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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Bawsman
Politics debate is downside of CQN!
Proudbhoy 15.48 thanks for answering my questions , I thought you were referring to broony ,also thanks to bada bing & 67 heaven for answering so back to lurking now
catman-ta
Natknow,
She might be frightened to open her mouth after she was told to go look at herself in the mirror :)
Harry Brady and the CU podcast.
http://celticunderground.net/the-celtic-underground-podcast-no-232-still-playing-for-celtic/?
Hopefully the politicians will be gone when it’s finished.
For those who were asking, Tony Donnelly is fine. He is just taking a break from the Blog . I can understand the reasons for that.
JJ
Must have missed the SFA Statement on the violence,and serious assault at Poundland on Friday night? Maybe Darryl Broadfoot would know?
There are a lot of bricks amongst the Ibrox support. it seems.
He’s still here!
Canalamar
From previous. It would be good to know what PL’S KPI’s actually are then there could be a debate on how they could be changed to improve the chances of CL qualification.
If the argument is he earns too much bonus from balancing the books then the obvious change would be to reduce that bonus and switch it to CL qualification.
The danger of course is we do qualify for the CL but when we don’t it’s auld claes and parritch for a couple of seasons and complaints CEO is lining his pockets in pursuit of a punt and at the risk of the club.
There has to be a balance of course and it would be good to know just how footballing success is rewarded at CEO level to make changes that might reduce chances of failure, but without knowing how KPI’S are arrived it we are in the dark.
I’d love to hear how Celtic go about getting the balance right to get a handle on what part inappropriate KPI’S play in failure.
Ghana v Senegal on Eurosport,African Cup of Nations
HT
Sent letter to Roseanna Cunningham this afternoon. Will keep in touch re. any reply. Still waiting for a reply from the local SNP MSP. Will try again for the third time to elicit a response from him.
Ghuys
I think you’re being a bit hard on Ms Budge.
I’m sure she is desperate to suck seed and will do all in her power to ensure that the Hun thugs face the beak.
My coats on.
skyisalandfill
16:16 on 19 January, 2015GhuysI think you’re being a bit hard on Ms Budge.I’m sure she is desperate to suck seed and will do all in her power to ensure that the Hun thugs face the beak.My coats on.
They need caged mate…..
Corkcelt-blantyre tim-tony donnelly all taking breaks from the blog ?
Ah come on back bhoys.. good tims are needed.
Connaire – don’t be such a tart – the phrase was used by the French as a term of defiance – it has been used worldwide since then.
To imply that it somehow infringes on, or, show any lack of respect on my part, to those people murdered by Muslim terrorists, is risible.
Quite frankly I am appalled that you would twist things to such a wicked degree.
67Heaven
Filing mistake. Hahahaha.
Is that squintyspeak for kings criminal past?
:-)
HH
The incident at Ibrox the other night was simply a protest or a small demonstration by the poor hard done by bears. They don’t do riots. How could anyone suggest that? Really!
People are entitled to post rubbish here.
I just scroll past them.
Do they have to post so often, though ?
The BatteredBunnet
15:04
Your reply to Angelgabriel.
Quality post.
:-)
Thanks
Hail Hail
go on king, play into ashley’s hands, please
Monaghan1900 13.53
Anyone else have this image?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcKPuPvcWU
B-)
Bhoylo,
Quality :))
The Battered Bunnet.
Thanks for the reply.
Hat doffed.HH.
•Mubarak Wakaso was the joint-top scorer at Afcon 2013 with four goals (and one assist).
LB
How can you be in a bigger mess now than when you were in liquidated?
*ignore – in*
bournesouprecipe
It’s simple. If you believe the same club lie then this could mean the end of their stadium ownership. Depends what your outlook is. I hope they are in a bigger mess on the 1st of February when we smash 9 goals past their keeper.
LB
Alfie Noakes as usual your are never at fault. It is about time you moved on or at least took a less provocative stance on everything.
Celtic set to increase the number of tickets on sale to Aberdeen for the game next month?
Armageddon CSC
BSR
Someone took the lid off the liquidiser while the blades were still spinning?
Splaaaaaat there goes another rangers…..
Gordon_J
:))))))
LiviBhoy
I’m no convinced the stadium is theirs to lose.
They’ll be thrashed by Celtic to within an inch of their Zomboloid state.
Celtic Football Club@celticfc · 3 mins3 minutes ago
Brown: Bhoys must show right attitude against Steelmen http://www.celticfc.net/news/7489
Anne not even budged to comment after her fans experience on fridays game.
trigger running out of brooms.
Who’d a thunk it.:-)
….coat
HH
Get this MHAN back in the hoops….
http://youtu.be/ofz-EZ40_sw
Record running with the “glib & Shameless liars” latest statement.
“favourable settlement” Is how he describes 41 convictions for fraud :)))