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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So for me the easy analogy would be a pound is a pound regardless of how many dollars it’s worth, no ?
Jamesgang,
I swear, I’m trying.,:-)
Lilys
Weeminger, as usual, wins the prize for concision.
Por Cierto,
Keep them coming, I’m hooked on gardeners leave world
https://twitter.com/biglhist/status/557318365505925123
Gardening leave
Livibhoy
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Well said.. the site is great for advice aswel as the tic talk.
Hopefully this time next year i’ll be looking for advice from everyone on here when im trying to move home. Some good folk on here. Defo outweighs the bull shiters.
Hope everything at work pans out the way you want it too.
One scary moment when I was wee bhoy coming home from Love Street on the last day of the season – 1977/78 – the huns had just celebrated at ibrox after winning the League against Motherwell and, youd think that their animal fans would have been content with that – not one bit. No, being who they are…they congregated over the bridges on the motorway home armed with bricks, concrete-slabs, bottles etc to throw at the Celtic traffic. One bus had the front windscreen smashed and the driver was injured so, had to pull over to the side of the hard-shoulder. The huns on the bridge kept throwing stuff and other huns, realising that a Celtic fans bus was on the hard-shoulder saw their chance – so they thought. By the time the huns/animals came down to the edge of the motorway, several other Celtic buses had stopped to help the injured driver. On seeing the increased numbers of Celtic fans, although they were on the buses…the animals scampered, showing what their really like. So, the message is – show no fear, admit to no pain and the basturds will melt.
To be honest after whole jelly and ice cream build up and them dieing i got pretty bored reading about the huns.. even the articles on here i would usually scroll through after the first few lines.
But i must say its crazy to see whats going on..im still on the young side so it must be even crazier to the guys who followed the celts through 60’s 70’s etc to see scotlands establishment team and sfa golden boys slowly suffer more and more.
Sadly alot of good celts through the years have missed this
.hopefully their getting as good a chuckle up above as we are here.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
09:02 on 20 January, 2015
I think the term ’1p shares’ is merely technical.
>>>>>>>>
I was thinking he would have to pay the market value, circa 20p…..
Livibhoy
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Hail Hail
Thanks for taking all my advice :)
Nah, seriously…that was grand.
Canamalar
08:32 on 20 January, 2015
Canamalar,
You’re taking the biscuit with that statement.
Is there a breakaway club on the horizon
proudbhoy
09:38 on 20 January, 2015
SPOT ON there, Bhoyo ….. There is one old Bhoy in particular whom I know will be asking God if he can ‘stay up late’ to watch all this unfolding….!!!!
Tom McLaughlin .@ 08 .59 .
Inter fans of my acquaintance would prefer to be playing someone else. It’s a tie that’s seen as being a potential embarassment .. They have little faith in a set of players who are perceived as having little faith in themselves and each other . .They think Inter have much better players than Celtic but also think that the current Inter team is very prone to underperforming and consequently are more than capable of losing to Celtic..
Non Inter fans jokingly refer to Inter as ” coitus interruptus “—— a team who can’t handle pressure / with a tendency to collapse..
Vp,
Might need a bit of time to digest(ive) your reply
proudbhoy
09:38 on 20 January, 2015
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In Mr Steins last season, I thought that we were destined for the wilderness then, big Billy came in, bought Murdo & Davie Provan and the Celticness was reborn again.
Brilliant, just brilliant.
To be brief…I wish the bassas would just die-oot awe the gither, so fed up reading aboot them.
Hail Hail
So another one walking away – will he be joining his former boss in the garden or is he working out his notice?
Should we run a sweep on the next rat to leave the sinking ship?
Anyone know where Collymore’s distain for the Huns comes from?
Hes had a few wee jibs at them in the last few years…
Anyway….
God bless the 96 – YNWA
Bring back the Jungle & the Kop – CSC
Off oot tae dae stuff…….
proudbhoy
09:38 on
20 January, 2015
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You hit the nail on the head there PB.
I’m 57 and cannot get enough of their pain.
I log onto the Scotsman (I live down south) every morning just past 6 to catch up on what’s happening.
In the comments beneath the articles there are a handful of Hun trolls who’s pain and anger set me up for the day, that doesn’t make me a bad man, I thank them every day for making me happy.
They have years of that pain to suffer, they called us paranoid and laughed as the ‘honest mistakes’ gave them their tainted glory. Then they rubbed Murrays wealth in our faces and taunted us with “for every £5 we spend, they will spend £10” crap as they racked up more tainted titles with taxpayers money.
My young days were forged by fighting these animals every day. I was the only Catholic in the village and on my 3 mile bus journey to Primary, then secondary, I had a different blazer to the rest of the bus.
Happily, Jock Stein made my journeys MUCH better than they could have been, thank Ghod I’m not 10 years younger ;-)
bhoylo83-racial and sectarian abuse on Twitter mate,a lot of it after him praising us for beating Barca.It’s what they do.
LMS3
Man…..i’ve never been so conflicted…..activate my secret.3-way agreement that keeps me going in the competition or accept that am out-of-the game…..so to speak…..can i live with the hypocrisy…..am sure i can…..do i want to…..mmmmm…..answers on a postcard…..;-)))
H.H.
Any truth in the rumour doing the rounds that Percy Thrower is being lined up as manager at the Bigotdome with Alan Titchmarsh as his assistant ?
Gardenersworldcsc
Coldly more adores MON – he was also nearly a Celt under MONs regime… Added to that he is actually an intelligent guy who has a disdain for right wing losers.
Collymore
Ps…..as already been mentioned…..that was a huge list of sheepshagger supporters on here…..hope you’ve learned yur lesson…..;-))
H.H.
Odegaard signs for real madrid. Guardian don’t even bother to talk about K McD leaving the BNP
Bhoylo83
Stems back to an incident with Swally and Ulrika in Paris at the 1998 World Cup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/1123561.stm
He was a Rangers fan in 2001 though.
http://videocelts.com/2014/12/blogs/latest-news/stan-collymore-switched-sides-celtic-fans-youre-my-closest-friends
After various forms of abuse, on Saturday Collymore declared: “Celtic fans worldwide. I was told as a kid that you were my enemy. I learned you’re my closest friends. “No blacks, no dogs, no Irish” .
LB
proudbhoy
09:38 on
20 January, 2015
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You hit the nail on the head there PB.
I’m 57 and cannot get enough of their pain.
I log onto the Scotsman (I live down south) every morning just past 6 to catch up on what’s happening.
In the comments beneath the articles there are a handful of Hun trolls who’s pain and anger set me up for the day, that doesn’t make me a bad man, I thank them every day for making me happy.
They have years of that pain to suffer, they called us paranoid and laughed as the ‘honest mistakes’ gave them their tainted glory. Then they rubbed Murrays wealth in our faces and taunted us with “for every £5 we spend, they will spend £10″ crap as they racked up more tainted titles with taxpayers money.
My young days were forged by fighting these animals every day. I was the only Catholic in the village and on my 3 mile bus journey to Primary, then secondary, I had a different blazer to the rest of the bus.
Happily, Jock Stein made my journeys MUCH better than they could have been, thank Ghod I’m not 10 years younger ;-)
Bawsman
That’s where I’m afraid we differ. I would love to be 10 years younger ;)
HH
Proudbhoy,
As my auld Dad, who will be 92 in March, tells me often, his father couldn’t believe what was happening. He’ll be wearing a big, big smile in Heaven.
Personally, I have 2 concerns: (1) their hatred is so strong that the upcoming match will serve as the excuse to do as much physical harm as they can to as many of us as they can. (2) The Scottish Establishment will do all it can to help them live again and again ad infinitum and any violence that breaks out at that game will be pounced upon to dole out the old “one’s as bad as the other” nonsense.
Saw Collymore twitter feed last nite on here ( anyone got a square sausage to it ? )is very funny/appropriate…..that smack he got from Scotland fans must still be ringing in his ears…..;-))
H.H.
The way thems have been getting away with murder surely makes them the jammy dodgers.
“@StanCollymore: Are Rangers attempting to enter a team into the Chelsea Flower Show next year with all of this gardening leave?”…..
I saw a video from the Stan Collymore incident in Paris. Ulrika was behind the bar in a Paris pub, obviously drunk, pulling pints for the tartan army. The fans began chanting ‘get yir tits out, get yir tits out..’ to which Ulrika started unbuttoning her blouse. Cue huge cheers. Stan, watching this, goes mental, and of camera allegedly assaults her, and then incurs the wrath of the supporters. Not quite the romantic version of Paris.
He of course should have walked away.
Jambos Kickback is fast becoming a favourite read of mine. Here is a thread regarding hitting women from it:
http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index.php?/topic/25840-what-would-you-do-if-a-woman-slapped-you-live-on-tv/
So Easdale has bought another million Sevco shares.
He really is in it to the death ( literally)
are there enough gardens round govan way to cope with this sudden influx of horticultural experts.?
at least super salary can nip off for a steak bake leaving kenny to mow the lawn
thanks lhads
So hes seen the light then
B-)
How does the song go?
One man went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
One man and John Greig,
Went to mow a meadow
Two men went to mow,
Went to mow a meadow,
Two men, one man and John Greig,
Went to mow a meadow
Speyside…,
I thought it was salary that was noted for cutting other people’s grass ?