Bitter sweet accounts

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Detail in our annual accounts for the year to 30 June 2014, released yesterday, are bitter sweet.  It was a good year financially but the successes were underpinned by qualification for the Champions League.  This season’s revenue will be lucky to rise much above £50m, from last season’s £64m.

I see lots of comment on Peter Lawwell’s £400k bonus.  The key figure to concentrate on executive pay is the basic (in this case £524k), not the bonus.  Celtic executive pay, including manager, chief exec and scouts, should heavily incentivise qualification for the Champions League.  If we’re in the Champions League, all other objectives become possible.  Failure to qualify brings a range of risks; so the execs should feel the pain of failure in the pocket.

Basic pay should be appropriate for the work (this goes for all staff at the club, of course), but there is ample room to incentivise everyone, from executives, to kiosk staff, to stewards, on club performance or service objectives, as appropriate.  Would doing so tackle many of the stewarding and service issues we see regularly? Would be interesting to find out.

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  1. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Summa of Sammi….

     

    02:29 on

     

    18 October, 2014

     

     

    Simple explanation,Summa.

     

    You were probably the oldest.

  2. I was in the Cubs

     

    39th in dundee

     

    Only 8 regulars

     

    Me ma bro sandy

     

    And a few others

     

    Smallest in dundee

     

    Weekend

     

    Announcement

     

    3rd

     

    31st

     

    2nd

     

    26th the biggest troop in Dundee

     

    And the previous winners 5 year in a row

     

    And the winners

     

    The 39th a rag tag bunch o nobodies who had so little to choose from only had one team

     

    And they went and won the thing

     

    We won the j v Muir trophy

     

    We shouldn’t have

     

    But we made it our mission

     

    If they said no

     

    We said feck u

     

    We beat the establishment

     

    Up the 39th

  3. Summa of Sammi….

     

     

    02:29 on 18 October, 2014

     

     

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    That Awkward moment when You are the Only One in a Hall of 300 Primary School teachers..Parent and Friends that knows the Answer to a 80′s Pop star Question..

     

     

    Then tell them that Prince ‘Cut ma Grass’..

     

     

    Summa of Sheena9to5CSC

     

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    Don’t be negative in your thinking, embrace the fact that you are a Guru……just dinnae get them worshipping and paying you Money.

  4. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    Peter lawless says there’s no money. If there’s no money, how does he justify such a huge bonus (for failure) not to mention the 57k pension fund – after all, it was Peter the snake that signed off on all the duds that are propping up our wage bill?

  5. Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    02:46 on 18 October, 2014

     

     

    Petec

     

     

    Sorry you never made it on Saturday. Say Hail Hail to A.

     

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    And proudly I enlisted in the boghead volunteers. The Belfast thang, well that is a whole different kettle of fash.

     

     

    hectorbrocklebank.csc

     

     

    I owe 16 roads a lot, so definitely count me in for Belfast.

  6. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    By the way, selling victor wanyama, Gary hooper & kelvin Wilson was an absolute failure. Success would have been renewing their contracts.

  7. Re— lou macari

     

    After we were beat by tommy coyne’s motherwell at fir park he came into the dressing room and said— hard lines lads, pulled a fixed odds from his pocket and said — does anyone know how tranmere got on— a tosser of a man

     

    Guys as i have said before desmond’s shares will stay in his famil for everand that is why we will never be a leeds, rankers, bolton etc

     

    Not perfect but that is who and what we are

     

    Anyway mulgrew to turn our season starting tomorrow

     

    God bless fergus

     

    Hail Hail

  8. Delaneys

     

    Absolute pleasure from us both

     

    You shine bright in this crazy world

     

    Hail Hail

  9. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    What’s happening in Belfast as I’ve met almost……no one from cqn & it would be a great pleasure to join ya’s for a p×+* up in person – if ya’s would have me

  10. How do you incentivize ( a word I’ve only ever seen used on CQN) a Sevco supporting steward to make sure he fulfills his customer-service objectives rather than his own self-satisfying power trips whilst he’s being employed to, ahem, “protect” 30,000 Celtic supporters?

     

     

    Pay him the living wage, or lead by example?

     

     

    I’ve read the post. Haven’t read back on any comments. Can’t be bothered these days.

     

     

    Well done PL, Bankier and DD.

     

     

    A group of men whose presence I’d not be able to stomach in a pub.

     

     

    HH to those that adore them and the contempt they hold for us and struggle to hide.

     

     

    The disillusionment grows. Off to my scratcher, with no sign of the depression dissipating. Night all.

  11. Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    02:57 on 18 October, 2014

     

     

    Petec

     

     

    Magic! Will I book our flight tomorrow?

     

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    Wait for the dates my Good Man!!!!

     

     

    14th February, not good. Ok for me, you and all the Singletons out there. Feck it. 16 Roads will love our company in January. Go for it.

     

     

    Oh we better make sure it is ok with J, first.

  12. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    Ffm. …toy know fine well the Co staff stretches far beyond those stewards. That’s as ignorant as it comes.

     

     

    For the past 4 years we have berated the zombies for watching their club go to the wall as they stand by & watch.

     

    Why is it okay for is to do the same?

  13. FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)

     

     

    02:59 on 18 October, 2014

     

     

    How do you incentivize ( a word I’ve only ever seen used on CQN) a Sevco supporting steward to make sure he fulfills his customer-service objectives rather than his own self-satisfying power trips whilst he’s being employed to, ahem, “protect” 30,000 Celtic supporters?

     

     

    Pay him the living wage, or lead by example?

     

     

    I’ve read the post. Haven’t read back on any comments. Can’t be bothered these days.

     

     

    Well done PL, Bankier and DD.

     

     

    A group of men whose presence I’d not be able to stomach in a pub.

     

     

    HH to those that adore them and the contempt they hold for us and struggle to hide.

     

     

    The disillusionment grows. Off to my scratcher, with no sign of the depression dissipating. Night all.

     

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    Next Friday……

     

     

    Tell me why I hate…….. Wrote for Luck

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Big Strong Man.

  14. Last day of school

     

    June

     

    Kicked ma school bag

     

    Ma da was oota the jail

     

    Ran in

     

    Where’s ma da

     

    Your da was violent

     

    Had tae get the polis

     

    F*****g lies

     

    This is Maurice

     

    I’ll be your da

     

    No

     

    Maurice

     

    My da doesn’t do that

  15. Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    03:14 on 18 October, 2014

     

     

    Petec

     

     

    Rain check. Will check flight and digs in Belfast tomorrow :)

     

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    I’m with you, Scooby Doo.

  16. PL is a very naught bhoy for steering our club (on behalf of the very smart self made billionaire DD) to safety & potential long term security, yet is derided as being the Anti-Christ?! Really?! If not for seeing so many familiar, well read names posting such mindless nonsense, I’d suspect a literary Hun plot to undermine my club afoot. However, no need for such paranonia as ‘Celtic Fans’ appear to be attempting to hole us below the waterline with spoutings of “we expect/demand/deserve etc” frothing on & on & on…. All I can say as a fan of over forty years & a fellow custodian of many generations of ‘Celtic Family’ is: “Fuck off you spoilt wee fannies. We have a legacy to protect, not spunk it up a wall á la RFCRIP. Feel free to join RFC v2, v3 & so on & so forth. If demands of unrestrained spending (ie outside our cost base) in the guise of ‘football investment’ is your bag, then your financial support will be royally welcomed elsewhere. Our club will survive & flourish, with current business sense prevailing in the long run, unlike you or I (or RFCRIP). Hail hail to another 125 yrs of a moron free CFC, at least……

  17. Maurice was ma da and my pimp for 3 months

     

    He left us after an argument with my mother

     

    He left us with a few pound in his pocket

     

    He left us to a worse cratur

  18. mintyknewDMK

     

     

    Key to my point is treatment of the Celtic support by the current board.

     

     

    I’ll let you tell me how that equates to paranoia and/ or me demanding better and being a “spoiled wee fanny”.

     

     

    But I won’t be reading your answer. I’m off to bed, and don’t have time to waste on reading pish from over-opinionated rich-mens’ minions.

     

     

     

     

     

    Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS,

     

     

    Your opinions might read as opposing to the above, but the “two” of you sound very similar when reading.

     

     

    That kind of thing creeps me out.

     

     

    —-

     

     

    Petec,

     

     

    Be in touch soon amigo.

  19. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    Mintyknewdmk f’s this two is so delusional that he got a name dedicated to the, so how you can compare our 2 statements is totally outrageous. I’ll just put it down to you both being drunk……must like me!

  20. Dj67YNWAsupportstheresignartionofLAWELLandDESMONDtheSECRETHUNS on

    This guy is so delusional that he got a name dedicated to the dead club…..

  21. I had Wednesday’s off

     

    Unless

     

    Unless was mostly

     

    If I got picked

     

    Which was mostly

     

    Sometimes the injuries

     

    Brief fresh air

     

    Time is money

     

    Wait for me

     

    You cannae win

     

    I’m behind

     

    See you Wednesday

  22. Margaret McGill on

    Travellerbhoy

     

    It has come to my attention that your spouse is guilty of defimmination of character. Mostly yours.

  23. Margaret McGill on

    mintyknewdmk

     

     

    03:29 on 18 October, 20

     

     

    Have you no noticed Celtic are shite lately?

     

    Robbie’s fault?

  24. rise in the morning with the fenian band

     

     

    Safe journey to all going to watch the celtic today… Get behind the team from the get go. Drown out any ejits who are on players backs after 15/20mins

     

     

    We cant complain about the players or management if we arent playing our part.

     

     

    Keep the faith

  25. Light rain but strangely warm in Glasgow city centre with several inebriated people who’s night is not quite over gliding around

  26. Broony spells out the benefits when the rotten apple is removed from the barrel

     

     

    ALAN PATTULLO

     

    Updated on the

     

    17 October

     

    2014

     

    23:46

     

    Published 18/10/2014 00:00

     

     

    SCOTT Brown has described the current Scotland dressing room as the best he has known in an international career dating back to 2005, when he made his debut against the USA.

     

     

    The captain recalled occasions when he didn’t know where to sit due to club factions.

     

     

    Asked whether today’s Scotland team is the best he has played in, he agreed, adding: “It is the best dressing room I have been in as well. We used to have the old Rangers and Celtic thing and stuff like that, but it is a great place to be now and everyone is chirpy and chatting as well. You can sit beside anyone and there are no problems whatsoever. It is a good place to be.

     

     

    “I wouldn’t say there were cliques, but it was weird when I first came in. You could see, automatically, that the Rangers players would sit beside Rangers players because they were best mates and Celtic would sit beside Celtic.

     

     

    “I came in from Hibs and was going: ‘Where the f*** am I sitting? Am I supposed to be in this squad?’ “I wouldn’t say it made it harder for the team to gel. The same people were playing week in, week out together. It is probably harder now, but the lads are working harder at it.”

  27. It is clear to see that no matter what side you are on for or against the board as Kid Creole said “There’s something wrong in Paradise.”At the games there is a general lack of atmosphere and an apparent apathy. and I do feel the policies of the Celtic hierachy have created this.Three points today is essential.

  28. So……The Hoops are back in action today!

     

     

    Here’s hoping for a good performance…..and result.

     

    The result is the main thing though, whether it is achieved with a bit of style will be a bonus!

     

    Ordinarily a draw would not be the end of the world but if it is…..well…..it may bring Ronny Delia’s time in the world of Glasgow Celtic a step closer.

     

    He badly needs to get results to start getting supporters and fans back behind him.

     

    Personally….i would like to see him do it, although it seems there are people out there that would like him to fail so they can come on here and tell us all that they told us so.

     

    Still…..if it makes them feel better about themselves…..charge on.

     

    Maybe he will fail, maybe not.

     

    One thing that will help him will be our players.

     

    It does not matter what system is played or what tactics are deployed if the players are just not playing well.

     

    Factor in all the injuries and i do not think we have a single outfield player that has played consistently well this season.

     

    Maybe that is down to Ronny not getting the best out of those players?

     

    Maybe he never will.

     

    Scott Brown has stepped back in and done his bit.

     

    We need the other established players to really do the same and give the new signings a chance to hopefully shine.

     

    Time for them all to start getting into a groove now!

     

     

    Im off to work now but will be trying my best to keep an eye on the updates so thanks in advance for them!

     

     

    Have a great day everyone :)