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Back to the Future, when Celtic needed a fan to write a big cheque

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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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  1. TheLurkinTim on

    dode

     

     

     

    01:09 on 20 January, 2015

     

     

     

    bmcw

     

     

    i take it ye stay in oz

     

     

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    an here wiz me thinkin BMCUWP wiz workin as a nightshift cop, pig, screw, plod, filth…..lol…..;-))

  2. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DODE

     

     

    Naw,mate.

     

     

    Swindon,for my sins.

     

     

    Nigtshift,as THELURKNTIM says. But not as a cop,honest!

  3. Delaneys Dunky on

    Dode

     

     

    They are buzzing for this game like a smoked out W.A.S.P.’s nest in areas of Glasgow I know. They are gonnae sting some poor souls on 1st Feb. Sadly, some of my fellow Tims I know. The ex casuals Provo spirit guys are up for a bit of vigilante work about Hampden and the toon centre.

  8. TheLurkinTim on

    BMCUWP,

     

     

    Wat a cop-out…..;-))

     

     

    Not as much as all of the football related public order offences I’ve seen from Friday night…..were the fuk wer the polis, Focus etc…..wats their excuse…..We didn’t wan’t to exacerbate a difficult situation?…..wtf….are you the polis reacting to obvious criminal behaviour…..or complicit shitbags?…..Is now Tuesday morn…..1 arrest ffs…..rant stopped

     

     

    H.H.

  9. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THELURKINTIM

     

     

    Nothing to see,Timmy. Move along.

     

     

    I can only assume they were on a tea-break again…

  10. Delaneys Dunky on

    BMCUW

     

     

    You would have done no worse than the ineffectual polis at doomdome on Friday. :)

  13. TheLurkinTim on

    Sorry BMCUWP,

     

     

    there’s a word YOU in there that’s general, not personal…..could be red the wrong way…..;-))

     

     

    good luk tho…..;-))

     

     

    Nah, they wer too busy joining in/encouraging it…..that’s what were up against…..fighting the fourth estate is essential…..& if i kin get a ticket for the LCSF…..if needs be am not unwilling to fight for my support of CFC…..they cannot keep us down any longer…..

     

     

    H.H.

  15. TheLurkinTim on

    Nite timland…..a broken NY Resolution…..am going to hell/heaven…..who cares in the long run…..cept me…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  16. dode on

    bmcuw

     

     

    thanks for that oniy asked if ye where fae oz i didnae ask if yer where a cop but hello helloo!

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DODE

     

     

    FFS,first I’m accused of being a cop,then you address me with the first two words of a well-known hun song?!

     

     

    I’m getting seriously paranoid here-which proves my Timmy credentials,btw…

  20. TheLurkinTim on

    Seems the top 1%, going on current trends, will own more than all of the rest of us put together in a few years…..news?…..it was/has always been thus…..unless there is a more equitable mechanism for distributing the wealth…..there will be sustained rioting…..unfortunately this will only help the wealthy in the long run…..what to do?…..ask Robin Hood…..;-))…..robbery on a massive scale…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  22. TheLurkinTim on

    Bmcuwp,

     

     

    nightshift where?…..i used to run the out-of-hours MITIE Group Security Control Room…..along with Property Services & a shit load of other MITIE Stuff…..am wasted lol…..wer i am…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  23. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THELURKINTIM

     

     

    Distribution of the local paper,bud.

     

     

    Real job would kill me!

  24. Alfie Noakes on

    THE IBROX GARDEN

     

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    The Ibrox garden features a large cast of colourful characters with unusual names who live in a large toilet designed by Cary Grant, and scattered with large red hands and brightly coloured orange sashes. The characters mostly speak short, repetitive phrases and each has their own special bank account which magically fills up every week. The garden is a sunny, colourful environment and the music is jaunty and music box-like, with such classics as Hello Hello & Let’s Do The Walking Away

     

     

    Main Characters :

     

     

    Ally Makka Pakka – Head Gardener, Repetitive Phrase “Who are these people”

     

     

    Iggle Piggle McDiggle – Assistant Gardener, Repetitive Phrase “It’s Personal”

     

     

    Also Featuring:

     

     

    The Haahoos – Durie & Durante

     

    The Titters – Jimmy & Sandy

     

    The Ashiboos – Derek & Barry

     

    The Ponibears – George, Dougie & Lethie

     

     

    As well as the Garden, there is also the Murray Ninky Nonk and the Albion Pinky Ponk.

  26. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THELURKINTIM

     

     

    I’ve been promoted-I’ve got a van instead of a bike!

  27. TheLurkinTim on

    Pizzas instead of pizza like cardboard….indeed a chewy upgrade…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

     

     

    why you shouting BMCUWP….;-))

  29. TheLurkinTim on

    I once upon a time vended Sunday Newspapers to most of Pollok & Priesthill…..was a 24 Hour plus & Tam Connelly, exercise in fuk me, how long…..;-))

     

     

    H.H.

  30. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    THELURKINTIM

     

     

    I always put a poster’s moniker in capitals. Not shouting,just so that it is clear that I am replying to someone.

     

     

    Just an idiosyncrasy.

  34. proudbhoy on

    Would be great if we got armstrong and GMS in this month.

     

     

    Have to feel sorry for dundee utd.. frustrating trying to build a team and losing your best players.

     

     

    We know how they feel.

  38. Jobo Baldie on

    Good morning friends from a very cold, frosty and snow covered East KIlbride. No snow falling at the moment but that could soon change*

     

     

    Jobo

     

     

    * – this is NOT a forecast but simply a fact ;-)

  40. murdochbhoy on

    Good morning CQN

     

     

    foghorn leghorn

     

     

    From the previous blog – yesterday I was a bit strapped for time and skimmed a number of newspaper reports, one of which was the one on Stokes that I commented on.

     

     

    I picked up on your post this morning and on revisiting the report and I have to admit I didn’t read it completely and missed the all important bit where Stokes actually said “Personally, I would take 1-0 victory every game, every day of the week. The most important thing is to win the game.”

     

     

    My apologies.

     

     

    Between now and then my wish would be that players confine themselves to simply saying they wish all the Celtic support remain safe before, during and after the match with them.

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