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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Embramike
It was mentioned on here late last night.
I see there is another item about Manure planning a ‘major spending spree’.
They’ve only spent north of 200 million since last January.
Wonder if Van Gaal’s ‘doing an Advocaat’ there?
Estadio
11:28 on
20 January, 2015
Traditionalist
anyone with half a brain can see they had to start again in 2012.
No AGAIN about it. First time .
Hail hail
Estadio
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I think we can all acknowledge its the same fanbase as the old club, starting up as their predecessors did in 1872.
‘Starting again’ does imply they can only claim records/history from, well, the starting point… does it not?!
HH
embramike
That lazy bassa John Park doing his scouting on CQN now:)))
To infifnity and beyond…..off oot tae the real world, bye.
Freddy Shepherd interview
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/freddy-shepherd-says-newcastle-owner-8476688
HH
typo – oops
Traditionalist88
Might be part of the reason some don’t wish to attend, not all about fear of trouble.
It was the first evidence of official support for the Big Lie that I found.
Till then, SFA and SPFL hadn’t declared one way or the other, as far as I could see.
angelgabriel
11:32 on
20 January, 2015
Traditionalist.
No argument from moi
Personal choice
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Absolutely.
I was brought up with stories about all the obstacles put in our way in Scotland and was always taught to stand up to them.
Granted the turn things have taken in the last couple of years has been extraordinary but I couldn’t support a mass boycott leaving our players facing the mob on their own.
They will receive continual reminders of their status as a new club if and when we have to face them, much the same way as Dundee Utd fans have done twice and Hearts fans last week.
The difference this time, in this injustice, is that the wider footballing public is in our corner.
HH
Oor Phil
Why The People are not coping with humilation
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When Fitba historians come to chart the demise of FC Sevco the events of Friday the 16th January 2015 will be a useful waymark.
Various factors were in play that led to their humiliation live on TV.
The mainstream media have, in the main, been very gentle with the fledgling club that pretends to be Rangers.
However the optics of the game being abandoned was highly instructive.
For the avoidance of doubt this was no freak weather event and snow is not unknown in Glasgow in January.
What is abnormal is the club currently playing at Ibrox.
Financially it is running on empty and without external finance it has no way of completing the season.
Sources tell me that suppliers’ bills are piling up and that essential care and maintained has been cut to the bone.
My information is that the undersoil heating was on for four hours on Friday.
A match delegate told me that this should have been switched on at 19.00hrs on Wednesday.
He told me that the Rangers of ten years ago had around thirty grounds staff between Ibrox and Murray Park.
He wagered that the number now would only be a fraction of that.
Moreover, the stewards would not be pressed into service as they were attending to the festival of dignity outside the ground before the match.
Of course football without fans is nothing and the Ibrox clientele played their part in the shambles.
Within the environs of the stadium that John Brown played for klan etiquette appears to have been observed on Friday night.
It seems undeniable that there were some disturbances outside Ibrox that required the police to be in attendance.
There is even one Light Blue blogger making the allegation that two members of staff, one female and the other an elderly gentleman, were assaulted within Argyle House by anti-board demonstrators.
When Mr Bomber spoke to The People in the turbulent days of 2012 their collective consciousness was still inchoate, but undoubtedly angry.
Since then a narrative of victimhood has been constructed among the Ibrox customer base.
This has been facilitated by a venal media and by those in authority who have put the Ibrox brand above the general health of the national game in Scotland.
Subsequently, the forthcoming league cup semi-final, quite frankly, fills me with dread.
However, the Glasgow hacks are all giddy with excitement, but I rather suspect that the emergency services do not share this feeling of heady anticipation.
When the old club died they left behind debts to the ambulance service and the police.
The National Health Service is paid for out of the public purse.
It is beyond dispute that when Rangers (1872-2012) expired it owed tens of millions of pounds to HMRC.
Subsequently, I find it cruelly ironic that those same services will be stretched to breaking point on February 1st because of the vengeful anger of The People.
Humour is kryptonite to the Herrenvolk hubris of the klan.
However the reflexive response of the green and white side of the city has been to royally laugh at their predicament.
Indeed side splitting laughter at the expense of The People has been heard in places such as Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Perth and Kirkcaldy.
This would not be problematic if the narrative of victimhood had not been authorised and articulated by so many in the mainstream media.
Rangers (1872) self-destructed and the key decisions and non-decisions were taken at the top of the Marble Staircase.
However there is a lynch mob mentality among the People that finds it more appealing that their situation was engineered by external sources.
They inhabit a belief system permeated by a need for vengeance and not just on the field of play.
What we saw on Friday night is that their main emotion is vengeful anger and somewhere within that mob, I fear, seethes the next Jason Campbell.
This could prove to be a very dangerous journey and the League Cup semi-final seems to me like a terrible event inexorably coming down the tracks.
If I was religious I would be praying for snow.
I do hope the attempt to sign Armstrong does not turn into another halfpenny of tar situations where for say £500k we miss out on a player who will be a first team regular for as long as he wants to stay at Celtic.
Signing him would tell me lessons are being learned.
Right aff oot
Up to Celtic Park
Emdi want anythin:-)
Enjoy
HH
beatbhoy
I’m sure it is the reason some people don’t want to attend, but imo any issues are likely to be in the city centre afterwards rather than at Hampden.
HH
Auldheid,
Do you rate him that highly?
Genuine question.
Árd Macha
Auldheid
Personally I think Armstrong is over priced at £2.5m. I would be shocked if United knock that back. If Celtic have indeed bid at that price.
LB
An tearmann,
6 Mortons rolls and a length of lorne onion square
An Tearmann
12:00 on
20 January, 2015
Right aff oot
Up to Celtic Park
Emdi want anythin:-)
Enjoy
HH
Good of you to offer AT.
Can you get me ………..nae tickets for the SLCSF.
Thanks
HH
I Think easdales return for the million penny shares is worth about 10 Thousand pounds is that about right.
Traditionalist
It was in your reference to the club/team…not the fans….it was a poor pedantic wee joke that just passedy mind as I waited on hiring a scooter to get me to Chennai as I need to be there pdq in case I miss my flight to Yangon. So rather than get in a semantics imbroglio..I’ll leave you with your ‘again’. No big deal.
Hail hail
Estadio
Livibhoy
Sorry you and Mrs LB won’t make CQN11 – probably saves me a sore face for a few ‘big 4 0’ comments though :-))
Pints sometime soon sounds good idea. Roseburn Bar is surprisingly a ‘hun free zone’ these days – my round HH
An Tearmann, while your there could you get me a striker(goalscoring one), defensive midfielder, in the mould of Wanyama, and a CEO with round steel ones please.
Thanking you.
I Think Michael O Halloran of St Johnstone
Would be another good signing.scores a lot of goals.would be worth a punt.go on Ronny he is Scottish and I’m sure he is a local lad .just what you have been saying to the media.
embramike say Hi to Big Al behind the bar next time you are in. His pal from Stornoway hope him and Charly are keeping well. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Oh and a Stuart Armstrong too, do you need a bigger bag:-)
Only joking Peter:-)))))
Oor Phil
” somewhere within that mob ,I fear seethes the next Jason Campbell ”
Indeed !
50 plus years of supporting Hertz home and away pal was there on Friday . Walking through flying bricks and bottles was not a new experience from him . He said that was down to drunk teenagers. .The thing that bothered him was the much older and much more menancing guys standing and watching in the background.
AULDHEID 1200
The fact that you have posted that tells me that lessons are being learned by our support.
Whether they are being learned by those in charge is a different matter. If they were,we would not have repeated the errors of 2013.
This time we got found out. PL gambled and lost. Still gets his bonus,I bet.
new article posted.
timbhoy2
12:10 on 20 January, 2015
I Think easdales return for the million penny shares is worth about 10 Thousand pounds is that about right.
From wit I understand their only called penny shares
They sell for market value,I think
HH
embramike
Just bad timing on CQN11.
I will be in touch regarding the Hun free Roseburn.
LB
With the fee for Stuart Armstrong reportedly currently under negotiation with Dundee Utd, perhaps this is the opportunity to negotiate the early release of GMS also.
I would offer them and additional £204,000 to get Gary now – that’s the fee Dundee Utd had to pay to Sevco for Telfer compensation ipso facto we helped to keep Sevco afloat by paying Dundee Utd to pay Sevco – love it !!!
I wonder if the Easdale purchase is less about an immediate profit and more about ensuring that the Easdale/Ashley axis has enough votes to kibosh King and the 3 Bears.
The Easdales seemed to carry a lot of proxy votes – maybe one of their silent partners was getting a bit wobbly?
Livibhoy 12:06
I’d say 2.5m is a steal. When you look at the likes of Lallana and Henderson for mid 20s.
Not that I’m trying to sell him before he’s even in the door mind!
Re Michael O’Halloran from last thread
He was on our books and was released to Bolton. His da is one of our youth coaches.
Based on previous form, I would be surprised if Celtic paid money for him,
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Charles,……………Why are you so good?