unfortunate indeed.
Syd
Yip, along with the German 8.
winning captains
22:28 on 19 January, 2015
The new CQN news site from CQN Magazine – which will be available over the next few days – is available to view at the moment. Our latest post is on the Beechgrove Rangers.
Have a wee look at the test site here and thanks to everyone for the feedback.
http://cqn.factory73.com
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naw, am no havin it…..new site looks too polished & professional…..awesome…..well done to the ghuys ;-))
H.H.
Ally and Kenny obviously agreed it best not to bother 2 turnip
https://twitter.com/rikos67/status/557314355877134337
Exile
Kicked the bucket
weebobbycollins
23:52
Yeah baby, keep em coming
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar / Neil Lennon.. Ipox belongs to the creditors
23:58 on 19 January, 2015
https://twitter.com/rikos67/status/557314355877134337
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to be honest that is great news, but until there’s an official announcement…..i’ll be the cynic i am…..;-))
H.H.
would be surprised if we didn’t negotiate early release of GMS in the deal.
Great craic tonight lad
Night all
COYBIG
67 heaven my big cat keeps my feet warm, was going to use another feline adjective, but thought best not :))
mazonic code
quite billiant por ciero
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put your hand in the crown at the top and if it feels like you’d imagine an orang-utans knuckles feel like then its fine and probably needs some feeding . id imagine though that if its been through a winter or two without being wrapped up its probably dead as the stem as such is made up of the dead stems of the leaves from the years before . the living part is the top really .
syd negakev
23:55 on 19 January, 2015
Will Sevco be seeded in Europe this year?
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I wouldn’t think so, are they not yearlings?
Quit it with the jokes……I can’t stop laughing. You Bhoys and Bgirls are very funny. Don’t want to be a wallflower so off to my flower bed for the night.
Good Night to Bill and Ben…..the Flower Pot Men, goodnight also Little Weed.
THE EXILED TIM
23:08 on
19 January, 2015
pedro
Who ?
The fella that is out on loan ?
The one that was set for the 1st team ?
Canny spell his name, Finsumthin
HH
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its FIN T SUM IN.
happy to help.
Any cracked crests yet?
Joni. . . “And we’ve got to get ourselves,
Back to the Garden”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc
delaneys dunky,
Every morning when I get up here I can’t believe that the Clive Dunns could have surpassed what they did yesterday……….BUT!
AR