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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A midfield 3 of….
Tommy Burns(RIP) – Maestro – Murdo
and Davie Provan as the winger
brilliant, just brilliant. imho
Any news on the team :oD))
So, apparently we are constructing a “make or break” scenario for Ronny Deila’s career on today’s game.
So what is the “acceptable” result or score for you?
Our last 5 visits to Dingwall have produced scores of 1:4, 1:1, 3:2, 1;1 and 0:2. We have a record of 2 wins and two draws and one defeat there. So, by my reckoning, if Ronny avoids defeat he will have been doing as well as our recent manager at this venue.
Will all of you be happy with the view that a draw allows Ronny to go on or is it to be “win or bust” in every “make or break” game from here on in.
We have two games in hand. The league is no more beyond us than it was in any previous year when the panic merchants were in full flow.
Yes, we do not look a good outfit yet, so I would be happy to see the improved form of the Salzburg/Maribor and Hamilton performances translated into goals and a win.
But if it’s a scrappy 2:1 win or even a draw I’ll take that as breathing space result.
In short, I am looking for signs of a better team performance and the results will take care of themselves on the back of that.
I hope a proper right back gives us a better balance but I thank Efe for his efforts there as he never hides or shrinks even though his confidence must be affected by his treatment. I hope to see him back at Centre Back in some of our future league games to give Denayer a break.
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier
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Take care Oh Ghreat One
I’m away to my bed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
eddieinkirkmichael
11:50 on 18 October, 2014
Dexter
11:44 on
‘What idiot would take a 9 month old child to a game anyway?’
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If the parents both want to go to the game perhaps they would prefer to take the wean with them rather than leave it |t home on its own.
I know a guy who claims to have attended his first game when he was 10 days old.
I suspect Kris is either injured or sick. Can’t understand people carping about selection. This is what the blog has been shouting about for past few weeks. If we don’t win today, don’t know what we can say.
See the Huns violence is being highlighted again, this time in Derby.
Pretty sure the SMSM portrayed that foray to the Midlands as a fun packed (off-field anyway) day out for them at the time.
Come on Celtic, just get back to winning.
KINGLuBO
Kevj…..c’mon Kev stay up for the fitba,ya lightweight …smiley
face thingy.
Stokes in the 1st 11 dear oh dear -))))
Does Stokes have a collection of dodgy RD pics?
How can he be continually selected when he has been garbage all season?
Good Morning.
PLEASE READ THIS
Over the past few weeks I have spoken to a number of Celtic supporters about what the club ( call it the PLC or whatever you wish ) should be doing at a time when the attendances are falling, the football is poorer than we have been used to and when there is a sense of disenchantment and disinterest as was ably expressed by Hebcelt yesterday.
It strikes me that all the record books show that there have been various times in the past when things “Celtic” have waned or when many Celtic fans chose to do something else on a Saturday instead of following the hoops.
Some of those times, as now, have occurred when there has been a sense of severe hardship, poverty and depression throughout the land and so football for many became a real financial issue with lots of otherwise regular attending Celtic fans deciding to spend their hard earned cash in other ways.
Those times came and went again. Very often attendances and interest climbed back upwards when the football on the park turned and a sense of excitement rejuvenated the Celtic support.
When speaking to a very well known Celtic fan with his own place in Celtic cyberspace a couple of weeks ago, he was at pains to point out that this is what the PLC board are hoping for. Basically the hope is that once the football is better, if we are still in the two cup competitions, have the league to win and can progress in the Europa League then the cloud hanging over the Celtic fans will lift, the attendances will go up and the club will return to economic and social prosperity.
The idea will be that this turn of fortune will be evident by say Christmas – maybe!
That is all well and good.
However, I and others think the club should be acting differently especially at a time when the football is not the best and the climate is what we have now.
We are a club, not just a football team.
We are a club made up of more than just players, coaches, staff members and paid executives.
We are a club whose social make up runs from the super rich to those who are really struggling financially, socially, aspirationally and in many respects mentally.
We are a club whose very first ethos and whose very first step into the world of professional/semi professional/public sport was designed to aid others who were in unfortunate circumstances and who needed a hand up by way of a meal on the table and clothes on their back.
We are a club which is about so much more than the football, the balance sheet, the share price or the extent or otherwise of the CEO’s salary or bonus.
We are far more than all of those things.
I have mentioned long and hard that today the Celtic Charity Foundation does more for and in the name of charity under the Celtic banner than at any time in the past and over recent years the foundation has raised a marvellous £7M plus for charitable causes.
Ex officio that figure is far higher when you take into account various other private donations and activities organised by Celtic fans on the periphery of the club and the foundation itself.
I also know of some really groundbreaking initiatives that are in the early stages of planning where Celtic or Celtic fans are at the fulcrum of some really good work that may never be associated with the name Celtic for fear that, in some quarters at least, such an association would jeopardise the success of potentially life changing projects.
However, the club, the official club, the PLC, or whatever should in my opinion, and in the opinion of others, be banging the drum away from the football field in these times and shouting:
WE ARE CELTIC AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO!
The club – as well as the charity foundation – should be in the vanguard of foodbank and similar initiatives, clothing initiatives, welfare initiatives for those right here on our doorstep and in the provision of entertainment and some relief for those who are suffering a really hard time in the current world of austerity cuts and the reduction of services faced by the community.
Paul has repeatedly stressed the charity foundations core objectives Health, Equality, Learning, Poverty and the desire to tackle these.
Simply waiting for the football world to turn is the actions of an older and less informed Celtic working in an era when there was no social media and no ability to actually listen to and engage with the fanbase and club members on a daily basis.
Today, Celtic, in all its guises, needs to do more – much more – if it wants to hang on to its sense of CLUB.
So having said all of that I have a question to ask:
We have provisionally booked the Kerrydale suite for CQN 11 for the night of Friday 13th March 2013 – the night before the League Cup Final which we may or may not be involved in.
We can take up that reservation or we can simply let the booking go.
That night is essentially 6 months away and if we are to hold a truly spectacular night as we did last year then we need to start the preparations for that now.
There are very few people who think that an official CQN annual dinner is a viable or even worthwhile annual event as the way the blog has morphed in recent years means that there is a very vibrant, independent and fantastically enjoyable social angle to the blog that does not need any kind of official organising as last week’s hootenanny has shown.
Accordingly there is no desire for an annual dinner so to speak.
However, we have provisionally booked the date and some of us were discussing whether to hold the event or not.
In so doing we discussed what we would or perhaps should try and achieve in the name of CQN with such an event and thus far we have come up with a thought process as follows:
If we proceed we would want to show that there is a real sense of club away from just the football side of things and to show and shout about just what Celtic fans can do together.
We would want to raise all sorts of money for charity and in particular show what we can do:
A for the CQN/Mary’s meals kitchens in Malawi
B for the Celtic Charity Foundation itself
C for the recent Greenock foodbank set up and supported by the Greenock CSC and Joe Clarke – and other such initiatives
D for the campaign for funds by Celticrollercoaster and Doc for wee Shay McGinlay and his family
and lastly
E — for a special and truly wildly ambitious project which was suggested by Winning Captains and which I am looking into with a view to seeing if it is at all feasible and realistic — but which if possible would make us all proud.
Make no mistake, if we proceed this will take a huge amount of organising and an effort which goes way beyond Paul, myself and a few others.
SO
The question for the blog is this:
Is there a mood for such an event?
Do you honestly think we should proceed?
Please do not feel pressurised or obligated to say yes or simply agree with a whole load of worthy sentiments spouted out by a clown like me as we do not know the personal circumstances of everyone on the blog and the thousands who lurk and don’t post.
This is an exercise in canvassing opinion and mood at a time when things are not just so easy for Celtic fans and there is a mood of disenchantment with our club.
It is also an unashamed initiative to redefine and, if you like, re proclaim what our club is about, what it stands for or should stand for even when our football team is not at its zenith.
This is not a Celtic PLC initiative it is about a project for the fans, about the fans and by the fans and making a difference to the fans.
But we need to know that there is a desire for such a night, such a campaign and all the publicity and organisation that goes with it as we would really want it to be something utterly special in a time when there is a real sense of cloud over Celtic.
If you are up for it can you please just add a simple (Y) to the end of your posts on the blog.
If you think we are best directing our attentions elsewhere or in another fashion then please end your posts with a (N)
Again I stress that we are looking for honest straightforward opinion.
If anyone has any suggestions etc re alternative initiatives or other matters then please forward them to me at editor@cqnmagazine.com.
Sorry about the length of the post and thanks for reading.
HH
BRTH
I like stoksey, I’m glad he’s in the team
We need a Right Winger…
a Propah.. Winger..no a Left Fitted Wan.. That’s fur Sure!
Young McGregor..is NO RIGHT WINGER…n… That’s fur Sure!
Astonished ,that Kennedy hisnae bin Pesterin.. Ronny tae gie.. Young Paul McMullan a Shot.
He deserves it.
This Kid is an extremely Promising.. Winger.. Eether Right or Left..
Although, Ah see…that Paul is Noo Being prepped in the Development Squad as
a
MID FIELDER.. Cun STRIKER..
in his Last few appearances in the Reserves..Paul has bin Playin.. jist Behind the Stiker..Maistly..
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Is there Plans afoot fur where They Want Paul tae Play… n…it is Soitenly No ..as a Wingman.??
Or am Ah reading Too much Intae Paul’s RECENT new Role?
Could Be..
anyway..
Ronny ,has Picked an OKAY DOKAY..sorta Side fur the Day..
Let’s Wish Him Awe the Luck in he World… N…He sure Needs as Much o’ that Extremely Scarce Commodity,that he kin Haundle!aaKKKK
Kojo
No too cheery.
LIVE UPDATES …..UP
HH
At least a solid three in the middle. Would have liked Scepovic instead of Stokes. Will he go for Stokes alone on Thursday…surely not.
Ernie lynch – I met a Glasgow woman in Belfast and she claimed that she attended her first Celtic game when she was still in her Ma’s belly – the Ma was pregnant with her at the time and went to see Celtic.
No word of a lie.
Whether it’s true, or not – I don’t know.
HH.
Jobo
The scattergun approach to team selection is worthy of comment
Players brought in …..then ….taken out of the squad completely
Nonsense and unprofessional
This guy has no idea what his best team is and limps from one team selection to another in the desperate attempt at finding a successful one
We playing 4-5-1 ?
BRTH
Thoroughly enjoyed CQTEN… 13 March is a no no for me …at Twickenham for the rugby
Reminder for any latecomers…..
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“FA Prem goes international below Uefa radar”
All the best, fleagle1888
evening tims
lovely drying day in Bognor today…
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